the chains of obedience discipline and subordination to all thy holy Laws and grant to us thy servants that thy Laws may be so fixed in our hearts and thy praises in our mouthes and righteousnesse in all our actions that we may be written among the righteous and have our portion with the Saints who rejoyce in their beds of eternall rest and are joyfull in the glories of thy Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 150. An invitation to praise God with all our faculties and powers O Praise God in his holinesse praise him in the firmament of his power 2 Praise him in his noble acts praise him according to his excellent greatnesse 3 Praise him in the sound of the trumpet praise him upon the lute and harp 4 Praise him in the cymbals and dances praise him upon the strings and pipe 5 Praise him upon the well tuned cymbals praise him upon the loud cymbals 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. The Prayer O Eternall God thy holinesse and power and excellent greatnesse are farre above all the praises of men and Angels and yet thou art pleased in the harmony and concent of a thankfull heart and a thanks-giving tongue touch our hearts with admirable apprehensions of thy Divine perfections that our songs of thy honour may be devout and illuminate to the height of extasies and the devotions of a Seraphim for nothing is proportionable to thy glories but what is infinitely beyond our infirmities Make us to sing Thee and thy Name while we have breath and when we are breathlesse let our hearts fill up the harmony and think thy praises so cordially till our souls being separated from the harsh sound of our bodily organs we may praise thee when we are all spirit in the state of separation and in the re-union when our bodies shall be made spirituall singing to thee exalted praises for ever and ever To thee O blessed and glorious God be praises and honour and glory ascribed now and to all eternity Amen Amen DEVOTIONS FOR THE Help and Assistance OF ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE In all occasions and necessities The third EDITION LONDON Printed for R. Royston 1647. DEVOTIONS FOR SEVERALL OCCASIONS A Prayer against wandring thoughts to be said at the beginning of our devotions ALmighty God who hast commanded us to pray unto thee without ceasing and hast added many glorious promises for our incouragement let thy holy Spirit teach me how to pray give me just apprehensions of my wants zeal of thy glory great resentment of thy mercies love of all spirituall employments that are pleasing unto thee and do thou help mine infirmities that the Devill may not abuse my fancy with illusions nor distract my minde with cares nor alienate my thoughts with impertinencies but give me a present minde great devotion a heart fixed upon thy divine beauties and an actuall intention and perseverance in my prayers that I may glorifie thy Name doe unto thee true and laudable service and obtain relief for all my necessities Hear me O King of Heaven when I call upon thee for thou hast promised mercy to them that pray in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Penitentiall Prayers and a Form of Confession of sinnes to God to be said upon days of publike or private humiliation O Lord God of mercy and pardon give me a just remembrance and sad apprehensions of my sins teach me to bewail them with as great an indignation and bitternesse as I have committed them with complacency and delight Let my prayers and my confession come into thy presence and obtain a mercy for me and a pardon Let not thy justice and severity so remember my sins as to forget thine own mercy and though I have committed that for which I deserve to be condemned yet thou canst not lose that glorious attribute whence flows comfort to us and hopes of being saved Spare me therefore O mercifull God for to give pardon to a sinner that confesseth his sinnes and begges remission is not impossible to thy power nor disproportionate to thy justice nor unusuall to thy mercy and sweetest clemency Blessed Jesu acknowledge in me whatsoever is thine and cleanse me from whatsoever is amisse Have pity on me now in the time of mercy and condemne me not when thou commest to judgement for what profit is there in my bloud Thou delightest not in the death of a sinner but in his conversion there is joy in Heaven and when thou hast delivered me from my sins and saved my soul I shall praise and magnifie thy Name to all eternity Mercy sweet Jesu Mercy Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven c. I am not worthy O Lord to look up to Heaven which is the Throne of thy purity for my sins are moe in number then the hairs upon my head and my heart hath failed me Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have not lived according to thy will but in the vanity of mine own thoughts in idle sinfull and impertinent language in foolish actions in blindnesse of heart in contempt of thy holy Word and Commandments I have not loved thee my God with all my heart nor feared thee with all my soul nor served thee with all my might according to thy holy precept nor loved my neighbour as my self Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have been unthankfull to thy Divine Majesty forgetting that thou madest me and preservest me to thy Son my blessed Saviour forgetting the bitter pains he suffered for me and to the holy Ghost forgetting how many gracious influences I have received from him for my help comfort and promotion in the wayes of holy Religion but have rebelled against thee my Maker have sold my self to work wickednesse from whence by the passion of thy holy Son I was redeemed and have resisted the holy Ghost Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have offended thee my God in an inordinate estimation of my self in vain complacencies and desires to be esteemed as much or more then others in not suffering with meeknesse indifference and obedience the humiliations sent to me by thy divine providence in haughty deportment toward my superiours equals and inferiours and in accepting such honours as have been done to me without returning them to thee the Fountain Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have offended thee my God in impatience in anger intemperate in degree inordinate in the object growing peevish and disquieted by trifling inadvertencies of others and sleight accidents about me Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have offended thee my God by being envious at the prosperous successes and advantages of my neighbours and have had resentments of joy at their displeasures and sadnesses Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have been negligent in performance of my charge idle in doing my duties soft and effeminate in my life indevout
offend thee O just and dear God where shall I appear who shall plead for me that am so loaden with impurities with vanity with ingratitude with malice and the terrors of an affrighting conscience Lord what shall I do who am straitned by my own covetousnesse accused by my own pride consumed with envy set on fire by lust made dull with gluttony and stupid by drunkennesse supplanted by ambition rent asunder with faction and discord made dissolute with lightness and inconstancy deceived with hypocrisie abused with flattery fool'd with presumption disturb'd with anger and disordered by a whole body of sin and death But thou shalt answer for me O Lord my God thou art my judge and my advocate and thou art to pass sentence upon me for those sins for which thou diedst O reserve not my sins to be punished in the life to come for then I die eternally but bring me in this world to a holy a sharp and salutary repentance Behold I am in thine hands grant I may so weep and be contrite for my sins that in the hour of my death I may finde mercy and in the day of judgement I may be freed from all the terrors of thy wrath and the sentence of the wicked and may behold thy face with joy and security being set at thy right hand with all thy saints and Angels to sing an eternall Hallelujah to the honour of thy mercies Amen sweet Jesu Amen III. MOST mercifull and indulgent Jesu hear the complaint of a sad and miserable sinner for I have searched into the secret recesses of my soul and there I finde nothing but horror and a barren wilderness a neglected conscience overgrown with sins and cares and beset with fears and sore amazements I finde that I have not observed due reverence towards my superiours nor modesty in my discourse nor discipline in my manners I have been obstinate in my vain purposes cosen'd in my own semblances of humility pertinacious in hatred bitter in my jesting impatient of Subjection ambitious of power slow to good actions apt to talk ready to supplant my neighbours full of jealousies suspition scornfull and censorious burdensome to my friends ingratefull to my benefactors imperious to my inferiours boasting to have said what I said not to have seen what I saw not to have done what I did not and have both said and seen and done what I ought not provoking thy divine Majesty with a continuall course of sinne and vanity And yet O Lord thou hast spared me all this while and hast not taken away my life in the midst of my sins which is a mercy so admirable and of so vast a kindness as no heart or tongue can think or speak If thou hadst dealt with me according as I had deserved and might justly have expected I had been now now at this instant seal'd up to an eternity of torments hopelesly miserable fearing the revelation of thy day with an unsupportable amazement and now under the sweet influences of thy mercies I am praying to thee confessing my sinnes with shame indeed at my basenesse and ingratitude but with a full hope and confidence in thy mercy O turn the eys of thy divine clemency with a gracious aspect upon a wretched sinner open the bowels of thy mercy and receive me into favour O my dear God let thy grace speedily work that in me for which thou so long hast spared me and to which thou didst design me in thy holy purposes and mercies of eternity even a true faith and a holy life conformable to thy will and in order to eternall blessednesse I remember O Lord the many fatherly expressions and examples of thy mercies to repenting sinners thy delight in our conversion thy unwillingnes to destroy us thy earnest invitation of us to grace and life thy displeasure at our dangers and miseries the infinite variety of means thou usest to bring us from the gates of death and to make us happy to eternity These mercies O Lord are so essentiall to thee that thou canst not but be infinitely pleased in demonstrations of them Remember not O Lord how we have despised thy mercies sleighted thy judgements neglected thy Commandments but now at length establish in us great contrition for our sins lead us on to humble confession and dereliction of them and let thy grace make us bring forth fruits meet for repentance fruits of justice of hope of charity of religion and devotion that we may â—e what thou delightest in holy and just aâ—d mercifull vessels prepared for honour temples of the holy Ghost and instruments of thy praises to all eternity O blessed Jesu who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen O Lord Jesu Christ Sonne of the eternall God interpose thy holy Death thy Crosse and Passion between thy judgement and my soul now and in the hour of my death granting unto me grace and mercy to all faithfull people pardon and peace to the Church unity and amity and to all sinners repentance and amendment to us all life and glory everlasting who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen A Forme of thanksgiving with a particular enumeration of Gods blessings MOst glorious Lord God infinite in mercy full of compassion long-suffering and of great goodness I adore and praise and glorifie thy holy Name worshipping thee with the lowliest devotions of my soul and body and give thee thanks for all the benefits thou hast done unto me for whatsoever I am or have â—or know or desire as I ought it is all from thee thou art the Fountain of beeing and blessing of sanctity and pardon of life and glory Praise the Lord O my soule and all that is within me praise his holy Name Thou O God of thine infinite goodness hast created me of nothing and hast given me a degree of essence next to Angels imprinting thine Image on me enduing me with reasonable faculties of will and understanding to know and choose good and to refuse evill and hast put me into a capacity of a blessed immortality O praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his Name together Thou O God of thy great mercy hast given me a comely body a good understanding straight limbs a ready and unloosed tongue whereas with justice thou mightest have made me crooked and deformed sottish and slow of apprehension imperfect and impedite in all my faculties O give thanks unto the God of Heaven for his mercy endureth for ever Thou O God of thy glorious mercies hast caused me to be born of Christian Parents and didst not suffer me to be strangled in the womb but gavest me opportunity of holy Baptism and hast ever since blessed me with education in Christian Religion Thy way O God is holy who is so great a God as our God Thou O God out of thine abundant kindnesse hast made admirable variety of creatures to minister to my use to serve my necessity to preserve and restore my
Sacrifice and Priest the Master of the Feast and the Feast it self even Jesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen A Prayer after receiving the consecrated Bread I Give thanks unto thee Almighty and eternall God that thou hast not rejected me from thy holy Table but hast refreshed my soul with the salutary refection of the Body of thy Son Jesus Christ. Lord if I had lived innocently and had kept all thy Commandments could have had no proportion of merit to so transcendent a mercy but since I have lived in all manner of sin and multiplied provocations against thy Divine Majesty thy mercy is so glorious and infinite that I am amased at the consideration of its immensity Goe on O my dear God to finish so blessed a redemption and now that thou hast begun to celebrate a marriage and holy union between thy self and my soul let me never throw off the wedding garment or stain it with the pollutions of deadly sin nor seek after other lovers but let me for ever and ever be united unto thee being transformed into thy will in this life and to the likenesse of thy glories in the life to come who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen After receiving the Cup. O Just and dear God who out of the unmeasurable abysses of wisdome and mercy hast redeemed us and offered life and grace and salvation to us by the reall exhibition of thy Son Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of his Death upon the altar of the Crosse and by commemoration of his bitter agonies in the holy Sacrament Grant that that great and venerable sacrifice which we now commemorate sacramentally may procure of thee for thy whole Church mercy and great assistance in all trials deliverance from all heresies schismes sacriledge and persecutions to all sick people health and salvation redemption for captives competency of living to the indigent and necessitous comfort to the afflicted relief to the oppressed repentance to all sinners softnesse of spirit and a tender consience to the obstinate conversion to the Jews Turks and remedy to all that are in any trouble or adversity And grant to us O Lord that this blessed Sacrament and sacrifice of commemoration in vertue of that dreadfull and proper Sacrifice upon the Crosse may obtain for me and for us all who have communicated this day pardon and peace and that we may derive from thee by this ministery grace to expell all our sins to mortifie all our lusts to exterminate all concupiscence to crucifie all inordination and irregularity to produce in us humility and chastity and obedience and meeknesse of spirit and charity and may become our Defence and Armour against the violences and invasions of all our ghostly enemies and temporall disadvantages and give us this grace and favour that we may not die in the guilt and commission of a sin without repentance nor without receiving the blessed Sacrament but that we may so live and die that we may at last rest in thy bosome and be imbraced with the comprehensions of thy eternall charity who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen All blessing and praise and honour be unto thee O blessed Redeemer to thee we the banished and miserable sons of Adam do call for mercy and defence to thee we sigh and cry in this valley of tears O dearest Advocate turn those thy mercifull eyes towards us and shew us thy glorious face in thy Kingdom where no tears or sighing or fears or sadnesses can approach Amen sweetest Jesu Amen Prayers preparatory to death I. A Prayer for a blessed ending to be said in time of health or sicknesse O Blessed Jesu Fountain of eternall mercy the Life of the soul and glorious Conquerour over Death and sin I humbly beseech thee to give me grace so to spend this transitory life in vertuous and holy exercises that when the day of my death shall come in the midst of all my pains I may feel the sweet refreshings of thy holy Spirit comforting my soul sustaining my infirmities and relieving all my spirituall necessities and grant that in the Unity of the holy Catholique Church and in the integrity of Christian faith with confidence and hope of thy mercy in great love towards thee in peace with my Neighbours and in charity with all the world I may through thy grace depart hence out of this vale of misery and go unto that glorious country where thou hast purchased an inheritance for us with the price of thy most precious bloud and raignest in it gloriously in the Unity of thy Father and ours of thy holy Spirit and our Ghostly Comforter ever one God world without end Amen II. A Prayer to be said at the beginning of a sicknesse O Lord my God who chastisest every one whom thou receivest and with thy Fatherly correction smitest all those whom thou consignest to the inheritance of sons write my soul in the book of life and number me amongst thy children whom thou hast smitten with the rod of sicknesse and by thy chastisements hast brought me into the Lot of the righteous Thou O Blessed Jesu art a helper in the needfull time of trouble lay no more upon me then thou shalt enable me to bear and let thy gentle correction in this life prevent the insupportable stripes of thy vengeance in the life to come Smite me now that thou mayest spare me to all eternity and yet O blessed High Priest who art touched with a sense of our infirmities smite me friendly and reprove me with such a tendernesse as thou bearest unto thy Children to whom thou conveyest suppletory comforts greater then the pains of chastisement and in due time restore me to health and to thy solemne assemblies again and to the joy of thy Countenance Give me patience and humility and the grace of repentance and an absolute dereliction of my self and a resignation to thy pleasures and providence with a power to do thy will in all things and then do what thou pleasest to me onely in health or sicknesse in life or death let me feel thy comforts refreshing my soul and let thy grace pardon all my sins Grant this O Blessed Jesu for my trust is in thee only thou art my God and my mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Amen III. A Prayer to be said in the progresse of a sicknesse O Lord my God Blessed Jesu who by thy bitter death and passion hast sweetned the cup of death to us taking away its bitternesse and sting and making it an entrance to life and glory have pity upon me thy servant who have so deep a share in sin that I cannot shake off the terrors of death but that my nature with its hereditary corruption still would preserve it self in a dis-union from the joys of thy Kingdome Lord I acknowledge my own infirmities and begge thy pity It is better for me to be
with thee but the remembrance of my sins doth so depresse my growing confidence that I am in a great straight between my fears and hopes between the infirmities of my nature and the better desires of conforming to thy holy will and pleasure O my dear Redeemer wean my soul and all my desires from the flatteries of this world pardon all my sins and consign so great a favour by the comforts and attestation of thy divinest Spirit that my own fears being mastered my sins pardoned my desires rectified as the Hart thirst after the springs of water so my soul may long after thee O God and to enter into thy Courts Heavenly Father if it may be for thy glory and my ghostly good to have the days of my pilgrimage prolonged I begge of thee health and life but if it be not pleasing to thee to have this cup passe from me thy will be done my Saviour hath drunk off all the bitternesse Behold O Lord I am in thine hands do with me as seemeth good in thine eyes though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onely who shalt make me to dwell in everlasting safety and to partake of the joys of thy Kingdom who livest and reignest eternall God world without end Amen IV. A Prayer for a sick person in danger of death O Lord Jesus Christ our health and life our hope and our resurrection from the dead I resign my self up to thy holy will and pleasure either to life that I may live longer to thy service and my amendment or to death to the perpetuall enjoyment of thy presence and of thy glories Into thy hands I commend my spirit for I know O Lord that nothing can perish which is committed to thy mercies I believe O Lord that I shall receive my body again at the resurrection of the just I relinquish all care of that onely I begge of thee mercy for my soul strengthen it with thy grace against all temptations let thy loving kindness defend it as with a shield against all the violences and hostile assaults of Satan let the same mercy be my guard and defence which protected thy Martyrs crowning them with victory in the midst of flames horrid torments and most cruell deaths There is no help in me O Lord I cannot by my own power give a minutes rest to my wearied body but my trust is in thy sure mercies and I call to minde to my unspeakable comfort that thou wert hungry and thirsty and wearied and whipt and crown'd with Thorns and mock'd and crucified for me O let that mercy which made thee suffer so much make thee do that for which thou sufferedst so much pardon me and save me Let thy merits answer for my impieties let thy righteousnesse cover my sins thy bloud wash away my stains and thy comforts refresh my soul. As my body grows weak let thy grace bestronger let not my faith doubt nor my hope tremble nor my charity grow cold nor my soul be affrighted with the terrors of death but let the light of thy countenance enlighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death eternall and when my tongue fails let thy spirit teach my heart to pray with strong cryings and groans that are unutterable O let not the enemy do me any violence but let thy holy mercies and thy Angels repell and defeat his malice and fraud that my soul may by thy strength triumph in the joyes of eternity in the fruition of thee my life my joy my hope my exceeding great reward my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen V. For a dying Person in or near the agonies of death MOst mercifull and Blessed Saviour have mercy upon the soul of this thy sâ—rvant remember not his ignorances nor the sins of his youth but according to thy great mercy remember him in the mercies and glories of thy Kingdome Thou O Lord hast opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers let the everlasting gates be open'd and receive his Soul let the Angels who rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner triumph and be exalted in his deliverance and salvation Make him partaker of the benefits of thy holy incarnation life and sanctity passion and death resurrection and ascension and of all the prayers of the Church of the joy of the elect and all the fruits of the blessed communion of Saints and daily adde to the number of thy beatified servants such as shall be saved that thy comming may be hastned and the expectation of the Saints may be fulfilled and the glory of thee our Lord Jesu bee advanced all the whole Church singing praises to the Honour of thy Name who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen VI. O Most mercifull Jesu who didst die to redeem us from death and damnation have mercy upon this thy servant whom thy hand hath visited with sicknesse of thy goodnesse be pleased to forgive him all his sinnes and seal his hopes of glory with the refreshments of thy holy Spirit Lord give him strength and confidence in thee asswage his pain repell the assaults of his Ghostly enemies by thy mercies and a guard of holy Angels preserve him in the unity of the Church keep his senses intire his understanding right give him great measure of contrition true faith a well grounded hope and abundant charity give him a quiet and a joyfull departure let thy ministring spirits convey his soul to the mansions of peace and rest there with certainty to expect a joyfull resurrection to the fulnesse of joy at thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore Amen VII A Prayer for the joyes of Heaven O Most glorious Jesu who art the portion and exceeding great reward of all faithfull people thou hast beautified humane Nature with glorious immortality and hast carried the same above all Heavens above the seat of Angels beyond the Cherubims and Seraphims placing it on the right hand of thy heavenly Father grant to us all the issues of thy abundant charity that we may live in thy fear and die in thy favour Prepare our souls with heavenly vertues for heavenly joys mâ—king us righteous here that we may be beautified hereafter A Morning Prayer In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Our Father which art in Heaven c. I. O Eternall Sun of righteousnesse who camest from the bosome of thy Father the Fountain of glorious light to enlighten the darknesses of the world I praise thy Name that thou hast preserved me from the dangers of this night and hast continued to me still the opportunities of serving thee and advancing my hopes of a blessed eternity Let thy mercies shine brightly upon me and dissipate the clouds and darknesses of my spirit and understanding rectifie my affections and purifie
fraud and malice of blood-thirsty and deceitfull men and from the crafty insinuations of all them that work vanity but let thy blessings bee upon the righteous and let thy favourable kindnesse defend thy whole Church as with a shield that all those who put their trust in thy mercy may be ever giving of thanks and may be joyfull in thee O lead us in thy righteousnesse that we become not a rejoycing to our enemies but that we may worship thee in feare and come into thy house to make our prayers unto thee and to give thee thanks for the multitude of thy mercies which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 6. A Prayer of a penitent person for remission of his sinnes O Lord rebuke me not in thine indignation neither chasten me in thy displeasure 2 Have mercy upon mee O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed 3 My soul is also 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 groaning every night wash I 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 voyce 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 vered they shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose property is alwayes to have mercy and to forgive behold with the eyes of thy pity and compassion the estate of thy humble servants made most miserable by reason of our sins Hear the voyce of our weeping pity our groaning strengthen us for we are weak heal us for our bones are vexed and deliver our soules from death that being saved from the bottomlesse pit we may give thanks to thy holy Name O turn from the severity of thy displeasure and visit us with thy mercy and salvation For all our sinnes give us a great sorrow and contrition and in our sorrows let thy comforts sustain us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 7. A prayer for defence of our Innocence against the unjust molestation of our enemies 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 peeces while there is none to help 3 O Lord my God if I have done any such thing or if there be any wickednesse in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evill 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 soule 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 judgement 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 righteousnesse and according to the innocency that is in mee 9 O let the wickednesse of the ungodly come to an end but guide thou the just 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins 11 My help commeth of God which 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 persecutors 15 Behold he travaileth with mischiefe he hath concâ—ived sorrow and brought forth ungodlinesse 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other 17 For his travell shall come upon his own head and his wickednesse shall fall on his own pate 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord according to his righteousnesse and will praise the name of the Lord the most High The Prayer O God from whom commeth our help thou art a righteous Judge and preservest all that are true of heart deliver us from our persecutors who travell with mischief against us and have digged a pit for our destruction O let their wickedness and malicious devices against thy servants come utterly to an end for evermore Thou O Lord art strong and able to take vengeance and yet being provoked every day still art patient towards us and compassionate Deliver us from their wrath to whom we have done no injustice or displeasure pardon our offences against thee and protect our innocency against them that we may praise thy name and give thanks unto thee for thy righteousnesse and sâ—lvation who art blessed for evermore Amen PSALME 8. A contemplation of the Divine beauty and excellency manifested in his Creatures 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 month of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger 3 For I will consider the heavens even the works of thy fingers the moon and the starres which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the son of man that thou visitest him 5 Thou madest him lower then the angels to crown him with glory and worship 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet 7 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowls of the aire and the fishes of the sea and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas 9 O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world The Prayer O Lord God Father of men and Angels God of all the Creatures who hast created all things in a wonderfull order and hast made them all conveyances of thy mercies to mankinde give us great and dreadfull apprehensions of thy glory and immensity thy Majesty and mercy that we may adore thee as our Creator love thee as our Redeemer fear thee as our God obey thee as our Governour and praise thee as the author and fountain of all perfections and all good which thou hast communicated to thy creatures that they may all in their proportions doe thee service who hast to that end made the world and redeemed us by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Morning
sanctity LOrd who shall dwell in thy tabernacle or who shall rest upon thy holy hill 2 Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life and doth the thing which is right and speaketh the truth from his heart 3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue nor done evill 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 hinderance 6 He that hath not given his money upon usury nor taken reward against the innocent The Prayer O Lord let thy mercy preserve us in holinesse and innocency or if through infirmity we fall make us to rise again by penitence that we may lead an uncorrupt life with humility and truth and justice not slandering our neighbour not invading his right not breaking our trust not oppressing the indigent and necessitous but doing good to all and especially making much of them that fear the Lord that we may never fall from thy favour but at the end of our weary pilgrimage we may take our rest upon thy holy hill and dwell in thy tabernacle where thou raignest with infinite glory and felicities God eternall world without end Amen PSALME 16. A Prayer for the blessings of Gods providence and preservation in this life and for glory hereafter PReserve me O God for in thee have I put my trust 2 O my soul thou hast said unto the Lord Then 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 excell in vertue 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 fair 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 alwayes 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 thine Holy one to see corruption 12 Thou shalt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnesse of joy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore The Prayer O God who art the portion of our inheritance our God and our preserver preserve and maintaine all those good things which thou hast wrought in us and for us and that we may never fall give us thy grace that we may set thee always before us rejoycing in thee and delighting in the Saints that are upon the earth that when our flesh shall see corruption our Souls may not be left in hell but may walk in the paths of life and in the day of restitution of all things both bodies and souls may have a goodly heritage even the lot of thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore and where we may see thy face and the glory of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 17. A Prayer for protection against the injuries of our Enemies Bodily and Ghostly 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 equall 3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season thou hast tried me and shalt finde no wickednesse 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 my lips I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer 5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths that my foot-steps slip not 6 I have called upon thee O God for thou shalt hear me encline thine ear to me and hearken unto my words 7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindnesse 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 compasse 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 evill 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 righteousnesse and when I awake up after thy likenesse I shall be satisfied with it The Prayer O Most mercifull Jesu thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee defend us and deliver us from the hands of all our Enemies and although they are a sword of thine and an instrument sent from thee to chastise us for our sins yet arise O Lord in mercy and strength disappoint them and cast them down lest they destroy our souls that when thou hast visited us with thy fatherly correction and tried us like as silver is tried thou maist finde no wickednesse in us Sanctifie our hearts and lips that we may not thinke a thought displeasing unto thee and that our mouth may not offend Keep us as the apple of an eye hide us under the shadow of thy wings of mercy and providence keep us from the ways of the destroyer and hold up our goings in thy paths that we may persevere in righteousnesse and our foot-steps may not slip that in the day of the resurrection of the Just we may behold thy presence and receive infinite satisfactions in the vision beatificall Grant this O merciful Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 18. A prayer for strength and Victory in Warre temporall or spirituall together with an act of hope and confidence in God 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
triumph over me 2 For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed but such as transgresse without a cause shall be put to confusion 3 Shew me thy wayes O Lord and teach me thy paths 4 Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my salvation in thee hath been my hope all the day long 5 Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesse which hath been ever of old 6 Oh remember not the sinnes and offences of my youth but according to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodnesse 7 Gracious and righteous is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way 8 Them that be meek shall he guide in judgement and such as be gentle them shall he learn his way 9 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies 10 For thy names sake O Lord be mercifull unto my sinne for it is great 11 What man is he that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose 12 His soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the land 13 The secret of the Lord is among them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant 14 Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net 15 Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and in misery 16 The sorrowes of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles 17 Look upon mine adversity and misery and forgive me all my sinne 18 Consider mine enemies how many they are and they bear a tyrannous hate against me 19 O keep my soul and deliver me let me not be confounded for I have put my trust in thee 20 Let perfectnesse and righteous dealing wait upon me for my hope hath been in thee 21 Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles The Prayer O Gracious and Righteous Lord God who art the guide of the meek and teachest the humble and gentle in thy way forgive the sins and offences of our youth and although by them we have deserved thy wrath and that we be put to confusion yet be pleased to think upon us for thy goodnesse and according to thy mercy that when thou hast forgiven us all our sinne and taken away our adversity and all our misery thou maist keep our soules in perâ—ectnesse and righteous dealing that at last we may dwell at ease free from trouble and safe from all our enemies even when we shall inherit the land of everlasting rest where thou livest and raignest eternal God world without end Amen PSALME 26. A Prayer of preparation to the holy Sacrament and to death BE thou my judge O Lord for I have walked innocently my trust hath been also in the Lord therefore shall I not fall 2 Examine me O Lord and prove me try out my reins and my heart 3 For thy loving kindnesse is ever before mine eyes and I will walk in thy truth 4 I have not dwelt with vain persons neither will I have fellowship with the deceitfull 5 I have hated the congregation of the wicked and will not sit among the ungodly 6 I will wash my hands in innocency O Lord and so will I goe to thine altar 7 That I may shew the voyce of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works 8 Lord I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth 9 O shut not up my soul with the sinners nor my life with the bloud-thirsty 10 In whose hands is wickednesse and their right hands are full of gifts 11 But as for me I will walk innocently O Lord deliver me and be mercifull unto me 12 My foot standeth right I will praise the Lord in the congregations The Prayer O Lord our Judge whose loving kindnesse is great and alwayes before our eyes manifested in the abundant acts of thy grace and providence make us to love and frequent all the actions ministeries and conveyances of thy graces to us especially thy holy Sacraments O dear God endue our Soules with faith and charity and holy penitence that our hands and hearts our Souls and bodies being washed in innocency and penance we may goe to thy holy Table and may in the whole course of our life walk righteously and in obedience to thee that in this world hating the congregation of the wicked and the fellowship of the deceitfull and vain persons at last our Soules may not be shut up with sinners nor our lives with the bloud-thirsty but wee may have our portion in the eternall habitation of thy house where thine honour dwelleth and reigneth world without end Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 27. A Prayer that being freed from our Enemies we may attend the services of Religion and serve God in his holy Temple THe Lord is my light and my salvation whom then shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom then shall I be afraid 2 When the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eate up my flesh they stumbled and fell 3 Though an host of men were laid against me yet shall not my heart be afraid and though there rose up War agaist me yet will I put my trust in him 4 One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will require even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the faire beauty of the Lord and to visit his Temple 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me and set me up upon a rock of stone 6 And now shall he lift up mine head above mine enemies round about me 7 Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladnesse I will sing and speak praises unto thâ— Lord. 8 Hearken unto my voyce O Lord when I cry unto thee have mercy upon me and hear me 9 My heart hath talked of thee seek ye my face thy face Lord will I seek 10 O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast thy servant away in displeasure 11 Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation 12 When my father and my mother forsake me the Lord taketh me up 13 Teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in the right way because of mine enemies 14 Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries for there are false witnesses risen up against me and such as speak wrong 15 I should utterly have fainted but that I beleeve verily to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living 16 O tarry thou the Lords leisuâ—â— be strong and he shall comfort thine heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God thou hast been our succour
loving kindnesse that according as thy Name is so may thy praise be infinite and eternall world without end Amen PSALME 49. A Prayer that we may despise perishing riches and put our trust in God onely O Hear ye this all ye people ponder it with your eares all ye that dwell in the world 2 High and low rich and poor one with another 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom and my heart shall muse of understanding 4 I will encline mine eare to the parable and shew my dark speech upon the harp 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickednesse and when the wickednesse of my heels compasse me round about 6 There be some that put their trust in their goods and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches 7 But no man may deliver his brother nor make an agreement to God for him 8 For it cost more to redeem their souls so that hee must let that alone for ever 9 Yea though he live long and see not the grave 10 For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together as well as the ignorant and foolish and leave their riches for other 11 And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another and call the lands after their own names 12 Neverthelesse man will not abide in honour seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish this is the way of them 13 This is their foolishnesse and their posterity praise their saying 14 They lie in the hell like sheep death gnaweth upon them and the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling 15 But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell for he shall receive me 16 Be not thou afraid though one be made rich or if the glory of his house be increased 17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth neither shall his pomp follow him 18 For while he lived he counted himself an happy man and so long as thou dost well unto thy self men will speak good of thee 19 He shall follow the generation of his fathers and shall never see light 20 Man being in honour hath no understanding but is compared unto the beasts that perish The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou only Redeemer of souls who by thy death and passion hast delivered us from the place of Hell give us grace to put our whole trust in thee and in the riches of thy mercy and loving kindnesse always remembring our end the vanity and shortnes of our lives the certainty of our departure Teach us to despise the world and worldly things and to lay our treasure up in heaven by charity and actions of religion that while we live here wee may have our conversation in heaven by love by hope and by desires that when our beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of our earthly dwellings we may be received into everlasting habitations always to enjoy thee who livest and reignest eternall God world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 50. A Prayer that we may lead a holy life and find mercy in the day of judgement THe Lord even the most mighty God hath spoken and called the world from the rising up of the sunne unto the going down thereof 2 Out of Sion hath God appeared in perfect beauty 3 Our God shall come and shall not keep silenceâ—â— there shall goe before him a consuming fire and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him 4 He shall call the heaven from above and the earth that he may judge his people 5 Gather my Saints together unto me those that have made a covenant with me with sacrifice 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse for God is Judge himself 7 Hear O my people and I will speak I my self will testifie against thee O Israel for I am God even thy God 8 I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices or for thy burnt-offerings because they were not alway before mee 9 I will take no bullock out of thine house nor hee-goats out of thy folds 10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine and so are the cattels upon a thousand hils 11 I know all the fowls upon the mountains and the wilde beasts of the field are in my sight 12 If I be hungry I will not tell thee for the whole world is mine and all that is therein 13 Thinkest thou that I will eat buls flesh and drink the bloud of goats 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vowes unto the most Highest 15 And call upon me in the time of trouble so will I hear thee and thou shalt praise me 16 But unto the ungodly said God Why dost thou preach my Laws and takest my Covenant in thy mouth 17 Whereas thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my words behinde thee 18 When thou sawest a Theef thou consentedst unto him and hast been partaker with the Adulterers 19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickednesse and with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit 20 Thou satest and spakest against thy brother yea and hast slandered thine own mothers son 21 These things hast thou done and I held my tongue and thou thoughtest wickedly that I am even such a one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set before thee the things that thou hast done 22 O consider this ye that forget God lest I pluck you away and there be none to deliver you 23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise he honoureth me and to him that ordereth his conversation right will I shew the salvation of God The Prayer O Most mighty God who art more pleased with the sacrifice of thanksgiving and the oblation of our souls in the vows of obedience and a holy life then with the burnt-offerings and sacrifices of Bullocks and Goats let thy grace reform our lives and manners keep our mouth from slander and obloquy from guile and deceit let us never consent to actions of injustice or uncleannesse that we partake not with Thieves or with Adulterers either in their sin or punishment that when thou shalt appear in perfect beauty with a consuming fire before thee and a tempest round about thee with terrors and glorious Majesty calling the heavens and the earth together that thou maist judge all thy people thou maist gather us among thy Saints and give us the mercies and the portion of thine inheritance that so we may honour thee by an eternall oblation of praise and thanksgiving in the Heavens where thou O God declarest thy salvation to all thy elect people through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 51. A Prayer for pardon of sinnes and the restitution of Gods favour HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodnesse according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences 2 Wash me throughly from my wickednesse and
cleanse me from my sinne 3 For I knowledge my faults and my sinne is ever before me 4 Against thee onely have I sinned and done this evill in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and clear when thou art judged 5 Behold I was shapen in wickednesse and in sinne hath my mother conceived me 6 But lo thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdome secretly 7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssope and I shall be cleâ—n thou shalt wash me I shall be whiter then snow 8 Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladnesse that the bones that thou hast broken may rejoyce 9 Turn thy face from my sins and put out all my misdeeds 10 Make me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me 11 Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me 12 O give me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free Spirit 13 Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto thee 14 Deliver me from bloud-guiltinesse O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousnesse 15 Thou shalt open my lips O Lord and my mouth shall shew thy praise 16 For thou desirest no sacrifice else would I give it thee but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings 17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise 18 O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the wals of Jerusalem 19 Then shalt thou bee pleased with the sacrifice of righteousnesse with the burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose goodnesse is great and the multitudes of thy mercies are innumerable have mercy upon us for our sins are ever before us presented by the continuall accusations of a troubled conscience We have sinned against thee and done evill in thy sight and yet because thou art the God of mercy and fountain of eternall purity delighting in the conversion and salvation of a sinner we present unto thee the sacrifice of a troubled spirit of broken and contrite hearts beseâ—ching thee to let the dew of thy favour and the fire of thy love wash away our sinnes and purifie our souls Make us clean hearts O God and pure hands though our sins be as scarlet yet make them like wooll though they be as purple yet make them as white as snow Restore the voice of joy and gladnesse to us let us not be for ever separate from the sweet refreshings of thy favour and presence but give us the comforts of thy help again and let thy free Spirit loose us from the bondage of sin and establish us in the freedome and liberty of the Sons of God so shall we sing of thy righteousnesse and our lips shall give thee praise in the congregation of thy redeemed ones now henceforth and for ever Amen PSALME 52. A Prayer for deliverance from tyranny oppression and slander WHy boastest thou thy self thou â—yrant that thou canst doe mischief 2 Whereas the goodnesse of God endureth yet daily 3 Thy tongue imagineth wickednesse and with lies thou cuttest like a sharp rasour 4 Thou hast loved unrighteousnesse more then goodnesse and to talk of lies more then righteousnesse 5 Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt O thou false tongue 6 Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever hee shall take thee and pluck thee out of thy dwelling and root thee out of the land of the living 7 The righteous also shall see this and fear and shall laugh him to scorn 8 Lo this is the man that took not God for his strength but trusted unto the multitude of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickednesse 9 As for me I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever 10 I will alwayes give thanks unto thee for that thou hast done and I will hope in thy name for thy Saints like it well The Prayer O Almighty God whose goodnesse endureth daily extend this thy goodnesse towards us thy servants and defend us from the tyranny and malice of all our Enemies who boast themselves in mischief keep us from the obloquy of false tongues and from the slander of lying persons who talk of lies more then righteousness that we being nourished by thy goodnesse and watered with the dew of divine blessings may flourish like a green olive in the house of God bringing forth the fruits of tender mercy and abounding in peace and that we may by the suffusion of anointing of the holy Ghost be consign'd to thy everlasting Kingdome there to reign with thee who reignest eternally one God world without end Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 53. A Prayer for Redemption of the Church from the persecution of Atheists and persons irreligious THE foolish body hath said in his heart There is no God 2 Corrupt are they and become abominable in their wickednesse there is none that doth good 3 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God 4 But they are all gone out of the way they are altogether become abominable there is also none that doth good no not one 5 Are not they without understanding that work wickednesse eating up my people as if they would eat bread they have not called upon God 6 They were afraid where no fear was for God hath broken the bones of him that besieged thee thou hast put them to confusion because God hath despised them 7 Oh that the salvation were given unto Israel out of Sion oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivity 8 Then should Jacob rejoyce and Israel should be right glad The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in heaven and lookest down from thence upon the children of men be pleased to give salvation to thy people out of Sion thy holy habitation and preserve thy Church from the malice of such persons as have not called upon thee but would eate up thy people as they would eate bread that we being delivered from the captivity of sins and miseries may serve thee with freedome of spirit in joy and spirituall rejoycing all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 54. A prayer for deliverance from our Enemies SAve me O God for thy names sake and avenge me in thy strength 2 Hear my prayer O God and hearken unto the words of my mouth 3 For strangers are risen up against me and tyrants which have not God before their eyes seek after my soul. 4 Behold God is my helper the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. 5 He shall reward evill unto mine enemies destroy thou them in thy truth 6 An offering of a
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 Judah their counsell 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 warre 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 kingdomes of the earth O sing praises unto the Lord. 33 Which sitteth in the heavens over all from the beginning lo he doth send out his voyce yea and that a mighty voyce 34 Ascribe ye the power to God over Israel his worship and strength is in the clouds 35 O God wonderfull art thou in thy holy places even the God of Israel he will give strength and power unto his people blessed be God The Prayer O Lord God mighty and mercifull thou ridest upon the heavens as it were upon an horse thou art the father of the fatherlesse and defendest the cause of the widow have mercy upon thy holy Church and since her Lord and Spouse is gone up on high even to his holy habitation leave us not comfortlesse but send the holy Ghost in assistances and gifts to dwel amongst us that by his aid we may escape death spirituall and the bitternesse of the temporall Send a gracious rain even the dew of thy divine favours upon thine inheritance to refresh us in our wearinesse and sadnesses Make thy people innocent and chast as the dove and besides the beauty of internall sanctity let thy Church be covered with silver wings and her feathers like gold decked and assisted with exteriour advantages as may best promote thy honour and the services of religion Let all the Princes and lands of the earth stretch their hands out unto thee O God and confesse thy mightinesse and thy honour that thy Gospel going forth into all lands peace and all thy blessings may follow it and thy praise be multiplied from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 69. A prayer in times of persecution for the cause of Religion SAve me O God for the watâ—rs 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 moe then the hairs of my head they that are mine enemies and would destroy me guiltlesse are mighty 5 I payed them the things that I never took God thou knowest my simplenesse and my faults are not hid from thee 6 Let not them that trust in thee O Lord God of hosts be ashamed for my cause let not them 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 aliant unto my mothers children 9 For the zeal of thy house hath even eaten me and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen upon me 10 I wept and chastned 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 oh 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 kindnesse 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 oh haste thee and hear me 19 Draw nigh unto my soul and save it oh 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 heavinesse 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 withall 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 bow down their backs 25 Poure out thine indignation upon them and let thy wrathfull displeasure toke 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 wickednesse to another and not come into thy righteousnesse 29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living and not bee written among the righteous 30 As for me when I am poor and in heavinesse 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 The Prayer O Blessed Jesu whose loving kindnesse is comfortable who for our sakes didst taste vineger and gall that thou mightest redeem us from the bitternesse of death and sin and establish to thy self a Church in holy Religion and defend it with thy favour and power have mercy upon thy servants who suffer from the hands of their enemies for the testimony of a good conscience and the doctrines of a Cathâ—like faith Let not them that trust in thee O Lord God of hosts be ashamed but let
live a godly life 13 O Lord God of hosts blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God of â—â—sts who dwellest in the heavens seated in essentiall and eternall felicities fill our hearts with desires and longings to enter into those Courts where thou sittest attended with the beauteous orders of Angels and millions of beatified spirits and that our desires may receive infinite satisfactions give us thy help that we going through the vale of misery the pools may be filled with water our hearts and eyes may run over with tears of repentance and overflow with sorrow and contrition for our sins that we living a godly life going from strength to strength from vertue to vertue at last we may appear in Sion unto the God of gods beholding the face of thine Anointed thy Christ and our Jesus and may dwell one day in thy Courts even all the long day of eternity through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 85. A thanksgiving for Gods free mercy in the pardon of our sinnes and a prayer for the continuance and increase of his mercies to us LOrd thou art become gracious unto thy land thou haâ—t turned away the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people and â—overed all their sins 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure and turâ—ed thy self from thy wrathfull indignation 4 Turn us then O God our Saviour and let thine â—nger cease from us 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another 6 Wilt thou not turn again and quicken us that thy people may rejoyce in thee 7 Shew us thy mercy O Lord and grant us thy salvation 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me for he shall speak peace unto his people and to â—is saints that they turn not again 9 For his salvation is nigh them that fear him that glory may dwell in our land 10 Mercy and truth are met together righteousnesse and peace have kissâ—d each other 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousnesse hath looked down from heaven 12 Yea the Lord shal shew loving kindnesse and our land shall give her encrease 13 Righteousnesse shall goe before him and he shall direct his going in the way The Prayer O Most gracious God who art reconciled unto us in our Saviour Jesus having for his sake forgiven the offences of thy people covered all their sins with the robe of his most immaculate sanctity and righteousnesse let thy grace convert and quicken us that we may rejoyce in thee and thy salvation in faith of thy promises in the hope of actuall communication of thy mercies to us and in love to thee for so great blessings and redemption and when thou hast spoken peace unto our souls and reconciled us to thy self in the bloud of thy Son give us the grace of perseverance that we may never turn again to folly but may follow mercy and truth all our days and at last be satisfied with thy righteousnesse and peace eternall through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 86. A Prayer for sanctity and preservation BOw down thine ear O Lord and hear me for I am poor and in misery 2 Preserve thou my soule for I am holy my God save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee 3 Be mercifull unto me O Lord for I will call daily upon thee 4 Comfort the soul of thy servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6 Give ear Lord unto my prayer and ponder the voyce of my humble desires 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou hearest me 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee O Lord there is not one that can do as thou doest 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and â—orship thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10 For thou art great and doest wondrous things â—â—ou art God alone 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walk in â—hy truth O knit my heart unto thee that I may fear thy Name 12 I will thank thee O Lord my God with all my heart and will praise thy Name for evermore 13 For great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell 14 O God the proud are risen against me and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lord God art full of compassion â—nd mercy long-suffering plenteous in goodnesse and truth 16 O turn thee then unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and help the son of thine handmaid 17 Shew some good token upon mee for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me The Prayer O Lord God good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee give ear unto our prayers ponder the voice of our desires when ever we call upon thee in our trouble Let the souls of thy servants be refreshed with thy comforts and defend us from the congregations of proud and naughty men Turn thee unto us with mercy give thy strength unto us teach us thy laws make us to walk in thy truth give us the fear of thy Name and knit our hearts to thee with the indissoluble bands of charity and obedience that our souls being saved from the nethermost hell we may worship thee O Lord and glorifie thy name who art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and plenteous in goodnesse and truth which thou hast manifested to us in our deliverance and redemption through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 87. A contemplation of the excellencies of Sion or the celestiall Jerusalem HEr foundations are upon the holy hils the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob. 2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee thou city of God 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon with them that know thee 4 Behold yee the Philistines also and they of Tyre with the Morians lo there was he born 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was born in her and the most High shall stablish her 6 The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people that he was born there 7 The singers also and trumpeters shall be rehearse all my fresh springs shall be in thee The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in Sion and delightest to have thy habitation in the hearts of men thou hast built the Church as a City upon a hill and laid the foundation of it upon the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ being the chief Corner-stone make us to be a spirituall building fit for thy
fear thy Majesty to admire and tremble at thy omniscience and omnipresence and to contemplate with the greatest zeal and affections all those glories which thou communicatest to the sons of men in the revelations of thy gospel of thy creatures and of thy miracles that we may tell of thy greatnesse and declare thy salvation from day to day and when thou commest with righteousnesse to judge the earth and all people with thy truth we may rejoyce in thee everlastingly and sing an eternall Allelujah to thee in thy sanctuary Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 97. A meditation upon the day of Judgement and a prayer for mercy and salvation THE Lord is King the earth may be glad thereof yea the multitude of the Isles may be glad thereof 2 Clouds and darknesse are round about him righteousnesse and judgement are the habitation of his seat 3 There shall goe a fire before him and burn up his enemies on every side 4 His lightnings gave shine unto the world the earth saw it and was afraid 5 The hils melted like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth 6 The heavens have declared his righteousnesse and all the people have seen his glory 7 Confounded be all they that worship carved images and that delight in vain gods worship him all yee gods 8 Sion heard of it and rejoyced and the daughters of Judah were glad because of thy judgements O Lord. 9 For thou Lord art higher then all that are in the earth thou art exalted farre above all gods 10 O ye that love the Lord see that ye hate the thing that is evill the Lord preserveth the souls of his Saints he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly 11 There is sprung up a light for the righteous and joyfull gladnesse for such as be true hearted 12 Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thanks for a remembrance of his holinesse The Prayer O Lord our King Lord of the whole earth have mercy upon us and sanctifie us with thy grace that we may hate every thing that is evill that we may love thee give thanks unto thy name and rejoyce in remembrance of thy holinesse that in the day of judgement and great terrors when thou shalt fit in thy seat supported with righteousnesse and judgement and a fire shall go forth from thy presence to burn up thy enemies on every side thou maist preserve our souls in safety from the hand of our enemies and a light may spring up unto us to preserve us from eternall darknesse and the want of the light of thy countenance through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 98. A thanksgiving for the redemption of mankinde by Jesus Christ. O Sing unto the Lord a new song for hee hath done marvellous things 2 With his own right hand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory 3 The Lord declared his salvation his righteousnesse hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen 4 He hath remembred his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God 5 Shew your selves joyfull unto the Lord all ye lands sing rejoyce and give thanks 6 Praise the Lord upon the harp sing to the harp with a psalme of thanksgiving 7 With trumpets also and shawmes O shew your selves joyfull before the Lord the King 8 Let the sea make a noise and all that therein is the round world and they that dwell therein 9 Let the flouds clap their hands and let the hils bee joyfull together before the Lord for he is come to judge the earth 10 With righteousnesse shall he judge the world and the people with equity The Prayer O Most glorious and powerfull Jesu who with thine own right hand and with thy holy arm hast gotten to thy self on our behalf the victory over sin hell and the grave remember this thy mercy and truth which thou hast promised to all that beleeve on thee give us pardon of our sins seal'd unto us by the testimony of the holy Spirit and of a good conscience and grant that we by thy strength may fight against our ghostly enemies and by thy power may overcome them that we may rejoyce in a holy peace and sing and give thee thanks for our victory and our crown Extend this mercy and enlarge the effect of thy great victories to the heathen that all the ends of the world may sing a new song unto thee and see the salvation of God that when thou commest to judge the earth we may all find mercy and be joyfull together before thee in the festivity of a blessed eternity through thy mercies O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 99. A Prayer for the vertue of religion and devotion in holy places THe Lord is King be the people never so unpatient he sitteth between the Cherubims be the earth never so unquiet 2 The Lord is great in Sion and high above all people 3 They shall give thanks unto thy Name which is great wonderfull and holy 4 The kings power loveth judgement thou hast prepared equity thou hast executed judgement and righteousnesse in Jacob. 5 O magnifie the Lord our God and fall down before his footstool for he is holy 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests and Samuel among such as call upon his Name these called upon the Lord and he heard them 7 He spake unto them out of the cloudy pillar for they kept his testimonies and the law that he gave them 8 Thou heardest them O Lord our God thou forgavest them O God and punishedst their own inventions 9 O magnifie the Lord our God and worship him upon his holy hill for the Lord our God is holy The Prayer O Great God and King of Heaven and earth thou that sittest between the Cherubims unmoved in the centre of thy own felicity and essentiall tranquillity undisturbed in the great concussions and unquietnesse of the earth give unto us thy servants venerable and dreadfull apprehensions of the sanctity and perfections of thy Name and Nature which is great wonderfull and holy Teach us in all the addresses of our devotion and in all places appointed for thy service by all reverence holinesse of soul and body to expresse the greatnesse of thy power and our weaknesse the majesty of thy glory and the unworthinesse of our persons the distance of God and man of finite and infinite of Lord and Servant that the awfulnesse of thy dread majesty may check every unreverent gesture and thought in us teach us to make approaches of humility and fear that we calling upon thy Name according to our duties by the fear of thee being taught to keep thy testimonies and never to forget the Law thou givest us we may be delivered from thy wrath and punishment and at last praise thee upon thy
melteth away for very heavinesse comfort thou me according unto thy word 5 Take from me the way of lying and cause thou me to make much of thy law 6 I have chosen the way of truth and thy judgements have I laid before me 7 I have sticken unto thy testimonies O Lord confound me not 8 I will run the way of thy commandements when thou hast set my heart at liberty The Prayer WE have chosen the way of thy truth O Lord and laid thy judgements before us and yet through our infirmities and the disadvantages of the flesh we are in heavinesse and drive on slowly like Pharaoh's chariots with the wheels off our souls and our desires cleave unto the dust and to things below and we are not active in thy services O quicken us according to thy word refresh our wearinesse comfort our sadnesse take from us the way of lying and vanity set our hearts at liberty from the bondage of sin from the fetters of temptation form the incumbrances of the world and then we shall run the way of thy â—ommandments never ceasing to run till we arrive at the land of eternall rest and righteousnesse where thou livest and reignest world without end Amen Morning Prayer V. TEach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I shall keep it unto the end 2 Give me understanding and I shall keep thy Law yea I shall keep it with my whole heart 3 Make me to go in the path of thy commandements for therein is my desire 4 Encline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousnesse 5 O turn away mine eyes lest they behold vanity and quicken thou me in thy way 6 O stablish thy word in thy servant that I may feare thee 7 Take away the rebuke that I am afraid of for thy judgements are good 8 Behold my delight is in thy commandements O quicken me in thy righteousnesse The Prayer O Lord God who art of infinite Sanctity and hast given us thy Law that we walking in so divine a rule may imitate the perfection of thy holinesse make us to go all our days in the path of thy Commandements take from us all greedy and inordinate appetite of the creature let not our hearts be incliâ—â—d to covetousnesse nor our eyes wander after vanity but grant that we being establisâ—ed in thy Law and walking in thy fear may persevere in the ways of righteousnesse keeping the way of thy Statutes even unto the end that the rebuke which for our sins we may justly fear may by thy mercies and pardon be taken away from us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen VI. LEt thy loving mercy also come unto me O Lord even thy salvation according unto thy word 2 So shall I make answer unto my blasphemers for my trust is in thy word 3 O take not the word of thy truth utterly out of mâ— mouth for my hope is in thy judgements 4 So shall I alway keep thy law yea for ever and ever 5 And I will walk at liberty for I seek thy commandments 6 I will speak of thy testimonies also even before kings and will not be ashamed 7 And my delight shall be in thy commandments which I have loved 8 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments which I have loved and my study shall be in thy Statuteâ— The Prayer LEt thy loving mercy come unto us O Lord and thy salvation for thou always keepest promise and never disappointest the hopes of them that trust in thee Give us confidence and boldnesse in thee that we may never fear or blush to confesse thee before men but may speak of thy testimonies even before Kings and may never be ashamed of thy Word which is the ground of our hope but that our hands may be lift up to perform thy Law and our study our love and our delight may be in it even for ever and ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen VII O Think upon thy servant as concerning thy word wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust 2 The same is my comfort in my trouble for thy word hath quickned me 3 The proud have had me exceedingly in derision yet have I not shrinked from thy law 4 For I remembred thine everlasting judgements O Lord and received comfort 5 I am horribly afraid for the ungodly that forsake thy law 6 Thy Statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage 7 I have thought upon thy name O Lord in the night season and have kept thy law 8 This I had because I kept thy commandments The Prayer THink upon us O Lord in all our desires in all our fears in all our troubles let thy Law give us comfort redresse and satisfaction that in our trouble we may thence derive comfort in our fears we may there fix our anchor of hope and from thence we may get defence against the derisions and insolencies of the proud and grant that thy grace may reward thy grace in us and a further degree of sanctity may crown the first beginnings and when by thy assistances we think upon thy Name and keep thy Law we begge this onely that our reward may be still to keep thy Commandments Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen VIII THou art my portion O Lord I have promised to keep thy law 2 I made my humble petition in thy presence with my whole heart O be mercifull unto me according to thy word 3 I called mine own ways to remembrance and turned my feet unto thy testimonies 4 I made haste and prolonged not the time to keep thy commandements 5 The congregation of the ungodly have robbed me but I have not forgotten thy law 6 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgements 7 I am a companion of all them that fear thee and keep thy commandements 8 The earth O Lord is full of thy mercy O teach me thy Statutes The Prayer O Dear God be thou our portion and the lot of our inheritance and be mercifull unto us when ever we make our humble petition in thy presence and above all the desires of our souls let us receive satisfaction in this request give us repentance and thy holy Spirit that we calling our own ways to remembrance may be truly sorrowfull for our past sins and may make haste prolonging not the time but early and instantly turn our feet unto thy testimonies that we being companions of all that fear thee may be partakers of all the blessings in the communion of Saints through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen IX O Lord thou hast dealt graciously with thy servant according unto thy word 2 O learn me true understanding and knowledge for I have beleeved thy commandements 3 Before I was troubled I went wrong but now have I kept thy word 4 Thou art good and gracious O teach me thy statutes 5 The proud have imagined a lie against me but
in my prayers slothfull in the exercises of Religion weary of their length displeased at their return without advertency in the execution of them and glad at an occasion of their pretermission Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have been diligent and curious in pleasing my appetite of meat and drink and pleasures losing my time pampering my flesh quenching the Spirit making matter both for sin and sicknesses and have not been sedulous in mortifying my body for the subduing mine own intemperances and inordination Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have been an unprovident steward of the good things thou hast given me I have loved them inordinately sought them greedily and unjustly dispensed them idlely and parted with them unwillingly I have not been so charitable to the poor or so pitifull to the afflicted or so compassionate to the sick or so apt to succour and give supply to the miseries of my neighbours as I ought but have too much minded things below not setting mine affections upon Heaven and heavenly things but have been unlike thee in all things I have been unmercifull and unjust Lord be mercifull to me a sinner Mine eyes O Lord have wandred after vanity beholding and looking after things unseemly without displeasure despising my neighbors prying into their faults but have been blinde not seeing mine own sins and infinite irregularities Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have not with care kept the door of my lips nor bridled my tongue but have been excessive in talking immoderate in dissolute and wanton laughter apt to lie to deny truth to accuse others to scoffe at them to aggravate their faults to lessen their worth to give rash judgement to flatter for advantage to speak of thy Name irreverently and without religious or grave occasions our discourses have been allayed with slander and backbiting not apt to edifie or minister grace unto the hearers Lord be mercifull to me a sinner Mine eares have been greedy after vanity listening after things unprofitable or that might tend to the prejudice of my neighbors and have not with holy appetite listened after thy holy words and conveyances of salvation Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have offended thee by the entertainment of evill thoughts thoughts of uncleannesâ—e and impurity and have not resisted their first beginnings but have given consent to them explicitly and implicitly and have brought them up till they have grown into idle words and actions Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have made my self guilty of the sinnes of others by consent by approving by not reproving by cooperating by encouraging their ill actions so making mine own heap greater by pulling their deformities upon mine own head Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have employed all my members and faculties both of soul and body in the ways of unrighteousnesse I have transgressed my duty in all my relations and in all my actions and traverses of my whole life even where I might have had most confidence I finde nothing but weaknesse and imperfections Lord be mercifull to me a sinner I have broken my vows and purposes of obedience and holy life I have been inconstant to all good refractory to counsels disobedient to commands stubborn against admonition churlish and ungentle in my behaviour mindfull and revengefull of injuries forgetfull of benefits seeking my own ends deceiving my own soul. Lord be mercifull to me a sinner My secret sins O Lord are innumerable sins secret to my self through inadvertency forgetfulness wilfull ignorance or stupid negligence secret to the world committed before thee onely and under the witness of mine own conscience I am confounded with the multitude of them and the horror of their remembrance Oh Jesu God be mercifull unto me I. SOn of David Blessed Redeemer Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon me O Jesu be a Jesus unto me thou that sparedst thy servant Peter that denied thee thrice thou that didst cast seven Devils out of Mary Magdalen and forgavest the woman taken in adultery and didst beare the convert thief from the Crosse to the joys of Paradise have mercy upon me also for although I have amassed together more sinnes then all these in conjunction yet not their sins nor mine nor the sins of all the world can equall thy glorious mercy which is as infinite and eternall as thy self I acknowledge O Lord that I am vile but yet redeemed with thy precious bloud I am blinde but thou art the light of the world I am weak but thou art my strong Rock I have been dead in trespasses and sins but thou art my resurrection and my life Thou O Lord lovest to shew mercy and the expressions of thy mercy the nearer they come to infinite the more proportionable they are to thy essence and like thy self Behold then O Lord a fit object for thy pity my sins are so great and many that to forgive me will be an act of glorious mercy and all the praises which did accrue to thy name by the forgivenes of David and Manasses and S. Paul and the adulteresse and the thief and the Publican will be multiplied to thy honour in the forgiveness of me so vile so unworthy a wretch that I have nothing to say for my self but that the greatness of my misery is a fit object for thy miraculous and infinite mercy Despise me not O Lord for I am thy creature despise me not for thou didst die for me cast me not away in thine anger for thou camest to seek me and to save me Say unto my soul I am thy salvation let thy holy Spirit lead me from the errours of my ways into the paths of righteousness to great degrees of repentance and through all the parts of a holy life to a godly and a holy death Grant this O blessed Jesu for thy mercies and for thy pity sake Amen II. O Lord God blessed Jesu Eternall Judge of quick and dead I tremble with horrour at the apprehension when I call to mind with what terrors and Majesty thou shalt appear in judgement a fire shall go out from thy presence and a tempest shall be stirred up round about thee such a tempest as shall rend the rocks levell the mountains shake the earth disorder and dissolve the whole fabrick of the heavens and where then shall I vile sinner appear when the heavens are not pure in thy sight Lord I tremble when I remember that sad truth If the righteous scarcely be saved where then shall the wicked and the ungodly appear I know O Lord that all my secret impurities shall be laid open before all the Nations of the world before all the orders and degrees of Angels in the presence of innumerable millions of beatified spirits There shall I see many that have taught me innocence and sanctity many that have given me pious example many that have dyed for thee and suffered tortures rather then they would
health to be an ornament to my body to be representations of thy power and of thy mercy Vnto thee O God will I pay my vows unto thee will I give thanks Thou O God of thine admirable and glorious mercy hast made thine Angels ministring spirits for my protection and defence against all the hostilities of the devill thou hast set a hedge about me and such a guard as all the power of hell and earth cannot overcome thou hast preserved me by thy holy providence and the ministery of Angels from drowning from burning from precipice from deformities from fracture of bones and all the snares of evil and the great violations of health which many of my betters suffer I will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart even before the gods will I sing praise unto thee Thou O most mercifull God hast fed me and clothed me hast raised me up friends and blessed them hast preserved me in dangers hast rescued me from the fury of the sword from the rage of pestilence from perishing in publike distemperatures and diseases epidemicall from terrors and affrightments of the night fâ—om illusions of the devil and sad apparitions thou hast been my guide in my journeys my refreshment in sadnesses my hope and my confidence in all my griefs and desolations O give thanks unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever But above all mercies it was not lesse then infinite whereby thou lovedst me and all mankinde when we were lost and dead and rebels against thy Divine Majesty thou gavest thine own begotten Son to seek us when we went astray to restore us to life when we were dead in trespasses and sins and to reconcile us to thy self by the mercies and the atonement of an everlasting covenant He is our God even the God of whom commeth salvation God is the Lord by whom we escape death O most blessed Jesu I praise and adore thine infinite mercies humility and condescension that for my sake thou wouldst descend from the bosome of thy heavenly Father into the pure womb of an humble Maid and take on thee my nature and be born and cry and suffer cold and all the incommodities which the meannesse of a stable could minister to the tendernesse of thy first infancy Lord what is man that thou art mindfull of him and the son of man that thou so regardest him I adore thee blessed Jesu and praise thee for thine immaculate sanctity for all thy holy precepts and counsels for thy Divine example for thy miracles and mysterious revelations of thy Fathers will for the institution of the holy Sacraments and all other blessings of thy Propheticall Office O praise the Lord for the Lord is gracious sing praises unto his Name for it is lovely I adore and love thee most blessed Jesu for all the parts of thy most bitter Passion for thy being betrayed and accused buffeted and spit upon blindfolded and mocked crowned with thorns and scourged for thine agony and bloudy sweat for thy bearing the sad load of the Crosse and sadder load of our sins for thy Crucifixion three long hours when the weight of thy Body was supported with wounds and nails for thy Death and Buriall for thy continuall intercession and advocation with thy heavenly Father in behalf of me and all thy holy Church and all other acts of mediation and redemption the blessings of thy Priestly Office O praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders he hath done for the children of men I adore and magnifie thy holy Name O most blessed Jesu for thy triumph over death hell sin and the grave for thy opening the Kingdome of Heaven to all beleevers for thy glorious resurrection and ascension for thy government over all the creatures for the advancement of thy holy Kingdome for thy continuall resisting and defeating the intendments of thine enemies against thy Church by the strength of thine arm by the mightinesse of thy power by the glories of thy wisdome for those blessed promises thou hast made and performest to thy Church of sending the holy Ghost of giving her perpetuity of being in defiance of all the gates and powers of Hell and darknesse and blessing her with continuall assistances and all other glories of thy Regall Office and power O sing praises sing praises unto our God O sing praises sing praises unto our King for God is the King of all the earth sing ye praises with understanding O most holy Spirit Love of the Father Fountain of grace spring of all spirituall blessings I adore and praise thy divine excellencies which are essentiall to thy glorious Self in the unity of the most mysterious Trinity and which thou communicatest to all faithfull people and to me thy unworthy servant in the unity of the Catholique Church O magnifie the Lord our God and fall down before his footstoole for he is holy O blessed Spirit I praise and magnifie thy Name for thy miraculous descent upon the Apostles in Pentecost in mysterious representments for those great graces and assistances comming upon their heads and falling down upon us all in the descent of all ages of the Church for confirmation of our Faith for propagation of the Gospel for edification and ornament of thy Family Thou O God shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations O most glorious Spirit I praise and magnifie thy Name for thy inspiration of the Apostles and Prophets for thy providence and mercy in causing holy Scriptures to be written and preserving them from the corruptions of Hereticks from the violences of Pagans and enemies of the Crosse of Christ. I will alwayes give thanks unto the Lord his praise shall ever be in my mouth I blesse thy Name for those holy promises and threatnings those judgements and mercies those holy precepts and admonitions which thou hast registred in Scriptures and in the records and monuments of the Church for all those graces helps and comforts whereby thou promotest me in piety and the ways of true Religion for baptismall and penitentiall grace for the opportunities and sweet refreshings of the Sacrament of the Eucharist for all the advantages thou hast given me of good society tutors and governours for the fears thou hast produced in me as deleteries and impediments of sin for all my hopes of pardon and expectation of the promises made by our Lord Jesus Christ to encourage me in the paths of life and sanctity for all the holy sermons spirituall books and lessons for all the good prayers and meditations for those blessed waitings and knocking 's at the door of my heart pitiently tarrying for and lovingly inviting me to repentance without ceasing admonishing and reproving me with the checks of a tender conscience with exteriour and interiour motives and for whatsoever other means or incentive of holiness thou hast assisted me withall I magnifie and praise and adore thee and thy goodness All Nations whom thou hast made and
Souls and set forward the salvation of their people and of others by their example and at last after a plentifull conversion of souls they may shine like the Starres in glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen VI. For our Parents O Almighty God and mercifull Father who from the loins of our first Parents Adam Eve hast produced mankind and hast commanded us to honor our Parents in pursuance of thy holy Commandment and of our duty to thee our God and in thee to them we do with all humility beg a blessing of thee for our Parents who from thy mercy and plenty have conveyed many to us pardon and forgive all their sins and infirmities increase in them all goodnesse give them blessings of the right hand and blessings of the left blesse them in their persons in their posterity in the comforts of thy holy Spirit in a persevering goodnesse and at last in an eternall weight of glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen VII For our Children O Father of Heaven God of all the Creatures by whose Providence mankinde is increased I blesse thy Name for bestowing on me that blessing of the righteous man the blessing of children Lord blesse them with health with life with good understanding with fair opportunities and advantages of education society tutors and governours and above all with the graces of thy holy Spirit that they may live and be blessed under thy protection grow in grace and be in favour with God and Man and at last may make up the number of thine elect children through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen VIII For our Patron our Friends and Benefactors O Almighty God thou Fountain of all good of all excellency both to Men and Angels extend thine abundant favour and loving kindnesses to my Patron to all my Friends and Benefactors reward them and make them plentifull compensation for all the good which from thy mercifull Providence they have conveyed unto me Let the light of thy countenance shine upon them and let them never come into any desertion affliction or sadnesse but such as may be an instrument of thy glory and their eternall comfort in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen IX A Prayer of a Wife for her Husband O My God who hast graciously pleased to call me to the holy state of Matrimony blesse me in it with the grace of chastity with â—oyalty obedience and complacency to my Husband and blesse him with long life with a healthfull body with an understanding soule with abundance of all thy graces which may make him to be and continue thy servant a true son of the Church a supporter and a guide to me his wife a blessing and a comfort to his children through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen X. Of a Husband for his Wife O Mercifull God who art a Father to us thy children a Spouse to thy holy Church a Saviour and Redeemer to all mankind have mercy upon thy handmaid my wife endue her with all the ornaments of thy heavenly grace make her to be holy and devout as Hester loving and amiable as Rachel fruitfull as Leah wise as Rebeccah faithfull and obedient as Sarah that being filled with thy grace and benediction here she may be partaker of thy glory hereafter through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XI For a Curate to say in behalfe of his Parish O Blessed Iesu thou that art an eternall Priest an universall Bishop and the Fountain of all ghostly good have mercy upon this Parish which thou hast cencredited to my charge Lord I am unfit for so great a burden but by thy aid and gracious acceptation I hope for mercy pardon and assistance O Lord send thy holy Spirit to dwell amongst us let here be peace and charity and true Catholike Religion and holy Discipline Comfort the comfortlesse heal the sick relieve the oppressed instruâ—t the ignorant correct the refractory keep us all from all deadly sin and make them obedient to their superiours friendly to one another and servants of thy Divine Majesty that so from thy favour they may obtain blessings in their bodies in their souls in their estates and a supply to all their necessities till at last they be freed from all dangers and necessities in the full fruition of thy everlasting glories O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Iesu. Amen XII For a Parishioner to say in behalf of his Curate O God Almighty who art pleased to send thy blessings upon us by the Ministration of the Bishops and Priests of thy holy Church have mercy upon thy servant to whom is committed the care of my soul that he by whose means thou art graciously pleased to advance my spirituall good may by thy grace and favor be protected by thy providence assisted by thy great mercies comforted and relieved in all his necessities bodily and ghostly through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen XIII For safe Childe-birth O Blessed Iesu Son of the eternall God who according to thy humanity wert born of a holy Maid who conceived thee without sin and brought thee forth without pain have mercy upon me thy humble servant and as by thy blessing I have conceived so grant that by thy favourable assistance I may be safely delivered Lord grant me patience and strength and confidence in thee and send thy holy Angel to be my guardian in the hour of my travel O shut not up my soul with sinners nor my life with them that go down into the pit I humbly also beg mercy for my childe grant it may be born with its right shape give it a comely body and an understanding soul life and opportunity of Baptism and thy grace from the cradle to the grave that it may encrease the number of Saints in that holy Fellowship of Saints and Angels where thou livest and reignest eternall God world without end Amen XIV Before a Journey O God who didst preserve thy servants Abraham and Jacob thy People Israel thy servant Tobias and the wise men of the East in their severall journeys by thy providence by a ministery of Angels by a pillar of fire and by the guidance of a Star vouchsafe to preserve us thy servants in the way we are now to goe Be O Lord a guide unto us in our preparation a shadow in the Day and a covering by Night a rest to our wearinesse and a staffe to our weaknesse a patron in adversity a protection from danger that by thy assistance we may perform our journey safely to thy honor to our own comfort and with safety may return and at last bring us to the everlasting rest of our heavenly Country through him who is the way the truth and the life our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen XV. For afflicted persons O Lord God mercifull and gracious whose compassion extends to all that are in misery and need and takest delight in the relieving the distresses of the afflicted give refreshment to all the comfortlesse provide for the poor give ease to all them that are tormented with sharp pains health to the diseased liberty and redemption to the captives chearfulnesse of spirit to all them that are in great desolations Lord let thy Spirit confirm all that are strong strengthen all that are weak and speak peace to afflicted consciences that the light of thy countenance being restored to them they may rejoyce in thy salvation and sing praises unto thy Name who hast delivered their souls from death their eyes from tears and their feet from falling Grant this for the honour of thy mercies and the glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XVI For our Enemies O Blessed Jesu who wert of so infinite mercies so transcendent a charity that thou didst descend from Heaven to the bowels of the earth that thou mightest reconcile us who were enemies to the mercies of thy heavenly Father and in imitation of so glorious example hast commanded us to love them that hate us and to pray for them that are our enemies I beseech thee of thine infinite goodnesse that thou wouldest be pleased to keep me with thy grace in so much meeknesse justice and affable disposition that I may so far as concerns me live peaceably with all men giving no man occasion of offence and to them who hate me without a cause I beseech thee give thy pardon and fill them with charity towards thee and all the world blesse them with all blessings in order to eternity that when they are reconciled to thee we also may be united with the bands of Faith and Love and a common Hope and at last we may be removed to the glories of thy Kingdom which is full of love and eternall charity and where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen XVII A Prayer to be said upon Ember-dayes O Mercifull Jesu who hast promised perpetuity to the Church and a permanency in defiance of all the powers of darknesse and the gates of hell and to this purpose hast constituted severall orders leaving a power to the Apostles and their Successors the Bishops to beget Fathers of our souls and to appoint Priests and Deacons for the edification of the Church the benefit of all Christian people and the advancement of thy service have mercy upon thy Ministers the Bishops give them for ever great measure of thy holy Spirit and at this time particular assistances and a power of discerning and trying the spirits of them who come to be ordained to the Ministery of thy Word and Sacraments that they may lay hands suddenly on no man but maturely prudently and piously they may appoint such to thy service and the Ministery of thy Kingdome who by learning discretion and a holy life are apt instruments for the conversion of souls to be examples to the people guides of their manners comforters of their sorrows to sustain their weaknesses and able to promote all the interests of true Religion Grant this O great Shepheard and Bishop of our souls Blessed Jesus who livest and reignest in the Kingdome of thine eternall Father one God world without end Amen Sanctus Deus Sanctus Fortis Sanctus Immortalis FINIS
from treason and private conspiracies ps 41 55 109. For the King ps 21 61 89 352. For deliverance from death and damnation ps 28 30 102 125. Col. p. 250. For health ps 91 102. For all Christian Princes and Judges ps 82. For advancement of Religion Col. p. 272. 275. For deliverance from power of the devill ps 57. Col. p. 226 For peace 46 122 133 144. Col. p. 257 269. For comfort in sadnesse ps 101 102 142. Col. p. 226 283 For spirituall blessings ps 65 73. For fruitfulnesse of the Earth ps 65. For coÌ„petency of living ps 127. Col. p. 119 133 297 299 For tranquillity of spirit Col. p. 143 144. For Victory ps 144. For comfort of Gods Spirit ps 34 42 43 51 61 102 142 Col. p. 226 239. Prayers for particular graces FOr Repentance Col. p. 243 275. For Mortification ps 131. Col. p. 275. For humility ps 131. Col. p. 253. For patience ps 94. For perseverance Col. p. 165 166 248 249 250. For Devotion Religion ps 27 33 42 43 99 119 141. Col. p. 285. For charity ps 41 112. For liberality and contempt of riches ps 4 49 73. Col. p. 114 240. For hope and trust in God ps 33 37 46 49 56 57 62 77 115 125 146. Col. p. 138 242. For reverence and fear of God ps 2 33 112 128. Col. p. 271 272. For watchfulnesse over our ways ps 56. For zeal ps 119. Col. p. 238 241.246 247. For health and newnesse of life Col. p. 170 171. Prayers for severall times and occasions IN time of sadnesse ps 61 102 142 Col. p. 226 283. In time of persecution and oppression ps 7 9 10 52 53 58 64 69 63 137 142 Col. p. 279. In time of War ps 18 44 46 60 89 108. In time of slander ps 52 57 64 120. In time of temptation ps 13 19 60 Col. p. 191 192 235 239. In time of sicknesse ps 30 31 88 90 102 142. In time of publike calamity and distraction ps 46 89 91. In time of spirituall desertion ps 34 42 43 51 61 102. Col. p. 239. In time of after lapse into sin ps 51 Col. p. 258. In time of solemne devotion ps 20 81. On Good Friday ps 22. On Ascension day ps 24. Prayers preparatory TO the Sacrament ps 23 26 111 Col. p. 151. To death ps 26 30 31 39 71 88 90 142 viz. to bee said in sicknesse or old age Deprecations AGainst Atheisme and Irreligion ps 14. Against Idolatry ps 115. Against Heretiques and Heresie ps 59. Against danger of evil company ps 1 12 120. Against Sacriledge and sacrilegious persons ps 74 83. Against fearfulnesse and doubting ps 77. Against covetousnesse ps 4 37 Col. p. 240. Against enemies of the Church ps 59 68 74 83 199 129 Against death ps 88. Meditations ON the day of Judgement ps 50 97 On the Passion of Christ ps 22. On the joys of Heaven ps 126 149. On the perfections and excellencies of God manifested in his creatures ps 8 104. On Gods providence over his people and mercy to the penitent ps 74 105 92 106 147. On Gods Justice and Judgements on sinners ps 78 92. On his Omnipotence and Omnipresence ps 139. Acts of Vertue ADoration of God ps 8 29 67 95 96 145. Col. p. 22. Adoration of the second Person in the Trinity ps 2 4â— 72 110. Acts of hope in God ps 4 11 18. Acts of Religion ps 134. Acts of praise to God ps 17 135 148 150. Acts of love to God ps 116. Desire after God and heavenly things ps 63 84 87. Of Election or preferring spirituall blessings before temporall ps 37 73. Thanksgivings FOr all Gods mercies ps 103 136 138. For his mercy and truth ps 100. For delivering from sicknesse and all other dangers ps 40 107 114 116. For delivering from enemies and all other troubles ps 81 107 124 144. For pardon of our sins ps 85 106 116. For redemption by Christ ps 98 118. For the blessings of the Gospel ps 111. For Acts of Gods Providence and particular care over us ps 113 121. For Victory ps 144. THE PSALTER of DAVID With Titles and Collects fitted to each Psalme c. The j day Morning Prayer PSALME 1. A Prayer that we may continually meditate in Gods law and have no fellowship with wicked persons in the manner of their living or dying BLessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsell of the ungodly nor stand in the way of sinners and hath not sit in the seat of the scornfull 2 But his delight is in the Law of the Lord and in his Law will he exercise himself day and night 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the water side that will bring forth his fruit in due season 4 His leafe also shâ—ll not wither and look whatsoever he doth it shall prosper 5 As for the ungodly it is not so with them but they are like the chaffe which the winde scattereth away from the face of the earth 6 Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the judgement neither the sinners in the Congregation of the righteous 7 But the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous and the way of the ungodly shall perish The Prayer O Holy Jesu fountain of all blessing the word of the Eternall Father be pleased to sow the good seed of thy word in our hearts and water it with the dew of thy divinest Spirit that while we exercise our selves in it day and night we may be like a tree planted by the water side bringing forth in all times and seasons the fruits of a holy conversation that we may never walk in the way of sinners nor have fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but that when this life is ended we may have our portion in the congregation of the righteous and may be able to stand upright in judgement through the supporting arme of thy mercy O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 2. A Prayer to promote Christs Kingdome and for grace to serve him with feare and reverence WHy doe the heathen so furiously rage together and why do the people imagine a vain thing 2 The Kings of the earth stand up and the rulers take counsell together against the Lord and against his Anointed 3 Let us break their bonds asunder and cast away their cords from us 4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn the Lord shall have them in derision 5 Then he shall speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure 6 Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion 7 I will preach the law whereof the Lord hath said unto me Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee 8 Desire of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession 9 Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of yron and break them
in pieces like a potters vessell 10 Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be learned ye that are judges of the earth 11 Serve the Lord in fear and rejoyce unto him with reverence 12 Kisse the Son lest he be angry and so he perish from the right way if his wrath be kindled yea but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him The Prayer O Blessed Jesu into whose hands is committed all dominion and power in the Kingdomes and Empires of the world out of whose mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it thou mightest smite the Nations and rule them with a rod of yron on whose vesture and on whose thigh a name is written King of Kings and Lord of Lords we adore thee in thy infinite excellency and most glorious exaltation beseeching thee to reveale thy name and the glory of thy Kingdome to the Heathen which know thee not and to the uttermost parts of the earth which are given thee for thy possession and inheritance And to us give thy grace to serve thee in fear and plant the reverence of thy law and of thy name in our hearts lest thy wrath be kindled against us and thou break us in pieces like vessels of dishonour Have mercy on us O King of Kings for we have put our trust in thee thou art our Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 3. A Prayer for defence against all our Enemies Bodily and Ghostly LOrd how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise against me 2 Many one there be that say of my soul There is no help for him in his God 3 But thou O Lord art my defender thou art my worship and the lifter up of mine head 4 I did call upon the Lord with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill 5 I laid me down and slept and rose up again for the Lord sustained me 6 I will not be afraid for ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about 7 Up Lord and help me O my God for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the check-bone thou hast brokâ—n the teeth of the ungodly 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord and thy blessing is upon thy people The Prayer O Lord our defender have pity upon us behold the armies of the Flesh the World and the Devill fight against our Soules and multiply against us every day temptations and disadvantages We are not able of our selves as of our selves to think a good thought much lesse to put to flight the armies of them that have set themselves against us round about But thou O Lord art our defender thou art our worship and the lifter up of our heads Up Lord and help us arme us with the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit and in all times of temptation and battell cover our heads with the helmet of Salvation so shall we not be afraid for ten thousands of our enemies for salvation belongeth unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 4. A Prayer in which we exercise an act of hope in God and desire his providence over us HEare me when I call O God of my righteousnesse for thou hast set me at liberty when I was in trouble have mercy upon me and hearken unto my prayer 2 O ye sonnes of men how long will ye blaspheme mine honour and have such pleasure in vanity and seek after leasing 3 Know this also that the Lord hath chosen to himself the man that is godly when I call upon the Lord he will heare me 4 Stand in awe and sinne not commune with your own heart and in your chamber and be still 5 Offer the sacrifice of righteousnesse and put your trust in the Lord. 6 There be many that say Who will shew us any good 7 Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us 8 Thou hast put gladnesse in my heart since the time that their corn and wine and oyle increased 9 I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onely that makest me dwell in safety The Prayer O God who art the author of all righteousnesse from whom all grace and safety and glory does proceed hear the prayers of thy humble servants whensoever we call upon thee in our trouble for our trust is in thee alone and no creature can shew us any good unlesse it derives from thee shew the light of thy countenance upon us let thy providence guide all our actions and sufferings to thy glory and our spirituall benefit and consigne us to the blessednesse of thy Kingdome by the testimony of thy holy Spirit that we may not place our ioyes and hopes upon the good things of this life which perish and cannot satisfie but in the eternal fountain of all true felicities that thou being our treasure our hearts may be fixed upon thee by the bands of Charity and Obedience that thou maist make us to dwell in safety here and when our days are done we may lay us down in peace and take our rest in thy armes expecting the comming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 5. A prayer for blessing upon all pious people and for protection against the malice of wicked men POnder my words O Lord consider my meditation 2 O hearken thou unto the voyce of my calling my King and my God for unto thee will I make my prayer 3 My voyce shalt thou hear betimes O Lord early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up 4 For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickednesse neither shall any evill dwell with thee 5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight for thou hatest all them that work vanity 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord will abhorre both the bloud thirsty and deceitfull man 7 But as for me I will come into thy house even upon the multitude of thy mercy and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple 8 Lead me O Lord in thy righteousnesse because of mine enemies make thy way plain before my face 9 For there is no faithfulnesse in his mouth their inward parts are very wickednesse 10 Their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue 11 Destroy thou them O God let them perish through their own imaginations cast them out in the multitude of their ungodlinesse for they have rebelled against thee 12 And let all them that put their trust in thee rejoyce they shall ever be giving of thanks because thou defendest them they that love thy name shall be joyfull in thee 13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous and with thy favourable kindnesse wilt thou defend him as with a shield The Prayer O Most holy and blessed Lord God who canst take no pleasure in wickednesse neither can evill come nigh thy dwelling defend us and all thy holy Church from the
to help me 12 Many oxen are come about me fat buls of Basan close me in on every side 13 They gape upon me with their mouthes as it were a ramping and roaring lion 14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joynt my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax 15 My strength is dried up like a potshard and my tongue cleaveth to my gummes and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death 16 For many dogges are come about me and the counâ—ell of the wicked layeth siege against me 17 They pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they stand staring and looking upon me 18 They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture 19 But be not thou far from me O Lord thou art my succour haste thee to help me 20 Deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the dog 21 Save me from the lions mouth thou hast heard me also from among the horns of the unicorns 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee 23 O praise the Lord ye that fear him magnifie him all yee of the seed of Jacob and feare him all ye seed of Israel 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor he hath not hid his face from him but when he called unto him he heard him 25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation my vows will I perform in the sight of them that fear him 26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied they that seek after the Lord shall praise him your heart shall live for ever 27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves and be turned unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him 28 For the Kingdome is the Lords and he is the governour among the people 29 All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped 30 All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him and no man hath quickned his own soul. 31 My seed shall serve him they shall be counted unto the Lord for a generation 32 They shall come and the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse unto a people that shall be born whom the Lord hath made The Prayer O Mercifull Jesu who for our sakes didst suffer thy selfe to be betrayed tormented spit upon crucified and to die that thou mightest purchase for us redemption from the sting of death the miseries of hell the malice and power of the Devil deliver our souls from the sword of thy Vengeance cut us not off by untimely death free our darling from the power of the dogge our soules from being a prey unto the devill snatch us out of the Lions mouth who goeth up and down seeking whom he may devour O Jesu be a Jesus unto us and let those victories which thou hast obtained over Satan and Hell and the grave bring us Peace and Righteousnesse and a Crown of glory in the Heavens where thou livest and reignest in the great congregation of Saints and Angels one God world without end Amen PSALME 23. A prayer that God would guide and feed and support us as a Shepheard doth his flock THe Lord is my shepheard therefore can I lack nothing 2 He shall feed me in a green pasture and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort 3 He shall convert my soul and bring me forth in the paths of righteousnesse for his names sake 4 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me 5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them thâ—t trouble me thou hast anointed my head with oyle and my cup shall be full 6 But thy loving kindnesse and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever The Prayer O Blessed Jesu thou great Shepheard and Bishop of our Souls let thy grace convert us let thy mercies guide us in the paths of righteousnesse feed us with thy Word and Sacraments refresh us with the comforts of thy Holy Spirit and in the whole course of our life which is nothing else but a valley of miseries and a shadow of death let thy rod correct us like a father when we do amisse and thy staffe support us in all our troubles and necessities O let thy loving kindnesse and mercy follow us all our dayes that after this life we may dwell in thy house for ever where thou hast prepared a Table and a full cup of blessing for thy People and shalt anoint their heads with the oyle of an eternall gladnesse in the fruition of thy glories ô blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 24. A Meditation upon the ascension of our Blessed Saviour and a prayer for Sanctity that wee may ascend where he is THe earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compasse of the world and they that dwell therein 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas and prepared it upon the flouds 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord or who shall rise up in his holy place 4 Even he that hath clean hands and a pure heart and that hath not lift up his minde unto vanity nor sworn to deceive his neighbour 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousnesse from the God of his salvation 6 This is the generation of them that seek him even of them that seek thy face O Jacob. 7 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in 8 Who is the King of glory it is the Lord strong and mighty even the Lord mighty in battell 9 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 10 Who is the King of glory even the Lord of hoâ—ts he is the King of glory The Prayer O Blessed Jesu King of glory Lord of Hosts and King of all the Creatures to whom the everlasting doors were opened that thou mightest enter into thy Kingdome which thou didst open to all beleevers after thou hadst overcome the sharpnesse of death give us clean hands and a pure heart teach us to follow thy innocency to imitate thy sanctity that we may receive from thee our Lord the eternall rewards and blessings of righteousnesse and ascend thither whither thou ô God of our salvation art gone before who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost eternal God world without end Amen PSALME 25. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for deliverance from Sin and Punishment VNto thee O Lord will I lift up my soul my God I have put my trust in thee O let me not be confounded neither let mine enemies
we go unto thy dwelling places where thou manifestest thy presence we may approach unto thee with joy and gladnesse rejoycing in nothing more then in doing thee service and singing praises to thy name for the help of thy countenance which thou givest us in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 44. A Prayer in time of Warre WE have heard with our eares O God our fathers have told us what thou hast done in their time of old 2 How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand and plâ—nted them in how thou hast destroyed the Nations and cast them out 3 For they gat not the Land in possession through their own sword neither was it their own arm that helped them 4 But thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a favour unto them 5 Thou art my King O God send help unto Jacob 6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies and in thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us 7 For I will not trust in my bow it is not my sword that shall help me 8 But it is thou that savest us from our enemies and puttest them to confusion that hate us 9 We make our boast of God all day long and will praise thy name for ever 10 But now thou art far off and puttest us to confuson and goest not forth with our Armies 11 Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enâ—mies so that they which hate us spoil our goods 12 Thou lettest us to be eaten up like sheep and hast scattered us among the Heathen 13 Thou sellâ—st thy people for nouâ—ht and takâ—st no money for them 14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us 15 Thou makest us to be a by-word among the heathen and that the people shake their heads at us 16 My confusion is daily before me and the shame of my face hath covered me 17 For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer for the enemy and avenger 18 And though all this be come upon us yet do we not forget thee nor behave our selves frowardly in thy covenant 19 Our heart is not turned back neither our steps gone out of thy way 20 No not when thou hast smitten us into the place of Dragons and covered us with the shadow of death 21 If we have forgotten the name of our God and holden up our hands to any strange God shall not God search it out for hee knoweth the very secrets of the heart 22 For thy sake also are we killed all the day long and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain 23 Up Lord why sleepest thou awake and be not absent from us for ever 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble 25 For our soul is brought low even unto the dust our belly cleaveth unto the ground 26 Arise and help us and deliver us for thy mercie sake The Prayer O Lord God of hosts who for our sins hast suffered the sword to take vengeance upon us and to plead thy cause against us O hide not thy face from us and forget not our misery and trouble We are killed all day long and are accounted as sheep appointed to be slain we are covered with the shadow of death and they which hate us spoile our goods Deal with us in pity and as thou hast done to our Fathers of old time when they called upon thee in their trouble so deal with us thou overthrewest their enemies and didst tread them under that arose up against them Arise and help us and deliver us also for thy mercy sake our own sword cannot help us but let thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance work deliverance and salvation for us Go forth with our Armies O thou God of Hosts do thou fight our Battels that we may not turn our backs upon our enemies but crown us with Victory and Peace that we may make our boast of thee all day long and praise thy Name for ever who art holy and just and mercifull the great God of Battels and recompences From thee let mercy now and ever proceed and to thy Name let honour be for ever ascribed of all the Hosts of Heaven and Earth world without end Amen PSALME 45. A Prayer for the conversion of the Heathen and prosperity of the Church MY heart is enditing of a good matter I speak of the things which I have made unto the King 2 My tongue is the pen of a ready writer 3 Thou art fairer then the children of men full of grace are thy lips because God hath blessed thee for ever 4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh O thou most mighty according to thy worship and renown 5 Good luck have thou with thine honour ride on because of the word of truth of meeknesse and righteousnesse and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things 6 Thy arrows are very sharp and the people shall be subdued unto thee even in the midst among the Kings enemies 7 Thy seat O God endureth for ever the scepter of thy Kingdome is a right scepter 8 Thou hast loved righteousnesse and hated iniquity wherefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladnesse above thy fellows 9 All thy garments smell of myrrhe aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad 10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable women upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in a vesture of gold wrought about with divers colouâ—s 11 Hearken O daughter and consider encline thine eare forget also thine own people and thy fathers house 12 So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty for he is thy Lord God and worship thou him 13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift like as the rich also among the people shall make their supplication before thee 14 The Kings daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought gold 15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-work the virgins that be her fellows shall beare her company and shall be brought unto thee 16 With joy and gladnesse shall they be brought and shall enter into the Kings Palace 17 In stead of thy fathers thou shalt have children whom thou mayest make Princâ—s in all Lands 18 I will remember thy name from one generation unto another therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee world without end The Prayer O Blessed Jesu Prince of the Catholike Church thou art fairer then the children of men thy lips are full of grace thine Armies mighty thy head is Crowned with Majesty and clothed with worship and renown have mercy upon thy holy Church blesse her for ever with righteousnesse and let the oyle of gladnesse refresh her amidst the multitude of her sorrows and afflictions And because
them who for thy sake have suffered reproof be delivered from them that hate them and from the deep waters of persecutions and discomforts that we and all thy faithfull people being saved from our enemies may praise thee and thy faithfulnesse in this world and may finally inherit the land of promise which thou hast made to all that suffer persecution for a cause of righteousnesse even the possession of thine inheritance thy Kingdome in Heaven where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 70. A prayer to God for blessings upon faithfull people and deliverance from our enemies 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 evill 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 joyfull and glad in thee and let all such as delight in thy salvation say alway The Lord be praised 5 As for me I am poor and in misery haste thee unto me O God Thou art my helper and my redeemer O Lord make no long tarrying The Prayer O Lord God our Helper and Redeemer have mercy upon us and all thy faithful people make haste help us O God against all those that seek after our souls to do us mischief make us to delight in thee to wait for thy salvation to trust in thy mercies to rejoyce in thy excellencies and perfection that our feet being directed by thy guidance our weaknesses strengthened by thy power our sins pardoned by thy mercies and our souls justified by thy free grace we may always give thee praise with the humble addresses of devotion and thankfulnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 71. A Prayer for the continuance of Gods favours to us even to our old age and a longing for a happy departure IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousnesse encline thine ear unto me and save me 2 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 3 Deliver me O my God out of the hand of the ungodly out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruell man 4 For thou O Lord God art the thing â—hat I long for thou art my hope even from my youth 5 Through thee have I been holden up evâ—r since I was born thou art he that took me out of my mothers womb my praise shall be alway of thee 6 I am become as it were a monster unto many but my sure trust is in thee 7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praise that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long 8 Cast me not away in the time of age forsake mee not when my strength faileth me 9 For mine enemies speak against me and they that lay wait for my soul take their counsell together saying God hath forsaken him persecute him and take him for there is none to deliver him 10 Goe not fâ—rre from me O God my God haste thee to help me 11 Let them be confounded and perish that are against my soul let them be covered with shame and dishonour that seek to do me evill 12 As for me I will patiently abide alway and will praise thee more â—nd more 13 My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousnesse and salvation for I know no end thereof 14 I will goe forth in thâ— strength of the Lord God and will make mention of thy righteousnesse onely 15 Thou O God hast taught me from my youth up untill now therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works 16 Forsake me not O God in mine old age when I am gray-headed untill I have shewn thy strength unto this generation and thy power to all them that are yet for to come 17 Thy righteousnesse O God is very high and great things are they that thou hast done O God who is like unto thee 18 O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turn and refresh mee yea and broughtest mee from the deep of the earth again 19 Thou hast brought me to great honour and comforted me on every side 20 Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulnesse O God playing upon an instrument of musick unto thee will I sing upon the harp O thou holy one of Israel 21 My lips will be fain when I sing unto thee and so will my soule whom thou hast delivered 22 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousnesse all the day long for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to do me evill The Prayer O Lord God our house of defence and our Castle who by thy mercies and thy loving Spirit hast taught us and led us in thy ways from our first years until now thou hast brought us to great honour even the honour of being Christians the honour of adoption to be thy Children and heirs of thy glorious promises coheirs with thy Son Jesus Christ and hast comforted us on every side with a continuall stream of thy mercies and refreshments give us thy grace that we may love thee and long for thee above all the things of this World and as thou hast holden us up ever since we were born so let thy mercy go along with us all our days Cast us not away in the time of age and give us grace that we may never cast thee or thy Laws from us Let not thy grace and the ghostly strength we derive from thee forsake us when our naturall strength fails us but let our spirit grow upon the disadvantages of the flesh and begin to receive the happiness of eternity by an absolute conquest over the weakned and decaying body that after we have by thy aid passed through the great troubles and adversities thou shewest unto all thy Children in this world we may lie down in righteousnesse and with thy favour that when thou bringest us out from the deep of the earth again we may have a joyfull resurrection to the society of Saints and Angels and the full fruition of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 72. A Prayer for the exaltation and propagation of Christs Kingdome GIve the King thy judgements O God and thy righteousnesse unto the Kings son 2 Then shall he judge the people according unto right and defend the poor 3 The mountains also shall bring peace and the little hils righteousnesse unto the people 4 He shall keep the simple folk by their right defend â—he children of the poor and punish the wrong doer 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sunne and moon endureth from one generation to another 6 He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wooll
even as the drops that water the earth 7 In his time shall the righteous flourish yea and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth 8 His dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other and from the floud unto the worlds end 9 They that dwell in the wildernesse shall kneel before him his enemies shall lick the dust 10 The kings of Tharsis and of the Isles shall give presents the kings of Arabia and Saba shall bring gifts 11 All kings shall fall down before him all nations shall doe him service 12 For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth the needy also and him that hath no helper 13 He shall be favourable to the simple and needy and â—hall preserve the souls of the poor 14 Hee shall deliver their soules from falshood and wrong and dear shall their bloud be in his sight 15 He shall live and unto him shall be given of the gold of Arabia prayer shall be made ever unto him and daily shall he be praised 16 There shall be an heap of corn in the earth high upon the hils his fruit shall shake like Libanus and shall be green in the city like grasse upon the earth 17 His name shall endure for ever his name shall remain under the sun among the posterities which shall be blessed through him and all the heathen shall praisâ— him 18 Blessed be the Lord God even the God of Israel which onely doth wondrous things 19 And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever and all the earth shall be filled with his majesty Amen Amen The Prayer O Blessed Jesu who didst descend from heaven into the womb of the blessed Virgin like rain into a fleece of wooll thou that punishest the wrong doer and defendest the children of the poor and them that have no helper have mercy upon thy Holy Church be pleased by her ministery to extend thy blessings and thy dominion from the one Sea to the other even unto the worlds end that all Kings of the earth may fall down before thee and all Nations may do thee service Make thy righteous people to flourish and so subdue their enemies under them delivering them from falshood and wrong that they may be blessed with abundance of Peace and be satisfied with thy righteousnesse and salvation through thy mercies O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 73. A Prayer that we may have our portion in God and not in the good things of the men of this world TRuly God is loving unto Israel even unto such as are of a clean heart 2 Neverthelesse my feet were almost gone my treadings had welnigh slipt 3 And why I was grieved at the wicked I doe also see the ungodly in such prosperity 4 For they are in no perill of death but are lusty and strong 5 They come in no misfortune like other folk neither are they plagued like other men 6 And this is the cause that they be so holden with pride and overwhelmed with cruelty 7 Their eyes swell with fatnesse and they doe even what they lust 8 They corrupt other and speak of wicked blasphemy their talking is against the most Highest 9 For they stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven and their tongue goeth through the world 10 Therefore fall the people unto them and thereout suck they no small advantage 11 Tush say they how should God perceive it is there knowledge in the most Highest 12 Lo these are the ungodly these prosper in the World and these have riches in possession and I said Then have I cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocency 13 All the day long have I been punished and chastened every morning 14 Yea and I had almost said even as they but lo then should I have condemned the generation of thy children 15 Then thought I to understand this but it was too hard for me 16 Untill I went into the sanctuary of God then understood I the end of these men Namely how thou dost set them in slippery places and castest them down and destroyest them 18 Oh how suddenly doe they consume perish and come to a fearfull end 19 Yea even like as a dream when one awaketh so shalt thou make their image to vanish out of the City 20 Thus my heart was grieved and it went even through my reins 21 So foolish was I and ignorant even as it were a beast before thee 22 Neverthelesse I am alway by thee for thou hast holden me by my right hand 23 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsâ—ll and after that receive me with glory 24 Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee 25 My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever 26 For lo they that forsake thee shall perish thou hast destroyed all them that commit fornication against thee 27 But it is good for me to hold me fast by God to put my trust in the Lord God and to speak of all thy works in the gates of the daughter of Sion The Prayer O Lord God who art loving unto all thy Church even unto all such as are of a clean heart give unto us hearts humble and mercifull that we may never be holden with pride nor overwhelmed with cruelty and sanctifie our words and lips that we may never blaspheme thy holinesse nor our talking be ever against thee or thy honour O God most Highest give unto us such religious and mortified affections that we may never thirst after the temporall advantages and prosperities of the wicked set not our feet in slippery places lest we be suddenly cast down and have our portion in the lot of the wicked who perish and come to a fearfull end guide us with thy â—ounsell that we holding us fast by thee and putting our trust in thee ô God thou mayest be the strength of our hearts the hope of our souls and the ground of all our confidence and content in this life and after this life is ended thou maiest receive us with glory and be our portion for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 74. A Prayer against Sacrilegious persons and all the Enemies of the Church O God wherefore art thou absent from us so long why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture 2 O think upon thy congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old 3 Think upon the tribe of thy inheritance and mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt 4 Lift up thy feet that thou maist utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evill in thy sanctuary 5 Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy congregations and set up their banners for tokens 6 He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees was known to bring it to an excellent work 7 But now they break down all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers 8 They
cry unto God with my voyce even unto God will I cry with my voyce and he shall hearken unto me 2 In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran and ceased not in the night season my soul refused comfort 3 When I am in heavinesse I will think upon God when my heart is vexed I will complain 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking I am so feeble that I cannot speak 5 I have considered the dayes of old and the yeares that are past 6 I call to remembrance my song and in the night I commune with mine own heart and search out my spirits 7 Will the Lord absent himself for ever and will hee be no more intreated 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will he shut up his loving kindnesse in displeasure 10 And I said It is mine own infirmity but I will remember the yeares of the right hand of the most highest 11 I will remember the works of the Lord and call to minde thy wonders of old time 12 I will think also of all thy works and my talking shall be of thy doings 13 Thy way O God is holy who is so great a God as our God 14 Thou art the God that doth wonders and hast declared thy power among the people 15 Thou hast mightily delivered thy people even the sons of Jacob and Joseph 16 The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and were afraid the depths also were troubled 17 The clouds poured out water the aire thundred and thine arrows went abroad 18 The voyce of thy thunder was heard round about the lightnings shone upon the ground the earth was moved and shook withall 19 Thy way is in the sea and thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not known 20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron The Prayer O God who dost wonders and hast declared thy power amongst all people let the observation of thy mercies and loving kindnesses make such deep impression in our hearts and memories that when we are in heavinesse we may remember the years of thy right hand and call to mind the wonders of old time that although thou somtimes withdrawest the brightnesse of thy countenance from us and shuttest up thy loving kindnesse in a short displeasure yet the experience of thy old mercies which never fail may sustain our infirmities and the expectation of thy loving kindnesses may cure all our impatience till in thy due time the sense of thy favours may actually relieve all our distresses and thy right hand lead us like sheep into the folds of eternall rest and security through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 78. A Commemoration of Gods blessings to his Church of old of his Judgements upon sinners and his mercies to the penitent HEar my law O my people encline your eares unto the words of my mouth 2 I will open my mouth in a parable I will declare hard sentences of old 3 Which we have heard and known and such as our fathers have told us 4 That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to shew the honour of the Lord his mighty and wonderfull works that hee hath done 5 He made a covenant with Jacob and gave Israel a law which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children 6 That their posterity might know it and the children which were yet unborn 7 To the intent that when they came up they might shew their children the same 8 That they might put their trust in God and not to forget the works of God but to keep his Commandements 9 And not to be as their forefathers a faithlesse and stubborn generation a generation that set not their heart aright and whose spirit cleaved not stedfastly unto God 10 Like as the children of Ephraim which being harnessed and carrying bows turned themselves back in the day of battell 11 They kept not the covenant of God and would not walk in his law 12 But forgat what he had done and the wonderfull works that he had shewed for them 13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers in the land of Egypt even in the field of Zoan 14 He divided the sea and let them goe through he made the waters to stand on a heap 15 In the day time also he led them with a cloud and all the night through with a light of fire 16 Hee clave the hard rocks in the wildernesse and gave them drink thereof as it had been out of the great depth 17 He brought waters out of the stony rock so that it gushed out like the rivers 18 Yet for all this they sinned more against him and provoked the most Highest in the wildernesse 19 They tempted God in their hearts and required meat for their lust 20 They spake against God also saying Shall God prepare a table in the wildernesse 21 He smote the stony rock indeed that the water gushed out and the streams flowed withall but can he give bread also or provide flesh for his people 22 When the Lord heard this he was wroth so the fire was kindled in Jacob and there came up heavy displeasure against Israel 23 Because they beleeved not in God and put not their trust in his help 24 So he commanded the clouds above and opened the doores of heaven 25 He rained down Manna also upon them for to eat and gave them food from heaven 26 So man did eat Angels food for he sent them meat enough 27 He caused the east winde to blow under heaven and through his power he brought in the south-west-winde 28 He rained flesh upon them as thick as dust and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea 29 He let it fall among their tents even round about their habitation 30 So they did eat and were well filled for hee gave them their own desire they were not dissapointed of their lust 31 But while the meat was yet in their mouthes the heavy wrath of God came upon them and slew the wealthiest of them yea and smote down the chosen men that were in Israel 32 But for all this they sinned yet more and beleeved not his wondrous works 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity and their years in trouble 34 When he slew them they sought him and turned them early and enquired after God 35 And they remembred that God was their strength and that the high God was their Redeemer 36 Neverthelesse they did but flatter him with their mouth and dissembled with him in their tongue 37 For their heart was not whole with him neither continued they stedfast in his covenant 38 But he was so mercifull that hee forgave their misdeeds and destroyed them not 39 Yea many a time turned he his wrath away and would not suffer his whole displeasure
holy hill in thine everlasting habitation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 100. A Psalm of praise to God for his mercy truth O Be joyfull in the Lord all ye lands serve the Lord with gladnesse and come before him presence with a song 2 Be ye sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture 3 O goe your way into his gates with thanskgiving into his courts with praise be thankfull unto him and speak good of his name 4 For the Lord is gracious his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord our God who hast created us out of nothing and hast redeemed us from misery and death when we were thine enemies shewing great expresses of thy loving kindness when we were vessels of wrath and inheritors of perdition revealing thy truth unto us in the Sermons of the Gospel teach us to walk as thou hast commanded us to believe as thou hast taught us that we may inherit what thou hast promised us for thou art the way the truth and the life we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture thou art our guide and our defence let thy grace teach us to serve thee and thy holy Spirit assist and promote our endeavours with the blessings of gladnesse and chearfulnesse of Spirit that we may love to speak good of thy Name and at last may go into the courts of thy Temple with praise and a song in our mouths to thy honour and eternall glory whose mercy and truth is everlasting and revealed unto the Church in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 101. A Prayer for a holy life MY song shall be of mercy and judgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 O let me have understanding in the way of godlinesse 3 When wilt thou come unto me I will walk in my house with a perfect heart 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sins of unfaithfulnesse there shall no such cleave unto me 5 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 6 Who so privily slandereth his neighbour him will I destroy 7 Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomack I will not suffer him 8 Mine eyes look unto such as be faithfull in the land that they may dwell with me 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my servant 10 There shall no deceitfull person dwell in my house he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight 11 I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land that I may root out all wicked doers from the City of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall purity who art of pure eyes and canst behold no unrighteousnesse or impurity enlighten our understandings that we may have knowledge in the way of godlinesse make our paths straight and our hearts perfect take from us the sins of unfaithfulnesse correct and mortifie in us all froward and peevish dispositions let us love the society of the Saints and hate the fellowship of the wicked that we may not be destroyed with the ungodly nor be rooted out from the City of the Lord and banished from the sweetnesse of thy presence for with thee is light and health and salvation to thy Name be all honour and glory and praise ascribed world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 102. A Prayer for comfort in sadnesse anxiety of spirit sicknesse or any other affliction HEar my prayer O Lord and let my crying come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble encline thine ears unto me when I call O hear me and that right soon 3 For my days are consumed away like smoak and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand 4 My heart is smitten down and withered like grasse so that I forget to eat my bread 5 For the voyce of my groaning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh 6 I am become like a pelican in the wildernesse and like an owle that is in the desert 7 I have watched and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the house top 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long and they that are mad upon me are sworn together against me 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread and mingled my drink with weeping 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast taken me up and cast me down 11 My days are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grasse 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and â—hy remembrance throughout all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Sion for it is time that thou have mercy upon her yea the time is come 14 And why thy servants think upon her stones and it piâ—ieth them to see her in the dust 15 The heathen shall fear thy Name O Lord and all the kings of the earth thy majesty 16 When the Lord shall build up Sion and when his glory shall appear 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poore dâ—stiâ—ute and despiseth not their desire 18 This shall be written for those that come after and the people which shall be born shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuary out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 That he might hear the mournings of such as be in captivity and deliver the children appointed unto death 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Sion and his worship at Jerusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdomes also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my journey and shortened my days 24 But I said O my God take me not away in the midst of mine age as for thy years they endure throughout all generations 25 Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands 26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure they all shall wax old as doth a garment 27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy years shall not faile 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and â—heir seed shall stand fast in thy sight The Prayer O Eternall God who endurest for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations have pity upon us according to the infinite treasures of thy loving kindnesse hear the voice of our groaning for thy indignation and thy wrath lieth hard upon us our sins have put an edge upon thy sword and a thorn into our wounded consciences O build up the ruines of our souls repair the breaches of our comforts and our hopes and let thy glory now appear for that shines brightest in the beams of thy mercy and when thou turnest
unto the prayer of poor wretched destitutes it becomes an eternall monument and a record of thy honour and all generations which shall be born shall praise thee Look down O Lord from thy Sanctuary hear the mournings of us and of all distressed people send us health anâ— life so long as it may be a blessing and do noâ— shorten our days in wrath but give us grace so to spend all our time in the works of repeÌ„tance and holinesse that when our years fail and our change is come we may be translated to the new heavens which shall never perish and wax old there to continue and stand fast in thy sight for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 103. A thanksgiving to God for all his benefits and mercies 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 Which forgiveth all thy sin and healeth all thy infirmities 4 Which saveth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindnesse 5 Which satisfieth thy mouth with good things making thee young and lusty as an eagle 6 The Lord executeth righteousnesse and judgement 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 goodnesse 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 wickednesse 11 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of â—he 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 mercifull unto them that fear him 14 For he knoweth whereof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust 15 The days of man are but as grasse for hee flourisheth as a flower of the field 16 For assoon as the winde goeth over it it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the mercifull goodnesse of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousnesse upon childrens children 18 Even upon such as keep his covenant and think upon his commandements to do them 19 The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven and his kingdome ruleth over all 20 O praise the Lord ye angels of his ye that excell in strength ye that fulfill his commandement and hearken unto the voyce of his words 21 O praise the Lord all ye his hosts ye servants of his that do his pleasure 22 O speak good of the Lord all ye works of his in all places of his dominion praise thou the Lord O my soul. The Prayer O Most merciful God whose mercy is as high as the heavens as great and many as the moments of eternity thou hast opened thy hand wide to fill us with blessings and the sweet effects of thy loving kindnesse thou art pitifull as a Father tender as a Mother carefull as a guardian and exceeding mercifull to all them that fear thee we pray thee to fill our souls with great apprehensions and impresses of thy unspeakable mercies that our thankfulnesse may be as great as our needs of mercy are and let thy mercifull loving kindnesse endure for ever and ever upon us all Keep no anger in store for us chide us not in thy displeasure satisfie our mouths with good things remove all our sins from us as far as the east is from the west heal all our infirmities and save our lives from destruction for these are mercies thou delightest in and because we cannot praise thee accordingly to thy excellencies take our souls in thy due time into the land of everlasting praises that we may spend a whole eternity in ascribing to thy name praise and honour and dominion Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 104. A contemplation of the wisdome and goodnesse of God manifested in his creatures PRaise the Lord O my soul O Lord my God thou art become exceeding glorious thou art clothed with majesty and honour 2 Thou deckest thy self with light as it were with a garment and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain 3 Which layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters and maketh the clouds his chariot and walketh upon the wings of the winde 4 He maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flaming fire 5 He laid the foundations of the earth that it never should move at any time 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment the waters stand in the hils 7 At thy rebuke they flee at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid 8 They go up as high as the hils and down to the valleys beneath even unto the place which thou hast appointed for them 9 Thou hast set them their bounds which they shal not passe neither turn again to cover the earth 10 He sendeth the springs into the rivers which run among the hils 11 All beasts of the field drink thereof and the wilde asses quench their thirst 12 Beside them shall the fowls of the air have their habitation and sing among the branches 13 He watereth the hils from above the earth is filled with the fruit of thy works 14 He bringeth forth grasse for the cattell and green herb for the service of men 15 That he may bring food out of the earth and wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oyl to make him a châ—erful countenance and bread to strengthen mans heart 16 The trees of the Lord also are full of sap even the Cedars of Libanus which he hath planted 17 Wherein the birds make their nests and the sirretrees are a dwelling for the stork 18 The high hils are a refuge for the wild goats and so are the stony rocks for the conies 19 He appointed the moon for certain seasons and the sun knoweth his going down 20 Thou makest darknesse that it may be night wherein all the beasts of the forest doe move 21 The lions roaring after their prey doe seek their meat at God 22 The sun ariseth and they get them away together and lay them down in their dens 23 Man goeth forth to his work and to his labour untill evening 24 O Lord how manifold are thy works in wisdome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches 25 So is the great and wide sea also wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts 26 There go the ships and there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein 27 These wait all upon thee that thou mayest give them meat in due season 28 When thou givest in them they gather it and
commemoration of Gods frequent pardons and mercies to the penitent O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 Who can expresse the noble acts of the Lord or shew forth all his praise 3 Blessed are they that alway keep judgement and doe righteousnesse 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 gladnesse of thy people and give thanks with thine inheritance 6 Wee have sinned with our fathers we have done amisse and dealt wickedly 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt neither kept they thy great goodnesse in remembrance but were disobedient at the sea even at the Red sea 8 Neverthelesse 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 wildernesse 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 beleeved they his words and sang praise unto him 13 But within a while they forgat his works and would not abide his counsell 14 But lust came upon them in the wildernesse and they tempted God in the desert 15 And he gave them their desire and sent leannesse withall 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 which had done so great things in Egypt 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham and fearfull 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 wrathfull indignation lest he should destroy them 24 Yea they thought scorn of that pleasant land and gave no credance unto his word 25 But murmured in their tents and hearkned not unto the voice of the Lord. 26 Then lift he up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wildernesse 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 offering 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 Phineas and prayed and so the plague ceased 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousnesse 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 sonnes and 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 wickednesse 43 Neverthelesse when he saw their adversity hee 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 had 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 The Prayer O Lord God full of mercy and pity who didst many times deliver thy people from their adversity when thou for their rebelling against thee with their inventions hadst given them into the hand of the heathen Remember us O Lord according unto the savour thou bearest unto thy people and visit us with thy salvation that though we have done amisse and dealt wickedly against thee and against thy covenant yet be pleased to help us for thy Name sake and make thy power to be known in the mighty deliverance and redemption of us from so great danger and misery Give us grace to beleeve thy words to abide thy counsels to walk in thy Laws to relinquish our own sinfull and vain desires to obey our Governours Ecclesiasticall and Civill that we may not have the lot of Dathan and Abiram but at last may receive our portion in the felicity of thy chosen giving thee thanks with thine inheritance for that thou hast turned from us thy wrathfull indignation pitying us and saving us according to the multitude of thy mercies Thy Name be blessed O Lord God everlastingly and world without end through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 107. A thanksgiving for deliverance from miseries and dangers 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 wildernesse 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 distresse 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 goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the empty soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodnesse 10 Such as sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death being fast bound in misery and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the word of the Lord and lightly regarded the counsell of the most High 12 He also brought down their heart through heavinesse they fell
give the praise for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake 2 Wherefore shall the heathen say Where is now their God 3 As for our God he is in heaven he hath done whatsoever pleased him 4 Their idols are silver and gold even the work of mens hands 5 They have mouthes and speak not eyes have they and see not 6 They have eares and hear not noses have they and smell not 7 They have hands and handle not feet have they and walk not neither speak they through their throat 8 They that make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their trust in them 9 But thou house of Israel trust thou in the Lord he is their succour and defence 10 Ye house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 11 Ye that fear the Lord put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 12 The Lord hath been mindfull of us and he shall blesse us even he shall blesse the house of Israel hee shall blesse the house of Aaron 13 He shall blesse them that fear the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall encrease you more and more you and your children 15 Ye are the blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth 16 All the whole heavens are the Lords the earth hath he given to the children of men 17 The dead praise not thee O Lord neither all they that go down into the silence 18 But we will praise the Lord from this time forth for evermore Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God omnipotent whose seat is in Heaven and thou hast done whatsoever pleased thee in Heaven and earth give us thy grace that in all our troubles we may make thee our Succour and Defence and put our trust in thee onely that we receiving thy mercies and the satisfaction of all our hopes from thy plenteousnesse and loving kindnesse we may give praise unto thy Name never ascribing to our selves any honour or the glory and thanks of any good action or prosperous successe but to thee who art the Author and Giver of all good things Preserve us from all dangers of idolatry from worshipping or loving any vain imaginations and making any thing to be our confidence besides thee our God that so thou mayest be mindfull of us and blesse us in all our ways and when we die and go down into the silence we may have our portion amongst the blessed of the Lord in the inheritance of thy Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 116. An act of love and thanksgiving to God for deliverance from sin and death I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voyce of my prayer 2 That he hath enclined his eare unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 4 The snares of death compassed me round about and the pains of hell gat hold upon me 4 I shall find trouble and heavinesse and I shall call upon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is mercifull 6 The Lord preserveth the simple I was in misery and he helped me 7 Turn again then unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath rewarded thee 8 Any why thou hast delivered my soul from deâ—th mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living 10 I beleeved and therefore will I speak but I was sore troubled I said in my haste All men are liars 11 What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me 12 I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. 13 I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints 14 Behold O Lord how that I am thy servant I am thy servant and the sonne of thine handmaid thou hast broken my bonds in sunder I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. 16 I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the sight of all his people in the courts of the Lords house even in the midst of thee O Jerusalem Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercies Gracious and Righteous give unto us hearts filled with love and praises to thy holy Name for thou hearest our prayers thou breakest asunder the bonds of our sins thou deliverest our souls from trouble and heavinesse and snatchest us from the snares of death and savest us from the pains of hell O mercifull God let our souls rest in thee and be satisfied in the pleasures of thy mercy that we may receive the cup of blessing and salvation and celebrate the Eucharist in honour of thy name and in remembrance of thy infinite benefits which thou hast done unto us and at last may pay our great Allelujah to the Lord in the courts of the Lords house in the midst of the celestiall Jerusalem through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 117. An invitation to all people to praise Gods mercy and truth O Praise the Lord all yea heathen praise him all ye Nations 2 For his mercifull kindnesse is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Blessed Jesu who art not only the glory of thy people Israel but the light of the Gentiles let thy mercifull kindnesse be ever more and more towards the sons of men that the nations which have not known thee may â—ear thy truth and feel thy mercies and call â—pon thy Name and thy grace may be confirmed upon us till we receive the fulnesse and perfection of thy graces in the full fruition of the glories of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 118. A Psalme of thanksgiving for the mercies and salvation which are given us in Jesus Christ. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious because his mercy endureth forever 2 Let Israel now confesse that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Yea let them now that fear the Lords confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 5 I called upon the Lord in trouble and the Lord heard me at large 6 The Lord is on my side I will not fear what man doth unto me 7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon mine enemies 8 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in man 9 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in Princes 10 All nations compassed me round about but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 11 They kept me in on every side
example and illumination of thy holy Spirit let thy Spirit lead us thy example guide us thy word teach us that we may not love darkness more then light but may keep thy righteous judgments according to our many purposes our vow of baptisme keep us from the snare of the ungodly and from our own selves the dangers of our own concupiscence and thâ— miseries of our infirmity leave not our souls in our own hands but keep them under thy protection and government lest we swerve from thy commandments but that applying our hearts alway to fulfil thy statutes even unto the end we may possesse thy law as our portion inheritance for ever Grant this O blessed Jesu for thy promise and for thy mercies sake that we may glorifie thee in the unity of the most mysterious Trinity now and for evermore Amen XV. I Hate them that imagine evil things but thy law do I love 2 Thou art my defence and shield and my trust is in â—hy word 3 Away from me ye wicked I will keep the commandments of my God 4 O stablish me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be disappointed of my hope 5 Hold thou me up and I shall be safe yea my delight shall be ever in thy statutes 6 Thou hast trodden down all them that depart from thy statutes for they imagine but deceit 7 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like drosse therefore I love thy testimonies 8 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements The Prayer O God our defence shield thou that treadest down all them that depart from thy law and puttest away the ungodly of the earth like drosse let thy mercies hold us up that we may be safe from sin and death eternall make us to hate all evill things all evil imaginations that we being stablished with a trust in thee and building our expectations upon thy mercies and promises we may not be disappointed of our hope but may live with thee eternally through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XVI I Deal with the thing that is lawfull and right O give me not over unto mine oppressors 2 Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong 3 Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health and for the word of thy righteousnesse 4 O deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy and teach me thy Statutes 5 I am thy servant O grant me understanding that I may know thy testimonies 6 It is time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand for they have destroyed thy law 7 For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stone 8 Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments and all false wayes I utterly abhorre The Prayer O Lord God thou seest with what miseries dangers we are encompassâ—d our ghostly enemies seek to doe us wrong and to oppresse our souls give us not over unto their malice but arm us against their pride and insolency by faith in thy word by hope of thy mercies and looking for thy health and by love unto thy commandments that so in this world in the eternall retribution of the Saints thou maist deal with thy servants according to thy loving mercy Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen XVII THy testimonies are wonderfull therefore doth my soul keep them 2 When thy word goeth forth it giveth light and understanding unto the simple 3 I opened my mouth and drew in my breath for my â—elight was in thy commandments 4 O look thou upon me and be mercifull unto me as â—hou usest to do unto those that love thy name 5 Order my steps in thy word and so shall no wickedâ—esse have dominion over 6 O deliver me from the wrongfull dealings of men â—nd so shall I keep thy commandments 7 Shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes 8 Mine eles gush out with water because men keep not thy law The Prayer O Just and dear God shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servants let this light give unto us understanding in thy law that our steps being ordered in thy word thou maist deliver us from the wrongfull dealings of men and from the malicious enmities of our Ghostly adversaries that by their temptations and our own weaknesse we may never be brought under the dominion of sin and wickednesse that when thy word goeth forth to call to judgment all people quick dead thou maist be mercifull unto us and save us as thou usest to doe unto those that love thy name Grant this for the merits and mercies of our dearest Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen XVIII RIghteous art thou O Lord and true is thy judgement 2 The testimonies that thou hast commanded are exceeding righteous and true 3 My zeal hath even consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words 4 Thy word is tried to the uttermost and thy servant loveth it 5 I am small and of no reputation yet do I not forget thy commandements 6 Thy righteousnesse is an evâ—rlasting righteousnesse and thy law is the truth 7 Trouble and heavinesse have taken hold upon mee yet is my delight in thy commandements 8 The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is everlasting O grant me understanding and I shall live The Prayer O Righteous Lord God whose judgements are true and thy testimonies exceeding righteous enkindle our souls with zeal to thy Laws and service that the continuall remembrance of thy Commandements may so enable our souls as to give a greatnesse and reputation to us in thy estimation even the greatnesse of humility and obedience which are more honourable in thy eyes then all the pomps and vanities of this world Grant this for his sake who for our sakes humbled himself to the form of a servant and became obedient to the death of the Crosse even Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen Evening Prayer XIX I Call with my whole heart hear me O Lord I will keep thy statutes 2 Yea even upon thee doe I call help me and I shall keep thy testimonies 3 Early in the morning doe I cry unto thee for in thy word is my trust 4 Mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I might be occupied in thy words 5 Hear my voyce O Lord according unto thy loving kindnesse quicken me according as thou art wont 6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me and are farre from thy law 7 Be thou nigh at hand O Lord for all thy commandements are true 8 As concerning thy testimonies I have known long since that thou hast grounded them for ever The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercy and truth give us hearts fixed upon thy divine beauties and an actuall intention in our prayers that we may call upon thee
with our whole hearts and do thou hear in heaven when we call upon thee deliver us from all them that of malice draw nigh to persecutâ— and afflict us be thou also nigh at hand and nothing can disturb our safety Make us to seek to thee early in the morning let our eyes and our prayers prevent the night-watches that we may be safe in our conversation with thee and our daily approaches to thy Mercy-seat where thou sittest attended with Cherubims and Seraphims glorious in thy self incomprehensible in thy Attributes and infinitely rejoycing in thy mercies which thou shewest unto us in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen XX. O Consider mine adversity and deliver me for I doe not forget thy law 2 Avenge thou my cause and deliver me quicken me according unto thy word 3 Health is far from the ungodly for they regard not thy statutes 4 Great is thy mercy O Lord quicken me as thou art wont 5 Many there are that trouble me and persecute me yet doe I not swerve from thy testimonies 6 It grieveth me when I see the transgressors because they keep not thy law 7 Consider O Lord how I love thy commandements O quicken me according to thy loving kindnesse 8 Thy word is true from everlasting all the judgements of thy righteousnesse endure for evermore The Prayer O Lord thy mercy is great thy Word is true from everlasting and in the truth of thy Word and in the mercies of thy promises and loving kindnesse thou lovest to be known to the sons of men O give us thy health and salvation that our souls being delivered from the heavy pressure of sin and quickned in thy Word thou mayest avenge us of all our ghostly enemies and deliver us in thy righteousness in the day of thy eternall vengeance upon the ungodly through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XXI PRinces have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in aw of thy words 2 I am as glad of thy word as one that findeth great spoils 3 As for lies I hate and abhorre them but thy law doe I love 4 Seven times a day doe I praise thee because of thy righteous judgements 5 Great is the peace that they have which love thy law and they are not offended at it 6 Lord I have looked for thy saving health and done after thy commandements 7 My soul hath kept thy testimonies and loved them exceedingly 8 I have kept thy commandements and testimonies for all my ways are before thee The Prayer ALL our ways O God are before thee let all our ways be directed by thee teach us to walk as in thy presence Make us to hate and abhorre lies and vanity and give us so much love and so much zeal of thy Name and honour that we may make it a businesse to give thee praises with a frequent and daily devotion that we standing in awe of thy Word and holy Laws and doing after thy Commandements our expectations may be satisfied with thy saving health and we may at last enjoy the peace which they have that love thy Law even the peace of a good conscience here and of a blessed eternity hereafter through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen XXII LEt my complaint come before thee O Lord give me understanding according to thy word 2 Let my supplication come before thee deliver me according to thy word 3 My lips shall speak of thy praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes 4 Yea my tongue shall sing of thy word for all thy commandements are righteous 5 Let thine hand help me for I have chosen thy commandements 6 I have longed for thy saving health O Lord and in thy law is my delight 7 O let my soul live and it shall praise thee and thy judgements shall help me 8 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost Oh seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandements The Prayer O Lord God we have gone astray from thy Commandments and been like lost sheep thou art our Shepheard and our mercifull Guide O seek thy servants let thy hand help us let thy care and providence reduce us into the way of thy statutes that we being delivered according to thy Word from thy wrath and from our own corruptions and irregularities may at last be satisfied with thy saving health and our lips may speak of thy praise in the quire of Saints and Angels singing glorious Anthems to all eternity to the honour of thee O Lord God eternall who livest and reignest world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 120. A Prayer to be delivered from false tongues and cohabitation with wicked persons WHen I was in trouble I called upon the Lord and he heard me 2 Deliver my soul O Lord from lying lips and from a deceitfull tongue 3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee thou false tongue even mighty and sharp arrows with hot burning coals 4 Wo is me that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech and to have my habitation among the tents of Cedar 5 My soul hath long dwelt among them that be enemies unto peace 6 I labour for peace but when I speak unto them thereof they make them ready to battell The Prayer O Lord God who hearest the prayers of them that call upon thee in their calamities and distresses have mercy upon us thy servants who live in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation whereof we our selves make too great a part we beseech thee so to order the circumstances and opportunities of our life that we may live in the society of holy people whose example and conversation may be a continuall incentive to the ways of peace and righteousnesse and deliver us from a necessity of conversing with turbulent spirits angry and unpeacefull dispositions who upon all occasions make themselves ready to battell Sanctifie our hearts and lips with a burning coal from thy altar that our words may be holy and profitable and keep us from all slander and scandall and the rewards of both the sharp arrows of thy vengeance the hot burning coals of thy wrath Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 121. A Prayer for Gods protection over us I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hils from whence commeth my help 2 My help commeth even from the Lord which hath made heaven and earth 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved and he that keepeth thee will not sleep 4 Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep 5 The Lord himself is thy keeper the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand 6 So that the Sun shall not burn thee by day neither the moon by night 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evill yea it is even he that shall keep thy soul. 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy comming in from this time forth for evermore The Prayer O Lord God our keeper who dwellest upon
we may wait for thee till our change commeth looking for thee in holiness and righteousness all our days Grant this for thy mercies and compassion sake O blessed Jesu our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 131. A Prayer for the graces of humility and mortification LOrd I am not high minded I have no proud looks 2 I doe not exercise my selfe in great matters which are too high for me 3 But I refrain my soul and keep it low like as a childe that is weaned from his mother yea my soul is even as a weaned childe 4 O Israel trust in the Lord from this time forth for evermore The Prayer O Lord God before whom the humble Publican who durst not lift up his eyes to Heaven but with confusion of face begged pardon was justified and acquitted give unto us thy servants humility of soul and modesty in our behaviour that our looks be not proud nor our thoughts arrogant nor our designes ambitious but that our souls being refrained from all vanity and pride our affections weaned from great opinions and love of our selves we may trust in thee follow the example of our blessed Master and receive thy promises which thou hast made unto us in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 132. A Prayer for the Church for the promotion of Religion for the King and for the Clergy LOrd remember David and all his trouble 2 How he sware unto the Lord and vowed a vow unto the Almighty God of Jacob. 3 I will not come within the tabernacle of my house nor climb up into my bed 4 I will not suffer mine eyes to sleep nor mine eye-lids to slumber neither the temples of my head to take any râ—st 5 Untill I finde out a place for the temple of the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. 6 Lo we heard of the same at Ephrata and found it in the wood 7 We will goe into his tabernacle and fall low on our knees before his foot-stool 8 Arise O Lord into thy resting place thou and the ark of thy strength 9 Let thy Priests be clothed with righteousnesse and let thy saints sing with joyfulnesse 10 For thy servant Davids sake turn not away the presence of thine anointed 11 The Lord hath made a faithfull oath unto David and he shall not shrink from it 12 Of the fruit of thy body shall I set upon thy seat 13 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall learn them their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore 14 For the Lord hath chosen Sion to be an habitation for himself he hath longed for her 15 This shall be my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have a delight therein 16 I will blesse her victuals with increase and will satisfie her poor with bread 17 I will deck her Priests with health and her saints shall rejoyce and sing 18 There shall I make the horn of David to flourish I have ordained a lantern for mine anointed 19 As for his enemies I shall clothe them with shame but upon himself shall his crown flourish The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest not in Temples made with hands and yet hast been pleased to manifest thy presence by speciall blessings and assistances in places set apart for thy worship be pleased to hear our prayers and accept our services when ever we make our addresses to thee in the house of prayer and fall down low on our knees before thy footstool let thy Priests be clothed with righteousness and let thy Saints sing with joyfulness and let all those that make their approaches unto thee purifie their hearts and hands that they may offer to thee a pure sacrifice even the sacrifice of obedience and holinesse and the expresses of true Religion Blesse O Lord thy servant the King whom thou hast made the Patron and Defender of the Church make his horn to flourish and be exalted above all his enemies and let thy Word be as a lantern for thine Anointed to shew him thy holy will and pleasure that he seeking thy honour and glory thy Church may flourish under the covert of his shield and patronage her victuals may be blessed with increase her poor satisfied with bread her Priests decked with health her Saints with joy and himself with honour and great renown and a flourishing diademe while his enemies sit clothed in shame and misery Grant this O blessed God for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 133. A Prayer for unity in the Church in a Kingdom or family BEhold how good and joyfull a thing it is brethâ—en to dwell together in unity 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down unto the beard even unto Aarons beard and went down to the skirts of his clothing 3 Like as the dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion 4 For there the Lord promised his blessing and life for evermore The Prayer O Blessed Jesu in whose garment was variety but no rent or seam have mercy upon thy holy Catholike Church and all Christian Kingdomes and Families and so unite all our hearts and affections by the union of Faith and Charity that we be not torn into Factions and Schisms but being anointed with the precious ointment even the anointing of thy Spirit from above we may keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and grant that this holy ointment may so knit together the Guides of thy Church the Rulers of Kingdomes the Princes of the Nations that the blessings of it may descend to the skirts of the people and that thou mayest blesse us with thy graces here and hereafter give us life for evermore in the participation of thy glorious Kingdom where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 134. An invitation to the Clergy to be diligent in singing Gods praises publikely BEhold now praise the Lord all ye servants of the Lord. 2 Ye that by night stand in the house of the Lord even in the courts of the house of our God 3 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord. 4 The Lord that made heaven and earth give thee blessing out of Sion The Prayer O Lord Creatour and Governour of all the world thou that madest Heaven and Earth that all should celebrate thy praise and the glory of thy Name give great Religion and devout affections to thy Ministers that by frequent elevation of their hands and hearts in thy Sanctuary in behalf of themselves and all the people thy honour may be exalted among all thy servants Religion may be advanced and the love of thy Name increased and thy blessings may descend upon us in a plentifull proportion to supply all our necessities through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 135. A Prayer that God would avenge his People of their Enemies and an invitation of them to praise his Name
against the stones The Prayer O Lord our God thou hast placed us in this world like pilgrims and strangers far from our Contrey far from rest give us souls and desires so abstract so religious and contemplative that all our hopes our joys and longings may be to enjoy thee and thy glories in the celestiall Jerusalem and let thy comforts refresh us in this our captivity and exile that in our heavinesse thou maist be our joy our songs and melody may be the songs of Sion the praises of thy Name that when thou hast delivered us from the wrath and malice of our enemies and dashed all their wickednesse which they have conceived and would bring forth to our destruction against the Rock Christ Jesus we may be blessed amongst thy children and be carried into our Countrey the Land of glorious promises there to reign with thee who livest and governest all things world without end Amen PSALME 138. A Prayer and a thanksgiving for Gods mercies 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 kindnâ—sse 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 afarre off 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble yet shalt thou refresh me thou shalt stretch forth thine hand upon the furiousnesse of mine enemies and thy right hand shall save mee 8 The Lord shall make good his loving kindnesse toward me yea thy mercy O Lord endureth for ever despise not then the works of thine own hands The Prayer O Lord God who hast magnified thy Name and Word above all things make good thy loving kindnesses towards us and endue our souls with much strength that thine hand being stretched forth upon the furiousness of all our ghostly enemies and we being saved by thy right hand may praise thee and all thy glories serving thee here with a lowly minde and a great industry that at last we may worship thee in thy holy Temple in the midst of all the Myriads of Angels where thy glory is great and farre exalted above all gods Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 139. A meditation of the omnipresence of God and a prayer that we may alwayes walk as in his sight O Lord thou hast searched me out and known mee 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 behinde and before and laid thine hand upon me 5 Such knowledge is too wonderfull 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 80 If I say Peradventure the darknesse shall cover me then shall my night be turned to day 11 Yea the darknesse is no darknesse with thee but the night is as clear as the day the darknesse and light to thee are both alike 12 For my reins are thine thou hast covered mee 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 summe 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 blood-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 fore 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 wickednesse in me and lead me in the way everlasting The Prayer O Lord our God who art infinite in wisdom and present in all places filling heaven and earth and hell with the effects of thy mighty power and communications of thy glorious essence let thy hand lead us and thy right hand hold us in all our ways always considering that thou art present understanding our thoughts and words even long before they are and seeing our most secret ways as clearly as in the sight of the sun print thy fear mightily upon our souls that we may be as fearfull of committing sins in secret as in the eyes of all the world that we hating all iniquity and loving thy counsels as our dearest treasures and guide may by the paths of a holy life be conducted into the way everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 140. A Prayer for deliverance from the mischiefe of all wicked persons DEliver me O Lord from the evil man and preserve me from the wicked man 2 Which imagine mischief in their hearts and stirre 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 which 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 battle 8 Let not the ungodly have his desire O Lord let not his mischievous imaginations prosper lest they bee too proud 9 Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them that compasse
sanctified shall come and worship thee O Lord and shall glorify thy Name for thou art great and dost wondrous things thou art God alone and great is thy mercy towards me thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost Hell therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever with Cherubims and Seraphims and all the companies of the heavenly Host saying Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabaoth holy is our God holy is the Immortall holy is the Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost to whom be all honour and glory and dominion and power ascribed of all spirits and all men and all creatures now and for evermore Amen I. Prayers preparatory to the receiving of the blessed Sacrament O Most immaculate and glorious Jesu behold me miserable sinner drawing near to thee with the approaches of humility and earnest desire to be cleansed fron my sins to be united to thee by the nearest and most mysterious union of charity and Sacramentall participation of thy most holy Body and Bloud I presume nothing of mine own worthinesse but I am most confident of thy mercies and infinite loving kindnesse I know O Lord I am blinde and sick and dead and naked but therefore I come the rather I am sick and thou art my Physitian thou arisest with healing in thy wings by thy wounds I come to be cured and to be healed by thy stripes I am unclean but thou art the Fountain of purity I am blinde and thou art the great Eye of the world the Sun of righteousnesse in thy light I shall see light I am poor and thou art rich unto all the Lord of all the creatures I therefore humbly begge of thy mercy that thou wouldest be pleased to take from me all my sins to cure my infirmities to cleanse my filthinesse to lighten my darknesse to clothe my nakednesse with the robe of thy righteousnesse that I may with such reverence and faith and holy intention receive thy blessed Body and Bloud in the mysterious Sacrament that it may be unto me life and pleasantnesse and holy nourishment and that I may be firmly and indissolubly united to thy mysticall Body and may at last see clearly and without a vail thy face in glory everlasting who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen II. I Adore and blesse thy glorious Majesty O blessed Jesu for this great dignation and vouchsafing to me that thou art pleased for all the infinite multiplication of my sins and innumerable violations of thy holy Law still to give thy self unto me to convey health and grace and life and hopes of glory in the most blessed Sacrament I adore thee O most righteous Redeemer that thou art pleased under the visible signes of Bread and Wine to convey unto our soules thy holy Body and Bloud all the benefits of thy bitter Passion O my God I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roofe but let thy holy Spirit with his purities prepare for thee a lodging in my soul. Thou hast knocked often O blessed Jesu at the door of my heart and wouldest willingly have entred behold O Lord my heart is ready to receive thee cast out of it all worldly desires all lusts and carnall appetites and then enter in and there love to inhabit that the Devill may never return to a place that is so swept and garnished to fill me full of all iniquity O thou lover of souls grant that this holy Sacrament may be a light unto mine eyes a guide to my understanding and a joy to my soul that by its strength I may subdue and mortifie the whole body of sin in me and that it may produce in me constancy in Faith fulnesse of wisdom perfection and accomplishment of all thy righteous commandments and such a blessed union with thee that I may never more live unto my self or to the world but to thee onely and by the refreshment of an holy hope I may be led through the paths of a good life and persevering piety to the communion and possession of thy Kingdome O blessed Jesu who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen III. O Lord God who hast made all things of nought producing great degrees of essence out of nothing make me a new creature and of a sinfull man make me holy and just and mercifull that I may receive thy precious Body devoutly reverently with meeknesse contrition and great affection with spirituall comfort and gladnesse at thy mysticall presence Feed my soul with Bread from Heaven fill me with charity conform me to thy will in all things save me from all dangers bodily and ghostly assist and guide me in all doubts and fears prepare and strengthen me against all surreptions and sudden incursion of temptations cleanse me from all stains of sin and suffer nothing to abide in me but thy self only who art the Life of souls the Food of the Elect and the joy of Angels Give me such a gust and an holy relish in this Divine nutriment that nothing may ever hereafter please me but what savours of thee and thy miraculous sweetnesse Teach me to loath all the pleasures and beauties of this life and let my soul be so inebriated with the pleasures of thy Table that I may be comprehended and swallowed up with thy love and sweetnesse let me think nothing but thee covet nothing but thee enjoy nothing but thee nothing in comparison with thee and neither doe not possesse any thing but what leads to thee and is in order to the performance of thy will and the fruition of thy glories Transfixe my soul O blessed Jesu with so great love to thee so great devotion in receiving the holy Sacrament that I may be transformed to the Fellowship of thy sufferings and admitted to a participation of all the benefits of thy Passion and to a communion of thy graces and thy glories I desire to be with thee dissolve all the chains of my sin and then come Lord Jesus come quickly Let my soul feed on thee greedily for thou art the spring of light and life the Fountain of wisdome and health a torrent of divine pleasure and tranquillity the Author of peace and comfort enter into me sweet Jesu take thou possession of my soul and be thou Lord over me and all my faculties and preserve me with great mercy and tendernesse that no doubting or infidelity no impenitence or remanent affection to a sin no impurity or irreverence may make me unworthy and uncapable of thy glorious approach Let not my sins crucifie the Lord of life again let it not be said concerning me The hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the Table that this holy Communion may not be unto me an occasion of death but a blessed peace-offering for my sins and a gate of life and glory Grant this O blessed God for his sake who is both
not thy wrath arise for although I have deserved the extreamest pressure of thine indignation yet remember my infirmity and how thou hast sent thy Son to reveal thy infinite mercies to us and convey pardon and salvation to the penitent I beseech thee also to accept the heartiest devotion and humblest acknowledgement of a thankfull heart for thy blessing and preservation of me this day for unlesse thy Providence and Grace had been my Defence and Guide I had committed more and more grievous sins and had been swallowed up by thy just wrath and severest judgements Mercy sweet Jesu III. LOrd let thy grace be so present with me that though my body sleep yet my soul may for ever be watchfull that I sleep not in sin or pretermit any opportunity of doing thee service let the remembrances of thy goodnesse and glories be first and last with me and so unite my heart unto thee with habituall charity that all my actions and sufferings may be directed to thy glory and every motion and inclination either of soul or body may in some capacity or other receive a blessing from thee and do thee service that whether I sleep or wake travell or rest eat or drink live or die I may always feel the light of thy countenance shining so upon me that my labours may be easie my rest blessed my food sanctified and my whole life spent with so much sanctity and peace that escaping from the darknesses of this world I may at last come to the land of everlasting rest in thy light to behold light and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Blessed be the holy and undivided Trinity now and for evermore Another Prayer for Evening I. VIsit we beseech thee O Lord this habitation with thy mercy and us thy servants with thy salvation and repell far from us all the snares of the Enemy Let thy holy Angels dwell here to keep us in peace and safety and thy blessing be upon us for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II O Lord Jesu Christ the lively Image of thy Fathers mercies and glories the Saviour of all them that put their trust in thee we offer and present to thee all our strengths and powers of our souls and bodies and whatsoever we are or have to be preserved governed and possest by thee Preserve us from all vitious vain and proud cogitations unchaste affections and from all those things which thou hatest Grant us thy holy charity that we may love thee above all the world that we may with sincerity of intention and zealous affections seek thee alone and in thee onely take our rest inseparably joyning our selves unto thee who art worthy to be beloved and adored of all thy creatures with lowest prostrations and highest affection now and for evermore Amen III. O Father of mercies and God of all comforts let this blessing be upon us and upon all the members of thy holy Church all health and safety both of body and soul against all our enemies visible and invisible now and for ever Send us a quiet night and a holy death in the actuall communion of the Catholique Church and in thy charity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Our Father which art in heaven c. Now and in all dangers and afflictions of soul and body in the hour of death and in the day of Judgement save us and deliver us O sweet Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Collects to be added upon Various Occasions I. For the Church ALmighty and everlasting God who hast revealed thy glory to Jews and Gentiles in our Lord Jesus Christ extend thy hand of mercy over all the world that thy Church may spread like a flourishing vine and enlarge her borders to the uttermost parts of the earth that all Nations partaking of the sweet refreshings of thy Gospel thy Name may be glorified the honour of our Lord Jesus advanced his prophecies fulfilled and his comming hastened Blesse O Lord thy holy Church with all blessings of comfort assistance and preservation extirpate heresies unite her divisions give her patience perseverance in the faith and confession of thy name in despite of all enmities temptations and disadvantages destroy all wicked counsels intended against her or any of her children by the Devill or any of his accursed instruments Let the hands of thy grace and mercy lead her from this vale of misery to the triumphant throne of her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen II. For the King O Lord our heavenly Father High Mighty King of Kings who in thy hands hast the hearts of Kings and canst turn them as the rivers of water send the light of thy countenance and abundance of blessings upon thy servant our Soveraign Lord King Charles make him as holy valiant and prosperous as King David wise and rich like Solomon zealous for the honour of thy Law and temple as Josiah and give him all sorts of great assistances to enable him to serve thee to glorifie thy name to protect thy Church to promote true Religion to overcome all his enemies to make glad all his liege people that he serving thee with all diligence and the utmost of his possibility his people may serve him with honour and obedience in thee and for thee according to thy blessed word and ordinance through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen III. For the Queen O God of heaven Father of mercies have mercy upon our most gracious Queen unite her unto thee with the bands of faith and love preserve her to her lives end in thy favour and make her an instrument of glory to thy Name of refreshment to the Church of joy to all faithfull people of this Kingdome of a plenteous and blessed Issue to his Majesty and Crown her with an eternall weight of glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen IV. For the Prince of Wales O Most blessed Jesu Son of God who camest from thy Fathers bosome with myriads of blessings to the sons of men blesse us all by thy especiall care and providence over the body and soul of the most illustrious Prince CHARLES Prepare him with plenty of thy grace and with great abilities to succeed his Royall Father in the service of thy Majesty in defending the Catholique Faith in comforting thy holy Church in governing all the people prudently justly and religiously that being partaker of all thy mercies here in proportion to his necessity and capacity he may enjoy a fulnesse of thy glory hereafter through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen V. For the Bishops O Thou great Shepheard and Bishop of our souls most glorious Jesu blesse all holy and religious Prelates especially the Bishops of our Church O God let abundance of thy grace and benediction descend upon their heads that by a holy life by a true and Catholique beliefe by a confident confession of thy Name and by a Fatherly care great sedulity and watchfulnesse over their flock they may glorifie thee our God the great lover of
when thou openest thy hand they are filled with good 29 When thou hidest thy face they are troubled when thou takest away their breath they die and are turned again to their dust 30 When thou lettest thy breath go forth they shall be made and thou shalt renew the face of the earth 31 The glorious majesty of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall rejoyce in his works 32 The earth shall tremble at the look of him if he do but touch the hils they shall smoke 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will praise my God while I have my being 34 And so shall my words please him my joy shall be in the Lord. 35 As for sinners they shall be consumed out of the earth and the ungodly shall come to an end praise thou the Lord O my soul praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God who art exceeding glorious who art clothed with majesty and honor thou hast created all things with admirable wisdome established them with excellent order and hast provided for them with mercy singular providence be pleased to give us grace that we may remember thou hast created us all for thy glory that thou hast planted thine image on us and hast crowned all our years with thy mercies and loving kindnesse let us never disobey thy will forget thy mercies or deface thine image in us but when all thy creatures praise thee in their manner let not us whom thou hast made in dignity next to Angels disturb the blessed order of Creation by our sins and irregular disobedience Open thy hand O Lord and fill us with good things both spirituall and temporall that when thou takest away our breath that we die and turn again to our dust thou mayest not hide thy face away from us but communicate to us the light of thy countenance and the glories of thy Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 105. A commemoration of Gods care of his Church and blessings to his people O Give thanks unto the Lord and call upon his Name tell the people what things he hath done 2 O let your songs be of him and praise him and let your talking be of all his wondrous works 3 Râ—joyce in his holy Name let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. 4 Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore 5 Remember the marvellous works that hee hath done his wonders and the judgements of his mouth 6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant ye children of Jacob his chosen 7 Hee is the Lord our God his judgements are in all the world 8 Hee hath been alway mindfull of his covenant and promise that he made to a thousand generations 9 Even the covenant that he made with Abraham and the oath that he sware unto Isaac 10 And appointed the same unto Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting testament 11 Saying Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan the lot of your inheritance 12 When there were yet but a few of them and they strangers in the land 13 What time as they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 14 He suffered no man to doe them wrong but reproved even Kings for their sakes 15 Touch not mine Anointed and doe my Prophets no harm 16 Moreover he called for a dearth upon the land and destroyed all the provision of bread 17 But he had sent a man before them even Joseph which was sold to be a bond-servant 18 Whose feet they hurt in the stocks the iron entred into his soul. 19 Vntill the time came that his cause was known the Word of the Lord tried him 20 The King sent and delivered him the Prince of the people let him goe free 21 He made him Lord also of his house and ruler of all his substance 22 That he might inform his Princes after his will and teach his senators wisdome 23 Israel also came into Egypt and Jacob was a stranger in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people exceedingly and made them stronger then their enemies 25 Whos 's heart turned so that they hated his people and dealt untruly with his servants 26 Then sent he Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen 27 And these shewed his tokens among them and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darknesse and it was dark and they were not obedient unto his Word 29 He turned their waters into bloud and slew their fish 30 Their land brought forth frogs yea even in their Kings chambers 31 He spake the word and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarter 32 He gave them hailstones for rain and flames of fire in their land 33 He smote their vines also and fig-trees and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts 34 He spake the word and the grashoppers came and caterpillers innumerable and did eat up all the grasse in their land and devouted 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 quailes and he filled them with the bread of heaven 40 He opened the rock of stone and the waters flowed out so that the rivers ran in dry places 41 For why hee remembred his holy promise and Abraham his servant 42 And he brought forth his people with joy and his chosen with gladnesse 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 The Prayer O Lord God who art alway mindfull of thy covenant and promise to a thousand generations and didst deliver the seed of Abraham the children of Jacob thy chosen from the slavery of Egypt from the waves of the sea from the rage of Pharaoh from the thirst and famine of the wildernesse continue the like mercies to all Christian people deliver us from the bondage of our sins preserve us in the Ark of the Church that we perish not in the waves of this troublesom world save us from the fury of all our temporall and ghostly enemies feed us with food from heaven and give us competency of good things on earth that we may keep thy statutes and observe thy Laws and at last receive the promises of a blessed eternity which in the covenant of thy Gospel thou hast made unto all that beleeve in thee and are obedient to thy Word Grant this O blessed Jesu to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen â—vening Prayer PSALME 106. 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shewed his people the power of his works that he may give them the heritage of the heathen 7 The works of his hands are verity and judgement all his commandements are true 8 They stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and equity 9 He sent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his covenant for ever holy and reverend is his Name 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome a good understanding have all they that doe thereafter the praise of it endureth for ever The Prayer O Blessed Jesu whose righteousnesse endureth for ever thy work is worthy to be praised and had in honour for that thou hast been mercifull and gracious to us and hast given meat even the food of the blessed Sacrament unto them that fear thee that by participation of thy holy Communion we should have thee in remembrance and ever be mindfull of thy covenant plant thy fear in our hearts give us wisdome and good understanding and make us to have pleasure in thee and all thy works that we obeying the precepts of thy holy Gospel and performing the conditions of thy covenant which thou hast established for ever in truth and equity in verity and judgement we may worthily praise and adore thy reverend and holy Name among the faithfull in this life and in the great congregation of saints in the life to come through thy mercies O blessed Jesu to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 112. A Prayer for the feare of the Lord for charity and the blessings of the righteous BLessed is the man that feareth the Lord hee hath great delight in his commandements 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the faithfull shall be blessed 3 Riches and plenteousnesse shall be in his house and his righteousnesse endureth for ever 4 Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darkness he is mercifull loving and righteous 5 A good man is mercifull and lendeth and will guide his words with discretion 6 For he shall never be moved and the righteous shall be had in an everlasting remembrance 7 He will not be afraid for any evill tidings for his heart standeth fast and beleeveth in the Lord. 8 His heart is stablished and will not shrink untill he see his desire upon his enemies 9 He hath dispersed abroad and given to the poor and his righteousnesse remaineth for ever his horn shall bee exalted with honour 10 The ungodly shall see it and it shall grieve him he shall gnash with his teeth and consume away the desire of the ungodly shall perish The Prayer O Lord God who art to be feared in the generations of the world teach us the fear of thy Name that we may fear to offend thee and that delighting in thy Commandements we may serve thee without fear of our enemies in holinesse and righteousnesse all our days Let thy light rise upon the darknesse of our understandings let thy mercies and gentlenesse cure all thoughts of unmercifulnesse in us and make us charitable of tender bowels yearning with pity over the needs of the poor Teach us to guide our words with discretion make us never to be moved from our purposes of holy living stablish our hearts in thy love that in the day of restitution of all things thou mayest give us the portion of the charitable the rewards of thy right hand and when the wicked shall gnash with their teeth and consume away in a sad eternity we may be satisfied with the riches and plenteousnesse of thy house for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 113. A thanksgiving to God for his acts of providence and particular care over the poor and humble PRaise the Lord ye servants O praise the Name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore 3 The Lords name is praised from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same 4 The Lord is high above all heathen and his glory above the heavens 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God that hath his dwelling so high and yet humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and earth 6 He taketh up the simple out of the dust and lifteth the poor out of the mire 7 That he may set him with the princes even with the princes of his people 8 He maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyfull mother of children The Prayer O Lord God whose dwelling is on high and yet thou humblest thy self to behold the things that are in Heaven and earth have mercy upon us thy humble servants and lift us up from the gates of death take us out of the mire that we sink not into the bottomlesse pit of misery and infelicity and when for our sinnes thou humblest us as low as the dust let thy mercy exalt us and restore us to the light of thy countenance and the joy of thy salvation that when thou shalt call all the world to judgement from the rising of the Sun to the going down thereof we may be set with the Princes of thy people with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in thine eternall Kingdome to sing praises to thy Name from this time forth for evermore Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 114. A thanksgiving to God for the deliverance of his people from bondage and misery WHen Israel came out of Egypt and the house of Jacob from among the strange people 2 Juda was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion 3 The sea saw that and fled Jordan was driven back 3 The mountains skipped like rams and the little hils like young sheep 5 What aileth thee O thou sea that thou fleddest and thou Jordan that thou wast driven back 6 Ye mountains that ye skipped like rams and yee little hils like young sheep 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob. 8 Which turned the hard rock into a standing wâ—ter and the flint stone into a springing well The Prayer O Lord God at whose presence the earth trembles who workest salvation and deliverance for thy Church in all ages and didst deliver thy people from the bondage of Egypt with a mighty hand and an arm stretched out in miraculous effects deliver us from the bondage of sin from the tyranny of the devill from the Empire and Dominion of the flesh that our bodies and souls being mortified our flesh brought under subjection of the spirit our appetites made subordinate to reason and our souls wholly conformable to thy will our hard stony hearts may be converted into hearts of flesh and into a springing well bringing forth the waters of repentance and fruits springing up to life eternall through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 115. A Prayer against idolatry and for confidence in the true God NOt unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name