O God wherefore art thou absent from us so long why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture O think upon thine Inheritance which thou hast purchased and Redeemed of old Lift up thy feet that thou mayst utterly destroy every Enemy that hath done Evil in thy Sanctuary For behold they break down all the caâ—…ed Works thereof with Axes and Hammers Yea they have said in their hearts Let us make havock of them altogether And thus have they designed to ruin all the Houses of God in the land But O God how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour how long shall the Enemy Blaspheme thy Name for ever Arise O God maintain thine own Cause Remember how the Foolish man blasphemeth thee daily But O deliver not the soul of thy Turtle Dove into their Hands For the Presumption of them that hate Thee increaseth more and more O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us II. O Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy People that Prayeth How long wilt thou feed us with the Bread of Tears and give us plenteousnesse of Tears to drink O Turn us again Thou God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole Remember that Thou didst once plant a Vine amongst us And when it had taken Root it filled the Land Our Hills were covered with the shadow of it and the Boughs thereof were like the Goodly Cedar Trees But now thou hast broken down her Hedge so that all they that go by pluck off her Grapes The wild Boar of the Wood doth root it up and the Beasts of the Field devour it Yet turn us again O Lord God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole For we will not go back from thee O let us live and we shall â—…ll upon thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us III. HOld not thy Tongue O God keep not still silence Refrain not thy self O God For â—…o Thine Enemies make a murmuring and they that hate Thee have lift up their Head They have imagined craftily against thy People and have taken Counsell against thy secret ones Behold they have cast their heads together with one Consent and are Confederate against Thee They have said Come let us root them out that they may be no more a People and that their Name may be no more in remembrance They come daily round about 〈◊〉 like Water and compasse us on every side But O my God make them like unto a Wheel and as the stubble before the Wind Who say Let us take unto Our selves the Houses of God in Possession O make their Faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek Thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us IV. O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad Thou hast been displeased at us O Turn thee unto us again Thou hast moved the Land and divided it O heal the sores thereof for it shaketh Thou hast shewn Thy People heavy things and given us a Drink of Deadly Wine Thou hast made us to turn our backs upon our Enemies so that they which hate Us spoil our Goods Thou makest us to be rebuked of our Neighbours to be laugh'd to scorn and to be had in derision of them that are round about us But though all this be come upon us yet do we not forget Thee nor â—…ave our selves frowardly in Thy Coâ—…ant Our heart is not turned back nor our steps gone out of thy Way No not when thou hast smitten us into the place of Dragons and covered us with the shadow of Death Up Lord Why sleepest thou Awake and be not absent from Us for ever But O why hidest Thou Thy Face and forgettest our Misery and Trouble For our soul is brought low even unto the Dust and our Belly â—…eaveth unto the ground Arise help us and deliver us for Thy Mercies sake O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us King David's Tears O My God why hast thou forsaken Thine Anointed and art displeased with him For Lo Thou hast broken the Covenant of thy servant and cast his Crown to the Ground Thou hast overthrown all his Hedges and broken down his strong holds So that all they that go by spoil him and he is become a Rebuke to his Neighbours For thou hast set up the Right hand of his Enemies and made all his Adversaries to rejoyce Thou hast put out his Glory and hast cast his Throne down to the Ground The Dayes of his Youth hast Thou seasoned with Bitternesse and covered him with dishonor But Lord how long wilt thou â—…ide thy self for Ever and shall thy Wrath still burn like Fire Remember O Lord the rebuke that Thy Servant hath and how he doth bear in his Bosom the Rebukes of many People And let his Adversaries be clothed with sham But upon his Head let his Crown flourish O help him against his Enemies for vain is the help of Man O God make speed to save Him O Lord make haste to help Him Jeremiah's Lamentations Propheticall of these Times HOw hath the Lord covered us with a Cloud in his anger and cast down from Heaven unto Earth the Beauty of Israel and remembred not his Footstool in the Day of his Wrath For Lo he hath bent his Bow as an Enemy He hath swallowed us up and hath not pittied He hath made desolate the Kingdom and the Princes thereof He hath cast off his Altars and abhorred his Sanctuary and hath given into the Hands of the Enemies the Walls of his Palaces He hath caused our solemn Feastâ—… and Sabbaths to be forgotten and hath despised in his Indignation the King and the Priest For the Lord hath now accomplished his ' Fury He hath poured out his fierce Anger He hath kindled such a Fire in Sion as hath devoured the Palaces thereof For the sins of the Prophets and and the Iniquities of the Priests who have shed the blood of the Iust in the midst of her For the Breath of our nostrils the Anointed of the Lord hath been taken in their Pits Of whom we said under his shadow shall we live in Peace But we have Transgressed and Rebelled and Thou hast not pardoned And therefore our eyes have as yet failed in our vain help For in our Watching we have watched for a Nation that could not save us Behold O Lord and Consider to whom thou hast done this O Lord Thou hast seen his Wrong Judge thou his Cause Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against him Thou hast heard all their Reproach O Lord and all their Imaginations against him The lips of thos that have risen up against him and their Devices against him all the Day O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him II. REmember O Lord what
them 〈◊〉 their own way But be thou gratiously pleased to look after â—…hem and when thou hast found them give them a ready willingness to accept of thy shoulders and to be carried â—…ome With thee there is Balm for their wounded consciences and in thy side there is oyl for for their broken hearts Let thy staff O Lord be a support to the weak and let thy rod instruct and correct the refractory And so bless them all in their bodies in their souls in their Estates both with thy temporall and spirituall mercies that here in this life they may live in Love Peace Plenty and all Godliness that so in the Life Eternall they may be made joynt Partakers of Glory and raign for ever with the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world To whom be all honour and glory power and praise from this time forth and for evermore Amen The Peoples Prayer for the Minister O Lord God who of thy mercy hast bestowed upon us Preachers of Righteousnesse and who for our benefit hast appointed the Priests lips to preserve knowledge O Lord Jesu Christ who hast sent labourers into thy Vineyard to dress and trim it and there to reach us fruit from the Tree of life O holy and blessed Spirit who satest in the likenesse of fiery tongues upon the Apostles to inspire thy Church and of whose gift it is that a succession of Ministers is continued among us even to this day O holy blessed and glorious Trinity let me never but be thankfull to thee for all these thy Gifts Preserve me by thy Grace that I may never be of the number of those who love to strive with the Priest And that I may at no time deserve to be struck blind with the dust from a Disciples feet Keep me from â—…surping upon the Ministers Office from defrauding him of his right from maligning his person from calumniating his Doctrine and from abhorring to be reproved by him But grant Lord that I may readily hear and embrace the Message that thou art pleased to send by him be it of mercy or of judgement alwayes saying with old Eli It is the Lord let him do what seemeth best in his own eyes And here among many other thy servants who wait upon thâ—… at thine Altar bless Lord more particularly that servant of thine to whom thou hast committed the charge of my soul. O never let him sooth and flatter it but as I give him occasion let him discipline and correct it Give him Grace and Courage to speak boldly in the name of Jesu And since thou art delighted with those that tremble at thy Word Lord make me one of their number that thou mayst delight in me Let me never stop mine ears nor withdraw my self from hearing thy servant who speaks home to my conscience But when he shall have wounded mine heart with the sword of thy Spirit O give him power and wisdom to pour as well oyle as vinegar into those happy wounds Lastly Grant Lord I beseech â—…e that he by whose prayers â—…nd instructions thou art graâ—…ously pleased to advance my spirituall good may by thy grace and favour be protected by thy Providence assisted by thy great mercies comforted and relieved in all his necessities bodily and ghostly And let me never but thus pray for him who in discharge of his duty both prays and weeps for me Lord grant him deliverance from unreasonable and wicked men who with so much danger to himself endeavours to preserve me from the power of the Devil That so at last both Priest and People the Minister and his Congregation the Shepheard and the whole Flock may walk hand in hand to heaven and be joyfully translated from the Church militant here to the Church triumphant above through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen Another O Most gracious Lord God who hast promised to heaâ—… the Prayers of others for us and our Prayers for others but both theirs and ours through the powerfull intercession of thy Son Grant I beseech thee that I may reap benefit by the Prayers of all such who are charitably mindfull of recommending me and my necessities to the Throne of Grace Particularly touch both the heart and tongue of thy Servant with a coal from thine Altar give him zeal and intention in all his Devotions And since we are taught by thy holy Spirit that the effectual servent Prayer of a Righteous man availeth much grant him Lord to be Righteous in all his ways Faithfull in his Calling and a sincere Example of holy life and godly Conversation That so those Prayers which he offers up for my self and others may be the more acceptable in thy sight and be the sooner graciously answered with thy Benediction and Blessing both upon our bodies and souls and all for the precious blood-sheddings sake of thy beloved Son and our blessed Mediator Jesus Christ Amen Psalms for pardon of sins Psalm 6. 25. 32. 38. 51. 10â—… 130. 143. For Protection from our Enemies and from the punishment of sins Psalm 3. 7. 9. 10. 11. 13. 17. 27. 31. 35. 54. 56. 57. 141. For the Church and all faithfull People Psal. 53. 74. 79. 80. 94. 137. For the King Psalm 21. 61. 89. 132. For Peace 46. 122. 133. In time of Persecution and publick Calamity Psalm 52. 64. 73. 61. 142. 120. In time of War 43. 144. Lessons IUdgments upon Rebellion 2 Sam. 18. Saint Iudea Numb 16. Epist. Idgements upâ—… Tyrants and â—…lse Prophets Mic. 3. Mat. 7. 23. Mar. 13. 2 Pet. 2. 3. The Iudgement of reâ—…ving the Candleâ—…ick and threats of it 1 Sam. 4. Mat. 21. Ezek. 3. Rev. 2. Threats against Disobedience and Promises to the Obedient Deut. 28. Luke 6. Joshua 23. sa 59. Jer. 5. Lamentation for Iudgeâ—…ent on a â—…nd Lam. 1 2 3 4 5. Mat. 20. Isa. 64. Luke 13. Jerem. 4. 9. Baruch 2. 3. 2 Esdras 3. 4. Exhortation to Repentance and Faith Deut. 4 6 8 11. Mat. 6. Isaiah 58. Hosea 4 6. Exhortaion to Fasting and Obedience Joel 2. Jonah 3. Jerem. 〈◊〉 3 7 6. Examples for patient sufferings and Exhortations thereto 2 Sam. 15. Heb. 12. 2 Mac. 6 7. 1 Pet. 〈◊〉 3 4. Jam. 4 5. Temporary Prosperity and Eternall Punishment of the wicked Job 21. Jer. 12. Act. 12. Habbac 1. Mal. 3. Wisdom 5. Persecution of the Church Exod. 5. Revel 12 13. Comforts to the Penitent and Holy Ezek. 9. Mat. 5. Revel 7. Some Prayers for the King and Church c. heretofore printed A Prayer for the King O Lord God who hast commanded us to pray for Kings and all that be in Authority that under them we â—…ay lead a quiet and peaceable â—…fe in all godliness and honesty â—…esse thy Servant our King â—…at he may use that Sword â—…ou hast put into his hands for â—…e protection and reward of â—…he good and the punishment â—…f them that do evill and give grace unto us and all other his Subjects to fear reverence
bring them back by the same way they came Let it appear that thou art in the midst of us and that we shall not be moved That thou wilâ—… help us and that very early Let there be no invasion no going out nor no crying in our streets But set thou Peace in our Borders Make strong the bars of our gates especially let the Gospel of thy Son sound yet lowder among us that by it many Souls may be gathered unto thee So we thy People and thâ—… sheep of thy Pasture shall praise thee for ever and from Generation to Generation we will set forth thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen A Prayer for a Souldier O Lord it is thy glory to be called The Lord of Hosts and it is thou alone from whom when men have made their most politick and puissant preparations the victory must be looked for Draw my heart I beseech thee from all relying upon my own valour or upon the strength of the battail in which I stand and teach me to look upward and to wait and trust only upon thee Thou givest conquest and thou givest courage thou deliverest from the perill of the Sword or else makest death a means of happinesse to thy servants Forgive my sins I pray thee and assure me of pardon by the witnesse of thy Spirit that the guilt thereof make not my heart to tremble within me and to behold death as a messenger to convey me into hell If thou O Lord bee on my side peace being made betwixt thee and my soul through Christ what can be against me what hazard can befall my soul Nothing shall be able to deprive me of thy love Let not spoil or blood or mine own advancement be the ends of mine attempts but make me to aim only at thy glory in the defence of thy truth and in the good and safety of the Kingdome wherein I live The issue of all things to thee O Lord is known but to man it is hidden Prepare me therefore indifferently to whatsoever shall befall me If I die give me comfort in my last breathing and take my soul into thy gracious hand If I be taken captive give me patience give me wisdom and godly courage to do nothing contrary to the honour of my Country or prejudicial to the profession of a faithfull Christian If I return with life and victory make me thankfull Keep me from taking from thee any part of thy glory Preserve me from those riotous lascivious and blaspheming courses which are the usuall fruits of good successe let me not think devotion to be an enemy to resolution or that a religious fear of thy Majesty doth abate the spirit that should be in a Souldier but settle me in this that the assurance of a lawfull cause the hope and confidence of a better life by the merits of Christ the care to please thee and to depend upon thy power are the only true grounds of valour which can give a man boldnesse and life in the day of battel Vouchsafe me these and all other needfull favours in and for Christ Jesus sake Amen A Prayer upon the strange revolution on the twenty first of February 1659. when the formerly secluded Members were readmitted into the House of Commons O Most mighty God who sittest upon the Cherubims be the people never so impatient and after thine own counsells governest all that is done among the children of Men. We most humbly confess that it is for our sins that thou hast so often changed thy rod and brought such variety of confusions upon us that all the world stands a gaze to see what will become of such a people that will not see the things that belong unto their peace But O gracious God though we forget our selves forget not thou thine own goodnesse for there is yet time for mercy and such an expedient left as may cure all our wounds and close up all our divisions by restoring him who was once designed by thee to be the common Father of us all though we like rebellious children have disdainfully cast him from us And as thou hast begun already to shew some glimmerings of our future happiness by unexpectedly dissolving the Assembly of those Achitophels who by their dark counsels have so long obstructed it so go on we most earnestly beg of thee and let not the sins of this wretched Nation hinder thee from compleating what thou hast for thine own glory so wonderfully begun Work powerfully upon the minds of all that are any wayes concerned in the redeeming of our peace Give them but as much honest courage to do right as they have formerly shewn in acting all those mischiefs that have been done among us O plead the cause of an oppressed KING strenghthen the hands and hearts of all that appear for him direct his counsels prosper his enterprizes make his very enemies to be at peace with him and when thou shalt vouchsafe to us our former happiness both in Church and State give us then thankfull hearts to imbrace it as a blessing from thy hands alone who hast wrought these great wonders for us for Iesus Christ's sake Amen A Prayer upon the Assembling of the present Parliament April 25. 1660. O Most great most wise and most powerfull Lord God in whose hands are the hearts of all men and turned them as thou doest the rivers of waters Shew thy power and come among us and be present at this great meeting when after so many years of confusion there 's once more a consultation had to settle this distracted Church and Nation and as there is nothing hid from thee who seest the very thoughts and ends and divided interests of them that meet together so there is nothing so impossible to thee but that thou canst by the hidden workings of thy Providence unite what thou findest divided and oversway every counsell and design and every imagination that shall set it self against thee Let there be no root of bitternesse among them which are intrusted in this great work no thoughts of revenge No Ambition of making themselves great no particular or separate interest of their own but instead of these give them bowels of compassion towards their bleeding and expiring Country strike a sense into them of the blood already shed and the desolation yet to come if they prevent it not And let thy fear run through all their consultations that remembring the sad account which in the last great day will be required of them they may unanimously set themselves to find out those blessed expedients as may restore the voice of joy and peace into our dwellings in such a way as may be most for the glory of thy great Name the righting of those that are opprest and the setling of the happinesse of this Church and Nation upon the right basis of that former government from which it hath stood so long so unhappily divided And â—…his as being neither impossible to thy
evill work hath not been erecuted speedily the hearts 〈◊〉 this people are wholy set in thâ—… to doe evill this respite which thou hast given us to work oâ—… Repentance hath served onâ—… to compleat our sin by adding an obstinate impenitency to 〈◊〉 former Guilt and so fitting us for that finall excision which thou hast threatned to obdurate sinners And now O Lord this fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation is all that remains unto us who have thus despised the riches of thy mercy Yet O Lord out of these depths do we desire to call upon thee Lord hear our voice and if that finall sentence be not irreversibly gone 〈◊〉 against us be pleased yet to turn thy wrath away and not to suffer thy whole displeasure to arise To this end thou O Lord who breakest the gates of brasse and smitest the bars of Iron in â—…der be thou pleased to rend these unrelenting hearts of ourâ—… to work in every one of us such a sense of our horrid abominations especially that of this day as may cast us down in the lowest degree of Humiliation and Contrition before thee that so we may be capable of that exaltation which thou hast promised to the humble that Comfort which thou hast assigned to Mourners through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen III. O Lord God that rulest over all the Kingdomes of the earth that hast threatned that for the sinnes of the Land the Kings thereof should be many and hast told us that if we doe wickedly we should be consumed both we and our King We miserable and wretched sinners do here in the bitternesse of our soul â—…ostrate our selves before thy Throne of Grace acknowledging against our selves that we have made thee to serve with our sins and wearied thee with our iniquities so that in the fiercenesse of thine anger thou hast wounded us with the wound of an enemy and chastised us with the chastisement of a oruel one for in the indignation of thy fury thou hast despised the King and the Priest Wo unto us that we have sinned the Crown is fallen from our Head and the beauty of our Israel is slain by the hands of wicked men Thou hast suffered the Breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord to be taken in their Pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall have Peace and Protection The fire out of the Bramble hath devoured the lofty Cedars the Base are risen up against the Honourale the Subjects against their King whom after much contumelious usage forgetting the Oath of God their own Covenant their own Protestation and their often reiterated Vows to preserve his Person Crown and Dignity and all this with their hands lifted up to thee our God of Truth have yet brought him as a Lamb to the slaughter and with wicked hands hâ—… murdered thy Vice-gerent 〈◊〉 though he had not been anointed with oyle A wonderfull and horrible sin is committed in the Land over passing the deeds of the wicked a sin that no Nation no people ever committed and such as the Sun never saw since it withdrew its light at the Passion of thy dear Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Other Rebels have murdered Kings but as it was in it self a deed of darknesse so they acted thâ—… sin in darknesse shunning the light But this Paricide 〈◊〉 committed with a high hand presumptuously in the fight of the Sun and owned as an Act of Justice The cry of this Innocent blood of a righteous King of our own King a King too good for so wicked a People is entered into thy presence and cals loud to thee for vengeance upon this whole Nation so that we may justly expect that thou shouldest â—…ot us and our posterity out of this Land which is made an abomination stained polluted with the blood of thine Anointed Servant and Martyr But the Judge of all the earth will not destroy the Innocent with the Guilty for though our sins are many and grievous yet in our tears we will wash our hands from this sin saying our hands have not shed this blood And therefore when thou shalt make inquisition for blood lay not we beseech thee this blood to our Charge Be mercifull O Lord be mercifull unto thy people whom thou hast redeemed and let not this Innocent blood be required neither of us nor of our Posterity For as before this great wickednesse was committed we prayed against it and in our Devotions entred our Protestation in Heaven before thee against so impious so hâ—… lish Resolutions of the bloody Assassinates So since these sons of Belial have brought their mischievous imaginations to passe for which our soules are wounded and humbled within us we do from our hearts detest this Damnable Parricide and doe from our souls renounce this abhorred Murder of thine Anomted Servant our late Soveraigne King Charls Saying with Iacob O my soul come not thou into their Secret unto their Assembly mine honor be not thou united for in their anger they have slain a man the best of men the Lords Anointed Cursed be their Anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruel yea we wil yet pray against their wickednes for now they go on to strengthen one wickednesse with another They Decree unrighteous Decrees and write grievous things which they have prescribed thereby to establish wickedness by a Law to remove the bounds of the People and destroy the very Foundations But O thou preserver of men and God of all order blast all their designes which tend to nothing but Anarchy and Confusion and destruction and scandal of the Christian Religion but let all their turning of things upside down be esteemed as the Potters clay Let it be in thy sight as the Rebellion of Corah Dathan and Abiram and now O Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh let not the Congregation of the Lord be as sheep which have no shepheard Though our breach be great like the sea yet thou canst heal it Be mercifull we beseech thee to these three Kingdomes united under one Crown by establishing the King in his Fathers Throne Plead thou his cause and that thou mayest give rest unto the Land make his wâ—… prosperous direct all his Coâ—… sels and Crown all his Designâ—… with success raise him up frieâ—… abroad and at home turn 〈◊〉 hearts of the People to their Soveraigne upon whom we 〈◊〉 seech thee to double the Gâ—… and Graces of his Father as tâ—… didst the spirit of Elijah on 〈◊〉 sha Cloath him with Majâ—… Power that he may subdue 〈◊〉 Rebellious and appear terrible to thine and his Enemies that so he may restore the daily Sâ—…crifice thy publique Worship 〈◊〉 Service relieve the Oppressâ—… and bring the punishment of tâ—… Innocent blood of his Father upon those Murderers that shed it as water spilt upon the ground Hasten O Lord by him to restore Peace and Righteousnesse Truth and Equity Let them kiss each other under his
government O let the wickednesse of the wicked come to an end but guide thou the just Give O Lord rest from our fears 〈◊〉 from our sorrows and from â—…he oppressions under which we â—…n Let thine hand O Lord 〈◊〉 â—…own towards thy servants â—…nd thine indignation towards â—…hine and the Kings Enemies 〈◊〉 down O Lord from heaâ—… and behold from the habiâ—…tion of thy holinesse and of thy glory restraine not we beâ—… thee thy zeale nor thy strength nor the soundings of thy Bowels and of thy Mercies â—…rds us Heare us O Lord 〈◊〉 King of Heaven when we câ—…l upon thee and grant our 〈◊〉 and that for Jesus Christ sake our onely Lord and Saviour Amen IV. BLessed Lord in whose fight the death of thy Saints 〈◊〉 most precious we magnifie thy name for those wonderfull 〈◊〉 â—…ions of thy Grace on our 〈◊〉 Martyred Soveraigne which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant Meek suffering of all barbarous indignitiâ—… and at last resisting even 〈◊〉 blood and even then pursuiâ—… that glorious Pattern and praâ—…ing for his Murtherers Let 〈◊〉 Memory O Lord be ever bleâ—… among us and his example efficacious upon us that we may follow him as he follow'd Christ And O Lord we beseech thee let not his blood out-cry hiâ—… Prayers but let those that spilt the one obtain benefit by the other that by their Conviction and Repentance his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation our Religion be vindicated from the scandall of so horrid a fact our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners and all for Jesus Christ his sake Amen V. O Just and Righteous Judge who didst once for the inquity of thy People Israel give up thy Ark into the hands of the Philistines We thy sinfull Creatures that are now under as great a degree both of guilt and punishment doe here cast our selves down before thee acknowledging that we are not worthy any longer to retain the honour of Christian Profession that have so long defamed it by enormous Practises and that we who loved darknesse more then light deserve to have our Candlestick removed and to be given up to that â—…undation of Atheism and Prophanenesse which now invades this gasping Church yet O Lord deale not with us after our sins but turn thee again thou Lord of Hosts look down from heaven behold and visite this Vine do not abhor us for thy names-sake do not disgrace the Throne of thy Glory Behold see we beseech thee we are all thy People though a rebellious and stiff-necked generation yet thy name is called upon us leave us not neither forsake us O Lord God of our salvation but though thou feed us with bread of Adversity and water of Affliction yet let not our Teachers be removed into a corner but let our eyes see our Teachers let not Sion complain that she hath none to lead her by the hand among all the Sons that she hath brought up but provide her such supports in this her declining Condition that she may have a seed and Remnant left And in what degree soever thou shalt permit this storm to encrease upon this poor Church be pleased proportionably to fortifie and confirm all those that are Members of it that no one may be shaken or moved with these Afflictions nor pervert that glorious advantage of suffering for thee into an occasion of Apostatizing from thee But that we may all run with patience the race that is set before us and cheerfully partake of the Afflictions of the Gospel that in suffering for Christ here we may reign with him for ever hereafter and all for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Lord and Saviour Amen O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King Who putteth his trust in thee Send him help from thy holy Place And evermore mightily defend him Confound the designes of all those that are risen up against him And let not their rebellious wickednesse approach near to hurt him Let the Curse of Saul light upon the endeavours of those men who contrive or Imagine mischief for him And let the blessings of David remaine upon his Head and upon his Seed for evermore O Lord hear our Prayer And let our Cry come unto thee VI. O Lord God of Hosts who didst deliver David thy servant from the perill of the Sword Hear us we beseech thee most miserable sinners who do here poure out our souls before thee intirely desiring the protection of thy hand upon thy Servant the King let him finde safety under the shadow of thy wings and preserve his Person as the Apple of thine own Eye Suffer not that Sword which thou hast put into his Hands to be wrested out by the hand of man but blesse his Counsels with successe and his enterprises with Victory that he may become a terrour to all those that oppose him and as the dew of the latter rain upon the hearts of all those that do still continue loyall to him And O thou that takest no delight in the misery of one single sinner spare mercifull Lord spare a great though most sinfull Nation pitty a despised Church and a distracted State heale those wounds which our sins have made so wide that none but thine own hands can close them and in the tendernesse of thine unspeakable compassion hasten to put so happy an end to these wasting Divisions that thy service may be more duly celebrated thine Anointed more conscienciously obeyed that the Church may be restored to a true Christian Unity and the Kingdome to its former Peace And that for his sake who is the Prince of peace and that shed his precious blood to purchase our peace even Jesus Christ the righteous to whom with theâ—… O Father and the blessed spirit be all Honour and Glory world without end Amen VI. O Thou most mighty Creator and wise Governour of all that hast for our sins and provocations given us to drink of a most bitter astonishing cup and demonstrated by thy late proceedings with us how inexorable thou art towards us who have been so obstinate and obdurate toward thee that would not hear in that our Day the things belonging to our peace and now they are hid from our eyes We those wretched Creatures of thine do yet desire to adore and prostrate our soules before thee to put our hands upon our mouthes and our mouths into the Dust and acknowledge all Honour and Glory to be due unto thee whatsoever becomes of us Though to these amazing Calamities thou shouldest yet super-add thy fire and Brimstone from Heaven and all the horrors of astonished hearts and the eternal Worm and Flames the due portion of the damned in Hell O Lord thou art most just in all thy judgments and infinitely merciful that we live to call upon thee this day O that these sharp last necessary methods of thine may at length prove
successefull on these thy gasping forlorn patients that thy great work of recovery and change the cleansing of our polluted leprous souls may be effectually wrought upon us by this hand of thine Lord save us from these sad effects by a powerfull removall of the Cause or else we certainly perish To this end O Lord we resigne our selves up to thy divine Methods be they the sharpest that thou seest necessary to dispense to us we desire to embrace them cheerfully and not to interpose any thought of ours in contradiction to thy most safe most medicinable prescriptions It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good not ours but thy sacred will be done Be it unto us according to thy good pleasure In the mean time Lord permit us to intercede for others that are not worthy to pray for our selves O let the sorrowfull sighing of the poore of the oppressed and there is no Comforter let the black gloomy Calamities that are fallen upon him that is more worth then ten thousand of us come before thee Let thy Protection still continue unto him if it be thy sacred Will Thy Host of guardian Angels that once appeared in the Mount the Horses and Charriots round about Elisha environ and surround that sacred Head and by thine own wayes and means and in thine own season restore him with out the effusion of any more blood to his Fathers Crown Thron And Lord that it might yet be an acceptable time a season wherein thou mightest be accessible to our Prayers which we offer up in great Humility for thy poore wasted disconsolate Church amongst us That thou wouldest repair her breaches restore her dayes as of old that thou wouldest arise and have mercy upon Sion and Compassionate to see her in the Dust Lord where is thy Pitty And the sounding of the Bowels thy zeale to the place where thy rest dwelleth Will the Lord absent himself for ever And will he be no more entreated Are his mercies clean gone for ever and his promises come utterly to an end for evermore Lord remember thy old loving kindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth Arise O Lord and come into thy Rest thou and the Ark of thy strength But if these Calamities and Desolations must still go on and advance to the height of an irremediable ruine yet O Lord intermix thy sweet and Comfortable Allays with this bitter Cup Take us into thine immediate hand of Protection and Guidance sanctifie all thy methods unto us and by the same omnipotent work whereby thou bringest a most glorious light out of the blackest darknesse be pleased to produce all thy Divinest good things out of the saddest evils and if it may yet be thy blessed will to work the same work by the return of thy Mercies which the continuance of thy punishments is wont to be assigned for And Lord receive us all under the safe guard of thy Divine Presence the pillar of fire and Cloud to cover and direct us That in every turn of thy hand we may see and admire thy glorious and gracious Disposals and by the happy experience that even this also is to us for good we may be for ever engaged to ascribe unto thee all Honour and Glory and render unto thee the uniform obedience of our hearts world without end Amen Amen VIII O Most gracious Lord God the Creator of all things but of men and all mankinde a tender Compassionate Father in Jesus Christ Thou that hast enlarged thy designes and purposes of Grace and mercy as the Bowels and blood-shedding of thy Son with an earnest desire that every weak or sinfull man should partake of that Abiss that infinite treasure of thy Bounty Thou that hast bequeathed unto us that Legacy and Example of a sacred inviolable Peace a large diffusive Charity we meekly beseech thee to overshadow with thy heavenly grace the souls of all men over all the world O Lord thou lover of soules to bring home to the acknowledgment and embraces of thy Son all that are yet strangers to that profession and in whatsoever any of us who have already received that mercy from thee may be any way usefull or instrumentall to that so glorious an end to direct and encline our hearts towards it to work in us all an holy zeale to thy Name and tender Bowels to all those whose eternity is concern'd in it O give us a true serious full comprehension and value of that one great Interest of others as well as of our selvâ—… shew us the meanest of us some way to contribute towards it if it be but our daily affectionate Prayers for the enlarging of thy Kingdome and the care of approving all our Actions so as may most effectually attract all others to this profession And for all those that have already that glorious name of thy Son called upon them blessed Lord that they may at length according to the many Engagements of their profession depart from iniquity That that holy City that new Ierusalem may at length according to thy promise descend from Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband Christ That that Tabernacle of God with men may be illustriously visible among us that we may be a peculiar People and thou inhabiting in power among us That we which have so long professed thee may no longer be content with that form of knowledge which so often engenders strife contentions animosities separating from and condemning one another and that most unchristian detestable guilt of blood but endeavour and earnestly contend for the uniform effectuall practise of all the precepts of thy Son the Fruit and Power of Godlinesse That all the People and Princes of Christendom the Pastors and Sheep of thy fold may at length in some degree walk worthy of that light and warmth that knowledge of those graces that the Sun of righteousness with healing on his wings hath so long poured out upon us Lord purge and powerfully work out of all our hearts that prophanenesse and Atheisticalnesse those sacrilegious thirsts and enormous violations of all that is holy those Unpeaceable Rebellious Mutinous and withall Tyrannizing cruell spirits those prides and haughtinesses judgeing and condemning defaming and despising of others those unlimited ambitions and covetings joyned with the Invasion violation of others rights those most reproachfull excesses and abominable impurities which to the shame of our unreformed obdurate hearts do still remain unmortified unsubdued among us but above all those infamous Hypocrisies of stiborning Religion to be the Engine of advancing our secular designes or the disguise to conceale the foulest intentions of bringing down that most sacred name whereby we should be saved to be the vilest instrument of all Carnalities And by the power of thy controwling Spirit Lord humble and subdue all that exalts it self against the obedience of Christ And when thou hast cast out so many evill spirits be thou pleased thy self to possesse and enrich our souls to
say with all Christian submission and cheerfulness It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good And here O Lord we offer unto thee all possible praise and thanks for all the Glory of thy Grace that hath shined forth in thine Anointed our 〈◊〉 Soveraign and that thou wert pleased to own him this Day especially in the midst of his Enemies and in the hour of death and to endue him with such eminent Patience Meckness Humility Charity and all other Christian Virtues according to the example of thine own Son suffering the sury of his and thine Enemies for the preservation of thy Church and People We Praise thee also for the Courage and Comfort thou hast given unto us of his Party by that owning and assisting him or any that have suffered in that Righteous Cause And we beseech thee give us all grace to Remember and provide for our latter end by a Careful studious imitation of those blessed patterns of thy Saints and Martyrs that have gone before us that we may be made worthy to Receive benefit by their prayers which they in Communion with thy Church Catholick offer up unto thee for that part of it here Militant and yet in sight with and danger from the flesh that following the blessed stepps of their holy Lives and Deaths we may also shew forth the Light of a good example for the Glory of thy Name the Conversion of Enemies and the improvement of those Generations we shall shortly leave behind us and then with all those that have born the Heat and burthen of the day thy Servant whose Sufferings and Labours we this day commemorate receive the Reward of our Labours the Harvest of our Hopes even the Salvation of our own souls and that for the merits and through the mediation of thy Son our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ Amen An Aninversary Prayer for the Thirtieth of Ianuary O Most mightie God terrible in thy judgements and wonderfull in thy doings towards the Children of Men Who in thy heavie displeasure hast suffered this day that execrable thing to be done among Us which We cannot mention without horror nor remember without astonishment We thy poor afflicted Creatures 〈◊〉 dejected looks and bleeding hearts humblie confesse in the behalf of all the people of this wretched land that our crying sins have â—…en the Cause that the Crown is thâ—… fallen from our head and an innocent King given up to the rage of cruell and bloudie men But O Gracious God lay not the guilt of this bloud the shedding of which none but thy blood can expiâ—…e lay it not on the whole Nation for thou hast yet a remnant among Us who having neither hands nor â—…earts defiled with it do still mourn in secret and bewail the committing of that fact which heaven and earth â—…ors But if thy justice must be satisfied Let the thunder of it light upon their heads and theirs alone who â—…ot only contrived and acted so foul a murther but are as yet so far from being touched with any remorse or repentance for it that they justifie their sin and in an high blaspheâ—…ie pretend thy Name and Glorie for all that they have done Lord in thy good time consider â—…is Consider not only what they â—…ve done to that royall Martyr who 〈◊〉 raignes with thee in Glorie But with what eagernesse they have since pursued him To whom Thou hast given the Crown saying with those wicked Husbandmen This is the Heir let us kill him that the Inheritance may be Ours But O mercifull God let not this wicked imagination of theirs ever take effect but set thy watchfull Providence as a continual fence about him shew some token on him for good even now O Lord when they have swallowed him up in the pride of their strength and think they have made their hill so strong that thy can never be moved This is thine hour O Lord this is thy time Now shew thy self O Thâ—… who art the Iudge of the Wâ—… 〈◊〉 judge equally between hiâ—… and those sons of Belial Thou seest thy Church is laid waste thy People oppressed thine Anointed cast out as an unprofitable Branch his Armies overthrown 〈◊〉 Friends ruined his Enemies mighty his Hope 's vanished and all human remedies consumed But Thou art the same God that fittest between the Cherubims be the Earth never so unquiet Hear Us therefore in the midst of our confusions Restore to Us the light of our eyes the King whom thou hast given Us. Be from henceforth his Guide and his Counsel and his mighty Deliverer and never leave him till Thou hast made the Stone which those Builders have set at nought the head-stone of the Corner That We may evermore rejoyce in the felicitie of thy Chosen and falling down before thine Altars give thanks to Thee in the great Congregation Grant this O God for his sake that pleads for Us even Iesus Christ the righteous Amen Prayers OF Intercession FOR The use of such as Mourn in Secret for the Publike Calamities of these Nations London Printed by Tho. Mabb 1660. Lessons appointed to be read on this Occasion Psalm 80. 90. 102. Nehem. 9. 2 Chron. 13. Judges 9. Ezra 9. 2. Sam. 15. 16. 17. 18. 20. Ezek. 9. 22. Numb 16. Isaiah 22. Rom. 13. Amos 4. Iames 5. 1 Pet. 2. Joel 2. 1 Thes. 5. A Preparatory Prayer O Lord I find in that Book of thine which cannot deceive me That the oftner thy servant Abraham prayed the more he got ground upon Thee and came at last to that holy Confidence as not only to Pray to Thee for Himself but to be importunate and press thee in the behalf of others Lord I confess my Case is different For Abraham was the Father of the Faithfull But I am not worthy to be reckoned among his Children He had the Honour to be called thy Friend but My sins have been such that unless Thy Mercy intercede may make thee look upon me as thine Enemy He prayed to Thee for a People of whose sins he was not Partaker But my address is to Thee for them in whose iniquities I am involved have some way or other deeply contributed to the hastning and bringing down those terrible Judgements of Thine which now lie so heavie on us So that alas I am unworthy to appear before Thee for My self and how shall I then dare to supplicate Thee for Others O that there were a Moses to stand in the Gap to turn away thy wrathfull Indignation from us O that there were a David a Daniel a Ieremy to pour out their souls before Thee Yet hear Me O my God For though these Holy Saints have now no being upon Earth Yet their Prayers remain upon Record for every soul that mourns in Secret to make use of O Holy and Blessed Spirit kindle but the same Fervency in my Heart while I repeat their Words as was in Them And I know I shall be Heard I. King David's Prayer for the Church and People
heart are in larged Our iniquities and the punishments which attend upon them are a burden too heavy for us to bear And therefore in the anguish and bitternesse of our souls we return unto thee humbly beseeching thee in whom alone is our help to have respect unto the Prayers of thy servants O shut not up thy loving kindnesse in displeasure let not thine anger burn against the sheep of thy pasture But bind up the breach of this People Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee Behold the tears of the distressed Orphans and Widdows and of all such as are oppressed and have no comforter How long O Lord holy and true doest thou forbear to command deliverances Remember thy tender mercies which have been ever of old and save us as thou hast done heretofore Remember thy promise of deliverance to those who call upon thee in the day of trouble And when the blood that hath been shed calls aloud for verigeance O then hearken unto the voice of thy Sons blood which speaks better things behold the Lamb of God who was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities And to this end regard the sincerity of thine Anointed maintain thine own cause and preserve unto him that power which thou hast given him bind his soul in the bundle of life let mercy and truth preserve him and let his Throne be established for ever before thee Blesse them that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land And as for those that have risen up against him we beseech thee melt and mollifie their hearts to the entertainment of compassion and love reclaim them to obedience lay not their sin to their charge but guide their feet into the way of Peace Give to those that have done wrong the grace to repent and to those that have suffered wrong minds ready to forgive And if any shall be averse from Peace O thou that art the wonderfull Counsellor turn their wisdome into foolishness confound their practises and let their mischief return upon their own heads And when thou hast vouchsafed to give us that tranquillity which we beg at thy hands give 〈◊〉 grace to embrace it with all thankfulnesse to obey our Governours to live at unity among our selves evermore blessing thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Collects I. LOrd raise up we pray thee thy power and come amongst us and with great might succor us that where as through our sins and wickednesse we be sore let and hindred thy bountifull grace and mercy through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord may speedily deliver us to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be honour and glory world without end Amen II. ALmighty and everlasting God which dost govern all things in heaven and earth mercifully hear the supplications of thy people and grant us thy peace all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen III. ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon our afflictions and in all our dâ—…ngers and necessities stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen IV. GOd who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that for mans frailnesse we cannot alwayes stand uprightly Grant to us the health of body and soul that all those things which we suffer for sin by thy help we may well passe and overcome through Christ our Lord Amen V. O Lord we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy People that we which are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness for the Glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth world without end Amen VI. LOrd We beseech thee to keep thy Church and houshold continually in the true Religion that they which do leane only on thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VII WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to be our defence against all our enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VIII GOd the Protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy increase and multiply upon us thy mercy that thou being our ruler and guide we may so pass through things temporall that we finally lose not things eternall Grant this Heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord Amen XI LOrd we beseech thee let thy continual pitty cleanse and defend thy congregation and because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Certain additionall Prayers In the time of War O Almighty God who art high above all Nations and whose glory is above the Heavens the comfortable successe of all enterprises is from thee onely to be looked for Thou art he which givest victory unto Kings to thee it is all one to save by many or few thou canst make one to chase a thousand thou canst cause the hearts even of the most valiant to melt their hands to be weak their minds to faint and their knees to fall away like water If thou fight for us we cannot miscarâ—…y If thou favour us not we must needs be discomfited O be gracious unto us and be on our side now that men are risen up against us They take crafty Counsell against thy Church and consult how to cut us off from being a Nation and by what means to quench the light of thy Truth which hath shined in our streets Their desire is to imbrue their hands in blood and to advance their own ambition by our overthrow O turn their Counsels into foolishness Let not their mischeivous imaginations prosper lest they be too proud O our God make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the winde Scatter the People that delight in War Go out O Lord with our Armies give wisdom and courage to our Captains gird them with strength unto the battell be with our Souldiers teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight Assist all the Consultations prosper the Policies crown those enterprises with good successe which are undertaken for the common good and comfort of the Weal-publique Doubtless O Lord we have deserved thine anger and our sins do cry loud in thine ears for vengeance and it were but just with thee if thou shouldst make us a prey and â—…spoil unto our Enemies But O Gracious God let us now fall into thy hands for thy mercies are great and let us not fall into the hands of men whose displeasure at us is not for our sins but for our Profession and Religions sake and that they may fill their own inlarged and insatiable desire with those blessings of wealth which thou hast given us Put therefore thy hook into their nostrills and
Refuge and strong Tower of defence to all them that put their trust in thee receive our humble Petition save this City this Nursery of thy Church and thy afflicted People from the hand of their Enemies We know that unlesse thou keep the City the Watchman watcheth but in vain unâ—…sse thou defend us our Foundations which are laid in dust cannot stand firm We acknowledge our own weaknesse and â—…t which makes us weaker our â—…full demerit But thou art â—…oth the Lord of Hosts Prince of Peace able to destroy the strongest Army with an Army of most despicable Creatures with things of nothing with sudden weaknesse and follies with a â—…mour or imagination Thou canst bring us to the brink of destruction and call us back again Look down therefore most mercifull Lord upon this Place and according to thy â—…onted goodness resist the proud and give grace to the humble that run to the shadow of thy wings for succour Thou that stillest the raging of the Sea and the madnesse of the People say to the one as to the other hither shall thy proud waves come and no further Suffer not the purpose of our Oppressors to stand nor their Counsells to prosper nor their Force to prevail But set thy hook into their nostrils to turn them back or confound them according to thy good pleasure and secret wisdome by which thou disposest all Events beyond the means and reach of man But arme thy lowly Servants with Faith and Patience raise our Spirits guide our Consultations strengthen our hands help our wants bless our endeavours with success That we being delivered like them that dream may praise thee as men awaked out of dust and having seen and escaped thy Roâ—… may serve thee ever hereafter with true obedience through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen A Prayer drawn by his Majesties speciall direction and Diâ—…ates for a blessing on the Treaty at Uxbridge O Most Mercifull Father Lord God of Peace and Truth we a People sorely afflicted by the Scourge of an unnatural War do here earnestly beseech thee to command a blessing from Heaven upon this present Treaty begun for the establishment of an happy Peace Soften the most obdurate Hearts with a true Christiâ—… desire of saving those mens blood for whom Christ himself hath shed his Or if the guilt of our great sins cause this Treaty to break off in vain Lord let the Truth clearly appear who those men are which under pretence of the Publick good do pursue their own private ends that this People may be no longer so blindely miserable as not to see at least in this their day the things that belong unto their peace Grant this gracious God for his sake who is our Peace it self even Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for Peace ALmightyGod terrible in thy Iudgements but more wonderfull in thy Mercies who turnest man to Destruction and again thou sayst Come again ye children of Men we miserable sinners prostrate this day before thee humbly confesse with Horror in our Hearts and Confusion in our Faces that every one of us hath more or lesse contributed to that vast heap of crying fins which hath now in so high a measure draw down thy vengeance on us that we have abused thy Patience so long till we have at last turn'd it into Fury compelling thee by our often provocations to visit us in blood to make us tear out our own bowells and by a strange unnaturall War raised we know not why thy Iustice and our Sins excepted to become executioners of our selves and so to sin afresh in the very punishments of sin But alas what profit is there in our Blood or what Glory can come to thee by our Ruine Let it suffice O God that thou hast thus far rebuked us in thine Anger but consume us not utterly for we are all thy People Say to the destroying Sword It is enough and let it be no longer drunk with the blood of thine Inheritance But look down upon our unfamed Humiliation hear the Prayer which in the bitternesse of our Souls we pour out this day before thee accept of our Repentance and where it is defective let thy Holy Spirit make it up with Groanes that cannot be expressed Look upon thy Moses who standeth in the gap beseeching thee to turn thine anger from thy People remember what he hath suffer'd and the heavy things that thou hast shewn him and in the day when thou makest Inquisition for Blood forget not his desires of Peace the endeavours which he hath used and the Prayers which he hath made to thee for it Return all this O Lord with comfort into his Bosome And since thou hast already wrought so much for him as to bring these unhappy entangled differences to a Treaty take not off thine hand till thou hast untied every knot and cleared every difficulty Send thy Spirit into their hearts who are entrusted with this great work give them Bowels of Compassion toward their bleeding and â—…piring Country strike a Sense into them of the blood already shed and the Desolation to come which threatneth all if they prevent it not But above all let thy feare run through all their consultations that remembring the sad account which in the last great day will be required of them they may lay aside every Sin and every Interest that may divert them from the wayes of Peace and by the guidance of thy Wisdom for in this all humane wisdom failes find out those blessed expedients as may restore the voice of Joy and Peace into our Dwellings in such a way as may be most to the Glory of thy Great Name the Settlement of the true Religion so long professed among us the Honour and Safety of the Kings Sacred Person and the Good of all his People Hear these our Prayers and perfect this great work through the mediation of thine own dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the ending of the present Troubles O Most just and powerfull Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth we cannot but acknowledge that the manifold miseries which have befallen us are the due reward of our deeds and that we have deserved that the things which belong to our Peace should still be hid from our eyes For when of thy own free mercy thou wert pleased to grant us a long time of plenty and prosperity more then thou gavest to any the Nations that are about us we became weary of our happinesse and by our ingratitude pulled down upon us those judgements which now threaten desolation to this late flourishing kingdom And since the time of our affliction thou hast given us space to repeat and we repented not Iniquity hath still more and more abounded As heretofore thy mercies did not allure us so now thy judgements have not humbled us to a serious consideration of our misdeservings Now O Lord we finde our selves intangled and wearied by our own Counsells The troubles of our