mercifull and gracious Lord hath so done his marvellous workes that they ought to be had in remembrance 5 He hath given meat unto them that feare him he shall ever be mindfull of his covenant 6 He hath shewed his people the power of his workes that he may give them the heritage of the heathen 7 The workes of his hands are verity and iudgement all his commandments are true 8 They stand fast for euer and euer and are done in truth and equity 9 He sent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his couenant for euer holy and reuerend is his Name 10 The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome a good understanding haue all they that do thereafter the praise of it endureth for ever The Prayer O Blessed Iesu whose righteousnesse endureth for ever thy worke 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 feare 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 wisedome and good understanding and make us to have pleasure in thee and all thy workes that we obeying the precepts of thy holy Gospell 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 Iesu 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 he hath great delight in his commandments 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 righteousuesse endureth for euer 4 Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darknesse he is mercifull louing and righteous 5 A good man is mercifull and lendeth and will guide his words with discretion 6 For he shall never be moued and the righteous shall be had in an euerlasting remembrance 7 He will not be afraid for any euill tidings for his heart standeth fast and belieueth in the Lord. 8 His heart is stablished and will not shrinke untill he see his desire upon his enemies 9 He hath dispersed abroad and giuen to the poore and his righteousnesse remaineth for euer his horne shall be exalted with honour 10 The ungodly shall see it and it shall grieue 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 feare of thy Name that we may feare to offend thee and that delighting in thy Commandments we may serve thee without feare of our enemies in holinesse and righteousnesse all our dayes 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 pitty over the needs of the poore 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 Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 113. A thankesgiving to God for his acts of providence and particular care over the poore and humble PRaise the Lord yee seruants O praise the Name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for euermore 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 aboue all heathen and his glory aboue the heauens 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God that hath his dwelling so high and yet humbleth himselfe to behold the things that are in heauen and earth 6 He taketh up the simple out of the dust and lifteth the poore out of the mire 7 That he may set him with the princes euen with the princes of his people 8 He maketh the barren woman to keepe house and to be a ioyfull mother of children The Prayer O Lord God whose dwelling is on high and yet thou humblest thy selfe 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 sinke not into the bottomlesse pit of misery and infelicity and when for our sinnes thou humblest us as low as the dust let thy mercie 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 PSALME 114. A thankesgiving to God for the deliverance of his people from bondage and misery EVENING PRAYER WHen Israel came out of Egypt and the house of Iacob from among the strange people 2 Iuda was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion 3 The sea saw that and fled Iordan was driuen backe 4 The mountaines skipped like rammes and the little hills like young sheep 5 What aileth thee O thou sea that thou fleddest and thou Iordan that thou wast driuen backe 6 Yee mountaines that yee skipped like rammes and yee little hills like young sheep 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Iacob 8 Which turned the hard rocke into a standing water 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 Aegypt with a mighty hand and an arme stretched out in miraculous effects deliver us from the bondage of sin from the tyrannie of the devill from the Empire and Dominion of the flesh that our bodies and soules being mortified our flesh brought under subjection of the spirit our appetites made subordinate to reason and our soules wholy 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
sustinent saith Tertullian Almost all the Psalmes represent the person of Christ Now this Key of David opens not only the Kingdom of Grace by Revelation of the mysteries of our Religion but the Kingdom of Heaven too it being such a Collection of Prayers Eucharist acts of hope of love of patience and all other Christian virtues that as the everlasting Kingdome is given to the Heire of the House of David so the Honour of opening that Kingdom is given to the first Prince of that family the Psalmes of his Father David are one of the best inlets into the Kingdom of the sonne Something to this purpose is that saying of one of the old Doctors vox psalmodiae si recto corde dirigatur in tantum omnipotenti Deo aditum ad animum aperit ut intentae animae vel Prophetiae mysteria vel compunctionis spiritum infundat The saying or singing of Psalmes opens a way so wide for God to enter into the heart that a devout soule does usually from such an imployment receive the grace of compunction and contrition or of understanding Prophecies Vpon such premises as these or better the Church of God in all ages hath made Davids Psalter the greatest part of her publike and private devotions sometimes dividing the Psalter into seven parts that every weeks devotion might spend it all Sometimes decreeing that it should be said day and night Otherwhile injoyned the recitation of the whole Psalter before the celebration of the blessed Sacrament and after some time it was made the publique office of the Church It was the generall use of Christendome to say the Psalmes Antiphonatim by way of verse and answer saith Suidas and so Ancient that the Religious of S. Marke in Alexandria used it saith Philo the lew and S. Ignatius or else Flavianus and Diodorus brought it first into the Church of Antioch And for the private Devotions that they chiefly consisted of the Psalmes we have great probability from the strict requiring it of the Clergy and particularly from them who came to be ordayned great readinesse of saying the Psalter by heart It was S. Hieroms counsell to Rusticus and when S. Gregory was to ordaine the Bishop of Ancona his inquiry concerning his Canonicall sufficiency was if he could say Davids Psalmes without book and for a disability of doing it Iohn the Priest was rejected from the Bishopricke of Ravenna But this I conceive more relates to their private then to their publike devotions for I cannot thinke but that in respect of the publike Liturgy it was enough for Bishops and Priests to read the Psalmes the requiring ability remember them was to ingage them to a frequent use of so admirable devotions in their private offices But the Psalmes were not only of use to the Church as they lay in their owne position and forme but the devout men of severall ages drew them into Collects Antiphonaries Responsories and all other parts of their devotions They made their Prayers out of the Psalmes their confessions their doxologies their ejaculations for the most part were clauses or periods of the Psalter S t Hierome made a collection of choice versicles and put them together into their severall classes and that was much of his devotion the Collection is still extant under the Name of S t Hierom's Psalter Sâ— Athanasius made an Index of the severall occasions and matters of prayer and Eucharist and fitted Psalmes to each particular that was his devotion the Psalmes intire as they lay only he made titles of his owne I have seen of latter time a short hymne of some eight verses which are indeed very choice sentences out of severall Psalmes set together to make up a compendium of Liturgy or Breviary of our necessities and devotions collected by S t Bernardine it is a very good Copy to be followed But if we look into the old Liturgies of the Eastern and Western Churches and where we will almost into the private devotions of the old writers we may say of them in the expression of the Prophet Hauâ—ieeant aquas è fontibus Salvatoris they drew their waters from the fountaines of our Blessed Saviour but through the limbecks of David But the practice of this devotion I derived from a higher precedent even of Christ and his Apostles for before the passion immediatly they sung a Psalm saith the Scripture Hymno dicto saith the vulgar Latine having recited or said a Psalme But however it was part of Davids Psalter that was sung it was the great Allelujah as the Jewes called it beginning at the 113 psalme to the 119 exclusively part of that was sung But this devotion continued with our Blessed Saviour as long as breath was in him for when he was upon the Crosse he recited the 22 th Psalme ad verbum saith the tradition of the Church and that he began it saith the Scripture My God My God why hast thou forsaken me The whole psalme is rather a history then a prediction of the passion and what Tertullian saith of the whole Psalter is particularly verified of this filium ad Patrem id est Christum ad Deum verba facientem representat it represents the Sonnes addresse to his Father that is Christ speaking to God Against the example of Christ if we confront the practice of Antichrist nothing can be said greater in commendation of this manner of devotioÌ„ for B. Hippolytus in his oration of the end of the world saith that in the dayes of Antichrist Psalmorum decantatio cessabit they shall then no more use the singing or saying of the Psalmes which when I had observed without any further deliberation I fix'd upon the Psalter as the best weapon against him whose comming we have great reason to believe is not farre off so great preparation is making for him From the example of Christ this grew to be a Practice Apostolicall and their devotion came exactly home to the likenesse of the designe of this very Booke they turn'd the Psalmes into prayers Thus it was said of Paul and Silas Act. 16. They prayed a Psalme so it is in the Greeke and we have a Copy left us of one of the prayers or collects which they made out of the bowells of the second psalme it is in the fourth Chapter of the Acts beginning at the 24 verse and ends at the 31. And now I have showne the reasons of my choice and the precedents that I haue followed This last coms home to every circumstance of my Book I only adde this that since according to the instruction of our blessed Saviour God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in truth no worshipping can be more true or more spirituall then the Psalter said with a pure mind and a hearty devotion For David was Gods instrument to the Church teaching and admonishing us as our duty is to each other in Psalmes and Hymnes and spirituall Songs and the spirit of truth was the Grand Dictator of what David wrote
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 iudges of the earth 11 Serve the Lord in feare and rejoyce unto him with reverence 12 Kisse the Sonne least he be angry and so ye perish from the right way if his wrath be kindled yea but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him The Prayer O Blessed Iesu 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 least thy wrath be kindled against us and thoâ— break us in peeces like vessels of dishonour Have mercy on us O King of Kings for we have put our trust in thee thou art our Saviour Redeemer Iesu 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 soule There is no help for him in his God 3 But thou O Lord art my defender thou art my worship and the liâ—ter 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 rose up againe 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 held me O my God for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheek-bonâ— thou hast broken 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 pitty upon us behold the armyes of the flesh the world and the Divell 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 Vp Lord help us arme us with the shield of faith the sword of the Spirit in all times of temptation and battaile cover our heads with the helmet of Salvation so shall wee not be afraid for ten thousands of our enemies for salvation belongeth unto thee through Iesus 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 â—et 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 himselfe 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 corne and wine and oyle increased 9 I will lay me downe in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onely that makest mee 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 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 joyes and hopes upon the good things of this life which perish and cannot satisfie but in the Eternall fountaine 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 mayst make us to dwell in safety here and when our dayes 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 looke up 4 For thou are 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 bloudthirstie and deceltfull â—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 faithfulnes 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 ungodlines for they have rebelled against thee 12 And let all them that put their trust in thee reioyce they shal ever be giving of thanks because thou defendest them they that love thy name shall be ioyfull in thee 13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous and with thy favourable kindenes wilt thou defend him as with a shield The Prayer O Most Holy and blessed Lord God who canst take no
The haters of the Lord should have been found liars but their time should have endured for ever 17 He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-floure and with hony out of the stonie-rock should I have satisfied thee The Prayer O Lord God our strength whose mercies are infinite whose Majesty is glorious whose goodnesse is amiable above all the excellencies in the World enlarge our hearts with joy and rejoycings in thy glories open our mouths wide and fill our lips with thy praises that upon the solemne feast daies we may commemorate thy excellencies and mercies and the great mysteries of our redemption and Religion adoring thee with thankes and joyfulnesse who art mysterious in thy words and marvellous mercifull in all thy works and that we may in the best manner expresse our thankfulnes to thee give us thy grace that we may heare thy voyce that we may obey thee walk in thy Laws that we follow not our owne imaginations nor be given to our own hearts lusts but that we resigning our selves only to thy holy will pleasure thou mayest heare our prayers when ever any storme of trouble falls upon us and turne thine hand against our adversaries and that we being delivered from the burden of our sinnes may be fed with the choicest of thy viands and with food from the Rocke Christ Iesus even his most precious bodie and bloud nourishing us up to life eternall through the same Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 82. A Prayer for the Princes and Judges of the world that they may do right iudgement EVENING PRAYER GOd standeth in the congregation of Princes he is a Iudge among gods 2 How long will yee give wrong iudgement and accept the persons of the ungodly 3 Defend the poore and fatherlesse see that such as be in need and necessitie have right 4 Deliver the outcast and poore save them from the hand of the ungodly 5 They will not be learned nor understand but walke on still in darknesse all the foundations of the earth be out of course 6 I have said yee are gods and yee all are children of the most Highest 7 But yee shall die like men and fall like one of the Princes 8 Arise O God and iudge thou the earth for thou shalt take all the heathen to thine inheritance The Prayer O Almighty Iudge of Men and Angels thou God of Gods and Prince of Princes let thy Spirit of anointing rest upon the Princes and Rulers within the pale of the Vniversall Church and let thy righteousnesse and judgements guide all those that sit in the seat of the Iudges that they may minister justice and true judgement unto the people defending and promoting the interests of true Religion relieving the oppressed encouraging vertue and dishonouring vitious persons delivering the poore and saving them from the hand of the ungodly that men may not walke on still in darknesse but their evill deeds may be discovered and brought to light that we may all live before thee in righteousnesse expecting the great day of righteous judgement which we begge we may all behold with confidence receiving thy mercies and beholding thy face in glory thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 83. A Prayer against the Enemies of the Church particularly sacrilegious persons HOld not thy tongue O God keep not still silence refrain not thy selfe O God 2 For lo thine enemies make a murmuring and they that hate thee have lift up their head 3 They have imagined craftily against thy people and taken counsell against thy secret ones 4 They have said Come and let us root them out that they be no more a people and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance 5 For they have cast their heads together with one consent and are confederate against thee 6 The tabernacles of the Edoinites and the Ismaelites the Moabites and Hâ—garenes 7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek the Philistines with them that dwell at Tyre 8 Assur also is ioyned unto them and have holpen the children of Lot 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites unto Sisera and unto Iabin at the brook of Rison 10 Which perished at Endor and became as the dung of the earth 11 Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb yea make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana 12 Which say Let us take to our selves the houses of God in possession 13 O my God make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the winde 14 Like as the fire that burneth up the wood and as the flame that consumeth the mountaines 15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storme 16 Make their faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek thy name 17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more let them be put to shame and perish 18 And they shall know that thou whose name is Iehovah art onely the most highest over all the earth The Prayer O Lord God who wert known to thy people Israel by thy name Iehovah thou art onely the highest over all the earth arise and defend thy people and deliver thy secret ones from the murmurings councels and crafty imaginations of thine enemies against them Fixe the foundations of the Church upon a Rocke and preserve thine inheritance in peace and safety Infatuate the councels restrain the sacrilegious appetites of all such persons who would rob all thy houses and take them to their owne possession and make their faces so ashamed and their hearts afraid that they may return from covetousnesse and impiety and seek thy Name repenting of all their sinnes and living in justice and religion that at last they may come into an everlasting possession of thy house and of thy Temple where thine Honour dwelleth and reigneth eternally world without end Amen PSALME 84. A Prayer of desire and longings after the ioyes of Heaven O How amiable are thy dwellings thou Lord of hosts 2 My soule hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh reioyce in the living God 3 Yea the sparrow hath found her an house and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young even thy altars O Lord of hosts my King and my God 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be alway praising thee 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are thy wayes 6 Which going through the vale of misery use it for a well and the pooles are filled with water 7 They will go from strength to strength and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion 8 O Lord God of hosts heare my prayer hearken O God of Iacob 9 Behold O God our defender and look upon the face of thine Anointed 10 For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand 11 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to
repentance and fruits springing up to life eternall through Iesus 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 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 worke of mens hands 5 They haue mouthes and speake not eyes haue they and see not 6 They have eares and heare not noses haue they and smell not 7 They haue hands and handle not feet haue they and walke not neither speake 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 Yee house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 11 Yee that feare 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 euen he shall blesse the house of Israel he shall blesse the house of Aaron 13 He shall blesse them that feare the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall increase you more and more you and your children 15 Yee are the blessed of the Lord which made heauen and earth 16 All the whole heauens 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 euermore 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 glorie and thankes of any good action or prosperous successe but to thee who art the Authour and Giver of all good things Preserve us from all dangers of idolatrie 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 wayes 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 Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 116. An act of love and thanksgiving to God for deliverance from sinne and death MORNING PRAYER I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer 2 That he hath enclined his eare unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 3 The snares of death compassed me round about and the paines of hell gat hold upon me 4 I shall finde trouble and heavinesse and I shall call upon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul 5 Bratious 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 they rest O my soul for the Lord hath rewarded thee 8 And why thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walke 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 hast 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 15 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 mids of thee O Ierusalem 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 sinnes thou deliverest our soules from trouble and heavinesse and snatchest us from the snares of death and savest us from the paines of hell O mercyfull God let our soules 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 Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 117. An invitation to all people to praise Gods mercy and truth O Praise the Lord all yee 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 Iesu 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 sonnes of men that the nations which have not known thee may hear thy truth and feele thy mercies and call upon 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 Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 118. A Psalme of thanksgiving for the mercies and salvation which are given us in Iesus Chrst O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious because his mercy endureth for ever 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 feare the Lord 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 feare 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