sanctifie all the events of thy providence and the changes of our life that we may for ever love and for ever fear thee and all things may worke together for our Good unto thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The blessing The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communication of the holy spirit of God be with us and with all our Relatives and with all the servants of God this day and for evermore Amen The end of Morning Prayer EVENING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE EVENING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE Say one or more of these Sentences O Lord the hope of Israel all that forsake thee shall be ashamed because they have for saken the Lord the fountaine of living waters O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us have mercy upon us for thy names sake for our backslidings are many we have sinned against thee Seeke the Lord while he may be found call upon him when he is neer There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the remnant of the transgression of his heritage he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercie Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to renew the heart of them that are contrite After which adde this short exhortation I Beseech you that are present to joyne with me in a humble confession of sins to Almighty God casting your selves downe with all humility before the throne of Grace The Confession I. ALmighty God powerfull and mercifull thou art a jealous God against persevering sinners but a gracious father to the penitent let thy mercifull eares be opened to the petitions of thy servants who with sorrow and shame confesse their sins unto thee II. We have loved the world not thee we have obeyed the desires of our owne hearts not thy holy lawes and Commandements we have often left our dutie undone but cease not to please our senses and to feed greedily upon vanity thou hast commanded us to love our brethren and instead of loving them we have slandered and reproached injured and tempted them envied their good and rejoyced in their calamity III. O Blessed God we are asham'd when we rememberd our owne follies our violent passions our peevishnesse and pride our vaine thoughts and unprofitable words our uncharitable and uselesse conversation we spend our daies in idlenesse and folly our nights in the images and causes of death and though our sins are so many that we cannot number them yet we so little apprehend our owne dangers that we neither leave them utterly nor heartily deplore them IV. But O God thou God of pity and compassion have mercy upon us For thou art our Father mercifull and gracious and thou hast revealed to mankind an infinite mercy in Jesus Christ. For his sake be pleased to give us repentance and to give us pardon and grant that our soules being wash'd in the blood of the holy Lambe and the Baptisme of repentance we may live a gracious a holy and a blessed life in all godlinesse and honesty and sobriety and may die in the love of God in the charity of our neighbours in the Communion of the Church and in a sure and certaine hope of life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The prayer of Absolution to be said by the Minister alone according to his piety and discretion when he sees cause OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus the great Shepherd and Bishop of our soules that lambe of God that taketh away the sins of the world who promised Paradise to the repenting theife and gave pardon to the woman taken in adultery he pardon and forgive all your sins knowne and unknowne *** O Blessed Jesus in whatsoever thy servants as men bearing flesh about them and inhabiting this world or deceived by the Devill have sinn'd whether in word or deed whether in thought or desire whether by omission or commission let it be forgiven unto them by thy word and by thy spirit and for ever preserve thy servants from sinning against thee and from suffering thine eternall anger for thy promise sake and for thy glorious Names sake O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then devoutly and distinctly say the Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome come * Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven * Give us this day our daily bread* And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us* And lead us not into temptation* But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the power and the Glory for ever Amen The Doxology GLory be to the Father of mercies the Father of Men and Angels the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory be to the most holy and eternall sonne of God the Blessed Saviour and Redeemer of the World the Advocate of sinners the Prince of Peace the Head of the Church and the mighty Deliverer of all them that call upon him Glory be to the holy and Eternall spirit of God the Holy Ghost the comforter the sanctifying and life-giving Spirit All Glory and thankes all honour and power all love and obedience be to the Blessed and undivided Trinity one God Eternall The Heavens declare thy glory the Earth confesses thy providence the sea manifests thy power and every spirit and every understanding creature celebrates thy greatnesse for ever and ever* All glory and majesty all praises and dominion be unto thee O God Father Son and Holy Ghost for ever and ever Amen Then arising from their knees let the Psalme's be said in order unlesse some extraordinary occasion doe intervene in which case let Psalmes be selected according to the occasion or as is afterwards described concluding with Glory be to the Father c. Then read upon all Sundaies and Festivals of the yeare a chapter in the old Testament either in order or by choice After the lesson recite this Hymne * I Will remember the workes of the Lord surely I will remember the wonders of old I will meditate of allthy workes and talke of thy doings ¶ Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God * Thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people ¶ Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry * For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is full of mixture and he powreth out of the same
often forget our selves and still neglect and despise our owne danger III. BUt O God our Father mercifull and gracious have mercy upon us Be pleased to admit thy servants to a full pardon of all our sins let us not persevere in any one sinne nor passe from one sin to another Smite us not O God in thy anger and let not thy wrath descend upon our guilty heads Thy anger O God is insufferable thy vengeance is the portion of accursed soules and thou hast prepared the everlasting fire for the Devill and his Angels for ever O Lord thou Father of our life and lover of soules let us never have our portion in the bottomlesse pit in the lake that burueth with fire and brimstone for ever but let our portion be in the actions of repentance in the service of God in the aids and comforts of thy Spirit in dutie and holinesse in the light of thy countenance and in the likenesse and in the inheritance of our Lord Jesus O God let not thy arrowes smite us nor thy judgements consume us keep us from all expressions of thy wrath and let us rejoice in thy mercies and loving-kindnesses for ever and ever Amen IV. And that thy servants may reasonably and humbly hope for thy final mercies and deliverance be pleased to give us all that we need in order to the performance of our dutie and worke all that in us by which we may please thee Instruct us in thy truth and prepare the means of salvation for us providing for the necessities and complying with the capacities of evey one of us Take from us all blindnesse of heart and carelessenesse of spirit all irreligion and wilful ignorance Create in us a love of holy things and open our hearts that we may perceive and love and retaine the things of God with diligence and humility and industry O God our Father pity our weaknesses temptations our avocations and unavoidable divertisements the prejudices and evill contingencies happening in the state of our lives Enable us with sufficient and active graces to doe whatsoever thou requirest of us severally Require no more of any one of us then thou hast or shalt give unto us neither doe thou exact all that for we all confesse our weaknesses and defects our strange imperfections and inexcusable wandrings and omissions but be pleased to cure all our vitious inclinations and take care to remoove from us all those temptations which without thy mighty grace are not to be avoided and if they come are by our weaknesses not to be overcome Keep us O God from flattery and irreligion from vicious complyances and evill customes and let not the reverence of any man cause us to sin against thee keep us upright in our religion and worshippings of thee and let no change of the World engage us in a state of life against our duty for Jesus Christ his sake our Dearest Lord and Saviour V. Keep us O God by thy holy Spirit of grace from all the sins of idlenesse and intemperance from injustice and sensuality from the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes from the pride of life and vanity of spirit from being carelesse of our dutie of false in our trust from breach of promise or reproachfull language from slandering or traducing any man from false accusation and false witnesse from faction and envie Grant us thy grace that we may be diligent in our businesse just in our charges provident of our time watchfull in our dutie carefull of every word we speak O make us to be pleased in the offices of religion usefull to those that imploy us dutifull to our superiors loving to each other conscientious in private humble in publick patient in adversity religious and thankful in prosperity VI. O Blessed God take care of our soules and of our bodies keep us from sharp and tedious sicknesses let us never fall into want or be unprovided for in our age and forsake us not O God when we are gray-headed Grant us great measures of thy Spirit that we may abstaine from all appearances of evill and from all occasions of it and that we may take care to doe whatsoever is honest and of good report that having laid up a treasure of good workes against the day of thy visitation we may rejoyce in the day of our death and find mercy at the day of judgement through the goodnesse of our God and by the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen VII Blesse and sanctify defend and save all Christian Kings Princes Governors and States Grant that all powers Civil and Ecclesiasticall may joyne together in the promoting the honour of God and the kingdome of the Lord Jesus and may find the blessings of God and the rewards of the Lord Jesus in this world and in the world to come Give health and comfort peace and holinesse long life and increase of grace to the cheifest of this family his Wife and children grant that their portion may be in religion and the love of God keep them from all evill by the guard of Angels and lead them into all good by the conduct of thy good Spirit VIII In mercy and great compassion remember all them that are miserable and afflicted persecuted or poore that have lost their estates or lost their liberty their health or their peace their innocence or their hopes restore them O Lord to all good and to all usefull comforts and let not the enemie of mankind invade thy portion or destroy any soule for whom thou hast paid the price of thy most precious blood Hear us O God in mercy and blesse all our relations and prosper all our labours and sanctify all our intentions and forgive us all our sins and releive all our necessities and defend us from all dangers and especially from our own selves from our evill habits and foolish customes from our weake principles and sad infirmities from our evill concupiscence and vitious inclinations from the power of the Devill and from thy wrath and bring us in mercy and truth in holinesse and comfort in labour and certainty to a fruition of the glories of God in the inheritance of our blessed Saviour Grant this O God our Father for the merits and by the redemption and intercession of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communication of the holy Spirit of God be with us defend and guide sanctify and save us and al our relatives and all the servants of God this day and for evermore Amen A short forme of Evening prayer for a family In the name of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father c. The HYMNE O* Lord our Lord how excellent is thy Name in all the Earth thou hast set thy glory above the Heavens ¶ When I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers the moone and the stars which thou hast ordained *
Penitential Letanies The Psalter or Psalms of David after the Kings Translations with Arguments newly fitted to the design and sense of every Psalm An Advertisement to them that shall use these PRAYERS BEcause no prayers are the more pleasing to God for being long and they are oftentimes displeasing even to good men if they be very long and yet on the other side if the devotion be long it is the better and if that be lasting it ought to be supplied with materials like gummes to the Altar of incense and fuel for the holy fires he that collected these devotions did design to serve the advantages both of length and shortness that the most devout may be fitted and the most secular and imployed may not be wearied 1. Therefore although every thing is set down at length that the trouble of references and turnings back might be avoided and therefore seem longer then they are and the Hymnes are sometimes double that the variety might be more apt to please and to instruct and the Offices are made full that upon the more solemne days when people come with a greater and more active devotion and greater leisure their time and their piety might be imployed yet on other days there is but one Lesson appointed and one Hymne to follow it 2. The prayers are divided into smaller portions that with ease any of them may be omitted by persons whose occasions force them from their attendance on longer Offices besides that there are two forms of Morning and Evening Prayer the one shorter the other longer 3. In the beginning of Morning and Evening Prayer some of the devotions which are set down are desired and intended to be used but seldome not onely to avoid tediousness but for other reasons very obvious that the Ministers more solemn power and office might not be less regarded by being daily and consequently very often without just dispositions offered I mean it concerning the form of Absolution The Confession may be shortned as there is cause by making use onely of some of the sections and leaving out the other 4. If upon Communion days the morning Prayer and the Communion Office be not read at one time but the morning Prayer be read at seven or eight of the clock in the morning and the Communion office at the time of celebration or if it be convenient that they be both together if then the Sermon be in the afternoon the length will be very tolerable 5. These Prayers being intended onely as a charitable ministery to them who are not permitted to use those which were appointed formerly there is no necessity upon any one and he may use as much or as little as he please and therefore no man will have cause to complain of length or shortness ☞ For the Offices themselves I pray God bless them to all those ends whither they are designed and to which in their own nature they can minister And as I humbly recommend them to Gods blessing so I doe submit them to the judgement of my afflicted Mother the Church of England and particularly to the censure of my spiritual Superiours and I desire that these Prayers may no longer be used in any publick place then my L ds the B ps upon prudent enquiries and grave considerations shall perceive them apt to minister to Gods glory and useful to the present or future necessities of the Sons and Daughters of the Church of England MORNING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE Say one or more of these Sentences HE that covereth his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walke in his lawes which he hath set before us by his servants the prophets Dan. 9. 10. If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confesse our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse 1 John 1. 8 9. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise â—sal 51. 17. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit For why will ye die I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord God Wherefore turne your selves and live ye Ezek. 18. 31 32. After which say Draw nigh therefore unto God and he will draw nigh unto you Cleanse your hands and purifie your hearts Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and make a confession of your sins unto him with a hearty sorrow and a humble hope begging for pardon at the throne of Grace Let us pray The Confession I. O Almighty God Great Lord of Heaven and Earth we miserable sinners with fear and shame cast our selves downe before thee humbly confessing our manifold sins and unsufferable wickednesses by which we have deserved thy wrath and that we should be separated from the sweetest comforts of thy presence for ever II. We confesse O Great God we have sinned against thee by knowledge and by ignorance by folly and by surprize by word and deed by anger and desires by night and by day in private and in publick by the lusts of the flesh and the vanity and pride of our spirits our sins of omission are infinite and the sins of our tongue cannot be numbred O God thy words and lawes are holy and thy judgements are terrible but we have broken all thy righteous lawes and commandements and we have great cause to be afraid of thy severest judgements and where shall we appeare when thou art angry with us III. But thou shalt answer for us O Lord our God Thou art our Judge but thou art our Redeemer we have sin'd but thou O Blessed Jesus art our Advocate Have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most miserable sinners Enter not into judgement with us least we die let not thine anger arise least we be consumed but spare us gracious Lord spare thy servants whom thou hast redeem'd with thy most precious blood O reserve not evil in store for us against the day of vengeance but shew thy goodnesse in us and let thy mercies be magnified upon us deliver us O Lord from the power of sin and preserve us from the punishments of it through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Deprecation to be used upon solemn daies or at the discretion of him that ministers I. O Lord our God whose power is infinite whose glory is supreme whose mercie is without measure whose goodnesse is unspeakeable despise not thy returning servants who earnestly beg for pardon and to be reconciled to thee sanctify O God our bodies and soules search out our spirits and cast out all iniquity from within us all weak principles and false
behold the beautie of the Lord and to visit his Temple ¶ For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion in the secret of his Tabernacle shall he hide me and set me upon a rock * Therefore will I offer in the Tabernacle sacrifices of joy I will sing and speake praises unto the Lord. ¶ The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid * Examine O Lord and prove me try my reines and my heart ¶ For thy loving-kindnesse is before my eyes and I will walk in thy truth * I have not sate with vaine persons neither will I goe in with dissemblers ¶ I will wash my hands in innocency and so will I compasse thine altar O Lord. * That I may publish with the voice of thanks-giving and tell of all thy wondrous workes ¶ O tast and see that the Lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him * Look at the generations of old and see did ever any trust in the Lord and was confounded or did any abide in his fear and was forsaken or whom did he ever despise that called upon him ¶ For the Lord is full of compassion and mercie longsuffering and very pitiful and forgiveth sins and saveth in time of affliction * Ye therefore that fear the Lord beleive him and your reward shall not faile ¶ They that fear the Lord will seek that which is well pleasing unto him and they that love him shall be filled with the law * They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts humble their souls in his sight ¶ For as his Majesty is even so is his mercy * What shall I render unto the Lord for all the benefits which he hath done unto me ¶ I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. * Returne unto thy rest O my soule for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee ¶ I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call upon the Name of the Lord. * The Lord hath been mindfull of us and he will blesse us he will bless them that fear the Lord both small and great ¶ Blessed be the name of our God from this time forth for evermore Praise the Lord. Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Then shall the Minister with a loud voice pronounce this Commination THus saith the Lord Jesus I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end the first and the last Blessed are they that doe his commandement that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the City For without are Dogs and Sorcerers Whoremongers and Murderers The Idolaters and the Filthy the Fearful and the Unbeleiving the Hypocrite and the Liars the Drunkards and the Envious the hinderers of Gods word and the Slanderers of their neighbours the Swearers and the Covetous the Impenitent and the Uncharitable shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone And behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his worke shall be I Jesus have sent mine Angel to testifie unto you these things in the Churches I am the root and off-spring of David and the bright morning-star And the Spirit and the Bride say come and let him that heareth come and let him that is athirst come and whosoever wil let him take the water of life freely BUt first cleanse your hands and purifie your hearts repent you truly of all your sins past retaine no affection to any thing that displeases God Resolve against all sin strive against all pray against all watch against all and so shall ye be meet partakers of this holy table But if any of you here present live in any knowne sin of which ye have not truly repented and which you doe not mean presently and utterly to forsake In the name of Jesus Christ I pronounce every such person to be unworthy of these holy mysteries and that he cannot receive them but to his condemnation Judge therefore your selves brethren that ye be not judged of the Lord for it is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God and who is able to dwell with the everlasting burning But if any of you after this severe admonition shall presume to approach these sacred mysteries with an impure and disobedient heart let him know that he pollutes the blood of the everlasting Covenant he eates and drinkes damnation to himselfe not discerning the Lords Body I have given you warning I have discharged my duty ALl you who truly repent you of your sins and are in love and charity with your neighbours and intend to lead a holy life in all godlinesse and sobriety and honesty draw neer and take these holy mysteries to your comfort first make your humble confession of sins to God and meekly beg his pardon for what is past and his grace for the time to come The Confession to be said by all kneeling ALmighty God we miserable sinners doe humbly confesse and are truly sorrowfull for our many and great our innumerable and intolerable crimes of which our consciences doe accuse us by night and by day and by which we have provoked thy severest wrath and indignation against us We have broken all thy righteous lawes and commandements by word or by deed by vaine thoughts or sinfull desires we have sinn'd against thee in all our relations in all places and at all times we can neither reckon their number nor bear their burden nor suffer thy anger which we have deserved But thou O Lord God art merciful and gracious have mercy upon us Pardon us for all the evils we have done Judge us not for all the good we have omitted Take not thy favour from us but delight thou to sanctifie us and save us and work in us to will and to doe of thy good pleasure all our duty that being sanctified by thy Spirit and delivered from our sins we may serve thee in a religious and a holy conversation thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then the Minister rising up shall pronounce Absolution in the form described at Morning Prayer OUr Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus the great Shepheard and Bishop of our Souls that Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world who promised Paradise to the repenting Theef and gave pardon to the woman taken in Adultery he pardon and forgive all your sins known and unknown *** O Blessed Jesus in whatsoever thy servants as men bearing flesh about them and inhabiting this world or deceived by the Devil have sinned whether in word or deed whether in thought or desire whether by omission or commission let it be forgiven unto them by thy word and by thy Spirit and for ever preserve thy servants from sinning against thee and from suffering thine
west for thou didst send thy most holy Son to die for us and redeem us from all the powers of sin and hell thou knowest whereof we were made and remembrest that we are but dust O doe not visit her sins upon her by a hasty death but manifest thy mercies and thy pardon by giving her a mighty grace that she may live a holy life and be pleas'd to grant this also that those impresses of pious resolutions and religious purposes of fear and love of hope and desire which thy grace in the circumstances of her present condition makes upon her may abide in her soul for ever and in the daies of ease and safety may be as operative and productive of holiness as now they are of a hearty prayer and passionate desires for thy mercies upon her in a safe and blessed child-birth V. LORD bless her child grant it may be born with a right shape and a perfect body with a comely countenance and streight limbs with intire senses and expedite faculties with an excellent power of understanding and sweet dispositions and let thy holy Spirit of grace conduct it to the Sacrament of Baptisme and in safety and holiness from the Cradle to the grave Grant this O Eternal God for his sake who was born of a holy maid and suffered the infirmities of nature and dyed for our sins and rose again for our Justification even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen An Office of Publick Thanks-giving for Women after their delivery from Child-birth or any great sickness or calamity or fear At the end of the morning prayer immediately before the blessing the woman presenting her self before God on her knees in some convenient place neer to him that ministers begin with this exhortation FOrasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God who hath commanded us when we are afflicted to pray and hath promised to be with us in trouble and hath made good his truth and mercy unto you in standing at your right hand in the day of your sorrow and danger giving you safe deliverance and a living and a hopeful child you shall therefore return to him the sacrifice of a thankful and joyful heart in an humble acknowledgement of the divine mercies and goodness unto you in this great blessing and deliverance from the pain and peril of Childbirth Or else name any other instance in which the Minister is required to give thanks The psalm or Hymn of Thansgiving * THE Lord is my Shepheard I shall not want he maketh me lie down in green pastures he leadeth me besides the still waters ¶ He restoreth my Soul he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his names sake * 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 staff they comfort me ¶ I will declare thy name unto my Brethren in the midst of the Congregation will I praise thee * Ye that fear the Lord praise him for he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted neither hath he hid his face from him but when he cryed unto him he heard ¶ O Lord my God I cryed unto thee and thou hast healed me * O Lord thou hast brought up my Soul from the grave thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit ¶ Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness * For his anger endureth but for a moment in his favour is life weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning ¶ I cryed unto thee O Lord unto the Lord I made my supplication * What profit is there in my bloud when I goe down into the pit shall the dust praise thee shall it declare thy truth ¶ Hear O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper * Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness ¶ To the end that my glory may sing praise unto thee and not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks to thee for ever Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Or else say the Te Deum VVE praise thee O God we knowledge thee to be the Lord. ¶ All the earth doth worship thee the Father everlasting * To thee all Angels cry aloud the heavens and all the powers therein ¶ To thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry * Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbaoth ¶ Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory * The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee ¶ The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee * The noble armie of Martyrs praise thee ¶ The holy Church thoroughout all the world doth acknowledge thee * The Father of an infinite majesty ¶ Thy honourable true and onely Son * Also the holy Ghost the Comforter ¶ Thou art the King of glory O Christ. * Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father ¶ When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man thou didst not abhorre the Virgins womb * When thou haddest overcome the sharpness of death thou didst open the kingdome of heaven to all beleevers * Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father ¶ We beleeve that thou shalt come to be our judge * We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud ¶ Make them to be numbred with thy Saints in glory everlasting * O Lord save thy people and bless thine heritage ¶ Govern them and lift them up for ever * Day by day we magnifie thee ¶ And we worship thy name ever world without end * Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this day without sin ¶ O Lord have mercy upon us have mercy upon us * O Lord let thy mercy lighten upon us as our trust is in thee ¶ O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be confounded Minister The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Let us pray O Most merciful Saviour and Redeemer Jesus who wert born of a pure and a holy maid who hast felt the calamities of Mankind and knowest how to pity our infirmities and rejoicest in doing and shewing mercy to all that need and to all that call to thee for succour we give thee thanks and praise that thou hast heard the prayers and considered the cries and releeved the necessities of this thy servant and kept her life from the grave still continuing to her a portion in the land of the living and opportunities of serving thee O be pleased to continue and increase and to sanctifie thy mercies to thy servant pardon al her sins pity her infirmities enable her duty keep her from all evil by thy blessed providence let her portion be in the things of God and of Religion in the light of thy countenance and the service of
this Psalme * PLeade thou my cause O Lord with them that strive with me for they have laid their net to destroy me without a cause yea even without a cause have they made a pit for my soule ¶ Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoyce over me neither let them winke with the eye that hate me without a cause * For they speake not peace but they devise deceitfull matters against them that are quiet in the land ¶ They rewarded me evill for good to the great discomfort of my soule * Stirre up thy selfe and awake to my judgement even unto my cause my God and my Lord. ¶ Judge me O Lord my God according to my righteousnesse and let them not rejoyce over me * And my soule shall be joyful in the Lord it shall rejoyce in his salvation ¶ All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee which deliverest the poore from him that is too strong for him yea the poore and needy from him that spoileth him * Let them shout for joy and be glad that favour my righteous cause yea let them say continually let the Lord be magnified which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants ¶ Trust in the Lord and doe good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed * Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him fret not thy selfe because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to passe ¶ For the Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is comming * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Minister The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Let us pray Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Collect. ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and lovest not that a sinner should die before thee and before thy Angels there is joy in heaven at the conversion of a sinner thou hast promised pardon to the penitent and salvation to them that persevere O grant that we may never presume on thy mercy or despise the riches of thy goodnesse but that thy forbearance and long suffering may lead us to repentance create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we truly mourning for our sins and forsaking them condemning our selves and justifying thee crucifying the old man and becomming new creatures may obtaine of thee mercy and remission that though we are now worthily punished for our sins by the comfort of thy grace we may be mercifully releived through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen I. The prayer for the Church O Eternal God thou preserver of men and the Great lover of soules have pitty and compassion upon thine afflicted handmaid the Church of England Thou hast humbled us for our pride and chastised us for our want of discipline O forgive us all our sins by which thou hast been provoked to anger and to Jealousie to despise our sorrowes and to arme thy selfe against us II. Blessed God smite us not with a final and exterminating judgement call not the watchmen off from their guards nor the Angels from their charges let us not die by a famine of thy Word and Sacraments If thou smitest us with the rod of a man thou canst sanctify every stroke unto us and canst bring good out of the evil and delightest to doe so but nothing can bring us a recompence if thou hatest us and sufferest the soules of thy people to perish III. Unite our hearts and tongues take away the Spirit of error and division from amongst us and so order all the accidents of thy providence that religion may increase and our devotion may be great and popular and truth may be incouraged and promoted and thy Name glorified and thy servants comforted and instructed that thy holy Spirit may rule and all interests may stoope and obey publish and advance the honour of our Lord Jesus Amen For the Superiour Clergy O Most blessed Saviour Jesus King of Heaven and earth the head and prince of the Catholick Church who hast appointed thy servants Ministers and stewards in the house of thy Father to give bread to the hungry and drinke to them that thirst after the water of life flowing from the Fountaines of our Saviour continue and blesse sanctify and adorne with thy gifts and graces all the Spiritual guides and governours which thou hast appointed over us that they may continue in thy service to comfort the afflicted to instruct the ignorant to confirme the strong to defend and promote thy truth to intercede for thy servants to open the kingdome of heaven to all beleivers and to shut up the disobedient and rebellious in everlasting prisons by the keyes of the Kingdome by thy word and Sacraments by thy power and by thy Spirit remove not the Candlestick from us neither doe thou quench the light of Israel but let thy servants our Bishops and Priests be like burning and shining lights in the Temple of God by a continual never failing never broken succession offering up the daily sacrifice rejoycing in the plenty of peace and the imployments of thy house in holy offices and a daily ministration that thou being for ever pleas'd and for ever glorified we may be thy peculiar people a chosen generation a royal priest-hood clothed with righteousnesse and singing with joyfulnesse Eternall Hallelujahs to the honour of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For Priests and the Inferiour Clergy MOst Blessed and Eternal Jesu who art a Preist for ever after the order of Melchisedek and hast separated thy servants to minister to thee in holy offices and to convey holy things unto the people give unto all thy servants the Ministers of thy word and Sacraments the spirit of prudence and knowledge of faith and charity of watchfulnesse and holy zeale that they as good helpes in Government may declare thy will faithfully to their congregations and administer the Sacraments purely and devoutly and by their holy life become an example to thy litle flock that so they with cheerfulnesse and joy may render an account of their charge and may by thy mercy obtaine the blessing of thy Preisthood the glories of thy Kingdome O most Blessed and Eternall Saviour who livest and reignest with the Father and the holy Spirit eternal God world without end Amen The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. To this office may be added the confession of sins taken out of S. Ephraim the Syrian in the Evening prayer for a family and said immediately before the collect Or else Immediately before the blessing as opportunity shall require or permit may be said the Let any described at the end of these devotions Any of these prayers or psalmes may upon any occasion ordinary or extraordinary be used in any of the other offices In time of VVarre to the foregoing offices may be added these following prayers taken out of a special
of duty that so we may passe through this valley of teares in peace and meeknesse in faith and charity with the confidence of a holy hope and in the strength of thy righteous promises to the fruition of those mercies which are the portion of willing and obedient soules through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The great penitential Letanies To be said according to the discretion of him that ministers especially in the time of Lent and upon solemn Fasting daies O Blessed God Father of mercies who hast sent thy Son to redeeme us from sin and wrath have mercy upon us rebellious and perishing children lost and miserable sinners O Blessed Saviour Jesus who wert the price of lost mankind and gavest thy selfe a sacrifice for our sins have mercy upon miserable and lost but sorrowful and returning sinners O Blessed Spirit of the Father who didst come into the world to sanctify and to teach to illuminate and to guide it have mercy upon us foolish and ignorant lost and miserable sinners O most Blessed and Mysterious Trinity God the Fathers Son and holy Spirit have mercy upon us perishing and miserable sinners 1. Pardon O God the vanities of our childhood and the sins of our youth our backward and dull ignorance our forward and active malice our early sins and slow repentances our hastinesse to all evil and our unwillingnesse to all good things whatsoever If thou Lord wilt be extreme to marke what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it 2. O God of mercy pardon our want of discipline our aversenesse to learne good things our desires of evil the first insinuations of sin our morose delectation in vaine thoughts our pleasure in evil remembrances our entertaining little images of sin our love of the temptation our fondnesse after trifles our want of love and want of understanding of the things of God Cast us not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from us 3. O God of mercy pardon the infinite number of our foolish thoughts and voluptuous desires our proud imaginations phantastick pleasures our secret deliciousnesse in what thou hast forbidden our desires to die our contempt and neglect of life our foolish contrivances and trifling purposes our ridiculous designes and unreasonable intentions Turne thy face from our sins O Lord and put out all our misdeeds 4. O God of mercy pardon the infinite omissions of our duty our seldome prayers and frequent wandring of our head and heart our foolish arts to cosen our selves and to cheat our soules of duty and reward our wicked rejoycings when we were forc'd to omit our devotion and our listlesse manner of attending to them our dulnesse in hearing our deadnesse in observing our excuses and pretences our wearinesse of body and tediousnesse of Spirit our dulnesse and sleepinesse our seldome reading and more seldome meditating our losse of many opportunities of receiving the holy Communion and our making use of all opportunities of pleasure and vanity But there is mercy with thee therefore shalt thou be feared 5. O God of mercy pardon all the sins of our proud and prejudicate understandings our wilful ignorance and voluntary neglect of the instruments of salvation the weaknesse imperfection of our faith and our trifling notices of things our distrust of thee and our confidence in the creatures our superstitious fancies and foolish opinions our weake conjectures and easinesse to beleive our suspicions and jealousies of thee and our wicked sentences and evil reportings concerning thy actions and thy attributes our relying upon dreames and our not relying upon thy world our love of being abus'd in our perswasions and our beleiving doctrines for interest and passion our weake inquiries and confident opinions our doubtings trepidations in the day of temptations and our unreasonable confidences boastings and presumptions when we are properous easy and untempted Lord be merciful to our sins for they are very many 6. O God of mercy pardon the sins of our will our violent prosecutions of pleasure and our hatings of religion our unwillingnesse to please thee and our fiercenesse of desire to please our selves our unwillingnesse to submit to thylawes to the events of thy providence our disobedience to revelations to the advices of the wise and the discourses of the learned to the voice of God and the lessons of the Spirit our unreasonable choice and malicious determinations our yeildings to the whispers of the flesh and our obstinacy against the motions of illuminated reason O give us the comfort of thy helpe againe and establish us with thy free Spirit 7. O God of mercy pardon the inordination and irregularity of our affections our anger is hasty and quick unreasonable and immoderate a perpetual storme and a perpetual folly our desires are passionate and great sensual and intemperate we fear the feares of men and our hopes are of things that profit not we love that which destroyes us and doe not love that by which we can be made alive we rejoyce in the wayes of death and our sorrow is not unto amendment of life every sad accident of the world does amaze us but we are not afflicted when we loose thy favour when we doe foolish things and enter into the portions of thy displeasure Lord be merciful unto us for our sins are very great 8. O God of mercy pardon the hypocrisy of our lives our desires to seeme holy our neglect of being so our being satisfied with shadowes and outsides with an unactive faith with the faith of Devils and the hope of hypocrites with the comforts of the presumptuous and the confidences of the proud we have rested in outward workes and have not secur'd the truth of the Spirit we confesse our sins and still commit them we pray against them and yet we love them we call thee Father and obey thee not we say thou art our Lord and yet we doe not feare thee we approach thee with our lips and our hearts are far from thee wee bow our heads and lift up our hearts and hands against thee we humble our selves in flattery and mortifie our affections with deceit we pretend religion to serve our owne worldly ends resting in formes of godlinesse but denying the power of it O God be merciful unto us for our state is very miserable 9. O God of mercy pardon our impatience and immortification our secret murmures and open rebellions our temptings of God our provocations of thee to anger our entring into needlesse dangers the deferring of our repentance and the hardning of our faces against thy judgements our contempt of thy mercies and turning thy grace into wantonnesse despising thy long suffering and thy goodnesse and trusting boldly where thou hast given us no ground of hope or comfort O Blessed Jesu that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us 10 O God of mercy pardon the innumerable sins of our tongue our vaine and common swearings our bold affirmatives of what we know
FORMS of PRAYER Publick and Private Together with The PSALTER or PSALMS of David after the KINGS Translation Cum clamore valido et lachrymis preces offerens exauditus est pro suā reverentiā A Collection of offices OR FORMS of PRAYER IN Cases Ordinary and Extraordinary Taken out of the Scriptures and the ancient Liturgies of several Churches especially the GREEK Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David according to the Kings Translations with Arguments to the same S. Ignatius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed by J. Flesher for R. Royston at the sign of the Angel in Ivy-lane 1658. The PREFACE WHen Judges were instead of Kings and Hophni and Phinehas were among the Priests every man did what was right in his own eyes but few did what was pleasing in the eyes of the Lord and the event was this God put on his fierce anger against them and stirr'd up and arm'd the Enemies of their Country and Religion and they prevail'd very farre against the expectation and confidence of them who thought the goodness of their cause would have born out the iniquity of their persons and that the impiety of their adversaries would have disabled them even from being made Gods scourges and instruments of punishing his own people The sadness of the event proved the vanity of their hopes for that which was the instrument of their worship the determination of their religious addresses the place where God did meet his people from which the Priests spake to God and God gave his Oracles that they dishonourably and miserably lost The ark of the Lord was taken the impious Priests who made the Sacrifice of the Lord to become an abomination to the people were slain with the sword of the Philistines old Eli lost his life and the wife of Phinehas died with sorrow and the miscarriages of childbirth crying out That the Glory was departed from Israel because the Ark of God was taken 2. In these things we also have been but too like the sons of Israel for when we sinned as greatly we also have groaned under as great and sad a calamity For we have not onely felt the evils of an intestine Warre but God hath smitten us in our spirit and laid the scene of his judgements especially in Religion he hath snuffed our lamp so near that it is almost extinguished and the sacred fire was put into a hole of the earth even then when we were forced to light those tapers that stood upon our Altars that by this sad truth better then by the old ceremony we might prove our succession to those holy men who were constrained to sing hymnes to Christ in dark places and retirements 3. But I delight not to observe the correspondencies of such sad accidents which as they may happen upon divers causes or may be forc'd violently by the strength of fancy or driven on by jealousy and the too fond opinings of troubled hearts and afflicted spirits so they doe but help to vex the offending part and relieve the afflicted but with a phantastick and groundless comfort I will therefore deny leave to my own affections to ease themselves by complaining of others I shall onely crave leave that I may remember Jerusalem and call to minde the pleasures of the Temple the order of her services the beauty of her buildings the sweetness of her songs the decency of her Ministrations the assiduity and Oeconomy of her Priests and Levites the daily sacrifice and that eternal fire of devotion that went not out by day nor by night these were the pleasures of our peace and there is a remanent felicity in the very memory of those spiritual delights which we then enjoyed as antepasts of heaven and consignations to an immortality of joyes And it may be so again when it shall please God who hath the hearts of all Princes in his hand and turneth them as the rivers of waters and when men will consider the invaluable loss that is consequent and the danger of sin that is appendant to the destroying such forms of discipline and devotion in which God was purely worshipped and the Church was edified and the people instructed to great degrees of piety knowledge and devotion 4. And such is the Liturgy of the Church of England I shall not need to enumerate the advantages of Liturgy in general though it be certain that some Liturgy or other is most necessary in publick addresses that so we may imitate the perpetual practice of all setled Churches since Christianity or ever since Moses Law or the Jewish Church came to have a setled foot and any rest in the land of Canaan 2. That we may follow the example and obey the precept of our blessed Saviour who appointed a set form of devotion and certainly they that profess enmity against all Liturgy can in no sense obey the precept given by him who gave command When ye pray say Our Father 3. That all that come may know the condition of publick Communion their Religion and manner of address to God Almighty 4. That the truth of the proposition the piety of the desires and the honesty of the petitions the simplicity of our purposes and the justice of our designs may be secured before-hand because Whatsoever is not of faith is sin and it is impossible that we should pray to God in the extempore prayers of the Priest by any faith but unreasonable unwarranted insecure and implicit 5. That there may be union of hearts and spirits and tongues 6. That there may be a publick symbol of Communion in our prayers which are the best instruments of endearing us to God and to one another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Private prayer not assisted with the concord and unity of a publick spirit is weaker and less effectual saith S. Basil. 7. That the Ministers less learned may have provisions of devotions made for them 8. That the more learned may have no occasion of ostentation ministred to them lest their best actions their prayers be turned into sin 9. That extravagant levities and secret impieties be prevented 10. That the offices Ecclesiastical may the better secure the articles of Religion 11. That they may edify the people by being repositories of holy and necessary truths ready form'd out of their needs and described in their Books of daily use for that was one of the advices of the Apostle teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs 12. That men by the intervening of authority may be engaged to certain devotions 13. That not onely the duty but the very form of its ministration may be honoured by the countenance of authority and not be exposed to contempt by reason of the insufficiency of its external warrant 14. That the assignation of such offices appropriating them to the ministery of certain persons may be a cancel to secure the inclosures of the Clerical orders from the usurpings and invasions of pretending and unhallowed spirits 15.
arguings every impure lust and filthy desire all pride and envie all hypocrisie and lying all inordinate love of this world and base Covetousnesse all hardnesse of heart and unrelenting dispositions all peevishnesse and hasty anger all mindfulnesse of injuries and revengfulnesse all blasphemy and irreligion and every motion of soule and body which can withdraw us from thee and is against thy will and commandement II. Gracious Father give us perfect pardon for what is past and a perfect repentance of all our evills that for the time to come we may with pure spirits with broken and contrite hearts with sanctified lips and holy desires serve thee religiously walke humbly with our God converse justly and charitably with men and possesse our soules in patience and holinesse and our bodies in sanctification and honour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The prayer of absolution to be said by the Minister alone according to his piety and discretion when he sees cause not frequently OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus the great shepheard and Bishop of our soules that lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world who promised paradise to the repenting theife and gave pardon to the woman taken in adultery he pardon and forgive all your sins knowne and unknowne *** O Blessed Jesus in whatsoever thy servants as men bearing flesh about them and inhabiting this world or deceived by the Devil have sinn'd whether in word or deed whether in thought or desire whether by omission or commission let it be forgiven unto them by thy word and by thy spirit and for ever preserve thy servants from sinning against thee and from suffering thine eternal anger for thy promise sake and for thy glorious Names sake O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then devoutly and distinctly say the Lords Prayer Our Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome come * Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven * Give us this day our daily bread * And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespas against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Doxology GLory be to the Father of mercies the Father of Men and Angels the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory be to the most holy and eternall sonne of God the Blessed Saviour and Redeemer of the World the Advocate of sinners the Prince of Peace the Head of the Church and the mighty Deliverer of all them that call upon him Glory be to the holy and Eternall spirit of God the Holy Ghost the comforter the sanctifying and life-giving Spirit All Glory and thankes all honour and power all love and obedience be to the Blessed and undivided Trinity one God Eternall The Heavens declare thy glory the Earth confesses thy providence the sea manifests thy power and every spirit and every understanding creature celebrates thy greatnesse for ever end ever * All glory and majesty all praises and dominion be unto thee O God Father Son and Holy Ghost for ever and ever Amen Then arising from their knees let the Psalter be read in order as shall be judged convenient that is to say The ordinary portions for every day Morning and Evening prayers and Psalmes particularly chosen for speciall dayes of festivity or of Humiliation respectively After the Psalmes ending with Glory be to the Father c. Read a chapter in the old Testament The chapter out of the old Testament is to be read on Sundaies and Festivals and not omitted without great occasion but on ordinary daies it may suffice after the Psalmes immediately to reade the lesson out of the new Testament After which recite this Hymne to the honour of God saying the verses interchangeably * REjoyce in the Lord ye righteous for praise is comely for the Upright ¶ The word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithfull * He loveth righteousnesse and judgement the earth is full of the goodnesse of the Lord. ¶ By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth * He gathereth the waters of the Sea together as an heape he layeth up the depth in storehouses ¶ Let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him * Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercie ¶ To deliver their soules from death and to keep them alive in the time of famine * Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of all ¶ Evill shall slay the wicked and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate * Incline not my heart to any evill thing to practise wicked works with Men that work iniquity and let me not eat of their dainties ¶ Cause me to heare thy loving kindenesse in the morning for in thee do I trust cause me to know the way wherein I should walke for I lift up my soule unto thee * Teach me to do thy will for thou art my God thy spirit is good lead me into the Land of uprightnesse ¶ Gather not my soule with sinners nor my life with bloody men * The poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles ¶ O tast and see that the Lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him * O how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of Men. ¶ Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of Man Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavillion from the strife of tongues * O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer ¶ Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all you that hope in the Lord. Glory be to the Father c. Or this * SIng praises unto God sing praises sing praises unto our King sing praises For God is the King of all the Earth sing ye praises with understanding ¶ God reigneth over the Nations God sitteth upon the throne of his holinesse * He is our refuge and strength a very present helpe in trouble ¶ Many O Lord our God are thy wonderfull workes which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are towards us They cannot be reckon'd in order * For God is my King of old working salvation in the midst of the Earth ¶ Thou didst cleave the fountaine and the floud thou driest up mighty rivers * The daye is thine the night also is thine thou hast prepared the light and the Sunne ¶ Thou hast set all the borders of the Earth thou hast made Summer and Winter * Give unto the Lord the glorie due unto his name worship
but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them ¶ But I will declare for ever I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. * For thou art my hope O Lord God thou art my trust from my youth ¶ By thee have I been holden up from the wombe thou art he that tooke me out of my Mothers bowels my praise shall be continually of thee * For the Lord is a sun and a sheild the Lord will give grace and glory and no good thing will he withhold from them that live a godly life ¶ O Lord of Hosts Blessed is the Man that putteth his trust in thee Glory be to the Father c. Or this * GOd is greatly to be fear'd in the assembly of the Saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him ¶ Thou rulest the raging of the sea when the waves thereof arise thou stillest them * The heavens are thine the earth also is thine as for the world and the fulnesse thereof thou hast founded them ¶ Justice and judgement are the habitation of thy throne mercy and truth shall go before thy face * For loe thine enemies O Lord loe thine enemies shall perish all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered ¶ The righteous shall flourish like a Palme tree he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon * Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God ¶ They shall still bring forth fruit in their old age they shall be fat and flourishing ¶ To shew that the Lord is upright he is our rock and there is no unrighteousnesse in him Glory be to the Father c. Then read a lesson out of the Epistle of S. Paul or any of the Canonical Epistles in order or selected upon special occasions After the lesson say this Psalme * GIve eare O Lord unto my prayer and attend to the voice of my supplications ¶ Turne us O God of our salvation and cause thine anger towards us to cease * For thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy to all them that call upon thee ¶ O Remember not against us former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us * Helpe us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name deliver us and purge away our sins for thy names sake ¶ Teach us thy way O God and we will walke in thy truth unite our hearts to fear thy Name * O satisfy us early with thy mercy that we may rejoyce and be glad all our daies ¶ So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thankes for ever we will shew forth thy praise from generation to generation Glory be to the Father c. Or this * IN thee O Lord doe I put my trust let me never be ashamed deliver me in thy righteousnesse ¶ Into thy hand I commend my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth * Make thy face to shine upon thy servants save us for thy mercies sake ¶ For great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men * The Angel of the Lord encamped round about them that fear him and delivereth them ¶ Thou art my hiding place thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance * Thou makest darknesse and it is night wherein all the beasts of the forest doe creep forth ¶ O Lord how manifold are thy workes in wisdome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches * The Glory of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall rejoyce in his workes ¶ He appointed the moone for certaine seasons and the sun knoweth his going downe * I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise unto my God while I have my being my meditation of him shall be sweet I will rejoyce in the Lord. ¶ I will both lay me downe in peace and sleep for thou Lord makest me dwell in safety Glory be to the Father c. Or else say 103. Psalme or the 91. or the 121. Then shall follow the Apostles Creed I Beleeve in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth * And in Jesus Christ his onely son our Lord * which was conceived by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary * suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried * He descended into hell * The third day he rose againe from the dead * He ascended into Heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty * From thence he shall come to judge the quicke and the Dead * I believe in the holy Ghost * The holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints * the forgivenesse of sins * the resurrection of the body * and the life everlasting Amen Minister The Lord be with you People And with thy Spirit Let us Pray Our Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome come * Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven * Give us this day our daily bread * And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen Then followes the first collect as at Morning Prayer I. O Great King of heaven and earth the Lord and patron of all ages receive thy servants approaching to the throne of Grace in the Name of Jesus Christ. Give unto every one of us what is best for us cast out all evil from within us work in us a fulnesse of holinesse of wisedome and spiritual understanding that we increasing in the knowledge of God may be fruitful in every Good worke through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this SAve us defend and keep us in thy fear and love O thou God of mercy and grace Give unto us the light of thy countenance pardon of our sins health of body sanctification of our spirits peace from heaven and salvation of our soules in the day of our Lord Jesus Amen I. For repentance and a Holy life ALmighty God the fountaine of holinesse and felicity who by thy word and by thy spirit dost conduct all thy servants in the waies of peace and sanctity inviting them by promises and winning them by love endearing them by necessities and obliging them by the perpetual testimonies of thy loving kindnesse grant unto us so truly to repent us of our sins so carefully to reforme our errors so diligently to watch over all our actions so industriously to doe all our duty that we may never transgresse thy Holy lawes willingly but that it may be the worke of our lives to obey thee the joy of our soules to please thee the satisfaction of all
our hopes and the perfection of our desires to live with thee in the holinesse of thy Kingdome of grace and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. For Peace O Almighty and most gracious Father who art the fountaine of peace and the Father of Unions we pray unto thee for peace for love and for thy salvation Let a holy peace for ever dwell in our consciences Let peace and holinesse and Gods blessing for ever adorne support and enlarge this family Let there be peace and Union of minds in all Christian assemblies one heart and one voice the same faith and an eternal charity Make warrs to cease in all the world that the peace and the designe of the Gospel may be advanced the lawes of the holy Jesus may be obeyed and his Name be magnified in all the world for ever and ever Amen III. For all Christian Princes and the Ecclesiastical state ALmighty God who rulest in the Kingdomes of men and in all events of the world defend those with thy mercy whom thou hast adorned with thy power lift up the horne advance the just interests of all Christian Kings Princes and states by the power of thy venerable and lifegiving passion *** Give unto all them who serve thee in the ministeries of religion wisedome and holinesse the blessings of peace and great abilities to minister prosperously to the good of soules by the power and aides of thy holy Spirit of wisdome IV. Pardon all our sins take away our iniquities from us all and preserve us from all danger and trouble from need and persecution from the temptations of the Devill from the violence and fraud of all our enemies Keep us O God from sinning against thee and from suffering thy wrath through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen V The collect for the Evening O Almighty Father who givest the Sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the Moone and of the Stars for a light by night vouchsafe to receive us this night and ever into thy favour and protection defending us from all sad casualties and evill accidents ruling and governing us with thy holy spirit that all darknesse and hurtfull ignorance all infidelity and weaknesse of heart all inordinate fear and carnall affections may be remooved far from us that we being justified by the mercies of God in our Lord Jesus may be sanctified by thy spirit and glorified by thy infinite mercies in the day of the glorious appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen VI. For a blessed death O Most gracious and most holy Redeemer who by dying for us becamest the author of life unto us and hast subdued all the powers of hell and the grave taking away the sting of death and breaking in peices the powers of darknesse have mercy upon us now and at the hour of our Death Let thy holy Spirit governe all our words and actions our thoughts and designes our civill entercourse and the duties of religion and grant to us so perfectly to obey his commandements and attend his motions all the daies of our life that we may by holy habits and a constant performance of our dutie waite for the coming of our Lord and be ready to enter with him at whatsoever hour he shall come VII O be mercifull unto us in the day of our calamity and of thy visitation strengthen our faith in the day of our sicknesses trial when the Cloud is thicke the storme is great that we may rely upon thy grace invocate thy mercies hope in thy goodnesse and receive the end of our hopes the salvation of our soules O Let us never descend into the dwellings of the wicked nor into the place of them that know not God but be pleas'd here to guide us with thy councell and after that receive us with thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this O Eternall God thou fountaine of life and pardon there is no number of thy daies nor of thy mercies be mercifull unto us now and at the hour of our death let not thy servants be arrested with sudden death that we be neither unready in our accounts nor snatched hence with an imperfect duty nor surprised in an act of sin nor called upon when our lampes are untrimm'd let it be neither violent nor untimely hasty nor unblessed but after the ordinary visitation of men having in it an excellent patience and an exemplar piety and the greatest senses and demonstrations of thy eternall mercies Preserve O God our reason and religion our faith and our hope our sense and our speech perfect and usefull till the last of our daies and grant that we may die the death of the righteous and let our last end be like to his free from debt and deadly sin having first discharg'd all our obligations of justice and made competent provision for our relatives that none of ours be left miserable and unprovided in our departure but grant that being blessed by thy providence and sanctified with thy spirit they may for ever be servants of the Lord Jesus II. Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts shut not up thy mercifull eyes and eares unto our prayers but spare us O Lord most holy O God most mighty O holy and mercifull Saviour thou most worthy Judge eternall suffer us not at our last hour for any paines of death to fall from thee but strengthen us with a mighty grace and support us with an infinite mercy giving us perfect measures or repentance and great treasures of charity that at the generall resurrection in the last day we may be found acceptable in thy sight and receive that blessing which thy welbeloved son shall then pronounce to all them that love and feare thee saying Come ye Blessed children of my Father receive the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world * This mercy O most mercifull Father vouchsafe to give unto us and all thy servants through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer Amen Here may be inserted any of the portions of the prayer of intercession which is at the end of Morning Prayer The Blessing THe Lord blesse you and keep you The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace The blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and Holy Ghost be amongst you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen The end of Evening Prayer To be added to the foregoing Offices upon speciall occasions immediately before the blessing at Morning or Evening Prayer A prayer before Sermon O Lord God fountaine of life giver of all good things who givest to men the blessed hope of eternall life by our Lord Jesus Christ and hast promised thy holy Spirit to them that aske him Be present with us in the dispensation ofthy holy word and Sacraments grant that we being preserved from all evil by
thy power and among the diversities of opinions and judgments in this world from all errors and false doctrines and led into all truth by the conduct of thy holy spirit may for ever obey thy heavenly calling that we may not be onely hearers of the word of life but doers also of good workes keeping faith and a good conscience living an unblameable life usefully and charitably religiously and prudently in all godlinesse and honesty before thee our God and before all the world that at the end of our mortal life we may enter into the light and life of God to sing praises and eternall hymnes to the glory of thy name in eternal ages through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In whose name let us pray in the words which himselfe commanded saying OUr Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome come * Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven * Give us this day our daily bread * And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen A prayer of Thanksgiving after Sermon if it be convenient by reason of the time or other circumstances I. ALmighty God our glory and our hope our Lord and Master the Father of mercy and the God of all comfort we humbly present to thee the sacrifice of a thankfull spirit in a joyfull acknowledgment of those infinite favours by which thou hast supported our state enriched our spirits comforted our sorrowes releiv'd our necessities blessed and defended our persons instructed our ignorances and promoted our eternall interest * We praise thy name for that portion of thy holy word of which thou hast made us partakers this day Grant that it may bring forth fruit unto thee and unto holinesse in our whole life to the glory of thy holy name the edification of our Brethren and the eternall comfort of our soules in the day of our Lord Jesus II. Have mercy upon all that desire and upon all that need our praiers Ease the paines of the sick support the spirit of the disconsolate heare the cries of Orphans and Widdowes in their calamity and restore all that are oppressed to their rights and sanctify to them all their wrongs pity the folly and pity the calamities of poor mankind in mercy remembring them that are appointed to die comfort and support their spirits perfect and accept their repentance and receive the soules returning unto thee whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood III. Lord pity and pardon direct and blesse sanctify and save us all Give repentance to all that live in sinne and perseverance to all thy sons and servants for his sake who is thy beloved and the foundation of all our hopes Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory praise and adoration love and obedience now and for evermore Amen If this whole office be said at Morning or Evening Prayer respectively the Collect before sermon here put downe may be used instead of the Usual prayer before sermon ending with the Lords prayer and the Sermon to begin immediately before the blessing The Sermon being ended the prayer of thankes-giving may be said and the congregation dismissed with the blessing set downe at the end of Evening Prayer A prayer when a sick person desires to be publikely prayed for I. O Almighty and most gracious Father who art the fountaine of life and health and pardon hear the prayers of thy servants in behalfe of our Brother or Sister the miserable for the afflicted of sinners for him or her whom thou hast smitten Lord lay no more upon him then thou shalt enable him to beare but give him patience and doe thou thy selfe open a door for his escape even by a holy and a reformed life and a speedy recovery or else by a blessed death as thou in thy infinite loving kindnesse shalt choose for thy glory and his eternall interest II. Lord give unto thy servant a perfect repentance and a perfect pardon of all his sins Remember not the errors of his youth the weaknesse of his spirit the surprises of his life and the crimes of his choice but joyne his present sufferings to the passion his prayers to the intercession and his repentance to the merits of our dearest Saviour Jesus that he may be pardoned and pitied comforted and supported sanctified and saved in the day of recompenses III. Blessed Jesus who hast overcome all the powers of sinne Hell and the grave take from thy servant all inordinate fear of death give him a perfect resignation of his will and conformity to thine restraine the power of the enemy that he may not prevaile against the soule which thou hast redeemed If it be thy will give him a speedy restitution of his health and a holy use of the affliction or if thou hast otherwise decreed preserve him in thy fear and favour and receive his soule to mercy to pardon and eternal life through thy mercies and for thy compassion sake O Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen I. For seasonable weather in time of drowth immoderate raine or scarcity or death of Cattel c. O Lord God whose providence is universal and sufferest nothing to happen in vaine have mercy upon thy servants who have deserved thy wrath and to suffer thy indignation in every expression by which thou art pleas'd to signifie it Thou O God coverest the Heaven with clouds and preparest raine for the earth thou makest the grasse to growe upon the mountains and herbe for the use of men Thou givest fodder unto the cattel and feedest the young ravens that call upon thee Heare us O God who are thy servants and the sheep of thy pasture we have indeed wandered and gone astray but doe thou be mercifull unto us and bring us home to thee Take away thine anger from us Blesse the labours of the husbandman and the fruits of the feild refresh the weary earth with seasonable showers or seasonable weather for thou hast the key of raine and the key of providence thou didst bind up the heavens with ribs of iron and thou didst open againe the sluces of water at the prayer of thy servant Elijah and thy hand is not shortned and thy mercies have no limit II. Open thy hand O God and fill us with thy loving kindnesse that the Mower may fill his hand and he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosome that our garners may be full with all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no breaking in or going out that our hearts may be replenish'd with food and gladnesse that there be no complaining in our streets Give us sufficient for this life
What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the Son of man that thou visitest him ¶ For thou hast made him little lower then the Angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour * Thou madest him to have dominion over the workes of thy hands and hast put all things under his feet ¶ All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the feild the fowle of the aire and the fishes of the sea * O Lord our Governour how excellent is thy name in all the world ¶ The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work * Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge ¶ Their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world * To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent O Lord my God I will give thankes unto thee for ever ¶ Shew me thy wayes O Lord teach me thy paths lead me in thy truth and teach me for thou art the God of my salvation on thee doe I wait all the day * Remember O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses for they have been ever of old ¶ Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgression according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodnesse sake O Lord. * For thy names sake O Lord pardon mine iniquity for it is very great O keepe my soule and deliver me let me not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee ¶ That which I see not teach thou me I have done iniquity but I will doe no more for there is no darkenesse nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves * For his eyes are upon the wayes of man and he seeth all his goings but none saith where is God my maker who giveth songs in the night ¶ But I put my trust in thee O Lord I have said thou art my God * Into thy hand I commend my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth ¶ I will lay me downe in peace for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Or this * PReserve me O God for in thee doe I put my trust O my soule thou hast said unto the Lord thou art my Lord my goodnesse extendeth not to thee ¶ But to the Saints which are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight * The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou maintainest my lot ¶ I will blesse the Lord who hath given me counsell my reines also instruct me in the night seasons * I have set the Lord alwaies before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be mooved Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope ¶ For thou wilt not leave my soule in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption * Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnesse of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore ¶ As the heart panteth after the water brookes so panteth my soule after thee O God * My soule thirsteth for God for the living God when shall I come and appeare in the presence of God ¶ The Lord will command his loving-kindnesse in the day time and in the night his song shall be with me I will make my prayer unto the God of my life * For thou art the God that doest wonders thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God ¶ Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the Fowler and from the noisome pestilence * Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day ¶ For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keepe thee in all thy waies they shall beare thee in their hands least thou dash thy foot against a stone * I will remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night-watch for thou hast been my health therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoyce ¶ Blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with benefits even the God of our salvation * He that is our God is the God of salvation and unto God the Lord belong the issues of death ¶ Also unto thee O Lord belongeth mercy for thou rendrest to every man according to his worke Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Lesson 1 Thessal 5. 2. YOur selves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so commeth as a theife in the night * For when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction commeth upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape * But ye brethren are not in darknesse that that day should overtake you as a theife ye all are children of the light and children of the day we are not of the night or of darknesse * Therefore let us not sleepe as doe others but let us watch and be sober * For they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunken in the night * But let us who are of the day be sober putting on the breast-plate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation * For God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtaine salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ * Who died for us that whether we wake or sleepe we should live together with him Or read a chapter in the Sapientiall bookes in order After the lesson recite the Creed I beleive in God the Father Almighty c. The Lord be with you Ans. And with thy Spirit Let us Pray I. The confession of sins taken out of the prayer of S. Ephraim the Syrian O Almighty God who dwellest in the inaccessible light before whom the greatest mountaines are like the dust of the ballance and in whose sight the heavens are not pure and the Angels tremble and the Saints are charg'd with folly and all the world shall feare in thy glorious presence we confesse to thee O Lord Father of heaven and earth all those sins which we have wrought in private and in publick for thou knowest all things and nothing is hid from thy righteous eyes Thou art the God of mercy and pity and thou wouldst have all even strangers to be sav'd we fly therefore unto thee who art the lover and Saviour of all the soules of the faithfull Have pity upon us who have many times imbitterd and greiv'd thy most holy spirit to the joy of our enemies and the sad ruine of our pitiable and wounded soules Behold O God we have been dead in sins and trespasses and servants to thy enemy There is no kind of sins but we have committed or would have committed If it were pleasant we cared
not for the foulnesse but if we were tempted we did fall and where we did fall there we did love to lie we have sinn'd worse then the adulteresse or the theife more then the publican or the prodigal oftner then David or Manasses we have sinn'd against greater mercies a more determin'd conscience a better law a clearer revelation more terrible threatnings and better much better promises II. We know O God and tremble at the sad remembrance that all our sins shall be plac'd before our faces at the day of thy dreadfull appearance O looke upon us with a mighty pity let not the Angel of wrath snatch our precious soules from thy beatifick presence Take not the sweet refreshments of thy Spirit from us one houre O Dearest Lord thou lover of soules take not our lives from us while our soules are unprepared and unready unexcus'd and unpardon'd for thou knowest the abysse of our sins and thou knowest what is that abysse of flames and anger which is prepared for foolish and unwary soules III. Most Blessed Saviour Jesus thou gavest thy life to redeeme us from death and thou art the Judge of those actions for which thou wert a sacrifice and to give sentence upon those men for whom thou art an advocate and makest perpetuall intercession O suffer us not to fall under thine eternall anger destroy the whole body of sin in us bring our understandings into the obedience of God our affections under the dominion of reason our reason into a perfect subordination to thy Holy Spirit that we may love thee and feare thee and by repentance and charity may enter into thy favour and dwell there by a holy perseverance all our daies through Jesus Christ our Lord. IV. The Prayers DOe thou open our eyes that we may see our own vilenesses and forsake them and our foolish errors that we may amend them and all our infirmities that we may watch against them and all our dutie that we may pursue it earnestly and passionately prudently and intirely presently and for ever Cause us to returne to our duty with greater fervor and devotion then ever we have sinn'd against thee with pleasure and delight and as we have dishonourd thee by our unworthinesse so grant that we may glorifie thee tentimes more weeping bitterly for our sins watching against them strictly hating them infinitely and forsaking them utterly O grant that we may every day renew our repentances and vowes of a better life and make us to doe every day what we promise and what is our dutie so imprinting a holy religion and a severe repentance in our spirits that we may confesse our sins with a reall and humble sorrow and beg for pardon because we desire it and aske for thy helpe because wee will make use of it and number our sins because wee will leave them not resting in formes of godlinesse but living in the power of it in love and duty in holinesse and godly choice through Jesus Christ our Lord. V. MOst Gracious God and Father imprint in our hearts great apprehensions of thy power and thy glories of thy judgement and thy mercies of our sins and of our change approaching of our fugitive life and the day of our death of our duty and our danger and the inexpressible terrors of the day of Judgement and in proportion to such apprehensions teach us O God to walke in this world with fear and caution with hope and purity with diligence and devotion religiously and usefully humbly and charitably with love and obedience to thee with love and Justice to our neighbours with sober spirits and chast bodies with temperance and peace with faith and patience with health and holinesse in the favour of God and the friendlinesse of our neighbours in the communion of the Church and in obedience to all good lawes that we being blessed by thy providence defended by thy ministring Angels conducted by thy good Spirit instructed by thy word nourished by the body of Christ cleansed by his blood and clothed with his righteousnesse may grow from grace to grace in the increase of God to the fulnesse of Christ being subjects of thy Kingdome of grace in this world and heirs of the Kingdome of glory in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. VI. GIve us pardon O thou God of mercy and peace for all the errors and follies the ignorances and omissions the rash words and imprudent actions of which any of us hath been guilty this day or at any time before we confesse our sins every day and yet every day sin against thee and we pray unto thee for all the blessings that we neede and thou givest us all that we pray for and much more but yet we regard thee not but every day have new matter of shame and sorrow Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us FOr if thou Lord wilt be extreme to marke what is done amisse we shall not be able to abide or stand upright in judgement Thy mercy is great and thou hast blessed us this day and kept us from the evils of our inclination and the evils of temptation and though in the things wherein our consciences doe not accuse us we are not justified but by thy mercies loving-kindnesse in Christ Jesus yet we rejoyce in thy goodnesse to us and praise thy bounties and thy love and hope in thy mercies and beg of thee that thou wilt pardon us and keepe us this night and ever sanctify and save us blesse us at home and abroad in the workes of our calling and the duties of religion in our persons and relations make us to doe what pleaseth thee and to be what thou hast designed us to be and to receive what thou hast promised and to keepe us from all the evill we have deserved for Jesus Christ his sake our dearest Lord and Saviour Amen THe Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communication of the holy Spirit of God be with us and with all our relatives and with all the servants of God for ever and ever Amen Varieties to be added upon the great Festivals of the Yeare Upon Christmas day The Psalmes appointed at Morning Prayer Psalme 2. Psalme 45. Psalme 110. Evening Prayer Psalme 87. Psalme 89. The Hymne for Christmas day to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening Prayer * PRaise waiteth for thee O God in Sion and unto thee shall the vow be performed * O thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come * Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts He shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house even of thy Holy Temple * By terrible things in righteousnesse wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are a far off upon the sea *
when thou hadst taken upon thee our Nature and our sin and appeased thy Fathers wrath and perform'd all his will and overcome death and rescued all obedient soules from the hand of the enemy didst ascend to thy Eternall Father and open the Kingdome of Heaven to all beleivers thou hast espoused thy Church unto thy selfe with the eternall circles of thy providence with thy love and with thy care with thy word and with thy Spirit thy promises and thy holy intercession thou hadst a feeling of our infirmities and art our mercifull High Preist makeing intercession for us for ever O be pleased to represent and supply all our wants excuse all our infirmities pity all our calamities pardon our sins and send downe thy holy spirit of grace into our hearts that though we walke upon the earth yet our conversation may be in heaven and there also may be our portion and inheritance for ever through thy mercies O most Gracious Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen For Whitsunday Psalmes for Morning Prayer Psalme 87. Morning Prayer Psalme 89. Evening Prayer Psalme 2. Evening Prayer Psalme 45. Evening Prayer Psalme 110. The Hymne to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening Prayer * SIng a loud unto God our strength make a joyfull noise unto the God of Jacob. ¶ I will remember the workes of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate of all thy workes and talke of thy doings * Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people ¶ Vow and pay unto the Lord your God let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared * He shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the Kings of the earth ¶ Say unto God how terrible art thou in thy workes thorough the greatnesse of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee * Sion heard and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoyced because of thy judgements O Lord. ¶ For thou Lord art high above all the earth thou art exalted farre above all Gods * Light is sowne for the righteous and gladnesse for the upright in heart ¶ Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thankes at the remembrance of his Holinesse * The Lord hath made knowne his salvation his righteousnesse hath he openly shewed in the sight of the Heathen ¶ He hath remembred his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel all the ends of the earth have seene the salvation of our God * Give unto the Lord O ye kinreds of the people give unto the Lord glory and strength ¶ For he commeth For he commeth to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousnesse and the people with his truth Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. O Eternall God the Great Father of spirits the great Lover of soules who didst send thy holy Spirit upon thy Church in the day of Pentecost and hast promised that he shall abide with thy Church for ever let thy holy Spirit lead us into all truth defend us from all sin enrich us with his gifts refresh us with his comforts rule in our hearts for ever conduct us with his truth and lead us in the way everlasting that we living by thy Spirit and walking in him may by him be sealed up to the day of our redemption O let thy Spirit witnesse to our spirits that we are the children of God and make us to be so for ever through Jesus our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Spirit one God world without end Amen Upon Trinity Sunday O Blessed ineffable and most mysterious Trinity how admirable are thy beauties how incomparable are thy perfections how incomprehensible are those relations of the three most Blessed Persons which we believe and admire and adore but understand not The Angels are amazed in the unimaginable beauties of that glorious presence and are swallowed up with the Ocean of thy infinity How then can we who are in the lowest order of understanding creatures and have removed our selves further from thee and the participation of thy excellencies by a sinfull life praise thee either according to our duty or thy glories yet be pleased to accept the humblest adorations and with a favourable and a gracious eye behold the lowest worshippings and duty of thy servants We confesse and glory in thy omnipotency thy immensity thy goodnesse thy uncircumscribed Nature thy truth thy mercy thy omniscience O let us also receive thy blessings and gracious influences that we may adore thee with all our powers and possibilities for ever love thee with all our affections for ever serve with our best and earliest and all our industry that being here wholly inebriated with love and busied in thy service and the duties of a holy obedience we may to all eternity rejoyce in the beholding of those glories which are above all capacities above all heavens above all Angels even those glories which streame forth from the throne of the Eternall God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to whom be glory and dominion honour and adoration eternally confessed due and humbly paid by all men and all Angels world without end Amen A Collect to be used upon any of the Festivals or Commemoration of the Apostles ALmighty God who hast built thy holy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himselfe being the cheife corner stone we blesse and magnifie thy Name thy holy and ever glorious Name for thy great graces which thou gavest to thy Apostles and Prophets and Martyrs in the daies of their flesh and this day we have thy servant S. Paul S. Peter S. James c. here name the Apostle c. in remembrance praising thee for the benefits which the church hath received by his ministery and example we pray unto thee to give us thy grace that we obeying thy doctrine which he taught and publish'd and following his example as he followed Christ we also may with safety and holinesse passe through this vally of tears that serving thee in our generation advancing thy honour and obeying thy lawes we may in the society and communion of Saints and Angels sing eternall Hallelujahs to the honour of thy mercy and of thy majesty through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen An Office or Order for the Holy Sacrament of the LORDS SUPPER An Office or order for the Administration of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the way of the Apostolicall Churches and the doctrine of the Church of England THE ANTECOMMUNION OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive
them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Collect. O King of Glory Lord and Maker of the World thou art a God knowing all things and all thoughts even long before they are be thou present with us in this religious solemnity calling upon thee Deliver us from the shame of our sins from the corruption and evill inclinations that attend them anâ— from all the evils that may justly follow them Cleanse our wills and our understandings from all evill lusts and concupiscence from the deceits of the world from the violence and snares of the Devill from all guile and hypocrisy from every evill word and worke that we may serve thee faithfully worship thee religiously and pray unto thee acceptably through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall the Minister humbly say this prayer of preparation first in behalfe of himselfe then of the congregation O Lord God who in mercy and great compassion doest consider thy people and hast given unto us thy unworthy servants miserable sinners confidence and commandement to present our selves before thee at thy holy table to represent a holy venerable and unbloody sacrifice for our sins and for the errors and ignorances of all thy people looke upon me the meanest and most polluted of all them that approach to thy sacred presence Pity me O God and wash away all my sins Cleanse my heart and my hands my head and my lips from all impurities of the flesh and spirit and remoove far from me all irreverence and undecency all foolish imaginations and vaine reasonings and by the power of the Holy Ghost make me worthy for this ministery accepting this service for his sake whose sacrifice I represent and by whose commandement I minister even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen HAve mercy upon this thy people who with hungry and thirsty soules come to be refreshed comforted by the divine Nutriment of thy Holy Body and Blood Pity our infirmities despise not our unworthynesse Curse not our follies and take not from thy servants thy grace and the light of thy Divine Countenance but according to the multitude of thy great mercies doe away all our offences that without selfe condemnation we may appear before thy glory covered with the vaile of Jesus adorned with the robe of his righteousnesse and illustrated with the brightnesse of thy Divine spirit that we may live by thy grace and feel thy mercy and pardon in this world and in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall the Minister rising up rehearse with a loud voice the Eight Beatitudes the people still kneeling Minister Our Lord Jesus seeing the multitudes went up into a mountaine and he opened his mouth and taught them saying 1. BLessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdome of heaven People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 2. Blessed are they that mourne for they shall be comforted People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 3. Blessed are the meeke for they shall inherit the Earth People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 4. Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousnesse for they shall be filled People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 5. Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercie People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 6. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 7. Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 8. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousnesse sake for theirs is the Kingdome of heaven People Lord make us ready in heart and body to obey thee in every thing that we may inherit all these blessings in the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Amen Let us Pray O Lord God our Creator who hast given us life and being and hast showne unto us the way of salvation vouchsafing to us the revelation of Heavenly Mysteries and hast commanded to us this service in the power of the Holy Ghost and obedience of the Lord Jesus be thou well pleased O Lord with this our service and dutie and grant that with a holy fear and a pure conscience we may finish this service presenting a holy sacrifice holily unto thee that thou maist receive it in heaven and smell a sweet odor in the union of the eternall sacrifice which our Blessed Lord perpetually offers and accept us graciously as thou didst entertaine the gifts of Abel the sacrifice of Noah the services of Moses and Aaron the peace-offering of Samuel the repentance of David and the incense of Zecharias and as from the hands of thy Holy Apostles thou didst accept this ministery so vouchsafe by the hands of us miserable sinners to finish and perfect this oblation that it may be sanctified by the Holy Ghost and be accepted in the Lord Jesus that we being adopted into the society and participation of his holinesse and sufferings admitted to his service incorporated to his body united to his purity made partakers of his intercession pardoned by his mercy sanctified by his grace confirmed by his strengths professing his religion beleiving in his word hoping in his promises and keeping all his commandements may receive the reward of faithfull and wise stewards in the day of righteous judgement Grant this O God for his sake who is the food of our soules and the joy of our hearts the object of our faith and hope and the great example of charity and all excellencies our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Then all arising from their knees shall be read some portions of scripture relating to the present Mystery viz. 1 EPistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians 11 chap. from verse 23. to the end The Gospel according to S. Marc. 14. 2. verse unto verse the 26. Or 1 Epistle of S. Paul written to the Corinthians 10 chapter from verse 1. to the 18. Gospel according to S. Matthew 26. verse 17. to verse 30. Sometimes one of these may suffice but never above two are to be us'd at once one out of the Epistles one out of the Gospels Then shall follow this Eucharistical Hymne all standing up reciting the verses interchangeably ONe thing have I desired of the Lord that I will seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the daies of my life to
and truth good laws and good government an excellent religion undivided undisturbed temperate air seasonable showers wholesome dewes fruitful seasons Crown the year with goodness and let the clouds drop fatness that we may glorify thy name and confess thy goodness while thou bearest witness to us from heaven filling our hearts with food and gladness III. With a propitious eye a great pity behold the miseries of mankind put a speedy period to all our sins and to all our calamities Hear the sighings of the distressed the groans of the sick the prayers of the oppressed the desires of the poor and needy support the weakness of them that languish and faint ease the pains of them that are in affliction and call to thee for help Take from the miserable all tediousness of spirit and despair Pardon all the penitents reform the vitious confirme the holy and let them be holy still pity the folly of young men their little reason and great passion succour the infirmities and temptations of the aged preserving them that they may not sin towards the end of their lives for Jesus Christ his sake IV. Admit O Blessed God into the society of our prayers and the benefits of this Eucharist our Fathers and Brethren our wives and children our friends and Benefactours our charges and relatives all that have desired our prayers and all that need them all that we have and all that we have not remembred thou knowest all their necessities and all their dwellings their joyes and their sorrows their hopes and their fears the number of their sins and the measures of their repentances O dear God sanctifie them and us let our portion be in the good things of God in religion and purity in the peace of Conscience and the joyes of the Holy Ghost in the love of God and of our Neighbours O gather us to the feet of thy elect when thou wilt and in what manner thou art pleased onely let us appear before thee without shame and without sins through the merits of JESUS Christ our most mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Amen Then shall follow the Eucharistical prayers I. GLory be to thee O God our Father who hast vouchsafed to make us at this time partakers of the Body and Bloud of thy holy Son We offer unto thee O God our selves our souls and bodies to be a reasonable holy and living sacrifice unto thee Keep us under the shadow of thy wings and defend us from all evil and conduct us by thy Holy Spirit of grace into all good for thou who hast given thy holy Son unto us how shalt not thou with him give us all things else Blessed be the Name of our God for ever and ever Amen II. Glory be to thee O Christ our King the onely begotten Son of God who wert pleas'd to become a sacrifice for our sins a redemption from calamity the Physician and the Physick the life and the health the meat and the drink of our souls thou by thy unspeakable mercy didst descend to the weakness of sinful flesh remaining still in the perfect purity of spirit and hast made us partakers of thy holy Body and Bloud O condemne us not when thou comest to judgement but keep us ever in thy truth in thy fear and in thy favour that we may have our portion in thine inheritance where holiness and purity where joy and everlasting praises doe dwell for ever and ever Amen III. Proceeding from glory to glory we still glorifie thee O Father of Spirits and pray thee for ever to continue thy goodness towards us Direct our way aright establish us in holy purposes keep us unspotted in thy faith let the enemy have no part in us but conforme us for ever to the likeness of thy holy Sonne lead us on to the perfect adoption of our Souls and to the redemption of our bodies from corruption and fill our hearts and tongues with everlasting praises of thy name thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Blessing The peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Sonne Jesus Christ our Lord and the blessing of God Almighty and Father Son and Holy Spirit be upon you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen The end of the Communion Office A form of Administration of the Holy Sacrament OF BAPTISME A FORM OF Administration of the Holy Sacrament OF BAPTISME Pure water being provided and put into the Fount or into a Lavatory of silver or some other clean vessell fit and decent for this sacred action the Minister being vested in an Ecclesiastical habit shall begin with this exhortation Dearly beloved Brethren FOrasmuch as from our first parents we derive nothing but flesh and corruption and that flesh and bloud cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven it is necessary that every man who is reckoned in Adam should be also reckoned in Christ that every one who is born of the flesh be also born again and born of the spirit that every son of man by nature may become the son of God by Adoption be incorporated into Christ intitled to the promises and become heir of heaven by grace and faith in Jesus Christ and that this cannot be done but by being admitted to the Covenant of grace in Baptisme our Blessed Saviour saying that except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdome of God let us humbly and devoutly pray unto God in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that he will be pleased to send down his holy Spirit upon these waters of Baptisme that they may become to this infant all that shall be washed in them a laver of regeneration and a well of water springing up to life eternal and that this infant may be admitted to the Covenant of grace and pardon of mercy and holiness receiving from grace what by nature he cannot have that being baptised in water to the remission of sins he may all his life walk in this Covenant of grace and holiness as a lively member of the holy Church which is the mysticall body of Christ our Head Let us Pray I. O Almighty and Eternal God Father of Men and Angels Lord of heaven and earth whose spirit moving upon the waters at the beginning of the world produced every living and every moving creature thou by the flood of waters did wash away the iniquity of the old world and by preserving to thy self a generation of holy persons whom thou didst bring up from those waters didst consign to us a type of regeneration Look O Lord graciously upon the face of thy Church and multiply in her thy regenerations and the new births of thy Spirit With the abundance of thy grace make thy holy city to rejoice and still open this holy fountain of Baptisme for the reformation and sanctification of all the nations of the world that thy blessed Spirit
dealt graciously with us so deal with this infant whom we humbly bring and offer to our blessed Saviour Jesus that he should receive him and blesse him with the blessings of an everlasting love Receive him O most gracious Lord who is thy child by creation make him thine also by adoption into thy covenant of grace and favour let him be consigned with thy Sacrament be admitted into Christs kingdome enter into his warfare beleeve his doctrine labour and hope for his promises that this child witnessing here a good confession may have his understanding for ever brought unto the obedience his affections to the love and all his faculties to the service of Christ and after he hath served thee in his generation he may receive his part and portion in thy glory thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Then arising from their knees the Minister shall say unto the Godfathers and Godmothers as followeth WEl beloved friends you have brought this child to be presented unto Christ as a servant of his laws and a Disciple of his doctrine ye have prayed that God would receive him and give him a portion in the Gospel and kingdome of his Son ye have heard what promises God hath made on his part and ye beleeve and know all his words are yea and Amen and not one tittle of them shall pass unaccomplished now therefore because it is a Covenant of grace and favour on Gods part and of faith and obedience on ours though God prevents us with his grace and begins to doe for us before we can doe any thing to him yet you under whose power this child is and by whose faith and charity this child comes to Christ in holy Baptisme must also on his or her behalf promise that he will forsake the devil and all his wicked works that he will faithfully beleeve Christs holy Gospel and dutifully keep all Christs Commandements Minister Dost thou abjure and renounce and promise to forsake the Devil and all his wicked works not to listen to his temptations not to be led by the flesh by the vain powers of the world by carnal or covetous desires but thou wilt be the servant of the Lord Jesus Answer I forsake them all and will be a servant of Jesus Minister Dost thou beleeve in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his onely begotten Son our Lord And that he was conceived by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary that he suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried that he went down into hell and also did rise againe the third day that he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty and from thence he shall come again at the end of the world to judge the quicke and the dead And dost thou believe in the holy Ghost the Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the remission of sins the resurrection of the flesh and everlasting life after death Answer All this I will profess and stedfastly beleeve Minister Wilt thou be baptized into this faith Answer That is my desire Let us Pray O Almighty God who hast given the promise of thy Spirit to us and to our children even to as many as the Lord our God shall call Give thy holy Spirit to this infant that the evil spirits of darkness may not take thy portion from thee nor hurt the body nor deceive the understanding nor corrupt the will nor tempt the affections of this infant but that thy Spirit who bloweth where it listeth no man knows whence he cometh nor whether he goeth may be in this child as the seed of God springing up to life eternal that the kingdom of God which is within and commeth not with observation may early rule and conduct this infant prevent the folly of his childhood from growing up to sins in his youth and may work strongly in him when his weakness his ignorances and temptations are most powerful to prevail upon him that from his cradle to his grave he may be guided by the Spirit of God in the paths of the divine Commandements Admit him O God into the bosome of the Church into the armes of thy mercy into a right of the promises into the service of Christ into the Communion of Saints and give him power to become the Son of God that being buried with Christ in Baptisme he may also rise with him thorough the faith of the operation of God thorough the same our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Then the Minister of the Sacrament shall take the child in his armes and ask the Name Then naming the child aloud he shall dip the head or face or body of the child in the water saying N. I baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Dipping the head at the naming of the holy Trinity If the child be weak or any other great Cause intervene it may suffice instead of dipping to sprinkle water on the face using the same form of words Then shall the priest make the sign of the Cross upon the childs forehead saying WE sign this child with the sign of the Cross and enroll him a Soldier under the banner of Christ to signifie and in ceremony to represent that the duty of this and all baptized persons is manfully to fight under the banner of Christ against the flesh the world and the Divel all the daies of their life and by the power which Christ our Blessed Lord who hath the key of David hath given unto me I admit this child into the Communion of Saints into the bosome of the visible Church the kingdome of Grace and the title to the promises Evangelical and the hopes of glory OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus who when he had overcome the sharpness of death did open the kingdom of heaven to all beleevers and gave unto his Church the keyes of the kingdome that his ministers might let into it all that come to him he of his infinite goodness and truth make good his gracious promises upon this infant that what we doe on earth according to his will he may confirme in heaven by his spirit and by his word to the glory of the blessed and undivided Trinity God the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Then shall the Minister adde this Invitation SEeing now dearly Beloved that this infant hath received holy Baptisme and is washed in the laver of regeneration admitted into the bosome of the Church into the Covenant of faith and repentance pardon and holiness let us give thanks to God for these graces and pray that this child may lead his life according to the present undertaking I. WE give thee thanks and praise O heavenly and most gracious Father that it hath pleased thee to call this child to thy holy Baptism to renew him with thy holy Spirit to admit him into the Church to adopt him for thy child and to receive him
design it for the production of mankind and didst give it as one of the first blessings of mankind O be pleased to look upon thy handmaid who waits for thy mercy and humbly begs of thy infinite goodness to make me partaker of that blessing which thou didst design to all the sons and daughters of Adam thou O God hast the keyes of heaven and hell of rain and providence of the womb and the grave O let not thy servant feel the curse of dry breasts and a barren womb but make me a joyful Mother of children that thy handmaid may serve thee in increasing the number of thy redeemed ones and may minister blessings to this family into which thou hast adopted me and may bring comfort to my dear husband whom doe thou bless and love and sanctifie for ever II. O God I confess I am unworthy of this or any other favour I am less then the least of thy mercies yet our weakness and unworthiness cannot be the measures of thy mercy thou art good and gracious infinitely gracious essentially good and delightest in shewing mercy to them that call upon thee put their trust in thee O dear God I remember that thou didst releive the sorrows of thy servant Hannah and gavest her the blessing of children thou didst blesse the womb of Elizabeth who was barren thou spakest the word and the rocks did rend and they sent forth a pleasant stream Thy hand is not shortned and thy mercies are not less then ever no less then infinite and why should not thy servant hope that thou wilt hear my prayer and grant the desire of my soul Even so O gracious father let it be as thou pleasest thy wisedom is infinite and thy counsels are secret and the waies and lines of thy providence are like the path of a bird in the aire not to be discovered by our weak sight III. I Know O God that thou lovest to hear our prayers and thou delightest in the humble passionate and resigned desires of thy servants Although O God I desire this blessing with an earnestness as great as any temporal favour yet I humbly submit my desires my interests my content and all that I am or have to thy holywill and pleasure humbly begging of thee that I may cheerfully suffer and obediently doe thy will and choose what thou choosest and observe the waies of thy providence and revere thy judgement and wait for thy mercy and delight in thy dispensation and expect that all things shall work together for good to them that fear thee O let thy holy Spirit for ever be present with me and make me to fear thee and to love thee above all the things in the world for ever and then no ill can come unto thy servant for whosoever loves thee cannot perish Hear the prayer of thy servant and releive my sorrow and sanctify my desires and accept me in the Son of thy love and of thy desires our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen A prayer to be used by an afflicted wife in behalf of a vitious Husband I. O Eternal Father thou preserver of men thou great lover of souls who didst send thy holy Son to die that mankind might be redeemed and sin might be destroyed Thou knowest how intolerable a thing it is that a Soul should to eternal ages be incircled with thy wrath and the indignation of a mighty and an angry God and therefore dost love to doe miracles of mercy because thou lovest not that a sinner should perish Be pleased to give thy handmaid leave to present her humble desires in behalf of a sinner one sinner for another the miserable for him that is ready to perish Lord look down in mercy upon my Husband snatch him from the jawes of Hell suffer him not to perish in his sin but open his eyes with the light of thy word and of thy Spirit that he may espy his danger that he may behold the deformity of his sins the injuriousness of his actions the folly of his pleasures the iniquity of his vowes II. CLeanse his hands and heart from all unrighteousness from bloud-guiltiness from rapine from violence from cruelty O Lord and purifie his soul and body from all impurity from all intemperance from the violence and fury of passion giving him a perfect repentance and a perfect pardon and if it be thy will let me also some way or other cooperate towards the recovery of his precious soul and be pleased to remember the sufferings of thy handmaid not that he may receive evil but that I may find good from thy gracious hands in the day of recompence thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen If she have escaped any violence intended against her by his malice or passion then adde this prayer of thanksgiving O God my God and Father thou hast strangely preserv'd and rescued me from evil thou hast made decrees in heaven for my safety and preservation and for the glory of thy own name thou hast diverted the arrow that was directed against me What am I O Lord and what can I doe or what have I done that thou shouldest doe this for me I am O God a miserable sinner and I can doe nothing without a mighty grace and I have done nothing by my self but what I am asham'd of and yet I have received great mercies and miracles of providence I see O God I see that thy goodness is the cause and the measure of all my hopes and all my good and upon the confidence and greatness of that goodness I humbly beg of thy sacred Majesty to keep and defend me from all evil by thy wise providence to lead me into all good by the conduct of thy divine Spirit and where I have done amiss give me pardon and where I have been mistaken give me pity and where I have been injured give me thy favour and a gracious exchange that I may serve thee here with diligence and love and hereafter may rejoice with thee and love thee as I desire to love thee and as thou deservest to be loved even with all the powers and degrees of passion and essence to eternal ages in the inheritance of Jesus whom I love for whom I will not refuse to die in whom I desire to live and die to whom with thee O gracious Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory love and obedience for ever and ever Amen A Mothers prayer for her children I. MOst Gracious and Eternal God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Father of Men and Angels Father of mercies and God of all comforts thou hast promised to be a Father to a thousand generations of them that love and fear thee be thou a God and a Father to me and the children which thou hast given me Enable me O Lord to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and in the fear of God to the praise of thy holy Name O give me thy grace and favour that
I may instruct them with diligence and meekness govern them with prudence and holiness provide for them useful imployments and competent provisions of life and comfort leading them in the paths of religion and justice by example and precepts of holiness never provoking them to wrath never indulging them in their follies never conniving at an unworthy action and that all my children may be thine O preserve them in thy favour or take them away from hence while they are If thou pleasest let them live to a full age but secure to them a full measure of piety and holiness thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. TO this end give them grace to obey their Parents that doing the duty they may receive the promise preserve them from sin and shame from youthful follies and youthful crimes Sanctifie them thoroughout in their bodies and souls and spirits that their thoughts may be pure and holy not displeasing or misbecomming the eye of him who is the searcher of hearts let their words be true prudent and ingenuous seasoned with grace and apt to minister grace unto the hearers let all their actions in their whole life be such as becommeth the servants of Jesus holy and useful that they may not be burdens to the publick or to their family but pleasing thee and doing good to others they may increase in the love of God and in favour with men and may have the portion of the meek and humble in this world and of the pure and merciful in the world to come thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The VViddows Prayer I. O Eternal God most Gracious Lord and my most merciful Father thou art my refuge and my hope my sanctuary and my rock my guardian and protector all my daies I have offended thee and thou hast smitten me I have deserved very much evil and thou hast corrected me with the gentle visitation of a Fathers rod and though thy hand is heavy and thy rod presseth me sore by reason of my own weakness and infirmities yet when I consider how little I suffer in respect of what I have deserved I cannot but adore thy goodness and delight in thy mercies and run for help and comfort support and conduct from that hand which smites me O my God give me patience under thy afflicting hand for my impatience I feare hath provoked thee to anger and hath doubled my owne calamity and since my duty is my proper cure and will make thy hand easy and thy anger little give thy servant a quiet and a râ—signed a humble and a meeke spirit that I may not become my owne tormenter and my sin may not be my owne punishment II. O My gracious Lord doe to me what seemeth good in thy owne eyes I am like clay in the hands of the potter and what am I that I should repine against the acts of thy providence and dispensation Behold O God thy Hand-maid is but a worme before thee shall dust and ashes repine against God Thou art just and righteous in all thy wayes and though thou hast afflicted mee sore yet blessed be thy holy Name I have not lost my hope and I can yet pray and I will trust in thee though I die onely be thou pleased to let this thy heavy hand efforme in me the effects of grace and conforme me to the likenesse of the holy Jesus my dearest Saviour that I may so beare the Crosse that I may never displease him nor dishonour the excellent name of a Christian by which I am called III. I Am O my God by the meanes of thy heavy hand not onely under the discipline of a Child but have also obtained a new title to thy especial providence and protection for thou art the patron of the poore the helper of the friendlesse the father of the fatherlesse and the defender of the widowes and if these be the effects of thy anger and that when thou smitest us thy verystrokes are healing and thy displeasure is medicinal what shall thy servant expect will be the effect of thy pardon and loving kindnesse but yet O my Lord helpe me in my duty and though I have failed in all my relations hitherto by my impatience and murmure by my carelesse comportment and undutifull behaviour towards thee yet now let my sad state of Widdowhood be a state of holinesse and repentance of devotion and a severe religion Let me recollect my years in bitternesse and my soule in sorrow for my sins let me have no affections for the things of this world but let my hope and all my joy my desires and my conversation be in heaven and all my imployment and care be how I may enjoy thee in holy and spiritual unions and adherencies IV. O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps I have often resolved to live innocently and I have often broken all my holy purposes and I cannot of my self thinke one good thought as of my self but my sufficiency is of thee thou art my strength O preserve thy servant in my single state of Widdowhood that I may never have any thought of change till the day of my great change shall come be thou O God a covering of the eyes unto thy hand-maid let me have no loves but thine no affections but for thy service and since thou hast broken in pieces that holy band of conjugal society which thy holy ordinance did tye between my deare Lord and Husband and thy handmaid give me thy grace dearly to preserve his memory to retaine the impresses and remembrances of that affection and to entertaine no new ones but wholly imploy my time my estate and all my powers in bringing up my children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord in making fair and fitting provisions for them in giving them good example in bearing the burthen of the Lord sweetly in prayers and fastings in almes and piety in reading and meditating in spirituall and Sacramental Communions that when the worke of my life is done I may find pardon and favour and acceptance at the hands of my Lord and a portion among thy saints and servants If there be children of both sexes let the following portion be added V. O My God now thy servant hath taken upon me to speake to my Lord let not my Lord be angry not reject the prayer of his servant interceding and praying for my children the pledges of my deare Lord and Husband preserve them O God in the strictest duty and services to thy self O be thou their God and father let thy providence be their portion thy service their imployment thy Angels their guards keepe them so by thy preventing and restraining grace that they may not by their owne sins provoke thee to anger and jealousy and let not the sins of their forefathers be visited upon them in thy anger and displeasure thou lovest to shew mercy and thou delightest in the
with faith and hope submit his body and soule to thy merciful and just dispensation that he may not discompose the duties of his repentance by a new sin nor provoke thee to anger by his impatience nor offend them who charitably minister to him nor neglect the doing of any thing that can be in his power or in his duty to his body or his soule O God be mercifull unto thy servant and presse not him or her with an unequal load but remember that we are but flesh and vanity that we are crushed before the Moth and die in thy displeasure give him ease and rest a quiet mind and a peacefull conscience make thou all his bed in his sicknesse and deliver him not into the will of his Spiritual enemies but glorify thy mercies and make thy goodnesse illustrious upon thy servant through Jesus Christ our Lord. III. Against death and the feare of it O Eternal God who for the sin of man didst send death into the world and by the Resurrection of thy holy Son didst bring life to all beleivers have mercy upon this thy servant whom thou hast smitten with thy rod and brought into the vally of teares and the shadow of death O let not thy feirce anger goe beyond a fatherly correction let this rod be discipline not vengeance let it kill his sin but not the man but in judgement remember mercy take from thy servant all inordinate feare give him a present mind a hopeful Spirit a faithful heart a perfectly repenting conscience a charitable and a devout soule Take from him the feare and take from him the sentence of death preserve his life and restore his health if that be best for him for to thy power we submit on thy goodnesse we doe depend by thy wisedome we desire to be governed and that thy love should choose for thy servant But if thou hast otherwise decreed O grant to thy servant the comforts of a holy hope and the strengths of an unconquerable faith the constancy of an unmooved patience and the meekenesse of a perfect resignation that to him to live may be Christ and to die may be gaine that whether he lives or dies he may be thine through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen IV. For Pardon O Most gracious and eternal Son of God who onely hast power to forgive sins and to rescue erring soules from the power of sin and from the wrath of God be gracious toâ— thy servant who confesses thy justice in his suffering and begs to feele thy mercy in his pardon and thy pity in his ease and restitution Contend no longer with the miserable who confesses himselfe guilty reject him not that begs for remission of his sins and remission of thy anger remember not the follies of his childhood nor the vanities of his youth the sins of his tongue nor the sins of his anger the sins of desire nor the innumerable breaches of charity his infinite omissions of duty the inexcusable actions of his choice Thou hast glorified thy selfe in all generations of the world by giving pardon to the penitent and ease to the afflicted comfort to the comfortlesse and refreshment to the weary Behold O God the sorrowes of thy servant and remember his sins no more Behold the passion and the paines which our blessed Lord suffered for our sins and let not the sins of thy servants cause thee to take another forfeiture and produce another and an eternall anger but spare thy servant in thy anger and remember him in thy mercy and pity him in thy infinite compassion and releive him with thy mighty grace and deliver him from his sins and bring him to thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. V. If he be in or neere the agonies of death O Blessed God thou lover of soules and the Saviour of thy servants who gavest thy Son to die for us that we might live in him looke with mercy and great compassion upon the soule of thy servant for whom the Lord Jesus gave his precious bloud Now O God is that sad period in which he is to be consign'd over to his final sentence now is the day of his great expence his needes of mercy are great as his sins and great as his dangers and great as all his enemies let him or her receive the fruit of all his labours a blessed returne of all his prayers the grace of thy promises and the effect of all the sufferings of the holy Jesus Now O God let him find the end of his hopes and a just peace in his conscience a spiritual communion with Christ and the benefit of all his Passion pardon of his sins and the sweetest visitations of thy holy Spirit the comforter Now let him feele the effect of thy mighty power and of thy glorious victory over sin and all the powers of darkenesse let them have no portion in him and let thine angers end in comfort and pardon in the visitation of Angels and the glorious appearing of thy holy Spirit Now let him feele the truth of religion and the substance of the things he hath hoped for the verification of thy promises and the goodnesse of God let all the sermons of the Gospel passe into real exhibition of thy loving kindnesse and let thy servant rejoyce in the portions of the blessed in the redemption of his soule in the communion of Saints in the society of the spirits of just men made perfect through Jesus Christ our Lord. Then shall the Minister recommend the soule of the Dying man if it be departing the body I. O Most Blessed and most gracious Saviour Jesus into thy holy hands we commend the soule of this our Brother or Sister praying thee to defend it from all evil from the wrath of God which he hath deserved from the evil Spirits of darkenesse which are ready to devoure it from the flames of hell from whence nothing can rescue it but the mercies of God in our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen II. Let thy holy Angels receive this soule from her prison and ruinous house of clay and carry it to the region of loving and obedient soules in the bosome of Jesus there with joy and longing with the assurance of hope and a peaceful charity to expect the Resurrection of the just and the day of thy righteous judgement Amen III. O let not the Devils accuse this soule before thee or if they doe let them not prevaile but interpose thy death and passion thy mediation and intercession between thy judgement and this soule now at her departure and at the day of judgement that in the terrors of that day this soule may stand upright supported by the armes of thy eternal mercy Amen IV. Let not this soule carry along with her the infirmities of her present state but be immur'd with a guard of loving and blessed Spirits to defend her against all the hostilities and incursions of all evil Angels Now she shall see what she never saw and heare what she
never heard and know what was never revealed below O grant that she may have aydes that her she never did neede even mighty assistances in proportion to her new and strang erstate that whatsoever is in the darkenesse or in the fire in the secret regions of wrath and the horrible places of torment and fearful exspectations may not afflict or affright the lambe of thy flock the price of thy bloud the child of thy kingdome and the portion of thine owne inheritance Amen V. O sweetest Jesu say unto this soule This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise say unto this foule Feare not for it is my Fathers pleasure to give thee a Kingdome Let this soule dwell in safe and pleasant regions and be supported with the hope of God comforted with a holy conscience rejoyce in a confirm'd pardon be recreated with the visitation of Angels and walke in white whithersoever the Lambe shall goe Amen VI. Give unto this decaying dying body a blessed and a glorious resurrection to this weary and afflicted this penitent and redeemed soule a portion in the blessed sentence of the right hand amongst the blessed children of thy Father who shall receive the Kingdome prepared for them from the beginning of the world Amen VII Remember O God the good things which by thy grace and by the aides of thy holy Spirit thy servant hath done in all his life and remember not his evil deedes which by the weakenesse of the flesh and the temptations of the Devil and the evil contingencies of this world have afflicted and humbled the soule of thy servant remember thy holy Son did die for these and thy holy Spirit was the cause of those and for whom thou hast given thy Son and to whom thou hast given thy Spirit give thy eternal pardon and thy eternal glories thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen After the soule is departed the Minister may say this prayer in behalfe of the living friends and relatives of the dead ALmighty God who governest all things in heaven and earth with infinite wisedome and infinite mercy and bringest good out of evil comfort out of sorrow and after a gentle visitation dost refresh thy children with the light of thy countenance with the blessings of thy providence with the returnes of thy grace and the comforts of thy holy Spirit have mercy upon this family and returne to them all with thy loving kindnesse exchanging their present sorrow into the advantages of holinesse and blessing Be thou now and ever what thou gloriest in a Father of the Fatherlesse a Husband to the Widow a God of comfort to them that mourn◠in secret Grant that thy servant may not weepe as men without hope nor murmure at thy dispensation nor complaine of any thing but themselves nor desire any thing but that thy will be done nor doe any thing but what is agreeable to thy holy word and commandement and grant that when thou smitest any of us it may increase thy feare in us and when thou doest good to any of us in smiting or forbearing in chastising or comforting it may increase thy love in us and let thy holy Spirit so prevail over all our wills and understandings our affections and the outward man our interests and our hopes that we may live in this world pleasing to thee and may goe out of this world with the peace of a holy conscience and may have a joyful resurrection in the last day to a participation of the glories of God thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Blessing THE Lord blesse you and keepe you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace The blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and holy Ghost be amongst you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen Prayers and devotions to be us'd at the Burial of the Dead The Minister before the Corps entring at the Church doore may begin with one or more of these sentences A Good name is better then precious ointment and the day of death then the day of ones birth It is better to goe to the house of mourning then to goe to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart I am the resurrection and the life saith the Lord He that beleiveth in me yea though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and beleiveth in me shall not die for ever It is appointed to all men once to die and after death comes judgement I would not have you to be ignorant concerning them which are asleepe that we sorrow not even as others without hope For if we beleive that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleepe in Jesus will God bring with him After the Corps is set downe in the body of the Church let Morning or Evening prayer be read according to the time of the day with this difference onely Instead of the usual Psalmes Read Psalme 39. Psalme 49. Psalme 90. For the first lesson read Job 14. or 19. After the first lesson read Psalme 88. For the second lesson read 1 Corinth 15. from verse 12 to the end After the second lesson read Nunc dimittis * LOrd now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word ¶ For mine eyes have seen thy salvation * Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people ¶ To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. After the usual prayers are done then the Corps carried being to the grave the Minister shall read this lesson Ecclesiastes 12. REmember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth while the evil daies come not nor the yeers draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them While the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkned nor the clouds return after the rain In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow themselves and the grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the windows be darkned And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and feares shall be in the way and the almond-tree shall flourish and the grashopper shall be a burden and desire shall fail because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets Or ever the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowle be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern Then shall the dust retrun
to the earth as it was and the spirit shall returne unto God who gave it People Blessed be God The Minister while they are preparing to interre the Corps shall say this Psalme * THE wicked is driven away in his wickednesse but the righteous hath hope in his death ¶ I said in the cutting off of my daies I shall goe to the gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my yeares * I said I shall not see the Lord even the Lord in the land of the living I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world ¶ I have set the Lord alwaies before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be mooved * Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope ¶ For thou wilt not leave my soule in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption * As for me I will behold thy face in righteousnesse when I awake with thy likenesse I shall be satisfied ¶ Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnesse of joy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. When the Corps is in the grave the Minister shall say Forasmuch as it hath pleas'd Almighty God to take to himselfe the soule of our deare brother here departed we lay his body in the ground for out of it was it taken dust it is unto dust it does return but we lay it downe in a sure and certain hope of the resurrection from the grave For the Lord himselfe shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then those which are alive and remaine shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the aire and so shall we be ever with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words Let us pray * Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Christ have mercy upon us * Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven c. I. O Almighty God with whom doe live the spirits of the just men made perfect we give thee humble thankes that thou hast delivered the soule of thy servant N. N. from the calamities of this life putting a period to his sin and to his paines O be pleased shortly to fill up the numbers of thine elect and hasten thy kingdome and to us thy servants grant that we may die to sin and live to righteousnesse living a holy and a gracious life peaceable and blessed that when we have served thee in our generations we may die the death of the righteous leaving a good name and a faire example behind and our good workes may follow us that being holy in our lives we may be blessed in our death and with this thy servant and all other departed in thy love and feare may lie in the bosome of our Lord till by the trump of God we shall be awakened in the resurrection of the just to reigne with thee in thy Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. O most blessed Saviour Jesus who art the resurrection and the life and in whose sight the death of thy saints is precious looke upon us thy servants whose life is vanity and our dayes passe away like a tale that it told and as the remembrance of a passenger that stayeth but a night the dayes of our pilgrimage are few and evil and we disquiet our selves in vaine O looke upon us with a gracious eye give us thy holy Spirit of wisedome and peace to guide us in the wayes of God that our affections and our conversation being in heaven and being weaned from this world we may die daily and every day be doing good that laying up a treasure of good workes we may rejoyce in the day of our death and may be freed from the terrors of the day of judgement and the gates of hell may not prevail against us O preserve us from that eternal wrath which shall destroy all thine enemies and let our portion be with the charitable and the merciful on the right hand of the Father where thou sittest and reignest in the glory of God to eternal ages world without end Amen If it be opportune then here may be added one of the prayers for a blessed death at the end of Evening prayer throughout the yeare ending with the usual benediction The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. A forme of Devotion TO Be used and said in the daies OF Sorrow and Affliction A forme of Devotion to be used and said in the daies of Sorrow and Affliction of a family or of private persons In the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Our Father c. O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to helpe us Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Psalme HIde not thyface far from me O Lord put not thy servant away in anger thou hast been my helpe leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation ¶ O my God I cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season I am not silent * But thou art holy O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel ¶ Our Father trusted in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them * But I am a worme and no man smitten of thee Lord afflicted tormented forsaken ¶ Thou hast filled me with bitternesse and hast made me drunken with worm-wood thou hast remooved my soule far off from peace and I have forgotten prosperity * But O God thou art my God early will I seek thee be not thou far from me O Lord O my strength hast thee to help me ¶ I acknowledge my sin unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid I will confesse my transgressions unto the Lord O doe thou forgive the iniquity of my sin * Thou art my hiding place thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance ¶ Lord make me to know my end and the measure of my daies what it is that I may know how fraile I am * Behold thou hast made my daies as an hand breadth and mine age is as nothing before thee verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity ¶ And now O Lord what wait I for Surely my hope is in thee * Deliver me from all my transgressions remove thy stroke away from me I am even consumed by the blow of thy hand ¶ When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for iniquity thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moath Surely every man is vanity * Hear my prayer O Lord and give eare unto my cry hold not thy peace at my teares For I am a stranger with thee and
a sojourner as all my Fathers were ¶ O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I goe hence and be no more seen * Let all those that seek thee rejoyce and be glad in thee Let such as love thy salvation say continually The Lord be magnified ¶ But I am poor and needy yet the Lord careth for me thou art my helpe and my deliverer make no tarrying O my God Amen Amen Amen Then Read The second Chapter of Ecclesiasticus or The sixt Chapter of S. Matthews Gospel or The twelfth Chapter to the Romans or The 5 Chapter of the 2 d Epistle to the Thessalonians or The 1 of Timothy the 6. Chapter or Hebrews 12. or James 5 th These at several times After the chapter is read sit still a while and consider of such comforts or instructions as are in the chapter fitted to your needs If this office be said by a Minister in the company of the afflicted person then he may adde such useful and comfortable discourses as are occasion'd by the chapter and then say the following Collect. After meditation or discourse humbly kneel down and pray I. An act of Repentance O My God and Father in vaine doe we beg to have thy heavy hand taken from us so long as the cause remaines Our sins O God our sins are so great so numerous so intolerable that we must needs with shame hide our face and confesse we have deserved all the evill that we suffer and all that which thou hast threatned we have O God more to give thee thanks for then we have to deplore It is thy infinite mercy that we are yet kept from feeling thy severest judgements It is thy mercy that we have our senses and our understandings that we have the use of thy word and sacraments that we have not intolerable pains of body and unsufferable troubles in our mind It is thy blessing that we have bread that we have many friends that we have the praiers of thy faithfull servants that we have faith in thee and that we have hope It is thy infinite mercy that are we yet kept from the unsufferable pains of hell are permitted to pray to thee to relie upon thy mercies to worke out our salvation and to expect thy loving kindnesse in the Land of the living II. All the evils that we suffer we have deserved but nothing of this good have we deserved we are lesse then the least of all thy mercies and our sins are greater then the greatest of all our sufferings * And now O God thou who hast so mercifully dealt with thy servants in taking a lesse fine of us then in justice thou mightest have exacted be pleased also to proceed in the methods of thy mercy and make our present sufferings be instrumental of thy glory of the pardon of our sins of the sanctifications of our Spirits of the humiliation of our soules that like silver tried in the fire we may come forth more pure vessels of honour pleasing and acceptable to thee in Jesus Christ. II. An act of patience and resignation WEE know O God that thou art infinietly wise and infinitely good and thou disposest all the events of thy creatures of excellent purposes and delightest to bring good out of evill Behold O God we are thy servants and thy creatures do to us as seemeth good in thine eyes onely give us patience and a long suffering Spirit that we may not murmure secretly when we complaine openly that we may not make hast in the day of our calamity but with a quiet spirit expect and wait for the time of our redemption But make no long tarrying O Lord make hast to helpe us O God of our salvation and be pleased to give us a light from heaven that with the eye of faith we may see beyond the cloud and looke for those comforts which thou didst prepare for thy servants that love thee and put their trust in thee and have laid up all their hopes in the bosome of God IV. An act of hope O God our God thou hast said unto us I will never leave you nor forsake you thou hast often eased our calamities and taken off thy severe hand thou hast promised to be with us in time of need thou delightest to deliver them whose confidence is in thy goodnesse Thou hast supported our spirits in the day of our sorrow and hast given us many intervals and spaces of refreshment and renewest thy loving kindnesse day by day O let us never have our portion amongst the hopelesse and desperate Let us alwaies pray to thee and hope in thee and in every period of our affliction let us doe some actions of virtue by which we may please thee and be accepted so long as we can pray Thou hast commanded us to hope and we doe hope that these comforts shall refresh our soules that thy mercies will support us under our afflictions that thy Spirit shall comfort us in it and thy grace and thy glorious providence shall speedily deliver us from it Amen Blessed Jesu Amen V. The Petition ANd now O most mercifull Father give thy servants admittance to present our complaint before the throne of grace and let our petition enter into thy presence thy arrows stick fast in us and thy hand presseth us sore Open thy heart the treasure and spring of mercie and thence let comforts and refreshments descend upon thy servants Put a blessed period to our sorrows but first put a stop to our sins let us not sin against thee when for sinne thou art smiting us Let us never charge thee foolishly nor behave our selves peevishly towards others but use all the means we can to ease their sorrows to lighten their burdens to sweeten their lives that so we may expect from thy goodnesse a more plentifull and abundant measure of loving kindnesse VI. Lord put a barr and stop unto our passions make them to be humble ministers of religion and prudent government but never let us suffer any violent transportations in our selves never be provoked to any bitternesse never to be harsh or cruell towards any never to speak any thing peevishly and undecently never to put too much upon any temporall interest In all things let us behold thy providence and reverence thy justice and adore thy majesty and feel thy mercy and obey thy Spirit and if thou shalt still persevere to smite us and to try thy servants let not thy punishing us ever cause us to sin against thee Let not our own follies be our scourges lest we sin against thee and loose thy blessing for ever VII Be pleased O my God to adde this favour unto thy servants that our trouble may not be doubled or increase by our own infirmities take from us all troublesome fancies and too quick apprehensions of our sorrows Blessed be thy Name they are finite and they are temporall sorrows they are lesse then our sins and they are lesse then thy mercies
to be false or know not to be true our crafty and insnaring talke our secret and injurious whispers our backbiting and detraction our undervaluing our Brother and easily reporting evil our bragging and vainglorious words our laying snares for praise our flattering some and reproaching others our clamorous revilings and uncharitable chidings and in whatsoever we have spoken against thee or against our Brother O Lambe of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us 11. O God of mercy pardon our abuses of thy sacred and venerable Name our unworthy usages of our selves upon whom thy Name is called our profanation of thy word our irreverent using the Sacraments our dishonouring thy houses of prayer our curious inquiries into the secrets of God and the secrets of men our wilful angring and provoking our neighbours to cursing and swearing and all intemperate wrath our unnecessary troubling them and betraying them to folly and indignation O remember not our old sins but have mercy upon us and that speedily 12. O God of mercy pardon our abuse of holy times and holy offices our neglect of assembling our selves together our vaine recreations and foolish imployments the prodigality of our precious time in idle gaming and uselesse businesse our being idle servants or cruel Masters false in our trust or unreasonable in our commands our peevish neglect of the customes of the Church our schismatical behaviour in the congregations of the Lord. Helpe us O God of our salvation and for the glory of thy Name save thy sinful servants 13. O God of mercy pardon all our rebellions against thee and against thy representatives our lawful Superiors our irreverence and disobedience our murmurs and repinings against them our rude words and perverse disputings our neglect of their persons and desires our publication of their faults and rejoycing in their infirmiâ—es our being asham'ed of their poverty and condition our boasting of our kinred and extraction our secret cursings or open reviling the ministers of justice our mocking and scorning old and aged persons and whatsoever is irreverent froward disobedient unjust or uncharitable towards our betters O deliver us and purge away our sins for thy Names sake 14. O God of mercy pardon all our cruel thoughts our provoking words and injurious actions cleanse our hands from violence and our hearts from bloud-guiltinesse O God forgive us our uncharitable treating or our selves or others our unjust wranglings and peevish quarrels our taking things and words in an evil sence and to purposes of discord and dissension our threatning and keeping men in feares our not rescuing or not preserving those whom we could and ought to have preserved our imbittering the spirit of our neighbour our unpeaceable dispositions our tempting and betraying our wounding and killing our own soules and the soules of our brethren whom we ought to have snatch'd from the fire and according to our powers withheld from the everlasting burning O take away our iniquity from us and remember our sins no more 15. O God of mercy pardon our gluttony and drunkennesse the disorders of our diet and the disorders of our passion our wanton thoughts wandring eyes our impure desires and all our actions of uncleanesse our lascivious dressings and idle consumptions of our time our making provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lusts of it the dishonourings of our body and the pollutions of our spirit our making the members of Christ be the members of an harlot and defiling the temples of the holy Ghost by unnatural actions and desires not to be nam'd and much lesse to be entertain'd our softnesse and effeminacy our sensualities and studies of the flesh and all the excesses and irregularities within that state which thou hast blessed and sanctified but we are uncleane we are uncleane O Cleanse our soules from sin take away our iniquity and thou shalâ— find none 16. O God of mercy pardon our injustices and rapines our open invasion and secret underminings of the rights of others our greedy desires and fierce pursuances of money our love of wealth and our hastinesse to be rich our arts of unequal bargaining and deceitful words our unjust law suits and the vexatious prosecutions of just or unjust our detaining the wages of the hireling and our defalking of his dues our pressing upon the necessities of the poore and raising prices for their need our hard and oppressive contracts our rigors of justice and varieties of injustice our want of charity and tenacious retaining our money our reception or retention of unjust purchases our sacriledge and simony our entring into the feilds of the Fatherlesse wronging the helpelesse widow who is thy care our forwardnesse to run into debt and our carelessenesse to come out of it our improvident conduct of our estates and our foolish mispendings our causing diminution to the goods of others and the avaritious increasing of our owne Wash us throughly from our iniquity and cleanse us from our sin 17. O God of mercy forgive us our breach of promise to men and of our holy vowes made to thee our God our wilful or carelesse lying our false accusation or false witnessing our perverting righteous judgement by bribery or false information and causing the innocent to suffer our leading the blind out of his way our accusing others and justifying our selves our false excuses and fain'd pretences our causlesse affirmings and denyings our jealousies and suspicions and all the iniquity of our hearts and tongues Hide thy face from our sins and blot out all our transgressions 18. O God of mercy pardon our envy and our discontented hearts our ambitions and curiosities our rejoycings in the evil of our neighbours and our repining and displeasure at his advancement our violent and distracting carefulnesse for the things of this world our affrightments in every sad accident and all our covetous thoughts and degenerous and unworthy practises Lord Jesu be mercifull to us miserable but penitent and returning sinners O that our head were waters and our eyes a fountaine of teares that we might weepe day and night till thou wert reconciled to thy people Thy congregation is an assembly of adulterous and treacherous men We have bent our tongues like a bow for lies but we are not valiant for the truth upon earth we have proceeded from evil to evil and we have not knowne thee Every one deceives his neighbour and weary themselves to commit iniquity for these things thou hast visited us in anger thou hast fed us with wormwood and given us water of gall to drinke Thou hast sent the sword upon us to consume us and the spirit of division to scatter us abroad But in thee O Lord is our confidence and our glory for thou dost exercise loving kindnesse judgement and righteousnesse in the earth for in these things thou dost delight O Lord therefore correct us but with judgement not in thine anger least thou bring us to nothing we pray not against sorrow but
made my mountain to stand strong thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled 8 I cried to thee O Lord and unto the Lord I made supplication 9 What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit shall the dust praise thee shal it declare thy truth 10 Hear O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper 11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladnesse 12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent O Lord my God I wil give thanks unto thee for ever PSAL. XXXI David prayes to God for his salvation represents his great danger by his own example proves God to be bountifull to his servants prayes against his enemies gives thanks to God for his benefiâ—s exhorts the faithfull to love God and to constancy of mind IN thee O Lord do I put my trust let me never be ashamed deliver me in thy righteousnesse 2 Bow down thine eare to me deliver me speedily be thou my strong rock for an house of defence to save me 3 For thou art my rock and my fortresse therefore for thy names sake lead me and guide me 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me for thou art my strength 5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities but I trust in the Lord. 7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercie for thou hast considered my trouble thou hast known my soul in adversities 8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemie thou hast set my feet in a large room 9 Have mercie upon me O Lord for I am in trouble mine eye is consumed with grief yea my soul and my belly 10 For my life is spent with grief and my years with sighing my strength faileth because of mine iniquity and my bones are consumed 11 I was a reproch among all mine enemies but especially among my neighbours and a fear to mine acquaintance they that did see me without fled from me 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am like a broken vessel 13 For I have heard the slander of many fear was on every side while they took counsell together against me they devised to take away my life 14 But I trusted in thee O Lord I said Thou art my God 15 My times are in thy hand deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me 16 Make thy face fo shine upon thy servant save me for thy mercies sake 17 Let me not be ashamed O Lord for I have called upon thee let the wicked be ashamed and let them be silent in the grave 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous 19 O how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee w ch thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men 20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues 21 Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindnesse in a strong city 22 For I said in my hast I am cut off from before thine eyes neverthelesse thou heardest the voyce of my supplications when I cryed unto thee 23 O love the Lord all ye his saints for the Lord preserveth the faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer 24 Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all ye that hope in the Lord. Ev. Pr. PSAL. XXXII The blessednesse of Man consists in the pardon of sins which is to be obtained by confession of them we are exhorted to repentance and to joy in God who punishes the wicked and preserves the faithfull The psalme is paenitentiall Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guile 3 When I kept silence my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me my moisture is turned into the drought of summer Selah 5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee and mine iniquitie I have not hid I said I will confesse my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquitie of my sin Selah 6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou maist be found surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him 7 Thou art my hiding-place thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance Selah 8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go I will guide thee with mine eye 9 Be ye not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle lest they come near unto thee 10 Many sorrowes shall be to the wicked but he that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall compasse him about 11 Be glad in the Lord and rejoyce ye righteous and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart PSAL. XXXIII The just are exhorted to feare and to praise God for his goodnesse and his justice his wisdome and his providence in Creating and governing the world we are to trust in God alone and not in any creature God preserves all that rely upon him REjoyce in the Lord O ye righteous for praise is comely for the upright 2 Praise the Lord with harp sing unto him with the psalterie and an instrument of ten strings 3 Sing unto him a new song play skilfully with a loud noise 4 For the word of the Lord is right and all his works are done in truth 5 He loveth righteousnesse the earth is full of the goodnesse of the Lord. 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap he layeth up the depth in store-houses 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in aw of him 9 For the spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast 10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of the heathen to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect 11 The counsell of the Lord standeth for ever the thoughts of his heart to all generations 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance 13 The Lord looketh from heaven he beholdeth all the sons of men 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth 15 He
perfection of beauty God hath shined 3 Our God shall come shall not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him 4 He shall call to the heavens from above to the earth that he may judge his people 5 Gather my saints together unto me those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse for God is judge himself Selah 7 Hear O my people and I will speak O Israel and I will testifie against thee I am God even thy God 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings to have been continually before me 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house nor he-goats out of thy folds 10 For every beast of the forest is mine and the cattel upon a thousand hils 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains and the wilde beasts of the field are mine 12 If I were hungry I would not tell thee for the world is mine and the fulnesse thereof 13 Will I eat the flesh of buls or drink the blood of goats 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most High 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me 16 But unto the wicked God saith What hast thou to doe to declare my statutes or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy mouth 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee 18 When thou sawest a thief then thou consentedst with him and hast been partaker with adulterers 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evill and thy tongue frameth deceit 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother thou slanderest thine own mothers son 21 These things hast thou done and I kept silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes 22 Now consider this ye that forget God lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver 23 Who so offereth praise glorifieth me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God PSAL. LI. David upon Nathans reproving him in the matter of Uriah and Bathsheba confesseth his sin humbles himself prayes for pardon and for the restitution of Gods holy Spirit for the taking away his sin and the cleansing of his soul He prays for and prophetically describes the Repentance Evangelical and the time of the Gospel and the kingdome of the Messias The psalm is paenitentiall HAve mercy on me O God according to thy loving kindnesse according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin 3 For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me 4 Against thee thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest 5 Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me 6 Behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdome 7 Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter then snow 8 Make me to hear joy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce 9 Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities 10 Create in me a cleane 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 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit 13 Then will I teach transgressors thy wayes and sinners shall be converted unto thee 14 Deliver me from blood-guiltinesse O God thou God of my salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousnesse 15 O Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice else would I give it thou delightest not in burnt-offering 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise 18 Doe good in thy good pleasure unto Sion build thou the walls of Jerusalem 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousnesse with burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar PSAL. LII Upon Doegs informing Saul against Abimelech and the Priests and their sad death consequent David exclaims against the falshood and fact of Doeg denounces the Divine Judgments against him he comforts the godly and incourages himself in hope of his own prosperity through the goodnesse of God WHyboastest thou thy self in mischief O mighty man the goodnesse of God endureth continually 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefes like a sharp rasor working deceitfully 3 Thou lovest evill more then good and lying rather then to speak righteousnesse Selah 4 Thou lovest all devouring words O thou deceitfull tongue 5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever he shall take thee away and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and root thee out of the land of the living Selah 6 The righteous also shall see and fear and shall laugh at him 7 Lo this is the man that made not God his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickednesse 8 But I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever 9 I will praise thee for ever because thou hast done it and I will wait on thy name for it is good before thy saints Ev. Pr. PSAL. LIII The practical Atheist is describ'd The universal iniquity of the world he â—â—rophesies of the miseries of the Church under Antiochus and encourages them to expect deliverance from the goodnesse of God THe fool hath said in his heart There is no God corrupt are they and have done abominable iniquity there is none that doth good 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand that did seek God 3 Every one of them is gone back they are altogether become filthy there is none that doth good no not one 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people as they eate bread they have not called upon God 5 There were they in great fear where no fear was for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee thou hast put them to shame because God hath despised them 16 O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Sion wheÌ„ God bringeth back the captivity of his people Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad PSAL. LIV. David complains of his being discover'd to Saul by the men of Ziph he prayes for help from God and to be avenged of his enemies promises to glorifie God upon
sanctifying these waters a new and heavenly off-spring may hence arise full of health and light that humane nature which was made after thy own image being reformed and restored to the honour of its first beginning may be cleansed from all the impure adherencies of sin preserved from the Dominion of it and rescued from all its sad effects that what shall be so born in the wombe of the Church may dwell in the house of God and Reign with thee for ever in the inheritance of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen II. OUR Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus who was baptized of John in Jordan who walked upon the waters who converted water into wine who out of his precious side shed forth bloud and water the two Sacraments of life unto his holy Church and commanded his disciples to teach all nations baptizing them with water in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost he blesse and sanctifie by his holy Spirit this water that it may be instrumental and effective of grace of pardon and sanctification Hear us O most gracious God that whoever shall be baptized in this water may be renewed by thy grace justified by thy mercy sanctified by thy Spirit preserved by thy providence and guided by thy word that in this water springing from the Paradise of God the Soul or Souls presented unto thee may be cleansed and purified and that there may be added to thy Church daily such as shall be saved in the day of thy glorious appearing O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then the Minister and People arising from their knees the following Gospel shall be read Hear the words of the holy Gospel written by S. Matthew in the third chapter c. Verse 13. to verse 17. inclusively THen cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him * But John forbad him saying I have need to be baptized of thee and commest thou to me And Jesus answering said unto him Suffer it to be so now for thus it becommeth us to fulfill all righteousness Then he suffered him And Jesus when he was baptised went up straitway out of the water and loe the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a Dove and lighting upon him * And loe a voice from heaven saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Hear likewise what S. Mark writeth in his tenth chapter Verse 13. 17. exclusively THE Jews brought children to Christ that he should touch them and his Disciples rebuked those that brought them * But when Jesus saw it he was much displeased and said unto them Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdome of God Verily I say unto you whosoever shall not receive the kingdome of God as a little child he shall not enter therein * And he took them up in his armes put his hands upon them and blessed them FRiends in these Gospels you see the actions and hear the words of our Blessed Saviour how he commanded little children to be brought unto him how he rebuked those that would have kept them away how readily he blessed them how kindly he embraced them how he pronounced them capable of and entitled to the kingdome of God how he commanded us to receive the kingdome as infants received it and affirmed that we can no way receive it but by being like them you know also that although Christ commanded them to be brought unto him there is no ordinary and appointed way for Infants to come to Christ and no way poâ—â—â—ble for them to be brought to Christ but by this new birth and regeneration in the laver of Baptisme you see also by the example and words of our Blessed Lord himself that even the most innocent persons ought to be baptized For he himself who knew no sin was yet baptized in the Baptisme of Repentance and so to doe was the fulfilling of righteousness we may therefore easily perceive that the innocence of infants and their freedom from actual sin cannot excuse them from Baptisme and if we remember that although our Blessed Saviour required faith of them who came to be healed of their diseases yet by the * faith of others who came in behalf of such as could not be brought or could not come the sick person was healed we are sufficiently instructed that although Infants have no more actual faith then they have actual sin yet the faith of others can be is by the usual and revealed method of the divine mercy as well imputed to them to the purposes of grace and life as the sin of Adam can be imputed to the purposes of death that as in Adam all die so in Christ all should be made alive we may therefore from these certain evidences conclude that God alloweth in you this obedience and charity in bringing this child to Christ to receive all blessings of which he is capable a title to the promises and adoption to be the child of God a sanctification by the spirit a designation to the service of Christ and putting him into the order of eternal life Therefore as circumcision was the seal of the righteousness of faith and yet minâ—stred to infants eight daies old and commanded so severely that God said the uncircumcised child whole flesh is not circumcisedâ— that soul shall be cut off from his people so Baptisme which is now the seal of the same faith and the same righteousness and a figure like unto the former is to be administred to infants although they have no more actual faith then the children of the Israelites had our Blessed Saviour having made Baptisme as necessary in the new Testament as Circumcision in the Old For because little children can receive the kingdome of God and in infants there is no incapacity of receiving the mercies of God the adoption to be children of God a title to the promises the covenant of repentance and a right to pardon whosoever shall deny to baptize infants when he is justly required is sacrilegious and uncharitable Since therefore the Church of God hath so great so cleer so indubitable a warrant to baptize infants and therefore did alwaies practice it let us humbly and charitably give thanks to God for his great mercies unto us all and with meekness and love recommend this child to the grace of God Let us pray O Almighty and eternal God who hast redeemed us from sin and shame from the gates of hell and the sting of death and from ignorance and darkness by thy holy Son who is that light which lightneth every man that cometh into the world we praise and glorifie thy name that thou hast called us to the knowledge of thy will and the love of thy name and the service of thy majesty which is perfect freedome the freedome of the sons of God II. As thou hast
man remembreth thee and who will give thee thankes in the pit ¶ Shall the dust give thankes unto thee or shall men declare thy truth in the grave in the land where all things are forgotten * My time is in thy hand O let me not be confounded shew thy servant the light of thy countenance and save me for thy mercy sake ¶ My life is waxen weake with sorrow and my yeares are consum'd in mourning * Mine eye is consum'd with very heavinesse and my strength faileth me because of mine iniquity ¶ For thine arrowes stick fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore * There is no health in my flesh because of thy displeasure neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sins ¶ For my wickednesses are gone over mine head and are like a sore burden too heavy for me to beare * But I will confesse my wickednesse and be sorry for my sin ¶ Against thee have I sinned and done evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and cleare when thou art judged * O give me the comfort of thy helpe againe cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me ¶ Be thou my strong rock and the house of defence that thou mayest save me be thou also my guide lead me for thy Names sake * Into thy hand I commend my Spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of truth ¶ In God is my health and my glory he is the rock of my might in God is my trust * Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and receivest unto thee he shall dwell in thy court and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house even of thy holy temple ¶ O praise our God ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard which holdeth our soule in life and suffereth not our feet to slip Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Or this * IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousnesse ¶ Lord let me know mine end and the number of my dayes that I may be certified how long I have to live * Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanity ¶ And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee * Deliver me from all mine offences take thy plague away from me I am even consumed by the means of thy heavy hand ¶ When thou with rebukes doest chasten man for sin thou makest his beauty to consume away like as it were a moth fretting a garment every man therefore is but vanity * Heare my prayer O Lord and with thine eares consider my calling hold not thy peace at my teares ¶ For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were * O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I goe hence and be no more seen ¶ O Lord let it be thy pleasure to deliver me make hast O Lord to helpe me * O send out thy light and thy truth that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy hill and to thy dwelling ¶ Up Lord why sleepest thou awake and be not absent from us for ever hide not thy face from us and forget not our misery and trouble * For our soule is brought low even unto the dust our belly cleaveth unto the ground ¶ Arise and helpe us and deliver us for thy mercies sake * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Then may the Minister read John XI from the first verse to the 47. or else this short lesson Matthew 25. from verse 1 to the 14. THen the kingdome of heaven shall be likened unto ten virgins which tooke their lamps and went to meete the bridegrome And five of them were wise and five foolish The foolish tooke their lamps but tooke no oyle with them But the wise tooke oyle in their vessels with their lampes Now while the bridegrome tarryed long all slumbred and slept And at midnight there was a cry made Behold the bridegrome cometh goe out to meet him Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps And the foolish said to the wise Give us of your oyle for our lamps are out But the wise answered saying we feare left there will not be enough for us and you but goe ye rather to them that sell and buy for your selves And when they went to buy the bridegrome came and they that were ready went in with him to the wedding and the gate was shut Afterwards came also the other virgins saying Lord Lord open to us But he answered and said verily I say unto you I know you not Watch therefore for ye know neither the day nor the houre when the Sonne of man will come After the lesson as he sees occasion let him adde some discourse of his owne short and pertinent to the necessities of the sick person ever being careful that he doe him all his assistances and call upon him to perfect that which can never be perfected but in this world i. e. his repentance Immediately after this exhortation or if it was done before or is better reserv'd to another time then immediately after the lesson or the Psalme according to the discretion of him that ministers and according to the circumstances of the sick man let him adde these prayers Let us pray I. A prayer for repentance O Almighty God and most merciful Father who delightest not in the death of a sinner but that he be converted from his sin and thou be turned from thine anger give unto thy servant a deepe contrition for his her sins a perfect hatred of them a timely and an intire dereliction of them grace to feare thee and grace to love thee powers to serve thee and time and grace to finish all the worke of God which thy servant ought to doe that the soule of thy servant being washed white in the bloud of Jesus may be justified by thy mercy sanctified by thy Spirit blessed by thy providence saved by thy infinite and eternal goodnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord. II. For Patience and Ease O Almighty and most gracious Saviour who didst suffer with meeknesse and patience those severe stripes of thy Fathers wrath which we did deserve but thou didst feele and hast established with mankind a Covenant of faith and patience a law of sufferings making the way of the crosse to be the way of heaven give to thy servant thy grace that according to thy excellent example and holy commandement he may beare the burden of the Lord with an even and a willing an obedient and a loving Spirit O let him never charge thee foolishly nor murmure secretly nor make too much hast but