Afâ—…s he may constantly perform his Duty towards thee and live and dy thy faithful Servant in Jesus Christ Amen A Letany of Intercession O That thou wouldst hear me O God! that thou wouldst so prepare my Heart that thou maist hear me that thou wouldst hear me once more though I am but Dust and Ashes That thou wouldst hear me for all those whom by the Bonds of Duty and Charity or Affection I am bound to Pray for O Lord hear my Prayers And let my cry come unto thee The Letany THat it may please thee to Bless the whole Catholick Church of thy Son Christ as it hath been planted in his Death and watered in his Blood so it may be still nourished by his Sacraments and governed by his Word That the Uncharitablenesse of men may not make the Rents and Divisions of it wider and that howsoever we may differ in the superstructions the Foundations of Christian Faith may never be cast down O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to look compassionately on this persecuted part of thy Church now driven from the Publike Altars into Corners and secret Closets that thy Protection may be over us where ever we shall be scatteted and a Remnant prefervcd among us by whom thy Name may be Glorified thy Sacraments Administred and the souls of thy servants kept upright in the midst of a corrupting and of a corrupted Generation O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to be Gracious to Him who was once defigned by Thee to be the Nursing Father of this thy Church But for the sins of both Priests and People is now cast out as an unprofitable Branch And that in thy due time thou wouldst deal with him according to the Innocency of his Person the Justice of his Cause O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to comfort him in the sadnesse of his spirit and Guide him in the Perplexities of his Mind and support him in the straits and necessities of his Fortunes To raise him Friends abroad and to Convert or confound the hearts of his Enemies at Home To do some mighty thing for him which I in particular know not how to Pray for and by the secret Working of thy Providence to make the Stone which the foolish Builders among us have refused the Head-stone of the Corner O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to preserve him with an unspotted soul and an unshaken Faith and that no splendor of any Earthly Crown may so dazle him as to make him forget either himself or thee or do any unworthy thing to lose that Heavenly Crown which thou hast prepared for him and nothing but his own sins is able to keep from him O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to shew Mercy to the Queen his Mother the Dukes his Brethrenâ—… in Exile with him and the rest of that scattered and oppressed Family to guide them thy Counsels to defend with them with thy Power to provide for them in thy Mercy and to make them in their severall ways Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to deal Graciously with that Remnant left of the Loyall Nobility and all others of that ruined side who have chosen rather to suffer in thy Cause then to participate with the sins of a more successefull Party O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to spread the wings of thy Protection over all those whom thou hast made near and dear unto me to preserve them safe in body and soul from the snares of their enemies and the iniquity of the times that no sin may lay waste their Consciences nor no evill come neer their dwellings O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to recompence all those whom thou hast raised to be Instruments of any good unto me such as have taken care of my soul and instructed me in the way to heaven such as have counselled me when I have gone astray supplyed me in my wants comforted me in my heaviness and have had that high Charity for me as to Reprove me when I have sinned O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to let the day-spring from on high shine upon all those who sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death who either do not know thy Name or knowing it are carried by strong delusions into the wayes of Error and false Perswasions O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to confirm those who as yet stand fast on the foundations of thy Holy Truth that neither the persecution of the Church in which they were Baptized nor the temptations of the times nor the snares of cunning men who watch all advantages may make them fall from their first Faith and miserably wander after their own imaginations O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to comfort and raise up those weak and dejected spirits which are ready to sink under the burthen of a troubled or Afflicted Conscience that as thou hast shewed them their sins and the punishments due for them so thou wouldst shew them their Saviour and by directing them to lay hold on his Cross keep them from a Finall and Everlasting ship wrack O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to hear the groans and cries of all those that are Afflicted either outwardly or inwardly in body or soul Especially such who being oppressed for Conscience sake have no place to fly unto nor no man careth for their souls O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to listen Compassionately to the deep sighing of the Prisoners and by thy mighty Power to deliver such who for obeying thee and a good Conscience are or shall be designed to death or ruin O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to soften the hearts of all unrighteous Judges who now have the Power over us and to make them know with trembling that there is a Judge higher than they O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to forgive all who more particularly are Enemies to me mine all that way have any traduced or slandered me even to turn their hearts and to extend their Charity to them in all those degrees of mercy which I desire may be shewn to my own soul. O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to hear all those servants of thine who either have the Charity to pray for me or desire my Prayers for them But above all that it may please thee to hear the Prayers of thy Son Jesus Christ who now fits gloriously on thy Right hand to intercede both for me and them O hear me
for thy Son Iesus sake O Lord hear my Prayers and let my cry come unto thee O Lord pardon my prayers and let not my sins and mine unworthinesse interpose between thy Mercy-seat and me Amen A Prayer for the Church ALmighty and Everlasting God who only workest great marvells shew the express of thy Goodness to thy desolate and persecuted Church that now sits mourning in her dust and Ruines torn by Schism and stripped and spoiled by Sacriledge And thou which after a long Captivity didst bring back thy People to re-build their Temple Look upon us with the same eyes of Mercy restore to us once again the Publike Worship of thy Name the Reverend Administration of thy Sacraments Raise up the former Government of Church and State That we may no longer 〈◊〉 without King without I rieâ—… without God in the World But may once more enter thy Courts with Praise and serve thee with that Reverence that Unity and Order as may be acceptable in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the Queen Mother and the Royall Progeny ALmighty God the Fountain of all Goodnesse we humbly beseech thee to be gracious to the Queen Mother to comfort her in her Afflictions and to direct her wayes and Counsells as may most conduce to the setling of her Posterity here in Peace Enlarge thy Blessings upon all the Royall Family those that 〈◊〉 driven to fly for Refuge into â—…rraign Lands Take them 〈◊〉 into thy care cover them â—…der thy wings and in thy due time make them so many instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the Afflicted O Lord God Mercifull gracious the only Sanctuary and Refuge of all that are in Misery and Trouble Hear I beseech thee the groans and cries of all that are Afflicted outwardly or inwardly either in body or Mind Especially such who suffer in a Righteous Cause whose loyalty hath been more dear to them then their Fortunes and a good Conscience more precious then their Lives consideâ—… them O God in their severaâ—… Extremities whether at homâ—… or abroad comfort them 〈◊〉 their Distresses supply them iâ—… their Wants Let the sorrowfull sighing oâ—… all that are oppressed come before thee and by the Greatnesse of thy Power preservâ—… thou them that are appointed to die Convert and soften the hard hearts of their implacable Enemies and asswage their thirst of blood which still cries more and more Or if thou otherwise hast decreed to bring any more of us through this Red Sea into the Land of Promise prepare us for this passage and guide us by thy blessed Spirit through the shadows of death Continue our Christian courage and constancy to the uttermost strengthen our Faith confirm our Hope and let our Charity â—…erflow even to the forgiving 〈◊〉 them by whose unjust Senâ—…e we perish That so dyâ—…g in thy Peace we may enter â—…to the Joyes prepared for us â—…rough the Mediation of our saviour who hath gone the same â—…y before us even Jesus Christ the Righteous Amen An humble and submissive 〈◊〉 postulation with God when 〈◊〉 Orthodox and loyall Clergy weâ—… so mercilâ—…y silenced by that blouâ—… Uâ—…rper who by Proclamatioâ—… forbid them either to preach or 〈◊〉 publickly in Churches or privaâ—… ly in Families not suffering thâ—… so much as to teach School O That thou wouldst heaâ—… me O God that thoâ—… wouldst hear me once more whâ—… am but Dust and Ashes while presume yet with all humblâ—… Rerence to expostulaâ—… with thee the great and Glorâ—… ous God in behalf of this peâ—… secuted and afflicted Church RIghteous art thou O Lord when I plead with thee yet let me talk with thee of thy Judgements wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously Thou hast planted them yea they have taken root they grow yea they bring forth fruit such as it is the Apples of Sodom and the Grapes of Gomorrah Thou art near in the mouth but far from their reins But wherefore hath the Lord done this unto this Land what meaneth the heat of this great anger O my Lord if thou the Lord art with us why then is all this befallen us and where be all thy Mercies and deliverances which our Fathers told us of saying Did not the Lord bring us out of Egypt did he not deliver us from superstition ignorance and prophanesse from persecutions of the right hand and separations on the left Did he not save us from our open and professed enemies and wilt thou now suffer us to be destroyed by our own selves Say Lord hast thou quite forsaken us and wilt thou deliver us over into the Midianitish hands of our own Mothers sons How long shall Iijm and Ziim the beast of the Island be let alone to leap upon thy Mercy-seat which was wont to be fenced with Cherubims Or art thou weary of our service that thou thus goest about to disgrace the Throne of thy Glory and seemest to abhr both the cry of our Prayers and the voice of weeping For behold Lord we have sown in tears when is it that we shall reap in Joy When wilt thou turn again the Captivity of Sion Is it not enough that she hath been so long as a Lilly among the Thorns but wilt thou now suffer the Thorns to overtop and to choak up this Lilly Or shall the envious mans tares â—…roy the wheat which hath been â—…en in thy field If there be a necessity that Heâ—…s should be yet is there any â—…ity that they should bear sway yea there is no necessity but that thy Truth should prevail O Lord God terrible in thy judgeâ—…s but yet most fatherly in thy â—…cies when shall we hear thee say in this Church of ours as thou didst sometimes to thy afflicted Israel Thus saith thy Lord the Lord and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people Behold I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling even the â—…egs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drink it again But I will put it into the hands of them that afflict thee which have said to thy soul bow down that we may go over Arise O Lord and have mercy upon Sion for it is time that thou have mercy upon her yea the time is come And why thy servants think upon her stones and it pitieth them to see her in the dust It pittieth them to see that there is none to guide her among all the sons that she hath brought up It pittieth them to see the Priests of the Lord sâ—…lenced and those lips sealed up which preserve knowledge It pittieth them to have their Teachers removed into a corner and that their eyes cannot see their Teachers It pittieth them and yet doth it not pitty thee O Lord who art the God of pitty and compassion Art thou not
O God wherefore art thou absent from us so long why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture O think upon thine Inheritance which thou hast purchased and Redeemed of old Lift up thy feet that thou mayst utterly destroy every Enemy that hath done Evil in thy Sanctuary For behold they break down all the caâ—…ed Works thereof with Axes and Hammers Yea they have said in their hearts Let us make havock of them altogether And thus have they designed to ruin all the Houses of God in the land But O God how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour how long shall the Enemy Blaspheme thy Name for ever Arise O God maintain thine own Cause Remember how the Foolish man blasphemeth thee daily But O deliver not the soul of thy Turtle Dove into their Hands For the Presumption of them that hate Thee increaseth more and more O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us II. O Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy People that Prayeth How long wilt thou feed us with the Bread of Tears and give us plenteousnesse of Tears to drink O Turn us again Thou God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole Remember that Thou didst once plant a Vine amongst us And when it had taken Root it filled the Land Our Hills were covered with the shadow of it and the Boughs thereof were like the Goodly Cedar Trees But now thou hast broken down her Hedge so that all they that go by pluck off her Grapes The wild Boar of the Wood doth root it up and the Beasts of the Field devour it Yet turn us again O Lord God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole For we will not go back from thee O let us live and we shall â—…ll upon thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us III. HOld not thy Tongue O God keep not still silence Refrain not thy self O God For â—…o Thine Enemies make a murmuring and they that hate Thee have lift up their Head They have imagined craftily against thy People and have taken Counsell against thy secret ones Behold they have cast their heads together with one Consent and are Confederate against Thee They have said Come let us root them out that they may be no more a People and that their Name may be no more in remembrance They come daily round about 〈◊〉 like Water and compasse us on every side But O my God make them like unto a Wheel and as the stubble before the Wind Who say Let us take unto Our selves the Houses of God in Possession O make their Faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek Thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us IV. O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad Thou hast been displeased at us O Turn thee unto us again Thou hast moved the Land and divided it O heal the sores thereof for it shaketh Thou hast shewn Thy People heavy things and given us a Drink of Deadly Wine Thou hast made us to turn our backs upon our Enemies so that they which hate Us spoil our Goods Thou makest us to be rebuked of our Neighbours to be laugh'd to scorn and to be had in derision of them that are round about us But though all this be come upon us yet do we not forget Thee nor â—…ave our selves frowardly in Thy Coâ—…ant Our heart is not turned back nor our steps gone out of thy Way No not when thou hast smitten us into the place of Dragons and covered us with the shadow of Death Up Lord Why sleepest thou Awake and be not absent from Us for ever But O why hidest Thou Thy Face and forgettest our Misery and Trouble For our soul is brought low even unto the Dust and our Belly â—…eaveth unto the ground Arise help us and deliver us for Thy Mercies sake O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us King David's Tears O My God why hast thou forsaken Thine Anointed and art displeased with him For Lo Thou hast broken the Covenant of thy servant and cast his Crown to the Ground Thou hast overthrown all his Hedges and broken down his strong holds So that all they that go by spoil him and he is become a Rebuke to his Neighbours For thou hast set up the Right hand of his Enemies and made all his Adversaries to rejoyce Thou hast put out his Glory and hast cast his Throne down to the Ground The Dayes of his Youth hast Thou seasoned with Bitternesse and covered him with dishonor But Lord how long wilt thou â—…ide thy self for Ever and shall thy Wrath still burn like Fire Remember O Lord the rebuke that Thy Servant hath and how he doth bear in his Bosom the Rebukes of many People And let his Adversaries be clothed with sham But upon his Head let his Crown flourish O help him against his Enemies for vain is the help of Man O God make speed to save Him O Lord make haste to help Him Jeremiah's Lamentations Propheticall of these Times HOw hath the Lord covered us with a Cloud in his anger and cast down from Heaven unto Earth the Beauty of Israel and remembred not his Footstool in the Day of his Wrath For Lo he hath bent his Bow as an Enemy He hath swallowed us up and hath not pittied He hath made desolate the Kingdom and the Princes thereof He hath cast off his Altars and abhorred his Sanctuary and hath given into the Hands of the Enemies the Walls of his Palaces He hath caused our solemn Feastâ—… and Sabbaths to be forgotten and hath despised in his Indignation the King and the Priest For the Lord hath now accomplished his ' Fury He hath poured out his fierce Anger He hath kindled such a Fire in Sion as hath devoured the Palaces thereof For the sins of the Prophets and and the Iniquities of the Priests who have shed the blood of the Iust in the midst of her For the Breath of our nostrils the Anointed of the Lord hath been taken in their Pits Of whom we said under his shadow shall we live in Peace But we have Transgressed and Rebelled and Thou hast not pardoned And therefore our eyes have as yet failed in our vain help For in our Watching we have watched for a Nation that could not save us Behold O Lord and Consider to whom thou hast done this O Lord Thou hast seen his Wrong Judge thou his Cause Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against him Thou hast heard all their Reproach O Lord and all their Imaginations against him The lips of thos that have risen up against him and their Devices against him all the Day O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him II. REmember O Lord what
heart are in larged Our iniquities and the punishments which attend upon them are a burden too heavy for us to bear And therefore in the anguish and bitternesse of our souls we return unto thee humbly beseeching thee in whom alone is our help to have respect unto the Prayers of thy servants O shut not up thy loving kindnesse in displeasure let not thine anger burn against the sheep of thy pasture But bind up the breach of this People Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee Behold the tears of the distressed Orphans and Widdows and of all such as are oppressed and have no comforter How long O Lord holy and true doest thou forbear to command deliverances Remember thy tender mercies which have been ever of old and save us as thou hast done heretofore Remember thy promise of deliverance to those who call upon thee in the day of trouble And when the blood that hath been shed calls aloud for verigeance O then hearken unto the voice of thy Sons blood which speaks better things behold the Lamb of God who was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities And to this end regard the sincerity of thine Anointed maintain thine own cause and preserve unto him that power which thou hast given him bind his soul in the bundle of life let mercy and truth preserve him and let his Throne be established for ever before thee Blesse them that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land And as for those that have risen up against him we beseech thee melt and mollifie their hearts to the entertainment of compassion and love reclaim them to obedience lay not their sin to their charge but guide their feet into the way of Peace Give to those that have done wrong the grace to repent and to those that have suffered wrong minds ready to forgive And if any shall be averse from Peace O thou that art the wonderfull Counsellor turn their wisdome into foolishness confound their practises and let their mischief return upon their own heads And when thou hast vouchsafed to give us that tranquillity which we beg at thy hands give 〈◊〉 grace to embrace it with all thankfulnesse to obey our Governours to live at unity among our selves evermore blessing thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Collects I. LOrd raise up we pray thee thy power and come amongst us and with great might succor us that where as through our sins and wickednesse we be sore let and hindred thy bountifull grace and mercy through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord may speedily deliver us to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be honour and glory world without end Amen II. ALmighty and everlasting God which dost govern all things in heaven and earth mercifully hear the supplications of thy people and grant us thy peace all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen III. ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon our afflictions and in all our dâ—…ngers and necessities stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen IV. GOd who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that for mans frailnesse we cannot alwayes stand uprightly Grant to us the health of body and soul that all those things which we suffer for sin by thy help we may well passe and overcome through Christ our Lord Amen V. O Lord we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy People that we which are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness for the Glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth world without end Amen VI. LOrd We beseech thee to keep thy Church and houshold continually in the true Religion that they which do leane only on thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VII WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to be our defence against all our enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VIII GOd the Protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy increase and multiply upon us thy mercy that thou being our ruler and guide we may so pass through things temporall that we finally lose not things eternall Grant this Heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord Amen XI LOrd we beseech thee let thy continual pitty cleanse and defend thy congregation and because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Certain additionall Prayers In the time of War O Almighty God who art high above all Nations and whose glory is above the Heavens the comfortable successe of all enterprises is from thee onely to be looked for Thou art he which givest victory unto Kings to thee it is all one to save by many or few thou canst make one to chase a thousand thou canst cause the hearts even of the most valiant to melt their hands to be weak their minds to faint and their knees to fall away like water If thou fight for us we cannot miscarâ—…y If thou favour us not we must needs be discomfited O be gracious unto us and be on our side now that men are risen up against us They take crafty Counsell against thy Church and consult how to cut us off from being a Nation and by what means to quench the light of thy Truth which hath shined in our streets Their desire is to imbrue their hands in blood and to advance their own ambition by our overthrow O turn their Counsels into foolishness Let not their mischeivous imaginations prosper lest they be too proud O our God make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the winde Scatter the People that delight in War Go out O Lord with our Armies give wisdom and courage to our Captains gird them with strength unto the battell be with our Souldiers teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight Assist all the Consultations prosper the Policies crown those enterprises with good successe which are undertaken for the common good and comfort of the Weal-publique Doubtless O Lord we have deserved thine anger and our sins do cry loud in thine ears for vengeance and it were but just with thee if thou shouldst make us a prey and â—…spoil unto our Enemies But O Gracious God let us now fall into thy hands for thy mercies are great and let us not fall into the hands of men whose displeasure at us is not for our sins but for our Profession and Religions sake and that they may fill their own inlarged and insatiable desire with those blessings of wealth which thou hast given us Put therefore thy hook into their nostrills and