and they who have divided his Inheritance triumphing over him But thou O Lord how long shall bloody Designs and Rebellious Imaginations prosper Shall not the Judge of the whole Earth do right Or hast thou forgot to be gracious and shut up thy tender Mercy in Displeasure O no thou art the same God who in the midst of Judgment remembreth Mercy Thine Arm is not shortned that thou canst not save nor thine Ears heavy that thou canst not hear Arise thou O God arise let the World see that thou art the Father of the Fatherless and Helper of them to right that suffer wrong Shew it O Lord especially at this time in multiplying all thy Comforts on our distressed King And as thou hast strangely and wonderfully delivered him from those who so eagerly hunted after his Life so let it appear to the World that thou hast not done this to make him the more miserable or to continue him in the condition of an Exile but rather that thou hast reserved him for faithfuller Hands and fairer Opportunities and more prosperous Successes And though this were not the time nor this the means by which thou hadst designed to restore the Kingdom to him yet that thou hast not yet forsaken him but that he is still in thy Care still under the Shadow of thy Wings who alone art able to do more for him than we can pray for and gloriously to bring him back again by ways we cannot think of In the mean time O Lord whilst thou thinkest fit to keep him under the sharpness of this Discipline teach him to kiss the Hand that chastens him and humbly to submit his Earthly Crown to thy divine Will and Pleasure as knowing that thou canst either restore him that when it seems good to thee or give a Crown infinitely more glorious which no Man can take from him Lord he is more precious to thee than he can be possibly to us dispose of him therefore in the Multitude of thy Mercies and let thy holy Spirit take so full Possession of him and Guidance that among all the Difficulties of his most perplexed Affairs he may constantly continue his Duty towards thee and live and dye thy faithful Servant in Jesus Christ Amen A LITANY of Intercession Preparatory Ejaculations to precede the LITANY O That thou wouldest hear me O God! that thou wouldest so prepare my Heart that thou mayest hear me That thou wouldest hear me yet once more though I am but Dust and Ashes That thou wouldest hear me for all those whom by the bonds of Duty of Charity or Affection I am bound to pray for O Lord hear my Prayers And let my Cry come unto thee The LITANY THat it may please thee O God to bless the whole Catholick-Church of thy Son Christ and as it hath been planted in his Death and watered with his Blood so it may be still nourished by his Sacraments and governed by his Word that the Uncharitableness of Men may not make the Rents and Divisions of it wider and that howsoever we may differ in the Superstructions the Foundation of Christian Faith may never be cast down O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to look compassionately on this persecuted Part of thy Church now driven from thy publick Altars into Corners and secret Closets that thy Protection may be over us where-ever we shall be scattered and a Remnant preserved amongst us by whom thy Name may be glorified and thy Sacraments administred and the Souls of thy Servants kept up upright in the midst of a corrupting and of a corrupted Generation O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to be gracious to Him who was once designed by thee to be the Nursing Father of this thy Church but for the Sins both of 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 and Justice of his Cause O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to comfort him in the sadness of his Spirit and guide him in the Perplexities of his Mind and support him in streights and necessities of his Fortunes To raise him Friends abroad 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 Windings and powerful workings of thy Providence to make the Stone which these foolish Builders have refused the head stone of the corner O hear me for thy Son Jesus 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 dazzle him as to make him forget either himself or thee or to do any unworthy thing to lose that Heavenly Crown which thou hast prepared for him and nothing but his Sins is able to keep from him O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to shew mercy to the Queen his Mother the Dukes his Brethren in exile with him and the rest of that scattered and oppressed Family to guide them with thy Counsels to defend them by thy Power to provide for them in thy mercy and to make them in their several ways Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to deal graciously with that Remnant of the loyal Nobility and all others of that ruined Side who have chosen rather to suffer in thy Cause than to participate with the Sins of a more successful Party O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to spread the wings of thy Protection over all those whom thou hast made near or dear unto me to preserve them safe in Body and Soul from the Snares of their Enemies and the Iniquities of the times that no Sin may lay waste their Consciences nor Evil come near their Dwellings O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to recompence all those whom thou hast raised to be Instruments of any good to 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 Jesus sake That it may please thee to let the Day spring from on high shine upon all those that sit in Darkness and in the shadow of Death who either do not know thy Name or knowing it are carried by strong Delusions into the ways of Error and false Perswasion O hear me for thy Son Jesus 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
PRAYERS OF Intercession FOR THEIR Use who Mourn in Secret FOR THE Publick Calamities OF THIS NATION WITH An Anniversary Prayer for the 30th of January Very Necessary and Useful in Private Families as well as in Congregations By Jo. Huit D. D. LONDON Printed in the Year 1659. Prayers of Intercession for their Use who Mourn in Secret for the Publick Calamities of this Nation A Preparatory Prayer O Lord I find in that Book of thine which cannot deceive me that the oftner thy Servant Abraham prayed to thee the more he got ground upon thee and came at last to that holy Confidence as not only to pray to thee for himself but to be importunate and press thee in the behalf of others Lord I confess my Case is different for Abraham was the Father of the Faithful but I am not worthy to be reckoned among his Children He had the Honour to be called thy Friend but my Sins have been such that unless thy Mercy interveen may make thee look upon me as thine Enemy He prayed unto thee for a People of whose Sins he was no Partaker But my Address is to thee for them in whose Iniquities I am involved and have some way or other deeply contributed to the hastning and bringing down those terrible Judgments of thine which now lye so heavy upon us So that alas I am unworthy to appear before thee for my self and how shall I dare to supplicate thee for others O that there were a Moses to stand in the Gap to turn away thy wrathful Indignation from us O that there were a David a Daniel or a Jeremiah to pour out their Souls before thee yet hear me O my God for though these holy Saints of thine have now no being upon Earth yet their Prayers remain upon Record for every Soul that mourns in secret to make use of O Holy and Blessed Spirit kindle but the same fervency in my Heart while I repeat their Words as was in them and I know I shall be heard King David's Prayers for the Church and People The First Prayer O God! wherefore art thou absent from us so long or why is thy Wrath so hot against the Sheep of thy Pasture O think upon thine Inheritance whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Lift up thy Feet that thou mayest utterly destroy every Enemy that hath done evil in thy Sanctuary For behold they break down all the carved Work 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 ruine 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 encreaseth more and more O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us The Second Prayer 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 Plenteousness 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 diddest once plant a Vine among us and when it had taken root it filled the Land Our Hills were covered with the Shadow of it and the Boughs 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 Bore 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 call upon thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us The Third Prayer HOld not thy tongue O God keep not still silence refrain not thy self O God For lo thine Enemies make a murmuring and they that hate thee have lifted up their Head They have imagined craftily against thy People and have taken counsel against thy sacred Ones Behold they have cast their Heads together with one consent and are confederate against thee They have said come and 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 us like Water and compass us together 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 The Fourth Prayer 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 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 laughed 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 behave our selves frowardly in thy Covenant 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! wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble For our Soul is brought low even unto the dust and our belly cleaveth to the grave Arise help us and deliver us for thy mercy sake O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast 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 cast his Throne down to the Ground The Days of his Youth hast thou seasoned with bitterness and covered him with dishonour But Lord how long wilt thou hide thy self for ever And shall thy Wrath still burn like Fire Remember O Lord the rebuke that thy Servant
in which they were baptized nor the Tentations 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 Jesus sake That it may please thee to comfort and raise up those weak and dejected Spirits which are ready to sink under the burden of a troubled or affrighted Conscience that as thou hast shewed them their Sins and the Punishments due for them so thou wouldest shew them their Saviour and by directing them to lay hold upon his Cross keep them from a final and everlasting Shipwrack O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to hear the Groans and Cries of all 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 me for thy Son Jesus 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 Jesus 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 me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to forgive all who more particularly are Enemies to me or mine all that have any way traduced or slandered me even to turn their hearts and to extend thy Charity to them in all those degrees of mercy which I desire may be shown to my own Soul O hear me for thy Son Jesus 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 sits gloriously on thy right hand to intercede both for me and them O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake O Lord hear my Prayers and let my Cry come unto thee O Lord Pardon my Prayer and let not my Sins and my Unworthiness interpose between thy Mercy-seat and me Amen Amen A Prayer for the Church ALmighty and Everlasting God who only workest great marvels shew the Riches of thy Goodness to thy desolate and persecuted Church that now sits mourning in her own Dust and Ruins torn by Schism and stripped and spoiled by Sacrilege And thou who after long Captivity didst bring back thy People to rebuild their Temple look upon us with the same Eyes of mercy Restore us once again the publick Worship of thy Name the reverent Administrations of thy Sacraments raise up the former Government both in Church and State that we may no longer be without King without Priest without God in the World but may once more enter into 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 Royal Progeny ALmighty God the Fountain of all Goodness we humbly beseech thee to be gracious to the Queen Mother to comfort her in her sad Afflictions and to direct her Ways and Counsels as may conduce to the setling of her Posterity here in Peace enlarge thy Blessings on all the Branches of the Royal Family Those that are driven to fly for Refuge into Foreign Parts take them all into thy Care cover them under 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 Merciful and Gracious the only Sanctuary and Refuge for those that are in Misery and Trouble hear I beseech thee the Groans and Cries of all that are afflicted outwardly or inwardly in Body or Mind especially such who suffer in a righteous Cause whose Loyalty hath been more dear unto them than their Fortunes and a good Conscience more than their Lives Consider them O God in their several Extremities whether at home or abroad comfort them in their Distresses supply them in their Wants Let the sorrowful sighing of all that are oppressed come before thee and by the greatness of thy Power preserve thou those that are appointed to dye 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 thro' the red Sea into the Land of Promise prepare us for this Passage and guide us by thy Blessed Spirit thro' the Shadows of Death continue our Christian Courage and Constancy to the utmost strengthen our Faith confirm our Hope and let our Charity overflow even to the forgiving of them by whose unjust Sentence we perish that so dying in thy Peace we may enter into the Joys prepared for us thro' the Mediation of our Saviour who hath gone the same way before us even Jesus Christ the Righteous Amen Psalm 10. Verse 1. Why standest thou so far off O Lord and hidest thy Face in the needful Time of Trouble Psalm 8. Verse 1 2 3. Lord how are they increased that trouble us many are they that rise up against us many there be that say of our Souls there is no Help for them in their God But thou O Lord art our Defender thou art our Worship and the Lifter up of our Head Jeremiah 10. Verse 24. Correct us O Lord and yet in thy Judgment not in thy Fury lest we should be consumed and brought to nothing Psalm 130. Verse 3. If thou wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it A Prayer O Thou most blessed Judge Eternal We the unworthiest and sinfullest of all the Children of Men that have so long abused and prophaned thy Mercies provoked thy Judgments unsheathed thy glittering Sword forced all the Arrows and Darts out of thy Quiver and with our multiply'd abominable crying Sins brought down a Desolation on a most pleasant Land that former delight of thine the Glory of all Lands We that after thy Wrath was poured out upon us have yet further encreased our Sins as thou hast increased the Weight and Number of thy Judgments on us and walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy Discipline and Visitations suffered all thy precious Methods of reducing us thy Admonitions and thy Stripes to be utterly lost and frustate amongst us And now the Axe is laid to the Root of the Tree and above all the Sword of Violence died with the Blood of thine Anointed among us and with that all the bloody Presages that we cannot without Horror but apprehend a final utter Vastation threatned to a long flourishing
from evil Amen Priest O Lord open thou our lips Answer And our Mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to help us Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning c. A Prayer LOok down O Lord in the Bowels of thy Pity and lend a tender ear to the Voice of our Lamentation our Adversaries are the chief our Enemies prosper for thou hast afflicted us for the Multitude of our Transgressions the Crown is fallen from the Head wo unto us we have sinned O Lord behold our Afflictions For the Enemy hath magnified himself The Adversary hath spread out his Hand upon all our pleasant things they have entered into and prophaned thy Sanctuary they have seen us low and have mocked at our Sabbaths our solemn Feasts are become their Scorn and our Devotion their Derision O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself Thou art become our Enemy thou hast destroyed our strong Holds thou hast encreased among us Mourning and Lamentation because thou hast despised in the Indignation of thine Anger the King and the Priest See O Lord and consider for we are become very vile The Yoak of our Transgressions is bound by thy hand they are wreathed and come upon our Necks thou hast made our Strength to fail thou hast delivered us into their Hands from whom we are not able to rise up Thou hast trodden under Foot our mighty Men in the midst of us Thou hast called an Assembly to crush our young Men Thou hast trodden us as in a Wine-press Our Enemies hear of our Trouble and they are glad that thou hast done it Behold O Lord for we are in Distress Our Bowels are troubled our Heart is turned within us for we have grivously rebelled abroad the Sword devoureth at home there is Death our Enemies have opened their Mouths against us they hiss and gnash their Teeth they say we have swallowed them up certainly this is the Day that we looked for we have found it we have seen it Thus are we in Derision all the Day long we are become their Song and their Musick O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself They have cried unto us depart ye ye are unclean depart depart touch not yea these Men have said they shall no more sojourn here O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself The Breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord is fallen into their Pits and slaughtered by their Hands of whom yet we said under his Shadow we shall live among the midst of these sad Distractions O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself Thus do we call to mind our Afflictions and our Miseries the Wormwood and the Gall our Souls have them in Remembrance and they are humbled in us and therefore have we hope it is of the Lords mercy that we are not consumed because his Compassions fails not They are new every Morning great is his Faithfulness for the Lord will not cast us off for ever but tho' he cause Grief yet will he have Compassion according to the Multitude of his Mercies for he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the Children of Men Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World without end Amen PSALM III. A PSALM of David when he fled from Absalom his Son Or the Security of God's Protection LORD how are they increased that trouble me Many are they that rise up against me 2. Many there be which say of my Soul There is no help for him in God Selah 3. But thou O Lord art a Shield for me my Glory and the lifter up of my Head 4. I cryed unto the Lord with my Voice and he heard me forth out of his holy Hill Selah 5. I laid me down and slept I awaked for the Lord sustained me 6. I will not be afraid of Ten Thousands of People that have set themselves against me round about 7. Arise O Lord save me O my God For thou hast smitten all mine Enemies upon the Cheek Bone Thou hast broken the Teeth of the ungodly 8. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord Thy Blessing is upon thy People Selah PSALM VII David prayeth against the Malice of his Enemies professing his Innocency 10. by Faith he seeth his Defence and the Destruction of his Enemies O Lord my God in thee do I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me 2. Lest he tear my Soul like a Lion renting it in pieces while there is none to deliver 3. O Lord my God if I have done this if there be Iniquity in my Hands 4. If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at Peace with me yea I have delivered him that without cause is mine Enemy 5. Let the Enemy persecute my Soul and take it yea let him tread down my Life upon the Earth and lay mine Honour in the Dust Selah 6. Arise O Lord in thine Anger lift up thy self because of the Rage of mine Enemies and awake for me to the Judgment that thou hast commanded 7. So shall the Congregation of the People compass thee about For their Sakes therefore return thou on high 8. The Lord shall judge the People Judge me O Lord according to my Righteousness and according to mine Integrity that is in me 9. Oh let the Wickedness of the wicked come to an end but establish the just For the Righteous God trieth the Hearts and Reins 10. My Defence is of God which saveth the upright in Heart 11. God judgeth the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every Day 12. If he turn he will whet his Sword He hath bent his Bow and made it ready 13. He hath also prepared for him the Instruments of Death he ordaineth his Arrows against the Persecutors 14. Behold he travelleth with Iniquity and hath conceived Mischief and brought forth Falshood 15. He made a Pit and digged it and is fallen into the Ditch which he made 16. His Mischief shall return upon his own Head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own Pate 17. I will praise the Lord according to his Righteousness and will sing Praise to the Name of the Lord most high PSALM XXVII 1. David sustaineth his Faith by the Power of God 4. By his Love to the Service of God 9. By Prayer 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 2. When the Wicked even mine Enemies and my Foes came upon me to eat up my Flesh they stumbled and fell 3. Though an Host should encamp against me my Heart shall not fear though War should rise against me in this will I be confident 4. One Thing have