Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance and mount Sion where thou hast dwelt Lift up thy Feet and disperse all those our Enemies which have done evill in thy sanctuary For they have broken down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers they have defiled the â—…welling places of thy name yea they â—…aid in their hearts let us make haâ—…ock of them altogether O God how long shall the Adversary doe this dishonour â—…ow long shall the Enemy blasâ—…heme thy name for ever Why withdrawest thou thy hand â—…hy pluckest not thou thy right hand â—…ut of thy bosome to scatter the eneâ—…y Arise O God maintain thine â—…wn cause Remember how the foolish man blasphemes thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the presumption of them that â—…ate thee encreaseth ever more and more Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The Creed I Believe in God the Fathâ—… Almighty maker of heaveâ—… and earth and in Jesuâ—… Christ his onely Son our Lordâ—… which was conâ—…eived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mâ—…ry suffered under Ponce Pilatâ—… was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and fitteth on the right hand oâ—… God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgivenesse of fins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen Let us Pray The Lord be with you And with thy spirit Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us 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 Amen O Thou most mighty Creator and wise Ruler of all things who hast reserved the disposall of all events to thine own all-seeing Wisdome and never permittest any thing to be done by the malice of men or Devils but what thou discernest absolutely most usefull and profitable for thy Servants Thou who aâ—… good beyond all that we can judge or chuse even when thy judgements are most terrible and astonishing We thy sinfull creatures do here prostrate our souls before thee desiring to adore and tremble at thy presence to admire the finger of thine own hand in that great vengeance which did as upon this Day befall us Lord it is the provocation of our â—…ns that hath reached up to heaven that hath brought down these amazing punishments upon earth thou hast abounded to us in mercies beyond all the Nations of the world granted us all the advantages we could pray for and we murmured against thy bounty rebelled against thy most obliging methods of melting and over coming an obdurate people And then what remained but that thou shouldest withdraw those graces which we had so long abused and prophaned Deprive us of all our ornaments leave us naked and bare cast us out into the open field to the loathing of our persons Judge us as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged and give us blood in jealousie and fury And thus hast thou in thy just displeasure proceeded with us thou hast abased our glory thou haâ—… in our very faces thou haâ—… reproach upon all that 〈◊〉 â—…cious amongst us Thou hast permitted an host not onely against the daily sacrifice to cast down the truth to the ground but even against thine own Ordnance thine own inscription the Image of thine own power amongst us and in all this to practise and prosper Lord thou hast called us to lamentation and bitter mourning beyond the weeping of Rachel fâ—… her children or the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo Lord they are our rebellions against thee which thou hast Visited upon our late Soveraigne our beloved Iâ—…siah and to the aggravation of our sin and woe they were our hands that executed this butchery upon him In this thoâ—… hast more then delivered up thâ—… Nation unto Sathan to the adversary to buffet and thresh us thou hast delivered us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 selves to assassinate our 〈◊〉 Our greatest sin is our 〈◊〉 punishment The utmost of our provocations against thee is the utmost of thy inflictions upon us And yet O Lord all these accursed effects of our sins have not served to alien us from them none repenteth of his way or saith what have I done But every one rusheth into his course as the horse rusheth into the battell And since O Lord we have not in this 〈◊〉 heard the things that 〈◊〉 to our peace what can we expect but that they should for ever be hid from our eyes That our measure being filled up and thy righteous servant removed by our violence from holding up our Pillars we should all become one common Ruine That the earth should swallow us up for Coraâ—…s sins or the destruction of thine own antient people the Jeâ—… should be the reward of the obduration of thine own people And then O Lord t is thy great mercy to our late Soveraign that thou hast taken him away from the evill to come And it is the joy of our hearts in the midst of our lamentations that having so fitted him for thy self given him that wonderfull measure of Patience Constancy and Magnanimity thou weâ—… pleased to crown all these Graces with perseverance here and in exehaâ—… 〈◊〉 his crown of thornes 〈◊〉 incumbrances of a broken Kingdome on earth hast received him into a participation of thy crown of Glory As for us O Lord we are laid at thy feet to hear what the Lord God will say concerning us whatsoever thy purposes are we desire to embrace them Christianly though it be to cast us away as straw to the dung-hill but if yet there may be place of mercy Lord lift up the ligâ—… of thy countenance and be gracious to the remnant of thine heritage To this end O Lord convert us from the evill of our wayes and our enemies from the cruelty of theirs thou God of purity and peace grant that we be no longer a wicked nor a self-destroying Nation but that we may all at length joyn together in a serious unfeignâ—… humiliation for the shedâ—… 〈◊〉 that precious innocent blâ—… and all those other sinns that have brought down thy desertions on us Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake Amen II. O Lord this is a day 〈◊〉 trouble of rebuke and blasphemy a day wherein a wonderfull and horrible thing was 〈◊〉 in our land most 〈◊〉 blood shed with more barbarous aggravations then we know where to paralell on this side the murder of thy dear Son And because sentence against this
world without end Amen V. O Lord God that dost build up Hierusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel Wherefore art thou absent so long Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture O think upon thy Congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance and mount Sion where thou hast dwelt Lift up thy Feet and disperse all those our Enemies which have done evill in thy sanctuary For they have broken down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers they have defiled the dwelling places of thy name yea they said in their hearts let us make havock of them altogether O God how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour how long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy name for ever Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosome to scatter the enemy Arise O God maintain thine own cause Remember how the foolish man blasphemes thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the presumption of them that hate thee encreaseth ever more and more Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The Creed I Believe 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 born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven â—…teth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge 〈◊〉 quick and the dead I belâ—…ve in the holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgivenesse of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen Let us Pray The Lord be with you And with thy spirit Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us 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 thâ—… trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Amen I. O Lord this is a day of trouble of rebuke and blasphemy a day wherein a wonderfull and horrible thing was committed in our land most sacred â—…nnocent blood shed with more barbarous aggravations then we know where to parallel on this side the murder of thy dear Son And because sentence against this evill work hath not been exâ—…ed speedily the hearts of this people are wholy set in them to do evill this respite which thou hast given us to work our Repentance hath served onely to compleat our sin by adding an obstinate impenitency to the former Guilt and so fitting us for that finall excision which thou hast threatned to obdurate sinners And now O Lord this fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation is all that remains unto us who have thus despised the riches of thy mercy Yet O Lord out of these depths do we desire to call upon thee Lord hear 〈◊〉 voice and if that finall 〈◊〉 tence be not irreversibly gâ—… out against us be pleased 〈◊〉 turn thy wrath away 〈◊〉 to suffer thy whole displeasâ—…e to arise To this end thou O 〈◊〉 who breakest the gates of 〈◊〉 and smitest the bars of 〈◊〉 sunder be thou pleased to 〈◊〉 these unrelenting hearts of 〈◊〉 to work in every one of us 〈◊〉 sense of our horrid abomâ—… ons especially that of this day as may cast us down in the 〈◊〉 est degree of Humiliation and Contrition before thee that 〈◊〉 we may be capable of that â—…tation which thou hast promiâ—… to the humble that Comfort which thou hast assigned to Mourners through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen II. BLessed Lord in whose sight the death of thy Saints is most precious we magnifie thy name for those wonderfull effusious of thy grace on our late Martyred Soveraign which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant Meek suffering of all barbarous indignities and at lost resisting even unto blood and even then pursuing that glorious Pattern and praying for his Murtherers Let his Memory O Lord be ever blessed among us and his example efficacious upon us that we may follow him as he followed Christ And O Lord we beseech thee let not his blood out-cry his Prayers but let those that spilt the one obtain benefit by the other that by their Conviction and Repentance his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation our Religion be vindicated from the scandal of so horrid a fact our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners and all for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King Who putteth his trust in thee Send him help from thy holy Place And evermore mightily defend him Confound the designs of all those that are risen up against him And let not their rebellious wickednesse approach near to hurt him Let the Curse of Saul light upon the endeavours of those men who contrive or Imagine mischief for him And let the blessings of David remain upon his head and upon his â—…ed for euermore O Lord hear our Prayer And let our crycome unto thee III. O Lord God Infinite in Power by whom the Thrones of Kings are established and their persons made sacred Take we beseech thee into thine immediate and divine protection thine anointed Servant the King that no sacrilegious profane hand may come near to touch him In all his wayes let thy Spirit guide him and thy holy Angels pitch their tents about him O Lord comfort him in his troubles defend him in his dangers support him in his cause shew some token on him for good even now O God when the Sons of violence are in their pride and triumph over him whom thou hast exalted designing and rejoycing to root out that religion which thine own right hand hath planted Defeat their purposes O thou preserver of men and let not their mischeivous imaginations any longer prosper but blast all their Counsels wither away all their Armies like grass scorched by the Sun Bow down at last their stiff necks and obdurate hearts to a desire of that peace which hath so long been an abomination to them That this miserable Nation may no further pursue their own ruin but being by so many bitter punishments made sensible of thine anger for this unnatural division may at last be reduced within their first obedience to the glory of thy Name the vindication of our defamed religion the comfort of our afflicted King and the happiness of this yet bleeding dom And confirm all this to Us O Lord by the merits and through the
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 noâ—… and ever shall be world without end Amen The Psalms for the Day 7. 10. 22. 37. First Lesson 2 Chron. 35. from 〈◊〉 20. ad fin Lament 5. Zacâ—… 12. v. 10. ad finem A Form Collected out of the Psalms I. HEar our voice O Lord out of thy holy Temple let our complaint come before thee let it enter even into thy ears Our heart is in heavinesse O let us make our Prayer unto thee in an acceptable time Lord our iniquities are against us our rebellions are many wherewith we have transgressed against thee But we confess our wickednesses and are sorry for our sins Our confusion is daily before us fearfulness and trembling are come upon us and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed us and it is thy great mercy onely that we are not consumed for we have sinned O Lord we have transgressed and done wickedly yea we have rebelled and departed from thy precepts and from thy Commandements Innumerable troubles are come about us our sins have taken hold upon us that we are not able to look up yea they are more in number then the hairs of our heads and our hearts have failed us O Lord righteousnesse belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of face because of all the offences we have committed against thee Yet compassion and forgivenesse is with thee though we have rebelled against thee O Lord according to thy goodnesse we beseech thee let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away from us and cause thy face to shine upon thy servants Incline thine ears and hear open thine eyes and behold our afflictions for we doe not present our supplications before thee in our own righteousness but for thy manifold and great mercies We have sinned against heaven and against thee and are no more worthy to be called thy Sons Yet O Lord hear O Lord forgive consider and doe it deferre not for thine own sake O our God Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now aâ—…d ever shall be world without end Amen II. HEar our prayers O Lord and hide not thy self from our Petitions and hearken unto the words of our mouth for strangers are risen up against us and Tyrants which have not God before their eyes seek after our Souls Cast us not away in the time of our weaknesse forsake us not when our strength faileth us O remember not our offences but according to thy mercy think thou upon us for thy goodness O turn thee unto us and have mercy upon us for we are desolate and in misery The sorrows of our hearts are enlarged O bring thou us out of all our troubles Turn us O God our Saviour and let thine anger cease from us send down from on high and deliver us take us out of these many waters Why art thou absent from us so long why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture Wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble for our soul is brought low unto the dust our belly cleaveth to the ground Look upon our adversity and misery and forgive us all our sins Arise O Lord and help us and deliver us for thy mercy sake so shall it be known that it is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen III. WE will cry unto the Lord with our voice yea even unto God will we cry with our voice and he shall hearken unto us For the Lord is gracious and long-suffering and of great mercy to them that call upon him The Lord is nigh unto all them that be of a contrite heart and will save such as are of an humble spirit And now Lord what is our hope truly our hope is even in thee For our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou diâ—… deliver them they called upon thee and were holpen they put their trâ—… in thee and were not confounded The Lord will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble and they that know thy name will pâ—… their trust in thee for thou Lord never failest them that seek thee The mercifull goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upâ—… them that fear him and his righteousness upon Childrens Children even upon such as keep his Coveâ—… and think upon his Commandâ—… to do them Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that trust in thee thou that upholdest all such as are falling and liftest up such as be down thou that healest the broken in heart and givest medicine to heale their sicknesse thou that art the Father of mercy and God of all consolation that art comfort to the sad and strength to the weak hear thy servants we beseech thee look down from Heaven behold and visite us with thy salvation 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 The second Lesson appointed by the Calendar of the Church for the 30th of January throughout all time is the 27. Chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew GIve the King thy judgements O God The Lord hear him in the day of trouble the name of the God of Iacob defend him Send him help from his Sanctuary and strengthen him out of Sion Let the King rejoyce in thy strength O Lord let him be exceeding glad of thy salvation Grant him his hearts desire and deny him not the request of his lips O Lord gird him with strength into the battaile throw down his Enemies under him Make them to turn their backs upon him and disperse them that hate him Deliver him from the strivings of his people Deliver him from his cruell Enemies and set him up above his adversaries thou shalt rid him from the wicked man and why because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercy of the most high he shall not miscarry Some put their trust in Charriots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God Save Lord and hear us O King of Heaven when we call upon thee Be thou exalted in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holâ—… Ghost As it was in the beginning is noâ—… and ever shall be world without end Amen V. O Lord God that doest buildâ—… up Hierusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel Wherefore art thou absent so longâ—… Why is thy wrath so hot against tâ—… sheep of thy pasture O think upon thy Congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old
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
make him great put a stop at last to the madnesse of the people say to the destroying Sword it is now enough send us a seasonable and quiet calm visit us with the joy of thy Countenance and make us glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted us O restore to us our solemn Assemblies bring us back into thy Courts to praise thee and let us once more worship thee in the beauty of thy holinesse Save us O Lord from our Enemies and from the hands of all that hate us That so we may serve thee without fear living a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty looking for the blessed appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. To whom with thee and the holy Spirit be all honour and praise world without end AMEN A Prayer for preservation from the Enemy O Eternall God and most mercifull Father we humbly beseech thâ—… to be mercifull unto us and in the Riches of thy unspeakable mercies be near to help and succour us in all those extremities which our sins threaten to bring upon us The Rebellious are strengthned against us by our multiplied Rebellions against thee and we deserve to suffer what our Enemies threaten even suddain surprizall and destruction to desolation But there is mercy with thee that thou mayst be feared and there is mercy with thee that they may not be fearâ—… Shew us therefore thy merâ—…y O Lord and let us so fear â—…ee that we may be never forâ—…d to feel or fear them And â—…hen thou wilt correct us for â—…ur sins O Lord in judgement â—…emember mercy and let us â—…all into thy hands and not into the hands of men let us fall â—…to thy hands and not into â—…he hands of ungracious and â—…godly men into thy hands â—…nd not into the hands of sacriâ—…gious and seditious men into thy mercifull hands and not into the cruell hands of thine and our enemies even for Jesus Christs sake our only Mediator and Redeemer AMEN A Confession of Sins and Prayer for Pardon O Lord of heaven and earth God of the spirits of all flesh we a most sinfull and therefore now a most miserable People do in the bitternesse of our afflicted Souls humbly fall down at the foot-stool of thy grace most sadly bewailing our many and most hainous sins We have multiplied our iniquities into a violation of thy whole Law having neither performed to thee our God nor to man the duties thou requirest of us so that by onr wicked works we have denied that most holy faith whereof our Mouths have for so long a time made profession These things O Lord have we done and because in goodnesse thou wert pleased to â—…eep silence how many of us have thought wickedly that thou â—…ert altogether such an one as â—…ur selves which either didst approve or at least wouldst not punish the Crimes that we doâ—…ed on And now in thy just judgments thou hast set our sins in order before our eyes in the continued scourge of this â—…sting Rebellion we may well perceive that the sins we have done have not been barely infirmities but Rebellions against thee In the Rapines acted upon the substance thou hast given 〈◊〉 we cannot but consider that by Oaths and Blasphemies we have robbed thee of thine Honour and have oft-times stollen much of that precious time which should have been spent in thy service Nay we have added sin to sin so that one Crime hath brought forth another Transgression and thou hast shewed us even this in thy Judgâ—… ments we now feel in that thâ—… present War hath brought forth an infectious disease and dotâ—… now threaten famine to us We confesse O Lord with all thankfulnesse of heart that thou hast been pleased to sweeten the bitterness of this Cup by many strange successes by frequent and unexpected Victories and yet thou hast so allayed each favour of thine hand with the mixture of some sudden crosse that herein thou hast set our Repentance too before the sight of our eyes and lets us see 't is mixt with so much coldnesse Hypocrisie that there may be as much guilt in such a kind of Repentance as before there was in our sins Yet return O God in great mercy return unto the many thousands of thy people do thou accept and increase in our hearts detestatioÌ„ of all wickedness that our sorrows for sin may be as compleatly perfect 〈◊〉 we desire thou shouldst make â—…ur Peace and that for times â—…ereafter our hearty observance of thy whole Law may still run along with such sorrows O let â—…ot thy scourge end in a desolation nor thine anger go on unto the height of an everlasting mine But hear us mercifull Father hasten the aversion of these thy sharp judgements from us and let not the noise of this accursed Rebellion be any longer heard in our streets Scatter thou the People that delight in War and let the blessing of Peace be upon the Heads of all those who strive and pray for this blessing and that for his sake by whose hand thou givest every blessing Jesus-Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the KING O Lord God infinite 〈◊〉 power by whom thâ—… thrones of Kings are established and their Persons made sacred Take we beseech thee into thy immediate and divine protection thine Anointed Servant the King that no Sacrilegious prophane hand come near to touch him in all his wayes let thy Spirit guide him and thy holy Angels pitch their Tâ—…s about him Comfort him in his troubles defend him in his dangers support him in his Cause blesse him in the confusion of all those that rise up against him shew some token on him even now O God when the Sons of Violence are in the highest of their Pride when they have joyned Nation â—…o Nation Covenant to Covenant and Army to Army to â—…ull down him whom thou â—…ast exalted and to Root out â—…hat Religion which thine own â—…ght hand hath planted Deâ—…t their purposes O thou preserver of men and let not their mischievous imaginations â—…ny longer prosper but blast â—…ll their Counsells wither away their Armies like grasse â—…orched by the Sun bow down a last their stiff necks and obdurate hearts to a desire of that Peace which hath so long been 〈◊〉 abomination to them That this miserable Nation may no further pursue their own Ruine â—…d take pleasure in shedding their own blood but being by so many bitter punishments made sensible of thy Anger for this unnaturall division may at last be reduced within their first obedience to the glory of thy Name the vindication of oâ—… defamed Religion the joy 〈◊〉 our afflicted King and the hapâ—… pinesse of this yet bleedinâ—… Kingdom And confirm all thâ—… to us O Lord by the merits and through the mediation oâ—… thine own dear Son Jesus Chrisâ—… our Lord Amen A Prayer for the preservation of the University and City of Oxford O Almighty God who are the only sure
satisfaction of our own private lusts by neglecting acts of Charity and doing as we would be done to and not doing our duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased thee to call us We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By our want and neglect of those necessary Christian duties of humiliation and godly sorrow for sins of due indignation and revenge upon ourselves for them of confessing and forsaking of restitution and satisfaction to others and by not bringing forth fruits worthy of repentance we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By impatience under thy correcting hand by not endeavouring our amendment by it in reflecting upon our own sins as the Causes of it by despising thy chastisements in not rejoycing in tribulations and not glorifying thee that hast counted us worthy to suffer for righteousnesse sake We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By fretting ourselves because of the ungodly and being envious against the evill doers by not loving our enemies not blessing them that curse us not doing good to them that hate us nor praying for those that despightfully use us and persecute us We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By presuming to do evill that good may come thereon by placing piety in opinion by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels in scrupling at things indifferent and making no conscience of known sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By running into open prophanesse under colour of avoiding superstition by guiding our conscience by humours and fancies and not by the certain rules of thy Law by having itching ears and heaping to our selves teachers and by having mens persons in admiration because of advantage We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from these and from our secret sins Try us O good God and search the ground of our hearts prove us and examine our thoughts and look well if thâ—…re be any other way of wickednesse in us and lead us in the way everlasting A Prayer for forgiveness O Almighty and most mercifull Father who art the Lord God mercifull and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands and forgiving iniquity transgressions and sins Look down upon us with thy compassionate eyes who are here before thee in the bitternesse of our soules and doe now with troubled spirits with broken and with contrite hearts most humbly beg pardon for these multitudes of our offences Look we humbly beseech thee upon the blood of thy sonne which speaks better things then that of Abell for his sake spare us Lord spare thy people that these sins rise not up against us for his passions sake expose us not for a prey to their cruell hands who would both devoure and deride us R. Spare us Lord spare thy people for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull to all these our sins through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen 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 ly 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 Amen O Lord open thou our lips And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise 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 LAMENTATIONS out of Jeremy the Prophet LOok down O LORD in the Bowels of thy pitty and lend a tender ear unto the voice of our Lamentations 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 that 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 entred into and have prophaned thy sanctuaries They have seen us low and they have mocked at our Sabboaths our solemn feasts are become their scorn and our devotions their derision O Lord behold our afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself Thou art become our Enemy thou hast increased among us Mourning and Lamentation because thou hast despised in the indignation of thine anger both the King and the Priest See O Lord and consider for we are become very vile All our people sigh The yoak of our transgressions is bound by thy hand they are wreathed and come up upon our necks thou hast made our strength to faile thou hast delivered it into their hands from whom we are not able to rise up Thou hast troden us as in a Winepresse our enemies heare our trouble and they are glad thou hast done it Behold O Lord for we are in distresse Our bowels are troubled our heart is turned within us for we have grievously Rebelled abroad the sword devoureth at home there is 〈◊〉 death Our enemies have opened their mouth against us they hiss and they gnash their Teeth they say We have swallowed them up certainly this is the day that we looked for we have found we have seen it Thus are we in derision all the day long Wee are become their Song and their Musick O Lord behold our afflictions fâ—… the enemy hath magnified himself They have cryed unto us depart ye ye are unclean depart depart touch not yea theâ—… men have said they shall no more soâ—…ourn here O Lord behold our afflictions for the enemy hath magnified himself The breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord is taken in 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 this and behold our afflictions for the enemy hath very highly magnified himself Thus do we call to minde our afflictions and our miseries the Wormwood and the Gall our souls have them in remembrace 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 faile not They are new every morning great is his faithfulnesse For the Lord will not cast off for ever but though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his Mercies For he doth not afflict willingly nor