MORNING PRAYER PLead thou my cause O Lord with them that strive with me and fight thou against them that fight against me 2 Lay hand upon the shield and buckler and stand up to help me 3 Bring forth the spear and stop the way against them that persecute me say unto my soul I am thy salvation 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul let them be turned back and brought to confusion that imagine mischief for me 5 Let them be as the dust before the winde and the Angell of the Lord scattering them 6 Let their way be dark and slippery and let the Angell of the Lord persecute them 7 For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause yea even without a cause have they made a pit for my soul 8 Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares and his net that he hath laid privily catch himselfe that he may fall into his own mischiefe 9 And my soul be ioyfull in the Lord it shall reioyce in his salvation 10 All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him yea the poore and him that is in misery from him that spoyleth him 11 False witnesse did rise up they laid to my charge things that I knew not 12 They rewarded me evill for good to the great discomfort of my soul 13 Neverthelesse when they were sick I put on sackcloth and humbled my soul with fasting and my prayer shall turn into mine own bosome 14 I behaved my selfe as though it had been my friend or my brother I went heavily as one that mourneth for his mother 15 But in mine adversity they reioyced and gathered them together yea the very abjects came together against me unawares making mowes at me and ceased not 16 With the flatterers were busy mockers which gnashed upon me with their teeth 17 Lord how long wilt thou look upon this O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me and my darling from the lions 18 Sâ— will I give thee thankes in the great congregation I will praise thee among much people 19 O let not them that are mine enemies triumph over mee ungodly neither let them wink with their eyes that hate me without a cause 20 And why their communing is not for peace but they imagine deceitfull words against them that are quiet in the land 21 They gaped on me with their mouthes and said Fie on thee fie on thee we saw it with our eyes 22 This thou hast seen O Lord hold not thy tongue then goe not farre from me O Lord. 23 Awake and stand up to iudge my quarrells avenge thou my cause my God and my Lord. 24 Iudge me O Lord my God according to thy righteousnesse and let them not triumph over mee 25 Let them not say in their hearts There there so would we have it neither let them say we have devoured him 26 Let them be put to confusion and shame together that reioyce at my trouble let them be cloathed with rebuke and dishonour that boast themselves against me 27 Let them be glad and reioyce that favour my righteous dealing yea let them say alway Blessed be the Lord which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant 28 And as for my tongue it shall be talking of thy righteousnesse and of thy praise all the day long The Prayer O Lord our God who art the shield of the oppressed and the Buckler of all that trust in thee deliverus from all the assaults and intendments of our Enemies against us who without cause make pits for our Soules let the Angel of the Lord scatter all their mischievous imaginations least they triumph over us and say we have devoured them strive thou with them that strive with us and fight against them that fight against us Preserve us in innocency that we neither sinne against thee nor doe injustice to them and restore us to our Peace so shall we talk of thy righteousnesse and thy praise all the day long and give thee thankes in the great congregation of Saints because thou hast pleasure in the prosperity of thy servants and hast redeemed them from the hands of their Enimies through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 36. A Prayer desiring the joyes of Heaven the blessings of Eternity MY heart sheweth me the wickednesse of the ungodly that there is no feare of God before his eyes 2 For he flattereth himselfe in his own sight untill his abominable sinne be found out 3 The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit he hath left off to behave himselfe wisely and to do good 4 He imagineth mischief upon his bed and hath set himself in no good way neither doth he abhorre any thing that is evill 5 Thy mercy O Lord reacheth unto the heavens and thy faithfulnesse unto the clouds 6 Thy righteousnesse standeth like the strong mountains thy iudgements are like the great deep 7 Thou Lord shalt save both man and beast how excellent is thy mercy O God and the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings 8 They shall be satisfied with the plenteousnes of thy house and thou shalt give them drink of thy pleasures as out of the river 9 For with thee is the well of life and in thy light shall we see light 10 O continue forth thy loving kindnesse unto them that know thee and thy righteousnesse unto them that are true of heart 11 O let not the foot of pride come against me and let not the hand of the ungodly cast me down 12 There are they fallen all that work wickednesse they are cast down and shall not be able to stand The Prayer O God whose mercy reacheth unto the Heavens and thy righteousnesse unto the clouds teach us to abhorre every thing that is evill and to set our selves in every good way that thy feare being alwaies before our eyes and our trust being under the shadow of thy wings thou maist continue forth thy loving kindnesse to us all the daies of our life that at last we may be satisfied with the plenteousnesse of thy house and may drinke down rivers of pleasures deriving from thee the eternall fountain and well of life and in the light of thy Countenance may see everlasting light through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 37. A Prayer that we may trust and delight in God and that our lot may be amongst the godly and not in the seeming prosperity of the wicked EVENING PRAYER FRet not thy selfe because of the ungodly neither be thou envious against the evill doers 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grasse and be withered even as the green hearb 3 Put thou thy trust in the Lord and be doing good dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed 4 Delight thou in the Lord and he shall give thee thy hearts desire 5
seen O God how thou goest how thou my God and King goest in the sanctuarie 25 The singers go before the Minâ—treâ—s follow after in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels 26 Giue thanks O Israel unto God the Lord in the congregations from the ground of the heart 27 There is little Beniamin their ruler and the princes of Iuda their counsell the princes of Zabulon and the princes of Nephthali 28 Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in us 29 For thy temples sake at Ierusalem so shall Kings bring presents unto thee 30 When the company of the spear-men and multitude of the mighty are scattered abroad among the beasts of the people so that they humbly bring pieces of silver and when he hath scattered the people that delight in warre 31 Then shall the Princes come out of Egypt the Morians land shall soon stretch out her hands unto God 32 Sing unto God O ye kingdomes of the earth O sing praises unto the Lord. 33 Which sitteth in the Heavens over all from the beginning lo he doth send out his voice yea and that a mighty voice 34 Ascribe ye the power to God over Israel his worship and strength is in the clouds 35 O God wonderfull art thou in thy holy places even the God of Israel he will giue strength and power unto his people blessed be God The Prayer O Lord God mighty and mercifull thou ridest upon the heavens as it were upon an horse thou art the Father of the Fatherlesse and defendest the cause of the widdow have merey upon thy holy Church and since her Lord and Spouse is gone up on high even to his holy habitation leave us not comfortiesse but send the holy Ghost in assistances and gifts to dwell amongst us that by his ayd we may escape death spirituall and the bitternesse of the temporall Send a gracious raine even the dew of thy Divine favours upon thine inheritance to refresh us in our wearinesse and sadnesses Make thy people innocent chast as the dove and besides the beauty of internall sanctity let thy Church be covered with silver wings and her feathers like gold decked and assisted with exteriour advantages as may best promote thy honour and the services of Religion Let all the Princes and lands of the earth stretch their hands out unto thee O God and confesse thy mightinesse and thy honour that the Gospell going forth into all lands peace and all thy blessings may follow it and thy praise be multiplyed from generation to generation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 69. A Prayer in times of persecution for the cause of Religion EVENING PRAYER SAve me O God for the waters are come in even unto my soul 2 I stick fast in the deep mire where no ground is I am come into deep waters so that the flouds run over me 3 I am weary of crying my throat is drie my fight faileth me for waiting so long upon my God 4 They that hate me without a cause are moe then the haires of my head they that are mine enemies and would destroy me guiltlesse are mighty 5 I payed them the things that I never took God thou knowest my simplenesse and my faults are not hid from thee 6 Let not them that trust in thee O Lord God of hosts be ashamed for my cause let not those that seek thee be confounded through me O Lord God of Israel 7 And why for thy sake haue I suffered reproof shame hath covered my face 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren even an aliant unto my mothers children 9 For the zeal of thy house hath even eaten me and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen upon me 10 I wept and chastened my self with fasting and that was turned to my reproof 11 I put on sackcloth also and they iested upon me 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me and the drunkards make songs upon me 13 But Lord I make my prayer unto thee in an acceptable time 14 Heare me O God in the multitude of thy mercy even in the truth of thy salvation 15 Take me out of the mire that I sink not oh let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters 16 Let not the water-floud drowne me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me 17 Heare me O Lord for thy loving kindnesse is comfortable turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies 18 And hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble oh hast thee and heare me 19 Draw nigh unto my soul and save it oh deliver me because of mine enemies 20 Thou hast known my reproof my shame and my dishonour mine adversaries are all in thy sight 21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart I am full of heavinesse I looked for some to haue pity on me but there was no man neither found I any to comfort me 22 They gave me gall to eat and when I was thirsty they gave me vineger to drink 23 Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withall and let the things that should haue been for their wealth be unto them an occasion of falling 24 Let their eyes be blinded that they see not and ever bow down their backs 25 Poure out thine indignation upon them let thy wrathfull displeasure take hold of them 26 Let their habitation be void and no man to dwell in their tents 27 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded 28 Let them fall from one wickednesse to another and not come into thy righteousnesse 29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living and not be written among the righteous 30 As for me when I am poor and in heavinesse thy help O God shall lift me up 31 I will praise the name of God with a song and magnify it with thanksgiving 32 This also shall please the Lord better then a bullock that hath hornes and hoofs 33 The humble shall consider this and be glad seek ye after God and your soul shall live 34 For the Lord heareth the poore and despiseth not his prisoners 35 Let heaven and earth praise him the sea and all that moveth therein 36 For God will save Sion and build the Cities of Iuda that men may dwell there and have it in possession 37 The posterity also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein The Prayer O Blessed Iesu whose loving kindnesse is comfortable who for our sakes didst tast vineger and gall that thou mightest redeeme us from the bitternesse of death and sinne and establish to thy selfe a Church in holy Religion and defend it with thy favour and power have mercy upon thy servants who suffer from the hands of their Enemies
health thou hast covered my head in the day of battle 8 Let not the ungodly have his desire O Lord let not his mischievous imagination prosper least they be too proud 9 Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them that compasse me about 10 Let hot burning coales fall upon them let them be cast into the fire and into the pit that they never rise up again 11 A man full of words shall not prosper upon the earth evill shall hunt the wicked person to overthrow him 12 Sure I am that the Lord will avenge the poore and maintain the cause of the helplesse 13 The righteous also shall give thankes unto thy name and the iust shall continue in thy sight The Prayer O Lord God thou strength of our health thou that avengest the poore and maintainest the cause of the helples deliver us ô Lord preserve us from the evill wicked man that neither hiâ— example may corrupt us nor his counsels mislead us nor his prosperity scandalize us nor his strife disquiet us nor his mischiefe disturb our safety but do thou cover our heads in the day of battle and contestation against all our bodily and ghostly enemies that although they hunt us to overthrow us yet we may prosper upon earth under thy favour and protection and at last being removed from all fears an sadnesse and dangers may continue in thy sight amongst the Congregation of the just for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 141. A Prayer for the virtue of religion for holynesse of life and for deliverance for the snares of our enemies LOrd I call upon thee hast thee unto me and consider my voyce when I cry unto thee 2 Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice 3 Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and keep the doore of my lips 4 O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickednesse least I eat of such things as please them 5 Let the righteous rather smite me friendly and reprove me 6 But let not their precious balms break mine head yea I will pray yet against their wickednesse 7 Let their iudges be overthrown in stony places that they may hear my words for they are sweet 8 Our bones lie scattered before the pit like as when one breaketh and heweth wood upon the earth 9 But mine eyes look unto thee O Lord God in thee is my trust O cast not out my soul 10 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me and from the traps of the wicked doers 11 Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together and let me ever escape them The Prayer O Lord our trust and confidence hast thee unto us and consider our voyce when we call upon thee in our trouble and necessity let our prayers ascend up unto thee as incense and â—e as the savour of the evening and the morning sacrifice We begge of thee nothing but grace and power to fulfill thy will let not our hearts be inclined to any evill set a watch O Lord before our mouth and keep the doore of our lips let us not be busied in ungodly workes that we may never offend in our thoughts or words or actions and when we do amisse do thou smite us friendly and reprove us with the checks of a tender conscience that thy fatherly correction may like precious balme cure all the wounds made by our own infirmities that we escaping all the snares of wickednesse may for ever heare and obey thy sweet words and our soules may never be cast out of thy presence but for ever may rejoyce in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 142. A Prayer in all sadnesse and in the houre of death EVENING PRAYER I Cried unto the Lord with my voice yea even unto the Lord did I make my supplication 2 I poured out my complaints before him and shewed him of my trouble 3 When my spirit was in heavinesse thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me 4 I looked also upon my right hand and saw there was no man that would know me 5 I had no place to flee unto and no man cared for my soul 6 I cryed unto thee O Lord and said Thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the living 7 Consider my complaint for I am brought very low 8 O deliver me from my persecutors for they are too strong for me 9 Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks unto thy name which thing if thou wilt grant me then shall the righteous resort unto my company The Prayer O Lord God thou art our hope and our portion in the land of the living consider our complaint and misery thou art our place to flee unto thou only art our sanctuary O hide us under the covert of thy wings keep us from all the dangers which multiply upon us when our spirits are in heavinesse and our bodies pressed with infirmities be thou alwaies at our right hand and assist us so with the strength of thy grace that out temptations our enemies not being above our strength deriv'd from thee our soul may with confidence go forth of prison and give eternall thanks unto thy name in the companies of the Righteous through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 143. A Prayer that God would pardon our sinnes and direct us in the way of righteousnesse HEare my prayer O Lord and consider my desire hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousnesse sake 2 And enter not into iudgement with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be iustified 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul he hath smitten my life down to the ground he hath laid me in the darknesse as the men that have been long dead 4 Therefore is my spirit vexed within me and my heart within me is desolate 5 Yet do I remember the time past I muse upon all thy works yea I exercise my selfe in the works of thy hands 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee my soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land 7 Hear me O Lord and that soon for my spirit waxeth faint hide not thy face from me leâ—t I be like unto them that go down into the pit 8 O let me hear thy loving kindnesse betimeâ— in the morning for in thee is my trust shew thoâ— me the way that I should walk in for I lift up mâ— soul unto thee 9 Deliver me O Lord from mine enemies for I flee unto thee to hide me 10 Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee for thou art my God let thy loving spirit lead me forth into the land of righteousnesse 11 Quicken me O Lord for thy names sake and for thy righteousnesse sake bring my soul
will I lift up my soul My God I have put my trust in thee O let me not be confounded neither let mine enemies triumph over me 2 For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed but such as transgresse without a cause shall be put to confusion 3 Shew me thy wayes O Lord and teach me thy paths 4 Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my salvation in thee hath been my hope all the day long 5 Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesse which hath been ever of old 6 Oh remember not the sinnes and offences of my youth but according to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodnesse 7 Gratious and righteous is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way 8 Them that be meek shall he guide in iudgement and such as be gentle them shall he learn his way 9 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies 10 For thy names sake O Lord be mercifull unto my sinne for it is great 11 What man is he that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose 12 His soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the land 13 The secret of the Lord is among them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant 14 Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net 15 Turne thee unto me and have mercy upon mee for I am desolate and in misery 16 The sorrowes of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles 17 Look upon mine adversity and misery and forgive me all my sinne 18 Consider mine enemies how many they are and they bear a tyrannous hate against me 19 O keep my soul and deliver me let me not be confounded for I have put my trust in thee 20 Let perfectnesse and righteous dealing wait upon me for my hope hath been in thee 21 Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles The Prayer OGratious and Righteous Lord God who art the guide of the meek and teachest the humble and gentle in thy way forgive the sinnes and offences of our youth and although by them we have deserved thy wrath and that we be put to confusion yet be pleased to think upon us for thy goodnesse and according to thy mercy that when thou hast forgiven us all our sinne and taken away our adversity and all our misery thou maist keep our soules in perfectnesse and righteous dealing that at last we may dwell at ease free from trouble and safe from all our enemies even when we shall inherit the land of everlasting â—est where thou livest and raignest eternall God world without end AMEN PSALME 26. A Prayer of preparation to the holy Sacrament and to death BE thou my judge O Lord for I haue walked innocently my trust hath been also in the Lord therefore shall I not fall 2 Examine me O Lord and prove me try out my reins and my heart 3 For thy loving kindnesse is ever before mine eyes and I will walk in thy truth 4 I haue not dwelt with vain persons neither will I haue fellowship with the deceitfull 5 I haue hated the congregation of the wicked and will not sit among the ungodly 6 I will wash my hands in innocency O Lord and so will I go to thine altar 7 That I may shew the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works 8 Lord I haue loved the habitation of thy house the place where thine honour dwelleth 9 O shut not up my soul with the sinners nor my life with the bloud-thirsty 10 In whose hands is wickednesse and their right hands are full of gifts 11 But as for me I will walk innocently O Lord deliver me and be mercifull unto me 12 My foot standeth right I will praise the Lord in the congregations The Prayer O Lord our Iudge whose loving kindnesse is great and alwayes before our eyes manifested in the abundant acts of thy grace and providence make us to love and frequent all the actions ministeries and conveyances of thy graces to us especially thy holy Sacraments O deare God endue our Soules with faith and charity and holy penitence that our hands hearts our Soules and bodies being washed in innocency and pennance we may go to thy holy Table and may in the whole course of our life walk righteously and in obedience to thee that in this world hating the congregation of the wicked and the fellowship of the deceitfull and vaine persons at last our Soules may not be shutup with sinners nor our lives with the bloud-thirsty but we may have our portion in the eternall habitation of thy house where thine honour dwelleth and reigneth world without end Amen PSALME 27. A Prayer that being freed from our Enemies we may attend the services of Religion and serve God in his holy Temple EVENING PRAYER THe Lord is my light and my salvation whom then shall I feare the Lord is the strength of my life of whom then 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 of men were laid against me yet shall not my heart be afraid and though there rose up Warre against me yet will I put my trust in him 4 One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will require even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the fair beautie of the Lord and to visit his Temple 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me and set me up upon a rock of stone 6 And now shall he lift up mine head above mine enemies round about me 7 Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladnesse I will sing and speak praises unto the Lord. 8 Hearken unto my voice O Lord when I cry unto thee have mercy upon me hear me 9 My heart hath talked of thee seek ye my face thy face Lord will I seek 10 O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast thy servant away in displeasure 11 Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation 12 When my father and my mother forsake me the Lord taketh me up 13 Teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in the right way because of mine enemies 14 Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries for there are false witnesses risen up against me and such as speak wrong 15 I should utterly haue fainted but that I beleeve verily to see the goodnes of the Lord in the land of the living 16 O tarry thou the Lords leisure be strong and he
people and such as will not beleeve shall not be able to exalt themselues 7 O praise our God ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard 8 Which holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to slip 9 For thou O God hast proved us thou also hast tried us like as silver is tried 10 Thou broughtest us into the snare and lapedst trouble upon our loyns 11 Thou sufferedst men to ride over our heads we went through fire and water and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place 12 I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings and will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble 13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices with the incense of rammes I will offer bullocks and goats 14 O come hither and hearken all ye that fear God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul 15 I called unto him with my mouth and gave him praises with my tongue 16 If I encline unto wickednesse with my heart the Lord will not heare me 17 But God hath heard me and considered the voice of my prayer 18 Praised be God which hath not cast out my prayer nor turned his mercy from me The Prayer O Lord God who art wonderfull in thy workes in thy doings towards the children of men thou chastisest every one whom thou receivest proving us and trying us like as silver is tryed let thy mercifull hands lead us through the fire of afflictions and the waters of temporall chastisements so as we may not be consumed with the flames of thy wrath nor the waters go over our soules but that we being sustained by the comforts of thy spirit and refreshed with the dew of thy graces we may at last be brought out into a wealthy place even the place of eternall treasures O give us thy grace that our hearts incline not to wickednesse and that our feet slip not that so we regarding thy lawes and having respect to obey thy holy will and pleasure thou mayest heare our prayers the greatnesse of thy power may cast down all our Enemies that they may never be able to exalt themselves that while thou holdest our soules in life we may never cease praising thee who hast never turn'd thy mercy from us through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 67. A Prayer that all men may blesse God and God may blesse all men GOd be mercifull unto us and blesse us and shew us the light of his countenance and be mercifull unto us 2 That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all Nations 3 Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee 4 O let the Nations reioyce and be glad for thou shalt iudge the folk righteously and govern the Nations upon earth 5 Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee 6 Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God eden our own God shall giue us his blessing 7 God shall blesse us and all the ends of the world shall fear him The Prayer O Lord God thou Governour of all Nations and the righteous Iudge of the whole earth be mercifull unto us and blesse us Thou makest the Sunne to shine upon all the corners of the habitable world giving his light both to the good and bad let the light of thy countenance diffuse it selfe to all Nations and to all men Lighten all our darknesses with the beames of thy divine favour teach thy wayes unto all the people of the earth and give thy saving health to all Nations that while all joyne with one consent to feare thee and to give thee praises thou mayest governe us all in peace righteousnesse and when thou shalt come to judge us we may receive thy everlasting mercies Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our only Mediator and Advocate Amen PSALME 68. A Prayer for defence and propagation of the Catholike Church MORNING PRAYER LEt God arise and let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him 2 Like as the smoke vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away and like as wax melteth at the fire so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God 3 But let the righteous be glad and reioyce before God let them also be merry and ioyfull 4 O sing unto God and sing praises unto his name magnifie him that rideth upon the Heavens as it were upon an horse praise him in his name yea and reioyce before him 5 He is a father of the fatherlesse and defendeth the cause of the widowes even God in his holy habitation 6 He is the God that maketh men to be of one minde in an house and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity but letteth the runnagates continue in scarcenesse 7 O God when thou wentest forth before the people when thou wentest through the wildernesse 8 The earth shook and the heavens dropped at the presence of God even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God which is the God of Israel 9 Thou O God sentest a gracious rain upon thine inheritance and refreshedst it when it was weary 10 Thy congregation shall dwell therein for thou O God hast of thy goodnesse prepared for the poore 11 The Lord gaue the word great was the company of the preachers 12 Kings with their Armies did flee and were discomfited and they of the houshold divided the spoil 13 Though ye haue lien among the pots yet shall ye be as the wings of a doâ—e that is covered with silver wings and her feathers like gold 14 When the Almightie scattered Kings for their sake then were they as white as snow in Salmon 15 As the hill of Basan so is Gods hill even an high hill as the hill of Basan 16 Why hop ye so ye high hills this is Gods hill in the which it pleaseth him to dwell yea the Lord will abide in it for ever 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand even thousands of Angels and the Lord is among them as in the holy place of Sinai 18 Thou art gone up on high thou hast led captivity captive and received gifts for men yea even for thine enemies that the Lord God might dwell among them 19 Praised be the Lord daily even the God which helpeth us poureth his benefits upon us 20 He is our God even the God of whom cometh salvation God is the Lord by whom we escape death 21 God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickednesse 22 The Lord hath said I will bring my people again as I did from Basan mine own will I bring again as I did sometime from the deep of the sea 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the bloud of thine enemies and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the same 24 It is well
timber asore out of the thick trees was known to bring it to an excellent work 7 But now they break down all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers 8 They have set fire upon thy holy places and have defiled the dwelling place of thy name even unto the ground 9 Yea they said in their hearts Let us make havock of them altogether thus have they burnt up all the houses of God in the land 10 We see not our tokens there is not one prophet more no not one is there among us that understandeth any more 11 O God how long shall the adversarie do this dishonour how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever 12 Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosome to consume the enemy 13 For God is my King of old the help that is done upon earth he doth it himself 14 Thou diddest divide the sea through thy power thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters 15 Thou smotest the heads of leviathan in pieces and gavest him to be meat for the people in the wildernesse 16 Thou broughtest out fountains and waters out of the hard rocks thou driedst up mighty waters 17 The day is thine and the night is thine thou hast prepared the light and the sunne 18 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast made summer and winter 19 Remember this O Lord how the enemy hath rebuked and how the foolish people have blasphemed thy name 29 O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the multitude of the enemies and forget not the congregation of the poor for ever 21 Look upon the covenant for all the earth is full of darknesse and cruell habitations 22 Oh let not the simple go away ashamed but let the poor and needy give praise unto thy name 23 Arise O God maintain thine own cause remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily 24 Forget not the voyce of thine enemies the presumption of them that hate thee increaseth ever more and more The Prayer O Lord God Blessed Iesu who with thy precious blood hast purchased to thy selfe and redeemed a Church that it should serve thee in holinesse righteousnesse being delivered from feare of all their adversaries forget not the congregation of thy poor people for ever maintaine thine owne cause deliver the soule of thy Turtle dove from the multitude of her enemies Preserve with thy right band all the places appointed for thy publike service let a guard of flaming Cherubins as at the gate of Paradise stand sentinell and keep from the invasions of sacrilegious persons the pollutions of all impure Church-robbers all thy dwelling places that thou mayest for ever dwell among us defending the poore bringing help to all thy people and particular blessings assistances to the tribe of thine owne inheritance which thou hast sanctified to thy worship and service through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 75. A Prayer against the terrors of the day of Judgement MORNING PRAYER VNto thee O God doe we give thanks yea unto thee doe we giue thankes 2 Thy name also is so nigh and that doe thy wondrous workes declare 3 When I receiue the congregation I shall iudge according unto right 4 The earth is weak and all the inhabiters thereof I bear up the pillars of it 5 I said unto the fools Deal not so madly and to the ungodly Set not up your horn 6 Set not up your horn on high and speak not with a stiffe neck 7 For promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor yet from the South 8 And why God is the iudge he putteth down one and setteth up another 9 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is full mixt and he poureth out of the same 10 As for the dregs thereof all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them and suck them out 11 But I will talk of the God of Iacob and praise him for ever 12 All the horns of the ungodly also will I break and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted The Prayer O Lord God the Iudge of all the world from whom commeth all promotion and all punishment have mercy upon us now at the houre of death and in the day of Iudgement when thou shalt judge all the congregations of men and Angells according unto right ô give us grace to expect thy comming in humility and charity that we be not stiffe-necked and exalted in our owne opinions and conceptions but may submit to thy yoke with meeknesse and obedience that when thou shalt poure forth the cup of thy vengeance upon the ungodly we may not drinke or tast of the dregs of it but may sit downe at thy Table in the Supper of the Lamb and be satisfied with the blessings of eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 76. A Prayer that we may feare Gods Iudgements and be freed from the terrors of men IN Iury is God known his name is great in Israel 2 At Salem is his tabernacle and his dwelling in Sion 3 There brake â—e the arrows of the bow the shield the sword and the battell 4 Thou art of more honour and might then the hills of the robbers 5 The proud are robbed they haue slept their sleep and all the men whose hands were mighty haue found nothing 6 At thy rebuke O God of Iacob both the chariot and horse are fallen 7 Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry 8 Thou didst cause thy iudgement to be heard from heaven the earth trembled and was still 9 When God arose to iudgement and to help all the meek upon earth 10 The fiercenesse of man shall turn to thy praise and the fiercenesse of them shalt thou refraine 11 Promise unto the Lord your God and keep it all ye that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared 12 He shall refrain the spirit of Princes and is wonderfull among the Kings of the earth The Prayer O Lord God whose dwelling is in heaven and thy Name is great in all the world plant the dread and reverence of thee and thy power in our hearts let thy threatnings and thy judgements which are heard from heaven and executed upon disobedient and gainsaying people make us to tremble at the remembrance of our sinnes and in the consideration of our weakenesses and demerits and let thy mercies and the remembrance of thy infinite loving kindnesses make our hearts still full of evenesse tranquillity that we may not feare the fiercenesse of man or the wrath of those whose Spirits thou canst refraine least we be disturbed in our duties towards thee but let us so feare thee that we may never offend against thee but may passe from feare to love from apprehensions of thy wrath to the sense and comforts of thy mercies
those that are appoynted to die 13 And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee reward thou them O Lord seven fold into their bosome 14 So we that be thy people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord God of thine inheritance who conveyest many blessings to the children of men by the prayers and ministery of thy Church let our Prayers obtain of thee mercies and deliverances for her O Lord thou hast planted thy Church in the humility and poverty and death of thy Sonne thou hast watered it with the blood of thy Apostles and Martyrs thou hast made it flourish and spread forth its branches by the warmth and heate and graces of thy holy spirit and hast according to thy promise still preserved it in the midst of all enmities and disadvantages Thy Lawes and righteous commandements have been a scorn and derision to Iewes and Gentiles the flesh of thy servants have been meat for the beasts of the Land and still she weares the purple robe of mockery and the crowne of thornes which at first she took from the head and side of her Dearest Lord At last O Lord be gratious unto thine inheritance help us ô God of our salvation for the glory of thy Name let not thine enemies devour the Church and lay wast her dwelling places be mercifull unto our sinnes preserve all those that by malice of their enemies are appoynted to death or prison or any other misery let us still enjoy the freedom of thy Gospell the food of thy word the sweet refreshings of thy Sacraments publike Communions in thy Church and all the benefits of the society of Saints and let not our sinnes cause thee to remove the Candlestick from us but make thy people and the sheep of thy pasture secure and glad in thy salvation that we may shew forth thy praise in this world and in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 80. A Prayer for the Church HEare O thou Shepheard of Israel thou that leadest Ioseph like a sheep shew thy self also thou that sittest upon the cherubims 2 Before Ephraim Beniamin and Manasses stirre up thy strength and come and help us 3 Turn us again O God shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 4 O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears and givest them plenteousnesse of tears to drink 6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh us to scorn 7 Turn us again thou God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it 9 Thou madest room for it and when it had taken root it filled the land 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees 11 She stretched out her branches unto the sea and her boughs unto the river 12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedge that all they that go by pluck off her grapes 13 The wild bore out of the wood doth root it up and the wild beasts of the field devoure it 14 Turn thee again thou God of hosts look down from heaven behold and visit this vine 15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest so strong for thy self 16 It is burnt with fire and cut down and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the sonne of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self 18 And so will not we go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy name 19 Turn us again O Lord God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole The Prayer O Thou shepheard of Israel thou that sittest upon the Cherubims stirre up thy strength and come and help thy people that prayeth unto thee for mercy and protection Thou hast made affliction the portion of thy Children in this life thou feedest them with bread of teares and givest them plenteousnesse of teares to drinke yet be pleased to shew the light of thy countenance upon us to lighten our darknesses to relieve our miseries to heal our sicknesses and let not thy Church become a strife unto her neighbours but reunite her divisions and make her not a prey to them that would devoure her and then laugh her to scorne O Lord hedge her about with thy mercies with the custody of Angels with the patronage of Kings and Princes with the hearts and hands of Nobles and the defence of the whole secular arme least the wild beasts of the field pluck off her grapes destroy the vintage and root up the vine it selfe but let her so flourish under the beams of thy favour and providence that it may take root and spread and fill all lands that the name of the man of thy right hand the God and Man Christ Iesus may be glorified thy Church enlarged and defended and we blessed with thy health and salvation Grant this O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 81. A festivall song and a Prayer for the grace and blessings of obedience to Gods Lawes SIng we merrily unto God our strength make a cheerfull noise unto the God of Iacob 2 Take the psalme bring hither the tabret the merry harp with the lute 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon even in the time appoynted and upon our solemne feast day 4 For this was made a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Iacob 5 This he ordained in Ioseph for a testimony when he came out of the land of Egypt and had heard a strange language 6 I eased his shoulder from the burden and his hands were delivered from making the pots 7 Thou calledst upon me in troubles and I delivered thee and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon thee 8 I proved thee also at the waters of strife 9 Heare O my people and I will assure thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me 10 There shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any other god 11 I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I shall fill it 12 But my people would not heare my voyce and Israel would not obey me 13 So I gave them up unto their own hearts lust and let them follow their own imaginations 14 O that my people would have hearkned unto me for if Israel had walked in my wayes 15 I should soon have put down their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries 16
was borne thou art my God even from my mothers wombe 11 O go not from me for trouble is hard at hand and there is none to help me 12 Many oxen are come about mee fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side 13 They gape upon mee with their mouthes as it were a ramping and roaring lion 14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of ioynt my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melâ—ing wax 15 My strength is dried up like a pot-sheard and my tongue cleaveth to my gummes and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death 16 For many dogs are come about me and the counsell of the wicked layeth siege against mee 17 They pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they stand staring and looking upon me 18 They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture 19 But be not thou farre from me O Lorde thou art my succour hast thee to help me 20 Deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the dog 21 Save me from the lions mouth thou hast heard me also from among the hornes of the unicorns 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee 23 O praise the Lord ye that feare him magnifie him all ye of the seed of Iacob and feare him all ye seed of Israel 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poore he hath not hid his face from him but when he called unto him he heard him 25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation my vowes will I performe in the sight of them that fear him 26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied they that seek after the Lord shall praise him your heart shall live for ever 27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves and be turned unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him 28 For the Kingdom is the Lords and he is the governour among the people 29 All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped 30 All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him and no man hath quickned his own soule 31 My seed shall serve him they shall be couuted unto the Lord for a generation 32 They shall come and the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse unto a people that shall be born whom the Lord hath made The Prayer O Mercifull Iesu who for our sakes did'st suffer thy selfe to be betrayed tormented spitupon crucified and to dye that thou mightest purchase for us redemption from the sting of death the miseries of hell the malice and power of the Divell deliver our soules from the sword of thy Vengeance cut us not off by untimely death free our darling from the power of the dog our soules from being a prey unto the Divell snatch us out of the Lions mouth who goeth up and downe seeking whom he may devoure O Iesu be a Iesus unto us and let those victories which thou hast obtained over Satan and Hell and the grave bring us peace and Righteousnesse and a Crown of glory in the Heavens where thou livest and reignest in the great congregation of Saints and Angells one God world without end Amen PSALME 23. A prayer that God would guide and feed and support us as a sheapherd doth his flock THe Lord is my sheapherd therefore can I lack nothing 2 He shall feed me in a green pasture and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort 3 He shall convert my soul and bring me forth in the paths of righteousnesse for his names sake 4 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me 5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me thou hast anointed my head with oyle and my cup shall be full 6 But thy loving kindnesse and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of mylife I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou great Sheapherd and Bishop of our Soules let thy grace convert us let thy mercy guide us in the paths of righteousnesse feed us with thy Word and Sacraments refresh us with the comforts of thy Holy Spirit and in the whole course of our life which is nothing else but a valley of miseries and a shadow of death let thy rod correct us like a Father when we doe amisse and thy staffe support us in all our troubles and necessities O let thy loving kindnesse and mercy follow us all our daies that after this life we may dwell in thy house for ever where thou hast prepared a Table and a full cup of blessing for thy People and shalt anoynt their heads with the oyle of an eternall gladnesse in the fruition of thy glories ô blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 24. A Meditation upon the ascension of our Blessed Saviour and a Prayer for Sanctity that we may ascend where he is MORNING PRAYER THe earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compasse of the world and they that dwell therein 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas and prepared it upon the flouds 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord or who shall rise up in his holy place 4 Even he that hath clean hands and a pure heart and that hath not life up his mind unto vanity nor sworn to deceive his neighbour 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousnesse from the God of his salvation 6 This is the generation of them that seek him even of them that seek thy face O Iacob 7 Life up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 8 Who is the King of glory it is the Lord strong and mighty even the Lord mighty in battell 9 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 10 Who is the King of glory even the Lord of hosts he is the King of glory The Prayer O Blessed Iesu King of glory Lord of Hosts and King of all the Creatures to whom the everlasting doores were opened that thou mightest enter into thy Kingdome which thou didst open to all believers after thou hadst overcome the sharpnesse of death give us clean hands and a pure heart teach us to follow thy innocency to imitate thy sanctity that we may receive from thee our Lord the eternall rewards and blessings of righteousnesse and ascend thither whither thou ô God of our salvation art gone before who livest and raignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost eternall God world without end Amen PSALME 25. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for deliverance from Sinne and Punishment VNto thee O Lord