to arise 40 For he considered that they were but flesh and that they were even a winde that passeth away and cometh not again 41 Many a time did they provoke him in the wildernesse and grieved him in the desert 42 They turned back and tempted God and moved the holy One in Israel 43 They thought not of his hand and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy 44 How hee had wrought his miracles in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan 45 He turned their waters into bloud so that they might not drink of the rivers 46 He sent lice among them and devoured them up and frogs to destroy them 47 He gave their fruit unto the caterpiller and their labour unto the grashopper 48 He destroyed their vines with hailstones and their mulberry trees with the frost 49 He smote their cattell also with hailstones and their flocks with hot thunderbolts 50 He cast upon them the furiousnesse of his wrath anger displeasure and trouble and sent evil Angels among them 51 He made a way to his indignation and spared not their soul from death but gave their life over to the pestilence 52 And smote all the first-born in Egypt the most principall and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham. 53 But as for his own people hee led them forth like sheep and carried them in the wildernesse like a flock 54 He brought them out safely that they should not fear and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea 55 And brought them within the borders of his sanctuary even to his mountain which he purchased with his right hand 56 He cast out the heathen also before them caused their land to be divided among them for an heritage and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents 57 So they tempted and displeased the most high God and kept not his testimonies 58 But turned their backs and fell away like their forefathers starting aside like a broken bow 59 For they grieved him with their hill altars and provoked him to displeasure with their images 60 When God heard this he was wroth and took fore displeasure at Israel 61 So that he forsook the tabernacle in Silo even the tent that he had pitched among them 62 He delivered their power into captivity and their beauty into the enemies hand 63 He gave his people over also unto the sword and was wroth with his inheritance 64 The fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage 65 Their Priests were slain with the sword and there were no widows to make lamentation 66 So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep and like a Giant refreshed with wine 67 He smote his enemies in the hinder parts and put them to a perpetuall shame 68 He refused the tabernacle of Joseph and chose not the tribe of Ephraim 69 But chose the tribe of Juda even the hill of Sion which he loved 70 And there he builded his temple on high and laid the foundation of it like the ground which he hath made continually 71 He chose David also his servant and took him away from the sheepfolds 72 As he was following thâ— ewes great with young ones he took him that he might feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance 73 So he fed them with a faithfull and true heart and ruled them prudently with all his power The Prayer O Lord God of our Fathers God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob thou that leddest thy people through the Wildernesse with a light and with a cloud and with thy bright Angel for their sakes turning rocks into a springing well and making the Sea and the River become dry land so making demonstration of the greatnesse of thy mercy by the greatnesse of thy miracles and didst still go on to make all thy creatures leave their natures to serve them even then when they tempted and provoked thee ten times in the desert O be pleased to do unto us as thou didst to them lead us through the desert of this World with the light of thy holy Spirit and from the rock which for our sakes thou didst smite with thy heavy rod the rock Christ Jesus let water and bloud stream forth to cleanse and to refresh us Give us of the bread that came down from heaven the flesh of thy dear Son to eat that we being purified by his bloud and nourished by that celestiall Manna our hearts may be set aright and our spirits may cleave stedfastly unto thee O God that we may remember thy works and trust in thy mercies and may keep thy Commandements O never let the fire of thy wrath be kindled towards us nor thy heavy displeasure come up against us let us not consume our days in folly and vanity lest our years be spent in trouble but when through infirmity we fall let thy gentle correction call us home that we may turn us early and seek after thee our God who art our strength and our mercifull Redeemer that we may never feel the furiousnesse of thy eternall wrath nor have our portion amongst the evill Angels but may be conducted by thy mercies and providence to the border of thy sanctuary and to the mountain where thou reignest over all the creatures one God world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 79. A Prayer that God would deliver his Church from the cruelty of all her persecutors O God the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy temple have they defiled and made Jerusalem an heap of stones 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the airâ— and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the â—and 3 Their bloud have they shed like water on every side of Ierusalem and there was no man to bury them 4 Wee are become an open shame to our enemies a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us 5 Lord how long wilt thou be angry shall thy jealousie burn like fire for ever 6 Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that have not known thee and upon the Kingdomes that have not called upon thy name 7 For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his dwelling place 8 O remember not our old sinnes but have mercy upon us and that soone for we are come to great misery 9 Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull unto our sinnes for thy names sake 10 Wherefore do the heathen say Where is now their God 11 O let the vengeance of thy servants bloud that is shed be openly shewed upon the heathen in our sight 12 O let the sorrowfull sighing of the prisoners come before thee according to the greatnâ—sse of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die 13 And for the blasphemy wherewiâ—h our neighbours have blasphemed thee reward thou them O Lord seven fold into their bosome 14 So we that be thy
with thee but the remembrance of my sins doth so depresse my growing confidence that I am in a great straight between my fears and hopes between the infirmities of my nature and the better desires of conforming to thy holy will and pleasure O my dear Redeemer wean my soul and all my desires from the flatteries of this world pardon all my sins and consign so great a favour by the comforts and attestation of thy divinest Spirit that my own fears being mastered my sins pardoned my desires rectified as the Hart thirst after the springs of water so my soul may long after thee O God and to enter into thy Courts Heavenly Father if it may be for thy glory and my ghostly good to have the days of my pilgrimage prolonged I begge of thee health and life but if it be not pleasing to thee to have this cup passe from me thy will be done my Saviour hath drunk off all the bitternesse Behold O Lord I am in thine hands do with me as seemeth good in thine eyes though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onely who shalt make me to dwell in everlasting safety and to partake of the joys of thy Kingdom who livest and reignest eternall God world without end Amen IV. A Prayer for a sick person in danger of death O Lord Jesus Christ our health and life our hope and our resurrection from the dead I resign my self up to thy holy will and pleasure either to life that I may live longer to thy service and my amendment or to death to the perpetuall enjoyment of thy presence and of thy glories Into thy hands I commend my spirit for I know O Lord that nothing can perish which is committed to thy mercies I believe O Lord that I shall receive my body again at the resurrection of the just I relinquish all care of that onely I begge of thee mercy for my soul strengthen it with thy grace against all temptations let thy loving kindness defend it as with a shield against all the violences and hostile assaults of Satan let the same mercy be my guard and defence which protected thy Martyrs crowning them with victory in the midst of flames horrid torments and most cruell deaths There is no help in me O Lord I cannot by my own power give a minutes rest to my wearied body but my trust is in thy sure mercies and I call to minde to my unspeakable comfort that thou wert hungry and thirsty and wearied and whipt and crown'd with Thorns and mock'd and crucified for me O let that mercy which made thee suffer so much make thee do that for which thou sufferedst so much pardon me and save me Let thy merits answer for my impieties let thy righteousnesse cover my sins thy bloud wash away my stains and thy comforts refresh my soul. As my body grows weak let thy grace bestronger let not my faith doubt nor my hope tremble nor my charity grow cold nor my soul be affrighted with the terrors of death but let the light of thy countenance enlighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death eternall and when my tongue fails let thy spirit teach my heart to pray with strong cryings and groans that are unutterable O let not the enemy do me any violence but let thy holy mercies and thy Angels repell and defeat his malice and fraud that my soul may by thy strength triumph in the joyes of eternity in the fruition of thee my life my joy my hope my exceeding great reward my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen V. For a dying Person in or near the agonies of death MOst mercifull and Blessed Saviour have mercy upon the soul of this thy sâ—rvant remember not his ignorances nor the sins of his youth but according to thy great mercy remember him in the mercies and glories of thy Kingdome Thou O Lord hast opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers let the everlasting gates be open'd and receive his Soul let the Angels who rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner triumph and be exalted in his deliverance and salvation Make him partaker of the benefits of thy holy incarnation life and sanctity passion and death resurrection and ascension and of all the prayers of the Church of the joy of the elect and all the fruits of the blessed communion of Saints and daily adde to the number of thy beatified servants such as shall be saved that thy comming may be hastned and the expectation of the Saints may be fulfilled and the glory of thee our Lord Jesu bee advanced all the whole Church singing praises to the Honour of thy Name who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen VI. O Most mercifull Jesu who didst die to redeem us from death and damnation have mercy upon this thy servant whom thy hand hath visited with sicknesse of thy goodnesse be pleased to forgive him all his sinnes and seal his hopes of glory with the refreshments of thy holy Spirit Lord give him strength and confidence in thee asswage his pain repell the assaults of his Ghostly enemies by thy mercies and a guard of holy Angels preserve him in the unity of the Church keep his senses intire his understanding right give him great measure of contrition true faith a well grounded hope and abundant charity give him a quiet and a joyfull departure let thy ministring spirits convey his soul to the mansions of peace and rest there with certainty to expect a joyfull resurrection to the fulnesse of joy at thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore Amen VII A Prayer for the joyes of Heaven O Most glorious Jesu who art the portion and exceeding great reward of all faithfull people thou hast beautified humane Nature with glorious immortality and hast carried the same above all Heavens above the seat of Angels beyond the Cherubims and Seraphims placing it on the right hand of thy heavenly Father grant to us all the issues of thy abundant charity that we may live in thy fear and die in thy favour Prepare our souls with heavenly vertues for heavenly joys mâ—king us righteous here that we may be beautified hereafter A Morning Prayer In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Our Father which art in Heaven c. I. O Eternall Sun of righteousnesse who camest from the bosome of thy Father the Fountain of glorious light to enlighten the darknesses of the world I praise thy Name that thou hast preserved me from the dangers of this night and hast continued to me still the opportunities of serving thee and advancing my hopes of a blessed eternity Let thy mercies shine brightly upon me and dissipate the clouds and darknesses of my spirit and understanding rectifie my affections and purifie
Prayer PSALME 9. A Prayer of poore and oppressed people against their persecutors I Will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart I will speak of all thy marvellous works 2 I will be glad and rejoyce in thee yea my songs will I make of thy name O thou most Highest 3 While mine enemies are driven back they shall fall and perish at thy presence 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou art set in the throne that judgest right 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen and destroyed the ungodly thou hast put out their name for ever and ever 6 O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetuall end even as the cities which thou hast destroyed their memoriall is perished with them 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever hee hath also prepared his seat for judgement 8 For he shall judge the world in righteousnesse and minister true judgement unto the people 9 The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast never failed them that seeke thee 11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion shew the people of his doings 12 For when he maketh inquisition for blood he remembreth them and forgetteth not the complaint of the poore 13 Have mercy upon me O Lord consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me thou that liftest me up from the gates of death 14 That I may shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion I will rejoyce in thy salvation 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken 16 The Lord is known to execute judgement the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the people that forget God 18 For the poor shall not alway be forgotten the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever 19 Up Lord and let not man have the upper hand let the heathen be judged in thy sight 20 Put them in fear O Lord that the heathen may know themselves to be but men The Prayer O Lord God who art a defence for the oppressed and a refuge in due time of trouble have mercy upon us thy servants who are violently assaulted by enemies without and weaknesses and temptations within Thou never failest them that seek thee but lovest to hear the poor make their complaint unto thee in their trouble and art known to execute judgement upon them that oppresse them Pity us and look upon the trouble we suffer of them that hate us deliver us from the strivings of our adversaries lift us up from the gates of death that being safe under thy mercies and protection we may give thanks unto thee with our spirits and voices we may embrace thee with a lively faith fear thee with all our hearts serve thee with all our powers faculties both of soul and body all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 10. A Prayer to God in times of Persecution and Warre against the Church WHy standest thou so farre off O Lord and hidest thy face in the needfull time of trouble 2 The ungodly for his owne lust doth persecute the poor let them be taken in the crafty wilinesse that they have imagined 3 For the ungodly hath made boast of his own hearts desire and speaketh good of the covetous whom God abhorreth 4 The ungodly is so proud that he careth not for God neither is God in all his thoughts 5 His wayes are alway grievous thy judgements are far above out of his sight and therefore defieth he all his enemies 6 For he hath said in his heart Tush I shall never be cast down there shall no harm happen unto me 7 His mouth is full of cursing deceit and fraud under his tongue is ungodlinesse and vanity 8 Hee sitteth lurking in the theevish corners of the streets and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent his eyes are set against the poor 9 For he lieth waiting secretly even as a lion lurketh he in his den that he may ravish the poor 10 He doth ravish the poor when he getteth him into his net 11 He falleth down and humbleth himself that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hand of his Captains 12 He hath said in his heart Tush God hath forgotten he hideth away his face and he will never see it 13 Arise O Lord God and lift up thine hand forget not the poor 14 Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God while he doth say in his heart Tush thou God carest not for it 15 Surely thou hast seen it for thou beholdest ungodlinesse and wrong 16 That thou maist take the matter into thine hand the poor committeth himself unto thee for thou art the helper of the friendlesse 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious take away his ungodlinesse and thou shalt find none 18 The Lord is King for ever and ever and the heathen are perished out of the land 19 Lord thou hast heard the desire of the poore thou preparest their heart and thine eare hearkneth thereto 20 To help the fatherlesse and poor unto their right that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them The Prayer O Lord God who beholdest all the actions of men and seest all the ungodlinesse of sinners and the wrong they doe unto thy servants we flie unto thee for succour and defence in this our needfull time of trouble Behold O Lord how the Enemies of thy Church have set their eyes against her and use all violences and arts that thy poor servants may fall under the hands of their Captains Thou seest their malice and their confidences they fear thee not neither art thou O God in all their thoughts But thou art our King for ever and ever and the helper of the friendlesse We commit our selves wholly to thy mercy and providence take the matter into thine own hand let them perish out of the land that are exalted against thee and against thy Church that we being delivered from feare of our enemies may serve thee with constant and regular devotions all the dayes of our life through Jesus our Lord. Amen PSALME 11. An addresse to God by way of hope and confidence in him and a prayer against our secret enemies IN the Lord put I my trust how say ye then to my soul that she should flee as a bird unto the hill 2 For lo the ungodly bend their bow and make ready their arrows within the quiver that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart 3 For the foundations will bee cast down and what hath the righteous done 4 The Lord is in his holy temple the Lords seat is in heaven 5 His eyes consider the poore and his
holy hill in thine everlasting habitation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 100. A Psalm of praise to God for his mercy truth O Be joyfull in the Lord all ye lands serve the Lord with gladnesse and come before him presence with a song 2 Be ye sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture 3 O goe your way into his gates with thanskgiving into his courts with praise be thankfull unto him and speak good of his name 4 For the Lord is gracious his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord our God who hast created us out of nothing and hast redeemed us from misery and death when we were thine enemies shewing great expresses of thy loving kindness when we were vessels of wrath and inheritors of perdition revealing thy truth unto us in the Sermons of the Gospel teach us to walk as thou hast commanded us to believe as thou hast taught us that we may inherit what thou hast promised us for thou art the way the truth and the life we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture thou art our guide and our defence let thy grace teach us to serve thee and thy holy Spirit assist and promote our endeavours with the blessings of gladnesse and chearfulnesse of Spirit that we may love to speak good of thy Name and at last may go into the courts of thy Temple with praise and a song in our mouths to thy honour and eternall glory whose mercy and truth is everlasting and revealed unto the Church in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 101. A Prayer for a holy life MY song shall be of mercy and judgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 O let me have understanding in the way of godlinesse 3 When wilt thou come unto me I will walk in my house with a perfect heart 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sins of unfaithfulnesse there shall no such cleave unto me 5 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 6 Who so privily slandereth his neighbour him will I destroy 7 Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomack I will not suffer him 8 Mine eyes look unto such as be faithfull in the land that they may dwell with me 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my servant 10 There shall no deceitfull person dwell in my house he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight 11 I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land that I may root out all wicked doers from the City of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall purity who art of pure eyes and canst behold no unrighteousnesse or impurity enlighten our understandings that we may have knowledge in the way of godlinesse make our paths straight and our hearts perfect take from us the sins of unfaithfulnesse correct and mortifie in us all froward and peevish dispositions let us love the society of the Saints and hate the fellowship of the wicked that we may not be destroyed with the ungodly nor be rooted out from the City of the Lord and banished from the sweetnesse of thy presence for with thee is light and health and salvation to thy Name be all honour and glory and praise ascribed world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 102. A Prayer for comfort in sadnesse anxiety of spirit sicknesse or any other affliction HEar my prayer O Lord and let my crying come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble encline thine ears unto me when I call O hear me and that right soon 3 For my days are consumed away like smoak and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand 4 My heart is smitten down and withered like grasse so that I forget to eat my bread 5 For the voyce of my groaning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh 6 I am become like a pelican in the wildernesse and like an owle that is in the desert 7 I have watched and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the house top 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long and they that are mad upon me are sworn together against me 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread and mingled my drink with weeping 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast taken me up and cast me down 11 My days are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grasse 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and â—hy remembrance throughout all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Sion for it is time that thou have mercy upon her yea the time is come 14 And why thy servants think upon her stones and it piâ—ieth them to see her in the dust 15 The heathen shall fear thy Name O Lord and all the kings of the earth thy majesty 16 When the Lord shall build up Sion and when his glory shall appear 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poore dâ—stiâ—ute and despiseth not their desire 18 This shall be written for those that come after and the people which shall be born shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuary out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 That he might hear the mournings of such as be in captivity and deliver the children appointed unto death 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Sion and his worship at Jerusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdomes also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my journey and shortened my days 24 But I said O my God take me not away in the midst of mine age as for thy years they endure throughout all generations 25 Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands 26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure they all shall wax old as doth a garment 27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy years shall not faile 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and â—heir seed shall stand fast in thy sight The Prayer O Eternall God who endurest for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations have pity upon us according to the infinite treasures of thy loving kindnesse hear the voice of our groaning for thy indignation and thy wrath lieth hard upon us our sins have put an edge upon thy sword and a thorn into our wounded consciences O build up the ruines of our souls repair the breaches of our comforts and our hopes and let thy glory now appear for that shines brightest in the beams of thy mercy and when thou turnest
the sea and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever 6 Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong which feedeth the hungry 7 The Lord looseth men out of Prison the Lord giâ—eth sight to the blinde 8 The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the righteous 9 The Lord careth for the strangers he defendeth the fatherlesse and widow as for the way of the ungodly he â—urneth it upside down 10 The Lord thy God O Sion shall be King for evermore and throughout all generations The Prayer O Lord God who reignest a King for evermore give us grace that we may make thee our help and fix our hopes in thee for thou onely art able to give deliverance Feed our souls O Lord and satisfie us with thy salvation when we hunger and thirst after righteousnesse help us to right when we suffer wrong heal our back-slidings raise us when we are fallen enlighten the eys of our souls that we walk not in darknesse and the shadow of death and do thou take care for us in all our ways and in all our necessities that when our breath goeth forth and we turn again to our earth we may reign with thee in Sion thy celestiall habitation for evermore through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 147. A celebration of Gods wisdome and providence in the ministration of the things of this world and of his goodnesse towards them that fear him O Praise the Lord for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea a joyfull and pleasant thing it is to be thankfull 2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel 3 He healeth those that are broken in heart and giveth medicine to heal their sicknesse 4 He telleth the number of the stars and calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and great is his power yea and his wisdome is infinite 6 The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground 7 O sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving sing praises upon the harp unto our God 8 Which covereth the heaven with clouds and prepareth rain for the earth and maketh the grasse to grow upon the mountains and herb for the use of men 9 Which giveth fodder unto the cattell and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him 10 He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse neither delighteth he in any mans legs 11 But the Lords delight is in them that fear him and put their trust in his mercy 12 Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Sion 13 For he hath made fast the bars of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee 14 He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the floure of wheat 15 He sendeth forth his commandement upon earth and his word runneth very swiftly 16 He giveth snow like wooll and scattereth the hoar frost like ashes 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels who is able to abide his frost 18 He sendeth out his word and melteth them hee bloweth with his winde and the waters flow 19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and ordinances unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws The Prayer O Lord God whose power is great and thy wisdome infinite give us broken and contrite hearts meek spirits a fear of thy Name and a trust in thy mercy that thou maist arise upon us with healing in thy wings giving us medicine to heal all our ghostly sicknesses and thy delight may be in us delighting to doe us good to feed us when we call upon thee to set us above our enemies to give us knowledge of thy Laws to build up Jerusalem and to repair the breaches of thy Church that we may sing praises unto thee O God and be thankfull to all eternity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 148. An invitation of all the creatures of the world to praise God O Praise the Lord of heaven praise him in the height 2 Praise him all ye angels of his praise him all his host 3 Praise him sun and moon praise him all ye stars and light 4 Praise him all ye heavens and ye waters that bee above the heavens 5 Let them praise the Name of the Lord for he spake the word and they were made he commanded and they were created 6 He hath made them fast for ever and ever he hath given them a law which shall not be broken 7 Praise the Lord upon earth yee dragons and all deeps 8 Fire and hail snow and vapours winde and storm fulfilling his word 9 Mountains and all hils fruitfull trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattell worms and feathered fowls 11 Kings of the earth and all people princes and all judges of the world 12 Young men and maidens old men and children praise the name of the Lord for his name onely is excellent and his praise above heaven and earth 13 He shall exalt the horn of his people all his saints shall praise him even the children of Israel even the people that serveth him The Prayer O Lord God whose Name onely is excellent and thy praise above heaven and earth we adore and blesse thy mercy and thy power for creating us after thine own Image thou spakest the word and we were made thou commandedst and we were created and as thou hast established thy Creation with a Law for ever that all should minister to thy praises in their severall proportions so give us grace that the laws of sanctity of faith and obedience which thou hast given to us may never be broken that we serving thee not onely in the order of thy creatures but in the capacity of thy children may sing thy praises amongst the Angels and the numerous host of Saints reigning in thy Kingdome for ever and ever Amen PSALME 149. A meditation of the joyes of Heaven prepared for the Saints O Sing unto the Lord a new song let the congregation of saints praise him 2 Let Israel rejoyce in him that made him and let the children of Sion be joyfull in their King 3 Let them praise his name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with tabret and harp 4 For the Lord hath pleasure in his people and helpeth the meek hearted 5 Let the saints be joyfull with glory let them rejoyce in their beds 6 Let the praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hands 7 To be avenged of the heathen and to rebuke the people 8 To binde their kings in chains and their nobles with links of iron 9 That they may be avenged of them as it is written Such honour have all his Saints The Prayer O Lord our King in whose honour and salvation all thy Saints rejoyce give unto thy holy Gospel a free passage in all the world that Kings and Nobles may be bound with