hast to that end made the world redeemed us by our Lord Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 9. A prayer of poore and oppressed people against their persecutors MORNING PRAYER I Will giue thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart I will speak of all thy marvellous works 2 I will be glad and reioyce 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 iudgest right 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen and destroyed the vngodly 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 he hath also prepared his seat for iudgement 8 For he shall iudge the world in righteousnesse and minister true iudgement 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 seek thee 11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion shew the people of his doings 12 For when he maketh inquisition for bloud be remembreth them and forgotteth not the complaint of the poore 14 Have mercy upon me O Lord consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate mee 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 reioyce 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 iudgement 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 poore 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 iudged 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 heare the poore make their complaint unto thee in their trouble and art known to execute judgement upon them that oppresse them Pitty 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 thankes unto thee with our spirits voyces we may embrace thee with a lively faith feare thee with all our hearts serve thee with all our powers faculties both of soule and body all the dayes of our life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 10. A prayer to God in times of Persecution and Warre against the Church VVHy standest thou so farre off O Lord and hidest thy face in the needfull time of trouble 2 The ungodly for his own iust doth persecute â—he poore let them be taken in the crafty wilines that they have imagined 3 For the ungodly hath made boast of his own â—eares 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 greivous thy iudgements are farre aboue out of his sight therefore â—efieth he all his enemies 6 For he hath said in his heart Tush I shall â—ever be cast down there shall no harm happen into me 7 His mouth is full of cursing deceit and â—aud under his tongue is ungodlinesse and vaâ—ity 8 He sitteth lurking in the theevish corners of the streets and privily in his lurking dennes doth he murder the innocent his eyes are set against the poore 9 For he lieth waiting secretly even as a lion lurketh he in his denne that he may ravish the poore 10 He doth ravish the poore when he getteth him into his net 11 He falleth â—own and humbleth himselfe that the congregation of the poore 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 vp thine hand forget not the poore 15 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 mayest take the matter into thy hand the poore committeth himself unto thee for thou art the helper of the friendlesse 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly 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 poor thou preparest their heart and thine eare hearkeneth thereto 20 To help the fatherlesse and poore 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 flye unto thee for succour and defence in this our needfull time of trouble Behold ô Lord how the Enemies of thy Church have set their eyes against her and use all violences and arts that thy poore servants may fall under the hands of their Captaines Thou seest their malice and their confidences they feare 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 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 Iesus Christ 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 whith are true of heart 3 For the foundations will be cast down and what hath the righteous done 4
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
shall comfort thine heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God thou hast been our succour our light and salvation leave us not neither forsake us when we are assaulted by enemies without and by temptations from within but lead us in the right way which thou hast appointed for us to walke in and when thou hast lift up our heads above our enemies round about us grant that we may spend our dayes in prayer and giving prayses to thee and in all other actions of holy Religion visiting thy temple with frequent addresses of devotion and contemplating and admiring the faire beauty of the Lord that being secure in such imployments being hid in thy Tabernacle and taking Sanctuary within the secret place of thy dwelling we may at last come unto thy heavenly Ierusalem where the gates of thy Temple are open day and night there seeing the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living praising thee to all eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 28. A Prayer for deliverance from death and damnation VNto thee will I cry O Lord my strength think no scorn of me lest if thou make as though thou hearest not I become like them that go down into the pit 2 Heare the voice of my humble petitions when I cry unto thee when I hold up my hands toward the mercy-seat of thy holy temple 3 O pluck me not away neither destroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers which speak friendly to their neighbours but imagine mischief in their hearts 4 Reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickednesse of their owne inventions 5 Recompense them afte the work of their hands pay them that they have deserved 6 For they regard not in their mind the works of the Lord nor the operation of his hands therefore shall be break them down and noâ— build them up 7 Praised be the Lord for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions 8 The Lord is my strength and my shield my heart hath trusted in him and I am helped therefore my heart danceth for ioy and in my song will I praise him 9 The Lord is my strength and he is the wholesome defence of his anointed 10 O save thy people and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance feed them and set them up for ever The Prayer O Lord my strength and confidence my shield and the defence of all that hope in thee heare the voyce of our humble petitions We hold up our hands to thy mercy seat praying thee for pitty and pardon of our sinnes reward us not according to our deeds nor according to the wickednesse of our inventions for if thou shouldest deale with us according to the operation of our hands we should be like them that go down into the pit and our inheritance would be death and destruction But our heart hath trusted in thee and thou hast helped us continue thy loving kindnesse to us and pluck us not away neither destroy us with the ungodly and wicked doers but magnifie thy mercies in the salvation of our soules through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 29. In which God is adored and the mightinesse of his power and voyce is celebrated BRing unto the Lord O ye mighty bring young Rammes unto the Lord ascribe unto the Lord worship and strength 2 Give the Lord the honour due unto his name worship the Lord with holy worship 3 It is the Lord that commandeth the waters it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder 4 It is the Lord that ruleth the Sea the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice 5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedar trees yea the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Libanus 6 He made them also to skip like a calfe Libanus also and Sirion like a young Unicorn 7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire the voice of the Lord shaketh the wildernesse yea the Lord shaketh the wildernesse of Cades 8 The voice of the Lord maketh the Hindes to bring forth young and discovereth the thick bushes in his Temple doth every man speak of his honour 9 The Lord sitteth aboue the water floud and the Lord remaineth a King for ever 10 The Lord shall giue strength unto his people the Lord shall giue his people the blessing of peace The Prayer O Most glorious God who makest the thunder thy voyce is mighty in operation and is a glorious voyce give us grace that we may heare thy voyce and obey it with reverence and humility Thou that breakest the Cedar trees let thy word rend our hearts with sorrow and contrition for our sinnes that so we may feel the power and the mercy of thy voyce and may ascribe unto thee worship and strength worshipping thee with a holy worship all the daies of our life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 30. A Prayer for deliverance from sicknesse and death and damnation MORNING PRAYER I Will magnify thee O Lord for thou hast set me up and not made my foes to triumph over me 2 O Lord my God I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me 3 Thou Lord hast brought my soule out of hell thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit 4 Sing praises unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks to him for a remembrance of his holinesse 5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and in his pleasure is life heavinesse may endure for a night but ioy commeth in the morning 6 And in my prosperity I said I shall never be removed thou Lord of thy goodnesse hadst made my hill so strong 7 Thou didst turne thy face from mee and I was troubled 8 Then cried I unto thee O Lord and gat me unto my Lord right humbly 9 What profit is there in my blond when I go down to the p t 10 Shall the dust give thankes unto thee or shall it declare thy truth 11 Heare O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper 12 Thou hast turned my heavinesse into ioy thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladnesse 13 Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my Dod I will give thankes unto thee for ever The Prayer O Lord our God whose mercy is infinite but thy wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and even in this short time of thy wrath thou remembrest mercy we cry unto thee and addresse our selves unto thee right humbly O turne not thy face away from us keep our life from them that goe down into the pit and preserve our soules from hell and although thou sometimes send est heavinesse unto us and trouble upon our loynes yet let it be but as for a night let thy mercy dawne upon us and shine as in a glorious morning for thou art more pleased in demonstrations of thy mercy
have been like to Horse and Mule without understanding brutish in our passions sensuall in our affections of unbridled heates and distemperatures But thy mercy is as infinite as thy selfe O let not thy hand be heavy upon us but forgive the wickednesse of our sinne and compasse us about with songs of deliverance then shall we be glad and rejoyce in thee O Lord who art become our mighty Saviour and most mercifull Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 33. A Prayer to God for the graces of feare hope and Religion REjoyce in the Lord O ye righteous for it becometh well the iust to be thankfull 2 Praise the Lord with harp sing psalmes unto him with the lute and instrument of ten strings 3 Sing unto the Lord a new song sing praises lustlly unto him with a good courage 4 For the word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithfull 5 He loveth righteousnesse and iudgement the earth is full of the goodnes of the Lord. 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth 7 He gathereth the waters of the Sea together as it were upon an heap and layeth up the deep as in a treasure house 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord stand in awe of him all ye that dwell in the world 9 For he spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast 10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to nought and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect and casteth out the counsells of Princes 11 The counsell of the Lord shall endure for ever and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation 12 Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord Iehova and blessed are the folk that he hath chosen to him to be his inheritance 13 The Lord looked down from Heaven and beheld all the children of men from the habitation of his dwelling he considereth all them that dwell in the earth 14 He fashioneth all the hearts of them and understandeth all their works 15 There is no King that can be saved by the multitude of an host neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength 16 An Horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength 17 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy 18 To deliver their souls from death and to feed them in the time of dearth 19 Our soul hath patiently tarried for the Lord for he is our help and our shield 20 For our heart shall reioyce in him because we haue hoped in his holy name 21 Let thy mercifull kindnesse O Lord be upon us like as we doe put our trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God who lovest righteousnesse and judgement who fillest the earth with thy goodnesse and lookest downe from Heaven upon the children of men Consider us O Lord and let thy grace fashion our hearts and produce in our soules such formes and impresses as may beare thy Image and seem beauteous in thy eyes that thou maist be our God and choose us for thine inheritance Let thy mercy feed us thy hands deliver us from death and snatch us from the jawes of hell teach us to feare thee to put our trust in thy mercy patiently to tarry for thee and the revelation of thy loving kindnesses to hope in thy holy Name and to rejoyce in thy salvation giving thee thanks and praise with a good courage with humble and religious affections all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 34. A Prayer that we being dispos'd by Holy living may receive and have a sense and tast of the Divine goodnesse I Will alway give thanks unto the Lord his praise shall ever be in my mouth 2 My soul shall make her boast of the Lord the humble shall heare thereof and be glad 3 O praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his name together 4 I sought the Lord and he heard me yea he delivered me out of all my fear 5 They had an eye unto him and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed 6 Lo the poore crieth and the Lord heareth him yea and saveth him out of all his troubles 7 The Angell of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him delivereth them 8 O taste and see how gracious the Lord is blessed is the man that trusteth in him 9 O fear the Lord ye that be his Saints for they that fear him lack nothing 10 The lions doe lack and suffer hunger but they which seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good 11 Come ye children and hearken unto me I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 12 What man is he that lusteth to live and would fain see good dayes keep thy tongue from evill and thy lips that they speak no guile 13 Eschew evill and doe good seek peace and ensue it 14 The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous his eares are open unto their prayers 15 The countenance of the Lord is against them that doe evill to root out the remembrance of them from the earth 16 The righteous cry and the Lord heareth them delivereth them out of all their troubles 17 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart and will save such as be of an humble spirit 18 Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of all 19 He keepeth all his bones so that not one of them is broken 20 But misfortune shall slay the ungodly they that hate the righteous shall be desolate 21 The Lord delivereth the souls of his servants and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute The Prayer O Most mercifull and gracious Lord whose eyes are over the righteous and thine eares are open unto their prayers give us we beseech thee a contrite heart and an humble spirit a feare of thy Name a watchfulnesse over our tongue that we speak no guile a care of our actions that we eschew all evill and a zeale of thy Name that we may doe good that being thus prepar'd with holy dispositions we may be delivered out of all our troubles by the hands of thy mercy we may be defended against our enemies by the custody of Angells we may be provided for so as to want no manner of thing that is good by the ministration of thy providence that so in all the whole course of our life we may feel the goodnesse of the Lord seeing and tasting the sweetnesses of thy mercy which may be to us an antepast of eternity and as an earnest of the Spirit to consigne us to the fruition of the glories of thy Kingdome who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 35. A Prayer to be delivered from our Enemies
take now my contrary part but I give my selfe unto prayer 4 Thus have they rewarded me evill for good and hatred for my good will 5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him and let Satan stand at his right hand 6 When sentence is given upon him let him be condemned and let his prayer be turned into sinne 7 Let his dayes be few and let another take his office 8 Let his children be fatherlesse and his wise a widow 9 Let his children be vagabonds and beg their bread let them seek it also out of desolate places 10 Let the extortionet consume all that he hath and let the stranger spoil his labour 11 Let there be no man to pitie him nor to have compassion upon his fatherlesse children 12 Let his posterity be destroyed and in the next generation let his name be clean put out 13 Let the wickednesse of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord and let not the sinne of his mother be done away 14 Let them alway be before the Lord that he may root out the memoriall of them from off the earth 15 And that because his minde was not to do good but persecuted the poore helplesse man that he might slay him that was vexed at the heart 16. His delight was incursing and it shall happen unto him he loved not blessing therefore shall it be far from him 17 He clothed himselfe with cursing like as with a raiment and it shall come into his bowels like water and like oyl into his bones 18 Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon him and as the girdle that he is alway girded withall 19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies and to those that speak evil against my soul 20 But deal thou with me O Lord God according unto thy name for sweet is thy mercy 21 O deliver me for I am helplesse and poore and my heart is wounded within me 22 I go hence like the shadow that departeh am driven away as the grashopper 23 My knees are weak through fasting my flesh is dried up for want of fatnesse 24 I became also a rebuke unto them they that looked upon me shaked their heads 25 Help me O Lord my God Oh save me according to thy mercy 26 And they shall know how that this is thy hand and thou Lord hast done it 27 Though they curse yet blesse thou and let them be confounded that rise up against me but let thy servant reioyce 28 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a cloke 29 As for me I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth and praise him among the multitude 30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poore to save his soul from unrighteous iudges The Prayer O God of our praise who wast contented that thy sonne Iesus Christ should be betrayed into the hands of sinners by one of his own Apostles the Traitor Iudas and in punishment of so great impiety did'st suffer Satan to stand at his right hand tempting him to despaire and to give sentence upon himselfe to condemne himselfe and to execute his owne judgement and gavest his Bishoprick to another let thy righteous judgements finde out all those that are Traytors to their Prince enemies to the Church Apostates from Religion Hypocrites under specious pretences and beauteous titles that they may be clothed with shame and may cover themselves with their owne confusion as with a cloke that by thy punishments in this life they may be driven to a sharpe and salutary repentance and may be saved in the life to come Deale thou with us O Lord according to thy mercy take away thy curse and let not thy blessing be farre from us let not our wickednesse nor the wickednesse of our fathers be had in remembrance in thy sight let our mindes be alway to do good our hearts and lips be given unto prayer and our prayers so guided by thy assistances that they be not turned into sin that when we go hence like the shadow that departeth and are driven away like the grashopper when the dayes of our vanity and rejoycing are past we may stand at thy right hand and our soules be saved from the lot and portion of the unrighteous through the righteousnesse and passion of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALM 110. A Hymne in the honour of Christs Kingdome and Priesthood and exaltation MORNING PRAYER THe Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstoole 2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion be thou ruler even in the midst among thine enemies 3 In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will-offerings with an holy worship the dew of thy birth is of the wombe of the morning 4 The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek 5 The Lord upon thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath 6 He shall iudge among the heathen he shall fill the places with the dead bodies and smite in sunder the heads over divers countreys 7 He shall drinke of the brooke in the way therefore shall he lift up his head The Prayer O Eternall God Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who when thy Son had dranke of the brooke in the way to the grave and to our redemption beginning his passion by the brooke Cedron and tasting the waters of bitternesse till he had drunke of the whole chalice of thy wrath upon the Crosse didst lift up his head and set him at thy right hand till thou shalt make all his enemies his footstoole fill our hearts with his love and praises that we may pay him the offerings of our soules bodies in an holy worship joyfull thankesgiving for all the parts and mysteries of our redemption for his birth in the wombe of his holy Mother pure and virginall like the morning dew for his Death and Passion and for his continuall mediation and intercession by which hee does officiate in his eternall Priesthood which is after the order of Melchisedâ—k Remember us blessed Iesu in the Day of thy power when thou shalt come to judge the world and the places fill'd with dead bodies shall give up their dead that we may sit at thy right hand to magnifie and behold the glories of thy Kingdome for ever and ever Amen PSALME 111. An Eucharisticall Hymne for the benefits of the holy Gospell particularly of the blessed Sacrament I Will give thankes unto the Lord with my whole heart secretly among the faithfull and in the congregation 2 The workes of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein 3 His worke is worthy to be praised and had in honour and his righteousnesse endureth for ever 4 The
man 9 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in princes 10 All nations compassed me round about but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 11 They kept me in on every side they kept me in I say on every side but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 12 They came about me like bees and are extinct even as the fire among the thorns for in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord was my help 14 The Lord is my strength and my song and is become my salvation 15 The voice of ioy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe 16 The right hand of the Lord hath the preeminence the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe 17 I will not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord hath chastened and corrected me but he hath not given me over unto death 19 Open me the gates of righteousnesse that I may go into them and give thanks unto the Lord 20 This is the gate of the Lord the righteous shall inter into it 21 I will thank thee for thou hast heard me and art become my salvation 22 The same stone which the builders refused is become the head stone in the corner 23 This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made we will reioyce and be glad in it 25 Help me now O Lord O Lord send us now prosperity 26 Blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord we have wished you good luck ye that be of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord which hath shewed us light binde the sacrifice with cords yea even unto the horns of the altar 28 Thou art my God and I will thank thee thou art my God and I will praise thee 29 O give thanks unto the Lord for he is gratious and his mercy endureth for ever The Prayer O Most Gracious Lord our strength our song thou art become our salvation thy mercy endureth for ever be thou on our side take part with them that help us let the voyce of joy and health be within our dwellings and when thou chastenest and correctest us for our sinnes give us not over unto death but fix our faith and hopes upon the head stone in the corner even our Lord Iesus Christ that in all the assaults made against us by our ghostly enemies the right hand of the Lord may have the preeminence and bring mighty things to passe even victory and deliverance unto thy servants that we putting no confidence in the best of men may trust in thee O Lord till at last when thou openest the everlasting gates of righteousnesse we may enter in and give thee thankes and praise through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 119. A prayer for religion zeale love of the law of God and meditation in it EVENING PRAYER BLessed are those that are undefiled in the way and walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies and seek him with their whole heart 3 For they which do no wickednesse walk in his waies 4 Thou hast charged that we shall diligently keep thy commandments 5 O that my waies were made so direct that I might keep thy statutes 6 So shall I not be confounded while I have respect unto all thy commandments 7 I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart when I shall have learned the iudgements of thy righteousnesse 8 I will keep thy ceremonies O forsake me not utterly The Prayer O Blessed Lord God whose words are light and life to the obedient and believing soule let thy grace so purifie our hearts and actions that we may be undefiled in thy way keeping thy testimonies and seeking thee with our whole heart that our waies being made direct without wandring into by-paths we may go into our country the land of eternall glorious promises through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. VVHere withall shall a young man clense his way even by ruling himself after thy word 2 With my whole heart have I sought thee O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments 3 Thy words have I hid within my heart that I should not sinne against thee 4 Blessed art thou O Lord O teach me thy statutes 5 With my lips have I been telling of all the iudgements of thy mouth 6 I have had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies as in all manner of riches 7 I will talk of thy commandments and have respect unto thy waies 8 My delight shall be in thy statutes and I will not forget thy word The Prayer GRant O Lord that our affections and endeavours be not divided between thee and the world but that we may seek thee with our whole heart clensing our waies from all impurity giving to thy service our youth and more perfect age even all our dayes and all our powers taking more delight in the way of thy testimonies then in all manner of riches and fading pleasures that we delighting in thee and the waies that lead to thee may be beloved of thee with an eternall love through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen III. O Do well unto thy servant that I may live and keep thy word 2 Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wonderous things of thy law 3 I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy commandments from me 4 My soul breaketh out for the very servent desire that it hath alway unto thy iudgements 5 Thou hast rebuked the proud and cursed are they that do erre from thy commandments 6 O turn from me shame and rebuke for I have kept thy testimonies 7 Princes also did sit and speak against me but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes 8 For thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellers The Prayer O Lord God our Father and our Guardian we are strangers upon the earth farre removed from our country and we are in darknesse and walke in the shadow of death let not this darknesse seize upon our soules hide not thy commandements from us but open our eyes with the light of thy holy Spirit that we may see the wondrous things of thy law and admire thy glories and adore thy might and obey all thy righteous precepts and although our hearts be already enkindled with the love of thy law yet make our desires to serve thee more fervent that our lukewarmnesse may arise up to the flames and ardors of a Cherubim that while we are busied in thy statutes making them our delight and our counsellors shame and rebuke may alwayes be turned frō us and we ever reioyce with hope and confidence in thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen IV. MY soule cleaveth to the dust O
then in shewing thy displeasure O Lord heale us and be mercifull unto us and save us turne our heavinesse into joy and gird us with gladnesse so shall we give thanks unto thee for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 31. A Prayer for protection against our enemies and all dangers of soule and body and specially at the houre of death IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousnesse 2 Bow down thine eare to me make hast iâ— deliver mee 3 And be thou my strong rock and the house of defence that thou maist save me 4 For thou art my strong rock and my castleâ— be thou also my guide and lead me for thy names sake 5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me for thou art my strength 6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of truth 7 I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities and my trust hath been in the Lord. 8 I will be glad and reioyce in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble and hast known my soul in adversities 9 Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemie but hast set my feet in a large room 10 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am in trouble and my eye is consumed for very heavinesse yea my soul and my body 11 For my life is waren old with heavinesse and my yeares with mourning 12 My strength faileth me because of mine iniquity and my bones are consumed 13 I became a reproof among all mine enemies but specially among my neighbours and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me and they that did see me without conveyed themselves from me 14 I am clean forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am become like a broken vessell 15 For I haue heard the blasphemy of the multitude and fear is on every side while they conspire together against me and take their counsell to take away my life 16 But my hope hath been in thee O Lord I haue said Thou art my God 17 My time is in thy hand deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me 18 Shew thy servant the light of thy countenance and save me for thy mercies sake 19 Let me not be confounded O Lord for I haue called upon thee let the ungodly be put to confusion and be put to silence in the grave 20 Let the lying lips be put to silence which cruelly disdainfully and despitefully speak against the righteous 21 O how plentifull is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that feare thee and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee even before the sonnes of men 22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues 23 Thanks be to the Lord for he hath shewed me marvellous great kindnes in a strong city 24 And when I made hast I said I am cast out of the sight of shine eyes 25 Neverthelesse thou heardest the voice of my prayer when I cried unto thee 26 O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth them that are faithfull and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer 27 Be strong and he shall stablish your heart all ye that put your trust in the Lord. The Prayer O God our rock and the house of our defence let us be glad and rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation Consider O Lord our trouble and in thy pitty know our soules beset round about with enemies and adversities Shut us not up into the hands of our enemies nor our lives within the grave Our time O Lord is in thy hand to thee pertaine the issues of life and death and though our strength hath failed us because of our iniquity and our bones are vexed by reason of our sinnes yet our hope is in thee O Lord we have said Thou art our God deliver us from all our enemies bodily and ghostly turne our sadnesse into joy and our mourning into gladnesse least our bodies soules be consumed for very heavinesse Let us not be put to confusion nor to silence in the grave but let us see thy marvellous loving kindnesse and partake of thy plentifull goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that feare thee even before the sonnes of men O let us never be cast out of the sight of thine eyes but deale with us in mercy loving kindnesse Into thy hands we commend our Spirits resigning our selves up to thy providence and disposition either to life or death as thou in thy infinite wisedome shalt find most proportionable to thy glory and our eternall good beseeching thee to be our guide to death and to lead us for thy Name sake to everlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 32. A Confession of sinnes and a prayer for pardon EVENING PRAYER BLessed is he whose unrighteousnesse is forgiven and whose sinne is covered 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sinne and in whose spirit there is no guile 3 For while I held my tongue my bones consumed away through my daily complaining 4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night and my moisture is like the drought in Summer 5 I will knowledge my sinne unto thee and mine unrighteousnesse haue I not hid 6 I said I will confesse my sinnes unto the Lord and so thou forgavest the wickednesse of my sinne 7 For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found but in the great water flouds they shall not come nigh him 8 Thou art a place to hide me in thou shalt preâ—erve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance 9 I will enform thee and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt goe and I will guide thee with mine eye 10 Be ye not like to Horse and Mule which haue no understanding whose mouthes must be holden with biâ— bridle lest they fall upon thee 11 Great plagues remaine for the ungodly but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord mercy embraceth him on every side 12 Be glad O ye righteous and rejoyce in the Lord be ioyfull all ye that are true of heart The Prayer O Lord God eternall Iudge of men and Angells whose property is alwayes to have mercy and to forgive have mercy upon us who confesse our sinnes unto thee to be so great and many that were not thy mercy infinite we might despaire of having our unrighteousnesse forgiven or our sins covered O deare God preserve us from the great plagues that remaine for the ungodly and let thy mercy imbrace us on every side Impute not unto us the sins we have multiplyed against thee against all the world for we
earth and let her be glad and rejoyce because of thy judgements so shall we praise thee in the midst of thy Temple wayting for thy loving kindnesse that according as thy name is so may thy praise be infinite and eternall world without end Amen PSALME 49. A Prayer that we may despise perishing riches and put our trust in God only O Heare ye this all ye people ponder it with your eares all ye that dwell in the world 2 High and low rich and poore one with another 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdome and my heart shall muse of understanding 4 I will encline mine eare to the parable and shew my dark speech upon the harp 5 Wherefore should I feare in the dayes of wickednesse and when the wickednesse of my heels compasse me round about 6 There be some that put their trust in their goods and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches 7 But no man may deliver his brother nor make an agreement to God for him 8 For it cost more to redeem their souls so that he must let that alone for ever 9 Yea though he live long and see not the grave 10 For he seeth that wise men also dye and perish together as well as the ignorant and foolish and leave their riches for other 11 And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another and call the lands after their own names 12 Neverthelesse man will not abide in honour seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish this is the way of them 13 This is their foolishnesse and their posterity praise their saying 14 They lie in the hell like sheep death gnaweth upon them and the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling 15 But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell for he shall receive me 16 Be not thou afraid though one be made rich or if the glory of his house be increased 17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth neither shall his pomp follow him 18 For while he lived he counted himself an happy man and so long as thou dost well unto thy selfe men will speak good of thee 19 He shall follow the generation of his fathers and shall never see light 20 Man being in honour hath no understanding but is compared unto the beasts that perish The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou only Redeemer of soules who by thy death and passion hast delivered us from the place of Hell give us grace to put our whole trust in thee and in the riches of thy mercy and loving kindnesse alwaies remembring our end the vanity and shortnesse of our lives the certainty of our departure Teach us to despise the world and worldly things and to lay our treasure up in heaven by charity and actions of religion that while we live here we may have our conversation in heaven by love by hope and by desires that when our beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of our earthly dwellings we may be received into everlasting habitations alwayes to enjoy thee who livest and reignest eternall God world without end Amen PSALME 50. A Prayer that we may lead a Holy life and find mercy in the day of judgement MORNING PRAYER THe Lord even the most mighty God hath spoken and called the world from the rising up of the sunne unto the going down thereof 2 Out of Sion hath God appeared in perfect beauty 3 Our God shall come and shall not keep silence there shall goe before him a consuming fire and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him 4 He shall call the heaven from above and the earth that he may iudge his people 5 Gather my Saints together unto me those that haue made a covenant with me with sacrifice 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse for God is iudge himselfe 7 Heare O my people and I will speak I myself will testifie against thee O Israel for I am God even thy God 8 I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices or for thy burnt-offerings because they were not alway before me 9 I will take no bullock out of thine house nor he-goats out of thy folds 10 For all the beasts of the forrest are mine and so are the cattells upon a thousand hills 11 I know all the fowles upon the mountains and the wilde beasts of the field are in my sight 12 If I be hungry I will not tell thee for the whole world is mine and all that is therein 13 Thinkest thou that I will eat bulls flesh and drink the bloud of goats 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most Highest 15 And call upon me in the time of trouble so will I heare thee and thou shalt praise me 16 But unto the ungodly said God Why dost thou preach my Laws and takest my Covenant in thy mouth 17 Whereas thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my words behind thee 18 When thou sawest a Thiefe thou consentedst unto him and hast been partaker with the Adulterers 19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickednesse and with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit 20 Thou satest and spakest against thy brother yea and hast sâ—andered thine owne mothers sonne 21 These things hast thou done and I held my tongue and thou thoughtest wickedly that I am even such a one as thy selfe but I will reprove thee and set before thee the things that thou hast done 22 O consider this ye that forget God lest I pluck you away and there be none to deliver you 23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise he honoureth me and to him that ordereth his conversation right will I shew the salvation of God The Prayer O Most mighty God who art more pleased with the sacrifice of thanksgiving and the oblation of our soules in the vowes of obedience and a holy life then with the burnt offerings and sacrifices of Bullocks and Goates let thy grace reforme our lives and manners keep our mouth from slander and obloquy from guile and deceit let us never consent to actions of injustice or uncleanesse that we partake not with Thieves or with Adulterers either in their sinne or punishment that when thou shalt appeare in perfect beauty with a consuming fire before thee and a tempest round about thee with terrors and glorious Majesty calling the heavens and the earth together that thou mayest judge all thy people thou mayest gather us among thy Saints and give us the mercies and the portion of thine inheritance that so we may honour thee by an eternall oblation of praise and thanksgiving in the Heavens where thou O God declarest thy salvation to all thy elect people through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 51. A Prayer for pardon of sinnes and the restitution of Gods favour HAve mercy
Church as a City upon a hill and laid the foundation of it upon the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ being the chiefe Corner-stone make us to be a spirituall building fit for thy habitation and a residence for thy holy Spirit grounding us in faith building us up in hope and perfecting us in charity that we being joyned in the communion of Saints in the union of the holy Catholike Church militant on earth may all partake of the blessings of thy Church triumphant in the City of thee our God in the celestiall Ierusalem where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 88. A prayer in time of sicknesse and danger of death O Lord God of my salvation I have cried day and night before thee O let my prayer enter into thy presence incline thine eare unto my calling 2 For my soule is full of trouble and my life draweth nigh unto hell 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit and I have been even as a man that hath no strength 4 Free among the dead like unto them that be wounded and lie in the grave which be out of remembrance and are cut away from thy hand 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in a place of darknesse and in the deep 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me and made me to be abhorred of them 8 I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth 9 My sight faileth for very trouble Lord I have called daily upon thee I have stretched out my hands unto thee 10 Doest thou shew wonders among the dead or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee 11 Shall thy loving kindnesse be shewed in the grave or thy faithfulnesse in destruction 12 Shall thy wondrous workes be knowne in the darke and thy righteousnesse in the land where all things are forgotten 13 Unto thee haâ—e I eried O Lord and early shall my prayer come before thee 14 Lord why abhorest thou my soule and hidest thou thy face from me 15 I am in misery and like unto him that is at the point to die even from my youth up thy terrours have I suffered with a troubled minde 16 Thy wrathfull displeasure goeth over me and the feare of thee hath undone me 17 They came round about me daily like water and compassed me together on every side 18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight The Prayer O Lord God of our salvation who for our sakes wert wounded and didst die and lie in the grave but yet alone of all that ever died wert free among the dead and by thine own power didst arise againe with victory and triumph have mercy upon thy servant for thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes my soul is full of trouble by reason of my sinnes and my life draweth nigh unto the grave restore me unto thy favour and let me not go down into the darke nor my life into the place where all things are forgotten but let me shew forth thy loving kindnesse amongst thy redeemed ones in the land of the living for the living the living he shall praise thee and confesse the holinesse and the mercies of thy holy Name O hide not thou thy face from me but give me health of body and restore and preserve me in the life of righteousnesse and so blesse me with opportunities of doing thee service that I may redeem the time past and by thy grace may grow rich in good workes alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord that when thou shalt demand my soule to be rendred up into thy hands my soule may not be abhorred of thee nor suffer thy terrours but may feele an eternity of blessings in the resurrection of the just through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 89. A Prayer for the King in time of Warres or any publike calamitie EVENING PRAYER MY song shall be alway of the loving kindnesse of the Lord with my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from one generation to another 2 For I have said mercy shall be set up for ever thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen I have sworne unto David my servant 4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever and set up thy throne from one generation to another 5 O Lord the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous workes and thy truth in the congregation of the saints 6 For who is he among the clouds that shall be compared unto the Lord 7 And what is he among the gods that shall be like unto the Lord 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the counsell of the saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him 9 O Lord God of hosts who is like unto thee thy truth most mighty Lord is on every side 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt and destroyed it thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy might arme 12 The heavens are thine the earth also is thine thou hast laid the foundation of the round world and all that therein is 13 Thou hast made the North and the South Tabor and Harmon shall reioyce in thy Name 14 Thou hast a mighty arme strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand 15 Righteousnesse and equity is the habitation of thy feat mercy and truth shall go before thy face 16 Blessed is the people O Lord that can reioyce in thee they shall walke in the light of thy countenance 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name and in thy righteousnesse shall they make their boast 18 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy loving kindnesse thou shalt lift up our hornes 19 For the Lord is our defence the holy one of Israel is our King 20 Thou spakest sometimes in vision unto thy Saints and saidest I have laid helpe upon one that is mighty I have exalted one chosen out of the people 21 I have found David my servant with my holy oyle have I anointed him 22 My hand shall hold him fast and my arme shall strengthen him 23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence the son of wickednesse shall not hurt him 24 I shall smite down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him 25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him and in my Name shall his horne be exalted 26 I will set his dominion also in the sea and his right hand in the flouds 27 He shall call me thou art my father my God and my strong salvation 28 And I will make him my first-borne higher than the kings of the earth 29 My mercy will I keep for him for
evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him 30 His seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the dayes of heaven 31 But if his children forsake my law and walke not in my iudgements 32 If they break my statutes and keep not my commandements I will visit their offences with the rod and their sin with scourges 33 Neverthelesse my loving kindnesse will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my truth to faile 34 My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips I have sworne once by my holinesse that I will not faile David 35 His seed shall endure for ever and his seat is like as the sun before me 36 He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon and as the faithfull witnesse in Heaven 37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine anointed and art displeased at him 38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant and cast his crown to the ground 39 Thou hast overthrowne all his hedges and broken down his strong holds 40 All they that goe by spoile him and he is become a rebuke to his neighbours 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies and made all his adversaries to reioyce 42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword and givest him not victory in the battell 43 Thou hast put out his glorie and cast his throne down to the ground 44 The dayes of his youth hast thou shortened and covered him with dishonour 45 Lord how long wilt thou hide thy selfe for ever and shall thy wrath burne like fire 46 Oh remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men for nought 47 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death and shall he deliver his soule from the hand of hell 48 Lord where are thy old loving kindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth 49 Remember Lord the rebuke that thy servants have and how I doe beare in my bosome the rebukes of many people 50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee and slandered the footsteps of thine anointed praised be the Lord for evermore Amen Amen The Prayer O Lord God of hosts thou art greatly to be feared in the councell of the saints and to be had in reverence of all the world let thy strong hand and thy mighty arme blesse and preserve thine Anointed the King as thou hast exalted thy chosen from among the People so let the greatnesse of thy blessings and assistances distinguish him from all the world make his throne as the dayes of heaven smite down his enemies before his face let thy hand hold him fast that the enemy may not be able to doe him violence and let thine arme strengthen him that the sonnes of wickednesse may not hurt him O do thou never put his glory out nor cover him with dishonour but give him victory in battels honour and rejoycing in time of peace confidence in thee reverence amongst his people continual defence in thy salvation that when thou hast finished his dayes in peace and honour his seed may be established in his throne and endure for ever like as the sun before thee Grant this O king of kings for his sake to whom thou hast given all power and dominion in heaven and earth even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 90. A meditation of death and a prayer preparatory to it MORNING PRAYER LOrd thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another 2 Before the mountaines were brought forth or ever the earth and the world were made thou art God from everlasting and world without end 3 Thou turnest man to destruction again thousayest Come again yée children of men 4 For a thousand yeares in thy sight are but as yesterday seeing that is past as a watch in the night 5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grasse 6 In the morning it is green and groweth up but in the evening it is cut down dried up and withered 7 For we consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathfull indignation 8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sinnes in the sight of thy countenance 9 For when thou art angry all our dayes are gone we bring our yeares to an end as it were a tale that is told 10 The dayes of our age are threescore yeares and ten and though men be so strong that they come to fourescore yeares yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone 11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth so is thy displeasure 12 O teach us to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts unto wisdome 13 Turne thee again O Lord at the last and be gracious unto thy servants 14 O satisfie us with thy mercy and that soon so shall we reioice and be glad all the dayes of our life 15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the yeares wherein we have suffered adversity 16 Shew thy servants thy worke and their children thy glory 17 And the glorious maiesty of the Lord our God be upon us prosper thou the worke of our hands upon us O prosper thou our handy worke The Prayer O Eternall God whose being was before the mountaines were brought forth before the earth and the vvorld vvere made even from everlasting and world without end have mercy upon us vveake and impotent people the children of men vvho fade avvay suddenly like the grasse remove our misdeeds from before thee and our secret sinnes from the sight of thy countenance be not angry with us neither consume us in thy displeasure teach us to number all the dayes of our life and to reckon on still to the day of death that when our dayes are gone and our yeares are brought to an end like a tale that is told thou mayest turne untous at the last and be gracious unto us in the pardon of our sinnes in the restraining the power and malice of all our ghostly enemies in giving us opportunity of all spirituall assistances and advantages that our lampes being trimmed and burning bright with charity and devotion we may enter into the bride-chamber there for ever to behold the glorious majesty of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 91. A Prayer for protection in all dangers VVHoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty 2 I will say unto the Lord Thou art my hope and my strong hold my God in him will I trust 2 For he shall deliver thee from the suare of the hunter and from the noysome pestilence 4 He shall defend thee under his wings and thou shalt be safe under his feathers his faithfulnesse and truth shall be thy shield and buckler 5 Thou shalt not
repentance and fruits springing up to life eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 115. A Prayer against idolatry and for confidence in the true God NOt unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give the praise for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake 2 Wherefore shall the heathen say Where is now their God 3 As for our God he is in heaven he hath done whatsoever pleased him 4 Their idols are silver and gold even the worke of mens hands 5 They haue mouthes and speake not eyes haue they and see not 6 They have eares and heare not noses haue they and smell not 7 They haue hands and handle not feet haue they and walke not neither speake they through their throat 8 They that make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their trust in them 9 But thou house of Israel trust thou in the Lord he is their succour and defence 10 Yee house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 11 Yee that feare the Lord put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 12 The Lord hath been mindfull of us and he shall blesse us euen he shall blesse the house of Israel he shall blesse the house of Aaron 13 He shall blesse them that feare the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall increase you more and more you and your children 15 Yee are the blessed of the Lord which made heauen and earth 16 All the whole heauens are the Lords the earth hath he given to the children of men 17 The dead praise not thee O Lord neither all they that go down into the silence 18 But we will praise the Lord from this time forth for euermore Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God omnipotent whose seat is in Heaven and thou hast done whatsoever pleased thee in Heaven and earth give us thy grace that in all our troubles we may make thee our Succour and Defence and put our trust in thee onely that we receiving thy mercies and the satisfaction of all our hopes from thy plenteousnesse and loving kindnesse we may give praise unto thy Name never ascribing to our selves any honour or the glorie and thankes of any good action or prosperous successe but to thee who art the Authour and Giver of all good things Preserve us from all dangers of idolatrie from worshipping or loving any vain imaginations and making any thing to be our confidence besides thee our God that so thou mayest be mindfull of us and blesse us in all our wayes and when we die and go down into the silence we may have our portion amongst the blessed of the Lord in the inheritance of thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 116. An act of love and thanksgiving to God for deliverance from sinne and death MORNING PRAYER I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer 2 That he hath enclined his eare unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 3 The snares of death compassed me round about and the paines of hell gat hold upon me 4 I shall finde trouble and heavinesse and I shall call upon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul 5 Bratious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is mercifull 6 The Lord preserveth the simple I was in misery and he helped me 7 Turn again then unto they rest O my soul for the Lord hath rewarded thee 8 And why thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walke before the Lord in the land of the living 10 I beleeved and therefore will I speak but I was sore troubled I said in my hast All men are liars 11 What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me 12 I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. 13 I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints 14 Behold O Lord how that I am thy servant I am thy servant and the sonne of thine handmaid thou hast broken my bonds in sunder 15 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. 16 I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the sight of all his people in the courts of the Lords house even in the mids of thee O Ierusalem Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercies Gracious and Righteous give unto us hearts filled with love and praises to thy holy name for thou hearest our prayers thou breakest asunder the bonds of our sinnes thou deliverest our soules from trouble and heavinesse and snatchest us from the snares of death and savest us from the paines of hell O mercyfull God let our soules rest in thee and be satisfied in the pleasures of thy mercy that we may receive the cup of blessing and salvation and celebrate the Eucharist in honour of thy name and in remembrance of thy infinite benefits which thou hast done unto us and at last may pay our great Allelujah to the Lord in the courts of the Lords house in the midst of the celestiall Jerusalem through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 117. An invitation to all people to praise Gods mercy and truth O Praise the Lord all yee heathen praise him all ye nations 2 For his mercifull kindnesse is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Blessed Iesu who art not only the glory of thy people Israel but the light of the Gentiles let thy mercifull kindnesse be ever more and more towards the sonnes of men that the nations which have not known thee may hear thy truth and feele thy mercies and call upon thy name and thy grace may be confirmed upon us till we receive the fulnesse and perfection of thy graces in the full fruition of the glories of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 118. A Psalme of thanksgiving for the mercies and salvation which are given us in Iesus Chrst O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious because his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let Israel now confesse that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Yea let them now that feare the Lord confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 5 I called upon the Lord in trouble and the Lord heard me at large 6 The Lord is on my side I will not feare what man doth unto me 7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon mine enemies 8 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in
increased and thy blessings may descend upon us in a plentifull proportion to supply all our necessities through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 135. A Prayer that God would avenge his People of their Enemies and an invitation of them to praise his Name O Praise the Lord laud yee the name of the Lordâ— praise it O yee seruants of the Lord. 2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord in the courts of the house of our God 3 O praise the Lord for the Lord is gracious O sing praises unto his name for it is louely 4 For why the Lord hath chosen Iacob unto himselfe and Israel for his own possession 5 For I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is aboue all gods 6 Whatsoeuer the Lord pleased that did he in heauen and in earth and in the sea and in all deep places 7 He bringeth forth the clouds from the ends of the world and sendeth forth lightnings with the rain bringing the windes out of his treasures 8 He somâ—e the first-borne of Egypt both of man and beast 9 He hath sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee O thou land of Egypt upon Pharaoh and all his seruants 10 He smote diuers nations and slew mighty kings 11 Sehon king of the Amorites and Og the king of Basan and all the kingdomes of Canaan 12 And gaue their land to be an heritage euen an heritage unto Israel his people 13 Thy name O Lord endureth for euer so doth thy memoriall O Lord from one generation to another 14 For the Lord will avenge his people and be gracious unto his seruants 15 As for the images of the heathen they are but siluer and gold the worke of mens hands 16 They haue mouthes and speak not eyes haue they but they see not 17 They haue eares and yet they heare not neither is there any breath in their mouthes 18 They that make them are like unto them and so are all they that put their trust in them 19 Praise the Lord ye house of Israel praise the Lord ye house of Aaron 20 Praise the Lord ye house of Leui ye that feare the Lord praise the Lord. 21 Praised be the Lord out of Sion which dwelleth at Ierusalem The Prayer O Lord God in whose sight the death of all the Saints is precious and to whom the soules of the Martyrs from under the Altar call to avenge their bloud that is shed like water upon the earth be gracious unto us thy servants avenge all thy people of their enemies that all that hate and persecute thy Church being either brought to repentance or confusion thy Name and thy memoriall may be celebrated to all generations thy Kingdome and thy comming may be hastened that the Saints may receive the consummation of their glories by resurrection of their bodies and receiving the crowne of righteousnesse which thou hast prepared for all that put their trust in thee and that we all standing in the house of the Lord even in the courts of the house of our God for ever may praise thy Name which is gracious and lovely even for ever and ever Amen PSALME 136. A Prayer of thankesgiving to God for his eternall mercies EVENING PRAYER O Giue thankes unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer 2 O giue thankes unto the God of all gods for his mercy endureth for euer 3 O thank the Lord of all lords for his mercy endureth for euer 4 Which onely doth great wonders for his mercy endureth for euer 5 Which by his excellent wisedome made the heauens for his mercy endureth for euer 6 Which laid out the earth about the waters for his mercy endureth for euer 7 Which hath made great lights for his mercy endureth for ever 8 The sun to rule the day for his mercy endureth for euer 9 The moon and the starres to gouerne the night for his mercy endureth for euer 10 Which smote Egypt with their first-born for his mercy endureth for euer 11 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for euer 12 With a mighty hand and a stretched out arme for his mercy endureth for euer 13 Which diuided the Red sea in two parts for his mercy endureth for euer 14 And made Israel to go through the midst of it for his mercy endureth for euer 15 But as for Pharaoh and his host he ouerthrew them in the Red sea for his mercy endureth for euer 16 Which led his people through the wildernesse for his mercy endureth for euer 17 Which smote great kings for his mercy endureth for euer 18 Yea and slew mighty kings for his mercy endureth for euer 19 Sehon king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for euer 20 And Og the king of Basan for his mercy endureth for euer 21 And gaue away their land for an heritage for his mercy endureth for euer 22 Euen for an heritage unto Israel his seruant for his mercy endureth for euer 23 Which remembred us when we were in trouble for his mercy endureth for ever 24 And hath deliuered us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for euer 25 Which giueth food to all flesh for his mercy endureth for euer 26 O giue thankes unto the God of heauen for his mercy endureth for euer 27 O giue thankes unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for euer The Prayer O God of Heaven and Lord of lords who by thy excellent wisedome hast made the Heavens and onely doest great wonders in Heaven and Earth making all thy creatures to be expresses of thy power and of thy loving mercy let thy mighty hand and stretched out arme leade us through the midst of this world and the throng of all our enemies giving us food for the sustenance of our bodies the light of the sun of righteousnesse to leade us in our goings and great apprehensions of thy mercy to excite in us Devotion and true Religion that we praising thy mercies and being relieved and sustained by thy loving kindnesse may at last come to the land of promise which thou givest for an heritage to thy people and may receive the mercies of thy Kingdome which endure for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 137. A Prayer for redemption of the Church from captivity and persecution BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembred thee O Sion 2 As for our harpes we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein 3 For they that led us away captiue required of us then a song and melody in our heavinesse sing us one of the songs of Sion 4 How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land 5 If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning 6 If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth yea if I preferrs not Ierusalem in my mirth 7 Remember the children of Edom O Lord in the day