That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve our gracious Queen Catherine James Duke of York and all the Royal Family We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and Vnderstanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That if may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute Iustice and to maintain Truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations Vnity Peace and Concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy Commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and Provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that are desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech thee to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven c. Priest O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answ Neither reward us after our iniquities Let us pray O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Lord Christ Priest O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee Let us pray WE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent Create make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burthen of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore
his Kingdoms and a security for such as pass on the seas upon their lawful occasions Help Lord and save them for thy mercies sake that they may return in safety with honour and victory and good success to enjoy the blessings of the land and the fruit of their labours and that all the Inhabitants of these Islands being blest with plenty and prosperity peace and quietness may serve thee our God in righteousness and true holiness and with a thankful remembrance of all thy mercies may ever praise and glorifie thy holy Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty God King of all kings and Governour of all things whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners and to be merciful to them that truely repent Save and deliver us we humbly be seech thee from the hands of our enemies abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved evermore from all perils to glorifie thee who art the only giver of all victory through the merits of thy only Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all just works do proceed Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the merits of Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen LIghten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thy onely Son our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen ALmighty everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent Create make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burthen of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into judgment with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make haste to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the people say this that followeth after the Minister TVrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we he turned Be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy people Who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God Full of compassion Long-suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deserve punishment And in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them And let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great And after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us Though the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Majesty O Lord our heavenly Father High and Mighty King of Kings Lord of Lords the onely Ruler of Princes who dost from thy Throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alway incline to thy Will and walk in thy way endue him plenteously with heavenly gifts grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Royal Family ALmighty God the Fountain of all goodness we humbly beseech thee to bless our gracious Queen Catherine James Duke of York and all the Royal Family Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich them with thy heavenly grace prosper them with all happiness and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Clergy and people ALmighty and everlasting God who alone workest great marvels send down upon our Bishops and Curates and all Congregations committed to their charge the healthful Spirit of thy grace and that they may truly please thee pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing Grant this O Lord for the honour of our Advocate and Mediatour Iesus Christ Amen O Almighty God our most gracious Father the Sovereign Commander of all the world in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand Thou art the Lord of hosts the God of battels and the strength of all Nations If thou keepest not the City and the Kingdom the Watchman waketh but in vain Nor can victory wait upon the justest Designs upon the wisest Counsels upon the strongest Armies unless thou teachest their hands to war and their fingers to fight Thou art the steddy Hope of all the ends of the earth and of them which remain in the broad Sea Go forth we humbly beseech thee at this time by thy more especial assistance with His Majesties Fleet and Naval Forces and bless them all Let thy mercies fill their Sails with prosperous gales and thine Almighty power be their sure Anchor-hold thy good Providence their Shield and their impregnable Defence In all their Counsels let Wisdom lead them in all their Enterprises Courage assist them and thy blessing every where crown them with victory and good success That so they may at last bring back Honour to our Sovereign safety and strength to these his Kingdoms and to all his Subjects plenty and prosperity and a lasting peace and finally that by these and all thy mercies we may be still more engaged to a true and real thankfulness to thee our God such as may appear in our lives by an humble holy and obedient walking before thee all our days Grant this O merciful Father for thy Son Iesus Christ his sake Amen O God the Protectour of all that trust in Thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and so great dangers and seest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves Mercifully look upon our infirmities Raise up thy power and come among us and with great might succour us and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to help and defend us against all our enemies Look we pray thee upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants Encrease and multiply upon us thy mercies that wee who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished by the comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved and that Thou being our Saviour and Deliverer our Ruler and our Guide we may so pass the waves of this troublesom World that finally we may come to the land of everlasting life there to reign with Thee world without end through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer of S. Chrysostome ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests fulfill now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen 2 Corinth 13.14 THe grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen In the SAVOY Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1672.
thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breach The restorer of paths to dwell in If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth and feed thee with the heritage of Iacob thy father for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it ¶ After the First Lesson shall follow Te Deum laudamus in English WE praise thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee the Father everlasting To thee all Angels cry aloud the heavens and all the powers therein To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually do cry Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee The noble army of Martyrs praise thee The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee The Father of an infinite Majesty Thine honourable true and onely Son Also the holy Ghost the Comforter Thou art the King of glory O Christ Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man thou didst not abhor the Virgins womb When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers Thou fittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father We believe that thou shalt come to be our Iudge We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud Make them to be numbred with thy Saints in glory everlasting O Lord save thy people and bless thine heritage Govern them and lift them up for ever Day by day we magnifie thee And we worship thy Name ever world without end Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this day without sin O Lord have mercy upon us have mercy upon us O Lord let thy mercy lighten upon us as our trust is in thee O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be confounded For the second Lesson the One and twentieth Chapter of S. Luke ANd he looked up and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites And he said Of a truth I say unto you that this poor widow hath cast in more then they all For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had And as some spake of the temple how it was adorned with goodly stones gifts he said As for these things which ye behold the days will come in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down And they asked him saying Master but when shall these things be and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass And he said Take heed that ye be not deceived for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and the time draweth near go ye not therefore after them But when ye shall hear of Wars and commotions be not terrified for these things must first come to pass but the end is not by and by Then said he unto them Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom And great earthquakes shall be in divers places and famines and pestilences and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven But before all these they shall say their hands on you and persecute you delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons being brought before kings and rulers for my names sake And it shall turn to you for a testimony Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate before what ye shall answer For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist And ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolks and friends and some of you shall they cause to be put to death And ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake But there shall not an hair of your head perish In your patience possess ye your souls And when ye shall see Ierusalem compassed with armies then know that the desolation thereof is nigh Then let them which are in Iudea flee to the mountains and let them which are in the midst of it depart out and let not them that are in the countreys enter thereinto For these be the days of vengeance that all things which are written may be fulfilled But we unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days for there shall be great distresse in the land and wrath upon this people And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations and Ierusalem shall be troden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity the sea and the waves roaring mens hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven shall be shaken And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory And when these things begin to come to pass then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh And he spake to them a parable Behold the fig-tree and all the trees When they now shoot forth ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand So likewise ye when ye see these things come to pass know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand Verily I say unto you This generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away And take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man And in the day-time he was teaching in the temple and at night he went out and abode in the