and they who have divided his Inheritance triumphing over him But thou O Lord how long shall bloody Designs and Rebellious Imaginations prosper Shall not the Judge of the whole Earth do right Or hast thou forgot to be gracious and shut up thy tender Mercy in Displeasure O no thou art the same God who in the midst of Judgment remembreth Mercy Thine Arm is not shortned that thou canst not save nor thine Ears heavy that thou canst not hear Arise thou O God arise let the World see that thou art the Father of the Fatherless and Helper of them to right that suffer wrong Shew it O Lord especially at this time in multiplying all thy Comforts on our distressed King And as thou hast strangely and wonderfully delivered him from those who so eagerly hunted after his Life so let it appear to the World that thou hast not done this to make him the more miserable or to continue him in the condition of an Exile but rather that thou hast reserved him for faithfuller Hands and fairer Opportunities and more prosperous Successes And though this were not the time nor this the means by which thou hadst designed to restore the Kingdom to him yet that thou hast not yet forsaken him but that he is still in thy Care still under the Shadow of thy Wings who alone art able to do more for him than we can pray for and gloriously to bring him back again by ways we cannot think of In the mean time O Lord whilst thou thinkest fit to keep him under the sharpness of this Discipline teach him to kiss the Hand that chastens him and humbly to submit his Earthly Crown to thy divine Will and Pleasure as knowing that thou canst either restore him that when it seems good to thee or give a Crown infinitely more glorious which no Man can take from him Lord he is more precious to thee than he can be possibly to us dispose of him therefore in the Multitude of thy Mercies and let thy holy Spirit take so full Possession of him and Guidance that among all the Difficulties of his most perplexed Affairs he may constantly continue his Duty towards thee and live and dye thy faithful Servant in Jesus Christ Amen A LITANY of Intercession Preparatory Ejaculations to precede the LITANY O That thou wouldest hear me O God! that thou wouldest so prepare my Heart that thou mayest hear me That thou wouldest hear me yet once more though I am but Dust and Ashes That thou wouldest hear me for all those whom by the bonds of Duty of Charity or Affection I am bound to pray for O Lord hear my Prayers And let my Cry come unto thee The LITANY THat it may please thee O God to bless the whole Catholick-Church of thy Son Christ and as it hath been planted in his Death and watered with his Blood so it may be still nourished by his Sacraments and governed by his Word that the Uncharitableness of Men may not make the Rents and Divisions of it wider and that howsoever we may differ in the Superstructions the Foundation of Christian Faith may never be cast down O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to look compassionately on this persecuted Part of thy Church now driven from thy publick Altars into Corners and secret Closets that thy Protection may be over us where-ever we shall be scattered and a Remnant preserved amongst us by whom thy Name may be glorified and thy Sacraments administred and the Souls of thy Servants kept up upright in the midst of a corrupting and of a corrupted Generation O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to be gracious to Him who was once designed by thee to be the Nursing Father of this thy Church but for the Sins both of Priests and People is now cast out as an unprofitable Branch and that in thy due time thou wouldst deal with him according to the Innocency of his Person and Justice of his Cause O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to comfort him in the sadness of his Spirit and guide him in the Perplexities of his Mind and support him in streights and necessities of his Fortunes To raise him Friends abroad to convert or confound the Hearts of his Enemies at home To do some mighty Thing for him which I in particular know not how to pray for and by the secret Windings and powerful workings of thy Providence to make the Stone which these foolish Builders have refused the head stone of the corner O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to preserve him with an unspotted Soul and an unshaken Faith and that no Splendor of any Earthly Crown may so dazzle him as to make him forget either himself or thee or to do any unworthy thing to lose that Heavenly Crown which thou hast prepared for him and nothing but his Sins is able to keep from him O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to shew mercy to the Queen his Mother the Dukes his Brethren in exile with him and the rest of that scattered and oppressed Family to guide them with thy Counsels to defend them by thy Power to provide for them in thy mercy and to make them in their several ways Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to deal graciously with that Remnant of the loyal Nobility and all others of that ruined Side who have chosen rather to suffer in thy Cause than to participate with the Sins of a more successful Party O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to spread the wings of thy Protection over all those whom thou hast made near or dear unto me to preserve them safe in Body and Soul from the Snares of their Enemies and the Iniquities of the times that no Sin may lay waste their Consciences nor Evil come near their Dwellings O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to recompence all those whom thou hast raised to be Instruments of any good to me such as have taken care of my Soul and instructed me in the way to Heaven such as have counselled me when I have gone astray supplyed me in my wants comforted me in my heaviness and have had that high Charity for me as to reprove me when I have sinned O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to let the Day spring from on high shine upon all those that sit in Darkness and in the shadow of Death who either do not know thy Name or knowing it are carried by strong Delusions into the ways of Error and false Perswasion O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to confirm those who as yet stand fast on the Foundations of thy holy Truth that neither the Persecution of the Church
bear a tyrannous hate against us Our Goods our Lands our Lives will not suffice their boundless Ambition Our Religion our Souls and if it were possible our God is that they strike at curse thou their Angers for it is fierce and their Wrath for it is cruel Divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel as for us deliver us out of their Hands and unite us together in the bond of Peace that being freed from our many and tyrannous Enemies we may ever bless thy sacred and holy Name and evermore serve thee without fear in Holiness and Righteousness all the Days of our Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble Servants and stretch forth the right Hand of thy Majesty to be our Defence against all our Enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we which for our evil deeds are justly punished by the comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon our Infirmities and Miseries and in all our Dangers and Necessities stretch forth thy right Hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty God which art more ready to hear than we to pray and are wont to give more than either we desire or deserve pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy forgiving us those things whereof we are afraid and giving unto us that that our Prayers dare not presume to ask through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of January the Anniversary of England's Captivity and Tyrants Liberty O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most suitable to thy Justice and performest thy Pleasure always in such manner to us that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy ways be not equal we thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgment which as this Day befel us in thy permitting cruel Men Sons of Belial to execute their fury of their Rebellions upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their Hands in the Blood and Murder of the Lords Anointed that was drawn down by the great and long Provocations of this Nation sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinful wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this Days sore Vengeance the effect as well as the defect of our Impieties the work of our own Hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgment but our own most horrible Sin for which alone did not multitude of other Sins cry out against us thou mightest justly descend down upon us all as thou didst in Sodom and leave us no other memorial than to be the frightful Monuments of thine Indignation and Fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and merciful therefore it is that we are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to Repentance And now O Lord looking on this particular signal Judgment and thy last Trump warning us to flie from the Wrath to come We come forth to meet our God mourning in our Prayers before thee and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure and the removal of these Plagues of long continuance from us for the all-sufficient merits of the Death and Sufferings of our blessed Saviour O forgive our great and manifold Transgressions and for his bloody Passion sake deliver this Nation from Blood-guiltiness that of this Day especially O God of our Salvation Let not our crying Sins intercept our Prayers or thy Blessings but hear the Voice of our Tears and hearing forgive and heal us retire not quite from us into thine own Place Laugh not at our Calamities neither Mock in this Day of our Visitation Vindicate thy own Cause and thine own Providence that it may appear unto Men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the Earth and that by thee Kings do Reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of Violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold Hopes and Desires let not their mischievous imaginations Prosper least they be too Proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have Fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them Shew some Token on his seed for Good that their Enemies may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast Holpen and Comforted them Bow the Hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou didst those of Israel to David that they acknowledge and receive joyfully the Heir of these three Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a Nail in a sure Place behold his Injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his Enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their Oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by Birth-light thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this Day for this Blessing make no longer tarrying but according to the time thou hast Plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons Teeth and pull us out of the Burnings like a Fire-brand We beseech thee that this Day we may spread before thee the Words of Rabshekah the Proud railing and Scornful reproach of our Enemies Behold this Day their Exaltation and our Mourning O Lord our Eyes are towards thee For whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many Thousands that call on thee that Salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of Peace unto thy People Think upon those that are peaceable and faithful in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the World see that there is a God that judgeth the Earth and will send deliverance to his People in their needful time of trouble But whatsoever is let us not behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian Humility run the race thou settest before us and patiently bear the Indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our Prayers may return unto our own Bosoms and that thou wilt make thy Judgments temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in well-doing we may commit our selves unto thee our God as unto a faithful Creator and that both our King and we may say with a Christian submission and cheerfulness It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good to whom we desire to ascribe Honour Praise Dominion and Thanksgiving now and for evermore Amen FINIS The Contents A Preparatory Prayer folio 3 King Davids prayer for the Church and People 4 King Davids second Prayer 5 King Davids third prayer ibid. King Davids fourth prayer 6 King Davids Tears 7 Jeremiahs Lamentations prophetical of these times ibid. Jeremiahs second prayer 8 Daniels prayer and confession in the behalf of himself and his people 9 The first prayer for the King 10 The second prayer for the King ibid. The third prayer for the King 11 Preparatory ejaculations precede the Litany 12 A Litany of intercession ibid. A prayer for the Church 16 A prayer for the Queen Mother and the Royal Progeny ibid. A prayer for the Afflicted 17 Certain Verses of several psalms ibid. A prayer 18 A Confession of sins 20 A prayer 25 An Absolution to be pronounced by the priest only ibid The Lords prayer 26 More prayers ibid. Psalms proper upon this occasion to be read viz. III folio 53. VII fol. 56. XXVII fol. 57. XLVI fol. 58 LXXXIII fol. 75. LXXXVI fol. 60. 28 The first Lesson proper upon this occasion is out of the 2 Book of Samuel XV Chapter folio 34 Another Lesson upon this occasion is in the 2 of Chronicles XIII Chapter fol. 37 More Lessons fitting this occasion viz. 2 Samuel 16 17 18 and 20. Chapters Numbers 16. Chap. Isai. 22. Amos. 4. Joel 2 and Ezekiel 9. Chapters Then shall priest and people repeat those sayings 39 Another prayer 40 Then shall the priest and people repeat those sayings 41 The second Lesson proper for this occasion is the 24 Chapter of St. Matthew 44 Then shall the priest and people repeat those sayings 47 Another prayer 49 A prayer for the Church ibid. More prayers 50 A proper prayer for the 30th of January being the Anniversary of Englands Captivity and Tyrants Liberty 53
in which they were baptized nor the Tentations of the Times nor the Snares of cunning Men who watch all advantages may make them fall from their first Faith and miserably wander after their own Imaginations O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to comfort and raise up those weak and dejected Spirits which are ready to sink under the burden of a troubled or affrighted Conscience that as thou hast shewed them their Sins and the Punishments due for them so thou wouldest shew them their Saviour and by directing them to lay hold upon his Cross keep them from a final and everlasting Shipwrack O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to hear the Groans and Cries of all that are afflicted either outwardly or inwardly in Body or Soul especially such who being oppressed for Conscience sake have no Place to fly unto nor no Man careth for their Souls O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to listen compassionately to the deep sighing of the Prisoners and by thy mighty Power to deliver such who for obeying thee and a good Conscience are or shall be designed to Death or Ruin O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to soften the Hearts of all unrighteous Judges who now have the Power over us and to make them know with trembling that there is a Judge higher than they O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to forgive all who more particularly are Enemies to me or mine all that have any way traduced or slandered me even to turn their hearts and to extend thy Charity to them in all those degrees of mercy which I desire may be shown to my own Soul O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to hear all those Servants of thine who either have the Charity to pray for me or desire my Prayers for them but above all that it may please thee to hear the Prayers of thy Son Jesus Christ who now sits gloriously on thy right hand to intercede both for me and them O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake O Lord hear my Prayers and let my Cry come unto thee O Lord Pardon my Prayer and let not my Sins and my Unworthiness interpose between thy Mercy-seat and me Amen Amen A Prayer for the Church ALmighty and Everlasting God who only workest great marvels shew the Riches of thy Goodness to thy desolate and persecuted Church that now sits mourning in her own Dust and Ruins torn by Schism and stripped and spoiled by Sacrilege And thou who after long Captivity didst bring back thy People to rebuild their Temple look upon us with the same Eyes of mercy Restore us once again the publick Worship of thy Name the reverent Administrations of thy Sacraments raise up the former Government both in Church and State that we may no longer be without King without Priest without God in the World but may once more enter into thy Courts with Praise and serve thee with that Reverence that Unity and Order as may be acceptable in thy Sight through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the Queen Mother and the Royal Progeny ALmighty God the Fountain of all Goodness we humbly beseech thee to be gracious to the Queen Mother to comfort her in her sad Afflictions and to direct her Ways and Counsels as may conduce to the setling of her Posterity here in Peace enlarge thy Blessings on all the Branches of the Royal Family Those that are driven to fly for Refuge into Foreign Parts take them all into thy Care cover them under thy Wings and in thy due time make them so many Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the Afflicted O Lord God Merciful and Gracious the only Sanctuary and Refuge for those that are in Misery and Trouble hear I beseech thee the Groans and Cries of all that are afflicted outwardly or inwardly in Body or Mind especially such who suffer in a righteous Cause whose Loyalty hath been more dear unto them than their Fortunes and a good Conscience more than their Lives Consider them O God in their several Extremities whether at home or abroad comfort them in their Distresses supply them in their Wants Let the sorrowful sighing of all that are oppressed come before thee and by the greatness of thy Power preserve thou those that are appointed to dye Convert and soften the hard Hearts of their implacable Enemies and asswage their thirst of Blood which still cries more and more or if thou otherwise hast decreed to bring any more of us thro' the red Sea into the Land of Promise prepare us for this Passage and guide us by thy Blessed Spirit thro' the Shadows of Death continue our Christian Courage and Constancy to the utmost strengthen our Faith confirm our Hope and let our Charity overflow even to the forgiving of them by whose unjust Sentence we perish that so dying in thy Peace we may enter into the Joys prepared for us thro' the Mediation of our Saviour who hath gone the same way before us even Jesus Christ the Righteous Amen Psalm 10. Verse 1. Why standest thou so far off O Lord and hidest thy Face in the needful Time of Trouble Psalm 8. Verse 1 2 3. Lord how are they increased that trouble us many are they that rise up against us many there be that say of our Souls there is no Help for them in their God But thou O Lord art our Defender thou art our Worship and the Lifter up of our Head Jeremiah 10. Verse 24. Correct us O Lord and yet in thy Judgment not in thy Fury lest we should be consumed and brought to nothing Psalm 130. Verse 3. If thou wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it A Prayer O Thou most blessed Judge Eternal We the unworthiest and sinfullest of all the Children of Men that have so long abused and prophaned thy Mercies provoked thy Judgments unsheathed thy glittering Sword forced all the Arrows and Darts out of thy Quiver and with our multiply'd abominable crying Sins brought down a Desolation on a most pleasant Land that former delight of thine the Glory of all Lands We that after thy Wrath was poured out upon us have yet further encreased our Sins as thou hast increased the Weight and Number of thy Judgments on us and walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy Discipline and Visitations suffered all thy precious Methods of reducing us thy Admonitions and thy Stripes to be utterly lost and frustate amongst us And now the Axe is laid to the Root of the Tree and above all the Sword of Violence died with the Blood of thine Anointed among us and with that all the bloody Presages that we cannot without Horror but apprehend a final utter Vastation threatned to a long flourishing