and all thy people sober and chast and undefiled in our selves Make us alwayes mindefull of thy presence with us wheresoever we are or whatsoever we do and to walk before thee as it becometh us in thy sight and as having to do with thee our God in all things Keep us alwayes in the sense of our frailty and of our uncertaine condition and continuance in this world that we may live every day as if it were to be our last and to labour to make our accounts even with thee daily Make us to be often thinking upon the houre of death the day of judgment the paines of Hell and the joyes of Heaven let the dread and aw of eternity be ever upon our Souls Teach us how to carry our selves prudently and innocently in these dangerous times that we may be wise as serpents and harmlesse as Doves and direct us in all the changes that are or shall be upon us in this world to walk inoffensively in thy presence and herein to exercise our selves to have alwayes a Conscience void of offence towards God and towards man Suffer us neither through sinfull fears to desert our duties or to comply with wickednes or to forsake thy righteousnes or yet imprudently rashly or unadvisedly to cast our selves into any unnecessary dingers and whensoever through our frailty we shall fall into any sinne as what man is he that sins not Oh our God let us not rest in sin nor perish in our iniquities but be thou alwayes ready with thy mercy and grace to raise us up again and to give us repentance unto Salvation Grant all these blessings to me and all thy people And make us all the better for ever for this our approach unto thee this day Through that thy blessed Son whom thou hast given us to be our Saviour Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer of Intercession for the sick to be used by those that are with him or that come to visit him OH Eternal God and our most Gracious Father in Christ Jesus That art the God of health and the God of life and the God of all mercy compassion in thy hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind thou woundest and thou healest thou bringest to the grave and bringest back again thou turnest man to destruction and again thou sayest Come again yo children of men thou doest whatsoever pleaseth thee in Heaven and Earth and in things under the Earth And as for us O Lord we are all the workes of thy hand and we are in thy hands at the clay in the hands of the Potter that thou mayest do with us whatsoever pleaseth thee Whilst thou preservest us we live when thou takest away our breath we dy and turn again unto our dust and then all our thoughts perish and after death commeth Judgement wherein we must render an account unto thee our God for the whole course of our lives and conversation and receive from thee according to that which we have done in the body whether it be good or whether it be evill Have mercy O Lord have mercy we beseech thee upon us all thy poore weake fraile sinfull and mortall creatures give us not up unto utter ruin and destruction but grant us thy grace that we may so walke before thee both in sicknesse and in health that we may have comfort in our deaths and look downe wee humbly beseech thee with the eyes of thy tender pitty and compassion upon this thy servant that is here before thee under the visitation of thy heavenly hand it is thou that hast wounded him and it is thou onely that canst heal him it is thou that hast brought him down it is thou onely that canst raise him up and we know Oh Lord that thou art able to do all things all means will be helplesse without thee and thy blessing But thou art able to make the weakest meanes to become beneficiall unto thy people and to help them by thine own power and goodnesse in all they want and in all the failings of outward help Thy word O God is an al sufficient remedy There is no disease so desperate but thou canst Cure it there is no wound so deadly but thou canst heal it thou wert able to raise the Rulers Daughter from the bed when she was in the gripes of death The Widdowes sonne from the beer when he was upon his journey to the grave thou wert able to raise Lazarus out of the Grave when he had bin foure dayes dead and buried And thou art the same God still the same in power and the same in mercy thou hast as open an Eare and as compassionate a heart and as able a hand to hear pitty and help thy poor people as ever thou hadst When Physicians can do nothing and when medicines can do nothing and when Angels can do nothing and when all the creatures are at a stand and when the strength of nature faileth yet there is help and comfort in thee and thou makest the extremities of thy people the opportunities of thy power and goodness To thee therefore O Lord we come beseeching thee to glorify the power of thy mercy in restoring this thy servant to his former health and strength if it be thy blessed will that he may live to praise and glorifie thy name To amend his life to increase in knowledge and grace to do good amongst thy people to make his calling and election more and more sure unto himself against his departure out of this world and that he may have strength of Body and vigorous soundness of his faculties powers to come before thee in the holy Assemblies of thy people and to enjoy the benefit of thy heavenly and publique ordinance Do it Lord if it be thy blessed will speak but the word and thy servant shall be whole Direct him unto the use of those means which thou knowest to be most expedient and let thy blessing be above all means unto him Or if thou hast otherwise determined in thy wisdome and if it be thy heavenly pleasure by this sicknesse to put a period unto the dayes of this his earthly pilgrimage O Lord thy heavenly will be done but let it be done in great mercy and compassion Do nothing in wrath nothing in indignation for Christ Jesus his sake Sanctify this thy visitation unto thy servant that it may be a meanes to prepare him for thy kingdom let the sicknesse of his Body be unto the health of his soul that whether he live he may live unto the Lord and whether he dye he may dye unto the Lord and whether he live or dye he may be the Lords Help him to improve that time that is yet remaining unto him in this world in the best manner to thy glory and to his eternal good make him seriously to minde the things that belong unto his everlasting peace and so to make up his accounts with thee
you may become good Communicants and use that holy and excellent Ordinance to Gods honour and your own comfort and salvation The first is to convince you of the necessity that lies upon you to make a frequent and a diligent use of that great means and pledge of your salvation and to perswade you that it is your duty to be constant therein and that you cannot neglect any oportunity whereby you are called thereunto in the Congregation of which you are members unlesse you have some weighty and innocent cause to the contrary without violating both the authority of Christs command and the love of his invitation in the institution of the Lords Supper and if you do but consider these obligations that Christ our Lord hath laid upon us and the great and excellent duties that we there are called to offer unto God and the great manifold graces mercies that God therein offers unto us and remember what I have often said unto you touching this matter I cannot see how you will be excusable if you shall wilfully without some very weighty warrantable impediment abstain from the use of this holy Ordinance of God assure your selves neither pride nor sloath nor love unto any sin nor wilfull ignorance when the means of instruction is offered and despised no nor servile fear nor the love of this world will be accepted for discharges of our attendance upon God in this Christian duty for all those are sinfull and therefore are not like to excuse us from duty The Second is that you be directed and perswaded to a due preparation of your selves unto this holy Sacrament that we may not eat that bread and drink that cup of the Lord unworthily least we bring thereby both great guilt and judgement upon our soules and make even that Table to be asuare unto us whilest we approach with impenitent unbelieving uncharitable unthākfull cold and earthly minds not discerning the body of Christ The Third is that we be rightly advised and assisted for the due disposition of our hearts imploy ment of our thoughts and affections in about the time of the receiving the holy Supper of the Lord. You will I hope finde somthing in this little Manuall that may be serviceable to you for all these purposes as in the little Catechism and some devotions that are added unto the former edition thereof and I do earnestly desire all of you from the eldest to the youngest that are capable to acquaint themselves with that little Catechisme so as to be able to give an account thereof and if they would exercise their humility so farr as to give me leave to receive it from them it would be a comfort to me I hope no hurt or dishonour unto them remember that of our blessed Saviour Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of God Mat. 18.3 And that of St. Peter Be ready to give an answer unto every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear 1 Pet. 3.15 But the first and peculiar business of this Book was to be helpfull unto you and others for their more easy and orderly delivery of holy thoughts about the time of the receiving of the Lords supper and after the use thereof The work that is done in that holy Solemnity is of that nature that though it aimes at the greatest unity and fellowship that can be in an holy Congregation which are all thereby gathered up close together into Christ yet it offers particular and retired employment to thoughts and affections of every particular receiver Unto whom being rightly quali fied and prepared it offers seals all that mercy grace which the Gospel promiseth in general unto all that are penitent Sinners true Believers and requires of every one a very serious attendance unto private and secret meditation and holy devotion There are in the time of that sacred Celebration many pauses and intermissions of the joynt imployment of the Congregation which doth as it were separate them unto their several works in their Soules Whilest some are Receiving it is the businesse of others to be in the holy preparation of themselves to the Duty And they that have thus passed through both these performances are to be exercised in the admiration of that mercy they have received in the inflaming of their hearts unto the holy praises of the Lord. Some course hath been taken heretofore in some Congregations to prevent the chasme that might be in the spiritual work the falling of thoughts for want of holy suggestions by the singing of a Psalm at the very time of the celebration But besides that the pattern of our Saviours practise Mat. 26.30 leads us to believe that to be a work more proper and fit to succeed than accompany that holy Business The very noise of that service in those that are at leasure to be employed in it appears to be too great an Enemy unto that severe attention and holy sequestration of spirit that is required in those that are to be employed in Receiving which doth least of all admit of the offers of distraction I know no way better to prevent all inconveniencies to make up all gaps in that sacred celebration than to offer some variety of short Meditations Devotions into the hands and unto the hearts of the particular Receivers to be used according to those severall works that they have to doe which may be as so many several notes of the Spiritual Song which being composed in their right order and consent will make up an holy Harmony in the ears of the Almighty If any part seem too long there is nothing imposed but every Communicant may satisfie the bents of their own devotions answer the measure of their time and leasure by marking out some of the shortest forms unto themselves especially in that which is to be done about the time of the receiving Or if they have better of their own or from any other they may spare their troubling of themselves with this God I hope will pardon the infirmities and his people accept of the poore endeavours of him Who is a poore Sinner and an unworthy Labourer in Gods Vineyard Tho. Warmstry A Prayer for incitement of affection to attend upon the Lord in the use of the Lords Supper O Most gracious Saviour who hast not only vouchsafed in the great Mystery and work of thy Incarnation to take our humane flesh and blood together with an humane soul into the unity of thy divine person that God and man might be one Christ that so it might become possible for the immortal God to dye for us and for the spiritual God to be wounded pierced and to shed his blood for us nor yet only hast been pleased to give up thy blessed body to be crucified and thy precious blood to be shed for our Redemption but art pleased still to revive thy death
to cause the flame of thy love to burn and the streams of thy blood to run into thy peoples souls in thy holy Sacrament at thy Supper and hast enjoyned us by the authority of thy Command and encouraged us by the invitation of thy Love to make use thereof to the Glory of thy Mercy and the Eternal good of our Soules grant unto us and to all thy people that in al holy and awfull obedience to thy command and all thankfull and dear observance of thy Love we may make an holy and conscionable use of that thy holy Ordinance upon all occasions conveniencies that thou offerest us that we may neither violate thy great and dreadfull Authority nor despise thy great wonderful mercy let the apprehension of the greatnesse of thy heavenly blessings discharge us from al worldly impediments let us not harken unto the occasions or pleas of dross and dung to keep us from the pursuit of thy heavenly treasures let no prohibitions from earth prevaile against the calls of heaven let no civility towards men make us commit sinfull iniquity against thee our God in the neglect of the Celestiall banquet when the King sumons us let not vassalls detain us let us not commit such Idolatry with any relation or dignities as to prefer our respects to them before our duties to thee let us not dare to be so impudent as to bring dust and ashes in competition with thee nor prize the vain societies of sinners before the holy Communion Fellowship with thee our Saviour with thy Angells thy heavenly Stsand thy holy people in that thy sacred Ordinance much less O Lord let us not once dare to think of preferring Sathan and sinne before Christ and heaven so as to keep away from those thy great Mysteries mercies because we are loath to part from any beloved sin when a Saviour calls let not our greatest and thy vilest enemies prevaile with us to keep away but make us willing to part with the dearest bosome-corruptions that we may partake of thy heavenly benediction divorce our souls from all iniquity that we may contract our selves unto thee in that thy marriage Feast and Solemnity let not any blessings that thou hast bestowed upon us in earthly things make us to forget the dependance we have upon thee for them or the great need we have of thy heavenly mercie neither let any advancements that thou hast given us teach us to despise thee or to neglect the pursuit of those celestial dignities which thou offerest us in Christ Jesus but the more thou doest blesse us the more make us to serve thee and the more thou hast exalted us the more make us to exalt honour thee the higher thou hast made us above others in the dignities of this world the more let us labour to get above others in spiritual dignities and make us alwayes to esteem it our greatest honour to honour serve thee and to enjoy thy favour Let not idleness or sloath or servile fear discourage us or betray us to the neglect of those great inestimable advantage that thou offerest unto us in that thy blessed Ordinance for our eternal good but make us action and diligent lively and fervent in our holy addresses unto thee to think no pains no industry too much to get heaven and eternal life-Oh let not our sinns though great and many affright us from thee because we are unworthy of thee but let the humble sense of them drive us to thee because we have great need of thee and the more and the greater our diseases are the more earnest speed let us make unto thee who art the great Physician of our soules whose blood is balsome for the most deadly wounds who hath both the skill and the will to cure and to heal the most desperate diseases of those that with penitent hearts seek unto thee for recovery and relief let al our weaknesses send us unto thee for strength let all our wants drive us unto thee for supply let all our sorrows dispatch us unto thee for comfort let all our afflictions hasten us unto thee for redresse let all our dangers make us fly unto thee for refuge and shelter and let the sense of that death and hell which is due unto us for our iniquities move us to seek life and heaven in thee which thou offerest unto us by thy heavenly mercies who callest not those that are perfect or righteous but sayest Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Oh God we are heavy laden with our unsupportable load and burden of sins ready to press us down unto the nethermost hell if we be not supported by thy heavenly goodness make us to labour under this load with a contrite broken spirit that we may find eternal rest in thee Let me not be so foolish as to seek excuses to divert me from thee who art the summe of all my felicity neither suffer me to hearken unto any that may put me off or delay me from thee But make me watchful against all impediments and prevident beforehand for all advantages that may promote and expedite my holy addresses unto thee at thy heavenly Table and active in the use of all other means of my spiritual good and in all offices of thy Divine Worship whereby I may glorify thee or benefit my soul or maintain and further the enjoyment of an holy communion with thee and thy faithfull people Make me to come unto thee as the hungry unto food As the thirsty unto the waters As the sick unto the Physician As a poor drowning soul into the ark of thy mercy As a weather-beaten Ship-wrack passenger into a far and a sase harbour As a poore needy wretch unto a rich treasure And be thou all in all unto me let me seek thee earnestly and receive me graciously through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal 42.1 c. As the Hart panteth after the water Brooks so longeth my soul after thee O God My Soul is a thirst for God even for the living God Oh when shall I come and appear before God Psal 63.1 c. Oh God thou art my God early will I seek thee My soul thirsteth for thee my flesh also longeth after thee in a barren and dry land where no water is Thus have I looked for thee in holinesse that I might behold thy power and glory For thy loving kindness is better than the life it self my lips shall praise thee As long as I live will I magnify thee on this manner and lift up my hands in thy name My Soul shall be satisfied as with marow and fatness when my mouth praiseth thee with joyfull lips A Prayer for the preparation to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper OH my God thou art a great God and I am a poor inconsiderable wretch a poore vile lump of dust and clay and thou art a Glorious God incomprehensible in thy
that he may stand with joy and comfort before the Tribunal of thy Sonne Christ Jesus and receive the blessed sentence of everlasting life and salvation give him a saving sight and sense of his sinns that he may mourn for them from the bottom of his heart and offer unto thee the sacrifice of a broken and contrite spirit which thou O God wilt not despise grant him that godly sorrow that worketh Repentance unto salvation not to be repented of let nothing be so grievous unto him as that he hath sin'd against thee his mercifull and gracious God the God of his life and of his being and of all the blessings and comforts that ever he hath enjoyed The God that didest not spare thine own Sonne but gavest him up to dye for him enable him to confesse his sins unto thee that he may mouth for his sinns and finde pardon from thee affect him with a perfect hatred against sin that he may hate it above death hell it self Help him to loath himself for all those offences that he hath committed against thee make him vile in his own eyes that he may be dear precious in thy sight and give him a true love unto thy Lawes and Commandements that it may be the joy of his heart to do thy heavenly will in all things and let the sense and horrour of the corruptions of his nature and the wickednesse of his life not drive him from thee but let it drive him unto thee that he may fly for refuge into the bosome of that rich mercy that thou hast opened unto him in the Lord Jesus Christ Help him to reforme every thing that is amisse and to give himself up wholly unto thee to seek thy glory and to do thy heavenly will in all things purge and cleanse his soul from all evill thoughts ungodly affections distempered passions from all sinfull inclinations whatsoever and fill him full of holy thoughts of heavenly meditations devour affections and good inclinations toward thee his God wean him from the world and from all the vanities thereof and from all the sinfull pleasures of the flesh that he may set his affections wholly upon thee and upon things that are above where Christ Jesus sitteth at thy right hand seal unto him his pardon in the blood of thy Sonn by the inward testimony and grace of thy spirit let thy spirit of adoption cry Abba father in his heart strengthen his faith unto an holy and comfortable assurance of his interest in Christ crucified and in all thy mercies towards thy people in him make him to know that though he is a miserable sinner in himself yet the Death and Passion of thy Son hath satisfied thy Justice for all his iniquities and that though he hath no righteousnesse of his own to plead unto thee yet the righteousnesse of thy Son is his Justification in thy sight Oh Transcribe the promises of thy holy Gospel upon the Table of his heart that they may be unto him the sure evidence of his eternal inheritance in heaven Oh let the Mediation and Intercession of thy Sonne Christ Jesus at thy right hand prevaile with thee for all those mercies and graces and heavenly blessings that are needfull for him And let the sense of thy great mercies toward him and of thy great love unto him in the Lord Jesus his Saviour enflame his soul with an holy and fervent love unto thee that he may love thee with all his heart and with all his soule and with all his minde and with all his strength that he may love thee above his life and above his soul and that he may be willing to part with all that is dear unto him for thee that nothing may be dear unto him in respect of thee That he may love thee in all thy perfections in all thy mercies and all thy works in all thy dispensations in all thy corrections that thou art pleased to lay upon him Help him to discover thy tender mercy and Fatherly loving kindnesse unto his Soul shining forth unto him through all the clouds of that sickness and affliction that is or shall be upon him from thy hand and to taste thy sweetnesse in all the bitternesse of his trouble give him some comfortable relishes of those incomprehensible joyes and delights that are in thee that as the Hart panteth after the water-brooks so his soul may long and thirst and faint and languish after thee make him sick of love toward thee which is the only true health of his Soul Blessed God furnish thy servant with true Christian love charity to all thy people for thy sake Help him to forgive al that have wronged him to love his enemies to blesse them that curse him to do good to them that hate him to pray for them that despightfully use him and persecute him Give him reconciled affections to all with whom he hath had any difference make him desirous to do good unto all and as much as in him lyeth to live peaceably with all men Direct him and incline him readily willingly to seek reconciliation and to make satisfaction in case he hath done wrong or given any just cause of offence unto any Help him to settle his estate according to the rules of prudence righteousnes and charity to shew mercy to the poor as thou enablest him and to order all his affairs with discretion Bind him up in the Communion of thy Church and in the fellowship of a spiritual love and of a heavenly life with thy people give him tender affections towards thy Church and to those that are thine in faith and holinesse that he may be known to be thy disciple by his love unto thy people Give him patience to submit unto thy chastisements that he may bear them with a christian minde make him with a child like affection to accept of thy correction and to kiss every rod wherewith thou smitest him for his good give him an heart wholy resigned up unto to thy heavenly pleasure that he may refer himself entirely unto thee to choose for him and to deal with him as thou knowest to be most expedient that he may entrust thee as his merciful father reconciled to him in Christ and as the alwise and all sufficient God with his life and soul and all his happiness and with all his relations and concernments And deal with him in all things tenderly and graciously according to those bowells of compassion that thou bearest to thy people Be thou health unto him in all his sicknesse strength unto him in all his weaknesse comfort unto him in all his distresse life unto him in death it self stand by him in all temptations and trials to keep him from fainting and to give him the victory in Christ Jesus that he may obtain the Crown of thy heavenly glory Binde up Satan and all his spiritual enemies that they may not be able to hurt him make thou all his bed in his sicknesse and
as outward strength decayeth so let spiritual strength continually increase in him as outward comforts fade vanish let spiritual comforts appear be cleared up more and more unto him and when thou shalt be pleased to call him out of this wretch'd world make him willingly cheerfuly to yield him self up into thy hands and send thine holy angells with a commission of mercy from thy mercy-seat to translate his soul to thy heavenly glory thorow Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer to be used when we hear a Passing-Bell Toll or have any other notice of a Soul ready to depart OH Mercifull God Thou Father of all pitty and compassion open the bowels of thy Tender mercy unto this Soul that seems now ready to depart and to be now entring into the Ocean of Eternity Thou knowest O Lord the state and condition thereof and how it is disposed and prepared for a dissolution O Lord take it not out of this world untill thou hast weaned it from the world that it may have a free passage through thy mercy unto thy eternal mansions of Blessed nesse If thou knowest it may stand with thy Glory and may make for his salvation bring it back from this gate of Death and let it continue in the body and restore this person yet if it be thy blessed wil unto health and strength or if thou shalt be pleased to take this soul hence ô Lord wash it clean from iniquity by the blood of Christ and adorn it with the robe of his perfect righteousness and give it the benefit of the Intercession of thy Son Quicken repentance strengthen Faith raise up in it an holy flame of heavenly love to thee that may carry it up as a sacrifice to the throne of thy Glory Binde it up in the holy peace and Communion of thy Church by the bond of holy love and Christian charity to all thy people Grant patience and strength and spiritual comfort to convey it safe through the pangs torments of dissolution Let not the Enemy have any power to hurt it but take it into thy keeping and into the guard of thy grace and mercy Binde up Sathan and all spiritual adversaries and send thine Angels with a commission of Mercy to convey this Soul unto the habitation of thy Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Or this OGracious God be with this person in the holy operations of thy grace and in the yearning of thy tenderest mercies in the dreadfull moment when the Soul shal depart from the body conduct this thy dying creature through the valley of the shadow of death unto the Land of everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Or this IN the midst of life we be in death of whom may wee seek for succour but of thee O Lord who for our sins art justly displeased Yet O Lord most Holy O God most mighty O Holy and mercifull Saviour remember the work of thy hands and the purchase of thy blood give not up this thy departing Creature unto the bitter pain of eternal Death Lord remember now thy great mercy and thy Bloody Sufferings and death and let thy Bowels melt in tender compassion towards this person in this great extremity Shut up Hell and open Heaven O Lord destroy not Oh Lord forsake not O Lord most holy O God most mighty O holy and mercifull Saviour thou most worthy Judge eternal suffer not this person at the last hour for any pains of death to fall from thee Amen A Prayer for the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland proper for all tmes OH most Gracious God who doest Rule and Govern all things who increasest the Nations and destroyest them who enlargest them again look down I beseech thee with the eye of thy tender pitty and compassion upon these poore miserable and sinfull Kingdoms that have now lain for these many years under the load of thy heavy displeasure against them for their sins and are at this time in the mouth of so great ruin and destruction if we be not relieved by thy heavenly mercy O Lord we must all needs confess that our iniquities have been and are still very great against thee and in the very midst of the flames of thine indignation against us we have multiplied our rebellions against thee our God as if we would even bid defiance unto thine anger and dare thee to doe thy worst against us And that blood that bath been wickedly shed in these Nations cryes aloud for vengeance against us so that it were most just in thee to make the ruins of these three Kingdomes the standing monuments of thy displeasure against sinne unto all the rest of the Nations of the world But I humbly beseech thy divine Majesty to pitty a poore perishing people Hear not O Lord the cry of our sins neither heare the cry of that blood that cryes for vengeance but hear the cry of that blood that cryes for mercy even of the blood of thine own dear Son Christ Jesus That speaketh better things than the blood of Abel and hear the Cryes and the Prayers of thy people that call upon thee for Mercy O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord humble and convert us and these whole Nations unto thee O let it be thy pleasure to deliver us make hast O God to help us help us O God of our Salvation for the glory of thy name Oh deliver us and be mercifull to our sins for thy name sake leave us not to become a prey unto our own iniquities nor to the wicked interests of men But be thou pleased so to over-rule all the publick motions and consultations and all the confusions and distactions that are upon us or shall befall us that whatsoever men shall contrive or designe that whatsoever they shall act or enterprise all things may be drawn in by thy wisdome and thy providence to the advancement of thy glory of the Gospel and Kingdome of thy son amongst us to the restoring of a righteous and lawfull Government in the state of an holy and orderly discipline and ministry in the Church and to the establishment of all these nations in holinesse and truth in righteousnesse and peace and prosperity before thee and help us O God without the shedding of any more innocent blood and without any more bloody confusions and distractions if it be thy blessed will grant this O Lord though we be most unworthy for the worthiness and merrit of thy deare sonne and our onely Saviour Jesus Christ Amen A Prayer for the restoring of our afflicted Soveraign O Most Gracious Glorious God Thou King of Kings and Lord of Lords who hast established and ordained Kings and Princes in the world to be thy substitutes in the Rule and Government of thy people As thou hast appointed thine Ordinances of Government for the good and safety of thy people So we beseech thee be thou the Protectour of thine own ordinances and therein of thy peoples