Sacrifice and Priest the Master of the Feast and the Feast it self even Jesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen A Prayer after receiving the consecrated Bread I Give thanks unto thee Almighty and eternall God that thou hast not rejected me from thy holy Table but hast refreshed my soul with the salutary refection of the Body of thy Son Jesus Christ. Lord if I had lived innocently and had kept all thy Commandments could have had no proportion of merit to so transcendent a mercy but since I have lived in all manner of sin and multiplied provocations against thy Divine Majesty thy mercy is so glorious and infinite that I am amased at the consideration of its immensity Goe on O my dear God to finish so blessed a redemption and now that thou hast begun to celebrate a marriage and holy union between thy self and my soul let me never throw off the wedding garment or stain it with the pollutions of deadly sin nor seek after other lovers but let me for ever and ever be united unto thee being transformed into thy will in this life and to the likenesse of thy glories in the life to come who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen After receiving the Cup. O Just and dear God who out of the unmeasurable abysses of wisdome and mercy hast redeemed us and offered life and grace and salvation to us by the reall exhibition of thy Son Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of his Death upon the altar of the Crosse and by commemoration of his bitter agonies in the holy Sacrament Grant that that great and venerable sacrifice which we now commemorate sacramentally may procure of thee for thy whole Church mercy and great assistance in all trials deliverance from all heresies schismes sacriledge and persecutions to all sick people health and salvation redemption for captives competency of living to the indigent and necessitous comfort to the afflicted relief to the oppressed repentance to all sinners softnesse of spirit and a tender consience to the obstinate conversion to the Jews Turks and remedy to all that are in any trouble or adversity And grant to us O Lord that this blessed Sacrament and sacrifice of commemoration in vertue of that dreadfull and proper Sacrifice upon the Crosse may obtain for me and for us all who have communicated this day pardon and peace and that we may derive from thee by this ministery grace to expell all our sins to mortifie all our lusts to exterminate all concupiscence to crucifie all inordination and irregularity to produce in us humility and chastity and obedience and meeknesse of spirit and charity and may become our Defence and Armour against the violences and invasions of all our ghostly enemies and temporall disadvantages and give us this grace and favour that we may not die in the guilt and commission of a sin without repentance nor without receiving the blessed Sacrament but that we may so live and die that we may at last rest in thy bosome and be imbraced with the comprehensions of thy eternall charity who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen All blessing and praise and honour be unto thee O blessed Redeemer to thee we the banished and miserable sons of Adam do call for mercy and defence to thee we sigh and cry in this valley of tears O dearest Advocate turn those thy mercifull eyes towards us and shew us thy glorious face in thy Kingdom where no tears or sighing or fears or sadnesses can approach Amen sweetest Jesu Amen Prayers preparatory to death I. A Prayer for a blessed ending to be said in time of health or sicknesse O Blessed Jesu Fountain of eternall mercy the Life of the soul and glorious Conquerour over Death and sin I humbly beseech thee to give me grace so to spend this transitory life in vertuous and holy exercises that when the day of my death shall come in the midst of all my pains I may feel the sweet refreshings of thy holy Spirit comforting my soul sustaining my infirmities and relieving all my spirituall necessities and grant that in the Unity of the holy Catholique Church and in the integrity of Christian faith with confidence and hope of thy mercy in great love towards thee in peace with my Neighbours and in charity with all the world I may through thy grace depart hence out of this vale of misery and go unto that glorious country where thou hast purchased an inheritance for us with the price of thy most precious bloud and raignest in it gloriously in the Unity of thy Father and ours of thy holy Spirit and our Ghostly Comforter ever one God world without end Amen II. A Prayer to be said at the beginning of a sicknesse O Lord my God who chastisest every one whom thou receivest and with thy Fatherly correction smitest all those whom thou consignest to the inheritance of sons write my soul in the book of life and number me amongst thy children whom thou hast smitten with the rod of sicknesse and by thy chastisements hast brought me into the Lot of the righteous Thou O Blessed Jesu art a helper in the needfull time of trouble lay no more upon me then thou shalt enable me to bear and let thy gentle correction in this life prevent the insupportable stripes of thy vengeance in the life to come Smite me now that thou mayest spare me to all eternity and yet O blessed High Priest who art touched with a sense of our infirmities smite me friendly and reprove me with such a tendernesse as thou bearest unto thy Children to whom thou conveyest suppletory comforts greater then the pains of chastisement and in due time restore me to health and to thy solemne assemblies again and to the joy of thy Countenance Give me patience and humility and the grace of repentance and an absolute dereliction of my self and a resignation to thy pleasures and providence with a power to do thy will in all things and then do what thou pleasest to me onely in health or sicknesse in life or death let me feel thy comforts refreshing my soul and let thy grace pardon all my sins Grant this O Blessed Jesu for my trust is in thee only thou art my God and my mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Amen III. A Prayer to be said in the progresse of a sicknesse O Lord my God Blessed Jesu who by thy bitter death and passion hast sweetned the cup of death to us taking away its bitternesse and sting and making it an entrance to life and glory have pity upon me thy servant who have so deep a share in sin that I cannot shake off the terrors of death but that my nature with its hereditary corruption still would preserve it self in a dis-union from the joys of thy Kingdome Lord I acknowledge my own infirmities and begge thy pity It is better for me to be
fraud and malice of blood-thirsty and deceitfull men and from the crafty insinuations of all them that work vanity but let thy blessings bee upon the righteous and let thy favourable kindnesse defend thy whole Church as with a shield that all those who put their trust in thy mercy may be ever giving of thanks and may be joyfull in thee O lead us in thy righteousnesse that we become not a rejoycing to our enemies but that we may worship thee in feare and come into thy house to make our prayers unto thee and to give thee thanks for the multitude of thy mercies which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 6. A Prayer of a penitent person for remission of his sinnes O Lord rebuke me not in thine indignation neither chasten me in thy displeasure 2 Have mercy upon mee O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed 3 My soul is also sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me 4 Turn thee O Lord and deliver my soul O save me for thy mercies sake 5 For in death no man remembreth thee and who will give thee thanks in the pit 6 I am weary of my groaning every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my tears 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble and worn away because of all mine enemies 8 Away from me all ye that work vanity for the Lord hath heard the voyce of my weeping 9 The Lord hath heard my petition the Lord will receive my prayer 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vered they shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose property is alwayes to have mercy and to forgive behold with the eyes of thy pity and compassion the estate of thy humble servants made most miserable by reason of our sins Hear the voyce of our weeping pity our groaning strengthen us for we are weak heal us for our bones are vexed and deliver our soules from death that being saved from the bottomlesse pit we may give thanks to thy holy Name O turn from the severity of thy displeasure and visit us with thy mercy and salvation For all our sinnes give us a great sorrow and contrition and in our sorrows let thy comforts sustain us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 7. A prayer for defence of our Innocence against the unjust molestation of our enemies O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me 2 Lest he devour my soul like a Lion and tear it in peeces while there is none to help 3 O Lord my God if I have done any such thing or if there be any wickednesse in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evill unto him that dealt friendly with me yea I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soule and take me yea let him tread my life down upon the earth and lay mine honour in the dust 6 Stand up O Lord in thy wrath and lift up thy self because of the indignation of mine enemies arise up for me in the judgement that thou hast commanded 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee for their sakes therefore lift up thy self again 8 The Lord shall judge the people give sentence with me O Lord according to my righteousnesse and according to the innocency that is in mee 9 O let the wickednesse of the ungodly come to an end but guide thou the just 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins 11 My help commeth of God which preserveth them that are true of heart 12 God is a righteous Judge strong and patient and God is provoked every day 13 If a man will not turn he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors 15 Behold he travaileth with mischiefe he hath concâ—ived sorrow and brought forth ungodlinesse 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other 17 For his travell shall come upon his own head and his wickednesse shall fall on his own pate 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord according to his righteousnesse and will praise the name of the Lord the most High The Prayer O God from whom commeth our help thou art a righteous Judge and preservest all that are true of heart deliver us from our persecutors who travell with mischief against us and have digged a pit for our destruction O let their wickedness and malicious devices against thy servants come utterly to an end for evermore Thou O Lord art strong and able to take vengeance and yet being provoked every day still art patient towards us and compassionate Deliver us from their wrath to whom we have done no injustice or displeasure pardon our offences against thee and protect our innocency against them that we may praise thy name and give thanks unto thee for thy righteousnesse and sâ—lvation who art blessed for evermore Amen PSALME 8. A contemplation of the Divine beauty and excellency manifested in his Creatures O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens 2 Out of the month of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger 3 For I will consider the heavens even the works of thy fingers the moon and the starres which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the son of man that thou visitest him 5 Thou madest him lower then the angels to crown him with glory and worship 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet 7 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowls of the aire and the fishes of the sea and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas 9 O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world The Prayer O Lord God Father of men and Angels God of all the Creatures who hast created all things in a wonderfull order and hast made them all conveyances of thy mercies to mankinde give us great and dreadfull apprehensions of thy glory and immensity thy Majesty and mercy that we may adore thee as our Creator love thee as our Redeemer fear thee as our God obey thee as our Governour and praise thee as the author and fountain of all perfections and all good which thou hast communicated to thy creatures that they may all in their proportions doe thee service who hast to that end made the world and redeemed us by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Morning
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 work of mens hands 5 They have mouthes and speak not eyes have they and see not 6 They have eares and hear not noses have they and smell not 7 They have hands and handle not feet have they and walk not neither speak 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 Ye house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 11 Ye that fear 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 even he shall blesse the house of Israel hee shall blesse the house of Aaron 13 He shall blesse them that fear the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall encrease you more and more you and your children 15 Ye are the blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth 16 All the whole heavens 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 evermore 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 glory and thanks of any good action or prosperous successe but to thee who art the Author and Giver of all good things Preserve us from all dangers of idolatry 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 ways 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 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 116. An act of love and thanksgiving to God for deliverance from sin and death I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voyce of my prayer 2 That he hath enclined his eare unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 4 The snares of death compassed me round about and the pains of hell gat hold upon me 4 I shall find trouble and heavinesse and I shall call upon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul. 5 Gracious 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 thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath rewarded thee 8 Any why thou hast delivered my soul from deâ—th mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walk 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 haste 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 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 midst of thee O Jerusalem 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 sins thou deliverest our souls from trouble and heavinesse and snatchest us from the snares of death and savest us from the pains of hell O mercifull God let our souls 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 Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 117. An invitation to all people to praise Gods mercy and truth O Praise the Lord all yea 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 Jesu 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 sons of men that the nations which have not known thee may â—ear thy truth and feel thy mercies and call â—pon 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 Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 118. A Psalme of thanksgiving for the mercies and salvation which are given us in Jesus Christ. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious because his mercy endureth forever 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 fear the Lords 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 fear 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 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
with thee but the remembrance of my sins doth so depresse my growing confidence that I am in a great straight between my fears and hopes between the infirmities of my nature and the better desires of conforming to thy holy will and pleasure O my dear Redeemer wean my soul and all my desires from the flatteries of this world pardon all my sins and consign so great a favour by the comforts and attestation of thy divinest Spirit that my own fears being mastered my sins pardoned my desires rectified as the Hart thirst after the springs of water so my soul may long after thee O God and to enter into thy Courts Heavenly Father if it may be for thy glory and my ghostly good to have the days of my pilgrimage prolonged I begge of thee health and life but if it be not pleasing to thee to have this cup passe from me thy will be done my Saviour hath drunk off all the bitternesse Behold O Lord I am in thine hands do with me as seemeth good in thine eyes though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onely who shalt make me to dwell in everlasting safety and to partake of the joys of thy Kingdom who livest and reignest eternall God world without end Amen IV. A Prayer for a sick person in danger of death O Lord Jesus Christ our health and life our hope and our resurrection from the dead I resign my self up to thy holy will and pleasure either to life that I may live longer to thy service and my amendment or to death to the perpetuall enjoyment of thy presence and of thy glories Into thy hands I commend my spirit for I know O Lord that nothing can perish which is committed to thy mercies I believe O Lord that I shall receive my body again at the resurrection of the just I relinquish all care of that onely I begge of thee mercy for my soul strengthen it with thy grace against all temptations let thy loving kindness defend it as with a shield against all the violences and hostile assaults of Satan let the same mercy be my guard and defence which protected thy Martyrs crowning them with victory in the midst of flames horrid torments and most cruell deaths There is no help in me O Lord I cannot by my own power give a minutes rest to my wearied body but my trust is in thy sure mercies and I call to minde to my unspeakable comfort that thou wert hungry and thirsty and wearied and whipt and crown'd with Thorns and mock'd and crucified for me O let that mercy which made thee suffer so much make thee do that for which thou sufferedst so much pardon me and save me Let thy merits answer for my impieties let thy righteousnesse cover my sins thy bloud wash away my stains and thy comforts refresh my soul. As my body grows weak let thy grace bestronger let not my faith doubt nor my hope tremble nor my charity grow cold nor my soul be affrighted with the terrors of death but let the light of thy countenance enlighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death eternall and when my tongue fails let thy spirit teach my heart to pray with strong cryings and groans that are unutterable O let not the enemy do me any violence but let thy holy mercies and thy Angels repell and defeat his malice and fraud that my soul may by thy strength triumph in the joyes of eternity in the fruition of thee my life my joy my hope my exceeding great reward my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen V. For a dying Person in or near the agonies of death MOst mercifull and Blessed Saviour have mercy upon the soul of this thy sâ—rvant remember not his ignorances nor the sins of his youth but according to thy great mercy remember him in the mercies and glories of thy Kingdome Thou O Lord hast opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers let the everlasting gates be open'd and receive his Soul let the Angels who rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner triumph and be exalted in his deliverance and salvation Make him partaker of the benefits of thy holy incarnation life and sanctity passion and death resurrection and ascension and of all the prayers of the Church of the joy of the elect and all the fruits of the blessed communion of Saints and daily adde to the number of thy beatified servants such as shall be saved that thy comming may be hastned and the expectation of the Saints may be fulfilled and the glory of thee our Lord Jesu bee advanced all the whole Church singing praises to the Honour of thy Name who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen VI. O Most mercifull Jesu who didst die to redeem us from death and damnation have mercy upon this thy servant whom thy hand hath visited with sicknesse of thy goodnesse be pleased to forgive him all his sinnes and seal his hopes of glory with the refreshments of thy holy Spirit Lord give him strength and confidence in thee asswage his pain repell the assaults of his Ghostly enemies by thy mercies and a guard of holy Angels preserve him in the unity of the Church keep his senses intire his understanding right give him great measure of contrition true faith a well grounded hope and abundant charity give him a quiet and a joyfull departure let thy ministring spirits convey his soul to the mansions of peace and rest there with certainty to expect a joyfull resurrection to the fulnesse of joy at thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore Amen VII A Prayer for the joyes of Heaven O Most glorious Jesu who art the portion and exceeding great reward of all faithfull people thou hast beautified humane Nature with glorious immortality and hast carried the same above all Heavens above the seat of Angels beyond the Cherubims and Seraphims placing it on the right hand of thy heavenly Father grant to us all the issues of thy abundant charity that we may live in thy fear and die in thy favour Prepare our souls with heavenly vertues for heavenly joys mâ—king us righteous here that we may be beautified hereafter A Morning Prayer In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Our Father which art in Heaven c. I. O Eternall Sun of righteousnesse who camest from the bosome of thy Father the Fountain of glorious light to enlighten the darknesses of the world I praise thy Name that thou hast preserved me from the dangers of this night and hast continued to me still the opportunities of serving thee and advancing my hopes of a blessed eternity Let thy mercies shine brightly upon me and dissipate the clouds and darknesses of my spirit and understanding rectifie my affections and purifie
from treason and private conspiracies ps 41 55 109. For the King ps 21 61 89 352. For deliverance from death and damnation ps 28 30 102 125. Col. p. 250. For health ps 91 102. For all Christian Princes and Judges ps 82. For advancement of Religion Col. p. 272. 275. For deliverance from power of the devill ps 57. Col. p. 226 For peace 46 122 133 144. Col. p. 257 269. For comfort in sadnesse ps 101 102 142. Col. p. 226 283 For spirituall blessings ps 65 73. For fruitfulnesse of the Earth ps 65. For coÌ„petency of living ps 127. Col. p. 119 133 297 299 For tranquillity of spirit Col. p. 143 144. For Victory ps 144. For comfort of Gods Spirit ps 34 42 43 51 61 102 142 Col. p. 226 239. Prayers for particular graces FOr Repentance Col. p. 243 275. For Mortification ps 131. Col. p. 275. For humility ps 131. Col. p. 253. For patience ps 94. For perseverance Col. p. 165 166 248 249 250. For Devotion Religion ps 27 33 42 43 99 119 141. Col. p. 285. For charity ps 41 112. For liberality and contempt of riches ps 4 49 73. Col. p. 114 240. For hope and trust in God ps 33 37 46 49 56 57 62 77 115 125 146. Col. p. 138 242. For reverence and fear of God ps 2 33 112 128. Col. p. 271 272. For watchfulnesse over our ways ps 56. For zeal ps 119. Col. p. 238 241.246 247. For health and newnesse of life Col. p. 170 171. Prayers for severall times and occasions IN time of sadnesse ps 61 102 142 Col. p. 226 283. In time of persecution and oppression ps 7 9 10 52 53 58 64 69 63 137 142 Col. p. 279. In time of War ps 18 44 46 60 89 108. In time of slander ps 52 57 64 120. In time of temptation ps 13 19 60 Col. p. 191 192 235 239. In time of sicknesse ps 30 31 88 90 102 142. In time of publike calamity and distraction ps 46 89 91. In time of spirituall desertion ps 34 42 43 51 61 102. Col. p. 239. In time of after lapse into sin ps 51 Col. p. 258. In time of solemne devotion ps 20 81. On Good Friday ps 22. On Ascension day ps 24. Prayers preparatory TO the Sacrament ps 23 26 111 Col. p. 151. To death ps 26 30 31 39 71 88 90 142 viz. to bee said in sicknesse or old age Deprecations AGainst Atheisme and Irreligion ps 14. Against Idolatry ps 115. Against Heretiques and Heresie ps 59. Against danger of evil company ps 1 12 120. Against Sacriledge and sacrilegious persons ps 74 83. Against fearfulnesse and doubting ps 77. Against covetousnesse ps 4 37 Col. p. 240. Against enemies of the Church ps 59 68 74 83 199 129 Against death ps 88. Meditations ON the day of Judgement ps 50 97 On the Passion of Christ ps 22. On the joys of Heaven ps 126 149. On the perfections and excellencies of God manifested in his creatures ps 8 104. On Gods providence over his people and mercy to the penitent ps 74 105 92 106 147. On Gods Justice and Judgements on sinners ps 78 92. On his Omnipotence and Omnipresence ps 139. Acts of Vertue ADoration of God ps 8 29 67 95 96 145. Col. p. 22. Adoration of the second Person in the Trinity ps 2 4â— 72 110. Acts of hope in God ps 4 11 18. Acts of Religion ps 134. Acts of praise to God ps 17 135 148 150. Acts of love to God ps 116. Desire after God and heavenly things ps 63 84 87. Of Election or preferring spirituall blessings before temporall ps 37 73. Thanksgivings FOr all Gods mercies ps 103 136 138. For his mercy and truth ps 100. For delivering from sicknesse and all other dangers ps 40 107 114 116. For delivering from enemies and all other troubles ps 81 107 124 144. For pardon of our sins ps 85 106 116. For redemption by Christ ps 98 118. For the blessings of the Gospel ps 111. For Acts of Gods Providence and particular care over us ps 113 121. For Victory ps 144. THE PSALTER of DAVID With Titles and Collects fitted to each Psalme c. The j day Morning Prayer PSALME 1. A Prayer that we may continually meditate in Gods law and have no fellowship with wicked persons in the manner of their living or dying BLessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsell of the ungodly nor stand in the way of sinners and hath not sit in the seat of the scornfull 2 But his delight is in the Law of the Lord and in his Law will he exercise himself day and night 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the water side that will bring forth his fruit in due season 4 His leafe also shâ—ll not wither and look whatsoever he doth it shall prosper 5 As for the ungodly it is not so with them but they are like the chaffe which the winde scattereth away from the face of the earth 6 Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the judgement neither the sinners in the Congregation of the righteous 7 But the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous and the way of the ungodly shall perish The Prayer O Holy Jesu fountain of all blessing the word of the Eternall Father be pleased to sow the good seed of thy word in our hearts and water it with the dew of thy divinest Spirit that while we exercise our selves in it day and night we may be like a tree planted by the water side bringing forth in all times and seasons the fruits of a holy conversation that we may never walk in the way of sinners nor have fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but that when this life is ended we may have our portion in the congregation of the righteous and may be able to stand upright in judgement through the supporting arme of thy mercy O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 2. A Prayer to promote Christs Kingdome and for grace to serve him with feare and reverence WHy doe the heathen so furiously rage together and why do the people imagine a vain thing 2 The Kings of the earth stand up and the rulers take counsell together against the Lord and against his Anointed 3 Let us break their bonds asunder and cast away their cords from us 4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn the Lord shall have them in derision 5 Then he shall speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure 6 Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion 7 I will preach the law whereof the Lord hath said unto me Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee 8 Desire of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession 9 Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of yron and break them
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 walk in and when thou hast lift up our heads above our enemies round about us grant that we may spend our days in prayer and giving praises to thee and in all other actions of holy Religion visiting thy temple with frequent addresses of devotion and contemplating and admiring the fair beauty of the Lord and 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 Jerusalem 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 Jesus 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 voyce 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 own inventions 5 Recompence them after the work of their hands pay them that they have deserved 6 For they regard not in their minde the works of the Lord nor the operation of his hands therefore shall he break them down and not build them up 7 Praised be the Lord for he hath heard the voyce 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 joy and in my song will I praise him 9 The Lord is my strength and he is the wholsome 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 hear the voyce of our humble petitions We hold up our hands to thy mercy-seat praying thee for pity and pardon of our sinnes reward us not according to our deeds nor according to the wickednesse of our inventions for if thou shouldest deal 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 Jesus 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 Rams 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 voyce of the Lord is mighty in operation the voyce of the Lord is a glorious voyce 5 The voyce 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 voyce 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 above the water floud and the Lord remaineth a King for ever 10 The Lord shall give strength unto his people the Lord shall give his people the blessing of peace The Prayer O Most glorious God who makest the thunder thy voice is mighty in operation and is a glorious voice give us grace that we may hear thy voice 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 voice and may ascribe unto thee worship and strength worshipping thee with a holy worship all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 30. A Prayer for deliverance from sicknesse and death and damnation I Will magnifie 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 soul 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 joy commeth in the morning 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 turn thy face from me 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 bloud when I go down to the pit 10 Shall the dust give thanks 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 joy thou hast put off my sackcloth and gâ—rded me with gladnesse 13 Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I will give thanks 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 turn not thy face away from us keep our life from them that goe downe into the pit and preserve our souls from hell and although thou sometimes sendest heavinesse unto us and trouble upon our loyns yet let it be but as for a night let thy mercy dawn upon us and shine as in a glorious morning for thou art more pleased in demonstrations of thy mercy then in shewing thy displeasure O Lord heal us and be mercifull unto us and save us turn our heavinesse into joy and gird us
of our head yet thou hast not suffered us to fall into the horrible pit of eternall misery and destruction but hast set our feet upon the Rock Christ Jesus and by his graces and holy Laws hast ordered our goings Let it be thy pleasure still to deliver us for we are not able of our selves to look up and our enemies still seek after our souls to destroy us Make no long tarrying O God shew thy self our helper and redeemer so shall we talk of thy truth and of thy salvation in the assemblies of thy servants in this life hoping that we shall hereafter declare thy righteousnesse in the great congregation of Saints and Angels singing eternall praises to God the Father the Son and the holy Ghost Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 41. A Prayer for the grace of charity for pardon of sins and for deliverance from false friends and Traitors BLessed is he that considereth the poor and needy the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble 2 The Lord preserve him and keep him alive that he may be blessed upon earth and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies 3 The Lord comfort him when he lieth sick upon his bed make thou all his bed in his sicknesse 4 I said Lord be mercifull unto me heal my soul for I have sinned against â—hee 5 Mine enemies speak evill of me when shall he dye and his name perish 6 And if he come to see me he speaketh vanity and his heart conceiveth falshood within himself and when he commeth forth he telleth it 7 All mine enemies whisper together against me even against me doe they imagine this evill 8 Let the sentence of guiltinesse proceed against him and now that he lieth let him rise up no more 9 Yea even mine own familiar friend whom I trusted which did also eat of my bread hath laid great wait for me 10 But be thou mercifull unto me O Lord raise thou me up again and I shall reward them 11 By this I know thou favourest me that mine enemy doth not triumph against me 12 And when I am in my health thou upholdest me and shalt set me before thy face for ever 13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel world without end Amen The Prayer O Blessed Jesu Saviour of the world be mercifull unto us and heal our sins for we have sinned against thee and are no more worthy to be called thy children but yet make us thy servants and give us testimony that we are translated from death to life by charity and love to all our brethren O make our bowels yearn with pity and compassion over the necessities of the poor and needy and give us grace and power to help them and relieve thâ—ir miseries that we being mercifull as our Heavenly Father is may receive such blessings and assistances as thou hast provided for the charitable deliverance from our open enemies safety from private treachery and conspiracies comfort in our sicknesses health of body and pardon of our sins through thy mercies and blessed charity O most mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 42. A Prayer for comfort in spirituall desertion and drinesse of affection and that we may long and sigh after God LIke as the hart desireth the water brooks so longeth my soul after thee O God 2 My soul is a thirst for God yea even for the living God when shall I come to appear before the presence of God 3 My tears have been my meat day and night while they daily say unto me Where is now thy God 4 Now when I think thereupon I poure out my heart by my self for I went wit the multitude and brought them forth into the house of God 5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving among such as keep holy day 6 Why art thou so full of heavinesse O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me 7 Put thy trust in God for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance 8 My God my soul is vexed within me therefore will I remember thee concerning the land of Jordan and the little hill of Hermon 9 One deep calleth another because of the noise of the water-pipes all thy waves and storms are gone over mee 10 The Lord hath granted his loving kindnesse on the day time and in the night season did I sing of him and made my prayer unto the God of my life 11 I will say unto the God of my strength Why hast thou forgotten me why goe I thus heavily while the enemy oppresseth me 12 My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth 13 Namely while they say dayly unto me Where is now thy God 14 Why art thou so vexed O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me 15 O put thy trust in God for I will yet thank him which is the help of my countenance and my God The Prayer O Eternall and living God thou art the help of our countenance and our God thou art the thing that we long for and our hearts are vexed within us and disquieted when we feel not the comforts of thy Spirit and those actuall exultations and that spirituall gust which thou doest often give to thy people as earnests of a glorious immortality O Lord pity our infirmities and give us earnest longings for the fruition of thee our God in the actions of holy Religion Grant unto us vivacity of spirit unweariednesse in devotion delight and complacency in spirituall exercises that when our souls are vexed with temptations and sadnesses we may remember thee concerning the land of promise and be comforted and encouraged in our duties by the expectation of those glories which thou hast laid up for them that love the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 43. A Prayer for chearfulnesse of spirit in our devotions GIve sentence with me O God and defend my cause against the ungodly people O deliver me from the deceitfull and wicked man 2 For thou art the God of my strength why hast thou put me from thee and why goe I so heavily while the enemy oppresseth me 3 O send out thy light and thy truth that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy hill and to thy dwâ—lling 4 And that I may goe unto the altar of God even unto the God of my joy and gladnesse and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee O God my God 5 Why art thou so heavy O my soul and why art thou so disquieted within me 6 O put thy trust in God for I will yet give him thanks which is the help of my countenance and my God The Prayer O God our defender and deliverer thou art the God of our strength and our ghostly confidence let the light of thy countenance produce the beams of spirituall joy in our souls and let thy truth lead us in the way of thy salvation that when
people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord God of thine inheritance who conveyest many blessings to the children of men by the prayers and ministery of thy Church let our prayers obtain of thee mercies and deliverances for her O Lord thou hast planted thy Church in the humility and poverty and death of thy Son thou hast watered it with the bloud of thy Apostles and Martyrs thou hast made it flourish and spread forth its branches by the warmth and heat and graces of thy holy Spirit and hast according to thy promise still preserved it in the midst of all enmities and disadvantages Thy Laws and righteous Commandements have been a scorn and derision to Jews and Gentiles the flesh of thy servants have been meat for the beasts of the Land and still she wears the purple robe of mockery and the crown of thorns which at first she took from the head and side of her dearest Lord At last O Lord be gracious unto thine inheritance help us ô God of our salvation for the glory of thy Name let not thine enemies devour the Church and lay waste her dwelling places be mercifull unto our sins preserve all those that by malice of their enemies are appointed to death or prison or any other misery let us still enjoy the freedom of thy Gospel the food of thy word the sweet refreshings of thy Sacraments publike Communions in thy Church and all the benefits of the society of Saints and let not our sins cause thee to remove the Candlestick from us but make thy people and the sheep of thy pasture secure and glad in thy salvation that we may shew forth thy praise in this world and in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 80. A Prayer for the Church HEar me O thou Shepheard of Israel thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep shew thy self also thou that sittest upon the cherubims 2 Before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses stirre up thy strength and come and help us 3 Turn us again O God shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 4 O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of teares and givest them plenteousnesse of tears to drink 6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh us to scorn 7 Turn us again thou God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it 9 Thou madest room for it and when it had taken root it filled the land 10 The hils were covered with the shadow of it and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees 11 She stretched out her branches unto the sea and her boughs unto the river 12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedge that all they that goe by pluck off her grapes 13 The wilde bore out of the wood doth roâ—t it up and the wilde beasts of the field devoure it 14 Turn thee again thou God of hosts look down from heaven behold and visit this vine 15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest so strong for thy self 16 It is burnt with fire and cut down and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the sonne of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self 18 And so will not we go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy name 19 Turn us again O Lord God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole The Prayer O Thou Shepheard of Israel thou that fittest upon the Cherubims stirre up thy strength and come and help thy people that prayeth unto thee for mercy and protection Thou hast made affliction the portion of thy children in this life thou feedest them with bread of tears and givest them plenteousnesse of teares to drink yet bee pleased to shew the light of thy countenance upon us to lighten our darknesses to relieve ouâ— miseries to heal our sicknesses and let not thy Church become a strife unto her neighbours but reunite her divisions and make her not a prey to them that would devour her and then laugh her to scorn O Lord fiedge her about with thy mercies with the custody of Angels with the patronage of Kings and Princes with the hearts and hands of Nobles and the defence of the whole secular arm lest the wilde beasts of the field pluck off her grapes destroy the vintage and root up the vine it self but let her so flourish under the beams of thy favour and providence that it may take root and spread and fill all lands that the name of the man of thy right hand the God and Man Christ Jesus may be glorified thy Church enlarged and defended and we blessed with thy health and salvation Grant this O Lord for Jesus Christ his sake our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 81. A Festivall song and a Prayer for the grace and blessings of obedience to Gods Laws SIng we merrily unto God our strength make a chearfull noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take the psalm bring hither the tabret the merry harp with the lute 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon even in the time appointed and upon our solemne feast day 4 For this was made a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he came out of the land of Egypt and had heard a strange language 6 I eased his shoulder from the burden and his hands were delivered from making the pots 7 Thou calledst upon me in troubles and I delivered thee and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon thee 8 I proved thee also at the waters of strife 9 Hear O my people and I will assure thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me 10 There shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any other god 11 I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I shall fill it 12 But my people would not hear my voyce and Israel would not obey me 13 So I gave them up unto their own hearts lust and let them follow their own imaginations 14 O that my people would have hearkned unto me for if Israel had walked in my waies 15 I should soon have put down their enâ—mies and â—urned my hand against their adversaries 16 The haters of the Lord should have been found liers but their time should have endured for ever 17 He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-floure and with hony
my law and walk not in thy judgements 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 fail 34 My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips I have sworn once by my holinesse that I will not fail 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 overthrown all his hedges and broken down his strong holds 40 All they that goe by spoil him and hee is become a rebuke to his neighbours 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies and made all his adversaries to rejoyce 42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword and givest him not victory in the battell 43 Thou hast put out his glory and cast his throne down to the ground 44 The days of his youth hast thou shortned and covered him with dishonour 45 Lord how long wilt thou hide thy self for ever and shall thy wrath burn 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 soul 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 bear in my bosome the rebukes of many people 50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee and slandered the foot-steps 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 arm blâ—sse 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 days of heaven smite down his enemies before his face let thy hand hold him fast that the enemy may not be able to do him violence and let thine arm 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 and continuall defence in thy salvation that when thou hast finished his days 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 Morning Prayer PSALME 90. A meditation of death and a prayer preparatory to it LOrd thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another 2 Before the mountains 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 thou sayest Come again ye children of men 4 For a thousand years 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 wee consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathfull indignation 8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sins in the sight of thy countenance 9 For when thou art angry all our days are gone we bring our years to an end as it were a tale that is told 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years 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 days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdome 13 Turn 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 rejoyce and be glad all the days of our life 15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity 16 Shew thy servants thy work and their children tâ—y glory 17 And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us prosper thou the work of our hands upon us O prosper thou our handy work The Prayer O Eternall God whose beeing was before the mountains were brought forth before the earth and the world were made even from everlasting and world without end have mercy upon us weak and impotent people the children of men who fade away suddenly like the grasse remove our misdeeds from before thee and our secret sins from the sight of thy countenance be not angry with us neither consume us in thy displeasure teach us to number all the days of our life and to reckon on still to the day of death that when our days are gone and our years are brought to an end like a tale that is told thou mayest turn unto us at the last and be gracious unto us in the pardon of our sins in the restraining the power and malice of all our ghostly enemies in giving us opportunity of all spirituall assistances and advantages that our lamps being trimmed and burning bright with charity and devotion wee 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 WHoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almâ—ghty 2 I will say unto the Lord Thou art my hope and my strong hold my God in him will I trust 3 For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter and from the noisome 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 be afraid for any terror by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day 6 For the pestilence that walketh in darknesse nor for the sicknesse that destroyeth in the noon day 7
down and there was none to help them up 13 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse 14 For he brought them out of darknesse and out of the shadow of death and brake their bonds in sunder 15 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 16 For he hath broken the gates of brasse and smitten the bars of iron in sunder 17 Foolish men are plagued for their offence and because of their wickednesse 18 Their soul abhorred all manner of meat and they were even hard at deaths door 19 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse 20 He sent his word and healed them and they were saved from their destruction 21 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 22 That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving and tell out his works with gladnesse 23 They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their businesse in great waters 24 These men see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep 25 For at his word the stormy winde ariseth which lifteth up the waves thereof 26 They are caried up to the heaven and down again to the deep their soul melteth away because of the trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man â—nd are at their wits end 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble he delivâ—reth them out of their distresse 29 For he maketh the storm to cease so that the waves thereof are still 30 Then are they glad because they be at rest and so he briâ—geth them unto the haven where they would be 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 32 That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders 33 Which turneth the flouds into a wildernesse and drieth up the water springs 34 A fruitfull land maketh he barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein 35 Again he maketh the wildernesse a standing water and water springs of a dry ground 36 And thâ—re he setteth the hungry that they may build them a City to dwell in 37 That they may sow their land and plant vineyards to yeeld them fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them so that they multiply exceedingly and suffereth not their cattell to decrease 39 And again when they are minished and brought low through oppression through any plague or trouble 40 Though he suffer them to be evill intreated through tyrants and let them wander out of the way in the wildernesse 41 Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery and maketh him housholds like a flock of sheep 42 The righteous will consider this and rejoyce and the mouth of all wickednesse shall be stopped 43 Who so is wise will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God gracious and good whose mercy endureth for ever have mercy upon us when in our trouble we cry unto thee for when our hearts are brought down through heaviness there is none to help us up or to deliver us out of our distress but only thou ô Lord. We have sinned we have rebelled against thee and lightly regarded thy counsels wee have walked and sate in darknesse and in the shadows of death being fast bound in the captivity and misery of sin O bring us out of darknesse and break our bonds asunder guide us through the desert of this world in which grows nothing but sadnesse and discontent still the tempests and smooth the flouds of misery which are ready to overwhelm us and in thy due time bring us to eternall rest and to the haven where we would fain be that in the congregation of thy holy people we may praise thee for thy goodnesse and declare the wonders thou hast done for us in delivering us from sin and misery and death and bringing us to a City to dwell in where there is life and light and joy eternall in the beholding the face of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 108. A Prayer for victory against our Enemies O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best member I have 2 Awake thou lute and harp I my self will awake right early 3 I will give thanks unto thee O Lord among the people I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 4 For thy mercy is greater then the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds 5 Set up thy selfe O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth 6 That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand save them and hear thou me 7 God hath spoken in his holinesse I will rejoyce therefore and divide Sichem and mete out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head 9 Juda is my law-giver Moab is my washpot over Edâ—m will I cast out my shooe upon the Philistines will I triumph 10 Who will lead me into the strong city and who will bring me into Edom 11 Hast not thou forsaken us O God and wilt not thou O God goe forth with our hosts 12 O help us against the enemy for vain is the help of man 13 Through God we shall doe great acts and it is he that shall tread down our enemies The Prayer O Lord God whose mercy is greater then the Heavens and thy glory is above all the earth be thou exalted in thine owne strength and magnifie thy power and thy mercy in defending us and all thy holy Church against all our enemies temporall and spirituall Forsake us not O God our defence for vain is the help of man do thou strengthen us and go forth with our hosts to battell that we being defended and armed by thee may doe acts great and good fighting thy battels and putting our confidence in thy righteousnesse onely and salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 109. A Prayer against Gods enemies and especially Traitors prophetically intended against the person of Judas HOld not thy tongue O God of my praise for the mouth of the ungodly yea and the mouth of the decâ—itfull is opened upon me 2 And they have spoken against me with false tongues they compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause 3 For the love that I had unto them lo they take now my contrary part but I give my self 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
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 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 voyce of joy 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 goe into them and give thâ—nks unto the Lord. 20 This is the gaâ—e of the Lord the righteous shall enter 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 rejoyce 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 gracious and his mercy endureth for ever The Prayer O Most gracious Lord our strength and our song thou art become our salvation and 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 sins give us not over unto death but fix our faith and hopes upon the head stone in the corner even our Lord Jesus 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 thanks and praise through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 119. A Prayer for Religion zeale love of the law of God and meditation in it BLâ—ssed are those that are undefiled in the way and walk in the Law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and seek him with their whole heart 3 For they which do no wickednesse walk in his ways 4 Thou hast charged that we shall diligently keep thy commandements 5 O that my ways were made so direct that I might keep thy statutes 6 So shall I not be confounded while I have respect unto all thy commandements 7 I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart when I shall have learned the judgements 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 beleeving soul 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 ways being made direct without wandring into by-paths we may go into our country the land of eternall and glorious promises through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. WHerewithall shall a young man cleanse 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 commandements 3 Thy words have I hid within my heart that I should not sin against thee 4 Blessed art thou O Lord O teach me thy statutes 5 With my lips have I been telling of all the judgements 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 commandements and have respect â—â—to thy ways 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 cleansing our ways from all impurity giving to thy service our youth and more perfect age even all our days 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 ways that lead to thee may be beloved of thee with an eternall love through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen III. O Doe well unto thy servant that I may live and keep thy word 2 Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wondrous things of thy law 3 I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy commandements from me 4 My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire that it hath alway unto thy judgements 5 Thou hast rebuked the proud and cursed are they that do erre from thy commandements 6 O turn from me shame and rebuke for I have kept thy testimonies 7 Pâ—inces did also sit and speak against me but thy serâ—ant 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 walk in the shadow of death let not this darknesse seize upon our souls 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 always be turned from us and we ever rejoyce with hope and confidence in thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen IV. MY soul cleaveth to the dust O quicken thou me according to thy word 2 I have knowledged my ways and thou heardest me O teach me thy statutes 3 Make me to understand the way of thy commandments and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works 4 My soul
example and illumination of thy holy Spirit let thy Spirit lead us thy example guide us thy word teach us that we may not love darkness more then light but may keep thy righteous judgments according to our many purposes our vow of baptisme keep us from the snare of the ungodly and from our own selves the dangers of our own concupiscence and thâ— miseries of our infirmity leave not our souls in our own hands but keep them under thy protection and government lest we swerve from thy commandments but that applying our hearts alway to fulfil thy statutes even unto the end we may possesse thy law as our portion inheritance for ever Grant this O blessed Jesu for thy promise and for thy mercies sake that we may glorifie thee in the unity of the most mysterious Trinity now and for evermore Amen XV. I Hate them that imagine evil things but thy law do I love 2 Thou art my defence and shield and my trust is in â—hy word 3 Away from me ye wicked I will keep the commandments of my God 4 O stablish me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be disappointed of my hope 5 Hold thou me up and I shall be safe yea my delight shall be ever in thy statutes 6 Thou hast trodden down all them that depart from thy statutes for they imagine but deceit 7 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like drosse therefore I love thy testimonies 8 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements The Prayer O God our defence shield thou that treadest down all them that depart from thy law and puttest away the ungodly of the earth like drosse let thy mercies hold us up that we may be safe from sin and death eternall make us to hate all evill things all evil imaginations that we being stablished with a trust in thee and building our expectations upon thy mercies and promises we may not be disappointed of our hope but may live with thee eternally through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XVI I Deal with the thing that is lawfull and right O give me not over unto mine oppressors 2 Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong 3 Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health and for the word of thy righteousnesse 4 O deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy and teach me thy Statutes 5 I am thy servant O grant me understanding that I may know thy testimonies 6 It is time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand for they have destroyed thy law 7 For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stone 8 Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments and all false wayes I utterly abhorre The Prayer O Lord God thou seest with what miseries dangers we are encompassâ—d our ghostly enemies seek to doe us wrong and to oppresse our souls give us not over unto their malice but arm us against their pride and insolency by faith in thy word by hope of thy mercies and looking for thy health and by love unto thy commandments that so in this world in the eternall retribution of the Saints thou maist deal with thy servants according to thy loving mercy Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen XVII THy testimonies are wonderfull therefore doth my soul keep them 2 When thy word goeth forth it giveth light and understanding unto the simple 3 I opened my mouth and drew in my breath for my â—elight was in thy commandments 4 O look thou upon me and be mercifull unto me as â—hou usest to do unto those that love thy name 5 Order my steps in thy word and so shall no wickedâ—esse have dominion over 6 O deliver me from the wrongfull dealings of men â—nd so shall I keep thy commandments 7 Shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes 8 Mine eles gush out with water because men keep not thy law The Prayer O Just and dear God shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servants let this light give unto us understanding in thy law that our steps being ordered in thy word thou maist deliver us from the wrongfull dealings of men and from the malicious enmities of our Ghostly adversaries that by their temptations and our own weaknesse we may never be brought under the dominion of sin and wickednesse that when thy word goeth forth to call to judgment all people quick dead thou maist be mercifull unto us and save us as thou usest to doe unto those that love thy name Grant this for the merits and mercies of our dearest Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen XVIII RIghteous art thou O Lord and true is thy judgement 2 The testimonies that thou hast commanded are exceeding righteous and true 3 My zeal hath even consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words 4 Thy word is tried to the uttermost and thy servant loveth it 5 I am small and of no reputation yet do I not forget thy commandements 6 Thy righteousnesse is an evâ—rlasting righteousnesse and thy law is the truth 7 Trouble and heavinesse have taken hold upon mee yet is my delight in thy commandements 8 The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is everlasting O grant me understanding and I shall live The Prayer O Righteous Lord God whose judgements are true and thy testimonies exceeding righteous enkindle our souls with zeal to thy Laws and service that the continuall remembrance of thy Commandements may so enable our souls as to give a greatnesse and reputation to us in thy estimation even the greatnesse of humility and obedience which are more honourable in thy eyes then all the pomps and vanities of this world Grant this for his sake who for our sakes humbled himself to the form of a servant and became obedient to the death of the Crosse even Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen Evening Prayer XIX I Call with my whole heart hear me O Lord I will keep thy statutes 2 Yea even upon thee doe I call help me and I shall keep thy testimonies 3 Early in the morning doe I cry unto thee for in thy word is my trust 4 Mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I might be occupied in thy words 5 Hear my voyce O Lord according unto thy loving kindnesse quicken me according as thou art wont 6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me and are farre from thy law 7 Be thou nigh at hand O Lord for all thy commandements are true 8 As concerning thy testimonies I have known long since that thou hast grounded them for ever The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercy and truth give us hearts fixed upon thy divine beauties and an actuall intention in our prayers that we may call upon thee
offend thee O just and dear God where shall I appear who shall plead for me that am so loaden with impurities with vanity with ingratitude with malice and the terrors of an affrighting conscience Lord what shall I do who am straitned by my own covetousnesse accused by my own pride consumed with envy set on fire by lust made dull with gluttony and stupid by drunkennesse supplanted by ambition rent asunder with faction and discord made dissolute with lightness and inconstancy deceived with hypocrisie abused with flattery fool'd with presumption disturb'd with anger and disordered by a whole body of sin and death But thou shalt answer for me O Lord my God thou art my judge and my advocate and thou art to pass sentence upon me for those sins for which thou diedst O reserve not my sins to be punished in the life to come for then I die eternally but bring me in this world to a holy a sharp and salutary repentance Behold I am in thine hands grant I may so weep and be contrite for my sins that in the hour of my death I may finde mercy and in the day of judgement I may be freed from all the terrors of thy wrath and the sentence of the wicked and may behold thy face with joy and security being set at thy right hand with all thy saints and Angels to sing an eternall Hallelujah to the honour of thy mercies Amen sweet Jesu Amen III. MOST mercifull and indulgent Jesu hear the complaint of a sad and miserable sinner for I have searched into the secret recesses of my soul and there I finde nothing but horror and a barren wilderness a neglected conscience overgrown with sins and cares and beset with fears and sore amazements I finde that I have not observed due reverence towards my superiours nor modesty in my discourse nor discipline in my manners I have been obstinate in my vain purposes cosen'd in my own semblances of humility pertinacious in hatred bitter in my jesting impatient of Subjection ambitious of power slow to good actions apt to talk ready to supplant my neighbours full of jealousies suspition scornfull and censorious burdensome to my friends ingratefull to my benefactors imperious to my inferiours boasting to have said what I said not to have seen what I saw not to have done what I did not and have both said and seen and done what I ought not provoking thy divine Majesty with a continuall course of sinne and vanity And yet O Lord thou hast spared me all this while and hast not taken away my life in the midst of my sins which is a mercy so admirable and of so vast a kindness as no heart or tongue can think or speak If thou hadst dealt with me according as I had deserved and might justly have expected I had been now now at this instant seal'd up to an eternity of torments hopelesly miserable fearing the revelation of thy day with an unsupportable amazement and now under the sweet influences of thy mercies I am praying to thee confessing my sinnes with shame indeed at my basenesse and ingratitude but with a full hope and confidence in thy mercy O turn the eys of thy divine clemency with a gracious aspect upon a wretched sinner open the bowels of thy mercy and receive me into favour O my dear God let thy grace speedily work that in me for which thou so long hast spared me and to which thou didst design me in thy holy purposes and mercies of eternity even a true faith and a holy life conformable to thy will and in order to eternall blessednesse I remember O Lord the many fatherly expressions and examples of thy mercies to repenting sinners thy delight in our conversion thy unwillingnes to destroy us thy earnest invitation of us to grace and life thy displeasure at our dangers and miseries the infinite variety of means thou usest to bring us from the gates of death and to make us happy to eternity These mercies O Lord are so essentiall to thee that thou canst not but be infinitely pleased in demonstrations of them Remember not O Lord how we have despised thy mercies sleighted thy judgements neglected thy Commandments but now at length establish in us great contrition for our sins lead us on to humble confession and dereliction of them and let thy grace make us bring forth fruits meet for repentance fruits of justice of hope of charity of religion and devotion that we may â—e what thou delightest in holy and just aâ—d mercifull vessels prepared for honour temples of the holy Ghost and instruments of thy praises to all eternity O blessed Jesu who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen O Lord Jesu Christ Sonne of the eternall God interpose thy holy Death thy Crosse and Passion between thy judgement and my soul now and in the hour of my death granting unto me grace and mercy to all faithfull people pardon and peace to the Church unity and amity and to all sinners repentance and amendment to us all life and glory everlasting who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen A Forme of thanksgiving with a particular enumeration of Gods blessings MOst glorious Lord God infinite in mercy full of compassion long-suffering and of great goodness I adore and praise and glorifie thy holy Name worshipping thee with the lowliest devotions of my soul and body and give thee thanks for all the benefits thou hast done unto me for whatsoever I am or have â—or know or desire as I ought it is all from thee thou art the Fountain of beeing and blessing of sanctity and pardon of life and glory Praise the Lord O my soule and all that is within me praise his holy Name Thou O God of thine infinite goodness hast created me of nothing and hast given me a degree of essence next to Angels imprinting thine Image on me enduing me with reasonable faculties of will and understanding to know and choose good and to refuse evill and hast put me into a capacity of a blessed immortality O praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his Name together Thou O God of thy great mercy hast given me a comely body a good understanding straight limbs a ready and unloosed tongue whereas with justice thou mightest have made me crooked and deformed sottish and slow of apprehension imperfect and impedite in all my faculties O give thanks unto the God of Heaven for his mercy endureth for ever Thou O God of thy glorious mercies hast caused me to be born of Christian Parents and didst not suffer me to be strangled in the womb but gavest me opportunity of holy Baptism and hast ever since blessed me with education in Christian Religion Thy way O God is holy who is so great a God as our God Thou O God out of thine abundant kindnesse hast made admirable variety of creatures to minister to my use to serve my necessity to preserve and restore my
health to be an ornament to my body to be representations of thy power and of thy mercy Vnto thee O God will I pay my vows unto thee will I give thanks Thou O God of thine admirable and glorious mercy hast made thine Angels ministring spirits for my protection and defence against all the hostilities of the devill thou hast set a hedge about me and such a guard as all the power of hell and earth cannot overcome thou hast preserved me by thy holy providence and the ministery of Angels from drowning from burning from precipice from deformities from fracture of bones and all the snares of evil and the great violations of health which many of my betters suffer I will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart even before the gods will I sing praise unto thee Thou O most mercifull God hast fed me and clothed me hast raised me up friends and blessed them hast preserved me in dangers hast rescued me from the fury of the sword from the rage of pestilence from perishing in publike distemperatures and diseases epidemicall from terrors and affrightments of the night fâ—om illusions of the devil and sad apparitions thou hast been my guide in my journeys my refreshment in sadnesses my hope and my confidence in all my griefs and desolations O give thanks unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever But above all mercies it was not lesse then infinite whereby thou lovedst me and all mankinde when we were lost and dead and rebels against thy Divine Majesty thou gavest thine own begotten Son to seek us when we went astray to restore us to life when we were dead in trespasses and sins and to reconcile us to thy self by the mercies and the atonement of an everlasting covenant He is our God even the God of whom commeth salvation God is the Lord by whom we escape death O most blessed Jesu I praise and adore thine infinite mercies humility and condescension that for my sake thou wouldst descend from the bosome of thy heavenly Father into the pure womb of an humble Maid and take on thee my nature and be born and cry and suffer cold and all the incommodities which the meannesse of a stable could minister to the tendernesse of thy first infancy Lord what is man that thou art mindfull of him and the son of man that thou so regardest him I adore thee blessed Jesu and praise thee for thine immaculate sanctity for all thy holy precepts and counsels for thy Divine example for thy miracles and mysterious revelations of thy Fathers will for the institution of the holy Sacraments and all other blessings of thy Propheticall Office O praise the Lord for the Lord is gracious sing praises unto his Name for it is lovely I adore and love thee most blessed Jesu for all the parts of thy most bitter Passion for thy being betrayed and accused buffeted and spit upon blindfolded and mocked crowned with thorns and scourged for thine agony and bloudy sweat for thy bearing the sad load of the Crosse and sadder load of our sins for thy Crucifixion three long hours when the weight of thy Body was supported with wounds and nails for thy Death and Buriall for thy continuall intercession and advocation with thy heavenly Father in behalf of me and all thy holy Church and all other acts of mediation and redemption the blessings of thy Priestly Office O praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders he hath done for the children of men I adore and magnifie thy holy Name O most blessed Jesu for thy triumph over death hell sin and the grave for thy opening the Kingdome of Heaven to all beleevers for thy glorious resurrection and ascension for thy government over all the creatures for the advancement of thy holy Kingdome for thy continuall resisting and defeating the intendments of thine enemies against thy Church by the strength of thine arm by the mightinesse of thy power by the glories of thy wisdome for those blessed promises thou hast made and performest to thy Church of sending the holy Ghost of giving her perpetuity of being in defiance of all the gates and powers of Hell and darknesse and blessing her with continuall assistances and all other glories of thy Regall Office and power O sing praises sing praises unto our God O sing praises sing praises unto our King for God is the King of all the earth sing ye praises with understanding O most holy Spirit Love of the Father Fountain of grace spring of all spirituall blessings I adore and praise thy divine excellencies which are essentiall to thy glorious Self in the unity of the most mysterious Trinity and which thou communicatest to all faithfull people and to me thy unworthy servant in the unity of the Catholique Church O magnifie the Lord our God and fall down before his footstoole for he is holy O blessed Spirit I praise and magnifie thy Name for thy miraculous descent upon the Apostles in Pentecost in mysterious representments for those great graces and assistances comming upon their heads and falling down upon us all in the descent of all ages of the Church for confirmation of our Faith for propagation of the Gospel for edification and ornament of thy Family Thou O God shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations O most glorious Spirit I praise and magnifie thy Name for thy inspiration of the Apostles and Prophets for thy providence and mercy in causing holy Scriptures to be written and preserving them from the corruptions of Hereticks from the violences of Pagans and enemies of the Crosse of Christ. I will alwayes give thanks unto the Lord his praise shall ever be in my mouth I blesse thy Name for those holy promises and threatnings those judgements and mercies those holy precepts and admonitions which thou hast registred in Scriptures and in the records and monuments of the Church for all those graces helps and comforts whereby thou promotest me in piety and the ways of true Religion for baptismall and penitentiall grace for the opportunities and sweet refreshings of the Sacrament of the Eucharist for all the advantages thou hast given me of good society tutors and governours for the fears thou hast produced in me as deleteries and impediments of sin for all my hopes of pardon and expectation of the promises made by our Lord Jesus Christ to encourage me in the paths of life and sanctity for all the holy sermons spirituall books and lessons for all the good prayers and meditations for those blessed waitings and knocking 's at the door of my heart pitiently tarrying for and lovingly inviting me to repentance without ceasing admonishing and reproving me with the checks of a tender conscience with exteriour and interiour motives and for whatsoever other means or incentive of holiness thou hast assisted me withall I magnifie and praise and adore thee and thy goodness All Nations whom thou hast made and
sanctified shall come and worship thee O Lord and shall glorify thy Name for thou art great and dost wondrous things thou art God alone and great is thy mercy towards me thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost Hell therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever with Cherubims and Seraphims and all the companies of the heavenly Host saying Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabaoth holy is our God holy is the Immortall holy is the Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost to whom be all honour and glory and dominion and power ascribed of all spirits and all men and all creatures now and for evermore Amen I. Prayers preparatory to the receiving of the blessed Sacrament O Most immaculate and glorious Jesu behold me miserable sinner drawing near to thee with the approaches of humility and earnest desire to be cleansed fron my sins to be united to thee by the nearest and most mysterious union of charity and Sacramentall participation of thy most holy Body and Bloud I presume nothing of mine own worthinesse but I am most confident of thy mercies and infinite loving kindnesse I know O Lord I am blinde and sick and dead and naked but therefore I come the rather I am sick and thou art my Physitian thou arisest with healing in thy wings by thy wounds I come to be cured and to be healed by thy stripes I am unclean but thou art the Fountain of purity I am blinde and thou art the great Eye of the world the Sun of righteousnesse in thy light I shall see light I am poor and thou art rich unto all the Lord of all the creatures I therefore humbly begge of thy mercy that thou wouldest be pleased to take from me all my sins to cure my infirmities to cleanse my filthinesse to lighten my darknesse to clothe my nakednesse with the robe of thy righteousnesse that I may with such reverence and faith and holy intention receive thy blessed Body and Bloud in the mysterious Sacrament that it may be unto me life and pleasantnesse and holy nourishment and that I may be firmly and indissolubly united to thy mysticall Body and may at last see clearly and without a vail thy face in glory everlasting who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen II. I Adore and blesse thy glorious Majesty O blessed Jesu for this great dignation and vouchsafing to me that thou art pleased for all the infinite multiplication of my sins and innumerable violations of thy holy Law still to give thy self unto me to convey health and grace and life and hopes of glory in the most blessed Sacrament I adore thee O most righteous Redeemer that thou art pleased under the visible signes of Bread and Wine to convey unto our soules thy holy Body and Bloud all the benefits of thy bitter Passion O my God I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roofe but let thy holy Spirit with his purities prepare for thee a lodging in my soul. Thou hast knocked often O blessed Jesu at the door of my heart and wouldest willingly have entred behold O Lord my heart is ready to receive thee cast out of it all worldly desires all lusts and carnall appetites and then enter in and there love to inhabit that the Devill may never return to a place that is so swept and garnished to fill me full of all iniquity O thou lover of souls grant that this holy Sacrament may be a light unto mine eyes a guide to my understanding and a joy to my soul that by its strength I may subdue and mortifie the whole body of sin in me and that it may produce in me constancy in Faith fulnesse of wisdom perfection and accomplishment of all thy righteous commandments and such a blessed union with thee that I may never more live unto my self or to the world but to thee onely and by the refreshment of an holy hope I may be led through the paths of a good life and persevering piety to the communion and possession of thy Kingdome O blessed Jesu who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen III. O Lord God who hast made all things of nought producing great degrees of essence out of nothing make me a new creature and of a sinfull man make me holy and just and mercifull that I may receive thy precious Body devoutly reverently with meeknesse contrition and great affection with spirituall comfort and gladnesse at thy mysticall presence Feed my soul with Bread from Heaven fill me with charity conform me to thy will in all things save me from all dangers bodily and ghostly assist and guide me in all doubts and fears prepare and strengthen me against all surreptions and sudden incursion of temptations cleanse me from all stains of sin and suffer nothing to abide in me but thy self only who art the Life of souls the Food of the Elect and the joy of Angels Give me such a gust and an holy relish in this Divine nutriment that nothing may ever hereafter please me but what savours of thee and thy miraculous sweetnesse Teach me to loath all the pleasures and beauties of this life and let my soul be so inebriated with the pleasures of thy Table that I may be comprehended and swallowed up with thy love and sweetnesse let me think nothing but thee covet nothing but thee enjoy nothing but thee nothing in comparison with thee and neither doe not possesse any thing but what leads to thee and is in order to the performance of thy will and the fruition of thy glories Transfixe my soul O blessed Jesu with so great love to thee so great devotion in receiving the holy Sacrament that I may be transformed to the Fellowship of thy sufferings and admitted to a participation of all the benefits of thy Passion and to a communion of thy graces and thy glories I desire to be with thee dissolve all the chains of my sin and then come Lord Jesus come quickly Let my soul feed on thee greedily for thou art the spring of light and life the Fountain of wisdome and health a torrent of divine pleasure and tranquillity the Author of peace and comfort enter into me sweet Jesu take thou possession of my soul and be thou Lord over me and all my faculties and preserve me with great mercy and tendernesse that no doubting or infidelity no impenitence or remanent affection to a sin no impurity or irreverence may make me unworthy and uncapable of thy glorious approach Let not my sins crucifie the Lord of life again let it not be said concerning me The hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the Table that this holy Communion may not be unto me an occasion of death but a blessed peace-offering for my sins and a gate of life and glory Grant this O blessed God for his sake who is both
my will and all my actions that whatsoever I shall do or suffer this day or in my whole life my words and purposes my thoughts and my intentions may be sanctified and be acceptable to thy divine Majesty Amen II. GRant that my understanding may know thee my heart may love thee and all my faculties and powers may give thee due obedience and serve thee Preserve me this day from all sin and danger from all violences and snares of mine enemies visible and invisible let thy holy fear be as a bridle to my distemperatures and thy love so enkindle and actuate all mine endeavours that no pleasure or allurements of the world may draw me from thy service nor any difficulty or temptation may be my hinderance let the profound humility and innocence of my blessed Saviour keep from me all pride and haughtinesse of mind all self-love and vain-glory all obstinacy and disobedience all fraudulency and hurtfull dissimulation and let the graces of the holy Ghost take so absolute possession and seizure of my soul and all its faculties that I may tread down and cast out the spirit of intemperance and uncleannesse of malice and envy of idlenesse and disdain that I may never despise any of thy creatures but my self that so being little in mine own sight I may be great in thine Amen III. CLothe my soule with the Wedding garment the habits of supernaturall Faith and Charity that I may believe all thy holy promises and revelations without all wavering and love thee my God with so great devotions and affections that neither life nor death prosperity nor adversity temptations within nor without may ever dis-unite me from the love of thee but that I may have the most intimate adhesion to thy glories and perfections of which my condition in this world is capable Make me to choose vertue with the same freenesse of election entertain it with as little reluctancy keep it with as much complacency actuate it with as many faculties serve it with as much industry as I have in time past my vices and pleasures of the world and grant that all inordinate affection to the transitory things of this life may daily decay in me and that I may grow in spirit and ghostly strength till I come to a perfect man in Christ Jesus Amen IV. GIve unto thy servant true humility great contrition a tender conscience an obedient heart an understanding always busied in honest and pious thoughts a will tractable and ever prone to do good affections eaven and moderate a watchfull custody over my senses that by those windows sinne may never enter in nor death by sin Make me to watch over my tongue and keep the door of my lips that no corrupt or unseemly communication proceed out of my mouth that I may never flanner calumniate or detract from the reputation of my neighbour that I be not busie in the faults of others but carefull to correct mine own being gentle and mercifull to others and severe towards my self that I may speak much of thy praises and what I can for the edification of my brethren Amen V. GIve me understanding in thy Law that I may know thy will and grace and strength faithfully to fulfill the same Give me a fear of thy Name and of thy threatnings and a love and hope of thy promises let me daily feel thy mercies and remove thy judgements far from me Imprint in my heart a filiall reverence and awfulness towards thy Divine Majesty that I may study to please thee with diligence to worship thee with much devotion to submit to the disposition of thy providence with thankfulnesse and that in conscience of my duty towards thee I may honour the King obey Magistrates under him love the Saints and do all acts of charity according to my opportunity and ability directing all my actions and intentions not according to custome or in pursuance of mine own ends and temporall advantages but in thy fear and in holy religion to the advancement of thy honour and glory Amen VI. GIve me a soul watchfull in the services of Religion constant in holy purposes ingenuous and free from sordid ends or servile flattery a modest gravity in my deportment affability and fair courteous demeanour towards all men austerity in condemning mine own sins sweetnesse in fraternall correction and reprehending others mature judgement a chaste body and a clean soul patience in suffering deliberation in my words and actions good counsels in all my purposes make me just in performing promises and in all my duties sedulous in my calling profitable to the Common-wealth a true Son of the Church and of a disposition meek and charitable towards all men Amen VII LEt this be my portion and the comfort of my pilgrimage so long as I am detained in the condition of mortality and exiled from my heavenly Country that being free from all fear of mine enemies and from vexations cares and sollicitudes of this life I may be wholly devoted to thy service that I may attend thee onely and what tends to thee that I may rejoyce onely in thee and my soule may rest in thee that without distractions I may entertain thy heavenly Doctrine and the blessed motions of thy holy Spirit spending my time in the duties of necessity in the works of charity and the frequent office of Religion with diligence and patience and perseverance and hope expecting the accomplishment of my days in peace that when I go unto my dust I may be reckoned amongst those blessed souls whose work it is to give thee praise and honour and glory to all eternity Amen Blessed be the holy and undivided Trinity now and for evermore Amen An Evening Prayer In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Our Father which art in Heaven c. I. O Lord God who art the light and splendour of souls in the brightnesse of thy countenance is eternall Day that knows no night in thy arms and in thy protection is all quietnesse tranquillity and everlasting repose while the darkness covers the face of the earth receive my body and soul into thy custody let not the spirits of darkness come near my dwelling neither suffer my fancy to be abused with illusions of the night Lord I am thy servant and the sheep of thy pasture let not the devil who goeth up and down seeking whom he may devour abuse my body or make a prey of my soul but defend me from all those calamities which I have deserved and protect my soul that it consent not to any work of darknesse lest mine enemy say he hath prevailed over me or do mischief to a soul redeemed with thy most precious Bloud Amen II. PArdon and forgive me all the sins and offences of my youth the errours of mine understanding the inordination of mine affections the irregularity of all mine actions and particularly whatsoever I have transgressed this day in thought word or deed Lord let