A FORM OF COMMON PRAYER For Gods Blessing upon His Majesty And His Dominions And for the Averting of Gods Judgments To be used upon Wednesday April the Tenth next ensuing in all Churches and Chappels within the Cities of London and Westminster the Suburbs and Liberties of the same AND Upon Wednesday the Four and twentieth of the same Moneth in all the rest of this His Majesties Kingdom of England the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed Set forth by His Majesties Authority LONDON Printed by John Bill Christopher Barker Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1678. The Order for Morning PRAYER ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and after them the Exhortation following REnt your heart and not your Joel 2. 13 garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil To the Lord our God belong Dan. 9. 9 10. mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Correct us O Lord but with iudgment not Jer. 10. 24 in thine anger lest thou bring us to nothing DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to cast our selves down at the throne of his heavenly Grace and to pour out our humble Supplications for the averting of his Iudgments and for the procuring of his Blessings upon our Sovereign and his Kingdoms to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and say the Lords Prayer the people also repeating it with him OVr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Ans And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus shall be said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and people O Come let us humble our selves and fall Psal 95. 6. down before the Lord with reverence and fear For he is the Lord our God and we are the people 7. of his pasture and the sheep of his hand Come therefore let us turn again unto our Hos 6. 1. Lord for he hath smitten us and he will heal us Let us search and try our wayes let us lift up our Lam. 3. 40 41. hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens Let us repent and turn from our wickedness Acts 3. and our sins shall be forgiven us Let us turn and the Lord will turn from his heavy Jonah 3. wrath he will pardon us and we shall not perish We acknowledge indeed that our punishments Joh 11. 6. Wisd 11. 23. are less than our deservings but yet of thy mercy O Lord correct us to amendment and plague us not to our destruction We have provoked thine anger thy wrath is waxed hot and thy heavy displeasure is sore kindled against us But thy hand is not shortned that thou canst Es 59. 1. not help neither is thy goodness abated that thou wilt not hear Thou hast promised O Lord that before we Es 65. 24. cry thou wilt hear us whilst we are yet speaking thou wilt have mercy upon us For none that trust in thee shall be confounded neither shall any that call upon thee be despised Our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee Ps 22. 4. and thou didst deliver them They called upon thee and were holpen they 5. put their trust in thee and were not confounded And now in
into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Ans And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus shall be said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and people O Come let us humble our selves and fall Psal 95. 6. down before the Lord with reverence and fear For he is the Lord our God and we are the people 7. of his pasture and the sheep of his hand Come therefore let us turn again unto our Hos 6. 1. Lord for he hath smitten us and he will heal us Let us search and try our wayes let us lift up our Lam. 3. 40 41. hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens Let us repent and turn from our wickedness Acts 3. and our sins shall be forgiven us Let us turn and the Lord will turn from his heavy Jonah 3. wrath he will pardon us and we shall not perist We acknowledge indeed that our punishments Joh 11. 6. Wisd 11. 23. are less than our deservings but yet of thy mercy O Lord correct us to amendment and plague us not to our destruction We have provoked thine anger thy wrath is waxed hot and thy heavy displeasure is sore kindled against us But thy hand is not shortned that thou canst Es 59. 1. not help neither is thy goodness abated that thou wilt not hear Thou hast promised O Lord that before we Es 65. 24 cry thou wilt hear us whilst we are yet speaking thou wilt have mercy upon us For none that trust in thee shall be confounded neither shall any that call upon thee be despised Our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee Ps 22. 4. and thou didst deliver them They called upon thee and were holpen they 5. put their trust in thee and were not confounded And now in the vexation of our spirits and the Baruch 3. 1 2. anguish of our souls we cry unto thee hear Lord and have mercy For many troubles are come about us our Psal 40. 15. sins have taken such hold upon us that we are not able to look up For thine own sake and for thy holy Names Dan 9. 18 19. sake incline thine ear and hear oh merciful Lord. For we do not present our Supplications before 18. thee trusting in our own righteousness but in thy manifold and great mercies Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of Ps 79. 9. thy Name oh deliver us and be merciful unto our sins for thy Names sake So we that are thy people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will always be shewing forth thy Praise from Generation to Generation Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Proper Psalms are XXXII CXXX CXLIII Beati quorum Psal XXXII BLessed is he whose unrighteousness is forgiven and whose sin is covered 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sin and in whose spirit there is no guile 3 For while I held my tongue my bones consumed away through my daily complaining 4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day night and my moisture is like the drought in summer 5 I will acknowledge my sin unto thee and mine unrighteousness have I not hid 6 I said I will confess my sins unto the Lord and so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin 7 For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found but in the great water-flouds they shall not come nigh him 8 Thou art a place to hide me in thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance 9 I will inform thee and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go and I will guide thee with mine eye 10 Be ye not like to horse and mule which have no understanding whose mouths must be held with bit and bridle left they fall upon thee 11 Great plagues remain for the ungodly but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord mercy embraceth him on every side 12 Be glad O ye righteous and rejoyce in the Lord and be joyful all ye that are true of heart De profundis Psal CXXX OVt of the deep have I called unto thee O Lord Lord hear my voice 2 O let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint 3 If thou Lord wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it 4 For there is mercy with thee therefore shalt thou be feared 5 I look for the Lord my soul doth wait for him in his word is my trust 6 My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch I say before the morning watch 7 O Israel trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption 8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins Domine exaudi Psal CXLIII HEar my prayer O Lord and consider my desire hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousness sake 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul he hath 〈◊〉 thy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the ground he hath laid 〈◊〉 in the darkness us the men that have been long dead 4 Therefore is my spirit 〈◊〉 â—ithin me and my heart within me is desolate 5 Yet do I remember the time past I â—â—se upon all thy works yea I exercise my self in the works of thy hands 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee my soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land 7 Hear me O Lord and that look for my spirit waxeth faint hide not thy fate from me left I be like unto them that go down into the pit 8 O let me hear thy loving kindness betâ—mes in the morning for in thee is my trust shew thou me the way that I should walk in â—or I liâ—t up my soul unto thee 9 Deliver me O Lord from â—â—ne enemies for I flee unto thee to hide me 10 Teach me to â—â— the thing that â—â—â—â—seth thee for thou art my God let thy loving Spirit lead me forth into the land of righteousness 11 Quicken me O Lord for thy names sake and for thy righteousness sake bring my 〈◊〉 of trouble 12 And of thy goodness
slay mine enemies and destroy all them that â—ex my soul for I am thy servant The first Lesson is Amos vj. or Jonah iij. Magnificat MY soul doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour For he hath regarded the 〈◊〉 of his hand-maiden For behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed For he that is mighty hath magnified me and holy is his Name And his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations He hath shewed strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meek He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away He remembring his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel as he promised to our forefathers Abraham and his seed for ever Glory be to the Father and to the Son and in the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The second Lesson is 1 Cor. X. beginning Vers 1. and ending with Vers 13. or â— Pet. III. Deus misereatur Psal 67. GOd be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance and be merciful unto us That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee O let the nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the nations upon earth Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing God shall bless us and all the ends of the world shall fear him Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said the Creed by the Minister and the people standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these Prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and people shall say the Lords Prayer with a loud voice OVr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answer And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but onely thou O God Priest O Lord save thy servants Answer Who do put their trust in thee Priest Send us help from thy holy place Answer And evermore mightily defend us Priest Let the enemy have no advantage against us Answer Nor the wicked approch to hurt us Priest Be unto us O Lord a strong towre Answer From the face of our enemies Priest O Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee ¶ In stead of the first Collect shall these two be used ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent Create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully he relieved through our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all just works do proceed Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments and also that by thee we being defended from â—â—e fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the merits of Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen LIghten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burthen of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into judgment with thy servants who are â—ile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make haste to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the people say this that followeth after the Minister TVrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy people Who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God Full of compassion Long-suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when â—e deserve punishment And in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them And let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is