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A Form of prayer to be used on Wednesday the fifth day of June next ensuing within the cities of London and Westminster, and ten miles distance of the same : and on Wednesday the nineteenth of the same June through the rest of the whole kingdom, being the fast-day appointed by the King and Queen's proclamation to implore the blessing of Almighty God upon Their Majesties Forces by sea and land, success in the war now declared against the French king ...
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A FORM OF PRAYER To be Used on Wednesday the Fifth day of June next ensuing within the Cities of London and Westminster and Ten Miles distance of the same And on Wednesday the Nineteenth of the same June through the rest of the whole Kingdom Being the Fast-Day appointed by the King and Queen's Proclamation to Implore the Blessing of Almighty God upon Their Majesties Forces by Sea and Land and Success in the WAR now Declared against the French King. By Their Majesties Special Command LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb Printers to the King and Queen's most Excellent Majesties MDCLXXXIX WHITEHALL May 28. 1689. IT is His Majesties Pleasure That this Form of Prayer be forthwith Printed and Published SHREWSBURY The Order for Morning Prayer ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and after them the Exhortation following COrrect us O Lord Jer. x. 24. but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring us to nothing O our God encline thine ear and hear Dan. ix 18 open thine eyes and behold for we do not present our supplications unto thee for our righteousnesses but for thy great mercies O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken 19. and do and defer not for thine own sake and for thy people that are called by thy name DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and consess 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 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 the Minister shall kneel and say the Lords Prayer the People also kneeling and repeating it with him OUr 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 Ans 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 the Venite exultemus shall be said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest another by the Clerk and People LEt God arise and let his enemies be scattered Psal lxviii 1. let them also that hate him flee before him Like as the smoke vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away 2. and like as the wax melteth at the fire so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people Psal iii 5. that have set themselves against me round about Destroy thou them Ps v. 10. O God let them fall by their own counsels cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against thee The Lord will abhor the blood-thirsty and deceitful man. 6. But let all those that trust in thee rejoyce 11. Let them ever shout for joy For thou Lord 12. wilt bless the righteous with thy favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed Ps vi 10. let them return and be ashamed suddenly O Lord my God Ps vii 1. in thee do I put my trust Save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me Arise 6. O Lord in thine anger lift up thy self because of the rage of mine enemies and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded So shall the Congregation of the people compass thee about 7. For their sakes therefore return thou on high Through God we shall do valiantly Ps cviii 13 for it is he that shall tread down our enemies Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Instead of the Psalms for the Day shall these proper Psalms be used ◠IX X. ¶ The first Lesson 2 Chron. Chap. 20. to v. 31. ¶ After the first Lesson shall follow Te Deum Laudamus in English WE praise
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 eralted 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 to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ The second Lesson 1 Cor. X. to v. 15. ¶ 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 Apostles 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 only 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 OUr 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 and Queen Answ And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answ And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answ And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answ Because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God. Priest O Lord save thy servants Answ Who do put their trust in thee Priest Send us help from thy holy place Answ And evermore mightily defend us Priest Let the enemy have no advantage against us Answ Nor the wicked approach to hurt us Priest Be unto us O Lord a strong tower Answ From the face of our enemies Priest O Lord hear our prayer Answ And let our cry come unto thee ¶ Instead of the Collect for the day shall be used these which follow O God our refuge and strength whose power no Creature is able to resist who teachest our hands to War and our fingers to fight and without whom the Horse and Chariot is in vain prepared against the day of Battel defend us we beseech thee with thy mighty power and save us with thy out-stretched arm that our Forces may be preserved and become Victorious by Sea and Land evermore serving under his glorious Banner who is the Lord of Hosts God blessed for ever Amen O most glorious and gracious God whose Iudgments against obstinate offenders are most severe and terrible But whose Mercies are infinite to all them that with hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto thee We the sinful People of this Land do acknowledge before thee to thy glory and our own shame that never any Nation had greater experience of thy goodness nor ever did any more unthankfully abuse it When thou gavest us great and long Prosperity we like Jesurun waxed fat and kicked against thee when thou didst thrust us into those Confusions out of which we saw little hopes of arising even in the time of that distress did we trespass yet more against thee When by miracles of mercy thou hadst turn'd our Captivity we soon forgot thee our Saviour and return'd again to our folly And even while thou hast of late appeared for us by delivering us out of the hands of our implacable Enemies of the Romish Faction we have by our sins been fighting against heaven and against thee And now we are no more worthy to be called thy Sons or thy Servants whom neither thy Fear hath driven to repentance nor thy Goodness led to it In mercy O God awaken us all beget in us a holy dread of thy Iudgments and a deep sense of our manifold and repeated provocations pardon the great offences of us thy servants and the crying sins of the whole Nation remove the evils we still lie under avert those we have just cause to fear and howsoever thou mayest think fit to Correct us for our sins yet never deliver us up into the hands of those men whose mercies are cruel Pour out thy abundant Blessings upon our Gracious King and Queen and their great Council now Assembled in Parliament keep them as the apple of thy eye hide them under the shadow of thy wings direct and bless them in all their Consultations And more particularly we now prostrate our selves before thee to implore thy blessing upon this their great undertaking for the necessary defence of thy people Go forth with their Fleets and Armies compass them with thy Favour as with a Shield let it appear that thou the Lord our God art with us to help us and to fight our Batels bless us with Victory and Success and in thy own good time with such a Peace as may tend to the glory of thy great Name and the Preservation of thy Church and true Religion among us the Honour and Safety of their Majesties and the Security Peace and Prosperity of these Kingdoms All which we humbly beg in the Name and through the Medâ—ation of thy Son Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all just works do proceed Give unto