govern thy holy Church universally in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holiness of life thy servant CHARLS the second our most gracious King and Governours We beseech thee to hear us good â—…rd That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord That it may please thee to bless and preserve the Queen Mother the Duke of York the Duke of Glocester with all the rest of the royall Progeny We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the Church with true knowledge understanding of thy word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute justice and to maintain truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations unity peace and concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy Commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that be in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travell by land or by water all women labouring of childe all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pitty upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecuters and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech thee to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which are in heaven c. And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evill Amen The Versicle O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answer Neither reward us after our iniquities Let us pray O God mercifull Father that despisest not the fighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowfull mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the Devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodnesse they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church though Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou diddest in their dayes and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. As it was in the beginning 〈◊〉 now c. From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ. Graciously hear us O Christ graciously hear us O Lord Christ. The versicle O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ â—…aker of all things Judge of all men we acknowledge and â—…wail our manifold sins and wickedness which we from time to time most greivously have committed by thought word and deed against thy divine â—…jesty provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us we do earnestly repent and be heartily sorry for these our misdoings the remembrance of them is grievous unto us the burden of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most mercifull Father for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christs sake forgive us all that is past and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newnesse of life to the honour and glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God our Heavenly Father who of thy Grâ—… mercy hast promised forgiveness of sins to All them which with Hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto Thee Have mercy upon Us pardon and deliver us from all our sins Confirm and strengthen us in all Goodness and bring us to Everlasting Life
Afâ—…s he may constantly perform his Duty towards thee and live and dy thy faithful Servant in Jesus Christ Amen A Letany of Intercession O That thou wouldst hear me O God! that thou wouldst so prepare my Heart that thou maist hear me that thou wouldst hear me once more though I am but Dust and Ashes That thou wouldst hear me for all those whom by the Bonds of Duty and Charity or Affection I am bound to Pray for O Lord hear my Prayers And let my cry come unto thee The Letany THat it may please thee to Bless the whole Catholick Church of thy Son Christ as it hath been planted in his Death and watered in his Blood so it may be still nourished by his Sacraments and governed by his Word That the Uncharitablenesse of men may not make the Rents and Divisions of it wider and that howsoever we may differ in the superstructions the Foundations of Christian Faith may never be cast down O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to look compassionately on this persecuted part of thy Church now driven from the Publike Altars into Corners and secret Closets that thy Protection may be over us where ever we shall be scatteted and a Remnant prefervcd among us by whom thy Name may be Glorified thy Sacraments Administred and the souls of thy servants kept upright in the midst of a corrupting and of a corrupted Generation O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to be Gracious to Him who was once defigned by Thee to be the Nursing Father of this thy Church But for the sins of both Priests and People is now cast out as an unprofitable Branch And that in thy due time thou wouldst deal with him according to the Innocency of his Person the Justice of his Cause O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to comfort him in the sadnesse of his spirit and Guide him in the Perplexities of his Mind and support him in the straits and necessities of his Fortunes To raise him Friends abroad and to Convert or confound the hearts of his Enemies at Home To do some mighty thing for him which I in particular know not how to Pray for and by the secret Working of thy Providence to make the Stone which the foolish Builders among us have refused the Head-stone of the Corner O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to preserve him with an unspotted soul and an unshaken Faith and that no splendor of any Earthly Crown may so dazle him as to make him forget either himself or thee or do any unworthy thing to lose that Heavenly Crown which thou hast prepared for him and nothing but his own sins is able to keep from him O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to shew Mercy to the Queen his Mother the Dukes his Brethrenâ—… in Exile with him and the rest of that scattered and oppressed Family to guide them thy Counsels to defend with them with thy Power to provide for them in thy Mercy and to make them in their severall ways Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to deal Graciously with that Remnant left of the Loyall Nobility and all others of that ruined side who have chosen rather to suffer in thy Cause then to participate with the sins of a more successefull Party O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to spread the wings of thy Protection over all those whom thou hast made near and dear unto me to preserve them safe in body and soul from the snares of their enemies and the iniquity of the times that no sin may lay waste their Consciences nor no evill come neer their dwellings O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to recompence all those whom thou hast raised to be Instruments of any good unto me such as have taken care of my soul and instructed me in the way to heaven such as have counselled me when I have gone astray supplyed me in my wants comforted me in my heaviness and have had that high Charity for me as to Reprove me when I have sinned O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to let the day-spring from on high shine upon all those who sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death who either do not know thy Name or knowing it are carried by strong delusions into the wayes of Error and false Perswasions O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to confirm those who as yet stand fast on the foundations of thy Holy Truth that neither the persecution of the Church in which they were Baptized nor the temptations of the times nor the snares of cunning men who watch all advantages may make them fall from their first Faith and miserably wander after their own imaginations O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to comfort and raise up those weak and dejected spirits which are ready to sink under the burthen of a troubled or Afflicted Conscience that as thou hast shewed them their sins and the punishments due for them so thou wouldst shew them their Saviour and by directing them to lay hold on his Cross keep them from a Finall and Everlasting ship wrack O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to hear the groans and cries of all those that are Afflicted either outwardly or inwardly in body or soul Especially such who being oppressed for Conscience sake have no place to fly unto nor no man careth for their souls O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to listen Compassionately to the deep sighing of the Prisoners and by thy mighty Power to deliver such who for obeying thee and a good Conscience are or shall be designed to death or ruin O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to soften the hearts of all unrighteous Judges who now have the Power over us and to make them know with trembling that there is a Judge higher than they O hear us for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to forgive all who more particularly are Enemies to me mine all that way have any traduced or slandered me even to turn their hearts and to extend their Charity to them in all those degrees of mercy which I desire may be shewn to my own soul. O hear me for thy Son Iesus sake That it may please thee to hear all those servants of thine who either have the Charity to pray for me or desire my Prayers for them But above all that it may please thee to hear the Prayers of thy Son Jesus Christ who now fits gloriously on thy Right hand to intercede both for me and them O hear me
satisfied with the blood already spilt among us but standest thou still â—…ith a sword upon thine Altar Must Aarons rod be suffered to â—…ther in thine own house in thine 〈◊〉 sight while Corah's and Daâ—…han's do bud and blossom Canst thou O God look on and see the golden pot ravish'd from thine own Tabernacle Canst thou endure to be in the Temple and see those Lights of the Sanctuary put out which thou thy self hast light up Wilt thou suffer the Labourers to be driven out of thy own Vineyard after their working so long there by thy Divine appointment Shall thy House of Prayer become at length a den of Theives and thou thy self stand by as unconcernd whilst they rob thee of thine Honour Thou that saidst to the waves be ye still wilt thou suffer the winds to arise the contrary winds of false Doctrine and to blow against this Ship which thy self hast so long been inâ—… wilt thou sleep in the Ship while thy Disciples are cast over board Lord carest thou noâ—… we perish When shall thy Ministers takâ—… down their Harps from the Wilâ—… upon which they hang. When shall they be permitted openly to sing the Lordâ—… song though in this strangâ—… Land When O when shall we see the Ark of God to return back from the House of Dagon and David dancing before it When wilt thou open the mouths of thine own Zacharias's the Priests of the Lord that were called to wait upon thee at thine Altar but who are now struck dumb from ofâ—…ating before thee When wilt thou extend merâ—… into us in the sight of those â—…at hate us who are set over us 〈◊〉 give us a reviving to set up the â—…ouse of God and to repair â—…he Desolations thereof and to give a Wall in Iudah and in Ieâ—…salem When shall we accompany the Tribes even the Tribes of the Lord unto the Lords House there to testifie unto Israel to give thanks unâ—… the Name of the Lord for the â—…ation of our Religion in the 〈◊〉 of so many fiery trialls and the restauration of our Liberties afâ—…r so sharp a captivity When Lord shall we be allowed to eat bread again freely in thy House yea though it be but to gather the â—…rums that fall from our Masters table How long shall it be ere thou bid 〈◊〉 look with joy vpon Zion the Citty of our Solemnities as thou didst bid thy People the Jews When wilt thou comfort us and say your eyes shall see Ierusalem a quiet habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down not one of the stakes thereof shall be removed neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken O how amiable are thy Dwellings thou Lord of Hosts My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into thy Courts and to go unto thine Altars But Lord It is not for us to know the times and seasons which the Father hath put in his own Power And therefore I desire humbly to submit the successe of all our Prayers and Supplications of our actions and sufferings together with the time of our deliverance unto thy sole pleasure earnestly beseeching thee for thy Grace which is alone sufficient for us that we may cheerfully wait upon thee without thinking thy stay too long till thou have mercy â—…on us The Lord our God is a God of â—…compences and shall surely requitâ—…â—…r Enemies But The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Lawgiver the Lord is our King he will save us Thou art the Lord and therefore Lord even when thou pleasest and what thou pleasest Not our time but thy time Not our way but thy way Not our Will but thy Will be done Thy Will be done in Earth as it is Heaven Amen A Prayer for the Church 〈◊〉 England O Lord look down in mercy and compassion upon oâ—… dear Mother the afflicted Church of England to whose breasts thou hast applyed us And grant that we may draw from thence neither blood nor wind but the sincere milk of thy word of an holy Conversation Behold Lord she is none of those Mothers which are for the dividing of their children O preserve thou her children that they also may none of them be for the dividing of their Mother Make her yet once more happy in a Moses and an Aaron in nursing Fathers to go in and out before this People and holy Ministers to stand before thee our God and suffer not â—…e sins of this Nation to be â—…onger to pull down the walls â—…our Sion and Ierusalem then â—…s thy goodness and mercy to â—…ild them up again O that this Church of England â—…ay live in thy sight For which end behold her Priests how they keep silence even from good words which is pain and grief unto them and are denied even a place between the Porch and the Altar though only to weep there for the sparing of the Temple Behold her Virgins how they 〈◊〉 least for want of a Vision the People perish and her Widdows 〈◊〉 they make Lamentation to see Iudgement begin so severely at the House of God Behold how she her self like another Racheb weeps for her children because they are not because they are not suffered to comfort their own Mother and to defend her from all such whâ—… mock at her Sabbaths and sâ—… lemn Feasts and make her seâ—… vice and Devotions their deâ—… sion and scorn O Lord behold her Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified him self against her See O Lord and considerâ—… for she is become very vile But we trust by how much she iâ—… become vile in the eyes of man she shall be the more precious in the sight of thee her God And though others set light by her blood yet thou hast promised not to despise her team especially when thou thy self hast washed them in the blood of thy Son O therefore we beseech thee put thou her Tears in thy bottle and let not her sighs and her groans seem little in thy sight Accept of those Humiliations and graciously answer the Prayers which are offered up in secret for her Visit O visit her in Mercy and Compassion now after the time that thou hast afflicted her and for the many years wherein she hath suffered Adversity Let that purple Robe of mockery wherewith first thy self wert clad and now of late this Church of thine be changed at length into garments of joy and gladnesse Let that Crown of thorns which was taken from thy Temples and platted upon hers be now taken from both and crown her instead thereof with Roses out of her own Sharon Let the Print of the nails in thy hands and feet be as the Balm of Gilead to heal and close up the wounds which are made in hers And let the hole in thy precious side be a safe hiding-place and Sanctuary till this
appear unto men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the earth and that by thee Kings do reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold hopes and defires let not their mischievous imaginations prosper least they be too proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them shew some good token on his seed for good that their enemies may see it and be ashamed â—…ecause thou Lord hast holpen and comforted them Bow the hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou dist those of Israel to David that they may acknowledge and receive joyfully the Heir of these Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a nail in a sure place behold his injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by his Birth-right thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this day for this blessing make no long tarrying but according to the time thou hast plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons teeth and pull us out of the burnings like a firebrand We beseech thee that We may this day spread beforâ—… thee the words of Rabshekah the proud railings and scornfull reproaches of our enemies Behold this day their exaltation and our mourning O Lord our eyes are towards thee for whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many thousands that call on thee That salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of peace unto thy People Think upon all those that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the world see that there is a God that judgeth the earth and send deliverance to his people in their needful time of trouble But whatsoever thy purpose is let not us behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian humility run the race that thou settest before us and qatiently bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our prayers may return into our own bosomes and that thou wilt make thy judgements temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in wel-doing we may commit our selves to thee our God as unto a faithful Creator And that both our King and we may say with all Christian submission and cheerfulness It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good And here O Lord we offer unto thee all possible praise and thanks for all the Glory of thy Grace that hath shined forth in thine Anointed our late Soveraign and that thou wert pleased to own him this Day especially in the midst of his Enemies and in the hour of death and to endue him with such eminent Patience Meekness Humility Charity and all other Christian Virtues according to the example of thine own Son suffering the fury of his and thine Enemies for the preservation of thy Church and People We Praise thee also for the Courage and Comfort thou hast given unto us of his Party by that owning and assisting him or any that have suffered in that Righteous Cause And we beseech thee give us all grace to Remember and provide for our latter end by a Careful studious imitation of those blessed patterns of thy Saints and Martyrs that have gone before us that we may be made worthy to Receive benefit by their prayers which they in Communion with thy Church Catholick offer up unto thee for that part of it here Militant and yet in sight with and danger from the flesh that following tâ—…e Blessed stepps of their Holy Lives and Deaths we may also â—…hew forth the Light of a good example for the Glory of thy Name the Conversion of Enemies and the improvement of those Generations we shall shortly leave behind us and then with all those that have born the Heat and burthen of the day thy Servant whose Sufferings and Labours we this day commemorate receive the Reward of our Labours the Harvest of our Hopes even the Salvation of our own souls and that for the merits and through the mediation of thy Son our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Evening Prayer FOR the thirtieth of Ianuary The Letany O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer c. O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity c. Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy most precious blood and â—…e not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evill and mischief from sin from the crafts and affaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting â—…ation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition and privy conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresie from hardness of heart and contempt of thy word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy incarnation by thy holy nativity circumcision by thy baptism fasting and temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine agony and bloudy sweat by thy Cross and passion by thy precious death and buriall by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of Judgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear Us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and
mediation of thine own dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord Amen IV. O Eternal and supreme Majesty we most humbly beseech thee to pour down the Richest of thy Mercies on thy servant the King to take him into thine Immediate and especial protection and proportion thine Assistances and RElief to the Greatness of his Needs and Destitutions O what great troubles and Adversities hast thou shewed him Thou hâ—… set up the Right hand of his Enemies and made all his Adversaries to rejoyce thou hast taken away the Edge of his Sword and givest him not Victory in the day of Battail thou hast put out his Glory and Cast his Throne down to the ground Lord how long wilt thou hide thy self for ever Behold O God our Defender and look upon the face of thine Anoynted and though thou hast permitted our sins to reduce his Affairs to this Hopelesse Condition yet from thence let thy Soveraign Mercy raise him O Lord we know not what to do only our Eyes are upon Thee O magnifie thy strength in this his greatest weakness and by thine own power effect that towards which he hath nothing of Humane Contribution create peace for 〈◊〉 and Create the means for the obtaining it Protect his â—…red person direct and prosâ—…er all his designes fasten him as 〈◊〉 Nail in a sure place and hang â—…on him all the Glory of his â—…hers House that he â—…ay be the Repairer of the Breach the Restorer of Cities to dwell in that he may be a Nursing Father to thy Church and may Comfort the waste places of Sion But if our sins have so far incensed thee that as thou hast taken away one King in thy wrath so thou wilt not give us another except it be in thine Anger if thou hast designed him to succeed his blessed Father not in his Throne but in his sufferings grant him likewise to succeed him in his Virtues Confirm to him that inward Soveraignty over his own Passions more valuable then a Thousand Kingdoms Chuse him for thy self in the Furnace of afflictions and make him so cheerfully to wear his Crown of Thorns with his Saviour here that he may receivâ—… a Crown of Glory from him hereafter and that for the Mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen V. O Thou blessed and only Potentate most just in thy Judgements and wondeâ—…ull in thy mercies we thy sinfull Creatures cast our selves down before thee desiring in all humility to adore that Justice of thine which hath suffered our iniquities to prevail against the cause and enterprises of our Soveraign and yet to praise and magnifie that mercy which hath 〈◊〉 suffer'd them to prevail â—…inst his person but hath in 〈◊〉 midst of the greatest and â—…ost amazing dangers provided him a way of escape plucked him as a brand out of the fire and by thine own gracious proâ—…ction at once defeated both the fears of his friends and â—…nd the hopes of his Enemies Praised be the Lord which hast not given him over for a prey unto their teeth And since thou hast been pleased thus far to condescend to the prayers and groaâ—… of thy servants O 〈◊〉 not our Lord be angry and we will speak beseeching thee who hast thus powerfully rescued him from Egypt not to suffer him to perish in the Wilderness but though his passage be through the red sea yet at last to bring him to a Canaan O thou whose wayes are in the great deep who madest Iosephs imprisonment the way to hiâ—… advancement and the impoverishing of Iob the means of doubling his wealth let the same over-ruling Providence dispose of all late adverse events to those ends which all Loyall hears gasp after Lord be thou pleas'd to breathe upon theâ—…â—…y bones and they shall 〈◊〉 livâ—… in thy sight In the meaâ—… time O Lord let thy comforts refresh his soul in the midst of these sad calamities sanctifie them unto him that he may come out of these tribulations like gold out of the fire purified but not consumed that so whatsoever becomes of his transitory Crown here he may by a constant enduring of temptations be secured of that Crown of life which fadeth not away grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen VI. O Thou King of Nations who dost according to thy will in all the Kingdoms of the Earth who hast made us drink deep of the Cup of trembling and yet seemest to have bitter dregs behinde for us We thy wretched Creatures that have highly contributed to that common weight of sin under which the Land sinks humbly prostrate our selves at thy feet desiring with all sincere contrition to confesse that thou art Righteous in all that is hitherto come upon us All that we have hitherto sufferd being but the sad arrears of the sins of our Peace when we waxed fat and kicked against thee And that thou shalt likewise be most just in the utmost of thy future inflictions which what ever they prove cannot exceed the sins of our calamitous dayes who in the time of our distress have sinned yet more against the Lord who have passed through the fire to Moloch with an undaunted obstinacy suffer'd all the flamings of thy wrath rather than we would renounce any of our detestable things Nay as if our old were too infirm we have made new Leagues with death new agreements with hell proceeding from evil to worse and making every new Calamity thou sendst to reclaim us the occasion of some fresh impiety And now O Lord wilt thou not visit for these things shal not thy soul be avenged on such a Nation as this We are they O Lord that have perverted all thy dispensations toward us grown wanton under thy mercies and desperate under thy Judgements and is there any third method left for those that have frustrated both these Behold O Lord these desperate these gasping Patients at thy feet who have lost sense and motion to all things but the resistance of their remedy O give us not utterly over but continue to administer to us whatsoever may remove this stupefaction and bring us to a feeling of our own condition And what sharpnesse and severity soever thou disceruest necessary for that purpose forbear not O Lord to give us those wounds of a friend O say not concerning us why should ye be smitten any more but rather cast us into the place of Dragons and cover us with the shadow of death if by so doing we may be brought to remember the Name of the Lord our God Lord this is the one great necessary wherein we are principally concern'd to sollicite thee that our Eyes may be opened that we may see every one the plague of his own heart that so instead of those Atheâ—…cal disputes we make of thy providence we may all â—…oyn in an humble Adoration of thy Justice and confessing that our destruction is of our selves abhorre our selves and Repent in dust and ashes And when by thâ—… greater
which for our evill deeds are worthily punished by the Comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen X. ALmighty God we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy Family for the which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to betrayed and given up into the hands of wicked men and to suffer death upon the Cross who liveth and reigneth c. Amen XI ALmighty and Everlasting God by whose Spirit the whole Body of the Church is governed and sanctified receive our supplications and prayers which We offer up before thee for all eâ—…ates of Men in thy holy congregation that every member of the same in his vocation and Ministery may truly and godly serve thee through our Lord Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth c. Amen XII Assist us mercifully O Lord in these our supplications and prayers and dispose the way of thy servants toward the attainment of everlasting salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life they may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Christ our Lord Amen XIII ALmighty God which hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to Us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto Thee and grant that those things which We have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of Ianuary O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most sutably to thy Justice and performest thy pleasure allwayes in such manner that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy wayes be not equall We thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the Justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgement which as this day befell us in thy permitting cruel men sons of Beliall to execute the fury of their Rebellion upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their hands in the Blood and Mur der of the Lords Anointed was drawn down by the great and long provocations of this Nations sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinfull wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this dayes fore vengeance the effect as well as desert of our impieties the work of our own hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgement but our most horrid sin for which alone did not multitudes of other sins cry out against us thou mightest justly descend down upon us all as thou didst in Sodom and leave us no other memorial than to be the frightfull Monuments of thy Indignation and fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and mercifull therefore it is that We are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to repentance And now Lord looking on this particular signal Judgement as thy last Trump warning us to fly from the wrath to come We come forth to meet our God mourning in our prayers before thee and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure and the removall of these plagues of long continuance from us for the all-sufficient merits of the death and sufferings of our blessed Saviour O forgive our great and manifold transgressions and for his bloody Passions sake deliver this Nation from blood-guiltinesse that of this day especially O God of our Salvation Let not our crying sins intercept our Prayers or thy blessings but hear the voice of our tears and hearing forgive and heal us retire not quite from us into thine own place laugh not at our calamities neither mock in this day of our visitation Vindicate thine own Cause and thine own Providence that it may appear unto men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the earth and that by thee Kings do reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold hopes and desires let not their mischievous imaginations prosper least they be too proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them shew some good token on his seed for good that their enemies may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen and comforted them Bow the hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou didst those of Israel to David that they may acknowledge and receive joyfully the heir of these Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a nail in a sure place behold his injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by his Birth-right thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this day for this blessing make no long tarrying but according to the time thou hast plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons teeth and pull us out of the burnings like a firebrand We beseech thee that We may this day spread before thee the words of Rabshekah the proud railings and scornfull reproaches of our enemies Behold this day their exaltation and our mourning O Lord our eyes are towards thee for whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many thousands that call on thee That salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of peace unto thy People Think upon all those that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the world see that there is a God that judgeth the earth and will send deliverance to his people in their needfull time of trouble But whatsoever thy purpose is let not us behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian humility run the race that thou settest before us and patiently bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our prayers may return into our own bosomes and that thou wilt make thy judgements temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in wel-doing we may commit our selves to thee our God as unto a faithful Creator And that both our King and we may
and â—…bey him as thy Minister not â—…nly for wrath but for consciâ—…ce sake least contemning â—…ine ordinance we incur that damnation thou hast threatneâ—… to all those that resist the highâ—… powers Hear us O Lord fâ—… his sake who is the Prince 〈◊〉 the Kings of the Earth eveâ—… Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Most gracious Lord God the Ruler of Princes wheâ—… they are in their thrones anâ—… their Protector when they aâ—… in perill look down mercifullâ—… from Heaven we most humbly pray thee upon the low estate 〈◊〉 thine anointed our King comfort him in his troubles defenâ—… him in his dangers strengthen him in his good resolutions and command thine Angels to pitcâ—… their tents round about hiâ—… that he may be defended froâ—… the hands of all those that desire his hurt and may be re-established in the just rights oâ—… his throne through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon him and deâ—…er him O God the Father c. O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon him â—…nd deliver him O God the Son c. O God the holy Ghost proâ—…eeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon him â—…d deliver him O God the holy Ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious â—…rinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon him and deliver him O holy blessed and glorious c. Remember not Lord his offences nor the offences of his fore-Fathers neither take thou â—…engeance of his sins spare him good Lord spare thy servant â—…om thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and â—…e not angry with him for ever Spare him good Lord. From all evill and mischief from the Insurrection of wicked doers from the frowardness and madnesse of the People Good Lord deliver him From mouths full of cursing and bitternesse from all thosâ—… that speak evill of dignities and from those that slander the foot steps of thine Anointed Good Lord deliver him From them that are confederates and speak so disdainfully against him and from all thosâ—… that hate him without a cause Good Lord deliver him We sinners do beseech thee tâ—… hear us O Lord God and thaâ—… it may please thee to look upoâ—… the face of thine Anointed and to visit him with thy salvation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to plead his cause against them thaâ—… strive with him and to fighâ—… against those that fight againâ—… him We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to hear him in these dayes of his trouble and to send him help from thy Sanctuary We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to arise and maintain his cause and to remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to give him patience in this time of adversiâ—…y untill the pit be digged up for the ungodly We beseech thee c. That it may please thee in the multitude of the sorrows that he hath in his heart to let thy comforts refresh his soul. We beseech thee c. That it may please thee not to deliver him over to the will of his adversaries nor to false witnesses risen up against him or to such as speak wrong We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to defend him under thy wings and that thy faithfulnesse and truth may be his Shield and Buckler We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to satisfie him with thy mercy and that soon so that he and we may rejoyce all the dayes of our life We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. A Prayer For the Church LOrd who hast promised to thine Apostles to be with them alwayes unto the end of the world and for a supply of their mortality hast in thy gracious providence over thy Church continued a perpetuall succession of Bishops and Pastors to feed their severall Flocks whereof the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers Inspire them by thy grace that their lips may preserve knowledge and the people seek thy Law at their mouth Bless them O Lord with the blessings of Levi blesse their substance and accept the work of their hands smite through the loyns of them that rise up against them and of them that hate them that they rise not again that they may shine forth as lights before us holding forth the word of life till we all come in the unity of Faith and the knowledge of Jesus Christ unto that perfection and fulnesse of thine everlaâ—…ing Kingdome Amen ALmighty God and gracious Father we confess against our selves that we are most worthy of all the Judgements that thou hast threatned against us these Kingdomes and this Church which is now under the Crosse and neer to utter ruin and extirpation unless thy mercy step in between thy fierce wrath and our hainous sins And howsoever the voice of our crying sins hath ascended into thine ears and stirred up destroyers to root us out that we be no more a people and that thy name be no more called upon nor hallowed by us yet we most humbly beseech thee to hear the prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears which once our blessed Saviour offered for us upon the Crosse and in the garden and which he daily represents unto thee And for his all-sufficient merits which speak better things than the blood of Abel hear not the cry of our sins but the cry of his blood and therein wash all our sins Let our great miseries and dangers suffice for that which is past and let that Oratour in thy own bosome even thine own fatherly goodness perswade and prevail for us and purchase our deliverance and safety Hear us for our selves and others Look upon us with the eyes of pitty and compassion consider our enemies how many and how mighty they be and they bear a tyrannous hate against us Our goods our lands our lives will not suffice their boundlesse ambition our religion our souls and if it were possible our God is that they strike at curse thou their anger for it is fierce and their wrath for it is cruel Divide them in Iacob and scatter them in Israel As for us deliver us out of their hands and unite us together in the bond of peace that being freed from our many and tyrannous enemies we may ever bless thy sacred and holy name and evermore serve thee without fear in all holiness and righteousness all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to our defence against all our enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we which for our evill deeds are justly punished by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully
heart are in larged Our iniquities and the punishments which attend upon them are a burden too heavy for us to bear And therefore in the anguish and bitternesse of our souls we return unto thee humbly beseeching thee in whom alone is our help to have respect unto the Prayers of thy servants O shut not up thy loving kindnesse in displeasure let not thine anger burn against the sheep of thy pasture But bind up the breach of this People Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee Behold the tears of the distressed Orphans and Widdows and of all such as are oppressed and have no comforter How long O Lord holy and true doest thou forbear to command deliverances Remember thy tender mercies which have been ever of old and save us as thou hast done heretofore Remember thy promise of deliverance to those who call upon thee in the day of trouble And when the blood that hath been shed calls aloud for verigeance O then hearken unto the voice of thy Sons blood which speaks better things behold the Lamb of God who was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities And to this end regard the sincerity of thine Anointed maintain thine own cause and preserve unto him that power which thou hast given him bind his soul in the bundle of life let mercy and truth preserve him and let his Throne be established for ever before thee Blesse them that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land And as for those that have risen up against him we beseech thee melt and mollifie their hearts to the entertainment of compassion and love reclaim them to obedience lay not their sin to their charge but guide their feet into the way of Peace Give to those that have done wrong the grace to repent and to those that have suffered wrong minds ready to forgive And if any shall be averse from Peace O thou that art the wonderfull Counsellor turn their wisdome into foolishness confound their practises and let their mischief return upon their own heads And when thou hast vouchsafed to give us that tranquillity which we beg at thy hands give 〈◊〉 grace to embrace it with all thankfulnesse to obey our Governours to live at unity among our selves evermore blessing thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Collects I. LOrd raise up we pray thee thy power and come amongst us and with great might succor us that where as through our sins and wickednesse we be sore let and hindred thy bountifull grace and mercy through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord may speedily deliver us to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be honour and glory world without end Amen II. ALmighty and everlasting God which dost govern all things in heaven and earth mercifully hear the supplications of thy people and grant us thy peace all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen III. ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon our afflictions and in all our dâ—…ngers and necessities stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen IV. GOd who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that for mans frailnesse we cannot alwayes stand uprightly Grant to us the health of body and soul that all those things which we suffer for sin by thy help we may well passe and overcome through Christ our Lord Amen V. O Lord we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy People that we which are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness for the Glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth world without end Amen VI. LOrd We beseech thee to keep thy Church and houshold continually in the true Religion that they which do leane only on thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VII WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to be our defence against all our enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VIII GOd the Protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy increase and multiply upon us thy mercy that thou being our ruler and guide we may so pass through things temporall that we finally lose not things eternall Grant this Heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord Amen XI LOrd we beseech thee let thy continual pitty cleanse and defend thy congregation and because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Certain additionall Prayers In the time of War O Almighty God who art high above all Nations and whose glory is above the Heavens the comfortable successe of all enterprises is from thee onely to be looked for Thou art he which givest victory unto Kings to thee it is all one to save by many or few thou canst make one to chase a thousand thou canst cause the hearts even of the most valiant to melt their hands to be weak their minds to faint and their knees to fall away like water If thou fight for us we cannot miscarâ—…y If thou favour us not we must needs be discomfited O be gracious unto us and be on our side now that men are risen up against us They take crafty Counsell against thy Church and consult how to cut us off from being a Nation and by what means to quench the light of thy Truth which hath shined in our streets Their desire is to imbrue their hands in blood and to advance their own ambition by our overthrow O turn their Counsels into foolishness Let not their mischeivous imaginations prosper lest they be too proud O our God make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the winde Scatter the People that delight in War Go out O Lord with our Armies give wisdom and courage to our Captains gird them with strength unto the battell be with our Souldiers teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight Assist all the Consultations prosper the Policies crown those enterprises with good successe which are undertaken for the common good and comfort of the Weal-publique Doubtless O Lord we have deserved thine anger and our sins do cry loud in thine ears for vengeance and it were but just with thee if thou shouldst make us a prey and â—…spoil unto our Enemies But O Gracious God let us now fall into thy hands for thy mercies are great and let us not fall into the hands of men whose displeasure at us is not for our sins but for our Profession and Religions sake and that they may fill their own inlarged and insatiable desire with those blessings of wealth which thou hast given us Put therefore thy hook into their nostrills and
bring them back by the same way they came Let it appear that thou art in the midst of us and that we shall not be moved That thou wilâ—… help us and that very early Let there be no invasion no going out nor no crying in our streets But set thou Peace in our Borders Make strong the bars of our gates especially let the Gospel of thy Son sound yet lowder among us that by it many Souls may be gathered unto thee So we thy People and thâ—… sheep of thy Pasture shall praise thee for ever and from Generation to Generation we will set forth thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen A Prayer for a Souldier O Lord it is thy glory to be called The Lord of Hosts and it is thou alone from whom when men have made their most politick and puissant preparations the victory must be looked for Draw my heart I beseech thee from all relying upon my own valour or upon the strength of the battail in which I stand and teach me to look upward and to wait and trust only upon thee Thou givest conquest and thou givest courage thou deliverest from the perill of the Sword or else makest death a means of happinesse to thy servants Forgive my sins I pray thee and assure me of pardon by the witnesse of thy Spirit that the guilt thereof make not my heart to tremble within me and to behold death as a messenger to convey me into hell If thou O Lord bee on my side peace being made betwixt thee and my soul through Christ what can be against me what hazard can befall my soul Nothing shall be able to deprive me of thy love Let not spoil or blood or mine own advancement be the ends of mine attempts but make me to aim only at thy glory in the defence of thy truth and in the good and safety of the Kingdome wherein I live The issue of all things to thee O Lord is known but to man it is hidden Prepare me therefore indifferently to whatsoever shall befall me If I die give me comfort in my last breathing and take my soul into thy gracious hand If I be taken captive give me patience give me wisdom and godly courage to do nothing contrary to the honour of my Country or prejudicial to the profession of a faithfull Christian If I return with life and victory make me thankfull Keep me from taking from thee any part of thy glory Preserve me from those riotous lascivious and blaspheming courses which are the usuall fruits of good successe let me not think devotion to be an enemy to resolution or that a religious fear of thy Majesty doth abate the spirit that should be in a Souldier but settle me in this that the assurance of a lawfull cause the hope and confidence of a better life by the merits of Christ the care to please thee and to depend upon thy power are the only true grounds of valour which can give a man boldnesse and life in the day of battel Vouchsafe me these and all other needfull favours in and for Christ Jesus sake Amen A Prayer upon the strange revolution on the twenty first of February 1659. when the formerly secluded Members were readmitted into the House of Commons O Most mighty God who sittest upon the Cherubims be the people never so impatient and after thine own counsells governest all that is done among the children of Men. We most humbly confess that it is for our sins that thou hast so often changed thy rod and brought such variety of confusions upon us that all the world stands a gaze to see what will become of such a people that will not see the things that belong unto their peace But O gracious God though we forget our selves forget not thou thine own goodnesse for there is yet time for mercy and such an expedient left as may cure all our wounds and close up all our divisions by restoring him who was once designed by thee to be the common Father of us all though we like rebellious children have disdainfully cast him from us And as thou hast begun already to shew some glimmerings of our future happiness by unexpectedly dissolving the Assembly of those Achitophels who by their dark counsels have so long obstructed it so go on we most earnestly beg of thee and let not the sins of this wretched Nation hinder thee from compleating what thou hast for thine own glory so wonderfully begun Work powerfully upon the minds of all that are any wayes concerned in the redeeming of our peace Give them but as much honest courage to do right as they have formerly shewn in acting all those mischiefs that have been done among us O plead the cause of an oppressed KING strenghthen the hands and hearts of all that appear for him direct his counsels prosper his enterprizes make his very enemies to be at peace with him and when thou shalt vouchsafe to us our former happiness both in Church and State give us then thankfull hearts to imbrace it as a blessing from thy hands alone who hast wrought these great wonders for us for Iesus Christ's sake Amen A Prayer upon the Assembling of the present Parliament April 25. 1660. O Most great most wise and most powerfull Lord God in whose hands are the hearts of all men and turned them as thou doest the rivers of waters Shew thy power and come among us and be present at this great meeting when after so many years of confusion there 's once more a consultation had to settle this distracted Church and Nation and as there is nothing hid from thee who seest the very thoughts and ends and divided interests of them that meet together so there is nothing so impossible to thee but that thou canst by the hidden workings of thy Providence unite what thou findest divided and oversway every counsell and design and every imagination that shall set it self against thee Let there be no root of bitternesse among them which are intrusted in this great work no thoughts of revenge No Ambition of making themselves great no particular or separate interest of their own but instead of these give them bowels of compassion towards their bleeding and expiring Country strike a sense into them of the blood already shed and the desolation yet to come if they prevent it not And let thy fear run through all their consultations that remembring the sad account which in the last great day will be required of them they may unanimously set themselves to find out those blessed expedients as may restore the voice of joy and peace into our dwellings in such a way as may be most for the glory of thy great Name the righting of those that are opprest and the setling of the happinesse of this Church and Nation upon the right basis of that former government from which it hath stood so long so unhappily divided And â—…his as being neither impossible to thy