and they shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds from one end of Heaven to the other 32. Now learn a Parable of the Fig-tree When his Branch is yet tender and putteth forth Leaves ye know that Summer is nigh 33. So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things know that it is near even at the Doors 34. Verily I say unto you this Generation shall not pass till all these Things be fulfilled 35. Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my Words shall not pass away 36. But of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man no not the Angels of Heaven but my Father only 37. But as the Days of Noe were so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be 38. For as in the Days that were before the Flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the Day that Noe entred into the Ark 39. And knew not when the Flood came and took them all away so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be 40. Then shall two be in the Field the one shall be taken and the other left 41. Two Women shall be grinding at the Mill the one shall be taken and the other left 42. Watch therefore for ye know not what Hour your Lord doth come 43. But know this that if the good Man of the House had known in what watch the Thief would come he would have watched and would not have suffered his House to be broken up 44. Therefore be ye also ready for in such an Hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh 45. Who then is a faithful and wise Servant whom his Lord hath made Ruler over his Houshold to give them Meat in due Season 46. Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing 47. Verily I say unto you that he shall make him Ruler over all his Goods 48. But and if that evil Servant shall say in his Heart My Lord delayeth his coming 49. And shall begin to smite his Fellow Servants and to eat and drink with the drunken 50. The Lord of that Servant shall come in a Day when he looketh not for him and in an Hour that he is not aware of 51. And shall cut him asunder and appoint him his Portion with the Hypocrites There shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth Priest Give thy Judgments O God and thy Righteousness to the King People The Lord hear him in the Day of Trouble the Name of the God of Jacob defend him Priest Send him Help from his Sanctuary and strengthen him out of Sion People Let the King rejoice in thy Strength O Lord and let him be exceeding glad of thy Salvation Priest Grant him his Hearts desire and deny him not the Request of his lips People O Lord gird him with Strength unto the Battle throw down his Enemies under him Priest Make them to turn their Backs upon him and disperse those that hate him People Deliver him from the strivings of his People Priest Deliver him from his cruel Enemies and set him above his Adversaries thou shalt rid him from the wicked Man and why because the King puts his strength in the Lord and in the Mercy of the most High he shall not miscarry People Some put their trust in Chariots and some in Horses but we remember the Name of the Lord our God Priest Save Lord and hear us O King of Heaven when we call upon thee People Be thou exalted in thy own strength so will we sing and praise thy power Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen O Lord God that dost build up Jerusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel wherefore art thou absent so long and why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy Pasture O think upon thy Congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old think upon the tribe of thine Inheritance and mount Sion where thou hast dwelt Lift up thy Feet and disperse all those our Enemies which have done ill in thy Sanctuary For they have broken down the carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers They have defiled the dwelling places of thy Name yea they said in their hearts let us make havock of them altogether O God how long shall the adversary do this dishonour how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosom to scatter the enemy Arise O God maintain thine own cause remember how the foolish Man blasphemeth thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the presumption of those that hate thee encreaseth ever more and more Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen A Prayer O Eternal God and most merciful Father we humbly beseech thee to be merciful unto us and be near to help us in all those extremities which our Sins threaten to bring upon us our Enemies are strengthned against us because our rebellions are multiplied against thee and we deserve to suffer what our Enemies threaten and sudden destruction and with desolation but there is mercy with thee that thou mayst be feared and there is mercy with thee that they may not be feared shew us therefore thy mercy O Lord and let us so fear thee that we may never be brought to feel or fear them and that for our Jesus and thy Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for the Church ALmighty God and gracious Father we confess against our selves that we are most worthy of all the Judgments that thou hast threatned against us these Kingdoms this Church which is now under the Cross and near to utter ruin and extirpation unless thy mercy stept in between thy fierce Wâ—ath and our heinous 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 Cross and in the Garden and 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 hear the cry of his Blood and therein wash away all our Sins let our great Miseries and Dangers suffice for that which is past and let that Orator in thy own bosom that is 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 Pity and Compassion consider our Enemies how many and how mighty they be and they
PRAYERS OF Intercession FOR THEIR Use who Mourn in Secret FOR THE Publick Calamities OF THIS NATION WITH An Anniversary Prayer for the 30th of January Very Necessary and Useful in Private Families as well as in Congregations By Jo. Huit D. D. LONDON Printed in the Year 1659. Prayers of Intercession for their Use who Mourn in Secret for the Publick Calamities of this Nation A Preparatory Prayer O Lord I find in that Book of thine which cannot deceive me that the oftner thy Servant Abraham prayed to thee the more he got ground upon thee and came at last to that holy Confidence as not only to pray to thee for himself but to be importunate and press thee in the behalf of others Lord I confess my Case is different for Abraham was the Father of the Faithful but I am not worthy to be reckoned among his Children He had the Honour to be called thy Friend but my Sins have been such that unless thy Mercy interveen may make thee look upon me as thine Enemy He prayed unto thee for a People of whose Sins he was no Partaker But my Address is to thee for them in whose Iniquities I am involved and have some way or other deeply contributed to the hastning and bringing down those terrible Judgments of thine which now lye so heavy upon us So that alas I am unworthy to appear before thee for my self and how shall I dare to supplicate thee for others O that there were a Moses to stand in the Gap to turn away thy wrathful Indignation from us O that there were a David a Daniel or a Jeremiah to pour out their Souls before thee yet hear me O my God for though these holy Saints of thine have now no being upon Earth yet their Prayers remain upon Record for every Soul that mourns in secret to make use of O Holy and Blessed Spirit kindle but the same fervency in my Heart while I repeat their Words as was in them and I know I shall be heard King David's Prayers for the Church and People The First Prayer O God! wherefore art thou absent from us so long or why is thy Wrath so hot against the Sheep of thy Pasture O think upon thine Inheritance whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Lift up thy Feet that thou mayest utterly destroy every Enemy that hath done evil in thy Sanctuary For behold they break down all the carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers Yea they have said in their Hearts let us make havock of them altogether and thus have they designed to ruine all the Houses of God in the Land But O God! how long shall the Adversary do this Dishonour How long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy Name for ever Arise O God! maintain thine own Cause remember how the foolish Man blasphemeth thee daily But O deliver not the Soul of thy Turtle Dove into their hands for the Presumption of them that hate thee encreaseth more and more O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us The Second Prayer O Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy People that prayeth How long wilt thou feed us with the Bread of Tears and give us Plenteousness of Tears to drink O turn us again thou God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole Remember that thou diddest once plant a Vine among us and when it had taken root it filled the Land Our Hills were covered with the Shadow of it and the Boughs were like the goodly Cedar Trees But now thou hast broken down her hedge so that all they that go by pluck off her Grapes The wild Bore of the Wood doth root it up and the Beasts of the Field devour it Yet turn us again O Lord God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole For we will not go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us The Third Prayer HOld not thy tongue O God keep not still silence refrain not thy self O God For lo thine Enemies make a murmuring and they that hate thee have lifted up their Head They have imagined craftily against thy People and have taken counsel against thy sacred Ones Behold they have cast their Heads together with one consent and are confederate against thee They have said come and let us root them out that they may be no more a People and that their Name may be no more in remembrance They come daily round about us like Water and compass us together on every side But O my God! make them like unto a Wheel and as the stubble before the Wind. Who say let us take unto our selves the Houses of God in possession O make their faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us The Fourth Prayer O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad thou hast been displeased at us O turn thee unto us again Thou hast moved the Land and divided it O heal the Sores thereof for it shaketh Thou hast shewn thy People heavy things and given us a drink of deadly Wine Thou hast made us turn our backs upon our Enemies so that they which hate us spoil our goods Thou makest us to be rebuked of our Neighbours to be laughed to scorn and to be had in derision of them that are round about us But though all this be come upon us yet do we not forget thee nor behave our selves frowardly in thy Covenant Our Heart is not turned back nor our steps gone out of thy way No not when thou hast smitten us into the Place of Dragons and covered us with the shadow of death Up Lord why sleepest thou awake and be not absent from us for ever But O! wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble For our Soul is brought low even unto the dust and our belly cleaveth to the grave Arise help us and deliver us for thy mercy sake O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us King David's Tears O My God why hast thou forsaken thine anointed and art displeased with him For lo thou hast broken the Covenant of thy Servant and cast his Crown to the ground Thou hast overthrown all his hedges and broken down his strong holds So that all they that go by spoil him and he is become a Rebuke to his Neighbours For thou hast set up the right hand of his Enemies and made all his Adversaries to rejoyce Thou hast put out his Glory and cast his Throne down to the Ground The Days of his Youth hast thou seasoned with bitterness and covered him with dishonour But Lord how long wilt thou hide thy self for ever And shall thy Wrath still burn like Fire Remember O Lord the rebuke that thy Servant
hath and how he doth bear in his Bosom the rebukes of many People And let his Adversaries be cloathed with shame But upon his Head let his Crown flourish O help him against his Enemies for Vain is the help of Man O God make speed to save him O Lord make hast to help him Jeremiah's Lamentations Prophetical of these times HOW hath the Lord covered us with a Cloud in his Anger And cast down from Heaven unto the Earth the beauty of our Israel and remembered not his Foot-stool in the Day of his Wrath For lo he hath bent his Bow as an Enemy he hath swallowed us up and hath not pitied he hath made desolate the Kingdom and the Princes thereof He hath cast off his Altars and abhorred his Sanctuary and hath given into the Hands of the Enemies the Walls of his Pillars He hath caused our solemn Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten and hath despised in his Indignation the King and the Priest For the Lord hath now accomplished his fury he hath poured out his fierce anger he hath kindled such a fire in Sion as hath devoured the Palaces thereof For the Sins of the Prophets and the Iniquity of the Priests who have shed the Blood of the Just in the midst of her For the Breath of our Nostrils the anointed of the Lord hath been taken in their Pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall live in Peace But we have transgressed and have rebelled and thou hast not pardoned And therefore our Eyes have as yet failed us in our vain help for in our watching we have watched for a Nation that could not save us Behold O Lord and consider to whom thou hast done this O Lord thou hast seen his wrong judge thou his Cause Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against him Thou hast heard their Reproach O Lord and all their imaginations against him The Lips of those that are risen up against him and their devices against him all the Day O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him The Second Prayer REmember O Lord what is come upon us consider and behold our reproach For our Inheritance is turned unto Strangers our Houses to Aliens our Necks are under Persecution we labour and have no rest Our Fathers have sinned and are not we have born our Iniquities The Servants rule over us and there is none to deliver us out of their hands Our Elders have ceased from the gate and our young Men from their Musick The Joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into mourning For the Crown is fallen from our Head and wo unto us that we have sinned For this our Heart is faint for these Things our eyes are dim But wherefore doest thou forget us for ever and forsakest us so long time O turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned renew our Days as of old And do not utterly reject us be not for ever wrath against us O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us Daniel's Prayer and Confession in the behalf of himself and his People O Lord the great and dreadful God! we have sinned and done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Judgments Neither have we hearkned to thy Servants the Prophets which spake in thy name to our Kings our Princes and our Fathers and all the People of this Land O Lord Righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us Confusion of face as at this day unto all that are near and far off through all the Countries whether thou hast driven them because of the trespass that they have trespassed against thee For we have not obeyed the Voice of the Lord our God and therefore the Curse is poured out upon us Even such a Curse as that under the whole Heaven hath not been done to us But now O Lord our God according to all thy Righteousness I beseech thee let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from us Hear the Prayer of thy Servant and cause thy face to shine upon thy Sanctuary which is now desolate O my God encline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold our Desolation For I do not present these Supplications before thee for mine own Righteousness but for thy great Mercies O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord do delay not for thine own sake O my God and for thy Peoples sake that are called by thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us Prayers for the KING The First Prayer LOrd remember our distressed King and all his troubles Let thy hand hold him fast and thine arm strengthen him Let not the Enemy be able to do him violence or the Son of Wickedness hurt him Let thy Truth and Mercy be ever with him and in thy Name let his Throne be exalted O be thou his Father his God and his strong Salvation And let him be as thy first born and glorious among the Kings of the Earth O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him The Second Prayer O Most Powerful Lord God the only Disposer of all the Kings and Kingdoms on the Earth who for the Punishment of the crying Sins of this Nation hast extinguished our Glory and cast the Throne down to the ground Give us not over utterly to Ruin and Confusion but bring back yet in thy good time the Heir of these Kingdoms like the Sun with healing in his Wings to repair the Breaches already made and prevent the Desolations that threaten us And however thou hast been pleased to cast a Cloud upon him in the morning of his Days yet leave him not in this Storm forsake him not thou that art the God of his Salvation but look upon his Wrongs and have compassion on his Innocency and Suffering O let it never be in the Power of Man to bar him from the Throne to which by his Birth thou hast designed him but guide him with those Councils and prosper him with that Success as may settle him in his Throne in Peace Or if the Guilt and Wickedness of his Opposers shall still continue to hinder this do it after thine own way O God with thy mighty Hand and stretched out Arm that they may both know and feel that Thou art the Protector of Kings and the Refuge of them who have no other Trust but in Thee grant this O God for the Glory of thy Name and the Comfort of thy desolate Church and People Amen The Third Prayer O Most Merciful God the only Sanctuary of sad and distressed Souls look down I beseech thee upon thy Servant who here with bended Knees and a wounded Spirit prostrate my self before thee for wo unto us we have lived to see the Crown fallen from our Heads and the Glory departed from our Israel even the anointed of the Lord driven to fly before wicked Men
from evil Amen Priest O Lord open thou our lips Answer And our Mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to help us Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning c. A Prayer LOok down O Lord in the Bowels of thy Pity and lend a tender ear to the Voice of our Lamentation our Adversaries are the chief our Enemies prosper for thou hast afflicted us for the Multitude of our Transgressions the Crown is fallen from the Head wo unto us we have sinned O Lord behold our Afflictions For the Enemy hath magnified himself The Adversary hath spread out his Hand upon all our pleasant things they have entered into and prophaned thy Sanctuary they have seen us low and have mocked at our Sabbaths our solemn Feasts are become their Scorn and our Devotion their Derision O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself Thou art become our Enemy thou hast destroyed our strong Holds thou hast encreased among us Mourning and Lamentation because thou hast despised in the Indignation of thine Anger the King and the Priest See O Lord and consider for we are become very vile The Yoak of our Transgressions is bound by thy hand they are wreathed and come upon our Necks thou hast made our Strength to fail thou hast delivered us into their Hands from whom we are not able to rise up Thou hast trodden under Foot our mighty Men in the midst of us Thou hast called an Assembly to crush our young Men Thou hast trodden us as in a Wine-press Our Enemies hear of our Trouble and they are glad that thou hast done it Behold O Lord for we are in Distress Our Bowels are troubled our Heart is turned within us for we have grivously rebelled abroad the Sword devoureth at home there is Death our Enemies have opened their Mouths against us they hiss and gnash their Teeth they say we have swallowed them up certainly this is the Day that we looked for we have found it we have seen it Thus are we in Derision all the Day long we are become their Song and their Musick O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself They have cried unto us depart ye ye are unclean depart depart touch not yea these Men have said they shall no more sojourn here O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself The Breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord is fallen into their Pits and slaughtered by their Hands of whom yet we said under his Shadow we shall live among the midst of these sad Distractions O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself Thus do we call to mind our Afflictions and our Miseries the Wormwood and the Gall our Souls have them in Remembrance and they are humbled in us and therefore have we hope it is of the Lords mercy that we are not consumed because his Compassions fails not They are new every Morning great is his Faithfulness for the Lord will not cast us off for ever but tho' he cause Grief yet will he have Compassion according to the Multitude of his Mercies for he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the Children of Men 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 PSALM III. A PSALM of David when he fled from Absalom his Son Or the Security of God's Protection LORD how are they increased that trouble me Many are they that rise up against me 2. Many there be which say of my Soul There is no help for him in God Selah 3. But thou O Lord art a Shield for me my Glory and the lifter up of my Head 4. I cryed unto the Lord with my Voice and he heard me forth out of his holy Hill Selah 5. I laid me down and slept I awaked for the Lord sustained me 6. I will not be afraid of Ten Thousands of People that have set themselves against me round about 7. Arise O Lord save me O my God For thou hast smitten all mine Enemies upon the Cheek Bone Thou hast broken the Teeth of the ungodly 8. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord Thy Blessing is upon thy People Selah PSALM VII David prayeth against the Malice of his Enemies professing his Innocency 10. by Faith he seeth his Defence and the Destruction of his Enemies O Lord my God in thee do I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me 2. Lest he tear my Soul like a Lion renting it in pieces while there is none to deliver 3. O Lord my God if I have done this if there be Iniquity in my Hands 4. If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at Peace with me yea I have delivered him that without cause is mine Enemy 5. Let the Enemy persecute my Soul and take it yea let him tread down my Life upon the Earth and lay mine Honour in the Dust Selah 6. Arise 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 7. So shall the Congregation of the People compass thee about For their Sakes therefore return thou on high 8. The Lord shall judge the People Judge me O Lord according to my Righteousness and according to mine Integrity that is in me 9. Oh let the Wickedness of the wicked come to an end but establish the just For the Righteous God trieth the Hearts and Reins 10. My Defence is of God which saveth the upright in Heart 11. God judgeth the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every Day 12. If he turn he will whet his Sword He hath bent his Bow and made it ready 13. He hath also prepared for him the Instruments of Death he ordaineth his Arrows against the Persecutors 14. Behold he travelleth with Iniquity and hath conceived Mischief and brought forth Falshood 15. He made a Pit and digged it and is fallen into the Ditch which he made 16. His Mischief shall return upon his own Head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own Pate 17. I will praise the Lord according to his Righteousness and will sing Praise to the Name of the Lord most high PSALM XXVII 1. David sustaineth his Faith by the Power of God 4. By his Love to the Service of God 9. By Prayer THE Lord is my Light and my Salvation whom shall I fear The Lord is the Strength of my Life of whom shall I be afraid 2. When the Wicked even mine Enemies and my Foes came upon me to eat up my Flesh they stumbled and fell 3. Though an Host should encamp against me my Heart shall not fear though War should rise against me in this will I be confident 4. One Thing have
in which they were baptized nor the Tentations 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 Jesus sake That it may please thee to comfort and raise up those weak and dejected Spirits which are ready to sink under the burden of a troubled or affrighted Conscience that as thou hast shewed them their Sins and the Punishments due for them so thou wouldest shew them their Saviour and by directing them to lay hold upon his Cross keep them from a final and everlasting Shipwrack O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to hear the Groans and Cries of all 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 me for thy Son Jesus 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 Jesus 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 me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to forgive all who more particularly are Enemies to me or mine all that have any way traduced or slandered me even to turn their hearts and to extend thy Charity to them in all those degrees of mercy which I desire may be shown to my own Soul O hear me for thy Son Jesus 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 sits gloriously on thy right hand to intercede both for me and them O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake O Lord hear my Prayers and let my Cry come unto thee O Lord Pardon my Prayer and let not my Sins and my Unworthiness interpose between thy Mercy-seat and me Amen Amen A Prayer for the Church ALmighty and Everlasting God who only workest great marvels shew the Riches of thy Goodness to thy desolate and persecuted Church that now sits mourning in her own Dust and Ruins torn by Schism and stripped and spoiled by Sacrilege And thou who after long Captivity didst bring back thy People to rebuild their Temple look upon us with the same Eyes of mercy Restore us once again the publick Worship of thy Name the reverent Administrations of thy Sacraments raise up the former Government both in Church and State that we may no longer be without King without Priest without God in the World but may once more enter into thy Courts with Praise and serve thee with that Reverence that Unity and Order as may be acceptable in thy Sight through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the Queen Mother and the Royal Progeny ALmighty God the Fountain of all Goodness we humbly beseech thee to be gracious to the Queen Mother to comfort her in her sad Afflictions and to direct her Ways and Counsels as may conduce to the setling of her Posterity here in Peace enlarge thy Blessings on all the Branches of the Royal Family Those that are driven to fly for Refuge into Foreign Parts take them all into thy Care cover them under thy Wings and in thy due time make them so many Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the Afflicted O Lord God Merciful and Gracious the only Sanctuary and Refuge for those that are in Misery and Trouble hear I beseech thee the Groans and Cries of all that are afflicted outwardly or inwardly in Body or Mind especially such who suffer in a righteous Cause whose Loyalty hath been more dear unto them than their Fortunes and a good Conscience more than their Lives Consider them O God in their several Extremities whether at home or abroad comfort them in their Distresses supply them in their Wants Let the sorrowful sighing of all that are oppressed come before thee and by the greatness of thy Power preserve thou those that are appointed to dye Convert and soften the hard Hearts of their implacable Enemies and asswage their thirst of Blood which still cries more and more or if thou otherwise hast decreed to bring any more of us thro' the red Sea into the Land of Promise prepare us for this Passage and guide us by thy Blessed Spirit thro' the Shadows of Death continue our Christian Courage and Constancy to the utmost strengthen our Faith confirm our Hope and let our Charity overflow even to the forgiving of them by whose unjust Sentence we perish that so dying in thy Peace we may enter into the Joys prepared for us thro' the Mediation of our Saviour who hath gone the same way before us even Jesus Christ the Righteous Amen Psalm 10. Verse 1. Why standest thou so far off O Lord and hidest thy Face in the needful Time of Trouble Psalm 8. Verse 1 2 3. Lord how are they increased that trouble us many are they that rise up against us many there be that say of our Souls there is no Help for them in their God But thou O Lord art our Defender thou art our Worship and the Lifter up of our Head Jeremiah 10. Verse 24. Correct us O Lord and yet in thy Judgment not in thy Fury lest we should be consumed and brought to nothing Psalm 130. Verse 3. If thou wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it A Prayer O Thou most blessed Judge Eternal We the unworthiest and sinfullest of all the Children of Men that have so long abused and prophaned thy Mercies provoked thy Judgments unsheathed thy glittering Sword forced all the Arrows and Darts out of thy Quiver and with our multiply'd abominable crying Sins brought down a Desolation on a most pleasant Land that former delight of thine the Glory of all Lands We that after thy Wrath was poured out upon us have yet further encreased our Sins as thou hast increased the Weight and Number of thy Judgments on us and walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy Discipline and Visitations suffered all thy precious Methods of reducing us thy Admonitions and thy Stripes to be utterly lost and frustate amongst us And now the Axe is laid to the Root of the Tree and above all the Sword of Violence died with the Blood of thine Anointed among us and with that all the bloody Presages that we cannot without Horror but apprehend a final utter Vastation threatned to a long flourishing
bear a tyrannous hate against us Our Goods our Lands our Lives will not suffice their boundless Ambition Our Religion our Souls and if it were possible our God is that they strike at curse thou their Angers for it is fierce and their Wrath for it is cruel Divide them in Jacob 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 Holiness and Righteousness all the Days 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 be our Defence against all our Enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we which for our evil deeds are justly punished by the comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon our Infirmities and Miseries and in all our Dangers and Necessities stretch forth thy right Hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty God which art more ready to hear than we to pray and are wont to give more than either we desire or deserve pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy forgiving us those things whereof we are afraid and giving unto us that that our Prayers dare not presume to ask through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of January the Anniversary of England's Captivity and Tyrants Liberty O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most suitable to thy Justice and performest thy Pleasure always in such manner to us that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy ways be not equal we thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgment which as this Day befel us in thy permitting cruel Men Sons of Belial to execute their fury of their Rebellions upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their Hands in the Blood and Murder of the Lords Anointed that was drawn down by the great and long Provocations of this Nation sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinful wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this Days sore Vengeance the effect as well as the defect of our Impieties the work of our own Hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgment but our own most horrible Sin for which alone did not multitude 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 frightful Monuments of thine Indignation and Fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and merciful therefore it is that we are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to Repentance And now O Lord looking on this particular signal Judgment and thy last Trump warning us to flie 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 removal 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 Passion sake deliver this Nation from Blood-guiltiness 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 thy 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 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 acknowledge and receive joyfully the Heir of these three 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 Birth-light 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 longer 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 Fire-brand We beseech thee that this Day we may spread before thee the Words of Rabshekah the Proud railing and Scornful reproach 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 those that are peaceable and faithful 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 needful time of trouble But whatsoever is let us not behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian Humility run the race 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 unto our own Bosoms and that thou wilt make thy Judgments 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 well-doing we may commit our selves unto thee our God as unto a faithful Creator and that both our King and we may say with a Christian submission and cheerfulness It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good to whom we desire to ascribe Honour Praise Dominion and Thanksgiving now and for evermore Amen FINIS The Contents A Preparatory Prayer folio 3 King Davids prayer for the Church and People 4 King Davids second Prayer 5 King Davids third prayer ibid. King Davids fourth prayer 6 King Davids Tears 7 Jeremiahs Lamentations prophetical of these times ibid. Jeremiahs second prayer 8 Daniels prayer and confession in the behalf of himself and his people 9 The first prayer for the King 10 The second prayer for the King ibid. The third prayer for the King 11 Preparatory ejaculations precede the Litany 12 A Litany of intercession ibid. A prayer for the Church 16 A prayer for the Queen Mother and the Royal Progeny ibid. A prayer for the Afflicted 17 Certain Verses of several psalms ibid. A prayer 18 A Confession of sins 20 A prayer 25 An Absolution to be pronounced by the priest only ibid The Lords prayer 26 More prayers ibid. Psalms proper upon this occasion to be read viz. III folio 53. VII fol. 56. XXVII fol. 57. XLVI fol. 58 LXXXIII fol. 75. LXXXVI fol. 60. 28 The first Lesson proper upon this occasion is out of the 2 Book of Samuel XV Chapter folio 34 Another Lesson upon this occasion is in the 2 of Chronicles XIII Chapter fol. 37 More Lessons fitting this occasion viz. 2 Samuel 16 17 18 and 20. Chapters Numbers 16. Chap. Isai. 22. Amos. 4. Joel 2 and Ezekiel 9. Chapters Then shall priest and people repeat those sayings 39 Another prayer 40 Then shall the priest and people repeat those sayings 41 The second Lesson proper for this occasion is the 24 Chapter of St. Matthew 44 Then shall the priest and people repeat those sayings 47 Another prayer 49 A prayer for the Church ibid. More prayers 50 A proper prayer for the 30th of January being the Anniversary of Englands Captivity and Tyrants Liberty 53