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Private forms of prayer, fitted for the late sad-times. Particularly, a form of prayer for the thirtieth of January, morning and evening. With additions. &c.; Private formes of prayer, fit for these sad times.
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Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.
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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 〈◊〉 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 Meckness Humility Charity and all other Christian Virtues according to the example of thine own Son suffering the sury 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 the blessed stepps of their holy Lives and Deaths we may also shew 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 An Aninversary Prayer for the Thirtieth of Ianuary O Most mightie God terrible in thy judgements and wonderfull in thy doings towards the Children of Men Who in thy heavie displeasure hast suffered this day that execrable thing to be done among Us which We cannot mention without horror nor remember without astonishment We thy poor afflicted Creatures 〈◊〉 dejected looks and bleeding hearts humblie confesse in the behalf of all the people of this wretched land that our crying sins have â—…en the Cause that the Crown is thâ—… fallen from our head and an innocent King given up to the rage of cruell and bloudie men But O Gracious God lay not the guilt of this bloud the shedding of which none but thy blood can expiâ—…e lay it not on the whole Nation for thou hast yet a remnant among Us who having neither hands nor â—…earts defiled with it do still mourn in secret and bewail the committing of that fact which heaven and earth â—…ors But if thy justice must be satisfied Let the thunder of it light upon their heads and theirs alone who â—…ot only contrived and acted so foul a murther but are as yet so far from being touched with any remorse or repentance for it that they justifie their sin and in an high blaspheâ—…ie pretend thy Name and Glorie for all that they have done Lord in thy good time consider â—…is Consider not only what they â—…ve done to that royall Martyr who 〈◊〉 raignes with thee in Glorie But with what eagernesse they have since pursued him To whom Thou hast given the Crown saying with those wicked Husbandmen This is the Heir let us kill him that the Inheritance may be Ours But O mercifull God let not this wicked imagination of theirs ever take effect but set thy watchfull Providence as a continual fence about him shew some token on him for good even now O Lord when they have swallowed him up in the pride of their strength and think they have made their hill so strong that thy can never be moved This is thine hour O Lord this is thy time Now shew thy self O Thâ—… who art the Iudge of the Wâ—… 〈◊〉 judge equally between hiâ—… and those sons of Belial Thou seest thy Church is laid waste thy People oppressed thine Anointed cast out as an unprofitable Branch his Armies overthrown 〈◊〉 Friends ruined his Enemies mighty his Hope 's vanished and all human remedies consumed But Thou art the same God that fittest between the Cherubims be the Earth never so unquiet Hear Us therefore in the midst of our confusions Restore to Us the light of our eyes the King whom thou hast given Us. Be from henceforth his Guide and his Counsel and his mighty Deliverer and never leave him till Thou hast made the Stone which those Builders have set at nought the head-stone of the Corner That We may evermore rejoyce in the felicitie of thy Chosen and falling down before thine Altars give thanks to Thee in the great Congregation Grant this O God for his sake that pleads for Us even Iesus Christ the righteous Amen Prayers OF Intercession FOR The use of such as Mourn in Secret for the Publike Calamities of these Nations London Printed by Tho. Mabb 1660. Lessons appointed to be read on this Occasion Psalm 80. 90. 102. Nehem. 9. 2 Chron. 13. Judges 9. Ezra 9. 2. Sam. 15. 16. 17. 18. 20. Ezek. 9. 22. Numb 16. Isaiah 22. Rom. 13. Amos 4. Iames 5. 1 Pet. 2. Joel 2. 1 Thes. 5. A Preparatory Prayer O Lord I find in that Book of thine which cannot deceive me That the oftner thy servant Abraham prayed 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 Faithfull 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 intercede may make thee look upon me as thine Enemy He prayed to Thee for a People of whose sins he was not Partaker But my address is to Thee for them in whose iniquities I am involved have some way or other deeply contributed to the hastning and bringing down those terrible Judgements of Thine which now lie so heavie on us So that alas I am unworthy to appear before Thee for My self and how shall I then dare to supplicate Thee for Others O that there were a Moses to stand in the Gap to turn away thy wrathfull Indignation from us O that there were a David a Daniel a Ieremy to pour out their souls before Thee Yet hear Me O my God For though these Holy Saints 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 I. King David's Prayer for the Church and People
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