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A36934	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.	Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing D2665A; ESTC R214611	91,180	390

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 ●…en the Cause that the Crown is th●… 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 expi●…e lay it not on the whole Nation for thou hast yet a remnant among Us who having neither hands nor ●…earts defiled with it do still mourn in secret and bewail the committing of that fact which heaven and earth ●…ors But if thy justice must be satisfied Let the thunder of it light upon their heads and theirs alone who ●…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 blasphe●…ie pretend thy Name and Glorie for all that they have done Lord in thy good time consider ●…is Consider not only what they ●…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 Th●… who art the Iudge of the W●… 〈◊〉 judge equally between hi●… 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