the vexation of our spirits and the Baruch 3. 1 2. anguish of our souls we cry unto thee hear Lord and have mercy For many troubles are come about us our Psal 40. 15. sins have taken such hold upon us that we are not able to look up For thine own sake and for thy holy Names Dan 9. 18 19. sake incline thine ear and hear oh merciful Lord. For we do not present our Supplications before 18. thee trusting in our own righteousness but in thy manifold and great mercies Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of Ps 79. 9. thy Name oh deliver us and be merciful unto our sins for thy Names sake So we that are thy people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will always be shewing forth thy Praise from Generation to Generation 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 ¶ Instead of the Psalms for the Day shall these proper Psalms be used VI. XXV LI. Domine ne Psal vj. O Lord rebuke me not in thine indignation neither chasten me in thy displeasure 2 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed 3 My soul also is sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me 4 Turn thee O Lord and deliver my soul O save me for thy mercies sake 5 For in death no man remembreth thee and who will give thee thanks in the pit 6 I am weary of my groaning every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my tears 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble and worn away because of all mine enemies 8 Away from me all ye that work vanity for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping 9 The Lord hath heard my petition the Lord will receive my prayer 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed they shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly Ad te Domine levavi Psal xxv UNto thee O Lord will I lift up my soul my God I have put my trust in thee O let me not be confounded neither let mine enemies triumph over me 2 For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed but such as transgress without a cause shall be put to confusion 3 Shew me thy ways O Lord and teach me thy paths 4 Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my salvation in thee hath been my hope all the day long 5 Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses which have been ever of old 6 Oh remember not the sins and offences of my youth but according to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodness 7 Gracious and righteous is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way 8 Them that are meek shall he guide in judgment and such as are gentle them shall he learn his way 9 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies 10 For thy names sake O Lord be merciful unto my sin for it is great 11 What man is he that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose 12 His soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the land 13 The secret of the Lord is among them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant 14 Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net 15 Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and in misery 16 The sorrows of my heart are inlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles 17 Look upon my adversity and misery and forgive me all my sin 18 Consider mine enemies how many they are and they bear a tyrannous hate against me 19 O keep my soul and deliver me let me not be confounded for I have put my trust in thee 20 Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me for my hope hath been in thee 21 Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles Miserere mei Deus Psal li. HAve mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences 2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin 3 For I knowledge my faults and my sin is ever before me 4 Against thee onely have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and clear when thou art judged 5 Behold I was shapen in wickedness and in sin hath my mother conceived me 6 But so thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly 7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter then snow 8 Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce 9 Turn thy face from my sins and put out all my misdeeds 10 Make me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me 11 Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me 12 O give me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free Spirit 13 Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto thee 14 Deliver me from bloud-guiltiness O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness 15 Thou shalt open my lips O Lord and my mouth shall shew thy praise 16 For thou desirest no sacrifice else would I give it thee but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings 17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise 18 O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the walls of Ierusalem 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness with the burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar The first Lesson appointed to be read is Isaiah l. or Isaiah lviij ¶ After the first Lesson shall follow Te Deum Laudamus in English WE praise thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee the Father everlasting To thee all Angels cry aloud the heavens and all the powers therein To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually do cry Holy holy holy Lord God of Saâ—aoth Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee The noble army of Martyrs praise thee The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee The Father of an infinite Majesty Thine honourable true and only Sâ—n. Also the holy Ghost the Comforter Thou art the
A FORM OF COMMON PRAYER For Gods Blessing upon His Majesty And His Dominions And for the Averting of Gods Judgments To be used upon Wednesday April the Tenth next ensuing in all Churches and Chappels within the Cities of London and Westminster the Suburbs and Liberties of the same AND Upon Wednesday the Four and twentieth of the same Moneth in all the rest of this His Majesties Kingdom of England the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed Set forth by His Majesties Authority LONDON Printed by John Bill Christopher Barker Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1678. The Order for Morning PRAYER ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and after them the Exhortation following REnt your heart and not your Joel 2. 13 garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil To the Lord our God belong Dan. 9. 9 10. mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Correct us O Lord but with iudgment not Jer. 10. 24 in thine anger lest thou bring us to nothing DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to cast our selves down at the throne of his heavenly Grace and to pour out our humble Supplications for the averting of his Iudgments and for the procuring of his Blessings upon our Sovereign and his Kingdoms to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and say the Lords Prayer the people also repeating it with him OVr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Ans And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus shall be said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and people O Come let us humble our selves and fall Psal 95. 6. down before the Lord with reverence and fear For he is the Lord our God and we are the people 7. of his pasture and the sheep of his hand Come therefore let us turn again unto our Hos 6. 1. Lord for he hath smitten us and he will heal us Let us search and try our wayes let us lift up our Lam. 3. 40 41. hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens Let us repent and turn from our wickedness Acts 3. and our sins shall be forgiven us Let us turn and the Lord will turn from his heavy Jonah 3. wrath he will pardon us and we shall not perish We acknowledge indeed that our punishments Joh 11. 6. Wisd 11. 23. are less than our deservings but yet of thy mercy O Lord correct us to amendment and plague us not to our destruction We have provoked thine anger thy wrath is waxed hot and thy heavy displeasure is sore kindled against us But thy hand is not shortned that thou canst Es 59. 1. not help neither is thy goodness abated that thou wilt not hear Thou hast promised O Lord that before we Es 65. 24. cry thou wilt hear us whilst we are yet speaking thou wilt have mercy upon us For none that trust in thee shall be confounded neither shall any that call upon thee be despised Our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee Ps 22. 4. and thou didst deliver them They called upon thee and were holpen they 5. put their trust in thee and were not confounded And now in
hadst turned our Captivities we soon return'd to Folly to our Vomit and to our wallowing in our former or greater Filthiness Though thy Plagues have been since upon us to high and dreadful Degrees we did not then as we ought look every Man into the Plague of our own Hearts nor return to him that smote us We went through Fire and Water but were not by that severe Discipline purified from our Dross or purg'd from our Pollutions Even while thou wert fighting for us against our Enemies abroad we were by our Sins at home fighting against Heaven against thee And now we are no more worthy to be called either thy Sons or thy Servants whom neither thy Fear hath driven nor thy Goodness led to Repentance It is of thy meer Mercies O Lord that we are not consumed thy unwearied unconquerable Patience that thou hast not long since given us over as incorrigible We adore the unsearchable Depths of thy infinite Goodness that we are still under thy Discipline We are ready here before thee meekly to kiss all the smarting Rods which we may justly fear thou now holdest over us beseeching thee by the Aids and Influence of thy Grace to make them effectual to our Correction and not to our Destruction In Mercy awaken our drowsy Consciences Soften and subdue our hard hearts into deep Contrition and Repentance Pardon the many great Offences of us thy Servants and the crying sins of the whole Nation Remove the Evils we now lie under Avert those Iudgments which we justly fear because we most justly deserve Vnite all our hearts in the Profession of the true Religion which thine own right hand hath planted and established amongst us and in a holy Conversation answerable thereunto To this end Pour out the richest of thy Blessings spiritual and temporal upon our gracious Sovereign that all his Counsels Resolutions and Endeavours may tend to and end in the Glory of thy great Name the Advancement of Piety and Iustice the Preservation of thy Church and the Security Peace and Prosperity of all Estates and Conditions of Men in these and all other his Dominions All which we humbly beg in the Name and through the Mediation of Iesus Christ thy Son our Saviour Amen ALmighty God who 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 Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the priest shall let them depart with this Blessing THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Iesus Christ our Lord and the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen The Order for Evening PRAYER ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and after them the Exhortation following REnt your heart and not your Joel 2. 13 garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil To the Lord our God belong Dan. 9. 9 10. mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Correct us O Lord but with iudgment not Jer. 10. 24 in thine anger lest thou bring us to nothing DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble not cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to cast our selves down at the throne of his heavenly Grace and to pour out our humble Supplications for the averting of his Iudgments and for the procuring of his Blessings upon our Sovereign and his Kingdoms to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and say the Lords Prayer the people also repeating it with him OVr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not