all angels crye alowde the heauens and al the powers therein To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually do crye Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heauen earth are full of the maiestie of thy glory The glorious company of the Apostles prayse thee The goodly felowship of the prophets prayse thee The noble armie of martyrs prayse thee The holy Church throughout all the worlde doeth knowledge thee The father of an infinite maiestie Thy honorable true and onely sonne Also the holy ghost the comforter Thou art the King of glory O Christ Thou art the euerlasting sonne of the father When thou tookest vpon thee to deliuer man thou diddest not abhorre the Virgins wombe When thou haddest ouercome the sharpenes of death thou diddest open the kingdome of heauen to all beleeuers Thou sittest on the right hand of God in the glorie of the father We beleeue that thou shalt come to be our Iudge We therfore pray thee helpe thy seruants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud Make them to be numbred with thy saints in glory euerlasting O Lord saue thy people blesse thine heritage Gouerne them and lift them vp for euer Day by day we magnifie thee And we worship thy name euer world without ende Vouchsafe O Lord to keepe vs this day without sinne O Lord haue mercy vpō vs haue mercy vpō vs. O Lorde let thy mercy lighten vpon vs as our trust is in thee O Lorde in thee haue I trusted let me neuer be confounded The second Lesson taken out of the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romanes the xiii Chapter LEt euery soule be subiect vnto the higher powers for there is no power but of God and the powers that be are ordeyned of God Whosoeuer therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shal receiue to themselues iudgement For Princes are not to be feared for good workes but for euil Wilt thou then be without feare of the power do wel so shalt thou haue prayse of the same For he is the minister of God for thy wealth but if thou doe euil feare for he beareth not the sworde for nought for he is the minister of God to take vengeance on him that doeth euill Wherefore ye must bee subiect not because of wrath onely but also for conscience sake For for this cause ye pay also tribute for they are Gods ministers applying themselues for the same thing Giue to all men therefore their duetie tribute to whom ye owe tribute custome to whom custome feare to whom feare honour to whom ye owe honour Owe nothing to any man but to loue one another for he that loueth another hath fulfilled the Lawe For this Thou shalt not commit adulterie Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steale Thou shalt not beare false witnes Thou shalt not couet and if there be any other commaundement it is briefly cōprehended in this saying euen in this Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Loue doth not euill to his neighbour therefore is loue the fulfilling of the Lawe And that considering the season that it is nowe time that we shoulde arise from sleepe for nowe is our saluation neerer then when we beleeued it The night is past and the day is at hand let vs therefore cast away the workes of darkenesse and let vs put on the armour of light So that we walke honestly as in the day not in gluttonie and drunkennesse neither in chambering and wantonnes nor in strife and enuying But put ye on the Lord Iesus Christ and take no thought for the flesh to fulfill the lustes of it Or the C. Psalme O Be ioyfull in the Lord all ye landes serue the Lord with gladnes and come before his presence with a song Be ye sure that the Lorde he is God it is he that hath made vs and not we our selues we are his people and the sheepe of his pasture O goe your way into his gates with thankesgiuing and into his courtes with prayse be thankfull vnto him and speake good of his name For the Lorde is gracious his mercie is euerlasting and his trueth endureth from generation to generation Glory be to the father c. As it was in the beginning c. I Beleeue in God the father almightie maker of heauen and earth And in Iesus Christ his onelie sonne our Lorde which was conceyued by the holy ghost borne of the virgine Marie suffered vnder Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried hee descended into hell the thirde daye he rose againe from the dead he ascended into heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God the father almightie from thence shal he come to iudge the quicke the dead I beleeue in the holy ghost the holy Catholike Church the communion of saints the forgiuenesse of sinnes the resurrection of the body and the life euerlasting Amen And after that these prayers following aswell at Euening prayer as at Morning prayer all deuoutly kneeling The Minister first pronouncing with a loude voyce The Lord be with you People And with thy spirit Minister Let vs pray Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Our father which art in heauen c. Minister O Lord shewe thy mercy vpon vs. People And graunt vs thy saluation Minister O Lord saue the Queene People Who putteth her trust in thee Minister Sende her helpe from thy holy place People And euermore mightily defende her Minister Let the enemies haue none aduantage on her People Let not the wicked approche to hurt her Minister Indue thy ministers with righteousnes People And make thy chosen people ioyfull Minister O Lord saue thy people People And blesse thine inheritance Minister Giue peace in our time O Lord. People Because there is none other that fighteth for vs but onely thou O God Minister O God make cleane our hearts within vs. People And take not thy holy spirite from vs. A prayer for the Queenes Maiestie O Lorde our heauenly father high and mightie King of kings Lorde of lordes the onely ruler of Princes which doest from thy throne beholde all the dwellers vpon the earth most hartily we beseech thee with thy fauour to behold our most gracious soueraigne Ladie Queene Elizabeth and so replenish her with the grace of thy holy spirit that she may alway incline to thy will and walke in thy way indue her plentifully with heauenly giftes graunt her in health wealth long to liue strength her that she may vanquish and ouercome all her enemies and finally after this life she may attayne euerlasting ioye and felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen The second Collect for peace O God which art authour of peace and louer of concorde in knowledge of whome standeth our eternall life whose seruice is perfite freedome defende vs thy humble seruants in al assaults of our enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not feare the power of any aduersaries through the might
HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE FIDES HVMILITAS A fourme of prayer with thankes giuing to be vsed of all the Queenes Maiesties louing subiects euery yeere the 17. of Nouember being the daye of her Highnesse entry to her kingdome Set forth by authoritie Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker printer to the Queenes Maiestie Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis An order for morning prayer to be vsed the 17. of Nouember 1. Tim. 2. vers 1. I Exhort you therefore that first of all prayers supplications intercessions and giuing of thankes be made for all men for Princes and for all that are in authority that we may liue a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie for that is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour ¶ You shall vnderstande that euery thing in this booke is placed in order as it shall be vsed without turning to and fro sauing the three lessons taken out of the olde Testament of which you may chuse any one as you thinke best for the first lesson at this morning prayer And in Cathedrall Churches the minister may vse eyther of the other two for the first lesson at euening prayer ¶ First the Minister shall with a loude voyce pronounce some one of these three sentences as in the booke of common prayer Ezech. 18 AT what time soeuer a sinner doeth repent him of his sinne from the bottome of his heart I will put all his wickednesse out of my remembrance saith the Lord. Ioel. 2. Rent your heartes and not your garmentes and turne to the Lord your God because he is gentle and merciful he is pacient and of much mercy and such a one that is sorie for your afflictions If we say that we haue no sinne we deceiue our selues and there is no trueth in vs. DEarely beloued brethren the scripture moueth vs in sundrie places to acknowledge and confesse our manifolde sinnes and wickednes and that we shoulde not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of almightie God our heauenly father but confesse thē with an humble lowly penitent obedient heart to the end that we may obtaine forgiuenesse of the same by his infinite goodnesse and mercie And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sinnes before God yet ought wee most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meete together to render thankes for the great benefits that we haue receiued at his handes to set forth his most worthy prayse to heare his most holy worde and to aske those thinges which be requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soule Wherefore I pray beseech you as many as be here present to accompany me with a pure heart humble voyce vnto the throne of the heauenly grace saying after me A generall confession to be said of the whole congregation after the Minister kneeling ALmightie and most mercifull father we haue erred strayed from thy waies like lost sheepe we haue folowed too much the deuices and desires of our owne hearts We haue offended against thy holy Lawes We haue left vndone those things which we ought to haue done and wee haue done those things which we ought not to haue done and there is no helth in vs but thou O Lord haue mercy vpon vs miserable offenders Spare thou them O GOD which confesse their faultes restore thou them that be penitent according to thy promises declared vnto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord. And graunt O most mercifull father for his sake that we may hereafter liue a godly righteous and sober life to the glorie of thy holy name Amen The absolution to be pronounced by the Minister alone ALmightie God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ which desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turne from his wickednesse and liue and hath giuen power commaundement to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sinnes he pardoneth absolueth all them which truely repent and vnfaynedly beleeue his holy Gospel Wherefore we beseech him to graunt vs true repentance his holy spirite that those thinges may please him which we doe at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holye so that at the last we way come to his eternall ioye through Iesus Christ our Lord. The people shall answere Amen Then shall the Minister begin the Lordes prayer with a lowde voyce OVr father which art in heauen halowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heauen Giue vs this day our dayly bread And forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. And leade vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euill Amen Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lippes Answere And our mouth shall shew forth thy prayse Minister O God make speede to saue vs. Answere O Lord make haste to helpe vs. Minister Glorie be to the father c. As it was in the beginning c. Prayse ye the Lorde Then shal be sayd or sung this Psalme following O Come let vs sing vnto the Lord let vs heartily reioyce in the strength of our saluation Let vs come before his presence with thākesgiuing and shewe our selues glad in him with Psalmes For the Lorde is a great God and a great king aboue all gods In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hilles is his also The sea is his and he made it and his hands prepared the drie land O come let vs worship and fall downe kneele before the Lorde our maker For he is the Lorde our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheepe of his hands To day if ye will heare his voyce harden not your hearts as in the prouocation and as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse When your fathers tempted mee proued me and sawe my workes Fourtie yeeres long was I grieued with this generation and sayd It is a people that do erre in their hearts for they haue not knowne my waies Vnto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest Glorie be to the father c. As it was in the beginning c. Domine in virtute Psalm 21. THe King shall reioyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall he be of thy saluation Thou hast giuen him his hearts desire and hast not denied him the request of his lippes For thou shalt preuent him with the blessings of goodnes and shalt set a crowne of pure golde vpon his head He asked life of thee and thou gauest him a long life euen for euer and euer His honour is great in thy saluation glory and great worship shalt thou lay vpon him For thou shalt giue him euerlasting felicitie and make him glad with the ioy of thy countenance And why because the King
of Iesus Christ our Lorde Amen The third Collect for grace O Lorde our heauenly father almightie euerlasting God which hast safely brought vs to the beginning of this day defende vs in the same with thy mightie power grant that this day we fal into no sinne neither runne into any kinde of danger but that al our doings may be ordred by thy gouernance to doe alwaies that is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen It is ordered that the Letanie shall not be omitted the seuenteenth day of Nouember though it fall vpon Munday Tuesday Thursday or Saterday O God the father of heauen haue mercie vpon vs miserable sinners O God the father of heauen c. O God the sonne redeemer of the world haue mercie vpon vs miserable sinners O God the sonne redeemer of the world c. O God the holy ghost proceeding from the father and the sonne haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the holy ghost proceeding c. O holy blessed and glorious trinitie three persons and one God haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinitie c. Remember not Lorde our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neyther take thou vengeance of our sinnes spare vs good Lorde spare thy people whome thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lorde From all euill and mischiefe from sinne from the craftes and assaultes of the deuill from thy wrath and from euerlasting damnation Good Lord deliuer vs. From all blindnesse of heart from pride vayne glory and hypocrisie from enuie hatred and malice and all vncharitablenesse Good Lord deliuer vs. From fornication and all other deadly sinne and from all the deceites of the world the flesh and the deuill Good Lord deliuer vs. From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battell and murder and from sodaine death Good Lord deliuer vs. From all sedition and priuie conspiracie from all false doctrine and herisie from hardnesse of heart and contempt of thy worde and commaundement Good Lord deliuer vs. By the mysterie of thy holy incarnation by thy holy natiuitie and circumcision by thy baptisme fasting and temptation Good Lord deliuer vs. By thine agonie and blooddy sweate by thy crosse and passion by thy precious death and buriall by thy glorious resurrection and ascension and by the comming of the holy ghost Good Lord deliuer vs. In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the houre of death and in the day of iudgement Good Lord deliuer vs. We sinners doe beseech thee to heare vs O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and gouerne thy holy Church vniuersally in the right way We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to keepe and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy seruant Elizabeth our most gratious Queene and gouernour VVe beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to rule her heart in thy fayth feare and loue and that she may alwaies haue affiance in thee and euer seeke thy honour and glory VVe beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to be her defender and keeper giuing her the victorie ouer all her enemies We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to illuminate al Byshops Pastours and Ministers of the Church with true knowledge and vnderstanding of thy worde and that both by their preaching and liuing they may set it forth and shewe it accordingly We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to endue the Lordes of the counsaile and all the nobilitie with grace wisedome and vnderstanding We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to blesse and keepe the Magistrates giuing them grace to execute iustice and to mayntaine trueth We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to blesse and keepe all thy people We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to giue to all nations vnitie peace and concorde We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to giue vs an heart to loue and dreade thee and diligently to liue after thy commandements We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to giue to al thy people encrease of grace to heare meekely thy word and to receiue it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruites of the spirite We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to bring into the way of trueth all such as haue erred and are deceiued We beseech thee to heare c. That it maye please thee to strengthen suche as doo stande and to comforte and helpe the weake hearted and to rayse vppe them that fall and fynallie to beate downe Satan vnder our feete We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to succour helpe and comfort all that be in danger necessitie and tribulation We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to preserue all that trauaile by lande or by water all women labouring of childe all sicke persons and yong children and to shew thy pitie vpon all prisoners and captiues We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to defende and prouide for the fatherlesse children and widowes and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to haue mercy vpon all men We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to forgiue our enemies persecutours slanderers and to turne their hearts We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to giue preserue to our vse the kindely fruites of the earth so as in due time we may enioy them We beseech thee to heare c. That it may please thee to giue vs true repentance to forgiue vs all our sinnes negligences and ignorances and to endue vs with the grace of thy holy spirite to amende our liues according to thy holie word We beseech thee to heare c. Sonne of God we beseech thee to heare vs. Sonne of God we beseech thee to heare vs. O lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Graunt vs thy peace O lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Haue mercie vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lord haue mercie vpon vs. Lord haue mercie vpon vs. Christ haue mercie vpon vs. Christ haue mercie vpon vs. Lord haue mercie vpon vs. Lord haue mercie vpon vs. Our father which art in heauen c. And lead vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euil Amen The versicle O Lorde deale not with vs after our sinnes The answere Neither rewarde vs after our iniquities Let vs pray O God mercifull father that despisest not the sighing
liue and Hezekia turned his face to the wall and prayed vnto the Lorde saying verse 3 I beseeche thee O Lord remember nowe how I haue walked before thee in trueth with a perfect heart haue done that which is good in thy sight and Hezekia wept sore verse 4 And afore Isai was gone out into the middle of the court the worde of the Lord came to him saying verse 5 Turne againe and tell Hezekia the captaine of my people Thus sayeth the Lorde God of Dauid thy father I haue heard thy prayer and seene thy teares and beholde I will heale thee so that on the thirde daye thou shall goe vp to the house of the Lorde verse 6 And I will adde vnto thy dayes yet fifteene yeeres and I will deliuer thee and this citie out of the hand of the king of Assyria and wil defend this citie for mine owne sake and for Dauid my seruants sake verse 7 And Esai saide Take a lumpe of dried figs they tooke and laid it on the sore and he recouered and had exceeding much honour and riches Or this may be the first Lesson The summe of the historie of king Iosia taken out of the fourth booke of the Kings the 22. and 23. Chapters and the 2. of the Chronicles the 34. Chapter 2. Chronic. Cha. 34. vers 1.2 a IOsia raigned in Hierusalem he did that which was right in the sight of the Lorde and walked in the wayes of Dauid his father and bowed neither to the right hande nor to the left verse 3 In the eyght yere of his raigne when he was yet a childe he began to seeke after the God of Dauid his father and in the twelfth yeere he began to purge Iuda and Hierusalem from the high places groues carued images and images of metall verse 4 And they brake downe the altars of Baalim euen in his presence and other images that were in greater honour then they he caused to be destroyed and the groues carued images and images of metall he brake and made dust of them and strawed it vpon the graues of them that had offred to them And he burnt the bones of the Priestes vpon the altars of them verse 5 and clensed Iuda Hierusalem And in the eyghteenth yeere of his raigne 4. Reg. 22. chap vers 3.4 a. when hee had purged the lande the temple he sent Saphan the Scribe to Helkia the high Priest that he shoulde see the decayed places of the temple repaired with such money as the keepers of the porche of the house of the Lord had gathered of the people verse a. 5. 6. And Helkia verse B. 8. 9. 10. as he was about the kinges commaundement found in the temple the booke of the lawe of the Lord and deliuered it vnto Saphan who brought it vnto the king and read in it before him verse 11. 12. When the king had heard the wordes of the booke of the lawe he rent his clothes commaunded Helkia the priest with certaine others saying Goe ye and enquire of the Lorde for me and for the people and for all Iuda verse 13 concerning the wordes of the booke that is founde for great is the wrath of the Lorde that is kindled against vs because our fathers haue not hearkened to the wordes of this booke to do according to all that which is written therein for vs. So Helkia the high Priest verse 14 with others went vnto Hulda the Prophetisse and they communed with her And shee answered them verse 15 Thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel Tell the man that sent you to me Thus sayth the Lorde Behold verse 16 I will bring euill vpon this place and on the inhabiters thereof euen all the woordes of the booke which the king of Iuda hath read verse 17 because they haue forsaken me and haue burnt incense to other gods to anger me with al the workes of their hands my wrath therefore is kindled agaynst this place and shal not be quenched But to the king of Iuda verse 18 which sent you to aske counsell of the Lord so shall ye say Thus saith the Lord God of Israel verse 19 Because thine heart did melte and because thou hast humbled thy selfe before the Lorde when thou heardest what I spake against this place against the inhabiters of the same howe that they shoulde be destroyed and accursed and hast rent thy clothes and wept before me that I also haue heard sayeth the Lorde verse 20 Beholde therefore I will receiue thee vnto thy fathers and thou shalt be put into thy graue in peace and thine eyes shal not see all the euill which I wil bring vpon this place And they brought the king worde againe 4. Reg. cha 23. vers 1. a. And then the king sent and there gathered together vnto him all the Elders of Iuda and of Hierusalem verse 2 And the king went vp into the house of the Lord with al the men of Iuda and al the inhabiters of Hierusalem with the Priestes and Prophets and all the people both small and great and hee read in the eares of them all the wordes of the booke of the couenant which was found in the house of the Lorde verse 3 And the king stoode by a piller and made a couenant before the Lord that they should walke after the Lord and keepe his commaundementes his witnesses and his statutes with all their heart and with all their soule and make good the wordes of the said couenant that were written in the foresaide booke and al the people consented to the couenant verse 4 And the King commaunded Helkia the high Priest and the inferior Priestes and the keepers of the ornaments to bring out of the temple of the Lorde all the vessels that were made for Baal for the groues and for all the hoast of heauen and he burnt them without Hierusalem in the fieldes of Cedron and caried the ashes of them into Bethel verse 5 And he put downe the Priestes of Baal whom the kings of Iuda had founded to burne incense in the high places and cities of Iuda that were round about Hierusalem and also them that burnt incense vnto Baal to the Sunne to the Moone to the Planets to al the hoast of heauen And moreouer all workers with spirits verse 24 and soothsayers images idoles and all the abominations that were spyed in the lande of Iuda and in Hierusalem these did Iosia put out of the way to perfourme the wordes of the lawe which were written in the booke that Helkia the Priest found in the house of the Lorde verse 25 Like vnto him was there no king before him that turned to the Lorde with all his heart with al his soule al his might according to all the lawe of Moses neyther after him arose there any such as he Te Deum WE praise thee O God we knowledge thee to be the Lorde All the earth doth worship thee the father euerlasting To thee