man 9 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in princes 10 All nations compassed me round about but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 11 They kept me in on every side they kept me in I say on every side but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 12 They came about me like bees and are extinct even as the fire among the thorns for in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord was my help 14 The Lord is my strength and my song and is become my salvation 15 The voice of ioy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe 16 The right hand of the Lord hath the preeminence the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe 17 I will not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord hath chastened and corrected me but he hath not given me over unto death 19 Open me the gates of righteousnesse that I may go into them and give thanks unto the Lord 20 This is the gate of the Lord the righteous shall inter into it 21 I will thank thee for thou hast heard me and art become my salvation 22 The same stone which the builders refused is become the head stone in the corner 23 This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made we will reioyce and be glad in it 25 Help me now O Lord O Lord send us now prosperity 26 Blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord we have wished you good luck ye that be of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord which hath shewed us light binde the sacrifice with cords yea even unto the horns of the altar 28 Thou art my God and I will thank thee thou art my God and I will praise thee 29 O give thanks unto the Lord for he is gratious and his mercy endureth for ever The Prayer O Most Gracious Lord our strength our song thou art become our salvation thy mercy endureth for ever be thou on our side take part with them that help us let the voyce of joy and health be within our dwellings and when thou chastenest and correctest us for our sinnes give us not over unto death but fix our faith and hopes upon the head stone in the corner even our Lord Iesus Christ that in all the assaults made against us by our ghostly enemies the right hand of the Lord may have the preeminence and bring mighty things to passe even victory and deliverance unto thy servants that we putting no confidence in the best of men may trust in thee O Lord till at last when thou openest the everlasting gates of righteousnesse we may enter in and give thee thankes and praise through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 119. A prayer for religion zeale love of the law of God and meditation in it EVENING PRAYER BLessed are those that are undefiled in the way and walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies and seek him with their whole heart 3 For they which do no wickednesse walk in his waies 4 Thou hast charged that we shall diligently keep thy commandments 5 O that my waies were made so direct that I might keep thy statutes 6 So shall I not be confounded while I have respect unto all thy commandments 7 I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart when I shall have learned the iudgements of thy righteousnesse 8 I will keep thy ceremonies O forsake me not utterly The Prayer O Blessed Lord God whose words are light and life to the obedient and believing soule let thy grace so purifie our hearts and actions that we may be undefiled in thy way keeping thy testimonies and seeking thee with our whole heart that our waies being made direct without wandring into by-paths we may go into our country the land of eternall glorious promises through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. VVHere withall shall a young man clense his way even by ruling himself after thy word 2 With my whole heart have I sought thee O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments 3 Thy words have I hid within my heart that I should not sinne against thee 4 Blessed art thou O Lord O teach me thy statutes 5 With my lips have I been telling of all the iudgements of thy mouth 6 I have had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies as in all manner of riches 7 I will talk of thy commandments and have respect unto thy waies 8 My delight shall be in thy statutes and I will not forget thy word The Prayer GRant O Lord that our affections and endeavours be not divided between thee and the world but that we may seek thee with our whole heart clensing our waies from all impurity giving to thy service our youth and more perfect age even all our dayes and all our powers taking more delight in the way of thy testimonies then in all manner of riches and fading pleasures that we delighting in thee and the waies that lead to thee may be beloved of thee with an eternall love through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen III. O Do well unto thy servant that I may live and keep thy word 2 Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wonderous things of thy law 3 I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy commandments from me 4 My soul breaketh out for the very servent desire that it hath alway unto thy iudgements 5 Thou hast rebuked the proud and cursed are they that do erre from thy commandments 6 O turn from me shame and rebuke for I have kept thy testimonies 7 Princes also did sit and speak against me but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes 8 For thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellers The Prayer O Lord God our Father and our Guardian we are strangers upon the earth farre removed from our country and we are in darknesse and walke in the shadow of death let not this darknesse seize upon our soules hide not thy commandements from us but open our eyes with the light of thy holy Spirit that we may see the wondrous things of thy law and admire thy glories and adore thy might and obey all thy righteous precepts and although our hearts be already enkindled with the love of thy law yet make our desires to serve thee more fervent that our lukewarmnesse may arise up to the flames and ardors of a Cherubim that while we are busied in thy statutes making them our delight and our counsellors shame and rebuke may alwayes be turned frō us and we ever reioyce with hope and confidence in thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen IV. MY soule cleaveth to the dust O
out of trouble 12 And of thy goodnesse slay mine enemies and destroy all them that vex my soul for I am thy servant The Prayer O Lord our Iudge and our redeemer hearken unto us for thy truth and righteousnesse sake deliver us from the guilt of all our sinnes and those great punishments which are due to us for the same Enter not into judgement with us for in thy sight no man can be justified by any worthinesse of his own Endue our soules with the righteousnesse of a holy faith living and working by charity Shew us the way that we should walke in teach us to do whatsoever pleaseth thee quicken our soules in the paths of life and so continue the conduct of thy spirit to us that it may never leave us till we be brought forth of this world into the land of righteousnesse to dwell with thee eternally through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 144. A thanksgiving for victory and a prayer for the blessings of Peace MORNING PRAYER BLessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight 2 My hope and my fortresse my castle and deliverer my defender in whom I trust which subdueth my people that is under me 3 Lord what is man that thou hast such respect unto him or the sonne of man that thou so regardest him 4 Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth away like a shadow 5 Bowe the heavens O Lord and come down touch the mountains and they shall smoke 6 Cast forth thy lightning and teare them shoot out thine arrows and consume them 7 Send down thy hand from above deliuer me and take me out of the great waters from the hand of strange children 8 Whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of wickednesse 9 I will sing a new song unto thee O God and sing praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed â—ute 10 Thou hast given victory unto kings and hast delivered David thy servant from the perill of the sword 11 Save me and deliver me from the hand of strange children whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity 12 That our sonnes may grow up as the young plants and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple 13 That our garners may be full and plentious with all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no decay no â—eading into captivity and no complaining in our streets 15 Happy are the people that be in such a case yea blessed are the people which have the Lord for their God The Prayer O Lord our strength our hope and â—ortresse our castle and deliverer our defender in whom we trust bowe the heavens O Lord come down and save us send down thine hand from above deliver us and take us from the great waters from those miseries and afflictions which come upon us by reason of our sinnes from the condition of mortality and from the hand of strange children whose right hand is a right hand of wickednesse Give us O Lord victory and peace and all the blessings of thy peace with which thou usest to adorne beautifie the dwellings of the righteous that we may be happy in the continuall descent of thy favours but above all our happinesse may consist in being thy people and thou being our God that we may be blessed for ever in so blessed a relation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 145. A Meditation of the glory and Maiesty of God and the mightinesse of his kingdome I Will magnifie thee O God my King and I will praise thy name for ever and ever 2 Every day will I give thanks unto thee and praise thy name for ever and ever 3 Great is the Lord and marvellous worthy to be praised there is no end of his greatnesse 4 One generation shall praise thy works unto another and declare thy power 5 As for me I will be talking of thy worship thy glory thy praise and wonderous works 6 So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvellons acts and I will also tell of thy greatnesse 7 The memoriall of thine abundant kindnesse shall be shewed and men shall sing of thy righteousnesse 8 The Lord is gracious and mercifull long-suffering and of great goodnesse 9 The Lord is loving unto every man and his mercy is over all his works 10 All thy works praise thee O Lord and thy saints give thanks unto thee 11 They shew the glory of thy Kingdome and talk of thy power 12 That thy power thy glory and mightinesse of thy Kingdome might be known unto men 13 Thy kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages 14 The Lord upholdeth all such as fall and lifteth up all those that be down 15 The eies of all wait upon thee O Lord and thou givest them their meat in due season 16 Thou openest thine hand and fillest all things living with plenteousnesse 17 The Lord is righteous in all his waies and holy in all his works 18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him yea all such as call upon him faithfully 19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will help them 20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him but scattereth abroad all the ungodly 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy name for ever and ever The Prayer O God our King thou art marvellous worthy to be praised and there is no end of thy greatnesse give us enlarged and sanctified hearts and lips that we may sing of thy righteousnesse magnifie thy glory thy worship and wondrous works All thy works praise thee O Lord and thy saints give thanks unto thee Make us holy and righteous in thy sight we are already the works of thine hands and then we have a double title to praise thee Vphold us O Lord that we fall not and lift us up when we are down give us meat in due season for our soules and for our bodies that we being filled with the plenteousnesse of thy mercies here may have our best and all our desires fulfilled and satisfied hereafter amongst such as fear thee and give thanks unto thy holy name for ever Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake to whom with thee O Father and the holy spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 146. A Prayer that we may trust in God only and not in an arme of flesh PRaise the Lord O my soul while I live will I praise the Lord yea as long as I have any being I will sing praises unto my God 2 O put not your trust in princes nor in any child of man for there is no help in them 3
and reioyceth as a giant to run his course 6 It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven and runneth about unto the end of it again and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof 7 The law of the Lord is an undefiled law converting the soul the testimonie of the Lord is sure and giveth wisdome unto the simple 8 The statutes of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure and giveth light unto the eyes 9 The feare of the Lord is clean and endureth for ever the iudgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether 10 More to be desired are they then gold yea then much fine gold sweeter also then hony the hony combe 11 Moreover by them is thy servant taught and in keeping of them there is great reward 12 Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou me from my secret faults 13 Keep thy servant also from presumptuous sinnes least they get the dominion over me so shall I be undefiled and innocent from the great offence 14 Let the words of my mouth the meditation of my heart be alway acceptable in thy sight 15 O Lord my strength and my redeemer The Prayer O Most blessed Iesu thou sonne of righteousnesse who camest forth from the bosome of thy Eternall Father as a Bridegroom out of his chamber be pleased to plant in our hearts the feare of the Lord and in our bodies the purity and cleanesse of chastity and make them to abide there for ever Lighten our eyes with the light of thy Gospell and the bright revelation of thy whole will and pleasure that so being guided by thy grace we may be cleansed from all our secret sinnes and preserved from presumptuous and great offences so shall the thoughts and meditation of our heart the words of our mouth and all our actions be alway acceptable in thy sight O Lord our Saviour our strength and our redeemer Iesus Amen PSALME 20. A Prayer that God would heare our petitions which we make to him in times of trouble THe Lord heare thee in the day of trouble the name of the God of Iacob defend thee 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Sion 3 Remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt-sacrifice 4 Grant thee thy hearts desire and fullfill all thy minde 5 We will reioyce in thy salvation and triumph in the name of the Lord our GOD the Lord perform all thy petitions 6 Now know I that the Lord helpeth his anointed and will heare him from his holy heaven even with the wholsome strength of his right hand 7 Some put their trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God 8 They are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright 9 Save Lord heare us O King of heaven when we call upon thee The Prayer O King of heaven who art the health and strength of our right hand have mercy upon us and heare us when we call upon thee let our prayers come into thy presence like a burnt offering of a sweet savour for in all our troubles we disclaim all confidences in any of thy creatures and remember thy name only O Lord our God Teach us what to aske and how to come into thy presence that we may never begge of thee any thing but what is agreeable to thy will and may then promote thy glory when thou suppliest our necessities through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 21. A Prayer for the King THe King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation 2 Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not denied him the request of his lips 3 For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodnesse and shalt set a Crowne of pure gold upon his head 4 He asked life of thee and thou gavest him a long life even for ever and ever 5 His honour is great in thy salvation glory and great worship shalt thou lay upon him 6 For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance 7 And why because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercy of the most Highest he shall not miscarry 8 All thine enemies shall feel thine hand thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee 9 Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of thy wrath the Lord shall destroy them in his displeasure and the fire shall consume them 10 Their fruit shalt thou root out of the earth and their seed from among the children of men 11 For they intended mischiefe against thee and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform 12 Therefore shalt thou put them to flight and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them 13 Be thou exalted Lord in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power The Prayer O Eternall God King of Kings and Lord of Lords have mercy upon thy servant the King as thou hast set a Crowne of gold upon his head and given him power and command to rule thy people with justice and piety so doe thou heare the request of his lipps grant him the desire of his heart and prevent both his desires and requests with the blessings of thy goodnesse give him great honour and Reverence in the sight of his People and of all the Nations round about let all his enemies feele thine hand and put them to flight that arise up against him that when thou hast given him the blessings of a long life and prosperous and made him glad with the joy of thy countenance at last he may be crown'd with everlasting felicity and reigne with thee in thy eternall Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 22. A meditation upon the Passion of our Blessed Saviour EVENING PRAYER MY God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so farre from my health and from the words of my complaint 2 O my God I cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season also I take no rest 3 And thou continuest holy O thou worship of Israel 4 Our fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them 5 They called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded 6 But as for mee I am a Worm and no man a very scorn of men and the outcast of the people 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorne they shoot out their lips and shake their heads saying 8 He trusted in God that he would deliver him let him deliver him if he will have him 9 But thou art he that took me out of my mothers wombe thou wast my hope when I hanged yet upon my mothers brests 10 I have been left unto thee ever since I
duties and by the feare of thee being taught to keep thy testimonies and never to forget the Law thou givest us we may be delivered from thy wrath and punishment and at last praise thee upon thy holy hill in thine everlasting habitation thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 100. A Psalme of praise to God for his mercy and truth O Be ioyfull in the Lord all yee lands serue the Lord with gladnesse and come before his presence with a song 2 Be yee sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selues we are his people and the sheep of his pasture 3 O go your way into his gates with thankesgiving and into his courts with praise be thankfull unto him and speak good of his Name 4 For the Lord is gracious his mercie is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord our God who hast created us out of nothing and hast redeemed us from misery and death when we were thine enemies shewing great expresses of thy loving kindnesse when we were vessels of wrath and inheritors of perdition â—reveiling thy truth unto us in the Sermons of the Gospell teach us to walke as thou hast commanded us to believe as thou hast taught us that we may inherit what thou hast promised us for thou art the way the truth and the life we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture thou art our guide and our defence let thy grace teach us to serve thee and thy holy Spirit assist and promote our endeavours with the blessings of gladnesse and chearfulnesse of Spirit that we may love to speak good of thy Name and at last may go into the courts of thy Temple with praise and a song in our mouthes to thy honour and eternall glory whose mercy and truth is everlasting and revealed unto the Church in our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 101. A Prayer for a holy life MY song shall bee of mercie and iudgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 O let me have understanding in the way of godlinesse 3 When wilt thou come unto me I will walke in my house with a perfect heart 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sinnes of unfaithfulnesse there shall no such cleave unto me 5 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 6 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour him will I destroy 7 Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomacke I will not suffer him 8 Mine eyes look unto such as be faithfull in the land that they may dwell with me 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my seruant 10 There shall no deceitfull person dwell in my house he that telleth lies shall not tarrie in my sight 11 I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land that I may root out all wicked doers from the citie of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall purity who art of pure eyes and canst behold no unrighteousnesse or impurity enlighten our understandings that we may have knowledge in the way of godlinesse make our paths straight and our hearts perfect take from us the sinnes of unfaithfulnesse correct and mortifie in us all froward and peevish dispositions let us love the society of the saints and hate the fellowship of the wicked that we may not be destroyed with the ungodly nor be rooted out from the Citie of the Lord and banished from the sweetnes of thy presence for with thee is light and health and salvation to thy Name be all honour and glory and praise ascribed world without end Amen PSALME 102. A Prayer for comfort in sadnesse anxiety of spirit sicknesse or any other affliction MORNING PRAYER HEare my prayer O Lord and let my crying come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble â—encline thine eares unto me when I call O heare me and that right soon 3 For my dayes are consumed away like smoake and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand 4 My heart is smitten down and withered like grasse so that I forget to eat my bread 5 For the voyce of my groaning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh 6 I am become like a pelican in the wildernesse and like an owle that is in the desert 7 I have watched and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the house top 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long and they that are mad upon me are sworne together against me 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread and mingled my drinke with weeping 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast taken me up and cast me down 11 My dayes are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grasse 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercie upon Sion for it is time that thou have mercie upon her yea the time is come 14 And why thy servants thinke upon her stones and it pittieth them to see her in the dust 15 The heathen shall feare thy Name O Lord and all the kings of the earth thy maiestie 16 When the Lord shall build up Sion and when his glorie shall appeare 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poore destitute and despiseth not their desire 18 This shall be written for those that come after and the people which shall be borne shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuarie out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 That he might heare the mournings of such as be in captivitie and deliver the children appointed unto death 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Sion and his worship at Ierusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdomes also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my iourney and shortened my dayes 24 But I said O my God take me not away in the midst of mine age as for thy yeares they endure throughout all generations 25 Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the worke of thy hands 26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure they all shall wax old as doth a garment 27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy yeares shall not faile 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight The Prayer O Eternall God who endurest for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations have pittie upon us according to the infinite treasures of thy loving kindnesse heare the voyce of our groaning for thy indignation and thy wrath lieth hard upon us and our sinnes have put an edge upon thy sword and a thorne into our wounded
ships and there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein 27 These wait all upon thee that thou mayest give them meat in due season 28 When thou givest it them they gather it and when thou openest thy hand they are filled with good 29 When thou hidest thy face they are troubled when thou takest away their breath they die and are turned again to their dust 30 When thou lettest thy breath go forth they shall be made and thou shalt renew the face of the earth 31 The glorious maiesty of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall reioyce in his workes 32 The earth shall tremble at the look of him if he do but touch the hills they shall smoke 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will praise my God while I have my being 34 And so shall my words please him my joy shall be in the Lord. 35 As for sinners they shall be consumed out of the earth and the ungodly shall come to an end praise thou the Lord O my soul praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God who art exceeding glorious who art clothed with majesty and honour thou hast created all things with admirable wisedome established them with excellent order and hast provided for them with mercy and singular providence be pleased to give us grace that we may remember thou hast created us all for thy glory that thou hast planted thine image on us and hast crowned all our yeares with thy mercies and loving kindnesse let us never disobey thy will forget thy mercies or deface thine image in us but when all thy creatures praise thee in their manner let not us whom thou hast made in dignity next to Angels disturbe the blessed order of Creation by our sinnes and irregular disobedience Open thy hand O Lord and fill us with good things both spirituall and temporall that when thou takest away our breath that we die and turne again to our dust thou mayest not hide thy face away from us but communicate to us the light of thy countenance and the glories of thy Kingdome thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 105. A commemoration of Gods care of his Church and blessings to his people MORNING PRAYER OBive thankes unto the Lord and call upon his Name tell the people what things he hath done 2 O let your songs be of him and praise him and let your talking be of all his wondrous workes 3 Reioyce in his holy Name let the heart of them reioyce that seek the Lord. 4 Sèek the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore 5 Remember the marvellous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth 6 O yee seed of Abraham his servant yee children of Iacob his chosen 7 He is the Lord our God his iudgements are in all the world 8 He hath been alway mindfull of his covenant and promise that he made to a thousand generations 9 Even the covenant that he made with Abraham and the oath that he sware unto Isaac 10 And appointed the fame unto Iacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting testament 11 Saying unto thee will I give the land of Canaan the lot of your inheritance 12 When there were yet but a few of them and they strangers in the land 13 What time as they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong but reproved even Kings for their sakes 15 Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harme 16 Moreover he called for a dearth upon the land and destroyed all the provision of bread 17 But he had sent a man before them even Ioseph which was sold to be a bond-servant 18 Whose feet they hurt in the stockes the iron entred into his soule 19 Untill the time came that his cause was known the Word of the Lord tried him 20 The King sent and delivered him the prince of the people let him go free 21 He made him Lord also of his house and ruler of all his substance 22 That he might informe his princes after his will and teach his senatours wisedome 23 Israel also came into Egypt and Iacob was a stranger in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people exceedingly and made them stronger than their enemies 25 Whos 's heart turned so that they hated his people and dealt untruly with his servants 26 Then sent he Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen 27 And these shewed his tokens among them and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darknesse and it was darke and they were not obedient unto his Word 29 He turned their waters into bloud and slew their fish 30 Their land brought forth frogs yea even in their Kings chambers 31 He spake the word and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters 32 He gave them hailstones for raine and flames of fire in their land 33 He smote their vines also and fig-trees and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts 34 He spake the word and the grashoppers came and caterpillars innumerable and did eat up all the grasse in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground 35 He smote all the first-borne in their land even the chiefe of all their strength 36 He brought them forth also with silver and gold there was not one feeble person among their Tribes 37 Egypt was glad at their departing for they were afraid of them 38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering and fire to give light in the night season 39 At their desire he brought quailes and he filled them with the bread of heaven 40 He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out so that the rivers ran in dry places 41 For why he remembred his holy promise and Abraham his servant 42 And he brought forth his people with ioy and his chosen with gladnesse 43 And gave them the lands of the heathen and they took the labours of the people in possession 44 That they might keep his statutes and observe his lawes The Prayer O Lord God who art alway mind full of thy covenant and promise to a thousand generations and didst deliver the seed of Abraham the children of Iacob thy chosen from the slavery of Egypt from the waves of the sea from the rage of Pharaoh from the thirst and â—amine of the wildernesse continue the like mercies to all Christian people deliver us from the bondage of our sinnes preserve us in the Aâ—ke of the Church that we perish not in the waves of this troublesome world save us from the â—â—ry of all our temporall and ghostly enemies â—eed us with food from heaven and give us competency of good things on earth that we may keep thy statutes and observe thy Lawes and at last receive the promises of a blessed eternity which in the covenant of thy Gospell thou hast
severest judgements and as thy mercy pardons what is past so let the sweetnesse of it beget thy feare in our hearts that we may not dare to offend so gracious so mercifull a God but that trusting in thy Word and flying unto thee for succour we may wait for thee till our change commeth looking for thee in holinesse and righteousnesse all our dayes Grant this for thy mercies and compassion sake O blessed Jesu our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 131. A Prayer for the graces of humility and mortification LOrd I am not high minded I have no proud lookes 2 I do not exercise my selfe in great matters which are too high for me 3 But I refrain my soule and keep it low like as a childe that is weaned from his motherâ— yea my soule is even as a weaned childe 4 O Israel trust in the Lord from this time forth for evermore The Prayer O Lord God before whom the humble Publican who durst not lift up his eyes to Heaven but with confusion of face begged pardon was justified and acquitted give unto us thy servants humilty of soule and modesty in our behaviour that our lookes be not proud nor our thoughts arrogant nor our designes ambitious but that our soules being refrained from all vanity and pride our affections weaned from great opinions and love of our selves we may trust in thee follow the example of our blessed Master and receive thy promises which thou hast made unto us in our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 132. A Prayer for the Church for the promotion of Religion for the King and for the Clergie MORNING PRAYER LOrd remember David and all his trouble 2 How he sware unto the Lord and vowed a vow unto the Almighty God of Iacob 3 I will not come within the tabernacle of my house nor climbe up into my bed 4 I will not suffer mine eyes to sleep nor mine eye lids to slumber neither the temples of my head to take any rest 5 Untill I finde out a place for the temple of the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Iacob 6 Lo we heard of the same at Ephrata and found it in the wood 7 We will go into his tabernacle and fall low on our knees before his footstool 8 Arise O Lord into thy resting place thou and the arke of thy strength 9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousnesse and let thy saints sing with ioyfulnesse 10 For thy servant Davids sake turne not away the presence of thine anointed 11 The Lord hath made a faithfull oath unto David and he shall not shrinke from it 12 Of the fruit of thy body shall I set upon thy seat 13 If thy children will keep my couenant and my testimonies that I shall learne them their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore 14 For the Lord hath chosen Sion to bean habitation for himselfe he hath longed for her 15 This shall be my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have a delight therein 16 I will blesse her victuals with increase and will satisfie her poore with bread 17 I will decke her priests with health and her saints shall reioyce and sing 18 There shall I make the horne of David to flourish I have ordained a lanterne for mine anointed 19 As for his enemies I shall cloth them with shame but upon himselfe shall his crowne flourish The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest not in Temples made with hands and yet hast been pleased to manifest thy presence by speciall blessings and assistances in places set apart for thy worship be pleased to heare our prayers accept our services when ever we make our addresses to thee in the house of prayer fall downe low on our knees before thy footstool let thy Priests be clothed with righteousnesse let thy Saints sing with joyfulnes let all those that make their approaches unto thee purifie their hearts and hands that they may offer to thee a pure sacrifice even the sacrifice of obedience and holinesse and the expresses of true Religion Blesse O Lord thy servant the King whom thou hast made the Patron and Defender of the Church make his horne to flourish and be exalted above all his enemies and let thy Word be as a lanterne for thine Anointed to shew him thy holy will and pleasure that he seeking thy honour and glory thy Church may flourish under the covert of his shield and patronage her victuals may be blessed with increase her poore satisfied with bread her Priests decked with health her Saints with joy and himselfe with honour and great renown and a flourishing Diademe while his enemies sit clothed in shame and misery Grant this O blessed God for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 133. A Prayer for unity in the Church in a Kingdom or family BEhold how good and ioyfull a thing it is brethren to dwell together in unity 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head that â—an down unto the beard euen unto Aarons beard and went down to the skirts of his clothing 3 Like as the dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion 4 For there the Lord promised his blessing and life for euermore The Prayer O Blessed Iâ—sâ— in whose garment was variety but no rent or seame have mercy upon thy holy Catholike Church and all Christian Kingdomes and Families and so unite all our hearts and affections by the union of Faith and Charity that we be not torne into Factions and Schismes but being anointed with the precious ointment even the anointing of thy Spirit from above we may keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and grant that this holy ointment may so knit together the Guides of thy Church the Rulers of Kingdomes the Princes of the Nations that the blessings of it may descend to the skirts of the people and that thou mayest blesse us with thy graces here and hereafter give us life for evermore in the participation of thy glorious Kingdome where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 134. An invitation to the Clergie to be diligent in singing Gods praises publikely BEhold now praise the Lord all ye seruants of the Lord. 2 Yee that by night stand in the house of the Lord even in the courts of the house of our God 3 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord. 4 The Lord that made heauen and earth giue thee blessing out of Sion The Prayer O Lord Creatour and Governour of all the world thou that madest Heaven and Earth that all should celebrate thy praise and the glory of thy Name give great Religion and devout affections to thy Ministers that by frequent elevation of their hands and hearts in thy Sanctuary in behalfe of themselves and all the people thy honour may be exalted among all thy servants Religion may be advanced and the love of thy Name
For when the breath of man goeth forth he shall turn again to his earth and then all his thoughts perish 4 Blessed is he that hath the God of Iacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God 5 Which made heaven and earth the sea and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever 6 Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong which feedeth the hungry 7 The Lord looseth men out of prison the Lord giueth sight to the blinde 8 The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the righteous 9 The Lord careth for the strangers he defendeth the fatherlesse and widow as for the way of the ungodly he turneth it upside down 10 The Lord thy God O Sion shall â—e King for evermore and throughout all generations The Prayer O Lord God who reignest a King for evermore give us grace that we may make thee our helpe and fixe our hopes in thee for thou onely art able to give deliverance Feed our soules O Lord and satisfie us with thy salvation when we hunger and thirst after righteousnesse helpe us to right when we suffer wrong heale our back slidings raise us when we are fallen enlighten the eyes of our soules that we walke not in darknesse and the shadow of death and do thou take care for us in all our wayes and in all our necessities that when our breath goeth forth and we turne again to our earth we may reigne with thee in Sion thy celestiall habitation for evermore through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 147. A celebration of Gods wisedome and providence in the ministration of the things of the world and of his goodnesse towards them that feare him EVENING PRAYER O Praise the Lord for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea a ioyfull and pleasant thing it is to be thankfull 2 The Lord doth build up Ierusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel 3 He healeth those that are broken in heart and giveth medicine to heale their sicknesse 4 He telleth the number of the starres and calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and great is his power yea and his wisedome is infinite 6 The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground 7 O sing unto the Lord with thankesgiving sing praises upon the harpe unto our God 8 Which covereth the heaven with clouds and prepareth rain for the earth and maketh th grasse to grow upon the mountaines and herbe for the use of men 9 Which giveth fodder unto the cattell and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him 10 He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse neither delighteth he in any mans legs 11 But the Lords delight is in them that feare him and put their trust in his mercy 12 Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Sion 13 For he hath made fast the barres of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee 14 He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the floure of wheat 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth and his word runneth very swiftly 16 He giveth snow like wooll and scattereth the hoar frost like ashes 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels who is able to abide his frost 18 He sendeth out his word and melteth them he bloweth with his winde and the waters flow 19 He sheweth his word unto Iacob his statutes and ordinances unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation neither have the heathen knowledge of his lawes The Prayer O Lord God whose power is great and thy wisedome infinite give us broken and contrite hearts meek spirits a feare of thy Name and a trust in thy mercy that thou maist arise upon us with healing in thy wings giving us medicine to heale all our ghostly sicknesses and thy delight may be in us delighting to do us good to feed us when we call upon thee to set us above our enemies to give us knowledge of thy Lawes to build up Ierusalem and to repaire the breaches of thy Church that we may sing praises unto thee O God and be thankfull to all eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 148. An invitation of all the creatures of the world to praise God O Praise the Lord of heaven praise him in the height 2 Praise him all yee angels of his praise him all his host 3 Praise him sun and moon praise him all yee starres and light 4 Praise him all yee heavens and yee waters that be above the heavens 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord for he spake the word and they were made he commanded and they were created 6 He hath made them fast for ever and ever he hath given them a law which shall not be broken 7 Praise the Lord upon earth yee dragons and all deepes 8 Fire and haile snow and vapours winde and storme fulfilling his word 9 Mountaines and all hills fruitfull trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattell wormes and feathered fowles 11 Kings of the earth and all people princes and all iudges of the world 12 Young men and maidens old men and children praise the name of the Lord for his name onely is excellent and his praise above heaven and earth 13 He shall exalt the horne of his people all his saints shall praise him even the children of Israel even the people that serveth him The Prayer O Lord God whose Name onely is excellent and thy praise above Heaven and Earth we adore and blesse thy mercy and thy power for creating us after thine owne Image thou spakest the word and we were made thou commandedst and we were created and as thou hast established thy Creation with a Law for ever that all should minister to thy praises in their severall proportions so give us grace that the lawes of sanctity of Faith and obedience which thou hast given to us may never be broken that we serving thee not onely in the order of thy creatures but in the capacity of thy children may sing thy praises amongst the Angels and the numerous host of Saints reigning in thy Kingdome for ever and ever Amen PSALME 149. A meditation of the ioyes of Heaven prepared for the Saints O Sing unto the Lord a new song let the congregation of saints praise him 2 Let Israel reioyce in him that made him and let the children of Sion be ioyfull in their King 3 Let them praise his name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with tabret and harpe 4 For the Lord hath pleasure in his people and helpeth the meek hearted 5 Let the saints be ioyfull with glory let them reioyce in their beds 6 Let the praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hands 7 To be avenged of the heathen and to rebuke the people 8 To binde their kings in chaines and their nobles with linkes of iron 9 That they may be avenged of them as it is written Such honour have all his saints The Prayer O Lord our King in whose honour and salvation all thy Saints rejoyce give unto thy holy Gospell a free passage in all the world that Kings and Nobles may be bound with the chaines of obedience discipline and subordination to all thy holy Lawes and grant to us thy servants that thy Lawes may be so fixed in our hearts and thy praises in our mouthes and righteousnesse in all our actions that we may be written among the righteous and have our portion with the Saints who rejoyce in their beds of eternall rest and are joyfull in the glories of thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 150. An invitation to praise God with all our faculties and powers O Praise God in his holinesse praise him in the firmament of his power 2 Praise him in his noble acts praise him according to his excellent greatnesse 3 Praise him in the sound of the trumpet praise him vpon the lute and harpe 4 Praise him in the cymbals and dances praise him upon the strings and pipe 5 Praise him upon the well tuned cymbals praise him upon the loud cymbals 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. The Prayer O Eternall God thy holinesse and power and excellent greatnesse are farre above all the praises of men and Angels and yet thou art pleased in the harmony and consent of a thankfull heart and a thankesgiving tongue touch our hearts with admirable apprehensions of thy Divine perfections that our songs of thy honour may be devout and illuminate to the height of extasies and the devotions of a Seraphim for nothing is proportionable to thy glories but what is infinitely beyond our infirmities Make us to sing Thee and thy Name while we have breath and when we are breathlesse let our hearts fill up the harmony and thinke thy praises so cordially till our soules being separated from the harsh sound of our bodily organs we may praise thee when we are all spirit in the state of separation and in the reunion when our bodies shall be made spirituall singing to thee exalted praises for ever and ever To thee O blessed and glorious God be praises and honour and glory ascribed now and to all eternity Amen Amen FINIS
the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession 9 Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of yron and break them in pieces like a potters vessell 10 Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be learned ye that are iudges of the earth 11 Serve the Lord in feare and rejoyce unto him with reverence 12 Kisse the Sonne least he be angry and so ye perish from the right way if his wrath be kindled yea but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him The Prayer O Blessed Iesu into whose hands is committed all dominion and power in the Kingdomes and Empires of the world out of whose mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it thou mightest smite the Nations and rule them with a rod of yron on whose vesture and on whose thigh a name is written King of Kings and Lord of Lords we adore thee in thy infinite excellency and most glorious exaltation beseeching thee to reveale thy name and the glory of thy Kingdome to the Heathen which know thee not and to the uttermost parts of the earth which are given thee for thy possession and inheritance And to us give thy grace to serve thee in fear and plant the reverence of thy law and of thy name in our hearts least thy wrath be kindled against us and thoâ— break us in peeces like vessels of dishonour Have mercy on us O King of Kings for we have put our trust in thee thou art our Saviour Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 3. A Prayer for defence against all our Enemies Bodily and Ghostly LOrd how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise against me 2 Many one there be that say of my soule There is no help for him in his God 3 But thou O Lord art my defender thou art my worship and the liâ—ter up of mine head 4 I did call upon the Lord with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill 5 I laid me down and slept rose up againe for the lord sustained me 6 I will not be afraid for ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about 7 Up Lord and held me O my God for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheek-bonâ— thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord and thy blessing is upon thy people The Prayer O Lord our defender have pitty upon us behold the armyes of the flesh the world and the Divell fight against our Soules and multiply against us every day temptations and disadvantages We are not able of our selves as of our selves to think a good thought much lesse to put to flight the armies of them that have set themselves against us round about But thou O Lord art our defender thou art our worship and the lifter up of our heads Vp Lord help us arme us with the shield of faith the sword of the Spirit in all times of temptation and battaile cover our heads with the helmet of Salvation so shall wee not be afraid for ten thousands of our enemies for salvation belongeth unto thee through Iesus Christ our Lord AMEN PSALME 4. A Prayer in which we exercise an act of hope in God and desire his providence over us HEare me when I call O God of my righteousnesse for thou hast â—et me at liberty when I was in trouble have mercy upon me and hearken unto my prayer 2 O ye sonnes of men how long will ye blaspheme mine honour and have such pleasure in vanity and seek after leasing 3 Know this also that the Lord hath chosen to himselfe the man that is godly when I call upon the Lord he will heare me 4 Stand in awe and sinne not commune with your own heart and in your chamber and be still 5 Offer the sacrifice of righteousnesse and put your trust in the Lord. 6 There be many that say who will shew us any good 7 Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us 8 Thou hast put gladnesse in my heart since the time that their corne and wine and oyle increased 9 I will lay me downe in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onely that makest mee dwell in safety The Prayer O God who art the author of all righteousnesse from whom all grace and safety and glory does proceed hear the prayers of thy humble servants whensoever we call upon thee in our trouble for our trust is in thee alone and no creature can shew us any good unlesse it derives from thee shew the light of thy countenance upon us let thy providence guide all our actions sufferings to thy glory and our spirituall benefit and consigne us to the blessednesse of thy Kingdome by the testimony of thy holy spirit that we may not place our joyes and hopes upon the good things of this life which perish and cannot satisfie but in the Eternall fountaine of all true felicities that thou being our treasure our hearts may be fixed upon thee by the bands of Charity and Obedience that thou mayst make us to dwell in safety here and when our dayes are done we may lay us down in peace and take our rest in thy armes expecting the comming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 5. A prayer for blessing upon all pious people and for protection against the malice of wicked men POnder my words O Lord consider my meditation 2 O hearken thou unto the voyce of my calling my King and my God for unto thee will I make my prayer 3 My voyce shalt thou hear betimes O Lord early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will looke up 4 For thou are the God that hast no pleasure in wickednesse neither shall any evill dwell with thee 5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight for thou hatest all them that work vanity 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord will abhorre both the bloudthirstie and deceltfull â—man 7 But as for me I will come into thy house even upon the multitude of thy mercy and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple 8 Lead me O Lord in thy righteousnesse because of mine enemies make thy way plain before my face 9 For there is no faithfulnes in his mouth their inward parts are very wickednesse 10 Their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue 11 Destroy thou them O God let them perish through their own imaginations cast them out in the multitude of their ungodlines for they have rebelled against thee 12 And let all them that put their trust in thee reioyce they shal ever be giving of thanks because thou defendest them they that love thy name shall be ioyfull in thee 13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous and with thy favourable kindenes wilt thou defend him as with a shield The Prayer O Most Holy and blessed Lord God who canst take no
was borne thou art my God even from my mothers wombe 11 O go not from me for trouble is hard at hand and there is none to help me 12 Many oxen are come about mee fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side 13 They gape upon mee with their mouthes as it were a ramping and roaring lion 14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of ioynt my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melâ—ing wax 15 My strength is dried up like a pot-sheard and my tongue cleaveth to my gummes and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death 16 For many dogs are come about me and the counsell of the wicked layeth siege against mee 17 They pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they stand staring and looking upon me 18 They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture 19 But be not thou farre from me O Lorde thou art my succour hast thee to help me 20 Deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the dog 21 Save me from the lions mouth thou hast heard me also from among the hornes of the unicorns 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee 23 O praise the Lord ye that feare him magnifie him all ye of the seed of Iacob and feare him all ye seed of Israel 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poore he hath not hid his face from him but when he called unto him he heard him 25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation my vowes will I performe in the sight of them that fear him 26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied they that seek after the Lord shall praise him your heart shall live for ever 27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves and be turned unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him 28 For the Kingdom is the Lords and he is the governour among the people 29 All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped 30 All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him and no man hath quickned his own soule 31 My seed shall serve him they shall be couuted unto the Lord for a generation 32 They shall come and the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse unto a people that shall be born whom the Lord hath made The Prayer O Mercifull Iesu who for our sakes did'st suffer thy selfe to be betrayed tormented spitupon crucified and to dye that thou mightest purchase for us redemption from the sting of death the miseries of hell the malice and power of the Divell deliver our soules from the sword of thy Vengeance cut us not off by untimely death free our darling from the power of the dog our soules from being a prey unto the Divell snatch us out of the Lions mouth who goeth up and downe seeking whom he may devoure O Iesu be a Iesus unto us and let those victories which thou hast obtained over Satan and Hell and the grave bring us peace and Righteousnesse and a Crown of glory in the Heavens where thou livest and reignest in the great congregation of Saints and Angells one God world without end Amen PSALME 23. A prayer that God would guide and feed and support us as a sheapherd doth his flock THe Lord is my sheapherd therefore can I lack nothing 2 He shall feed me in a green pasture and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort 3 He shall convert my soul and bring me forth in the paths of righteousnesse for his names sake 4 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me 5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me thou hast anointed my head with oyle and my cup shall be full 6 But thy loving kindnesse and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of mylife I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou great Sheapherd and Bishop of our Soules let thy grace convert us let thy mercy guide us in the paths of righteousnesse feed us with thy Word and Sacraments refresh us with the comforts of thy Holy Spirit and in the whole course of our life which is nothing else but a valley of miseries and a shadow of death let thy rod correct us like a Father when we doe amisse and thy staffe support us in all our troubles and necessities O let thy loving kindnesse and mercy follow us all our daies that after this life we may dwell in thy house for ever where thou hast prepared a Table and a full cup of blessing for thy People and shalt anoynt their heads with the oyle of an eternall gladnesse in the fruition of thy glories ô blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 24. A Meditation upon the ascension of our Blessed Saviour and a Prayer for Sanctity that we may ascend where he is MORNING PRAYER THe earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compasse of the world and they that dwell therein 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas and prepared it upon the flouds 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord or who shall rise up in his holy place 4 Even he that hath clean hands and a pure heart and that hath not life up his mind unto vanity nor sworn to deceive his neighbour 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousnesse from the God of his salvation 6 This is the generation of them that seek him even of them that seek thy face O Iacob 7 Life up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 8 Who is the King of glory it is the Lord strong and mighty even the Lord mighty in battell 9 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 10 Who is the King of glory even the Lord of hosts he is the King of glory The Prayer O Blessed Iesu King of glory Lord of Hosts and King of all the Creatures to whom the everlasting doores were opened that thou mightest enter into thy Kingdome which thou didst open to all believers after thou hadst overcome the sharpnesse of death give us clean hands and a pure heart teach us to follow thy innocency to imitate thy sanctity that we may receive from thee our Lord the eternall rewards and blessings of righteousnesse and ascend thither whither thou ô God of our salvation art gone before who livest and raignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost eternall God world without end Amen PSALME 25. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for deliverance from Sinne and Punishment VNto thee O Lord
abroad thou also hast been displeased O turne thee unto us again 2 Thou hast moved the land and divided it heal the sores thereof for it shaketh 3 Thou hast shewed thy people heavy things thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine 4 Thou hast given a token for such as fear thee that they may triumph because of the truth 5 Therefore were thy beloved delivered help me with thy right hand and heare me 6 God hath spoken in his holinesse I will reioyce and divide Sichem and mete out the valley of Succoth 7 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of my head Iuda is my lawgiver 8 Moaâ— is my washpot over Edom will I cast out my shoe Philistia be thou glad of me 9 Who will lead me into the strong city who will bring me into Edom 10 Hast thou not cast us out O God wilt not thou O God go out with our hosts 11 O be thou our help in trouble for vain is the help of man 12 Through God will we doe great arts for it is he that shall tread downe our enemies The Prayer O Lord God who for our sinnes hast shewed us heavy things and given us a drink of deadly Wine and yet hast never failed them that feare thee but hast given them a token that they may triumph because of thy truth and mercy consigning them to redemption and deliverance by the testimony and comforts of the Holy spirit Obe thou our help in trouble for all our hope is in thee and we disclaime all confidence in our selves or in the arme of flesh praying thee for ayde that in thy strength we may tread down our enemies and give thee thankes who art the fountain of strength and the disposer of victories through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 61. A Prayer for the King and for comfort in sadnesse HEare my crying O God give eare unto my prayer 2 From the ends of the earth will I call unto thee when my heart is in heavinessâ— 3 O â—et me up upon the rock that â—â— higher then I for thou hast been my hope and a strong tower for me against the enemy 4 I will dwell in thy â—labernacle for ever and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings 5 For thou O Lord hast heard my desires and hast given an heritage unto those that feare thy name 6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life that his yeares may endure thorough out all generations 7 He shall dwell before God for ever O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulnesse that they may preserve him 8 So will I alwaies sing praise unto thy name that I may dayly performe my vowes The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou that art the rock higher then all the world upon whom thy Church is built and all our hopes rely be mercifull unto us and give eare unto our prayers be unto us a fountain of comfort whensoever our heart is in heavinesse for under the covering of thy wings there is joy and health and safety save all those that feare thy name and give thy blessing to thine heritage and that the blessings of thy people may be lasting and perpetuall give unto thy servant the King long life let thy loving kindnesse and faithfulnesse alway preserve him be a strong tower for him against all his enemies and at last bring him to an eternall Kingdome where no enemies shall assault or disturbe his Peace that he may dwell before thee for ever and rejoyce in the participation of the blessings of thy kingdome who livest and raignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 62. A Prayer that we may trust in God onely in all our troubles MORNING PRAYER MY soul truly waiteth still upon God for of him cometh my salvation 2 He verily is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not greatly fall 3 How long will ye imagine mischiefe against every man ye shall be slain all the sort of you yea as a tottering walâ— shall ye be and like a broken hedge 4 Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt their delight is in lies they giue good words with their mouth but curse with their heart 5 Neverthelesse my soul wait thou still upon God for my hope is in him 6 He truly is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not fall 7 In God is my health and my glory the rock of my might and in God is my trust 8 O put your trust in him alway ye people poure out your hearts before him for God is our hope 9 As for the children of men they are but vain the children of men are deceitfull upon the weights they are altogether lighter then vanity it self 10 O trust not in wrong and robbery giue not your selves unto vanity if riches increase set not your heart upon them 11 God spake once and twice I haue also heard the same that power belongeth unto God 12 And that thou Lord art mercifull for thou rewardest every man according to his work The Prayer O Lord God of whom commeth our salvavation thou art our defence and strength our health and our glory give us thy grace that we may put our whole trust in thee alway that we may poure out our hearts before thee in all our troubles that we may wait still upon thee for the performance of our expectation in all our longings and desires Be thou our defence uphold us that we may not fall into those great sins which lay wast our consciences or into such miseries as make us without hope or remedy the miseries of despaire obstinate malice or the woes of a sad eternity Teach us to despise riches to disclaim all trust in the creatures not to delight in lyes or vanity not to multiply wrongs and robbery that when thou shalt come with power and great glory to reward every man according to his worke thou mayest be mercifull unto us pardoning our sinnes and accepting us to life eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 63. A Prayer for deliverance from the miseries of our pilgrimage with longing and desires after God and the Joyes of Heaven O God thou art my God early will I seek thee 2 My soul thirsteth for thee my flesh also longeth after thee in a barren and dry land where no water is 3 Thus haue I looked for thee in holinesse that I might behold thy power and glory 4 For thy loving kindnesse is better then the life it self my lips shall praise thee 5 As long as I liue will I magnifie thee on this manner and lift up my hands in thy name 6 My soul shall be satisfied even as it were with marrow fatnesse when my mouth praiseth thee with ioyfull lips 7 Haue I not remembred thee in my bed and thought upon thee when I was waking 8 Because thou hast been my helper therefore under the shadow
for the testimony of a good conscience the doctrines of a Catholike faith Let not them that trust in thee O Lord God of Hosts be ashamed but let them who for thy sake have suffered reproofe be delivered from them that hate them and from the deep waters of persecutions and discomforts that we and all thy faithfull people being saved from our Enemies may praise thee and thy faithfulnesse in this world and may finally inherit the land of promise which thou hast made to all that suffer persecution for a cause of righteousnesse even the possession of thine inheritance thy Kingdome in Heaven where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 70. A Prayer to God for blessings upon faithfull People and deliverance from our Enemies HAst thee O God to deliver mee make hast to help me O Lord. 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul let them be turned backward and put to confusion that wish me evill 3 Let them for their reward be soon brought to shame that crie over me There there 4 But let all those that seek thee be ioyfull and glad in thee and let all such as delight in thy salvation say alway The Lord be praised 5 As for me I am poore and in misery baste thee unto mee O God 6 Thou art my helper and my redeemer O Lord make no long tarrying The Prayer O Lord God our Helper and Redeemer have mercy upon us and all thy faithfull people make haste and help us ô God against all those that seek after our soules to doe us mischiefe make us to delight in thee to waite for thy salvation to trust in thy mercies to rejoyce in thy excellencies and perfection that our feet being directed by thy guidance our weaknesses strengthned by thy power our sinnes pardoned by thy mercies and our soules justified by thy free grace we may alwaies give thee praise with the humble addresses of devotion and thankfulnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 71. A Prayer for the continuance of Gods favours to us even to our old age and a longing for a happy departure MORNING PRAYER IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousnesse encline thine eare unto me and save me 2 Be thou my strong hold whereunto I may alway resort thou hast promised to help me for thou art my house of defence and my castle 3 Deliver me O my God out of the hand of the ungodly out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruell man 4 For thou O Lord God art the thing that I long for thou art my hope even from my youth 5 Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born thou art he that took me out of my mothers wombe my praise shall be alway of thee 6 I am become as it were a monster unto many but my sure trust is in thee 7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praise that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long 8 Cast me not away in the time of age forsake me not when my strength faileth me 9 For mine enemies speak against me and they that lay wait for my soul take their counsel together saying God hath forsaken him persecute him and take him for there is none to deliver him 10 Go not farre from me O God my God hast thee to help me 11 Let them be confounded and perish that are against my soul let them be covered with shame and dishonour that seek to doe me evill 12 As for me I will patiently abide alway and will praise thee more and more 13 My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousnesse and salvation for I know no end thereof 14 I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God and will make mention of thy righteousnesse only 15 Thou O God hast taught me from my youth up untill now therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works 16 Forsake me not O God in mine old age when I am gray-headed untill I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to all them that are yet for to come 17 Thy righteousnesse O God is very high and great things are they that thou hast done O God who is like unto thee 18 O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turn and refresh me yea and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again 19 Thou hast brought me to great honour and comforted me on every side 20 Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulnesse O God playing upon an instrument of musick unto thee will I sing upon the harp O thou holy one of Israel 21 My lips will be fain when I sing unto thee and so will my soule whom thou hast delivered 22 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousnesse all the day long for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to do me evil The Prayer O Lord God our house of defence and our Castle who by thy mercies and thy loving Spirit hast taught us and led us in thy wayes from our first years untill now thou hast brought us to great honour even the honour of being Christians the honour of adoption to be thy Children and heires of thy glorious promises coheir◠with thy Sonne Iesus Christ and hast comforted us on every side with a continuall streame of thy mercies and refreshments give us thy grace that we may love thee and long for thee above all the things of this World and as thou hast holden us up ever since we were borne so let thy mercy goe along with us all our daies Cast us not away in the time of age and give us grace that we may never cast thee or thy Lawes from us Let not thy grace and the ghostly strength we derive from thee forsake us when our naturall strength failes us but let our spirit grow upon the disadvantages of the flesh and begin to receive the happinesse of eternity by an absolute conquest over the weakned and decaying body that after we have by thy aide passed through the great troubles and adversities thou shewest unto all thy Children in this world we may lye downe in righteousnesse and with thy favour that when thou bringest us out from the deep of the earth againe we may have a joyfull resurrection to the society of Saints and Angells and the full fruition of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 72. A Prayer for the exaltation and propagation of Christs Kingdome GIve the King thy judgements O God and thy righteousnesse unto the Kings sonne 2 Then shall he iudge the people according unto right and defend the poore 3 The mountains also shall bring peace and the little hills righteousnesse unto the people 4 He shall keep the simple folk by their right defend the children of the poore and punish the wrong doer 5
evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him 30 His seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the dayes of heaven 31 But if his children forsake my law and walke not in my iudgements 32 If they break my statutes and keep not my commandements I will visit their offences with the rod and their sin with scourges 33 Neverthelesse my loving kindnesse will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my truth to faile 34 My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips I have sworne once by my holinesse that I will not faile David 35 His seed shall endure for ever and his seat is like as the sun before me 36 He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon and as the faithfull witnesse in Heaven 37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine anointed and art displeased at him 38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant and cast his crown to the ground 39 Thou hast overthrowne all his hedges and broken down his strong holds 40 All they that goe by spoile him and he is become a rebuke to his neighbours 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies and made all his adversaries to reioyce 42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword and givest him not victory in the battell 43 Thou hast put out his glorie and cast his throne down to the ground 44 The dayes of his youth hast thou shortened and covered him with dishonour 45 Lord how long wilt thou hide thy selfe for ever and shall thy wrath burne like fire 46 Oh remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men for nought 47 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death and shall he deliver his soule from the hand of hell 48 Lord where are thy old loving kindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth 49 Remember Lord the rebuke that thy servants have and how I doe beare in my bosome the rebukes of many people 50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee and slandered the footsteps of thine anointed praised be the Lord for evermore Amen Amen The Prayer O Lord God of hosts thou art greatly to be feared in the councell of the saints and to be had in reverence of all the world let thy strong hand and thy mighty arme blesse and preserve thine Anointed the King as thou hast exalted thy chosen from among the People so let the greatnesse of thy blessings and assistances distinguish him from all the world make his throne as the dayes of heaven smite down his enemies before his face let thy hand hold him fast that the enemy may not be able to doe him violence and let thine arme strengthen him that the sonnes of wickednesse may not hurt him O do thou never put his glory out nor cover him with dishonour but give him victory in battels honour and rejoycing in time of peace confidence in thee reverence amongst his people continual defence in thy salvation that when thou hast finished his dayes in peace and honour his seed may be established in his throne and endure for ever like as the sun before thee Grant this O king of kings for his sake to whom thou hast given all power and dominion in heaven and earth even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 90. A meditation of death and a prayer preparatory to it MORNING PRAYER LOrd thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another 2 Before the mountaines were brought forth or ever the earth and the world were made thou art God from everlasting and world without end 3 Thou turnest man to destruction again thousayest Come again yée children of men 4 For a thousand yeares in thy sight are but as yesterday seeing that is past as a watch in the night 5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grasse 6 In the morning it is green and groweth up but in the evening it is cut down dried up and withered 7 For we consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathfull indignation 8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sinnes in the sight of thy countenance 9 For when thou art angry all our dayes are gone we bring our yeares to an end as it were a tale that is told 10 The dayes of our age are threescore yeares and ten and though men be so strong that they come to fourescore yeares yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone 11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth so is thy displeasure 12 O teach us to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts unto wisdome 13 Turne thee again O Lord at the last and be gracious unto thy servants 14 O satisfie us with thy mercy and that soon so shall we reioice and be glad all the dayes of our life 15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the yeares wherein we have suffered adversity 16 Shew thy servants thy worke and their children thy glory 17 And the glorious maiesty of the Lord our God be upon us prosper thou the worke of our hands upon us O prosper thou our handy worke The Prayer O Eternall God whose being was before the mountaines were brought forth before the earth and the vvorld vvere made even from everlasting and world without end have mercy upon us vveake and impotent people the children of men vvho fade avvay suddenly like the grasse remove our misdeeds from before thee and our secret sinnes from the sight of thy countenance be not angry with us neither consume us in thy displeasure teach us to number all the dayes of our life and to reckon on still to the day of death that when our dayes are gone and our yeares are brought to an end like a tale that is told thou mayest turne untous at the last and be gracious unto us in the pardon of our sinnes in the restraining the power and malice of all our ghostly enemies in giving us opportunity of all spirituall assistances and advantages that our lampes being trimmed and burning bright with charity and devotion we may enter into the bride-chamber there for ever to behold the glorious majesty of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 91. A Prayer for protection in all dangers VVHoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty 2 I will say unto the Lord Thou art my hope and my strong hold my God in him will I trust 2 For he shall deliver thee from the suare of the hunter and from the noysome pestilence 4 He shall defend thee under his wings and thou shalt be safe under his feathers his faithfulnesse and truth shall be thy shield and buckler 5 Thou shalt not
consciences O build up the ruines of our soules repaire the breaches of our comforts and our hopes and let thy glorie now appeare for that shines brightest in the beames of thy mercie and when thou turnest unto the prayer of poore wretched destitutes it becomes an eternall monument and a record of thy honour and all generations which shall be borne shall praise thee Looke downe O Lord from thy Sanctuary heare the mournings of us and of all distressed people send us health and life so long as it may be a blessing and do not shorten our dayes in wrath but give us grace so to spend all our time in the workes of repentance and holinesse that when our yeares faile and our change is come we may be translated to the new heavens which shall never perish and wax old there to continue and stand fast in thy sight for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 103. A thanksgiving to God for all his benefits and mercies PRaise the Lord O my soul and all that is within me praise his holy name 2 Praise the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits 3 Which forgiveth all thy sinne and healeth all thine infirmities 4 Which saveth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindnesse 5 Which satisfieth thy mouth with good things making thee young and lusty as an eagle 6 The Lord executeth righteousnesse and iudgement for all them that are oppressed with wrong 7 He shewed his waies unto Moses his works unto the children of Israell 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and of great goodnesse 9 He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for ever 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sinnes nor rewarded us according to our wickednesse 11 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth so great is his mercy also toward them that feare him 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west so farre hath he set our sinnes from us 13 Yea like as a father pittieth his own children even so is the Lord mercifull unto them that fear him 14 For he knoweth whereof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust 15 The dayes of man are but as grasse for he flourisheth as a flower of the field 16 For assoon as the winde goeth over it it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the mercifull goodnesse of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousnesse upon childrens children 18 Even upon such as keep his covenant and think upon his commandements to do them 19 The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven and his kingdome ruleth over all 20 O praise the Lord ye angells of his ye that excell in strength ye that fulfill his commandment and hearken unto the voice of his words 21 O praise the Lord all ye his hosts ye servants of his that do his pleasure 22 O speak good of the Lord all ye works of his in all places of his dominion praise thou the Lord O my soul The Prayer O most mercifull God whose mercy is as high as the heavens as great and many as the momeÌ„ts of eternity thou hast opened thy hand wide to fill us with blessings and the sweet effects of thy loving kindnesse thou art pittifull as a Father tender as a Mother carefull as a guardian exceeding mercifull to all them that fear thee we pray thee to fill our soules with great apprehensions and impresses of thy unspeakable mercies that our thankfulnesse may be as great as our needs of mercy are and let thy mercifull loving kindnes endure for ever ever upon us all Keep no anger in store for us chide us not in thy displeasure satisfy our mouths with good things remove all our sinnes from us as far as the east is from the west heale all our infirmities and save our lives from destruction for these are mercies thou delightest in and because we cannot praise thee accordingly to thy excellencies take our soules in thy due time into the land of everlasting praises that we may spend a whole eternity in ascribing to thy name praise honour and dominion Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen PSALME 104. A contemplation of the wisedome and goodnesse of God manifested in his creatures EVENING PRAYER PRaise the Lord O my soul O Lord my God thou art become exceeding glorious thou art clothed with maiesty and honour 2 Thou deckest thy self with light as it were with a garment and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain 3 Which layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters and maketh the clouds his chariot and walketh upon the wings of the winde 4 He maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flaming fiâ—e 5 He laid the foundations of the earth that it never should move at any time 6 Thou covered'st it with the deep like as with a garment the waters stand in the hills 7 At thy rebuke they flee at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid 8 They go up as high as the hils and down to the valleys beneath even unto the place which thou hast appointed for them 9 Thou hast set them their bounds which they shall not passe neither turne again to cover the earth 10 He sendeth the springs into the rivers which run among the hils 11 All beasts of the field drinke thereof and the wilde asses quench their thirst 12 Beside them shall the fowles of the aire have their habitation and sing among the branches 13 He watereth the hills from above the earth is filled with the fruit of thy workes 14 He bringeth forth grasse for the cattell and green herbe for the service of men 15 That he may bring food out of the earth and wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oyle to make him a cheerfull countenance and bread to strengthen mans heart 16 The trees of the Lord also are full of sap even the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted 17 Wherein the birds make their nests and the firre-trees are a dwelling for the storke 18 The high hils are a refuge for the wilde goates and so are the stony rockes for the confes 19 He appointed the moon for certain seasons and the sun knoweth his going down 20 Thou makest darknesse that it may be night wherein all the beasts of the forrest do move 21 The lions roaring after their prey do seek their meat at God 21 The sun ariseth and they get them away together and lay them down in their dennes 23 Man goeth forth to his worke and to his labour untill the evening 24 O Lord how manifold are thy workes in wisdome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches 25 So is the great and wide sea also wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts 26 There go the
night 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all euill yea it is even he that shall keep thy soule 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth for evermore The Prayer O Lord God our Keeper who dwellest upon the eternall hills from whence commeth all our helpe let thy mercies and thy providence watch over us by day and night that neither the vanities of the one nor the terrours of the other may disturbe our peace or safety Let not our feet be moved but be fixed upon the Rocke Christ Iesus and so order our goings making us to walke in the way of thy Commandments that thou mayest go in and out before us till at last we come into thy presence to dwell with thee for evermore through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 122. A Prayer for the peace and prosperity of the Church I Was glad when they said unto me We will go into the house of the Lord. 2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates O Ierusalem 3 Ierusalem is builded as a city that is aâ— unity in it selfe 4 For thither the Tribes go up even the Tribes of the Lord to testifie unto Israel to give thankes unto the name of the Lord. 5 For there is the seat of iudgement even the seat of the house of David 6 O pray for the peace of Ierusalem they shall prosper that love thee 7 Peace be within thy walls and plenteousnesse within thy palaces 8 For my brethren and companions sakes I will wish thee prosperity 9 Yea because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek to do thee good The Prayer O Blessed Iesu who didst descend according to thy humane Nature from the House of thy servant David and hast planted a church and defended it with a mighty hand and great assistances be pleased to preserve peace within her walls and send plenteousnesse within her palaces that all that love her peace may prosper and receive the blessings which thou givest to thy faithfull people in the communion of Saints Take from her all schismes and divisions that she may be like a city that is at unity within it selfe strong in faith abounding in hope and rich in the treasures of charity that at last she may be removed to a fellowship of all those joyes and felicities which are laid up for the inhabitants of the heavenly Ierusalem which is from above and is the mother of us all Grant this O blessed Iesu our onely Mediatour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 123. An eiaculation or a lifting up our soules to God for helpe in trouble VNto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the heavens 2 Behold even as the eyes of servants look vnto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistresse even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God untill he have mercy upon us 3 Have mercy upon us O Lord have mercy upon us for we are utterly despised 4 Our soule is filled with the scornfull reproofe of the wealthy and with the despitefulnesse of the proud The Prayer O Lord God that dwellest in the Heavens have mercy upon us in all our troubles in contempt in our poverty and when ever we are oppressed by any injurious practices of the proud Thou art our Lord and Master we are thy servants our eyes wait upon thee till thou have mercy upon us let us not be ashamed of our hope nor unfaithfull in our services nor distrustfull of thy providence but make us diligent labourers in our calling good husbands of our talents and faithfull in all thy house that we first serving thee may at last sit downe at meat with thee at thy table in thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 124. A thankesgiving for our deliverance from the power of all our enemies and a confessing God to be the Authour of it IF the Lord himselfe had not been on our side now may Israel say if the Lord himselfe had not been on our side when men rose up against us 2 They had swallowed us up quicke when they were so wrathfully displeased at us 3 Yea the waters had drowned us and the streame had gone over our soule 4 The deep waters of the proud had gone even over our soule 5 But praised be the Lord which hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth 6 Our soule is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are delivered 7 Our helpe standeth in the Name of the Lord which hath made heaven and earth The Prayer O Lord God which hast made Heaven and Earth in whose Name our helpe standeth we praise and blesse thy Name that in our troubles and temptations thou hast stood on our side and pleaded for us against them that rose against us It was thy hand O Lord and the helpe of thy mercy that relieved us the waters of affliction had drowned us and the streame had gone over our soule if the Spirit of the Lord had not moved upon the waters Thou O Lord didst blast the designes of our enemies with the breath of thy displeasure and to thee O Lord we ascribe the praise and honour of our redemption Perpetuate thy mercies to us let us never be given over as a prey to our ghostly enemies but breake their snares discover and weaken all their temptations by which they would destroy our soules that we being delivered from sin may be preserved from thy wrath through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 125. A Prayer for confidence in God and for deliverance from the portion of the wicked THey that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Ston which may not be removed but standeth fast for ever 2 The hills stand about Ierusalem even so standeth the Lord round about his people from this time forth for evermore 3 For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put their hand unto wickednesse 4 Do well O Lord unto those that be good and true of heart 5 As for such as turne backe unto their owne wickednesse the Lord shall leade them forth with the evill doers but peace shall be upon Israel The Prayer O Lord God our Trust and Confidence in whom whosoever trusteth shall never be removed but standeth fast for ever let thy mercies and the guard of holy Angels stand round about us and about all thy holy people like the hills for our defence and safety that we may be inaccessible by all the intendments of our enemies O let us not put our hands to wickednesse neither let our portion be in the lot of the ungodly whom thou leadest forth to destruction but let us receive the blessing which our Lord Iesus left unto his Church even the peace of God the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost to whom be all honour
and glory ascribed of men and Angels now and for ever Amen PSALME 126. A contemplation of the ioyes and blessings of them that depart hence in the Lord. EVENING PRAYER WHen the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion then were we like unto them that dreame 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with ioy 3 Then said they among the heathen The Lord hath done great things for them 4 Yea the Lord hath done great things for us already whereof we reioyce 5 Turne our captivity O Lord as the rivers in the south 6 They that sow in teares shall reap in ioy 7 He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth forth good seed shall doubtlesse come again with ioy and bring his sheaves with him The Prayer O Lord God who hast promised salvation to thy people and hast done great things for us already deliver us from the captivity and bondage of sinne and misery Fill our hearts with holy sorrow and compunction when ever we trespasse against thee and teach us so to deny our selves to mortifie our affections to crucifie our lusts and all the temptations of the flesh that we going on our way with mourning and weeping despising the pleasures of this life may when thy great harvest shall come and thy reapers the Angells shall separate the wheat from the tares come before thee with joy and bring our sheaves with us to be laid up in thy granary that so we may escape the everlasting burning through the mercies of Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 127. A Prayer for God's blessing to go along with the temporall good things he gives us EXcept the Lord build the house their labour is but lost that build it 2 Except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain 3 It is but lost labour that ye hast to rise up early and so late take rest and eat the bread of carefulnesse for so he giveth his beloved sleep 4 Lo children and the fruit of the wombe are an heritage and gift that commeth of the Lord. 5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant even so are the young children 6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate The Prayer O Lord God without whose blessing all our labours are vain and unprofitable and our possessions are but bitter and unpleasant let thy blessing be upon our labours and our substance our children and our dwelling that the good things of this life may be an heritage and gift from thee issues of thy favour and an earnest of a greater blessing make our soules diligent in thy service not importunate and greedy for the increase of riches let our dwellings be safe and peaceable and our families increase in thy blessings that we feeling the comforts of thy favour here may be stirted up to great desires after the blessings of eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 128. A Prayer for the feare of God and the blessings of the Godly BLessed are all they that feare the Lord and walk in his wayes 2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thine hands O well is thee and happy shalt thou be 3 Thy wife shall be as the fruitfull vine upon the walls of thine house 4 Thy children like the olive-branches round about thy table 5 Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. 6 The Lord from out of Sion shall so blesse thee that thou shalt see Ierusalem in prosperity all thy life long 7 Yea that thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israell The Prayer O Lord God who hast promised to multiply thy blessings upon them that feare thee teach us the feare of the Lord and let thy spirit so assist us that we may walke in thy wayes with great observation of all our actions and much diligence to performe thy holy will that we may receive the blessings of the righteous blessings of the right hand and of the left hand and may rejoyce in the blessing and peace of thy church waiting for the consummation of all blessing and peace in thy eternall Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 129. A Prayer against the enemies of the Church MAny a time have they fought against me from my youth up may Israell now say 2 Yea many a time have they vexed me from my youth up but they have not prevailed against mee 3 The plowers plowed upon my back and made long furrows 4 But the righteous Lord hath hewen the snares of the ungodly in pieces 5 Let them be confounded and turned backward as many as have evill will at Sion 6 Let them be even as the grasse growing upon the house tops which withereth afore it be plucked up 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosome 8 So that they which go by say not so much as the Lord prosper you we wish you good luck in the name of the Lord. The Prayer O Most blessed Jesu who for our sinnes didst suffer the plowers to plow upon thy back and make long furrows suffering shame and whipping for our sakes and all the contradictions of sinners and didst leave sorrows and afflictions intailed upon thy Church that by suffering with thee shee might at last raigne with thee in glory Deliver us and all thy holy Church from all that fight against us hew the snares of the ungodly in pieces let the designes of them that have evill will at thy Church be like the grasse growing upon the house tops withered and blasted before it comes to maturity and make us to prosper under thy mercies and in the good wishes and devout prayers of holy people through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 130. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for pardon and redemption from sinnes OUt of the deep have I called unto thee O Lord Lord hear my voyce 2 Oh let thine eares consider well the voyce of my complaint 3 If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it 4 For there is mercy with thee therefore shalt thou be feared 5 I look for the Lord my soul doth wait for him in his word is my trust 6 My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch I say before the morning watch 7 O Israell trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption 8 And he shall redeem Israell from all his sinnes The Prayer O Lord God blessed Iesu with whom is mercy and plentious redemption who didst redeem thy people from all their sinnes paying the ransome of thine own bloud to purchase us freedome and salvation let the height of thy mercy take us up from the deep abysse of sin and misery O be not extreme to marke what we have done amisse for it is impossible we should abide the extremity of thy