troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Lord Christ Priest O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee Let us pray WE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent Create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burthen of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into judgement with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make haste to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the people say this that followeth after the Minister TVrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy people Who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God Full of compassion Long-suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deserve punishment And in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them And let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great And after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us Through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty God and our most gracious Father the Soveraign Commander of all the world in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand Thou art the Lord of hosts the God of battels and the strength of all Nations If thou keepest not the City and the Kingdom the watchman waketh but in vain Nor can victory wait upon the justest Designs upon the wisest Counsels upon the strongest Armies unless thou teachest their hands to war and their fingers to fight Thou art the steddy Hope of all the ends of the earth and of them which remain in the broad Sea Go forth we humbly beseech thee at this time by thy more especial assistance with His Majesties Fleet and Naval Forces and bless them all Let thy mercies fill their Sails with prosperous gales and thine Almighty power be their sure Anchor-hold thy good Providence their Shield and their impregnable Defence In all their Counsels let Wisdom lead them in all their Enterprises Courage assist them and thy blessing every where crown them with victory and good success That so they may at last bring back Honour to our Soveraign safety and strengh to these His Kingdoms and to all his Subjects plenty and prosperity and a lasting peace and finally that by these and all thy mercies we may be still more engaged to a true and real thankfulness to thee our God such as may appear in our lives by an humble holy and obedient walking before thee all our days Grant this O merciful Father for thy Son Iesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer of S. Chrysostome ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen 2 Corinth 13. 14. THe grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen The Communion-Service ¶ The Priest standing at the North-side of the Lords Table shall say OVr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen ALmighty God unto whom all hearts be open all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy holy Spirit that we may perfectly love thee and worthily magnifie thy holy Name through Christ our Lord. Amen Minister GOd spake these words and said I am the Lord thy God Thou shalt have none other gods but me People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in
heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the water under the earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy son and thy daughter thy man-servant and thy maid-servant thy cattel and the stranger that is within thy gates For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt do no murther People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not commit adultery People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not steal People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife nor his servant nor his maid nor his ox nor his ass nor any thing that is his People Lord have mercy upon us and write all these thy laws in our hearts we beseech thee Let us pray ALmighty God whose kingdom is everlasting and power infinite have mercy upon the whole Church and so rule the heart of thy chosen servant Charles our King and Governour that he knowing whose Minister he is may above all things seek thy honour and glory And that we and all his subiects duly considering whose authority he hath may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed Word and Ordinance through Iesus Christ our Lord who with thee and the holy Ghost liveth and reigneth ever one God world without end Amen O Most glorious and powerful Lord God who alone hast spread out the heavens and compassed the waters with bounds until night and day come to an end at whose command the winds blow and who rulest the raging of the sea Thou art terrible in all thy works of wonder the great God to be feared above all We therefore adore thy divine Majesty acknowledging thy power and imploring thy goodness Be pleased to receive into thine Almighty and most gracious protection the persons of thy servants that fight for us and the Ships and Navies in which they serve preserve them all from the dangers of the sea and from the violence of the enemy and from every sad accident that they may be a safe-guard to our most gracious Soveraign and his Kingdoms and a security for such as pass on the seas upon their lawful occasions Help Lord and save them for thy mercies sake that they may return in safety with honour and victory and good success to enjoy the blessings of the land and the fruit of their labours and that all the inhabitants of these Islands being blest with plenty and prosperity peace and quietness may serve thee our God in righteousness and true holiness and with a thankful remembrance of all thy mercies may ever praise and glorifie thy holy Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty God King of all kings and Gevernour of all things whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners and to be merciful to them that truly repent Save and deliver us we humbly beseech thee from the hands of our enemies abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved evermore from all perils to glorifie thee who art the only giver of all victory through the merits of thy only Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes VI. 10. FInally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand Stand therefore having your loyns girt about with truth and having on the brest-plate of righteousness And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance The Gospel S. Matth. V. 1. ANd Iesus seeing the multitudes went up into a mountain and when he was set his disciples came unto him And he opened his mouth and taught them saying Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you I Believe in one God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible And in one Lord Iesus Christ the only begotten Son of God begotten
A FORM OF COMMON PRAYER To be used on Wednesday the 5th of April Being the day of the GENERAL FAST Appointed by His Majesties Proclamation for Imploring Gods blessing on His Majesties Naval Forces Set forth by His Majesties Authority LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1665. The Order for Morning Prayer ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice one or more of these sentences of Scripture and then say the Exhortation that followeth REnt your heart and not your Joel 2. 13 garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful flow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil To the Lord our God belong Dan. 9. 9 10. mercies and forgiveness though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his-laws which he set before us O Lord correct me but with judgement not in Jer. 10. 24. thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost shéep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord and grant O most merciful Father for his sake that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounc'd by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and begin the Lords Prayer the people also repeating it with him OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answ And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus shall be sung or said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and people O Come let us humble our selves before the Psal 95 6. Lord and fall down before him with reverence and fear For he is the Lord our God and we are the people 7. of his pasture and the sheep of his hands Let us repent and turn from our wickedness Act. 3. 19. and our sins shall be forgiven us For this shall every one that is godly make his Psal 32. 7. prayer unto thee O Lord in a time when thou mayest be found In my trouble I will call upon the Lord and Psal 18. 2. complain unto my God so shall I be safe from mine enemies So shall he hear my voice out of his holy temple 6. and my eomplaint shall come before him it shall enter even into his ears Hear my prayer O God and let my crying Ps 102. 1. come unto thee Thou art my King O God send help unto Jacob. Psal 44. 5. Through thee will we overthrow our enemies 6. and in thy Name will we tread them under that rise up against us For I will not trust in my bow it is not my 7. sword that shall help me But it is thou that savest us from our enemies 8. and puttest them to confusion that bare us There is no King that can be saved by the multitude Ps 33. 15. of an Host neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength Therefore in thee O Lord have I put my trust Ps 31. 1. let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousness Bow down thine ear to me and save me make 2. haste to deliver me I will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord Ps 18. 1. is my stony rock and my defence my Saviour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horn also of my salvation and my refuge Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that Ps 33. 17. fear him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy O be favourable and gracious unto Sion Ps 51. 28. build thou the walls of Ierusalem Let thy merciful
Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen The Order for Evening Prayer ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice one or more of these sentences of Scripture and then say the Exhortation that followeth REnt your heart and not your Joel 2. 13. garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil To the Lord our God belong Dan. 9. 9 10. mercies and forgiveness though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us O Lord correct me but with judgement not in Jer. 10. 24. thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost shéep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord and grant O most merciful Father for his sake that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounc'd by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and begin the Lords Prayer the people also repeating it with him OVr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answ And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus shall be sung or said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and people O Come let us humble our selves before the Psal 95. 6. Lord and fall down before him with reverence and fear For he is the Lord our God and we are the people 7. of his pasture and the sheep of his hands Let us repent and turn from our wickedness Act. 3. 19. and our sins shall be forgiven us For this shall every one that is godly make his Psal 32. 7. prayer unto thee O Lord in a time when thou mayest be found In my trouble I will call upon the Lord and Psal 18. 2. complain unto my God so shall I be safe from mine enemies So shall he hear my voice out of his holy temple 6. and my complaint shall come before him it shall enter even into his ears Hear my prayer O God and let my crying Ps 102. 1. come unto thee Thou art my King O God send help unto Jacob. Psal 44. 5. Through thee will we overthrow our enemies 6. and in thy Name will we tread them under that rise up against us For I will not trust in my bow it is not my 7. sword that shall help me But it is thou that savest us from our enemies 8. and puttest them to confusion that hate us There is no King that can be saved by the multitude Ps 33. 16. of an Host neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength Therefore in thee O Lord have I put my trust Ps 31. 1. let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousness Bow down thine ear to me and save me make 2. haste to deliver me I will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord Ps 18. 1. is my stony rock and my defence my Saviour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horn also of my salvation and my refuge Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Ps 33. 17. him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy O be favourable and gracious unto Sion Ps 51. 18. build thou the walls of Ierusalem Let thy merciful kindness O Lord be upon us Ps 33. 21. like as we do put our trust in thee Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall
be world without end Amen Domine refugium Psal 90. LOrd thou hast béen our refuge from one generation to another Before the mountains were brought forth or ever the earth and the world were made thou art God from everlasting and world without end Thou turnest man to destruction again thou fayest Come again ye children of men For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday seeing that is past as a watch in the night Assoon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass In the morning it is green and groweth up but in the evening it is cut down dried up and withered For we consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance For when thou art angry all our days are gone we bring our years to an end as it were a tale that is told The days of our age are threescore years and ten and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow so soon rasseth it away and we are gone But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth so is thy displeasure So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom Turn thée again O Lord at the last and be gracious unto thy servants O satisfie us with thy mercy and that soon so shall we rejoyce and be glad all the days of our life Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity Shew thy servants thy work and their children thy glory And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us prosper thou the work of our hands upon us O prosper thou our handy-work Qui habitat Psal 91. WHoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty I will say unto the Lord Thou art my hope and my strong hold my God in him will I trust For he shall deliver thée from the snare of the hunter and from the noisome pestilente He shall defend thee under his wings and thou shalt be safe under his fearhers his faithfulness and trust shall be thy shield and buckler Thou shalt not be afraid for any terrour by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day For the pestilence that walketh in darkness nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon day A thousand shall fall beside thee and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thée Yea with thine eyes snalt thou behold and see the reward of the ungodly For thou Lord art my hope thou hast set thine house of defence very high There shall no evil happen unto thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thée in all thy wayes They shall hear thée in their hands that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy féet Because he hath set his love upon me therefore will I deliver him I will set him up because he hath known my Name He shall call upon me and I will hear him yea I am with him in trouble I will deliver him and bring him to honour With long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation Benedictus Dominus Psal 144. BLessed be the Lord my strength who teacheh my hands to war and my fingers to fight My hope and my fortress my castle and deliverer my defender in whom I trust who subdueth my people that is under me Lord what is man that thou hast such respect unto him or the son of man that thou so regardest him Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth away like a shadow Bow thy heavens O Lord and come down touch the mountains and they shall smoke Cast forth thy lightning and tear them shoot out thine arrows and consume them Send down thine hand from above deliver me and take me out of the great waters from the hand of strange children Whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of wickedness I will sing a new song unto thee O God and sing praises unto thée upon a ten-stringed lute Thou hast given victory unto kings and hast delivered David thy servant from the peril of the sword 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 That our sons may grow up as the young plants and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple That our garners may be full and plenteous with all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no decay no leading into captivity and no complaining in our stréets Happy are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God The first Lesson is Exod. 17. 8. THen came Amalek and fought with Israel in Rephidim And Moses said unto Ioshua Chuse us out men and go out fight with Amalek to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand So Ioshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek and Moses Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed And when he let down his hand Amalek prevailed But Moses hands were heavy and they took a stone and put it under him and he sare thereon and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands the one on the one side and the other on the other side and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun And Ioshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword And the Lord said unto Moses write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of Ioshua for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven And Moses built an altar and called the name of it IEHOVAH-nissi For he said Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation Magnificat MY soul doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour For he hath regarded the lowliness of his hand-maiden For behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed For he that is mighty hath magnified me and holy is his Name And his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations He hath shewed strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts He hath put down the
holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these Prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and people shall say the Lords prayer with a loud voice OVr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen ¶ Then the priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Priest O Lord save thy servants Answer Who do put their trust in thée Priest Send us help from thy holy place Answer And evermore mightily defend us Priest Let the enemy have no advantage over us Answer Nor the wicked approach to hurt us Priest Be unto us O Lord a strong Tower Answer From the face of our enemies Priest O Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answer And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God Priest O God make clean our hearts within us Answer And take not thy holy Spirit from us ¶ In stead of the first Collect shall these two be used O Most glorious and powerful Lord God who alone hast spread out the heavens and compassed the waters with bounds until night and day come to an end at whose command the winds blow and who rulest the raging of the sea Thou art terrible in all thy works of wonder the great God to be feared above all We therefore adore thy divine Majesty acknowledging thy power and imploring thy goodness Be pleased to receive into thine Almighty and most gracious protection the persons of thy servants that fight for us and the Ships and Navies in which they serve preserve them all from the dangers of the sea and from the violence of the enemy and from every sad accident that they may be a safe-guard to our most gracious Soveraign and his Kingdoms and a security for such as pass on the seas upon their lawful occasions Help Lord and save them for thy mercies sake that they may return in safety with honour and victory and good success to enjoy the blessings of the land and the fruit of their labours and that all the inhabitants of these Islands being blest with plenty and prosperity peace and quietness may serve thee our God in righteousness and true holiness and with a thankful remembrance of all thy mercies may ever praise and glorifie thy holy Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty God King of all kings and Governour of all things whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners and to be merciful to them that truly repent Save and deliver us we humbly beseech thee from the hands of our enemies abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved evermore from all perils to glorifie thee who art the only giver of all victory through the merits of thy only Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all just works do procéed Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the merits of Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen LIghten our darkness we beséech thée O Lord and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent Create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burthen of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into judgement with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make vaste to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the people say this that followeth after the Minister TVrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy people Who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God Full of compassion Long-suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deserve punishment And in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them And let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great And after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us Through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Majesty O Lord our heavenly Father High and Mighty King of Kings Lord of Lords the onely Ruler of Princes who dost from thy Throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alway incline to thy Will and walk in thy way endue him plenteously with heavenly gifts grant him in health and wealth long to live
mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble and méek He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away He remembring his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel as he promised to our forefathers Abraham and his séed for ever Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The second Lesson is Hebrews 11. NOw faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen For by it the elders obtained a good report Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice then Cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gifts and by it he being dead yet speaketh By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death and was not found because God had translated him for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God But without faith it is impossible to please him for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house by the which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith By faith Abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance obeyed and he went out not knowing whither he went By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange countrey dwelling in tabernacles with Isaat and Iacob the heirs with him of the same promise For he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God Through faith also Sara her self received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age because she judged him faithful who had promised Therefore sprang there even of one and him as good as dead so many as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable These all died in faith not having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were perswaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a countrey And truly if they had been mindful of that countrey from whence they came out they might have had opportunity to have returned But now they desire a better countrey that is an heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a city By faith Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaat and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son Of whom it was said that in Isaat shall thy seed be called Accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure By faith Isaat blessed Iacob and Esau concerning things to come By faith Iacob when he was a dying blessed both the sons of Ioseph and worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff By faith Ioseph when he died made mention of the departing of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones By faith Moses when he was born was hid three moneths of his parents because they saw he was a proper child and they not afraid of the kings commandment By faith Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter Chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasures in Egypt for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward By faith he forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as seeing him who is invisible Through faith he kept the passeover and the sprinkling of blood lest he that destroyed the first-born should touch them By faith they passed thorow the Red-sea as by dry land which the Egptians assaying to do were drowned By faith the walls of Iericho fell down after they were compassed about seven days By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not when she had received the spies with peace And what shall I more say for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon and of Barak and of Samson and of Iephtha of David also and Samuel and of the prophets Who through faith subdued kingdoms wrought righteousness obtained promises stopped the mouths of lions Quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword out of weakness were made strong waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliens Women received their dead raised to life again and others were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment They were stoned they were sawen asunder were tempted were stain with the sword they wandered about in shéep-skins and goat-skins being destitute afflicted tormented Of whom the world was not worthy they wandred in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth And these all having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise God having provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect Deus misereatur Psal 67. GOd be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance and be merciful unto us That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee O let the nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the nations upon earth Let the people praise thée O God let all the people praise thée Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing God shall bless us and all the ends of the world shall fear him Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said the Creed by the Minister and the people standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the