my prayer is unto thee O Lord in an acceptable time O God in the multitude of thy mercy hear me in the truth of thy salvation 14 Deliver me out of the mire and let me not sink let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters 15 Let not the water-flood overflow me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me 16 Hear me O Lord for thy loving kindnesse is good turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies 17 And hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble hear me speedily 18 Draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it deliver me because of mine enemies 19 Thou hast known my reproch and my shame and my dishonour mine adversaries are all before thee 20 Reproch hath broken my heart and I am full of heavinesse and I looked for some to take pity but there was none and for comforters but I found none 21 They gave me also gall for my meat and in my thirst they gave me vineger to drink 22 Let their table become a snare before them and that which should have been for their welfare let it become a trap 23 Let their eyes be darkened that they see not and make their loyns continually to shake 24 Poure out thine indignation upon them and let thy wrathfull anger take hold of them 25 Let their habitation be desolate and let none dwell in their tents 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded 27 Adde iniquity to their iniquity and let them not come into thy righteousnesse 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous 29 But I am poor and sorrowfull let thy salvation O God set me up on high 30 I will praise the name of God with a song and will magnifie him with thanksgiving 31 This also shall please the Lord better then an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs 32 The humble shall see this and be glad and your heart shall live that seek God 33 For the Lord heareth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners 34 Let the heaven and the earth praise him the seas and every thing that moveth therein 35 For God will save Sion and will build the cities of Judah that they may dwell there and have it in possession 36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein PSAL. LXX David prayes for speedy deliverance from the party of Absalom that they may be confounded that all the just may rejoyce in God who is their deliverer and defence MAke haste O God to deliver me make haste 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 desire my hurt 3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say Aha aha 4 Let all those that seek thee rejoyce and be glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say continually Let God be magnified 5 But I am poor and needy make haste unto me O God thou art my help and my deliverer O Lord make no tarrying Mo. pr. PSAL. LXXI David expresse his trust to be in God who was his hope from his childhood prayes for defence in his old age prays against his enemies relies upon God confesses that by him he hath had salvation all his life he praises God for it IN thee O Lord do I put my trust let me never be put to confusion 2 Deliver me in thy righteousness and cause me to escape incline thine eare unto me and save me 3 Be thou my strong habitation whereunto I may continually resort thou hast given commandment to save me for thou art my rock and my fortresse 4 Deliver me O my God out of the hand of the wicked out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man 5 For thou art my hope O Lord God thou art my trust from my youth 6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb thou art he that took me out of my mothers bowels my praise shall be continually of thee 7 I am as a wonder unto many but thou art my strong refuge 8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day 9 Cast me not off in the time of old age forsake me not when my strength faileth 10 For mine enemies speak against me and they that lay wait for my soul take counsell together 11 Saying God hath forsaken him persecute and take him for there is none to deliver him 12 O God be not far from me O my God make haste for my help 13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul let them be covered with reproch and dishonour that seek my hurt 14 But I will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more 15 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousnesse and thy salvation all the day for I know not the numbers thereof 16 I will goe in the strength of the Lord God I will make mention of thy righteousnesse even of thine onely 17 O God thou hast taught me from my youth and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works 18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded O God forsake me not untill I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to every one that is to come 19 Thy righteousnesse also O God is very high who hast done great things O God who is like unto thee 20 Thou which hast shewed me great sore troubles shalt quicken me again shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth 21 Thou shalt increase my greatnesse cōfort me on every side 22 I will also praise thee with the psalterie even thy truth O my God unto thee will I sing with the harp O thou holy one of Israel 23 My lips shall greatly rejoyce when I sing unto thee and my soul which thou hast redeemed 24 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousnesse all the day long for they are confounded for they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt PSAL. LXXII David being neer his death prayes for a prosperous reign to his son Solomon instructs him in the duty of a king it is Propheticall of Christs Kingdome GIve the king thy judgments O God and thy righteousnesse unto the kings son 2 He shall judge thy people with righteousnesse and thy poor with judgment 3 The mountains shal bring peace to the people and the little hils by righteousnesse 4 He shall judge the poor of the people he shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppressour 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations 6 He shal come down like rain upon the mown grasse
When I said My foot slippeth thy mercy O Lord held me up 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which frameth mischief by a law 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous condemn the innocent blood 22 But the Lord is my defence and my God is the rock of my refuge 23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity and shall cut them off in their own wickednesse yea the Lord our God shall cut them off Mo. Pr. PSAL. XCV An invitation to the worship and the service of God to a speedy repentance The example of obâ— durate and impenitent persons Gods wâ—ath and zeale against them O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us make a joyfull noise to the rock of our salvation 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and make a joyfull noise unto him with psalms 3 For the Lord is a great God and a great king above all Gods 4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth the strength of the hills is his also 5 The sea is his and he made it and his hands formed the drie land 6 O come let us worship bow down let us kneel before the Lord our maker 7 For he is our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand to day if ye will hear his voice 8 Harden not your heart as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse 9 When your fathers tempted me proved me and saw my work 10 Fourty years long was I grieved with this generation and said It is a people that do erre in their heart and they have not known my wayes 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest PSAL. XCVI Jewes and Gentiles are invited to praise God a prophesie of Christs kingdome and of his coming to judgement O Sing unto the Lord a new song sing unto the Lord all the earth 2 Sing unto the Lord blesse his name shew forth his salvation from day to day 3 Declare his glory among the heathen his wonders among all people 4 For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised he is to be feared above all gods 5 For all the gods of the nations are idols but the Lord made the heavens 6 Honour and majesty are before him strength and beauty are in his sanctuary 7 Give unto the Lord O ye kindreds of the people give unto the Lord glory strength 8 Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name bring an offering and come into his courts 9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse fear before him all the earth 10 Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved he shall judge the people righteously 11 Let the heavens rejoyce let the earth be glad let the sea roar and the fulness thereof 12 Let the field be joyful all that is therein then shall all the trees of the wood rejoyce 13 Before the Lord for he cometh for he cometh to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousnesse and the people with his truth PSAL. XCVII A prophetical description of the day of judgment a curse to idolaters an exhortation to good life the joyes of the Godly THe Lord reigneth let the earth rejoyce let the multitude of isles be glad thereof 2 Clouds and darknesse are round about him righteousnesse and judgement are the habitation of his throne 3 A fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about 4 His lightnings enlightened the world the earth saw and trembled 5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth 6 The heavens declare his righteousnesse and all the people see his glory 7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images that boast themselves of idols worship him all ye Gods 8 Sion heard and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoyced because of thy judgements O Lord. 9 For thou Lord art high ahove all the earth thou art exalted far above all gods 10 Ye that love the Lord hate evill he preserveth the souls of his saints he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked 11 Light is sown for the righteous and gladnesse for the upright in heart 12 Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thanks at the remembrance of his holinesse Ev. 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XCVIII A hymne of glorification of Christ triumphing over his enemies and giviâ—g judgement against them O Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory 2 The Lord hath made known his salvation his righteousnesse hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen 3 He hath remembred his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God 4 Make a joyfull noise unto the Lord all the earth make a loud noise and rejoyce and sing praise 5 Sing unto the Lord with the harp with the harp and the voice of a psalme 6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyfull noise before the Lord the king 7 Let the sea roar and the fulnesse thereof the world and they that dwell therein 8 Let the flouds clap their hands let the hills be joyfull together 9 Before the Lord for he cometh to judge the earth with righteousnesse shall he judge the world and the people with equity PSAL. XCIX The glory of the kingdome of Christ his justice and his power his mercifulnesse and his praise THe Lord reigneth let the people treÌ„ble he sitteth between the cherubims let the earth be moved 2 The Lord is great in Zion and he is high above all people 3 Let them praise thy great terrible name for it is holy 4 The Kings strength also loveth judgement thou dost establish equity thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. 5 Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his footstool for he is holy 6 Moses and Aaron among his Priests and Samuel among them that call upon his name they called upon the Lord and he answered them 7 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar they kept his testimonies and the ordinance that he gave them 8 Thou answeredst them O Lord our God thou wast a God that forgavest them though thou tookest vengeance on their inventions 9 Exalt the Lord our God and worship at his holy hill for the Lord our God is holy PSAL. C. A glorification of God a commemoration of his excellencies his truth and his mercy MAke a joyful noise unto the Lord all ye lands 2 Serve the Lord with gladness come before his presence with singing 3 Know ye that the Lord he is God
it is he that hath made us and not we our selves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankfull unto him and bless his name 5 For the Lord is good his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth to all generations PSAL. CI. David being newly made King promises to reign in righteousnesse and holiness that he will entertain none but good men to his counsel and employments that he will do justice upon the evil doers I Will sing of mercy and judgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 I will behave my selfe wisely in a perfect way O when wilt thou come unto me I will walk within thy house with a perfect heart 3 I will set no wicked thing before my eyes I hate the work of them that turn aside it shall not cleave to me 4 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour him will I cut off him that hath an high look and and a proud heart will not I suffer 6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwel with me he that walketh in a perfect way he shall serve me 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight 8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord. 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CII The Psalmist prayes to God in behalfe of the Jewes in their captivity describes their calamity foretells their return speedily he complains of their enemies he prayes to be preserved from an untimely and an hasty death The mortality of the Heavens and the eternity of God HEare my prayer O Lord and let my cry come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble encline thine ear unto me in the day when I call answer me speedily 3 For my dayes are consumed like smoke and my bones are burnt as an hearth 4 My heart is smitten and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin 6 I am like a pellican of the wilderness I am like an owle of the desart 7 I watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top 8 Mine enemies reproch me all the day and they that are mad against me are sworn against me 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping 10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down 11 My dayes are like a shadow that declineth and I am withered like grass 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever thy remembrance unto all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to favour her yea the set time is come 14 For thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof 15 So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord and all the kings of the earth thy glory 16 When the Lord shall build up Zion he shall appear in his glory 17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer 18 This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary from heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner to loose those that are appointed to death 21 To declare the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdomes to serve the Lord. 23 He weakened my strength in the way he shortened my dayes 24 I said O my God take me not away in the midst of my dayes thy yeares are throughout all generations 25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands 26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure yea all of them shall wax old like a garment as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed 27 But thou art the same and thy yeares shall have no end 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be established before thee PSAL. CIII A celebration of the Divine mercies and bounty his great readinesse to forgive the vanity of mans life the permanent goodness of God to his servants the praises of God BLess the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name 2 Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases 4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction who crowneth thee with loving kindness tender mercies 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles 6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgement for all that are oppressed 7 He made known his wayes unto Moses his acts unto the children of Israel 8 The Lord is merciful and gracious slow to anger and plenteous in mercy 9 He will not alwayes chide neither will he keep his anger for ever 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy toward them that fear him 12 As far as the east is from the west so far hath he removed our transgressions from us 13 Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them that fear him 14 For he knoweth our frame he remembreth that we are dust 15 As for man his daies are as grass as a flower of the field so he flourisheth 16 For the wind passeth over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that feare him and his righteousness unto childrens children 18 To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his commandements to do them 19 The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens and his kingdom ruleth over all 20 Bless the Lord ye his angels that excell in strength that doe his commandments hearkening unto the voice of his word 21 Bless ye the Lord all ye his hosts ye ministers of his that do his pleasure 22 Bless the Lord all his works in all places of his dominion bless the Lord O my soul. Ev. Pr. PSAL. CIV A psalm celebrating the honour of God in the fabrick the beauty the order the government of the world declaring the goodness the wisdom â—the omnipotence and omnipresence of God BLess the Lord O my soul O Lord my God thou art very great thou art clothed with honour and majesty 2 Who coverest
My soul waiteth for the Lord more then they that watch for the morning I say more then they that watch for the morning 7 Let Israel hope in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption 8 And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities PSAL. CXXXI David being accused by Sauls servants that be aspir'd to the Kingdom protests his innocence his humble thoughts and meek deportment he calls on all to trust in God LOrd my heart is not haughty nor mine eyes lofty neither do I exercise my self in great matters or in things too high for me 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted my self as a child that is weaned of his mother my soul is even as a weaned child 3 Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for ever Mo. Pr. PSAL. CXXXII David hâ—ving vowed to build a Temple to God was not permitted but the place was shewn to him where his son should build it he prepares this psalm for the dedication of it prophecies of the stability of Christs Church and the blessings of his Ministers and people LOrd remember David and all his afflictions 2 How he sware unto the Lord and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob. 3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house nor go up into my bed 4 I will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eye-lids 5 Untill I find out a place for the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob 6 Lo we heard of it at Ephratah we found it in the fields of the wood 7 We will go into his tabernacles we will worship at his footstool 8 Arise O Lord into thy rest thou the ark of thy strength 9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousnesse and let thy saints shout for joy 10 For thy servant Davids sake turn not away the face of thine anointed 11 The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David he will not turn from it Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne 12 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore 13 For the Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it for his habitation 14 This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it 15 I will abundantly blesse her provision I will satisfie her poor with bread 16 I will also clothe her priests with salvation and her saints shall shout aloud for joy 17 There will I make the horn of David to bud I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed 18 His enemies will I clothe with shame but upon himself shall his crown flourish PSAL. CXXXIII The amability of peace and the blessings of Christian unity are describ'd BEhold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity 2 It is like the precious oyntment upon the head that ran down upon the beard even Aarons beard that went down to the skirts of his garment 3 As the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion for there the Lord commanded the blessing even life for evermore PSAL. CXXXIV An exhortation to the Ministers of Religion to attend to their appointed houres of prayer BEhold blesse ye the Lord all ye servants of the Lord which by night stand in the house of the Lord. 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and blesse the Lord. 3 The Lord that made heaven earth blesse thee out of Zion PSAL. CXXXV The Ministers of Religion are further called upon to attend to the recitation of the Divine praises by arguments drawn from consideration of the works of God from the greatnesse of his name from his justice to all and his loving kindnesse to his servants the vanity of Idols and their worshippers PRaise ye the Lord praise ye the name of the Lord praise him O ye servants of the Lord. 2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord in the courts of the house of our God 3 Praise ye the Lord for the Lord is good sing praises unto his name for it is pleasant 4 For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself and Israel for his peculiar treasure 5 For I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is above all gods 6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in heaven and in earth in the seas and all deep places 7 He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth he maketh lightnings for the rain he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries 8 Who smote the first-born of Egypt both of man and beast 9 Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee O Egypt upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants 10 Who smote great nations and slew mighty kings 11 Sihon king of the Amorites and Og king of Bashan and all the kingdoms of Canaan 12 And gave their land for an heritage an heritage unto Israel his people 13 Thy name O Lord endureth for ever and thy memoriall O Lord throughout all generations 14 For the Lord will judge his people and he will repent himself concerning his servants 15 The idols of the heathen are silver and gold the work of mens hands 16 They have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not 17 They have eares but they hear not neither is there any breath in their mouthes 18 They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them 19 Blesse the Lord O house of Israel blesse the Lord O house of Aaron 20 Blesse the Lord O house of Levi ye that fear the Lord blesse the Lord. 21 Blessed be the Lord out of Zion which dwelleth at Jerusalem Praise ye the Lord. 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CXXXVI The people of God are called upon to confesse the greatnesse and goodnesse the providence and mercy of the Lord by arguments taken from the works of God to the children of Israel and to all the world all Gods works are in mercy This mercy is Eternall O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever 2 O give thanks unto the God of gods for his mercy endureth for ever 3 O give thanks to the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever 4 To him who alone doth great wonders for his mercy endureth for ever 5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens for his mercy endureth for ever 6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters for his mercy endureth for ever 7 To him that made great lights for his mercy endureth for ever 8 The sun to rule by day for his mercy endureth for ever 9 The moon and stars to rule by night for his mercy endureth for ever 10 To him that smote Egypt in their first-born for his mercy endureth for ever 11 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for ever 12
our daughters may be as corner-stones polished after the similitude of a palace 13 That our garners may be full affording 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 breaking in nor going out that there be no complaining in our streets 15 Happy is that people that is in such a case yea happy is that people whose God is the Lord. PSAL. CXLV This Psalm is part of the Allelujah it is wholly a celebration of the Divine praises from the greatnesse of God his infinite power his immense Majesty his goodnesse his clemency his justice his providence and bounty and his readinesse to hear the prayers of them that fear him I Will extoll thee my God O King and I will blesse thy name for ever and ever 2 Every day will I blesse thee and I will praise thy name for ever and ever 3 Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatnesse is unsearchable 4 One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works 6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and I will declare thy greatnesse 7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodnesse and shall sing of thy righteousnesse 8 The Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercy 9 The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works 10 All thy works shal praise thee O Lord and thy saints shal blesse thee 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdome and talk of thy power 12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdome 13 Thy kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations 14 The Lord upholdeth all that fall and raiseth up all those that be bowed down 15 The eyes of all wait upon thee thou givest them their meat in due season 16 Thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing 17 The Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his works 18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him to all that call upon him in truth 19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will save them 20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him but all the wicked will he destroy 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh blesse his holy name for ever and ever PSAL. CXLVI An exhortation to praise God in him alone we are to trust he is the Creator of all his truth is eternall he is just bountifull and gracious and King for ever PRaise ye the Lord praise the Lord O my soul. 2 While I live will I praise the Lord I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being 3 Put not your trust in Princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no help 4 His breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the Lord his God 6 Which made heaven and earth the sea and all that therein is which keepeth truth for ever 7 Which executeth judgement for the oppressed which giveth food to the hungry the Lord looseth the prisoners 8 The Lord openeth eyes of the blinde the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down the Lord loveth the righteous 9 The Lord preserveth the strangers he relieveth the fatherless and widow but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down 10 The Lord shall reign for ever even thy God O Zion unto all generations Praise ye the Lord. 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CXLVII An exhortation to recite Gods praises from the consideration of his blessings to his people his defence and establishment of them his power and wisdome manifested in the heavens his care over all the creatures men and beasts from summer and winter and especially from consideration of the excellency of his Law and of his Word communicated to his people PRaise ye the Lord for it is good to sing praises unto our God for it is pleasant praise is comely 2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel 3 He healeth the broken in heart bindeth up their wounds 4 He telleth the number of the stars he calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and of great power his understanding is infinite 6 The Lord lifteth up the meek he casteth the wicked down to the ground 7 Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving sing praises upon the harp unto our God 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds who prepareth rain for the earth who maketh grasse to grow upon the mountains 9 He giveth to the beast his food and to the young ravens which cry 10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man 11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his mercy 12 Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion 13 For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates he hath blessed thy children within thee 14 He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth his word runneth very swiftly 16 He giveth snow like wool he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels who can stand before his cold 18 He sendeth out his word and melteth them he causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow 19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgements unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgements they have not known them Praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CXLVIII All the Creation in the severall ranks of creatures is called upon to be instrumental in the celebration of the Divine praises PRaise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens praise him in the heights 2 Praise ye him all his angels praise ye him all his hosts 3 Praise ye him sun and moon praise him all ye stars of light 4 Praise him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters that be above the heavens 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord for he commanded and they were created 6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever he hath made a decree which shall not passe 7 Praise the Lord from the Earth ye dragons and all deeps 8 Fire and hail snow and vapour stormy wind fulfilling his word 9 Mountains and all hills fruitfull trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattell creeping things and flying fowl 11 Kings of the earth
food and raiment the light of thy countenance and contented spirits and thy grace to seeke the Kingdom of heaven and the righteousnesse thereof in the first place and then we are sure all these things shall be added unto us Grant the desires and heare the prayer of thy servants for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely saviour Amen Or this upon the same occasion or in the time of any other judgement ALmighty Father Lord of Heaven Earth we have sinned and thou hast smitten us al our evils that we suffer are drawne upon our heads by our owne impious hands let thy threatnings and thy judgments thy love and thy feare thy promises and thy precepts worke in thy servants an excellent repentance and let our repentance obtaine thy favour and thy favour remove the present evil of Drowth of immoderate raine of Murren of Plague of Warre of Sicknesse from us according to the present occasion sanctify unto us thy rod and support us with thy staffe and restore us to those comforts which we need and which thou hast promised to give to them that love and feare thee that repent of their sins and beg for pardon through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A shorter forme of Morning prayer for a Family A more private office for the family to be said betimes in the Morning on Sundaies or at any houre of the morning upon the other daies of the weeke In the name of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father c. The morning Hymne * HEarken unto the voice of my cry my King and my God for unto thee will I pray ¶ My voice shalt thou hear in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will looke up * Great is our Lord and greatly to be praised his eyes are ever upon the righteous and his ears are open unto their cry ¶ Thy mercy O Lord is in the heavens and thy faithfulnesse reacheth unto the clouds * Thy righteousnesse is like the great mountaines thy judgements are a great deep O Lord thou preservest both man and beast ¶ How excellent is thy loving-kindnesse O Lord therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings * For with thee is the fountaine of life in thy light we shall see light ¶ According to thy name O God so is thy praise to the ends of the earth thy right hand is full of righteousnesse * The Lord the Lord God is mercifull and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and that will by no means clear the guilty ¶ What is man that thou shouldest magnifie him and that thou shouldest set thy heart upon him * And that thou shouldest visit him every morning and try him every moment ¶ If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes and make thy supplication to the Almighty * If thou wert pure and upright surely now he would awake for thee and make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous ¶ O Lord be gracious unto us we have waited for thee be thou our arme every morning our salvation also in the time of trouble * O send out thy light and thy truth let them lead me let them bring me to thy holy hill unto thy dwelling ¶ O put your trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption he shall redeem his people from their sins * Then shall their light breake forth as the morning and their health shall spring forth speedily for the glory of the Lord shall be their reward 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 If there be time and conveniency let a chapter be read out of the Sapiential bookes in order viz. The proverbs of Solomon Ecclesiastes the Wisedome of Solomon Ecclesiasticus Then shall follow the Creed To be said by all together I Beleeve in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth * And in Jesus Christ his onely son our Lord * which was conceived by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary * suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried* He descended into hell * The third day he rose againe 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 quicke and the Dead * I believe in the holy Ghost * The holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints * the forgivenesse of sins * the resurrection of the body * and the life everlasting Amen Minister The Lord be with you People And with thy spirit I. Let us pray O Eternall and most blessed Saviour Jesus thou art the bright morning star and the sun of righteousnesse thou dost enlighten our eyes with thy beauties and our hearts with thy comfort and with the joyes of God thou art the fountaine of health and life of peace and truth of rest and holinesse thou givest to them that want thou comfortest them that suffer thou forgivest them that repent and hearest the prayers of all them that call upon thee we adore thee and praise thy glories and rejoyce in thy salvation and give thee thanks for thy blessing and defending us this night from all the evill which we have deserved every day and from all the violences and snares by which the enemie of mankind would have hurt us or destroyed us unlesse he had been restrained by thy eternall goodnesse and thy almighty power Blessed be God II. We acknowledge O God and Father of our life that we are lesse then the least of all thy mercies and our iniquity is greater then we can bear our thoughts are vaine our words are foolish and uselesse injurious and uncharitable our actions criminall and hatefull our devotion cold our passions violent and unreasonable our duties imperfect our repentance little our holinesse none at all O God our Judge we confesse before thee that we neither know thee as we ought nor have taken care that we might we live in the world to our selves but without just regards of thee and of religion we daily receive thy blessings and yet we provoke thee every day we tremble not at thy judgements though we have deserved them nor fear till the evil day comes upon us we are greedy of doing evill but impatient of suffering any in prosperity we forget thy severity and justice in afflictions we are timorous and amazed dare not relie upon thy goodnesse nor with confidence and love expect the effects of thy mercies and forgivenesse Every thing can tempt us to sin and we fall infallibly but by all the arts of thy Spirit and the methods of thy mercy we are not brought to obey thee as we ought Our state is sad our condition is sinfull our hopes are broken and we
eternal anger for thy promise sake and for thy glorious Names sake O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then all rising up There shall be made a collection for the poor by the Deacon or Clerk while the Minister reads some of these sentences or makes an exhortatation to charity and almes TO doe good and to distribute forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Hebr. 13. 16. Blessed is he that considereth the poor and needy the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the earth and thou wilt not deliver him into the will of his Enemies The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness Psal. 41. 1 2 3. He which soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver 2 Cor. 9. 6 7. Make to your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations Luke 16. 9. Give almes of such things as ye have and behold all things are clean unto you Lu. 11. 41. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed children of my Father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in Naked and ye cloathed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me Matth. 25. 34 35. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap Gal. 6. 6 7. If there be none fit to gather the Minister himself shall gather it And when he hath done or received it from the hand of him that gathered it let him in an humble manner present it to God laying it on the Communion table secretly and devoutly saying LORD accept the oblation and almes of thy people and remember thy servants for this thing at the day of Judgement Then shall follow the address to the H. Mysteries the poeple shall come up to the H. Table where it is the custome or neer it where it is most fit to communicate and then The Minister shall say Let us pray O God who by thy unspeakable mercy hast sent thy onely begotten Son into the world that he might bring the wandring sheep into his fold turn not away from us miserable sinners who worship and invocate thee in these Holy Mysteries For we doe not approach to thee in our own righteousness but in the hope and confidence of that glorious mercy by which thou hast sent thy holy Son to redeem miserable and lost Mankind We humbly beseech thee to grant that these mysteries which thou hast ordein'd to be ministeries of salvation to us may not become an occasion of our condemnation but of pardon of our sins of the renovation of our souls of the sanctification and preservation of our bodies that we may become well pleasing to thee our God in the obedience of our Lord Jesus with whom and with thy holy Spirit thou reignest over all one God Blessed for evermore Amen Minister Lift up your hearts People We lift them up unto the Lord. Minister Let us give thanks unto our Lord God People It is just and right so to doe Minister It is indeed truly just righteous and fitting to praise and to glorifie to worship and adore to give thanks and to magnifie thee the great Maker of all creatures visible and invisible the treasure of all good temporal and eternal The fountain of all life mortal and immortal The Lord and God of all things in Heaven and Earth the great Father of his Servants the great Master of his Children The Heavens and the Heaven of Heavens and every power therein the Sun and the Moon and all the starres of the sky the sea and the earth the heights above and the depths below Jerusalem that is from above the Congregation celestial the Church of the first-born written in the Heavens the spirits of the Prophets and of just men made perfect the souls of the Apostles and all holy Martyrs Angels and Arch-angels Thrones and Dominions Principalities and Powers the spirits of Understanding and the spirits of Love with never ceasing Hymns and perpetual Anthemes cry out Night and Day Holy holy holy Lord God of Hosts Heaven and Earth are full of thy glory Hosanna Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest Here beginneth the COMMUNION After a decent pause for short Meditation The Minister shall with a loud voice say Our Father c. And then this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Denunciation LET all corruptible flesh be silent and stand with fear and trembling and think within it self nothing that is earthly nothing that is unholy The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords Christ our God comes down from Heaven unto us and gives himself to be meat for the souls of all faithful people * All the glorious companies of Angels behold this and wonder and love and worship Jesus Every throne and Dominion the cherubims with many eyes and the Seraphims with many wings cover their faces before the majesty of his glory and sing a perpetual song for ever Allelujah Allelujah Globe to God on high and in earth peace good will towards men Allelujah Then shall follow this Prayer of Consecration to be said by the Minister standing I. HAve mercy upon us O Heavenly Father according to thy glorious mercies and promises send thy Holy Ghost upon our hearts and let him also descend upon these gifts that by his good his holy his glorious presence he may sanctifie and enlighten our hearts and he may blesse and sanctifie these gifts That this Bread may become the Holy Body of Christ. Amen And this Chalice may become the life-giving Bloud of Christ. Amen That it may become unto us all that partake of it this day a Blessed instrument of Union with Christ of pardon and peace of health and blessing of holinesse and life Eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. Holy and blessed art thou O king of Eternal ages fountain and giver of all righteousness * Holy art thou the eternal and onely begotten son of God our Lord Jesus Christ Redeemer of the world * Holy art thou O Blessed Spirit that searchest all things even the depths and hidden things of God Thou O God art Almighty thou art Good and gracious Dreadful and venerable Holy and merciful to the work of thine own hands Thou didst make man according to thine image thou gavest him the riches and the rest of Paradise
west for thou didst send thy most holy Son to die for us and redeem us from all the powers of sin and hell thou knowest whereof we were made and remembrest that we are but dust O doe not visit her sins upon her by a hasty death but manifest thy mercies and thy pardon by giving her a mighty grace that she may live a holy life and be pleas'd to grant this also that those impresses of pious resolutions and religious purposes of fear and love of hope and desire which thy grace in the circumstances of her present condition makes upon her may abide in her soul for ever and in the daies of ease and safety may be as operative and productive of holiness as now they are of a hearty prayer and passionate desires for thy mercies upon her in a safe and blessed child-birth V. LORD bless her child grant it may be born with a right shape and a perfect body with a comely countenance and streight limbs with intire senses and expedite faculties with an excellent power of understanding and sweet dispositions and let thy holy Spirit of grace conduct it to the Sacrament of Baptisme and in safety and holiness from the Cradle to the grave Grant this O Eternal God for his sake who was born of a holy maid and suffered the infirmities of nature and dyed for our sins and rose again for our Justification even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen An Office of Publick Thanks-giving for Women after their delivery from Child-birth or any great sickness or calamity or fear At the end of the morning prayer immediately before the blessing the woman presenting her self before God on her knees in some convenient place neer to him that ministers begin with this exhortation FOrasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God who hath commanded us when we are afflicted to pray and hath promised to be with us in trouble and hath made good his truth and mercy unto you in standing at your right hand in the day of your sorrow and danger giving you safe deliverance and a living and a hopeful child you shall therefore return to him the sacrifice of a thankful and joyful heart in an humble acknowledgement of the divine mercies and goodness unto you in this great blessing and deliverance from the pain and peril of Childbirth Or else name any other instance in which the Minister is required to give thanks The psalm or Hymn of Thansgiving * THE Lord is my Shepheard I shall not want he maketh me lie down in green pastures he leadeth me besides the still waters ¶ He restoreth my Soul he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his names sake * Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me ¶ I will declare thy name unto my Brethren in the midst of the Congregation will I praise thee * Ye that fear the Lord praise him for he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted neither hath he hid his face from him but when he cryed unto him he heard ¶ O Lord my God I cryed unto thee and thou hast healed me * O Lord thou hast brought up my Soul from the grave thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit ¶ Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness * For his anger endureth but for a moment in his favour is life weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning ¶ I cryed unto thee O Lord unto the Lord I made my supplication * What profit is there in my bloud when I goe down into the pit shall the dust praise thee shall it declare thy truth ¶ Hear O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper * Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness ¶ To the end that my glory may sing praise unto thee and not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks to thee for ever Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Or else say the Te Deum VVE praise thee O God we knowledge thee to be the Lord. ¶ All the earth doth worship thee the Father everlasting * To thee all Angels cry aloud the heavens and all the powers therein ¶ To thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry * Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabbaoth ¶ Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory * The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee ¶ The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee * The noble armie of Martyrs praise thee ¶ The holy Church thoroughout all the world doth acknowledge thee * The Father of an infinite majesty ¶ Thy honourable true and onely Son * Also the holy Ghost the Comforter ¶ Thou art the King of glory O Christ. * Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father ¶ When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man thou didst not abhorre the Virgins womb * When thou haddest overcome the sharpness of death thou didst open the kingdome of heaven to all beleevers * Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father ¶ We beleeve that thou shalt come to be our judge * We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud ¶ Make them to be numbred with thy Saints in glory everlasting * O Lord save thy people and bless thine heritage ¶ Govern them and lift them up for ever * Day by day we magnifie thee ¶ And we worship thy name ever world without end * Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this day without sin ¶ O Lord have mercy upon us have mercy upon us * O Lord let thy mercy lighten upon us as our trust is in thee ¶ O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be confounded Minister The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Let us pray O Most merciful Saviour and Redeemer Jesus who wert born of a pure and a holy maid who hast felt the calamities of Mankind and knowest how to pity our infirmities and rejoicest in doing and shewing mercy to all that need and to all that call to thee for succour we give thee thanks and praise that thou hast heard the prayers and considered the cries and releeved the necessities of this thy servant and kept her life from the grave still continuing to her a portion in the land of the living and opportunities of serving thee O be pleased to continue and increase and to sanctifie thy mercies to thy servant pardon al her sins pity her infirmities enable her duty keep her from all evil by thy blessed providence let her portion be in the things of God and of Religion in the light of thy countenance and the service of
pray to multiply our penitential sorrowes upon us that we may truly mourne for our offences against thee and may with great caution take care we may no more offend thee and redeeme the time which we have spent in vanity and imploy the remaining portion of our dayes in the wayes of peace and righteousnesse of wisedome and the feare of God that when thou shalt send thy Angels to gather the wheat into thy granary we may be bound up in the bundle of life and dwell in the house of God for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THE END THE PSALTER OR PSALMS of DAVID After the KING'S Translation With ARGUMENTS to every PSALM Te decet Hymnus THE BOOK OF PSALMS Mo. Pr. PSAL. I. The good man describ'd of true piety and the fruits of it the judgments of God upon the wicked BLessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornfull 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doth shall prosper 4 The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous 6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly shall perish PSAL. II. The endevours of evill mâ—n against the kingdome of David and of Christ The eternity of Christs kingdome and the stability and amplitude of the Church The attempts of the ungodly against it are ineffectuall Kings are invited to be subjects of Christs kingdome WHy do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing 2 The Kings of the earth set themselves and the Rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying 3 Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure 6 Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion 7 I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me Thou art my son this day have I begotten thee 8 Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potters vessel 10 Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye Judges of the earth 11 Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling 12 Kisse the son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him PSAL. III. David stying from the face of his son Absalom strengtheas himself in the goodnesse of God and his experience of it He prayes for himself and his people They who are under the Crosse must pray and trust in God LOrd how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise up against me 2 Many there be which say of my soul There is no help for him in God Selah 3 But thou O Lord art a shield for me my glory and the lifter up of mine head 4 I cried unto the Lord with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill Selah 5 I laid me down and slept I awaked for the Lord sustained me 6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about 7 Arise O Lord save me O my God for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek-bone thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord thy blessing is upon thy people Selah PSAL. IV. David prayes to God in his troubleâ— Exhorts Absaloms party that they should not be offended at the Kings cause because he was afflicted He exhorts his own party that they should â—ear the crosse patiently rely upon God and give him glory and expect salvation from him and not to dote upon the prosperity of the wicked HEar me when I call O God of my righteousnesse thou hast enlarged me when I was in distresse have mercy upon me and hear my prayer 2 O ye sons of men how long will ye turn my glory into shameâ— how long will ye love vanity and seek after leasing Selah 3 But know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself the Lord will hear when I call unto him 4 Stand in aw and sin not commune with your own heart upon your bed and be still Selah 5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness put your trust in the Lord. 6 There be many that say Who will shew us any good Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us 7 Thou hast put gladnesse in my heart more then in the time that their corn and their wine encreased 8 I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou Lord onely makest me dwell in safety PSAL. V. David relying on the testimony of a good conscience and the justice of God that he will certainly destroy the wicked and set his face against proud and lying rebels Achitophel or Doeg comforts himself in Gods goodnesse and his hopes of returning to the house of God and exhorts the faithfull to praise him GIve eare to my words O Lord consider my meditation 2 Hearken unto the voice of my cry my king and my God for unto thee will I pray 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning O Lord in the morning early will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up 4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickednesse neither shall evill dwell with thee 5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight thou hatest all workers of iniquity 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitfull man 7 But as for me I will come into thy house in 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 my enemies make thy way straight before my face 9 For there is no faithfulnesse in their mouth their inward part is very wickednesse their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue 10 Destroy thou them O God let them fall by their own counsels cast them
his delivery SAve me O God by thy name and judge me by thy strength 2 Hear my prayer O God give eare to the words of my mouth 3 For strangers are risen up against me and oppressors seek after my soul they have not set God before them Selah 4 Behold God is mine helper the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. 5 He shall reward evill unto mine enemies cut them off in thy truth 6 I will freely sacrifice unto thee I will praise thy name O Lord for it is good 7 For he hath delivered me out of all trouble and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies PSAL. LV. David upon his fear of being discover'd by the men of Keilah or upon the conjunction of Achitophol with Absalom prays to God for his own safety and the division and confusion of his enemies counsel he complains of his own restlesse and insecure condition the falsenesse of his supposed friends encourages himself and others to put their whole trust in God and foretels the suddain and immature death of his Enemies GIve ear to my prayer O God and hide not thy self from my supplication 2 Attend unto me and hear me I mourn in my complaint and make a noise 3 Because of the voice of the enemie because of the oppression of the wicked for they cast iniquity upon me in wrath they hate me 4 My heart is sore pained within me and the terrors of death are faln upon me 5 Fearfulnesse and trembling are come upon me and horror hath overwhelmed me 6 And I said O that I had wings like a dove for then would I flie away and be at rest 7 Lo then would I wander far off and remain in the wildernesse Selah 8 I would hasten my escape from the windie storm and tempest 9 Destroy O Lord divide their tongues for I have seen violence and strife in the citie 10 Day and night they go about it upon the wals thereof mischief also sorrow are in the midst of it 11 Wickednesse is in the midst thereof deceit and guile depart not from her streets 12 For it was not an enemie that reproched me then I could have born it neither was it he that hated me that did magnifie himself against me then I would have hid my self from him 13 But it was thou a man mine equall my guide and mine acquaintance 14 We took sweet counsell together and walked unto the house of God in company 15 Let death seise upon them let them goe down quick into hell for wickednesse is in their dwellings and among them 16 As for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me 17 Evening morning and at noon will I pray and cry aloud and and he shall hear my voice 18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battel that was against me for there were many with me 19 God shall hear afflict them even he that abideth of old Selah because they have no changes therefore they fear not God 20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him he hath broken his covenant 21 The words of his mouth were smoother then butter but war was in his heart his words were softer then oil yet were they drawn swords 22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved 23 But thou O God shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction bloody and deceitfull men shall not live out half their dayes but I will trust in thee Mo. Pr. PSAL. LVI David being in Gath and known by the Courtiers of Achish prayes to God to be defended from his cruell enemies complains of their snares and their injuries comforts himself in God and promises to give him thanks and praise for his delivery BE mercifull unto me O God for man would swallow me up he fighting daily oppresseth me 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up for they be many that fight against me O thou most High 3 What time I am afraid I will trust in thee 4 In God I will praise his word in God I have put my trust I will not fear what flesh can doe unto me 5 Every day they wrest my words all their thoughts are against me for evill 6 They gather thēselves together they hide themselves they mark my steps when they wait for my soul. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity in thine anger cast down the people O God 8 Thou tellest my wandrings put thou my tears into thy bottle are they not in thy book 9 When I cry unto thee then shall mine enemies turn back this I know for God is for me 10 In God wil I praise his word in the Lord will I praise his word 11 In God have I put my trust I will not be afraid what man can doe unto me 12 Thy vowes are upon me O God I will render praises unto thee 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling that I may walk before God in the light of the living PSAL. LVII When David had been hid in a cave in the desert of Engedi he prayes this prayer to be deliver'd from Saul complains of his sad condition describes their impiety and rejoyces in God and adores his greatnesse BE mercifull unto me O God be mercifull unto me for my soul trusteth in thee yea in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge untill these calamities be overpast 2 I will cry unto God most high unto God that performeth all things for me 3 He shall send from heaven save me from the reproch of him that would swallow me up Selah God shall send forth his mercy and his truth 4 My soul is among lions and I lie even among them that are set on fire even the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword 5 Be thou exalted O God above the heavens let thy glory be above all the earth 6 They have prepared a net for my steps my soul is bowed down they have digged a pit before me into the midst whereof they are faln themselves Selah 7 My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise 8 Awake up my glory awake psalterie and harp I my self will awake early 9 I will praise thee O Lord among the people I will sing unto thee among the nations 10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens and thy truth unto the clouds 11 Be thou exalted O God above the heavens let thy glory be above all the earth PSAL. LVIII When David was by Abner and Sauls Councel condemned of Treason be complains of their injustice prayes against them and foretells their destruction DO ye indeed speak righteousnesse O congregation doe ye judge uprightly O ye sons of men 2 Yea in heart you work wickednesse you weigh the violence of your hands in
13 But unto thee have I cried O Lord and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee 14 Lord why castest thou off my soul why hidest thou thy face from me 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up while I suffer thy terrours I am distracted 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me thy terrors have cut me off 17 They came round about me daily like water they compassed me about together 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darknesse PSAL. LXXXIX A Prophesie of Christs kingdome its perpetuity and eternity and under the type of the successors of David he teachâ—s that God will punish the Christian people if they sinne but the promises to the Church shall never fail I Wil sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations 2 For I have said Mercy shall be built up for ever thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen I have sworn unto David my servant 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever and build up thy throne to all generations Selah 5 And the heavens shall praise thy wonders O Lord thy faithfulnesse also in the congregation of the saints 6 For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord 7 God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him 8 O Lord God of hosts who is a strong Lord like unto thee or to thy faithfulnesse round about thee 9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea when the waves thereof arise thou stillest them 10 Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces as one that is slain thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm 11 The heavens are thine the earth also is thine as for the world and the fulness thereof thou hast founded theÌ„ 12 The north and the south thou hast created them Tabor and Hermon shall rejoyce in thy name 13 Thou hast a mighty arm strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand 14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne mercy and truth shall goe before thy face 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyfull sound they shall walk O Lord in the light of thy countenance 16 In thy name shall they rejoyce all the day and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted 17 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted 18 For the Lord is our defence and the holy one of Israel is our king 19 Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one and saidst I have laid help upon one that is mighty I have exalted one chosen out of the people 20 I have found David my servant with my holy oyl have I anointed him 21 With whom my hand shall be established mine arm also shall strengthen him 22 The enemy shall not exact upon him nor the son of wickednesse afflict him 23 And I will beat down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him 24 But my faithfulnesse and my mercy shall be with him and in my name shall his horn be exalted 25 I will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers 26 He shall cry unto me Thou art my father my God and the rock of my salvation 27 Also I will make him my first-born higher then the kings of the earth 28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him 29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the dayes of heaven 30 If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgements 31 If they break my statutes and keep not my commandments 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes 33 Neverthelesse my loving kindnesse will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulnesse to fail 34 My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips 35 Once have I sworn by my holinesse that I will not lye unto David 36 His seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the sun before me 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon and as a faithfull witnesse in heaven Selah 38 But thou hast cast off and abhorred thou hast been wroth with thine anointed 39 Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges thou hast brought his strong hold to ruine 41 All that passe by the way spoil him he is a reproch to his neighbours 42 Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries thou hast made all his enemies to rejoyce 43 Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword and hast not made him to stand in the battell 44 Thou hast made his glory to cease and cast his throne down to the ground 45 The dayes of his youth hast thou shortened thou hast covered him with shame Selah 46 How long Lord wilt thou hide thy self for ever shall thy wrath burn like fire 47 Remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men in vain 48 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Selah 49 Lord where are thy former loving kindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth 50 Remember Lord the reproch of thy servant how I do bear in my bosom the reproch of all the mighty people 51 Wherewith thine enemies have reproched O Lord wherewith they have reproched the footsteps of thine anointed 52 Blessed be the Lord for ever more Amen and amen Mo. Pr. PSAL. XC Moses prayer God is our everlasting defence he is eternall he hath made our life short and frail a prayer for a holy and a happy life LOrd thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations 2 Before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God 3 Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest Return ye children of men 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night 5 Thou carâ—iest them away as with a floud they are as a sleep in the morning they are like grasse which groweth up 6 In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up in the evening it is cut down and withereth 7 For we are consumed by thine anger and by thy wrath are we troubled 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee our secret sins in the light of thy countenance 9 For all our dayes are passed away in thy wrath we spend our yeares as a tale
because of their iniquities are afflicted 18 Their soul abhorreth all mannner of meat and they draw near unto the gates of death 19 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble he saveth them out of their distresses 20 He sent his word and healed them delivered them from their destructions 21 O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 22 And let them sacrifice their sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with rejoycing 23 They that goe down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters 24 These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep 25 For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind which lifteth up the waves thereof 26 They mount up to the heaven they go downe againe to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits end 28 Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble he bringeth them out of their distresses 29 He maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still 30 Then are they glad because they be quiet so he bringeth them to their desired haven 31 O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders 33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness and the water-springs into dry ground 34 A fruitfull land into barrenness for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein 35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water and dry ground into water-springs 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell that they may prepare a city for habitation 37 And sow the fields and plant vineyards which may yield fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them also so that they are multiplied greatly and suffereth not their cattell to decrease 39 Again they are minished and brought low through oppression affliction and sorrow 40 He poureth contempt upon princes and causeth them to wander in the wildernesse where there is no way 41 Yet setteth he the poor man on high from affliction and maketh him families like a flock 42 The righteous shall see it and rejoyce and all iniquity shall stop her mouth 43 Whoso is wise and will observe those things even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. Ev. Pr. PSAL. CVIII David rejâ—yces for a late deliverance from his enemies he recites the promises of God and intimates a prayer that God would enlarge his kingdom he directly prayes for help and puts his trust in God O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise even with my glory 2 Awake psaltery harp I my self will awake early 3 I will praise thee O Lord among the people and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds 5 Be thou exalted O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth 6 That thy beloved may be delivered save with thy right hand and answer me 7 God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine Manasseh is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Judah is my law-giver 9 Moab is my washpot over Edom will I cast out my shoe over Philistia will I triumph 10 Who will bring me into the strong city who will lead me into Edom 11 Wilt not thou O God who hast cast us off and wilt not thou O God go forth with our hosts 12 Give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man 13 Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies PSAL. CIX David being almost oppressed with the calumnies of Doâ—g and the injuries from Sauls family does bitterly curse thâ—m he complains to God for protection and deliverance and puts his trust in him HOld not thy peace O God of my praise 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitfull are opened against me they have spoken against me with a lying tongue 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause 4 For my love they are my adversaries but I give my self unto prayer 5 And they have rewarded me evill for good and hatred for my love 6 Set thou a wicked man over him and let Satan stand at his right hand 7 When he shall be judged let him be condemned and let his prayer become sin 8 Let his dayes be few and let another take his office 9 Let his children he fatherlesse and his wife a widow 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath and let the stranger spoil his labour 12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him neither let there be any to favour his fatherlesse children 13 Let his posterity be cut off and in the generation following let their name be blotted out 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remeÌ„bred with the Lord let not the sin of his mother be blotted out 15 Let them be before the Lord continually that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth 16 Because that he remembred not to shew mercy but persecuted the poor needy man that he might even slay the broken in heart 17 As he loved cursing so let it come unto him as he delighted not in blessing so let it be far from him 18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment so let it come into his bowels like water and like oyl into his bones 19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually 20 Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord of them that speak evill against my soul. 21 But do thou for me O God the Lord for thy names sake because thy mercy is good deliver thou me 22 For I am poor needy and my heart is wounded within me 23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth I am tossed up and down as the locust 24 My knees are weak through fasting and my flesh faileth of fatnesse 25 I became also a reproch unto them when they looked upon me they shaked their heads 26 Help me O Lord my God O save me according to thy mercy 27 That they may know that this is thy hand that thou Lord hast done it 28 Let them curse but blesse thou when they arise let them be ashamed but let thy servant rejoyce 29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle 30 I
will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth yea I will praise him among the multitude 31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor to save him from those that condemn his soul. Mo. pr. PSAL. CX David prophesies of the Kingdome and Priesthood of Christ of his glorious victories over his enemies but of his passion in the way to it THe Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou at my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstool 2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion rule thou in the midst of thine enemies 3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power in the beauties of holinesse from the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth 4 The Lord hath sworn and will not repent Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek 5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath 6 He shall judge among the heathen he shall fill the places with the dead bodies he shall wound the heads over many countries 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way therefore shall he lift up the head PSAL. CXI A Paschal hyma reciâ—ing the great benefits the Church receives by our redemption wrought by Christ. PRaise ye the Lord I will praise the Lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation 2 The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein 3 His work is honourable and glorious and his righteousnesse endureth for ever 4 He hath made his wonderfull works to be remembred the Lord is gracious and full of compassion 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him he will ever be mindful of his covenant 6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works that he may give them the heritage of the heathen 7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment all his commandments are sure 8 They stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and uprightnesse 9 He sent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his covenant for ever holy and reverend is his name 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome a good understanding have all they that do his commandments his praise endureth for ever PSAL. CXII The blessednesse of the just the stability of the charitable the envies of the wicked PRaise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord that delighteth greatly in his commandments 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the upright shall be blessed 3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house and his righteousnesse endureth for ever 4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness he is gracious and full of compassion and righteous 5 A good man sheweth favour and lendeth he will guide his affairs with discretion 6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever the righteous shall be in everlasting remembance 7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. 8 His heart is established he shall not be afraid untill he see his desire upon his enemies 9 He hath dispersed he hath given unto the poor his righteousness endureth for ever his horn shall be exalted with honour 10 The wicked shall see it and be grieved he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away the desire of the wicked shall perish PSAL. CXIII A publication of the Divine providence Gods graciousnesse to the humble and aâ—â—â—icted PRaise ye the Lord praise O ye servants of the Lord praise the name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore 3 From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lords name is to be praised 4 The Lord is high above all nations and his glory above the heavens 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high 6 Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth 7 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth the needy out of the dunghil 8 That he may set him with princes even with the princes of his people 9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyfull mother of chidren praise ye the Lord. Ev. Pr. PSAL. CXIV The miracles which God wrought for Israel in the widerness when they came from Egypt WHen Israel went out of Egypt the house of Jacob from a people of strange language 2 Judah was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion 3 The sea saw it and fled Jordan was driven back 4 The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs 5 What ailed thee O thou sea that thou fleddest thou Jordan that thou wast driven back 6 Ye mountains that ye skipped like rams and ye little hills like lambs 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob 8 Which turned the rock into a standing water the flint into a fountain of waters PSAL. CXV A glorification of God for his truth and mercy the vanity of idols no trusting in them all sorts of men are exhorted to praise God and to hope in him God blesses us and we must blesse God NOt unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give glory for thy mercy and for thy truthes sake 2 Wherefore should the heathen say Where is now their God 3 But our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased 4 Their idols are silver and gold the work of mens hands 5 They have mouths but they speak not eyes they have but they see not 6 They have eares but they hear not noses have they but they smell not 7 They have hands but they handle not feet have they but they walk not neither speak they thorough their throat 8 They that make them are like unto them so is every one that trusteth in them 9 O Israel trust thou in the Lord he is their help and their shield 10 O house of Aaron trust in the Lord he is their help their shield 11 Ye that fear the Lord trust in the Lord he is their help and their shield 12 The Lord hath beeen mindfull of us he will bless us he will bless the house of Israel he will bless the house of Aaron 13 He will bless them that fear the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall encrease you more and more you and your children 15 You are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth 16 The heaven even the heavens are the Lords but the earth hath he given to the children of men 17 The dead praise not the Lord neither any that go down into silence 18 But we will bless the Lord from this time forth for evermore Praise ye the Lord. Mo. Pr. PSAL. CXVI David being delivered from Saul in the wilderness of
slumber 4 Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep 5 The Lord is thy keeper the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand 6 The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil he shall preserve thy soul. 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and even for evermore PSAL. CXXII A preparatory hymn for the people of God in their ascent to the places and solemnities of religion he prayes for the prosperity of the Church I Was glad when they said unto me Let us goe into the house of the Lord. 2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates O Jerusalem 3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together 4 Whither the tribes go up the tribes of the Lord unto the testimony of Israel to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. 5 For there are set thrones of judgement the thrones of the house of David 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee 7 Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces 8 For my brethren and companions sakes I will now say Peace be within thee 9 Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good PSAL. CXXIII The people under the tyranny of Antiochus complain to God of their sad condition and humbly wait on God UNto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the heavens 2 Behold as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God untill that he have mercy upon us 3 Have mercy upon us O Lord have mercy upon us for we are exceedingly filled with contempt 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease and with the contempt of the proud PSAL. CXXIV The people newly escaped from their enemies acknowledge their great danger and God onely to be the author of their safety and their victory IF it had not been the Lord who was on our side now may Israel say 2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us the stream had gone over our soul 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6 Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers the snare is broken and we are escaped 8 Our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth PSAL. CXXV The perpetuity of the Church Gods continuall presence with her the lot of the wicked differs from the portion of Gods people THey that trust in the Lord shal be as mount Zion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever 3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity 4 Do good O Lord unto those that be good and to them that are upright in their hearts 5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked wayes the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity but peace shall be upon Israel Ev. Pr. PSAL. CXXVI Thy joy of the Jewes at their retuâ—n from Babylon they pray for the remaining part the future joy of them that presently mourn WHen the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing Then said they among the heathen The Lord hath done great things for them 3 The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad 4 Turne again our captivity O Lord as the streames in the south 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtlesse come again with rejoycing bringing his sheaves with him PSAL. CXXVII Without God we must undâ—rtake nothing children are a blessing to the righteous EXcept the Lord build the house they labour in vain that build it except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain 2 It is vain for you to rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep 3 Lo children are an heritage of the Lord the fruit of the womb is his reward 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so are children of the youth 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate PSAL. CXXVIII The blessiâ—gs of them that fear God in their wives and children and the peace of the Church BLessed is every one that feareth the Lord that walketh in his wayes 2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands happy shalt thou be and it shall be well with thee 3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitfull vine by the sides of thine house thy children like olive plants round about thy table 4 Behold that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. 5 The Lord shall blesse thee out of Zion and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the dayes of thy life 6 Yea thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israel PSAL. CXXIX The indefatigable malice of the enemies of the Church they prevail not but are at last accursed and cut off MAny a time have they afflicted me from my youth may Israel now say 2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth yet they have not prevailed against me 3 The plowers plowed upon my back they made long their furrows 4 The Lord is righteous he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion 6 Let them be as the grasse upon the house tops which withereth afore it groweth up 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosome 8 Neither doe they which goe by say The blessing of the Lord be upon you we blesse you in the name of the Lord. PSAL. CXXX A prayer for pardon of sins an act of hope in God and a celebration of his mercy The Psalm is paenitential OUt of the depths have I cryed unto thee O Lord. 2 Lord hear my voice let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications 3 If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand 4 But there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayst be feared 5 I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope 6
and all people princes and all judges of the earth 12 Both young men and maidens old men and children 13 Let them praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is excellent his glory is above the earth and heaven 14 He also exalteth the horn of his people the praise of all his saints even of the children of Israel people near unto him Praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CXLIX The praises of God and his glory in the prosperity of his Church the priviledges and advantages of the saints in the old Testament and in the spiritual sense to be translated to the Christian Church PRaise ye the Lord sing unto the Lord a new song and his praise in the congregation of saints 2 Let Israel rejoyce in him that made him let the children of Zion be joyfull in their king 3 Let them praise his name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with the timbrell and harp 4 For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people he will beautifie the meek with salvation 5 Let the saints be joyfull in glory let them sing aloud upon their beds 6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishments upon the people 8 To bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron 9 To execute upon them the judgement written this honour have all his saints Praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CL. David calls upon the Church to recite Gods praises and especially upon the Levites whose office it was to sing and play on instruments of musick in the service of God he uses the word praise thirteen times in this short Psalm according to the number of the thirteen Attributes of God which the Rabbins usually reckon PRaise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary praise him in the firmament of his power 2 Praise him for his mighty acts praise him according to his excellent greatnesse 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet praise him with the psaltery and harp 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance praise him with stringed instruments and organs 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals praise him upon the high sounding cymbals 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. The End Coloss. 3â— Tortura Torti P. 142. Cambd. Annal. A. D. 1560. 2 Chron. 29. Apoc. 15. Exod. 15. Psal. 145. Jer. 10. 6,7 a De Spir. sanct c. 27. b De celebratione Missarum c. cum Matth. c In gemma animi l. 1. c. 86. d De Divin Offic. e Super Act. 20. Una autem Sabbathi f L. 8. c. 17. g Mystâ—gog Catcchis 5. Hom. 6. iâ— 1 Epist. ad Tim. In Comment a Apologet. c. 14. b Ep 59. ad Paulin. c Ep. 1. d De dogmat Eccles. cap. 30. e L. 1. de vocat gent. c. 4. f In Commentar Institut Cleric l. 1. c. 32. 1 Tim. 2. Epist. 59. ad Paulin. q. 5. De instit Cleric lib. 1. c. 32. Acts and Monument pag. 1385. pag. 1608 1565. pag. 1840. pag. 1844. alibi Pag. 1848 1649 1840. Contra haeres c. 7. Num. 6. 23. * Directory * Or Parish or Church or Commonwealth * This clause is to be omitted if there be no Sacrament that day * According to the present need of raine or fair weather respectively Here name what relation you please Apocal. 22. * The Minister at those words shall touch the Bread * Here he must touch or handle the Chalice * If the place be populous and Baptismes frequent and this water be kept as it is usual in most Churches both of East and West then that clause within the Columns may be used else not Matt. 8. 13. Matth. 9. 28. John 4. 50. Mark 9. 23. All this may be omitted between the Columnes according to the discretion of him that ministers * Rom. 41. 11 12 13 17. Gallat 3. 14. 29 * This may be inserted or omitted according to the present circumstances If she have children insert this within the ColuÌ„ns Jer. 42.
Penitential Letanies The Psalter or Psalms of David after the Kings Translations with Arguments newly fitted to the design and sense of every Psalm An Advertisement to them that shall use these PRAYERS BEcause no prayers are the more pleasing to God for being long and they are oftentimes displeasing even to good men if they be very long and yet on the other side if the devotion be long it is the better and if that be lasting it ought to be supplied with materials like gummes to the Altar of incense and fuel for the holy fires he that collected these devotions did design to serve the advantages both of length and shortness that the most devout may be fitted and the most secular and imployed may not be wearied 1. Therefore although every thing is set down at length that the trouble of references and turnings back might be avoided and therefore seem longer then they are and the Hymnes are sometimes double that the variety might be more apt to please and to instruct and the Offices are made full that upon the more solemne days when people come with a greater and more active devotion and greater leisure their time and their piety might be imployed yet on other days there is but one Lesson appointed and one Hymne to follow it 2. The prayers are divided into smaller portions that with ease any of them may be omitted by persons whose occasions force them from their attendance on longer Offices besides that there are two forms of Morning and Evening Prayer the one shorter the other longer 3. In the beginning of Morning and Evening Prayer some of the devotions which are set down are desired and intended to be used but seldome not onely to avoid tediousness but for other reasons very obvious that the Ministers more solemn power and office might not be less regarded by being daily and consequently very often without just dispositions offered I mean it concerning the form of Absolution The Confession may be shortned as there is cause by making use onely of some of the sections and leaving out the other 4. If upon Communion days the morning Prayer and the Communion Office be not read at one time but the morning Prayer be read at seven or eight of the clock in the morning and the Communion office at the time of celebration or if it be convenient that they be both together if then the Sermon be in the afternoon the length will be very tolerable 5. These Prayers being intended onely as a charitable ministery to them who are not permitted to use those which were appointed formerly there is no necessity upon any one and he may use as much or as little as he please and therefore no man will have cause to complain of length or shortness ☞ For the Offices themselves I pray God bless them to all those ends whither they are designed and to which in their own nature they can minister And as I humbly recommend them to Gods blessing so I doe submit them to the judgement of my afflicted Mother the Church of England and particularly to the censure of my spiritual Superiours and I desire that these Prayers may no longer be used in any publick place then my L ds the B ps upon prudent enquiries and grave considerations shall perceive them apt to minister to Gods glory and useful to the present or future necessities of the Sons and Daughters of the Church of England MORNING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE Say one or more of these Sentences HE that covereth his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walke in his lawes which he hath set before us by his servants the prophets Dan. 9. 10. If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confesse our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse 1 John 1. 8 9. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise â—sal 51. 17. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit For why will ye die I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord God Wherefore turne your selves and live ye Ezek. 18. 31 32. After which say Draw nigh therefore unto God and he will draw nigh unto you Cleanse your hands and purifie your hearts Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and make a confession of your sins unto him with a hearty sorrow and a humble hope begging for pardon at the throne of Grace Let us pray The Confession I. O Almighty God Great Lord of Heaven and Earth we miserable sinners with fear and shame cast our selves downe before thee humbly confessing our manifold sins and unsufferable wickednesses by which we have deserved thy wrath and that we should be separated from the sweetest comforts of thy presence for ever II. We confesse O Great God we have sinned against thee by knowledge and by ignorance by folly and by surprize by word and deed by anger and desires by night and by day in private and in publick by the lusts of the flesh and the vanity and pride of our spirits our sins of omission are infinite and the sins of our tongue cannot be numbred O God thy words and lawes are holy and thy judgements are terrible but we have broken all thy righteous lawes and commandements and we have great cause to be afraid of thy severest judgements and where shall we appeare when thou art angry with us III. But thou shalt answer for us O Lord our God Thou art our Judge but thou art our Redeemer we have sin'd but thou O Blessed Jesus art our Advocate Have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most miserable sinners Enter not into judgement with us least we die let not thine anger arise least we be consumed but spare us gracious Lord spare thy servants whom thou hast redeem'd with thy most precious blood O reserve not evil in store for us against the day of vengeance but shew thy goodnesse in us and let thy mercies be magnified upon us deliver us O Lord from the power of sin and preserve us from the punishments of it through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Deprecation to be used upon solemn daies or at the discretion of him that ministers I. O Lord our God whose power is infinite whose glory is supreme whose mercie is without measure whose goodnesse is unspeakeable despise not thy returning servants who earnestly beg for pardon and to be reconciled to thee sanctify O God our bodies and soules search out our spirits and cast out all iniquity from within us all weak principles and false
arguings every impure lust and filthy desire all pride and envie all hypocrisie and lying all inordinate love of this world and base Covetousnesse all hardnesse of heart and unrelenting dispositions all peevishnesse and hasty anger all mindfulnesse of injuries and revengfulnesse all blasphemy and irreligion and every motion of soule and body which can withdraw us from thee and is against thy will and commandement II. Gracious Father give us perfect pardon for what is past and a perfect repentance of all our evills that for the time to come we may with pure spirits with broken and contrite hearts with sanctified lips and holy desires serve thee religiously walke humbly with our God converse justly and charitably with men and possesse our soules in patience and holinesse and our bodies in sanctification and honour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The prayer of absolution to be said by the Minister alone according to his piety and discretion when he sees cause not frequently OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus the great shepheard and Bishop of our soules that lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world who promised paradise to the repenting theife and gave pardon to the woman taken in adultery he pardon and forgive all your sins knowne and unknowne *** O Blessed Jesus in whatsoever thy servants as men bearing flesh about them and inhabiting this world or deceived by the Devil have sinn'd whether in word or deed whether in thought or desire whether by omission or commission let it be forgiven unto them by thy word and by thy spirit and for ever preserve thy servants from sinning against thee and from suffering thine eternal anger for thy promise sake and for thy glorious Names sake O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then devoutly and distinctly say the Lords Prayer Our Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome 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 trespas against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Doxology GLory be to the Father of mercies the Father of Men and Angels the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory be to the most holy and eternall sonne of God the Blessed Saviour and Redeemer of the World the Advocate of sinners the Prince of Peace the Head of the Church and the mighty Deliverer of all them that call upon him Glory be to the holy and Eternall spirit of God the Holy Ghost the comforter the sanctifying and life-giving Spirit All Glory and thankes all honour and power all love and obedience be to the Blessed and undivided Trinity one God Eternall The Heavens declare thy glory the Earth confesses thy providence the sea manifests thy power and every spirit and every understanding creature celebrates thy greatnesse for ever end ever * All glory and majesty all praises and dominion be unto thee O God Father Son and Holy Ghost for ever and ever Amen Then arising from their knees let the Psalter be read in order as shall be judged convenient that is to say The ordinary portions for every day Morning and Evening prayers and Psalmes particularly chosen for speciall dayes of festivity or of Humiliation respectively After the Psalmes ending with Glory be to the Father c. Read a chapter in the old Testament The chapter out of the old Testament is to be read on Sundaies and Festivals and not omitted without great occasion but on ordinary daies it may suffice after the Psalmes immediately to reade the lesson out of the new Testament After which recite this Hymne to the honour of God saying the verses interchangeably * REjoyce in the Lord ye righteous for praise is comely for the Upright ¶ The word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithfull * He loveth righteousnesse and judgement the earth is full of the goodnesse of the Lord. ¶ By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth * He gathereth the waters of the Sea together as an heape he layeth up the depth in storehouses ¶ Let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him * Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercie ¶ To deliver their soules from death and to keep them alive in the time of famine * Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of all ¶ Evill shall slay the wicked and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate * Incline not my heart to any evill thing to practise wicked works with Men that work iniquity and let me not eat of their dainties ¶ Cause me to heare thy loving kindenesse in the morning for in thee do I trust cause me to know the way wherein I should walke for I lift up my soule unto thee * Teach me to do thy will for thou art my God thy spirit is good lead me into the Land of uprightnesse ¶ Gather not my soule with sinners nor my life with bloody men * The poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles ¶ O tast and see that the Lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him * O how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of Men. ¶ Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of Man Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavillion from the strife of tongues * O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer ¶ Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all you that hope in the Lord. Glory be to the Father c. Or this * SIng praises unto God sing praises sing praises unto our King sing praises For God is the King of all the Earth sing ye praises with understanding ¶ God reigneth over the Nations God sitteth upon the throne of his holinesse * He is our refuge and strength a very present helpe in trouble ¶ Many O Lord our God are thy wonderfull workes which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are towards us They cannot be reckon'd in order * For God is my King of old working salvation in the midst of the Earth ¶ Thou didst cleave the fountaine and the floud thou driest up mighty rivers * The daye is thine the night also is thine thou hast prepared the light and the Sunne ¶ Thou hast set all the borders of the Earth thou hast made Summer and Winter * Give unto the Lord the glorie due unto his name worship
the Lord in the beautie of Holinesse ¶ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters the God of glory thundreth the Lord is upon many waters * The voice of the Lord is powerfull the voice of the Lord is full of Majesty ¶ The voice of the Lord maketh the hindes to calve and discovereth the forests and in his temple doth every man speake of his glory * Be glad in the Lord and rejoyce ye righteous and shout for joy all ye that are upright in Heart ¶ For this God is our God for ever and ever he will be our guide unto death Glory be to the Father c. Then read a lesson out of one of the four Gospells or the Acts of the Holy Apostles in order or by choice upon extraordinary occasions After which recite one of these following Psalmes * THe mighty God even the Lord hath spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going downe thereof ¶ Out of Sion the perfection of beauty God hath shined * Our God shall come and shall not keep silence a fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him ¶ He shall call to the heavens from above to the Earth that he may Judge his people * And the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse for God is Judge himselfe ¶ His Name shall endure for ever his name shall be continued as long as the Sun and men shall be blessed in him all Nations shall call him blessed * Blessed be the Lord God the God of Israel who onely doth wondrous things ¶ And blessed be his Glorious Name for ever and let the whole Earth be filled with his glory Amen Amen Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Or this to be said especially on Communion daies Psalme 23. * THe Lord is my Shepherd I shal not want ¶ He maketh me to lie down in Green pasture he leadeth me beside the still waters * He restoreth my soule he leadeth me in the paths of righteousnesse for his Names sake ¶ 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 they comfort me * Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies thou anointest my head with oyle my cup runneth over ¶ Surely goodnesse and mercy shall follow me all the daies of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever Glory be to the Father c. Then say the Apostles Creed or the Nicene creed if it be a great festival of the Church I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth * And in Jesus Christ his onely son our Lord * which was conceived by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary * suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried * He descended into hell * The third day he rose againe 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 quicke and the Dead * I believe in the holy Ghost * The holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints * the forgivenesse of sins * the resurrection of the body * and the life everlasting Amen The Nicene Creed to be said upon the great Solemnities of the yeare I Beleive in one God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible and in one Lord Jesus Christ the onely begotten Sonne of God begotten of his Father before all worlds God of God Light of light very God of very God begotten not made being of one substance with the Father by whom al things were made who for us men for our salvation came downe from heaven and was incarnate by the holy Ghost of the virgin Mary and was made man and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate He suffered and was buried and the third day he rose againe according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of the Father And he shall come againe with glory to judge both the quick the dead whose kingdome shall have no end And I beleive in the holy Ghost the Lord and giver of life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified whospake by the Prophets And I believe one Catholique and Apostolique Church I acknowledge one Baptisme for the remission of sins And I looke for the resurrection of the Dead and the life of the world to come Amen After the Creed Minister The Lord be with you People And with thy Spirit Let us Pray OUr Father which art in heaven * hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome 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 trespasse against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen I. O Great King of heaven and earth the Lord and patron of all ages receive thy servants approaching to the throne of grace in the Name of Jesus Christ give unto every one of us what is best for us cast out all evill from within us work in us a fulnesse of holinesse of wisedome and spiritual understanding that we increasing in the knowledge of God may be fruitfull in every Good worke through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The collect for the morning II. O Almighty Father great God of all the world who dwellest in the light to which no man can approach in thy presence there is no night in the light of thy countenance there is perpetuall day We thy servants whom thou hast preserved this night who blesse and glorifie thee this day who live by thy power who desire to walk by thy lawes to be blessed by thy providence to be defended by thy Almighty hand humbly pray unto thee that this day and all the daies of our lives may be holy and peaceable send thy holy spirit the spirit of peace to be the guide of our waie the guard of our soules and bodies Grant that all the chances and accidents of this day may be healthfull to our bodies and profitable to our soules and that we may spend the remaining portion of our life in blessing and peace and holinesse Make thou the latter end of our daies to be Christian without shame without torment and when we shall appeare before thy dreadfull seat of Judgement grant that we may not be confounded but may stand upright in the congregation of the Saints acquitted by the death of Christ justified by his resurrection pardon'd by his sentence saved by his mercy that we may rejoyce in his salvation and sing thy praises for ever and ever
Amen A prayer against temptations III. O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ thy Name is great thy essence is infinite thy goodnesse is eternal and thy power hath no limit thou art the God and Lord of all Blessed for evermore Looke downe in mercie and compassion from thy dwelling heare our prayers and supplications and deliver us from all temptations of the world the flesh and the Devill Take not thy grace from us let us never want thy helpe in our needs nor thy comfort in the day of our danger and calamity Never try us beyond our strengths nor afflict us beyond our Patience nor smite us but with a Fathers rod * We have no strengths of our owne thou art our confidence our rock and our strong salvation Save us O God from the miseries of this world and never let us suffer the intolerable calamities of the next Rescue us from the evils we have done and preserve us from the evils we have deserved that we living before thee with clean hearts and undefiled bodies and sanctified spirits may at the day of Judgement be presented pure and spotlesse by the blood of the lamb that we may sing eternall Allelujahs in heavenly places to the honour of God our Saviour who hath redeemed our soules from death our eyes from tears and our feet from falling Grant this in the richnesse of thy mercy through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall be added upon all Sundaies and Festivals of the yeare this following prayer and upon other daies as opportunitie is to be had all or some portions The prayers for kings c. and the state Ecclesiastical are never to be omitted but on ordinary daies it may suffice to recite them omitting so much of either as is included in the Columnes * The prayer of intercession for all states of Men and Women in the Catholick Church I. SAve us defend and keep us in thy fear and love O thou God of mercy and grace Give unto us the light of thy countenance pardon of our sins health of our body sanctification of our spirits peace from heaven and salvation of our soules in the day of our Lord Jesus Amen For the Catholick Church II. HEar our praiers for thy holy Church Catholick which thou hast redeemed with thy blood sealed and sanctified with thy spirit Extirpate all heresies and false doctrines unite all her divisions let her be prosperous under thy favour and the protection of Kings and Princes and the whole secular arme that she may daily celebrate thy Name with strict obedience and pure spiritual sacrifices that she may be accepted and prevaile in her daily and nightly prayers and that the gates of hell may never prevaile against her let her live in the spirit and reigne in thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the supreme power III. WE pray unto thee O great King of Heaven and earth for all Christian Kings Princes Governours and states Crowne them with justice and peace and with the love of God and the love of their people * let holinesse be the ornament of their heads invest them with the armour of righteousnesse and let the anointing from above make them Sacred and venerable wise and holy * that being servants of the King of Kings friends of religion Ministers of justice and patrons of the poor they may at last inherit a portion in the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus For the state Ecclesiastical IV. REmember all them that doe the Lords worke in the ministery and conduct of soules Give them great gifts and great holinesse * that wisely and charitably diligently and zealously prudently and acceptably they may be guides to the blind comforters to the sad and weary that they may strengthen the weake and confirme the strong separate the vile from the precious boldly rebuke sinne patiently suffer for the truth and be exemplary in their lives * that in all their actions and sermons in their discipline and ministrations they may advance the good of soules and the honour of our Lord Jesus Amen For all orders and states of men c. V. O Blessed God who art rich in mercie and compassion take care of all states of Men and Women in the Christian Church the Nobility and Gentry Magistrates and Judges Advocates and Physicians Merchants and Artificers Husbandmen and Tradesmen the Labourers and the Hirelings give them grace in their several callings to glorifie thee and to keep a good conscience both towards God and towards Man that they may find eternal comfort in the glorious day of our Lord Jesus For the miserable and afflicted VI. In mercie remember the poor and needy the widdowes and the Fatherlesse the strangers and the friendlesse the oppressed and the greived the Decrepit and the sickly the yong men and the tempted the weake of heart and the weake in body them that languish and them that are dying Releive their necessities comfort their sorrowes sanctifie their calamities strengthen their weaknesses and suffer not the Devil to prevaile over them in the daies of their sorrow and disadvantage and in thy due time deliver them from their sad bondage into thy glorious liberty of the sons of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. VII BE a guide to the travellers a star and a port to Mariners the comfort and strength of Miners and Gallislaves Pity good God all Gentlemen that are fallen into poverty and sad misfortunes strengthen and deliver all women that are in sharp and dangerous labour all them that roar and groane with intolerable paines and noisome diseases Have mercy and compassion upon all that are afflicted with illusion of the night and frightfull apparitions that are haunted or possessed with evill spirits or troubled with despairing or amazed consciences with the stone and with the gout with violent colics and greivous ulcers give them pity and give them patience a speedy deliverance from their calamity and a sanctified use of the rod of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. VIII WE pray unto thee O Blessed Father in behalfe of all that are in banishment captivity in fetters or hard services in want or extreme poverty in great fear or in any great passion Keep them from sinning against thee and from being swallowed by too great a sorrow Let the accidents of their lives be under the command of reason and of thy holy spirit and end in holinesse and comfort in peace and joyes eternall through the mercies of our God in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen For the preservation from danger and evill IX KEep us O God from famine and pestilence from Earthquakes and inundations from fire and sword from invasion by foreign enemies and from civil warres from false religion and from discountenancing the true let every Christian soule find pity at the throne of grace let all our errors and ignorances find pardon by Christ and remedie by the holy spirit of Christ hear all our praiers releive all our necessities
sanctifie all the events of thy providence and the changes of our life that we may for ever love and for ever fear thee and all things may worke together for our Good unto thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The blessing The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communication of the holy spirit of God be with us and with all our Relatives and with all the servants of God this day and for evermore Amen The end of Morning Prayer EVENING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE EVENING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE Say one or more of these Sentences O Lord the hope of Israel all that forsake thee shall be ashamed because they have for saken the Lord the fountaine of living waters O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us have mercy upon us for thy names sake for our backslidings are many we have sinned against thee Seeke the Lord while he may be found call upon him when he is neer There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the remnant of the transgression of his heritage he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercie Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to renew the heart of them that are contrite After which adde this short exhortation I Beseech you that are present to joyne with me in a humble confession of sins to Almighty God casting your selves downe with all humility before the throne of Grace The Confession I. ALmighty God powerfull and mercifull thou art a jealous God against persevering sinners but a gracious father to the penitent let thy mercifull eares be opened to the petitions of thy servants who with sorrow and shame confesse their sins unto thee II. We have loved the world not thee we have obeyed the desires of our owne hearts not thy holy lawes and Commandements we have often left our dutie undone but cease not to please our senses and to feed greedily upon vanity thou hast commanded us to love our brethren and instead of loving them we have slandered and reproached injured and tempted them envied their good and rejoyced in their calamity III. O Blessed God we are asham'd when we rememberd our owne follies our violent passions our peevishnesse and pride our vaine thoughts and unprofitable words our uncharitable and uselesse conversation we spend our daies in idlenesse and folly our nights in the images and causes of death and though our sins are so many that we cannot number them yet we so little apprehend our owne dangers that we neither leave them utterly nor heartily deplore them IV. But O God thou God of pity and compassion have mercy upon us For thou art our Father mercifull and gracious and thou hast revealed to mankind an infinite mercy in Jesus Christ. For his sake be pleased to give us repentance and to give us pardon and grant that our soules being wash'd in the blood of the holy Lambe and the Baptisme of repentance we may live a gracious a holy and a blessed life in all godlinesse and honesty and sobriety and may die in the love of God in the charity of our neighbours in the Communion of the Church and in a sure and certaine hope of life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The prayer of Absolution to be said by the Minister alone according to his piety and discretion when he sees cause OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus the great Shepherd and Bishop of our soules that lambe of God that taketh away the sins of the world who promised Paradise to the repenting theife and gave pardon to the woman taken in adultery he pardon and forgive all your sins knowne and unknowne *** O Blessed Jesus in whatsoever thy servants as men bearing flesh about them and inhabiting this world or deceived by the Devill have sinn'd whether in word or deed whether in thought or desire whether by omission or commission let it be forgiven unto them by thy word and by thy spirit and for ever preserve thy servants from sinning against thee and from suffering thine eternall anger for thy promise sake and for thy glorious Names sake O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then devoutly and distinctly say the Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome 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 trespasse against us* And lead us not into temptation* But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the power and the Glory for ever Amen The Doxology GLory be to the Father of mercies the Father of Men and Angels the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory be to the most holy and eternall sonne of God the Blessed Saviour and Redeemer of the World the Advocate of sinners the Prince of Peace the Head of the Church and the mighty Deliverer of all them that call upon him Glory be to the holy and Eternall spirit of God the Holy Ghost the comforter the sanctifying and life-giving Spirit All Glory and thankes all honour and power all love and obedience be to the Blessed and undivided Trinity one God Eternall The Heavens declare thy glory the Earth confesses thy providence the sea manifests thy power and every spirit and every understanding creature celebrates thy greatnesse for ever and ever* All glory and majesty all praises and dominion be unto thee O God Father Son and Holy Ghost for ever and ever Amen Then arising from their knees let the Psalme's be said in order unlesse some extraordinary occasion doe intervene in which case let Psalmes be selected according to the occasion or as is afterwards described concluding with Glory be to the Father c. Then read upon all Sundaies and Festivals of the yeare a chapter in the old Testament either in order or by choice After the lesson recite this Hymne * I Will remember the workes of the Lord surely I will remember the wonders of old I will meditate of allthy workes and talke of thy doings ¶ Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God * Thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people ¶ Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry * For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is full of mixture and he powreth out of the same
but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them ¶ But I will declare for ever I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. * For thou art my hope O Lord God thou art my trust from my youth ¶ By thee have I been holden up from the wombe thou art he that tooke me out of my Mothers bowels my praise shall be continually of thee * For the Lord is a sun and a sheild the Lord will give grace and glory and no good thing will he withhold from them that live a godly life ¶ O Lord of Hosts Blessed is the Man that putteth his trust in thee Glory be to the Father c. Or this * GOd is greatly to be fear'd in the assembly of the Saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him ¶ Thou rulest the raging of the sea when the waves thereof arise thou stillest them * The heavens are thine the earth also is thine as for the world and the fulnesse thereof thou hast founded them ¶ Justice and judgement are the habitation of thy throne mercy and truth shall go before thy face * For loe thine enemies O Lord loe thine enemies shall perish all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered ¶ The righteous shall flourish like a Palme tree he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon * Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God ¶ They shall still bring forth fruit in their old age they shall be fat and flourishing ¶ To shew that the Lord is upright he is our rock and there is no unrighteousnesse in him Glory be to the Father c. Then read a lesson out of the Epistle of S. Paul or any of the Canonical Epistles in order or selected upon special occasions After the lesson say this Psalme * GIve eare O Lord unto my prayer and attend to the voice of my supplications ¶ Turne us O God of our salvation and cause thine anger towards us to cease * For thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy to all them that call upon thee ¶ O Remember not against us former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us * Helpe us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name deliver us and purge away our sins for thy names sake ¶ Teach us thy way O God and we will walke in thy truth unite our hearts to fear thy Name * O satisfy us early with thy mercy that we may rejoyce and be glad all our daies ¶ So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thankes for ever we will shew forth thy praise from generation to generation Glory be to the Father c. Or this * IN thee O Lord doe I put my trust let me never be ashamed deliver me in thy righteousnesse ¶ Into thy hand I commend my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth * Make thy face to shine upon thy servants save us for thy mercies sake ¶ For great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men * The Angel of the Lord encamped round about them that fear him and delivereth them ¶ Thou art my hiding place thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance * Thou makest darknesse and it is night wherein all the beasts of the forest doe creep forth ¶ O Lord how manifold are thy workes in wisdome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches * The Glory of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall rejoyce in his workes ¶ He appointed the moone for certaine seasons and the sun knoweth his going downe * I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise unto my God while I have my being my meditation of him shall be sweet I will rejoyce in the Lord. ¶ I will both lay me downe in peace and sleep for thou Lord makest me dwell in safety Glory be to the Father c. Or else say 103. Psalme or the 91. or the 121. Then shall follow the Apostles Creed I Beleeve in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and earth * And in Jesus Christ his onely son our Lord * which was conceived by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary * suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried * He descended into hell * The third day he rose againe 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 quicke and the Dead * I believe in the holy Ghost * The holy Catholick Church the communion of Saints * the forgivenesse of sins * the resurrection of the body * and the life everlasting Amen Minister The Lord be with you People And with thy Spirit Let us Pray Our Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome 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 the power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen Then followes the first collect as at Morning Prayer I. O Great King of heaven and earth the Lord and patron of all ages receive thy servants approaching to the throne of Grace in the Name of Jesus Christ. Give unto every one of us what is best for us cast out all evil from within us work in us a fulnesse of holinesse of wisedome and spiritual understanding that we increasing in the knowledge of God may be fruitful in every Good worke through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this SAve us defend and keep us in thy fear and love O thou God of mercy and grace Give unto us the light of thy countenance pardon of our sins health of body sanctification of our spirits peace from heaven and salvation of our soules in the day of our Lord Jesus Amen I. For repentance and a Holy life ALmighty God the fountaine of holinesse and felicity who by thy word and by thy spirit dost conduct all thy servants in the waies of peace and sanctity inviting them by promises and winning them by love endearing them by necessities and obliging them by the perpetual testimonies of thy loving kindnesse grant unto us so truly to repent us of our sins so carefully to reforme our errors so diligently to watch over all our actions so industriously to doe all our duty that we may never transgresse thy Holy lawes willingly but that it may be the worke of our lives to obey thee the joy of our soules to please thee the satisfaction of all
thy power and among the diversities of opinions and judgments in this world from all errors and false doctrines and led into all truth by the conduct of thy holy spirit may for ever obey thy heavenly calling that we may not be onely hearers of the word of life but doers also of good workes keeping faith and a good conscience living an unblameable life usefully and charitably religiously and prudently in all godlinesse and honesty before thee our God and before all the world that at the end of our mortal life we may enter into the light and life of God to sing praises and eternall hymnes to the glory of thy name in eternal ages through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In whose name let us pray in the words which himselfe commanded saying OUr Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome 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 trespasse against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen A prayer of Thanksgiving after Sermon if it be convenient by reason of the time or other circumstances I. ALmighty God our glory and our hope our Lord and Master the Father of mercy and the God of all comfort we humbly present to thee the sacrifice of a thankfull spirit in a joyfull acknowledgment of those infinite favours by which thou hast supported our state enriched our spirits comforted our sorrowes releiv'd our necessities blessed and defended our persons instructed our ignorances and promoted our eternall interest * We praise thy name for that portion of thy holy word of which thou hast made us partakers this day Grant that it may bring forth fruit unto thee and unto holinesse in our whole life to the glory of thy holy name the edification of our Brethren and the eternall comfort of our soules in the day of our Lord Jesus II. Have mercy upon all that desire and upon all that need our praiers Ease the paines of the sick support the spirit of the disconsolate heare the cries of Orphans and Widdowes in their calamity and restore all that are oppressed to their rights and sanctify to them all their wrongs pity the folly and pity the calamities of poor mankind in mercy remembring them that are appointed to die comfort and support their spirits perfect and accept their repentance and receive the soules returning unto thee whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood III. Lord pity and pardon direct and blesse sanctify and save us all Give repentance to all that live in sinne and perseverance to all thy sons and servants for his sake who is thy beloved and the foundation of all our hopes Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory praise and adoration love and obedience now and for evermore Amen If this whole office be said at Morning or Evening Prayer respectively the Collect before sermon here put downe may be used instead of the Usual prayer before sermon ending with the Lords prayer and the Sermon to begin immediately before the blessing The Sermon being ended the prayer of thankes-giving may be said and the congregation dismissed with the blessing set downe at the end of Evening Prayer A prayer when a sick person desires to be publikely prayed for I. O Almighty and most gracious Father who art the fountaine of life and health and pardon hear the prayers of thy servants in behalfe of our Brother or Sister the miserable for the afflicted of sinners for him or her whom thou hast smitten Lord lay no more upon him then thou shalt enable him to beare but give him patience and doe thou thy selfe open a door for his escape even by a holy and a reformed life and a speedy recovery or else by a blessed death as thou in thy infinite loving kindnesse shalt choose for thy glory and his eternall interest II. Lord give unto thy servant a perfect repentance and a perfect pardon of all his sins Remember not the errors of his youth the weaknesse of his spirit the surprises of his life and the crimes of his choice but joyne his present sufferings to the passion his prayers to the intercession and his repentance to the merits of our dearest Saviour Jesus that he may be pardoned and pitied comforted and supported sanctified and saved in the day of recompenses III. Blessed Jesus who hast overcome all the powers of sinne Hell and the grave take from thy servant all inordinate fear of death give him a perfect resignation of his will and conformity to thine restraine the power of the enemy that he may not prevaile against the soule which thou hast redeemed If it be thy will give him a speedy restitution of his health and a holy use of the affliction or if thou hast otherwise decreed preserve him in thy fear and favour and receive his soule to mercy to pardon and eternal life through thy mercies and for thy compassion sake O Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen I. For seasonable weather in time of drowth immoderate raine or scarcity or death of Cattel c. O Lord God whose providence is universal and sufferest nothing to happen in vaine have mercy upon thy servants who have deserved thy wrath and to suffer thy indignation in every expression by which thou art pleas'd to signifie it Thou O God coverest the Heaven with clouds and preparest raine for the earth thou makest the grasse to growe upon the mountains and herbe for the use of men Thou givest fodder unto the cattel and feedest the young ravens that call upon thee Heare us O God who are thy servants and the sheep of thy pasture we have indeed wandered and gone astray but doe thou be mercifull unto us and bring us home to thee Take away thine anger from us Blesse the labours of the husbandman and the fruits of the feild refresh the weary earth with seasonable showers or seasonable weather for thou hast the key of raine and the key of providence thou didst bind up the heavens with ribs of iron and thou didst open againe the sluces of water at the prayer of thy servant Elijah and thy hand is not shortned and thy mercies have no limit II. Open thy hand O God and fill us with thy loving kindnesse that the Mower may fill his hand and he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosome that our garners may be full 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 breaking in or going out that our hearts may be replenish'd with food and gladnesse that there be no complaining in our streets Give us sufficient for this life
often forget our selves and still neglect and despise our owne danger III. BUt O God our Father mercifull and gracious have mercy upon us Be pleased to admit thy servants to a full pardon of all our sins let us not persevere in any one sinne nor passe from one sin to another Smite us not O God in thy anger and let not thy wrath descend upon our guilty heads Thy anger O God is insufferable thy vengeance is the portion of accursed soules and thou hast prepared the everlasting fire for the Devill and his Angels for ever O Lord thou Father of our life and lover of soules let us never have our portion in the bottomlesse pit in the lake that burueth with fire and brimstone for ever but let our portion be in the actions of repentance in the service of God in the aids and comforts of thy Spirit in dutie and holinesse in the light of thy countenance and in the likenesse and in the inheritance of our Lord Jesus O God let not thy arrowes smite us nor thy judgements consume us keep us from all expressions of thy wrath and let us rejoice in thy mercies and loving-kindnesses for ever and ever Amen IV. And that thy servants may reasonably and humbly hope for thy final mercies and deliverance be pleased to give us all that we need in order to the performance of our dutie and worke all that in us by which we may please thee Instruct us in thy truth and prepare the means of salvation for us providing for the necessities and complying with the capacities of evey one of us Take from us all blindnesse of heart and carelessenesse of spirit all irreligion and wilful ignorance Create in us a love of holy things and open our hearts that we may perceive and love and retaine the things of God with diligence and humility and industry O God our Father pity our weaknesses temptations our avocations and unavoidable divertisements the prejudices and evill contingencies happening in the state of our lives Enable us with sufficient and active graces to doe whatsoever thou requirest of us severally Require no more of any one of us then thou hast or shalt give unto us neither doe thou exact all that for we all confesse our weaknesses and defects our strange imperfections and inexcusable wandrings and omissions but be pleased to cure all our vitious inclinations and take care to remoove from us all those temptations which without thy mighty grace are not to be avoided and if they come are by our weaknesses not to be overcome Keep us O God from flattery and irreligion from vicious complyances and evill customes and let not the reverence of any man cause us to sin against thee keep us upright in our religion and worshippings of thee and let no change of the World engage us in a state of life against our duty for Jesus Christ his sake our Dearest Lord and Saviour V. Keep us O God by thy holy Spirit of grace from all the sins of idlenesse and intemperance from injustice and sensuality from the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes from the pride of life and vanity of spirit from being carelesse of our dutie of false in our trust from breach of promise or reproachfull language from slandering or traducing any man from false accusation and false witnesse from faction and envie Grant us thy grace that we may be diligent in our businesse just in our charges provident of our time watchfull in our dutie carefull of every word we speak O make us to be pleased in the offices of religion usefull to those that imploy us dutifull to our superiors loving to each other conscientious in private humble in publick patient in adversity religious and thankful in prosperity VI. O Blessed God take care of our soules and of our bodies keep us from sharp and tedious sicknesses let us never fall into want or be unprovided for in our age and forsake us not O God when we are gray-headed Grant us great measures of thy Spirit that we may abstaine from all appearances of evill and from all occasions of it and that we may take care to doe whatsoever is honest and of good report that having laid up a treasure of good workes against the day of thy visitation we may rejoyce in the day of our death and find mercy at the day of judgement through the goodnesse of our God and by the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen VII Blesse and sanctify defend and save all Christian Kings Princes Governors and States Grant that all powers Civil and Ecclesiasticall may joyne together in the promoting the honour of God and the kingdome of the Lord Jesus and may find the blessings of God and the rewards of the Lord Jesus in this world and in the world to come Give health and comfort peace and holinesse long life and increase of grace to the cheifest of this family his Wife and children grant that their portion may be in religion and the love of God keep them from all evill by the guard of Angels and lead them into all good by the conduct of thy good Spirit VIII In mercy and great compassion remember all them that are miserable and afflicted persecuted or poore that have lost their estates or lost their liberty their health or their peace their innocence or their hopes restore them O Lord to all good and to all usefull comforts and let not the enemie of mankind invade thy portion or destroy any soule for whom thou hast paid the price of thy most precious blood Hear us O God in mercy and blesse all our relations and prosper all our labours and sanctify all our intentions and forgive us all our sins and releive all our necessities and defend us from all dangers and especially from our own selves from our evill habits and foolish customes from our weake principles and sad infirmities from our evill concupiscence and vitious inclinations from the power of the Devill and from thy wrath and bring us in mercy and truth in holinesse and comfort in labour and certainty to a fruition of the glories of God in the inheritance of our blessed Saviour Grant this O God our Father for the merits and by the redemption and intercession of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communication of the holy Spirit of God be with us defend and guide sanctify and save us and al our relatives and all the servants of God this day and for evermore Amen A short forme of Evening prayer for a family In the name of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father c. The HYMNE O* Lord our Lord how excellent is thy Name in all the Earth thou hast set thy glory above the Heavens ¶ When I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers the moone and the stars which thou hast ordained *
What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the Son of man that thou visitest him ¶ For thou hast made him little lower then the Angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour * Thou madest him to have dominion over the workes of thy hands and hast put all things under his feet ¶ All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the feild the fowle of the aire and the fishes of the sea * O Lord our Governour how excellent is thy name in all the world ¶ The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work * Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge ¶ Their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world * To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent O Lord my God I will give thankes unto thee for ever ¶ Shew me thy wayes O Lord teach me thy paths lead me in thy truth and teach me for thou art the God of my salvation on thee doe I wait all the day * Remember O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses for they have been ever of old ¶ Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgression according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodnesse sake O Lord. * For thy names sake O Lord pardon mine iniquity for it is very great O keepe my soule and deliver me let me not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee ¶ That which I see not teach thou me I have done iniquity but I will doe no more for there is no darkenesse nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves * For his eyes are upon the wayes of man and he seeth all his goings but none saith where is God my maker who giveth songs in the night ¶ But I put my trust in thee O Lord I have said thou art my God * Into thy hand I commend my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth ¶ I will lay me downe in peace for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Or this * PReserve me O God for in thee doe I put my trust O my soule thou hast said unto the Lord thou art my Lord my goodnesse extendeth not to thee ¶ But to the Saints which are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight * The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou maintainest my lot ¶ I will blesse the Lord who hath given me counsell my reines also instruct me in the night seasons * I have set the Lord alwaies before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be mooved Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope ¶ For thou wilt not leave my soule in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption * Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnesse of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore ¶ As the heart panteth after the water brookes so panteth my soule after thee O God * My soule thirsteth for God for the living God when shall I come and appeare in the presence of God ¶ The Lord will command his loving-kindnesse in the day time and in the night his song shall be with me I will make my prayer unto the God of my life * For thou art the God that doest wonders thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God ¶ Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the Fowler and from the noisome pestilence * Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day ¶ For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keepe thee in all thy waies they shall beare thee in their hands least thou dash thy foot against a stone * I will remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night-watch for thou hast been my health therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoyce ¶ Blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with benefits even the God of our salvation * He that is our God is the God of salvation and unto God the Lord belong the issues of death ¶ Also unto thee O Lord belongeth mercy for thou rendrest to every man according to his worke Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Lesson 1 Thessal 5. 2. YOur selves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so commeth as a theife in the night * For when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction commeth upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape * But ye brethren are not in darknesse that that day should overtake you as a theife ye all are children of the light and children of the day we are not of the night or of darknesse * Therefore let us not sleepe as doe others but let us watch and be sober * For they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunken in the night * But let us who are of the day be sober putting on the breast-plate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation * For God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtaine salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ * Who died for us that whether we wake or sleepe we should live together with him Or read a chapter in the Sapientiall bookes in order After the lesson recite the Creed I beleive in God the Father Almighty c. The Lord be with you Ans. And with thy Spirit Let us Pray I. The confession of sins taken out of the prayer of S. Ephraim the Syrian O Almighty God who dwellest in the inaccessible light before whom the greatest mountaines are like the dust of the ballance and in whose sight the heavens are not pure and the Angels tremble and the Saints are charg'd with folly and all the world shall feare in thy glorious presence we confesse to thee O Lord Father of heaven and earth all those sins which we have wrought in private and in publick for thou knowest all things and nothing is hid from thy righteous eyes Thou art the God of mercy and pity and thou wouldst have all even strangers to be sav'd we fly therefore unto thee who art the lover and Saviour of all the soules of the faithfull Have pity upon us who have many times imbitterd and greiv'd thy most holy spirit to the joy of our enemies and the sad ruine of our pitiable and wounded soules Behold O God we have been dead in sins and trespasses and servants to thy enemy There is no kind of sins but we have committed or would have committed If it were pleasant we cared
when thou hadst taken upon thee our Nature and our sin and appeased thy Fathers wrath and perform'd all his will and overcome death and rescued all obedient soules from the hand of the enemy didst ascend to thy Eternall Father and open the Kingdome of Heaven to all beleivers thou hast espoused thy Church unto thy selfe with the eternall circles of thy providence with thy love and with thy care with thy word and with thy Spirit thy promises and thy holy intercession thou hadst a feeling of our infirmities and art our mercifull High Preist makeing intercession for us for ever O be pleased to represent and supply all our wants excuse all our infirmities pity all our calamities pardon our sins and send downe thy holy spirit of grace into our hearts that though we walke upon the earth yet our conversation may be in heaven and there also may be our portion and inheritance for ever through thy mercies O most Gracious Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen For Whitsunday Psalmes for Morning Prayer Psalme 87. Morning Prayer Psalme 89. Evening Prayer Psalme 2. Evening Prayer Psalme 45. Evening Prayer Psalme 110. The Hymne to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening Prayer * SIng a loud unto God our strength make a joyfull noise unto the God of Jacob. ¶ I will remember the workes of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate of all thy workes and talke of thy doings * Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people ¶ Vow and pay unto the Lord your God let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared * He shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the Kings of the earth ¶ Say unto God how terrible art thou in thy workes thorough the greatnesse of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee * Sion heard and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoyced because of thy judgements O Lord. ¶ For thou Lord art high above all the earth thou art exalted farre above all Gods * Light is sowne for the righteous and gladnesse for the upright in heart ¶ Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thankes at the remembrance of his Holinesse * The Lord hath made knowne his salvation his righteousnesse hath he openly shewed in the sight of the Heathen ¶ He hath remembred his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel all the ends of the earth have seene the salvation of our God * Give unto the Lord O ye kinreds of the people give unto the Lord glory and strength ¶ For he commeth For he commeth to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousnesse and the people with his truth Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. O Eternall God the Great Father of spirits the great Lover of soules who didst send thy holy Spirit upon thy Church in the day of Pentecost and hast promised that he shall abide with thy Church for ever let thy holy Spirit lead us into all truth defend us from all sin enrich us with his gifts refresh us with his comforts rule in our hearts for ever conduct us with his truth and lead us in the way everlasting that we living by thy Spirit and walking in him may by him be sealed up to the day of our redemption O let thy Spirit witnesse to our spirits that we are the children of God and make us to be so for ever through Jesus our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Spirit one God world without end Amen Upon Trinity Sunday O Blessed ineffable and most mysterious Trinity how admirable are thy beauties how incomparable are thy perfections how incomprehensible are those relations of the three most Blessed Persons which we believe and admire and adore but understand not The Angels are amazed in the unimaginable beauties of that glorious presence and are swallowed up with the Ocean of thy infinity How then can we who are in the lowest order of understanding creatures and have removed our selves further from thee and the participation of thy excellencies by a sinfull life praise thee either according to our duty or thy glories yet be pleased to accept the humblest adorations and with a favourable and a gracious eye behold the lowest worshippings and duty of thy servants We confesse and glory in thy omnipotency thy immensity thy goodnesse thy uncircumscribed Nature thy truth thy mercy thy omniscience O let us also receive thy blessings and gracious influences that we may adore thee with all our powers and possibilities for ever love thee with all our affections for ever serve with our best and earliest and all our industry that being here wholly inebriated with love and busied in thy service and the duties of a holy obedience we may to all eternity rejoyce in the beholding of those glories which are above all capacities above all heavens above all Angels even those glories which streame forth from the throne of the Eternall God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to whom be glory and dominion honour and adoration eternally confessed due and humbly paid by all men and all Angels world without end Amen A Collect to be used upon any of the Festivals or Commemoration of the Apostles ALmighty God who hast built thy holy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himselfe being the cheife corner stone we blesse and magnifie thy Name thy holy and ever glorious Name for thy great graces which thou gavest to thy Apostles and Prophets and Martyrs in the daies of their flesh and this day we have thy servant S. Paul S. Peter S. James c. here name the Apostle c. in remembrance praising thee for the benefits which the church hath received by his ministery and example we pray unto thee to give us thy grace that we obeying thy doctrine which he taught and publish'd and following his example as he followed Christ we also may with safety and holinesse passe through this vally of tears that serving thee in our generation advancing thy honour and obeying thy lawes we may in the society and communion of Saints and Angels sing eternall Hallelujahs to the honour of thy mercy and of thy majesty through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen An Office or Order for the Holy Sacrament of the LORDS SUPPER An Office or order for the Administration of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the way of the Apostolicall Churches and the doctrine of the Church of England THE ANTECOMMUNION OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome 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 trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Collect. O King of Glory Lord and Maker of the World thou art a God knowing all things and all thoughts even long before they are be thou present with us in this religious solemnity calling upon thee Deliver us from the shame of our sins from the corruption and evill inclinations that attend them anâ— from all the evils that may justly follow them Cleanse our wills and our understandings from all evill lusts and concupiscence from the deceits of the world from the violence and snares of the Devill from all guile and hypocrisy from every evill word and worke that we may serve thee faithfully worship thee religiously and pray unto thee acceptably through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall the Minister humbly say this prayer of preparation first in behalfe of himselfe then of the congregation O Lord God who in mercy and great compassion doest consider thy people and hast given unto us thy unworthy servants miserable sinners confidence and commandement to present our selves before thee at thy holy table to represent a holy venerable and unbloody sacrifice for our sins and for the errors and ignorances of all thy people looke upon me the meanest and most polluted of all them that approach to thy sacred presence Pity me O God and wash away all my sins Cleanse my heart and my hands my head and my lips from all impurities of the flesh and spirit and remoove far from me all irreverence and undecency all foolish imaginations and vaine reasonings and by the power of the Holy Ghost make me worthy for this ministery accepting this service for his sake whose sacrifice I represent and by whose commandement I minister even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen HAve mercy upon this thy people who with hungry and thirsty soules come to be refreshed comforted by the divine Nutriment of thy Holy Body and Blood Pity our infirmities despise not our unworthynesse Curse not our follies and take not from thy servants thy grace and the light of thy Divine Countenance but according to the multitude of thy great mercies doe away all our offences that without selfe condemnation we may appear before thy glory covered with the vaile of Jesus adorned with the robe of his righteousnesse and illustrated with the brightnesse of thy Divine spirit that we may live by thy grace and feel thy mercy and pardon in this world and in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall the Minister rising up rehearse with a loud voice the Eight Beatitudes the people still kneeling Minister Our Lord Jesus seeing the multitudes went up into a mountaine and he opened his mouth and taught them saying 1. BLessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdome of heaven People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 2. Blessed are they that mourne for they shall be comforted People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 3. Blessed are the meeke for they shall inherit the Earth People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 4. Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousnesse for they shall be filled People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 5. Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercie People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 6. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 7. Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God People Lord pardon our faults and incline our hearts to obey thee that we may inherit this blessing Minister 8. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousnesse sake for theirs is the Kingdome of heaven People Lord make us ready in heart and body to obey thee in every thing that we may inherit all these blessings in the Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Amen Let us Pray O Lord God our Creator who hast given us life and being and hast showne unto us the way of salvation vouchsafing to us the revelation of Heavenly Mysteries and hast commanded to us this service in the power of the Holy Ghost and obedience of the Lord Jesus be thou well pleased O Lord with this our service and dutie and grant that with a holy fear and a pure conscience we may finish this service presenting a holy sacrifice holily unto thee that thou maist receive it in heaven and smell a sweet odor in the union of the eternall sacrifice which our Blessed Lord perpetually offers and accept us graciously as thou didst entertaine the gifts of Abel the sacrifice of Noah the services of Moses and Aaron the peace-offering of Samuel the repentance of David and the incense of Zecharias and as from the hands of thy Holy Apostles thou didst accept this ministery so vouchsafe by the hands of us miserable sinners to finish and perfect this oblation that it may be sanctified by the Holy Ghost and be accepted in the Lord Jesus that we being adopted into the society and participation of his holinesse and sufferings admitted to his service incorporated to his body united to his purity made partakers of his intercession pardoned by his mercy sanctified by his grace confirmed by his strengths professing his religion beleiving in his word hoping in his promises and keeping all his commandements may receive the reward of faithfull and wise stewards in the day of righteous judgement Grant this O God for his sake who is the food of our soules and the joy of our hearts the object of our faith and hope and the great example of charity and all excellencies our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Then all arising from their knees shall be read some portions of scripture relating to the present Mystery viz. 1 EPistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians 11 chap. from verse 23. to the end The Gospel according to S. Marc. 14. 2. verse unto verse the 26. Or 1 Epistle of S. Paul written to the Corinthians 10 chapter from verse 1. to the 18. Gospel according to S. Matthew 26. verse 17. to verse 30. Sometimes one of these may suffice but never above two are to be us'd at once one out of the Epistles one out of the Gospels Then shall follow this Eucharistical Hymne all standing up reciting the verses interchangeably ONe thing have I desired of the Lord that I will seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the daies of my life to
When he fell and broke thy easy Commandement thou didst not despise his folly nor leave him in his sin but didst chastise him with thy rod and restrain him by thy law and instruct him by thy Prophets and at last didst send thy Holy Son into the world that he might renew and repair thy broken image The People shall answer Blessed be God He comming from heaven and taking our flesh by the power of the Holy Ghost of the Vâ—rgin Mary conversed with men and taught us the way of God and the dispensation of Eternal life People Holy Jesus Blessed be God But when for the redemption of us sinners he would suffer death upon the Cross without sin for us who were nothing but sin and misery in the night in which he was betrayed he took bread he looked up to heaven he gave thanks he sanctified it he brake it and gave it to his Apostles saying Take eat This is my body which is broken for you Doe this in remembrance of me Likewise after Supper he took the Cup and when he had given thanks and blessed it he gave it to them saying Drink ye all of this for this is my bloud of the new Testament which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins Doe this in remembrance of me For as often as ye shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye shall shew forth the Lords death till he come The people shall answer Amen Minister We beleeve and we confess People We declare thy death and confess thy resurrection Then the Minister kneeling shall say this prayer of Oblation I. WE sinners thy unworthy servants in remembrance of thy life-giving passion thy Cross and thy pains thy death and thy burial thy resurrection from the dead and thy ascension into Heaven thy sitting at the right hand of God making intercession for us and expecting with fear and trembling thy formidable and glorious return to judge the quick and dead when thou shalt render to every man according to his works doe humbly present to thee O Lord this present sacrifice of remembrance and thanksgiving humbly and passionately praying thee not to deal with us according to our sins nor recompence us after our transgressions but according to thy abundant mercy and infinite goodness to blot out and take away the hand-writing that is against us in the book of remembrances which thou hast written and that thou wilt give unto us spiritual celestial and eternal gifts which neither eye hath seen nor ear hath heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to understand which God hath prepared for them that love him thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall follow the reception and distribution of the Holy Sacrament The Minister first receiving and privately saying this short prayer O Blessed Jesus My Lord and my God thou art the celestial food and the life of every man that cometh unto thee I have sinned against heaven and before thee and am not worthy to partake of these holy Mysteries but thou art my merciful Saviour grant that I may religiously thankfully and without reproof partake of thy Blessed body and blood for the remission of my sins and unto life eternal Amen Then reverently taking in his hand the consecrated bread that he means to eat let him say THE Body of our Lord Jesus which was broken for me preserve my body and Soul into everlasting life Amen Then praying a while privately let him receive the Chalice saying THE Bloud of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for the remission of my sins cleanse my Soul and preserve it into everlasting life Amen Then let him pray awhile privately and recommend to God his own personal necessities spiritual and temporal and the needs of all his Relatives c. After that let him distribute it first to the Clergy that helps to officiate and after that to the whole Congregation that offers themselves saying the same words changing the person While the Minister of the Mysteries is praying privately the people may secretly pray thus or to this purpose I Beleeve O God and confess that thou art Christ the Son of the living God who came into the world to save sinners whereof I am chief Lord make me this day partaker of thy heavenly Table for thou dost not give thy secrets to thy enemies but to the sons of thine own house Let me never give thee a Judas kiss I confess thee and thy glories I invocate thee and thy mercies I trust upon thee and thy goodness like the thief upon the Cross Lord remember me in thy kingdome with the remembrances of an everlasting love Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof but as thou didst safe to lie in a Manger with beasts and to enter into the house of Simon the leper nor didst despife the repenting harlot when she kissed thy feet so vouchsafe to lodge in my soul though it be a place of beastly affections and unreasonable passions throw them out and dwell there for ever purifie my soul accept the sinner cleanse the leper so shall I be worthy to partake of this Divine Banquet Amen When every of the Communicants hath received in both kinds let the Paten and Chalice if any of the consecrated Elements remain be decently covered and then shall follow these prayers THE POSTCOMMUNION The Minister and People devoutly kneeling shal say the Lords prayer the people repeating every petition after the Minister Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome 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 aganist us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen Then the Minister shall pray this prayer for the Catholick Church I. REceive O Eternal God this sacrifice for and in behalf of al Christian people whom thou hast redeemed with the bloud of thy Son and purchased as thine own inheritance From the fountains of mercy the springs of our Blessed Saviour let all thy people upon whom the name of Jesus is called receive confirmation and increase of grace fruitfulness in good works and perfect understanding in the way of godliness Defend O God thy Church and preserve her from all heresy and scandal from sacrilege and Simony from covetousness and pride from factions and schism from Atheisme and irreligion from all that persecute the truth from all that work wickedness and let not thegates of hell prevail against her nor any evil come neer to hurt her II. Give thy blessing O God to this Nation remember us for good and not for evil be reconcil'd unto us in the Son of thy love and let not thine anger be any longer upon us nor thy jealousy burn like fire Send us health and peace justice
and truth good laws and good government an excellent religion undivided undisturbed temperate air seasonable showers wholesome dewes fruitful seasons Crown the year with goodness and let the clouds drop fatness that we may glorify thy name and confess thy goodness while thou bearest witness to us from heaven filling our hearts with food and gladness III. With a propitious eye a great pity behold the miseries of mankind put a speedy period to all our sins and to all our calamities Hear the sighings of the distressed the groans of the sick the prayers of the oppressed the desires of the poor and needy support the weakness of them that languish and faint ease the pains of them that are in affliction and call to thee for help Take from the miserable all tediousness of spirit and despair Pardon all the penitents reform the vitious confirme the holy and let them be holy still pity the folly of young men their little reason and great passion succour the infirmities and temptations of the aged preserving them that they may not sin towards the end of their lives for Jesus Christ his sake IV. Admit O Blessed God into the society of our prayers and the benefits of this Eucharist our Fathers and Brethren our wives and children our friends and Benefactours our charges and relatives all that have desired our prayers and all that need them all that we have and all that we have not remembred thou knowest all their necessities and all their dwellings their joyes and their sorrows their hopes and their fears the number of their sins and the measures of their repentances O dear God sanctifie them and us let our portion be in the good things of God in religion and purity in the peace of Conscience and the joyes of the Holy Ghost in the love of God and of our Neighbours O gather us to the feet of thy elect when thou wilt and in what manner thou art pleased onely let us appear before thee without shame and without sins through the merits of JESUS Christ our most mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Amen Then shall follow the Eucharistical prayers I. GLory be to thee O God our Father who hast vouchsafed to make us at this time partakers of the Body and Bloud of thy holy Son We offer unto thee O God our selves our souls and bodies to be a reasonable holy and living sacrifice unto thee Keep us under the shadow of thy wings and defend us from all evil and conduct us by thy Holy Spirit of grace into all good for thou who hast given thy holy Son unto us how shalt not thou with him give us all things else Blessed be the Name of our God for ever and ever Amen II. Glory be to thee O Christ our King the onely begotten Son of God who wert pleas'd to become a sacrifice for our sins a redemption from calamity the Physician and the Physick the life and the health the meat and the drink of our souls thou by thy unspeakable mercy didst descend to the weakness of sinful flesh remaining still in the perfect purity of spirit and hast made us partakers of thy holy Body and Bloud O condemne us not when thou comest to judgement but keep us ever in thy truth in thy fear and in thy favour that we may have our portion in thine inheritance where holiness and purity where joy and everlasting praises doe dwell for ever and ever Amen III. Proceeding from glory to glory we still glorifie thee O Father of Spirits and pray thee for ever to continue thy goodness towards us Direct our way aright establish us in holy purposes keep us unspotted in thy faith let the enemy have no part in us but conforme us for ever to the likeness of thy holy Sonne lead us on to the perfect adoption of our Souls and to the redemption of our bodies from corruption and fill our hearts and tongues with everlasting praises of thy name thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Blessing The peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Sonne Jesus Christ our Lord and the blessing of God Almighty and Father Son and Holy Spirit be upon you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen The end of the Communion Office A form of Administration of the Holy Sacrament OF BAPTISME A FORM OF Administration of the Holy Sacrament OF BAPTISME Pure water being provided and put into the Fount or into a Lavatory of silver or some other clean vessell fit and decent for this sacred action the Minister being vested in an Ecclesiastical habit shall begin with this exhortation Dearly beloved Brethren FOrasmuch as from our first parents we derive nothing but flesh and corruption and that flesh and bloud cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven it is necessary that every man who is reckoned in Adam should be also reckoned in Christ that every one who is born of the flesh be also born again and born of the spirit that every son of man by nature may become the son of God by Adoption be incorporated into Christ intitled to the promises and become heir of heaven by grace and faith in Jesus Christ and that this cannot be done but by being admitted to the Covenant of grace in Baptisme our Blessed Saviour saying that except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdome of God let us humbly and devoutly pray unto God in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that he will be pleased to send down his holy Spirit upon these waters of Baptisme that they may become to this infant all that shall be washed in them a laver of regeneration and a well of water springing up to life eternal and that this infant may be admitted to the Covenant of grace and pardon of mercy and holiness receiving from grace what by nature he cannot have that being baptised in water to the remission of sins he may all his life walk in this Covenant of grace and holiness as a lively member of the holy Church which is the mysticall body of Christ our Head Let us Pray I. O Almighty and Eternal God Father of Men and Angels Lord of heaven and earth whose spirit moving upon the waters at the beginning of the world produced every living and every moving creature thou by the flood of waters did wash away the iniquity of the old world and by preserving to thy self a generation of holy persons whom thou didst bring up from those waters didst consign to us a type of regeneration Look O Lord graciously upon the face of thy Church and multiply in her thy regenerations and the new births of thy Spirit With the abundance of thy grace make thy holy city to rejoice and still open this holy fountain of Baptisme for the reformation and sanctification of all the nations of the world that thy blessed Spirit
dealt graciously with us so deal with this infant whom we humbly bring and offer to our blessed Saviour Jesus that he should receive him and blesse him with the blessings of an everlasting love Receive him O most gracious Lord who is thy child by creation make him thine also by adoption into thy covenant of grace and favour let him be consigned with thy Sacrament be admitted into Christs kingdome enter into his warfare beleeve his doctrine labour and hope for his promises that this child witnessing here a good confession may have his understanding for ever brought unto the obedience his affections to the love and all his faculties to the service of Christ and after he hath served thee in his generation he may receive his part and portion in thy glory thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Then arising from their knees the Minister shall say unto the Godfathers and Godmothers as followeth WEl beloved friends you have brought this child to be presented unto Christ as a servant of his laws and a Disciple of his doctrine ye have prayed that God would receive him and give him a portion in the Gospel and kingdome of his Son ye have heard what promises God hath made on his part and ye beleeve and know all his words are yea and Amen and not one tittle of them shall pass unaccomplished now therefore because it is a Covenant of grace and favour on Gods part and of faith and obedience on ours though God prevents us with his grace and begins to doe for us before we can doe any thing to him yet you under whose power this child is and by whose faith and charity this child comes to Christ in holy Baptisme must also on his or her behalf promise that he will forsake the devil and all his wicked works that he will faithfully beleeve Christs holy Gospel and dutifully keep all Christs Commandements Minister Dost thou abjure and renounce and promise to forsake the Devil and all his wicked works not to listen to his temptations not to be led by the flesh by the vain powers of the world by carnal or covetous desires but thou wilt be the servant of the Lord Jesus Answer I forsake them all and will be a servant of Jesus Minister Dost thou beleeve in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his onely begotten Son our Lord And that he was conceived by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgin Mary that he suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried that he went down into hell and also did rise againe the third day that he ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty and from thence he shall come again at the end of the world to judge the quicke and the dead And dost thou believe in the holy Ghost the Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the remission of sins the resurrection of the flesh and everlasting life after death Answer All this I will profess and stedfastly beleeve Minister Wilt thou be baptized into this faith Answer That is my desire Let us Pray O Almighty God who hast given the promise of thy Spirit to us and to our children even to as many as the Lord our God shall call Give thy holy Spirit to this infant that the evil spirits of darkness may not take thy portion from thee nor hurt the body nor deceive the understanding nor corrupt the will nor tempt the affections of this infant but that thy Spirit who bloweth where it listeth no man knows whence he cometh nor whether he goeth may be in this child as the seed of God springing up to life eternal that the kingdom of God which is within and commeth not with observation may early rule and conduct this infant prevent the folly of his childhood from growing up to sins in his youth and may work strongly in him when his weakness his ignorances and temptations are most powerful to prevail upon him that from his cradle to his grave he may be guided by the Spirit of God in the paths of the divine Commandements Admit him O God into the bosome of the Church into the armes of thy mercy into a right of the promises into the service of Christ into the Communion of Saints and give him power to become the Son of God that being buried with Christ in Baptisme he may also rise with him thorough the faith of the operation of God thorough the same our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Then the Minister of the Sacrament shall take the child in his armes and ask the Name Then naming the child aloud he shall dip the head or face or body of the child in the water saying N. I baptize thee in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Dipping the head at the naming of the holy Trinity If the child be weak or any other great Cause intervene it may suffice instead of dipping to sprinkle water on the face using the same form of words Then shall the priest make the sign of the Cross upon the childs forehead saying WE sign this child with the sign of the Cross and enroll him a Soldier under the banner of Christ to signifie and in ceremony to represent that the duty of this and all baptized persons is manfully to fight under the banner of Christ against the flesh the world and the Divel all the daies of their life and by the power which Christ our Blessed Lord who hath the key of David hath given unto me I admit this child into the Communion of Saints into the bosome of the visible Church the kingdome of Grace and the title to the promises Evangelical and the hopes of glory OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus who when he had overcome the sharpness of death did open the kingdom of heaven to all beleevers and gave unto his Church the keyes of the kingdome that his ministers might let into it all that come to him he of his infinite goodness and truth make good his gracious promises upon this infant that what we doe on earth according to his will he may confirme in heaven by his spirit and by his word to the glory of the blessed and undivided Trinity God the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Then shall the Minister adde this Invitation SEeing now dearly Beloved that this infant hath received holy Baptisme and is washed in the laver of regeneration admitted into the bosome of the Church into the Covenant of faith and repentance pardon and holiness let us give thanks to God for these graces and pray that this child may lead his life according to the present undertaking I. WE give thee thanks and praise O heavenly and most gracious Father that it hath pleased thee to call this child to thy holy Baptism to renew him with thy holy Spirit to admit him into the Church to adopt him for thy child and to receive him
unto the profession of thy faith and we humbly beseech thee to grant unto him thy grace to accompany him all the daies of his life that he may hold fast the profession of his faith making his calling and election sure that his body being washed in pure water and he tasting of the heavenly gift being made partaker of the holy Ghost and sprinkled in his heart from an evil Conscience he may follow thee in the regeneration and after the end of this life he may for ever be with them who have washed their robes and made them white in the bloud of the Lamb. Grant this O God our Father thorough Jesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer II. O most holy most gracious Saviour Jesus who lovest thy Church and hast given thy self for it that thou mayest sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water in the word do thou with thy holy Spirit enlighten and with thy word instruct the understanding of this child that he may live by faith and may perceive the secrets of thy kingdom and know thy will and obey thy laws and promote thy glory III. O God be thou his Father for ever Christ his elder Brother and his Lord the Church his Mother let the body of Christ be his food the bloud of Christ his drink and the Spirit the earnest of his inheritance Let faith be his learning Religion his imployment his whole life be spiritual heaven the object of his hopes and the end of his labours let him be thy servant in the kingdome of grace and thy Son in the kingdome of glory thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Then shall the priest adde this blessing OUr Blessed Lord God the Father of men and Angels who hath sent forth his An-Angels ministers appointing them to minister to the good of them who shall be heirs of salvation he of his mercy and goodness send his Holy Angel to be the Guardian of this child and keep him from the danger and violence of fire and water of falls and sad accidents from evil tongues and evil eyes from witchcraft and all impressions of the spirits of darkness from Convulsions and Rickets from madness and stupidity from folly and evil principles from bad examples and from evil teachers from crookedness and deformity from the mutilation of a member or the loss of sense from being useless and unprofitable from being impious harsh natur'd and unreasonable and make him a wise useful and a holy person belov'd of men and belov'd of God thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Amen YOU the Godfathers and Godmother of the child as you have done this charity to the infant to bring him to Holy Baptisme so you must be sure to continue your care over him till he be instructed in his duty taught what vow he hath made by you and how he shall perform it To this purpose you shall take care that he may learn the Lords prayer the Apostles Creed and the Commandements of our Lord that he may know how to pray what to beleeve and what to practise and when he is in all these things competently instructed neglect not any opportunity of bringing him to the Bishop that he by imposition of hands and invocation of the holy Spirit of God may procure blessing and spiritual strength to this child Which duty when you have done you are discharged of this trust and from the mercies of God may humbly hope for the reward of your charity So ends the office of Baptisme THE DEVOTIONS and PROPER OFFICES for WOMEN An office for safe Childbirth I. O Almighty Father of Men and Angels in whose hands are the keyes of life and death of the womb and of the grave look down at this time in great mercy and gentlest compassion upon thy servant Thou hast O God upon the weakest of mankind fixed the sharpest decree of painful childbirth but so thou lovest to magnifie thy mercies and thy power that thy strength may be seen in our weakness so let it be O God unto thy handmaid let thy loving kindness be her confidence and her rest her hope and her security now and in the hour of her travail II. LORD let thy holy Angels be present with thy servant in their holy and charitable ministeries about her person it is a great thing that we require but we beg it of the great King of Heaven and Earth the Lord of Angels who hath promised that his Angels shall stand in circuit round about them that fear the Lord Look O Lord upon her fear it is humble but it is trembling look upon her love and make it what it is not yet doe thou sanctifie her fear of thee and change it into obedience and carefulness of duty increase her love of thee and make it to be pure and perfect operative and buisie zealous and obedient make it to grow up to the perfections of a Christian and pass unto the beauties of holyness so shall thy servant feel thy daily mercies and no evil shall come neer to hurt her III. GRacious Father give thy servant leave to rely upon thy glorious promises thou hast commanded us to call upon thee in our trouble and hast promised to deliver us O look upon thy handmaid leave her not nor forsake her for trouble is hard at hand and there is none that can help or deliver but onely thou O God In thee O Lord doe we trust let thy servants never be confounded Be pleased O Lord to give thy servant patience and dereliction of her own desires perfect resignation of her own will and a conformity to thine that she may with joy receive the blessing which thou wilt choose for her and which we humbly beg of thee even that she may have a holy a healthful a joyful and a safe deliverance of her burden Lord keep her from all sad accidents and evil contingencies from violent pains and passions from all undecency of Comportment and unquietness of Spirit from impatience and despair from doing any thing that is criminal or feeling any thing that is intolerable IV. O Lord my God give thy servants leave to pray to thee in behalf of this thy handmaid that thou wilt not cut her off in the middest of her daies nor forsake her when her strength faileth but spare her O God not for any purposes of vanity or the satisfaction of any impotent or secular desires but that she may live to serve thee to redeem her time mispent in folly to get victory over temptations and perfect dominion over her passions to grow great in religion and of an excellent charity and devotion O spare her a little that she may recover her strength before she goes hence and be no more seen so shall thy servant rejoice in thy mercies and speak of thy loving kindness in the Church of thy redeemed ones and will spend her daies in holiness and zealous pursuances of religion Remove her sinnes far from her as the East is from the
design it for the production of mankind and didst give it as one of the first blessings of mankind O be pleased to look upon thy handmaid who waits for thy mercy and humbly begs of thy infinite goodness to make me partaker of that blessing which thou didst design to all the sons and daughters of Adam thou O God hast the keyes of heaven and hell of rain and providence of the womb and the grave O let not thy servant feel the curse of dry breasts and a barren womb but make me a joyful Mother of children that thy handmaid may serve thee in increasing the number of thy redeemed ones and may minister blessings to this family into which thou hast adopted me and may bring comfort to my dear husband whom doe thou bless and love and sanctifie for ever II. O God I confess I am unworthy of this or any other favour I am less then the least of thy mercies yet our weakness and unworthiness cannot be the measures of thy mercy thou art good and gracious infinitely gracious essentially good and delightest in shewing mercy to them that call upon thee put their trust in thee O dear God I remember that thou didst releive the sorrows of thy servant Hannah and gavest her the blessing of children thou didst blesse the womb of Elizabeth who was barren thou spakest the word and the rocks did rend and they sent forth a pleasant stream Thy hand is not shortned and thy mercies are not less then ever no less then infinite and why should not thy servant hope that thou wilt hear my prayer and grant the desire of my soul Even so O gracious father let it be as thou pleasest thy wisedom is infinite and thy counsels are secret and the waies and lines of thy providence are like the path of a bird in the aire not to be discovered by our weak sight III. I Know O God that thou lovest to hear our prayers and thou delightest in the humble passionate and resigned desires of thy servants Although O God I desire this blessing with an earnestness as great as any temporal favour yet I humbly submit my desires my interests my content and all that I am or have to thy holywill and pleasure humbly begging of thee that I may cheerfully suffer and obediently doe thy will and choose what thou choosest and observe the waies of thy providence and revere thy judgement and wait for thy mercy and delight in thy dispensation and expect that all things shall work together for good to them that fear thee O let thy holy Spirit for ever be present with me and make me to fear thee and to love thee above all the things in the world for ever and then no ill can come unto thy servant for whosoever loves thee cannot perish Hear the prayer of thy servant and releive my sorrow and sanctify my desires and accept me in the Son of thy love and of thy desires our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen A prayer to be used by an afflicted wife in behalf of a vitious Husband I. O Eternal Father thou preserver of men thou great lover of souls who didst send thy holy Son to die that mankind might be redeemed and sin might be destroyed Thou knowest how intolerable a thing it is that a Soul should to eternal ages be incircled with thy wrath and the indignation of a mighty and an angry God and therefore dost love to doe miracles of mercy because thou lovest not that a sinner should perish Be pleased to give thy handmaid leave to present her humble desires in behalf of a sinner one sinner for another the miserable for him that is ready to perish Lord look down in mercy upon my Husband snatch him from the jawes of Hell suffer him not to perish in his sin but open his eyes with the light of thy word and of thy Spirit that he may espy his danger that he may behold the deformity of his sins the injuriousness of his actions the folly of his pleasures the iniquity of his vowes II. CLeanse his hands and heart from all unrighteousness from bloud-guiltiness from rapine from violence from cruelty O Lord and purifie his soul and body from all impurity from all intemperance from the violence and fury of passion giving him a perfect repentance and a perfect pardon and if it be thy will let me also some way or other cooperate towards the recovery of his precious soul and be pleased to remember the sufferings of thy handmaid not that he may receive evil but that I may find good from thy gracious hands in the day of recompence thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen If she have escaped any violence intended against her by his malice or passion then adde this prayer of thanksgiving O God my God and Father thou hast strangely preserv'd and rescued me from evil thou hast made decrees in heaven for my safety and preservation and for the glory of thy own name thou hast diverted the arrow that was directed against me What am I O Lord and what can I doe or what have I done that thou shouldest doe this for me I am O God a miserable sinner and I can doe nothing without a mighty grace and I have done nothing by my self but what I am asham'd of and yet I have received great mercies and miracles of providence I see O God I see that thy goodness is the cause and the measure of all my hopes and all my good and upon the confidence and greatness of that goodness I humbly beg of thy sacred Majesty to keep and defend me from all evil by thy wise providence to lead me into all good by the conduct of thy divine Spirit and where I have done amiss give me pardon and where I have been mistaken give me pity and where I have been injured give me thy favour and a gracious exchange that I may serve thee here with diligence and love and hereafter may rejoice with thee and love thee as I desire to love thee and as thou deservest to be loved even with all the powers and degrees of passion and essence to eternal ages in the inheritance of Jesus whom I love for whom I will not refuse to die in whom I desire to live and die to whom with thee O gracious Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory love and obedience for ever and ever Amen A Mothers prayer for her children I. MOst Gracious and Eternal God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Father of Men and Angels Father of mercies and God of all comforts thou hast promised to be a Father to a thousand generations of them that love and fear thee be thou a God and a Father to me and the children which thou hast given me Enable me O Lord to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and in the fear of God to the praise of thy holy Name O give me thy grace and favour that
affections of thy loving kindnesse and thou art displeased when our vilenesses constraine thee to powre down thy judgements on us O be pleased to grant that they living in holy obedience to thee may feel a perpetuall streame of mercy refreshing and supporting them and let them not bear anothers burthen for thou art just and merciful righteous and true and hast sentenc'd every one to bear their own iniquity VI. GReat God of mercy heale all the breaches of this family preserve and encrease the remaining comforts and advantages of it support the estate renew thy favour to it and perpetually poure down thy blessings upon it for the light of thy countenance and thy gracious influence does preserve and blesse support and nourish honour and advance persons and families and kingdomes Blesse my eldest son give him an obedient and a loving spirit a provident and a wise heart a worthy and a pious comportment a blessed and an honourable posterity to my younger sons give health and holinesse wisdom and faire fortunes the love of God and good men to my daughters give thy perpetuall grace and favour that they may live in honour and a severe chastity free from sin and shame from temptation and a snare and let their portion be in the blessing in the love and service of God Let them live in the favour of God and man usefull to others and honour to their family a comfort to all their relatives and friends and servants to thy divine Majesty VII PReserve me thy servant from all evil lead me into all good change my sorrowes into comforts my infirmity into spirituall strength take all iniquity from mee and let thy servant never depart from thee I am thine O save mee I am thine sanctify me and preserve me for ever that neither life nor death health nor sicknesse prosperity nor adversity weakeness within nor crosse accidents without may ever separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen Blessed Jesus Amen The Offices or Formes OF Prayer and Devotion for The Miserable and Afflicted An Office to be said in the daies of persecution of a Church by sacrilegious or violent persons Our Father which art in Heaven c. Minister O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to help us Minister Glory be to the Father c. Answer As it was in the beginning c. I. A Hymne petitory and complaining O God the Heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy Temple have they defiled and made Jerusalem an heape of stones ¶ The adversaries roare in the midst of the congregations and set up their banners for tokens * They have set fire upon thy holy places and have defiled the dwelling places of thy Name even unto the ground ¶ They have destroyed all the carved worke thereof with axes and hammers * Yea they have said in their hearts Let us make havock of them altogether thus have they spoiled the houses of God in the land ¶ O God how long shall the adversary doe this dishonour how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever * Why withdrawest thou thy hand even thy right hand pluck it out of thy bosome for they have devoured Jacob and laid wast his dwelling place ¶ They have said come and let us root them out that they be no more a people and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance * Hold not thy tongue O God keepe not still silence refraine not thy selfe O God for they have cast their heads together with one consent and are conâ—ederate against thee ¶ They have taken crafty counsel against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones * O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth ¶ Thou feedest them with the bread of teares and givest them plenteousnesse of teares to drinke * Wil t thou be displeased at us for ever and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another ¶ Wilt thou not turne again and quicken us that thy people may rejoice in thee * Will the Lord absent himselfe for ever and will he be no more intreated Is his mercy cleane gone for ever and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore ¶ Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will he shut up his loving kindnesse in displeasure * O doe thou bring the wickednesse of the ungodly to an end but guide thou the just ¶ Bring downe the ungodly and malicious take away his iniquity and thou shalt find none * Shew thy marvellous loving kindnesse thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee from such as resist thy right hand ¶ So will not we goe back from thee quicken us and we will call upon thy name * Turne us again O Lord God of Hosts ¶ Cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. I. A Hymne consolatory in time of persecution * THE Lord is in his Holy temple the Lords seat is in Heaven his eyes consider the poore and his eyelids trie the children of men ¶ Blessed is the Nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his owne inheritance * For thou shalt save thy people that are in adversity and shalt bring downe the high lookes of the proud ¶ Thou shalt keep them O Lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever For the righteous Lord loveth righteousnesse his countenance will behold the thing that is just * For the oppression of the poore for the sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that swelleth against him ¶ For the Lord will not faile his people neither will he forsake his inheritance untill righteousnesse turne againe unto judgement and all such as be true in heart shall follow it * O how plentifull is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee even before the sons of men ¶ Thou shalt hide them privily by thine owne presence from the provoking of al men thou shalt keepe them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues * Great plagues remaine for the Ungodly but who so putteth his trust in the Lord mercy embraceth him on every side ¶ He calleth upon the Lord and the Lord heareth him yea and saveth him out of all his troubles * He delivers their soules from death and feedeth them in the daies of famine They shall not be confounded in the perillous time and in the daies of dearth they shall have enough ¶ The Lord ordereth a good mans going and maketh his way acceptable to himselfe * Though he fall he shall not be cast away for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand ¶ Thou Lord shalt save both man and beast
this Psalme * PLeade thou my cause O Lord with them that strive with me for they have laid their net to destroy me without a cause yea even without a cause have they made a pit for my soule ¶ Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoyce over me neither let them winke with the eye that hate me without a cause * For they speake not peace but they devise deceitfull matters against them that are quiet in the land ¶ They rewarded me evill for good to the great discomfort of my soule * Stirre up thy selfe and awake to my judgement even unto my cause my God and my Lord. ¶ Judge me O Lord my God according to my righteousnesse and let them not rejoyce over me * And my soule shall be joyful in the Lord it shall rejoyce in his salvation ¶ All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee which deliverest the poore from him that is too strong for him yea the poore and needy from him that spoileth him * Let them shout for joy and be glad that favour my righteous cause yea let them say continually let the Lord be magnified which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants ¶ Trust in the Lord and doe good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed * Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him fret not thy selfe because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to passe ¶ For the Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is comming * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Minister The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Let us pray Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Collect. ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and lovest not that a sinner should die before thee and before thy Angels there is joy in heaven at the conversion of a sinner thou hast promised pardon to the penitent and salvation to them that persevere O grant that we may never presume on thy mercy or despise the riches of thy goodnesse but that thy forbearance and long suffering may lead us to repentance create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we truly mourning for our sins and forsaking them condemning our selves and justifying thee crucifying the old man and becomming new creatures may obtaine of thee mercy and remission that though we are now worthily punished for our sins by the comfort of thy grace we may be mercifully releived through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen I. The prayer for the Church O Eternal God thou preserver of men and the Great lover of soules have pitty and compassion upon thine afflicted handmaid the Church of England Thou hast humbled us for our pride and chastised us for our want of discipline O forgive us all our sins by which thou hast been provoked to anger and to Jealousie to despise our sorrowes and to arme thy selfe against us II. Blessed God smite us not with a final and exterminating judgement call not the watchmen off from their guards nor the Angels from their charges let us not die by a famine of thy Word and Sacraments If thou smitest us with the rod of a man thou canst sanctify every stroke unto us and canst bring good out of the evil and delightest to doe so but nothing can bring us a recompence if thou hatest us and sufferest the soules of thy people to perish III. Unite our hearts and tongues take away the Spirit of error and division from amongst us and so order all the accidents of thy providence that religion may increase and our devotion may be great and popular and truth may be incouraged and promoted and thy Name glorified and thy servants comforted and instructed that thy holy Spirit may rule and all interests may stoope and obey publish and advance the honour of our Lord Jesus Amen For the Superiour Clergy O Most blessed Saviour Jesus King of Heaven and earth the head and prince of the Catholick Church who hast appointed thy servants Ministers and stewards in the house of thy Father to give bread to the hungry and drinke to them that thirst after the water of life flowing from the Fountaines of our Saviour continue and blesse sanctify and adorne with thy gifts and graces all the Spiritual guides and governours which thou hast appointed over us that they may continue in thy service to comfort the afflicted to instruct the ignorant to confirme the strong to defend and promote thy truth to intercede for thy servants to open the kingdome of heaven to all beleivers and to shut up the disobedient and rebellious in everlasting prisons by the keyes of the Kingdome by thy word and Sacraments by thy power and by thy Spirit remove not the Candlestick from us neither doe thou quench the light of Israel but let thy servants our Bishops and Priests be like burning and shining lights in the Temple of God by a continual never failing never broken succession offering up the daily sacrifice rejoycing in the plenty of peace and the imployments of thy house in holy offices and a daily ministration that thou being for ever pleas'd and for ever glorified we may be thy peculiar people a chosen generation a royal priest-hood clothed with righteousnesse and singing with joyfulnesse Eternall Hallelujahs to the honour of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For Priests and the Inferiour Clergy MOst Blessed and Eternal Jesu who art a Preist for ever after the order of Melchisedek and hast separated thy servants to minister to thee in holy offices and to convey holy things unto the people give unto all thy servants the Ministers of thy word and Sacraments the spirit of prudence and knowledge of faith and charity of watchfulnesse and holy zeale that they as good helpes in Government may declare thy will faithfully to their congregations and administer the Sacraments purely and devoutly and by their holy life become an example to thy litle flock that so they with cheerfulnesse and joy may render an account of their charge and may by thy mercy obtaine the blessing of thy Preisthood the glories of thy Kingdome O most Blessed and Eternall Saviour who livest and reignest with the Father and the holy Spirit eternal God world without end Amen The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. To this office may be added the confession of sins taken out of S. Ephraim the Syrian in the Evening prayer for a family and said immediately before the collect Or else Immediately before the blessing as opportunity shall require or permit may be said the Let any described at the end of these devotions Any of these prayers or psalmes may upon any occasion ordinary or extraordinary be used in any of the other offices In time of VVarre to the foregoing offices may be added these following prayers taken out of a special
office published by the authority of Queene Elizabeth 1597. I. A prayer for an Army or Navy in time of VVarre O Almighty Lord God of hosts the prince of peace and the everlasting Counsellor we humbly beseech thee so to conduct encourage and defend our Armies and Fleets with thy mighty arme and thy wise providence that what they shall attempt or take in hand for defence of this Church and State may be prosperous and blessed Direct and lead them all in safety strengthen their Governours and leaders with sound counsell and wise Conduct The officers and souldiers with ready obedience and valiant resolution Blesse their conflicts with signal victories give them blessed opportunities of effecting the purposes of peace and justice with the least bloodshed Preserve them from contagious diseases from the violence of sword and sicknesses from evill accidents or crafty designes from treachery or surprise from carelesnesse of their duty and fromall irreligion from confusion or feare from mutiny and disorder Give them an happy and an honourable returne that we being defended from our enemies thy servant our Soveraigne or Supreme may rejoice in thy mercies and thy church may give thee thankes in the daies of peace and all thy people may worship thee in a holy religion giving thee praise and honour and glory for ever in Eternal ages through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this I. O Most mighty Lord God who reignest over all the Kingdomes of Men thou hast power in thy hand to cast downe and to raise up to save thy servants and to rebuke their enemies and in all ages hast given victory to the people effecting by small numbers what man cannot doe by the multitude of an Host Let thy eares be now open unto our praiers and thy merciful eyes upon our trouble and our danger O Lord doe thou judge our cause in righteousnesse and mercy prosper our armes and defend our armies Establish us in the rights thou hast given us in our lands and in our goods in our Government and in our lawes in our Religion and in all the holy orders which thou hast appointed to minister to all who shall be heires of salvation II. Never let ambition or Cruelty thirst of Empire or thirst of blood the greedinesse of of spoile or the pleasures of a victory make us either to love warre or to neglect all the just wayes of peace and grant unto the Army such piety and prudence such happy circumstances and blessed events that none of them may doe any act misbecoming Christians Disciples and servants of the prince of peace Doe thou O God blesse them in all their just actions and necessary defences that they may neither doe wrong nor suffer any Let not our enemies have their unjust desires nor their mischeivous imaginations prosper leaft we become a scorne and derision to our oppressors The race is not to the swift nor the battle to thestrong and a horse is counted but a vaine thing to save a man but our trust is in the name of the Lord our God he is our strength and our defence for it is thou O Lord who canst indifferently save with many or with few III. Wherefore from thy holy sanctuary open thine eyes and behold stretch forth thy hand and helpe defend and save our Armies and Navies O thou God of power from all evil of man and all evil of chance Cover their heads in the day of battle and danger send thy feare before thy servants that our enemies may flee before them let thy faith make them valiant in fight and put to flight the armies of Aliens Rebels c. and by this shall thy servants know thou favourest us in that our Enemy doth not triumph against us and shall alwaies confesse to the praise of thy name that it was thou Lord the sheild of our hope and the sword of our glory who hast done great things for us and evermore say Praised be the Lord that hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants Heare us O Lord for the glory of thy name for thy loving mercy and for thy truth sake through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen An Office for Prisoners THe foregoing ordinary Offices are fitted for all mankind in General and so may be also used by these in their Prisons To which they may adde what is fit for them in the following devotions and upon Solemne occasion or upon special necessity or devotion they may intirely and distinctly use the following prayers and psalmes c. In the Name of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father which art in Heaven c. Versicle O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to helpe us Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Psalme I Will cry unto God with my voice even unto God will I cry with my voice and he shall hearken unto me ¶ In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord in the night my sore ceased not my soule refused to be comforted * When I am in heavinesse I will thinke upon God when my heart is vexed I will complaine ¶ O remembet how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men for nought * I goe hence like the shadow that departeth and am driven away as the grashopper But the Lord shall endure for ever he hath also prepared his seat for judgement ¶ For he shall judge the world in righteousnesse and minister true judgement unto his people * The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble ¶ And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast never failed them that seeke thee * Deliver me O Lord from the evil man preserve me from the violent man ¶ I know that the Lord will maintaine the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poore * Surely the righteous shall give thankes unto they Name the upright shall dwell in thy presence ¶ O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee according to the greatnesse of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die * The humble shall consider this and be glad Seeke ye after God and your soule shall live ¶ For the Lord heareth the poore and despiseth not his prisoners * Who is like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high ¶ Who humbleth himselfe to behold the things that are in heaven and earth * He raiseth up the poore out of the dust and lifteth the needy out of the Dunghil ¶ Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore * For he satisfieth the longing soule and filleth the hungry soule with goodnesse ¶ Such as sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death being bound in affliction and iron * He bringeth them out of darknesse and the shadow of death and breaketh their bands in sunder ¶ O that men would praise the Lord for
woman c from all the violence and fraud of the Spirits of darknesse from the weakenesse of humane nature from the curse and power of evil habits and from Eternal damnation through the mercies of God and the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen I. For Prisoners under oppression by false accusation by unjust warre for a good Conscience or unreasonable dealings of men by vexatious law-suits and violent injurious bargaines O Almighty God most mercifull most gracious Father who hast glorified thy eternal son and exalted him to be a covenant for the people a light of the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them that sit in darkenesse out of the prison-house Thou standest at the right hand of the poore to save his soule from unrighteous Judges thou art a defence for the oppressed and a refuge in due time in the time of trouble O looke upon thy servants who suffer wrong from the violent and unjust usages of our oppressors If it be thy will speedily rescue us from our calamity we submit to thy will and pleasure and adore thy providence and thy wisedome in every dispensation but we begge of thee together with the suffering give us patience and a way for us to escape and sanctify both thy justice in our suffering and thy mercy in our delivery Doe thou judge our cause O Lord defend our persons give good unto our persecutors and not evil give them a love of justice and repentance pardon and holinesse send peace O Lord in all our daies and in al our dwellings let there be no leading into captivity no complaining in the houses of bondage and let not our portion be with persecutors but with the poore and the persecuted with the harmelesse and the innocent with them that doe good and suffer evil for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen II. O God of mercy extend thy loving kindnesse to all thy servants who are under the same or any other great affliction deliver them O God from all evil from their owne weaknesse and their enemies power blesse them with thy providence sanctify them by thy grace pardon them by thy mercy defend them with thy power conduct them by thy Spirit enrich them with thy wisedome and bring them to all holy and usefull comforts in this world and to never ceasing glories in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen THE Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communication of the holy Spirit of God be with us and with all our relatives and with all the servants of God for ever and ever Amen An office or forme of prayer for Sailers or Mariners Our Father which art in Heaven c. Versicle O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to helpe us Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Psalme * BLessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his helpe and whose hope is in the Lord his God ¶ Which made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that therein is which feedeth the hungry * The Lord is great and cannot worthily be praised he is more to be feared then all Gods ¶ His dominion is from one sea to the other and from the floud unto the worlds end * Whither then shall I goe from thy Spirit or whither shall I goe from thy presence ¶ If I climbe up into heaven thou art there If I goe down to hell thou art there also * If I take the wings of the morning and remaine in the uttermost parts of the sea ¶ Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me * They that goe downe to the sea in ships and doe businesse in great waters ¶ These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deep * For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind which lifteth up the waves thereof ¶ They mount up to the heaven they goe downe againe to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble * They reele to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits-end ¶ Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble and he bringeth them out of their distresses * He maketh the storme a calme so that the waves thereof are still ¶ Then are they glad because they be at quiet so he bringeth them unto the desired haven * O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull workes to the sons of men ¶ O Lord God of hosts who is like unto thee thy truth most mighty Lord is on every side * Thou rulest the raging of the sea thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise ¶ Thou shalt shew us wonderful things in thy righteousnesse O God of our salvation thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth and of them in the broad sea * They also that dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth shall be afraid at thy tokens thou that makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise thee ¶ The Lord hath said I will bring my people again as I did from Basan mine owne will I bring again as I did some time from the deepe of the sea * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Or this to be said especially in a storme or danger of Shipwrack * THE Lord is King Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared thou art from everlasting ¶ The flouds are risen O Lord the flouds have lift up their voice the flouds lift up their waves * The waves of the sea are mighty and rage horribly but the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier ¶ Awake awake put on strength O arme of the Lord awake as in the ancient daies in the generations of old * Art not thou he which hath dried the sea the waters of the great deepe that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to passe over ¶ Thou art the God that doeth wonders and hast declared thy power among the people * Thou hast mightily delivered thy people even the sons of Jacob and Joseph ¶ The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and were afraid the depths also were troubled * The clouds powred out waters the aire thundred and thine arrowes went abroad ¶ The voice of thy thunder was heard round about the lightnings shone upon the ground the earth was mooved and shooke withall * Thy way is in the sea and thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not knowne ¶ Therefore I will cry unto God with my voice even unto God will I cry with my voice and he shall hearken unto me * Heare me O God in the multitude of thy mercy even in the truth of thy salvation ¶ Take me out of the mire that I
his infinite mercy bring thee to the regions of holinesse and eternal peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen I. A prayer to be used in behalfe of Fooles or Changelings O Eternal and most blessed Saviour Jesus who art the wisedome of the Father and art made unto us wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and Redemption have pity upon the miserable people to whom thou hast given life and no understanding Thou didst create us of nothing and gavest us being when we were not and createdst in us capacity of blessings when we had none and gavest us many when we did not understand them thou bringest infants from the wombe and from the state of nature to the state of grace and from their mothers breasts thou doest often convey them to the bosome of Jesus and yet they doe nothing but thou art glorified in thy free gift O be gracious to all Natural fooles and innocents for thou hatest nothing which thou hast made and lovest every soule which thou hast redeemed we that have reason can deserve heaven no more then these can but these doe not deserve hell so much as we have done Impute not to them their follies that are unavoidable nor the sins which they discerne not nor the evils which they cannot understand keepe them from all evil and sad mischances and make supply of their want of the defences of reason by the special guard of Angels and let thy obedience and thy sufferings be accepted and thy intercession prevaile for them that since they cannot glorify thee by a free obedience thou mayest be glorified by thy free mercies to them and for their destitution of good in this world let them receive eternal blessings in the world to come through thy mercies O eternal and most Blessed Saviour Jesus Amen II. A prayer for Madmen ALmighty God whose wisedome is infinite whose mercy is eternal whose tranquillity is essential and whose goodnesse hath no shore In judgement remember mercy and doe thou delight to magnify thy mercy upon them who need it but cannot aske it who are in misery but feele it not who doe actions without choice and choose without discretion and sober understanding Pity the evil they suffer and pardon the evils that they have done and impute not unto them the evils which they rather beare then act and let not their entry into this calamity be an exclusion from their future pardon but let this sad calamity and judgement which they beare be united to the sufferings of our Lord and be sanctified by his intercession and become an instrument of their peace Lord restore them to their health and understanding take from them all violent passions and remove all evil objects far from their eyes and eares create a cleane heart and renew a right Spirit in them Give them sober thoughts and meeke Spirits contempt of the world and love of holy things suffer them not to doe violence to any man and let no man doe violence to them let them be safe under the conduct of thy providence and the publick lawes and be innocent under the conduct of thy holy Spirit that when thou shalt returne and speake peace to thy people they may rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation thou didst O God shew mercy to Nebuchadnezar gavest to him the heart of a man after he had sin'd and fallen into the lot of beasts and wildnesse and thy hand is not shortned that thou canst not helpe but let thy mercies and loving kindnesse returne upon thy servants as at first that thou mayest rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation because thou hast pleasure in the prosperity of thy Servants Grant this Almighty God and Father for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and dearest Saviour Amen III. A prayer in behalfe of Hereticks and seduced persons O Most blessed most Gracious Saviour Jesus who art the way and the truth and the life thou art a light to them that sit in darkenesse the light that lightneth every man that commeth into the world preserve thy Church in peace and truth in love and holinesse to thy second comming Reduce every misbeleiver to the fold of thy Church instruct every ignorant person in the wayes of Godly wisedome subdue the pride of man and bring every understanding to the obedience of thy sacred law Let no mans vanity or ignorance divide the church let not any holy truth be sullied with the mixture of impure and heretical doctrines nor evil principles disorder the beauties of religion and godly living nor any doctrines of men be taught as the commandement of God but grant that the truth of God may be publikely maintained constantly taught hūbly beleived zealously practized by all men in their several stations that in the church of God there be no contention but in giving honour to each other and glory to God in all the wayes of faith and charity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. Blesse the ministery of thy holy word in its ordinary dispensation grant it may prevaile mightily for the convincing of them that have no faith for the reprooving of the errors of them whose faith is not pure for the confirming them who are weake in faith for the perfecting them who are novices in faith open the hearts of all gainsayers take from them all their prejudices and all their passions their secular interests and confident opinions that they may humbly and meekely attend to the voice of God in the mouths of thy servants in the pages of scripture in the doctrines of the Spirit that they may doe nothing against the truth but for the truth that they may not quench the Spirit nor despise prophecying nor shut their eyes against the light and their hearts against the love of God but grant that in all things being obedient to the heavenly calling they may receive the blessings of truth and peace in this world and in the world to come exalting the kingdome and partaking the glories of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen These three last prayers are to be used upon any of the great Festivals of the yeare especially Easter day Ascension day Whitsunday and upon 8 dayes after these Festivals or upon good Friday Prayers and Psalmes to be used by the Minister and Curate of Soules at the Visitation of the sick In the Name of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father which art in Heaven c. Minister O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to helpe us * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Then recite this Psalme * REbuke me not O Lord in thine anger neither correct me in thy heavy displeasure ¶ Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weake O Lord heate me for my bones are vexed * My soule is also sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me ¶ Turne thee O Lord and deliver my soule O save me for thy mercies sake * For in death no
never heard and know what was never revealed below O grant that she may have aydes that her she never did neede even mighty assistances in proportion to her new and strang erstate that whatsoever is in the darkenesse or in the fire in the secret regions of wrath and the horrible places of torment and fearful exspectations may not afflict or affright the lambe of thy flock the price of thy bloud the child of thy kingdome and the portion of thine owne inheritance Amen V. O sweetest Jesu say unto this soule This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise say unto this foule Feare not for it is my Fathers pleasure to give thee a Kingdome Let this soule dwell in safe and pleasant regions and be supported with the hope of God comforted with a holy conscience rejoyce in a confirm'd pardon be recreated with the visitation of Angels and walke in white whithersoever the Lambe shall goe Amen VI. Give unto this decaying dying body a blessed and a glorious resurrection to this weary and afflicted this penitent and redeemed soule a portion in the blessed sentence of the right hand amongst the blessed children of thy Father who shall receive the Kingdome prepared for them from the beginning of the world Amen VII Remember O God the good things which by thy grace and by the aides of thy holy Spirit thy servant hath done in all his life and remember not his evil deedes which by the weakenesse of the flesh and the temptations of the Devil and the evil contingencies of this world have afflicted and humbled the soule of thy servant remember thy holy Son did die for these and thy holy Spirit was the cause of those and for whom thou hast given thy Son and to whom thou hast given thy Spirit give thy eternal pardon and thy eternal glories thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen After the soule is departed the Minister may say this prayer in behalfe of the living friends and relatives of the dead ALmighty God who governest all things in heaven and earth with infinite wisedome and infinite mercy and bringest good out of evil comfort out of sorrow and after a gentle visitation dost refresh thy children with the light of thy countenance with the blessings of thy providence with the returnes of thy grace and the comforts of thy holy Spirit have mercy upon this family and returne to them all with thy loving kindnesse exchanging their present sorrow into the advantages of holinesse and blessing Be thou now and ever what thou gloriest in a Father of the Fatherlesse a Husband to the Widow a God of comfort to them that mourn◠in secret Grant that thy servant may not weepe as men without hope nor murmure at thy dispensation nor complaine of any thing but themselves nor desire any thing but that thy will be done nor doe any thing but what is agreeable to thy holy word and commandement and grant that when thou smitest any of us it may increase thy feare in us and when thou doest good to any of us in smiting or forbearing in chastising or comforting it may increase thy love in us and let thy holy Spirit so prevail over all our wills and understandings our affections and the outward man our interests and our hopes that we may live in this world pleasing to thee and may goe out of this world with the peace of a holy conscience and may have a joyful resurrection in the last day to a participation of the glories of God thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Blessing THE Lord blesse you and keepe you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace The blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and holy Ghost be amongst you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen Prayers and devotions to be us'd at the Burial of the Dead The Minister before the Corps entring at the Church doore may begin with one or more of these sentences A Good name is better then precious ointment and the day of death then the day of ones birth It is better to goe to the house of mourning then to goe to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart I am the resurrection and the life saith the Lord He that beleiveth in me yea though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and beleiveth in me shall not die for ever It is appointed to all men once to die and after death comes judgement I would not have you to be ignorant concerning them which are asleepe that we sorrow not even as others without hope For if we beleive that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleepe in Jesus will God bring with him After the Corps is set downe in the body of the Church let Morning or Evening prayer be read according to the time of the day with this difference onely Instead of the usual Psalmes Read Psalme 39. Psalme 49. Psalme 90. For the first lesson read Job 14. or 19. After the first lesson read Psalme 88. For the second lesson read 1 Corinth 15. from verse 12 to the end After the second lesson read Nunc dimittis * LOrd now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word ¶ For mine eyes have seen thy salvation * Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people ¶ To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. After the usual prayers are done then the Corps carried being to the grave the Minister shall read this lesson Ecclesiastes 12. REmember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth while the evil daies come not nor the yeers draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them While the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkned nor the clouds return after the rain In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow themselves and the grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the windows be darkned And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and feares shall be in the way and the almond-tree shall flourish and the grashopper shall be a burden and desire shall fail because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets Or ever the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowle be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern Then shall the dust retrun
to the earth as it was and the spirit shall returne unto God who gave it People Blessed be God The Minister while they are preparing to interre the Corps shall say this Psalme * THE wicked is driven away in his wickednesse but the righteous hath hope in his death ¶ I said in the cutting off of my daies I shall goe to the gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my yeares * I said I shall not see the Lord even the Lord in the land of the living I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world ¶ I have set the Lord alwaies before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be mooved * Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope ¶ For thou wilt not leave my soule in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption * As for me I will behold thy face in righteousnesse when I awake with thy likenesse I shall be satisfied ¶ Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnesse of joy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. When the Corps is in the grave the Minister shall say Forasmuch as it hath pleas'd Almighty God to take to himselfe the soule of our deare brother here departed we lay his body in the ground for out of it was it taken dust it is unto dust it does return but we lay it downe in a sure and certain hope of the resurrection from the grave For the Lord himselfe shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then those which are alive and remaine shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the aire and so shall we be ever with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words Let us pray * Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Christ have mercy upon us * Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven c. I. O Almighty God with whom doe live the spirits of the just men made perfect we give thee humble thankes that thou hast delivered the soule of thy servant N. N. from the calamities of this life putting a period to his sin and to his paines O be pleased shortly to fill up the numbers of thine elect and hasten thy kingdome and to us thy servants grant that we may die to sin and live to righteousnesse living a holy and a gracious life peaceable and blessed that when we have served thee in our generations we may die the death of the righteous leaving a good name and a faire example behind and our good workes may follow us that being holy in our lives we may be blessed in our death and with this thy servant and all other departed in thy love and feare may lie in the bosome of our Lord till by the trump of God we shall be awakened in the resurrection of the just to reigne with thee in thy Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. O most blessed Saviour Jesus who art the resurrection and the life and in whose sight the death of thy saints is precious looke upon us thy servants whose life is vanity and our dayes passe away like a tale that it told and as the remembrance of a passenger that stayeth but a night the dayes of our pilgrimage are few and evil and we disquiet our selves in vaine O looke upon us with a gracious eye give us thy holy Spirit of wisedome and peace to guide us in the wayes of God that our affections and our conversation being in heaven and being weaned from this world we may die daily and every day be doing good that laying up a treasure of good workes we may rejoyce in the day of our death and may be freed from the terrors of the day of judgement and the gates of hell may not prevail against us O preserve us from that eternal wrath which shall destroy all thine enemies and let our portion be with the charitable and the merciful on the right hand of the Father where thou sittest and reignest in the glory of God to eternal ages world without end Amen If it be opportune then here may be added one of the prayers for a blessed death at the end of Evening prayer throughout the yeare ending with the usual benediction The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. A forme of Devotion TO Be used and said in the daies OF Sorrow and Affliction A forme of Devotion to be used and said in the daies of Sorrow and Affliction of a family or of private persons In the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Our Father c. O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to helpe us Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Psalme HIde not thyface far from me O Lord put not thy servant away in anger thou hast been my helpe leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation ¶ O my God I cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season I am not silent * But thou art holy O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel ¶ Our Father trusted in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them * But I am a worme and no man smitten of thee Lord afflicted tormented forsaken ¶ Thou hast filled me with bitternesse and hast made me drunken with worm-wood thou hast remooved my soule far off from peace and I have forgotten prosperity * But O God thou art my God early will I seek thee be not thou far from me O Lord O my strength hast thee to help me ¶ I acknowledge my sin unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid I will confesse my transgressions unto the Lord O doe thou forgive the iniquity of my sin * Thou art my hiding place thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance ¶ Lord make me to know my end and the measure of my daies what it is that I may know how fraile I am * Behold thou hast made my daies as an hand breadth and mine age is as nothing before thee verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity ¶ And now O Lord what wait I for Surely my hope is in thee * Deliver me from all my transgressions remove thy stroke away from me I am even consumed by the blow of thy hand ¶ When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for iniquity thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moath Surely every man is vanity * Hear my prayer O Lord and give eare unto my cry hold not thy peace at my teares For I am a stranger with thee and
a sojourner as all my Fathers were ¶ O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I goe hence and be no more seen * Let all those that seek thee rejoyce and be glad in thee Let such as love thy salvation say continually The Lord be magnified ¶ But I am poor and needy yet the Lord careth for me thou art my helpe and my deliverer make no tarrying O my God Amen Amen Amen Then Read The second Chapter of Ecclesiasticus or The sixt Chapter of S. Matthews Gospel or The twelfth Chapter to the Romans or The 5 Chapter of the 2 d Epistle to the Thessalonians or The 1 of Timothy the 6. Chapter or Hebrews 12. or James 5 th These at several times After the chapter is read sit still a while and consider of such comforts or instructions as are in the chapter fitted to your needs If this office be said by a Minister in the company of the afflicted person then he may adde such useful and comfortable discourses as are occasion'd by the chapter and then say the following Collect. After meditation or discourse humbly kneel down and pray I. An act of Repentance O My God and Father in vaine doe we beg to have thy heavy hand taken from us so long as the cause remaines Our sins O God our sins are so great so numerous so intolerable that we must needs with shame hide our face and confesse we have deserved all the evill that we suffer and all that which thou hast threatned we have O God more to give thee thanks for then we have to deplore It is thy infinite mercy that we are yet kept from feeling thy severest judgements It is thy mercy that we have our senses and our understandings that we have the use of thy word and sacraments that we have not intolerable pains of body and unsufferable troubles in our mind It is thy blessing that we have bread that we have many friends that we have the praiers of thy faithfull servants that we have faith in thee and that we have hope It is thy infinite mercy that are we yet kept from the unsufferable pains of hell are permitted to pray to thee to relie upon thy mercies to worke out our salvation and to expect thy loving kindnesse in the Land of the living II. All the evils that we suffer we have deserved but nothing of this good have we deserved we are lesse then the least of all thy mercies and our sins are greater then the greatest of all our sufferings * And now O God thou who hast so mercifully dealt with thy servants in taking a lesse fine of us then in justice thou mightest have exacted be pleased also to proceed in the methods of thy mercy and make our present sufferings be instrumental of thy glory of the pardon of our sins of the sanctifications of our Spirits of the humiliation of our soules that like silver tried in the fire we may come forth more pure vessels of honour pleasing and acceptable to thee in Jesus Christ. II. An act of patience and resignation WEE know O God that thou art infinietly wise and infinitely good and thou disposest all the events of thy creatures of excellent purposes and delightest to bring good out of evill Behold O God we are thy servants and thy creatures do to us as seemeth good in thine eyes onely give us patience and a long suffering Spirit that we may not murmure secretly when we complaine openly that we may not make hast in the day of our calamity but with a quiet spirit expect and wait for the time of our redemption But make no long tarrying O Lord make hast to helpe us O God of our salvation and be pleased to give us a light from heaven that with the eye of faith we may see beyond the cloud and looke for those comforts which thou didst prepare for thy servants that love thee and put their trust in thee and have laid up all their hopes in the bosome of God IV. An act of hope O God our God thou hast said unto us I will never leave you nor forsake you thou hast often eased our calamities and taken off thy severe hand thou hast promised to be with us in time of need thou delightest to deliver them whose confidence is in thy goodnesse Thou hast supported our spirits in the day of our sorrow and hast given us many intervals and spaces of refreshment and renewest thy loving kindnesse day by day O let us never have our portion amongst the hopelesse and desperate Let us alwaies pray to thee and hope in thee and in every period of our affliction let us doe some actions of virtue by which we may please thee and be accepted so long as we can pray Thou hast commanded us to hope and we doe hope that these comforts shall refresh our soules that thy mercies will support us under our afflictions that thy Spirit shall comfort us in it and thy grace and thy glorious providence shall speedily deliver us from it Amen Blessed Jesu Amen V. The Petition ANd now O most mercifull Father give thy servants admittance to present our complaint before the throne of grace and let our petition enter into thy presence thy arrows stick fast in us and thy hand presseth us sore Open thy heart the treasure and spring of mercie and thence let comforts and refreshments descend upon thy servants Put a blessed period to our sorrows but first put a stop to our sins let us not sin against thee when for sinne thou art smiting us Let us never charge thee foolishly nor behave our selves peevishly towards others but use all the means we can to ease their sorrows to lighten their burdens to sweeten their lives that so we may expect from thy goodnesse a more plentifull and abundant measure of loving kindnesse VI. Lord put a barr and stop unto our passions make them to be humble ministers of religion and prudent government but never let us suffer any violent transportations in our selves never be provoked to any bitternesse never to be harsh or cruell towards any never to speak any thing peevishly and undecently never to put too much upon any temporall interest In all things let us behold thy providence and reverence thy justice and adore thy majesty and feel thy mercy and obey thy Spirit and if thou shalt still persevere to smite us and to try thy servants let not thy punishing us ever cause us to sin against thee Let not our own follies be our scourges lest we sin against thee and loose thy blessing for ever VII Be pleased O my God to adde this favour unto thy servants that our trouble may not be doubled or increase by our own infirmities take from us all troublesome fancies and too quick apprehensions of our sorrows Blessed be thy Name they are finite and they are temporall sorrows they are lesse then our sins and they are lesse then thy mercies
nigh unto all them that call upon him yea all such as call upon him faithfully ¶ He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will help them * 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 streets ¶ Happy are the people that be in such a case yea blessed be the people which have the Lord for their God Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. II. After recovery of a City family or single person from the Plague or any great sicknesse * O Come hither and hearken all ye that fear God I will tell you what he hath done for my soule ¶ I called unto him with my mouth and gave him praises with my tongue O Lord my God I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me * Thou Lord hast brought my soule out of Hell thou hast kept my life from them that goe downe to the pit ¶ O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turne and refresh me yea and broughtest me from the deepe of the earth againe * Sing praises unto the Lord O ye saints of his and give thankes unto him for the remembrance of his holinesse ¶ For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and in his pleasure is life heavinesse may endure for a night but joy commeth in the morning * Praised be the Lord daily even the God which helpeth us and powreth his benefits upon us ¶ He is our God even the God of whom commeth salvation God is the Lord by whom we escape death * I will be glad and rejoyce in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble and hast knowen my soule in adversity ¶ Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy but hast set my feet in a large roome * Thou hast turned my heavinesse into joy thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladnesse ¶ Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praises without ceasing O my God I will give thankes unto thee for ever Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. III. After a victory or the prosperous ending of a Warre BLessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to warre and my fingers to fight ¶ My hope and my fortresse my castle and deliverer my defender in whom I turst which subdueth my people that is under me * When my spirit was in heavinesse thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked had they privily laid a snare for me ¶ I cried unto the Lord and said Thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the living ¶ Thou didst send downe thine hand from above thou didst deliver me and take me out of the great waters from the hand of strange children ¶ Thou hast given victory unto Kings and hast delivered David thy servant from the perill of the sword * For I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord in above all Gods ¶ Whatsoever that Lord pleased that did he in heaven and in earth in the sea and in all deep places * The Lord is on my side I will not feare what man doth unto me ¶ The Lord taketh my part with them that helpe me therefore shall I fee my desire upon mine enemies * It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in man ¶ It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any cofidence in princes * The Lord is my strength and my song and is become my salvation ¶ The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous The right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass * The right hand of the Lord hath the preheminence the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass ¶ He maketh warrs to cease in all the world he breaketh the bow and knappeth the speare in sunder and burneth the chariots in the fire * Behold how good and joyfull a thing it is brethren to dwell together in Unity ¶ It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran downe unto the beard even unto Aarons beard and went downe to the skirts of his clothing * For there the Lord promised his blessing and life for evermore ¶ The Lord liveth and blessed be my strong helper and praised be the God of my salvation * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. If there be any other occasion instead of these use Te Deum Laudamus c. After each of these Eucharistical Psalmes shall be added as followeth Minister Lift up your hearts Answer We lift them up unto the Lord. Minister Let us give thankes unto the Lord our God Answer It is meet and right so to doe Minister I. IT is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks and praise honour and adoration love and duty to thee O Lord God the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort who hast knowne our soule in adversity and delivered us from the evil we have deserved and hast given us good things we deserved not we confesse O God that we are lesse then the least of all thy mercies but thy immense thy unlimited goodnesse and loving kindnesse rejoyces in doing us good in preserving us from evil in heaping thy benefits upon us in giving to us witnesse from heaven in feeding our hearts with food and gladnesse in delivering us from our enemies in snatching us from the power of the grave in commanding thy destroying Angel to hurt us not Holy Jesus Blessed be God II. We are thy servants and thy children we are all thine and have no interest but thy service thou art our God and all our hopes are laid up in thee Thou art gracious when thou smitest us but we cannot expresse thy infinite sweetness when thou releivest our necessity when thou sustainest our sorrowes when thou dost deliver us from thy wrath when thou hearest our prayers when thou powrest thy benefits upon us O give unto thy servants thankfull hearts obedient and loving Spirits carefulnesse of duty charity and humility zeale of thy glory submission to thy divine will and pleasure that serving thee with all our powers loving thee with all our faculties obeying thee in al instances delighting in thee in all dispensations we may be conducted thorough all varieties of providence and defended in all temptations of our enemies and releived in all the necessities of our life and assisted in all particulars
out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against thee 11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoyce let them ever shout for joy because thou defendest them let them also that love thy name be joyfull in thee 12 For thou Lord wilt blesse the righteous with favour wilt thou compasse him as with a shield Ev. Pr. PSAL. VI. David being afflicted with sicknesseâ— and sensible of Gods anger prayes against it implores the Divine mercy renounces all communion with evill men and evill works prayes for life and health ease and remâ—ssion and finding ease nad comfort gives thanks to God O Lord rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure 2 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heale me for my bones are vexed 3 My soul is also sore vexed but thou O Lord how long 4 Return O Lord deliver my soul oh save me for thy mercies sake 5 For in death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee thanks 6 I am weary with my groaning all the night make I my bed to swim I water my couch with my tears 7 Mine eye is consumed because of griefe it waxeth old because of all mine enemies 8 Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping 9 The Lord hath heard my supplication the Lord will receive my prayer 10 Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed let them return and be ashamed suddenly PSAL. VII David justifies himself against the reproches of Shimei who accus'd him to have caused the death of King Saul and his family and to have usurp'd the Kingdome he prayes to be delivered from the injuries of his adversary to be restored to his Kingdome and to be a veng'd of his enemy O Lord my God in thee do I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me 2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion rending it in pieces while there is none to deliver 3 O Lord my God if I have done this if there be iniquity in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evill unto him that was at peace with me yea I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy 5 Let the enemy persecute my soul and take it yea let him tread down my life upon the earth and lay mine honour in the dust Selah 6 Arise O Lord in thine anger lift up thy self because of the rage of mine enmies and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded 7 So shall the congregation of the people compasse thee about for their sakes therefore return thou on high 8 The Lord shall judge the people judge me O Lord according to my righteousnesse and according to my integrity that is in me 9 O let the wickednesse of the wicked come to an end but establish the just for the righteous God tryeth the hearts and reins 10 My defence is of God which saveth the upright in heart 11 God judgeth the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every day 12 If he turn not he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors 14 Behold he travelleth with iniquity and hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood 15 He made a pit and digged it and is faln into the ditch which he made 16 His mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate 17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousnesse and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high PSAL. VIII The glory and magnificence of God his love to Man his providence over the world an act of praise and adoration of God O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the heavens 2 Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemie and the avenger 3 When I consider thy heavens the work work of thy fingers the moon and the starres which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the son of man that thou visitest him 5 For thou hast made him a little lower then the angells and hast crown'd him with glory and honour 6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things under his feet 7 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowl of the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas 9 O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earthâ— Mo. Pr. PSAL. IX The Church praises God for her victory over her enemies God takes care of his Church will destroy them that oppose her The faithfull are exhorted to put their trust in God I Will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart I will shew forth all thy marvellous works 2 I will be glad and rejoyce in thee I will sing praise to thy name O thou most high 3 When mine enemies are turned back they shall fall and perish at thy presence 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou saâ—est in the throne judging right 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen thou hast destroyed the wicked thou hast put out their name for ever and ever 6 O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetuall end and thou hast destroyed cities their memoriall is perished with them 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever he hath prepared his throne for judgment 8 And he shall judge the world in righteousnesse he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightnesse 9 The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in times of trouble 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast not for saken them that seek thee 11 Sing praises to the Lord which dwelleth in Sion declare among the people his doings 12 When he maketh inquisition for blood he remembreth them he forgetteth not the cry of the humble 13 Have mercy upon me O Lord consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me thou that liftest me up from the gates of death 14 That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Sion I will rejoyce in thy salvation 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the net which they hid is their own foot taken 16 The Lord is known by the judgement which he executeth the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands Higgaion Selah 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God 18 For the needy shall not alway be forgotten the expectation of the poor
shall not perish for ever 19 Arise O Lord let not man prevaile let the heathen he judged in thy sight 20 Put them in fear O Lord that the nations may know themselves to be but men PSAL. X. The Church under the oppression of persecutors sadly complains to God describes their mâ—â—ice and violence and implores the Divine aid against atheisticall and cruell persons WHy standest thou afar off O Lord why hidest thou thy self in times of trouble 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined 3 For the wicked boasteth of his hearts desire and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth 4 The wicked thorow the pride of his countenance will not seek after God God is not in all his thoughts 5 His wayes are alwayes grievous thy judgements are far above out of his sight as for all his enemies he puffeth at them 6 He hath said in his heart I shall not be moved for I shall never be in adversity 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud under his tongue is mischief and vanity 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages in the secret places doth he murder the innocent his eyes are privily set against the poor 9 He lyeth in wait secretly as a lyon in his den he lyeth in wait to catch the poor he doth catch the poor when he draweth him into his â—et 10 He croucheth humbleth himself that the poor may fall by his strong ones 11 He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see it 12 Arise O Lord O God lift up thine hand forget not the humble 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God he hath said in his heart Thou wilt not require it 14 Thou hast seen it for thou beholdest mischief and spite to requite in with thy hand the poor committeth himself unto thee thou art the helper of the fatherlesse 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evill man seek out his wickedness till thou find none 16 The Lord is king for for ever and ever the heathen are perished out of his land 17 Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble thou wilt prepare their heart thou wilt cause thine eare to hear 18 To judge the fatherlesse and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no more oppresse PSAL. XI The Church afflicted with the arts and fraud of false brethren runs to God in hope and prayer acknowledges God to be a just Judge both to the godly and to the wicked IN the Lord put I my trust how say ye to my soul Flee as a bird to your mountain 2 For lo the wicked bend their bow they make ready their arrow upon the string that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart 3 If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous doe 4 The Lord is in his holy temple the Lords throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eye-lids try the children of men 5 The Lord tryeth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousnesse his countenance doth behold the upright Ev. Pr. PSAL. XII David complains of the iniquity of his time the falshood all flattery of men he declares Gods care of the poore and the oppressed and the excellency of the Word of God HElp Lord for the godly man ceaseth for the faithfull fail from among the children of men 2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour with flattering lips with a double heart do they speak 3 The Lord shall cut off and flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things 4 Who have said With our tongue will we prevail our lips are our own who is lord over us 5 For the oppression of the poore for the sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him 6 The words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times 7 Thou shalt keep them O Lord thou shalt preserve them froÌ„ this generation for ever 8 The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted PSAL. XIII David expostulating concerning his own infirmity the importunity of his enemies and the delaying of the Divine aides prayes to God for deliverance hopes and rejoyces in his mercy HOw long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul having sorrow in my heart daily how long shall mine enemie be exalted over me 3 Consider and hear me O Lord my God lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death 4 Lest mine enemies say I have prevailed against him and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved 5 But I have trusted in thy mercy my heart shall rejoyce in thy salvation 6 I will sing unto the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with me PSAL. XIV The practical atheisme of the world and the universal iniquity of mankind is here complained of and their readinesse to oppresse the poore but God will call them to judgment and relieve the oppressed THe fool hath said in his heart There is no God they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none that doth good 2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and seek God 3 They are all gone aside they are all together become filthy there is none that doth good no not one 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eate up my people as they eate bread and call not upon the Lord. 5 There were they in great fear for God is in the generation of the righteous 6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor because the Lord is his refuge 7 O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Sion when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people Jacob shall rejoyce and Israel shall be glad Mo. Pr. PSAL. XV. The godly and they who are to be heirs of heaven are describ'd by their integrity of life their truth their justice and contempt of money LOrd who shall abide in thy tabernacle who shall dwell in thy holy hill 2 He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart 3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue nor doth evill to his neighbour not taketh up a reproch against his neighbour 4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned but he honoureth them that fear the Lord he that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not 5 He that putteth not out his money to usury nor taketh reward against the innocent He that doth these things
shall never be moved PSAL. XVI David confesses God to be his Gâ—â— and protests against all idolatrous worshippings he rejoyces in God for his present blessings his preservation and prosperity the aides of his grace and the hopes of Eternall life through the resuâ—rection of Christ. PReserve me O God for in thee do I put my trust 2 O my soul thou hast said unto the Lord Thou art my Lord my goodnesse extendeth not to thee 3 But to the Saints that are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplyed that hasten after another God their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer nor take up their names into my lips 5 The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou maintainest my lot 6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places yea I have a goodly heritage 7 I will blesse the Lord who hath given me counsell my reins also instruct me in the night seasons 8 I have set the Lord alwayes before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be moved 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy One to see corruption 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fulnesse of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore PSAL. XVII David appealing to God concerning his innocency does passionately implore his patronage against his prosperous enemies he prophesies of the resurrection HEar the right O Lord attend unto my cry give eare unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence let thine eyes behold the things that are equall 3 Thou hast proved mine heart thou hast visited me in the night thou hast tryed me and and shalt find nothing I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgresse 4 Concerning the works of men by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer 5 Hold up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not 6 I have called upon thee for thou wilt hear me O God incline thine eare unto me and hear my speech 7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindnesse O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye hide me under the shadow of thy wings 9 From the wicked that oppresse me from my deadly enemies who compasse me about 10 They are inclosed in their own fat with their mouth they speak proudly 11 They have now compassed us in our steps they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth 12 Like as a Lion that is greedy of his prey and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places 13 Arise O Lord disappoint him cast him down deliver my soul from the wicked which is thy sword 14 From men which are thy hand O Lord from men of the world which have their portion in this life and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure they are full of children and leave the rest of their substance to their babes 15 As for me I will behold thy face in righteousnesse I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likenesse Ev. 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XVIII David toward the end of his life sings a song of victory to God for all his triumphs and greaâ— successes in his warres he gives thanks puts his trust in God I will love thee O Lord my strength 2 The Lord is my rock and my fortresse and my deliverer my God my strength in whom I will trust my buckler and the horn of my salvation and my high tower 3 I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be saved from mine enemies 4 The sorrowes of death compassed me and the flouds of ungodly men made me afraid 5 The sorrowes of hell compassed me about the snares of death prevented me 6 In my distresse I called upon the Lord and cryed unto my God he heard my voyce out of his temple and my cry came before him even into his ears 7 Then the earth shook and trembled the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken because he was wroth 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured coals were kindled by it 9 He bowed the heavens also and came down and darknesse was under his feet 10 And he rode upon a cherub and did flie yea he did flie upon the wings of the wind 11 He made darknesse his secret place his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies 12 At the brightnesse that was before him his thick clouds passed hail-stones and coals of fire 13 The Lord also thundred in the heavens and the Highest gave his voice hailstones and coals of fire 14 Yea he sent out his arrows and scattered them and he shot out lightnings and discomfited them 15 Then the channels of waters were seen and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke O Lord at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils 16 He sent from above he took me and drew me out of many waters 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy and from them which hated me for they were too strong for me 18 They prevented me in the day of my calamity but the Lord was my stay 19 He brought me forth also into a large place he delivered me because he delighted in me 20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousnesse according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me 21 For I have kept the wayes of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God 22 For all his judgments were before me and I did not put away his statutes from me 23 I was also upright before him and I kept my self from mine iniquity 24 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my rightâ—nesse according to the cleannesse of my hands in his eye-sight 25 With the mercifull thou wilt shew thy self mercifull with an upright man thou wilt shew thy self upright 26 With the pure thou wilt shew thy self pure and with the froward thou wilt shew thy self froward 27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people but thou wilt bring down high looks 28 For thou wilt light my candle the Lord my God will enlighten my darknesse 29 For by thee I have run through a troop and by my God have I leaped over a wall 30 As for God his way is perfect the word of the Lord is tryed he is a buckler to all those that trust in him 31 For who is God save the Lord or who is a rock save our God 32 It is God that girdeth me with strength and maketh my way perfect 33 He maketh my feet like hindes
feet and setteth me upon my high places 34 He teacheth my hands to war so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms 35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation and thy right hand hath holden me up and thy gentlenesse hath made me great 36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me that my feet did not slip 37 I have pursued mine enemies overtaken them neither did I turn again till they were consumed 38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise they are fallen under my feet 39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto battell thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me 40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies that I might destroy them that hate me 41 They cryed but there was none to save them even unto the Lord but he answered them not 42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets 43 Thou hast deliver'd me from the strivings of the people and thou hast made me the head of the heathen a people whom I have not known shall serve me 44 Assoon as they hear of me they shall obey me the strangers shall submit themselves unto me 45 The strangers shall fade away and be afraid out of their close places 46 The Lord liveth and blessed be my rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted 47 It is God that avengeth me and subdueth the people under me 48 He delivereth me from mine enemies yea thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me thou hast delivered me from the violent man 49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee O Lord among the heathen and sing praises unto thy name 50 Great deliverance giveth he to his King and sheweth mercy to his anointed to David and to his seed for evermore Mo. 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XIX David declaring the glory of God manifested in the Creation and in his Word prayes to God so pardon of all sins little great known and unknown and that he may be directed and accepted by God through Châ—ist his Redeemâ—r THe heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work 2 Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night sheweth knowledge 3 There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun 5 Which is as a Bridegroom comming out of his chamber and rejoyceth as a strong man to run a race 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit unto the ends of it and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof 7 The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple 8 The statutes of the Lord are right rejoycâ—ng the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure enlightning the eyes 9 The fear of the Lord is clean enduring for ever the judgments of the Lord are true righteous altogether 10 More to be desired are they then gold yea then much fine gold sweeter also then hony the hony comb 11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned and in keeping of them there is great reward 12 Who can understand his errors cleanse thou me from secret faults 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins let them not have dominion over me then shall I be upright and I shall be innocent from the great transgression 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my redeemer PSAL. XX. A Prayer for the King going forth to battel an act of trust and confidence in God THe Lord hear thee in the day of trouble the name of the God of Jacob 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 Selah 4 Grant thee according to thine own heart and fulfill all thy counsell 5 We will rejoyce in thy salvation and in the name of our God we wil set up our banners the Lord fulfill all thy petitions 6 Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand 7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God 8 They are brought down and faln but we are risen and stand upright 9 Save Lord let the king hear us when we call PSAL. XXI A thanksgiving to God for the Kings victory over the Ammonites the destruction of the Kings enemies an act of adoration of God THe king shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoyce 2 Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not withholden the request of his lips Selah 3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodnesse thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head 4 He asked life of thee and thou gavest it him even length of daies for ever and ever 5 His glory is great in thy salvation honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him 6 For thou hast made him most blessed for ever thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance 7 For the king trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved 8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath and the fire shall devour them 10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth and their seed from among the children of men 11 For they intended evill against thee they imagined a mischievous device which they are not able to perform 12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them 13 Be thou exalted Lord in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power Ev. Pr. PSAL. XXII A description of the agonies and passion of Christ his Propheticall office Priesthood and everlasting kingdome the universality piety and perpetuity of his Church MY God my God why hast thou forsaken me why art thou so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring 2 O my God I cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season and am not silent 3 But thou art holy O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel 4 Our fathers trusted in thee they trusted and thou didst deliver them 5 They cryed unto thee and were delivered they trusted in thee were not confounded 6 But I am a worm and no man a reproch of
men and despised of the people 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip they shake the head saying 8 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing he delighted in him 9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mothers brests 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb thou art my God from my mothers belly 11 Be not far from me for trouble is near for there is none to help 12 Many buls have compassed me strong buls of Bashan have beset me round 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion 14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint my heart is like wax it is melted in the midst of my bowels 15 My strength is dryed up like a potsheard and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws and thou hast brought me into the dust of death 16 For dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me they pierced my hands and my feet 17 I may tell all my bones they look and stare upon me 18 They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture 19 But be not thou far from me O Lord O my strength haste 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 for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee 23 Ye that fear the Lord praise him all ye the seed of Jacob glorifie him and fear him all ye the seed of Israel 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted neither hath he hid his face from him but when he cryed unto him he heard 25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation I will pay my vows before them that fear him 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied they shall praise the Lord that seek him your heart shall live for ever 27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shal worship before thee 28 For the kingdom is the Lords and he is the governor among the nations 29 All they that be fat upon the earth shall eat and worship all they that goe down to the dust shall bow before him and none can keep alive his own soul. 30 A seed shall serve him it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation 31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousnesse unto a people that shall be born that he hath done this PSAL. XXIII An act of thanksgiving to Christ our Shepherd for temporall and spirituall goods given to his sheep together with an act of trust and hope in him THe Lord is my shepherd I shall not want 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters 3 He restoreth my soul he leadeth me 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 staff they comfort me 5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies thou anointest my head with oil my cup runneth over 6 Surely goodnes mercy shall follow me all the dayes of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever Mo. Pr. PSAL. XXIV Gods dominion ore the world the just praedispositions of them who are to be admitted to Gods Temple a prophesie of Christs ascention into Heaven under the type of placing the ark in Solomons temple THe earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof the world and they that dwell therein 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holy place 4 He that hath clean hands and a pure heart who hath not lift up his soul unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation 6 This is the generation of them that seek him that seek thy face O Jacob. Selah 7 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in 8 Who is this king of glory the Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battel 9 Lift up your heads O ye gates even lift them up ye everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in 10 Who is this king of glory the Lord of hosts he is the king of glory Selah PSAL. XXV David oppressed with the Conscience of his sins and the sense of the Divine anger prayes for pardon relyes upon Gods goodnesse beggs mercy and deliverance for himself and for the Church The Psalm is paenitentiall UNto thee O Lord do I lift up my soul 2 O my God I trust in thee let me not be ashamed let not mine enemies triumph over me 3 Yea let none that wait on thee be ashamed let them be ashamed which transgresse without cause 4 Shew me thy wayes O Lord teach me thy paths 5 Lead me in thy truth and teach me for thou art the God of my salvation on thee doe I wait all the day 6 Remember O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses for they have ever been of old 7 Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodnesse sake O Lord. 8 Good and upright is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way 9 The meek will he guide in judgment and the meek will he teach his way 10 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies 11 For thy names sake O Lord pardon mine iniquity for it is great 12 What man is he that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose 13 His soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the earth 14 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant 15 Mine eyes are ever towards the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net 16 Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and afflicted 17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my distresses 18 Look upon mine affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins 19 Consider mine enemies for they are many and they hate me with cruell hatred 20 O keep my soul and deliver me let me not be ashamed for I put my trust in thee 21 Let integrity and uprightnesse preserve me for I
made my mountain to stand strong thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled 8 I cried to thee O Lord and unto the Lord I made supplication 9 What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit shall the dust praise thee shal it declare thy truth 10 Hear O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper 11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladnesse 12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent O Lord my God I wil give thanks unto thee for ever PSAL. XXXI David prayes to God for his salvation represents his great danger by his own example proves God to be bountifull to his servants prayes against his enemies gives thanks to God for his benefiâ—s exhorts the faithfull to love God and to constancy of mind IN thee O Lord do I put my trust let me never be ashamed deliver me in thy righteousnesse 2 Bow down thine eare to me deliver me speedily be thou my strong rock for an house of defence to save me 3 For thou art my rock and my fortresse therefore for thy names sake lead me and guide me 4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me for thou art my strength 5 Into thine hand I commit my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord God of truth 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities but I trust in the Lord. 7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercie for thou hast considered my trouble thou hast known my soul in adversities 8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemie thou hast set my feet in a large room 9 Have mercie upon me O Lord for I am in trouble mine eye is consumed with grief yea my soul and my belly 10 For my life is spent with grief and my years with sighing my strength faileth because of mine iniquity and my bones are consumed 11 I was a reproch among all mine enemies but especially among my neighbours and a fear to mine acquaintance they that did see me without fled from me 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am like a broken vessel 13 For I have heard the slander of many fear was on every side while they took counsell together against me they devised to take away my life 14 But I trusted in thee O Lord I said Thou art my God 15 My times are in thy hand deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me 16 Make thy face fo shine upon thy servant save me for thy mercies sake 17 Let me not be ashamed O Lord for I have called upon thee let the wicked be ashamed and let them be silent in the grave 18 Let the lying lips be put to silence which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous 19 O how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee w ch thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men 20 Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues 21 Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindnesse in a strong city 22 For I said in my hast I am cut off from before thine eyes neverthelesse thou heardest the voyce of my supplications when I cryed unto thee 23 O love the Lord all ye his saints for the Lord preserveth the faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer 24 Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all ye that hope in the Lord. 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XXXII The blessednesse of Man consists in the pardon of sins which is to be obtained by confession of them we are exhorted to repentance and to joy in God who punishes the wicked and preserves the faithfull The psalme is paenitentiall Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guile 3 When I kept silence my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me my moisture is turned into the drought of summer Selah 5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee and mine iniquitie I have not hid I said I will confesse my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquitie of my sin Selah 6 For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou maist be found surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him 7 Thou art my hiding-place thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance Selah 8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go I will guide thee with mine eye 9 Be ye not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle lest they come near unto thee 10 Many sorrowes shall be to the wicked but he that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall compasse him about 11 Be glad in the Lord and rejoyce ye righteous and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart PSAL. XXXIII The just are exhorted to feare and to praise God for his goodnesse and his justice his wisdome and his providence in Creating and governing the world we are to trust in God alone and not in any creature God preserves all that rely upon him REjoyce in the Lord O ye righteous for praise is comely for the upright 2 Praise the Lord with harp sing unto him with the psalterie and an instrument of ten strings 3 Sing unto him a new song play skilfully with a loud noise 4 For the word of the Lord is right and all his works are done in truth 5 He loveth righteousnesse the earth is full of the goodnesse of the Lord. 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap he layeth up the depth in store-houses 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in aw of him 9 For the spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast 10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of the heathen to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect 11 The counsell of the Lord standeth for ever the thoughts of his heart to all generations 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance 13 The Lord looketh from heaven he beholdeth all the sons of men 14 From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth 15 He
2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes untill his iniquity be found to be hatefull 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit he hath left off to be wise and to doe good 4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed he setteth himself in a way that is not good he abhorreth not evil 5 Thy mercy O Lord is in the heavens and thy faithfulnesse reacheth unto the clouds 6 Thy righteousnesse is like the great mountains thy judgments are a great deep O Lord thou preservest man and beast 7 How excellent is thy loving kindnesse O God therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of thy house and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures 9 For with thee is the fountain of life in thy light shall we see light 10 O continue thy loving kindnesse unto them that know thee and thy righteousnesse to the upright in heart 11 Let not the foot of pride come against me and let not the hand of the wicked remove me 12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen they are cast down and shall not be able to rise Ev. 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XXXVII A description of the false prosperity of the wicked the security and reall happinesse of the Godly manifested even under their afflictions The differing end of the Godly and the wicked The Godly are exhorted to piety and patience and confidence in God Great promises to the servants of God great threatnings to the ungodly FRet not thy self because of evil-doers neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grasse and wither as the green herb 3 Trust in the Lord and doe good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed 4 Delight thy self also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart 5 Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to passe 6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousnesse as the light and thy judgment as the noon-day 7 Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him fret not thy self because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devises to passe 8 Cease from anger and forsake wrath fret not thy self in any wise to do evill 9 For evil-doers shall be cut off but those that wait upon the Lord they shall inherit the earth 10 For yet a little while and the wicked shall not be yea thou shalt diligently consider his place and it shall not be 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace 12 The wicked plotteth against the just and gnasheth upon him with his teeth 13 The Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is coming 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword and have bent their bow to cast down the poor and needy and to slay such as be of upright conversation 15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart and their bowes shall be broken 16 A little that a righteous man hath is better then the riches of many wicked 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken but the Lord upholdeth the righteous 18 The Lord knoweth the dayes of the upright and their inheritance shall be for ever 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evill time and in the dayes of famine they shall be satisfied 20 But the wicked shall perish and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs they shall consume into smoke shall they consume away 21 The wicked borroweth and payeth not again but the righteous sheweth mercy and giveth 22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way 24 Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand 25 I have been young and now am old yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread 26 He is ever mercifull and lendeth and his seed is blessed 27 Depart from evill and doe good and dwell for evermore 28 For the Lord loveth judgment and forsaketh not his saints they are preserved for ever but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off 29 The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein for ever 30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdomâ— and his tongue talketh of judgment 31 The law of his God is in his heart none of his steps shall slide 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous and seeketh to slay him 33 The Lord will not leave him in his hand nor condemn him when he is judged 34 Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land when the wicked are cut off thou shalt see it 35 I have seen the wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green bay-tree 36 Yet he passed away and lo he was not yea I sought him but he could not be found 37 Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off 39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord he is their strength in the time of trouble 40 And the Lord shall help them and deliver them he shall deliver them from the wicked and save them because they trust in him Mo. 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XXXVIII David very grievously afflicted by disease deplores his sins as the cause of his calamity he complains of his sadnesse and his sicknesse that he was forsaken by his friends and upbraided by his enemies he flies to God for help and begs pardon of his sins and ease from his affliction The psalm is paenitential O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure 2 For thine arrowes stick fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore 3 There is no soundnesse in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishnesse 6 I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I goe mourning all the day long 7 For my loyns are filled with a lothsome disease and there is no soundnesse in my flesh 8 I am feeble and sore broken I have roared because of the disquietnesse of my heart 9 Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee 10 My heart panteth my strength faileth me as for the light of mine eyes it also is gone from me 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore and my
heard me he hath attended unto the voice of my prayer 20 Blessed be God which hath not turned away my prayer nor his mercy from me PSAL. LXVII The Church prayes that the kingdome of God may be manifested amongst the Jews and be spread unto the Gentiles and be declared by blessings spirituall and temporall and that God may be exalted in all GOd be mercifull unto us and blesse us and cause his face to shine upon us Selah 2 That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations 3 Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee 4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy for thou shalt judge the people righteously and govern the nations upon earth Selah 5 Let the people praise thee O God let al the people praise thee 6 Then shall the earth yeeld her increase and God even our own God shall blesse us 7 God shall blesse us and all the ends of the earth shall fear him Mo. Pr. PSAL. LXVIII David prophecies of Christs triumph over his Enemies of his resurrection and ascention of the sending the Holy Ghost of the gathering his Church the calling the Gentiles the excision of the Jewes and the blessings which shal be to all Christs servants under his reign an act of the glorification of God LEt God arise let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him 2 As smoke is driven away so drive theÌ„ away as wax melteth before the sire so let the wicked perish at the presence of God 3 But let the righteous be glad let them rejoyce before God yea let them exceedingly rejoyce 4 Sing unto God sing praises to his name extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH rejoyce before him 5 A father of the fatherlesse and a judge of the widows is God in his holy habitation 6 God setteth the solitarie in families he bringeth out those w ch are bound with chains but the rebellious dwell in a dry land 7 O God when thou wentestâ—â— forth before thy people when thou didst march through the wildernesse Selah 8 The earth shook the heavens also dropped at the presence of God even Sinai it self was moved at the presence of God the God of Israel 9 Thou O God didst send a plentifull rain whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance when it was weary 10 Thy congregation hath dwelt therein thou O God hast prepared of thy goodnesse for the poor 11 The Lord gave the word great was the company of those that published it 12 Kings of armies did flee apace and she that tarried at home divided the spoil 13 Though ye have lien among the pots yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold 14 When the Almighty scattered kings in it it was white as snow in Salmon 15 The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan an high hill as the hill of Bashan 16 Why leap ye ye high hils this is the hill which God desireth to dwel in yea the Lord will dwel in it for ever 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand even thousands of angels the Lord is among them as in Sinai in the holy place 18 Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts for men yea for the rebellious also that the Lord God might dwell among them 19 Blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with benefits even the God of our salvation Selah 20 He that is our God is the God of salvation and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death 21 But God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses 22 The Lord said I will bring again from Bashan I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies and the tongue of thy dogs in the same 24 They have seen thy goings O God even the goings of my God my king in the sanctuary 25 The singers went before the players on instruments followed after amongst them were the damsels playing with timbrels 26 Blesse ye God in the congregations even the Lord from the fountain of Israel 27 There is little Benjamin with their ruler the princes of Judah and their counsel the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali 28 Thy God hath coÌ„manded thy strength strengthen O God that which thou hast wrought for us 29 Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee 30 Rebuke the company of spear-men the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the people till every one submit himself with pieces of siver scatter thou the people that delight in war 31 Princes shall come out of Egypt Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God 32 Sing unto God ye kingdoms of the earth O sing praises unto the Lord. Selah 33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens which were of old lo he doth send out his voice and that a mighty voice 34 Ascribe ye strength unto God his excellency is over Israel and his strength is in the clouds 35 O God thou art terrible out of thy holy places the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people blessed be God Ev. Pr. PSAL. LXIX David being a type of Christ complains of his evil usage and hard sufferings of the wickednesse and number of his Enemies prayes for the safety of himself and the confusion of his Enemies God takes care of the poore They shall praise him SAve me O God for the waters are come in unto my soul. 2 I sink in deep mire where there is no standing I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me 3 I am weary of my crying my throat is dryed mine eyes fail while I wait for my God 4 They that hate me without a cause are mo then the hairs of my head they that would destroy me being mine enemies wrongfully are mighty then I restored that which I took not away 5 O God thou knowest my foolishnesse and my sins are not hid from thee 6 Let not them that wait on thee O Lord God of hosts be ashamed for my sake let not those that seek thee be confounded for mysake O God of Israel 7 Because for thy sake I have born reproch shame hath covered my face 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren and an alien unto my mothers children 9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up and the reproches of them that reproched thee are faln upon me 10 When I wept chastened my soul with fasting that was to my reproch 11 I made sackcloth also my garment and I became a proverb to them 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me and I was the song of the drunkards 13 But as for me
caused waters to run down like rivers 17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wildernesse 18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust 19 Yea they spake against God they said Can God furnish a table in the wildernesse 20 Behold he smote the rock that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed can he give bread also can he provide flesh for his people 21 Therefore the Lord heard this and was wroth so a fire was kindled against Jacob and anger also came up against Israel 22 Because they believed not in God and trusted not in his salvation 23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above and opened the doors of heaven 24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat and had given them of the corn of heaven 25 Main did eate angels food he sent them meat to the full 26 He caused an east-wind to blow in the heaven and by his power he brought in the south-wind 27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea 28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp round about their habitations 29 So they did eate and were well filled for he gave them their own desire 30 They were not estranged from their lust but while their meat was yet in their mouths 31 The wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them and smote down the chosen men of Israel 32 For all this they sinned still and believed not for his wondrous works 33 Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanity and their years in trouble 34 When he slew them then they sought him and they returned and enquired early after God 35 And they remembred that God was their rock and the high God their redeemer 36 Neverthelesse they did flatter him with their mouth and they lied unto him with their tongues 37 For their heart was not right with him neither were they stedfast in his covenant 38 But he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not yea many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath 39 For he remembred that they were but flesh a wind that passeth away and cometh not again 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wildernesse and grieve him in the desert 41 Yea they turned back and tempted God and limited the holy one of Israel 42 They remembred not his hand nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan 44 And had turned their rivers into blood and their floods that they could not drink 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them which devoured them and frogs which destroyed them 46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller and their labour unto the locust 47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycomore-trees with frost 48 He gave up their cattell also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts 49 He cast upon them the fiercenesse of his anger wrath and indignation and trouble by sending evil angels among them 50 He made a way to his anger he spared not their soul from death but gave their life over to the pestilence 51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham 52 But made his own people to goe forth like sheep and guided them in the wildernesse like a flock 53 And he led them on safely so that they feared not but the sea overwhelmed their enemies 54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary even to this mountain which his right hand had purchased 55 He cast out the heathen also before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents 56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God and kept not his testimonies 57 But turned back and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers they were turned aside like a deceitfull bow 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousie with their graven images 59 When God heard this he was wroth and greatly abhorred Israel 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh the tent which he placed among men 61 And delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into the enemies hand 62 He gave his people over also unto the sword and was wroth with his inheritance 63 The fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage 64 Their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation 65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine 66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder-parts he put them to a perpetuall reproch 67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph and chose not the tribe of Ephraim 68 But chose the tribe of Judah the mount Sion which he loved 69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces like the earth which he hath established for ever 70 He chose David also his servant took him from the sheepfolds 71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance 72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands No. Pr. PSAL. LXXIX Asaph describes the cruelty and impiety of the churches Enemies he prayes to God to turne his anger against them that know him not to pardon the sins of his people to deliver them they shall praise him O God the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy temple have they defiled they have laid Jerusalem on heaps 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth 3 Their bloud have they shed like water round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them 4 We are become a reproch to our neighbours a scorn and derision to them that are round about us 5 How long Lord wilt thou be angry for ever shall thy jealousie burn like fire 6 Poure out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name 7 For they have devoured Jacob and laid wast his dwelling-place 8 O remember not against us former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low 9 Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name and deliver us and purge away our sins for thy names sake 10 Wherefore should the heathen say Where is their God let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before
do erre from thy commandments 22 Remove from me reproch and contempt for I have kept thy testimonies 23 Princes also did sit and speak against me but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes 24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors DALETH 25 MY soul cleaveth unto the dust quicken thou me according to thy word 26 I have declared my wayes and thou heardest me teach me thy statutes 27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts so shall I talk of thy wondrous works 28 My soul melteth for heaviness strengthen thou me according to thy word 29 Remove from me the way of lying and grant me thy law graciously 30 I have chosen the way of truth thy judgements have I laid before me 31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies O Lord put me not to shame 32 I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt inlarge my heart Mo. Pr. HE. 33 TEach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I shall keep it unto the end 34 Give me understanding I shall keep thy law yea I shall observe it with my whole heart 35 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments for therein do I delight 36 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies not to covetousness 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity and quicken thou me in thy way 38 Stablish thy word unto thy servant who is devoted to thy fear 39 Turn away my reproch which I fear for thy judgements are good 40 Behold I have longed after thy precepts quicken me in thy righteousness VAU 41 LEt thy mercies come also unto me O Lord even thy salvation according to thy word 42 So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reprocheth me for I trust in thy word 43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth for I have hoped in thy judgments 44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever 45 And I will walk at liberty for I seek thy precepts 46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed 47 And I will delight my self in thy commandments which I have loved 48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments which I have loved and I will meditate in thy statutes ZAIN 49 REmember the word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused to me hope 50 This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickned me 51 The proud have had me greatly in derision yet have I not declined from thy law 52 I remembred thy judgements of old O Lord and have comforted my self 53 Horrour hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law 54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage 55 I have remembred thy name O Lord in the night and have kept thy law 56 This I had because I kept thy precepts CHETH 57 THou art my portion O Lord I have said that I would keep thy words 58 I intreated thy favour with my whole heart be merciful unto me according to thy word 59 I thought on my wayes and turned my feet unto thy testimonies 60 I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments 61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me but I have not forgotten thy law 62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgements 63 I am a companion of all them that feare thee and of them that keep thy precepts 64 The earth O Lord is full of thy mercy teach me thy statutes TETH 65 THou hast dealt well with thy servant O Lord according to thy word 66 Teach me good judgment knowledg for I have believed thy commandments 67 Before I was afflicted I went astray but now have I kept thy word 68 Thou art good and doest good teach me thy statutes 69 The proud have forged a lie against me but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart 70 Their heart is as fat as grease but I delight in thy law 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me then thousands of gold and silver Ev. 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JOD 73 THY hands have made me and fashioned me give me understanding that I may learn thy commandments 74 They that feare thee will be glad when they see me because I have hoped in thy word 75 I know O Lord that thy judgements are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me 76 Let I pray thee thy mercifull kindness be for my comfort according to thy word unto thy servant 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me that I may live for thy law is my delight 78 Let the proud be ashamed for they dealt perversely with me without a cause but I will meditate in thy precepts 79 Let those that fear thee turn unto me and those that have known thy testimonies 80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes that I be not ashamed CAPH 81 MY soul fainteth for thy salvation but I hope in thy word 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word saying When wilt thou comfort me 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke yet doe I not forget thy statutes 84 How many are the dayes of thy servant when wilt thou execute judgement on them that persecute me 85 The proud have digged pits for me which are not after thy law 86 All thy commandments are faithfull they persecute me wrongfully help thou me 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth but I forsook not thy precepts 88 Quicken me after thy loving kindness so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth LAMED 89 FOr ever O Lord thy word is setled in heaven 90 Thy faithfulnesse is unto all generations thou hast established the earth and it abideth 91 They continue this day according to thine ordinances for all are thy servants 92 Unlesse thy law had been my delights I should then have perished in mine affliction 93 I will never forget thy precepts for with them thou hast quickned me 94 I am thine save me for I have sought thy precepts 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me but I will consider thy testimonies 96 I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad MEM. 97 O How love I thy law it is my meditation all the day 98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser then mine enemies for they are ever with me 99 I have more understanding then all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation 100 I understand more then the ancients because I keep thy precepts 101 I have refrained my feet from every evill way that I may keep thy word 102 I have not departed from thy judgments for thou hast taught me 103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste yea sweeter then honey to my mouth 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding
therefore I hate every false way Mo. Pr. NUN 105 THy word is a lamp unto my feet a light unto my path 106 I have sworn and I will perform it that I will keep thy righteous judgments 107 I am afflicted very much quicken me O Lord according unto thy word 108 Accept I beseech thee the free-will-offerings of my mouth O Lord teach me thy judgments 109 My soul is continually in my hand yet doe I not forget thy law 110 The wicked have laid a snare for me yet I erred not from thy precepts 111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever for they are the rejoycing of my heart 112 I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway even unto the end SAMECH 113 I Hate vaine thoughts but thy law do I love 114 Thou art my hiding-place and my shield I hope in thy word 115 Depart from me ye evil doers for I will keep the commandments of my God 116 Uphold me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be ashamed of my hope 117 Hold thou me up and I shall be safe and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually 118 Thou hast trodden down all them that erre from thy statutes for their deceit is falsehood 119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like drosse therefore I love thy testimonies 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements AIN 121 I Have done judgement and justice leave me not to mine oppressours 122 Be surety for thy servant for good let not the proud oppress me 123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation and for the word of thy righteousness 124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy and teach me thy statutes 125 I am thy servant give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies 126 It is time for thee Lord to work for they have made void thy law 127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold yea above fine gold 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and I hate every false way PE. 129 THy testimonies are wonderful therefore doth my soul keep them 130 The entrance of thy words giveth light it giveth understanding unto the simple 131 I opened my mouth and panted for I longed for thy commandments 132 Look thou upon me and be mercifull unto me as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name 133 Order my steps in thy word and let not any iniquity have dominion over me 134 Deliver me from the oppression of man so will I keep thy precepts 135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes 136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law TSADDI 137 RIghteous art thou O Lord and upright are thy judgements 138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithfull 139 My zeal hath consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words 140 Thy word is very pure therefore thy servant loveth it 141 I am small and despised yet do not I forget thy precepts 142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and thy law is the truth 143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me yet thy commandments are my delights 144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting give me understanding and I shall live Ev. Pr. KOPH 145 I Cryed with my whole heart heare me O Lord I will keep thy statutes 146 I cryed unto thee save me I shall keep thy testimonies 147 I prevented the dawning of the morning and cryed I hoped in thy word 148 Mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I might meditate in thy word 149 Hear my voyce according unto thy loving kindness O Lord quicken me according to thy judgement 150 They draw nigh that follow after mischief they are far from thy law 151 Thou art near O Lord and all thy commandments are truth 152 Concerning thy testimonies I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever RESH 153 COnsider mine affliction and deliver me for I doe dot forget thy law 154 Plead my cause and deliver me quicken me according to thy word 155 Salvation is far from the wicked for they seek not thy statutes 156 Great are thy tender mercies O Lord quicken me according to thy judgements 157 Many are my persecutors and mine enemies yet do I not decline from thy testimonies 158 I beheld the transgressours and was grieved because they kept not thy word 159 Consider how I love thy precepts quicken me O Lord according to thy loving kindness 160 Thy word is true from the beginning and every one of thy righteous judgements endureth for ever SCHIN 161 PRinces have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in aw of thy word 162 I rejoyce at thy word as one that findeth great spoil 163 I hate and abhor lying but thy law do I love 164 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgements 165 Great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them 166 Lord I have hoped for thy salvation and done thy commandements 167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies and I love them exceedingly 168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies for all my waies are before thee TAU 169 LEt my crye come near before thee O Lord give me understanding according to thy word 170 Let my supplication come before thee deliver me according to thy word 171 My lips shall utter praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes 172 My tongue shall speak of thy word for all thy commandments are righteousness 173 Let thine hand help me for I have chosen thy precepts 174 I have longed for thy salvation O Lord and thy law is my delight 175 Let my soul live and it shall praise thee and let thy judgements help me 176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments Mo. Pr. PSAL. CXX The Psalmist being compelled to live amongst ungodly and factious people complains to God and craves help and remedy IN my distress I cryed unto the Lord and he heard me 2 Deliver my soul O Lord from lying lips and from a deceitfull tongue 3 What shall be given unto thee or what shall be done unto thee thou false tongue 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty with coals of Juniper 5 Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech that I dwell in the tents of Kedar 6 My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace 7 I am for peace but when I speak they are for war PSAL. CXXI This Psalm is an act of trust in God our great preserver by day and night at home and abroad I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help 2 My help cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved he that keepeth thee will not
have spread a net by the way-side they have set gins for me Selah 6 I said unto the Lord Thou art my God hear the voice of my supplications O Lord. 7 O God the Lord the strength of my salvation thou hast covered my head in the day of battell 8 Grant not O Lord the desires of the wicked further not his wicked device lest they exalt themselves Selah 9 As for the head of those that compasse me about let the mischief of their own lips cover them 10 Let burning coals fall upon them let them be cast into the fire into deep pits that they rise not up again 11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him 12 I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor 13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name the upright shall dwell in thy presence PSAL. CXLI David being in his flight and trouble prayes that God would so compose his mind and restraine his tongue that through anger or impatience he may not offend and that he may have no part or society with the wicked he prayes to be defended from their snares and that they may perish with their own arts LOrd I cry unto thee make haste unto me give ear unto my voice when I cry unto thee 2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice 3 Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keep the door of my lips 4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity and let me not eat of their dainties 5 Let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindnesse and let him reprove me it shall be an excellent oyl which shal not break my head for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities 6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places they shall hear my words for they are sweet 7 Our bones are scattered at the graves mouth as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth 8 But mine eyes are unto thee O God the Lord in thee is my trust leave not my soul destitute 9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me and the gins of the workers of iniquity 10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets whilest that I withall escape Ev. Pr. PSAL. CXLII David being imprison'd in a cave and besieged by Saul prayes to God to be delivered out of his present danger he intends this delivery to be in order to the glorification of God I Cryed unto the Lord with my voice with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication 2 I poured out my complaint before him I shewed before him my trouble 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me then thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me 4 I looked on my right hand and beheld but there was no man that would know me refuge failed me no man cared for my soul. 5 I cried unto thee O Lord I said Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living 6 Attend unto my cry for I am brought very low deliver me from my persecutours for they are stronger then I. 7 Bring my soul out of prison that I may praise thy name the righteous shall compass me about for thou shalt deale bountifully with me PSAL. CXLIII David being persecuted by Absaloms party implores Gods ayde confesses his unworthinesse and sinne describes his sad state of affairs he comâ—orts himself with the memory of Gods greatworks he prayes for defence against his enemies and deliverance from them and to be conducted by the good spirit of God and that his Enemies may be cut off The psalme is paenitential HEar my prayer O Lord give ear to my supplications in thy faithfulness answer me and in thy righteousnesse 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul he hath smitten my life down to the ground he hath made me to dwell in darknesse as those that have been long dead 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me my heart within me is desolate 5 I remember the dayes of old I meditate on all thy works I muse on the work of thy hands 9 I stretch forth my hands unto thee my soul thirsteth after thee as a thirsty land Selah 7 Hear me speedily O Lord my spirit faileth hide not thy face from me lest I be like unto them that goe down into the pit 8 Cause me to hear thy loving kindnesse in the morning for in thee doe I trust cause me to know the way wherein I should walk for I lift up my soul unto thee 9 Deliver me O Lord from mine enemies I flee unto thee to hide me 10 Teach me to do thy will for thou art my God thy spirit is good lead me into the land of uprightnesse 11 Quicken me O Lord for thy names sake for thy righteousnesse sake bring my soul out of trouble 12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies and destroy all them that afflict my soul for I am thy servant Mo. Pr. PSAL. CXLIV David praises God for helping him in battels against the Philistims and giving him an intire possession of his kingdome he admires Gods goodnesse to man and the condescensions of his providence he prayes for defence against the preparations of other Enemies against him and for prosperity to his people and plenty in the field and in the stall the blessednesse of the servants of God Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight 2 My goodnesse and my fortresse my high tower and my deliverer my shield and he in whom I trust who subdueth my people under me 3 Lord what is man that thou takest knowledge of him or the son of man that thou makest account of him 4 Man is like to vanity his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away 5 Bow thy heavens O Lord and come down touch the mountains and they shall smoke 6 Cast forth lightning and scatter them shoot out thine arrows and destroy them 7 Send thine hand from above rid me and deliver me out of great waters from the hand of strange children 8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falshood 9 I will sing a new song unto thee O God upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee 10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings who delivereth David his servant from the hurtfull sword 11 Rid me and deliver me from the hand of strange children whose mouth speaketh vanity and their right hand is a right hand of falshood 12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth that
thy self with light as with a garment who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain 3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters who maketh the clouds his chariot who walketh upon the wings of the wind 4 Who maketh his angels spirits his ministers a flaming fire 5 Who laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed for ever 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment the waters stood above the mountains 7 At thy rebuke they fled at the voyce of thy thunder they hasted away 8 They go up by the mountains they goe down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not passe over that they turn not again to cover the earth 10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys which run among the hills 11 They give drink to every beast of the field the wild asses quench their thirst 12 By them shall the fowles of the heaven have their habitation which sing among the branches 13 He watereth the hills from his chambers the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattel and herb for the service of man that he may bring forth food out of the earth 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man oyl to make his face to shine and bread which strengtheneth mans heart 16 The trees of the Lord are full of sap the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted 17 Where the birds make their nests as for the stork the fir-trees are her house 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rocks for the conies 19 He appointeth the moon for seasons the sun knoweth his going down 20 Thou makest darkness and it is night wherein all the beasts of the forrest doe creep forth 21 The young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from God 22 The sun ariseth they gather themselves together and lay them down in their dens 23 Man goeth forth to his work and to his labour untill the evening 24 O Lord how manifold are thy works in wisdom hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches 25 So is this great wide sea wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts 26 There goe the ships there is that leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein 27 These wait all upon thee that thou mayest give them their meat in due season 28 That thou givest them they gather thou openest thine hand they are filled with good 29 Thou hidest thy face they are troubled thou takest away their breath they die and return to their dust 30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit they are created and thou renewest the face of the earth 31 The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall rejoyce in his works 32 He looketh on the earth and it trembleth he toucheth the hills and they smoke 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise unto my God while I have my being 34 My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord 35 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more bless thou the Lord O my soule Praise ye the Lord. Mo. Pr. PSAL. CV David exhorts the Church of God to praise him for the gracious covenant he made with Abraham and all the favours from that time to the time of their departure out of Egypt O Give thankes unto the Lord call upon his name make knowne his deeds among the people 2 Sing unto him sing psalms unto him talk ye of all his wondrous works 3 Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. 4 Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore 5 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done his wonders and the judgements of his mouth 6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant ye children of Jacob his chosen 7 He is the Lord our God his judgements are in all the earth 8 He hath remembred his covenant for ever the word which he commanded to a thousand generations 9 Which covenant he made with Abraham and his oath unto Isaac 10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting covenant 11 Saying unto thee will I give the land of Canaan the lot of your inheritance 12 When they were but a few men in number yea very few and strangers in it 13 When they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved kings for their sakes 15 Saying Touch not mine anoynted and doe my prophets no harm 16 Moreover he called for a famine upon the land he brake the whole staffe of bread 17 He sent a man before them even Joseph who was sold for a servant 18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters he was laid in iron 19 Untill the time that his word came the word of the Lord tried him 20 The king sent and loosed him even the ruler of the people and let him go free 21 He made him Lord of his house and ruler of all his substance 22 To bind his princes at his pleasure and reach his senatours wisdome 23 Israel also came into Egypt and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people greatly and made them stronger then their enemies 25 He turned their heart to hate his people to deale subtilly with his servants 26 He sent Moses his servant Aaron whom he had chosen 27 They shewed his signs among them and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkness and made it dark and they rebelled not against his word 29 He turned their waters into blood and slew their fish 30 The land brought forth frogs in abundance in the chambers of their kings 31 He spake and there came divers sorts of flies and lice in all their coasts 32 He gave them hail for rain and flaming fire in their land 33 He smote their vines also and their fig-trees and brake the trees of their coasts 34 He spake and the locusts came and caterpillars and that without number 35 And did eat up all the herbs in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground 36 He smote also the first-born in their land the chief of all their strength 37 He brought them forth also with silver gold and there was not one feeble person among their tribes 38 Egypt was glad when they departed for the fear of them fell upon them 39 He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light in the night 40 The people asked and he brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven 41 He opened the rock and the waters gushed out they ran in the dry places like a river 42 For he remembred his