let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee Let us pray WE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon our infitmities and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and he saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burthen of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into judgment with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who merâ—â—y acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make haste to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the people say this that followeth after the Minister TVrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord be savourable to thy people Who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God Full of compassion Long-suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deserve punishment And in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them And let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great And after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us Through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen GRant we beseech thee merciful Lord to thy faithful people pardon and peace that they may be cleansed from all their sins and serve thee with a quiet mind through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer of S. Chrysostome ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen 2 Corinth 13. 14. THe grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen The Communion-Service ¶ The Priest standing at the North-side of the Lords Table shall say OVr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen ALmighty God unto whom all hearts be open all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy holy Spirit that we may perfectly love thee and worthily magnifie thy holy Name through Christ our Lord. Amen Minister GOd spake these words and said I am the Lord thy God Thou shalt have none other gods but me People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the water under the earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day Sir days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy son and thy daughter thy man-servant and thy mild-servant thy cattel and the stranger that is within thy gates For in sir days the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt do no murther People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not commit adultery People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not steal People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife nor his servant nor his maid nor his ox nor his ass nor any thing that is his People Lord have mercy upon us and write all these thy laws in our hearts we beseech thee Let us pray ALmighty God whose kingdom is everlasting and power infinite have mercy upon the whole Church and so rule the heart of thy chosen servant Charles our King and Governour that he knowing whose Minister he is may above all things seek thy honour and glory And that we and all his subjects duly considering whose authority he hath may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed Word and Ordinance through Iesus Christ our Lord who with thee and the holy Ghost liveth and reigneth ever one God world without end Amen ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou
A FORM OF COMMON PRAYER For Gods Blessing upon His Majesty And His Dominions And for the Averting of Gods Judgments To be used upon Wednesday April the Tenth next ensuing in all Churches and Chappels within the Cities of London and Westminster the Suburbs and Liberties of the same AND Upon Wednesday the Four and twentieth of the same Moneth in all the rest of this His Majesties Kingdom of England the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed Set forth by His Majesties Authority LONDON Printed by John Bill Christopher Barker Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1678. The Order for Morning PRAYER ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and after them the Exhortation following REnt your heart and not your Joel 2. 13 garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil To the Lord our God belong Dan. 9. 9 10. mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Correct us O Lord but with iudgment not Jer. 10. 24 in thine anger lest thou bring us to nothing DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to cast our selves down at the throne of his heavenly Grace and to pour out our humble Supplications for the averting of his Iudgments and for the procuring of his Blessings upon our Sovereign and his Kingdoms to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and say the Lords Prayer the people also repeating it with him OVr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Ans And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus shall be said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and people O Come let us humble our selves and fall Psal 95. 6. down before the Lord with reverence and fear For he is the Lord our God and we are the people 7. of his pasture and the sheep of his hand Come therefore let us turn again unto our Hos 6. 1. Lord for he hath smitten us and he will heal us Let us search and try our wayes let us lift up our Lam. 3. 40 41. hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens Let us repent and turn from our wickedness Acts 3. and our sins shall be forgiven us Let us turn and the Lord will turn from his heavy Jonah 3. wrath he will pardon us and we shall not perish We acknowledge indeed that our punishments Joh 11. 6. Wisd 11. 23. are less than our deservings but yet of thy mercy O Lord correct us to amendment and plague us not to our destruction We have provoked thine anger thy wrath is waxed hot and thy heavy displeasure is sore kindled against us But thy hand is not shortned that thou canst Es 59. 1. not help neither is thy goodness abated that thou wilt not hear Thou hast promised O Lord that before we Es 65. 24. cry thou wilt hear us whilst we are yet speaking thou wilt have mercy upon us For none that trust in thee shall be confounded neither shall any that call upon thee be despised Our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee Ps 22. 4. and thou didst deliver them They called upon thee and were holpen they 5. put their trust in thee and were not confounded And now in
hadst turned our Captivities we soon return'd to Folly to our Vomit and to our wallowing in our former or greater Filthiness Though thy Plagues have been since upon us to high and dreadful Degrees we did not then as we ought look every Man into the Plague of our own Hearts nor return to him that smote us We went through Fire and Water but were not by that severe Discipline purified from our Dross or purg'd from our Pollutions Even while thou wert fighting for us against our Enemies abroad we were by our Sins at home fighting against Heaven against thee And now we are no more worthy to be called either thy Sons or thy Servants whom neither thy Fear hath driven nor thy Goodness led to Repentance It is of thy meer Mercies O Lord that we are not consumed thy unwearied unconquerable Patience that thou hast not long since given us over as incorrigible We adore the unsearchable Depths of thy infinite Goodness that we are still under thy Discipline We are ready here before thee meekly to kiss all the smarting Rods which we may justly fear thou now holdest over us beseeching thee by the Aids and Influence of thy Grace to make them effectual to our Correction and not to our Destruction In Mercy awaken our drowsy Consciences Soften and subdue our hard hearts into deep Contrition and Repentance Pardon the many great Offences of us thy Servants and the crying sins of the whole Nation Remove the Evils we now lie under Avert those Iudgments which we justly fear because we most justly deserve Vnite all our hearts in the Profession of the true Religion which thine own right hand hath planted and established amongst us and in a holy Conversation answerable thereunto To this end Pour out the richest of thy Blessings spiritual and temporal upon our gracious Sovereign that all his Counsels Resolutions and Endeavours may tend to and end in the Glory of thy great Name the Advancement of Piety and Iustice the Preservation of thy Church and the Security Peace and Prosperity of all Estates and Conditions of Men in these and all other his Dominions All which we humbly beg in the Name and through the Mediation of Iesus Christ thy Son our Saviour Amen ALmighty God who hast promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name we beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the priest shall let them depart with this Blessing THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Iesus Christ our Lord and the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen The Order for Evening PRAYER ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and after them the Exhortation following REnt your heart and not your Joel 2. 13 garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil To the Lord our God belong Dan. 9. 9 10. mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Correct us O Lord but with iudgment not Jer. 10. 24 in thine anger lest thou bring us to nothing DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble not cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to cast our selves down at the throne of his heavenly Grace and to pour out our humble Supplications for the averting of his Iudgments and for the procuring of his Blessings upon our Sovereign and his Kingdoms to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and say the Lords Prayer the people also repeating it with him OVr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not