made unto all that believe in thee and are obedient to thy Word Grant this O blessed Iesu to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen PSALME 106. A commemoration of Gods frequent pardons and mercies to the penitent EVENING PRAYER OGiue thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 Who can expresse the noble acts of the Lord or shew forth all his praise 3 Blessed are they that alway keep judgement and doe righteousnesse 4 Remember me O Lord according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation 5 That I may see the felicity of thy chosen and reioyce in the gladnesse of thy people and give thanks with thine inheritance 6 We haue sinned with our fathers we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt neither kept they thy great goodnesse in remembrance but were disobedient at the sea even at the Red sea 8 Neverthelesse he helped them for his names sake that he might make his power to be knowne 9 He rebuked the Red sea also and it was dried up so he led them through the deep as through a wildernesse 10 And he saved them from the adversaries hand and delivered them from the hand of the enemy 11 As for those that troubled them the waters overwhelmed them there was not one of them left 12 Then beleeved they his words and sang praise unto him 13 But within a while they forgat his works and would not abide his counsell 14 But lust came upon them in the wildernesse and they tempted God in the desert 15 And he gaue them their desire and sent leannesse withall into their soul 16 They angred Moses also in the tents and Aaron the saint of the Lord. 17 So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the congregation of Abiram 18 And the fire was kindles in their company the flame burnt up the ungodly 19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped the molten image 20 Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf that eateth hay 21 And they forgat God their Saviour which had done so great things in Egypt 22 Wonderous works in the land of Ham and fearfull things by the Red sea 23 So he said he would have destroyed them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the gap to turn away his wrathfull indignation lest he should destroy them 24 Yea they thought scorn of that pleasant land and gave no creâ—ance unto his word 25 But murmured in their tents and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. 26 Then lift he up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wildernesse 27 To cast out their seed among the nations and to scatter them in the lands 28 They ioyned themselves unto Baalâ—peor and ate the offering of the dead 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their own inventions and the plague was great among them 30 Then stood up Phinees and prayed and so the plague ceased 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousnesse among all posterities for evermore 32 They angred him also at the waters of strife so that he punished Moses for their sakes 33 Because they provoked his spirit also that he spake unadvisedly with his lips 34 Neither destroyed they the heathen as the Lord commanded them 35 But were mingled among the heathen and learned their workes 36 Insomuch that they worshipped their idols which turned to their own decay yea they offered their sonnes and daughters unto devils 37 And shed innocent bloud even the bloud of their sonnes and of their daughters whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan and the land was defiled with bloud 38 Thus were they stained with their owne workes and went a whoring with their owne inventions 39 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance 40 And he gave them over into the hand of the heathen and they that hated them were lords over them 41 Their enemies oppressed them and had them in subiection 42 Many a time did he deliver them but they rebelled against him with their owne inventions and were brought downe in their wickednesse 43 Neverthelesse when he saw their adversity he heard their complaint 44 He thought upon his covenant and pitied them according unto the multitude of his mercies yea he made all those that had led them away captive to pity them 45 Deliver us O Lord our God and gather us from among the heathen that we may give thankes unto thy holy Name and make our boast of thy praise 46 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and world without end and let all the people say Amen The Prayer O Lord God full of mercy and pity who didst many times deliver thy people from their adversity when thou for their rebelling against thee with their inventions hadst given them into the hand of the heathen Remember us O Lord according unto the favour thou bearest unto thy people and visit us with thy salvation that though we have done amisse and dealt wickedly against thee and against thy covenant yet be pleased to helpe us for thy Name sake and make thy power to be known in the mighty deliverance and redemption of us from so great danger and misery Give us grace to believe thy words to abide thy counsels to walke in thy Lawes to relinquish our own sinfull and vain desires to obey our Governours Ecclesiasticall and Civill that we may not have the lot of Dathan and Abiram but at last may receive our port on in the felicity of thy chosen giving thee thankes with thine inheritance for that thou hast turned from us thy wrathfull indignation pitying us and saving us according to the multitude of thy mercies Thy Name be blessed O Lord God everlastingly and world without end through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALME 107. A thankesgiving for deliverâ—â—â—e from miseries and dangers MORNING PRAYER O Give thankes unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercie endureth for ever 2 Let them give thankes whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy 3 And gathered them out of the lands from the East and from the West from the North and from the South 4 They went astray in the wildernesse out of the way and found no city to dwell in 5 Hungry and thirsty their soule fainted in them 6 So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distresse 7 He led them forth by the right way that they might go to the city where they dwelt 8 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the empty soule and filleth the hungry soule with goodnesse 10 Such as siâ— in darknesse and in
is glory and and worship fill our lips and soules with great devotion and reverence towards thee our God Make us to love thy goodnesse to adore thy omnipotency to reverence thy justice to feare thy Majesty to admire and tremble at thy omniscience and omnipresence and to contemplate with the greatest zeale and affections all those glories which thou communicatest to the sonnes of men in the revelations of thy gospell of thy creatures and of thy miracles that we may tell of thy greatnesse and declare thy salvation from day to day and when thou commest with righteousnesse to judge the earth and all people with thy truth we may rejoyce in thee everlastingly and sing an Eternall Allelujah to thee in thy sanctuary Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen PSALME 97. A meditation upon the day of Iudgement and a prayer for mercy and salvation THe Lord is King the earth may be glad thereof yea the multitude of the Isles may be glad thereof 2 Clouds and darknesse are round about him righteousnesse and iudgement are the habitation of his seat 3 There shall go a fire before him and burn up his enemies on every side 4 His lightnings gave shine unto the world the earth saw it and was afraid 5 The hills melted like war at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth 6 The heavens have declared his righteousnesse and all the people have seen his glory 7 Confounded be all they that worship carved images and that delight in vain gods worship him all ye gods 8 Sion heard of it and reioyced and the daughters of Iudah were glad because of thy iudgements O Lord 9 For thou Lord art higher then all that are in the earth thou art exalted farre above all gods 10 O ye that love the Lord see that ye hate the thing that is evil the Lord preserveth the souls of his Saints he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly 11 There is sprung up a light for the righteous and ioyfull gladnesse for such as be true hearted 12 Reioyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thanks for a remembrance of his holinesse The Prayer O Lord our King Lord of the whole earth have mercy upon us and sanctifie us with thy grace that we may hate every thing that is evill that we may love thee give thankes unto thy name and rejoyce in remembrance of thy holinesse that in the day of judgement and great terrors when thou shalt sit in thy seat supported with righteousnesse and iudgement and a fire shall go forth from thy presence to burne up thy enemies on every side thou maist preserve our soules in safety from the hand of our enemies and a light may spring up unto us to preserve us from eternall darknesse and the want of the light of thy countenance through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 98. A thankesgiving for the redemption of mankinde by Iesus Christ EVENING PRAYER O Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things 2 With his own right hand and with his holy arme hath he gotten himselfe the victorie 3 The Lord declared his salvation his righteousnesse hath he openly shewed is the sight of the heathen 4 He hath remembred his mercie and truth toward the house of Israel and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God 5 Shew your selues ioyfull unto the Lord all yee lands sing reioyce and giue thankes 6 Praise the Lord upon the harpe sing to the herpe with a psalme of thankesgiving 7 With trumpets also and shawâ—es O shew your sleves ioyfull before the Lord the King 8 Let the sea make a noise and all that therein is the round world and they that dwell therein 9 Let the flouds clap their hands and let the hills be ioyfull together before the Lord for he is come to iudge the earth 10 With righteousnesse shall he iudge the world and the people with equitie The Prayer O Most glorious and powerfull Iesu who with thine owne right hand and with thy holy arme hast gotten to thy selfe on our behalfe the victory over sin hell and the grave remember this thy mercy and truth which thou hast promised to all that believe on thee giveus pardon of our sinnes seal'd unto us by the testimony of the holy Spirit and of a good conscience and grant that we by thy strength may fight against our ghostly enemies and by thy power may overcome them that we may rejoyce in a holy peace and sing and give thee thankes for our victory and our crowne Extend this mercy and enlarge the effect of thy great victories to the heathen that all the ends of the world may sing a new song unto thee and see the salvation of God that when thou commest to judge the earth we may all finde mercy and be joyfull together before thee in the festivity of a blessed eternity thorow thy mercies O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 99. A prayer for the vertue of religion and devotion in holy places THe Lord is King be the people never so unpatient he sitteth between the cherubims be the earth never so unquiet 2 The Lord is great in Sion and high aboue all people 3 They shall giue thankes unto thy Name which is great wonderfull and holy 4 The kings power loueth iudgement thou hast prepared equitie thou hast executed iudgement and righteousnesse in Iacob 5 O magnifie the Lord our God and fall down before his footstool for he is holy 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests and Samuel among such as call upon his Name these called upon the Lord and he heard them 7 He spake unto them out of the cloudy pillar for they kept his testimonies and the law that he gaue them 8 Thou heardest them O Lord our God thou forgauest them O God and punishedst their own inuentions 9 O magnifie the Lord our God and worship him upon his holy hill for the Lord our God is holy The Prayer O Great God and King of Heaven and earth thou that sittest between the Cherubims unmoved in the centre of thy own felicity and essentiall tranquillity undisturbed in the great concussions and unquietnesse of the earth give unto us thy servants venerable and dreadfull apprehensions of the sanctity and perfections of thy Name and Nature which is great wonderfull and holy Teach us in all the addresses of our devotion and in all places appointed for thy service by all reverence and holinesse of soule and body to expresse the greatnesse of thy power and our weaknesse the majesty of thy glory and the unworthinesse of our persons the distance of God and man of finite and infinite of Lord and Servant that the awfulnesse of thy dread majesty may check every unreverent gesture and thought in us and teach us to mak approaches of humility and feare that we calling upon thy Name according to our
repentance and fruits springing up to life eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 115. A Prayer against idolatry and for confidence in the true God NOt unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give the praise for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake 2 Wherefore shall the heathen say Where is now their God 3 As for our God he is in heaven he hath done whatsoever pleased him 4 Their idols are silver and gold even the worke of mens hands 5 They haue mouthes and speake not eyes haue they and see not 6 They have eares and heare not noses haue they and smell not 7 They haue hands and handle not feet haue they and walke not neither speake they through their throat 8 They that make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their trust in them 9 But thou house of Israel trust thou in the Lord he is their succour and defence 10 Yee house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 11 Yee that feare the Lord put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 12 The Lord hath been mindfull of us and he shall blesse us euen he shall blesse the house of Israel he shall blesse the house of Aaron 13 He shall blesse them that feare the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall increase you more and more you and your children 15 Yee are the blessed of the Lord which made heauen and earth 16 All the whole heauens are the Lords the earth hath he given to the children of men 17 The dead praise not thee O Lord neither all they that go down into the silence 18 But we will praise the Lord from this time forth for euermore Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God omnipotent whose seat is in Heaven and thou hast done whatsoever pleased thee in Heaven and earth give us thy grace that in all our troubles we may make thee our Succour and Defence and put our trust in thee onely that we receiving thy mercies and the satisfaction of all our hopes from thy plenteousnesse and loving kindnesse we may give praise unto thy Name never ascribing to our selves any honour or the glorie and thankes of any good action or prosperous successe but to thee who art the Authour and Giver of all good things Preserve us from all dangers of idolatrie from worshipping or loving any vain imaginations and making any thing to be our confidence besides thee our God that so thou mayest be mindfull of us and blesse us in all our wayes and when we die and go down into the silence we may have our portion amongst the blessed of the Lord in the inheritance of thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 116. An act of love and thanksgiving to God for deliverance from sinne and death MORNING PRAYER I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer 2 That he hath enclined his eare unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 3 The snares of death compassed me round about and the paines of hell gat hold upon me 4 I shall finde trouble and heavinesse and I shall call upon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul 5 Bratious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is mercifull 6 The Lord preserveth the simple I was in misery and he helped me 7 Turn again then unto they rest O my soul for the Lord hath rewarded thee 8 And why thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walke before the Lord in the land of the living 10 I beleeved and therefore will I speak but I was sore troubled I said in my hast All men are liars 11 What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me 12 I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. 13 I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints 14 Behold O Lord how that I am thy servant I am thy servant and the sonne of thine handmaid thou hast broken my bonds in sunder 15 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. 16 I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the sight of all his people in the courts of the Lords house even in the mids of thee O Ierusalem Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercies Gracious and Righteous give unto us hearts filled with love and praises to thy holy name for thou hearest our prayers thou breakest asunder the bonds of our sinnes thou deliverest our soules from trouble and heavinesse and snatchest us from the snares of death and savest us from the paines of hell O mercyfull God let our soules rest in thee and be satisfied in the pleasures of thy mercy that we may receive the cup of blessing and salvation and celebrate the Eucharist in honour of thy name and in remembrance of thy infinite benefits which thou hast done unto us and at last may pay our great Allelujah to the Lord in the courts of the Lords house in the midst of the celestiall Jerusalem through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 117. An invitation to all people to praise Gods mercy and truth O Praise the Lord all yee heathen praise him all ye nations 2 For his mercifull kindnesse is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Blessed Iesu who art not only the glory of thy people Israel but the light of the Gentiles let thy mercifull kindnesse be ever more and more towards the sonnes of men that the nations which have not known thee may hear thy truth and feele thy mercies and call upon thy name and thy grace may be confirmed upon us till we receive the fulnesse and perfection of thy graces in the full fruition of the glories of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 118. A Psalme of thanksgiving for the mercies and salvation which are given us in Iesus Chrst O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious because his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let Israel now confesse that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Yea let them now that feare the Lord confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 5 I called upon the Lord in trouble and the Lord heard me at large 6 The Lord is on my side I will not feare what man doth unto me 7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon mine enemies 8 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in
severest judgements and as thy mercy pardons what is past so let the sweetnesse of it beget thy feare in our hearts that we may not dare to offend so gracious so mercifull a God but that trusting in thy Word and flying unto thee for succour we may wait for thee till our change commeth looking for thee in holinesse and righteousnesse all our dayes Grant this for thy mercies and compassion sake O blessed Jesu our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 131. A Prayer for the graces of humility and mortification LOrd I am not high minded I have no proud lookes 2 I do not exercise my selfe in great matters which are too high for me 3 But I refrain my soule and keep it low like as a childe that is weaned from his motherâ— yea my soule is even as a weaned childe 4 O Israel trust in the Lord from this time forth for evermore The Prayer O Lord God before whom the humble Publican who durst not lift up his eyes to Heaven but with confusion of face begged pardon was justified and acquitted give unto us thy servants humilty of soule and modesty in our behaviour that our lookes be not proud nor our thoughts arrogant nor our designes ambitious but that our soules being refrained from all vanity and pride our affections weaned from great opinions and love of our selves we may trust in thee follow the example of our blessed Master and receive thy promises which thou hast made unto us in our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 132. A Prayer for the Church for the promotion of Religion for the King and for the Clergie MORNING PRAYER LOrd remember David and all his trouble 2 How he sware unto the Lord and vowed a vow unto the Almighty God of Iacob 3 I will not come within the tabernacle of my house nor climbe up into my bed 4 I will not suffer mine eyes to sleep nor mine eye lids to slumber neither the temples of my head to take any rest 5 Untill I finde out a place for the temple of the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Iacob 6 Lo we heard of the same at Ephrata and found it in the wood 7 We will go into his tabernacle and fall low on our knees before his footstool 8 Arise O Lord into thy resting place thou and the arke of thy strength 9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousnesse and let thy saints sing with ioyfulnesse 10 For thy servant Davids sake turne not away the presence of thine anointed 11 The Lord hath made a faithfull oath unto David and he shall not shrinke from it 12 Of the fruit of thy body shall I set upon thy seat 13 If thy children will keep my couenant and my testimonies that I shall learne them their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore 14 For the Lord hath chosen Sion to bean habitation for himselfe he hath longed for her 15 This shall be my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have a delight therein 16 I will blesse her victuals with increase and will satisfie her poore with bread 17 I will decke her priests with health and her saints shall reioyce and sing 18 There shall I make the horne of David to flourish I have ordained a lanterne for mine anointed 19 As for his enemies I shall cloth them with shame but upon himselfe shall his crowne flourish The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest not in Temples made with hands and yet hast been pleased to manifest thy presence by speciall blessings and assistances in places set apart for thy worship be pleased to heare our prayers accept our services when ever we make our addresses to thee in the house of prayer fall downe low on our knees before thy footstool let thy Priests be clothed with righteousnesse let thy Saints sing with joyfulnes let all those that make their approaches unto thee purifie their hearts and hands that they may offer to thee a pure sacrifice even the sacrifice of obedience and holinesse and the expresses of true Religion Blesse O Lord thy servant the King whom thou hast made the Patron and Defender of the Church make his horne to flourish and be exalted above all his enemies and let thy Word be as a lanterne for thine Anointed to shew him thy holy will and pleasure that he seeking thy honour and glory thy Church may flourish under the covert of his shield and patronage her victuals may be blessed with increase her poore satisfied with bread her Priests decked with health her Saints with joy and himselfe with honour and great renown and a flourishing Diademe while his enemies sit clothed in shame and misery Grant this O blessed God for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 133. A Prayer for unity in the Church in a Kingdom or family BEhold how good and ioyfull a thing it is brethren to dwell together in unity 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head that â—an down unto the beard euen unto Aarons beard and went down to the skirts of his clothing 3 Like as the dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion 4 For there the Lord promised his blessing and life for euermore The Prayer O Blessed Iâ—sâ— in whose garment was variety but no rent or seame have mercy upon thy holy Catholike Church and all Christian Kingdomes and Families and so unite all our hearts and affections by the union of Faith and Charity that we be not torne into Factions and Schismes but being anointed with the precious ointment even the anointing of thy Spirit from above we may keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and grant that this holy ointment may so knit together the Guides of thy Church the Rulers of Kingdomes the Princes of the Nations that the blessings of it may descend to the skirts of the people and that thou mayest blesse us with thy graces here and hereafter give us life for evermore in the participation of thy glorious Kingdome where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 134. An invitation to the Clergie to be diligent in singing Gods praises publikely BEhold now praise the Lord all ye seruants of the Lord. 2 Yee that by night stand in the house of the Lord even in the courts of the house of our God 3 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord. 4 The Lord that made heauen and earth giue thee blessing out of Sion The Prayer O Lord Creatour and Governour of all the world thou that madest Heaven and Earth that all should celebrate thy praise and the glory of thy Name give great Religion and devout affections to thy Ministers that by frequent elevation of their hands and hearts in thy Sanctuary in behalfe of themselves and all the people thy honour may be exalted among all thy servants Religion may be advanced and the love of thy Name
the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession 9 Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of yron and break them in pieces like a potters vessell 10 Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be learned ye that are iudges of the earth 11 Serve the Lord in feare and rejoyce unto him with reverence 12 Kisse the Sonne least he be angry and so ye perish from the right way if his wrath be kindled yea but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him The Prayer O Blessed Iesu into whose hands is committed all dominion and power in the Kingdomes and Empires of the world out of whose mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it thou mightest smite the Nations and rule them with a rod of yron on whose vesture and on whose thigh a name is written King of Kings and Lord of Lords we adore thee in thy infinite excellency and most glorious exaltation beseeching thee to reveale thy name and the glory of thy Kingdome to the Heathen which know thee not and to the uttermost parts of the earth which are given thee for thy possession and inheritance And to us give thy grace to serve thee in fear and plant the reverence of thy law and of thy name in our hearts least thy wrath be kindled against us and thoâ— break us in peeces like vessels of dishonour Have mercy on us O King of Kings for we have put our trust in thee thou art our Saviour Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 3. A Prayer for defence against all our Enemies Bodily and Ghostly LOrd how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise against me 2 Many one there be that say of my soule There is no help for him in his God 3 But thou O Lord art my defender thou art my worship and the liâ—ter up of mine head 4 I did call upon the Lord with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill 5 I laid me down and slept rose up againe for the lord sustained me 6 I will not be afraid for ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about 7 Up Lord and held me O my God for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheek-bonâ— thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord and thy blessing is upon thy people The Prayer O Lord our defender have pitty upon us behold the armyes of the flesh the world and the Divell fight against our Soules and multiply against us every day temptations and disadvantages We are not able of our selves as of our selves to think a good thought much lesse to put to flight the armies of them that have set themselves against us round about But thou O Lord art our defender thou art our worship and the lifter up of our heads Vp Lord help us arme us with the shield of faith the sword of the Spirit in all times of temptation and battaile cover our heads with the helmet of Salvation so shall wee not be afraid for ten thousands of our enemies for salvation belongeth unto thee through Iesus Christ our Lord AMEN PSALME 4. A Prayer in which we exercise an act of hope in God and desire his providence over us HEare me when I call O God of my righteousnesse for thou hast â—et me at liberty when I was in trouble have mercy upon me and hearken unto my prayer 2 O ye sonnes of men how long will ye blaspheme mine honour and have such pleasure in vanity and seek after leasing 3 Know this also that the Lord hath chosen to himselfe the man that is godly when I call upon the Lord he will heare me 4 Stand in awe and sinne not commune with your own heart and in your chamber and be still 5 Offer the sacrifice of righteousnesse and put your trust in the Lord. 6 There be many that say who will shew us any good 7 Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us 8 Thou hast put gladnesse in my heart since the time that their corne and wine and oyle increased 9 I will lay me downe in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onely that makest mee dwell in safety The Prayer O God who art the author of all righteousnesse from whom all grace and safety and glory does proceed hear the prayers of thy humble servants whensoever we call upon thee in our trouble for our trust is in thee alone and no creature can shew us any good unlesse it derives from thee shew the light of thy countenance upon us let thy providence guide all our actions sufferings to thy glory and our spirituall benefit and consigne us to the blessednesse of thy Kingdome by the testimony of thy holy spirit that we may not place our joyes and hopes upon the good things of this life which perish and cannot satisfie but in the Eternall fountaine of all true felicities that thou being our treasure our hearts may be fixed upon thee by the bands of Charity and Obedience that thou mayst make us to dwell in safety here and when our dayes are done we may lay us down in peace and take our rest in thy armes expecting the comming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 5. A prayer for blessing upon all pious people and for protection against the malice of wicked men POnder my words O Lord consider my meditation 2 O hearken thou unto the voyce of my calling my King and my God for unto thee will I make my prayer 3 My voyce shalt thou hear betimes O Lord early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will looke up 4 For thou are the God that hast no pleasure in wickednesse neither shall any evill dwell with thee 5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight for thou hatest all them that work vanity 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord will abhorre both the bloudthirstie and deceltfull â—man 7 But as for me I will come into thy house even upon the multitude of thy mercy and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple 8 Lead me O Lord in thy righteousnesse because of mine enemies make thy way plain before my face 9 For there is no faithfulnes in his mouth their inward parts are very wickednesse 10 Their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue 11 Destroy thou them O God let them perish through their own imaginations cast them out in the multitude of their ungodlines for they have rebelled against thee 12 And let all them that put their trust in thee reioyce they shal ever be giving of thanks because thou defendest them they that love thy name shall be ioyfull in thee 13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous and with thy favourable kindenes wilt thou defend him as with a shield The Prayer O Most Holy and blessed Lord God who canst take no
pleasure in wickednesse neither can evill come nigh thy dwelling defend us and all thy holy Church from the fraud and malice of bloud-thirsty and deceitfull men and from the crafty insinuations of all them that work vanity but let thy blessings be upon the righteous and let thy favourable kindnesse defend thy whole Church as with a shield that all those who put their trust in thy mercy may be ever giving of thanks may be joyfull in thee O lead us in thy righteousnesse that we become not a rejoyceing to our enemies but that we may worship thee in feare and come into thy house to make our prayers unto thee and to give thee thanks for the multitude of thy mercies which thou hast given us in our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 6. A Prayer of a penitent person for remission of his sinnes EVENING PRAYER O Lord rebuke me not in thine indignation neither chasten me in thy displeasure 2 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vered 3 My soul is also sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me 4 Turn thee O Lord and deliver my soul O save me for thy mercies sake 5 For in death no man remembreth thee and who will give thee thanks in the pit 6 I am weary of my groaning every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my teares 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble worn away because of all mine enemies 1 Away from me all ye that work vanity for the Lord hath heard the voyce of my weeping 9 The Lord hath heard my petition the Lord will receive my prayer 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed they shall be turned back put to shame suddenly The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose property is alwaies to have mercy and to forgive behold with the eyes of thy pitty compassioÌ„ the estate of thy humble servants made most miserable by reason of our sinnes Hear the voyce of our weeping pitty our groaning strengthen us for we are weak heale us for our bones are vexed and deliver our soules from death that being saved from the bottomlesse pit we may give thanks to thy holy name O turn from the severity of thy displeasure and visit us with thy mercy and salvation For all our sinnes give us a great sorrow and contrition and in our `sorrowes let thy comforts sustain us through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALME 7. A prayer for defence of our Innocence against the uniust molestation of our enemies O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me deliver me 2 Least he devour my soule like a Lion tear it in pieces while there is none to help 3 O Lord my God if I have done any such thing or if there be any wickednes in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evill unto him that dealt friendly with me yea I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soule take me yea let him tread my life down upon the earth and lay mine honour in the dust 6 Stand up O Lord in thy wrath and lift up thy selfe because of the indignation of mine enemies arise up for me in the iudgement that thou hast commanded 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee for their sakes therefore lift up thy selfe again 8 The Lord shall iudge the people give sentence with me O Lord according to my righteousnesse and according to the innocencie that is in me 9 O let the wickednesse of the ungodly come to an end but guide thou the iust 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins 11 My help commeth of God which preserveth them that are true of heart 12 God is a righteous iudge strong and patient and God is provoked every day 13 If a man will not turn he will whâ—t his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutours 15 Behold he travaileth with mischief he hath conceived sorrow and brought forth ungodlines 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other 17 For his travail shall come upon his own head and his wickednesse shall fall on his owne pate 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord according to his righteousnes and will praise the name of the Lord the most High The Prayer O God from whom commeth our help thou art a righteous Iudge and preservest all that are true of heart deliver us from our persecutors who travail with mischief against us and have digged a pit for our destruction O let their wickednesse and malicious devices against thy servants come utterly to an end for evermore Thou O Lord art strong and able to take vengeance yet being provoked every day still art patient towards us compassionate Deliver us from their wrath to whom we have done no injustice or displeasure pardon our offences against thee protect our Innocency against them that we may praise thy name and give thanks unto thee for thy righteousnesse and salvation who art blessed for evermore Amen PSALME 8. A Contemplation of the Divine beauty and excellency manifested in his Creatures O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger 3 For I will consider the heavens even the works of thy fingers the moon and the starres which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest him 5 Thou madest him lower then the angells to crown him with glory and worship 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands and thou hast put all things in subiection under his feet 7 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowls of the aire and the fishes of the sea and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas 9 O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world The Prayer O Lord God Father of men and Angells God of all the Creatures who hast created all things in a wonderfull order and hast made them all conveyances of thy mercies to mankinde give us great and dreadfull apprehensions of thy glory and immensity thy Majesty and mercy that we may adore thee as our Creator love thee as our redeemer fear thee as our God obey thee as our Governour and praise thee as the author fountaine of all perfections and all good which thou hast communicated to thy creatures that they may all in their proportions doe thee service who
Which is a short rule of a good life and a desire of innocency and sanctity MORNING PRAYER LOrd who shall dwell in thy tabernacle or who shall rest upon thy holy hill 2 Even he that seadeth an uncorrupt life and doth the thing which is right and speaketh the truth from his heart 3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue nor done evill to his neighbour hath not standered his neighbour 4 He that setteth not by himselfe but is lowly in his own eyes and maketh much of them that feare the Lord. 5 He that sweareth unto his neighbour and disappointeth him not though it were to his own hinderance 6 He that hath not given his mony upon usury nor taken reward against the innocent 7 Whoso doth these things shall never fall The Prayer O Lord let thy mercy preserve us in holinesse and innocency or if through infirmity wee fall make us to rise again by penitence that wee may lead an uncorrupt life with humility and truth and justice not slandering our neighbour not invading his right not breaking our trust not oppressing the indigent and necessitous but doing good to all and especially making much of them that feare the Lord that we may never fall from thy favour but at the end of our weary pilgrimage we may take our rest upon thy holy hill and dwell in thy tabernacle where thou raignest with infinite glory and felicities God Eternall world without end Amen PSALME 16. A Prayer for the blessings of God providence and preservation in this life and for glory hereafter PReserve me O God for in thee have I put my trust 2 O my soul thou hast said unto the Lord Thou art my God my goods are nothing unto thee 3 All my delight is upon the Saints that are in the earth and vpon such as excell in vertue 4 But they that run after another god shall have great trouble 5 Their drink offerings of bloud will I not offer neither make mention of their names within my lips 6 The Lord himselfe is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou shalt maintain my lot 7 The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground yea I have a goodly heritage 8 I will thank the Lord for giving me warning my reins also chasten me in the night season 9 I have set God alwayes before me for he is on my right hand therefore I shall not fall 10 Wherefore my heart was glad and my glory reioyced my flesh also shall rest in hope 11 For why thou shalt not leave my soul in hell neither shalt thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption 12 Thou shalt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore The Prayer O God who art the portion of our inheritance our God and our preserver preserve and maintaine all those good things which thou hast wrought in us and for us and that we may never fall give us thy grace that we may set thee alwayes before us rejoycing in thee and delighting in the Saints that are upon the earth that when our flesh shall see corruption our Soules may not be left in hell but may walke in the paths of life and in the day of restitution of all things both bodies and Soules may have a goodly heritage even the lot of thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore and where we may see the face and the glory of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 17. A Prayer for protection against the injuries of our Enemies Bodily and Ghostly HEare the right O Lord consider my complaint and hearken unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equall 3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season thou hast tried me and shalt find no wickednesse in me for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend 4 Because of mens works that are done against the words of my lips I have kept me from the wayes of the destroyer 5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths that my foot-steps slip not 6 I have called upon thee O God for thou shalt heare me encline thine eare to me and hearken unto my words 7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindnes thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee from such as resâ—st thy right hand 8 Keep me as the apple of an eye hide me under the shadow of thy wings 9 From the ungodly that trouble me mine enemies compasse me round about to take away my soul 10. They are inclosed in their owne fat and their mouth speaketh proud things 11 They lie waiting in our way on every side turning their eyes down to the ground 12 Like as a lyon that is greedy of his preyâ— and as it were a lions whelp lurking in secret places 13 Up Lord disappoint him and cast him down deliver my soul from the ungodly which is a sword of thine 14 From the men of thy hand O Lord from the men I say and from the evill world which haue their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure 15 They haue children at their desire and leave the rest of their substance for their babes 16 But as for me I will behold thy presence in righteousnesse and when I awake up after thy likenesse I shall be satisfied with it The Prayer O Most mercifull Iesu thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee defend us and deliver us from the hands of all our Enemies and although they are a sword of thine and an instrument sent from thee to chastise us for our sinnes yet arise O Lord in mercy and strength disappoint them and cast them down least they destroy our soules that when thou hast visited us with thy fatherly correction and tryed us like as Silver is tryed thou maist find no wickednesse in us Sanctify our hearts and lips that we may not think a thought displeasing unto thee and that our mouth may not offend Keep us as the apple of an eye hide us under the shadow of thy wings of mercy and providence keep us from the wayes of the destroyer and hold up our goings in thy paths that we may persevere in righteousnesse and our footsteps may not slip that in the day of the resurrection of the Iust we may behold thy presence and receive infinite satisfactions in the vision beatificall Grant this O mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 18. A Prayer for strength and Victory in Warre temporall or spirituall together with an act of hope and confidence in God EVENING PRAYER I Will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord is my stony rock and my defence my Saviour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horn also of my
salvation and my refuge 2 I will call upon the Lord which is worthy to be praised so shall I be safe from mine enemies 3 The sorrowes of death compassed me and the overflowings of ungodlinesse made me afraid 4 The pains of hell came about me the snares of death overtook me 5 In my trouble I will call upon the Lord and complain unto my God 6 So shall he heare my voice out of his holy temple and my complaint shall come before him it shall enter even into his eares 7 The earth trembled and quaked the very foundations also of the hills shook and were removed because he was wroth 8 There went a smoke out of his presence and a consuming fire out of his mouth so that coals were kindled at it 9 He bowed the heavens also came down and it was dark under his feet 10 He rode upon the cherubims did flie he came flying upon the wings of the wind 11 He made darknesse his secret place his pavilion round about him with dark water and thick clouds to cover him 12 At the brightnesse of his presence his clouds removed haile stones and coales of fire 13 The Lord also thundered out of heaven and the highest gave his thunder hailstones and coals of fire 14 He sent out his arrowes and scattered them he cast forth lightnings destroyed them 15 The springs of waters were seen and the foundations of the round world were discovered at thy chiding O Lord at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasure 16 He shall send down from the high to fetch me shall take me out of many waters 17 He shall deliver me from my strongest enemy and from them that hate me for they are too mighty for me 18 They prevented me in the day of my trouble but the Lord was my upholder 19 He brought me forth also into a place of liberty he brought me forth even because he had a favour unto me 20 The Lord shall reward me after my righteous dealing according to the cleannesse of my hands shall he recompense me 21 Because I haue kept the wayes of the Lord haue not forsaken my God as the wicked doth 22 For I have an eye unto all his laws and will not cast out his Commandements from me 23 I was also uncorrupt before him and eschewed mine owne wickednesse 24 Therefore shall the Lord reward me after my righteous dealing and according unto the cleannesse of my hands in his eye-sight 25 With the holy thou shalt be holy with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect 26 With the clean thou shalt be clean and with the froward thou shalt learne frowardnesse 27 For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud 28 Thou shalt also light my candle the Lord my God shall make my darkenesse to be light 29 For in thee I shall discomfit an host of men and with the help of my God I shall leap over the wall 30 The way of God is an undefiled way the word of the Lord also is tried in the fire he is the defender of all them that put their trust in him 31 For who is God but the Lord or who hath any strength except our God 32 It is God that girdeth me with strength of warre and maketh my way perfect 33 He maketh my feet like Harts feet and setteth me up on high 34 He teacheth mine hands to fight and mine arms shall break even a bow of steel 35 Thou hast given me the defence of thy salvation thy right hand also shall hold me up thy loving correction shall make me great 36 Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go that my foot steps shall not slide 37 I will follow upon mine enemies and overtake them neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them 38 I will smite them that they shall not be able to stand but fall under my feet 39 Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battell thou shalt throw down mine enemies under me 40 Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me and I shall destroy them that hate me 41 They shall cry but there shall be none to help them yea even unto the Lord shall they cry but he shall not heare them 42 I will beat them as small as the dust before the winde I will cast them out as the clay in the streets 43 Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people and thou shalt make me the head of the heathen 44 A people whom I haue not knowne shall serve me 45 Assoon as they heare of me they shall obey me but the strange children shall dissemble with me 46 The strange children shall fail and be afraid out of their prisons 47 The Lord liveth blessed be my strong helper praised be the God of my salvation 48 Even the God that seeth that I be avenged and subdueth the people unto me 49 It is he that delivereth me from my cruell enemies and setteth me up aboue mine adversaries thou shalt â—id me from the wicked man 50 For this cause will I giue thanks unto thee O Lord among the Gentiles and sing praises unto thy name 51 Great prosperity giveth He unto his King and sheweth loving kindnesse unto David his anointed unto his seed for evermore The Prayer O God our Saviour the rock upon whom all our hopes are built our strength and defence our salvation and our refuge heare our voyce out of thy holy temple let our complaint come before thee and enter even into thy Eares The sorrowes of death compasse us and we are afraid because of the overflowings of ungodlinesse Our enemies are strong yea they are too mighty for us and we have no hope to escape unlesse thou preventest them in the day of our trouble and deliverest us from the strivings of our enemies But in thee O Lord is our hope doe thou teach our hands to fight and gird us with strength unto the battell Make us to have an eye unto all thy lawes that we may eschew our own wickednesse and be uncorrupt before thee then shalt thou give us the defence of thy salvation and we shall give thankes unto thee ô Lord and sing praises unto thy name who art become our strong helper and the God of our Salvation which thou hast given unto us in our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 19. A Prayer for preservation from sinne and for love of Gods law MORNING PRAYER THe heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work 2 One day telleth another and one night certifieth another 3 There is neither speech nor language but their voyces are heard among them 4 Their sound is gone out into all lands and their words into the ends of the world 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sunne which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber
and reioyceth as a giant to run his course 6 It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven and runneth about unto the end of it again and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof 7 The law of the Lord is an undefiled law converting the soul the testimonie of the Lord is sure and giveth wisdome unto the simple 8 The statutes of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure and giveth light unto the eyes 9 The feare of the Lord is clean and endureth for ever the iudgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether 10 More to be desired are they then gold yea then much fine gold sweeter also then hony the hony combe 11 Moreover by them is thy servant taught and in keeping of them there is great reward 12 Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou me from my secret faults 13 Keep thy servant also from presumptuous sinnes least they get the dominion over me so shall I be undefiled and innocent from the great offence 14 Let the words of my mouth the meditation of my heart be alway acceptable in thy sight 15 O Lord my strength and my redeemer The Prayer O Most blessed Iesu thou sonne of righteousnesse who camest forth from the bosome of thy Eternall Father as a Bridegroom out of his chamber be pleased to plant in our hearts the feare of the Lord and in our bodies the purity and cleanesse of chastity and make them to abide there for ever Lighten our eyes with the light of thy Gospell and the bright revelation of thy whole will and pleasure that so being guided by thy grace we may be cleansed from all our secret sinnes and preserved from presumptuous and great offences so shall the thoughts and meditation of our heart the words of our mouth and all our actions be alway acceptable in thy sight O Lord our Saviour our strength and our redeemer Iesus Amen PSALME 20. A Prayer that God would heare our petitions which we make to him in times of trouble THe Lord heare thee in the day of trouble the name of the God of Iacob defend thee 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Sion 3 Remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt-sacrifice 4 Grant thee thy hearts desire and fullfill all thy minde 5 We will reioyce in thy salvation and triumph in the name of the Lord our GOD the Lord perform all thy petitions 6 Now know I that the Lord helpeth his anointed and will heare him from his holy heaven even with the wholsome strength of his right hand 7 Some put their trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God 8 They are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright 9 Save Lord heare us O King of heaven when we call upon thee The Prayer O King of heaven who art the health and strength of our right hand have mercy upon us and heare us when we call upon thee let our prayers come into thy presence like a burnt offering of a sweet savour for in all our troubles we disclaim all confidences in any of thy creatures and remember thy name only O Lord our God Teach us what to aske and how to come into thy presence that we may never begge of thee any thing but what is agreeable to thy will and may then promote thy glory when thou suppliest our necessities through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 21. A Prayer for the King THe King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation 2 Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not denied him the request of his lips 3 For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodnesse and shalt set a Crowne of pure gold upon his head 4 He asked life of thee and thou gavest him a long life even for ever and ever 5 His honour is great in thy salvation glory and great worship shalt thou lay upon him 6 For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance 7 And why because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercy of the most Highest he shall not miscarry 8 All thine enemies shall feel thine hand thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee 9 Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of thy wrath the Lord shall destroy them in his displeasure and the fire shall consume them 10 Their fruit shalt thou root out of the earth and their seed from among the children of men 11 For they intended mischiefe against thee and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform 12 Therefore shalt thou put them to flight and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them 13 Be thou exalted Lord in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power The Prayer O Eternall God King of Kings and Lord of Lords have mercy upon thy servant the King as thou hast set a Crowne of gold upon his head and given him power and command to rule thy people with justice and piety so doe thou heare the request of his lipps grant him the desire of his heart and prevent both his desires and requests with the blessings of thy goodnesse give him great honour and Reverence in the sight of his People and of all the Nations round about let all his enemies feele thine hand and put them to flight that arise up against him that when thou hast given him the blessings of a long life and prosperous and made him glad with the joy of thy countenance at last he may be crown'd with everlasting felicity and reigne with thee in thy eternall Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 22. A meditation upon the Passion of our Blessed Saviour EVENING PRAYER MY God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so farre from my health and from the words of my complaint 2 O my God I cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season also I take no rest 3 And thou continuest holy O thou worship of Israel 4 Our fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them 5 They called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded 6 But as for mee I am a Worm and no man a very scorn of men and the outcast of the people 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorne they shoot out their lips and shake their heads saying 8 He trusted in God that he would deliver him let him deliver him if he will have him 9 But thou art he that took me out of my mothers wombe thou wast my hope when I hanged yet upon my mothers brests 10 I have been left unto thee ever since I
was borne thou art my God even from my mothers wombe 11 O go not from me for trouble is hard at hand and there is none to help me 12 Many oxen are come about mee fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side 13 They gape upon mee with their mouthes as it were a ramping and roaring lion 14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of ioynt my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melâ—ing wax 15 My strength is dried up like a pot-sheard and my tongue cleaveth to my gummes and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death 16 For many dogs are come about me and the counsell of the wicked layeth siege against mee 17 They pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they stand staring and looking upon me 18 They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture 19 But be not thou farre from me O Lorde thou art my succour hast thee to help me 20 Deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the dog 21 Save me from the lions mouth thou hast heard me also from among the hornes of the unicorns 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee 23 O praise the Lord ye that feare him magnifie him all ye of the seed of Iacob and feare him all ye seed of Israel 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poore he hath not hid his face from him but when he called unto him he heard him 25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation my vowes will I performe in the sight of them that fear him 26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied they that seek after the Lord shall praise him your heart shall live for ever 27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves and be turned unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him 28 For the Kingdom is the Lords and he is the governour among the people 29 All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped 30 All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him and no man hath quickned his own soule 31 My seed shall serve him they shall be couuted unto the Lord for a generation 32 They shall come and the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse unto a people that shall be born whom the Lord hath made The Prayer O Mercifull Iesu who for our sakes did'st suffer thy selfe to be betrayed tormented spitupon crucified and to dye that thou mightest purchase for us redemption from the sting of death the miseries of hell the malice and power of the Divell deliver our soules from the sword of thy Vengeance cut us not off by untimely death free our darling from the power of the dog our soules from being a prey unto the Divell snatch us out of the Lions mouth who goeth up and downe seeking whom he may devoure O Iesu be a Iesus unto us and let those victories which thou hast obtained over Satan and Hell and the grave bring us peace and Righteousnesse and a Crown of glory in the Heavens where thou livest and reignest in the great congregation of Saints and Angells one God world without end Amen PSALME 23. A prayer that God would guide and feed and support us as a sheapherd doth his flock THe Lord is my sheapherd therefore can I lack nothing 2 He shall feed me in a green pasture and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort 3 He shall convert my soul and bring me forth in the paths of righteousnesse for his names sake 4 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me 5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me thou hast anointed my head with oyle and my cup shall be full 6 But thy loving kindnesse and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of mylife I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou great Sheapherd and Bishop of our Soules let thy grace convert us let thy mercy guide us in the paths of righteousnesse feed us with thy Word and Sacraments refresh us with the comforts of thy Holy Spirit and in the whole course of our life which is nothing else but a valley of miseries and a shadow of death let thy rod correct us like a Father when we doe amisse and thy staffe support us in all our troubles and necessities O let thy loving kindnesse and mercy follow us all our daies that after this life we may dwell in thy house for ever where thou hast prepared a Table and a full cup of blessing for thy People and shalt anoynt their heads with the oyle of an eternall gladnesse in the fruition of thy glories ô blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 24. A Meditation upon the ascension of our Blessed Saviour and a Prayer for Sanctity that we may ascend where he is MORNING PRAYER THe earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compasse of the world and they that dwell therein 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas and prepared it upon the flouds 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord or who shall rise up in his holy place 4 Even he that hath clean hands and a pure heart and that hath not life up his mind unto vanity nor sworn to deceive his neighbour 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousnesse from the God of his salvation 6 This is the generation of them that seek him even of them that seek thy face O Iacob 7 Life up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 8 Who is the King of glory it is the Lord strong and mighty even the Lord mighty in battell 9 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 10 Who is the King of glory even the Lord of hosts he is the King of glory The Prayer O Blessed Iesu King of glory Lord of Hosts and King of all the Creatures to whom the everlasting doores were opened that thou mightest enter into thy Kingdome which thou didst open to all believers after thou hadst overcome the sharpnesse of death give us clean hands and a pure heart teach us to follow thy innocency to imitate thy sanctity that we may receive from thee our Lord the eternall rewards and blessings of righteousnesse and ascend thither whither thou ô God of our salvation art gone before who livest and raignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost eternall God world without end Amen PSALME 25. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for deliverance from Sinne and Punishment VNto thee O Lord
have been like to Horse and Mule without understanding brutish in our passions sensuall in our affections of unbridled heates and distemperatures But thy mercy is as infinite as thy selfe O let not thy hand be heavy upon us but forgive the wickednesse of our sinne and compasse us about with songs of deliverance then shall we be glad and rejoyce in thee O Lord who art become our mighty Saviour and most mercifull Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 33. A Prayer to God for the graces of feare hope and Religion REjoyce in the Lord O ye righteous for it becometh well the iust to be thankfull 2 Praise the Lord with harp sing psalmes unto him with the lute and instrument of ten strings 3 Sing unto the Lord a new song sing praises lustlly unto him with a good courage 4 For the word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithfull 5 He loveth righteousnesse and iudgement the earth is full of the goodnes of the Lord. 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth 7 He gathereth the waters of the Sea together as it were upon an heap and layeth up the deep as in a treasure house 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord stand in awe of him all ye that dwell in the world 9 For he spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast 10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to nought and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect and casteth out the counsells of Princes 11 The counsell of the Lord shall endure for ever and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation 12 Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord Iehova and blessed are the folk that he hath chosen to him to be his inheritance 13 The Lord looked down from Heaven and beheld all the children of men from the habitation of his dwelling he considereth all them that dwell in the earth 14 He fashioneth all the hearts of them and understandeth all their works 15 There is no King that can be saved by the multitude of an host neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength 16 An Horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength 17 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy 18 To deliver their souls from death and to feed them in the time of dearth 19 Our soul hath patiently tarried for the Lord for he is our help and our shield 20 For our heart shall reioyce in him because we haue hoped in his holy name 21 Let thy mercifull kindnesse O Lord be upon us like as we doe put our trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God who lovest righteousnesse and judgement who fillest the earth with thy goodnesse and lookest downe from Heaven upon the children of men Consider us O Lord and let thy grace fashion our hearts and produce in our soules such formes and impresses as may beare thy Image and seem beauteous in thy eyes that thou maist be our God and choose us for thine inheritance Let thy mercy feed us thy hands deliver us from death and snatch us from the jawes of hell teach us to feare thee to put our trust in thy mercy patiently to tarry for thee and the revelation of thy loving kindnesses to hope in thy holy Name and to rejoyce in thy salvation giving thee thanks and praise with a good courage with humble and religious affections all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 34. A Prayer that we being dispos'd by Holy living may receive and have a sense and tast of the Divine goodnesse I Will alway give thanks unto the Lord his praise shall ever be in my mouth 2 My soul shall make her boast of the Lord the humble shall heare thereof and be glad 3 O praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his name together 4 I sought the Lord and he heard me yea he delivered me out of all my fear 5 They had an eye unto him and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed 6 Lo the poore crieth and the Lord heareth him yea and saveth him out of all his troubles 7 The Angell of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him delivereth them 8 O taste and see how gracious the Lord is blessed is the man that trusteth in him 9 O fear the Lord ye that be his Saints for they that fear him lack nothing 10 The lions doe lack and suffer hunger but they which seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good 11 Come ye children and hearken unto me I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 12 What man is he that lusteth to live and would fain see good dayes keep thy tongue from evill and thy lips that they speak no guile 13 Eschew evill and doe good seek peace and ensue it 14 The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous his eares are open unto their prayers 15 The countenance of the Lord is against them that doe evill to root out the remembrance of them from the earth 16 The righteous cry and the Lord heareth them delivereth them out of all their troubles 17 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart and will save such as be of an humble spirit 18 Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of all 19 He keepeth all his bones so that not one of them is broken 20 But misfortune shall slay the ungodly they that hate the righteous shall be desolate 21 The Lord delivereth the souls of his servants and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute The Prayer O Most mercifull and gracious Lord whose eyes are over the righteous and thine eares are open unto their prayers give us we beseech thee a contrite heart and an humble spirit a feare of thy Name a watchfulnesse over our tongue that we speak no guile a care of our actions that we eschew all evill and a zeale of thy Name that we may doe good that being thus prepar'd with holy dispositions we may be delivered out of all our troubles by the hands of thy mercy we may be defended against our enemies by the custody of Angells we may be provided for so as to want no manner of thing that is good by the ministration of thy providence that so in all the whole course of our life we may feel the goodnesse of the Lord seeing and tasting the sweetnesses of thy mercy which may be to us an antepast of eternity and as an earnest of the Spirit to consigne us to the fruition of the glories of thy Kingdome who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 35. A Prayer to be delivered from our Enemies
without end Amen PSALME 57. A Prayer to be delivered from the power of the Devill and slander of men and that we may put our confidence in God BE mercifull unto me O God be mercifull unto me for my soul trusteth in thee and under the shadow of thy wings shall be my refuga untill this tyranny be overpast 2 I will call unto the most high God even unto the God that shall performe the cause which I haue in hand 3 He shall send from heaven and save me from the reproof of him that would eat me up 4 God shall send forth his mercy and truth my soul is among Lions 5 And I lie even among the children of men that are set on fire whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword 6 Set up thy self O God aboue the heavens and thy glory aboue all the earth 7 They haue laid a net for my feet and pressed down my soul they haue digged a pit before me are fallen into the mids of it themselves 8 My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise 9 Awake up my glory awake lute and harp I my self will awake right early 10 I will giue thanks unto thee O Lord among the people and I will sing unto thee among the Nations 11 For the greatnesse of thy mercy reacheth unto the Heavens and thy truth unto the Clouds 12 Set up thy self O God aboue the heavens and thy glory above all the earth The Prayer O Most high and mighty God who hast set thy selfe above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth doe thou send from heaven and save us from the reproofe of all our ghostly Enemies who would eate us for our soul is among Lions and the Devill is busie seeking to devoure us O send out thy mercy and truth deliver us from the malitious slander of men and from the dreadfull accusations of the Devills at the day of judgement who are set on fire against us and their teeth are speares and arrowes gnashing at us to teare us in pieces Let thy mercy sustaine us let thy righteousnesse be interpos'd in answer for us that as our enemies accuse us thy mercies may acquit us through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 58. A Prayer that Gods people may be delivered from the malice of wicked men ARe your mindes set upon righteousnesse O ye congregation and do ye iudge the thing that is right O ye sonnes of men 2 Yea ye imagine mischief in your heart upon the earth and your hands deal with wickednesse 3 The ungodly are froward even from their mothers wombe assoon as they be born they go astray and speak lies 4 They are as venemous as the poyson of a serpent even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her eares 5 Which refuseth to heare the voice of the charmer charm he never so wisely 6 Breake their teeth O God in their mouthes smite the iaw-bones of the Lions O Lord let them fall away like water that runneth apace and when they shoot their arrows let them be rooted out 7 Let them consume away like a sâ—ail and be like the untimely fruit of a woman and let them not see the sunne 8 Orever your pots be made hot with thorns so let indignation vex him even as a thing that is raw 9 The righteous shall reioyce when he seeth the vengeance he shall wash his foot steps in the bloud of the ungodly 10 So that a man shall say Uerily there is a reward for the righteous doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth the earth The Prayer O Almighty Lord thou God that judgest the earth who preparest rewards for the righteous and executest vengeance against the ungodly deliver all thy chosen people from the peevishnesse of froward and ungodly men whose hands deale with wickednesse and they imagine mischiefe in their hearts And to thy servants give thy grace that our minds may be set upon righteousnesse that we may judge the thing that is right never refusing to heare thy voyce or stopping our eares like the deafe adder against thy holy precepts that we may have no iniquity in our mouthes nor unrighteousnesse in our actions and at last we may have the reward of the righteous the inheritance of thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 59. A Prayer against Hereticks and all other Enemies of the Church EVENING PRAYER DEliver me from mine enemies O God defend me from them that rise up against me 2 O deliver me from the wicked doers and save me from the bloud-thirsty men 3 For lo they lye waiting for my soul the mighty men are gathered against me without any offence or fault of me O Lord. 4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault arise thou therefore to help me and behold 5 Stand up O Lord God of hosts thou God of Israel to visit all the heathen and be not mercifull unto them that offend of malicious wickednesse 6 They go to and fro in the evening they grin like a dog and runne about through the city 7 Behold they speak with their mouth and swords are in their lips for who doth heare 8 But thou O Lord shalt have them in derision and thou shalt laugh all the heathen to scorn 9 My strength will I ascribe unto thee for thou art the God of my refuge 10 God sheweth me his goodnesse plenteously and God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies 11 Slay them not least my people forget it but scatter them abroad among the people and put them down O Lord our defence 12 For the sinne of their mouth and for the words of their lips they shall be taken in their pride and why their preaching is of cursing and lies 13 Consume them in thy wrath consume them that they may perish and know that it is God which ruleth in Iacob and unto the ends of the world 14 And in the evening they will returne grin like a dog and will goe about the City 15 They will run here and there for meat and grudge if they be not satisfied 16 As for me I will sing of thy power and will praise thy mercy be times in the morning for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble 17 Unto thee O my strength will I sing for thou O God art my refuge and my mercifull God The Prayer O Lord God of Israel visit us with thy salvation and deliver us from the malice of wicked doers and the violences of blood thirsty men Let not them prosper ô Lord in their machinations whose preaching is of cursing and lies and who offend of malicious wickednesse shew us thy goodnesse plenteously that we may never forget thy mercies or thy Lawes for thou art our defence and refuge and our mercifull God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 60. A Prayer in time of Warre or temptation O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us
abroad thou also hast been displeased O turne thee unto us again 2 Thou hast moved the land and divided it heal the sores thereof for it shaketh 3 Thou hast shewed thy people heavy things thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine 4 Thou hast given a token for such as fear thee that they may triumph because of the truth 5 Therefore were thy beloved delivered help me with thy right hand and heare me 6 God hath spoken in his holinesse I will reioyce and divide Sichem and mete out the valley of Succoth 7 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of my head Iuda is my lawgiver 8 Moaâ— is my washpot over Edom will I cast out my shoe Philistia be thou glad of me 9 Who will lead me into the strong city who will bring me into Edom 10 Hast thou not cast us out O God wilt not thou O God go out with our hosts 11 O be thou our help in trouble for vain is the help of man 12 Through God will we doe great arts for it is he that shall tread downe our enemies The Prayer O Lord God who for our sinnes hast shewed us heavy things and given us a drink of deadly Wine and yet hast never failed them that feare thee but hast given them a token that they may triumph because of thy truth and mercy consigning them to redemption and deliverance by the testimony and comforts of the Holy spirit Obe thou our help in trouble for all our hope is in thee and we disclaime all confidence in our selves or in the arme of flesh praying thee for ayde that in thy strength we may tread down our enemies and give thee thankes who art the fountain of strength and the disposer of victories through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 61. A Prayer for the King and for comfort in sadnesse HEare my crying O God give eare unto my prayer 2 From the ends of the earth will I call unto thee when my heart is in heavinessâ— 3 O â—et me up upon the rock that â—â— higher then I for thou hast been my hope and a strong tower for me against the enemy 4 I will dwell in thy â—labernacle for ever and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings 5 For thou O Lord hast heard my desires and hast given an heritage unto those that feare thy name 6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life that his yeares may endure thorough out all generations 7 He shall dwell before God for ever O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulnesse that they may preserve him 8 So will I alwaies sing praise unto thy name that I may dayly performe my vowes The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou that art the rock higher then all the world upon whom thy Church is built and all our hopes rely be mercifull unto us and give eare unto our prayers be unto us a fountain of comfort whensoever our heart is in heavinesse for under the covering of thy wings there is joy and health and safety save all those that feare thy name and give thy blessing to thine heritage and that the blessings of thy people may be lasting and perpetuall give unto thy servant the King long life let thy loving kindnesse and faithfulnesse alway preserve him be a strong tower for him against all his enemies and at last bring him to an eternall Kingdome where no enemies shall assault or disturbe his Peace that he may dwell before thee for ever and rejoyce in the participation of the blessings of thy kingdome who livest and raignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 62. A Prayer that we may trust in God onely in all our troubles MORNING PRAYER MY soul truly waiteth still upon God for of him cometh my salvation 2 He verily is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not greatly fall 3 How long will ye imagine mischiefe against every man ye shall be slain all the sort of you yea as a tottering walâ— shall ye be and like a broken hedge 4 Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt their delight is in lies they giue good words with their mouth but curse with their heart 5 Neverthelesse my soul wait thou still upon God for my hope is in him 6 He truly is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not fall 7 In God is my health and my glory the rock of my might and in God is my trust 8 O put your trust in him alway ye people poure out your hearts before him for God is our hope 9 As for the children of men they are but vain the children of men are deceitfull upon the weights they are altogether lighter then vanity it self 10 O trust not in wrong and robbery giue not your selves unto vanity if riches increase set not your heart upon them 11 God spake once and twice I haue also heard the same that power belongeth unto God 12 And that thou Lord art mercifull for thou rewardest every man according to his work The Prayer O Lord God of whom commeth our salvavation thou art our defence and strength our health and our glory give us thy grace that we may put our whole trust in thee alway that we may poure out our hearts before thee in all our troubles that we may wait still upon thee for the performance of our expectation in all our longings and desires Be thou our defence uphold us that we may not fall into those great sins which lay wast our consciences or into such miseries as make us without hope or remedy the miseries of despaire obstinate malice or the woes of a sad eternity Teach us to despise riches to disclaim all trust in the creatures not to delight in lyes or vanity not to multiply wrongs and robbery that when thou shalt come with power and great glory to reward every man according to his worke thou mayest be mercifull unto us pardoning our sinnes and accepting us to life eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 63. A Prayer for deliverance from the miseries of our pilgrimage with longing and desires after God and the Joyes of Heaven O God thou art my God early will I seek thee 2 My soul thirsteth for thee my flesh also longeth after thee in a barren and dry land where no water is 3 Thus haue I looked for thee in holinesse that I might behold thy power and glory 4 For thy loving kindnesse is better then the life it self my lips shall praise thee 5 As long as I liue will I magnifie thee on this manner and lift up my hands in thy name 6 My soul shall be satisfied even as it were with marrow fatnesse when my mouth praiseth thee with ioyfull lips 7 Haue I not remembred thee in my bed and thought upon thee when I was waking 8 Because thou hast been my helper therefore under the shadow
those that are appoynted to die 13 And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee reward thou them O Lord seven fold into their bosome 14 So we that be thy people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord God of thine inheritance who conveyest many blessings to the children of men by the prayers and ministery of thy Church let our Prayers obtain of thee mercies and deliverances for her O Lord thou hast planted thy Church in the humility and poverty and death of thy Sonne thou hast watered it with the blood of thy Apostles and Martyrs thou hast made it flourish and spread forth its branches by the warmth and heate and graces of thy holy spirit and hast according to thy promise still preserved it in the midst of all enmities and disadvantages Thy Lawes and righteous commandements have been a scorn and derision to Iewes and Gentiles the flesh of thy servants have been meat for the beasts of the Land and still she weares the purple robe of mockery and the crowne of thornes which at first she took from the head and side of her Dearest Lord At last O Lord be gratious unto thine inheritance help us ô God of our salvation for the glory of thy Name let not thine enemies devour the Church and lay wast her dwelling places be mercifull unto our sinnes preserve all those that by malice of their enemies are appoynted to death or prison or any other misery let us still enjoy the freedom of thy Gospell the food of thy word the sweet refreshings of thy Sacraments publike Communions in thy Church and all the benefits of the society of Saints and let not our sinnes cause thee to remove the Candlestick from us but make thy people and the sheep of thy pasture secure and glad in thy salvation that we may shew forth thy praise in this world and in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 80. A Prayer for the Church HEare O thou Shepheard of Israel thou that leadest Ioseph like a sheep shew thy self also thou that sittest upon the cherubims 2 Before Ephraim Beniamin and Manasses stirre up thy strength and come and help us 3 Turn us again O God shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 4 O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears and givest them plenteousnesse of tears to drink 6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh us to scorn 7 Turn us again thou God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it 9 Thou madest room for it and when it had taken root it filled the land 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees 11 She stretched out her branches unto the sea and her boughs unto the river 12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedge that all they that go by pluck off her grapes 13 The wild bore out of the wood doth root it up and the wild beasts of the field devoure it 14 Turn thee again thou God of hosts look down from heaven behold and visit this vine 15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest so strong for thy self 16 It is burnt with fire and cut down and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the sonne of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self 18 And so will not we go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy name 19 Turn us again O Lord God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole The Prayer O Thou shepheard of Israel thou that sittest upon the Cherubims stirre up thy strength and come and help thy people that prayeth unto thee for mercy and protection Thou hast made affliction the portion of thy Children in this life thou feedest them with bread of teares and givest them plenteousnesse of teares to drinke yet be pleased to shew the light of thy countenance upon us to lighten our darknesses to relieve our miseries to heal our sicknesses and let not thy Church become a strife unto her neighbours but reunite her divisions and make her not a prey to them that would devoure her and then laugh her to scorne O Lord hedge her about with thy mercies with the custody of Angels with the patronage of Kings and Princes with the hearts and hands of Nobles and the defence of the whole secular arme least the wild beasts of the field pluck off her grapes destroy the vintage and root up the vine it selfe but let her so flourish under the beams of thy favour and providence that it may take root and spread and fill all lands that the name of the man of thy right hand the God and Man Christ Iesus may be glorified thy Church enlarged and defended and we blessed with thy health and salvation Grant this O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 81. A festivall song and a Prayer for the grace and blessings of obedience to Gods Lawes SIng we merrily unto God our strength make a cheerfull noise unto the God of Iacob 2 Take the psalme bring hither the tabret the merry harp with the lute 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon even in the time appoynted and upon our solemne feast day 4 For this was made a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Iacob 5 This he ordained in Ioseph for a testimony when he came out of the land of Egypt and had heard a strange language 6 I eased his shoulder from the burden and his hands were delivered from making the pots 7 Thou calledst upon me in troubles and I delivered thee and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon thee 8 I proved thee also at the waters of strife 9 Heare O my people and I will assure thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me 10 There shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any other god 11 I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I shall fill it 12 But my people would not heare my voyce and Israel would not obey me 13 So I gave them up unto their own hearts lust and let them follow their own imaginations 14 O that my people would have hearkned unto me for if Israel had walked in my wayes 15 I should soon have put down their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries 16
The haters of the Lord should have been found liars but their time should have endured for ever 17 He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-floure and with hony out of the stonie-rock should I have satisfied thee The Prayer O Lord God our strength whose mercies are infinite whose Majesty is glorious whose goodnesse is amiable above all the excellencies in the World enlarge our hearts with joy and rejoycings in thy glories open our mouths wide and fill our lips with thy praises that upon the solemne feast daies we may commemorate thy excellencies and mercies and the great mysteries of our redemption and Religion adoring thee with thankes and joyfulnesse who art mysterious in thy words and marvellous mercifull in all thy works and that we may in the best manner expresse our thankfulnes to thee give us thy grace that we may heare thy voyce that we may obey thee walk in thy Laws that we follow not our owne imaginations nor be given to our own hearts lusts but that we resigning our selves only to thy holy will pleasure thou mayest heare our prayers when ever any storme of trouble falls upon us and turne thine hand against our adversaries and that we being delivered from the burden of our sinnes may be fed with the choicest of thy viands and with food from the Rocke Christ Iesus even his most precious bodie and bloud nourishing us up to life eternall through the same Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 82. A Prayer for the Princes and Judges of the world that they may do right iudgement EVENING PRAYER GOd standeth in the congregation of Princes he is a Iudge among gods 2 How long will yee give wrong iudgement and accept the persons of the ungodly 3 Defend the poore and fatherlesse see that such as be in need and necessitie have right 4 Deliver the outcast and poore save them from the hand of the ungodly 5 They will not be learned nor understand but walke on still in darknesse all the foundations of the earth be out of course 6 I have said yee are gods and yee all are children of the most Highest 7 But yee shall die like men and fall like one of the Princes 8 Arise O God and iudge thou the earth for thou shalt take all the heathen to thine inheritance The Prayer O Almighty Iudge of Men and Angels thou God of Gods and Prince of Princes let thy Spirit of anointing rest upon the Princes and Rulers within the pale of the Vniversall Church and let thy righteousnesse and judgements guide all those that sit in the seat of the Iudges that they may minister justice and true judgement unto the people defending and promoting the interests of true Religion relieving the oppressed encouraging vertue and dishonouring vitious persons delivering the poore and saving them from the hand of the ungodly that men may not walke on still in darknesse but their evill deeds may be discovered and brought to light that we may all live before thee in righteousnesse expecting the great day of righteous judgement which we begge we may all behold with confidence receiving thy mercies and beholding thy face in glory thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 83. A Prayer against the Enemies of the Church particularly sacrilegious persons HOld not thy tongue O God keep not still silence refrain not thy selfe O God 2 For lo thine enemies make a murmuring and they that hate thee have lift up their head 3 They have imagined craftily against thy people and taken counsell against thy secret ones 4 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 5 For they have cast their heads together with one consent and are confederate against thee 6 The tabernacles of the Edoinites and the Ismaelites the Moabites and Hâ—garenes 7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek the Philistines with them that dwell at Tyre 8 Assur also is ioyned unto them and have holpen the children of Lot 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites unto Sisera and unto Iabin at the brook of Rison 10 Which perished at Endor and became as the dung of the earth 11 Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb yea make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana 12 Which say Let us take to our selves the houses of God in possession 13 O my God make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the winde 14 Like as the fire that burneth up the wood and as the flame that consumeth the mountaines 15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storme 16 Make their faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek thy name 17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more let them be put to shame and perish 18 And they shall know that thou whose name is Iehovah art onely the most highest over all the earth The Prayer O Lord God who wert known to thy people Israel by thy name Iehovah thou art onely the highest over all the earth arise and defend thy people and deliver thy secret ones from the murmurings councels and crafty imaginations of thine enemies against them Fixe the foundations of the Church upon a Rocke and preserve thine inheritance in peace and safety Infatuate the councels restrain the sacrilegious appetites of all such persons who would rob all thy houses and take them to their owne possession and make their faces so ashamed and their hearts afraid that they may return from covetousnesse and impiety and seek thy Name repenting of all their sinnes and living in justice and religion that at last they may come into an everlasting possession of thy house and of thy Temple where thine Honour dwelleth and reigneth eternally world without end Amen PSALME 84. A Prayer of desire and longings after the ioyes of Heaven O How amiable are thy dwellings thou Lord of hosts 2 My soule hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh reioyce in the living God 3 Yea the sparrow hath found her an house and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young even thy altars O Lord of hosts my King and my God 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be alway praising thee 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are thy wayes 6 Which going through the vale of misery use it for a well and the pooles are filled with water 7 They will go from strength to strength and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion 8 O Lord God of hosts heare my prayer hearken O God of Iacob 9 Behold O God our defender and look upon the face of thine Anointed 10 For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand 11 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to
dwell in the tents of ungodlinesse 12 For the Lord God is a light and defence the Lord will give grace and worship and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life 13 O Lord God of hosts blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God of hosts who dwellest in the heavens seated in essentiall and eternall felicities fill our hearts with desires and longings to enter into those Courts where thou sittest attended with the beauteous orders of Angells and millions of beautified spirits and that our desires may receive infinite satisfactions give us thy helpe that we going through the vale of misery the pooles may be filled with water our hearts and eyes may runne over with teares of repentance and overflow with sorrow and contrition for our sinnes that we living a godly life going from strength to strength from vertue to vertue at last we may appeare in Sion unto the God of Gods beholding the face of thine anointed thy Christ and our Iesus and may dwell one day in thy Courts even all the long day of eternity through the same Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 85. A thanksgiving for Gods free mercy in the pardon of our sinnes and a prayer for the continuance and increase of his mercies to us LOrd thou art become gratious unto thy land thou hast turned away the captivity of Iacob 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people and covered all their sinnes 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure and turned thy selfe from thy wrathfull indignation 4 Turn us then O God our Saviour and let thine anger cease from us 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another 6 Wilt thou not turn againe quicken us that thy people may reioyce in thee 7 Shew us thy mercy O Lord and grant us thy salvation 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me for he shall speak peace unto his people and to his saints that they turne not again 9 For his salvation is nigh them that feare him that glory may dwell in our land 10 Mercy and truth are met together righteousnesse and peace have kissed each other 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousnesse hath looked down from heaven 12 Yea the Lord shall shew loving kindnesse and our land shall give her increase 13 Righteousnesse shall go before him and he shall direct his going in the way The Prayer O Most gracious God who art reconciled unto us in our Saviour Iesus having for his sake forgiven the offences of thy people and covered all their sinnes with the robe of his most immaculate sanctity and righteousnesse let thy grace convert and quicken us that we may rejoyce in thee and thy salvation in faith of thy promises in hope of the actuall communication of thy mercies to us and in love to thee for so great blessings and redemption and when thou hast spoken peace unto our soules and reconciled us to thy selfe in the bloud of thy Son give us the grace of perseverance that we may never turne again to folly but may follow mercy and truth all our dayes and at last be satisfied with thy righteousnesse and peace eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 86. A prayer for sanctity and preservation MORNING PRAYER BOw down thine eare O Lord and heare me for I am poore and in misery 2 Preserve thou my soule for I am holy my God save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee 3 Be mercifull unto me O Lord for I will call daily upon thee 4 Comfort the soule of thy servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soule 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6 Give eare Lord unto my prayer and ponder the voyce of my humble desires 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou hearest me 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee O Lord there is not one that can do as thou doest 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10 For thou art great and doest wonderous things thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walke in thy truth O knit my heart unto thee that I may feare thy Name 12 I will thanke thee O Lord my God with all my heart and will praise thy Name for evermore 13 For great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soule from the nethermost hell 14 O God the proud are risen against me and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soule and have not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lord God art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering plenteous in goodnesse and truth 16 O turne thee then unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and helpe the son of thine handmaid 17 Shew some good token upon me for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me The Prayer O Lord God good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee give eare unto our prayers and ponder the voyce of our desires when ever we call upon thee in our trouble Let the soules of thy servants be refreshed with thy comforts and defend us from the congregations of proud and naughty men Turne thee unto us with mercy give thy strength unto us teach us thy lawes make us to walke in thy truth give us the feare of thy Name and knit our hearts to thee with the indissoluble bands of charity and obedience that our soules being saved from the nethermost hell we may worship thee O Lord glorifie thy name who art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and plenteous in goodnesse and truth which thou hast manifested to us in our deliverance and redemption through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 87. A contemplation of the excellencies of Sion or the celestiall Ierusalem HEr foundations are upon the holy hills the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Iacob 2 Uery excellent things are spoken of thee thou city of God 3 I will thinke upon Rahab and Babylon with them that know me 4 Behold ye the Philistims also and they of Tyre with the Morians lo there was he borne 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was borne in her and the most High shall stablish her 6 The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people that he was borne there 7 The singers also and trumpeters also shall he rehearse all my fresh springs shall be in thee The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in Sion and delightest to have thy habitation in the hearts of men thou hast built the
Church as a City upon a hill and laid the foundation of it upon the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ being the chiefe Corner-stone make us to be a spirituall building fit for thy habitation and a residence for thy holy Spirit grounding us in faith building us up in hope and perfecting us in charity that we being joyned in the communion of Saints in the union of the holy Catholike Church militant on earth may all partake of the blessings of thy Church triumphant in the City of thee our God in the celestiall Ierusalem where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 88. A prayer in time of sicknesse and danger of death O Lord God of my salvation I have cried day and night before thee O let my prayer enter into thy presence incline thine eare unto my calling 2 For my soule is full of trouble and my life draweth nigh unto hell 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit and I have been even as a man that hath no strength 4 Free among the dead like unto them that be wounded and lie in the grave which be out of remembrance and are cut away from thy hand 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in a place of darknesse and in the deep 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me and made me to be abhorred of them 8 I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth 9 My sight faileth for very trouble Lord I have called daily upon thee I have stretched out my hands unto thee 10 Doest thou shew wonders among the dead or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee 11 Shall thy loving kindnesse be shewed in the grave or thy faithfulnesse in destruction 12 Shall thy wondrous workes be knowne in the darke and thy righteousnesse in the land where all things are forgotten 13 Unto thee haâ—e I eried O Lord and early shall my prayer come before thee 14 Lord why abhorest thou my soule and hidest thou thy face from me 15 I am in misery and like unto him that is at the point to die even from my youth up thy terrours have I suffered with a troubled minde 16 Thy wrathfull displeasure goeth over me and the feare of thee hath undone me 17 They came round about me daily like water and compassed me together on every side 18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight The Prayer O Lord God of our salvation who for our sakes wert wounded and didst die and lie in the grave but yet alone of all that ever died wert free among the dead and by thine own power didst arise againe with victory and triumph have mercy upon thy servant for thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes my soul is full of trouble by reason of my sinnes and my life draweth nigh unto the grave restore me unto thy favour and let me not go down into the darke nor my life into the place where all things are forgotten but let me shew forth thy loving kindnesse amongst thy redeemed ones in the land of the living for the living the living he shall praise thee and confesse the holinesse and the mercies of thy holy Name O hide not thou thy face from me but give me health of body and restore and preserve me in the life of righteousnesse and so blesse me with opportunities of doing thee service that I may redeem the time past and by thy grace may grow rich in good workes alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord that when thou shalt demand my soule to be rendred up into thy hands my soule may not be abhorred of thee nor suffer thy terrours but may feele an eternity of blessings in the resurrection of the just through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 89. A Prayer for the King in time of Warres or any publike calamitie EVENING PRAYER MY song shall be alway of the loving kindnesse of the Lord with my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from one generation to another 2 For I have said mercy shall be set up for ever thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen I have sworne unto David my servant 4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever and set up thy throne from one generation to another 5 O Lord the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous workes and thy truth in the congregation of the saints 6 For who is he among the clouds that shall be compared unto the Lord 7 And what is he among the gods that shall be like unto the Lord 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the counsell of the saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him 9 O Lord God of hosts who is like unto thee thy truth most mighty Lord is on every side 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt and destroyed it thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy might arme 12 The heavens are thine the earth also is thine thou hast laid the foundation of the round world and all that therein is 13 Thou hast made the North and the South Tabor and Harmon shall reioyce in thy Name 14 Thou hast a mighty arme strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand 15 Righteousnesse and equity is the habitation of thy feat mercy and truth shall go before thy face 16 Blessed is the people O Lord that can reioyce in thee they shall walke in the light of thy countenance 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name and in thy righteousnesse shall they make their boast 18 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy loving kindnesse thou shalt lift up our hornes 19 For the Lord is our defence the holy one of Israel is our King 20 Thou spakest sometimes in vision unto thy Saints and saidest I have laid helpe upon one that is mighty I have exalted one chosen out of the people 21 I have found David my servant with my holy oyle have I anointed him 22 My hand shall hold him fast and my arme shall strengthen him 23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence the son of wickednesse shall not hurt him 24 I shall smite down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him 25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him and in my Name shall his horne be exalted 26 I will set his dominion also in the sea and his right hand in the flouds 27 He shall call me thou art my father my God and my strong salvation 28 And I will make him my first-borne higher than the kings of the earth 29 My mercy will I keep for him for
be afraid for any terrour by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day 6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkenes nor for the sicknesse that destroyeth in the noone day 7 A thousand shall fall beside thee and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee 8 Yea with thine eyes shalt thou behold and â—ee the reward of the ungodly 9 For thou Lord art my hope thou hast set thine house of defence very high 10 There shall no evill happen unto thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling 11 For he shall give his Angells charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes 12 They shall beare thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone 13 Thon shalt goe upon the lion and adder the young lion and the dragon salt thou tread under thy feet 14 Because he hath set his love upon me therefore shall I deliver him I shall set him up because he hath known my name 15 He shall call upon me and I will heare him yea I am with him in trouble I will deliver him and bring him to honour 16 With long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation The Prayer O Lord God our hope and our strong hold have mercy upon us and defend us under the shadow of thy wings that we trusting under thy defence may by thy faithfulnesse and truth be covered as with a shield and buekler Give thy Angels charg concerning us and our habitations that we may be preserved and kept in all our wayes that no evill happen unto us no plague come nigh our dwelling no terrors of the night no arrowes of thy vengeance by day may disturbe our peace or safety Let thy ministring Spirits beare us in their hands and keep us from precipice from fracture of bones from dislocations noysome or sharp diseases stupidities and deformities that we may tread under our feet all the snares of the roaring lion and the great dragon the Divell who seeks our bodily and ghostly hurt Doe thou set thy love upon us and deliver us from all our troubles and at the end of our dayes shew us thy salvation and satisfie us with long life even of a blessed eternity in thy Kingdom through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALM 92. A meditation of the great works of God in the destruction of the wicked and the preservation of the godly IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto thy name O most Highest 2 To tell of thy loving kindnesse earely in the morning and of thy truth in the night season 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute upon a loud instrument and upon the harp 4 For thou Lord hast made me glad through thy works and I will rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of thy hands 5 O Lord how glorious are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep 6 An unwise man doth not well consider this and a foole doth not understand it 7 When the ungodly are green as the grasse and when all the workers of wickednesse do flourist then shall they be destroyed for ever but thou Lord art the most highest for evermore 8 For lo thine enemies O Lord lo thine enemies shall perish and all the workers of wickednesse shall be destroyed 9 But mine horne shall be exalted like the horne of an unicorn for I am anoynted with fresh oyle 10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies and mine eare shall heare his desire of the wlcked that rise up against me 11 The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Lebanus 12 Such as be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God 13 They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age and shall be fat and well liking 14 That they may shew how true the Lord my strength is and that there is no unrighteousnesse in him The Prayer O Lord God thou art the most highest for evermore thy workes are glorious and thy thoughts are very deep make our hearts and tongues loud instruments of thy prayses that we may tell of thy mercy in the morning of thy truth in the night and that we may rejoyce in giving thee thankes for the operations of thy hands all the dayes and nights of our life Let thy mercifull kindnesse descend evermore upon the righteous that they may flourish like a palm tree being continually watered with the dew of temporall and spirituall blessings and may bring forth fruits of a holy conversation and grant that we thy servants being planted in the house of God and firmly fixed in the blessed communion of Saints may flourish in the Courts of thy house thy celestiall temple to all eternity O let not our portion be amongst the ungodly and unrighteous make us not to communicate in their wickednesse so much as by consent or approbation that we may never perish and be destroyed in the furiousnesse of thine anger which thou treasurest up against the day of vengeance righteous judgement even the day of the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 93. A Prayer that God would preserve his Church against the stormes and flouds of persecution EVENING PRAYER THe Lord is King and hath put on glorious apparell the Lord hath put on his apparell and girded himselfe with strength 2 He hath made the round world so sure that it cannot be moved 3 Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared thou art from everlasting 4 The flouds â—are risen O Lord the flouds have lift up their voyce the flouds lift up their waves 5 The waves of the sea are mighty and rage horribly but the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier 6 Thy testimonies O Lord are very sure holinesse becometh thine house for ever The Prayer O Lord our King who art girded with strength and hast prepared thy seat from everlasting establish thy testimonies in our hearts as a sure foundation of temporall eternall happinesse Preserve thy house the holy catholique Church in peace and holinesse which is its defence and ornament and although the flouds of persecution and secular disadvantages have lift up their waves to overthrow it yet because it is built upon a rocke the rocke Christ Iesus make it to stand firm and sure against all the malice of hell and earth and all the powers of them both for thou ô Lord art mightier then all the waves stormes of her enemies To thee O Lord who dwellest on high and art mightier be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 94. A prayer for patience comfort and assistance to the godly and that God would disappoynt the designes of the wicked O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth thou God to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy selfe 2 Arise thou iudge of the world and reward the
proud after their deserving 3 Lord how long shall the ungodly how long shall the ungodly triumph 4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully and make such proud boasting 5 They smite down thy people O Lord and trouble thine heritage 6 They murder the widow and the stranger and put the fatherlesse to death 7 And yet they say Tush the Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Iacob regard it 8 Take heed yee unwise among the peoyle O yee fooles when will yee understand 9 He that planted the eare shall he not heare or he that made the eye shall he not see 10 Or he that nurtureth the heathen it is he that teacheth man knowledge shall not he punish 11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are but vain 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest O Lord and teachest him in thy law 13 That thou mayest give him patience in time of adversitie untill the pit be digged up for the ungodly 14 For the Lord will not faile his people neither will he forsake his inheritance 15 Untill righteousnesse turne again unto iudgement all such as be true in heart shall follow it 16 Who will rise up with me against the wicked or who will take my part against the evill doers 17 If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my soule had been put to silence 18 But when I said My foot hath slipped thy mercie O Lord held me up 19 In the multitude of the sorrowes that I had in my heart thy comforts haue refreshed my soule 20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stoole of wickednesse which imagineth mischiefe as a law 21 They gather them together against the soule of the righteous and condemne the innocent bloud 22 But the Lord is my refuge and my God is the strength of my confidence 23 He shall recompense them their wickednesse and destroy them in their own malice yea the Lord our God shall destroy them The Prayer O Lord God Iudge of the world to whom vengeance belongeth and the execution of righteous judgements have mercie upon us chasten us with thy gentlenesse and fatherly correction when we sin against thee teach uâ—lin thy law be our refuge and our confidence in our troubles and give us patience in times of adversitie that in the multitude of sorrowes thy comforts may refresh us thy mercies may relieve us thy grace may pardon and confirme us that our feet slip not and our soules be not put to silence Have pittie upon all distressed and miserable people do justice upon all that murder the widow that put the fatherlesse to death that grinde the face of the poore Faile not thy people O Lord and forsake not thine inheritance but destroy the devices of all them that imagine mischiefe as a law and are confederate against the righteous to condemne the innocent to discountenance Religion to disadvantage thy worship and service that in the day of eternall vengeance when thou shalt reward the proud after their deserving and the pit be digged for the ungodly we may have the lot of thine inheritance and reigne in the fellowship of Saints who give honour and praise to thee O Lord God Almighty world without end Amen PSALME 95. A Hymne invitatory to the worship of God and a prayer for obedience to his will MORNING PRAYER O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily reioyce in the strength of our salvation 2 Let us come before his presence with thankesgiving and shew ourselves glad in him with psalmes 3 For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods 4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hils is his also 5 The sea is his and he made it and his hands prepared the drie land 6 O come let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our maker 7 For he is the Lord our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hands 8 To day if yee will heare his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse 9 When your fathers tempted me proued me and saw my workes 10 Forty yeares long was I grieued with this generation and said It is a people that do erre in their hearts for they have not knowne my wayes 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest The Prayer O Great God the Lord our Maker who art a King above all gods give us the graces of humility and holy religion that we may worthily praise and worship thy glories and perfections infinite We are the people of thy pasture let thy mercies leade us and feed and refresh our soules with the divine nutriment of thy Word and Sacraments we are the sheep of thy hands do thou guide us that we may never go astray or if we do bring us home into the sheepfold of our great shepheard that we hearing his voyce may not harden our hearts neither tempting thy mercies nor provoking thy wrath that our hearts being preserved from errour and our wayes from obliquitie and crookednesse we may at last enter into thy eternall rest through the merits and guidance of our great Shepheard Iesus Christ our Mediatour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 96. A hymne of adoration and magnifying the glories of God O Sing unto the Lord a new song sing unto the Lord all the whole earth 1 Sing unto the Lord and praise his name be telling of his salvation from day to day 3 Declare his honour unto the heathen and his wonders unto all people 4 For the Lord is great and cannot worthily be praised he is more to be feared then all Gods 5 As for all the gods of the heathen they be but idols but it is the Lord that made the heavens 6 Glory and worship are before him power and honour are in his sanctuary 7 Ascribe unto the Lord O ye kindreds of the people ascribe unto the Lord worship and power 8 Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his name bring presents and come into his courts 9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse let the whole earth stand in aw of him 10 Câ—ll it out among the heathen that the Lord is King and that it is he which hath made the round world so fast that it cannot be moved and how that he shall iudge the people righteously 11 Let the heavens reioyce and let the earth he glad let the sea make a noise and all that therein is 12 Let the field be ioyfull and all that is in it then shall all the trees of the wood reioyce before the Lord. 13 For he cometh for he cometh to iudge the earth and with righteousnesse to iudge the world and the people with his truth The Prayer O Lord God in whose sanctuary is power and honour before whose presence
duties and by the feare of thee being taught to keep thy testimonies and never to forget the Law thou givest us we may be delivered from thy wrath and punishment and at last praise thee upon thy holy hill in thine everlasting habitation thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 100. A Psalme of praise to God for his mercy and truth O Be ioyfull in the Lord all yee lands serue the Lord with gladnesse and come before his presence with a song 2 Be yee sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selues we are his people and the sheep of his pasture 3 O go your way into his gates with thankesgiving and into his courts with praise be thankfull unto him and speak good of his Name 4 For the Lord is gracious his mercie is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord our God who hast created us out of nothing and hast redeemed us from misery and death when we were thine enemies shewing great expresses of thy loving kindnesse when we were vessels of wrath and inheritors of perdition â—reveiling thy truth unto us in the Sermons of the Gospell teach us to walke as thou hast commanded us to believe as thou hast taught us that we may inherit what thou hast promised us for thou art the way the truth and the life we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture thou art our guide and our defence let thy grace teach us to serve thee and thy holy Spirit assist and promote our endeavours with the blessings of gladnesse and chearfulnesse of Spirit that we may love to speak good of thy Name and at last may go into the courts of thy Temple with praise and a song in our mouthes to thy honour and eternall glory whose mercy and truth is everlasting and revealed unto the Church in our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 101. A Prayer for a holy life MY song shall bee of mercie and iudgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 O let me have understanding in the way of godlinesse 3 When wilt thou come unto me I will walke in my house with a perfect heart 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sinnes of unfaithfulnesse there shall no such cleave unto me 5 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 6 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour him will I destroy 7 Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomacke I will not suffer him 8 Mine eyes look unto such as be faithfull in the land that they may dwell with me 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my seruant 10 There shall no deceitfull person dwell in my house he that telleth lies shall not tarrie in my sight 11 I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land that I may root out all wicked doers from the citie of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall purity who art of pure eyes and canst behold no unrighteousnesse or impurity enlighten our understandings that we may have knowledge in the way of godlinesse make our paths straight and our hearts perfect take from us the sinnes of unfaithfulnesse correct and mortifie in us all froward and peevish dispositions let us love the society of the saints and hate the fellowship of the wicked that we may not be destroyed with the ungodly nor be rooted out from the Citie of the Lord and banished from the sweetnes of thy presence for with thee is light and health and salvation to thy Name be all honour and glory and praise ascribed world without end Amen PSALME 102. A Prayer for comfort in sadnesse anxiety of spirit sicknesse or any other affliction MORNING PRAYER HEare my prayer O Lord and let my crying come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble â—encline thine eares unto me when I call O heare me and that right soon 3 For my dayes are consumed away like smoake and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand 4 My heart is smitten down and withered like grasse so that I forget to eat my bread 5 For the voyce of my groaning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh 6 I am become like a pelican in the wildernesse and like an owle that is in the desert 7 I have watched and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the house top 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long and they that are mad upon me are sworne together against me 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread and mingled my drinke with weeping 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast taken me up and cast me down 11 My dayes are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grasse 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercie upon Sion for it is time that thou have mercie upon her yea the time is come 14 And why thy servants thinke upon her stones and it pittieth them to see her in the dust 15 The heathen shall feare thy Name O Lord and all the kings of the earth thy maiestie 16 When the Lord shall build up Sion and when his glorie shall appeare 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poore destitute and despiseth not their desire 18 This shall be written for those that come after and the people which shall be borne shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuarie out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 That he might heare the mournings of such as be in captivitie and deliver the children appointed unto death 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Sion and his worship at Ierusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdomes also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my iourney and shortened my dayes 24 But I said O my God take me not away in the midst of mine age as for thy yeares they endure throughout all generations 25 Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the worke of thy hands 26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure they all shall wax old as doth a garment 27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy yeares shall not faile 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight The Prayer O Eternall God who endurest for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations have pittie upon us according to the infinite treasures of thy loving kindnesse heare the voyce of our groaning for thy indignation and thy wrath lieth hard upon us and our sinnes have put an edge upon thy sword and a thorne into our wounded
ships and there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein 27 These wait all upon thee that thou mayest give them meat in due season 28 When thou givest it them they gather it and when thou openest thy hand they are filled with good 29 When thou hidest thy face they are troubled when thou takest away their breath they die and are turned again to their dust 30 When thou lettest thy breath go forth they shall be made and thou shalt renew the face of the earth 31 The glorious maiesty of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall reioyce in his workes 32 The earth shall tremble at the look of him if he do but touch the hills they shall smoke 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will praise my God while I have my being 34 And so shall my words please him my joy shall be in the Lord. 35 As for sinners they shall be consumed out of the earth and the ungodly shall come to an end praise thou the Lord O my soul praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God who art exceeding glorious who art clothed with majesty and honour thou hast created all things with admirable wisedome established them with excellent order and hast provided for them with mercy and singular providence be pleased to give us grace that we may remember thou hast created us all for thy glory that thou hast planted thine image on us and hast crowned all our yeares with thy mercies and loving kindnesse let us never disobey thy will forget thy mercies or deface thine image in us but when all thy creatures praise thee in their manner let not us whom thou hast made in dignity next to Angels disturbe the blessed order of Creation by our sinnes and irregular disobedience Open thy hand O Lord and fill us with good things both spirituall and temporall that when thou takest away our breath that we die and turne again to our dust thou mayest not hide thy face away from us but communicate to us the light of thy countenance and the glories of thy Kingdome thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 105. A commemoration of Gods care of his Church and blessings to his people MORNING PRAYER OBive thankes unto the Lord and call upon his Name tell the people what things he hath done 2 O let your songs be of him and praise him and let your talking be of all his wondrous workes 3 Reioyce in his holy Name let the heart of them reioyce that seek the Lord. 4 Sèek the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore 5 Remember the marvellous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth 6 O yee seed of Abraham his servant yee children of Iacob his chosen 7 He is the Lord our God his iudgements are in all the world 8 He hath been alway mindfull of his covenant and promise that he made to a thousand generations 9 Even the covenant that he made with Abraham and the oath that he sware unto Isaac 10 And appointed the fame unto Iacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting testament 11 Saying unto thee will I give the land of Canaan the lot of your inheritance 12 When there were yet but a few of them and they strangers in the land 13 What time as they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong but reproved even Kings for their sakes 15 Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harme 16 Moreover he called for a dearth upon the land and destroyed all the provision of bread 17 But he had sent a man before them even Ioseph which was sold to be a bond-servant 18 Whose feet they hurt in the stockes the iron entred into his soule 19 Untill the time came that his cause was known the Word of the Lord tried him 20 The King sent and delivered him the prince of the people let him go free 21 He made him Lord also of his house and ruler of all his substance 22 That he might informe his princes after his will and teach his senatours wisedome 23 Israel also came into Egypt and Iacob was a stranger in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people exceedingly and made them stronger than their enemies 25 Whos 's heart turned so that they hated his people and dealt untruly with his servants 26 Then sent he Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen 27 And these shewed his tokens among them and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darknesse and it was darke and they were not obedient unto his Word 29 He turned their waters into bloud and slew their fish 30 Their land brought forth frogs yea even in their Kings chambers 31 He spake the word and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters 32 He gave them hailstones for raine and flames of fire in their land 33 He smote their vines also and fig-trees and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts 34 He spake the word and the grashoppers came and caterpillars innumerable and did eat up all the grasse in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground 35 He smote all the first-borne in their land even the chiefe of all their strength 36 He brought them forth also with silver and gold there was not one feeble person among their Tribes 37 Egypt was glad at their departing for they were afraid of them 38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering and fire to give light in the night season 39 At their desire he brought quailes and he filled them with the bread of heaven 40 He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out so that the rivers ran in dry places 41 For why he remembred his holy promise and Abraham his servant 42 And he brought forth his people with ioy and his chosen with gladnesse 43 And gave them the lands of the heathen and they took the labours of the people in possession 44 That they might keep his statutes and observe his lawes The Prayer O Lord God who art alway mind full of thy covenant and promise to a thousand generations and didst deliver the seed of Abraham the children of Iacob thy chosen from the slavery of Egypt from the waves of the sea from the rage of Pharaoh from the thirst and â—amine of the wildernesse continue the like mercies to all Christian people deliver us from the bondage of our sinnes preserve us in the Aâ—ke of the Church that we perish not in the waves of this troublesome world save us from the â—â—ry of all our temporall and ghostly enemies â—eed us with food from heaven and give us competency of good things on earth that we may keep thy statutes and observe thy Lawes and at last receive the promises of a blessed eternity which in the covenant of thy Gospell thou hast
the shadow of death being fast bound in misery and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the word of the Lord and lightly regarded the counsell of the most High 12 He also brought down their heart through heavinesse they fell down and there was none to helpe them up 13 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse 14 For he brought them out of darknesse and out of the shadow of death and brake their bonds in sunder 15 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 16 For he hath broken the gates of brasse and â—ritten the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 in sunder 17 Foolish men are plagued for their offence and because of their wickednesse 18 Their soule abhorred all manner of meat and they were even hard aâ— deaths doore 19 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse 20 He sent his word and healed them and they were saved from their destruction 21 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 22 That they would 〈…〉 him the sacrifice of thankesgiving and 〈◊〉 but his workes with gladnesse 23 They that go doâ—â— to the sea in ships and occupy their businesse in great waters 24 These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deep 25 For at 〈◊〉 worâ— the storâ— windâ— ariseth which lifteth up the waves thereof 26 〈…〉 carried up to the heaven and doâ—â—â— again to the deepe their soule melteth away because of the trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their witâ— end 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their troubles he delivereth them out of their distresse 29 For â—â— maketh the storm to cease so that the waves thereof arâ— still 30 Then are they glad because they be at rest and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 32 That they would â—â—alt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders 33 Which â—urnath the flouds into a wildernesse and drieth up the water springs 34 A fruitfull 〈◊〉 maketh â—e barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein 35 Again he maketh the wildernesse a standing water and water springs of a dry ground 36 And there hâ—â—seâ—â—eth the hungry that they may build them a city to dwell in 37 That they 〈◊〉 sow their land and plant vineyards to yeeld them fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them so that they multiply exceedingly and suffereth not their cattell to decrease 39 And again when they are minished and brought low through oppression through any plague or trouble 40 Though he suffer them to be evill entreated through tyrants and let them wander out of the way in the wildernesse 41 Yet helpeth he the poore out of miserie and maketh him housholds like a flocke of sheep 42 The righteous will consider this and reioyce and the mouth of all wickednesse shall be stopped 43 Whoso is wise will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God gracious and good whose mercy endureth for ever have mercy upon us when in our trouble we cry unto thee for when our hearts are brought down through heavinesse there is none to helpe us up or to deliver us out of our distresse but onely thou O Lord. We have sinned we have rebelled against thee and lightly regarded thy counsels we have walked and â—ate in darknesse and in the shadowes of death being fast bound in the captivity and misery of sin O bring us out of darknesse and breake our bonds a sunder guide us through the desert of this world in which growes nothing but sadnesse and discontent still the tempests and smooth the slondâ— of misery which are ready to overwhelmâ— us and in thy due time bring us to eternall rest and to the haven where we would faine be that in the congregation of thy holy people we may praise thee for thy goodnesse and declare the wonders thou hast done for us in delivering us from sin and misery and death and bringing us to a City to dwell in where there is life and light and joy eternall in the beholding the face of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 108. A Prayer for victory against our Enemies EVENING PRAYER O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best member I have 2 Awake thou lute and harp I my selfe will awake right early 3 I will give thankes unto thee O Lord among the people I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 5 For thy mercy is greater then the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds 5 Set up thy selfe O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth 6 That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand save them and heare thou me 7 God hath spoken in his holinesse I will reioyce therefore and divide Sithem and mete out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head 9 Iuda is my lawgiver Moab is my washpot over Edom will I cast out my shooe upon the Philistines will I triumph 10 Who will lead me into the strong city and who will bring me into Edom 11 Hast not thou forsaken us O God and wilt not thou O God go forth with our hosts 12 O helpe us against the enemy for vain is the helpe of man 13 Through God we shall do great acts and it is he that shall tread down our enemies The Prayer O Lord God whose mercie is greater then the Heavens and thy glory is above all the earth be thou exalted in thine owne strength and magnifie thy power and thy mercy in defending us and all thy holy Church against all our enemies temporall and spirituall Forsake us not O God our defence for vain is the help of man do thou strengthen us and go forth with our hosts to battell that we being defended and armed by thee may do acts great and good fighting thy battels and putting our confidence in thy righteousnesse onely and salvation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 109. A Prayer against Gods enemies and especially Traitors prophetically intended against the person of Iudas HOld not thy tongue O God of my praise for the mouth of the ungodly yea and the mouth of the deceitfull is opened upon me 2 And they hade spoken against me with false tongues they compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause 3 For the love that I had unto them lo they
mercifull and gracious Lord hath so done his marvellous workes that they ought to be had in remembrance 5 He hath given meat unto them that feare him he shall ever be mindfull of his covenant 6 He hath shewed his people the power of his workes that he may give them the heritage of the heathen 7 The workes of his hands are verity and iudgement all his commandments are true 8 They stand fast for euer and euer and are done in truth and equity 9 He sent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his couenant for euer holy and reuerend is his Name 10 The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome a good understanding haue all they that do thereafter the praise of it endureth for ever The Prayer O Blessed Iesu whose righteousnesse endureth for ever thy worke is worthy to be praised and had in honour for that thou hast been mercifull and gracious to us and hast given meat even the food of the blessed Sacrament unto them that feare thee that by participation of thy holy Communion we should have thee in remembrance and ever be mindfull of thy covenant plant thy fear in our hearts give us wisedome and good understanding and make us to have pleasure in thee and all thy workes that we obeying the precepts of thy holy Gospell and performing the conditions of thy covenant which thou hast established for ever in truth and equity in verity and judgement we may worthily praise and adore thy reverend and holy Name among the faithfull in this life and in the great congregation of Saints in the life to come through thy mercies O blessed Iesu to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 112. A Prayer for the feare of the Lord for charity and the blessings of the righteous BLessed is the man that feareth the Lord he hath great delight in his commandments 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the faithfull shall be blessed 3 Riches and plenteousnesse shall be in his house and his righteousuesse endureth for euer 4 Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darknesse he is mercifull louing and righteous 5 A good man is mercifull and lendeth and will guide his words with discretion 6 For he shall never be moued and the righteous shall be had in an euerlasting remembrance 7 He will not be afraid for any euill tidings for his heart standeth fast and belieueth in the Lord. 8 His heart is stablished and will not shrinke untill he see his desire upon his enemies 9 He hath dispersed abroad and giuen to the poore and his righteousnesse remaineth for euer his horne shall be exalted with honour 10 The ungodly shall see it and it shall grieue him he shall gnash with his teeth and consume away the desire of the ungodly shall perish The Prayer O Lord God who art to be feared in the generations of the world teach us the feare of thy Name that we may feare to offend thee and that delighting in thy Commandments we may serve thee without feare of our enemies in holinesse and righteousnesse all our dayes Let thy light rise upon the darknesse of our understandings let thy mercies and gentlenesse cure all thoughts of unmercifulnesse in us and make us charitable of tender bowels yearning with pitty over the needs of the poore Teach us to guide our words with discretion make us never to be moved from our purposes of holy living stablish our hearts in thy love that in the day of restitution of all things thou mayest give us the portion of the charitable the rewards of thy right hand and when the wicked shall gnash with their teeth and consume away in a sad eternity we may be satisfied with the riches and plenteousnesse of thy house for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 113. A thankesgiving to God for his acts of providence and particular care over the poore and humble PRaise the Lord yee seruants O praise the Name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for euermore 3 The Lords name is praised from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same 4 The Lord is high aboue all heathen and his glory aboue the heauens 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God that hath his dwelling so high and yet humbleth himselfe to behold the things that are in heauen and earth 6 He taketh up the simple out of the dust and lifteth the poore out of the mire 7 That he may set him with the princes euen with the princes of his people 8 He maketh the barren woman to keepe house and to be a ioyfull mother of children The Prayer O Lord God whose dwelling is on high and yet thou humblest thy selfe to behold the things that are in Heaven and earth have mercy upon us thy humble servants and lift us up from the gates of death take us out of the mire that we sinke not into the bottomlesse pit of misery and infelicity and when for our sinnes thou humblest us as low as the dust let thy mercie exalt us and restore us to the light of thy countenance and the joy of thy salvation that when thou shalt call all the world to judgement from the rising of the Sun to the going down thereof we may be set with the Princes of thy people with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in thine eternall Kingdome to sing praises to thy Name from this time forth for evermore Amen PSALME 114. A thankesgiving to God for the deliverance of his people from bondage and misery EVENING PRAYER WHen Israel came out of Egypt and the house of Iacob from among the strange people 2 Iuda was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion 3 The sea saw that and fled Iordan was driuen backe 4 The mountaines skipped like rammes and the little hills like young sheep 5 What aileth thee O thou sea that thou fleddest and thou Iordan that thou wast driuen backe 6 Yee mountaines that yee skipped like rammes and yee little hills like young sheep 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Iacob 8 Which turned the hard rocke into a standing water and the flint stone into a springing well The Prayer O Lord God at whose presence the earth trembles who workest salvation and deliverance for thy Church in all ages and didst deliver thy people from the bondage of Aegypt with a mighty hand and an arme stretched out in miraculous effects deliver us from the bondage of sin from the tyrannie of the devill from the Empire and Dominion of the flesh that our bodies and soules being mortified our flesh brought under subjection of the spirit our appetites made subordinate to reason and our soules wholy conformable to thy will our hard stony hearts may be converted into hearts of flesh and into a springing well bringing forth the waters of
mine heritage for ever and why they are the very â—oy of my heart 8 I have applied my heart to fulfill thy statutes alway even unto the end The Prayer O Sonne of righteousnesse that camest to bring light unto the world by thy word and example and illumination of thy holy spirit let thy spirit lead us thy example guide us thy word teach us that we may not love darknesse more then light but may keep thy righteous judgements according to our many purposes and our vow of baptisme keep us from the snare of the ungodly and from our own selves the dangers of our own concupiscence and the miseries of our infirmity leave not our soules in our own hands but keep them under thy protection and government least we swerve from thy commandments but that applying our hearts alway to fulfill thy statutes even unto the end we may possesse thy law as our portion and inheritance for ever Grant this O blessed Iesu for thy promise and for thy mercies sake that we may glorifie thee in the unity of themost mysterious Trinity now and for evermore Amen XV. I Hate them that imagine evill things but thy law do I love 2 Thou art my defence and shield and my trust is in thy word 3 Away from me yee wicked I will keep the commandments of my God 4 O stablish me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be disappoynted of my hope 5 Hold thou me up and I shall be safe yea my delight shall be ever in thy statutes 6 Thou hast troden down all them that depart from thy statutes for they imagine but deceit 7 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like drosse therefore I love thy testimonies 8 My flesh trembleth for feare of thee and I am afraid of thy iudgements The Prayer O God our defence and shield thou that treadest down all them that depart from thy law and puttest away the ungodly of the earth like drosse let thy mercies hold us up that we may be safe from sinne and death eternall make us to hate all evill things all evill imaginations that we being stablished with a trust in thee and building our expectations upon thy mercies and promises we may not be disappointed of our hope but may live with thee eternally through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XVI I Deal with the thing that is lawfull and right O give me not over unto mine oppressors 2 Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong 3 Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health and for the word of thy righteousnesse 4 O deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy and teach me thy statutes 5 I am thy servant O grant me understanding that I may know thy testimonies 6 It is time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand for they have destroyed thy law 7 For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stone 8 Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments and all false waies I utterly abhorre The Prayer O Lord God thou seest with what miseries and dangers we are incompassed our ghostly enemies seek to do us wrong and to oppresse our soules give us not over unto their malice but arme us against their pride and insolency by faith in thy word by hope of thy mercies and looking for thy health and by love unto thy commandments that so in this world and in the eternall retribution of the Saints thou maist deal with thy servants according to thy loving mercy Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen XVII THy testimonies are wonderfull therefore doth my soul keep them 2 When thy word goeth forth it giveth light and understanding unto the simple 3 I opened my mouth and drew in my breath for my delight was in thy commandments 4 O look thou upon me and be mercifull unto me as thou usest to do unto those that loue thy name 5 Order my steps in thy word and so shall no wickednesse have dominion over me 6 O deliver me from the wrongfull dealings of men and so shall I keep thy commandments 7 Shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes 8 Mine eyes gush out with water because men keep not thy law O Iust and deare God shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servants and let this light give unto us understanding in thy law that our steps being ordered in thy word thou maist deliver us from the wrongfull dealings of men and from the malicious enmities of our Ghostly adversaries that by their temptations and our own weaknesse we may never be brought under the dominion of sinne and wickednesse that when thy word goeth forth to call to judgement all people quick and dead thou maist be mercifull unto us and save us as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name Grant this for the merits and mercies of our dearest Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen XVIII RIghteous art thou O Lord and true is thy iudgement 2 The testimonies that thou hast commanded are exceeding righteous and true 3 My zeal hath even consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words 4 Thy word is tried to the uttermost and thy servant loveth it 5 I am small and of no reputation yet do I not forget thy commandments 6 Thy righteousnesse is an everlasting righteousnesse and thy law is the truth 7 Trouble and heavinesse have taken hold upon me yet is my delight in thy commandments 8 The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is everlasting O grant me understanding and I shall live The Prayer O Righteous Lord God whose judgements are true and thy testimonies exceeding righteous enkindle our soules with zeale to thy Lawes and service that the continuall remembrance of thy Commandments may so enable our soules as to give a greatnesse and reputation to us in thy estimation even the greatnesse of humility and obedience which are more honourable in thy eyes than all the pompes and vanities of this world Grant this for his sake who for our sakes humbled himselfe to the forme of a servant and became obedient to the death of the Crosse even Iesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen XIX EVENING PRAYER I Call with my whole heart heare me O Lord I will keep thy statutes 2 Yea even upon thee do I call helpe me and I shall keep thy testimonies 3 Early in the morning do I cry unto thee for in thy word is my trust 4 Mine eyes prevent the night watches that I might be occupied in thy words 5 Heare my voice O Lord according unto thy loving kindnesse quicken me according as thou art wont 6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me and are farre from thy law 7 Be thou nigh at hand O Lord for all thy commandments are true 8 As
increased and thy blessings may descend upon us in a plentifull proportion to supply all our necessities through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 135. A Prayer that God would avenge his People of their Enemies and an invitation of them to praise his Name O Praise the Lord laud yee the name of the Lordâ— praise it O yee seruants of the Lord. 2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord in the courts of the house of our God 3 O praise the Lord for the Lord is gracious O sing praises unto his name for it is louely 4 For why the Lord hath chosen Iacob unto himselfe and Israel for his own possession 5 For I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is aboue all gods 6 Whatsoeuer the Lord pleased that did he in heauen and in earth and in the sea and in all deep places 7 He bringeth forth the clouds from the ends of the world and sendeth forth lightnings with the rain bringing the windes out of his treasures 8 He somâ—e the first-borne of Egypt both of man and beast 9 He hath sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee O thou land of Egypt upon Pharaoh and all his seruants 10 He smote diuers nations and slew mighty kings 11 Sehon king of the Amorites and Og the king of Basan and all the kingdomes of Canaan 12 And gaue their land to be an heritage euen an heritage unto Israel his people 13 Thy name O Lord endureth for euer so doth thy memoriall O Lord from one generation to another 14 For the Lord will avenge his people and be gracious unto his seruants 15 As for the images of the heathen they are but siluer and gold the worke of mens hands 16 They haue mouthes and speak not eyes haue they but they see not 17 They haue eares and yet they heare not neither is there any breath in their mouthes 18 They that make them are like unto them and so are all they that put their trust in them 19 Praise the Lord ye house of Israel praise the Lord ye house of Aaron 20 Praise the Lord ye house of Leui ye that feare the Lord praise the Lord. 21 Praised be the Lord out of Sion which dwelleth at Ierusalem The Prayer O Lord God in whose sight the death of all the Saints is precious and to whom the soules of the Martyrs from under the Altar call to avenge their bloud that is shed like water upon the earth be gracious unto us thy servants avenge all thy people of their enemies that all that hate and persecute thy Church being either brought to repentance or confusion thy Name and thy memoriall may be celebrated to all generations thy Kingdome and thy comming may be hastened that the Saints may receive the consummation of their glories by resurrection of their bodies and receiving the crowne of righteousnesse which thou hast prepared for all that put their trust in thee and that we all standing in the house of the Lord even in the courts of the house of our God for ever may praise thy Name which is gracious and lovely even for ever and ever Amen PSALME 136. A Prayer of thankesgiving to God for his eternall mercies EVENING PRAYER O Giue thankes unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer 2 O giue thankes unto the God of all gods for his mercy endureth for euer 3 O thank the Lord of all lords for his mercy endureth for euer 4 Which onely doth great wonders for his mercy endureth for euer 5 Which by his excellent wisedome made the heauens for his mercy endureth for euer 6 Which laid out the earth about the waters for his mercy endureth for euer 7 Which hath made great lights for his mercy endureth for ever 8 The sun to rule the day for his mercy endureth for euer 9 The moon and the starres to gouerne the night for his mercy endureth for euer 10 Which smote Egypt with their first-born for his mercy endureth for euer 11 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for euer 12 With a mighty hand and a stretched out arme for his mercy endureth for euer 13 Which diuided the Red sea in two parts for his mercy endureth for euer 14 And made Israel to go through the midst of it for his mercy endureth for euer 15 But as for Pharaoh and his host he ouerthrew them in the Red sea for his mercy endureth for euer 16 Which led his people through the wildernesse for his mercy endureth for euer 17 Which smote great kings for his mercy endureth for euer 18 Yea and slew mighty kings for his mercy endureth for euer 19 Sehon king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for euer 20 And Og the king of Basan for his mercy endureth for euer 21 And gaue away their land for an heritage for his mercy endureth for euer 22 Euen for an heritage unto Israel his seruant for his mercy endureth for euer 23 Which remembred us when we were in trouble for his mercy endureth for ever 24 And hath deliuered us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for euer 25 Which giueth food to all flesh for his mercy endureth for euer 26 O giue thankes unto the God of heauen for his mercy endureth for euer 27 O giue thankes unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for euer The Prayer O God of Heaven and Lord of lords who by thy excellent wisedome hast made the Heavens and onely doest great wonders in Heaven and Earth making all thy creatures to be expresses of thy power and of thy loving mercy let thy mighty hand and stretched out arme leade us through the midst of this world and the throng of all our enemies giving us food for the sustenance of our bodies the light of the sun of righteousnesse to leade us in our goings and great apprehensions of thy mercy to excite in us Devotion and true Religion that we praising thy mercies and being relieved and sustained by thy loving kindnesse may at last come to the land of promise which thou givest for an heritage to thy people and may receive the mercies of thy Kingdome which endure for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 137. A Prayer for redemption of the Church from captivity and persecution BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembred thee O Sion 2 As for our harpes we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein 3 For they that led us away captiue required of us then a song and melody in our heavinesse sing us one of the songs of Sion 4 How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land 5 If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning 6 If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth yea if I preferrs not Ierusalem in my mirth 7 Remember the children of Edom O Lord in the day
of Ierusalem how they said Down with it down with it even to the ground 8 O daughter of Babylon wasted with misery yea happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us 9 Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children and throweth them against the stones The Prayer O Lord our God thou hast placed us in this world like pilgrims and strangers farre from our Countrey farre from rest give us soules and desires so abstract so religious and contemplative that all our hopes our joyes and longings may be to enjoy thee and thy glories in the celestiall Ierusalem and let thy comforts refresh us in this our captivity and exile that in our heavinesse thou maist be our joy our songs and melody may be the songs of Sion the prayers of thy Name that when thou hast delivered us from the wrath and malice of our enemies and dashed all their wickednesse which they have conceived and would bring forth to our destruction against the Rocke Christ Iesus we may be blessed amongst thy children and be carried into our Countrey the Land of glorious promises there to reigne with thee who livest and governest all things world without end Amen PSALME 138. A Prayer and a thankesgiving for Gods mercies I Will give thankes unto thee O Lord with my whole heart even before the gods will I sing praise unto thee 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple and praise thy name because of thy loving kindnesse and truth for thou hast magnified thy name and thy word above all things 3 When I called upon thee thou heardest me and enduedst my soule with much strength 4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee O Lord for they have heard the words of thy mouth 5 Yea they shall sing in the wayes of the Lord that great is the glory of the Lord. 6 For though the Lord be high yet hath he respect unto the lowly as for the proud he beholdeth them afarre off 7 Though I walke in the midst of trouble yet shalt thou refresh me thou shalt stretch forth thine hand upon the furiousnesse of mine enemies and thy right hand shall save me 8 The Lord shall make good his loving kindnesse toward me yea thy mercy O Lord endureth for ever despise not then the workes of thine owne hands The Prayer O Lord God who hast magnified thy Name and Word above all things make good thy loving kindnesses towards us and endue our soules with much strength that thine hand being stretched forth upon the furiousnesse of all our ghostly enemies and we being saved by thy right hand may praise thee and all thy glories serving thee here with a lowly minde and a great industry that at last we may worship thee in thy holy Temple in the midst of all the Myriads of Angels where thy glory is great and farre exalted above all gods Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 139. A meditation of the omnipresence of God and a prayer that we may alwayes walke as in his sight MORNING PRAYER O Lord thou hast searched me out and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising thou understandest my thoughts long before 2 Thou art about my path and about my bed and spiest out all my wayes 3 For lo there is not a word in my tongue but thou O Lord knowest it altogether 4 Thou hast fashioned me behinde and before and laid thine hand upon me 5 Such knowledge is too wonderfull and excellent for me I cannot attain unto it 6 Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit or whither shall I go then from thy presence 7 If I climbe up into heaven thou art there if I go down to hell thou art there also 8 If I take the wings of the morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea 9 Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me 10 If I say Peradventure the darknesse shall cover me then shall my night be turned to day 11 Yea the darknesse is no darknesse with thee but the night is as cleare as the day the darknesse and light to thee are both alike 12 For my reins are thine thou hast covered me in my mothers wombe 13 I will give thanks unto thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy workes and that my soul knoweth right well 14 My bones are not hid from thee though I be made secretly and fashioned beneath in the earth 15 Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book were all my members written 16 Which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them 17 How deare are thy counsels unto me O God O how great is the summe of them 18 If I tell them they are moe in number then the sand when I wake up I am present with thee 19 Wilt thou not slay the wicked O God depart from me ye bloud-thirsty men 20 For they speak unrighteously against thee and thine enemies take thy name in vain 21 Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee 22 Yea I hate them right sore even as though they were mine enemies 23 Trie me O God and seek the ground of my heart prove me and examine my thoughts 24 Look well if there be any way of wickednesse in me and lead me in the way everlasting The Prayer O Lord God who art infinite in wisedom and present in all place filling heaven and earth and hell with the effects of thy mighty power and communications of thy glorious essence let thy hand lead us and thy right hand hold us in all our waies alwaies considering that thou art present understanding our thoughts and words even long before they are seeing our most secret waies as clearely as in the sight of the sunne print thy feare mightily upon our soules that we may be as fearfull of committing sinnes in secret as in the eyes of all the world that we hating all iniquity and loving thy counsels as our dearest treasures and guide may by the paths of a holy life be conducted into the way everlasting through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 140. A Prayer for deliverance from the mischiefe of all wicked persons DEliver me O Lord from the evil man and preserve me from the wicked man 2 Which imagine mischiefe in their hearts and stirre up strife all the day long 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent adders poison is under their lips 4 Keep me O Lord from the hands of the ungodly preserve me from the wicked men which are purposed to overthrow my goings 5 The proud have laid a snare for me and spread a net abroad with cords yea and set traps in my way 6 I said unto the Lord Thou art my God hear the voice of my prayers O Lord. 7 O Lord God thou strength of my
out of trouble 12 And of thy goodnesse slay mine enemies and destroy all them that vex my soul for I am thy servant The Prayer O Lord our Iudge and our redeemer hearken unto us for thy truth and righteousnesse sake deliver us from the guilt of all our sinnes and those great punishments which are due to us for the same Enter not into judgement with us for in thy sight no man can be justified by any worthinesse of his own Endue our soules with the righteousnesse of a holy faith living and working by charity Shew us the way that we should walke in teach us to do whatsoever pleaseth thee quicken our soules in the paths of life and so continue the conduct of thy spirit to us that it may never leave us till we be brought forth of this world into the land of righteousnesse to dwell with thee eternally through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 144. A thanksgiving for victory and a prayer for the blessings of Peace MORNING PRAYER BLessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight 2 My hope and my fortresse my castle and deliverer my defender in whom I trust which subdueth my people that is under me 3 Lord what is man that thou hast such respect unto him or the sonne of man that thou so regardest him 4 Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth away like a shadow 5 Bowe the heavens O Lord and come down touch the mountains and they shall smoke 6 Cast forth thy lightning and teare them shoot out thine arrows and consume them 7 Send down thy hand from above deliuer me and take me out of the great waters from the hand of strange children 8 Whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of wickednesse 9 I will sing a new song unto thee O God and sing praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed â—ute 10 Thou hast given victory unto kings and hast delivered David thy servant from the perill of the sword 11 Save me and deliver me from the hand of strange children whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity 12 That our sonnes may grow up as the young plants and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple 13 That our garners may be full and plentious with all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no decay no â—eading into captivity and no complaining in our streets 15 Happy are the people that be in such a case yea blessed are the people which have the Lord for their God The Prayer O Lord our strength our hope and â—ortresse our castle and deliverer our defender in whom we trust bowe the heavens O Lord come down and save us send down thine hand from above deliver us and take us from the great waters from those miseries and afflictions which come upon us by reason of our sinnes from the condition of mortality and from the hand of strange children whose right hand is a right hand of wickednesse Give us O Lord victory and peace and all the blessings of thy peace with which thou usest to adorne beautifie the dwellings of the righteous that we may be happy in the continuall descent of thy favours but above all our happinesse may consist in being thy people and thou being our God that we may be blessed for ever in so blessed a relation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 145. A Meditation of the glory and Maiesty of God and the mightinesse of his kingdome I Will magnifie thee O God my King and I will praise thy name for ever and ever 2 Every day will I give thanks unto thee and praise thy name for ever and ever 3 Great is the Lord and marvellous worthy to be praised there is no end of his greatnesse 4 One generation shall praise thy works unto another and declare thy power 5 As for me I will be talking of thy worship thy glory thy praise and wonderous works 6 So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvellons acts and I will also tell of thy greatnesse 7 The memoriall of thine abundant kindnesse shall be shewed and men shall sing of thy righteousnesse 8 The Lord is gracious and mercifull long-suffering and of great goodnesse 9 The Lord is loving unto every man and his mercy is over all his works 10 All thy works praise thee O Lord and thy saints give thanks unto thee 11 They shew the glory of thy Kingdome and talk of thy power 12 That thy power thy glory and mightinesse of thy Kingdome might be known unto men 13 Thy kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages 14 The Lord upholdeth all such as fall and lifteth up all those that be down 15 The eies of all wait upon thee O Lord and thou givest them their meat in due season 16 Thou openest thine hand and fillest all things living with plenteousnesse 17 The Lord is righteous in all his waies and holy in all his works 18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him yea all such as call upon him faithfully 19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will help them 20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him but scattereth abroad all the ungodly 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy name for ever and ever The Prayer O God our King thou art marvellous worthy to be praised and there is no end of thy greatnesse give us enlarged and sanctified hearts and lips that we may sing of thy righteousnesse magnifie thy glory thy worship and wondrous works All thy works praise thee O Lord and thy saints give thanks unto thee Make us holy and righteous in thy sight we are already the works of thine hands and then we have a double title to praise thee Vphold us O Lord that we fall not and lift us up when we are down give us meat in due season for our soules and for our bodies that we being filled with the plenteousnesse of thy mercies here may have our best and all our desires fulfilled and satisfied hereafter amongst such as fear thee and give thanks unto thy holy name for ever Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake to whom with thee O Father and the holy spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 146. A Prayer that we may trust in God only and not in an arme of flesh PRaise the Lord O my soul while I live will I praise the Lord yea as long as I have any being I will sing praises unto my God 2 O put not your trust in princes nor in any child of man for there is no help in them 3
For when the breath of man goeth forth he shall turn again to his earth and then all his thoughts perish 4 Blessed is he that hath the God of Iacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God 5 Which made heaven and earth the sea and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever 6 Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong which feedeth the hungry 7 The Lord looseth men out of prison the Lord giueth sight to the blinde 8 The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the righteous 9 The Lord careth for the strangers he defendeth the fatherlesse and widow as for the way of the ungodly he turneth it upside down 10 The Lord thy God O Sion shall â—e King for evermore and throughout all generations The Prayer O Lord God who reignest a King for evermore give us grace that we may make thee our helpe and fixe our hopes in thee for thou onely art able to give deliverance Feed our soules O Lord and satisfie us with thy salvation when we hunger and thirst after righteousnesse helpe us to right when we suffer wrong heale our back slidings raise us when we are fallen enlighten the eyes of our soules that we walke not in darknesse and the shadow of death and do thou take care for us in all our wayes and in all our necessities that when our breath goeth forth and we turne again to our earth we may reigne with thee in Sion thy celestiall habitation for evermore through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 147. A celebration of Gods wisedome and providence in the ministration of the things of the world and of his goodnesse towards them that feare him EVENING PRAYER O Praise the Lord for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea a ioyfull and pleasant thing it is to be thankfull 2 The Lord doth build up Ierusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel 3 He healeth those that are broken in heart and giveth medicine to heale their sicknesse 4 He telleth the number of the starres and calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and great is his power yea and his wisedome is infinite 6 The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground 7 O sing unto the Lord with thankesgiving sing praises upon the harpe unto our God 8 Which covereth the heaven with clouds and prepareth rain for the earth and maketh th grasse to grow upon the mountaines and herbe for the use of men 9 Which giveth fodder unto the cattell and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him 10 He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse neither delighteth he in any mans legs 11 But the Lords delight is in them that feare him and put their trust in his mercy 12 Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Sion 13 For he hath made fast the barres of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee 14 He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the floure of wheat 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth and his word runneth very swiftly 16 He giveth snow like wooll and scattereth the hoar frost like ashes 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels who is able to abide his frost 18 He sendeth out his word and melteth them he bloweth with his winde and the waters flow 19 He sheweth his word unto Iacob his statutes and ordinances unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation neither have the heathen knowledge of his lawes The Prayer O Lord God whose power is great and thy wisedome infinite give us broken and contrite hearts meek spirits a feare of thy Name and a trust in thy mercy that thou maist arise upon us with healing in thy wings giving us medicine to heale all our ghostly sicknesses and thy delight may be in us delighting to do us good to feed us when we call upon thee to set us above our enemies to give us knowledge of thy Lawes to build up Ierusalem and to repaire the breaches of thy Church that we may sing praises unto thee O God and be thankfull to all eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 148. An invitation of all the creatures of the world to praise God O Praise the Lord of heaven praise him in the height 2 Praise him all yee angels of his praise him all his host 3 Praise him sun and moon praise him all yee starres and light 4 Praise him all yee heavens and yee waters that be above the heavens 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord for he spake the word and they were made he commanded and they were created 6 He hath made them fast for ever and ever he hath given them a law which shall not be broken 7 Praise the Lord upon earth yee dragons and all deepes 8 Fire and haile snow and vapours winde and storme fulfilling his word 9 Mountaines and all hills fruitfull trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattell wormes and feathered fowles 11 Kings of the earth and all people princes and all iudges of the world 12 Young men and maidens old men and children praise the name of the Lord for his name onely is excellent and his praise above heaven and earth 13 He shall exalt the horne of his people all his saints shall praise him even the children of Israel even the people that serveth him The Prayer O Lord God whose Name onely is excellent and thy praise above Heaven and Earth we adore and blesse thy mercy and thy power for creating us after thine owne Image thou spakest the word and we were made thou commandedst and we were created and as thou hast established thy Creation with a Law for ever that all should minister to thy praises in their severall proportions so give us grace that the lawes of sanctity of Faith and obedience which thou hast given to us may never be broken that we serving thee not onely in the order of thy creatures but in the capacity of thy children may sing thy praises amongst the Angels and the numerous host of Saints reigning in thy Kingdome for ever and ever Amen PSALME 149. A meditation of the ioyes of Heaven prepared for the Saints O Sing unto the Lord a new song let the congregation of saints praise him 2 Let Israel reioyce in him that made him and let the children of Sion be ioyfull in their King 3 Let them praise his name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with tabret and harpe 4 For the Lord hath pleasure in his people and helpeth the meek hearted 5 Let the saints be ioyfull with glory let them reioyce in their beds 6 Let the praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hands 7 To be avenged of the heathen and to rebuke the people 8 To binde their kings in chaines and their nobles with linkes of iron 9 That they may be avenged of them as it is written Such honour have all his saints The Prayer O Lord our King in whose honour and salvation all thy Saints rejoyce give unto thy holy Gospell a free passage in all the world that Kings and Nobles may be bound with the chaines of obedience discipline and subordination to all thy holy Lawes and grant to us thy servants that thy Lawes may be so fixed in our hearts and thy praises in our mouthes and righteousnesse in all our actions that we may be written among the righteous and have our portion with the Saints who rejoyce in their beds of eternall rest and are joyfull in the glories of thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 150. An invitation to praise God with all our faculties and powers O Praise God in his holinesse praise him in the firmament of his power 2 Praise him in his noble acts praise him according to his excellent greatnesse 3 Praise him in the sound of the trumpet praise him vpon the lute and harpe 4 Praise him in the cymbals and dances praise him upon the strings and pipe 5 Praise him upon the well tuned cymbals praise him upon the loud cymbals 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. The Prayer O Eternall God thy holinesse and power and excellent greatnesse are farre above all the praises of men and Angels and yet thou art pleased in the harmony and consent of a thankfull heart and a thankesgiving tongue touch our hearts with admirable apprehensions of thy Divine perfections that our songs of thy honour may be devout and illuminate to the height of extasies and the devotions of a Seraphim for nothing is proportionable to thy glories but what is infinitely beyond our infirmities Make us to sing Thee and thy Name while we have breath and when we are breathlesse let our hearts fill up the harmony and thinke thy praises so cordially till our soules being separated from the harsh sound of our bodily organs we may praise thee when we are all spirit in the state of separation and in the reunion when our bodies shall be made spirituall singing to thee exalted praises for ever and ever To thee O blessed and glorious God be praises and honour and glory ascribed now and to all eternity Amen Amen FINIS
night 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all euill yea it is even he that shall keep thy soule 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth for evermore The Prayer O Lord God our Keeper who dwellest upon the eternall hills from whence commeth all our helpe let thy mercies and thy providence watch over us by day and night that neither the vanities of the one nor the terrours of the other may disturbe our peace or safety Let not our feet be moved but be fixed upon the Rocke Christ Iesus and so order our goings making us to walke in the way of thy Commandments that thou mayest go in and out before us till at last we come into thy presence to dwell with thee for evermore through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 122. A Prayer for the peace and prosperity of the Church I Was glad when they said unto me We will go into the house of the Lord. 2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates O Ierusalem 3 Ierusalem is builded as a city that is aâ— unity in it selfe 4 For thither the Tribes go up even the Tribes of the Lord to testifie unto Israel to give thankes unto the name of the Lord. 5 For there is the seat of iudgement even the seat of the house of David 6 O pray for the peace of Ierusalem they shall prosper that love thee 7 Peace be within thy walls and plenteousnesse within thy palaces 8 For my brethren and companions sakes I will wish thee prosperity 9 Yea because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek to do thee good The Prayer O Blessed Iesu who didst descend according to thy humane Nature from the House of thy servant David and hast planted a church and defended it with a mighty hand and great assistances be pleased to preserve peace within her walls and send plenteousnesse within her palaces that all that love her peace may prosper and receive the blessings which thou givest to thy faithfull people in the communion of Saints Take from her all schismes and divisions that she may be like a city that is at unity within it selfe strong in faith abounding in hope and rich in the treasures of charity that at last she may be removed to a fellowship of all those joyes and felicities which are laid up for the inhabitants of the heavenly Ierusalem which is from above and is the mother of us all Grant this O blessed Iesu our onely Mediatour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 123. An eiaculation or a lifting up our soules to God for helpe in trouble VNto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the heavens 2 Behold even as the eyes of servants look vnto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistresse even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God untill he have mercy upon us 3 Have mercy upon us O Lord have mercy upon us for we are utterly despised 4 Our soule is filled with the scornfull reproofe of the wealthy and with the despitefulnesse of the proud The Prayer O Lord God that dwellest in the Heavens have mercy upon us in all our troubles in contempt in our poverty and when ever we are oppressed by any injurious practices of the proud Thou art our Lord and Master we are thy servants our eyes wait upon thee till thou have mercy upon us let us not be ashamed of our hope nor unfaithfull in our services nor distrustfull of thy providence but make us diligent labourers in our calling good husbands of our talents and faithfull in all thy house that we first serving thee may at last sit downe at meat with thee at thy table in thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 124. A thankesgiving for our deliverance from the power of all our enemies and a confessing God to be the Authour of it IF the Lord himselfe had not been on our side now may Israel say if the Lord himselfe had not been on our side when men rose up against us 2 They had swallowed us up quicke when they were so wrathfully displeased at us 3 Yea the waters had drowned us and the streame had gone over our soule 4 The deep waters of the proud had gone even over our soule 5 But praised be the Lord which hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth 6 Our soule is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are delivered 7 Our helpe standeth in the Name of the Lord which hath made heaven and earth The Prayer O Lord God which hast made Heaven and Earth in whose Name our helpe standeth we praise and blesse thy Name that in our troubles and temptations thou hast stood on our side and pleaded for us against them that rose against us It was thy hand O Lord and the helpe of thy mercy that relieved us the waters of affliction had drowned us and the streame had gone over our soule if the Spirit of the Lord had not moved upon the waters Thou O Lord didst blast the designes of our enemies with the breath of thy displeasure and to thee O Lord we ascribe the praise and honour of our redemption Perpetuate thy mercies to us let us never be given over as a prey to our ghostly enemies but breake their snares discover and weaken all their temptations by which they would destroy our soules that we being delivered from sin may be preserved from thy wrath through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 125. A Prayer for confidence in God and for deliverance from the portion of the wicked THey that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Ston which may not be removed but standeth fast for ever 2 The hills stand about Ierusalem even so standeth the Lord round about his people from this time forth for evermore 3 For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put their hand unto wickednesse 4 Do well O Lord unto those that be good and true of heart 5 As for such as turne backe unto their owne wickednesse the Lord shall leade them forth with the evill doers but peace shall be upon Israel The Prayer O Lord God our Trust and Confidence in whom whosoever trusteth shall never be removed but standeth fast for ever let thy mercies and the guard of holy Angels stand round about us and about all thy holy people like the hills for our defence and safety that we may be inaccessible by all the intendments of our enemies O let us not put our hands to wickednesse neither let our portion be in the lot of the ungodly whom thou leadest forth to destruction but let us receive the blessing which our Lord Iesus left unto his Church even the peace of God the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost to whom be all honour
and glory ascribed of men and Angels now and for ever Amen PSALME 126. A contemplation of the ioyes and blessings of them that depart hence in the Lord. EVENING PRAYER WHen the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion then were we like unto them that dreame 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with ioy 3 Then said they among the heathen The Lord hath done great things for them 4 Yea the Lord hath done great things for us already whereof we reioyce 5 Turne our captivity O Lord as the rivers in the south 6 They that sow in teares shall reap in ioy 7 He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth forth good seed shall doubtlesse come again with ioy and bring his sheaves with him The Prayer O Lord God who hast promised salvation to thy people and hast done great things for us already deliver us from the captivity and bondage of sinne and misery Fill our hearts with holy sorrow and compunction when ever we trespasse against thee and teach us so to deny our selves to mortifie our affections to crucifie our lusts and all the temptations of the flesh that we going on our way with mourning and weeping despising the pleasures of this life may when thy great harvest shall come and thy reapers the Angells shall separate the wheat from the tares come before thee with joy and bring our sheaves with us to be laid up in thy granary that so we may escape the everlasting burning through the mercies of Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 127. A Prayer for God's blessing to go along with the temporall good things he gives us EXcept the Lord build the house their labour is but lost that build it 2 Except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain 3 It is but lost labour that ye hast to rise up early and so late take rest and eat the bread of carefulnesse for so he giveth his beloved sleep 4 Lo children and the fruit of the wombe are an heritage and gift that commeth of the Lord. 5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant even so are the young children 6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate The Prayer O Lord God without whose blessing all our labours are vain and unprofitable and our possessions are but bitter and unpleasant let thy blessing be upon our labours and our substance our children and our dwelling that the good things of this life may be an heritage and gift from thee issues of thy favour and an earnest of a greater blessing make our soules diligent in thy service not importunate and greedy for the increase of riches let our dwellings be safe and peaceable and our families increase in thy blessings that we feeling the comforts of thy favour here may be stirted up to great desires after the blessings of eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 128. A Prayer for the feare of God and the blessings of the Godly BLessed are all they that feare the Lord and walk in his wayes 2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thine hands O well is thee and happy shalt thou be 3 Thy wife shall be as the fruitfull vine upon the walls of thine house 4 Thy children like the olive-branches round about thy table 5 Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. 6 The Lord from out of Sion shall so blesse thee that thou shalt see Ierusalem in prosperity all thy life long 7 Yea that thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israell The Prayer O Lord God who hast promised to multiply thy blessings upon them that feare thee teach us the feare of the Lord and let thy spirit so assist us that we may walke in thy wayes with great observation of all our actions and much diligence to performe thy holy will that we may receive the blessings of the righteous blessings of the right hand and of the left hand and may rejoyce in the blessing and peace of thy church waiting for the consummation of all blessing and peace in thy eternall Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 129. A Prayer against the enemies of the Church MAny a time have they fought against me from my youth up may Israell now say 2 Yea many a time have they vexed me from my youth up but they have not prevailed against mee 3 The plowers plowed upon my back and made long furrows 4 But the righteous Lord hath hewen the snares of the ungodly in pieces 5 Let them be confounded and turned backward as many as have evill will at Sion 6 Let them be even as the grasse growing upon the house tops which withereth afore it be plucked up 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosome 8 So that they which go by say not so much as the Lord prosper you we wish you good luck in the name of the Lord. The Prayer O Most blessed Jesu who for our sinnes didst suffer the plowers to plow upon thy back and make long furrows suffering shame and whipping for our sakes and all the contradictions of sinners and didst leave sorrows and afflictions intailed upon thy Church that by suffering with thee shee might at last raigne with thee in glory Deliver us and all thy holy Church from all that fight against us hew the snares of the ungodly in pieces let the designes of them that have evill will at thy Church be like the grasse growing upon the house tops withered and blasted before it comes to maturity and make us to prosper under thy mercies and in the good wishes and devout prayers of holy people through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 130. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for pardon and redemption from sinnes OUt of the deep have I called unto thee O Lord Lord hear my voyce 2 Oh let thine eares consider well the voyce of my complaint 3 If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it 4 For there is mercy with thee therefore shalt thou be feared 5 I look for the Lord my soul doth wait for him in his word is my trust 6 My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch I say before the morning watch 7 O Israell trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption 8 And he shall redeem Israell from all his sinnes The Prayer O Lord God blessed Iesu with whom is mercy and plentious redemption who didst redeem thy people from all their sinnes paying the ransome of thine own bloud to purchase us freedome and salvation let the height of thy mercy take us up from the deep abysse of sin and misery O be not extreme to marke what we have done amisse for it is impossible we should abide the extremity of thy