eat up all the grass in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground 35 He smote all the first-born in their land even the chief 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 quails and he filled them with the bread of heaven 40 He opened the rock of stone and the waters flowed out so that rivers ran in the dry places 41 For why he remembred his holy promise and Abraham his servant 42 And he brought forth his people with joy and his chosen with gladness 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 laws Evening Prayer Confitemini Domino Psal 106. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 Who can express the noble acts of the Lord or shew forth all his praise 3 Blessed are they that alway keep judgment and do righteousness 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 rejoyce in the gladness of thy people and give thanks with thine inheritance 6 We have sinned with our fathers we have done amiss and dealt wickedly 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance but were disobedient at the sea even at the Red sea 8 Nevertheless he helped them for his Names sake that he might make his power to be known 9 He rebuked the Red sea also and it was dried up so he led them through the deep as through a wilderness 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 believed they his words and sang praise unto him 13 But within a while they forgat his works and would not abide his counsel 14 But lust came upon them in the wilderness and they tempted God in the desert 15 And he gave them their desire and sent leanness withal 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 kindled in their company the flame burnt up the ungodly 19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped 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 who had done so great things in Egypt 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham and fearful 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 wrathful indignation left he should destroy them 24 Yea they thought scorn of that pleasant land and gave no credence 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 wilderness 27 To cast out their seed among the nations and to scatter them in the lands 28 They joyned themselves unto Baal-peor and ate the offerings 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 righteousness 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 so 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 works 36 Insomuch that they worshipped their idols which turned to their own decay yea they offered their sons and their daughters unto devils 37 And shed innocent bloud even the bloud of their sons 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 own works and went a whoring with their own 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 subjection 42 Many a time did he deliver them but they rebelled against him with their own inventions and were brought down in their wickedness DAY xxii 43 Nevertheless 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 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 thanks 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 Morning Prayer Confitemini Domino Psal 107. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let them give thanks 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 wilderness out of the way and found no city to dwell in 5 Hungry and thirsty their soul fainted in them 6 So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distress 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 goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the empty soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death being fast bound in misery and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the words of the Lord and lightly regarded the counsel of the most Highest 12 He also brought down their heart through heaviness they fell down and there was none to help them 13 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distress 14 For he brought them out of darkness and out of the shadow of death and brake their bonds in sunder
judgment thou hast prepared equity thou hast executed judgment and righteousness in Jacob. 5 O magnifie the Lord our God and fall down before his footstool for he is holy 6 Moses and Aaron among his priest 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 gave them 8 Thou heardest them O Lord our God thou forgavest them O God and punishedst their own inventions 9 O magnifie the Lord our God and worship him upon his holy hill for the Lord our God is holy Jubilate Deo Psal 100. O Be joyful in the Lord all ye lands serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song DAY xx 2 Be ye sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture 3 O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankfull unto him and speak good of his Name 4 For the Lord is gracious his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation Misericordiam judicium Psal 101. MY song shall be of mercy and judgment unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 O let me have understanding in the way of godliness 3 When wilt thou come unto me I will walk in my house with a perfect heart 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sins of unfaithfulness 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 stomack I will not suffer him 8 Mine eyes look upon such as are faithful in the land that they may dwell with me 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my servent 10 There shal1 no deceitful person dwell in my house he that telleth lies shall not tarry 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 city of the Lord. Morning Prayer Domine exaudi Psal 102. HEar my prayer O Lord and let my crying come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble incline thine ears unto me when I call O hear me and that right soon 3 For any days are consumed away like smoke and my bones are burnt up as it were a fire-brand 4 My heart is smitten down and withered like grass so that I forget to eat my bread 5 For the voice of my groning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh 6 I am become like a pelican in the wilderness and like an owl 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 sworn together against me 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread and mingled my drink with weeping 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast taken me up and cast me down 11 My days are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grass 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Sion for it is time that thou have mercy upon her yea the time is come 14 And why thy servants think upon her stones and it pitieth them to see her in the dust 15 The heathen shall fear thy Name O Lord and all the kings of the earth thy Majesty 16 When the Lord shall build up Sion and when his glory shall appear 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poor destitute and despiseth not their desire 18 This shall be written for those that come after and the people which shall be born shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuary out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 That he might hear the mournings of such as are in captivity and deliver the children appointed unto death 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Sion and his worship at Jerusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdoms also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my journey and shortned my days 24 But I said O my God take me not away in the midst of mine age as for thy years they endure throughout all generations 25 Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work 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 years shall not fail 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight Benedic anima mea Psal 103. PRaise the Lord O my soul and all that is within me praise his holy Name 2 Praise the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits 3 Who forgiveth all thy sin and healeth all thine infirmities 4 Who saveth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindness 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things making thee young and lusty as an eagle 6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all them that are oppressed with wrong 7 He shewed his ways unto Moses his works unto the children of Israel 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and of great goodness 9 He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for ever 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our wickednesses 11 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth so great is his mercy also toward them that fear him 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west so far hath he set our sins from us 13 Yea like as a father pitieth his own children even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him 14 For he knoweth whereof we are made he remembreth that we are but dust 15 The days of man are but as grass for he flourisheth as a flower of the field 16 For as soon as the wind goeth over it it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousness upon childrens children 18 Even upon such as keep his covenant and think upon his commandments to do them 19 The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven and his kingdom ruleth over all 20 O praise the Lord ye angels of his ye that
hast done it 27 Though they curse yet bless thou and let them be confounded that rise up against me but let thy servant rejoyce 28 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a cloke 29 As for me I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth and praise him among the multitude 30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor to save his soul from unrighteous judges Morning Prayer Dixit Dominus Psal 110. THE Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool 2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion be thou ruler even in the midst among thine enemies 3 In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will-offerings with an holy worship the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning 4 The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech 5 The Lord upon thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath 6 He shall judge among the heathen he shall fill the places with the dead bodies and smite in sunder the heads over divers countreys 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way therefore shall he lift up his head Confitebor tibi Psal 111. I Will give thanks unto the Lord with my whole heart secretly among the faithful and in the congregation 2 The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein 3 His work is worthy to be praised and had in honour and his righteousness endureth for ever 4 The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done his marvellous works that they ought to be had in remembrance 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him he shall ever be mindful of his covenant 6 He hath shewed his people the power of his works that he may give them the heritage of the heathen 7 The works of his hands are verity and judgment all his commandments are true 8 They stand fast for ever and ever and are done in truth and equity 9 He sent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his covenant for ever holy and reverend is his Name 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom a good understanding have all they that do thereafter the praise of it endureth for ever Beatus vir Psal 112. 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 faithful shall be blessed 3 Riches and plenteousness shall be in his house and his righteousness endureth for ever 4 Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darkness he is merciful loving and righteous 5 A good man is merciful and lendeth and will guide his words with discretion 6 For he shall never be moved and the righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance 7 He will not be afraid of any evil tidings for his heart standeth fast and believeth in the Lord. 8 His heart is stablished and will not shrink until he see his desire upon his enemies 9 He hath dispersed abroad and given to the poor and his righteousness remaineth for ever his horn shall be exalted with honour 10 The ungodly shall see it and it shall grieve him he shall gnash with his teeth and consume away the desire of the ungodly shall perish Laudate pueri Psal 113. PRaise the Lord ye servants O praise the Name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the Name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore 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 above all heathen and his glory above the heavens 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God that hath his dwelling so high and yet humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and earth 6 He taketh up the simple out of the dust and lifteth the poor out of the mire 7 That he may set him with the princes even with the princes of his people 8 He maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyful mother of children Evening Prayer In exitu Israel Psal 114. WHen Israel came out of Egypt and the house of Jacob from among the strange people 2 Juda was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion 3 The sea saw that and fled Jordan was driven back 4 The mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like young sheep 5 What aileth thee O thou sea that thou fleddest and thou Jordan that thou wast driven back 6 Ye mountains that ye skipped like rams and ye little hills like young sheep 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob. 8 Who turned the hard rock into a standing water and the flint-stone into a springing well Non nobis Domine Psal 115. 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 work of mens hands DAY xxiv 5 They have mouths and speak not eyes have they and see not 6 They have ears and hear not noses have they and smell not 7 They have hands and handle not feet have they and walk not neither speak 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 Ye house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 11 Ye that fear the Lord put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 12 The Lord hath been mindful of us and he shall bless us even he shall bless the house of Israel he shall bless the house of Aaron 13 He shall bless them that fear the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall increase you more and more you and your children 15 Ye are the blessed of the Lord who made heaven and earth 16 All the whole heavens 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 silence 18 But we will praise the Lord from this time forth for evermore Praise the Lord. Morning Prayer Dilexi quoniam Psal 116. I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer 2 That he hath inclined is ear unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 3 The snares of death compassed me round about and the pains of hell gat hold upon me 4 I shall find
humility and meekness mortification and self-denial charity and constant perseverance unto the end And all this for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ his sake To whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen A Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving to Almighty God For having put an end to the Great Rebellion by the Restitution of the King and Royal Family and the Restauration of the Government after many Years Interruption Which unspeakable Mercies were wonderfully compleated upon the Twenty ninth of May in the year 1660. And in Memory thereof that Day in every Year is by Act of Parliament appointed to be for ever kept holy ¶ THE Act of Parliament made in the in the Twelfth and confirmed in the Thirteenth Year of king Charles the Second for the observation of the Twenty ninth day of May yearly as a Day of publick Thanksgiving is to be read publickly in all Churches at Morning Prayer immediately after the Nicene Creed on the Lords Day next before every such Twenty ninth of May and notice to be given for the due observation of the said Day ¶ The Service shall be the same with the usual Office for Holy-days except where it is in this Office otherwise appointed ¶ If this day shall happen to be Ascension-day or Whitsunday the Collects of this Office are to be added to the Office of those Festivals in their proper places And if Munday or Tuesday in Whitsun-Week or Trinity Sunday the proper Psalms here appointed for this Day instead of those of ordinary course shall be also used and the Collects added as before and in all these cases the rest of this Office shall be omitted But if it shall happen to be any other Sunday this whole Office shall be used as it followeth entirely And what Festival soever shall happen to fall upon this solemn Day of Thanksgiving the following Hymn appointed instead of Venite exultemus shall be constantly used ¶ Morning Prayer shall begin with these Sentences TO the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Dan. 9.9 10. It is of the Lords mercies that we were not consumed because his compassions fail not Lam. 3.22 ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus shall be said or sung this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and People MY song shall be always of the loving kindness of the Lord with my mouth will I ever be shewing forth his truth from one generation to another Ps 89.1 The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done his marvellous works that they ought to be had in remembrance Psal 111.4 Who can express the noble acts of the Lord or shew forth all his praise Ps 106.2 The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein Ps 111.2 The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground Ps 147.6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all them that are oppressed with wrong Psal 103.6 For he will not always be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for ever verse 9. He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our wickdness verse 10. For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth so great is his mercy toward them that fear him Psal 103.11 Yea like as a father pitieth his own children even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him verse 13. Thou O God hast proved us thou also hast tried us even as silver is tried Ps 66.9 Thou sufferedst men to ride over our heads we went through fire and water but thou hast brought us out into a wealthy place verse 11. Oh how great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed us and yet didst thou turn and refresh us yea and broughtest us from the deep of the earth again Ps 71.18 Thou didst remember us in our low estate and redeemed us from our enemies for thy mercy endureth for ever Ps 136.23 24. Lord thou art become gracious unto thy land thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. Psal 85.1 God hath shewed us his goodness plenteously and God hath let us see our desire upon our enemies Psal 59.10 They are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright Ps 20.8 There are they fallen all that work wickedness they are cast down and shall not be able to stand Psal 36.12 The Lord hath been mindful of us and he shall bless us even he shall bless the house of Israel he shall bless the house of Aaron Psal 115.12 He shall bless them that fear the Lord both small and great verse 13. O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men Psal 107.21 That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving and tell out his works with gladness verse 22. And not hide them from the children of the generations to come but shew the honour of the Lord his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done Ps 78.4 That our posterity may also know them and the children that are yet unborn and not be as their fore-fathers a faithless and stubborn generation Psal 78.6 9. Give thanks O Israel unto God the Lord in the congregations from the ground of the heart Psal 68.26 Praised be the Lord daily even the God who helpeth us and poureth his benefits upon us v. 19. O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end but establish thou the righteous Psal 7.9 Let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee and let all such as love thy salvation say always The Lord be praised Psal 40.19 Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Proper Psalms CXXIV CXXVI CXXIX CXVIII ¶ Proper Lessons The First 2 Sam. 19. to ver 9. or Num. 15. Te Deum ¶ Proper Lessons The Second the Epistle of Saint Jude Jubilate Deo ¶ The Suffrages next after the Creed shall stand thus Priest O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer Who putteth his trust in thee Priest Send him help from thy holy place Answer And evermore mightily defend him Priest Let his enemies have no advantage against him Answer Let not the wicked approach to hurt him Priest Endue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God Priest Be unto us O Lord a strong Tower Answer From the face of our enemies Priest O Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee ¶ Instead of the first
unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil Joel 2.13 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Dan. 9.9 10. O Lord correct me but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing Jer. 10.24 Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand S. Matth. 3.2 I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him Father I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son S. Luke 15.18 19. Enter not into judgment with thy servant O Lord for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 S. John 1.8 9. DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ A general Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution or Remission of sins to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the People still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the Absolution and Remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Jesus Christ our Lord ¶ The People shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then the Minister shall kneel and say the Lords Prayer with an audible voice the People also kneeling and repeating it with him both here and wheresoever else it is used in Divine Service OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom And the Power And the Glory For ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answer And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords Name be praised ¶ Then shall be said or sung this Psalm following Except on Easter-day upon which another Anthem is appointed and on the Nineteenth day of every month it is not be read here but in the ordinary course of the Psalms Venite exultemus Domino Psal 95. O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and shew our selves glad in him with Psalms For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hills is his also The sea is his and he made it and his hands prepared the dry land O come let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker For he is the Lord our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness When your Fathers tempted me proved me and saw my works Fourty years long was I grieved with this generation and said It is a people that do err in their hearts for they have not known my ways Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to holy the Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world with out end Amen ¶ Then shall follow the Psalms in order as they are appointed And at the end of every Psalm throughout the year and likewise at the end of Benedicite Benedictus Magnificat and Nunc dimittis shall be repeated Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answ As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then shall be read distinctly with an audible voice the first Lesson taken out of the Old Testament as is appointed in the Kalendar except there be proper Lesons assigned for
that day He that readeth so standing and turning himself as he may best be heard of all such as are present And after that shall be said or sung in English the Hymn called Te deum Laudamus daily throughout the year ¶ Note that before every Lesson the Minister shall say Here beginneth such a Chapter or Verse of such a Chapter of such a Book And after every Lesson Here endeth the First or the Second Lesson Te Deum Laudamus WE praise thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee the Father everlasting To thee all Angels cry aloud the heavens and all the Powers therein To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually do cry Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and Earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee The noble army of Martyrs praise thee The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee The Father of an infinite Majesty Thine honourable true and only Son Also the holy Ghost the Comforter Thou art the King of Glory O Christ Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man thou didst not abhor Virgins womb When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the Glory of the Father We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud Make them to be numbred with thy Saints in glory everlasting O Lord save thy people and bless thine heritage Govern them and lift them up for ever Day by day we magnifie thee And we worship thy Name ever world without end Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this day without sin O Lord have mercy upon us have mercy upon us O Lord let thy mercy lighten upon us as our trust is in thee O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be confounded ¶ Or this Canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera Domini O All ye Works of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Angels of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Heavens bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Waters that be above the firmament bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all ye Powers of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Sun and Moon bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Stars of heaven bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Showers and Dew bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Winds of God bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Fire and Heat bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Winter and Summer bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Dews and Frosts bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Frost and Cold bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Ice and Snow bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Nights and Days bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Light and Darkness bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Lightnings and Clouds bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O let the Earth bless the Lord yea let it praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Mountains and Hills bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all ye Green things upon the Earth bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Wells bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Seas and Flouds bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Whales and all that move in the waters bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all ye Fowls of the air bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O all ye Beasts and Cattel bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Children of Men bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O let Israel bless the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Priests of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Servants of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Spirits and Souls of the Righteous bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O ye Holy and Humble men of heart bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever O Ananias Azarias and Misael bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then shall be read in like manner the Second Lesson taken out of the New Testament And after that the Hymn following except when that shall happen to be read in the Chapter for the day or for the Gospel on St. John Baptist's day Benedictus St. Luke 1.68 BLessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people And hath raised up a mighty salvation for us in the house of his servant David As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets which have been since the world began That we should be saved from our enemies and from the hands of all that hate us To perform the mercy promised to our forefathers and to remember his holy Covenant To perform the oath which he sware to our forefather Abraham that he would give us That we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life And thou Child shalt be called the prophet of the highest for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways To give knowledge of salvation unto his people for the remission of their sins Through the tender mercy of our God whereby the Day-spring from on high hath visited us To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Or this Psalm Jubilate Deo Psal 100. O Be joyful in the Lord all ye lands serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song Be ye sure that the
Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name For the Lord is gracious his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then shall be sung or said the Apostles Creed by the Minister and the People standing Except only such days as the Creed of St. Athanasius is appointed to be read I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord Who was conceived by the holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary Suffered under Pontius Pilate Was crucified dead and buried He descended into hell The third day he rose again from the dead He ascended into Heaven And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost The holy Catholick Church The Communion of Saints The forgiveness of sins The resurrection of the body And the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these Prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and People shall say the Lords Prayer with a loud voice OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Priest Endue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answer And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God Priest O God make clean our hearts within us Answer And take not thy holy Spirit from us ¶ Then shall follow three Collects The first of the day which shall be the same that is appointed at the Communion The second for Peace The third for Grace to live well And the two last Collects shall never alter but daily be said at Morning Prayer throughout all the year as followeth all kneeling ¶ The second Collect for Peace O God who art the author of peace and lover of concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life whose service is perfect freedom Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The third Collect for Grace O Lord our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day Defend us in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In Quires and Places where they sing here followeth the Anthem ¶ Then these five Prayers following are to be read here except when the Litany is read and then only the two last are to be read as they are there placed ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Majesty O Lord our heavenly Father high and mighty King of kings Lord of lords the only Ruler of princes who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord King WILLIAM and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alway incline to thy will and walk in the way Endue him plenteously with heavenly gifts grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Royal Family ALmighty God the fountain of all goodness We humbly beseech thee to bless CATHERINE the Queen Dowager her Royal Highness the Princess ANNE of Denmark and all the Royal Family Endue them with thy Holy Spirit Enrich them with thy Heavenly Grace Prosper them with all Happiness and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Clergy and People ALmighty and everlasting God who alone workest great marvels Send down upon our Bishops and Curates and all Congregations committed to their charge the healthful Spirit of thy grace and that they may truly please thee pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing Grant this O Lord for the honour of our Advocate and Mediatour Jesus Christ Amen ¶ A Prayer of St. Chrysostom ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen Here endeth the Order of Morning Prayer throughout the Year The Order for Evening Prayer Daily throughout the YEAR ¶ At the beginning of Evening Prayer the Minister shall read with a loud voice some one or more of these Sentences of the Scriptures that follow And then he shall say that which is written after the said Sentences WHen the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed and doeth that which is lawful and right he shall save his soul alive Ezek. 18.27 I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is â—…e me Psal 51.3 Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities Psal 51.9 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise Psal 51.17 Rent your heart and not your garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful flow to anger and of great
kindness and repenteth him of the evil Joel 2.13 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us Dan. 9.9 10. O Lord correct me but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing Jer. 10.24 Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand S. Matth. 3.2 I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him Father I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son S. Luke 15.18 19. Enter not into judgment with thy servant O Lord for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 S. John 1.8 9. DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ A general Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution or Remission of sins to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the People still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the Absolution and Remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Minister shall kneel and say the Lords Prayer the People also kneeling and repeating it with him OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom And the Power And the Glory For ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answer And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answ As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answ The Lords Name be praised ¶ Then shall be said or sung the Psalms in order as they are appointed Then a Lesson of the Old Testament as is appointed And after that Magnificat or the Song of the blessed Virgin Mary in English as followeth Magnificat S. Luke 1.46 MY soul doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour For he hath regarded the lowliness of his hand-maiden For behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed For he that is mighty hath magnified me and holy is his Name And his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations He hath shewed strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble and meek He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away He remembring his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel as he promised to our forefathers Abraham and his seed for ever Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Or else this Psalm except it be on the Nineteenth day of the Month when it is read in the ordinary course of the Psalms Cantate Domino Psal 98. O Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things With his own right hand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory The Lord declared his salvation his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen He hath remembred his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God Shew your selves joyful unto the Lord all ye lands sing rejoyce and give thanks Praise the Lord upon the harp sing to the harp with a psalm of thanksgiving With trumpets also and shawms O shew your selves joyful before the Lord the King Let the sea make a noise and all that therein is the round world and they that dwell therein Let the flouds clap their hands and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord for he cometh to judge the earth With righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to
the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then a Lesson of the New Testament as it is appointed And after that Nunc dimittis or the Song of Simeon in English as followeth Nunc dimittis S. Luke 2.29 LOrd now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word For mine eyes have seen thy salvation Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Or else this Psalm Except it be on the Twelfth day of the Month. Deus misereatur Psal 67. GOd be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance and be merciful unto us That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations Lee the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee O let the nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the nations upon earth Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing God shall bless us and all the ends of the world shall fear him Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then shall be said or sung the Apostles Creed by the Minister and the People standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord Who was conceived by the holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary Suffered under Pontius Pilate Was crucified dead and buried He descended into hell The third day he rose again from the dead He ascended into Heaven And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost The holy Catholick Church The Communion of Saints The forgiveness of sins The resurrection of the body And the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these Prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and People shall say the Lords Prayer with a loud voice OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily Bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Priest Endue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answer And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God Priest O God make clean our hearts within us Answer And take not thy holy Spirit from us ¶ Then shall follow three Collects The first of the Day The second for Peace The third for Aid against all perils as hereafter followeth Which two last Collects shall be daily said at Evening Prayer without alteration ¶ The second Collect at Evening Prayer O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all just works do proceed Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the merits of Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen ¶ The third Collect for Aid against all Perils LIghten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen ¶ In Quires and Places where they Sing here followeth the Anthem ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Majesty O Lord our heavenly Father high and mighty King of kings Lord of lords the only Ruler of princes who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord King WILLIAM and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alway incline to thy will and walk in thy way Endue him plenteously with heavenly gifts grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Royal Family ALmighty God the fountain of all goodness We humbly beseech thee to bless Catherine the Queen Dowager her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and all the Royal Family Endue them with thy Holy Spirit Enrich them with thy heavenly grace Prosper them with all happiness and bring them to thine everlasting kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Clergy and People ALmighty and everlasting God who alone workest great marvels Send down upon our Bishops and Curates and all Congregations committed to their charge the healthful Spirit of thy grace and that they may truly please thee pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing Grant this O Lord for the honour of our Advocate and Mediatour Jesus Christ Amen ¶ A Prayer of St. Chrysostom ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen Here endeth the Order of Evening Prayer throughout the Year ¶ Upon these Feasts Christmas day the Epiphany St. Matthias Easter day Ascension day Whitsun day S. John Baptist S. Janes S. Bartholomew S. Matthew S. Simon and S. Jude S. Andrew and upon Trinity Sunday shall be sung or said at Morning Prayer
seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve CATHERINE the Queen Dowager Her Royal Highness the Princess ANNE of Denmark and all the Royal Family We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute justice and to maintain truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations unity peace and concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that are desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our fins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech thee to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then shall the Priest and the People with him say the Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Priest O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answer Neither reward us after our iniquities ¶ Let us pray O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful Mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously here us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us he brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine Honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Lord Christ Priest O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee ¶ Let us pray WE humbly beseech thee O Father Mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediatour and Advocate Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer of St. Chrysostom ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen Here endeth the Litany PRAYERS and THANKSGIVINGS upon several Occasions to be used before the two final Prayers of the Litany or of Morning and Evening Prayer PRAYERS
¶ For Rain O God heavenly Father who by thy Son Jesus Christ hath promised to all them that seek thy Kingdom and the righteousness thereof all things necessary to their bodily sustenance Send us we beseech thee in this our necessity such moderate rain and showres that we may receive the fruits of the earth to our comfort and to thy honour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For fair Weather O Almighty Lord God who for the sin of man didst once drown all the world except eight persons and afterward of thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again We humbly beseech thee that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved a plague of rain and waters yet upon our true repentance thou wilt send us such weather as that we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives and for thy clemency to give thee praise and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the time of Dearth and Famine O God heavenly Father whose gift it is that the rain doth fall the earth is fruitful beasts increase and fishes do multiply Behold we beseech thee the afflictions of thy people and grant that the scarcity and dearth which we do now most justly suffer for our iniquity may through thy goodness be mercifully turned into cheapness and plenty for the love of Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen ¶ Or this O God merciful Father who in the time of Elisha the prophet didst suddenly in Samaria turn great scarcity and dearth into plenty and cheapness Have mercy upon us that we who are now for our sins punished with like adversity may likewise find a seasonable relief Increase the fruits of the earth by thy heavenly benediction and grant that we receiving thy bountiful liberality may use the same to thy glory the relief of those that are needy and our own comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen ¶ In the time of War and Tumults O Almighty God King of all kings and Governour of all things whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners and to be merciful to them that truly repent Save and deliver us we humbly beseech thee from the hands of our enemies abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved evermore form all perils to glorifie thee who art the only giver of all victory through the merits of thy only Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the time of any common Plague or Sickness O Almighty God who in thy wrath didst send a plague upon thine own people in the wilderness for their obstinate rebellion against Moses and Aaron and also in the time of King David didst slay with the plague of pestilence threescore and ten thousand and yet remembring thy mercy didst save the rest Have pity upon us miserable sinners who now are visited with great sickness and mortality that like as thou didst then accept of an atonement and didst command the destroying angel to cease from punishing so it may now please thee to withdraw from us this plague and grievous sickness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the Ember weeks to be said every day for those that are to be admitted into holy Orders ALmighty God our heavenly Father who hast purchased to thy self an universal Church by the precious bloud of thy dear Son Mercifully look upon the same and at this time so guide and govern the minds of thy servants the Bishops and Pastours of thy flock that they may lay hands suddenly on no man but faithfully and wisely make choice of fit persons to serve in the sacred ministry of thy Church And to those which shall be Ordained to any holy Function give thy grace and heavenly benediction that both by their life and doctrine they may set forth thy glory and set forward the salvation of all men through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Or this ALmighty God the giver of all good gifts who of thy divine providence hast appointed divers orders in thy Church Give thy grace we humbly beseech thee to all those who are to be called to any office and administration in the same and so replenish them with the truth of thy Doctrine and endue them with innocency of life that they may faithfully serve before thee to the glory of thy great Name and the benefit of thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the High Court of Parliament to be read during their Session MOst gracious God we humbly beseech thee as for this Kingdom in general so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most religious and gracious King at this time assembled That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their Consultations to the advancement of thy glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of our Sovereign and his Kingdoms that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest foundations that peace and happiness truth and justice religion and piety may be established among us for all generations These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the Name and mediation of Jesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ A Collect or Prayer for all Conditions of Men to be used at such times when the Litany is not appointed to be read O God the creator and preserver of all mankind we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of men that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto them thy saving health unto all Nations More especially we pray for the good estate of the Catholick Church that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be lead into the way of truth and hold the faith in unity of spirit in the bond of peace and in righteousness of life Finally we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those who are any ways afflicted or distressed in mind body or estate * This to be said when any desire the Prayers of the Congregation especially those for whom our Prayers are desired that it may please thee to comfort and relieve them according to their several necessities giving them patience under their sufferings and a happy issue out of all their afflictions And this we beg for Jesus Christ his sake Amen ¶ A Prayer that may be said after any of the former O God whose nature and property is ever to have mercy and to forgive Receive our humble petitions and though we be tied and bound with the chain of our sins yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us for the honour of Jesus Christ our
Mediatour and Advocate Amen THANKSGIVINGS ¶ A General Thanksgiving ALmighty God Father of all mercies we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us and to all men * This to be said when any that have been prayed for desire to return praise Particularly to those who desire now to offer up their praises and thanksgivings for thy late mercies vouchsafed unto them We bless thee for our creation preservation and all the blessings of this life but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ for the means of grace and for the hope of glory And we beseech thee give us that due sense of all thy mercies that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful and that we may shew forth thy praise not only with our lips but in our lives by giving up our selves to thy service and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen ¶ For Rain O God our heavenly Father who by thy gracious providence dost cause the former and the latter rain to descend upon the earth that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man We give thee humble thanks that it hath pleased thee in our great necessity to send us at the last a joyful rain upon thine inheritance and to refresh it when it was dry to the great comfort of us thy unworthy servants and to the glory of thy holy Name through thy mercies in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For fair Weather O Lord God who hast justly humbled us by thy late plague of immoderate rain and waters and in thy mercy hast relieved and comforted our souls by this seasonable and blessed change of weather We praise and glorifie thy holy Name for this thy mercy and will always declare thy loving kindness from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For Plenty O Most merciful Father who of thy gracious goodness hast heard the devout prayers of thy Church and turned our dearth and scarcity into cheapness and plenty We give thee humble thanks for this thy special bounty beseeching thee to continue thy loving kindness unto us that our land may yield us her fruits of increase to thy glory and our comfort through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For Peace and Deliverance from our Enemies O Almighty God who art a strong towre of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies We yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compassed We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies towards us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For Restoring Publick Peace at home O Eternal God our heavenly Father who alone makest men to be of one mind in a house and stillest the outrage of a violent and unruly people We bless thy holy Name that it hath pleased thee to appease the seditious tumults which have been lately raised up amongst us most humbly beseeching thee to grant to all of us grace that we may henceforth obediently walk in thy holy commandments and leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty may continually offer unto thee our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for these thy mercies towards us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ For Deliverance from the Plague or other common Sickness O Lord God who hast wounded us for our sins and consumed us for our transgressions by thy late heavy and dreadful Visitation and now in the midst of judgment remembring mercy hast redeemed our souls from the jaws of death We offer unto thy Fatherly goodness our selves our souls and bodies which thou hast delivered to be a living sacrifice unto thee always praising and magnifying thy mercies in the midst of thy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Or this WE humbly acknowledge before thee O most merciful Father that all the punishments which are threatned in thy law might justly have fallen upon us by reason of our manifold transgressions and hardness of heart Yet seeing it hath pleased thee of thy tender mercy upon our weak and unworthy humiliation to asswage the contagious sickness wherewith we lately have been sore afflicted and to restore the voice of joy and health into our dwellings we offer unto thy divine Majesty the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving lauding and magnifying thy glorious Name for such thy preservation and providence over us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Collects Epistles and Gospels To be used throughout the Year ¶ Note that the Collect appointed for every Sunday or for any Holy-day that hath a Vigil or Eve shall be said at the Evening Service next before The first Sunday in Advent The Collect. ALmighty God give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness and put upon us the armour of light now in the time of this mortal life in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility that in the last day when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and dead we may rise to the life immortal through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost now and ever Amen ¶ This Collect is to be repeated every day with the other Collects in Advent until Christmas-Eve The Epistle Rom. 13.8 OWe no man any thing but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law For this Thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false witness Thou shalt not covet and if there be any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in this saying namely Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Love worketh no ill to his neighbour therefore love is the fulfilling of the law And that knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer then when we believed The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof The Gospel S. Matth. 21.1 WHen they drew nigh unto Jerusalem and were come to Bethphage unto the mount of Olives then sent Jesus two disciples saying unto them Go into the village over against you and straightway ye shall find an ass tied and a colt with her loose
them and bring them unto me And if any man say ought unto you ye shall say The Lord hath need of them and straightway he will send them All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet saying Tell ye the daughter of Sion Behold thy King cometh unto thee meek and sitting upon an ass and a colt the fole of an ass And the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them and brought the ass and the colt and put on them their clothes and they set him thereon And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way others cut down branches from the trees and strawed them in the way And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried saying Hosanna to the Son of David blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest And when he was come into Jerusalem all the city was moved saying Who is this And the multitude said This is Jesus the Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money-changers and the seats of them that sold doves and said unto them It is written My house shall be called the house of prayer but ye have made it a den of thieves The second Sunday in Advent The collect BLessed Lord who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning Grant that we may in such wise hear them read mark learn and inwardly digest them that by patience and comfort of thy holy Word we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen The Epistle Rom. 15.4 WHatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like-minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Wherefore receive ye one another as Christ also received us to the glory of God Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirm the promises made unto the fathers and that the Gentiles might glorifie God for his mercy as it is written For this Cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles and sing unto thy Name And again he saith Rejoyce ye Gentiles with his people And again praise the Lord all ye Gentiles and laud him all ye people And again Esaias saith There shall be a root of Jesse and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles in him shall the Gentiles trust Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost The Gospel S. Luke 21.25 ANd there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity the sea and the waves roring mens hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven shall be shaken And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory And when these things begin to come to pass then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh And he spake to them a parable Behold the fig-tree and all the trees When they now shoot forth ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand So likewise ye when ye see these things come to pass know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand Verily I say unto you This generation shall not pass away till all be fulfilled Heaven and earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away The third Sunday in Advent The collect O Lord Jesu Christ who at the first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee Grant that the Ministers and Stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just that at thy second coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in thy sight who livest and reignest with the Father and the holy Spirit ever one God world without end Amen The Epistle 1 Cor. 4.1 LEt a man so account of us as of the ministers of christ and stewards of the mysteries of God Moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you or of mans judgment yea I judge not mine own self For I know nothing by my self yet am I not hereby justified but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord come who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts and then shall every man have praise of God The Gospel S. Matth. 11.2 NOw when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ he sent two of his disciples and said unto him Art thou he that should come or do we look for another Jesus answered and said unto them Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see The blind receive their sight and the lame walk the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me And as they departed Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John What went ye out into the wilderness to see A reed shaken with the wind But what went ye out for to see A man clothed in soft raiment behold they that wear soft clothing are in kings houses But what went ye out for to see A prophet yea I say unto you and more then a prophet For this is he of whom it is written Behold I send my messenger before thy face which shall prepare thy way before thee The fourth Sunday in Advent The collect O Lord raise up we pray thee thy power and come among us and with great might succour us that whereas through our sins and wickedness we are sore let and hindred in running the race that is set before us thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be honour and glory world without end Amen The Epistle Phil. 4.4 REjoyce in the Lord alway and again I say Rejoyce Let your moderation be known unto all men The Lord is at hand Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be
made known unto God And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus The Gospel S. John 1.19 THis is the record of John when the Jews sent Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him Who art thou And he confessed and denied not but confessed I am not the Christ And they asked him What then Art thou Elias And he saith I am not Art thou that prophet And he answered No. Then said they unto him Who art thou that we may give an answer to them that sent us What sayest thou of thy self He said I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness Make straight the way of the Lord as said the prophet Esaias And they which were sent were of the Pharisees And they asked him and said unto him Why baptizest thou then if thou be not that Christ nor Elias neither that prophet John answered them saying I baptize with water but there standeth one among you whom ye know not He it is who coming after me is preferred before me whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to unloose These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan where John was baptizing ¶ The NATIVITY of our LORD or the Birth-day of CHRIST commonly called Christmas-day The Collect. ALmighty God who hast given us thy only begotten Son to take our nature upon him and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin Grant that we being regenerate and made thy children by adoption and grace may daily be renewed by thy holy Spirit through the same our Lord Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit ever one God world without end Amen The Epistle Heb. 1.1 GOd who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son whom he hath appointed heir of all things by whom also he made the worlds Who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high Being made so much better then the angels as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent Name then they For unto which of the angels said he at any time Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee And again I will be to him a Father and he shall be to me Son And again when he bringeth in the first-begotten into the world he saith And let all the angels of God worship him And of the angels he saith Who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire But unto the Son he saith Thy throne O God is for ever and ever a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy Kingdom Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladness above thy fellows And Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the works of thine hands They shall perish but thou remainest and they all shall wax old as doth a garment and as a vesture shalt thou fold them up and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy years shall not fail The Gospel S. John 1.1 IN the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God The same was in the beginning with God All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made In him was life and the life was the light of men And the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not There was a man sent from God whose name was John The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe He was not that light but was sent to bear witness of that light That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not He came unto his own and his own received him not But as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name Which were born not of bloud nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth S. Stephens day The Collect. GRant O Lord that in all our sufferings here upon earth for the testimony of thy truth we may stedfastly look up to heaven and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed and being filled with the Holy Ghost may learn to love and bless our persecuters by the example of thy first Martyr Saint Stephen who prayed for his murderers to thee O blessed Jesus who standest at the right hand of God to succour all those that suffer for thee our only Mediatour and Advocate Amen ¶ Then shall follow the Collect of the Nativity which shall be said continually unto New-years Eve For the Epistle Acts 7.55 STephen being full of the Holy Ghost looked up stedfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God and said Behold I see the heavens opened and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God Then they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and ran upon him with one accord and cast him out of the city and stoned him and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young mans feet whose name was Saul And they stoned Stephen calling upon God and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice Lord lay not this sin to their charge And when he had said this he fell asleep The Gospel S. Matth. 23.34 BEhold I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucifie and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city that upon you may come all the righteous bloud shed upon the earth from the bloud of righteous Abel unto the bloud of Zacharias son of Barachias whom ye slew between the temple and the altar Verily I say unto you all these things shall come upon this generation O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered the children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not Behold your house is left unto you desolate For I say unto you ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord. S. John the Evangelists day The collect MErciful Lord
unto the west so shall also the coming of the Son of man be For wheresoever the carcase is there will the eagles be gathered together Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other The Sunday called Septuagesima or the third Sunday before Lent The collect O Lord we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy people that we who are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness for the glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Saviour who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God world without end Amen The Epistle 1 Cor. 9.24 KNow ye not that they which run in a race run all but one receiveth the prize So run that ye may obtain And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible I therefore so run not as uncertainly so fight I not as one that beateth the air But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection lest that by any means when I have preached to others I my self should be a cast-away The Gospel S. Matth. 20.1 THe kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an housholder which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard And when he had agreed with the labourers for a peny a day he sent them into his vineyard And he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the market-place and said unto them Go ye also into the vineyard and whatsoever is right I will give you And they went their way Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour and did likewise And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle and saith unto them Why stand ye here all the day idle They say unto him Because no man hath hired us He saith unto them Go ye also into the vineyard and whatsoever is right that shall ye receive So when even was come the Lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward Call the labourers and give them their hire beginning from the last unto the first And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour they received every man a peny But when the first came they supposed that they should have received more and they likewise received every man a peny And when they had received it they murmured against the good-man of the house saying These last have wrought but one hour and thou hast made them equal unto us which have born the burden and heat of the day But he answered one of them and said Friend I do thee no wrong didst not thou agree with me for a peny Take that thine is and go thy way I will give unto this last even as unto thee Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own Is thine eye evil because I am good So the last shall be first and the first last for many be called but few chosen The Sunday called Sexagesima or the second Sunday before Lent The collect O Lord God who seest that we put not our trust in any thing that we do Mercifully grant that by thy power we may be defended against all adversity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 2 Cor. 11.19 YE suffer fools gladly seeing ye your selves are wise For ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man devour you if a man take of you if a man exalt himself if a man smite you on the face I speak as concerning reproch as though we had been weak howbeit whereinsoever any is bold I speak foolishly I am bold also Are they Hebrews so am I are they Israelites so am I are they the seed of Abraham so am I are they ministers of Christ I speak as a fool I am more in labours more abundant in stripes above measure in prisons more frequent in deaths oft Of the Jews five times received I fourty stripes save one Thrice was I beaten with rods Once was I stoned Thrice I suffered shipwrack A night and a day I have been in the deep in journeying often in perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils by mine own countrey-men in perils by the heathen in perils in the city in perils in the wilderness in perils in the sea in perils among false brethren in weariness and painfulness in watchings often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and nakedness besides those things that are without that which cometh upon me daily the care of all the Churches Who is weak and I am not weak who is offended and I burn not If I must needs glory I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not The Gospel S. Luke 8.4 WHen much people were gathered together and were come to him out of every city he spake by a parable A sower went out to sow his seed and as he sowed some fell by the way-side and it was troden down and the fowls of the air devoured it And some fell upon a rock and as soon as it was sprung up it withered away because it lacked moisture And some fell among thorns and the thorns sprang up with it and choked it And other fell on good ground and sprang up and bare fruit an hundred-fold And when he had said these things he cried He that hath ears to hear let him hear And his disciples asked him saying What might this parable be And he said Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God but to others in parables that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand Now the parable is this The seed is the word of God Those by the way-side are they that hear then cometh the devil and taketh away the word out of their hearts lest they should believe and be saved They on the rock are they which when they hear receive the word with joy and these have no root which for a while believe and in time of temptation fall away And that which fell among thorns are they which when they have heard go forth and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life and bring no fruit to perfection But that on the good ground are they which in
an honest and good heart having heard the word keep it and bring forth fruit with patience The Sunday called Quinquagesima or the next Sunday before Lent The collect O Lord who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth Send thy Holy Ghost and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity the very bond of peace and of all virtues without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee Grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christs sake Amen The Epistle 1 Cor. 13.1 THough I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have no charity I am nothing And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing Charity suffereth long and is kind charity envieth not charity vaunteth not it self is not puffed up doth not behave it self unseemly seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh no evil rejoyceth not in iniquity but rejoyceth in the truth beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things Charity never faileth but whether there be prophecies they shall fail whether there be tongues they shall cease whether there be knowledge it shall vanish away For we know in part and we prophesie in part But when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things For now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known And now abideth faith hope charity these three but the greatest of these is charity The Gospel S. Luke 18.31 THen Jesus took unto him the twelve and said unto them Behold we go up to Jerusalem and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles and shall be mocked and spitefully entreated and spitted on And they shall scourge him and put him to death and the third day he shall rise again And they understood none of these things and this saying was hid from them neither knew they the things which were spoken And it came to pass that as he was come nigh unto Jericho a certain blind man sat by the way-side begging and hearing the multitude pass by he asked what it meant And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by And he cried saying Jesus thou Son of David have mercy on me And they which went before rebuked him that he should hold his peace but he cried so much the more Thou Son of David have mercy on me And Jesus stood and commanded him to be brought unto him and when he was come near he asked him saying What wilt thou that I should do unto thee And he said Lord that I may receive my fight And Jesus said unto him Receive thy fight thy faith hath saved thee And immediately he received his sight and followed him glorifying God and all the people when they saw it gave praise unto God The first day of Lent commonly called Ashwednesday The collect ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent Create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ This Collect is to be read every day in Lent after the Collect appointed for the Day For the Epistle Joel 2.12 TUrn ye even to me saith the Lord with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning And rent your heart and not you garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him even a meat-offering and a drink-offering unto the Lord your God Blow the trumpet in Zion sanctifie a fast call a solemn assembly gather the people sanctifie the congregation assemble the elders gather the children and those that suck the breasts let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet let the priests the ministers of the Lord weep between the porch and the altar and let them say Spare thy people O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproch that the heathen should rule over them Wherefore should they say among the people Where is their God The Gospel S. Matth. 6.16 WHen ye fast be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast Verily I say unto you they have their reward But thou when thou fastest anoint thine head and wash thy face that thou appear not unto men to fast but unto thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly Lay not up for your selves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal But lay up for your selves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal For where your treasure is there will your heart be also The first Sunday in Lent The collect O Lord who for our sake didst fast fourty days and fourty nights Give us grace to use such abstinence that our flesh being subdued to the Spirit we may ever obey thy godly motions in righteousness and true holiness to thy honour and glory who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost one God world without end Amen The Epistle 2 Cor. 6.1 WE then as workers together with him beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain For he saith I have heard thee in a time accepted and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee behold now is the accepted time behold now is the day of salvation Giving no offence in any thing that the ministry be not blamed but in all things approving our selves as the ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in tumults in labours in watchings in fastings by pureness by knowledge by long-suffering by kindness by the Holy Ghost by love unfeigned by the word of truth by the power of God by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left by honour and dishonour by evil report and
good report as deceivers and yet true as unknown and yet well known as dying and behold we live as chastened and not killed as sorrowful yet alway rejoycing as poor yet making many rich as having nothing and yet possessing all things The Gospel S. Matth. 4.1 THen was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil And when he had fasted fourty days and fourty nights he was afterward an hungred And when the tempter came to him he said If thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread But he answered and said It is written Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city and setteth him on a pinacle of the temple and saith unto him If thou be the Son of God cast thy self down for it is written He shall give his angels charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone Jesus said unto him It is written again Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and saith unto him All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me Then saith Jesus unto him Get thee hence Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Then the devil leaveth him and behold angels came and ministred unto him The second Sunday in Lent The collect ALmighty God who seest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 Thes 4.1 WE beseech you brethren and exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus For this is the will of God even your sanctification that ye should abstain from fornication that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour not in the lust of concupiscence even as the Gentiles which know not God that no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter because that the Lord is the avenger of all such as we also have forewarned you and testified For God hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness He therefore that despiseth despiseth not man but God who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit The Gospel S. Matth. 15.21 JEsus went thence and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon And behold a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts and cried unto him saying Have mercy on me O Lord thou Son of David my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil But he answered her not a word And his disciples came and besought him saying Send her away for she crieth after us But he answered and said I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel Then came she and worshipped him saying Lord help me But he answered and said It is not meet to take the childrens bread and to cast it to dogs And she said Truth Lord yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters table Then Jesus answered and said unto her O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt And her daughter was made whole from that very hour The third Sunday in Lent The collect WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to be our defence against all our enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes 5.1 BE ye therefore followers of God as dear children and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named amongst you as becometh saints neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks For this ye know that no whoremonger nor unclen person nor covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience Be not ye therefore partakers with them For ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light Wherefore he saith Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light The Gospel S. Luke 11.14 JEsus was casting out a devil and it was dumb And it came to pass when the devil was gone out the dumb spake and the people wondred But some of them said He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils And other tempting him sought of him a sign from heaven But he knowing their thoughts said unto them Every kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation and a house divided against a house falleth If Satan also be divided against himself how shall his kingdom stand because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils by whom do your sons cast them out therefore shall they be your judges But if I with the finger of God cast out devils no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you When a strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace but when a stronger then he shall come upon him and overeome him he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted and divideth his spoils He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest and finding none he saith I will return unto my house whence I came out And when he cometh he findeth it swept and garnished Then goeth he and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked then himself and they enter in and dwell there and the last state of that man
and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a Name which is above every name that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father The Gospel S. Matth. 27.1 WHen the morning was come all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death And when they had bound him they led him away and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governour Then Judas who had betrayed him when he saw that he was condemned repented himself and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders saying I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent bloud And they said What is that to us see thou to that And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury because it is the price of bloud And they took counsel and bought with them the potters field to bury strangers in Wherefore that field was called The field of bloud unto this day Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet saying And they took the thirty pieces of silver the price of him that was valued whom they of the children of Israel did value and gave them for the potters field as the Lord appointed me And Jesus stood before the governour and the governour asked him saying Art thou the King of the Jews and Jesus said unto him Thou seyest And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders he answered nothing Then saith Pilate unto him Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee And he answered him to never a word insomuch that the governour marvelled greatly Now at that feast the governour was wont to release unto the people a prisoner whom they would And they had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas Therefore when they were gathered together Pilate said unto them whom will ye that I release unto you Barabbas or Jesus which is called Christ For he knew that for envy they had delivered him When he was set down on the judgment-seat his wife sent unto him saying Have thou nothing to do with that just man for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him But the chief priests and elders perswaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas and destroy Jesus The governour answered and said unto them Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you They said Barabbas Pilate saith unto them What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ They all say unto him Let him be crucified And the governour said Why what evil hath he done But they cried out the more saying Let him be crucified When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing but that rather a tumult was made he took water and washed his hands before the multitude saying I am innocent of the bloud of this just person see ye to it Then answered all the people and sid His bloud be on us and on our children Then released he Barabbas unto them and when he had scourged Jesus he delivered him to be crucified Then the souldiers of the governour took Jesus into the common hall and gathered unto him the whole band of souldiers And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe And when they had platted a crown of thorns they put it upon his head and a reed in his right hand and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him saying Hail king of the Jews And they spit upon him and took the reed and smote him on the head And after that they had mocked him they took the robe off from him and put his own raiment on him and led him away to crucifie him And as they came out they found a man of Cyrene Simon by name him they compelled to bear his cross And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha that is to say a place of a scull they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall and when he had tasted thereof he would not drink And they crucified him and parted his garments casting lots that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet They parted my garments among them and upon my vesture did they cast lots And sitting down they watched him there and set up over his head his accusation written THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS Then were there two thieves crucified with him one on the right hand and another on the left And they that passed by reviled him wagging their heads and saying Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days save thy self if thou be the Son of God come down from the cross Likewise also the chief priests mocking him with the scribes and elders said He saved others himsetf he cannot save if he be the King of Israel let him now come down from the cross and we will believe him He trusted in God let him deliver him now if he will have him for he said I am the Son of God The thieves also which were crucified with him cast the same in his teeth Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour And about the ninth hour Jeses cried with a loud voice saying Eli Eli lama sabachtbani that is to say My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Some of them that stood there when they heard that said This man calleth for Elias And straightway one of them ran and took a spunge and filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink The rest said Let be let us see whether Elias will come to save him Jesus when he had cryed again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost And behold the vail of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom and the earth did quake and the rocks rent and the graves were opened and many bodies of saints which slept arose and came out of the graves after his refurrection and went into the holy city and appeared unto many Now when the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus saw the earthquake and those things that were done they feared greatly saying Truly this was the Son of God Munday before Easter For the Epistle Isai 43.1 WHo is this that cometh from Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah this that is glorious in his apparel travelling in the greatness of his strength I that speak in righteousness mighty to save Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat I have troden the wine-press alone and of the people there was
none with me for I will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my fury and their bloud shall be sprinkled upon my garments and I will stain all my raiment For the day of vengeance is in mine heart and the year of my redeemed is come And I looked and there was none to help and I wondred that there was none to uphold therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me and my fury it upheld me And I will tread down the people in mine anger and make them drunk in my fury ana I will bring down their strength to the earth I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praises of the Lord according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us and the great goodness towards the house of Israel which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses For he said Surely they are my people children that will not lie so he was their Saviour In all their affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bare them and carried them all the days of old But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit therefore he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them Then he remembred the days of old Moses and his people saying Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock Where is he that put his holy spirit within him that led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm dividing the water before them to make himself an everlasting Name That led them through the deep as an horse in the wilderness that they should not stumble as a beast goeth down into the valley the spirit of the Lord caused him to rest so didst thou lead thy people to make thy self a glorious Name Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory Where is thy zeal and thy strength the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies towards me are they restrained Doubtless thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel acknowledge us not thou O Lord art our Father our Redeemer thy Name is from everlasting O Lord why hast thou made us to err from thy ways and hardned our heart from thy fear Return for thy servants sake the tribes of thine inheritance The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while our adversaries have troden down thy sanctuary We are thine thou never barest rule over them they were not called by thy Name The Gospel S. Mark 14.1 AFter two days was the feast of the passover and of unleavened bread and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft and put him to death But they said Not on the feast-day lest there be an uprore of the people And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper as he sat at meat there came a woman having an alabaster-box of ointment of spikenard very precious and she brake the box and poured it on his head And there were some that had indignation within themselves and said Why was this waste of the ointment made For it might have been sold for more then three hundred pence and have been given to the poor and they murmured against her And Jesus said Let her alone why trouble you her she hath wrought a good work on me For ye have the poor with you always and whensoever ye will ye may do them good but me ye have not always She hath done what she could she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying Verily I say unto you Wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her And Judas Iscariot one of the twelve went unto the chief priests to betray him unto them And when they heard it they were glad and promised to give him money And he sought how he might conveniently betray him And the first day of unleavened bread when they killed the passover his disciples said unto him Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover And he sendeth forth two of his disciples and saith unto them Go ye into the city and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water follow him And wheresoever he shall go in say ye to the good-man of the house The master saith Where is the guest-chamber where I shall eat the passover with my disciples And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared there make ready for us And his disciples went forth and came into the city and found as he had said unto them and they made ready the passover And in the evening he cometh with the twelve And as they sat and did eat Jesus said Verily I say unto you one of you which eateth with me shall betray me And they began to be sorrowful and to say unto him one by one Is it I and another said Is it I And he answered and said unto them It is one of the twelve that dippeth with me in the dish The Son of man indeed goeth as it is written of him but wo to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed good were it for that man if he had never been born And as they did eat Jesus took bread and blessed and brake it and gave to them and said Take eat This is my body And he took the cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them and they all drank of it And he said unto them This is my bloud of the new testament which is shed for many Verily I say unto you I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God And when they had sung un hymn they went out into the mount of Olives And Jesus saith unto them All ye shall be offended because of me this night for it is written I will smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered But after that I am risen I will go before you into Galilee But Peter said unto him Although all shall be offended yet will not I. And Jesus saith unto him Verily I say unto thee that this day even in this night before the cock crow twice thou shalt deny me thrice But he spake the more vehemently If I should die with thee I will not deny thee in any wise Likewise also said they all And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane and he saith to his disciples Sit ye here while I shall pray And he taketh with him Peter and James and John and began to be sore amazed and to be very heavy and saith unto them My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death tarry ye here and watch And he
feet that it is I my self handle me and see for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have And when he had thus spoken he shewed them his hands and his feet And while they yet believed not for joy and they gave him a piece of a broiled fish and of an hony-comb And he took it and did eat before them And he said unto them These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms concerning me Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures and said unto them Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his Name among all Nations beginning at Jerusalem And ye are witnesses of these things The first Sunday after Easter The collect ALmighty Father who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins and to rise again for our justification Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice arid wickedness that we may alway serve thee in pureness of living and truth through the merits of the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 S. John 5.4 WHatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith Who is he that overcometh the world but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God This is he that came by water and bloud even Jesus Christ not by water only but by water and bloud and it is the Spirit that beareth witness because the Spirit is truth For there are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one And there are three that bear witness in earth the spirit and the water and the bloud and these three agree in one If we receive the witness of men the witness of God is greater for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself he that believeth not God hath made him a liar because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son And this is the record That God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his Son He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life The Gospel S. John 20.19 THe same day at evening being the first day of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews came Jesus and stood in the midst and saith unto them Peace be unto you And when he had so said he shewed unto them his hands and his side Then were the disciples glad when the saw the Lord. The said Jesus to them again Peace be unto you As my Father hath sent me even so send I you And when he had said this he breathed on them and saith unto them Receive ye the Holy Ghost Whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained The second Sunday after Easter The collect Almighty God who hast given thine only Son to be unto us both a sacrifice for sin and also an ensample of godly life Give us grace that we may always most thankfully receive that his inestimable benefit and also daily endeavour our selves to follow the blessed steps of his most holy life through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 S. Pet. 2.19 THis is thank-worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye shall take it patiently But if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with God For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps Who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth Who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed For ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls The Gospel S. John 10.11 JEsus said I am the good shepherd the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep But he that is an hireling and not the shepherd whose own the sheep are not seeth the wolf comings and leaveth the sheep and fleeth and the wolf catcheth them and scattereth the sheep The hireling sheep because he is an hireling and careth not for the sheep I am the good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine As the Father knoweth me even so know I the Father and I lay down my life for the sheep And other sheep I have which are not of this fold them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold and one shepherd The third Sunday after Easter The collect ALmighty God who shewest to them that be in errour the light of thy truth to the intent that they may return into the way of righteousness Grant unto all them that are admitted into the fellowship of Christs Religion that they may eschew those things that are contrary to their Profession and follow all such things as are agreeable to the same through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen The Epistle 1 S. Pet. 2.11 DEarly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers they may by your good works which they shall behold glorifie God in the day of visitation Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men as free and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness but as the servants of God Honour all men Love the brotherhood Fear God Honour the King The Gospel S. John 16.16 JEsus said to his disciples A little while and ye shall not see me and again a little while and ye shall see me because I go to the Father Then said some of his disciples among themselves What is this that he saith unto us A little while and ye shall not see me and again a little while and ye shall see me and Because I go
receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth And when he had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up behold two men stood by them in white apparel which also said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven The Gospel S. Mark 16.14 JEsus appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen And he said unto them Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned And these signs shall follow them that believe In my Name shall they cast out devils they shall speak with new tongues they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover So then after the Lord had spoken unto them he was received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God And they went forth and preached every where the Lord working with them and confirming the Word with signs following Sunday after Ascension-day The collect O God the King of glory who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph unto thy Kingdom in heaven We beseech thee leave us not comfortless but send to us thine Holy Ghost to comfort us and exalt us unto the same place whither our Saviour Christ is gone before who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost one God world without end Amen The Epistle 1 S. Peter 4.7 THe end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer And above all things have servent charity among your selves for charity shall cover the multitude of sins Use hospitality one to another without grudging As every man hath received the gift even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God If any man speak let him speak as the Oracles of God If any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God giveth that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever Amen The Gospel S. John 15.26 and part of the 16. Chap. WHen the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father he shall testifie of me And ye also shall bear witness because ye have been with me from the beginning These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended They shall put you out of the synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service And these things will they do unto you because they have not known the Father nor me but these things have I told you that when the time shall come ye may remember that I told you of them Whitsunday The collect GOd who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people by the sending to them the light of thy holy Spirit Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things and evermore to rejoyce in his holy comfort through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Spirit one God world without end Amen For the Epistle Acts 2.1 WHen the day of Pentecost was fully come they were all with one accord in one place And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire and it sat upon each of them And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews devout men out of every Nation under heaven Now when this was noised abroad the multitude came together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language And they were all amazed and marvelled saying one to another Behold are not all these which speak Galileans And how hear we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born Parthians and Medes and Elamites and the dwellers in Mesopotamia and in Judea and Cappadocia in Pontus and Asia Phrygia and Pamphylia in Egypt and in the parts of Lybia about Cyrene and strangers of Rome Jews and Proselytes Cretes and Arabians we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God The Gospel S. John 14.15 JEsus said unto his disciples If ye love me keep my commandments And I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knwoeth him but ye know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more but ye see me because I live ye shall live also At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you He that hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and will manifest my self to him Judas saith unto him not Iscariot Lord how is it that thou wilt manifest thy self unto us and not unto the world Jesus answered and said unto him If a man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings and the word which you hear is not mine but the Fathers which sent me These things have I spoken unto you being yet present with you But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my Name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you not as the world giveth give I unto you Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid Ye have heard how I said unto you I go away and come again unto you If ye loved me ye would rejoyce because I said I go unto the Father for my Father is greater then I. And now
and round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behind And the first beast was like a lion and the second beast like a calf and the third beast had a face as a man and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him and they were full of eyes within and they rest not day and night saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne who liveth for ever and ever the four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne and worship him that liveth for ever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne saying Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created The Gospel S. John 3.1 THere was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him Rabbi we know that thou art a teacher come from God For no man can do these miracles that thou doest except God be with him Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith unto him How can a man be born when he is old can he enter the second time into his mothers womb and be born Jesus answered Verily verily I say unto thee Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit Marvel not that I said unto thee ye must be born again The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth so is every one that is born of the Spirit Nicodemus answered and said unto him How can these things be Jesus answered and said unto him Art thou a master of Israel and knowest not these things Verily verily I say unto thee We speak that we do know and testifie that we have seen and ye receive not our witness If I have told you earthly things and ye believe not how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things And no man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven even the Son of man who is in heaven And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life The first Sunday after Trinity The collect O God the strength of all them that put their trust in thee Mercifully accept our prayers and because through the weakness of our mortal nature we can do no good thing without thee grant us the help of thy grace that in keeping thy commandments we may please thee both in will and deed through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 S. John 4.7 BEloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love In this was manifested the love of God towards us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins Beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another No man hath seen God at any time If we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us Hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his Spirit And we have seen and do testifie that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him Herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is so are we are in this world There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment He that feareth is not made perfect in love We love him because he first loved us If a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen And this commandment have we from him that he who loveth God love his brother also The Gospel S. Luke 16.19 THere was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus who was laid at his gate full of sores and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich mans table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abrahams bosom the rich man also died and was buried And in hell he lift up his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom And he cried and said Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame But Abraham said Son remember that thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented And besides all this between us and you there is a great gulf fixed so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us that would come from thence Then he said I pray thee therefore father that thou wouldest send him to my fathers house For I have five brethren that he may testifie unto them lest they also come into this place of torment Abraham saith unto him They have Moses and the prophets let them hear them And he said Nay father Abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead The second Sunday after Trinity The collect O Lord who never failest to help and govern them whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast fear and love Keep us we beseech thee under the protection of thy good providence and make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 S. John 3.13 MArvel not my brethren if the
world hate you We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren He that loveth not his brother abideth in death Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren But whoso hath this worlds good and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him My little children let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth And hereby we know mat we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him For if our heart condemn us God is greater then our heart and knoweth all things Beloved if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God And whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight And this is his commandment that we should believe on the Name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave us commandment And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us The Gospel S. Luke 14.16 A Certain man made a great supper and bade many and sent his servant at supper-time to say to them that were bidden Come for all things are now ready And they all with one consent began to make excuse The first said unto him I have bought a piece of ground and I must needs go and see it I pray thee have me excused And another said I have bought five yoke of oxen and I go to prove them I pray thee have me excused And another said I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come So that servant came and shewed his Lord these things Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in hither the poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind And the servant said Lord it is done as thou hast commanded and yet there is room And the Lord said unto the servant Go out into the high-ways and hedges and compel them to come in that my house may be filled For I say unto you that none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper The third Sunday after Trinity The collect O Lord we beseech thee mercifully to hear us and grant that we to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray may be thy mighty aid be defended and comforted in all dangers and adversities though Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 S. Pet. 5.5 ALl of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility for God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time casting all your care upon him for he careth for you Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour Whom resist stedfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your breathren that are in the world But the God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus after that ye have suffered a while make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen The Gospel S. Luke 15.1 THen drew near unto him all the Publicans and sinners for to hear him And the Pharisees and Scribes murmured saying This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them And he spake this parable unto them saying What man of you having an hundred sheep if he lose one of them doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness and go after that which is lost until he find it And when he hath found it he layeth it on his shoulders rejoycing And when he cometh home he calleth together his friends and neighbours saying unto them Rejoyce with me for I have found my sheep which was lost I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more then over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance Either what woman having ten pieces of silver if she lose one piece doth not light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently till she find it And when she hath found it she calleth her friends and her neighbours together saying Rejoyce with me for I have found the piece which I had lost Likewise I say unto you There is joy the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth The fourth Sunday after Trinity The collect O God the protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy Increase and multiply upon us thy mercy that thou being our ruler and guide we may so pass through things temporal that we finally lose not the things eternal Grant this O heavenly Father for Jesus Christs sake our Lord. Amen The Epistle Rom. 8.18 I Reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation or the sons of God For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope Because the creature it self also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God For we know that the whole creation groneth and travaileth in pain together until now And not only they but our selves also which have the first-fruits of the Spirit even we our selves grone within our selves waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body The Gospel S. Luke 6.36 BE ye therefore merciful as your Father also is merciful Judge not and ye shall not be judged condemn not and ye shall not be condemned forgive and ye shall be forgiven give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over shall men give into your bosom For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again And he spake a parable unto them Can the blind lead the blind shall they not both fall into the ditch The disciple is hot above his master but every one that is perfect shall be as his master And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye but perceivest not the beam that is in thine owne eye Either how canst thou say to thy brother Brother let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye when thou thy self beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye Thou hypocrite cast out
first the beam but of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brothers eye The fifth Sunday after Trinity The collect GRant O Lord we beseech thee that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 S. Pet. 3.8 BE ye all of one mind having compassion one of another love as brethren be pitiful be courteous not rendring evil for evil or railing for railing but contrariwise blessing knowing that ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing For he that will love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile Let him eschew evil and do good let him seek peace and ensue it For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil And who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that which is good But and if ye suffer for righteousness sake happy are ye and be not afraid of their terrour neither be troubled but sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts The Gospel S. Luke 5.1 IT came to pass that as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God he stood by the lake of Gennesareth and saw two ships standing by the lake but the fisher-men were gone out of them and were washing their nets And he entred into one of the ships which was Simons and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land and he sat down and taught the people out of the ship Now when he had left speaking he said unto Simon Lanch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught And Simon answering said unto him Master we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net And when they had this done they enclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net brake And they beckoned unto their partners which were in the other ship that they should come and help them And they came and filled both the ships so that they began to sink When Simon Peter saw it he fell down at Jesus knees saying Depart from me for I am a sinful man O Lord. For he was astonished and all that were with him at the draught of the fishes which they had taken And so was also James and John the sons of Zebedee who were partners with Simon And Jesus said unto Simon Fear not from henceforth thou shalt catch men And when they had brought their ships to land they forsook all and followed him The sixth Sunday after Trinity The collect O God who hast prepared for them that love thee such good things as pass mans understanding Pour into our hearts such love toward thee that we loving thee above all things may obtain thy promises which exceed all that we can desire through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Rom. 6.3 KNow ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newness of life For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin For he that is dead is freed from sin Now if we be dead with Christ we believe that we shall also live with him knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him For in that he died he died unto sin once but in that he liveth he liveth unto God Likewise reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Gospel S. Matth. 5.20 JEsus said unto his disciples Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time Thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment and whosoever shall say to his brother Racha shall be in danger of the councel but whosoever shall say Thou fool shall be in danger of hell-fire Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought against thee leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way first be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift Agree with thine adversary quickly whiles thou art in the way with him lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge and the judge deliver thee to the officer and thou be cast into prison Verily I say unto thee thou shalt by no means come out thence till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing The seventh Sunday after Trinity The collect Lord of all power and might who art the author and giver of all good things Graft in Our hearts the love of thy Name increase in us true religion nourish us with all goodness and of thy great mercy keep us in the same through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Rom. 6.19 I Speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness For when ye were the servants of sin ye were free from righteousness What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed for the end of those things is death But now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Gospel S. Mark 8.1 IN those days the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat Jesus called his disciples unto him and saith unto them I have compassion on the multitude because they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat And if I send them away fasting to their own houses they will faint by the way for divers of them came from far And his disciples answered him From whence can a man satisfie these men with bread here in the wilderness And he asked them How many loaves have ye And they said Seven And he commanded the
the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind and thy neighbour as thy self And he said unto him Thou hast answered right this do and thou shalt live But he willing to justifie himself said unto Jesus and who is my neighbour And Jesus answering said A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves which stripped him of his raiment and wounded him and departed leaving him half-dead And by chance there came down a certain priest that way and when he saw him he passed by on the other side And likewise a Levite when he was at the place came and looked on him and passed by on the other side But a certain Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was and when he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds pouring in oyl and wine and set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him And on the morrow when he departed he took out two pence and gave them to the host and said unto him Take care of him and whatsoever thou spendest more when I come again I will repay thee Which now of these three thinkest thou was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves And he said He that shewed mercy on him Then said Jesus unto him Go and do thou likewise The fourteenth Sunday after Trinity The collect ALmighty and everlasting God give unto us the increase of faith hope and charity and that we may obtain that which thou dost promise make us to love that which thou dost command through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Gal. 5.16 I Say then Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that ye cannot do the things that ye would But if ye be led by the Spirit ye are not under the law Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these Adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have also told you in time past that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God But the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance against such there is no law And they that are christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts The Gospel S. Luke 17.11 ANd it came to pass as Jesus went to Jerusalem that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee And as he entred into a certain village there met him ten men that were lepers who stood afar off And they lifted up their voices and said Jesus master have mercy on us And when he saw them he said unto them Go shew your selves unto the priests And it came to pass that as they went they were cleansed And one of them when he saw that he was healed turned back and with a loud voice glorified God and fell down on his face at his feet giving him thanks and he was a Samaritan And Jesus answering said Were there not ten cleansed but where are the nine There are not found that returned to give glory to God save this stranger And he said unto him Arise go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole The fifteenth Sunday after Trinity The collect KEep we beseech thee O Lord thy Church with thy perpetual mercy And because the frailty of man without thee cannot but fall keep us ever by thy help from all things hurtful and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Gal. 6.11 YE see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh they constrain you to be circumcised only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ For neither they themselves who are the circumcised keep the law but desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh But God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new creature And as many as walk according to this rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God From henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Brethren the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit Amen The Gospel S. Matth. 6.24 NO man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other Ye cannot serve God and Mammon Therefore I say unto you Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body what ye shall put on Is not the life more then meat and the body then raiment Behold the fowls of the air for they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly Father feedeth them Are ye not much better then they Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature And why take ye thought for raiment Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arayed like one of these Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field which to day is and to morrow is cast into the oven shall he not much more clothe you O ye of little faith Therefore take no thought saying What shall we eat or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall we be clothed for after all these things do the Gentiles seek for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of it self sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof The sixteenth Sunday after Trinity The collect O Lord we beseech thee let thy continual pity cleanse and defend thy Church and because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistale Ephes 3.13 I Desire that ye saint not at my tribulations for you which is your glory For this cause I bowe my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named that he would grant you
give to him that needeth Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers And grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you with all malice And be ye kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you The Gospel S. Matth. 9.1 JEsus entred into a ship and passed over and came into his own city And behold they brought to him a man sick of the palsie lying on a bed And Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsie Son be of good cheer thy sins be forgiven thee And behold certain of the Scribes said within themselves This man blasphemeth And Jesus knowing their thoughts said Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts For whether is easier to say Thy sins be forgiven thee or to say Arise and walk But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins then saith he to the sick of the palsie Arise take up thy bed and go unto thine house And he arose and departed to his house But when the multitude saw it they marvelled and glorified God who had given such power unto men The twentieth Sunday after Trinity The collect O Almighty and most merciful God of thy bountiful goodness keep us we beseech thee from all things that may hurt us that we being ready both in body and soul may chearfully accomplish those things that thou wouldest have done through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes 5.15 SEe then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time because the days are evil Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit speaking to your selves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ submitting your selves one to another in the fear of God The Gospel S. Matth. 22.1 JEsus said The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king who made a marriage for his son and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding and they would not come Again he sent forth other servants saying Tell them who are bidden Behold I have prepared my dinner my oxen and my fatlings are killed and all things are ready come unto the marriage But they made light of it and went their ways one to his farm another to his merchandise And the remnant took his servants and entreated them spitefully and slew them But when the king heard thereof he was wroth and he sent forth his armies and destroyed those murderers and burnt up their city Then saith he to his servants The wedding is ready but they who were bidden were not worthy Go ye therefore into the high-ways and as many as ye shall find bid to the marriage So those servants went out into the high-ways and gathered together all as many as they found both bad and good and the wedding was furnished with guests And when the king came in to see the guests he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment And he saith unto him Friend how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment and he was speechless Then said the king to his servants Bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into outer darkness There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth For many are called but few are chosen The one and twentieth Sunday after Trinity The collect GRant we beseech thee merciful Lord to thy faithful people pardon and peace that they may be cleansed from all their sins and serve thee with a quiet mind through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes 6.10 My brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil For we wrestle not against flesh and bloud but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand Stand therefore having your loyns girt about with truth and having on the breast-plate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints and for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassadour in bonds that therein I may speak boldly as I ought to speak The Gospel S. John 4.46 THere was a certain noble man whose son was sick at Capernaum When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee he went unto him and besought him that he would come down and heal his son for he was at the point of death Then said Jesus unto him Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe The noble man saith unto him Sir come down ere my child die Jesus saith unto him Go thy way thy son liveth And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him and he went his way And as he was now going down his servants met him and told him saying Thy son liveth Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend And they said unto him Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him So the father knew that it was at the same hour in the which Jesus said unto him Thy son liveth and himself believed and his whole house This is again the second miracle that Jesus did when he was come out of Judea into Galilee The two and twentieth Sunday after Trinity The collect LOrd we beseech thee to keep thy houshold the Church in continual godliness that through thy protection it may be free from all adversities and devoutly given to serve thee in good works to the glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Phil. 1.3 I Thank my God upon every remembrance of you always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now being confident of this very thing that he
were put forth he went in and took her by the hand and the maid arose And the same hereof went abroad into all that land The twenty fifth Sunday after Trinity The collect STir up we beseech thee O Lord the wills of thy faithful people that they plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works may of thee be plenteously rewarded through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Jer. 23.5 BEhold the days come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a righteous branch and a King shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth In his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this is his Name whereby he shall be called THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS Therefore behold the days come saith the Lord that they shall no more say The Lord liveth who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt But The Lord liveth who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of north-countrey and from all countreys whither I had driven them and they shall dwell in their own land The Gospel S. John 6.5 WHen Jesus then lift up his eyes and saw a great company come unto him he saith unto Philip Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat And this he said to prove him for he himself knew what he would do Philip answered him Two hundred penny-worth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one of them may take a little One of his disciples Andrew Simon Peters brother saith unto him There is a lad here who hath five barley-loaves and two small fishes but what are they among so many And Jesus said Make the men sit down Now there was much grass in the place So the men sat down in number about five thousand And Jesus took the loaves and when he had given thanks he distributed to the disciples and the disciples to them that were set down and likewise of the fishes as much as they would When they were filled he said unto his disciples Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost Therefore they gathered them together and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley-loaves which remained over and above unto them that had eaten Then those men when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did said This is of a truth that Prophet that should come into the world ¶ If there be any mo Sundays before Advent-Sunday the Service of some of those Sundays that were omitted after the Epiphany shall be taken in to supply so many as are here wanting And if there be fewer the overplus may be omitted Provided that this last Collect Epistle and Gospel shall always be used upon the Sunday next before Advent Saint Andrews day The collect ALmighty God who didst give such grace unto thy holy Apostle Saint Andrew that he readily obeyed the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ and followed him without delay Grant unto us all that we being called by thy holy Word may forthwith give up our selves obediently to fulfil thy holy Commandments through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Rom. 10.9 IF thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation For the Scripture saith Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek For the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord shall be saved How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard And how shall they hear without a preacher And how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things But they have not all obeyed the gospel For Esaias saith Lord who hath believed our report So then saith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God But I say Have they not heard Yes verily their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the world But I say Did not Israel know First Moses saith I will provoke you to jealousie by them that are no people and by a foolish nation I will anger you But Esaias is very bold and saith I was found of them that sought me not I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me But to Israel he saith All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people The Gospel S. Matth. 4.18 JEsus walking by the sea of Galilee saw two brethren Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fishers And he saith unto them follow me and I will make you fishers of men And they straightway left their nets and followed him And going on from thence he saw other two brethren James the son of Zebedee and John his brother in a ship with Zebedee their father mending their nets and he called them And they immediately left the ship and their father and followed him Saint Thomas the Apostle The collect ALmighty and everliving God who for the more confirmation of the Faith didst suffer thy holy Apostle Thomas to be doubtful in thy Sons resurrection Grant us so perfectly and without all doubt to believe in thy Son Jesus Christ that our faith in thy sight may never be reproved Hear us O Lord through the same Jesus Christ to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for evermore Amen The Epistle Ephes 2.19 NOw therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow-citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit The Gospel S. John 20.24 THomas one of the twelve called Didymus was not with them when Jesus came The other disciples therefore said unto him We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails and put my finger into the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side I will not believe And after eight days again his disciples were within and Thomas with them then came Jesus the doors being shut and stood in the midst and said Peace be unto you Then saith he to Thomas Reach hither thy finger and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and be
then took he him up in his arms and blessed God and said Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word For mine eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people a light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of thy people Israel And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him And Simeon blessed them and said unto Mary his mother Behold this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be spoken against Yea a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed And there was one Anna a prophetess the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Aser she was of a great age and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years which departed not from the temple but served God with fastings and prayers night and day And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord they returned into Galilee to their own city Nazareth And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon him Saint Matthias day The collect O Almighty God who into the place of the traitor Judas didst choose thy faithful servant Matthias to be of the number of the twelve Apostles Grant that thy Church being alway preserved from false Apostles may be ordered and guided by faithful and true Pastours through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen For the Epistle Acts 1.15 IN those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said The number of the names together were about an hundred and twenty Men and brethren this Scripture must needs have been fulfilled which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas who was guide to them that took Jesus for he was numbred with us and had obtained part of this ministry Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity and falling headlong he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue Aceldama that is to say The field of bloud For it is written in the book of Psalms Let his habitation be desolate and let no man dwell therein and his Bishoprick let another take Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us beginning from the baptism of John unto that same day that he was taken up from us must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his Resurrection And they appointed two Joseph called Barsabas who was sirnamed Justus and Matthias And they prayed and said Thou Lord which knowest the hearts of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell that he might go to his own place And they gave forth their lots and the lot fell upon Matthias and he was numbred with the eleven Apostles The Gospel S. Matth. 11.25 AT that time Jesus answered and said I thank thee O Father Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight All things are delivered unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls For my yoke is easie and my burden is light The Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary The collect WE beseech thee O Lord pour thy grace into our hearts that as we have known the Incarnation of thy Son Jesus Christ by the message of an angel so by his cross and passion we may be brought unto the glory of his Resurrection through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Isa 7.10 MOreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz saying Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God ask it either in the depth or in the height above But Ahaz said I will not ask neither will I tempt the Lord. And he said Hear ye now O house of David is it a small thing for you to weary men but will ye weary my God also Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his name Immanuel Butter and hony shall he eat that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good The Gospel S. Luke 1.26 ANd in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David and the virgins name was Mary And the angel came in unto her and said Hail thou that art highly favoured the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women And when she saw him she was troubled at his saying and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be And the angel said unto her Fear not Mary for thou hast found favour with God And behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a Son and shalt call his name Jesus He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdom there shall be no end Then said Mary unto the angel How shall this be seeing I know not a man And the angel answered and said unto her The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God And behold thy cousin Elizabeth she hath also conceived a son in her old age and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren For with God nothing shall be unpossible And Mary said Behold the handmaid of the Lord be it unto me according to thy word And the angel departed from her Saint Marks day The collect O Almighty God who hast instructed thy holy Church with the heavenly Doctrine of thy Evangelist Saint Mark Give us grace that being not like children carried away with every blast of vain doctrine we may be established in the truth of thy holy Gospel
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes 4.7 UNto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Wherefore he saith When he ascended up on high he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men Now that he ascended what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens that he might fill all things And he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastours and teachers for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministery for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ From whom the whole body fitly joyned together and compacted by that which every joynt supplieth according to the effectual working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of it self in love The Gospel S. John 15.1 I Am the true vine and my Father is the husbandman Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you Abide in me and I in you As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the vine ye are the branches He that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned If ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit so shall ye be my disciples As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in his love These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full Saint Philip and Saint James day The collect O Almighty God whom truly to know is everlasting life Grant us perfectly to know thy Son Jesus Christ to be the way the truth and the life that following the steps of thy holy Apostles Saint Philip and Saint James we may stedfastly walk in the way that leadeth to eternal life through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle S. James 1.1 JAmes a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad greeting My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience But let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him But let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways Let the brother of low degree rejoyce in that he is exalted but the rich in that he is made low because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass and the flower thereof falleth and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tryed he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him The Gospel S. John 14.1 ANd Jesus said unto his disciples Let not your heart be trouble ye believe in God believe also in me In my Fathers house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you And if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also And whither I go ye know and the way ye know Thomas saith unto him Lord we know not whither thou goest and how can we know the way Jesus saith unto him I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me If ye had known me ye should have known my Father also and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him Philip saith unto him Lord shew us the Father and it sufficeth us Jesus saith unto him Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me Philip He that hath seen me hath seen the Father and how sayest thou then Shew us the Father Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me The words that I speak unto you I speak not of my self but the Father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me or else believe me for the very works sake Verily verily I say unto you He that believeth on me the works that I do shall he do also and greater works then these shall he do because I go unto my Father And whatsoever ye shall ask in my Name that will I do that the Father may be glorified in the Son If ye shall ask any thing in my Name I will do it Saint Barnabas the Apostle The collect O Lord God Almighty who didst endue thy holy Apostle Barnabas with singular gifts of the holy Ghost Leave us not we beseech thee destitute of thy manifold gifts nor yet of grace to use them alway to thy honour and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Acts 11.22 TIdings of these things came unto the ears of the Church which was in Jerusalem and they sent forth Barnabas that he should go as far as Antioch Who when he came and had seen the grace of God was glad and exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord. For he was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith and much people was
added unto the Lord. Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus for to seek Saul And when he had found him he brought him unto Antioch And it came to pass that a whole year they assembled themselves with the Church and taught much people and the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch And in these days came prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch And there stood up one of them named Agabus and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cesar Then the disciples every man according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea Which also they did and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul The Gospel S. John 15.12 THis is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you Greater love hath no man then this that a man lay down his life for his friends Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you Henceforth I call you not servants for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth but I have called you friends for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my Name he may give it you Saint John Baptist The collect ALmighty God by whose providence thy servant John Baptist was wonderfully born and sent to prepare the way of thy Son our Saviour by preaching of repentance make us so to follow his doctrine and holy life that we may truly repent according to his preaching and after his example constantly speak the truth boldly rebuke vice and patiently suffer for the truths sake through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Isai 40.1 COmfort ye comfort ye my people saith your God Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned for she hath received of the Lords hand double for all her sins The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness Prepare ye the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a high way for our God Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it The voice said Cry And he said What shall I cry All flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field The grass withereth the flower fadeth because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it surely the people is grass The grass withereth the flower fadeth but the word of our God shall stand for ever O Zion that bringest good tidings get thee up into the high mountain O Jerusalem that bringest good tidings lift up thy voice with strength lift it up be not afraid say unto the cities of Judah Behold your God Behold the Lord God will come with strong hand and his arm shall rule for him behold his reward is with him and his work before him He shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in this bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young The Gospel S. Luke 1.57 ELizabeths full time came that she should be delivered and she brought forth a son And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her and they rejoyced with her And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child and they called him Zacharias after the name of his father And his mother answered and said Not so but he shall be called John And they said unto her There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name And they made signs to his father how he would have him called And he asked for a writing-table and wrote saying His name is John And they marvelled all And his mouth was opened immediately and his tongue loosed and he spake and praised God And fear came on all that dwelt round about them and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill-countrey of Judea And all they that had heard them laid them up in their hearts saying What manner of child shall this be And the hand of the Lord was with him And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost and prophesied saying Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for the hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all that hate us to perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant the oath which he sware to our father Abraham that he would grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life And thou child shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways to give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins through the tender mercy of our God whereby the Day-spring from on high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of peace And the Child grew and waxed strong in spirit and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel Saint Peters day The collect O Almighty God who by thy Son Jesus Christ didst give to the Apostle Saint Peter many excellent gifts and commandedst him earnestly to feed thy flock Make we beseech thee all Bishops and Pastours diligently to preach thy holy Word and the people obediently to follow the same that they may receive the crown of everlasting glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Acts 12.1 ABout that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the Church And he killed James the brother of John with the sword And because he saw it pleased the Jews he proceeded further to take Peter also Then were the days of unleavened bread And when he had apprehended him he put him in prison and delivered him to four quaternions of souldiers to keep him intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people Peter therefore was kept in prison but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him And when Herod would have brought him forth the same night Peter was sleeping
word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending our selves to every mans conscience in the sight of God But if our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them For we preach not our selves but Christ Jesus the Lord and our selves your servants for Jesus sake For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ The Gospel S. Matth. 9.9 ANd as Jesus passed forth from thence he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the receit of Custom and he saith unto him Follow me And he arose and followed him And it came to pass as Jesus sat at meat in the house behold many Publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples And when the Pharisees saw it they said unto his disciples Why eateth your Master with Publicans and sinners But when Jesus heard that he said unto them They that be whole need not a Physician but they that are sick But go ye and learn what that meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not came to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Saint Michael and all Angels The collect O Everlasting God who hast ordained and constituted the services of Angels and men in a wonderful order Mercifully grant that as thy holy Angels alway do thee service in heaven so by thy appointment they may succour and defend us on earth through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For the Epistle Rev. 12.7 THere was war in heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not neither was their place found any more in heaven And the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan which deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night And they overcame him by the bloud of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death Therefore rejoyce ye heavens and ye that dwell in them Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea for the devil is come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time The Gospel S. Matth. 18.1 AT the same time came the disciples unto Jesus saying Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven And Jesus called a little child unto him and set him in the midst of them and said Verily I say unto you Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven And whoso shall receive one such little child in my Name receiveth me But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea Wo unto the world because of offences for it must needs be that offences come but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee cut them off and cast them from thee it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed rather then having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire And if thine eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye rather then having two eyes to be cast into hell-fire Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven Saint Luke the Evangelist The collect ALmighty God who calledst Luke the Physician whose praise is in the Gospel to be an Evangelist and Physician of the soul May it please thee that by the wholsom medicines of the doctrine delivered by him all the diseases of our souls may be healed through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 2 Tim. 4.5 WAtch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an Evangelist make full proof of thy ministry For I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto all them also that love his appearing Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me For Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world and is departed unto Thessalonica Crescens to Galatia Titus unto Dalmatia Only Luke is with me Take Mark and bring him with thee for he is profitable to me for the ministry And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus when thou comest bring with thee and the books but especially the parchments Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil the Lord reward him according to his works Of whom be thou ware also for he hath greatly withstood our words The Gospel S. Luke 10.1 THe Lord appointed other seventy also and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself would come Therefore said he unto them The harvest truly is great but the labourers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest Go your ways behold I send you forth as lambs among wolves Carry neither purse nor scrip nor shoes and salute no man by the way And into whatsoever house ye enter first say Peace be to this house And if the son of peace be there your peace shall rest upon it if not it shall turn to you again And in the same house remain eating and drinking such things as they give for the labourer is worthy of his hire Saint Simon and Saint Jude Apostles The collect O Almighty God who hast built thy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the head corner-stone Grant us so to be joyned together in unity of spirit by their doctrine that we may be made an holy temple acceptable unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle S. Jude 1. JUde the servant of
the Lord ye that mind to come to the holy Communion of the body and bloud of our Saviour Christ must consider how Saint Paul exhorteth all persons diligently to try and examine themselves before they presume to eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. For as the benefit is great if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive that holy Sacrament for then we spiritually eat the flesh of Christ and drink his bloud then we dwell in Christ and Christ in us we are one with Christ and Christ with us So is the danger great if we receive the same unworthily For then we are guilty of the body and bloud of Christ our Saviour we eat and drink our own damnation not considering the Lords body we kindle Gods wrath against us we provoke him to plague us with divers diseases and sundry kinds of death Judge therefore your selves brethren that ye be not judged of the Lord repent you truly for your sins past have a lively and stedfast faith in Christ our Saviour amend your lives and be in perfect charity with all men so shall ye be meet partakers of those holy Mysteries And above all things ye must give most humble and hearty thanks to God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost for the redemption of the world by the death and passion of our Saviour Christ both God and man who did humble himself even to the death upon the Cross for us miserable sinners who lay in darkness and the shadow of death that he might make us the children of God and exalt us to everlasting life And to the end that we should alway remember the exceeding great love of our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ thus dying for us and the innumerable benefits which by his precious bloud-shedding he hath obtained to us he hath instituted and ordained holy Mysteries as pledges of his love and for a continual remembrance of his death to our great and endless comfort To him therefore with the Father and the Holy Ghost let us give as we are most bounden continual thanks submitting our selves wholly to his holy will and pleasure and studying to serve him in true holiness and righteousness all the days of our life Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say to them that come to receive the holy Communion YE that do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins and are in love and charity with your neighbours and intend to lead a new life following the commandments of God and walking from henceforth in his holy ways Draw near with faith and take this holy Sacrament to your comfort and make your humble confession to Almighty God meekly kneeling upon your knees ¶ Then shall this general Confession be made in the name of all those that are minded to receive the holy Communion by one of the Ministers both he and all the People kneeling humbly upon their knees and saying ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness Which we from time to time most grievously have committed By thought word and deed Against thy divine Majesty Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us We do earnestly repent And are heartily sorry for these our misdoings The remembrance of them is grievous unto us The burthen of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us Have mercy upon us most merciful Father For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christs sake Forgive us all that is past And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life To the honour and glory of thy Name Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest or the Bishop being present stand up and turning himself to the People pronounce this Absolution ALmighty God our heavenly Father who of his great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins to all them that with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your sins confirm and strengthen you in all goodness and bring you to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say Hear what comfortable words our Saviour Christ saith unto all that truly turn to him COme unto me all that travel and are heavy laden and I will refresh you S. Matth. II. 28. So God loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son to the end that all that belive in him should not perish but have everlasting life S. John 3.16 Hear also what Saint Paul saith This is a true saying and worthy of all men to be received that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners I Tim. 1.15 Hear also what Saint John saith If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins I S. John 2.1 ¶ After which the Priest shall proceed saying Lift up your hearts Answer We lift them up unto the Lord. Priest Let us give thanks unto our Lord God Answer It is meet and right so to do ¶ Then shall the Priest turn to the Lords Table and say IT is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee O Lord * These words Holy Father must be omitted on Trinity Sunday Holy Father Almighty everlasting God ¶ Here shall follow the proper Preface according to the time if there be any specially appointed or else immediately shall follow THerefore with Angels and Archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnifie thy glorious Name evermore praising thee and saying Holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven and earth are full of thy glory Glory be to thee O Lord most High Amen ¶ Proper Prefaces ¶ Upon Christmas-day and seven days after BEcause thou didst give Jesus Christ thine only Son to be born as at this time for us who by the operation of the holy Ghost was made very man of the substance of the Virgin Mary his mother and that without spot of sin to make us clean from all sin Therefore with Angels c. ¶ Upon Easter-day and seven days after BUt chiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord for he is the very Paschal Lamb which was offered for us and hath taken away the sin of the world who by his death hath destroyed death and by his rising to life again hath restored to us everlasting life Therefore c. ¶ Upon Ascension-day and seven days after THrough thy most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord who after his most glorious resurrection manifestly appeared to all his Apostles and in their sight ascended up into heaven to prepare a place for us that where he is thither we might also ascend and reign with him in glory Therefore with Angels c. ¶ Upon Whitsunday and six
days after THrough Jesus Christ our Lord according to whose most true promise the holy Ghost came down as at this time from heaven with a sudden great sound as it had been a mighty wind in the likeness of fiery tongues lighting upon the Apostles to teach them and to lead them to all truth giving them both the gift of divers languages and also boldness with fervent zeal constantly to preach the Gospel unto all nations whereby we have been brought out of darkness and errour into the clear light and true knowledge of thee and of thy Son Jesus Christ Therefore with Angels c. ¶ Upon the Feast of Trinity only WHo art one God one Lord not one only person but three persons in one substance For that which we believe of the glory of the Father the same we believe of the Son and of the Holy Ghost without any difference or inequality Therefore c. ¶ After each of which Prefaces shall immediately be sung or said THerefore with Angels and Archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnifie thy glorious Name evermore praising thee and saying Holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven and earth are full of thy glory Glory be to thee O Lord most High Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest kneeling down at the Lords Table say in the name of all them that shall receive the Communion this Prayer following WE do not presume to come to this thy Table O merciful Lord trusting in our own righteousness but in thy manifold and great mercies We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table But thou art the same Lord whose property is always to have mercy Grant us therefore gracious Lord so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ and to drink his bloud that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body and our souls washed through his most precious bloud and that we may evermore dwell in him and he in us Amen ¶ When the Priest standing before the Table hath so ordered the Bread and Wine that he may with the more readiness and decency break the Bread before the People and take the Cup into his hands he shall say the Prayer of Consecration as followeth ALmighty God our heavenly Father who of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption who made there by his one oblation of himself once offered a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world and did institute and in his holy Gospel command us to continue a perpetual memory of that his precious death until his coming again Hear us O merciful Father we most humbly beseech thee and grant that we receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine according to thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christs holy institution in remembrance of his death and passion may be partakers of his most blessed body and bloud who in the same night that he was betrayed (a) Here the Priest is to take the Paten into his hands took bread and when he had given thanks (b) And here to break the bread he brake it and gave it to his disciples saying Take eat (c) And here to lay his hand upon all the bread this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me Likewise after Supper (d) Here he is to take the cup into his hand he took the cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them saying Drink ye all of this for this (e) And here to lay his hand upon every vessel be it Chalice or Flagon in which there is any wine to be consecrated is my bloud of the New Testament which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins Do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister first receive the Communion in both kinds himself and then proceed to deliver the same to the Bishops Priests and Deacons in like manner if any be present and after that to the People also in order into their Hands all meekly kneeling And when he delivereth the bread to any one he shall say THe body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving ¶ And the Minister that delivereth the Cup to any one shall say THe bloud of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed for thee preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life Drink this in remembrance that Christs bloud was shed for thee and be thankful ¶ If the Consecrated Bread or Wine be all spent before all have communicated the Priest is to consecrate more according to the Form before prescribed Beginning at Our Saviour Christ in the same night c. for the blessing of the Bread and at Likewise after Supper c. for the blessing of the Cup. ¶ When all have communicated the Minister shall return to the Lords Table and reverently place upon it what remaineth of the consecrated Elements covering the same with a fair Linen Cloth ¶ Then shall the Priest say the Lords Prayer the People repeating after him every Petition OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom The Power and the Glory For ever and ever Amen ¶ After shall be said as followeth O Lord and heavenly Father we thy humble servants entirely desire thy Fatherly goodness mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving most humbly beseeching thee to grant that by the merits and death of thy Son Jesus Christ and through faith in his bloud we and all thy whole Church may obtain remission of our sins and all other benefits of his passion And here we offer and present unto thee O Lord our selves our souls and bodies to be a reasonable holy and lively sacrifice unto thee humbly beseeching thee that all we who are partakers of this holy Communion may be fulfilled with thy grace and heavenly benediction And although we be unworthy through our manifold sins to offer unto thee any sacrifice yet we beseech thee to accept this our bounden duty and service not weighing our merits but pardoning our offences through Jesus Christ our Lord by whom and with whom in the unity of the Holy Ghost all honour and glory be unto thee O Father Almighty world without end Amen ¶ Or this ALmighty and everliving God we most heartily thank thee for that thou dost vouchsafe to feed us who have duly received
these holy Mysteries with the spiritual food of the most precious body and bloud of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ and dost assure us thereby of thy favour and goodness towards us and that we are very members incorporate in the mystical body of thy Son which is the blessed company of all faithful people and are also heirs through hope of thy everlasting kingdom by the merits of the most precious death and passion of thy dear Son And we most humbly beseech thee O heavenly Father so to assist us with thy grace that we may continue in that holy fellowship and do all such good works as thou hast prepared for us to walk in through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen ¶ Then shall be said or sung GLory be to God on high and in earth peace good will towards men We praise thee we bless thee we worship thee we glorifie thee we give thanks to thee for thy great glory O Lord God heavenly King God the Father Almighty O Lord the only begotten Son Jesu Christ O Lord God Lamb of God Son of the Father that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world receive our prayer Thou that fittest at the right hand of God the Father have mercy upon us For thou only art holy thou only art the Lord thou only O Christ with the holy Ghost art most high in the glory of God the Father Amen ¶ Then the Priest or Bishop if he be present shall let them depart with this Blessing THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord And the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen ¶ Collects to be said after the Offertory when there is no Communion every such day one or more and the same may be said also as often as occasion shall serve after the Collects either of Morning or Evening Prayer Communion or Litany by the discretion of the Minister ASsist us mercifully O Lord in these our supplications and prayers and dispose the way of thy servants towards the attainment of everlasting salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life they may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty Lord and everlasting God vouchsafe we beseech thee to direct sanctifie and govern both our hearts and bodies in the ways of thy laws and in the works of thy commandments that through thy most mighty protection both here and ever we may be preserved in body and soul through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that the words which we have heard this day with our outward ears may through thy grace be so grafted inwardly in our hearts that they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living to the honour and praise of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PRevent us O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious favour and further us with thy continual help that in all our works begun continued and ended in thee we may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God the fountain of all wisdom who knowest our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking We beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities and those things which for our unworthiness we dare not and for our blindness we cannot ask vouchsafe to give us for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God who hast promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ UPon the Sundays and other Holidays if there be no Communion shall be said all that is appointed at the Communion until the end of the general Prayer For the good estate of the Catholick Church of Christ together with one or mo of these Collects last before rehearsed concluding with the Blessing ¶ And there shall be no Celebration of the Lords Supper except there be a convenient number to communicate with the Priest according to his discretion ¶ And if there be not above twenty Persons in the Parish of discretion to Receive the Communion yet there shall be no Communion except four or three at the least Communicate with the Priest ¶ And in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Colledges where there are many Priests and Deacons they shall all Receive the Communion with the Priest every Sunday at the least except they have a reasonable cause to the contrary ¶ And to take away all occasion of dissension and superstition which any Person hath or might have concerning the Bread and Wine it shall suffice that the Bread be such as is usual to be eaten but the best and purest Wheat Bread that conveniently may be gotten ¶ And if any of the Bread and Wine remain unconsecrated the Curate shall have it to his own use but if any remain of that which was Consecrated it shall not be carried out of the Church but the Priest and such other of the Communicants as he shall then call unto him shall immediately after the Blessing reverently eat and drink the same ¶ The Bread and Wine for the Communion shall be provided by the Curate and the Church-wardens at the Charges of the Parish ¶ And Note That every Parishioner shall Communicate at the least three times in the Year of which Easter to be one And yearly at Easter every Parishioner shall reckon with the Parson Vicar or Curate or his or their Deputy or Deputies and pay to them or him all Ecclesiastical Duties accustomably due then and at that time to be paid ¶ After the Divine Service ended the Money given at the Offertory shall be disposed of to such pious and charitable uses as the Minister and Church-wardens shall think fit Wherein if they disagree it shall be disposed of as the Ordinary shall appoint WHereas it is ordained in this Office for the Administration of the Lords Supper that the Communicants should receive the same Kneeling which Order is well meant for a signification of our humble and grateful acknowledgment of the benefits of Christ therein given to all worthy Receivers and for the avoiding of such profanation and disorder in the holy Communion as might otherwise ensue
Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest joyn their right Hands together and say Those whom God hath joyned together let no man put asunder ¶ Then shall the Minister speak unto the people FOrasmuch as N. and N. have consented together in holy Wedlock and have witnessed the same before God and this company and thereto have given and pledged their Troth either to other and have declared the same by giving and receiving of a Ring and by joyning of Hands I pronounce that they be Man and Wife together In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen ¶ And the Minister shall add this blessing GOd the Father God the Son God Holy Ghost bless preserve and keep you the Lord mercifully with his favour look upon you and so fill you with all spiritual benediction and grace that ye may so live together in this life that in the world to come ye may have life everlasting Amen ¶ Then the Minister or Clerks going to the Lords Table shall say or sing this Psalm following Beati omnes Psal 128. BLessed are all they that fear the Lord and walk in his way For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands O well is thee and happy shalt thou be Thy wife shall be as the fruitful vine upon the walls of thy house Thy children like the olive-branches round about thy table Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. The Lord from out of Sion shall so bless thee that thou shalt see Jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long Yea that thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israel Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Or this Psalm Deus misereatur Psal 67. GOd be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance and be merciful unto us That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee O let the nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the nations upon earth Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing God shall blese us and all the ends of the world shall fear him Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ The Psalm ended and the Man and the Woman kneeling before the Lords Table the Priest standing at the Table and turning his Face towards them shall say Lord have mercy upon us Answer Christ have mercy upon us Minister Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Minister O Lord save thy servant and thy handmaid Answer Who put their trust in thee Minister O Lord send them help from thy holy place Answer And evermore defend them Minister Be unto them a towre of strength Answer From the face of their enemy Minister O Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee Minister O God of Abraham God of Isaac God of Jacob bless these thy servants and sow the seed of eternal life in their hearts that whatsoever in thy holy Word they shall profitably learn they may indeed fulfil the same Look O Lord mercifully upon them from heaven and bless them And as thou didst send thy blessing upon Abraham and Sarah to their great comfort so vouchsafe to send thy blessing upon these thy servants that they obeying thy will and alway being in safety under thy protection may abide in thy love unto their lives end through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ This Prayer next following shall be omitted where the Woman is past Child-bearing O Merciful Lord and heavenly Father By whose gracious gift mankind is increased We beseech thee assist with thy blessing these two persons that they may both be fruitful in procreation of Children and also live together so long in godly love and honesty that they may see their children Christianly and virtuously brought up to thy praise and honour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God who by thy mighty power hast made all things of nothing who also after other things set in order didst appoint that out of Man created after thine own image and similitude Woman should take her beginning and knitting them together didst teach that it should never be lawful to put asunder those whom thou by Matrimony hadst made one O God who hast consecrated the state of Matrimony to such an excellent Mystery that in it is signified and represented the spiritual marriage and unity betwixt Christ and his Church Look mercifully upon these thy servants that both this Man may love his wife according to thy Word as Christ did love his spouse the Church who gave himself for it loving and cherishing it even as his own flesh and also that this Woman may be loving and amiable faithful and obedient to her Husband and in all quietness sobriety and peace be a follower of holy and godly Matrons O Lord bless them both and grant them to inherit thy everlasting Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest say ALmighty God who at the beginning did create our first parents Adam and Eve and did sanctifie and joyn them together in Marriage Pour upon you the riches of his grace sanctifie and bless you that ye may please him both in body and soul and live together in holy love unto your lives end Amen ¶ After which if there be no Sermon declaring the Duties of Man and Wife the Minister shall read as followeth ALl ye that are married or that intend to take the holy Estate of Matrimony upon you hear what the holy Scripture doth say as touching the Duty of Husbands towards their Wives and Wives towards their Husbands Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Ephesians the Fifth Chapter doth give this commandment to all married Men Husbands love your Wives even as Christ also loved the Church and gave himself for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies He that loved his wife loveth himself For no man ever yet hateth his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even
as the Lord the Church For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh This is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and the Church Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself Ephes 5.25 Likewise the same Saint Paul writing to the Colossians speaketh thus to all men that are married Husbands love your wives and be not bitter against them Col. 3.19 Hear also what Saint Peter the Apostle of Christ who was himself a married a man saith unto them that are married Ye husbands dwell with your wives according to knowledge giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindred 1 S. Pet. 3.7 Hitherto ye have heard the duty of the husband toward the wife Now likewise ye wives hear and learn your duties toward your husbands even as it is plainly set forth in holy Scripture Saint Paul in the aforenamed Epistle to the Ephesians teacheth you thus Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the Church and he is the Saviour of the body Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing And again he saith Let the wife see that she reverence her husband Ephes 5.22 And in his Epistle to the Colossians Saint Paul giveth you this short lesson Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as is it fit the Lord. Col. 3.18 Saint Peter also doth instruct you very well thus saying Ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparel but let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price For after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves being in subjection unto their own husbands even as Sarah obeyed Abraham calling him Lord whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well and are not afraid with any amazement 1 S. Pet. 3.1 ¶ It is convenient that the new married Persons should receive the holy Communion at the time of their Marriage or at the first opportunity after their Marriage The ORDER for the VISITATION of the SICK ¶ When any Person is sick notice shall be given thereof to the Minister of the Parish who coming into the sick Persons House shall say PEace be to this house and to all that dwell in it ¶ When he cometh into the sick mans presence he shall say kneeling down REmember not Lord our iniquities nor the iniquities of our forefathers Spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Answer Spare us good Lord. ¶ Then the Minister shall say Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be they Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Minister O Lord save thy servant Answer Which putteth his trust in thee Minister Send him help from thy holy place Answer And evermore mightily defend him Minister Let the enemy have no advantage of him Answer Nor the wicked approch to hurt him Minister Be unto him O Lord a strong tower Answer From the face of his enemy Minister O Lord hear our prayers Answer And let our cry come unto thee Minister O Lord look down from heaven behold visit and relieve this thy servant Look upon him with the eyes of thy mercy give him comfort and sure confidence in thee defend him from the danger of the enemy and keep him in perpetual peace and safety through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen HEar us Almighty and most merciful God and Saviour extend thy accustomed goodness to this thy servant who is grieved with sickness Sanctifie we beseech thee this thy Fatherly correction to him that the sense of his weakness may add strength to his faith and seriousness to his repentance That if it shall be thy good pleasure to restore him to his former health he may lead the residue of his life in thy fear and to thy glory or else give him grace so to take thy visitation that after this painful life ended he may dwell with thee in life everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister exhort the sick Person after this form or other like DEarly beloved know this that Almighty God is the Lord of life and death and of all things to them pertaining as youth strength health age weakness and sickness Wherefore whatsoever your sickness is know you certainly that it is Gods visitation And for what cause soever this sickness is sent unto you whether it be to try your patience for the example of others and that your faith may be found in the day of the Lord laudable glorious and honourable to the increase of glory and endless felicity or else it be sent unto you to correct and amend in you whatsoever doth offend the eyes of your heavenly Father know you certainly that if you truly repent you of your sins and bear your sickness patiently trusting in Gods mercy for his dear Son Jesus Christs sake and render unto him humble thanks for his Fatherly visitation submitting your self wholly unto his will it shall turn to your profit and help you forward in the right way that leadeth unto everlasting life ¶ If the Person visited be very sick then the Curate may end his Exhortation in this place or else proceed TAke therefore in good part the chastisement of the Lord For as Saint Paul saith in the twelfth Chapter to the Hebrews whom the Lord loveth he chastneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth If ye endure chastning God dealeth with you as with sons for what son is he whom the Father chastneth not But if ye be without chastisement whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of Spirits and live For
I am gray-headed until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to all them that are yet for to come Thy righteousness O God is very high and great things are they that thou hast done O God who is like unto thee Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Adding this O Saviour of the world who by thy cross and precious bloud hast redeemed us save us and help us we humbly beseech thee O Lord. ¶ Then shall the Minister say THe Almighty Lord who is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him to whom all things in heaven in earth and under the earth do bowe and obey be now and evermore thy defence and make thee know and feel that there is none other Name under heaven given to man in whom and through whom thou mayest receive health and salvation but only the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen ¶ And after that shall say UNto Gods gracious mercy and protection we commit thee The Lord bless thee and keep thee The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace both now and evermore Amen A Prayer for a sick Child O Almighty God and merciful Father to whom alone belong the issues of life and death Look down from heaven we humbly beseech thee with the eyes of mercy upon this Child now lying upon the bed of sickness Visit him O Lord with thy salvation deliver him in thy good appointed time from his bodily pain and save his soul for thy mercies save That if it shall be thy pleasure to prolong his days here on earth he may live to thee and be an instrument of thy glory by serving thee faithfully and doing good in his generation or else receive him into those heavenly habitations where the souls of them that sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity Grant this O Lord for thy mercies sake in the same thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost ever one God world without end Amen ¶ A Prayer for a sick Person when there appeareth small hope of Recovery O Father of mercies and God of all comfort our only help in time of need We flie unto thee for succour in behalf of this thy servant here lying under thy hand in great weakness of body Look graciously upon him O Lord and the more the outward man decayeth strengthen him we beseech thee so much the more continually with thy grace and holy Spirit in the inner man Give him unfeigned repentance for all the errours of his life past and stedfast faith in thy Son Jesus that his sins may be done away by thy mercy and his pardon sealed in heaven before he go hence and be no more seen We know O Lord that there is no word impossible with thee and that if thou wilt thou canst even yet raise him up and grant him a longer continuance amongst us Yet forasmuch as in all appearance the time of his dissolution draweth near so fit and prepare him we beseech thee against the hour of death that after his departure hence in peace and in thy favour his soul may be received into thine everlasting kingdom through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thine only Son our Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ A commendatory Prayer for a sick Person at the point of departure O Almighty God with whom do live the spirits of just men made perfect after they are delivered from their earthly prisons We humbly commend the soul of this thy servant our dear brother into thy hands as into the hands of a faithful Creatour and most merciful Saviour most humbly beseeching thee that it may be precious in thy fight Wash it we pray thee in the bloud of that immaculate Lamb that was slain to take away the sins of the world that whatsoever defilements it may have contracted in the midst of this miserable and naughty world through the lusts of the flesh or the wiles of Satan being purged and done away it may be presented pure and without spot before thee And teach us who survive in this and other like daily spectacles of mortality to see how frail and uncertain our own condition is and so to number our days that we may seriously apply our hearts to that holy and heavenly wisdom whilst we live here which may in the end bring us to life everlasting through the merits of Jesus Christ thine only Son our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for Persons troubled in Mind or in Conscience O Blessed Lord the Father of mercies and the God of all comforts we beseech thee look down in pity and compassion upon this thy afflicted servant Thou writest bitter things against him and makest him to possess his former iniquities thy wrath lieth hard upon him and his soul is full of trouble But O merciful God who hast written thy holy Word for our learning that we through patience and comfort of thy holy Scriptures might have hope give him a right understanding of himself and of thy threats and promises that he may neither cast away his confidence in thee nor place it any where but in thee Give him strength against all his temptations and heal all his distempers Break not the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flax Shut not up thy tender mercies in displeasure but make him to hear of joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce Deliver him from fear of the enemy and lift up the light of thy countenance upon him and give him peace through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The COMMUNION of the SICK ¶ Forasmuch as all mortal Men be subject to many sudden Perils Diseases and Sicknesses and ever uncertain what time they shall depart out of this life therefore to the intent they may be always in a readiness to die whensoever it shall please Almighty God to call them the Curates shall diligently from time to time but especially in the time of Pestilence or other infectious Sickness exhort their Parishioners to the often receiving of the holy Communion of the Body and Bloud of our Saviour Christ when it shall be publickly Administred in the Church that so doing they may in case of sudden visitation have the less cause to be disquieted for lack of the same But if the sick Person be not able to come to the Church and yet is desirous to receive the Communion in his House then he must give timely notice to the Curate signifying also how many there are to Communicate with him which shall be three or two at the least and having a convenient place in the sick Mans House with all things necessary so prepared that the Curate may reverently
Minister he shall there Celebrate the holy Communion beginning with the Collect Epistle and Gospel here following The Collect. ALmighty everliving God maker of mankind who dost correct those whom thou dost love and chastise every one whom thou dost receive We beseech thee to have mercy upon this thy servant visited with thine hand and to grant that he may take his sickness patiently and recover his bodily health if it be thy gracious will and whensoever his soul shall depart from the body it may be without spot presented unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Heb. 12.5 MY son despise not thou the chastning of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him For whom the Lord loveth he chastneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth The Gospel S. John 5.24 VErily verily I say unto you He that heareth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life ¶ After which the Priest shall proceed according to the Form before prescribed for the holy Communion beginning at these words Ye that do truly c. ¶ At the time of the distribution of the holy Sacrament the Priest shall first receive the Communion himself and after minister unto them that are appointed to Communicate with the Sick and last of all to the sick Person ¶ But if a man either by reason of extremity of sickness or for want of warning in due time to the Curate or for lack of company to receive with him or by any other just impediment do not receive the Sacrament of Christs Body and Bloud the Curate shall instruct him that if he do truly repent him of his sins and stedfastly believe that Jesus Christ hath suffered death upon the Cross for him and shed his Bloud for his Redemption earnestly remembring the benefits he hath thereby and giving him hearty thanks therefore he doth eat and drink the Body and Bloud of our Saviour Christ profitably to his souls health although he do not receive the Sacrament with his mouth ¶ When the sick person is visited and receiveth the holy Communion all at one time then the Priest for more expedition shall cut off the Form of the Visitation at the Psalm In thee O Lord have I put my trust and go straight to the Communion ¶ In the time of the Plague Sweat or such other like contagious Times of Sickness or Diseases when none of the Parish or Neighbours can be gotten to Communicate with the Sick in their Houses for fear of the Infection upon special request of the Diseased the Minister may only Communicate with him The ORDER for the BURIAL of the DEAD ¶ Here is to be noted That the Office ensuing is not to be used for any that die unbaptized or excommunicate or have laid violent hands upon themselves ¶ The Priest and Clerks meeting the Corps at the entrance of the Church-yard and going before it either into the Church or towards the Grave shall say or sing I Am the resurrection and the life faith the Lord he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die S. John 11.25 26. I Know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another Job 19.25 26 27. WE brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the Name of the Lord. 2 Tim. 6.7 Job 1.21 ¶ After they are come into the Church shall be read one or both of these Psalms following Dixi Custodiam Psal 39. I Said I will take heed to my ways that I offend not in my tongue I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my sight I held my tongue and spake nothing I kept silence yea even from good words but it was pain and grief to me My heart was hot within me and while I was thus musing the fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue Lord Let me know my end and the number of my days that I may be certified how long I have to live Behold thou hast made my days as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanity For man walketh in a vain shadow ana disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish I became dumb and opened not my mouth for it was thy doing Take thy plague away from me I am even consumed by means of thy heavy hand When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin thou makest his beauty to consume away like as it were a moth fretting a garment every man therefore is but vanity Hear my prayer O Lord and with thine ears consider my calling hold not thy peace at my tears For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Domine refugium Psal 90. LOrd thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another Before the mountains were brought forth or ever the earth and the world were made thou art God from everlasting and world without end Thou turnest man to destruction again thou sayest Come again ye children of men For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday seeing that is past as a watch in the night Assoon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass In the morning it is green and groweth up but in the evening it is cut down dried up and withered For we consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance For when thou art angry all our days are gone we bring our years to an end as it were a tale that is told The days of our age are threescore years and ten and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth so is thy displeasure So teach us to number our days that we may
apply our hearts unto wisdom Turn thee again O Lord at the last and be gracious unto thy servants O satisfie us with thy mercy and that soon so shall we rejoyce and be glad all the days of our life Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity Shew thy servants thy work and their children thy glory And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us prosper thou the work of our hands upon us O prosper thou our handy-work Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then shall follow the Lesson taken out of the fifteenth Chapter of the former Epistle of Saint Paul to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 15.20 NOw is Christ risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of them that slept For since by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead For as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive But every man in his own order Christ the first-fruits afterward they that are Christs at his coming Then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power For he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death For he hath put all things under his feet But when he saith all things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead if the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for the dead And why stand we in jeopardy every hour I protest by your rejoycing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord I die daily If after the manner of men I have fought with beast at Ephesus what advantageth it me if the dead rise not Let us eat and drink for to morrow we die Be not deceived evil communications corrupt good manners Awake to righteousness and sin not for some have not the knowledge of God I speak this to your shame But some man will say how are the dead raised up And with what body do they come Thou fool that which thou sowest is not quickned except it die And that which thou sowest thou sowest not that body that shall be but bare grain it may chance of wheat or of some other grain But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and to every seed his own body All flesh is not the same flesh but there is one kind of flesh of men another flesh of beasts another of fishes and another of birds There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terrestrial is another There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars for one star differeth from another star in glory So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory It is sown in weakness it is raised in power It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body And so it is written The first man Adam was made a living soul the last Adam was made a quickning Spirit Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual The first man is of the earth earthy the second man is the Lord from heaven As is the earthy such are they that are earthy and as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly And as we have born the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Now this I say brethren that flesh and bloud cannot inherit the kingdom of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption Behold I shew you a mystery We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory O Death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Therefore my beloved brethren be ye stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. ¶ When they come to the Grave while the Corps is made ready to be laid into the Earth the Priest shall say or the Priest and Clerks shall sing MAn that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay In the midst of life were are in death of whom may we seek for succour but of thee O Lord who for our sins art justly displeased Yet O Lord God most holy O Lord most mighty O holy and most merciful Saviour deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers but spare us Lord most holy O God most mighty O holy and merciful Saviour thou most worthy Judge eternal suffer us not at our last hour for any pains of death to fall from thee ¶ Then while the earth shall be cast upon the Body by some standing by the Priest shall say FOrasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed we therefore commit his body to the ground earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be like unto his glorious body according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself ¶ Then shall be said or sung I Heard a voice from heaven saying unto me Write From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord even so saith the Spirit for
they rest from their labours Rev. 14.13 ¶ Then the Priest shall say Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Priest ALmighty God with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord and with whom the souls of the faithful after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh are in joy and felicity We give thee hearty thanks for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world beseeching thee that it may please thee of thy gracious goodness shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect and to hasten thy Kingdom that we with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name may have our perfect consummation and bliss both in body and soul in thy eternal and everlasting glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Collect. O Merciful God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the resurrection and the life in whom whosoever believeth shall live though he die and whosoever liveth and believeth in him shall not die eternally who also hath taught us by his holy Apostle Saint Paul not to be sorry as men without hope for them that sleep in him We meekly beseech thee O Father to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness that when we shall depart this life we may rest in him as our hope is this our brother doth and that at the general resurrection in the last day we may be found acceptable in thy sight and receive that blessing which thy well-beloved Son shall then pronounce to all that love and fear thee saying Come ye blessed children of my Father receive the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world Grant this we beseech thee O merciful Father through Jesus Christ our Mediatour and Redeemer Amen THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the followship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen The Thanksgiving of Women after CHILD-BIRTH Commonly called The Churching of Women ¶ The Woman at the usual time after her Delivery shall come into the Church decently apparelled and there shall kneel down in some convenient place as hath been accustomed or as the Ordinary shall direct And then the Priest shall say unto her FOrasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance and hath preserved you in the great danger of Child-birth you shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God and say ¶ Then shall the Priest say this Psalm Delexi quoniam Psal 116. I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer That he hath inclined his ear unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live The snares of death compassed me round about and the pains of hell gat hold upon me I found trouble and heaviness and I called upon the Name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful The Lord preserveth the simple I was in misery and he helped me Turn again then unto thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath rewarded thee And why thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living I believed and therefore will I speak but I was sore troubled I said in my hast All men are liars What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord. I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people in the courts of the Lords house even in the midst of thee O Jerusalem Praise the Lord. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Or this Psalm Nisi Dominus Psal 127. EXcept the Lord build the house their labour is but lost that build it Except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early and so late take rest and eat the bread of carefulness for so he giveth his beloved sleep Lo children and the fruit of the womb are an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord. Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant even so are the young children 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 Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Then the Priest shall say Let us Pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom And the power and the glory For ever and ever Amen Minister O Lord save this woman thy servant Answer Who putteth her trust in thee Minister Be thou to her a strong tower Answer From the face of her enemy Minister Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee Minister Let us pray O Almighty God we give thee humble thanks for that thou hast vouch safed to deliver this woman thy servant from the great pain and peril of Child-birth Grant we beseech thee most merciful Father that she through thy help may both faithfully live and walk according to thy will in this life present and also may be partaker of everlasting glory in the life to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The Woman that cometh to give her Thanks must offer accustomed Offerings and if there be a Communion it is convenient that she receive the holy Communion A COMMINATION or Denouncing of Gods Anger and Judgments against Sinners with certain Prayers to be used on the First day of Lent and at other times as the Ordinary shall appoint ¶ After Morning Prayer the Litany ended according to the accustomed manner the Priest shall in the Reading Pew or Pulpit say BRethren in the Primitive Church there was a godly Discipline that at the beginning of Lent such Persons as stood convicted of
he vouchsafe to bring us all for his infinite mercy Amen ¶ Then shall they all kneel upon their knees and the Priest and Clerks kneeling in the place where they are accustomed to say the Litany shall say this Psalm Miserere mei Deus Miserere mei Deus Psal li. HAve mercy upon O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin For I acknowledge my faults and my sin is ever before me Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and clear when thou art judged Behold I was shapen in wickedness and in sin hath my mother conceived me But lo thou requirest truth in the inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly Thou shalt purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter then snow Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce Turn thy face from my sins and put out all my misdeeds Make me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me O give me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free Spirit Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked and sinners shall be converted unto thee Deliver me from bloud-guiltiness O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness Thou shalt open my lips O Lord and my mouth shall shew thy praise For thou desirest no sacrifice else would I give it thee but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the walls of Jerusalem Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness with the burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Minister O Lord save thy servants Answer That put their trust in thee Minister Send unto them help from above Answer And evermore mightily defend them Minister Help us O God our Saviour Answer And for the glory of thy Name deliver us be merciful to us sinners for thy Names sake Minister O Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee Minister Let us pray O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burden of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into judgment with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make hast to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the People say this that followeth after the Minister TUrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord Be favourable to thy people Who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God Full of compassion Long-suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deserve punishment And in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them And let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great And after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us Through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Minister alone shall say The Lord bless us and keep us the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us and give us peace now and for evermore Amen THE Psalter or Psalms OF DAVID After the Translation of the GREAT BIBLE Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in CHURCHES Morning Prayer Beatus vir qui non abiit Psal 1. BLessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly nor stood in the way of sinners and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful Day i. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law will he exercise himself day and night 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the water-side that will bring forth his fruit in due season 4 His leaf also shall not wither and look whatsoever he doeth it shall prosper 5 As for the ungodly it is not so with them but they are like the chaff which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth 6 Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the judgment neither the sinners in the congregation of the righteous 7 But the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous and the way of the ungodly shall perish Quare fremuerunt gentes Psal 2. WHy do the heathen so furiously rage together and why do the people imagine a vain thing 2 The kings of the earth stand up and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed 3 Let us break their bonds asunder and cast away their cords from us 4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn the Lord shall have them in derision 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Sion 7 I will preach the law whereof the Lord hath said unto me Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee 8 Desire of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession 9 Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron and break them in pieces like a potters vessel 10 Be wise now therefore O ye kings be learned
ye that are judges of the earth 11 Serve the Lord in fear and rejoyce unto him with reverence 12 Kiss the Son lest 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 Domine quid multiplicati Psal 3. LOrd how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise against me 2 Many one there be that say of my soul There is no help for him in his God 3 But thou O Lord art my defender thou art my worship and the lifter up of my 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 and rose up again for the Lord sustained me 6 I will not be afraid for ten thousands of the people that have set themselves against me round about 7 Up Lord and help me O my God for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheek-bone thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord and thy blessing is upon thy people Cum innocarem Psal 4. HEar me when I call O God of my righteousness thou hash set me at liberty when I was in trouble have mercy upon me and hearken unto my prayer 2. O ye sons 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 himself the man that is godly when I call upon the Lord he will hear me 4 Stand in awe and sin not commune with your own heart and in your chamber and be still 5 Offer the sacrifice of righteousness 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 gladness in my heart since the time that their corn and wine and oyl increased 9 I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord only that makest me dwell in safety Verba mea auribus Psal 5. POnder my words O Lord consider my meditation 2 O hearken thou unto the voice of my calling my King and my God for unto thee will I make my prayer 3 My voice shalt thou hear betimes O Lord early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up 4 For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickedness neither shall any evil dwell with thee 5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy fight for thou hatest all them that work vanity 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord will abhor both the bloud-thirsty and deceitful man 7 But as for me I will come into thine 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 righteousness because of mine enemies make thy way plain before my face 9 For there is no faithfulness his mouth their inward parts are very wickedness 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 ungodliness for they have rebelled against thee 12 And let all them that put their trust in thee rejoyce they shall ever be giving of thanks because thou defendest them they that love thy Name shall be joyful in thee 13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous and with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him as with a shield Evening Prayer Domine ne Psal 6. 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 vexed 3 My soul also is 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 groning every night wash my bed and water my couch with my tears 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble and worn away because of all mine enemies 8 Away from me all ye that work vanity for the Lord hath heard the voice 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 and put to shame suddenly Domine Deus meus Psal 7. O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me 2 Lest he devour my soul like a lion and 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 wickedness in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evil 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 soul and 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 self because of the indignation of mine enemies arise up for me in the judgment that thou hast commanded 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee for their sakes therefore lift up thy self again 8 The Lord shall judge the people give sentence with me O Lord according to my righteousness and according to the innocency that is in me 9 O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to end but guide thou the just 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins 11 My help cometh of God who preserveth them that are true of heart 12 God is a righteous judge strong and patient and God is provoked every day 13 If a man will not turn he will whet 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 ungodliness 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 wickedness shall fall on his own pate 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord according to his righteousness and I will praise the Name of the Lord most High Domine Dominus noster Psal 8. 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
9 The ungodly walk on every side when they are exalted the children of men are put to rebuke Usque quo Domine Psal 13. HOw long wilt thou forget me O Lord for ever how long wilt thou hide thy face from me 2 How long shall I seek counsel in my soul and be so vexed in my heart how long shall mine enemies triumph over me 3 Consider and hear me O Lord my God lighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death 4 Lest mine enemy say I have prevailed against him for if I be cast down they that trouble me will rejoyce at it 5 But my trust is in thy mercy and my heart is joyful in thy salvation 6 I will sing of the Lord because he hath dealt so lovingly with me yea I will praise the Name of the Lord most Highest Dixit insipiens Psal 14. THe fool hath said in his heart There is no God 2 They are corrupt and become abominable in their doings there is none that doeth good no not one 3 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God 4 But they are all gone out of the way they are altogether become abominable there is none that doeth good no not one 5 Their throat is an open sepulchre with their tongues have they deceived the poison of asps is under their lips 6 Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness their feet are swift to shed bloud 7 Destruction and unhappiness is in their ways and the way of peace have they not known there is no fear of God before their eyes 8 Have they no knowledge that they are all such workers of mischief eating up my people as it were bread and call not upon the Lord DAY iii. 9 There were they brought in great fear even where no fear was for God is in the generation of the righteous 10 As for you ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor because putteth his trust in the Lord. 11 Who shall give salvation unto Israel out of Sion When the Lord turneth the captivity of his people then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shall be glad Morning Prayer Domine quis babitabit Psal 15. LOrd who shall dwell in thy tabernacle or who shall rest upon thy holy hill 2 Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life and doeth the thing which is right and speaketh the truth from his heart 3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue nor done evil to his neighbour and hath not slandered his neighbour 4 He that setteth not by himself but is lowly in his own eyes and maketh much of them that fear the Lord. 5 He that sweareth unto his neighbour and disappointeth him not though it were to his own hindrance 6 He that hath hot given his money upon usury nor taken reward against the innocent 7 Whoso doeth these things shall never fall Conserva me Domine Psal 16. 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 upon such as excel in virtue 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 himself is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou shalt maintain my lot 7 The lot is fallen unto me in a fain 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 always before me for he is on my right hand therefore I shall not fall 10 Wherefore my heart was glad and my glory rejoyced my flesh also shall rest in hope 11 For why thou shalt not leave my soul in hell neither shalt thou suffer thy holy One to see corruption 12 Thou shalt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulness of joy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore Exaudi Domine Psal 17. HEar 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 equal 3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night-season thou hast tried me and shalt find no wickedness 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 thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer 5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not 6 I have called upon thee O God for thou shalt hear me incline thine ear to me and hearken unto my words 7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindness thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee from such as resist 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 compass me round about to take away my soul 10 They are inclosed in their own 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 lion that is greedy of his prey 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 evil world which have their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure 15 They have 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 righteousness and when I awake up after thy likeness I shall be satisfied with it Evening Prayer Diligam te Domine Psal 18. 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 sorrows of death compassed me and the over-flowings of ungodliness 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 hear my voice out of his holy temple and my complaint shall come before him it shall enter even into his ears 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 in his presence and a consuming fire out of his mouth so that coals were kindled at it 9 He bowed the heavens also and came down and it was dark under his feet 10 He rode upon the Cherubins and did flie he came flying upon the wings of the wind 11 He made darkness his secret place his pavilion round about him with dark water and thick clouds to cover him 12 At the brightness of his presence his clouds removed hail-stones and coals of fire 13 The Lord also thundred out of heaven and the Highest gave his thunder hail-stones and coals of fire 14 He sent out arrows and scattered them he cast forth lightnings and 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 on high to fetch me and shall take me out of many waters 17 He shall deliver me from my strongest enemy and from them which 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 cleanness of my hands shall he recompense me 21 Because I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not forsaken my God as the wicked doth 22 For I have an eye unto all his laws and will not cast out his commandments from me 23 I was also uncorrupt before him and eschewed mine own wickedness 24 Therefore shall the Lord reward me after my righteous dealing and according unto the cleanness of my hands in his eye-sight 25 With the holy thou shalt be holy and with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect 26 With the clean thou shalt be clean and with the froward thou shalt learn frowardness 27 For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud 28 Thou also shalt light my candle the Lord my God shall make my darkness 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 war 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 and 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 DAY iv 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 battel 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 hear them 42 I will beat them as small as the dust before the wind 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 have not known shall serve me 45 As soon as they hear 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 and blessed be my strong helper and 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 cruel enemies and setteth me up above mine adversaries thou shalt rid me from the wicked man 50 For this cause will I give 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 kindness unto David his Anointed and unto his Seed for evermore Morning Prayer Coeli enarrant Psal 19. 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 voices 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 Sun which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber and rejoyceth 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 testimony of the Lord is sure and giveth wisdom unto the simple 8 The statutes of the Lord are right and rejoyce the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure and giveth light unto the eyes 9 The fear of the Lord is clean and endureth for ever the judgments 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 and the hony-comb 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 sins lest they get the dominion over me so shall I be undefiled and innocent from the great offence 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be alway acceptable in thy sight 15 O Lord my strength and my redeemer Exaudiat te Dominus Psal 20. THe Lord hear thee in the day of trouble the Name of the God of Jacob defend thee 2 Send thee help from the Sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Sion 3 Remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt-sacrifice 4 Grant thee thy hearts desire and fulfil all thy mind 5 We will rejoyce 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 hear him from his holy Heaven
even with the wholsom 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 and hear us O King of Heaven when we call upon thee Domine in virtute tua Psal 21. 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 goodness and shalt set a crown 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 thy 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 mischief 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 Evening Prayer Deus Deus meus Psal 22. MY God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so far 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 me I am a worm and no man a very scorn of men and the out-cast of the people 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn 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 womb thou wast my hope when I hanged yet upon my mothers breasts 10 I have been left unto thee ever since I was born thou art my God even from my mothers womb 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 me fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side 13 They gape upon me with their mouths as it were a ramping and a roring lion 14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joynt my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd and my tongue cleaveth to my gums and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death 16 For many dogs are come about me and the council of the wicked layeth siege against me 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 far from me O Lord 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 horns 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 fear him magnifie him all ye of the seed of Jacob and fear him all ye seed of Israel 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor 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 vows will perform 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 soul 31 My seed shall serve him they shall be counted unto the Lord for a generation 32 They shall come and the heavens shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born whom the Lord hath made Dominus regit me Psal 23. THe Lord is my shepherd 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 righteousness for his Names sake 4 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff comfort me 5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me thou hast anointed my head with oyl and my cup shall be full 6. But thy loving kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever Morning Prayer Domini est terra Psal 24. THe earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compass of the world and they that dwell therein DAY v. 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 lift up his mind unto vanity nor sworn to deceive his neighbour 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation 6 This is the generation of them that seek him even of them that seek thy face O Jacob. 7 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in 8 Who is the King of glory it is the Lord strong
and mighty even the Lord mighty in battel 9 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors 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 Ad te Domine levavi Psal 25. UNto thee O Lord will lift up my soul my God I have put my trust in thee O let me not be confounded neither let mine enemies triumph over me 2 For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed but such as transgress without a cause shall be put to confusion 3 Shew me thy ways O Lord and teach me thy paths 4 Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my salvation in thee hath been my hope all the day long 5 Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses which have been ever of old 6 O remember not the sins and offences of my youth but according to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodness 7 Gracious and righteous is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way 8 Them that are meek shall he guide in judgment and such as are gentle them shall he learn his way 9 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies 10 For thy Names sake O Lord be merciful unto my sin for it is great 11 What man is he that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose 12 His soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the land 13 The secret of the Lord is among them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant 14 Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net 15 Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and in misery 16 The sorrows of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles 17 Look upon my adversity and misery and forgive me all my sin 18 Consider mine enemies how many they are and they bear a tyrannous hate against me 19 O keep my soul and deliver me let me not be confounded for I have put my trust in thee 20 Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me for my hope hath been in thee 21 Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles Judica me Domine Psal 26. BE thou my Judge O Lord for I have walked innocently my trust hath been also in the Lord therefore shall I not fall 2 Examine me O Lord and prove me try out my reins and my heart 3 For thy loving kindness is ever before mine eyes and I will walk in thy truth 4 I have not dwelt with vain persons neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful 5 I have hated the congregation of the wicked and will not sit among the ungodly 6 I will wash my hands in innocency O Lord and so will I go to thine altar 7 That I may shew the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works 8 Lord I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth 9 O shut not up my soul with the sinners nor my life with the bloud-thirsty 10 In whose hands is wickedness and their right hand is full of gifts 11 But as for me I will walk innocently O deliver me and be merciful unto me 12 My foot standeth right I will praise the Lord in the congregations Evening Prayer Dominus illuminatio Psal 27. THe Lord is my light and my salvation whom then shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom then shall I be afraid 2 When the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell 3 Though an host of men were laid against me yet shall not my heart be afraid and though there rose up war against me yet will I put my trust in him 4 One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will require even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the fair beauty of the Lord and to visit his temple 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me and set me up upon a rock of stone 6 And now shall he lift up mine head above mine enemies round about me 7 Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness I will sing and speak praises unto the Lord. 8 Hearken unto my voice O Lord when I cry unto thee have mercy upon me and hear me 9 My heart hath talked of thee Seek ye my face thy face Lord will I seek 10 O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast thy servant away in displeasure 11 Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation 12 When my father and my mother forsake me the Lord taketh me up 13 Teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in the right way because of mine enemies 14 Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries for there are false witnesses risen up against me and such as speak wrong 15 I should utterly have fainted but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living 16 O tarry thou the Lords leisure be strong and he shall comfort thine heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord. Ad te Domine Psal 28. UNto thee will I cry O Lord my strength think no scorn of me lest if thou make as though thou hearest not I become like them that go down into the pit 2 Hear the voice of my humble petitions when I cry unto thee when I hold up my hands towards the mercy-seat of thy holy temple 3 O pluck me not away neither destroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers which speak friendly to their neighbours but imagine mischief in their hearts 4 Reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their own inventions 5 Recompense them after the work of their hands pay them that they have deserved 6 For they regard not in their mind the works of the Lord nor the operation of his hands therefore shall he break them down and not build them up 7 Praised be the Lord for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions 8 The Lord is my strength and my shield my heart hath trusted in him and I am helped therefore my heart danceth for joy and in my song will I praise him 9 The Lord is my strength and he is the wholsom defence of his Anointed 10 O save thy people and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance feed them and set them up for ever Afferte Domino Psal 29. BRing unto the Lord O ye mighty bring
Name O Lord because it is so comfortable 7 For he hath delivered me out of all my trouble and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies Exâ—udi Deus Psal 55. HEar my prayer O God and hide not thy self from my petition 2 Take heed unto me and hear me how I mourn in my prayer and am vexed 3 The enemy crieth so and the ungodly cometh on so fast for they are minded to do me some mischief so maliciously are they set against me 4 My heart is disquieted within me and the fear of death is fallen upon me 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me 6 And I said O that I had wings like a dove for then would I flee away and be at rest 7 Lo then would I get me away far off and remain in the wilderness 8 I would make haste to escape because of the stormy wind and tempest 9 Destroy their tongues O Lord and divide them for I have spied unrighteousness and strife in the city 10 Day and night they go about within the walls thereof mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it 11 Wickedness is therein deceit and guile go not out of their streets 12 For it is not an open enemy that hath done me this dishonour for then I could have born it 13 Neither was it mine adversary that did magnifie himself against me for then peradventure I would have hid my self from him 14 But it was even thou my companion my guide and mine own familiar friend 15 We took sweet counsel together and walked in the house of God as friends 16 Let death come hastily upon them and let them go down quick into hell for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them 17 As for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me 18 In the evening and morning and at noon-day will I pray and that instantly and he shall hear my voice 19 It is he that hath delivered my soul in peace from the battel that was against me for there were many with me 20 Yea even God that endureth for ever shall hear me and bring them down for they will not turn nor fear God 21 He laid his hands upon such as be at peace with him and he brake his covenant 22 The words of his mouth were softer then butter having war in his heart his words were smoother then oyl and yet be they very swords 23 O cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall nourish thee and shall not suffer the righteous to fall for ever DAY xi 24 And as for them thou O God shalt bring them into the pit of destruction 25 The bloud-thirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days nevertheless my trust shall be in thee O Lord. Morning Prayer Miserere mei Deus Psal 56. BE merciful unto me O God for man goeth about to devour me he is daily fighting and troubling me 2 Mine enemies are daily in hand to swallow me up for they be many that fight against me O thou most Highest 3 Nevertheless though I am sometime afraid yet put I my trust in thee 4 I will praise God because of his word I have put my trust in God and will not fear what flesh can do unto me 5 They daily mistake my words all that they imagine is to do me evil 6 They hold all together and keep themselves close and mark my steps when they lay wait for my soul 7 Shall they escape for their wickedness thou O God in thy displeasure shalt cast them down 8 Thou tellest my flittings put my tears into thy bottle are not these things noted in thy book 9 Whensoever I call upon thee then shall mine enemies be put to flight this I know for God is on my side 10 In Gods word will I rejoyce in the Lords word will I comfort me 11 Yea in God have I put my trust I will not be afraid what man can do unto me 12 Unto thee O God will I pay my vows unto thee will I give thanks 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death and my feet from falling that I may walk before God in the light of the living Miserere mei Deus Psal 57. BE merciful unto me O God be merciful unto me for my soul trusteth in thee and under the shadow of thy wings shall be my refuge until this tyranny be over-past 2 I will call unto the most high God even unto the God that shall perform the cause which I have 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 above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth 7 They have laid a net for my feet and pressed down my soul they have digged a pit before me and are fallen into the midst 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 give thanks unto thee O Lord among the people and I will sing unto thee among the nations 11 For the greatness of thy mercy reacheth unto the heavens and thy truth unto the clouds 12 Set up thy self O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth Si vere utique Psal 58. ARe your minds set upon righteousness O ye congregation and do ye judge the thing that is right O ye sons of men 2 Yea ye imagine mischief in your heart upon the earth and your hands deal with wickedness 3 The ungodly are froward even from their mothers womb as soon as they are born they go astray and speak lies 4 They are as venemous as the poison of a serpent even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer charm he never so wisely 6 Break their teeth O God in their mouths smite the jaw-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 snail and be like the untimely fruit of a woman and let them not see the sun 8 Or ever your pots be made hot with thorns so let indignation vex him even as a thing that is raw 9 The righteous shall rejoyce when he seeth the vengeance he shall wash his footsteps in the bloud of the ungodly 10 So that a man shall say Verily there is a reward for the righteous doubtless there is a God that judgeth the earth Evening Prayer Eripe me de inimicis Psal 59. DEliver me from mine enemies O God defend
accept the persons of the ungodly 3 Defend the poor and fatherless see that such as are in need and necessity have right 4 Deliver the out-cast and poor save them from the hand of the ungodly 5 They will not be learned nor understand but walk on still in darkness all the foundations of the earth are out of course 6 I have said Ye are gods and ye are all the children of the most Highest 7 But ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes 8 Arise O God and judge thou the earth for thou shalt take all heathen to thine inheritance Deus quis similis Psal 83. HOld not thy tongue O God keep not still silence refrain not thy self 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 counsel 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 Edomites and the Ismaelites the Moabites and Hagarens 7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalech the Philistines with them that dwell at Tyre 8 Assur also is joyned with them and have holpen the children of Lot 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites unto Sisera and unto Jabin at the brook of Kison 10 Who 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 Who 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 wind 14 Like as the fire that burneth up the wood and as the flame that consumeth the mountains 15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storm 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 Jehovah art only the most Highest over all the earth Quam dilecta Psal 84. O How amiable are thy dwellings thou Lord of hosts 2 My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh rejoyce 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 ways 6 Who going through the vale of misery use it for a well and the pools 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 hear my prayer hearken O God of Jacob. 9 Behold O God our defender and look upon the face of thine anointed 10 For one day in thy courts is better then a thousand 11 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God then to dwell in the tents of ungodliness 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 Benedixisti Domine Psal 85. LOrd thou art become gracious unto thy land thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people and covered all their sins 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure and turned thy self from thy wrathful indignation DAY xvii 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 again and quicken us that thy people may rejoyce 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 turn not again 9 For his salvation is nigh them that fear him that glory may dwell in our land 10 Mercy and truth are met together righteousness and peace have kissed each other 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousness hath looked down from heaven 12 Yea the Lord shall shew loving kindness and our land shall give her increase 13 Righteousness shall go before him and he shall direct his going in the way Morning Prayer Inclina Domine Psal 86. BOW down thine ear O Lord and hear me for I am poor and in misery 2 Preserve thou my soul for I am holy my God save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee 3 Be merciful unto me O Lord for I will call daily upon thee 4 Comfort the soul of thy servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soul 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6 Give ear Lord unto my prayer and ponder the voice 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 wondrous things thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walk in thy truth O knit my heart unto thee that I may fear thy Name 12 I will thank 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 soul from the nethermost hell 14 O God the proud are risen against me and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lord God art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering plenteous in goodness and truth 16 O turn thee then unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and help the son of thine handmaid 17 Shew some token upon me for good that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Fundamenta ejus Psal 87. HEr foundations are upon the holy hills the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more then all the dwellings of Jacob. 2 Very excellent things are
spoken of thee thou city of God 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon with them that know me 4 Behold ye the Philistines also and they of Tyre with the Morians lo there was he born 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was born in her and the most High shall stablish her 6 The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people that he was born there 7 The singers also and trumpeters shall he rehearse all my fresh springs shall be in thee Domine Deus Psal 88. O Lord God of my salvation I have cried day and night before thee O let my prayer enter into thy presence incline thine ear unto my calling 2 For my soul 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 are wounded and lie in the grave who are out of remembrance and are cut away from thy hand 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in a place of darkness and in the deep 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms 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 forth my hands unto thee 10 Dost thou shew wonders among the dead or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee 11 Shall thy loving kindness be shewed in the grave or thy faithfulness in destruction 12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark and thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten 13 Unto thee have I cried O Lord and early shall my prayer come before thee 14 Lord why abhorrest thou my soul 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 mind 16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me and the fear 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 Evening Prayer Misericondias Domini Psal 89. MY song shall be alway of the loving kindness 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 sworn 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 heavaens shall praise thy wondrous works 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 councel 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 mighty arm 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 Hermon shall rejoyce in thy Name 14 Thou hast a mighty arm strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand 15 Righteousness and equity are the habitation of thy seat mercy and truth shall go before thy face 16 Blessed is the people O Lord that can rejoyce in thee they shall walk in the light of thy countenance 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name and in thy righteousness shall they make their boast 18 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy loving kindness thou shalt lift up our horns 19 For the Lord is our defence the holy One of Israel is our King 20 Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints and saidst I have laid help upon one that is mighty I have exalted one chosen out of the people 21 I have found David my servant with my holy oyl have I anointed him 23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence the son of wickedness shall not hurt him 24 I will 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 horn 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-born higher then the kings of the earth 29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him 30 His seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the days of heaven 31 But if his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments 32 If they break my statutes and keep not my commandments I will visit their offences with the rod and their sin with scourges 33 Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my truth to fail 34 My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips I have sworn once by my holiness that I will not fail David 35 His seed shall endure for ever and his seat is like as the sun before me 36 He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon and as the faithful witness in heaven 37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine Anointed and art displeased at him 38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant and cast his crown to the ground 39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges and broken down his strong holds 40 All they that go by spoil him and he is become a reproch to his neighbours 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies and made all his adversaries to rejoyce 42 Thou hast taken away me edge of his sword and givest him not victory in the battel 43 Thou hast put out his glory and cast his throne down to the ground 44 The days of his youth hast thou shortned and covered him with dishonour 45 Lord how long wilt thou hide thy self for ever and shall thy wrath burn like fire 46 O remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all
not see neither shall the God of Jacob regard it 8 Take heed ye unwise among the people O ye fools when will ye understand 9 He that planted the ear shall he not hear 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 adversity until the pit be digged up for the ungodly 14 For the Lord will not fail his people neither will he forsake his inheritance 15 Until righteousness turn again unto judgment all such as are true in heart shall follow it 16 Who will rise up with me against the wicked or who will take my part against the evil doers 17 If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my soul had been put to silence 18 But when I said My foot hath slipped thy mercy O Lord held me up 19 In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart thy comforts have refreshed my soul 20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stool of wickedness which imagineth mischief as a law 21 They gather them together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent bloud 22 But the Lord is my refuge and my God is the strength of my confidence DAY xix 23 He shall recompense them their wickedness and destroy them in their own malice yea the Lord our God shall destroy them Morning Prayer Venite exultemus Psal 95. O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and shew our selves glad in him with psalms 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 hills is his also 5 The sea is his and he made it and his hands prepared the dry 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 hand 8 To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness 9 When your fathers tempted me proved me and saw my works 10 Fourty years long was I grieved with this generation and said It is a people that do err in their hearts for they have not known my ways 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest Cantate Domino Psal 96. O Sing unto the Lord a new song sing unto the Lord all the whole earth 2 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 are 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 holiness let the whole earth stand in awe of him 10 Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is King and that it is he who hath made the round world so fast that it cannot be moved and how that he shall judge the people righteously 11 Let the heavens rejoyce and let the earth be glad let the sea make a noise and all that therein is 12 Let the field be joyful and all that is in it then shall all the trees of the wood rejoyce before the Lord. 13 For he cometh for he cometh to judge the earth and with righteousness to judge the world and the people with his truth Dominus regnavit Psal 97. THe Lord is King the earth may be glad thereof yea the multitude of the isles may be glad thereof 2 Clouds and darkness are round about him righteousness and judgment 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 wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth 6 The heavens have declared his righteousness 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 rejoyced and the daughters of Juda were glad because of thy judgments O Lord. 9 For thou Lord art higher then all that are in the earth thou art exalted far above all gods 10 O ye that love the Lord see that ye hate the thing which 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 joyful gladness for such as are true-hearted 12 Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness Evening Prayer Cantate Domino Psal 98. O Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things 2 With his own right hand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory 3 The Lord declared his salvation his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen 4 He hath remembred his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God 5 Shew your selves joyful unto the Lord all ye lands sing rejoyce and give thanks 6 Praise the Lord upon the harp sing to the harp with a psalm of thanksgiving 7 With trumpets also and shawms O shew your selves joyful 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 joyful together before the Lord for he is come to judge the earth 10 With righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity Dominus regnavit Psal 99. 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 above all people 3 They shall give thanks unto thy Name which is great wonderful and holy 4 The kings power loveth
15 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass and smitten the bars of iron in sunder 17 Foolish men are plagued for their offence and because of their wickedness 18 Their soul abhorred all manner of meat and they were even hard at deaths door 19 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distress 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 goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men 22 That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving and tell out his works with gladness 23 They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters 24 These men see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep 25 For at his word the stormy wind ariseth which lifteth up the waves thereof 26 They are carried up to the heaven and down again to the deep their soul melteth away because of the trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits end 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble he delivereth them out of their distress 29 For he maketh the storm to cease so that the waves thereof are still 30 Then are they glad because they are 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 goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men 32 That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders 33 Who turneth the flouds into a wilderness and drieth up the water-springs 34 A fruitful land maketh he barren for the wickedness of them that dwell therein 35 Again he maketh the wilderness a standing water and water-springs of a dry ground 36 And there he setteth the hungry that they may build them a city to dwell in 37 That they may sow their land and plant vineyards to yield them fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them so that they multiply exceedingly and suffereth not their cattle 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 evil intreated through tyrants and let them wander out of the way in the wilderness 41 Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery and maketh him housholds like a flock of sheep 42 The righteous will consider this and rejoyce and the mouth of all wickedness shall be stopped 43 Whoso is wise will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. Evening Prayer Paratum cor meum Psal 108. O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best member that I have 2 Awake thou lute and harp I my self will awake right early 3 I will give thanks unto thee O Lord among the people I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 4 For thy mercy is greater then the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds 5 Set up thy self 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 hear thou me 7 God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce therefore and divide Sichem and mete out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of my head 9 Juda is my law-giver Moab is my wash-pot over Edom will I cast out my shoe upon Philistia 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 help us against the enemy for vain is the help of man 13 Through God we shall do great acts and it is he that shall tread down our enemies Deus laudum Psal 109. HOld not thy tongue O God of my praise for the mouth of the ungodly yea the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me 2 And they have 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 take now my contrary part but I give my self unto prayer 4 Thus have they rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my good will 5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him and let Satan stand at his right hand 6 When sentence is given upon him let him be condemned and let his prayer be turned into sin 7 Let his days be few and let another take his office 8 Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow 9 Let his children be vagabonds and beg their bread let them seek it also out of desolate places 10 Let the extortioner consume all that he hath and let the stranger spoil his labour 11 Let there be no man to pity him nor to have compassion upon his fatherless children 12 Let his posterity be destroyed and in the next generation let his name be clean put out 13 Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord and let not the sin of his mother be done away 14 Let them alway be before the Lord that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth 15 And that because his mind was not to do good but persecuted the poor helpless man that he might slay him that was vexed at the heart 16 His delight was in cursing and it shall happen unto him he loved not blessing therefore shall it be far from him 17 He clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment and it shall come into his bowels like water and like oyl into his bones 18 Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon him and as the girdle that he is alway girded withal 19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies and to those that speak evil against my soul DAY xxiii 20 But deal thou with me O Lord God according unto thy Name for sweet is thy mercy 21 O deliver me for I am helpless and poor and my heart is wounded within me 22 I go hence like the shadow that departeth and am driven away as the grashopper 23 My knees are weak through fasting my flesh is dried up for want of fatness 24 I became also a reproch unto them they that looked upon me shaked their heads 25 Help me O Lord my God O save me according to thy mercy 26 And they shall know how that this is thy hand and that thou Lord
trouble and heaviness and I will call upon the Name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul 5 Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is merciful 6 The Lord preserveth the simple I was in misery and he helped me 7 Turn again then unto thy 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 walk before the Lord in the land of the living 10 I believed and therefore will I speak but I was sore troubled I said in my haste 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 son 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 midst of thee O Jerusalem Praise the Lord. Laudate Dominum Psal 117. O Praise the Lord all ye heathen praise him all ye nations 2 For his merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Praise the Lord. Confitemini Domino Psal 118. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious because his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let Israel now confess that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now confess that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Yea let them now that fear the Lord confess 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 fear what man doeth 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 man 9 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in princes 10 All nations compassed me round about but in the Name of the Lord will I destroy them 11 They kept me in on every side they kept me in I say on every side but in the Name of the Lord will I destroy them 12 They came about me like bees and are extinct even as the fire among the thorns for in the Name of the Lord I will destroy them 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord was my help 14 The Lord is my strength and my song and is become my salvation 15 The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass 16 The right hand of the Lord hath the preeminence the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass 17 I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord hath chastened and corrected me but he hath not given me over unto death 19 Open me the gates of righteousness that I may go into them and give thanks unto the Lord. 20 This is the gate of the Lord the righteous shall enter into it 21 I will thank thee for thou hast heard me and art become my salvation 22 The same stone which the builders refused is become the head-stone in the corner 23 This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it 25 Help me now O Lord O Lord send us now prosperity 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the Name of the Lord we have wished you good luck ye that are of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord who hath shewed us light bind the sacrifice with cords yea even unto the horns of the altar 28 Thou art my God and I will thank thee thou art my God and I will praise thee 29 O give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever Evening Prayer Beati immaculati Psal 119. BLessed are those that are undefiled in the way and walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and seek him with their whole heart 3 For they who do no wickedness walk in his ways 4 Thou hast charged that we shall diligently keep thy commandments 5 O that my ways were made so direct that I might keep thy statutes 6 So shall I not be confounded while I have respect unto all thy commandments 7 I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart when I shall have learned the judgments of thy righteousness 8 I will keep thy ceremonies O forsake me not utterly In que corriget WHerewithal shall a young man cleanse his way even by ruling himself after thy word 2 With my whole heart have I sought thee O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments 3 Thy words have I hid within my heart that I should not sin against thee 4 Blessed art thou O Lord O teach me thy statutes 5 With my lips have I been telling of all the judgments of thy mouth 6 I have had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies as in all manner of riches 7 I will talk of thy commandments and have respect unto thy ways 8 My delight shall be in thy statutes and I will not forget thy word Retribue servo tuo O Do well unto thy servant that I may live and keep the word 2 Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wondrous things of thy law 3 I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy commandments from me 4 My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire that it hath alway unto thy judgments 5 Thou hast rebuked the proud and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments 6 O turn from me shame and rebuke for I have kept thy testimonies DAY xxv 7 Princes also did sit and speak against me but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes 8 For thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellers Adhaesit pavimento MY soul cleaveth to the dust O quicken thou me according to thy word 2 I have knowledged my ways and thou heardest me O teach me thy statutes 3 Make me to understand the way of thy commandments and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works 4 My soul melteth away for very heaviness comfort thou me according unto thy word 5 Take from me the way of lying and cause thou me to make much of thy
remember David and all his trouble 2 How he sware unto the Lord and vowed a vow unto the Almighty God of Jacob 3 I will not come within the tabernacle of mine house nor climb 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 Until I find out a place for the temple of the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. 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 ark of thy strength 9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness and let thy saints sing with joyfulness 10 For thy servant Davids sake turn not away the presence of thine Anointed 11 The Lord hath made a faithful oath unto David and he shall not shrink from it 12 Of the fruit of thy body shall I set upon thy seat 13 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall learn them their children also shall fit upon thy seat for evermore 14 For the Lord hath chosen Sion to be an habitation for himself he hath longed for her 15 This shall my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have a delight therein 16 I will bless her victuals with increase and will satisfie her poor with bread 17 I will deck her priests with health and her saints shall rejoyce and sing 18 There shall I make the horn of David to flourish I have ordained a lantern for mine Anointed 19 As for his enemies I shall clothe them with shame but upon himself shall his crown flourish Ecce quam bonum Psal 133. BEhold how good and joyful a thing it is brethren to dwell together in unity 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down unto the beard even 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 evermore Ecce nunc Psal 134. BEhold now praise the Lord all ye servants of the Lord 2 Ye 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 heaven and earth give thee blessing out of Sion Laudate Nomen Psal 135. O Praise the Lord laud ye the Name of the Lord praise it O ye servants of the Lord 2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord in the courts of the house of our God 3 O praise the Lord for the Lord is gracious O sing praises unto his Name for it is lovely 4 For why the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself and Israel for his own possession 5 For I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is above all gods 6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased that did he in heaven and in earth 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 winds out of his treasures 8 He smote the first-born 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 servants 10 He smote divers nations and slew mighty kings 11 Sehon king of the Amorites and Og the king of Basan and all the kingdoms of Canaan 12 And gave their land to be an heritage even an heritage unto Israel his people 13 Thy Name O Lord endureth for ever so doth thy memorial O Lord from one generation to another 14 For the Lord will avenge his people and be gracious unto his servants 15 As for the images of the heathen they are but silver and gold the work of mens hands 16 They have mouths and speak not eyes have they but they see not 17 They have ears and yet they hear not neither is there any breath in their mouths 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 Levi ye that fear the Lord praise the Lord. 21 Praised be the Lord out of Sion who dwelleth at Jerusalem Evening Prayer Confitemini Psal 136. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 O give thanks unto the God of all gods for his mercy endureth for ever 3 O thank the Lord of all lords for his mercy enduceth for ever 4 Who only doeth great Wonders for his mercy endureth for ever 5 Who by his excellent wisdom made the heavens for his mercy endureth for ever 6 Who laid out the earth above the waters for his mercy endureth for ever 7 Who hath made great lights for his mercy endureth for ever 8 The sun to rule the day for his mercy endureth for ever 9 The moon and the stars to govern the night for his mercy endureth for ever 10 Who smote Egypt with their first-born for his mercy endureth for ever 11 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for ever 12 With a mighty hand and stretched-out arm for his mercy endureth for ever 13 Who divided the Red sea in two parts for his mercy endureth for ever 14 And made Israel to go through the midst of it for his mercy endureth for ever 15 But as for Pharaoh and his host he overthrew them in the Red sea for his mercy endureth for ever 16 Who led his people through the wilderness for his mercy endureth for ever 17 Who smote great kings for his mercy endureth for ever 18 Yea and slew mighty kings for his mercy endureth for ever 19 Sehon king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for ever 20 And Og the king of Basan for his mercy endureth for ever 21 And gave away their land for an heritage for his mercy endureth for ever 22 Even for an heritage unto Israel his servant for his mercy endureth for ever 23 Who remembred us when we were in trouble for his mercy endureth for ever 24 And hath delivered us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for ever 25 Who giveth food to all flesh for his mercy endureth for ever 26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven for his mercy endureth for ever 27 O give thanks unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for ever Super flumina Psal 137. BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembred thee O Sion 2 As for our harps we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein 3 For they that led us away captive required of us then a song and
melody in our heaviness Sing us one of the songs of Sion DAY xxix 4 How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land 5 If I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand forget her cunning 6 If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth yea if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth 7 Remember the children of Edom O Lord in the day of Jerusalem 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 Confitebor tibi Psal 138. I Will give thanks 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 kindness 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 soul 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 ways 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 afar off 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble yet shalt thou refresh me thou shalt stretch forth thy hand upon the furiousness of mine enemies and thy right hand shall save me 8 The Lord shall make good his loving kindness toward me yea thy mercy O Lord endureth for ever despise not then the works of thine own hands Morning Prayer Domine probasti Psal 139. 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 ways 3 For lo there is not a word in my tongue but thou O Lord knowest it altogether 4 Thou hast fashioned me behind and before and laid thine hand upon me 5 Such knowledge is too wonderful 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 climb 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 darkness shall cover me then shall my night be turned today 11 Yea the darkness is no darkness with thee but the night is as clear as the day the darkness and light to thee are both alike 12 For my reins are thine thou hast covered me in my mothers womb 13 I will give thanks unto thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy works 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 dear are thy counsels unto me O God O how great is the sum of them 18 If I tell them they are mo 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 Try 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 wickedness in me and lead me in the way everlasting Eripe me Domine Psal 140. DEliver me O Lord from the evil man and preserve me from the wicked man 2 Who imagine mischief in their hearts and stir up strife all the day long 3 They have sharpned 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 who 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 health thou hast covered my head in the day of battel 8 Let not the ungodly have his desire O Lord let not his mischievous imagination prosper left they be too proud 9 Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about 10 Let hot burning coals fall upon them let them be cast into the fire and into the pit that they never rise up again 11 A man full of words shall not prosper upon the earth evil shall hunt the wicked person to overthrow him 12 Sure I am that the Lord will avenge the poor and maintain the cause of the helpless 13 The righteous also shall give thanks unto thy Name and the just shall continue in thy sight Domine clamavi Psal 141. LOrd I call upon thee haste thee unto me and consider my voice when I cry unto thee 2 Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening-sacrifice 3 Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and keep the door of my lips 4 O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickedness lest I eat of such things as please them 5 Let the righteous rather smite me friendly and reprove me 6 But let not their precious balms break my head yea I will pray yet against their wickedness 7 Let their judges be overthrown in stony places that they may hear my words for they are sweet 8 Our bones lie scattered before the pit like as when one breaketh and heweth wood upon the earth 9 But mine eyes look unto thee O Lord God in thee is my trust O cast not out my soul 10 Keep me from the snare that they have laid for me and from the traps of the wicked doers 11 Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together and let me ever escape them Evening Prayer Voce mea ad Dominum Psal 142. I Cried unto the Lord with my voice yea even unto the Lord did I make my
supplication 2 I poured out my complaints before him and shewed him of my trouble 3 When my spirit was in heaviness thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me 4 I looked also upon my right hand and saw there was no man that would know me 5 I had no place to flee unto and no man cared for my soul 6 I cried unto thee O Lord and said Thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the living 7 Consider my complaint for I am brought very low 8 O deliver me from my persecutors for they are too strong for me 9 Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks unto thy Name which thing if thou wilt grant me then shall the righteous resort unto my company Domine exaudi Psal 143. HEar my prayer O Lord and consider my desire hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousness sake 2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul he hath smitten my life down to the ground he hath laid me in the darkness as the men that have been long dead 4 Therefore is my spirit vexed within me and my heart within me is desolate 5 Yet do I remember the time past I muse upon all thy works yea I exercise my self in the works of thy hands 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee my soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land 7 Hear me O Lord and that soon for my spirit waxeth faint hide not thy face from me lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit DAY xxx 8 O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the morning for in thee is my trust shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soul unto thee 9 Deliver me O Lord from mine enemies for I flee unto thee to hide me 10 Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee for thou art my God let thy loving Spirit lead me forth into the land of righteousness 11 Quicken me O Lord for thy Names sake and for thy righteousness sake bring my soul out of trouble 12 And of thy goodness slay mine enemies and destroy all them that vex my soul for I am thy servant Morning Prayer Benedictus Dominus Psal 144. BLessed be the Lord my strength who teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight 2 My hope and my fortress my castle and deliverer my defender in whom I trust who subdueth my people that is under me 3 Lord what is man that thou hast such respect unto him or the son of man that thou so regardest him 4 Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth away like a shadow 5 Bowe thy heavens O Lord and come down touch the mountains and they shall smoke 6 Cast forth thy lightning and tear them shoot out thine arrows and consume them 7 Send down thine hand from above deliver 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 wickedness 9 I will sing a new song unto thee O God and sing praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed lute 10 Thou hast given victory unto kings and hast delivered David thy servant from the peril 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 sons 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 plenteous 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 leading into captivity and no complaining in our streets 15 Happy are the people that are in such a case yea blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God Exaltabo te Deus Psal 145. 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 greatness 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 wondrous works 6 So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvellous acts and I will also tell of thy greatness 7 The memorial of thine abundant kindness shall be shewed and men shall sing of thy righteousness 8 The Lord is gracious and merciful long-suffering and of great goodness 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 kingdom and talk of thy power 12 That thy power thy glory and mightiness of thy kingdom might be known unto men 13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages 14 The Lord upholdeth all such as fall and lifteth up all those that are down 15 The eyes 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 plenteousness 17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways 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 fulfil 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 forever and ever Lauda anima mea Psal 146. 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 Jacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God 5 Who made heaven and earth the sea and all that therein is who keepeth his promise for ever 6 Who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong who feedeth the hungry 7 The Lord looseth men out of prison the Lord giveth sight to the blind 8 The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the righteous 9 The Lord careth for the strangers
he defendeth the fatherless and widow as for the way of the ungodly he turneth it upside down 10 The Lord thy God O Sion shall be King for evermore and throughout all generations Evening Prayer Laudate Dominum Psal 147. O Praise the Lord for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea a joyful and pleasant thing it is to he thankful 2 The Lord doth build up Jerusalem and gather together the out-casts of Israel 3 He healeth those that are broken in heart and giveth medicine to heal their sickness 4 He telleth the number of the stars and calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and great is his power yea and his wisdom is infinite 6 The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground 7 O sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving sing praises upon the harp unto our God 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds and prepareth rain for the earth and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains and herb for the use of men 9 Who giveth fodder unto the cattel 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 fear him and put their trust in his mercy 12 Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Sion 13 For he hath made fast the bars of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee 14 He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the flour 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 wind and the waters flow 19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and ordinances unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws Laudate Dominum Psal 148. O Praise the Lord of heaven praise him in height 2 Praise him all ye angels of his praise him all his host 3 Praise him sun and moon praise him all ye stars and light 4 Praise him all ye heavens and ye waters that are 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 Lord upon earth ye dragons and all deeps 8 Fire and hail snow and vapours wind and storm fulfilling his word 9 Mountains and all hills fruitful trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattel worms and feathered fowls 11 Kings of the earth and all people princes and all judges of the world 12 Young men and maidens old men and children praise the Name of the Lord for his Name only is excellent and his praise above heaven and earth 13 He shall exalt the horn of his people all his saints shall praise him even the children of Israel even the people that serveth him Cantate Domino Psal 149. O Sing unto the Lord a new song let the congregation of saints praise him 2 Let Israel rejoyce in him that made him and let the children of Sion be joyful in their King 3 Let them praise his Name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with tabret and harp 4 For the Lord hath pleasure in his people and helpeth the meek-hearted 5 Let the saints be joyful with glory let them rejoyce 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 bind their kings in chains and their nobles with links of iron 9 That they may be avenged of them as it is written Such honour have all his saints Laudate Dominum Psal 150. O Praise God in his holiness praise him in the firmament of his power 2 Praise him in his noble acts praise him according to his excellent greatness 3 Praise him in the sound of the trumpet praise him upon the lute and harp 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 the loud cymbals 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Forms of Prayer to be used at SEA ¶ The Morning and Evening Service to be used daily at Sea shall be the same which is appointed in the Book of Common Prayer ¶ These two following Prayers are to be also used in His Majesties Navy every day O Eternal Lord God who alone spreadest out the heavens and rulest the raging of the sea who hast compassed the waters with bounds until day and night come to an end Be pleased to receive into thy Almighty and most gracious protection the persons of us thy servants and the Fleet in which we serve Preserve us from the dangers of the Sea and from the violence of the enemy that we may be a safeguard unto our most gracious Sovereign Lord King WILLIAM and his Kingdoms and a security for such as pass on the Seas upon their lawful occasions that the Inhabitants of our Island may in peace and quietness serve thee our God and that we may return in safety to enjoy the blessings of the land with the fruits of our labours and with a thankful remembrance of thy mercies to praise and glorifie thy Holy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Collect. PRevent us O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious favour and further us with thy continual help that in all our works begun continued and ended in thee we may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prayers to be used in Storms at Sea O Most powerful and glorious Lord God at whose command the winds blow and lift up the waves of the Sea and who stillest the rage thereof We thy creatures but miserable sinners do in this our great distress cry unto thee for help save Lord or else we perish We confess when we have been safe and seen all things quiet about us we have forgot thee our God and refused to hearken to the still voice of thy Word and to obey thy commandments But now we see how terrible thou art in all thy works of wonder the great God to be feared above all and therefore we adore thy divine Majesty acknowledging thy power and imploring thy goodness Help Lord and save us for thy mercies sake in Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen Or this O Most glorious and gracious Lord God who dwellest in heaven but beholdest all things below Look down we beseech thee and hear us calling out of
the depth of misery and out of the jaws of this death which is ready now to swallow us up Save Lord or else we perish The living the living shall praise thee O send thy word of command to rebuke the raging winds and the roring sea that we being delivered from this distress may live to serve thee and to glorifie thy Name all the days of our life Hear Lord and save us for the infinite merits of our blessed Saviour thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ Amen The prayer to be said before a fight at Sea against any Enemy O Most powerful and glorious Lord God the Lord of hosts that rulest and commandest all things Thou sittest in the Throne judging right and therefore we make our Address to thy divine Majesty in this our necessity that thou wouldst take the cause into thine own hand and judge between us and our enemies Stir up thy strength O Lord and come and help us for thou givest not alway the battel to the strong but canst save by many or by few O let not our sins now cry against us for vengeance but hear us thy poor servants begging mercy and imploring thy help and that thou wouldst be a defence unto us against the face of the enemy Make it appear that thou art our Savior and mighty Deliverer through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Short Prayers for single Persons that cannot meet to joyn in Prayer with others by reason of the Fight or Storm General Prayers LOrd be merciful to us sinners and save us for thy mercies sake Thou art the great God that hast made and rulest all things O deliver us for thy Names sake Thou art the great God to be feared above all O save us that we may praise thee Special Prayers with respect to the Enemy THou O Lord art just and powerful O defend our cause against the face of the Enemy O God thou art a strong tower of defence to all that flee unto thee O save us from the violence of the Enemy O Lord of hosts fight for us that we may glorifie thee O suffer us not to sink under the weight of our sins or the violence of the enemy O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake Short Prayers in respect of a Storm THou O Lord that stillest the raging of the sea hear hear us and save us that we perish not O blessed Saviour that didst save thy disciples ready to perish in a Storm hear us and save us we beseech thee Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us O Lord hear us O Christ hear us God the Father God the Son God the holy Ghost have mercy upon us save us now and evermore OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom the power and the glory For ever and ever Amen ¶ When there shall be imminent danger as many as can be spared from necessary service in the Ship shall be called together and make an humble Confession of their sins to God In which every one ought seriously to reflect upon those particular sins of which his conscience shall accuse him Saying as followeth The confession ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ Maker of all things Judge of all men We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness Which we from time to time most grievously have committed By thought word and deed Against thy divine Majesty Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us We do earnestly repent And be heartily sorry for these our misdoings The remembrance of them is grievous unto us The burden of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most merciful Father For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ sake Forgive us all that is past And grant that we may ever hereafter Serve and please thee In newness of life To the honour and glory of thy Name Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the Priest if there be any in the Ship Pronounce this Absolution ALmighty God our heavenly Father who of his great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins to all them which with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your sins confirm and strengthen you in all goodness and bring you to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Thanksgiving after a Storm Jubilate Deo Psal 66. O Be joyful in God all ye lands sing praises unto the honour of his Name make his praise to be glorious Say unto God O how wonderful art thou in thy works through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies be found liars unto thee For all the world shall worship thee sing of thee and praise thy Name O come hither and behold the works of God how wonderful he is in his doing towards the children of men He turned the sea into dry land so that they went through the water on foot there did we rejoyce thereof He ruleth with his power for ever his eyes behold the people and such as will not believe shall not be able to exalt themselves O praise our God ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard Who holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to slip For thou O God hast proved us thou also hast tried us like as silver is tried Thou broughtest us into the snare and laidst trouble upon our loyns Thou sufferedst men to ride over our heads we went through fire and water and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings and will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices with the incense of rams I will offer bullocks and goats O come hither and hearken all ye that fear God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul I called unto him with my mouth and gave him praises with my tongue If I incline unto wickedness with my heart the Lord will not hear me But God hath heard me and considered the voice of my prayer Praised be God who hath not cast out my prayer nor turned his mercy from me Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Confitemini Domino Psal 107. O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy And gathered them out of the lands from the east and
from the west from the north and from the south They went astray in the wilderness out of the way and found no city to dwell in Hungry and thirsty their soul fainted in them So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distress He led them forth by the right way that they might go to the city where they dwelt O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men For he satisfieth the empty soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness Such as fit in darkness and in the shadow of death being fast bound in misery and iron Because they rebelled against the words of the Lord and lightly regarded the counsel of most Highest He also brought down their heart through heaviness they fell down and there was none to help them up So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distress For he brought them out of darkness and out of the shadow of death and brake their bonds in sunder O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men For he hath broken the gates of brass and smitten the bars of iron in sunder Foolish men are plagued for their offence and because of their wickedness Their soul abhorred all manner of meat and they were even hard at deaths door So when they cryed unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distress He sent his word and healed them and they were saved from their destruction O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving and tell out his works with gladness They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their business in great waters These men see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep For at his word the stormy wind ariseth which lifteth up the waves thereof They are carried up to the heaven and down again to the deep their soul melteth away because of the trouble They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits end So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble he delivereth them out of their distress For he maketh the storm to cease so that the waves thereof are still Then are they glad because they are at rest and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders Who turneth the flouds into a wilderness and drieth up the water-springs A fruitful land maketh he barren for the wickedness of them that dwell therein Again he maketh the wilderness a standing water and water-springs of a dry ground And there he setteth the hungry that they may build them a city to dwell in That they may sow their land and plant vineyards to yield them fruits of increase He blesseth them so that they multiply exceedingly and suffereth not their cattel to decrease And again when they are minished and brought low through oppression through any plague or trouble Though he suffer them to be evil-entreated through tyrants and let them wander out of the way in the wilderness Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery and maketh him housholds like a flock of sheep The righteous will consider this and rejoyce and the mouth of all wickedness shall be â—…pped Whoso is wise will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Collects of Thanksgiving O Most blessed and glorious Lord God who art of infinite goodness and mercy We thy poor creatures whom thou hast made and preserved holding our souls in life and now rescuing us out of the jaws of death humbly present our selves again before thy Divine Majesty to offer a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for that thou heardest us when we called in our trouble and didst not cast out our prayer which we made before thee in our great distress even when we gave all for lost our Ship our Goods our Lives then didst thou mercifully look upon us and wonderfully command a deliverance for which we now being in safety do give all praise and glory to thy holy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this O Most mighty and gracious good God thy mercy is over all thy works but in special manner hath been extended toward us whom thou hast so powerfully and wonderfully defended Thou hast shewed us terrible things and wonders in the deep that we might see how powerful and gracious a God thou art how able and ready to help them that trust in thee Thou hast shewed us how both Winds and Seas obey thy command that we may learn even from them hereafter to obey thy voice and to do thy will We therefore bless and glorifie thy Name for this thy mercy in saving us when we were ready to perish And we beseech thee make us as truly sensible now of thy mercy as we were then of the danger And give us hearts always ready to express our thankfulness not only by words but also by our lives in being more obedient to thy holy commandments Continue we beseech thee this thy goodness to us that we whom thou hast saved may serve thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen A Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving after a dangerous Tempest O Come let us give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath delivered from the merciless rage of the sea The Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercy He hath not dealt with us according to our sins neither rewarded us according to our iniquities But as the heaven is high above the earth so great hath been his mercy towards us We found trouble and heaviness we were even at deaths door The waters of the sea had well nigh covered us the proud waters had well nigh gone over our soul The sea rored and the stormy wind lifted up the waves thereof We were carried up as it were to heaven and then down again into the deep our soul melted within us because of trouble Then cried we unto thee O Lord and thou didst deliver us out of our distress Blessed be thy Name who didst not dispise the
prayer of thy servants but didst hear our cry and hast saved us Thou didst send forth thy commandment and the windy storm ceased and was turned into a calm O let us therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he hath done and still doeth for the children of men Praised be the Lord daily even the Lord that helpeth us and poureth his benefits upon us He is our God even the God of whom cometh salvation God is the Lord by whom we have escaped death Thou Lord hast made us glad through the operation of thy hands and we will triumph in thy praise Blessed be the Lord God even the Lord God who only doeth wondrous things And blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever and let every one of us say Amen Amen Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all now and for evermore Amen After Victory or Deliverance from an Enemy ¶ A Psalm or Hymn of Praise and thanksgiving after Victory IF the Lord had not been on our side now may we say if the Lord himself had not been on our side when men rose up against us They had swallowed us up quick when they were so wrathfully displeased at us Yea the waters had drowned us and the stream had gone over our soul the deep waters of the proud had gone over our soul But praised be the Lord who hath not given us over as a prey unto them The Lord hath wrought a mighty salvation for us We gat not this by our own sword neither was it our own arm that saved us but thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a favour unto us The Lord hath appeared for us the Lord hath covered our heads and made us to stand in the day of battel The Lord hath appeared for us the Lord hath overthrown our enemies and dashed in pieces those that rose up against us Therefore not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be given the glory The Lord hath done great things for us the Lord hath done great things for us for which we rejoyce Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord who hath made heaven and earth Blessed be the Name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ After this Hymn may be sung the Te Deum ¶ Then this Collect. O Almighty God the Sovereign Commander of all the world in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand We bless and magnifie thy great and glorious Name for this happy Victory the whole glory whereof we do ascribe to thee who art the only giver of Victory And we beseech thee give us grace to improve this great mercy to thy glory the advancement of thy Gospel the honour of our Sovereigns and as much as in us lieth to the good of all mankind And we beseech thee give us such a sense of this great mercy as may engage us to a true thankfulness such as may appear in our lives by an humble holy and obedient walking before thee all our days through Jesus Christ our Lord To whom with thee and the holy Spirit as for all thy mercies so in particular for this Victory and deliverance be all glory and honour world without end Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen At the Burial of their Dead at Sea ¶ THe Office in the Common Prayer-Book may be used Only in stead of these words We therefore commit his Body to the Ground Earth to Earth c. say We therefore commit his Body to the Deep to be turned into corruption looking for the resurrection of the Body when the Sea shall give up her Dead and the life of the world to come through our Lord Jesus Christ who at his coming shall change our vile Body that it may be like his glorious Body according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself THE Form and Manner OF Making Ordaining and Consecrating OF Bishops Priests and Deacons According to the Order of the Church of England THE PREFACE IT is evident unto all men diligently reading holy Scripture and Ancient Authors that from the Apostles time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church Bishops Priests and Deacons Which Offices were evermore had in such Reverend estimation that no man might presume to execute any of them except he were first Called Tried Examined and Known to have such Qualities as are requisite for the same and also by publick Prayer with Imposition of Hands were approved and admitted thereunto by lawful Authority And therefore to the intent that these Orders may be continued and reverently used and esteemed in the Church of England No man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful Bishop Priest or Deacon in the Church of England or suffered to execute any of the said Functions except he be Called Tried Examined and Admitted thereunto according to the Form hereafter following or hath had formerly Episcopal Consecration or Ordination And none shall be Admitted a Deacon except he be Twenty three years of age unless he have a Faculty And every man which is to be Admitted a Priest shall be full Four and twenty years old And every man which is to be Ordained or Consecrated Bishop shall be fully Thirty years of age And the Bishop knowing either by himself or by sufficient testimony any Person to be a Man of virtuous Conversation and without Crime and after Examination and Trial finding him learned in the Latin Tongue and sufficiently Instructed in holy Scripture may at the times appointed in the Canon or else upon urgent occasion on some other Sunday or Holy-day in the face of the Church Admit him a Deacon in such Manner and Form as hereafter followeth THE Form and Manner of Making of Deacons ¶ WHen the day appointed by the Bishop is come after Morning Prayer is ended there shall be a Sermon or Exhortation declaring the Duty and Office of such as come to be admitted Deacons how necessary that Order is in the Church of Christ and also how the People ought to esteem them in their Office ¶ First the Arch-Deacon or his Deputy shall present unto the Bishop sitting in his Chair near to the holy Table such as desire to be Ordained Deacons each of them being decently habited saying these words REverend Father in God I present unto you these persons present to
be admitted Deacons ¶ The Bishop TAke heed that the persons whom ye present unto us be apt and meet for their learning and godly conversation to exercise their Ministry duly to the honour of God and the edifying of his Church ¶ The Arch-Deacon shall answer I Have enquired of them and also examined them and think them so to be ¶ Then the Bishop shall say unto the People BRethren if there be any of you who knoweth any Impediment or notable Crime in any of these persons presented to be Ordered Deacons for the which he ought not to be admitted to that Office let him come forth in the Name of God and shew what the Crime or Impediment is ¶ And if any great Crime or Impediment be objected the Bishop shall surcease from Ordering that Person until such time as the Party accused shall be found clear of that Crime ¶ Then the Bishop commending such as shall be found meet to be Ordered to the Prayers of the Congregation shall with the Clergy and People present sing or say the Litany with the Prayers as followeth ¶ The Litany and Suffrages O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our fore-fathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good-Lord From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil fron thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from all false doctrine heresie and schism from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloudy Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of judgment Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy servant WILLIAM our most gracious King and Governour That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve CATHERINE the Queen Dowager Her Royal Highness the Princess ANNE of Denmark and all the Royal Family We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless these thy servants now to be admitted to the Order of Deacons or Priests and to pour thy grace upon them that they may duly execute their Office to the edifying of thy Church and the glory of thy holy Name We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute justice and to maintain truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations unity peace and concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that are desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us
good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech thee to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then shall the Priest and the People with him say the Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth As it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Priest O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answer Neither reward us after our iniquities Priest Let us pray O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful Mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine Honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Christ graciously hear us O Lord Christ Priest O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee WE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediatour and Advocate Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall be sung or said the Service for the Communion with the Collect Epistle and Gospel as followeth The Collect. ALmighty God who by thy divine providence hast appointed divers Orders of Ministers in thy Church and didst inspire thine Apostles to choose into the Order of Deacons the first Martyr Saint Stephen with others Mercifully behold these thy servants now called to the like Office and Administration Replenish them so with the truth of thy Doctrine and adorn them with innocency of life that both by word and good example they may faithfully serve thee in this Office to the glory of thy Name and the edification of thy Church through the merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost now and for ever Amen The Epistle 1 Tim. 3.8 LIkewise must the Deacons be grave not double-tongued not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience And let these also first be proved then let them use the Office of a Deacon being found blameless Even so must their wives be grave not slanderers sober faithful in all things Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife ruling their children and their own houses well For they that have used the Office of a Deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus ¶ Or else this out of the Sixth of the Acts of the Apostles Acts 6.2 THen the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables Wherefore brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest report full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom whom we may appoint over this business But we will give our selves continually to prayer and to the ministery of the word And the saying pleased the whole multitude And they chose Stephen a man full of of faith and of the Holy Ghost and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch Whom they set before the Apostles and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them And the word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly and a great company of the Priests were obedient to the faith ¶ And before the Gospel the Bishop sitting in his Chair shall cause the Oath of the Kings Supremacy and against the Power and Authority of all foreign Potentates to be ministred unto every of them that are to be Ordered The Oath of the Kings Sovereignty I A. B. do utterly testifie and declare in my conscience That the Kings Highness is the only supreme Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesses Dominions and Countreys as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or Causes as Temporal And that no foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all foreign Jurisdictions Powers Superiorities and Authorities and do promise That from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highness His Heirs and lawful Successors and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highness His Heirs and Successors or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and the Contents of this Book ¶ Then shall the Bishop examine every one of them that are to be Ordered in the presence of the People after this manner following DO you trust that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon you this Office and
Ps 147.5 The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground verse 6. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the son of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self Psal 80.17 And so will not me go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy name ver 18. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Proper Psalms Lxiv Cxxiv Cxxv. ¶ Proper Lessons The First 2 Sam. XXII Te Denm The second Acts XXIII Jubilate ¶ In the Suffrages after the Creed these shall be inserted and used for the King Priest O Lord save the King People Who putteth his trust in thee Priest Send him help from thy holy place People And evermore mightily defend him Priest Let his enemies have no advantage against him People Let not the wicked approach to hurt him ¶ Instead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two be used ALmighty God who hast in all ages shewed thy Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy holy and eternal truth from the wicked Conspiracies and malicious Practices of all the enemies thereof We yield thee our unfeigned thanks and praise for the wonderful and mighty deliverance of our late gracious Sovereign King James the First the Queen the Prince and all the Royal Branches with the Nobility Clergy and Commons of this Realm then assembled in Parliament by Popish Treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter in a most barbarous and savage manner beyond the examples of former ages From this unnatural Conspiracy not our merit but thy mercy not our foresight but thy providence delivered us And therefore not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be ascribed all honour and glory in all Churches of the saints from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ACcept also most gracious God of our unfeigned thanks for filling our hearts again with joy and gladness after the time that thou hast afflicted us and putting a new song into our mouths by bringing his Majesty who now reigns over us upon this Day for the deliverance of our Church and Nation from Popish Tyranny and Arbitrary power We adore the wisdom and justice of thy providence which so timely interposed in our extream danger and disappointed all the designs of our enemies We beseech thee give us such a lively and lasting sense of what thou didst then and hast since that time done for us that we may not grow secure and careless in our obedience by presuming upon thy great and undeserved goddness but that it may lead us to repentance and move us to be the more diligent and zealous in all the duties of our Religion which thou hast in a marvellous manner preserved to us Let truth and justice brotherly kindness and charity devotion and piety concord and unity with all other virtues so flourish among us that they may be the Stability of our Times and make this Church a Praise in the Earth All which we humbly beg for the sake of our blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ In the end of the Litany which shall alway this Day he used after the Collect We humbly beseech thee O Father c shall this be said which followeth ALmighty God and heavenly Father who of thy gracious providence and tender mercy towards us didst prevent the malice and imaginations of our enemies by discovering and confounding their horrible and wicked enterprise plotted and intended this Day to be executed against the King and the whole State of this Realm for the Subversion of the Government and Religion established among us and didst likewise upon this Day wonderfully conduct thy servant our present King and bring him safely into this Kingdom to preserve us from the late Attempts of our Enemies to bereave us of our Religion and Laws We most humbly praise and magnifie thy most glorious Name for thy unspeakable goodness towards us expressed in both these Acts of thy mercy We confess it has been of thy mercy alone that we are not consumed for our sins have cried to Heaven against us and our iniquities justly called for vengeance upon us But thou hast not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us after our iniquities nor given us over as we deserved to be a prey to our Enemies but hast in mercy delivered us from their malice and preserved us from death and destruction Let the consideration of this thy repeated goodness O Lord work in us true repentance that iniquity may not be our ruine And increase in us more and more a lively faith and love fruitful in all holy obedience that thou mayest still continue thy favour with the light of thy Gospel to us and our posterity for evermore and that for thy dear Sons sake Jesus Christ our only Mediatour and Advocate Amen ¶ Instead of the Prayer In time of War and Tumults shall be used this Prayer following O Lord who didst this day discover the snares of death that were laid for us and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same Be thou still our mighty Protectour and scatter our Enemies that delight in blond Infatuate and defeat their Counsels abate their Pride asswage their Malice and confound their Devices Strengthen the hands of our gracious Sovereign King WILLIAM and all that are put in Authority under him with Judgment and Justice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn Religion into Rebellion and Faith into Faction that they may never prevail against us or triumph in the ruine of thy Church among us But that our gracious Sovereign and his Realms being preserved in thy true Religion and by thy merciful goodness protected in the same we may all duly serve thee and give thee thanks in thy holy Congregation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the Communion-Service instead of the Collect for the day shall this which followeth be used ETernal God and our most mighty Protectour we thy unworthy servants do humbly present our selves before thy Majesty acknowledging thy Power Wisdom and Goodness in Preserving the King and the Three Estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament from the Destruction this Day intended against them Make us we beseech thee truly thankful for this and for all other thy great Mercies towards us particularly for making this Day again memorable by a fresh Instance of thy Loving-kindness towards us We bless thee for giving his Majesty that now is a safe Arrival here and for making all Opposition fall before him till he became our King and Governour Continue we beseech thee to Protect and Defend him and all the Royal Family from all Treasons and Conspiracies Preserve them in thy Faith Fear and Love Prosper his Reign
slew a man Gen. 49.6 Even the man of thy right hand the Son of man whom thou hadst made so strong for thine own self Psal 80.17 In the sight of the unwise he seemed to die and his departure was taken for misery Wisdom 3.2 They fools counted his life madness and his end to be without honour But he is in peace Wisd 5.4.3.3 For though he was punished in the sight of men yet was his hopefull of immortality Wisd 3.4 How is he numbred with the children of God and his lot is among the saints Wisd 5.5 But O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth be favourable and gracious unto Sion Psal 94.1 Psal 51.18 Be merciful O Lord unto thy people whom thou hast redeemed and lay not innocent bloud to charge Deut. 21.8 O shut not up our souls with sinners nor our lives with the bloud-thirsty Ps 26.9 Deliver us from bloud-guiltiness O God thou that art the God of our salvation and our tongues shall sing of thy righteousness Psal 51.14 For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickedness neither shall any evil dwell with thee Psal 5.4 Thou wilt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord abhors both the bloud-thirsty and deceitful man verse 6. O how suddenly do they consume perish and come to a fearful end Ps 73.18 Yea even like as a dream when one awaketh so didst thou make their image to vanish out of the city verse 19. Great and marvellous are thy works O Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways O King of saints Apoc. 15.3 Righteous art thou O Lord and just are thy judgments Psal 119.137 Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Proper Psalms IX X XI ¶ Proper Lessons The First 2 Sam. I. The Second S. Matth. XXVII ¶ Instead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two which next followeth be used O Most mighty God terrible in thy judgments and wonderful in thy doings toward the children of men who in thy heavy displeasure didst suffer the life of our late gracious Sovereign King Charles the First to be as this day taken away by the hands of cruel and bloudy men We thy sinful creatures here assembled before thee do in the behalf of all the people of this land humbly confess that they were the crying fins if this Nation which brought down this heavy judgment upon us But O gracious God when thou makest inquisition for bloud lay not the guilt of this innocent bloud the shedding whereof nothing but the bloud of thy Son can expiate lay it not to the charge of the people of this land nor let it ever be required of us or our posterity Be merciful O Lord be merciful unto thy people whom thou hast redeemed and be not angry with us for ever But pardon us for thy mercies sake through the merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen BLessed Lord in whose fight the death of thy saints is precious We magnifie thy Name for thine abundant grace bestowed on our late martyr'd Sovereign by which he was enabled so cheerfully to follow the steps of his blessed Master and Saviour in a constant meek suffering of all barbarous indignities and at last resisting unto bloud and even then according to the same pattern praying for his murderers Let his memory O Lord be ever blessed among us that we may follow the example of his courage and constancy his meekness and patience and great charity And grant that this our land may be freed from the vengeance of his righteous bloud and thy mercy glorified in the forgiveness of our sins and all for Jesus Christ his sake our only Mediatour and Advocate Amen ¶ In the end of the Litany which shall always on this day be used immediately after the Collect We humbly beseech thee O Father c. the three Collects next following are to be read O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burden of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into judgment with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make haste to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen TUrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord Be favourable to thy people Who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God Full of Compassion Long-suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deserve punishment And in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them and let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great And after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us Through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the Communion-Service after the Prayer for the King Almighty God whose kingdom is everlasting c. instead of the Collect for the day shall these two be used O most mighty God c. Blessed Lord in whose sight c. As in the Morning Prayer The Epistle 1 S. Pet. 2.13 SUbmit your felyes to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme or unto governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men As free and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness but as the servants of God Honour all men Love the brotherhood Fear God Honour the King Servants be subject to your masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward For what is thank-worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye shall take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with God For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffer for us leaving us
Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two which follow be used O Almighty God who art a strong Tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies We yield thee praise and thanks for the wonderful deliverance of these Three Kingdoms from The GREAT REBELLION and all the Miseries and Oppressions consequent thereupon under which they had so long groan'd We acknowledge it thy Goodness that we were not utterly delivered over as a prey unto them Beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies towards us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord God of our Salvation who hast been exceedingly gracious unto this land and by thy miraculous providence didst deliver us out of our miserable confusions by restoring to us and to his own just and undoubted Rights our then most gracious Sovereign Lord thy Servant King Charles the Second notwithstanding all the power and malice of his enemies and by placing him in the Throne of thi◠Kingdom thereby restoring also unto us the publick and free profession of thy true Religion and Worship together with our former peace and prosperity to the great comfort and joy of our hearts We are here now before thee with all due thankfulness to acknowledge thine unspeakable goodness herein as upon this day shewed unto us and to offer up our sacrifice of praise for the same unto thy great and glorious Name humbly beseeching thee to accept this our unfeigned though unworthy Oblation of our selves vowing all holy obedience in thought word and work unto thy Divine Majesty and promising in thee and for thee all loyal and dutiful allegiance to thine Anointed Servant now set over us and to his Heirs after him Whom we beseech thee to bless with all increase of Grace Honour and Happiness in this world and to crown him with Immortality and Glory in the world to come for Jesus Christ his sake our only Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ In the end of the Litany which shall always this Day be used after the Collect We humbly beseech thee O Father c. shall this be said which next followeth ALmighty God who hast in all ages shwed forth thy Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy holy and eternal truth from the malicious Conspiracies and wicked Practices of all their enemies We yield unto thee from the very bottom of our hearts unfeigned thanks and praise as for thy many great and publick mercies so especially for that signal and wonderful deliverance by thy wise and good providence as upon this day compleated and vouchsafed to our then most gracious Sovereign King Charles the Second and all the Royal Family And in them and with them to this whole Church and State and all Orders and Degrees of men in both from the unnatural Rebellion Usurpation and Tyranny of ungodly and cruel men and from the sad Confusions and Ruine thereupon ensuing From all these O gracious and merciful Lord God not our merit but thy mercy not our foresight but thy providence Not our own arm but thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance did rescue and deliver us even because thou hadst a favour unto us And therefore not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be ascribed all Honour Glory and Praise with most humble and hearty thanks in all Churches of the Saints Even so blessed be the Lord our God who alone doth wondrous things and blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ In the Communion-Service immediately before the reading of the Epistle shall these two Collects be used instead of the Collect for the King and the Collect of the day O Almighty God who art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies We yield thee praise and thanks for the wonderful deliverance of these three Kingdoms from THE GREAT REBELLION and all the miseries and oppressions consequent thereupon under which they had so long groan'd We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not utterly delivered over as a prey unto them beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies towards us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord God of our Salvation who hast been exceedingly gracious unto this land and by thy miraculous Providence didst deliver us out of our miserable Confusions by restoring to us and to his own just and undoubted Rights our then most gracious Sovereign Lord thy Servant King Charles the Second notwithstanding all the power and malice of his enemies and by placing him in the Throne of this Kingdom thereby restoring also unto us the publick and free profession of thy true Religion and Worship together with our former peace and prosperity to the great comfort and joy of our hearts We are here now before thee with all due thankfulness to acknowledge thine unspeakable goodness herein as upon this day shewed unto us and to offer up our sacrifice of praise for the same unto thy great and glorious Name humbly beseeching thee to accept this our unfeigned though unworthy Oblation of our selves Vowing all holy Obedience in thought word and work unto thy Divine Majesty and promising in thee and for thee all loyal and dutiful Allegiance to thine Anointed Servant now set over us to his Heirs after him Whom we beseech thee to bless with all increase of grace honour and happiness in this world and to crown him with Immortality and Glory in the world to come for Jesus Christ his sake our only Lord and Saviour Amen The Epistle 1 S. Pet. 2.11 DEarly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers they may by your good works which they shall behold glorifie God in the day of visitation Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the king as supreme or unto governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men as free and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness but as the servants of God Honour all men Love the brotherhood Fear God Honour the king The Gospel S. Matth. 22.16 ANd they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians saying Master we know that thou art true and teachest the way of God in truth neither carest thou for any man for thou regardest not the person of men Tell us therefore What thinkest thou Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cesar or not But Jesus perceived their wickedness and said Why tempt ye me ye hypocrites Shew me the tribute-money And they brought unto him a peny And he saith unto them Whose is this image and superscription They say unto him Cesars Then saith he unto them Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesars and unto God the things that are Gods When they had heard these words they marvelled and left him and went their way In the Offertory shall this Sentence be read Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in heaven S. Math. 7.21 ¶ After the Prayer For the whole state of Christs Church c. this collect following shall be used ALmighty God and heavenly Father who of thine infinite and unspeakable goodness towards us didst in a most extraordinary and wonderful manner disappoint and overthrow the wicked Designs of those traiterous heady and high-minded men who under the pretence of Religion and thy most holy Name had contrived and well nigh effected the utter destruction of this Church and Kingdom As we do this day most heartily and devoutly adore and magnifie thy glorious Name for this thine infinite gracious goodness already vouchsafed to us so we most humbly beseech thee to continue thy grace and favour towards us hiding and covering us under the shadow of thy wings that no such dismal calamity may ever again fall upon us To this end send forth thy light and thy truth for the discovery of these depths of Satan this mystery of iniquity Infatuate and defeat all the secret counsels of the ungodly Abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices Strengthen the hands of our gracious Sovereign King William and all that are put in authority under him with judgment and justice to cut off all such workers of iniquity as turn Religion into Rebellion and Faith into Faction that they may never again prevail against us nor triumph in the ruine of the Monarchy and thy Church among us Protect and defend our Sovereign Lord the King with the whole Royal Family from all Treasons and Conspiracies Be unto him an helmet of Salvation and a strong tower of defence against the face of all his enemies As for those that are implacable clothe them with shame and confusion but upon himself and his posterity let the Crown for ever flourish So we that are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will always be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Redeemer to whom with thee O Father and God the Holy Ghost be glory in the Church throughout all ages world without end Amen FINIS
instead of the Apostles Creed his Confession of our Christian Faith commonly called the Creed of Saint Athanasius by the Minister and People standing Quicunque vult WHosoever will be saved before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith Which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled without doubt he shall perish everlastingly And the Catholick Faith is this That ve worship one God in Trinity and Trinity in Unity Neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance For there is one person of the Father another of the Son and another of the Holy Ghost But the Godhead of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost is all one the Glory equal the Majesty co-eternal Such as the Father is such is the Son and such is the Holy Ghost The Father uncreate the Son uncreate and the Holy Ghost uncreate The Father incomprehensible the Son incomprehensible and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible The Father eternal the Son eternal and the Holy Ghost eternal And yet they are not three eternals but one eternal As also there are not three incomprehensibles nor three uncreated but one uncreated and one incomprehensible So likewise the Father is Almighty the Son Almighty and the Holy Ghost Almighty And yet they are not three Almighties but one Almighty So the Father is God the Son is God and the Holy Ghost is God And yet they are not three Gods but one God So likewise the Father is Lord the Son Lord and the Holy Ghost Lord And yet not three Lords but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every person by himself to be God and Lord So are we forbidden by the Catholick Religion to say There be three Gods or three Lords The Father is made of none neither created nor begotten The Son is of the Father alone not made nor created but begotten The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son neither made nor created nor begotten but proceeding So there is one Father not three Fathers one Son not three Sons one Holy Ghost not three Holy Ghosts And in this Trinity none is afore or after other none is greater or less then another But the whole three persons are co-eternal together and co-equal So that in all things as is aforesaid the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting salvation that he also believe rightly the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ For the right faith is that we believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God is God and Man God of the substance of the Father begotten before the Worlds and Man of the substance of his Mother born in the World Perfect God and perfect Man of a reasonable soul and humane flesh subsisting Equal to the Father as touching his Godhead and inferiour to the Father as touching his Manhood Who although he be God and Man yet he is not two but one Christ One not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking of the Manhood into God One altogether not by confusion of substance but by unity of person For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man so God and Man is one Christ Who suffered for our salvation descended into hell rose again the third day from the dead He ascended into heaven he sitteth on the right hand of the Father God Almighty from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead At whose coming all men shall rise again with their bodies and shall give account for their own works And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting and they that have done evil into everlasting fire This is the Catholick Faith which except a man believe faithfully he cannot be saved Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ Here followeth the Litany or General Supplication to be sung or said after Morning Prayer upon Sundays Wednesdays and Fridays and at other times when it shall be commanded by the Ordinary O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our fore-fathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from all false doctrine heresie and schism from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloudy Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the Holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of judgment Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy Servant WILLIAM our most gracious King and Governour We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever
according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end Amen The Gospel S. Luke 7.11 ANd it came to pass the day after that Jesus went into a city called Nain and many of his disciples went with him and much people Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city behold there was a dead man carried out the only son of his mother and she was a widow and much people of the city was with her And when the Lord saw her he had compassion on her and said unto her Weep not And he came and touched the bier and they that bare him stood still and he said Young man I say unto thee Arise And he that was dead sat up and began to speak and he delivered him to his mother And there came a fear on all and they glorified God saying that a great Prophet is risen up among us and that God hath visited his people And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea and throughout all the region round about The seventeenth Sunday after Trinity The collect LOrd we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us and make us continually to be given to all good works through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes 4.1 I Therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with long-suffering forbearing one another in love endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace There is one body and one Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all The Gospel S. Luke 14.1 IT came to pass as Jesus went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath-day that they watched him And behold there was a certain man before him who had the dropsie And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees saying Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath-day And they held their peace And he took him and healed him and let him go and answered them saying Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath-day And they could not answer him again to these things And he put forth a parable to those who were bidden when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms saying unto them When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding sit not down in the highest room lest a more honourable man then thou be bidden of him And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee Give this man place and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room But when thou art bidden go and sit down in the lowest room that when he that bade thee cometh he may say unto thee Friend go up higher then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted The eighteenth Sunday after Trinity The collect LOrd we beseech thee grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world the flesh and the devil and with pure hearts and minds to follow thee the only God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle 1 Cor. 1.4 I Thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ that in every thing ye are enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you So that ye come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ The Gospel S. Matth. 22.34 WHen the Pharisees had heard that Jesus had put the Sadducees to silence they were gathered together Then one of them who was a lawyer asked him a question tempting him and saying Master which is the great commandment in the law Jesus said unto him Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind This is the first and great commandment And the second is like unto it Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets While the Pharisees were gathered together Jesus asked them saying What think ye of Christ whose son is he They say unto him The son of David He saith unto them How then doth David in Spirit call him Lord saying The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool If David then call him Lord how is he his Son And no man was able to answer him a word neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any mo questions The nineteenth Sunday after Trinity The collect O God forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee Mercifully grant that thy holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes 4.17 THis I say therefore and testifie in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness But ye have not so learned Christ If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness Wherefore putting away lying speak every man truth with his neighbour for we are members one of another Be ye angry and sin not Let not the sun go down upon your wrath neither give place to the devil Let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to