repentance and fruits springing up to life eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 115. A Prayer against idolatry and for confidence in the true God NOt unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give the praise for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake 2 Wherefore shall the heathen say Where is now their God 3 As for our God he is in heaven he hath done whatsoever pleased him 4 Their idols are silver and gold even the worke of mens hands 5 They haue mouthes and speake not eyes haue they and see not 6 They have eares and heare not noses haue they and smell not 7 They haue hands and handle not feet haue they and walke not neither speake they through their throat 8 They that make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their trust in them 9 But thou house of Israel trust thou in the Lord he is their succour and defence 10 Yee house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 11 Yee that feare the Lord put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 12 The Lord hath been mindfull of us and he shall blesse us euen he shall blesse the house of Israel he shall blesse the house of Aaron 13 He shall blesse them that feare the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall increase you more and more you and your children 15 Yee are the blessed of the Lord which made heauen and earth 16 All the whole heauens are the Lords the earth hath he given to the children of men 17 The dead praise not thee O Lord neither all they that go down into the silence 18 But we will praise the Lord from this time forth for euermore Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God omnipotent whose seat is in Heaven and thou hast done whatsoever pleased thee in Heaven and earth give us thy grace that in all our troubles we may make thee our Succour and Defence and put our trust in thee onely that we receiving thy mercies and the satisfaction of all our hopes from thy plenteousnesse and loving kindnesse we may give praise unto thy Name never ascribing to our selves any honour or the glorie and thankes of any good action or prosperous successe but to thee who art the Authour and Giver of all good things Preserve us from all dangers of idolatrie from worshipping or loving any vain imaginations and making any thing to be our confidence besides thee our God that so thou mayest be mindfull of us and blesse us in all our wayes and when we die and go down into the silence we may have our portion amongst the blessed of the Lord in the inheritance of thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 116. An act of love and thanksgiving to God for deliverance from sinne and death MORNING PRAYER I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer 2 That he hath enclined his eare unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 3 The snares of death compassed me round about and the paines of hell gat hold upon me 4 I shall finde trouble and heavinesse and I shall call upon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul 5 Bratious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is mercifull 6 The Lord preserveth the simple I was in misery and he helped me 7 Turn again then unto they rest O my soul for the Lord hath rewarded thee 8 And why thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walke before the Lord in the land of the living 10 I beleeved and therefore will I speak but I was sore troubled I said in my hast All men are liars 11 What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me 12 I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. 13 I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints 14 Behold O Lord how that I am thy servant I am thy servant and the sonne of thine handmaid thou hast broken my bonds in sunder 15 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. 16 I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the sight of all his people in the courts of the Lords house even in the mids of thee O Ierusalem Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercies Gracious and Righteous give unto us hearts filled with love and praises to thy holy name for thou hearest our prayers thou breakest asunder the bonds of our sinnes thou deliverest our soules from trouble and heavinesse and snatchest us from the snares of death and savest us from the paines of hell O mercyfull God let our soules rest in thee and be satisfied in the pleasures of thy mercy that we may receive the cup of blessing and salvation and celebrate the Eucharist in honour of thy name and in remembrance of thy infinite benefits which thou hast done unto us and at last may pay our great Allelujah to the Lord in the courts of the Lords house in the midst of the celestiall Jerusalem through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 117. An invitation to all people to praise Gods mercy and truth O Praise the Lord all yee heathen praise him all ye nations 2 For his mercifull kindnesse is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Blessed Iesu who art not only the glory of thy people Israel but the light of the Gentiles let thy mercifull kindnesse be ever more and more towards the sonnes of men that the nations which have not known thee may hear thy truth and feele thy mercies and call upon thy name and thy grace may be confirmed upon us till we receive the fulnesse and perfection of thy graces in the full fruition of the glories of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 118. A Psalme of thanksgiving for the mercies and salvation which are given us in Iesus Chrst O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious because his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let Israel now confesse that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Yea let them now that feare the Lord confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 5 I called upon the Lord in trouble and the Lord heard me at large 6 The Lord is on my side I will not feare what man doth unto me 7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon mine enemies 8 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in
pleasure in wickednesse neither can evill come nigh thy dwelling defend us and all thy holy Church from the fraud and malice of bloud-thirsty and deceitfull men and from the crafty insinuations of all them that work vanity but let thy blessings be upon the righteous and let thy favourable kindnesse defend thy whole Church as with a shield that all those who put their trust in thy mercy may be ever giving of thanks may be joyfull in thee O lead us in thy righteousnesse that we become not a rejoyceing to our enemies but that we may worship thee in feare and come into thy house to make our prayers unto thee and to give thee thanks for the multitude of thy mercies which thou hast given us in our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 6. A Prayer of a penitent person for remission of his sinnes EVENING PRAYER O Lord rebuke me not in thine indignation neither chasten me in thy displeasure 2 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vered 3 My soul is also sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me 4 Turn thee O Lord and deliver my soul O save me for thy mercies sake 5 For in death no man remembreth thee and who will give thee thanks in the pit 6 I am weary of my groaning every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my teares 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble worn away because of all mine enemies 1 Away from me all ye that work vanity for the Lord hath heard the voyce of my weeping 9 The Lord hath heard my petition the Lord will receive my prayer 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed they shall be turned back put to shame suddenly The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose property is alwaies to have mercy and to forgive behold with the eyes of thy pitty compassioÌ„ the estate of thy humble servants made most miserable by reason of our sinnes Hear the voyce of our weeping pitty our groaning strengthen us for we are weak heale us for our bones are vexed and deliver our soules from death that being saved from the bottomlesse pit we may give thanks to thy holy name O turn from the severity of thy displeasure and visit us with thy mercy and salvation For all our sinnes give us a great sorrow and contrition and in our `sorrowes let thy comforts sustain us through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALME 7. A prayer for defence of our Innocence against the uniust molestation of our enemies O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me deliver me 2 Least he devour my soule like a Lion tear it in pieces while there is none to help 3 O Lord my God if I have done any such thing or if there be any wickednes in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evill unto him that dealt friendly with me yea I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soule take me yea let him tread my life down upon the earth and lay mine honour in the dust 6 Stand up O Lord in thy wrath and lift up thy selfe because of the indignation of mine enemies arise up for me in the iudgement that thou hast commanded 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee for their sakes therefore lift up thy selfe again 8 The Lord shall iudge the people give sentence with me O Lord according to my righteousnesse and according to the innocencie that is in me 9 O let the wickednesse of the ungodly come to an end but guide thou the iust 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins 11 My help commeth of God which preserveth them that are true of heart 12 God is a righteous iudge strong and patient and God is provoked every day 13 If a man will not turn he will whâ—t his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutours 15 Behold he travaileth with mischief he hath conceived sorrow and brought forth ungodlines 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other 17 For his travail shall come upon his own head and his wickednesse shall fall on his owne pate 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord according to his righteousnes and will praise the name of the Lord the most High The Prayer O God from whom commeth our help thou art a righteous Iudge and preservest all that are true of heart deliver us from our persecutors who travail with mischief against us and have digged a pit for our destruction O let their wickednesse and malicious devices against thy servants come utterly to an end for evermore Thou O Lord art strong and able to take vengeance yet being provoked every day still art patient towards us compassionate Deliver us from their wrath to whom we have done no injustice or displeasure pardon our offences against thee protect our Innocency against them that we may praise thy name and give thanks unto thee for thy righteousnesse and salvation who art blessed for evermore Amen PSALME 8. A Contemplation of the Divine beauty and excellency manifested in his Creatures O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger 3 For I will consider the heavens even the works of thy fingers the moon and the starres which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest him 5 Thou madest him lower then the angells to crown him with glory and worship 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands and thou hast put all things in subiection under his feet 7 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowls of the aire and the fishes of the sea and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas 9 O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world The Prayer O Lord God Father of men and Angells God of all the Creatures who hast created all things in a wonderfull order and hast made them all conveyances of thy mercies to mankinde give us great and dreadfull apprehensions of thy glory and immensity thy Majesty and mercy that we may adore thee as our Creator love thee as our redeemer fear thee as our God obey thee as our Governour and praise thee as the author fountaine of all perfections and all good which thou hast communicated to thy creatures that they may all in their proportions doe thee service who
hast to that end made the world redeemed us by our Lord Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 9. A prayer of poore and oppressed people against their persecutors MORNING PRAYER I Will giue thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart I will speak of all thy marvellous works 2 I will be glad and reioyce in thee yea my songs will I make of thy name O thou most Highest 3 While mine enemies are driven back they shall fall and perish at thy presence 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou art set in the throne that iudgest right 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen and destroyed the vngodly thou hast put out their name for ever and ever 6 O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetuall end even as the cities which thou hast destroyed their memoriall is perished with them 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever he hath also prepared his seat for iudgement 8 For he shall iudge the world in righteousnesse and minister true iudgement unto the people 9 The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast never failed them that seek thee 11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion shew the people of his doings 12 For when he maketh inquisition for bloud be remembreth them and forgotteth not the complaint of the poore 14 Have mercy upon me O Lord consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate mee thou that liftest me up from the gates of death 14 That I may shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion I will reioyce in thy salvation 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken 16 The Lord is known to execute iudgement the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the people that forget God 18 For the poore shall not alway be forgotten the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever 19 Up Lord and let not man have the upper hand let the heathen be iudged in thy sight 20 Put them in fear O Lord that the heathen may know themselves to be but men The Prayer O Lord God who art a defence for the oppressed and a refuge in due time of trouble have mercy upon us thy servants who are violently assaulted by enemies without and weaknesses and temptations within Thou never failest them that seek thee but lovest to heare the poore make their complaint unto thee in their trouble and art known to execute judgement upon them that oppresse them Pitty us and look upon the trouble we suffer of them that hate us deliver us from the strivings of our adversaries lift us up from the gates of death that being safe under thy mercies and protection we may give thankes unto thee with our spirits voyces we may embrace thee with a lively faith feare thee with all our hearts serve thee with all our powers faculties both of soule and body all the dayes of our life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 10. A prayer to God in times of Persecution and Warre against the Church VVHy standest thou so farre off O Lord and hidest thy face in the needfull time of trouble 2 The ungodly for his own iust doth persecute â—he poore let them be taken in the crafty wilines that they have imagined 3 For the ungodly hath made boast of his own â—eares desire and speaketh good of the covetous whom God abhorreth 4 The ungodly is so proud that he careth not for God neither is God in all his thoughts 5 His wayes are alway greivous thy iudgements are farre aboue out of his sight therefore â—efieth he all his enemies 6 For he hath said in his heart Tush I shall â—ever be cast down there shall no harm happen into me 7 His mouth is full of cursing deceit and â—aud under his tongue is ungodlinesse and vaâ—ity 8 He sitteth lurking in the theevish corners of the streets and privily in his lurking dennes doth he murder the innocent his eyes are set against the poore 9 For he lieth waiting secretly even as a lion lurketh he in his denne that he may ravish the poore 10 He doth ravish the poore when he getteth him into his net 11 He falleth â—own and humbleth himselfe that the congregation of the poore may fall into the hand of his Captains 12 He hath said in his heart Tush God hath forgotten he hideth away his face and he will never see it 13 Arise O Lord God and lift vp thine hand forget not the poore 15 Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God while he doth say in his heart Tush thou God carest not for it 15 Surely thou hast seen it for thou beholdest ungodlinesse and wrong 16 That thou mayest take the matter into thy hand the poore committeth himself unto thee for thou art the helper of the friendlesse 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly malicious take away his ungodlinesse and thou shalt find none 18 The Lord is King for ever and ever and the heathen are perished out of the land 19 Lord thou hast heard the desire of the poor thou preparest their heart and thine eare hearkeneth thereto 20 To help the fatherlesse and poore unto their right that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them The Prayer O Lord God who beholdest all the actions of men and seest all the ungodlinesse of sinners and the wrong they doe unto thy servants we flye unto thee for succour and defence in this our needfull time of trouble Behold ô Lord how the Enemies of thy Church have set their eyes against her and use all violences and arts that thy poore servants may fall under the hands of their Captaines Thou seest their malice and their confidences they feare thee not neither art thou O God in all their thoughts But thou art our King for ever and ever and the helper of the friendlesse We commit our selves wholly to thy mercy providence take the matter into thine own hand let them perish out of the land that are exalted against thee and against thy Church that we being delivered from feare of our enemies may serve thee with constant and regular devotions all the dayes of our life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 11. An addresse to God by way of hope and confidence in him and a prayer against our secret Enemies IN the Lord put I my trust how say ye then to my soul that she should flee as a bird unto the hill 2 For lo the ungodly bend their bow and make ready their arrows within the quiver that they may privily shoot at them whith are true of heart 3 For the foundations will be cast down and what hath the righteous done 4
The Lord is in his holy temple the Lords seat is in heaven 5 His eyes consider the poore and his eyeliâ—s trieth the children of men 6 The Lord alloweth the righteous but the ungodly and him that delighteth in wickednesse doth his soul abhorre 7 Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares fire and brimstone storm and tempest this shall be their portion to drink 8 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousnesse his countenance will behold the thing that is iust The Prayer O Lord who art our hope and our refuge and the exceeding great reward of all that trust in thee have mercy upon us thy servants who have no confidences but upon thy mercies and infinite loving kindnesse Defend us from all secret plots designes intended against our peace and securities by them that privily shoot at us and would overthrow the foundations of our repose and safety And that we may be better intitled to thy protection and care over us make us to love righteousnesse and to follow the things that are just that by thy grace we being defended from taking delight in wickednesse may also be delivered from the portion of the ungodly which thou givest them to drink upon whom thou rainest snares fire and brimston storm and tempest Deliver us O Lord from the eternall pressure of thy wrath through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 12. A prayer for defence against the dangers of evill Company EVENING PRAYER HElp me Lord for there is not one godly man left for the faithfull are minished from among the children of men 2 They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour they do but flatter with their lips and dissemble with their double heart 3 The Lord shall root out all deceitfull lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things 4 Which have said With our tongue we will prevail we are they that ought to speak who is Lord over us 5 Now for the comfortlesse troubles sake of the needy and because of the deep sighing of the poore 6 I will up saith the Lord and will helpe every one from him that swelleth against him and will see them at rest 7 The words of the Lord are pure words even as the silver which from the earth is tried purified seven times in the fire 8 Thou shalt keep them O Lord thou shalt preserve him from this generation for ever 9 The ungodly walk on every side when they are exalted the children of men are put to rebuke The Prayer O Most blessed Iesu who in thy eternall providence doest suffer the â—ares and the wheat to grow together untill the harvest permitting hereticks and vitious persons to communicate in the externall Society of thy people grant us thy grace that we may so believe heartily obey all thy pure words and dictates which thou hast taught us in thy holy Gospell that we may be kept unspotted of the world and although the ungodly walke on every side yet we may persevere in the wayes of righteousnesse and increase the number of the godly that at last we may be admitted into the glorious fellowship of Saints Angells who behold thy face the glories of thy Kingdome where thou livest and raignest with the Father the holy Ghost Eternall God world without end Amen PSALME 13. A Prayer in time of temptation 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 counsell in my soul be so vexed in my heart how long shall mine enemies triumph over me 3 Consider and heare 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 reioyce at it But my trust is in thy mercy and my heart is ioyfull in thy salvation 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 The Prayer O God the giver of all grace the author of all Ghostly strength look with compassion upon our infirmities and how unequally we are assaulted by many by powerfull by malicious adversaries How long O Lord how long shall we seek for rest and finde none O give us either peace or victory and preserve us that we sleep not in the death of sinne least our graÌ„d enemy the Divell say he hath prevailed against us Our trust is in thy mercy and thy delight is in it strengthen us so with thy grace that we may fight a good fight and conquer and be crown'd with a crown of righteousnesse which we begge we may receive from the hands and by the mercies of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 14. A Prayer against Atheisme and irreligion THe fool hath said in his heart There is no God 2 They are corrupt and become abominable in their doings there is not one that doth 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 doth 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 tull of cursing and bitternes their feet are swift to shed bloud 7 Destruction and unhappinesse is in their waies and the way of peace have they not known there is no feare 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 9 And call not upon the Lord there were they brought in great fear even where no feare was for God is in the generation of the righteous 10 As for you ye have made a mock at the counsell of the poore because he putteth his trust in the Lord. 11 Who shall give salvation unto Israell out of Sion when the Lord turneth the captivity of his people then shall Iacob reioyce and Israell shall be glad The Prayer O Eternall God Creator of the world conserver of the Creatures whose essence and goodnesse and perfections are infinite and made so manifest in the creation order protection and disposition of thy creatures that without the greatest sinne and folly in the world we cannot but acknowledge thee and adore thee with the lowest adorations of soul and body and with the most profound humility Preserve us O Lord in great Religion Veneration and reverence of thy Divine perfections Keep us from all distrust of thy providence all doubtings of thy infinitnesse or of any other article of our faith and grant that wee confessing thee before all the world may be acknowledged for thy children and rewarded among thy servants not for our righteousnesse but through the merits and mercies of our dearest Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 15.
Which is a short rule of a good life and a desire of innocency and sanctity MORNING PRAYER LOrd who shall dwell in thy tabernacle or who shall rest upon thy holy hill 2 Even he that seadeth an uncorrupt life and doth the thing which is right and speaketh the truth from his heart 3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue nor done evill to his neighbour hath not standered his neighbour 4 He that setteth not by himselfe but is lowly in his own eyes and maketh much of them that feare the Lord. 5 He that sweareth unto his neighbour and disappointeth him not though it were to his own hinderance 6 He that hath not given his mony upon usury nor taken reward against the innocent 7 Whoso doth these things shall never fall The Prayer O Lord let thy mercy preserve us in holinesse and innocency or if through infirmity wee fall make us to rise again by penitence that wee may lead an uncorrupt life with humility and truth and justice not slandering our neighbour not invading his right not breaking our trust not oppressing the indigent and necessitous but doing good to all and especially making much of them that feare the Lord that we may never fall from thy favour but at the end of our weary pilgrimage we may take our rest upon thy holy hill and dwell in thy tabernacle where thou raignest with infinite glory and felicities God Eternall world without end Amen PSALME 16. A Prayer for the blessings of God providence and preservation in this life and for glory hereafter PReserve me O God for in thee have I put my trust 2 O my soul thou hast said unto the Lord Thou art my God my goods are nothing unto thee 3 All my delight is upon the Saints that are in the earth and vpon such as excell in vertue 4 But they that run after another god shall have great trouble 5 Their drink offerings of bloud will I not offer neither make mention of their names within my lips 6 The Lord himselfe is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou shalt maintain my lot 7 The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground yea I have a goodly heritage 8 I will thank the Lord for giving me warning my reins also chasten me in the night season 9 I have set God alwayes before me for he is on my right hand therefore I shall not fall 10 Wherefore my heart was glad and my glory reioyced my flesh also shall rest in hope 11 For why thou shalt not leave my soul in hell neither shalt thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption 12 Thou shalt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore The Prayer O God who art the portion of our inheritance our God and our preserver preserve and maintaine all those good things which thou hast wrought in us and for us and that we may never fall give us thy grace that we may set thee alwayes before us rejoycing in thee and delighting in the Saints that are upon the earth that when our flesh shall see corruption our Soules may not be left in hell but may walke in the paths of life and in the day of restitution of all things both bodies and Soules may have a goodly heritage even the lot of thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore and where we may see the face and the glory of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 17. A Prayer for protection against the injuries of our Enemies Bodily and Ghostly HEare the right O Lord consider my complaint and hearken unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equall 3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season thou hast tried me and shalt find no wickednesse in me for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend 4 Because of mens works that are done against the words of my lips I have kept me from the wayes of the destroyer 5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths that my foot-steps slip not 6 I have called upon thee O God for thou shalt heare me encline thine eare to me and hearken unto my words 7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindnes thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee from such as resâ—st thy right hand 8 Keep me as the apple of an eye hide me under the shadow of thy wings 9 From the ungodly that trouble me mine enemies compasse me round about to take away my soul 10. They are inclosed in their owne fat and their mouth speaketh proud things 11 They lie waiting in our way on every side turning their eyes down to the ground 12 Like as a lyon that is greedy of his preyâ— and as it were a lions whelp lurking in secret places 13 Up Lord disappoint him and cast him down deliver my soul from the ungodly which is a sword of thine 14 From the men of thy hand O Lord from the men I say and from the evill world which haue their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure 15 They haue children at their desire and leave the rest of their substance for their babes 16 But as for me I will behold thy presence in righteousnesse and when I awake up after thy likenesse I shall be satisfied with it The Prayer O Most mercifull Iesu thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee defend us and deliver us from the hands of all our Enemies and although they are a sword of thine and an instrument sent from thee to chastise us for our sinnes yet arise O Lord in mercy and strength disappoint them and cast them down least they destroy our soules that when thou hast visited us with thy fatherly correction and tryed us like as Silver is tryed thou maist find no wickednesse in us Sanctify our hearts and lips that we may not think a thought displeasing unto thee and that our mouth may not offend Keep us as the apple of an eye hide us under the shadow of thy wings of mercy and providence keep us from the wayes of the destroyer and hold up our goings in thy paths that we may persevere in righteousnesse and our footsteps may not slip that in the day of the resurrection of the Iust we may behold thy presence and receive infinite satisfactions in the vision beatificall Grant this O mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 18. A Prayer for strength and Victory in Warre temporall or spirituall together with an act of hope and confidence in God EVENING PRAYER I Will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord is my stony rock and my defence my Saviour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horn also of my
salvation and my refuge 2 I will call upon the Lord which is worthy to be praised so shall I be safe from mine enemies 3 The sorrowes of death compassed me and the overflowings of ungodlinesse made me afraid 4 The pains of hell came about me the snares of death overtook me 5 In my trouble I will call upon the Lord and complain unto my God 6 So shall he heare my voice out of his holy temple and my complaint shall come before him it shall enter even into his eares 7 The earth trembled and quaked the very foundations also of the hills shook and were removed because he was wroth 8 There went a smoke out of his presence and a consuming fire out of his mouth so that coals were kindled at it 9 He bowed the heavens also came down and it was dark under his feet 10 He rode upon the cherubims did flie he came flying upon the wings of the wind 11 He made darknesse his secret place his pavilion round about him with dark water and thick clouds to cover him 12 At the brightnesse of his presence his clouds removed haile stones and coales of fire 13 The Lord also thundered out of heaven and the highest gave his thunder hailstones and coals of fire 14 He sent out his arrowes and scattered them he cast forth lightnings destroyed them 15 The springs of waters were seen and the foundations of the round world were discovered at thy chiding O Lord at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasure 16 He shall send down from the high to fetch me shall take me out of many waters 17 He shall deliver me from my strongest enemy and from them that hate me for they are too mighty for me 18 They prevented me in the day of my trouble but the Lord was my upholder 19 He brought me forth also into a place of liberty he brought me forth even because he had a favour unto me 20 The Lord shall reward me after my righteous dealing according to the cleannesse of my hands shall he recompense me 21 Because I haue kept the wayes of the Lord haue not forsaken my God as the wicked doth 22 For I have an eye unto all his laws and will not cast out his Commandements from me 23 I was also uncorrupt before him and eschewed mine owne wickednesse 24 Therefore shall the Lord reward me after my righteous dealing and according unto the cleannesse of my hands in his eye-sight 25 With the holy thou shalt be holy with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect 26 With the clean thou shalt be clean and with the froward thou shalt learne frowardnesse 27 For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud 28 Thou shalt also light my candle the Lord my God shall make my darkenesse to be light 29 For in thee I shall discomfit an host of men and with the help of my God I shall leap over the wall 30 The way of God is an undefiled way the word of the Lord also is tried in the fire he is the defender of all them that put their trust in him 31 For who is God but the Lord or who hath any strength except our God 32 It is God that girdeth me with strength of warre and maketh my way perfect 33 He maketh my feet like Harts feet and setteth me up on high 34 He teacheth mine hands to fight and mine arms shall break even a bow of steel 35 Thou hast given me the defence of thy salvation thy right hand also shall hold me up thy loving correction shall make me great 36 Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go that my foot steps shall not slide 37 I will follow upon mine enemies and overtake them neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them 38 I will smite them that they shall not be able to stand but fall under my feet 39 Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battell thou shalt throw down mine enemies under me 40 Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me and I shall destroy them that hate me 41 They shall cry but there shall be none to help them yea even unto the Lord shall they cry but he shall not heare them 42 I will beat them as small as the dust before the winde I will cast them out as the clay in the streets 43 Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people and thou shalt make me the head of the heathen 44 A people whom I haue not knowne shall serve me 45 Assoon as they heare of me they shall obey me but the strange children shall dissemble with me 46 The strange children shall fail and be afraid out of their prisons 47 The Lord liveth blessed be my strong helper praised be the God of my salvation 48 Even the God that seeth that I be avenged and subdueth the people unto me 49 It is he that delivereth me from my cruell enemies and setteth me up aboue mine adversaries thou shalt â—id me from the wicked man 50 For this cause will I giue thanks unto thee O Lord among the Gentiles and sing praises unto thy name 51 Great prosperity giveth He unto his King and sheweth loving kindnesse unto David his anointed unto his seed for evermore The Prayer O God our Saviour the rock upon whom all our hopes are built our strength and defence our salvation and our refuge heare our voyce out of thy holy temple let our complaint come before thee and enter even into thy Eares The sorrowes of death compasse us and we are afraid because of the overflowings of ungodlinesse Our enemies are strong yea they are too mighty for us and we have no hope to escape unlesse thou preventest them in the day of our trouble and deliverest us from the strivings of our enemies But in thee O Lord is our hope doe thou teach our hands to fight and gird us with strength unto the battell Make us to have an eye unto all thy lawes that we may eschew our own wickednesse and be uncorrupt before thee then shalt thou give us the defence of thy salvation and we shall give thankes unto thee ô Lord and sing praises unto thy name who art become our strong helper and the God of our Salvation which thou hast given unto us in our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 19. A Prayer for preservation from sinne and for love of Gods law MORNING PRAYER THe heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy work 2 One day telleth another and one night certifieth another 3 There is neither speech nor language but their voyces are heard among them 4 Their sound is gone out into all lands and their words into the ends of the world 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sunne which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber
shall comfort thine heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God thou hast been our succour our light and salvation leave us not neither forsake us when we are assaulted by enemies without and by temptations from within but lead us in the right way which thou hast appointed for us to walke in and when thou hast lift up our heads above our enemies round about us grant that we may spend our dayes in prayer and giving prayses to thee and in all other actions of holy Religion visiting thy temple with frequent addresses of devotion and contemplating and admiring the faire beauty of the Lord that being secure in such imployments being hid in thy Tabernacle and taking Sanctuary within the secret place of thy dwelling we may at last come unto thy heavenly Ierusalem where the gates of thy Temple are open day and night there seeing the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living praising thee to all eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 28. A Prayer for deliverance from death and damnation VNto 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 Heare the voice of my humble petitions when I cry unto thee when I hold up my hands toward 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 wickednesse of their owne inventions 5 Recompense them afte 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 be break them down and noâ— 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 ioy and in my song will I praise him 9 The Lord is my strength and he is the wholesome defence of his anointed 10 O save thy people and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance feed them and set them up for ever The Prayer O Lord my strength and confidence my shield and the defence of all that hope in thee heare the voyce of our humble petitions We hold up our hands to thy mercy seat praying thee for pitty and pardon of our sinnes reward us not according to our deeds nor according to the wickednesse of our inventions for if thou shouldest deale with us according to the operation of our hands we should be like them that go down into the pit and our inheritance would be death and destruction But our heart hath trusted in thee and thou hast helped us continue thy loving kindnesse to us and pluck us not away neither destroy us with the ungodly and wicked doers but magnifie thy mercies in the salvation of our soules through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 29. In which God is adored and the mightinesse of his power and voyce is celebrated BRing unto the Lord O ye mighty bring young Rammes unto the Lord ascribe unto the Lord worship and strength 2 Give the Lord the honour due unto his name worship the Lord with holy worship 3 It is the Lord that commandeth the waters it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder 4 It is the Lord that ruleth the Sea the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice 5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedar trees yea the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Libanus 6 He made them also to skip like a calfe Libanus also and Sirion like a young Unicorn 7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire the voice of the Lord shaketh the wildernesse yea the Lord shaketh the wildernesse of Cades 8 The voice of the Lord maketh the Hindes to bring forth young and discovereth the thick bushes in his Temple doth every man speak of his honour 9 The Lord sitteth aboue the water floud and the Lord remaineth a King for ever 10 The Lord shall giue strength unto his people the Lord shall giue his people the blessing of peace The Prayer O Most glorious God who makest the thunder thy voyce is mighty in operation and is a glorious voyce give us grace that we may heare thy voyce and obey it with reverence and humility Thou that breakest the Cedar trees let thy word rend our hearts with sorrow and contrition for our sinnes that so we may feel the power and the mercy of thy voyce and may ascribe unto thee worship and strength worshipping thee with a holy worship all the daies of our life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 30. A Prayer for deliverance from sicknesse and death and damnation MORNING PRAYER I Will magnify thee O Lord for thou hast set me up and not made my foes to triumph over me 2 O Lord my God I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me 3 Thou Lord hast brought my soule out of hell thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit 4 Sing praises unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks to him for a remembrance of his holinesse 5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and in his pleasure is life heavinesse may endure for a night but ioy commeth in the morning 6 And in my prosperity I said I shall never be removed thou Lord of thy goodnesse hadst made my hill so strong 7 Thou didst turne thy face from mee and I was troubled 8 Then cried I unto thee O Lord and gat me unto my Lord right humbly 9 What profit is there in my blond when I go down to the p t 10 Shall the dust give thankes unto thee or shall it declare thy truth 11 Heare O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper 12 Thou hast turned my heavinesse into ioy thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladnesse 13 Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my Dod I will give thankes unto thee for ever The Prayer O Lord our God whose mercy is infinite but thy wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and even in this short time of thy wrath thou remembrest mercy we cry unto thee and addresse our selves unto thee right humbly O turne not thy face away from us keep our life from them that goe down into the pit and preserve our soules from hell and although thou sometimes send est heavinesse unto us and trouble upon our loynes yet let it be but as for a night let thy mercy dawne upon us and shine as in a glorious morning for thou art more pleased in demonstrations of thy mercy
then in shewing thy displeasure O Lord heale us and be mercifull unto us and save us turne our heavinesse into joy and gird us with gladnesse so shall we give thanks unto thee for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 31. A Prayer for protection against our enemies and all dangers of soule and body and specially at the houre of death IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousnesse 2 Bow down thine eare to me make hast iâ— deliver mee 3 And be thou my strong rock and the house of defence that thou maist save me 4 For thou art my strong rock and my castleâ— be thou also my guide and lead me for thy names sake 5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me for thou art my strength 6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of truth 7 I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities and my trust hath been in the Lord. 8 I will be glad and reioyce in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble and hast known my soul in adversities 9 Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemie but hast set my feet in a large room 10 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am in trouble and my eye is consumed for very heavinesse yea my soul and my body 11 For my life is waren old with heavinesse and my yeares with mourning 12 My strength faileth me because of mine iniquity and my bones are consumed 13 I became a reproof among all mine enemies but specially among my neighbours and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me and they that did see me without conveyed themselves from me 14 I am clean forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am become like a broken vessell 15 For I haue heard the blasphemy of the multitude and fear is on every side while they conspire together against me and take their counsell to take away my life 16 But my hope hath been in thee O Lord I haue said Thou art my God 17 My time is in thy hand deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me 18 Shew thy servant the light of thy countenance and save me for thy mercies sake 19 Let me not be confounded O Lord for I haue called upon thee let the ungodly be put to confusion and be put to silence in the grave 20 Let the lying lips be put to silence which cruelly disdainfully and despitefully speak against the righteous 21 O how plentifull is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that feare thee and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee even before the sonnes of men 22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues 23 Thanks be to the Lord for he hath shewed me marvellous great kindnes in a strong city 24 And when I made hast I said I am cast out of the sight of shine eyes 25 Neverthelesse thou heardest the voice of my prayer when I cried unto thee 26 O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth them that are faithfull and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer 27 Be strong and he shall stablish your heart all ye that put your trust in the Lord. The Prayer O God our rock and the house of our defence let us be glad and rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation Consider O Lord our trouble and in thy pitty know our soules beset round about with enemies and adversities Shut us not up into the hands of our enemies nor our lives within the grave Our time O Lord is in thy hand to thee pertaine the issues of life and death and though our strength hath failed us because of our iniquity and our bones are vexed by reason of our sinnes yet our hope is in thee O Lord we have said Thou art our God deliver us from all our enemies bodily and ghostly turne our sadnesse into joy and our mourning into gladnesse least our bodies soules be consumed for very heavinesse Let us not be put to confusion nor to silence in the grave but let us see thy marvellous loving kindnesse and partake of thy plentifull goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that feare thee even before the sonnes of men O let us never be cast out of the sight of thine eyes but deale with us in mercy loving kindnesse Into thy hands we commend our Spirits resigning our selves up to thy providence and disposition either to life or death as thou in thy infinite wisedome shalt find most proportionable to thy glory and our eternall good beseeching thee to be our guide to death and to lead us for thy Name sake to everlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 32. A Confession of sinnes and a prayer for pardon EVENING PRAYER BLessed is he whose unrighteousnesse is forgiven and whose sinne is covered 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sinne and in whose spirit there is no guile 3 For while I held my tongue my bones consumed away through my daily complaining 4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night and my moisture is like the drought in Summer 5 I will knowledge my sinne unto thee and mine unrighteousnesse haue I not hid 6 I said I will confesse my sinnes unto the Lord and so thou forgavest the wickednesse of my sinne 7 For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found but in the great water flouds they shall not come nigh him 8 Thou art a place to hide me in thou shalt preâ—erve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance 9 I will enform thee and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt goe and I will guide thee with mine eye 10 Be ye not like to Horse and Mule which haue no understanding whose mouthes must be holden with biâ— bridle lest they fall upon thee 11 Great plagues remaine for the ungodly but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord mercy embraceth him on every side 12 Be glad O ye righteous and rejoyce in the Lord be ioyfull all ye that are true of heart The Prayer O Lord God eternall Iudge of men and Angells whose property is alwayes to have mercy and to forgive have mercy upon us who confesse our sinnes unto thee to be so great and many that were not thy mercy infinite we might despaire of having our unrighteousnesse forgiven or our sins covered O deare God preserve us from the great plagues that remaine for the ungodly and let thy mercy imbrace us on every side Impute not unto us the sins we have multiplyed against thee against all the world for we
from me 22 Hast thee to help me O Lord God my salvation The Prayer O Lord who knowest all our desires and from whom our groning is not hid we confesse before thee our many wickednesses and are truly sorry for our sinnes our wickednesses are gone over our head and are a sore burden too heavy for us to beare our enemy the Devill is malitious and mighty our weakenesses many our temptations strong our consciences do busily accuse us Where shall we appeare in the day of judgment How shall we stand upright in the eternall scrutiny Our trust is in thy merits O blessed Iesu thou aâ—t our Iudge and our Advocate thou shalt answer for us O Lord our God Put us not to rebuke O Lord in thine anger for it is insupportable neither let thy whole displeasure arise for that is vast and mountainous as our sinnes and will breake us in pieces O let not the arrowes of thy vengeance stick fast in us for our sinnes are wounds enough and make us restlesse and miserable Touch our sores gently and let not thy hands presse us unlesse to drive forth our corruption then shall we follow the thing that good is and rejoyce greatly in thy mercies O Lord God of our salvation who hast redeemed us and saved us through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 39. A meditation of the shortnesse and vanity of our life and a prayer preparatory to death I Said I will take heed to my wayes that I offend not in my tongue 2 I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my sight 3 I held my tongue and spake nothing I kept silence yea even from good words but it was pain and grief to me 4 My heart was hot within me and while I was thus musing the fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue 5 Lord let me know mine end and the number of my dayes that I may be certified how long I have to liue 6 Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanitie 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himselfe in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them 8 And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee 9 Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish 10 I became dumbe and opened not my mouth for it was thy doing 11 Take thy plague away from me I am even consumed by the means of thy heavy hand 12 When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sinne thou makest his beauty to consume away like as it were a moth fretting a garment every man therefore is but vanitie 13 Heare my prayer O Lord and with thine eares consider my calling hold not thy peace at my teares 14 For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were 15 O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I go hence and he no more seene The Prayer O Eternall God who art without beginning or end of dayes thou hast given us a short portion of time in the generations of this world our condition is vaine unsatisfying and full of disquiet and we have no hope but in thee O Lord. O teach us to number our dayes to remember and to know our end that so we may never sinne against thee and grant that we may live as alwayes dying being of mortified soules bodies of bridled tongues and affections and that instead of heaping up riches we may strive for a treasure of good workes laying up in store against the time to come that having recovered out strength lost by the commission of sinnes when we go hence and are no more seen we â—ay have a residence in those mansions which are prepared for the Saints by our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 40. A Thanks giving to God for his deliverances and a prayer for redemption from sinnes and defence against our Enemies I Waited patiently for the Lord and he enclined unto me and heard my calling 2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit out of the mire and clay and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth even a thanksgiving unto our God 4 Many shall see it and feare and shall put their trust in the Lord. 5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord and turned not unto the proud and to such as go about with lies 6 O Lord my God great are thy wondrous works which thou hast done like as be also thy thoughts which are to us-ward and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee 7 If I would declare them and speak of them they should be moe then I am able to expresse 8 Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not haue but mine eares hast thou opened 9 Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sinne hast thou not required then said I Lo I come 10 In the volume of the book it is written of me that I should fulfill thy will O my God I am content to doe it yea thy Law is within my heart 11 I have declared thy righteousnesse in the great congregation lo I will not refrain my lips O Lord and that thou knowest 12 I haue not hid thy righteousnesse within my heart my talking hath been of thy truth and of thy salvation 13 I haue not kept back thy loving mercy and truth from the great congregation 14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me O Lord let thy loving kindnesse and thy truth alway preserve me 15 For innumerable troubles are come about me my sinnes haue taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up yea they are moe in number then the haires of mine head and my heart hath failed me 16 O Lord let it be thy pleasure to deliver me make hast O Lord to help me 17 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it let them be driven backward and put to rebuke that wish me evill 18 Let them be desolate and rewarded with shame that say unto me Fie upon thee fie upon thee 19 Let all those that seek thee be ioyfull and glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say alway The Lord be praised 20 As for me I am poor and needy but the Lord careth for me 21 Thou art my helper and redeemer make no long tarrying O my God The Prayer O Lord our God whose works are wondrous and thy thoughts which are to us-ward full of mercy and admirable in wisdome we adore and worship thy infinite perfections and thy providence in the disposing of all thy creatures and the effects of all causes which in an infinite variety thou orderest to thy glory and the good of all
without end Amen PSALME 57. A Prayer to be delivered from the power of the Devill and slander of men and that we may put our confidence in God BE mercifull unto me O God be mercifull unto me for my soul trusteth in thee and under the shadow of thy wings shall be my refuga untill this tyranny be overpast 2 I will call unto the most high God even unto the God that shall performe the cause which I haue in hand 3 He shall send from heaven and save me from the reproof of him that would eat me up 4 God shall send forth his mercy and truth my soul is among Lions 5 And I lie even among the children of men that are set on fire whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword 6 Set up thy self O God aboue the heavens and thy glory aboue all the earth 7 They haue laid a net for my feet and pressed down my soul they haue digged a pit before me are fallen into the mids of it themselves 8 My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise 9 Awake up my glory awake lute and harp I my self will awake right early 10 I will giue thanks unto thee O Lord among the people and I will sing unto thee among the Nations 11 For the greatnesse of thy mercy reacheth unto the Heavens and thy truth unto the Clouds 12 Set up thy self O God aboue the heavens and thy glory above all the earth The Prayer O Most high and mighty God who hast set thy selfe above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth doe thou send from heaven and save us from the reproofe of all our ghostly Enemies who would eate us for our soul is among Lions and the Devill is busie seeking to devoure us O send out thy mercy and truth deliver us from the malitious slander of men and from the dreadfull accusations of the Devills at the day of judgement who are set on fire against us and their teeth are speares and arrowes gnashing at us to teare us in pieces Let thy mercy sustaine us let thy righteousnesse be interpos'd in answer for us that as our enemies accuse us thy mercies may acquit us through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 58. A Prayer that Gods people may be delivered from the malice of wicked men ARe your mindes set upon righteousnesse O ye congregation and do ye iudge the thing that is right O ye sonnes of men 2 Yea ye imagine mischief in your heart upon the earth and your hands deal with wickednesse 3 The ungodly are froward even from their mothers wombe assoon as they be born they go astray and speak lies 4 They are as venemous as the poyson of a serpent even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her eares 5 Which refuseth to heare the voice of the charmer charm he never so wisely 6 Breake their teeth O God in their mouthes smite the iaw-bones of the Lions O Lord let them fall away like water that runneth apace and when they shoot their arrows let them be rooted out 7 Let them consume away like a sâ—ail and be like the untimely fruit of a woman and let them not see the sunne 8 Orever your pots be made hot with thorns so let indignation vex him even as a thing that is raw 9 The righteous shall reioyce when he seeth the vengeance he shall wash his foot steps in the bloud of the ungodly 10 So that a man shall say Uerily there is a reward for the righteous doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth the earth The Prayer O Almighty Lord thou God that judgest the earth who preparest rewards for the righteous and executest vengeance against the ungodly deliver all thy chosen people from the peevishnesse of froward and ungodly men whose hands deale with wickednesse and they imagine mischiefe in their hearts And to thy servants give thy grace that our minds may be set upon righteousnesse that we may judge the thing that is right never refusing to heare thy voyce or stopping our eares like the deafe adder against thy holy precepts that we may have no iniquity in our mouthes nor unrighteousnesse in our actions and at last we may have the reward of the righteous the inheritance of thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 59. A Prayer against Hereticks and all other Enemies of the Church EVENING PRAYER DEliver me from mine enemies O God defend me from them that rise up against me 2 O deliver me from the wicked doers and save me from the bloud-thirsty men 3 For lo they lye waiting for my soul the mighty men are gathered against me without any offence or fault of me O Lord. 4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault arise thou therefore to help me and behold 5 Stand up O Lord God of hosts thou God of Israel to visit all the heathen and be not mercifull unto them that offend of malicious wickednesse 6 They go to and fro in the evening they grin like a dog and runne about through the city 7 Behold they speak with their mouth and swords are in their lips for who doth heare 8 But thou O Lord shalt have them in derision and thou shalt laugh all the heathen to scorn 9 My strength will I ascribe unto thee for thou art the God of my refuge 10 God sheweth me his goodnesse plenteously and God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies 11 Slay them not least my people forget it but scatter them abroad among the people and put them down O Lord our defence 12 For the sinne of their mouth and for the words of their lips they shall be taken in their pride and why their preaching is of cursing and lies 13 Consume them in thy wrath consume them that they may perish and know that it is God which ruleth in Iacob and unto the ends of the world 14 And in the evening they will returne grin like a dog and will goe about the City 15 They will run here and there for meat and grudge if they be not satisfied 16 As for me I will sing of thy power and will praise thy mercy be times in the morning for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble 17 Unto thee O my strength will I sing for thou O God art my refuge and my mercifull God The Prayer O Lord God of Israel visit us with thy salvation and deliver us from the malice of wicked doers and the violences of blood thirsty men Let not them prosper ô Lord in their machinations whose preaching is of cursing and lies and who offend of malicious wickednesse shew us thy goodnesse plenteously that we may never forget thy mercies or thy Lawes for thou art our defence and refuge and our mercifull God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 60. A Prayer in time of Warre or temptation O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us
abroad thou also hast been displeased O turne thee unto us again 2 Thou hast moved the land and divided it heal the sores thereof for it shaketh 3 Thou hast shewed thy people heavy things thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine 4 Thou hast given a token for such as fear thee that they may triumph because of the truth 5 Therefore were thy beloved delivered help me with thy right hand and heare me 6 God hath spoken in his holinesse I will reioyce and divide Sichem and mete out the valley of Succoth 7 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of my head Iuda is my lawgiver 8 Moaâ— is my washpot over Edom will I cast out my shoe Philistia be thou glad of me 9 Who will lead me into the strong city who will bring me into Edom 10 Hast thou not cast us out O God wilt not thou O God go out with our hosts 11 O be thou our help in trouble for vain is the help of man 12 Through God will we doe great arts for it is he that shall tread downe our enemies The Prayer O Lord God who for our sinnes hast shewed us heavy things and given us a drink of deadly Wine and yet hast never failed them that feare thee but hast given them a token that they may triumph because of thy truth and mercy consigning them to redemption and deliverance by the testimony and comforts of the Holy spirit Obe thou our help in trouble for all our hope is in thee and we disclaime all confidence in our selves or in the arme of flesh praying thee for ayde that in thy strength we may tread down our enemies and give thee thankes who art the fountain of strength and the disposer of victories through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 61. A Prayer for the King and for comfort in sadnesse HEare my crying O God give eare unto my prayer 2 From the ends of the earth will I call unto thee when my heart is in heavinessâ— 3 O â—et me up upon the rock that â—â— higher then I for thou hast been my hope and a strong tower for me against the enemy 4 I will dwell in thy â—labernacle for ever and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings 5 For thou O Lord hast heard my desires and hast given an heritage unto those that feare thy name 6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life that his yeares may endure thorough out all generations 7 He shall dwell before God for ever O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulnesse that they may preserve him 8 So will I alwaies sing praise unto thy name that I may dayly performe my vowes The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou that art the rock higher then all the world upon whom thy Church is built and all our hopes rely be mercifull unto us and give eare unto our prayers be unto us a fountain of comfort whensoever our heart is in heavinesse for under the covering of thy wings there is joy and health and safety save all those that feare thy name and give thy blessing to thine heritage and that the blessings of thy people may be lasting and perpetuall give unto thy servant the King long life let thy loving kindnesse and faithfulnesse alway preserve him be a strong tower for him against all his enemies and at last bring him to an eternall Kingdome where no enemies shall assault or disturbe his Peace that he may dwell before thee for ever and rejoyce in the participation of the blessings of thy kingdome who livest and raignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 62. A Prayer that we may trust in God onely in all our troubles MORNING PRAYER MY soul truly waiteth still upon God for of him cometh my salvation 2 He verily is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not greatly fall 3 How long will ye imagine mischiefe against every man ye shall be slain all the sort of you yea as a tottering walâ— shall ye be and like a broken hedge 4 Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt their delight is in lies they giue good words with their mouth but curse with their heart 5 Neverthelesse my soul wait thou still upon God for my hope is in him 6 He truly is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not fall 7 In God is my health and my glory the rock of my might and in God is my trust 8 O put your trust in him alway ye people poure out your hearts before him for God is our hope 9 As for the children of men they are but vain the children of men are deceitfull upon the weights they are altogether lighter then vanity it self 10 O trust not in wrong and robbery giue not your selves unto vanity if riches increase set not your heart upon them 11 God spake once and twice I haue also heard the same that power belongeth unto God 12 And that thou Lord art mercifull for thou rewardest every man according to his work The Prayer O Lord God of whom commeth our salvavation thou art our defence and strength our health and our glory give us thy grace that we may put our whole trust in thee alway that we may poure out our hearts before thee in all our troubles that we may wait still upon thee for the performance of our expectation in all our longings and desires Be thou our defence uphold us that we may not fall into those great sins which lay wast our consciences or into such miseries as make us without hope or remedy the miseries of despaire obstinate malice or the woes of a sad eternity Teach us to despise riches to disclaim all trust in the creatures not to delight in lyes or vanity not to multiply wrongs and robbery that when thou shalt come with power and great glory to reward every man according to his worke thou mayest be mercifull unto us pardoning our sinnes and accepting us to life eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 63. A Prayer for deliverance from the miseries of our pilgrimage with longing and desires after God and the Joyes of Heaven O God thou art my God early will I seek thee 2 My soul thirsteth for thee my flesh also longeth after thee in a barren and dry land where no water is 3 Thus haue I looked for thee in holinesse that I might behold thy power and glory 4 For thy loving kindnesse is better then the life it self my lips shall praise thee 5 As long as I liue will I magnifie thee on this manner and lift up my hands in thy name 6 My soul shall be satisfied even as it were with marrow fatnesse when my mouth praiseth thee with ioyfull lips 7 Haue I not remembred thee in my bed and thought upon thee when I was waking 8 Because thou hast been my helper therefore under the shadow
for the testimony of a good conscience the doctrines of a Catholike faith Let not them that trust in thee O Lord God of Hosts be ashamed but let them who for thy sake have suffered reproofe be delivered from them that hate them and from the deep waters of persecutions and discomforts that we and all thy faithfull people being saved from our Enemies may praise thee and thy faithfulnesse in this world and may finally inherit the land of promise which thou hast made to all that suffer persecution for a cause of righteousnesse even the possession of thine inheritance thy Kingdome in Heaven where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 70. A Prayer to God for blessings upon faithfull People and deliverance from our Enemies HAst thee O God to deliver mee make hast to help me O Lord. 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul let them be turned backward and put to confusion that wish me evill 3 Let them for their reward be soon brought to shame that crie over me There there 4 But let all those that seek thee be ioyfull and glad in thee and let all such as delight in thy salvation say alway The Lord be praised 5 As for me I am poore and in misery baste thee unto mee O God 6 Thou art my helper and my redeemer O Lord make no long tarrying The Prayer O Lord God our Helper and Redeemer have mercy upon us and all thy faithfull people make haste and help us ô God against all those that seek after our soules to doe us mischiefe make us to delight in thee to waite for thy salvation to trust in thy mercies to rejoyce in thy excellencies and perfection that our feet being directed by thy guidance our weaknesses strengthned by thy power our sinnes pardoned by thy mercies and our soules justified by thy free grace we may alwaies give thee praise with the humble addresses of devotion and thankfulnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 71. A Prayer for the continuance of Gods favours to us even to our old age and a longing for a happy departure MORNING PRAYER IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousnesse encline thine eare unto me and save me 2 Be thou my strong hold whereunto I may alway resort thou hast promised to help me for thou art my house of defence and my castle 3 Deliver me O my God out of the hand of the ungodly out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruell man 4 For thou O Lord God art the thing that I long for thou art my hope even from my youth 5 Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born thou art he that took me out of my mothers wombe my praise shall be alway of thee 6 I am become as it were a monster unto many but my sure trust is in thee 7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praise that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long 8 Cast me not away in the time of age forsake me not when my strength faileth me 9 For mine enemies speak against me and they that lay wait for my soul take their counsel together saying God hath forsaken him persecute him and take him for there is none to deliver him 10 Go not farre from me O God my God hast thee to help me 11 Let them be confounded and perish that are against my soul let them be covered with shame and dishonour that seek to doe me evill 12 As for me I will patiently abide alway and will praise thee more and more 13 My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousnesse and salvation for I know no end thereof 14 I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God and will make mention of thy righteousnesse only 15 Thou O God hast taught me from my youth up untill now therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works 16 Forsake me not O God in mine old age when I am gray-headed untill I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to all them that are yet for to come 17 Thy righteousnesse O God is very high and great things are they that thou hast done O God who is like unto thee 18 O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turn and refresh me yea and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again 19 Thou hast brought me to great honour and comforted me on every side 20 Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulnesse O God playing upon an instrument of musick unto thee will I sing upon the harp O thou holy one of Israel 21 My lips will be fain when I sing unto thee and so will my soule whom thou hast delivered 22 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousnesse all the day long for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to do me evil The Prayer O Lord God our house of defence and our Castle who by thy mercies and thy loving Spirit hast taught us and led us in thy wayes from our first years untill now thou hast brought us to great honour even the honour of being Christians the honour of adoption to be thy Children and heires of thy glorious promises coheir◠with thy Sonne Iesus Christ and hast comforted us on every side with a continuall streame of thy mercies and refreshments give us thy grace that we may love thee and long for thee above all the things of this World and as thou hast holden us up ever since we were borne so let thy mercy goe along with us all our daies Cast us not away in the time of age and give us grace that we may never cast thee or thy Lawes from us Let not thy grace and the ghostly strength we derive from thee forsake us when our naturall strength failes us but let our spirit grow upon the disadvantages of the flesh and begin to receive the happinesse of eternity by an absolute conquest over the weakned and decaying body that after we have by thy aide passed through the great troubles and adversities thou shewest unto all thy Children in this world we may lye downe in righteousnesse and with thy favour that when thou bringest us out from the deep of the earth againe we may have a joyfull resurrection to the society of Saints and Angells and the full fruition of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 72. A Prayer for the exaltation and propagation of Christs Kingdome GIve the King thy judgements O God and thy righteousnesse unto the Kings sonne 2 Then shall he iudge the people according unto right and defend the poore 3 The mountains also shall bring peace and the little hills righteousnesse unto the people 4 He shall keep the simple folk by their right defend the children of the poore and punish the wrong doer 5
those that are appoynted to die 13 And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee reward thou them O Lord seven fold into their bosome 14 So we that be thy people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord God of thine inheritance who conveyest many blessings to the children of men by the prayers and ministery of thy Church let our Prayers obtain of thee mercies and deliverances for her O Lord thou hast planted thy Church in the humility and poverty and death of thy Sonne thou hast watered it with the blood of thy Apostles and Martyrs thou hast made it flourish and spread forth its branches by the warmth and heate and graces of thy holy spirit and hast according to thy promise still preserved it in the midst of all enmities and disadvantages Thy Lawes and righteous commandements have been a scorn and derision to Iewes and Gentiles the flesh of thy servants have been meat for the beasts of the Land and still she weares the purple robe of mockery and the crowne of thornes which at first she took from the head and side of her Dearest Lord At last O Lord be gratious unto thine inheritance help us ô God of our salvation for the glory of thy Name let not thine enemies devour the Church and lay wast her dwelling places be mercifull unto our sinnes preserve all those that by malice of their enemies are appoynted to death or prison or any other misery let us still enjoy the freedom of thy Gospell the food of thy word the sweet refreshings of thy Sacraments publike Communions in thy Church and all the benefits of the society of Saints and let not our sinnes cause thee to remove the Candlestick from us but make thy people and the sheep of thy pasture secure and glad in thy salvation that we may shew forth thy praise in this world and in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 80. A Prayer for the Church HEare O thou Shepheard of Israel thou that leadest Ioseph like a sheep shew thy self also thou that sittest upon the cherubims 2 Before Ephraim Beniamin and Manasses stirre up thy strength and come and help us 3 Turn us again O God shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 4 O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears and givest them plenteousnesse of tears to drink 6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh us to scorn 7 Turn us again thou God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it 9 Thou madest room for it and when it had taken root it filled the land 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees 11 She stretched out her branches unto the sea and her boughs unto the river 12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedge that all they that go by pluck off her grapes 13 The wild bore out of the wood doth root it up and the wild beasts of the field devoure it 14 Turn thee again thou God of hosts look down from heaven behold and visit this vine 15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest so strong for thy self 16 It is burnt with fire and cut down and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the sonne of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self 18 And so will not we go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy name 19 Turn us again O Lord God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole The Prayer O Thou shepheard of Israel thou that sittest upon the Cherubims stirre up thy strength and come and help thy people that prayeth unto thee for mercy and protection Thou hast made affliction the portion of thy Children in this life thou feedest them with bread of teares and givest them plenteousnesse of teares to drinke yet be pleased to shew the light of thy countenance upon us to lighten our darknesses to relieve our miseries to heal our sicknesses and let not thy Church become a strife unto her neighbours but reunite her divisions and make her not a prey to them that would devoure her and then laugh her to scorne O Lord hedge her about with thy mercies with the custody of Angels with the patronage of Kings and Princes with the hearts and hands of Nobles and the defence of the whole secular arme least the wild beasts of the field pluck off her grapes destroy the vintage and root up the vine it selfe but let her so flourish under the beams of thy favour and providence that it may take root and spread and fill all lands that the name of the man of thy right hand the God and Man Christ Iesus may be glorified thy Church enlarged and defended and we blessed with thy health and salvation Grant this O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 81. A festivall song and a Prayer for the grace and blessings of obedience to Gods Lawes SIng we merrily unto God our strength make a cheerfull noise unto the God of Iacob 2 Take the psalme bring hither the tabret the merry harp with the lute 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon even in the time appoynted and upon our solemne feast day 4 For this was made a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Iacob 5 This he ordained in Ioseph for a testimony when he came out of the land of Egypt and had heard a strange language 6 I eased his shoulder from the burden and his hands were delivered from making the pots 7 Thou calledst upon me in troubles and I delivered thee and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon thee 8 I proved thee also at the waters of strife 9 Heare O my people and I will assure thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me 10 There shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any other god 11 I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I shall fill it 12 But my people would not heare my voyce and Israel would not obey me 13 So I gave them up unto their own hearts lust and let them follow their own imaginations 14 O that my people would have hearkned unto me for if Israel had walked in my wayes 15 I should soon have put down their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries 16
dwell in the tents of ungodlinesse 12 For the Lord God is a light and defence the Lord will give grace and worship and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life 13 O Lord God of hosts blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God of hosts who dwellest in the heavens seated in essentiall and eternall felicities fill our hearts with desires and longings to enter into those Courts where thou sittest attended with the beauteous orders of Angells and millions of beautified spirits and that our desires may receive infinite satisfactions give us thy helpe that we going through the vale of misery the pooles may be filled with water our hearts and eyes may runne over with teares of repentance and overflow with sorrow and contrition for our sinnes that we living a godly life going from strength to strength from vertue to vertue at last we may appeare in Sion unto the God of Gods beholding the face of thine anointed thy Christ and our Iesus and may dwell one day in thy Courts even all the long day of eternity through the same Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 85. A thanksgiving for Gods free mercy in the pardon of our sinnes and a prayer for the continuance and increase of his mercies to us LOrd thou art become gratious unto thy land thou hast turned away the captivity of Iacob 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people and covered all their sinnes 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure and turned thy selfe from thy wrathfull indignation 4 Turn us then O God our Saviour and let thine anger cease from us 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another 6 Wilt thou not turn againe quicken us that thy people may reioyce in thee 7 Shew us thy mercy O Lord and grant us thy salvation 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me for he shall speak peace unto his people and to his saints that they turne not again 9 For his salvation is nigh them that feare him that glory may dwell in our land 10 Mercy and truth are met together righteousnesse and peace have kissed each other 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousnesse hath looked down from heaven 12 Yea the Lord shall shew loving kindnesse and our land shall give her increase 13 Righteousnesse shall go before him and he shall direct his going in the way The Prayer O Most gracious God who art reconciled unto us in our Saviour Iesus having for his sake forgiven the offences of thy people and covered all their sinnes with the robe of his most immaculate sanctity and righteousnesse let thy grace convert and quicken us that we may rejoyce in thee and thy salvation in faith of thy promises in hope of the actuall communication of thy mercies to us and in love to thee for so great blessings and redemption and when thou hast spoken peace unto our soules and reconciled us to thy selfe in the bloud of thy Son give us the grace of perseverance that we may never turne again to folly but may follow mercy and truth all our dayes and at last be satisfied with thy righteousnesse and peace eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 86. A prayer for sanctity and preservation MORNING PRAYER BOw down thine eare O Lord and heare me for I am poore and in misery 2 Preserve thou my soule for I am holy my God save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee 3 Be mercifull unto me O Lord for I will call daily upon thee 4 Comfort the soule of thy servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soule 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6 Give eare Lord unto my prayer and ponder the voyce of my humble desires 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou hearest me 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee O Lord there is not one that can do as thou doest 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10 For thou art great and doest wonderous things thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walke in thy truth O knit my heart unto thee that I may feare thy Name 12 I will thanke thee O Lord my God with all my heart and will praise thy Name for evermore 13 For great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soule from the nethermost hell 14 O God the proud are risen against me and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soule and have not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lord God art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering plenteous in goodnesse and truth 16 O turne thee then unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and helpe the son of thine handmaid 17 Shew some good token upon me for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me The Prayer O Lord God good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee give eare unto our prayers and ponder the voyce of our desires when ever we call upon thee in our trouble Let the soules of thy servants be refreshed with thy comforts and defend us from the congregations of proud and naughty men Turne thee unto us with mercy give thy strength unto us teach us thy lawes make us to walke in thy truth give us the feare of thy Name and knit our hearts to thee with the indissoluble bands of charity and obedience that our soules being saved from the nethermost hell we may worship thee O Lord glorifie thy name who art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and plenteous in goodnesse and truth which thou hast manifested to us in our deliverance and redemption through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 87. A contemplation of the excellencies of Sion or the celestiall Ierusalem HEr foundations are upon the holy hills the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Iacob 2 Uery excellent things are spoken of thee thou city of God 3 I will thinke upon Rahab and Babylon with them that know me 4 Behold ye the Philistims also and they of Tyre with the Morians lo there was he borne 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was borne in her and the most High shall stablish her 6 The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people that he was borne there 7 The singers also and trumpeters also shall he rehearse all my fresh springs shall be in thee The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in Sion and delightest to have thy habitation in the hearts of men thou hast built the
Church as a City upon a hill and laid the foundation of it upon the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ being the chiefe Corner-stone make us to be a spirituall building fit for thy habitation and a residence for thy holy Spirit grounding us in faith building us up in hope and perfecting us in charity that we being joyned in the communion of Saints in the union of the holy Catholike Church militant on earth may all partake of the blessings of thy Church triumphant in the City of thee our God in the celestiall Ierusalem where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 88. A prayer in time of sicknesse and danger of death O Lord God of my salvation I have cried day and night before thee O let my prayer enter into thy presence incline thine eare unto my calling 2 For my soule is full of trouble and my life draweth nigh unto hell 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit and I have been even as a man that hath no strength 4 Free among the dead like unto them that be wounded and lie in the grave which be out of remembrance and are cut away from thy hand 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in a place of darknesse and in the deep 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me and made me to be abhorred of them 8 I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth 9 My sight faileth for very trouble Lord I have called daily upon thee I have stretched out my hands unto thee 10 Doest thou shew wonders among the dead or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee 11 Shall thy loving kindnesse be shewed in the grave or thy faithfulnesse in destruction 12 Shall thy wondrous workes be knowne in the darke and thy righteousnesse in the land where all things are forgotten 13 Unto thee haâ—e I eried O Lord and early shall my prayer come before thee 14 Lord why abhorest thou my soule and hidest thou thy face from me 15 I am in misery and like unto him that is at the point to die even from my youth up thy terrours have I suffered with a troubled minde 16 Thy wrathfull displeasure goeth over me and the feare of thee hath undone me 17 They came round about me daily like water and compassed me together on every side 18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight The Prayer O Lord God of our salvation who for our sakes wert wounded and didst die and lie in the grave but yet alone of all that ever died wert free among the dead and by thine own power didst arise againe with victory and triumph have mercy upon thy servant for thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes my soul is full of trouble by reason of my sinnes and my life draweth nigh unto the grave restore me unto thy favour and let me not go down into the darke nor my life into the place where all things are forgotten but let me shew forth thy loving kindnesse amongst thy redeemed ones in the land of the living for the living the living he shall praise thee and confesse the holinesse and the mercies of thy holy Name O hide not thou thy face from me but give me health of body and restore and preserve me in the life of righteousnesse and so blesse me with opportunities of doing thee service that I may redeem the time past and by thy grace may grow rich in good workes alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord that when thou shalt demand my soule to be rendred up into thy hands my soule may not be abhorred of thee nor suffer thy terrours but may feele an eternity of blessings in the resurrection of the just through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 89. A Prayer for the King in time of Warres or any publike calamitie EVENING PRAYER MY song shall be alway of the loving kindnesse of the Lord with my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from one generation to another 2 For I have said mercy shall be set up for ever thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen I have sworne unto David my servant 4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever and set up thy throne from one generation to another 5 O Lord the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous workes and thy truth in the congregation of the saints 6 For who is he among the clouds that shall be compared unto the Lord 7 And what is he among the gods that shall be like unto the Lord 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the counsell of the saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him 9 O Lord God of hosts who is like unto thee thy truth most mighty Lord is on every side 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt and destroyed it thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy might arme 12 The heavens are thine the earth also is thine thou hast laid the foundation of the round world and all that therein is 13 Thou hast made the North and the South Tabor and Harmon shall reioyce in thy Name 14 Thou hast a mighty arme strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand 15 Righteousnesse and equity is the habitation of thy feat mercy and truth shall go before thy face 16 Blessed is the people O Lord that can reioyce in thee they shall walke in the light of thy countenance 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name and in thy righteousnesse shall they make their boast 18 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy loving kindnesse thou shalt lift up our hornes 19 For the Lord is our defence the holy one of Israel is our King 20 Thou spakest sometimes in vision unto thy Saints and saidest I have laid helpe upon one that is mighty I have exalted one chosen out of the people 21 I have found David my servant with my holy oyle have I anointed him 22 My hand shall hold him fast and my arme shall strengthen him 23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence the son of wickednesse shall not hurt him 24 I shall smite down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him 25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him and in my Name shall his horne be exalted 26 I will set his dominion also in the sea and his right hand in the flouds 27 He shall call me thou art my father my God and my strong salvation 28 And I will make him my first-borne higher than the kings of the earth 29 My mercy will I keep for him for
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 dayes of heaven 31 But if his children forsake my law and walke not in my iudgements 32 If they break my statutes and keep not my commandements I will visit their offences with the rod and their sin with scourges 33 Neverthelesse my loving kindnesse will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my truth to faile 34 My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips I have sworne once by my holinesse that I will not faile 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 faithfull witnesse 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 overthrowne all his hedges and broken down his strong holds 40 All they that goe by spoile him and he is become a rebuke to his neighbours 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies and made all his adversaries to reioyce 42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword and givest him not victory in the battell 43 Thou hast put out his glorie and cast his throne down to the ground 44 The dayes of his youth hast thou shortened and covered him with dishonour 45 Lord how long wilt thou hide thy selfe for ever and shall thy wrath burne like fire 46 Oh remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men for nought 47 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death and shall he deliver his soule from the hand of hell 48 Lord where are thy old loving kindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth 49 Remember Lord the rebuke that thy servants have and how I doe beare in my bosome the rebukes of many people 50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee and slandered the footsteps of thine anointed praised be the Lord for evermore Amen Amen The Prayer O Lord God of hosts thou art greatly to be feared in the councell of the saints and to be had in reverence of all the world let thy strong hand and thy mighty arme blesse and preserve thine Anointed the King as thou hast exalted thy chosen from among the People so let the greatnesse of thy blessings and assistances distinguish him from all the world make his throne as the dayes of heaven smite down his enemies before his face let thy hand hold him fast that the enemy may not be able to doe him violence and let thine arme strengthen him that the sonnes of wickednesse may not hurt him O do thou never put his glory out nor cover him with dishonour but give him victory in battels honour and rejoycing in time of peace confidence in thee reverence amongst his people continual defence in thy salvation that when thou hast finished his dayes in peace and honour his seed may be established in his throne and endure for ever like as the sun before thee Grant this O king of kings for his sake to whom thou hast given all power and dominion in heaven and earth even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 90. A meditation of death and a prayer preparatory to it MORNING PRAYER LOrd thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another 2 Before the mountaines were brought forth or ever the earth and the world were made thou art God from everlasting and world without end 3 Thou turnest man to destruction again thousayest Come again yée children of men 4 For a thousand yeares in thy sight are but as yesterday seeing that is past as a watch in the night 5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grasse 6 In the morning it is green and groweth up but in the evening it is cut down dried up and withered 7 For we consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathfull indignation 8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sinnes in the sight of thy countenance 9 For when thou art angry all our dayes are gone we bring our yeares to an end as it were a tale that is told 10 The dayes of our age are threescore yeares and ten and though men be so strong that they come to fourescore yeares yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone 11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth so is thy displeasure 12 O teach us to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts unto wisdome 13 Turne thee again O Lord at the last and be gracious unto thy servants 14 O satisfie us with thy mercy and that soon so shall we reioice and be glad all the dayes of our life 15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the yeares wherein we have suffered adversity 16 Shew thy servants thy worke and their children thy glory 17 And the glorious maiesty of the Lord our God be upon us prosper thou the worke of our hands upon us O prosper thou our handy worke The Prayer O Eternall God whose being was before the mountaines were brought forth before the earth and the vvorld vvere made even from everlasting and world without end have mercy upon us vveake and impotent people the children of men vvho fade avvay suddenly like the grasse remove our misdeeds from before thee and our secret sinnes from the sight of thy countenance be not angry with us neither consume us in thy displeasure teach us to number all the dayes of our life and to reckon on still to the day of death that when our dayes are gone and our yeares are brought to an end like a tale that is told thou mayest turne untous at the last and be gracious unto us in the pardon of our sinnes in the restraining the power and malice of all our ghostly enemies in giving us opportunity of all spirituall assistances and advantages that our lampes being trimmed and burning bright with charity and devotion we may enter into the bride-chamber there for ever to behold the glorious majesty of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 91. A Prayer for protection in all dangers VVHoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty 2 I will say unto the Lord Thou art my hope and my strong hold my God in him will I trust 2 For he shall deliver thee from the suare of the hunter and from the noysome pestilence 4 He shall defend thee under his wings and thou shalt be safe under his feathers his faithfulnesse and truth shall be thy shield and buckler 5 Thou shalt not
be afraid for any terrour by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day 6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkenes nor for the sicknesse that destroyeth in the noone day 7 A thousand shall fall beside thee and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee 8 Yea with thine eyes shalt thou behold and â—ee the reward of the ungodly 9 For thou Lord art my hope thou hast set thine house of defence very high 10 There shall no evill happen unto thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling 11 For he shall give his Angells charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes 12 They shall beare thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone 13 Thon shalt goe upon the lion and adder the young lion and the dragon salt thou tread under thy feet 14 Because he hath set his love upon me therefore shall I deliver him I shall set him up because he hath known my name 15 He shall call upon me and I will heare him yea I am with him in trouble I will deliver him and bring him to honour 16 With long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation The Prayer O Lord God our hope and our strong hold have mercy upon us and defend us under the shadow of thy wings that we trusting under thy defence may by thy faithfulnesse and truth be covered as with a shield and buekler Give thy Angels charg concerning us and our habitations that we may be preserved and kept in all our wayes that no evill happen unto us no plague come nigh our dwelling no terrors of the night no arrowes of thy vengeance by day may disturbe our peace or safety Let thy ministring Spirits beare us in their hands and keep us from precipice from fracture of bones from dislocations noysome or sharp diseases stupidities and deformities that we may tread under our feet all the snares of the roaring lion and the great dragon the Divell who seeks our bodily and ghostly hurt Doe thou set thy love upon us and deliver us from all our troubles and at the end of our dayes shew us thy salvation and satisfie us with long life even of a blessed eternity in thy Kingdom through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALM 92. A meditation of the great works of God in the destruction of the wicked and the preservation of the godly IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto thy name O most Highest 2 To tell of thy loving kindnesse earely in the morning and of thy truth in the night season 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute upon a loud instrument and upon the harp 4 For thou Lord hast made me glad through thy works and I will rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of thy hands 5 O Lord how glorious are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep 6 An unwise man doth not well consider this and a foole doth not understand it 7 When the ungodly are green as the grasse and when all the workers of wickednesse do flourist then shall they be destroyed for ever but thou Lord art the most highest for evermore 8 For lo thine enemies O Lord lo thine enemies shall perish and all the workers of wickednesse shall be destroyed 9 But mine horne shall be exalted like the horne of an unicorn for I am anoynted with fresh oyle 10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies and mine eare shall heare his desire of the wlcked that rise up against me 11 The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Lebanus 12 Such as be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God 13 They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age and shall be fat and well liking 14 That they may shew how true the Lord my strength is and that there is no unrighteousnesse in him The Prayer O Lord God thou art the most highest for evermore thy workes are glorious and thy thoughts are very deep make our hearts and tongues loud instruments of thy prayses that we may tell of thy mercy in the morning of thy truth in the night and that we may rejoyce in giving thee thankes for the operations of thy hands all the dayes and nights of our life Let thy mercifull kindnesse descend evermore upon the righteous that they may flourish like a palm tree being continually watered with the dew of temporall and spirituall blessings and may bring forth fruits of a holy conversation and grant that we thy servants being planted in the house of God and firmly fixed in the blessed communion of Saints may flourish in the Courts of thy house thy celestiall temple to all eternity O let not our portion be amongst the ungodly and unrighteous make us not to communicate in their wickednesse so much as by consent or approbation that we may never perish and be destroyed in the furiousnesse of thine anger which thou treasurest up against the day of vengeance righteous judgement even the day of the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 93. A Prayer that God would preserve his Church against the stormes and flouds of persecution EVENING PRAYER THe Lord is King and hath put on glorious apparell the Lord hath put on his apparell and girded himselfe with strength 2 He hath made the round world so sure that it cannot be moved 3 Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared thou art from everlasting 4 The flouds â—are risen O Lord the flouds have lift up their voyce the flouds lift up their waves 5 The waves of the sea are mighty and rage horribly but the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier 6 Thy testimonies O Lord are very sure holinesse becometh thine house for ever The Prayer O Lord our King who art girded with strength and hast prepared thy seat from everlasting establish thy testimonies in our hearts as a sure foundation of temporall eternall happinesse Preserve thy house the holy catholique Church in peace and holinesse which is its defence and ornament and although the flouds of persecution and secular disadvantages have lift up their waves to overthrow it yet because it is built upon a rocke the rocke Christ Iesus make it to stand firm and sure against all the malice of hell and earth and all the powers of them both for thou ô Lord art mightier then all the waves stormes of her enemies To thee O Lord who dwellest on high and art mightier be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 94. A prayer for patience comfort and assistance to the godly and that God would disappoynt the designes of the wicked O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth thou God to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy selfe 2 Arise thou iudge of the world and reward the
is glory and and worship fill our lips and soules with great devotion and reverence towards thee our God Make us to love thy goodnesse to adore thy omnipotency to reverence thy justice to feare thy Majesty to admire and tremble at thy omniscience and omnipresence and to contemplate with the greatest zeale and affections all those glories which thou communicatest to the sonnes of men in the revelations of thy gospell of thy creatures and of thy miracles that we may tell of thy greatnesse and declare thy salvation from day to day and when thou commest with righteousnesse to judge the earth and all people with thy truth we may rejoyce in thee everlastingly and sing an Eternall Allelujah to thee in thy sanctuary Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen PSALME 97. A meditation upon the day of Iudgement and a prayer for mercy and salvation THe Lord is King the earth may be glad thereof yea the multitude of the Isles may be glad thereof 2 Clouds and darknesse are round about him righteousnesse and iudgement are the habitation of his seat 3 There shall go a fire before him and burn up his enemies on every side 4 His lightnings gave shine unto the world the earth saw it and was afraid 5 The hills melted like war at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth 6 The heavens have declared his righteousnesse and all the people have seen his glory 7 Confounded be all they that worship carved images and that delight in vain gods worship him all ye gods 8 Sion heard of it and reioyced and the daughters of Iudah were glad because of thy iudgements O Lord 9 For thou Lord art higher then all that are in the earth thou art exalted farre above all gods 10 O ye that love the Lord see that ye hate the thing that is evil the Lord preserveth the souls of his Saints he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly 11 There is sprung up a light for the righteous and ioyfull gladnesse for such as be true hearted 12 Reioyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thanks for a remembrance of his holinesse The Prayer O Lord our King Lord of the whole earth have mercy upon us and sanctifie us with thy grace that we may hate every thing that is evill that we may love thee give thankes unto thy name and rejoyce in remembrance of thy holinesse that in the day of judgement and great terrors when thou shalt sit in thy seat supported with righteousnesse and iudgement and a fire shall go forth from thy presence to burne up thy enemies on every side thou maist preserve our soules in safety from the hand of our enemies and a light may spring up unto us to preserve us from eternall darknesse and the want of the light of thy countenance through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 98. A thankesgiving for the redemption of mankinde by Iesus Christ EVENING PRAYER O Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things 2 With his own right hand and with his holy arme hath he gotten himselfe the victorie 3 The Lord declared his salvation his righteousnesse hath he openly shewed is the sight of the heathen 4 He hath remembred his mercie and truth toward the house of Israel and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God 5 Shew your selues ioyfull unto the Lord all yee lands sing reioyce and giue thankes 6 Praise the Lord upon the harpe sing to the herpe with a psalme of thankesgiving 7 With trumpets also and shawâ—es O shew your sleves ioyfull before the Lord the King 8 Let the sea make a noise and all that therein is the round world and they that dwell therein 9 Let the flouds clap their hands and let the hills be ioyfull together before the Lord for he is come to iudge the earth 10 With righteousnesse shall he iudge the world and the people with equitie The Prayer O Most glorious and powerfull Iesu who with thine owne right hand and with thy holy arme hast gotten to thy selfe on our behalfe the victory over sin hell and the grave remember this thy mercy and truth which thou hast promised to all that believe on thee giveus pardon of our sinnes seal'd unto us by the testimony of the holy Spirit and of a good conscience and grant that we by thy strength may fight against our ghostly enemies and by thy power may overcome them that we may rejoyce in a holy peace and sing and give thee thankes for our victory and our crowne Extend this mercy and enlarge the effect of thy great victories to the heathen that all the ends of the world may sing a new song unto thee and see the salvation of God that when thou commest to judge the earth we may all finde mercy and be joyfull together before thee in the festivity of a blessed eternity thorow thy mercies O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 99. A prayer for the vertue of religion and devotion in holy places THe Lord is King be the people never so unpatient he sitteth between the cherubims be the earth never so unquiet 2 The Lord is great in Sion and high aboue all people 3 They shall giue thankes unto thy Name which is great wonderfull and holy 4 The kings power loueth iudgement thou hast prepared equitie thou hast executed iudgement and righteousnesse in Iacob 5 O magnifie the Lord our God and fall down before his footstool for he is holy 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests and Samuel among such as call upon his Name these called upon the Lord and he heard them 7 He spake unto them out of the cloudy pillar for they kept his testimonies and the law that he gaue them 8 Thou heardest them O Lord our God thou forgauest them O God and punishedst their own inuentions 9 O magnifie the Lord our God and worship him upon his holy hill for the Lord our God is holy The Prayer O Great God and King of Heaven and earth thou that sittest between the Cherubims unmoved in the centre of thy own felicity and essentiall tranquillity undisturbed in the great concussions and unquietnesse of the earth give unto us thy servants venerable and dreadfull apprehensions of the sanctity and perfections of thy Name and Nature which is great wonderfull and holy Teach us in all the addresses of our devotion and in all places appointed for thy service by all reverence and holinesse of soule and body to expresse the greatnesse of thy power and our weaknesse the majesty of thy glory and the unworthinesse of our persons the distance of God and man of finite and infinite of Lord and Servant that the awfulnesse of thy dread majesty may check every unreverent gesture and thought in us and teach us to mak approaches of humility and feare that we calling upon thy Name according to our
made unto all that believe in thee and are obedient to thy Word Grant this O blessed Iesu to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen PSALME 106. A commemoration of Gods frequent pardons and mercies to the penitent EVENING PRAYER OGiue thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 Who can expresse the noble acts of the Lord or shew forth all his praise 3 Blessed are they that alway keep judgement and doe righteousnesse 4 Remember me O Lord according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation 5 That I may see the felicity of thy chosen and reioyce in the gladnesse of thy people and give thanks with thine inheritance 6 We haue sinned with our fathers we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt neither kept they thy great goodnesse in remembrance but were disobedient at the sea even at the Red sea 8 Neverthelesse he helped them for his names sake that he might make his power to be knowne 9 He rebuked the Red sea also and it was dried up so he led them through the deep as through a wildernesse 10 And he saved them from the adversaries hand and delivered them from the hand of the enemy 11 As for those that troubled them the waters overwhelmed them there was not one of them left 12 Then beleeved they his words and sang praise unto him 13 But within a while they forgat his works and would not abide his counsell 14 But lust came upon them in the wildernesse and they tempted God in the desert 15 And he gaue them their desire and sent leannesse withall into their soul 16 They angred Moses also in the tents and Aaron the saint of the Lord. 17 So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the congregation of Abiram 18 And the fire was kindles in their company the flame burnt up the ungodly 19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped the molten image 20 Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf that eateth hay 21 And they forgat God their Saviour which had done so great things in Egypt 22 Wonderous works in the land of Ham and fearfull things by the Red sea 23 So he said he would have destroyed them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the gap to turn away his wrathfull indignation lest he should destroy them 24 Yea they thought scorn of that pleasant land and gave no creâ—ance unto his word 25 But murmured in their tents and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. 26 Then lift he up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wildernesse 27 To cast out their seed among the nations and to scatter them in the lands 28 They ioyned themselves unto Baalâ—peor and ate the offering of the dead 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their own inventions and the plague was great among them 30 Then stood up Phinees and prayed and so the plague ceased 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousnesse among all posterities for evermore 32 They angred him also at the waters of strife so that he punished Moses for their sakes 33 Because they provoked his spirit also that he spake unadvisedly with his lips 34 Neither destroyed they the heathen as the Lord commanded them 35 But were mingled among the heathen and learned their workes 36 Insomuch that they worshipped their idols which turned to their own decay yea they offered their sonnes and daughters unto devils 37 And shed innocent bloud even the bloud of their sonnes and of their daughters whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan and the land was defiled with bloud 38 Thus were they stained with their owne workes and went a whoring with their owne inventions 39 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance 40 And he gave them over into the hand of the heathen and they that hated them were lords over them 41 Their enemies oppressed them and had them in subiection 42 Many a time did he deliver them but they rebelled against him with their owne inventions and were brought downe in their wickednesse 43 Neverthelesse when he saw their adversity he heard their complaint 44 He thought upon his covenant and pitied them according unto the multitude of his mercies yea he made all those that had led them away captive to pity them 45 Deliver us O Lord our God and gather us from among the heathen that we may give thankes unto thy holy Name and make our boast of thy praise 46 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and world without end and let all the people say Amen The Prayer O Lord God full of mercy and pity who didst many times deliver thy people from their adversity when thou for their rebelling against thee with their inventions hadst given them into the hand of the heathen Remember us O Lord according unto the favour thou bearest unto thy people and visit us with thy salvation that though we have done amisse and dealt wickedly against thee and against thy covenant yet be pleased to helpe us for thy Name sake and make thy power to be known in the mighty deliverance and redemption of us from so great danger and misery Give us grace to believe thy words to abide thy counsels to walke in thy Lawes to relinquish our own sinfull and vain desires to obey our Governours Ecclesiasticall and Civill that we may not have the lot of Dathan and Abiram but at last may receive our port on in the felicity of thy chosen giving thee thankes with thine inheritance for that thou hast turned from us thy wrathfull indignation pitying us and saving us according to the multitude of thy mercies Thy Name be blessed O Lord God everlastingly and world without end through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALME 107. A thankesgiving for deliverâ—â—â—e from miseries and dangers MORNING PRAYER O Give thankes unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercie endureth for ever 2 Let them give thankes whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy 3 And gathered them out of the lands from the East and from the West from the North and from the South 4 They went astray in the wildernesse out of the way and found no city to dwell in 5 Hungry and thirsty their soule fainted in them 6 So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distresse 7 He led them forth by the right way that they might go to the city where they dwelt 8 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the empty soule and filleth the hungry soule with goodnesse 10 Such as siâ— in darknesse and in
the shadow of death being fast bound in misery and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the word of the Lord and lightly regarded the counsell of the most High 12 He also brought down their heart through heavinesse they fell down and there was none to helpe them up 13 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse 14 For he brought them out of darknesse and out of the shadow of death and brake their bonds in sunder 15 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 16 For he hath broken the gates of brasse and â—ritten the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 in sunder 17 Foolish men are plagued for their offence and because of their wickednesse 18 Their soule abhorred all manner of meat and they were even hard aâ— deaths doore 19 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse 20 He sent his word and healed them and they were saved from their destruction 21 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 22 That they would 〈…〉 him the sacrifice of thankesgiving and 〈◊〉 but his workes with gladnesse 23 They that go doâ—â— to the sea in ships and occupy their businesse in great waters 24 These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deep 25 For at 〈◊〉 worâ— the storâ— windâ— ariseth which lifteth up the waves thereof 26 〈…〉 carried up to the heaven and doâ—â—â— again to the deepe their soule melteth away because of the trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their witâ— end 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their troubles he delivereth them out of their distresse 29 For â—â— maketh the storm to cease so that the waves thereof arâ— still 30 Then are they glad because they be at rest and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 32 That they would â—â—alt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders 33 Which â—urnath the flouds into a wildernesse and drieth up the water springs 34 A fruitfull 〈◊〉 maketh â—e barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein 35 Again he maketh the wildernesse a standing water and water springs of a dry ground 36 And there hâ—â—seâ—â—eth the hungry that they may build them a city to dwell in 37 That they 〈◊〉 sow their land and plant vineyards to yeeld them fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them so that they multiply exceedingly and suffereth not their cattell to decrease 39 And again when they are minished and brought low through oppression through any plague or trouble 40 Though he suffer them to be evill entreated through tyrants and let them wander out of the way in the wildernesse 41 Yet helpeth he the poore out of miserie and maketh him housholds like a flocke of sheep 42 The righteous will consider this and reioyce and the mouth of all wickednesse shall be stopped 43 Whoso is wise will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God gracious and good whose mercy endureth for ever have mercy upon us when in our trouble we cry unto thee for when our hearts are brought down through heavinesse there is none to helpe us up or to deliver us out of our distresse but onely thou O Lord. We have sinned we have rebelled against thee and lightly regarded thy counsels we have walked and â—ate in darknesse and in the shadowes of death being fast bound in the captivity and misery of sin O bring us out of darknesse and breake our bonds a sunder guide us through the desert of this world in which growes nothing but sadnesse and discontent still the tempests and smooth the slondâ— of misery which are ready to overwhelmâ— us and in thy due time bring us to eternall rest and to the haven where we would faine be that in the congregation of thy holy people we may praise thee for thy goodnesse and declare the wonders thou hast done for us in delivering us from sin and misery and death and bringing us to a City to dwell in where there is life and light and joy eternall in the beholding the face of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 108. A Prayer for victory against our Enemies EVENING PRAYER O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best member I have 2 Awake thou lute and harp I my selfe will awake right early 3 I will give thankes unto thee O Lord among the people I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 5 For thy mercy is greater then the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds 5 Set up thy selfe O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth 6 That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand save them and heare thou me 7 God hath spoken in his holinesse I will reioyce therefore and divide Sithem and mete out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head 9 Iuda is my lawgiver Moab is my washpot over Edom will I cast out my shooe upon the Philistines will I triumph 10 Who will lead me into the strong city and who will bring me into Edom 11 Hast not thou forsaken us O God and wilt not thou O God go forth with our hosts 12 O helpe us against the enemy for vain is the helpe of man 13 Through God we shall do great acts and it is he that shall tread down our enemies The Prayer O Lord God whose mercie is greater then the Heavens and thy glory is above all the earth be thou exalted in thine owne strength and magnifie thy power and thy mercy in defending us and all thy holy Church against all our enemies temporall and spirituall Forsake us not O God our defence for vain is the help of man do thou strengthen us and go forth with our hosts to battell that we being defended and armed by thee may do acts great and good fighting thy battels and putting our confidence in thy righteousnesse onely and salvation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 109. A Prayer against Gods enemies and especially Traitors prophetically intended against the person of Iudas HOld not thy tongue O God of my praise for the mouth of the ungodly yea and the mouth of the deceitfull is opened upon me 2 And they hade spoken against me with false tongues they compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause 3 For the love that I had unto them lo they
quicken thou me according to thy word 2 I have knowledged my wayes and thou heardest me O teach me thy statutes 3 Make me to understand the way of thy commandments and so shall I talke of thy wonderous works 4 My soul melteth away for very heavinesse comfort thou me according unto thy word 5 Take from me the way of lying and cause thou me to make much of thy law 6 I have chosen the way of truth and thy iudgements have I laid before me 7 I have sticken unto thy testimonies O Lord confound me not 8 I will run the way of thy commandments when thou hast set my heart at libertie The Prayer VVE have chosen the way of thy truth O Lord and laid thy judgements before us and yet through our infirmities and the disadvantages of the flesh we are in heavinesse and drive on slowly like Pharao's chariots with the wheels off our soules and our desires cleave unto the dust and to things below and we are not active in thy services O quicken us according to thy word refresh our wearinesse comfort our sadnesse take from us the way of lying and vanity set our hearts at liberty from the bondage of sinne from the fetters of temptation from the incumbrances of the world and then we shall runne the way of thy commandments never ceasing to run till we arrive at the land of eternall rest and righteousnesse where thou livest and raignest world without end Amen V. MORNING PRAYER TEach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I shall keep it unto the end 2 Giue me understanding and I shall keep thy Law yea I shall keep it with my whole heart 3 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments for therein is my desire 4 Encline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to couteousnesse 5 O turne away mine eyes lest they behold vanity and quicken thou me in thy way 6 O stablish thy word in thy seruant that I may feare thee 7 Take away the rebuke that I am afraid of for thy judgements are good 8 Behold my delight is in thy commandments O quicken me in thy righteousnesse The Prayer O Lord God who art of infinite Sanctity and hast given us thy Law that we walking in so divine a rule may imitate the perfection of thy holinesse make us to go all our dayes in the path of thy Commandments take from us all greedy and inordinate appetite of the creature let not our hearts be inclined to covetousnesse nor our eyes wander after vanity but grant that we being established in thy Law and walking in thy feare may persevere in the wayes of righteousnesse keeping the way of thy statutes even unto the end that the rebuke which for our sinnes we may justly feare may by thy mercies and pardon be taken away from us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen VI. LEt thy loving mercy also come unto me O Lord euen thy saluation according unto thy word 2 So shall I make answer unto my blasphemers for my trust is in thy word 3 O take not the word of thy truth utterly out of my mouth for my hope is in thy iudgements 4 So shall I alway keep thy law yea for euer and euer 5 And I will walke at liberty for I seek thy commandments 6 I will speake of thy testimonies also euen before kings and will not be ashamed 7 And my delight shall be in thy commandments which I haue loued 8 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments which I haue loued and my study shall be in thy statutes The Prayer LEt thy loving mercy come unto us O Lord and thy salvation for thou alwayes keepest promise and never disappointest the hopes of them that trust in thee Give us confidence and boldnesse in thee that we may never fear or blush to confesse thee before men but may speake of thy testimonies even before Kings and may never be ashamed of thy Word which is the ground of our hope but that our hands may be lift up to performe thy Law and our study our love and our delight may be in it even for ever and ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen VII O Thinke upon thy seruant as concerning thy word wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust 2 The same is my comfort in my trouble for thy word hath quickened me 3 The proud haue had me exceedingly in derision yet have I not shrinked from thy law 4 For I remembred thine euerlasting iudgements O Lord and receiued comfort 5 I am horribly afraid for the ungodly that forsake thy law 6 Thy statutes haue been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage 7 I haue thought upon thy name O Lord in the night season and haue kept thy law 8 This I had because I kept thy commandments The Prayer THinke upon us O Lord in all our desires in all our feares in all our troubles let thy Law give us comfort redresse and satisfaction that in our trouble we may thence derive comfort in our feares we may there fixe our anchor of hope and from thence we may get defence against the derisions and insolencies of the proud and grant that thy grace may reward thy grace in us and a further degree of sanctity may crowne the first beginnings and when by thy assistances we thinke upon thy Name and keep thy Law we begge this onely that our reward may be still to keep thy Commandments Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen VIII THou art my portion O Lord I haue promised to keep thy law 2 I made my humble petition in thy presence with my whole heart O be mercifull unto mee according to thy word 3 I called mine own wayes to remembrance and turned my feet unto thy testimonies 4 I made haste and prolonged not the time to keep thy commandments 5 The congregation of the ungodly haue robbed me but I haue not forgotten thy law 6 At midnight I will rise to giue thankes unto thee because of thy righteous iudgements 7 I am a companion of all them that feare thee and keep thy commandments 8 The earth O Lord is full of thy mercy O teach me thy statutes The Prayer O Beare God be thou our portion and the lot of our inheritance and be mercifull unto us when ever we make our humble petition in thy presence and above all the desires of our soules let us receive satisfaction in this request give us repentance and thy holy Spirit that we calling our owne wayes to remembrance may be truly sorrowfull for our past sinnes and may make hast prolonging not the time but early and instantly turne our feet unto thy testimonies that we being companions of all that feare thee may bee partakers of all the blessings in the communion of Saints through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen IX O Lord thou hast dealt graciously with thy servant according unto thy word 2 O learne me true understanding
concerning thy testimonies I have known long since that thou hast grounded them for ever The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercy and truth give us hearts fixed upon thy divine beauties and an actuall intention in our prayers that we may call upon thee with our whole hearts and do thou heare in Heaven when we call upon thee deliver us from all them that of malice draw nigh to persecute and afflict us be thou also night at hand and nothing can disturbe our safety Make us to seek to thee early in the morning let our eyes and our prayers prevent the night watches that we may be safe in our conversation with thee and our daily approaches to thy mercy-seat where thou sittest attended with Cherubims and Seraphims glorious in thy Selfe incomprehensible in thy Attributes and infinitely rejoycing in thy mercies which thou shewest unto us in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen XX. O Consider mine adversity and deliver me for I do not forget thy law 2 Avenge thou my cause and deliver me quicken me according unto thy word 3 Health is farre from the ungodly for they regard not thy statutes 4 Great is thy mercie O Lord quicken me as thou art wont 5 Many there are that trouble me and persecute me yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies 6 It grieveth me when I see the transgressours because they keep not thy law 7 Consider O Lord how I love thy commandments O quicken me according to thy loving kindnesse 8 Thy word is true from everlasting all the iudgements of thy righteousnesse endure for evermore The Prayer O Lord thy mercy is great thy Word is true from everlasting and in the truth of thy Word and in the mercies of thy promises and loving kindnesse thou lovest to be knowne to the sonnes of men O give us thy health and salvation that our soules being delivered from the heavie pressure of sin and quickened in thy Word thou mayest avenge us of all our ghostly enemies and deliver us in thy righteousnesse in the day of thy eternall vengeance upon the ungodly through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen XXI PRinces have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in aw of thy words 2 I am as glad of thy word as one that findeth great spoiles 3 As for lies I hate and abhorre them but thy law do I love 4 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous iudgements 5 Great is the peace that they have which love thy law and they are not offended at it 6 Lord I have looked for thy saving health and done after thy commandments 7 My soule hath kept thy testimonies and loved them exceedingly 8 I have kept thy commandments and testimonies for all my wayes are before thee The Prayer ALL our wayes O God are before thee let all our wayes be directed by thee and teach us to walke as in thy presence Make us to hate and abhorre lyes and vanitie and give us so much love and so much zeale of thy Name and honour that we may make it a businesse to give thee praises with a frequent and daily devotion that we standing in aw of thy Word and holy Lawes and doing after thy Commandments our expectations may be satisfied with thy saving health and we may at last enjoy the peace which they have that love thy Law even the peace of a good conscience here and of a blessed eternity hereafter through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen XXII LEt my complaint come before thee O Lord give me understanding according to thy word 2 Let my supplication come before thee deliver me according to thy word 3 My lips shall speake of thy praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes 4 Yea my tongue shall sing of thy word for all thy commandments are righteous 5 Let thine hand helpe me for I have chosen thy commandments 6 I have longed for thy saving health O Lord and in thy law is my delight 7 O let my soule live and it shall praise thee and thy iudgements shall helpe me 8 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost Oh seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments The Prayer O Lord God we have gone astray from thy Commandments and been like lost sheep thou art our Shepheard and our mercifull Guide O seek thy servants let thy hand helpe us let thy care and providence reduce us into the way of thy statutes that we being delivered according to thy Word from thy wrath and from our owne corruptions and irregularities may at last be satisfied with thy saving health and our lips may speak of thy praise in the quire of Saints and Angels singing glorious Anthems to all eternity to the honour of thee O Lord God eternall who livest and reignest world without end Amen PSALM 120. A Prayer to be delivered from false tongues and cohabitation with wicked persons MORNING PRAYER WHen I was in trouble I called upon the Lord and he heard me 2 Deliver my soule O Lord from lying lips and from a deceitfull tongue 3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee thou false tongue even mighty and sharpe arrowes with hot burning coales 4 Wo is me that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech and to have mine habitation among the tents of Cedar 5 My soule hath long dwelt among them that be enemies unto peace 6 I labour for peace but when I speak unto them thereof they make them ready to battell The Prayer O Lord God who hearest the prayers of them that call upon thee in their calamities and distresses have mercy upon us thy servants who live in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation whereof we our selves make too great a part we beseech thee so to order the circumstances and opportunities of our life that we may live in the society of holy people whose example and conversation may be a continuall incentive to the wayes of peace and righteousnesse and deliver us from a necessity of conversing with turbulent spirits angry and unpeacefull dispositions who upon all occasions make themselves ready to battell Sanctifie our hearts and lips with a burning coale from thy altar that our words may be holy and profitable and keep us from all slander and scandall and the rewards of both the sharpe arrowes of thy vengeance the hot burning coales of thy wrath Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 121. A Prayer for Gods protection over us I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my helpe 2 My helpe cometh even from the Lord which hath made heauen and earth 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved and he that keepeth thee will not sleep 4 Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep 5 The Lord himselfe is thy keeper the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand 6 So that the sun shall not burne thee by day neither the moon by
night 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all euill yea it is even he that shall keep thy soule 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth for evermore The Prayer O Lord God our Keeper who dwellest upon the eternall hills from whence commeth all our helpe let thy mercies and thy providence watch over us by day and night that neither the vanities of the one nor the terrours of the other may disturbe our peace or safety Let not our feet be moved but be fixed upon the Rocke Christ Iesus and so order our goings making us to walke in the way of thy Commandments that thou mayest go in and out before us till at last we come into thy presence to dwell with thee for evermore through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 122. A Prayer for the peace and prosperity of the Church I Was glad when they said unto me We will go into the house of the Lord. 2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates O Ierusalem 3 Ierusalem is builded as a city that is aâ— unity in it selfe 4 For thither the Tribes go up even the Tribes of the Lord to testifie unto Israel to give thankes unto the name of the Lord. 5 For there is the seat of iudgement even the seat of the house of David 6 O pray for the peace of Ierusalem they shall prosper that love thee 7 Peace be within thy walls and plenteousnesse within thy palaces 8 For my brethren and companions sakes I will wish thee prosperity 9 Yea because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek to do thee good The Prayer O Blessed Iesu who didst descend according to thy humane Nature from the House of thy servant David and hast planted a church and defended it with a mighty hand and great assistances be pleased to preserve peace within her walls and send plenteousnesse within her palaces that all that love her peace may prosper and receive the blessings which thou givest to thy faithfull people in the communion of Saints Take from her all schismes and divisions that she may be like a city that is at unity within it selfe strong in faith abounding in hope and rich in the treasures of charity that at last she may be removed to a fellowship of all those joyes and felicities which are laid up for the inhabitants of the heavenly Ierusalem which is from above and is the mother of us all Grant this O blessed Iesu our onely Mediatour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 123. An eiaculation or a lifting up our soules to God for helpe in trouble VNto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the heavens 2 Behold even as the eyes of servants look vnto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistresse even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God untill he have mercy upon us 3 Have mercy upon us O Lord have mercy upon us for we are utterly despised 4 Our soule is filled with the scornfull reproofe of the wealthy and with the despitefulnesse of the proud The Prayer O Lord God that dwellest in the Heavens have mercy upon us in all our troubles in contempt in our poverty and when ever we are oppressed by any injurious practices of the proud Thou art our Lord and Master we are thy servants our eyes wait upon thee till thou have mercy upon us let us not be ashamed of our hope nor unfaithfull in our services nor distrustfull of thy providence but make us diligent labourers in our calling good husbands of our talents and faithfull in all thy house that we first serving thee may at last sit downe at meat with thee at thy table in thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 124. A thankesgiving for our deliverance from the power of all our enemies and a confessing God to be the Authour of it IF the Lord himselfe had not been on our side now may Israel say if the Lord himselfe had not been on our side when men rose up against us 2 They had swallowed us up quicke when they were so wrathfully displeased at us 3 Yea the waters had drowned us and the streame had gone over our soule 4 The deep waters of the proud had gone even over our soule 5 But praised be the Lord which hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth 6 Our soule is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are delivered 7 Our helpe standeth in the Name of the Lord which hath made heaven and earth The Prayer O Lord God which hast made Heaven and Earth in whose Name our helpe standeth we praise and blesse thy Name that in our troubles and temptations thou hast stood on our side and pleaded for us against them that rose against us It was thy hand O Lord and the helpe of thy mercy that relieved us the waters of affliction had drowned us and the streame had gone over our soule if the Spirit of the Lord had not moved upon the waters Thou O Lord didst blast the designes of our enemies with the breath of thy displeasure and to thee O Lord we ascribe the praise and honour of our redemption Perpetuate thy mercies to us let us never be given over as a prey to our ghostly enemies but breake their snares discover and weaken all their temptations by which they would destroy our soules that we being delivered from sin may be preserved from thy wrath through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 125. A Prayer for confidence in God and for deliverance from the portion of the wicked THey that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Ston which may not be removed but standeth fast for ever 2 The hills stand about Ierusalem even so standeth the Lord round about his people from this time forth for evermore 3 For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put their hand unto wickednesse 4 Do well O Lord unto those that be good and true of heart 5 As for such as turne backe unto their owne wickednesse the Lord shall leade them forth with the evill doers but peace shall be upon Israel The Prayer O Lord God our Trust and Confidence in whom whosoever trusteth shall never be removed but standeth fast for ever let thy mercies and the guard of holy Angels stand round about us and about all thy holy people like the hills for our defence and safety that we may be inaccessible by all the intendments of our enemies O let us not put our hands to wickednesse neither let our portion be in the lot of the ungodly whom thou leadest forth to destruction but let us receive the blessing which our Lord Iesus left unto his Church even the peace of God the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost to whom be all honour
severest judgements and as thy mercy pardons what is past so let the sweetnesse of it beget thy feare in our hearts that we may not dare to offend so gracious so mercifull a God but that trusting in thy Word and flying unto thee for succour we may wait for thee till our change commeth looking for thee in holinesse and righteousnesse all our dayes Grant this for thy mercies and compassion sake O blessed Jesu our onely Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 131. A Prayer for the graces of humility and mortification LOrd I am not high minded I have no proud lookes 2 I do not exercise my selfe in great matters which are too high for me 3 But I refrain my soule and keep it low like as a childe that is weaned from his motherâ— yea my soule is even as a weaned childe 4 O Israel trust in the Lord from this time forth for evermore The Prayer O Lord God before whom the humble Publican who durst not lift up his eyes to Heaven but with confusion of face begged pardon was justified and acquitted give unto us thy servants humilty of soule and modesty in our behaviour that our lookes be not proud nor our thoughts arrogant nor our designes ambitious but that our soules being refrained from all vanity and pride our affections weaned from great opinions and love of our selves we may trust in thee follow the example of our blessed Master and receive thy promises which thou hast made unto us in our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 132. A Prayer for the Church for the promotion of Religion for the King and for the Clergie MORNING PRAYER LOrd remember David and all his trouble 2 How he sware unto the Lord and vowed a vow unto the Almighty God of Iacob 3 I will not come within the tabernacle of my house nor climbe up into my bed 4 I will not suffer mine eyes to sleep nor mine eye lids to slumber neither the temples of my head to take any rest 5 Untill I finde out a place for the temple of the Lord an habitation for the mighty God of Iacob 6 Lo we heard of the same at Ephrata and found it in the wood 7 We will go into his tabernacle and fall low on our knees before his footstool 8 Arise O Lord into thy resting place thou and the arke of thy strength 9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousnesse and let thy saints sing with ioyfulnesse 10 For thy servant Davids sake turne not away the presence of thine anointed 11 The Lord hath made a faithfull oath unto David and he shall not shrinke from it 12 Of the fruit of thy body shall I set upon thy seat 13 If thy children will keep my couenant and my testimonies that I shall learne them their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore 14 For the Lord hath chosen Sion to bean habitation for himselfe he hath longed for her 15 This shall be my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have a delight therein 16 I will blesse her victuals with increase and will satisfie her poore with bread 17 I will decke her priests with health and her saints shall reioyce and sing 18 There shall I make the horne of David to flourish I have ordained a lanterne for mine anointed 19 As for his enemies I shall cloth them with shame but upon himselfe shall his crowne flourish The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest not in Temples made with hands and yet hast been pleased to manifest thy presence by speciall blessings and assistances in places set apart for thy worship be pleased to heare our prayers accept our services when ever we make our addresses to thee in the house of prayer fall downe low on our knees before thy footstool let thy Priests be clothed with righteousnesse let thy Saints sing with joyfulnes let all those that make their approaches unto thee purifie their hearts and hands that they may offer to thee a pure sacrifice even the sacrifice of obedience and holinesse and the expresses of true Religion Blesse O Lord thy servant the King whom thou hast made the Patron and Defender of the Church make his horne to flourish and be exalted above all his enemies and let thy Word be as a lanterne for thine Anointed to shew him thy holy will and pleasure that he seeking thy honour and glory thy Church may flourish under the covert of his shield and patronage her victuals may be blessed with increase her poore satisfied with bread her Priests decked with health her Saints with joy and himselfe with honour and great renown and a flourishing Diademe while his enemies sit clothed in shame and misery Grant this O blessed God for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 133. A Prayer for unity in the Church in a Kingdom or family BEhold how good and ioyfull a thing it is brethren to dwell together in unity 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head that â—an down unto the beard euen unto Aarons beard and went down to the skirts of his clothing 3 Like as the dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion 4 For there the Lord promised his blessing and life for euermore The Prayer O Blessed Iâ—sâ— in whose garment was variety but no rent or seame have mercy upon thy holy Catholike Church and all Christian Kingdomes and Families and so unite all our hearts and affections by the union of Faith and Charity that we be not torne into Factions and Schismes but being anointed with the precious ointment even the anointing of thy Spirit from above we may keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and grant that this holy ointment may so knit together the Guides of thy Church the Rulers of Kingdomes the Princes of the Nations that the blessings of it may descend to the skirts of the people and that thou mayest blesse us with thy graces here and hereafter give us life for evermore in the participation of thy glorious Kingdome where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 134. An invitation to the Clergie to be diligent in singing Gods praises publikely BEhold now praise the Lord all ye seruants of the Lord. 2 Yee that by night stand in the house of the Lord even in the courts of the house of our God 3 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord. 4 The Lord that made heauen and earth giue thee blessing out of Sion The Prayer O Lord Creatour and Governour of all the world thou that madest Heaven and Earth that all should celebrate thy praise and the glory of thy Name give great Religion and devout affections to thy Ministers that by frequent elevation of their hands and hearts in thy Sanctuary in behalfe of themselves and all the people thy honour may be exalted among all thy servants Religion may be advanced and the love of thy Name
increased and thy blessings may descend upon us in a plentifull proportion to supply all our necessities through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 135. A Prayer that God would avenge his People of their Enemies and an invitation of them to praise his Name O Praise the Lord laud yee the name of the Lordâ— praise it O yee seruants of the Lord. 2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord in the courts of the house of our God 3 O praise the Lord for the Lord is gracious O sing praises unto his name for it is louely 4 For why the Lord hath chosen Iacob unto himselfe and Israel for his own possession 5 For I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is aboue all gods 6 Whatsoeuer the Lord pleased that did he in heauen and in earth and in the sea and in all deep places 7 He bringeth forth the clouds from the ends of the world and sendeth forth lightnings with the rain bringing the windes out of his treasures 8 He somâ—e the first-borne of Egypt both of man and beast 9 He hath sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee O thou land of Egypt upon Pharaoh and all his seruants 10 He smote diuers nations and slew mighty kings 11 Sehon king of the Amorites and Og the king of Basan and all the kingdomes of Canaan 12 And gaue their land to be an heritage euen an heritage unto Israel his people 13 Thy name O Lord endureth for euer so doth thy memoriall O Lord from one generation to another 14 For the Lord will avenge his people and be gracious unto his seruants 15 As for the images of the heathen they are but siluer and gold the worke of mens hands 16 They haue mouthes and speak not eyes haue they but they see not 17 They haue eares and yet they heare not neither is there any breath in their mouthes 18 They that make them are like unto them and so are all they that put their trust in them 19 Praise the Lord ye house of Israel praise the Lord ye house of Aaron 20 Praise the Lord ye house of Leui ye that feare the Lord praise the Lord. 21 Praised be the Lord out of Sion which dwelleth at Ierusalem The Prayer O Lord God in whose sight the death of all the Saints is precious and to whom the soules of the Martyrs from under the Altar call to avenge their bloud that is shed like water upon the earth be gracious unto us thy servants avenge all thy people of their enemies that all that hate and persecute thy Church being either brought to repentance or confusion thy Name and thy memoriall may be celebrated to all generations thy Kingdome and thy comming may be hastened that the Saints may receive the consummation of their glories by resurrection of their bodies and receiving the crowne of righteousnesse which thou hast prepared for all that put their trust in thee and that we all standing in the house of the Lord even in the courts of the house of our God for ever may praise thy Name which is gracious and lovely even for ever and ever Amen PSALME 136. A Prayer of thankesgiving to God for his eternall mercies EVENING PRAYER O Giue thankes unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer 2 O giue thankes unto the God of all gods for his mercy endureth for euer 3 O thank the Lord of all lords for his mercy endureth for euer 4 Which onely doth great wonders for his mercy endureth for euer 5 Which by his excellent wisedome made the heauens for his mercy endureth for euer 6 Which laid out the earth about the waters for his mercy endureth for euer 7 Which hath made great lights for his mercy endureth for ever 8 The sun to rule the day for his mercy endureth for euer 9 The moon and the starres to gouerne the night for his mercy endureth for euer 10 Which smote Egypt with their first-born for his mercy endureth for euer 11 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for euer 12 With a mighty hand and a stretched out arme for his mercy endureth for euer 13 Which diuided the Red sea in two parts for his mercy endureth for euer 14 And made Israel to go through the midst of it for his mercy endureth for euer 15 But as for Pharaoh and his host he ouerthrew them in the Red sea for his mercy endureth for euer 16 Which led his people through the wildernesse for his mercy endureth for euer 17 Which smote great kings for his mercy endureth for euer 18 Yea and slew mighty kings for his mercy endureth for euer 19 Sehon king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for euer 20 And Og the king of Basan for his mercy endureth for euer 21 And gaue away their land for an heritage for his mercy endureth for euer 22 Euen for an heritage unto Israel his seruant for his mercy endureth for euer 23 Which remembred us when we were in trouble for his mercy endureth for ever 24 And hath deliuered us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for euer 25 Which giueth food to all flesh for his mercy endureth for euer 26 O giue thankes unto the God of heauen for his mercy endureth for euer 27 O giue thankes unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for euer The Prayer O God of Heaven and Lord of lords who by thy excellent wisedome hast made the Heavens and onely doest great wonders in Heaven and Earth making all thy creatures to be expresses of thy power and of thy loving mercy let thy mighty hand and stretched out arme leade us through the midst of this world and the throng of all our enemies giving us food for the sustenance of our bodies the light of the sun of righteousnesse to leade us in our goings and great apprehensions of thy mercy to excite in us Devotion and true Religion that we praising thy mercies and being relieved and sustained by thy loving kindnesse may at last come to the land of promise which thou givest for an heritage to thy people and may receive the mercies of thy Kingdome which endure for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 137. A Prayer for redemption of the Church from captivity and persecution BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembred thee O Sion 2 As for our harpes we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein 3 For they that led us away captiue required of us then a song and melody in our heavinesse sing us one of the songs of Sion 4 How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land 5 If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning 6 If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth yea if I preferrs not Ierusalem in my mirth 7 Remember the children of Edom O Lord in the day