blesse her for ever with righteousnesse and let the oyle of gladnesse refresh her amidst the multitude of her sorrows and afflictions And because she is the daughter of a King and thou takest pleasure in her beauty let her not alwayes be clothed in mourning garments but let her be decked with exteriour Ornaments and secular advantages such as may truly promote the interests of holy Religion Let Kings and Queenes be nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers unto her and so let the sound of thy Gospell goe into all the Earth that her children may be Princes in all Lands and Ministers of thy Kingdome advancing thy honour and furthering the salvation of all men for whom thou did'st give thy precious bloud that all people may worship thee and give thee thankes for ever who together with the Father and the holy Ghost livest and reignest one God world without end Amen PSALME 46. A Prayer for protection and for confidence in God in times of publike distractions and for the peace of Christendome GOd is our hope and strength a very present help in trouble 2 Therefore will we not fear though the earth bâ— moved and though the hills be carried into the midst of the Sea 3 Though the waters thereof rage swell and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same 4 The rivers of the floud thereof shall make glad the City of God the holy place of the tabernacle of the most highest 5 God is in the midst of her therefore shall she not be removed God shall help her and that right early 6 The Heathen make much adoe and the Kingdomes are moved but God hath shewed his voice and the earth shall melt away 7 The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Iacob is our refuge 8 O come hither and behold the works of the Lord what destruction he hath brought upon the earth 9 He maketh Warres to cease in all the World he breaketh the bow and knappeth the spear in sunder and burneth the Chariots in the fire 10 Be still then and know that I am God I will be exalted among the Heathen and I will be exalted in the earth 11 The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Iacob is our refuge The Prayer O most mercifull Saviour Iesu Prince of Peace at whose birth all the Kingdoms of the World were in Peace and tranquillity be thou in the midst of us for our refuge and present help in times of trouble and publike calamities when the Kingdome is moved and the hearts of men shake at the tempest of the same Deare God unite all the parts of Christendom with the union of Faith Charity and the fruits of them a blessed universall Peace Break the bow of the mighty knappe the spear of the Warriour in sunder and burn the Chariots in the fire thaâ— Warres may cease in all the World and we all may feel the promised blessing of the Gospell that our Swords may be converted into plow-shares and our Speares into pruning hooks that thy Name and thy Kingdome may be exalted among the heathen and in all the Nations of the earth who livest and reignest over all in the unity of the blessed Trinity God eternall world without end Amen PSALME 47. A Prayer for the exaltation of Christs Kingdome and that all the Princes of the World may joyntly adore Iesus reigning in the Heavens EVENING PRAYER O Clap your hands together all ye people O sing unto God with the voice of melody 2 For the Lord is high and to be feared he is the great King upon all the earth 3 He shall subdue the people under us and the nations under our feet 4 He shall choose out an heritage for us even the worship of Iacob whom he loved 5 God is gone up with a merrie noise and the Lord with the sound of the trump 6 O sing praises sing praises unto our God O sing praises sing praises unto our King 7 For God is the King of all the earth sing ye praises with understanding 8 God reigneth over the heathen God sitteth upon his holy seat 9 The Princes of the people are ioyned unto the people of the God of Abraham for God which is very high exalted doth defend the earth as it were with a shield The Prayer O Lord God King of Heaven who raignest a great King in all the Earth thou art high above all creatures and art to be feared in all the Kingdoms of the earth let the seed of thy Gospell be disseminated in all the corners of the habitable World let thy grace break downe all the strong holds of sinne and Satan subduing all people under thee and the Nations under thy feet that the Princes of the Nations that have not known thy name may be joyned to thy people the people of the God of Abraham becomming one sheepfold under one sheapheard Iesus Christ our blessed Lord our Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 48. A Prayer for the prosperity of the Church GReat is the Lord and highly to be praised in the City of our God even upon his holy hill 2 The hill of Sion is a fair place and the ioy of the whole earth upon the north side lieth the City of the great King God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge 3 For lo the Kings of the earth are gathered and gone by together 4 They marbelled to see such things they were astonied and suddenly cast downe 5 Feare came there upon them and sorrow as upon a woman in her travail 6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea through the east wind 7 Like as we have heard so have we seen in the City of the Lord of hosts in the City of our God God upholdeth the same for ever 8 We wait for thy loving kindnesse O God in the midst of thy temple 9 O God according unto thy name so is thy praise unto the worlds end thy right hand is full of righteousnesse 10 Let the mount Sion reioyce and the daughters of Iuda be glad because of thy iudgements 11 Walk about Sion and go round about her and tell the towers thereof 12 Mark well her bulwarks set up her houses that ye may tell them that come after 13 For this God is our God for ever and ever he shall be our guide unto death The Prayer O Great God who art highly to be praised who hast manifested thy power and thy mercy in the constitution propagation and defence of thy Holy Church by the miraculous assistances and effects of thy Holy Spirit insomuch that the Kings of the earth marvailed to see such things and were astonied and suddenly cast down acknowledging the powers of thy Kingdome and submitting to thy lawes with faith and obedience be pleased according to thy gracious promise to uphold the same for ever let not the gates of Hell prevaile against thy Church be thou known in her palaces as a sure refuge make her the joy of the whole
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.
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
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
have been like to Horse and Mule without understanding brutish in our passions sensuall in our affections of unbridled heates and distemperatures But thy mercy is as infinite as thy selfe O let not thy hand be heavy upon us but forgive the wickednesse of our sinne and compasse us about with songs of deliverance then shall we be glad and rejoyce in thee O Lord who art become our mighty Saviour and most mercifull Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 33. A Prayer to God for the graces of feare hope and Religion REjoyce in the Lord O ye righteous for it becometh well the iust to be thankfull 2 Praise the Lord with harp sing psalmes unto him with the lute and instrument of ten strings 3 Sing unto the Lord a new song sing praises lustlly unto him with a good courage 4 For the word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithfull 5 He loveth righteousnesse and iudgement the earth is full of the goodnes of the Lord. 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth 7 He gathereth the waters of the Sea together as it were upon an heap and layeth up the deep as in a treasure house 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord stand in awe of him all ye that dwell in the world 9 For he spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast 10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to nought and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect and casteth out the counsells of Princes 11 The counsell of the Lord shall endure for ever and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation 12 Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord Iehova and blessed are the folk that he hath chosen to him to be his inheritance 13 The Lord looked down from Heaven and beheld all the children of men from the habitation of his dwelling he considereth all them that dwell in the earth 14 He fashioneth all the hearts of them and understandeth all their works 15 There is no King that can be saved by the multitude of an host neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength 16 An Horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength 17 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy 18 To deliver their souls from death and to feed them in the time of dearth 19 Our soul hath patiently tarried for the Lord for he is our help and our shield 20 For our heart shall reioyce in him because we haue hoped in his holy name 21 Let thy mercifull kindnesse O Lord be upon us like as we doe put our trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God who lovest righteousnesse and judgement who fillest the earth with thy goodnesse and lookest downe from Heaven upon the children of men Consider us O Lord and let thy grace fashion our hearts and produce in our soules such formes and impresses as may beare thy Image and seem beauteous in thy eyes that thou maist be our God and choose us for thine inheritance Let thy mercy feed us thy hands deliver us from death and snatch us from the jawes of hell teach us to feare thee to put our trust in thy mercy patiently to tarry for thee and the revelation of thy loving kindnesses to hope in thy holy Name and to rejoyce in thy salvation giving thee thanks and praise with a good courage with humble and religious affections all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 34. A Prayer that we being dispos'd by Holy living may receive and have a sense and tast of the Divine goodnesse I Will alway give thanks unto the Lord his praise shall ever be in my mouth 2 My soul shall make her boast of the Lord the humble shall heare thereof and be glad 3 O praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his name together 4 I sought the Lord and he heard me yea he delivered me out of all my fear 5 They had an eye unto him and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed 6 Lo the poore crieth and the Lord heareth him yea and saveth him out of all his troubles 7 The Angell of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him delivereth them 8 O taste and see how gracious the Lord is blessed is the man that trusteth in him 9 O fear the Lord ye that be his Saints for they that fear him lack nothing 10 The lions doe lack and suffer hunger but they which seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good 11 Come ye children and hearken unto me I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 12 What man is he that lusteth to live and would fain see good dayes keep thy tongue from evill and thy lips that they speak no guile 13 Eschew evill and doe good seek peace and ensue it 14 The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous his eares are open unto their prayers 15 The countenance of the Lord is against them that doe evill to root out the remembrance of them from the earth 16 The righteous cry and the Lord heareth them delivereth them out of all their troubles 17 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart and will save such as be of an humble spirit 18 Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of all 19 He keepeth all his bones so that not one of them is broken 20 But misfortune shall slay the ungodly they that hate the righteous shall be desolate 21 The Lord delivereth the souls of his servants and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute The Prayer O Most mercifull and gracious Lord whose eyes are over the righteous and thine eares are open unto their prayers give us we beseech thee a contrite heart and an humble spirit a feare of thy Name a watchfulnesse over our tongue that we speak no guile a care of our actions that we eschew all evill and a zeale of thy Name that we may doe good that being thus prepar'd with holy dispositions we may be delivered out of all our troubles by the hands of thy mercy we may be defended against our enemies by the custody of Angells we may be provided for so as to want no manner of thing that is good by the ministration of thy providence that so in all the whole course of our life we may feel the goodnesse of the Lord seeing and tasting the sweetnesses of thy mercy which may be to us an antepast of eternity and as an earnest of the Spirit to consigne us to the fruition of the glories of thy Kingdome who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 35. A Prayer to be delivered from our Enemies
Commit thy way unto the Lord and put thy trust in him and he shall bring it to passe 6 He shall make thy righteousnesse as cleare as the light and thy iust dealing as the noon day 7 Hold thee still in the Lord and abide patiently upon him but grieve not thy selfe at him whose way doth prosper against the man that doth after evill counsels 8 Leave off from wrath and let go displeasure fret not thy selfe else shalt thou be moved to doe evill 9 Wicked doers shall be rooted out and they that patiently abide the Lord those shall inherit the land 10 Yet a little while and the ungodly shall be clean gone thou shalt look after his place and he shall be away 11 But the meek spirited shall possesse the earth and shall be refreshed in the multitude of peace 12 The ungodly seeketh counsel against the iust and gnasheth upon him with his teeth 13 The Lord shall laugh him to scorn for he hath seen that his day is comming 14 The ungodly have drawn out the sword and have bent their bow to cast down the poor and needy and to slay such as be of a right conversation 15 Their sword shall go through their own heart and their bow shall be broken 16 A small thing that the righteous hath is better then great riches of the ungodly 17 For the armes of the ungodly shall be broken and the Lord upholdeth the righteous 18 The Lord knoweth the daies of the godly and their inheritance shall endure for ever 19 They shall not be consounded in the perilous time and in the daies of dearth they shall have enough 20 As for the ungodly they shall perish and the enemies of the Lord shall consume as the fat if lambes yea even as the smoake shall they consume away 21 The ungodly borroweth and payeth not again but the righteous is mercifull and liberall 22 Such as be blessed of God shall possesse the land and they that be cursed of him shall be â—â—oted out 23. The Lord ordereth a good mans going and maketh his way acceptable to himselfe 24 Though he fall he shall not be cast away for the Lord upoldeth him with his hand 25 I have been young and now am old and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging their bread 26 The righteous is ever mercifull and lendeth and his seed is blessed 27 Flee from evill and doe the thing that is good and dwell for evermore 28 For the Lord loveth the thing that is right he forsaketh not his that he godly but they are preserved for ever 29 The righteous shall be punished as for the seed of the ungodly it shall be rooted out 30 The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell therein for ever 31 The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wisdome and his tongue will be talking of iudgement 32 The law of his God is in his heart and his goings shall not slide 33 The ungodly seeth the righteous and seeketh occasion to slay him 34 The Lord will not leave him in his hand nor condemne him when he is iudged 35 Hope thou in the Lord and keep his way and he shall promote thee that thou shalt posâ—esse the land when the ungodly shall perish thou shalt see it 36 I my selfe have seen the ungodly in great power and flourishing like a green bay-tree 37 And I went by and lo he was gone I sought him but his place could no where be found 38 Keep innocencie and take heed unto the thing that is right for that shall bring a man peace at the last 39 As for the transgressours they shall perish together and the end of the ungodly is They shall be rooted out at the last 40 But the salvation of the righteous cometh of the Lord which is also their strength in the time of trouble 41 And the Lord shall stand by them and save them he shall deliver them from the ungodly and shall save them because they put their trust in him The Prayer O God Almighty who never forsakest the godly but preservest them for ever let thy Law be in our hearts fixed and grounded that we may keep innocency and take heed to the thing that is right order our goings and make thy way acceptable to thy selfe that we delighting in thee alone committing our wayes wholly to thy providence and putting our trust in thy mercies we may not be confounded in the perilous times but may be refreshed in the multitude of peace having peace all our dayes and peace at the last in the inheritance of Saints who have refused the guilded glories of this world which is the lot of the wicked and ungodly people and are satisfied with the expectation of true joyes and the rewards of innocency through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 38. A Prayer for remission of sinnes MORNING PRAYER PUt me not to rebuke O Lord in thine anger neither chasten me in thine heavy displeasure 2 For thine arrowes stick fast in me and thy hand presseth mesore 3 There is no health in my flesh because of thy displeasure neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne 4 For my wickednesses are gone over my head and are like a sore burden too heavy for me to bear 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt through my foolishnesse 6 I am brought into so great trouble and misery that I go mourning all the day long 7 For my loyns are filled with a sore disease and there is no whole part in my body 8 I am feeble and sore smitten I haue roared for the very disquietnesse of my heart 9 Lord thou knowest all my desire and my groning is not hid from thee 10 My heart panteth my strength hath sailed me and the sight of minâ— eyes is gone from me 11 My lovers and my neighbours did stand looking upon my trouble and my kinsmen stood afarre off 12 They also that sought after my life laid snares for me and they that went about to do me evill talked of wickednesse and imagined deceit all the day long 13 As for me I was like a deafe man and heard not and as one that is dumbe which doth nâ—t open his mouth 14 I became even as a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofs 15 For in thee O Lord have I put my trust thou shalt answer for me O Lord my God 16 I have required that they even mine enemies should not triumph over me for when my foot slipt they reioyced greatly against me 17 And I truly am set in the plague and my heavinesse is ever in my sight 18 For I will confesse my wickednesse and be sory for my sinne 19 But mine enemies live and are mighty and they that hate me wrongfully are many in number 20 They also that reward evill for good are against me because I follow the thing that good is 21 Forsake me not O Lord my God be not thou farre
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
consciences O build up the ruines of our soules repaire the breaches of our comforts and our hopes and let thy glorie now appeare for that shines brightest in the beames of thy mercie and when thou turnest unto the prayer of poore wretched destitutes it becomes an eternall monument and a record of thy honour and all generations which shall be borne shall praise thee Looke downe O Lord from thy Sanctuary heare the mournings of us and of all distressed people send us health and life so long as it may be a blessing and do not shorten our dayes in wrath but give us grace so to spend all our time in the workes of repentance and holinesse that when our yeares faile and our change is come we may be translated to the new heavens which shall never perish and wax old there to continue and stand fast in thy sight for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 103. A thanksgiving to God for all his benefits and mercies PRaise the Lord O my soul and all that is within me praise his holy name 2 Praise the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits 3 Which forgiveth all thy sinne and healeth all thine infirmities 4 Which saveth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindnesse 5 Which satisfieth thy mouth with good things making thee young and lusty as an eagle 6 The Lord executeth righteousnesse and iudgement for all them that are oppressed with wrong 7 He shewed his waies unto Moses his works unto the children of Israell 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and of great goodnesse 9 He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for ever 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sinnes nor rewarded us according to our wickednesse 11 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth so great is his mercy also toward them that feare him 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west so farre hath he set our sinnes from us 13 Yea like as a father pittieth his own children even so is the Lord mercifull unto them that fear him 14 For he knoweth whereof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust 15 The dayes of man are but as grasse for he flourisheth as a flower of the field 16 For assoon as the winde goeth over it it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the mercifull goodnesse of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousnesse upon childrens children 18 Even upon such as keep his covenant and think upon his commandements to do them 19 The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven and his kingdome ruleth over all 20 O praise the Lord ye angells of his ye that excell in strength ye that fulfill his commandment and hearken unto the voice of his words 21 O praise the Lord all ye his hosts ye servants of his that do his pleasure 22 O speak good of the Lord all ye works of his in all places of his dominion praise thou the Lord O my soul The Prayer O most mercifull God whose mercy is as high as the heavens as great and many as the momeÌ„ts of eternity thou hast opened thy hand wide to fill us with blessings and the sweet effects of thy loving kindnesse thou art pittifull as a Father tender as a Mother carefull as a guardian exceeding mercifull to all them that fear thee we pray thee to fill our soules with great apprehensions and impresses of thy unspeakable mercies that our thankfulnesse may be as great as our needs of mercy are and let thy mercifull loving kindnes endure for ever ever upon us all Keep no anger in store for us chide us not in thy displeasure satisfy our mouths with good things remove all our sinnes from us as far as the east is from the west heale all our infirmities and save our lives from destruction for these are mercies thou delightest in and because we cannot praise thee accordingly to thy excellencies take our soules in thy due time into the land of everlasting praises that we may spend a whole eternity in ascribing to thy name praise honour and dominion Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen PSALME 104. A contemplation of the wisedome and goodnesse of God manifested in his creatures EVENING PRAYER PRaise the Lord O my soul O Lord my God thou art become exceeding glorious thou art clothed with maiesty and honour 2 Thou deckest thy self with light as it were with a garment and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain 3 Which layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters and maketh the clouds his chariot and walketh upon the wings of the winde 4 He maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flaming fiâ—e 5 He laid the foundations of the earth that it never should move at any time 6 Thou covered'st it with the deep like as with a garment the waters stand in the hills 7 At thy rebuke they flee at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid 8 They go up as high as the hils and down to the valleys beneath even unto the place which thou hast appointed for them 9 Thou hast set them their bounds which they shall not passe neither turne again to cover the earth 10 He sendeth the springs into the rivers which run among the hils 11 All beasts of the field drinke thereof and the wilde asses quench their thirst 12 Beside them shall the fowles of the aire have their habitation and sing among the branches 13 He watereth the hills from above the earth is filled with the fruit of thy workes 14 He bringeth forth grasse for the cattell and green herbe for the service of men 15 That he may bring food out of the earth and wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oyle to make him a cheerfull countenance and bread to strengthen mans heart 16 The trees of the Lord also are full of sap even the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted 17 Wherein the birds make their nests and the firre-trees are a dwelling for the storke 18 The high hils are a refuge for the wilde goates and so are the stony rockes for the confes 19 He appointed the moon for certain seasons and the sun knoweth his going down 20 Thou makest darknesse that it may be night wherein all the beasts of the forrest do move 21 The lions roaring after their prey do seek their meat at God 21 The sun ariseth and they get them away together and lay them down in their dennes 23 Man goeth forth to his worke and to his labour untill the evening 24 O Lord how manifold are thy workes in wisdome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches 25 So is the great and wide sea also wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts 26 There go the
take now my contrary part but I give my selfe unto prayer 4 Thus have they rewarded me evill for good and hatred for my good will 5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him and let Satan stand at his right hand 6 When sentence is given upon him let him be condemned and let his prayer be turned into sinne 7 Let his dayes be few and let another take his office 8 Let his children be fatherlesse and his wise a widow 9 Let his children be vagabonds and beg their bread let them seek it also out of desolate places 10 Let the extortionet consume all that he hath and let the stranger spoil his labour 11 Let there be no man to pitie him nor to have compassion upon his fatherlesse children 12 Let his posterity be destroyed and in the next generation let his name be clean put out 13 Let the wickednesse of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord and let not the sinne of his mother be done away 14 Let them alway be before the Lord that he may root out the memoriall of them from off the earth 15 And that because his minde was not to do good but persecuted the poore helplesse man that he might slay him that was vexed at the heart 16. His delight was incursing and it shall happen unto him he loved not blessing therefore shall it be far from him 17 He clothed himselfe with cursing like as with a raiment and it shall come into his bowels like water and like oyl into his bones 18 Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon him and as the girdle that he is alway girded withall 19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies and to those that speak evil against my soul 20 But deal thou with me O Lord God according unto thy name for sweet is thy mercy 21 O deliver me for I am helplesse and poore and my heart is wounded within me 22 I go hence like the shadow that departeh am driven away as the grashopper 23 My knees are weak through fasting my flesh is dried up for want of fatnesse 24 I became also a rebuke unto them they that looked upon me shaked their heads 25 Help me O Lord my God Oh save me according to thy mercy 26 And they shall know how that this is thy hand and thou Lord hast done it 27 Though they curse yet blesse thou and let them be confounded that rise up against me but let thy servant reioyce 28 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a cloke 29 As for me I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth and praise him among the multitude 30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poore to save his soul from unrighteous iudges The Prayer O God of our praise who wast contented that thy sonne Iesus Christ should be betrayed into the hands of sinners by one of his own Apostles the Traitor Iudas and in punishment of so great impiety did'st suffer Satan to stand at his right hand tempting him to despaire and to give sentence upon himselfe to condemne himselfe and to execute his owne judgement and gavest his Bishoprick to another let thy righteous judgements finde out all those that are Traytors to their Prince enemies to the Church Apostates from Religion Hypocrites under specious pretences and beauteous titles that they may be clothed with shame and may cover themselves with their owne confusion as with a cloke that by thy punishments in this life they may be driven to a sharpe and salutary repentance and may be saved in the life to come Deale thou with us O Lord according to thy mercy take away thy curse and let not thy blessing be farre from us let not our wickednesse nor the wickednesse of our fathers be had in remembrance in thy sight let our mindes be alway to do good our hearts and lips be given unto prayer and our prayers so guided by thy assistances that they be not turned into sin that when we go hence like the shadow that departeth and are driven away like the grashopper when the dayes of our vanity and rejoycing are past we may stand at thy right hand and our soules be saved from the lot and portion of the unrighteous through the righteousnesse and passion of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALM 110. A Hymne in the honour of Christs Kingdome and Priesthood and exaltation MORNING PRAYER THe Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstoole 2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion be thou ruler even in the midst among thine enemies 3 In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will-offerings with an holy worship the dew of thy birth is of the wombe of the morning 4 The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek 5 The Lord upon thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath 6 He shall iudge among the heathen he shall fill the places with the dead bodies and smite in sunder the heads over divers countreys 7 He shall drinke of the brooke in the way therefore shall he lift up his head The Prayer O Eternall God Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who when thy Son had dranke of the brooke in the way to the grave and to our redemption beginning his passion by the brooke Cedron and tasting the waters of bitternesse till he had drunke of the whole chalice of thy wrath upon the Crosse didst lift up his head and set him at thy right hand till thou shalt make all his enemies his footstoole fill our hearts with his love and praises that we may pay him the offerings of our soules bodies in an holy worship joyfull thankesgiving for all the parts and mysteries of our redemption for his birth in the wombe of his holy Mother pure and virginall like the morning dew for his Death and Passion and for his continuall mediation and intercession by which hee does officiate in his eternall Priesthood which is after the order of Melchisedâ—k Remember us blessed Iesu in the Day of thy power when thou shalt come to judge the world and the places fill'd with dead bodies shall give up their dead that we may sit at thy right hand to magnifie and behold the glories of thy Kingdome for ever and ever Amen PSALME 111. An Eucharisticall Hymne for the benefits of the holy Gospell particularly of the blessed Sacrament I Will give thankes unto the Lord with my whole heart secretly among the faithfull and in the congregation 2 The workes of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein 3 His worke is worthy to be praised and had in honour and his righteousnesse endureth for ever 4 The
man 9 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in princes 10 All nations compassed me round about but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 11 They kept me in on every side they kept me in I say on every side but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 12 They came about me like bees and are extinct even as the fire among the thorns for in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord was my help 14 The Lord is my strength and my song and is become my salvation 15 The voice of ioy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe 16 The right hand of the Lord hath the preeminence the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe 17 I will not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord hath chastened and corrected me but he hath not given me over unto death 19 Open me the gates of righteousnesse that I may go into them and give thanks unto the Lord 20 This is the gate of the Lord the righteous shall inter into it 21 I will thank thee for thou hast heard me and art become my salvation 22 The same stone which the builders refused is become the head stone in the corner 23 This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made we will reioyce and be glad in it 25 Help me now O Lord O Lord send us now prosperity 26 Blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord we have wished you good luck ye that be of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord which hath shewed us light binde the sacrifice with cords yea even unto the horns of the altar 28 Thou art my God and I will thank thee thou art my God and I will praise thee 29 O give thanks unto the Lord for he is gratious and his mercy endureth for ever The Prayer O Most Gracious Lord our strength our song thou art become our salvation thy mercy endureth for ever be thou on our side take part with them that help us let the voyce of joy and health be within our dwellings and when thou chastenest and correctest us for our sinnes give us not over unto death but fix our faith and hopes upon the head stone in the corner even our Lord Iesus Christ that in all the assaults made against us by our ghostly enemies the right hand of the Lord may have the preeminence and bring mighty things to passe even victory and deliverance unto thy servants that we putting no confidence in the best of men may trust in thee O Lord till at last when thou openest the everlasting gates of righteousnesse we may enter in and give thee thankes and praise through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 119. A prayer for religion zeale love of the law of God and meditation in it EVENING PRAYER BLessed are those that are undefiled in the way and walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies and seek him with their whole heart 3 For they which do no wickednesse walk in his waies 4 Thou hast charged that we shall diligently keep thy commandments 5 O that my waies were made so direct that I might keep thy statutes 6 So shall I not be confounded while I have respect unto all thy commandments 7 I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart when I shall have learned the iudgements of thy righteousnesse 8 I will keep thy ceremonies O forsake me not utterly The Prayer O Blessed Lord God whose words are light and life to the obedient and believing soule let thy grace so purifie our hearts and actions that we may be undefiled in thy way keeping thy testimonies and seeking thee with our whole heart that our waies being made direct without wandring into by-paths we may go into our country the land of eternall glorious promises through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. VVHere withall shall a young man clense his way even by ruling himself after thy word 2 With my whole heart have I sought thee O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments 3 Thy words have I hid within my heart that I should not sinne against thee 4 Blessed art thou O Lord O teach me thy statutes 5 With my lips have I been telling of all the iudgements of thy mouth 6 I have had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies as in all manner of riches 7 I will talk of thy commandments and have respect unto thy waies 8 My delight shall be in thy statutes and I will not forget thy word The Prayer GRant O Lord that our affections and endeavours be not divided between thee and the world but that we may seek thee with our whole heart clensing our waies from all impurity giving to thy service our youth and more perfect age even all our dayes and all our powers taking more delight in the way of thy testimonies then in all manner of riches and fading pleasures that we delighting in thee and the waies that lead to thee may be beloved of thee with an eternall love through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen III. O Do well unto thy servant that I may live and keep thy word 2 Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wonderous things of thy law 3 I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy commandments from me 4 My soul breaketh out for the very servent desire that it hath alway unto thy iudgements 5 Thou hast rebuked the proud and cursed are they that do erre from thy commandments 6 O turn from me shame and rebuke for I have kept thy testimonies 7 Princes also did sit and speak against me but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes 8 For thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellers The Prayer O Lord God our Father and our Guardian we are strangers upon the earth farre removed from our country and we are in darknesse and walke in the shadow of death let not this darknesse seize upon our soules hide not thy commandements from us but open our eyes with the light of thy holy Spirit that we may see the wondrous things of thy law and admire thy glories and adore thy might and obey all thy righteous precepts and although our hearts be already enkindled with the love of thy law yet make our desires to serve thee more fervent that our lukewarmnesse may arise up to the flames and ardors of a Cherubim that while we are busied in thy statutes making them our delight and our counsellors shame and rebuke may alwayes be turned frō us and we ever reioyce with hope and confidence in thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen IV. MY soule cleaveth to the dust O
pleasure in wickednesse neither can evill come nigh thy dwelling defend us and all thy holy Church from the fraud and malice of bloud-thirsty and deceitfull men and from the crafty insinuations of all them that work vanity but let thy blessings be upon the righteous and let thy favourable kindnesse defend thy whole Church as with a shield that all those who put their trust in thy mercy may be ever giving of thanks may be joyfull in thee O lead us in thy righteousnesse that we become not a rejoyceing to our enemies but that we may worship thee in feare and come into thy house to make our prayers unto thee and to give thee thanks for the multitude of thy mercies which thou hast given us in our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 6. A Prayer of a penitent person for remission of his sinnes EVENING PRAYER O Lord rebuke me not in thine indignation neither chasten me in thy displeasure 2 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vered 3 My soul is also sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me 4 Turn thee O Lord and deliver my soul O save me for thy mercies sake 5 For in death no man remembreth thee and who will give thee thanks in the pit 6 I am weary of my groaning every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my teares 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble worn away because of all mine enemies 1 Away from me all ye that work vanity for the Lord hath heard the voyce of my weeping 9 The Lord hath heard my petition the Lord will receive my prayer 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed they shall be turned back put to shame suddenly The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose property is alwaies to have mercy and to forgive behold with the eyes of thy pitty compassioÌ„ the estate of thy humble servants made most miserable by reason of our sinnes Hear the voyce of our weeping pitty our groaning strengthen us for we are weak heale us for our bones are vexed and deliver our soules from death that being saved from the bottomlesse pit we may give thanks to thy holy name O turn from the severity of thy displeasure and visit us with thy mercy and salvation For all our sinnes give us a great sorrow and contrition and in our `sorrowes let thy comforts sustain us through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALME 7. A prayer for defence of our Innocence against the uniust molestation of our enemies O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me deliver me 2 Least he devour my soule like a Lion tear it in pieces while there is none to help 3 O Lord my God if I have done any such thing or if there be any wickednes in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evill unto him that dealt friendly with me yea I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soule take me yea let him tread my life down upon the earth and lay mine honour in the dust 6 Stand up O Lord in thy wrath and lift up thy selfe because of the indignation of mine enemies arise up for me in the iudgement that thou hast commanded 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee for their sakes therefore lift up thy selfe again 8 The Lord shall iudge the people give sentence with me O Lord according to my righteousnesse and according to the innocencie that is in me 9 O let the wickednesse of the ungodly come to an end but guide thou the iust 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins 11 My help commeth of God which preserveth them that are true of heart 12 God is a righteous iudge strong and patient and God is provoked every day 13 If a man will not turn he will whâ—t his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutours 15 Behold he travaileth with mischief he hath conceived sorrow and brought forth ungodlines 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other 17 For his travail shall come upon his own head and his wickednesse shall fall on his owne pate 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord according to his righteousnes and will praise the name of the Lord the most High The Prayer O God from whom commeth our help thou art a righteous Iudge and preservest all that are true of heart deliver us from our persecutors who travail with mischief against us and have digged a pit for our destruction O let their wickednesse and malicious devices against thy servants come utterly to an end for evermore Thou O Lord art strong and able to take vengeance yet being provoked every day still art patient towards us compassionate Deliver us from their wrath to whom we have done no injustice or displeasure pardon our offences against thee protect our Innocency against them that we may praise thy name and give thanks unto thee for thy righteousnesse and salvation who art blessed for evermore Amen PSALME 8. A Contemplation of the Divine beauty and excellency manifested in his Creatures O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger 3 For I will consider the heavens even the works of thy fingers the moon and the starres which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest him 5 Thou madest him lower then the angells to crown him with glory and worship 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands and thou hast put all things in subiection under his feet 7 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowls of the aire and the fishes of the sea and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas 9 O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world The Prayer O Lord God Father of men and Angells God of all the Creatures who hast created all things in a wonderfull order and hast made them all conveyances of thy mercies to mankinde give us great and dreadfull apprehensions of thy glory and immensity thy Majesty and mercy that we may adore thee as our Creator love thee as our redeemer fear thee as our God obey thee as our Governour and praise thee as the author fountaine of all perfections and all good which thou hast communicated to thy creatures that they may all in their proportions doe thee service who
Which is a short rule of a good life and a desire of innocency and sanctity MORNING PRAYER LOrd who shall dwell in thy tabernacle or who shall rest upon thy holy hill 2 Even he that seadeth an uncorrupt life and doth the thing which is right and speaketh the truth from his heart 3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue nor done evill to his neighbour hath not standered his neighbour 4 He that setteth not by himselfe but is lowly in his own eyes and maketh much of them that feare the Lord. 5 He that sweareth unto his neighbour and disappointeth him not though it were to his own hinderance 6 He that hath not given his mony upon usury nor taken reward against the innocent 7 Whoso doth these things shall never fall The Prayer O Lord let thy mercy preserve us in holinesse and innocency or if through infirmity wee fall make us to rise again by penitence that wee may lead an uncorrupt life with humility and truth and justice not slandering our neighbour not invading his right not breaking our trust not oppressing the indigent and necessitous but doing good to all and especially making much of them that feare the Lord that we may never fall from thy favour but at the end of our weary pilgrimage we may take our rest upon thy holy hill and dwell in thy tabernacle where thou raignest with infinite glory and felicities God Eternall world without end Amen PSALME 16. A Prayer for the blessings of God providence and preservation in this life and for glory hereafter PReserve me O God for in thee have I put my trust 2 O my soul thou hast said unto the Lord Thou art my God my goods are nothing unto thee 3 All my delight is upon the Saints that are in the earth and vpon such as excell in vertue 4 But they that run after another god shall have great trouble 5 Their drink offerings of bloud will I not offer neither make mention of their names within my lips 6 The Lord himselfe is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou shalt maintain my lot 7 The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground yea I have a goodly heritage 8 I will thank the Lord for giving me warning my reins also chasten me in the night season 9 I have set God alwayes before me for he is on my right hand therefore I shall not fall 10 Wherefore my heart was glad and my glory reioyced my flesh also shall rest in hope 11 For why thou shalt not leave my soul in hell neither shalt thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption 12 Thou shalt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore The Prayer O God who art the portion of our inheritance our God and our preserver preserve and maintaine all those good things which thou hast wrought in us and for us and that we may never fall give us thy grace that we may set thee alwayes before us rejoycing in thee and delighting in the Saints that are upon the earth that when our flesh shall see corruption our Soules may not be left in hell but may walke in the paths of life and in the day of restitution of all things both bodies and Soules may have a goodly heritage even the lot of thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore and where we may see the face and the glory of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 17. A Prayer for protection against the injuries of our Enemies Bodily and Ghostly HEare the right O Lord consider my complaint and hearken unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equall 3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season thou hast tried me and shalt find no wickednesse in me for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend 4 Because of mens works that are done against the words of my lips I have kept me from the wayes of the destroyer 5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths that my foot-steps slip not 6 I have called upon thee O God for thou shalt heare me encline thine eare to me and hearken unto my words 7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindnes thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee from such as resâ—st thy right hand 8 Keep me as the apple of an eye hide me under the shadow of thy wings 9 From the ungodly that trouble me mine enemies compasse me round about to take away my soul 10. They are inclosed in their owne fat and their mouth speaketh proud things 11 They lie waiting in our way on every side turning their eyes down to the ground 12 Like as a lyon that is greedy of his preyâ— and as it were a lions whelp lurking in secret places 13 Up Lord disappoint him and cast him down deliver my soul from the ungodly which is a sword of thine 14 From the men of thy hand O Lord from the men I say and from the evill world which haue their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure 15 They haue children at their desire and leave the rest of their substance for their babes 16 But as for me I will behold thy presence in righteousnesse and when I awake up after thy likenesse I shall be satisfied with it The Prayer O Most mercifull Iesu thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee defend us and deliver us from the hands of all our Enemies and although they are a sword of thine and an instrument sent from thee to chastise us for our sinnes yet arise O Lord in mercy and strength disappoint them and cast them down least they destroy our soules that when thou hast visited us with thy fatherly correction and tryed us like as Silver is tryed thou maist find no wickednesse in us Sanctify our hearts and lips that we may not think a thought displeasing unto thee and that our mouth may not offend Keep us as the apple of an eye hide us under the shadow of thy wings of mercy and providence keep us from the wayes of the destroyer and hold up our goings in thy paths that we may persevere in righteousnesse and our footsteps may not slip that in the day of the resurrection of the Iust we may behold thy presence and receive infinite satisfactions in the vision beatificall Grant this O mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 18. A Prayer for strength and Victory in Warre temporall or spirituall together with an act of hope and confidence in God EVENING PRAYER I Will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord is my stony rock and my defence my Saviour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horn also of my
and reioyceth as a giant to run his course 6 It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven and runneth about unto the end of it again and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof 7 The law of the Lord is an undefiled law converting the soul the testimonie of the Lord is sure and giveth wisdome unto the simple 8 The statutes of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure and giveth light unto the eyes 9 The feare of the Lord is clean and endureth for ever the iudgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether 10 More to be desired are they then gold yea then much fine gold sweeter also then hony the hony combe 11 Moreover by them is thy servant taught and in keeping of them there is great reward 12 Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou me from my secret faults 13 Keep thy servant also from presumptuous sinnes least they get the dominion over me so shall I be undefiled and innocent from the great offence 14 Let the words of my mouth the meditation of my heart be alway acceptable in thy sight 15 O Lord my strength and my redeemer The Prayer O Most blessed Iesu thou sonne of righteousnesse who camest forth from the bosome of thy Eternall Father as a Bridegroom out of his chamber be pleased to plant in our hearts the feare of the Lord and in our bodies the purity and cleanesse of chastity and make them to abide there for ever Lighten our eyes with the light of thy Gospell and the bright revelation of thy whole will and pleasure that so being guided by thy grace we may be cleansed from all our secret sinnes and preserved from presumptuous and great offences so shall the thoughts and meditation of our heart the words of our mouth and all our actions be alway acceptable in thy sight O Lord our Saviour our strength and our redeemer Iesus Amen PSALME 20. A Prayer that God would heare our petitions which we make to him in times of trouble THe Lord heare thee in the day of trouble the name of the God of Iacob defend thee 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Sion 3 Remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt-sacrifice 4 Grant thee thy hearts desire and fullfill all thy minde 5 We will reioyce in thy salvation and triumph in the name of the Lord our GOD the Lord perform all thy petitions 6 Now know I that the Lord helpeth his anointed and will heare him from his holy heaven even with the wholsome strength of his right hand 7 Some put their trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God 8 They are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright 9 Save Lord heare us O King of heaven when we call upon thee The Prayer O King of heaven who art the health and strength of our right hand have mercy upon us and heare us when we call upon thee let our prayers come into thy presence like a burnt offering of a sweet savour for in all our troubles we disclaim all confidences in any of thy creatures and remember thy name only O Lord our God Teach us what to aske and how to come into thy presence that we may never begge of thee any thing but what is agreeable to thy will and may then promote thy glory when thou suppliest our necessities through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 21. A Prayer for the King THe King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation 2 Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not denied him the request of his lips 3 For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodnesse and shalt set a Crowne of pure gold upon his head 4 He asked life of thee and thou gavest him a long life even for ever and ever 5 His honour is great in thy salvation glory and great worship shalt thou lay upon him 6 For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance 7 And why because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercy of the most Highest he shall not miscarry 8 All thine enemies shall feel thine hand thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee 9 Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of thy wrath the Lord shall destroy them in his displeasure and the fire shall consume them 10 Their fruit shalt thou root out of the earth and their seed from among the children of men 11 For they intended mischiefe against thee and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform 12 Therefore shalt thou put them to flight and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them 13 Be thou exalted Lord in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power The Prayer O Eternall God King of Kings and Lord of Lords have mercy upon thy servant the King as thou hast set a Crowne of gold upon his head and given him power and command to rule thy people with justice and piety so doe thou heare the request of his lipps grant him the desire of his heart and prevent both his desires and requests with the blessings of thy goodnesse give him great honour and Reverence in the sight of his People and of all the Nations round about let all his enemies feele thine hand and put them to flight that arise up against him that when thou hast given him the blessings of a long life and prosperous and made him glad with the joy of thy countenance at last he may be crown'd with everlasting felicity and reigne with thee in thy eternall Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 22. A meditation upon the Passion of our Blessed Saviour EVENING PRAYER MY God my God look upon me why hast thou forsaken me and art so farre from my health and from the words of my complaint 2 O my God I cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season also I take no rest 3 And thou continuest holy O thou worship of Israel 4 Our fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them 5 They called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded 6 But as for mee I am a Worm and no man a very scorn of men and the outcast of the people 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorne they shoot out their lips and shake their heads saying 8 He trusted in God that he would deliver him let him deliver him if he will have him 9 But thou art he that took me out of my mothers wombe thou wast my hope when I hanged yet upon my mothers brests 10 I have been left unto thee ever since I
was borne thou art my God even from my mothers wombe 11 O go not from me for trouble is hard at hand and there is none to help me 12 Many oxen are come about mee fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side 13 They gape upon mee with their mouthes as it were a ramping and roaring lion 14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of ioynt my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melâ—ing wax 15 My strength is dried up like a pot-sheard and my tongue cleaveth to my gummes and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death 16 For many dogs are come about me and the counsell of the wicked layeth siege against mee 17 They pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they stand staring and looking upon me 18 They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture 19 But be not thou farre from me O Lorde thou art my succour hast thee to help me 20 Deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the dog 21 Save me from the lions mouth thou hast heard me also from among the hornes of the unicorns 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee 23 O praise the Lord ye that feare him magnifie him all ye of the seed of Iacob and feare him all ye seed of Israel 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poore he hath not hid his face from him but when he called unto him he heard him 25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation my vowes will I performe in the sight of them that fear him 26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied they that seek after the Lord shall praise him your heart shall live for ever 27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves and be turned unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him 28 For the Kingdom is the Lords and he is the governour among the people 29 All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped 30 All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him and no man hath quickned his own soule 31 My seed shall serve him they shall be couuted unto the Lord for a generation 32 They shall come and the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse unto a people that shall be born whom the Lord hath made The Prayer O Mercifull Iesu who for our sakes did'st suffer thy selfe to be betrayed tormented spitupon crucified and to dye that thou mightest purchase for us redemption from the sting of death the miseries of hell the malice and power of the Divell deliver our soules from the sword of thy Vengeance cut us not off by untimely death free our darling from the power of the dog our soules from being a prey unto the Divell snatch us out of the Lions mouth who goeth up and downe seeking whom he may devoure O Iesu be a Iesus unto us and let those victories which thou hast obtained over Satan and Hell and the grave bring us peace and Righteousnesse and a Crown of glory in the Heavens where thou livest and reignest in the great congregation of Saints and Angells one God world without end Amen PSALME 23. A prayer that God would guide and feed and support us as a sheapherd doth his flock THe Lord is my sheapherd therefore can I lack nothing 2 He shall feed me in a green pasture and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort 3 He shall convert my soul and bring me forth in the paths of righteousnesse for his names sake 4 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me 5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me thou hast anointed my head with oyle and my cup shall be full 6 But thy loving kindnesse and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of mylife I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou great Sheapherd and Bishop of our Soules let thy grace convert us let thy mercy guide us in the paths of righteousnesse feed us with thy Word and Sacraments refresh us with the comforts of thy Holy Spirit and in the whole course of our life which is nothing else but a valley of miseries and a shadow of death let thy rod correct us like a Father when we doe amisse and thy staffe support us in all our troubles and necessities O let thy loving kindnesse and mercy follow us all our daies that after this life we may dwell in thy house for ever where thou hast prepared a Table and a full cup of blessing for thy People and shalt anoynt their heads with the oyle of an eternall gladnesse in the fruition of thy glories ô blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 24. A Meditation upon the ascension of our Blessed Saviour and a Prayer for Sanctity that we may ascend where he is MORNING PRAYER THe earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compasse of the world and they that dwell therein 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas and prepared it upon the flouds 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord or who shall rise up in his holy place 4 Even he that hath clean hands and a pure heart and that hath not life up his mind unto vanity nor sworn to deceive his neighbour 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousnesse from the God of his salvation 6 This is the generation of them that seek him even of them that seek thy face O Iacob 7 Life up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 8 Who is the King of glory it is the Lord strong and mighty even the Lord mighty in battell 9 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 10 Who is the King of glory even the Lord of hosts he is the King of glory The Prayer O Blessed Iesu King of glory Lord of Hosts and King of all the Creatures to whom the everlasting doores were opened that thou mightest enter into thy Kingdome which thou didst open to all believers after thou hadst overcome the sharpnesse of death give us clean hands and a pure heart teach us to follow thy innocency to imitate thy sanctity that we may receive from thee our Lord the eternall rewards and blessings of righteousnesse and ascend thither whither thou ô God of our salvation art gone before who livest and raignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost eternall God world without end Amen PSALME 25. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for deliverance from Sinne and Punishment VNto thee O Lord
will I lift up my soul My God I have put my trust in thee O let me not be confounded neither let mine enemies triumph over me 2 For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed but such as transgresse without a cause shall be put to confusion 3 Shew me thy wayes O Lord and teach me thy paths 4 Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my salvation in thee hath been my hope all the day long 5 Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesse which hath been ever of old 6 Oh remember not the sinnes and offences of my youth but according to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodnesse 7 Gratious and righteous is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way 8 Them that be meek shall he guide in iudgement and such as be gentle them shall he learn his way 9 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies 10 For thy names sake O Lord be mercifull unto my sinne for it is great 11 What man is he that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose 12 His soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the land 13 The secret of the Lord is among them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant 14 Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net 15 Turne thee unto me and have mercy upon mee for I am desolate and in misery 16 The sorrowes of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles 17 Look upon mine adversity and misery and forgive me all my sinne 18 Consider mine enemies how many they are and they bear a tyrannous hate against me 19 O keep my soul and deliver me let me not be confounded for I have put my trust in thee 20 Let perfectnesse and righteous dealing wait upon me for my hope hath been in thee 21 Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles The Prayer OGratious and Righteous Lord God who art the guide of the meek and teachest the humble and gentle in thy way forgive the sinnes and offences of our youth and although by them we have deserved thy wrath and that we be put to confusion yet be pleased to think upon us for thy goodnesse and according to thy mercy that when thou hast forgiven us all our sinne and taken away our adversity and all our misery thou maist keep our soules in perfectnesse and righteous dealing that at last we may dwell at ease free from trouble and safe from all our enemies even when we shall inherit the land of everlasting â—est where thou livest and raignest eternall God world without end AMEN PSALME 26. A Prayer of preparation to the holy Sacrament and to death BE thou my judge O Lord for I haue walked innocently my trust hath been also in the Lord therefore shall I not fall 2 Examine me O Lord and prove me try out my reins and my heart 3 For thy loving kindnesse is ever before mine eyes and I will walk in thy truth 4 I haue not dwelt with vain persons neither will I haue fellowship with the deceitfull 5 I haue hated the congregation of the wicked and will not sit among the ungodly 6 I will wash my hands in innocency O Lord and so will I go to thine altar 7 That I may shew the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works 8 Lord I haue loved the habitation of thy house the place where thine honour dwelleth 9 O shut not up my soul with the sinners nor my life with the bloud-thirsty 10 In whose hands is wickednesse and their right hands are full of gifts 11 But as for me I will walk innocently O Lord deliver me and be mercifull unto me 12 My foot standeth right I will praise the Lord in the congregations The Prayer O Lord our Iudge whose loving kindnesse is great and alwayes before our eyes manifested in the abundant acts of thy grace and providence make us to love and frequent all the actions ministeries and conveyances of thy graces to us especially thy holy Sacraments O deare God endue our Soules with faith and charity and holy penitence that our hands hearts our Soules and bodies being washed in innocency and pennance we may go to thy holy Table and may in the whole course of our life walk righteously and in obedience to thee that in this world hating the congregation of the wicked and the fellowship of the deceitfull and vaine persons at last our Soules may not be shutup with sinners nor our lives with the bloud-thirsty but we may have our portion in the eternall habitation of thy house where thine honour dwelleth and reigneth world without end Amen PSALME 27. A Prayer that being freed from our Enemies we may attend the services of Religion and serve God in his holy Temple EVENING PRAYER THe Lord is my light and my salvation whom then shall I feare the Lord is the strength of my life of whom then shall I be afraid 2 When the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell 3 Though an host of men were laid against me yet shall not my heart be afraid and though there rose up Warre against me yet will I put my trust in him 4 One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will require even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the fair beautie of the Lord and to visit his Temple 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me and set me up upon a rock of stone 6 And now shall he lift up mine head above mine enemies round about me 7 Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladnesse I will sing and speak praises unto the Lord. 8 Hearken unto my voice O Lord when I cry unto thee have mercy upon me hear me 9 My heart hath talked of thee seek ye my face thy face Lord will I seek 10 O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast thy servant away in displeasure 11 Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation 12 When my father and my mother forsake me the Lord taketh me up 13 Teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in the right way because of mine enemies 14 Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries for there are false witnesses risen up against me and such as speak wrong 15 I should utterly haue fainted but that I beleeve verily to see the goodnes of the Lord in the land of the living 16 O tarry thou the Lords leisure be strong and he
MORNING PRAYER PLead thou my cause O Lord with them that strive with me and fight thou against them that fight against me 2 Lay hand upon the shield and buckler and stand up to help me 3 Bring forth the spear and stop the way against them that persecute me say unto my soul I am thy salvation 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul let them be turned back and brought to confusion that imagine mischief for me 5 Let them be as the dust before the winde and the Angell of the Lord scattering them 6 Let their way be dark and slippery and let the Angell of the Lord persecute them 7 For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause yea even without a cause have they made a pit for my soul 8 Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares and his net that he hath laid privily catch himselfe that he may fall into his own mischiefe 9 And my soul be ioyfull in the Lord it shall reioyce in his salvation 10 All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him yea the poore and him that is in misery from him that spoyleth him 11 False witnesse did rise up they laid to my charge things that I knew not 12 They rewarded me evill for good to the great discomfort of my soul 13 Neverthelesse when they were sick I put on sackcloth and humbled my soul with fasting and my prayer shall turn into mine own bosome 14 I behaved my selfe as though it had been my friend or my brother I went heavily as one that mourneth for his mother 15 But in mine adversity they reioyced and gathered them together yea the very abjects came together against me unawares making mowes at me and ceased not 16 With the flatterers were busy mockers which gnashed upon me with their teeth 17 Lord how long wilt thou look upon this O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me and my darling from the lions 18 Sâ— will I give thee thankes in the great congregation I will praise thee among much people 19 O let not them that are mine enemies triumph over mee ungodly neither let them wink with their eyes that hate me without a cause 20 And why their communing is not for peace but they imagine deceitfull words against them that are quiet in the land 21 They gaped on me with their mouthes and said Fie on thee fie on thee we saw it with our eyes 22 This thou hast seen O Lord hold not thy tongue then goe not farre from me O Lord. 23 Awake and stand up to iudge my quarrells avenge thou my cause my God and my Lord. 24 Iudge me O Lord my God according to thy righteousnesse and let them not triumph over mee 25 Let them not say in their hearts There there so would we have it neither let them say we have devoured him 26 Let them be put to confusion and shame together that reioyce at my trouble let them be cloathed with rebuke and dishonour that boast themselves against me 27 Let them be glad and reioyce that favour my righteous dealing yea let them say alway Blessed be the Lord which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant 28 And as for my tongue it shall be talking of thy righteousnesse and of thy praise all the day long The Prayer O Lord our God who art the shield of the oppressed and the Buckler of all that trust in thee deliverus from all the assaults and intendments of our Enemies against us who without cause make pits for our Soules let the Angel of the Lord scatter all their mischievous imaginations least they triumph over us and say we have devoured them strive thou with them that strive with us and fight against them that fight against us Preserve us in innocency that we neither sinne against thee nor doe injustice to them and restore us to our Peace so shall we talk of thy righteousnesse and thy praise all the day long and give thee thankes in the great congregation of Saints because thou hast pleasure in the prosperity of thy servants and hast redeemed them from the hands of their Enimies through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 36. A Prayer desiring the joyes of Heaven the blessings of Eternity MY heart sheweth me the wickednesse of the ungodly that there is no feare of God before his eyes 2 For he flattereth himselfe in his own sight untill his abominable sinne be found out 3 The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit he hath left off to behave himselfe wisely and to do good 4 He imagineth mischief upon his bed and hath set himself in no good way neither doth he abhorre any thing that is evill 5 Thy mercy O Lord reacheth unto the heavens and thy faithfulnesse unto the clouds 6 Thy righteousnesse standeth like the strong mountains thy iudgements are like the great deep 7 Thou Lord shalt save both man and beast how excellent is thy mercy O God and the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings 8 They shall be satisfied with the plenteousnes of thy house and thou shalt give them drink of thy pleasures as out of the river 9 For with thee is the well of life and in thy light shall we see light 10 O continue forth thy loving kindnesse unto them that know thee and thy righteousnesse unto them that are true of heart 11 O let not the foot of pride come against me and let not the hand of the ungodly cast me down 12 There are they fallen all that work wickednesse they are cast down and shall not be able to stand The Prayer O God whose mercy reacheth unto the Heavens and thy righteousnesse unto the clouds teach us to abhorre every thing that is evill and to set our selves in every good way that thy feare being alwaies before our eyes and our trust being under the shadow of thy wings thou maist continue forth thy loving kindnesse to us all the daies of our life that at last we may be satisfied with the plenteousnesse of thy house and may drinke down rivers of pleasures deriving from thee the eternall fountain and well of life and in the light of thy Countenance may see everlasting light through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 37. A Prayer that we may trust and delight in God and that our lot may be amongst the godly and not in the seeming prosperity of the wicked EVENING PRAYER FRet not thy selfe because of the ungodly neither be thou envious against the evill doers 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grasse and be withered even as the green hearb 3 Put thou thy trust in the Lord and be doing good dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed 4 Delight thou in the Lord and he shall give thee thy hearts desire 5
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
is with them that uphold my soul 5 He shall reward evill unto miue enemies destroy thou them in thy truth 6 An offering of a free heart will I giue thee and praise thy name O Lord because it is so comfortable 7 For he hath delivered me out of all my trouble and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies The Prayer O Blessed Jesu our God and our helper whose Name is comfortable the hope of all that are miserable and the reliefe of the oppressed hearken unto our prayers and for thy Names sake save us from the tyranny of those that are risen up against us and seek after our soules Give us thy grace that we may set thee alwayes before our eyes to obey thy Lawes to follow thy example to trust in thy protection to give prayses unto thy holy Name who livest and reignest with the Father and the holy Ghost one God world without end Amen PSALME 55. A Prayer for deliverance from treachery and the conspiracies of our secret Enemies HEare my prayer O God and hide not thy self from my petition 2 Take heed unto me and heare me how I mourn in my prayer and am vexed 3 The enemy crieth so and the ungodly cometh on so fast for they are minded to do me some mischiefe so malitiously are they set against me 4 My heart is disquieted within me and the fear of death is fallen upon me 5 Fearfulnesse and trembling are come upon me and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me 6 And I said Oh that I had wings like a dove for then would I flie away be at rest 7 Lo then would I get me away farre off and remain in the wildernesse 8 I would make hast to escape because of the stormy winde and tempest 9 Destroy their tongues O Lord and divide them for I haue spied unrighteousnesse and strife in the City 10 Day and night they go about within the walls thereof mischief also and sorrow are in the mids of it 11 Wickednesse is therein deceit and guilâ— go not out of their streets 12 For it is not an open enemy that hath done me this dishonour for then I could haue born it 13 Neither was it mine adversary that did magnifie himselfe against me for then peradventure I would haue hid my self from him 14 But it was even thou my companion my guide and mine own familiar friend 15 We took sweet counsell together and walked in the house of God as friends 16 Let death come hastily upon them and let them go down quick into hell for wickednesse is in their dwellings and among them 17 As for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall saue me 18 In the evening and morning and at noon day will I pray and that instantly and he shall heare my voice 19 It is he that hath delivered my soul in peace from the battell that was against me for there were many with me 20 Yea even God that endureth for ever shall heare me and bring them down for they will not turn nor fear God 21 He laid his hands upon such as be at peace with him and he brake his covenant 22 The words of his mouth were softer then butter having warre in his heart his words were smoother then oyl and yet be they very swords 23 O cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall nourish thee and shall not suffer the righteous to fall for ever 24 And as for them thou O God shalt bring them into the pit of destruction 25 The bloodthirstie deceitfull men shall not live out half their dayes neverthelesse my trust shall be in thee O Lord. The Prayer O Eternall God who hast promised to nourish and defend all them that cast their burden upon thee deliver the soules of thy servants in peace from the battell that is against us Fearefulnesse and trembling are come upon us and the feare of death is fallen upon us for our Enemies are malitiously set against us and minded to doe us mischiefe and we know not whether to flee away or be at rest for mischiefe and sorrow are round about us O rescue us from the publike enmity of our open adversaries and from the secret conspiracies of all our private Enemies so shall we pray unto thee and that instantly and praise thy Name in the Evening in the Morning and in the noon day dedicating to thy honour and worship the beginning the growth and the decrease of our life even all our dayes because thou hast not suffered us to fall for ever but hast brought us from the pit of destruction through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 56. A Prayer that we may trust in God and have such carefulnesse over our wayes that we give our Enemies no advantage MORNING PRAYER BE mercifull unto me O God for man goeth about to devoure me he is daily fighting and troubling me 2 Mine enemies are daily in hand to swallow me up for they be many that fight against me O thou most Highest 3 Neverthelesse though I am sometime afraid yet put I my trust in thee 4 I will praise God because of his word I have put my trust in God and will not fear what flesh can doe unto me 5 They daily mistake my words all that they imagine is to doe me evill 6 They hold all together and keep themselves close and mark my steps when they lay wait for my soul 7 Shall they escape for their wickednesse thou O God in thy displeasure shalt cast them downe 8 Thou tellest my flittings put my teares into thy bottle are not these things noted in thy book 9 Whensoever I call upon thee then shall mine enemies be put to flight this I know for God is on my side 10 In Gods word will I reioyce in the Lords word will I comfort me 11 Yea in God have I put my trust I will not be afraid what man can doe unto me 12 Unto thee O God will I pay my vows unto thee will I giue thanks 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death and my feet from falling that I may walk before God in the light of the living The Prayer O Lord God in whom we have trusted have mercy upon us who are daily troubled with sadnesses in the world temptations of the Devill weakenesses of the flesh malitious surmisings and mistakings of our Enemies and whatsoever may make us miserable and disturbe our peace give us great assistances of thy grace that we may walk without scandall resist and overcome the Divell despise the things of this world and be strengthened in our spirits with ghostly confidence that whensoever we call upon thee we may have thee on our side and our enemies be put to flight that our soules being delivered from death and our feet from falling we may at last be admitted into the light of the living there to walke eternally before thee our God who livest and reignest in the Vnity of the blessed Trinity world
people and such as will not beleeve shall not be able to exalt themselues 7 O praise our God ye people and make the voice of his praise to be heard 8 Which holdeth our soul in life and suffereth not our feet to slip 9 For thou O God hast proved us thou also hast tried us like as silver is tried 10 Thou broughtest us into the snare and lapedst trouble upon our loyns 11 Thou sufferedst men to ride over our heads we went through fire and water and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place 12 I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings and will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble 13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices with the incense of rammes I will offer bullocks and goats 14 O come hither and hearken all ye that fear God and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul 15 I called unto him with my mouth and gave him praises with my tongue 16 If I encline unto wickednesse with my heart the Lord will not heare me 17 But God hath heard me and considered the voice of my prayer 18 Praised be God which hath not cast out my prayer nor turned his mercy from me The Prayer O Lord God who art wonderfull in thy workes in thy doings towards the children of men thou chastisest every one whom thou receivest proving us and trying us like as silver is tryed let thy mercifull hands lead us through the fire of afflictions and the waters of temporall chastisements so as we may not be consumed with the flames of thy wrath nor the waters go over our soules but that we being sustained by the comforts of thy spirit and refreshed with the dew of thy graces we may at last be brought out into a wealthy place even the place of eternall treasures O give us thy grace that our hearts incline not to wickednesse and that our feet slip not that so we regarding thy lawes and having respect to obey thy holy will and pleasure thou mayest heare our prayers the greatnesse of thy power may cast down all our Enemies that they may never be able to exalt themselves that while thou holdest our soules in life we may never cease praising thee who hast never turn'd thy mercy from us through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 67. A Prayer that all men may blesse God and God may blesse all men GOd be mercifull unto us and blesse us and shew us the light of his countenance and be mercifull unto us 2 That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all Nations 3 Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee 4 O let the Nations reioyce and be glad for thou shalt iudge the folk righteously and govern the Nations upon earth 5 Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee 6 Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God eden our own God shall giue us his blessing 7 God shall blesse us and all the ends of the world shall fear him The Prayer O Lord God thou Governour of all Nations and the righteous Iudge of the whole earth be mercifull unto us and blesse us Thou makest the Sunne to shine upon all the corners of the habitable world giving his light both to the good and bad let the light of thy countenance diffuse it selfe to all Nations and to all men Lighten all our darknesses with the beames of thy divine favour teach thy wayes unto all the people of the earth and give thy saving health to all Nations that while all joyne with one consent to feare thee and to give thee praises thou mayest governe us all in peace righteousnesse and when thou shalt come to judge us we may receive thy everlasting mercies Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our only Mediator and Advocate Amen PSALME 68. A Prayer for defence and propagation of the Catholike Church MORNING PRAYER LEt God arise and let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him 2 Like as the smoke vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away and like as wax melteth at the fire so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God 3 But let the righteous be glad and reioyce before God let them also be merry and ioyfull 4 O sing unto God and sing praises unto his name magnifie him that rideth upon the Heavens as it were upon an horse praise him in his name yea and reioyce before him 5 He is a father of the fatherlesse and defendeth the cause of the widowes even God in his holy habitation 6 He is the God that maketh men to be of one minde in an house and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity but letteth the runnagates continue in scarcenesse 7 O God when thou wentest forth before the people when thou wentest through the wildernesse 8 The earth shook and the heavens dropped at the presence of God even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God which is the God of Israel 9 Thou O God sentest a gracious rain upon thine inheritance and refreshedst it when it was weary 10 Thy congregation shall dwell therein for thou O God hast of thy goodnesse prepared for the poore 11 The Lord gaue the word great was the company of the preachers 12 Kings with their Armies did flee and were discomfited and they of the houshold divided the spoil 13 Though ye haue lien among the pots yet shall ye be as the wings of a doâ—e that is covered with silver wings and her feathers like gold 14 When the Almightie scattered Kings for their sake then were they as white as snow in Salmon 15 As the hill of Basan so is Gods hill even an high hill as the hill of Basan 16 Why hop ye so ye high hills this is Gods hill in the which it pleaseth him to dwell yea the Lord will abide in it for ever 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand even thousands of Angels and the Lord is among them as in the holy place of Sinai 18 Thou art gone up on high thou hast led captivity captive and received gifts for men yea even for thine enemies that the Lord God might dwell among them 19 Praised be the Lord daily even the God which helpeth us poureth his benefits upon us 20 He is our God even the God of whom cometh salvation God is the Lord by whom we escape death 21 God shall wound the head of his enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickednesse 22 The Lord hath said I will bring my people again as I did from Basan mine own will I bring again as I did sometime from the deep of the sea 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the bloud of thine enemies and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the same 24 It is well
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
timber asore out of the thick trees was known to bring it to an excellent work 7 But now they break down all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers 8 They have set fire upon thy holy places and have defiled the dwelling place of thy name even unto the ground 9 Yea they said in their hearts Let us make havock of them altogether thus have they burnt up all the houses of God in the land 10 We see not our tokens there is not one prophet more no not one is there among us that understandeth any more 11 O God how long shall the adversarie do this dishonour how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever 12 Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosome to consume the enemy 13 For God is my King of old the help that is done upon earth he doth it himself 14 Thou diddest divide the sea through thy power thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters 15 Thou smotest the heads of leviathan in pieces and gavest him to be meat for the people in the wildernesse 16 Thou broughtest out fountains and waters out of the hard rocks thou driedst up mighty waters 17 The day is thine and the night is thine thou hast prepared the light and the sunne 18 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast made summer and winter 19 Remember this O Lord how the enemy hath rebuked and how the foolish people have blasphemed thy name 29 O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the multitude of the enemies and forget not the congregation of the poor for ever 21 Look upon the covenant for all the earth is full of darknesse and cruell habitations 22 Oh let not the simple go away ashamed but let the poor and needy give praise unto thy name 23 Arise O God maintain thine own cause remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily 24 Forget not the voyce of thine enemies the presumption of them that hate thee increaseth ever more and more The Prayer O Lord God Blessed Iesu who with thy precious blood hast purchased to thy selfe and redeemed a Church that it should serve thee in holinesse righteousnesse being delivered from feare of all their adversaries forget not the congregation of thy poor people for ever maintaine thine owne cause deliver the soule of thy Turtle dove from the multitude of her enemies Preserve with thy right band all the places appointed for thy publike service let a guard of flaming Cherubins as at the gate of Paradise stand sentinell and keep from the invasions of sacrilegious persons the pollutions of all impure Church-robbers all thy dwelling places that thou mayest for ever dwell among us defending the poore bringing help to all thy people and particular blessings assistances to the tribe of thine owne inheritance which thou hast sanctified to thy worship and service through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 75. A Prayer against the terrors of the day of Judgement MORNING PRAYER VNto thee O God doe we give thanks yea unto thee doe we giue thankes 2 Thy name also is so nigh and that doe thy wondrous workes declare 3 When I receiue the congregation I shall iudge according unto right 4 The earth is weak and all the inhabiters thereof I bear up the pillars of it 5 I said unto the fools Deal not so madly and to the ungodly Set not up your horn 6 Set not up your horn on high and speak not with a stiffe neck 7 For promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor yet from the South 8 And why God is the iudge he putteth down one and setteth up another 9 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is full mixt and he poureth out of the same 10 As for the dregs thereof all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them and suck them out 11 But I will talk of the God of Iacob and praise him for ever 12 All the horns of the ungodly also will I break and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted The Prayer O Lord God the Iudge of all the world from whom commeth all promotion and all punishment have mercy upon us now at the houre of death and in the day of Iudgement when thou shalt judge all the congregations of men and Angells according unto right ô give us grace to expect thy comming in humility and charity that we be not stiffe-necked and exalted in our owne opinions and conceptions but may submit to thy yoke with meeknesse and obedience that when thou shalt poure forth the cup of thy vengeance upon the ungodly we may not drinke or tast of the dregs of it but may sit downe at thy Table in the Supper of the Lamb and be satisfied with the blessings of eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 76. A Prayer that we may feare Gods Iudgements and be freed from the terrors of men IN Iury is God known his name is great in Israel 2 At Salem is his tabernacle and his dwelling in Sion 3 There brake â—e the arrows of the bow the shield the sword and the battell 4 Thou art of more honour and might then the hills of the robbers 5 The proud are robbed they haue slept their sleep and all the men whose hands were mighty haue found nothing 6 At thy rebuke O God of Iacob both the chariot and horse are fallen 7 Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry 8 Thou didst cause thy iudgement to be heard from heaven the earth trembled and was still 9 When God arose to iudgement and to help all the meek upon earth 10 The fiercenesse of man shall turn to thy praise and the fiercenesse of them shalt thou refraine 11 Promise unto the Lord your God and keep it all ye that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared 12 He shall refrain the spirit of Princes and is wonderfull among the Kings of the earth The Prayer O Lord God whose dwelling is in heaven and thy Name is great in all the world plant the dread and reverence of thee and thy power in our hearts let thy threatnings and thy judgements which are heard from heaven and executed upon disobedient and gainsaying people make us to tremble at the remembrance of our sinnes and in the consideration of our weakenesses and demerits and let thy mercies and the remembrance of thy infinite loving kindnesses make our hearts still full of evenesse tranquillity that we may not feare the fiercenesse of man or the wrath of those whose Spirits thou canst refraine least we be disturbed in our duties towards thee but let us so feare thee that we may never offend against thee but may passe from feare to love from apprehensions of thy wrath to the sense and comforts of thy mercies
through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 77. A Prayer that the experience of Gods goodnesse may produce hope in us and remove from us all fearfullnesse and doubting I Will crie unto God with my voice even unto God will I crie with my voice and he shall hearken unto me 2 In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran and ceased not in the night season my soul refused comfort 3 When I am in heavinesse I will think upon God when my heart is vexed I will complaine 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking I am so feeble that I cannot speak 5 I haue considered the dayes of old and the yeares that are past 6 I call to remembrance my song and in the night I commune with mine owne heart and search out my spirits 7 Will the Lord absent himselfe for ever and will he be no more intreated 8 Is his mercy cleane gone for ever and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will he shut up his loving kindnes in displeasure 10 And I said It is mine owne infirmitie but I will remember the yeares of the right hand of the most highest 11 I will remember the works of the Lord and call to minde thy wonders of old time 12 I will think also of all thy works and my talking shall be of thy doings 13 Thy way O God is holy who is so great a God as our God 14 Thou art the God that doth wonders and hast declared thy power among the people 15 Thou hast mightily delivered thy people even the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph 16 The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and were afraid the depths also were troubled 17 The clouds poured out water the aire thundred and thine arrows went abroad 18 The voice of thy thunder was heard round about the lightnings shone upon the ground the earth was moved and shook withall 19 Thy way is in the sea thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not knowne 20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron The Prayer O God who dost wonders and hast declared thy power amongst all people let the observation of thy mercies and loving kindnesses make such deep impression in our hearts and memories that when we are in heavinesse we may remember the yeares of thy right hand and call to mind the wonders of old time that although thou sometimes withdrawest the brightnesse of thy countenance from us and shuttest up thy loving kindnesse in a short displeasure yet the experience of thy old mercies which never faile may sustaine our infirmities and the expectation of thy loving kindnesses may cure all our impatience till in thy due time the sense of thy favours may actually releeve all our distresses and thy right hand lead us like sheep into the folds of eternall rest and security through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 78. A Commemoration of Gods blessings to his Church of old of his Judgements upon sinners and his mercies to the penitent EVENING PRAYER HEare my law O my people encline your eares unto the words of my mouth 2 I will open my mouth in a parable I will declare hard sentences of old 3 Which we haue heard and knowne and such as our fathers have told us 4 That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to shew the honour of the Lord his mighty and wonderfull works that he hath done 5 He made a covenant with Iacob and gaue Israel a law which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children 6 That their posterity might know it and the children which were yet unborn 7 To the intent that when they came up they might shew their children the same 8 That they might put their trust in God and not to forget the works of God but to keep his Commandements 9 And not to be as their forefathers a faithlesse and stubborn generation a generation that set not their heart aright and whose spirit â—leaved not stedfastly unto God 10 Like as the children of Ephraim which being haruessed and carrying bows turned themselves back in the day of battell 11 They kept not the covenant of God and would not walk in his law 12 But forgat what he had done and the wonderfull works that he had shewed for them 13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers in the land of Egypt even in the field of zoan 14 He divided the sea and let them goe through he made the waters to stand on an heap 15 In the day time also he led them with a cloud and all the night through with a light of fire 16 He clave the hard rocks in the wildernesse and gaue them drink thereof as it had been out of the great depth 17 He brought waters out of the stony rock so that it gushed out like the rivers 18 Yet for all this they sinned more against him and provoked the most Highest in the wildernesse 19 They tempted God in their hearts and required meat for their lust 20 They spake against God also saying Shall God prepare a table in the wildernesse 21 He smote the stony rock indeed that the water gushed out and the streams flowed withall but can he giue bread also or provide flesh for his people 22 When the Lord heard this he was wroth so the fire was kindled in Iacob and there came up heavy displeasure against Israel 23 Because they beleeved not in God and put not their trust in his help 24 So he commanded the clouds aboue and opened the doores of heaven 25 He rained down Manna also upon them for to eat and gaue them food from heaven 26 So man did eat Angells food for he sent them meat enough 27 He caused the east winde to blow under heaven and through his power he brought in the south-west winde 28 He rained flesh upon them as thick as dust and feathered fowles like as the sand of the sea 29 He let it fall among their tents even round about their habitation 30 So they did eat and were well filled for he gaue them their own desire they were not disappointed of their lust 31 But while the meat was yet in their mouthes the heavy wrath of God came upon them and slew the wealthiest of them yea and smote downe the chosen men that were in Israel 32 But for all this they sinned yet more and beleeved not his wonderous works 33 Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanity and their yeares in trouble 34 When he slew them they sought him and turned them early and enquired after God 35 And they remembred that God was their strength and that the high God was their Redeemer 36 Neverthelesse they did but flatter him with their mouth and dissembled with him in their tongue 37 For their heart was not whole with him neither continued they stedfast in his
covenant 38 But he was so mercifull that he forgaue their misdeeds and destroyed them not 39 Yea many a time turned he his wrath away and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise 40 For he considered that they were but flesh and that they were even a winde that passeth away and cometh not againe 41 Many a time did they provoke him in the wildernesse and grieved him in the desert 42 They turned back and tempted God and moved the holy one in Israel 43 They thought not of his hand and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy 44 How he had wrought his miracles in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan 45 He turned their waters into bloud so that they might not drink of the rivers 46 He sent lice among them and devoured them up and frogs to destroy them 47 He gaue their fruit unto the caterpiller and their labour unto the graâ—hopper 48 He destroyed their vines with hailstones and their mulberrie trees with the frost 49 He smote their cattell also with hailstones and their flocks with hot thunderbolts 50 He cast upon them the furiousnesse of his wrath anger displeasure and trouble and sent evill Angells among them 51 He made a way to his indignation and spared not their soul from death but gaue their life over to the pestilence 52 And smote all the first-born in Egypt the most principall and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham. 53 But as for his owne people he led them forth like sheep and carried them in the wildernesse like a flock 54 He brought them out safely that they should not fear and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea 55 And brought them within the borders of his sanctuary even to his mountain which he purchased with his right hand 56 He cast out the heathen also before them caused their land to be divided among them for an heritage and made the tribes of Israell to dwell in their tents 57 So they tempted and displeased the most high God and kept not his testimonies 58 But turned their backs and fell away like their forefathers starting aside like a broken bow 59 For they grieved him with their hill altars and provoked him to displeasüre with their images 60 When God heard this he was wroth and took sore displeasure at Israel 61 So that he forsook the sabernacle in Sâ—lo even the tent that he had pitched among them 62 He dellvered their power into captivity and their beauty into the enemies hand 63 He gaue his people over also unto y e sword and was wroth with his inheritance 64 The fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage 65 Their priests were slain with the sword and there were no widows to make lamentation 66 So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep and like a Giant refreshed with wine 67 He smote his enemies in the hinder parts and put them to a perpetuall shame 68 He refused the tabernacle of Ioseph and those not the tribe of Ephraim 69 But chose the tribe of Iuda even the hill of Sion which he loved 70 And there he builded his temple on high and laid the foundation of it like the ground which he hath made continually 71 He chose David also his servant and took him away from the sheepfolds 72 As he was following the ewes great with young ones he took him that he might feed Iacob his people and Israel his inheritance 73 So he fed them with a faithfull and true heart and ruled them prudently with all his power The Prayer O Lord God of Our Fathers God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob thou that leddest thy people through the Wildernesse with a light and with a cloud and with thy bright Angell for their sakes turning rocks into a springing well and making the Sea and the River become dry land so making demonstration of the greatnesse of thy mercy by the greatnesse of thy miracles and didst still goe on to make all thy creatures leave their natures to serve them even then when they tempted and provoked thee ten times in the desert O be pleased to doe unto us as thou didst to them lead us through the desert of this World with the light of thy holy Spirit and from the rock which for our sakes thou didst smite with thy heavy rod the rock Christ Iesus let water and bloud streame forth to cleanse and to refresh us Give us of the bread that came down from heaven the flesh of thy deare Sonne to eat that we being purified by his bloud and nourished by that celestiall Manna our hearts may be set aright and our spirits may cleave stedfastly unto thee O God that we may remember thy works and trust in thy mercies and may keep thy commandements O never let the fire of thy wrath be kindled towards us nor thy heavy displeasure come up against us let us not consume our daies in folly and vanity least our yeares be spent in trouble but when through infirmity we fall let thy gentle correction call us home that we may turne us early and seek after thee our God who art our strength and our mercifull Redeemer that we may never feele the furiousnesse of thy eternall wrath nor have our portion amongst the evill Angells but may be conducted by thy mercies and providence to the border of thy sanctuary and to the mountain where thou reignest over all the creatures one God world withoutend Amen PSALME 79. A Prayer that God would deliver his Church from the cruelty of all her persecutors MORNING PRAYER O God the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy temple have they defiled and made Ierusalem an heap of stones 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the aire and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land 3 Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Ierusalem and there was no man to bury them 4 We are become an open shame to our enemies a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us 5 Lord how long wilt thou be angry shall thy iealousie burn like fire for ever 6 Poure out thine indignation upon the heathen that have not known thee and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy nameÌ„ 7 For they have devoured Iacob and laid waste his dwelling place 8 O remember not our old sinnes but have mercy upon us and that soon for we are come to great misery 9 Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull unto our sinnes for thy names sake 10 Wherefore do the heathen say Where is now their God 11 O let the vengeance of thy servants bloud that is shed be openly shewed upon the heathen in our sight 12 O let the sorrowfull sighing of the prisoners come before thee according to the greatnesse of thy power preserve thou
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
proud after their deserving 3 Lord how long shall the ungodly how long shall the ungodly triumph 4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully and make such proud boasting 5 They smite down thy people O Lord and trouble thine heritage 6 They murder the widow and the stranger and put the fatherlesse to death 7 And yet they say Tush the Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Iacob regard it 8 Take heed yee unwise among the peoyle O yee fooles when will yee understand 9 He that planted the eare shall he not heare or he that made the eye shall he not see 10 Or he that nurtureth the heathen it is he that teacheth man knowledge shall not he punish 11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are but vain 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest O Lord and teachest him in thy law 13 That thou mayest give him patience in time of adversitie untill the pit be digged up for the ungodly 14 For the Lord will not faile his people neither will he forsake his inheritance 15 Untill righteousnesse turne again unto iudgement all such as be true in heart shall follow it 16 Who will rise up with me against the wicked or who will take my part against the evill doers 17 If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my soule had been put to silence 18 But when I said My foot hath slipped thy mercie O Lord held me up 19 In the multitude of the sorrowes that I had in my heart thy comforts haue refreshed my soule 20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stoole of wickednesse which imagineth mischiefe as a law 21 They gather them together against the soule of the righteous and condemne the innocent bloud 22 But the Lord is my refuge and my God is the strength of my confidence 23 He shall recompense them their wickednesse and destroy them in their own malice yea the Lord our God shall destroy them The Prayer O Lord God Iudge of the world to whom vengeance belongeth and the execution of righteous judgements have mercie upon us chasten us with thy gentlenesse and fatherly correction when we sin against thee teach uâ—lin thy law be our refuge and our confidence in our troubles and give us patience in times of adversitie that in the multitude of sorrowes thy comforts may refresh us thy mercies may relieve us thy grace may pardon and confirme us that our feet slip not and our soules be not put to silence Have pittie upon all distressed and miserable people do justice upon all that murder the widow that put the fatherlesse to death that grinde the face of the poore Faile not thy people O Lord and forsake not thine inheritance but destroy the devices of all them that imagine mischiefe as a law and are confederate against the righteous to condemne the innocent to discountenance Religion to disadvantage thy worship and service that in the day of eternall vengeance when thou shalt reward the proud after their deserving and the pit be digged for the ungodly we may have the lot of thine inheritance and reigne in the fellowship of Saints who give honour and praise to thee O Lord God Almighty world without end Amen PSALME 95. A Hymne invitatory to the worship of God and a prayer for obedience to his will MORNING PRAYER O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily reioyce in the strength of our salvation 2 Let us come before his presence with thankesgiving and shew ourselves glad in him with psalmes 3 For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods 4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hils is his also 5 The sea is his and he made it and his hands prepared the drie land 6 O come let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our maker 7 For he is the Lord our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hands 8 To day if yee will heare his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse 9 When your fathers tempted me proued me and saw my workes 10 Forty yeares long was I grieued with this generation and said It is a people that do erre in their hearts for they have not knowne my wayes 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest The Prayer O Great God the Lord our Maker who art a King above all gods give us the graces of humility and holy religion that we may worthily praise and worship thy glories and perfections infinite We are the people of thy pasture let thy mercies leade us and feed and refresh our soules with the divine nutriment of thy Word and Sacraments we are the sheep of thy hands do thou guide us that we may never go astray or if we do bring us home into the sheepfold of our great shepheard that we hearing his voyce may not harden our hearts neither tempting thy mercies nor provoking thy wrath that our hearts being preserved from errour and our wayes from obliquitie and crookednesse we may at last enter into thy eternall rest through the merits and guidance of our great Shepheard Iesus Christ our Mediatour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 96. A hymne of adoration and magnifying the glories of God O Sing unto the Lord a new song sing unto the Lord all the whole earth 1 Sing unto the Lord and praise his name be telling of his salvation from day to day 3 Declare his honour unto the heathen and his wonders unto all people 4 For the Lord is great and cannot worthily be praised he is more to be feared then all Gods 5 As for all the gods of the heathen they be but idols but it is the Lord that made the heavens 6 Glory and worship are before him power and honour are in his sanctuary 7 Ascribe unto the Lord O ye kindreds of the people ascribe unto the Lord worship and power 8 Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his name bring presents and come into his courts 9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse let the whole earth stand in aw of him 10 Câ—ll it out among the heathen that the Lord is King and that it is he which hath made the round world so fast that it cannot be moved and how that he shall iudge the people righteously 11 Let the heavens reioyce and let the earth he glad let the sea make a noise and all that therein is 12 Let the field be ioyfull and all that is in it then shall all the trees of the wood reioyce before the Lord. 13 For he cometh for he cometh to iudge the earth and with righteousnesse to iudge the world and the people with his truth The Prayer O Lord God in whose sanctuary is power and honour before whose presence
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
duties and by the feare of thee being taught to keep thy testimonies and never to forget the Law thou givest us we may be delivered from thy wrath and punishment and at last praise thee upon thy holy hill in thine everlasting habitation thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 100. A Psalme of praise to God for his mercy and truth O Be ioyfull in the Lord all yee lands serue the Lord with gladnesse and come before his presence with a song 2 Be yee sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selues we are his people and the sheep of his pasture 3 O go your way into his gates with thankesgiving and into his courts with praise be thankfull unto him and speak good of his Name 4 For the Lord is gracious his mercie is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord our God who hast created us out of nothing and hast redeemed us from misery and death when we were thine enemies shewing great expresses of thy loving kindnesse when we were vessels of wrath and inheritors of perdition â—reveiling thy truth unto us in the Sermons of the Gospell teach us to walke as thou hast commanded us to believe as thou hast taught us that we may inherit what thou hast promised us for thou art the way the truth and the life we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture thou art our guide and our defence let thy grace teach us to serve thee and thy holy Spirit assist and promote our endeavours with the blessings of gladnesse and chearfulnesse of Spirit that we may love to speak good of thy Name and at last may go into the courts of thy Temple with praise and a song in our mouthes to thy honour and eternall glory whose mercy and truth is everlasting and revealed unto the Church in our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 101. A Prayer for a holy life MY song shall bee of mercie and iudgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 O let me have understanding in the way of godlinesse 3 When wilt thou come unto me I will walke in my house with a perfect heart 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sinnes of unfaithfulnesse there shall no such cleave unto me 5 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 6 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour him will I destroy 7 Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomacke I will not suffer him 8 Mine eyes look unto such as be faithfull in the land that they may dwell with me 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my seruant 10 There shall no deceitfull person dwell in my house he that telleth lies shall not tarrie in my sight 11 I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land that I may root out all wicked doers from the citie of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall purity who art of pure eyes and canst behold no unrighteousnesse or impurity enlighten our understandings that we may have knowledge in the way of godlinesse make our paths straight and our hearts perfect take from us the sinnes of unfaithfulnesse correct and mortifie in us all froward and peevish dispositions let us love the society of the saints and hate the fellowship of the wicked that we may not be destroyed with the ungodly nor be rooted out from the Citie of the Lord and banished from the sweetnes of thy presence for with thee is light and health and salvation to thy Name be all honour and glory and praise ascribed world without end Amen PSALME 102. A Prayer for comfort in sadnesse anxiety of spirit sicknesse or any other affliction MORNING PRAYER HEare my prayer O Lord and let my crying come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble â—encline thine eares unto me when I call O heare me and that right soon 3 For my dayes are consumed away like smoake and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand 4 My heart is smitten down and withered like grasse so that I forget to eat my bread 5 For the voyce of my groaning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh 6 I am become like a pelican in the wildernesse and like an owle that is in the desert 7 I have watched and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the house top 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long and they that are mad upon me are sworne together against me 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread and mingled my drinke with weeping 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast taken me up and cast me down 11 My dayes are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grasse 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercie upon Sion for it is time that thou have mercie upon her yea the time is come 14 And why thy servants thinke upon her stones and it pittieth them to see her in the dust 15 The heathen shall feare thy Name O Lord and all the kings of the earth thy maiestie 16 When the Lord shall build up Sion and when his glorie shall appeare 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poore destitute and despiseth not their desire 18 This shall be written for those that come after and the people which shall be borne shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuarie out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 That he might heare the mournings of such as be in captivitie and deliver the children appointed unto death 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Sion and his worship at Ierusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdomes also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my iourney and shortened my dayes 24 But I said O my God take me not away in the midst of mine age as for thy yeares they endure throughout all generations 25 Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the worke of thy hands 26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure they all shall wax old as doth a garment 27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy yeares shall not faile 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight The Prayer O Eternall God who endurest for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations have pittie upon us according to the infinite treasures of thy loving kindnesse heare the voyce of our groaning for thy indignation and thy wrath lieth hard upon us and our sinnes have put an edge upon thy sword and a thorne into our wounded
the shadow of death being fast bound in misery and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the word of the Lord and lightly regarded the counsell of the most High 12 He also brought down their heart through heavinesse they fell down and there was none to helpe them up 13 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse 14 For he brought them out of darknesse and out of the shadow of death and brake their bonds in sunder 15 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 16 For he hath broken the gates of brasse and â—ritten the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 in sunder 17 Foolish men are plagued for their offence and because of their wickednesse 18 Their soule abhorred all manner of meat and they were even hard aâ— deaths doore 19 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse 20 He sent his word and healed them and they were saved from their destruction 21 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 22 That they would 〈…〉 him the sacrifice of thankesgiving and 〈◊〉 but his workes with gladnesse 23 They that go doâ—â— to the sea in ships and occupy their businesse in great waters 24 These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deep 25 For at 〈◊〉 worâ— the storâ— windâ— ariseth which lifteth up the waves thereof 26 〈…〉 carried up to the heaven and doâ—â—â— again to the deepe their soule melteth away because of the trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their witâ— end 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their troubles he delivereth them out of their distresse 29 For â—â— maketh the storm to cease so that the waves thereof arâ— still 30 Then are they glad because they be at rest and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 32 That they would â—â—alt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders 33 Which â—urnath the flouds into a wildernesse and drieth up the water springs 34 A fruitfull 〈◊〉 maketh â—e barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein 35 Again he maketh the wildernesse a standing water and water springs of a dry ground 36 And there hâ—â—seâ—â—eth the hungry that they may build them a city to dwell in 37 That they 〈◊〉 sow their land and plant vineyards to yeeld them fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them so that they multiply exceedingly and suffereth not their cattell to decrease 39 And again when they are minished and brought low through oppression through any plague or trouble 40 Though he suffer them to be evill entreated through tyrants and let them wander out of the way in the wildernesse 41 Yet helpeth he the poore out of miserie and maketh him housholds like a flocke of sheep 42 The righteous will consider this and reioyce and the mouth of all wickednesse shall be stopped 43 Whoso is wise will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God gracious and good whose mercy endureth for ever have mercy upon us when in our trouble we cry unto thee for when our hearts are brought down through heavinesse there is none to helpe us up or to deliver us out of our distresse but onely thou O Lord. We have sinned we have rebelled against thee and lightly regarded thy counsels we have walked and â—ate in darknesse and in the shadowes of death being fast bound in the captivity and misery of sin O bring us out of darknesse and breake our bonds a sunder guide us through the desert of this world in which growes nothing but sadnesse and discontent still the tempests and smooth the slondâ— of misery which are ready to overwhelmâ— us and in thy due time bring us to eternall rest and to the haven where we would faine be that in the congregation of thy holy people we may praise thee for thy goodnesse and declare the wonders thou hast done for us in delivering us from sin and misery and death and bringing us to a City to dwell in where there is life and light and joy eternall in the beholding the face of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 108. A Prayer for victory against our Enemies EVENING PRAYER O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best member I have 2 Awake thou lute and harp I my selfe will awake right early 3 I will give thankes unto thee O Lord among the people I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 5 For thy mercy is greater then the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds 5 Set up thy selfe O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth 6 That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand save them and heare thou me 7 God hath spoken in his holinesse I will reioyce therefore and divide Sithem and mete out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head 9 Iuda is my lawgiver Moab is my washpot over Edom will I cast out my shooe upon the Philistines will I triumph 10 Who will lead me into the strong city and who will bring me into Edom 11 Hast not thou forsaken us O God and wilt not thou O God go forth with our hosts 12 O helpe us against the enemy for vain is the helpe of man 13 Through God we shall do great acts and it is he that shall tread down our enemies The Prayer O Lord God whose mercie is greater then the Heavens and thy glory is above all the earth be thou exalted in thine owne strength and magnifie thy power and thy mercy in defending us and all thy holy Church against all our enemies temporall and spirituall Forsake us not O God our defence for vain is the help of man do thou strengthen us and go forth with our hosts to battell that we being defended and armed by thee may do acts great and good fighting thy battels and putting our confidence in thy righteousnesse onely and salvation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 109. A Prayer against Gods enemies and especially Traitors prophetically intended against the person of Iudas HOld not thy tongue O God of my praise for the mouth of the ungodly yea and the mouth of the deceitfull is opened upon me 2 And they hade spoken against me with false tongues they compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause 3 For the love that I had unto them lo they
mercifull and gracious Lord hath so done his marvellous workes that they ought to be had in remembrance 5 He hath given meat unto them that feare him he shall ever be mindfull of his covenant 6 He hath shewed his people the power of his workes that he may give them the heritage of the heathen 7 The workes of his hands are verity and iudgement all his commandments are true 8 They stand fast for euer and euer and are done in truth and equity 9 He sent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his couenant for euer holy and reuerend is his Name 10 The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome a good understanding haue all they that do thereafter the praise of it endureth for ever The Prayer O Blessed Iesu whose righteousnesse endureth for ever thy worke is worthy to be praised and had in honour for that thou hast been mercifull and gracious to us and hast given meat even the food of the blessed Sacrament unto them that feare thee that by participation of thy holy Communion we should have thee in remembrance and ever be mindfull of thy covenant plant thy fear in our hearts give us wisedome and good understanding and make us to have pleasure in thee and all thy workes that we obeying the precepts of thy holy Gospell and performing the conditions of thy covenant which thou hast established for ever in truth and equity in verity and judgement we may worthily praise and adore thy reverend and holy Name among the faithfull in this life and in the great congregation of Saints in the life to come through thy mercies O blessed Iesu to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 112. A Prayer for the feare of the Lord for charity and the blessings of the righteous BLessed is the man that feareth the Lord he hath great delight in his commandments 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the faithfull shall be blessed 3 Riches and plenteousnesse shall be in his house and his righteousuesse endureth for euer 4 Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darknesse he is mercifull louing and righteous 5 A good man is mercifull and lendeth and will guide his words with discretion 6 For he shall never be moued and the righteous shall be had in an euerlasting remembrance 7 He will not be afraid for any euill tidings for his heart standeth fast and belieueth in the Lord. 8 His heart is stablished and will not shrinke untill he see his desire upon his enemies 9 He hath dispersed abroad and giuen to the poore and his righteousnesse remaineth for euer his horne shall be exalted with honour 10 The ungodly shall see it and it shall grieue him he shall gnash with his teeth and consume away the desire of the ungodly shall perish The Prayer O Lord God who art to be feared in the generations of the world teach us the feare of thy Name that we may feare to offend thee and that delighting in thy Commandments we may serve thee without feare of our enemies in holinesse and righteousnesse all our dayes Let thy light rise upon the darknesse of our understandings let thy mercies and gentlenesse cure all thoughts of unmercifulnesse in us and make us charitable of tender bowels yearning with pitty over the needs of the poore Teach us to guide our words with discretion make us never to be moved from our purposes of holy living stablish our hearts in thy love that in the day of restitution of all things thou mayest give us the portion of the charitable the rewards of thy right hand and when the wicked shall gnash with their teeth and consume away in a sad eternity we may be satisfied with the riches and plenteousnesse of thy house for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 113. A thankesgiving to God for his acts of providence and particular care over the poore and humble PRaise the Lord yee seruants O praise the Name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for euermore 3 The Lords name is praised from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same 4 The Lord is high aboue all heathen and his glory aboue the heauens 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God that hath his dwelling so high and yet humbleth himselfe to behold the things that are in heauen and earth 6 He taketh up the simple out of the dust and lifteth the poore out of the mire 7 That he may set him with the princes euen with the princes of his people 8 He maketh the barren woman to keepe house and to be a ioyfull mother of children The Prayer O Lord God whose dwelling is on high and yet thou humblest thy selfe to behold the things that are in Heaven and earth have mercy upon us thy humble servants and lift us up from the gates of death take us out of the mire that we sinke not into the bottomlesse pit of misery and infelicity and when for our sinnes thou humblest us as low as the dust let thy mercie exalt us and restore us to the light of thy countenance and the joy of thy salvation that when thou shalt call all the world to judgement from the rising of the Sun to the going down thereof we may be set with the Princes of thy people with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in thine eternall Kingdome to sing praises to thy Name from this time forth for evermore Amen PSALME 114. A thankesgiving to God for the deliverance of his people from bondage and misery EVENING PRAYER WHen Israel came out of Egypt and the house of Iacob from among the strange people 2 Iuda was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion 3 The sea saw that and fled Iordan was driuen backe 4 The mountaines skipped like rammes and the little hills like young sheep 5 What aileth thee O thou sea that thou fleddest and thou Iordan that thou wast driuen backe 6 Yee mountaines that yee skipped like rammes and yee little hills like young sheep 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Iacob 8 Which turned the hard rocke into a standing water and the flint stone into a springing well The Prayer O Lord God at whose presence the earth trembles who workest salvation and deliverance for thy Church in all ages and didst deliver thy people from the bondage of Aegypt with a mighty hand and an arme stretched out in miraculous effects deliver us from the bondage of sin from the tyrannie of the devill from the Empire and Dominion of the flesh that our bodies and soules being mortified our flesh brought under subjection of the spirit our appetites made subordinate to reason and our soules wholy conformable to thy will our hard stony hearts may be converted into hearts of flesh and into a springing well bringing forth the waters of
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
mine heritage for ever and why they are the very â—oy of my heart 8 I have applied my heart to fulfill thy statutes alway even unto the end The Prayer O Sonne of righteousnesse that camest to bring light unto the world by thy word and example and illumination of thy holy spirit let thy spirit lead us thy example guide us thy word teach us that we may not love darknesse more then light but may keep thy righteous judgements according to our many purposes and our vow of baptisme keep us from the snare of the ungodly and from our own selves the dangers of our own concupiscence and the miseries of our infirmity leave not our soules in our own hands but keep them under thy protection and government least we swerve from thy commandments but that applying our hearts alway to fulfill thy statutes even unto the end we may possesse thy law as our portion and inheritance for ever Grant this O blessed Iesu for thy promise and for thy mercies sake that we may glorifie thee in the unity of themost mysterious Trinity now and for evermore Amen XV. I Hate them that imagine evill things but thy law do I love 2 Thou art my defence and shield and my trust is in thy word 3 Away from me yee wicked I will keep the commandments of my God 4 O stablish me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be disappoynted of my hope 5 Hold thou me up and I shall be safe yea my delight shall be ever in thy statutes 6 Thou hast troden down all them that depart from thy statutes for they imagine but deceit 7 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like drosse therefore I love thy testimonies 8 My flesh trembleth for feare of thee and I am afraid of thy iudgements The Prayer O God our defence and shield thou that treadest down all them that depart from thy law and puttest away the ungodly of the earth like drosse let thy mercies hold us up that we may be safe from sinne and death eternall make us to hate all evill things all evill imaginations that we being stablished with a trust in thee and building our expectations upon thy mercies and promises we may not be disappointed of our hope but may live with thee eternally through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XVI I Deal with the thing that is lawfull and right O give me not over unto mine oppressors 2 Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong 3 Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health and for the word of thy righteousnesse 4 O deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy and teach me thy statutes 5 I am thy servant O grant me understanding that I may know thy testimonies 6 It is time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand for they have destroyed thy law 7 For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stone 8 Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments and all false waies I utterly abhorre The Prayer O Lord God thou seest with what miseries and dangers we are incompassed our ghostly enemies seek to do us wrong and to oppresse our soules give us not over unto their malice but arme us against their pride and insolency by faith in thy word by hope of thy mercies and looking for thy health and by love unto thy commandments that so in this world and in the eternall retribution of the Saints thou maist deal with thy servants according to thy loving mercy Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen XVII THy testimonies are wonderfull therefore doth my soul keep them 2 When thy word goeth forth it giveth light and understanding unto the simple 3 I opened my mouth and drew in my breath for my delight was in thy commandments 4 O look thou upon me and be mercifull unto me as thou usest to do unto those that loue thy name 5 Order my steps in thy word and so shall no wickednesse have dominion over me 6 O deliver me from the wrongfull dealings of men and so shall I keep thy commandments 7 Shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes 8 Mine eyes gush out with water because men keep not thy law O Iust and deare God shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servants and let this light give unto us understanding in thy law that our steps being ordered in thy word thou maist deliver us from the wrongfull dealings of men and from the malicious enmities of our Ghostly adversaries that by their temptations and our own weaknesse we may never be brought under the dominion of sinne and wickednesse that when thy word goeth forth to call to judgement all people quick and dead thou maist be mercifull unto us and save us as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name Grant this for the merits and mercies of our dearest Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen XVIII RIghteous art thou O Lord and true is thy iudgement 2 The testimonies that thou hast commanded are exceeding righteous and true 3 My zeal hath even consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words 4 Thy word is tried to the uttermost and thy servant loveth it 5 I am small and of no reputation yet do I not forget thy commandments 6 Thy righteousnesse is an everlasting righteousnesse and thy law is the truth 7 Trouble and heavinesse have taken hold upon me yet is my delight in thy commandments 8 The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is everlasting O grant me understanding and I shall live The Prayer O Righteous Lord God whose judgements are true and thy testimonies exceeding righteous enkindle our soules with zeale to thy Lawes and service that the continuall remembrance of thy Commandments may so enable our soules as to give a greatnesse and reputation to us in thy estimation even the greatnesse of humility and obedience which are more honourable in thy eyes than all the pompes and vanities of this world Grant this for his sake who for our sakes humbled himselfe to the forme of a servant and became obedient to the death of the Crosse even Iesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen XIX EVENING PRAYER I Call with my whole heart heare me O Lord I will keep thy statutes 2 Yea even upon thee do I call helpe me and I shall keep thy testimonies 3 Early in the morning do I cry unto thee for in thy word is my trust 4 Mine eyes prevent the night watches that I might be occupied in thy words 5 Heare my voice O Lord according unto thy loving kindnesse quicken me according as thou art wont 6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me and are farre from thy law 7 Be thou nigh at hand O Lord for all thy commandments are true 8 As
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
and glory ascribed of men and Angels now and for ever Amen PSALME 126. A contemplation of the ioyes and blessings of them that depart hence in the Lord. EVENING PRAYER WHen the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion then were we like unto them that dreame 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with ioy 3 Then said they among the heathen The Lord hath done great things for them 4 Yea the Lord hath done great things for us already whereof we reioyce 5 Turne our captivity O Lord as the rivers in the south 6 They that sow in teares shall reap in ioy 7 He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth forth good seed shall doubtlesse come again with ioy and bring his sheaves with him The Prayer O Lord God who hast promised salvation to thy people and hast done great things for us already deliver us from the captivity and bondage of sinne and misery Fill our hearts with holy sorrow and compunction when ever we trespasse against thee and teach us so to deny our selves to mortifie our affections to crucifie our lusts and all the temptations of the flesh that we going on our way with mourning and weeping despising the pleasures of this life may when thy great harvest shall come and thy reapers the Angells shall separate the wheat from the tares come before thee with joy and bring our sheaves with us to be laid up in thy granary that so we may escape the everlasting burning through the mercies of Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 127. A Prayer for God's blessing to go along with the temporall good things he gives us EXcept the Lord build the house their labour is but lost that build it 2 Except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain 3 It is but lost labour that ye hast to rise up early and so late take rest and eat the bread of carefulnesse for so he giveth his beloved sleep 4 Lo children and the fruit of the wombe are an heritage and gift that commeth of the Lord. 5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant even so are the young children 6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate The Prayer O Lord God without whose blessing all our labours are vain and unprofitable and our possessions are but bitter and unpleasant let thy blessing be upon our labours and our substance our children and our dwelling that the good things of this life may be an heritage and gift from thee issues of thy favour and an earnest of a greater blessing make our soules diligent in thy service not importunate and greedy for the increase of riches let our dwellings be safe and peaceable and our families increase in thy blessings that we feeling the comforts of thy favour here may be stirted up to great desires after the blessings of eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 128. A Prayer for the feare of God and the blessings of the Godly BLessed are all they that feare the Lord and walk in his wayes 2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thine hands O well is thee and happy shalt thou be 3 Thy wife shall be as the fruitfull vine upon the walls of thine house 4 Thy children like the olive-branches round about thy table 5 Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. 6 The Lord from out of Sion shall so blesse thee that thou shalt see Ierusalem in prosperity all thy life long 7 Yea that thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israell The Prayer O Lord God who hast promised to multiply thy blessings upon them that feare thee teach us the feare of the Lord and let thy spirit so assist us that we may walke in thy wayes with great observation of all our actions and much diligence to performe thy holy will that we may receive the blessings of the righteous blessings of the right hand and of the left hand and may rejoyce in the blessing and peace of thy church waiting for the consummation of all blessing and peace in thy eternall Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 129. A Prayer against the enemies of the Church MAny a time have they fought against me from my youth up may Israell now say 2 Yea many a time have they vexed me from my youth up but they have not prevailed against mee 3 The plowers plowed upon my back and made long furrows 4 But the righteous Lord hath hewen the snares of the ungodly in pieces 5 Let them be confounded and turned backward as many as have evill will at Sion 6 Let them be even as the grasse growing upon the house tops which withereth afore it be plucked up 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosome 8 So that they which go by say not so much as the Lord prosper you we wish you good luck in the name of the Lord. The Prayer O Most blessed Jesu who for our sinnes didst suffer the plowers to plow upon thy back and make long furrows suffering shame and whipping for our sakes and all the contradictions of sinners and didst leave sorrows and afflictions intailed upon thy Church that by suffering with thee shee might at last raigne with thee in glory Deliver us and all thy holy Church from all that fight against us hew the snares of the ungodly in pieces let the designes of them that have evill will at thy Church be like the grasse growing upon the house tops withered and blasted before it comes to maturity and make us to prosper under thy mercies and in the good wishes and devout prayers of holy people through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 130. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for pardon and redemption from sinnes OUt of the deep have I called unto thee O Lord Lord hear my voyce 2 Oh let thine eares consider well the voyce of my complaint 3 If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it 4 For there is mercy with thee therefore shalt thou be feared 5 I look for the Lord my soul doth wait for him in his word is my trust 6 My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch I say before the morning watch 7 O Israell trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption 8 And he shall redeem Israell from all his sinnes The Prayer O Lord God blessed Iesu with whom is mercy and plentious redemption who didst redeem thy people from all their sinnes paying the ransome of thine own bloud to purchase us freedome and salvation let the height of thy mercy take us up from the deep abysse of sin and misery O be not extreme to marke what we have done amisse for it is impossible we should abide the extremity of thy
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
of Ierusalem how they said Down with it down with it even to the ground 8 O daughter of Babylon wasted with misery yea happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us 9 Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children and throweth them against the stones The Prayer O Lord our God thou hast placed us in this world like pilgrims and strangers farre from our Countrey farre from rest give us soules and desires so abstract so religious and contemplative that all our hopes our joyes and longings may be to enjoy thee and thy glories in the celestiall Ierusalem and let thy comforts refresh us in this our captivity and exile that in our heavinesse thou maist be our joy our songs and melody may be the songs of Sion the prayers of thy Name that when thou hast delivered us from the wrath and malice of our enemies and dashed all their wickednesse which they have conceived and would bring forth to our destruction against the Rocke Christ Iesus we may be blessed amongst thy children and be carried into our Countrey the Land of glorious promises there to reigne with thee who livest and governest all things world without end Amen PSALME 138. A Prayer and a thankesgiving for Gods mercies I Will give thankes unto thee O Lord with my whole heart even before the gods will I sing praise unto thee 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple and praise thy name because of thy loving kindnesse and truth for thou hast magnified thy name and thy word above all things 3 When I called upon thee thou heardest me and enduedst my soule with much strength 4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee O Lord for they have heard the words of thy mouth 5 Yea they shall sing in the wayes of the Lord that great is the glory of the Lord. 6 For though the Lord be high yet hath he respect unto the lowly as for the proud he beholdeth them afarre off 7 Though I walke in the midst of trouble yet shalt thou refresh me thou shalt stretch forth thine hand upon the furiousnesse of mine enemies and thy right hand shall save me 8 The Lord shall make good his loving kindnesse toward me yea thy mercy O Lord endureth for ever despise not then the workes of thine owne hands The Prayer O Lord God who hast magnified thy Name and Word above all things make good thy loving kindnesses towards us and endue our soules with much strength that thine hand being stretched forth upon the furiousnesse of all our ghostly enemies and we being saved by thy right hand may praise thee and all thy glories serving thee here with a lowly minde and a great industry that at last we may worship thee in thy holy Temple in the midst of all the Myriads of Angels where thy glory is great and farre exalted above all gods Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 139. A meditation of the omnipresence of God and a prayer that we may alwayes walke as in his sight MORNING PRAYER O Lord thou hast searched me out and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising thou understandest my thoughts long before 2 Thou art about my path and about my bed and spiest out all my wayes 3 For lo there is not a word in my tongue but thou O Lord knowest it altogether 4 Thou hast fashioned me behinde and before and laid thine hand upon me 5 Such knowledge is too wonderfull and excellent for me I cannot attain unto it 6 Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit or whither shall I go then from thy presence 7 If I climbe up into heaven thou art there if I go down to hell thou art there also 8 If I take the wings of the morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea 9 Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me 10 If I say Peradventure the darknesse shall cover me then shall my night be turned to day 11 Yea the darknesse is no darknesse with thee but the night is as cleare as the day the darknesse and light to thee are both alike 12 For my reins are thine thou hast covered me in my mothers wombe 13 I will give thanks unto thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy workes and that my soul knoweth right well 14 My bones are not hid from thee though I be made secretly and fashioned beneath in the earth 15 Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book were all my members written 16 Which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them 17 How deare are thy counsels unto me O God O how great is the summe of them 18 If I tell them they are moe in number then the sand when I wake up I am present with thee 19 Wilt thou not slay the wicked O God depart from me ye bloud-thirsty men 20 For they speak unrighteously against thee and thine enemies take thy name in vain 21 Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee 22 Yea I hate them right sore even as though they were mine enemies 23 Trie me O God and seek the ground of my heart prove me and examine my thoughts 24 Look well if there be any way of wickednesse in me and lead me in the way everlasting The Prayer O Lord God who art infinite in wisedom and present in all place filling heaven and earth and hell with the effects of thy mighty power and communications of thy glorious essence let thy hand lead us and thy right hand hold us in all our waies alwaies considering that thou art present understanding our thoughts and words even long before they are seeing our most secret waies as clearely as in the sight of the sunne print thy feare mightily upon our soules that we may be as fearfull of committing sinnes in secret as in the eyes of all the world that we hating all iniquity and loving thy counsels as our dearest treasures and guide may by the paths of a holy life be conducted into the way everlasting through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 140. A Prayer for deliverance from the mischiefe of all wicked persons DEliver me O Lord from the evil man and preserve me from the wicked man 2 Which imagine mischiefe in their hearts and stirre up strife all the day long 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent adders poison is under their lips 4 Keep me O Lord from the hands of the ungodly preserve me from the wicked men which are purposed to overthrow my goings 5 The proud have laid a snare for me and spread a net abroad with cords yea and set traps in my way 6 I said unto the Lord Thou art my God hear the voice of my prayers O Lord. 7 O Lord God thou strength of my
out of trouble 12 And of thy goodnesse slay mine enemies and destroy all them that vex my soul for I am thy servant The Prayer O Lord our Iudge and our redeemer hearken unto us for thy truth and righteousnesse sake deliver us from the guilt of all our sinnes and those great punishments which are due to us for the same Enter not into judgement with us for in thy sight no man can be justified by any worthinesse of his own Endue our soules with the righteousnesse of a holy faith living and working by charity Shew us the way that we should walke in teach us to do whatsoever pleaseth thee quicken our soules in the paths of life and so continue the conduct of thy spirit to us that it may never leave us till we be brought forth of this world into the land of righteousnesse to dwell with thee eternally through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 144. A thanksgiving for victory and a prayer for the blessings of Peace MORNING PRAYER BLessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight 2 My hope and my fortresse my castle and deliverer my defender in whom I trust which subdueth my people that is under me 3 Lord what is man that thou hast such respect unto him or the sonne of man that thou so regardest him 4 Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth away like a shadow 5 Bowe the heavens O Lord and come down touch the mountains and they shall smoke 6 Cast forth thy lightning and teare them shoot out thine arrows and consume them 7 Send down thy hand from above deliuer me and take me out of the great waters from the hand of strange children 8 Whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of wickednesse 9 I will sing a new song unto thee O God and sing praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed â—ute 10 Thou hast given victory unto kings and hast delivered David thy servant from the perill of the sword 11 Save me and deliver me from the hand of strange children whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity 12 That our sonnes may grow up as the young plants and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple 13 That our garners may be full and plentious with all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no decay no â—eading into captivity and no complaining in our streets 15 Happy are the people that be in such a case yea blessed are the people which have the Lord for their God The Prayer O Lord our strength our hope and â—ortresse our castle and deliverer our defender in whom we trust bowe the heavens O Lord come down and save us send down thine hand from above deliver us and take us from the great waters from those miseries and afflictions which come upon us by reason of our sinnes from the condition of mortality and from the hand of strange children whose right hand is a right hand of wickednesse Give us O Lord victory and peace and all the blessings of thy peace with which thou usest to adorne beautifie the dwellings of the righteous that we may be happy in the continuall descent of thy favours but above all our happinesse may consist in being thy people and thou being our God that we may be blessed for ever in so blessed a relation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 145. A Meditation of the glory and Maiesty of God and the mightinesse of his kingdome I Will magnifie thee O God my King and I will praise thy name for ever and ever 2 Every day will I give thanks unto thee and praise thy name for ever and ever 3 Great is the Lord and marvellous worthy to be praised there is no end of his greatnesse 4 One generation shall praise thy works unto another and declare thy power 5 As for me I will be talking of thy worship thy glory thy praise and wonderous works 6 So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvellons acts and I will also tell of thy greatnesse 7 The memoriall of thine abundant kindnesse shall be shewed and men shall sing of thy righteousnesse 8 The Lord is gracious and mercifull long-suffering and of great goodnesse 9 The Lord is loving unto every man and his mercy is over all his works 10 All thy works praise thee O Lord and thy saints give thanks unto thee 11 They shew the glory of thy Kingdome and talk of thy power 12 That thy power thy glory and mightinesse of thy Kingdome might be known unto men 13 Thy kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages 14 The Lord upholdeth all such as fall and lifteth up all those that be down 15 The eies of all wait upon thee O Lord and thou givest them their meat in due season 16 Thou openest thine hand and fillest all things living with plenteousnesse 17 The Lord is righteous in all his waies and holy in all his works 18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him yea all such as call upon him faithfully 19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will help them 20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him but scattereth abroad all the ungodly 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy name for ever and ever The Prayer O God our King thou art marvellous worthy to be praised and there is no end of thy greatnesse give us enlarged and sanctified hearts and lips that we may sing of thy righteousnesse magnifie thy glory thy worship and wondrous works All thy works praise thee O Lord and thy saints give thanks unto thee Make us holy and righteous in thy sight we are already the works of thine hands and then we have a double title to praise thee Vphold us O Lord that we fall not and lift us up when we are down give us meat in due season for our soules and for our bodies that we being filled with the plenteousnesse of thy mercies here may have our best and all our desires fulfilled and satisfied hereafter amongst such as fear thee and give thanks unto thy holy name for ever Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake to whom with thee O Father and the holy spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 146. A Prayer that we may trust in God only and not in an arme of flesh PRaise the Lord O my soul while I live will I praise the Lord yea as long as I have any being I will sing praises unto my God 2 O put not your trust in princes nor in any child of man for there is no help in them 3
For when the breath of man goeth forth he shall turn again to his earth and then all his thoughts perish 4 Blessed is he that hath the God of Iacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God 5 Which made heaven and earth the sea and all that therein is which keepeth his promise for ever 6 Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong which feedeth the hungry 7 The Lord looseth men out of prison the Lord giueth sight to the blinde 8 The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the righteous 9 The Lord careth for the strangers he defendeth the fatherlesse and widow as for the way of the ungodly he turneth it upside down 10 The Lord thy God O Sion shall â—e King for evermore and throughout all generations The Prayer O Lord God who reignest a King for evermore give us grace that we may make thee our helpe and fixe our hopes in thee for thou onely art able to give deliverance Feed our soules O Lord and satisfie us with thy salvation when we hunger and thirst after righteousnesse helpe us to right when we suffer wrong heale our back slidings raise us when we are fallen enlighten the eyes of our soules that we walke not in darknesse and the shadow of death and do thou take care for us in all our wayes and in all our necessities that when our breath goeth forth and we turne again to our earth we may reigne with thee in Sion thy celestiall habitation for evermore through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 147. A celebration of Gods wisedome and providence in the ministration of the things of the world and of his goodnesse towards them that feare him EVENING PRAYER O Praise the Lord for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea a ioyfull and pleasant thing it is to be thankfull 2 The Lord doth build up Ierusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel 3 He healeth those that are broken in heart and giveth medicine to heale their sicknesse 4 He telleth the number of the starres and calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and great is his power yea and his wisedome is infinite 6 The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground 7 O sing unto the Lord with thankesgiving sing praises upon the harpe unto our God 8 Which covereth the heaven with clouds and prepareth rain for the earth and maketh th grasse to grow upon the mountaines and herbe for the use of men 9 Which giveth fodder unto the cattell and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him 10 He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse neither delighteth he in any mans legs 11 But the Lords delight is in them that feare him and put their trust in his mercy 12 Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Sion 13 For he hath made fast the barres of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee 14 He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the floure of wheat 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth and his word runneth very swiftly 16 He giveth snow like wooll and scattereth the hoar frost like ashes 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels who is able to abide his frost 18 He sendeth out his word and melteth them he bloweth with his winde and the waters flow 19 He sheweth his word unto Iacob his statutes and ordinances unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation neither have the heathen knowledge of his lawes The Prayer O Lord God whose power is great and thy wisedome infinite give us broken and contrite hearts meek spirits a feare of thy Name and a trust in thy mercy that thou maist arise upon us with healing in thy wings giving us medicine to heale all our ghostly sicknesses and thy delight may be in us delighting to do us good to feed us when we call upon thee to set us above our enemies to give us knowledge of thy Lawes to build up Ierusalem and to repaire the breaches of thy Church that we may sing praises unto thee O God and be thankfull to all eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 148. An invitation of all the creatures of the world to praise God O Praise the Lord of heaven praise him in the height 2 Praise him all yee angels of his praise him all his host 3 Praise him sun and moon praise him all yee starres and light 4 Praise him all yee heavens and yee waters that be above the heavens 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord for he spake the word and they were made he commanded and they were created 6 He hath made them fast for ever and ever he hath given them a law which shall not be broken 7 Praise the Lord upon earth yee dragons and all deepes 8 Fire and haile snow and vapours winde and storme fulfilling his word 9 Mountaines and all hills fruitfull trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattell wormes and feathered fowles 11 Kings of the earth and all people princes and all iudges of the world 12 Young men and maidens old men and children praise the name of the Lord for his name onely is excellent and his praise above heaven and earth 13 He shall exalt the horne of his people all his saints shall praise him even the children of Israel even the people that serveth him The Prayer O Lord God whose Name onely is excellent and thy praise above Heaven and Earth we adore and blesse thy mercy and thy power for creating us after thine owne Image thou spakest the word and we were made thou commandedst and we were created and as thou hast established thy Creation with a Law for ever that all should minister to thy praises in their severall proportions so give us grace that the lawes of sanctity of Faith and obedience which thou hast given to us may never be broken that we serving thee not onely in the order of thy creatures but in the capacity of thy children may sing thy praises amongst the Angels and the numerous host of Saints reigning in thy Kingdome for ever and ever Amen PSALME 149. A meditation of the ioyes of Heaven prepared for the Saints O Sing unto the Lord a new song let the congregation of saints praise him 2 Let Israel reioyce in him that made him and let the children of Sion be ioyfull in their King 3 Let them praise his name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with tabret and harpe 4 For the Lord hath pleasure in his people and helpeth the meek hearted 5 Let the saints be ioyfull with glory let them reioyce in their beds 6 Let the praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hands 7 To be avenged of the heathen and to rebuke the people 8 To binde their kings in chaines and their nobles with linkes of iron 9 That they may be avenged of them as it is written Such honour have all his saints The Prayer O Lord our King in whose honour and salvation all thy Saints rejoyce give unto thy holy Gospell a free passage in all the world that Kings and Nobles may be bound with the chaines of obedience discipline and subordination to all thy holy Lawes and grant to us thy servants that thy Lawes may be so fixed in our hearts and thy praises in our mouthes and righteousnesse in all our actions that we may be written among the righteous and have our portion with the Saints who rejoyce in their beds of eternall rest and are joyfull in the glories of thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 150. An invitation to praise God with all our faculties and powers O Praise God in his holinesse praise him in the firmament of his power 2 Praise him in his noble acts praise him according to his excellent greatnesse 3 Praise him in the sound of the trumpet praise him vpon the lute and harpe 4 Praise him in the cymbals and dances praise him upon the strings and pipe 5 Praise him upon the well tuned cymbals praise him upon the loud cymbals 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. The Prayer O Eternall God thy holinesse and power and excellent greatnesse are farre above all the praises of men and Angels and yet thou art pleased in the harmony and consent of a thankfull heart and a thankesgiving tongue touch our hearts with admirable apprehensions of thy Divine perfections that our songs of thy honour may be devout and illuminate to the height of extasies and the devotions of a Seraphim for nothing is proportionable to thy glories but what is infinitely beyond our infirmities Make us to sing Thee and thy Name while we have breath and when we are breathlesse let our hearts fill up the harmony and thinke thy praises so cordially till our soules being separated from the harsh sound of our bodily organs we may praise thee when we are all spirit in the state of separation and in the reunion when our bodies shall be made spirituall singing to thee exalted praises for ever and ever To thee O blessed and glorious God be praises and honour and glory ascribed now and to all eternity Amen Amen FINIS
earth and let her be glad and rejoyce because of thy judgements so shall we praise thee in the midst of thy Temple wayting for thy loving kindnesse that according as thy name is so may thy praise be infinite and eternall world without end Amen PSALME 49. A Prayer that we may despise perishing riches and put our trust in God only O Heare ye this all ye people ponder it with your eares all ye that dwell in the world 2 High and low rich and poore one with another 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdome and my heart shall muse of understanding 4 I will encline mine eare to the parable and shew my dark speech upon the harp 5 Wherefore should I feare in the dayes of wickednesse and when the wickednesse of my heels compasse me round about 6 There be some that put their trust in their goods and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches 7 But no man may deliver his brother nor make an agreement to God for him 8 For it cost more to redeem their souls so that he must let that alone for ever 9 Yea though he live long and see not the grave 10 For he seeth that wise men also dye and perish together as well as the ignorant and foolish and leave their riches for other 11 And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another and call the lands after their own names 12 Neverthelesse man will not abide in honour seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish this is the way of them 13 This is their foolishnesse and their posterity praise their saying 14 They lie in the hell like sheep death gnaweth upon them and the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling 15 But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell for he shall receive me 16 Be not thou afraid though one be made rich or if the glory of his house be increased 17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth neither shall his pomp follow him 18 For while he lived he counted himself an happy man and so long as thou dost well unto thy selfe men will speak good of thee 19 He shall follow the generation of his fathers and shall never see light 20 Man being in honour hath no understanding but is compared unto the beasts that perish The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou only Redeemer of soules who by thy death and passion hast delivered us from the place of Hell give us grace to put our whole trust in thee and in the riches of thy mercy and loving kindnesse alwaies remembring our end the vanity and shortnesse of our lives the certainty of our departure Teach us to despise the world and worldly things and to lay our treasure up in heaven by charity and actions of religion that while we live here we may have our conversation in heaven by love by hope and by desires that when our beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of our earthly dwellings we may be received into everlasting habitations alwayes to enjoy thee who livest and reignest eternall God world without end Amen PSALME 50. A Prayer that we may lead a Holy life and find mercy in the day of judgement MORNING PRAYER THe Lord even the most mighty God hath spoken and called the world from the rising up of the sunne unto the going down thereof 2 Out of Sion hath God appeared in perfect beauty 3 Our God shall come and shall not keep silence there shall goe before him a consuming fire and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him 4 He shall call the heaven from above and the earth that he may iudge his people 5 Gather my Saints together unto me those that haue made a covenant with me with sacrifice 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse for God is iudge himselfe 7 Heare O my people and I will speak I myself will testifie against thee O Israel for I am God even thy God 8 I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices or for thy burnt-offerings because they were not alway before me 9 I will take no bullock out of thine house nor he-goats out of thy folds 10 For all the beasts of the forrest are mine and so are the cattells upon a thousand hills 11 I know all the fowles upon the mountains and the wilde beasts of the field are in my sight 12 If I be hungry I will not tell thee for the whole world is mine and all that is therein 13 Thinkest thou that I will eat bulls flesh and drink the bloud of goats 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most Highest 15 And call upon me in the time of trouble so will I heare thee and thou shalt praise me 16 But unto the ungodly said God Why dost thou preach my Laws and takest my Covenant in thy mouth 17 Whereas thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my words behind thee 18 When thou sawest a Thiefe thou consentedst unto him and hast been partaker with the Adulterers 19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickednesse and with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit 20 Thou satest and spakest against thy brother yea and hast sâ—andered thine owne mothers sonne 21 These things hast thou done and I held my tongue and thou thoughtest wickedly that I am even such a one as thy selfe but I will reprove thee and set before thee the things that thou hast done 22 O consider this ye that forget God lest I pluck you away and there be none to deliver you 23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise he honoureth me and to him that ordereth his conversation right will I shew the salvation of God The Prayer O Most mighty God who art more pleased with the sacrifice of thanksgiving and the oblation of our soules in the vowes of obedience and a holy life then with the burnt offerings and sacrifices of Bullocks and Goates let thy grace reforme our lives and manners keep our mouth from slander and obloquy from guile and deceit let us never consent to actions of injustice or uncleanesse that we partake not with Thieves or with Adulterers either in their sinne or punishment that when thou shalt appeare in perfect beauty with a consuming fire before thee and a tempest round about thee with terrors and glorious Majesty calling the heavens and the earth together that thou mayest judge all thy people thou mayest gather us among thy Saints and give us the mercies and the portion of thine inheritance that so we may honour thee by an eternall oblation of praise and thanksgiving in the Heavens where thou O God declarest thy salvation to all thy elect people through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 51. A Prayer for pardon of sinnes and the restitution of Gods favour HAve mercy
upon me O God after thy great goodnesse according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences 2 Wash me throughly from my wickednes and cleanse me from my sinne 3 For I knowledge my faults and my sinne is ever before me 4 Against thee only have I sinned and done this evill in thy sight that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying cleare when thou art iudged 5 Behold I was shapen in wickednesse and in sinne hath my mother conceived me 6 But lo thou requirest truth inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdome secretly 7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssope and I shall be clean thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter then snow 8 Thou shalt make me heare of ioy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may reioyce 9 Turn thy face from my sinnes and put out all my misdeeds 10 Make me a clean heart O God and xenew a right spirit within me 11 Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me 12 O giue me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free Spirit 13 Then shall I teach thy wayes unto the wicked sinners shall be converted unto thee 14 Deliver me from bloud-guiltinesse O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousnesse 15 Thou shalt open my lips O Lord and my mouth shall shew thy praise 16 For thou desirest no sacrifice else would I give it thee but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings 17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and a contrice heart O God shalt thou not despise 18 O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the walls of Ierusalem 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousnesse with the burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose goodnesse is great and the multitudes of thy mercies are innumerable have mercy upon us for our sinnes are ever before us represented by the continuall accusations of a troubled conscience We have sinned against thee and done evill in thy sight and yet because thou art the God of mercy and fountaine of eternall purity delighting in the conversion and salvation of a sinner we present unto thee the sacrifice of a troubled Spirit of broken and contrite hearts beseeching thee to let the dew of thy favour and the fire of thy love wash away our sinnes and purifie our soules Make us cleane hearts O God and pure hands though our sinnes be as scarlet yet make them like wooll though they be as purple yet make them as white as snow Restore the voice of joy and gladnesse to us let us not be for ever separate from the sweet refreshings of thy favour presence but give us the comforts of thy help again and let thy free Spirit loose us from the bondage of sinne and establish us in the freedome and liberty of the Sonnes of God so shall we sing of thy righteousnesse and our lips shall give thee praise in the congregation of thy Redeemed ones now henceforth and for ever Amen PSALME 52. A Prayer for deliverance from tyranny oppression and slander VVHy boastest thou thy self thou tyrant that thou canst do mischief 2 Whereas the goodnesse of God endureth yet daily 3 Thy tongue imagineth wickednesse and with lies thou cuâ—test like a sharp rasour 4 Thou hast loved unrighteousnesse more then goodnesse and to talke of lies more then righteousnesse 5 Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt O thou false tongue 6 Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever he shall take thee and pluck thee out of thy dwelling root thee out of the land of the living 7 The righteous also shall see this and fear and shall laugh him to scorn 8 Lo this is the man that took not God for his strength but trusted unto the multitude of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickednesse 9 As for me I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever 10 I will alwayes giue thanks unto thee for that thou hast done and I will hope in thy name for thy Saints like it well The Prayer O Almighty God whose goodnesse endureth daily extend this thy goodnesse towards us thy servants and defend us from the tyranny and malice of all our Enemies who boast themselves in mischiefe keep us from the obloquy of false tongues and from the slander of lying persons who talke of lyes more then righteousnesse that we being nourished by thy goodnesse and watered with the dew of divine blessings may flourish like a green olive in the house of God bringing forth the fruits of tender mercy and abounding in peace and that we may by the suffusion of anointing of the holy Ghost be consign'd to thy everlasting Kingdome there to reign with thee who reignest eternally one God world without end Amen PSALME 53. A Prayer for Redemption of the Church from the persecution of Atheists and Persons irreligious EVENING PRAYER THe foolish body hath said in his heart There is no God 2 Corrupt are they and become abominable in their wickednesse there is none that doth good 3 God looked downe 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 also none that doth good no not one 5 Are not they without understanding that work wickednes eating up my people as if they would eat bread they haue not called vpon God 6 They were afraid where no fear was for God hath broken the bones of him that besieged thee thou hast put them to confusion because God hath despised them 7 Oh that the salvation were given unto Israel out of Sion oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivitie 8 Then should Iacob rejoyce and Israel should be right glad The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in heaven and lookest downe from thence upon the children of men be pleased to give salvation to thy people out of Sion thy holy habitation and preserve thy Church from the malice of such persons as have not called upon thee but would eate up thy people as they would eate bread that we being delivered from the captivity of sinnes miseries may serve thee with freedome of spirit in joy and spirituall rejoycing all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALME 54. A Prayer for deliverance from our Enemies SAve me O God for thy names sake and avenge me in thy strength 2 Heare my prayer O God and hearken unto the words of my mouth 3 For strangers are risen up against me and tyrants which haue not God before their eyes seek after my soul 4 Behold God is my helper the Lord