A FORM OF PRAYER To be Used on Wednesday the Fifth day of June next ensuing within the Cities of London and Westminster and Ten Miles distance of the same And on Wednesday the Nineteenth of the same June through the rest of the whole Kingdom Being the Fast-Day appointed by the King and Queen's Proclamation to Implore the Blessing of Almighty God upon Their Majesties Forces by Sea and Land and Success in the WAR now Declared against the French King. By Their Majesties Special Command LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb Printers to the King and Queen's most Excellent Majesties MDCLXXXIX WHITEHALL May 28. 1689. IT is His Majesties Pleasure That this Form of Prayer be forthwith Printed and Published SHREWSBURY The Order for Morning Prayer ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and after them the Exhortation following COrrect us O Lord Jer. x. 24. but with judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring us to nothing O our God encline thine ear and hear Dan. ix 18 open thine eyes and behold for we do not present our supplications unto thee for our righteousnesses but for thy great mercies O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken 19. and do and defer not for thine own sake and for thy people that are called by thy name DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and consess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy Word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the People still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The People shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then the Minister shall kneel and say the Lords Prayer the People also kneeling and repeating it with him OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Ans And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Ans O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Instead of the Venite exultemus shall be said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest another by the Clerk and People LEt God arise and let his enemies be scattered Psal lxviii 1. let them also that hate him flee before him Like as the smoke vanisheth so shalt thou drive them away 2. and like as the wax melteth at the fire so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people Psal iii 5. that have set themselves against me round about Destroy thou them Ps v. 10. O God let them fall by their own counsels cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions for they have rebelled against thee The Lord will abhor the blood-thirsty and deceitful man. 6. But let all those that trust in thee rejoyce 11. Let them ever shout for joy For thou Lord 12. wilt bless the righteous with thy favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed Ps vi 10. let them return and be ashamed suddenly O Lord my God Ps vii 1. in thee do I put my trust Save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me Arise 6. O Lord in thine anger lift up thy self because of the rage of mine enemies and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded So shall the Congregation of the people compass thee about 7. For their sakes therefore return thou on high Through God we shall do valiantly Ps cviii 13 for it is he that shall tread down our enemies Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Instead of the Psalms for the Day shall these proper Psalms be used ◠IX X. ¶ The first Lesson 2 Chron. Chap. 20. to v. 31. ¶ After the first Lesson shall follow Te Deum Laudamus in English WE praise
thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee the Father everlasting To thee all angels cry aloud the heavens and all the powers therein To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually do cry Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee The noble army of Martyrs praise thee The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee The Father of an infinite Majesty Thine honourable true and only Son Also the holy Ghost the Comforter Thou art the King of Glory O Christ Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man thou didst not abhor the Virgins womb When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death thou didst open the Kingdom of heaven to all believers Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father We believe that thou shalt come to be our Iudge We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood Make them to be numbred with thy Saints in glory everlasting O Lord save thy people and bless thine heritage Govern them and lift them up for ever Day by day we magnifie thee And we worship thy Name ever world without end Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this day without sin O Lord have mercy upon us have mercy upon us O Lord let thy mercy lighten upon us as our trust is in thee O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be confounded ¶ The second Lesson Heb. XI Jubilate Deo. Psal C. O Be joyful in the Lord all ye lands serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song Be ye sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name For the Lord is gracious his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said the Creed by the Minister and the People standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried He descended into hell The third day he rose again from the dead He ascended into heaven And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost The holy Catholick Church The Communion of Saints The forgiveness of sins The resurrection of the body And the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these Prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and People shall say the Lords Prayer with a loud voice OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen ¶ Then the Priest standing shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answ And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King and Queen Answ And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Priest Endue thy Ministers with righteousness Answ And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answ And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answ Because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God. Priest O Lord save thy servants Answ Who do put their trust in thee Priest Send us help from thy holy place Answ And evermore mightily defend us Priest Let the enemy have no advantage against us Answ Nor the wicked approach to hurt us Priest Be unto us O Lord a strong tower Answ From the face of our enemies Priest O Lord hear our Prayer Answ And let our cry come unto thee ¶ Instead of the Collect for the Day shall be used these which follow both in Morning and Evening Prayer and in the Communion Service O God our refuge and strength whose power no Creature is able to resist who teachest our hands to War and our fingers to fight and without whom the Horse and Chariot is in vain prepared against the day of Battel defend us we beseech thee with thy mighty power and save us with thy out stretched arm that our Forces may be preserved and become Victorious by Sea and Land evermore serving under his glorious Banner who is the Lord of Hosts God blessed for ever Amen O most glorious and gracious God whose Iudgments against obstinate offenders are most severe and terrible But whose Mercies are infinite to all them that with hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto thee We the sinful People of this Land do acknowledge before thee to thy glory and our own shame that never any Nation had greater experience of thy goodness nor ever did any more unthankfully abuse it When thou gavest us great and long Prosperity we like Jesurun wared fat and kicked against thee when thou didst thrust us into those Confusions out of which we saw little hopes of arising even in the time of that distress did we trespass yet more against thee When by miracles of mercy thou hadst turn'd our Captivity we soon forgot thee our Saviour and return'd again to our folly And even while thou hast of late appeared for us by delivering us out of the hands of our implacable Enemies of the Romish Faction we have by our sins been fighting against heaven and against thee And now we are no more worthy to be called thy Sons or thy Servants whom neither thy fear hath driven to repentance nor thy goodness led to it In mercy O God awaken us all beget in us a holy dread of thy Iudgments and a deep sense of our manifold and repeated provocations pardon the great offences of us thy servants and the crying sins of the whole Nation remove the evils we still lie under avert those we have just cause to fear and howsoever thou mayest think fit to Correct us for our sins yet never deliver us up into the hands of those men whose mercies are cruel pour out thy abundant blessings upon our Gracious King and Queen and their great Council now Assembled in Parliament keep them as the
apple of thy eye hide them under the shadow of thy wings direct and bless them in all their Consultations And more particularly we now prostrate our selves before thee to implore thy blessing upon this their great undertaking for the necessary defence of thy people Go forth with their Fleets and Armies compass them with thy Favour as with a Shield let it appear that thou the Lord our God art with us to help us and to fight our Battels bless us with Victory and Success and in thy own good time with such a Peace as may tend to the glory of thy great Name and the Preservation of thy Church and true Religion among us the Honour and Safety of Their Majesties and the Security Peace and Prosperity of these Kingdoms All which we humbly beg in the Name and through the Mediation of thy Son Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen ¶ The Collect for Peace O God who art the author of Peace and lover of Concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life whose service is perfect freedom Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries through the might of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The Collect for Grace O Lord our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day defend us in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Here followeth the Litany O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From Fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from all false doctrine heresie and schism from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloudy Sweat by the Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the Holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of judgment Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy servants William and Mary our most gracious King and Queen We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule their hearts in thy faith fear and love and that they may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be their defender and keeper giving them the victory over all their enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve Catherine the Queen Dowager her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and all the Royal Family We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and sheld it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute Iustice and to maintain Truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations Vnity Peace and Concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy Commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word and to reecive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows and all
repentance nor thy goodness led to it In mercy O God awaken us all beget in us a holy dread of thy Iudgments and a deep sense of our manifold and repeated provocations pardon the great offences of us thy servants and the crying sins of the whole Nation remove the evils we still lie under avert those we have just cause to fear and howsoever thou mayest think fit to Correct us for our sins yet never deliver us up into the hands of those men whose mercies are cruel pour out thy abundant blessings upon our Gracious King and Queen and Their great Council now Assembled in Parliament keep them as the apple of thy eye hide them under the shadow of thy wings direct and bless them in all their Consultations And more particularly we now prostrate our selves before thee to implore thy blessing upon this their great undertaking for the necessary defence of thy people Go forth with their Fleets and Armies compass them with thy Favour as with a Shield let it appear that thou the Lord our God art with us to help us and to fight our Battels bless us with Victory and Success and in thy own good time with such a Peace as may tend to the glory of thy great Name and the Preservation of thy Church and true Religion among us the Honour and Safety of Their Majesties and the Security Peace and Prosperity of these Kingdoms All which we humbly beg in the Name and through the Mediation of thy Son Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen For the Epistle Deut. 20. v. 1. to v. 5. When thou goest out to battel against thine enemies and seest horses and chariots and a people more then thou be not afraid of them for the Lord thy God is with thee which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt And it shall be when ye are come nigh unto the battel that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people And shall say unto them Hear O Israel you approach this day unto battel against your enemies let not your hearts faint fear not and do not tremble neither be ye terrified because of them For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies to save you The Gospel St. Matth. 24. v. 4. to v. 14. JEsus said unto his disciples Take heed that no man deceive you For many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars see that ye be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places All these are the beginning of sorrows Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you and ye shall be hated of all nations for my names sake And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many And because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold But he that shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved I Believe in one God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And of all things visible and invisible And in one Lord Iesus Christ the only begotten Son of God Begotten of his Father before all worlds God of God Light of Light Very God of very God Begotten not made Being of one substance with the Father By whom all things were made Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven And was incarnate by the holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary And was made man And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate He suffered and was buried And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures And ascended into heaven And sitteth on the right hand of the Father And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead Whose kingdom shall have no end And I believe in the holy Ghost The Lord and giver of life Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified Who spake by the prophets And I believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins And I look for the Resurrection of the dead And the life of the world to come Amen ¶ Then followeth the Sermon and after that shall be said Let your light so shine before men S. Mat. v. 16 that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven As we have therefore opportunity Gal. vi 10 let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the houshold of faith Let us pray for the whole state of Christs Church militant here in earth ALmighty and everliving God who by thy holy Apostle hast taught us to make prayers and supplications and to give thanks for all men We humbly beseech thee most mercifully to accept our alms and oblations If there be no alms or oblations then shall the words of accepting our alms and oblations be left out unsaid and to receive these our prayers which we offer unto thy divine Majesty beseeching thee to inspire continually the universal Church with the spirit of truth unity and concord and grant that all they that do confess thy holy Name may agree in the truth of thy holy word and live in unity and godly love We beseech thee also to save and defend all Christian kings princes and governours and especially thy servants WILLIAM and MARY our King and Queen that under them we may be godly and quietly governed and grant unto their whole Council and to all that are put in authority under them that they may truly and indifferently minister justice to the punishment of wickedness and vice and to the maintenance of thy true religion and vertue Give grace O heavenly Father to all Bishops and Curates that they may both by their life and doctrine set forth thy true and lively word and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments And to all thy people give thy heavenly grace and especially to this Congregation here present that with meek heart and due reverence they may hear and receive thy holy Word truly serving thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of their life And we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness O Lord to comfort and succour all them who in this transitory life are in trouble sorrow need sickness or any other adversity And we also bless thy holy Name for all thy servants departed this life in thy faith and fear beseeching thee to give us grace so to follow their good examples that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly Kingdom Grant this O Father for Iesus Christs sake our only Mediatour and Advocate Amen O God the Father of our
strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath eralted the humble and meek He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away He remembring his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel as he promised to our forefathers Abraham and his seed for ever Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ The second Lesson 1 Cor. X. to v. 15. ¶ Deus Misereatur Psal 67. GOd be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance and be merciful unto us That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee O let the nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the nations upon earth Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing God shall bless us and all the ends of the world shall fear him Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said the Apostles Creed by the Minister and the people standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his only Son our Lord Who was conceived by the holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate Was crucified dead and buried He descended into hell The third day he rose again from the dead He ascended into heaven And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost The holy Catholick Church The Communion of Saints The forgiveness of sins The resurrection of the body And the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these Prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and people shall say the Lords Prayer with a loud voice OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King and Queen Answ And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answ And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answ And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answ Because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God. Priest O Lord save thy servants Answ Who do put their trust in thee Priest Send us help from thy holy place Answ And evermore mightily defend us Priest Let the enemy have no advantage against us Answ Nor the wicked approach to hurt us Priest Be unto us O Lord a strong tower Answ From the face of our enemies Priest O Lord hear our prayer Answ And let our cry come unto thee ¶ Instead of the Collect for the day shall be used these which follow O God our refuge and strength whose power no Creature is able to resist who teachest our hands to War and our fingers to fight and without whom the Horse and Chariot is in vain prepared against the day of Battel defend us we beseech thee with thy mighty power and save us with thy out-stretched arm that our Forces may be preserved and become Victorious by Sea and Land evermore serving under his glorious Banner who is the Lord of Hosts God blessed for ever Amen O most glorious and gracious God whose Iudgments against obstinate offenders are most severe and terrible But whose Mercies are infinite to all them that with hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto thee We the sinful People of this Land do acknowledge before thee to thy glory and our own shame that never any Nation had greater experience of thy goodness nor ever did any more unthankfully abuse it When thou gavest us great and long Prosperity we like Jesurun waxed fat and kicked against thee when thou didst thrust us into those Confusions out of which we saw little hopes of arising even in the time of that distress did we trespass yet more against thee When by miracles of mercy thou hadst turn'd our Captivity we soon forgot thee our Saviour and return'd again to our folly And even while thou hast of late appeared for us by delivering us out of the hands of our implacable Enemies of the Romish Faction we have by our sins been fighting against heaven and against thee And now we are no more worthy to be called thy Sons or thy Servants whom neither thy Fear hath driven to repentance nor thy Goodness led to it In mercy O God awaken us all beget in us a holy dread of thy Iudgments and a deep sense of our manifold and repeated provocations pardon the great offences of us thy servants and the crying sins of the whole Nation remove the evils we still lie under avert those we have just cause to fear and howsoever thou mayest think fit to Correct us for our sins yet never deliver us up into the hands of those men whose mercies are cruel Pour out thy abundant Blessings upon our Gracious King and Queen and their great Council now Assembled in Parliament keep them as the apple of thy eye hide them under the shadow of thy wings direct and bless them in all their Consultations And more particularly we now prostrate our selves before thee to implore thy blessing upon this their great undertaking for the necessary defence of thy people Go forth with their Fleets and Armies compass them with thy Favour as with a Shield let it appear that thou the Lord our God art with us to help us and to fight our Batels bless us with Victory and Success and in thy own good time with such a Peace as may tend to the glory of thy great Name and the Preservation of thy Church and true Religion among us the Honour and Safety of their Majesties and the Security Peace and Prosperity of these Kingdoms All which we humbly beg in the Name and through the Medâ—ation of thy Son Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all just works do proceed Give unto
Earth Purge all thy Churches from their dregs and make them meet for a glorious Deliverance that so all the world may see the Salvation of our God and that though he hides his face from his People for a season yet he will not cast them off utterly Grant that thy true Religion may so shine as to become the Ioy of the whole Earth and that all Antichristian Idolatry Superstition and Cruelty being cast out of thy House all that name the Name of Christ may depart from iniquity and walk worthy of their holy profession that the Kingdom of thy dear Son may come quickly and that all his enemies being made his foot-stool he who is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings may reign to all the ends of the Earth To whom with thee O Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory for evermore Amen ¶ A Prayer of St. Chrysostom ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and Petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen The Communion-Service ¶ The Priest standing at the North-side of the Lords Table shall say OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen ALmighty God unto whom all hearts be open all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy holy Spirit that we may perfectly love thee and worthily magnifie thy holy Name through Christ our Lord. Amen Minister GOd spake these words and said I am the Lord thy God Thou shalt have none other gods but me People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Minister Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or in the earth beneath or in the water under the earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my commandments People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law Minister Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Minister Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath-day Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy son and thy daughter thy man-servant and thy maid-servant thy cattel and the stranger that is within thy gates For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Minister Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Minister Thou shalt do no murther People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Minister Thou shalt not commit adultery People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Minister Thou shalt not steal People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Minister Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour People Lord have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this Law. Minister Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife nor his servant nor his maid nor his ox nor his ass nor any thing that is his People Lord have mercy upon us and write all these thy Laws in our hearts we beseech thee Let us pray ALmighty God whose kingdom is everlasting and power infinite Have mercy upon the whole Church and so rule the hearts of thy chosen servants William and Mary our King and Queen that they knowing whose Ministers they are may above all things seek thy honour and glory And that we and all their Subjects duly considering whose Authority they have may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey them in thee and for thee according to thy blessed Word and Ordinance through Iesus Christ our Lord who with thee and the holy Ghost liveth and reigneth ever one God world without end Amen O God our refuge and strength whose power no Creature is able to resist who teachest our hands to War and our fingers to fight and without whom the Horse and Chariot is in vain prepared against the day of Battel defend us we beseech thee with thy mighty power and save us with thy out-stretched arm that our Forces may be preserved and become Victorious by Sea and Land evermore serving under his glorious Banner who is the Lord of Hosts God blessed for ever Amen O Most glorious and gracious God whose Iudgments against obstinate offenders are most severe and terrible But whose Mercies are infinite to all them that with hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto thee We the sinful People of this Land do acknowledge before thee to thy glory and our own shame that never any Nation had greater experience of thy goodness nor ever did any more unthankfully abuse it When thou gavest us great and long Prosperity we like Jesurun waxed fat and kicked against thee when thou didst thrust us into those Confusions out of which we saw little hopes of arising even in the time of that distress did we trespass yet more against thee When by miracles of mercy thou hadst turn'd our Captivity we soon forgot thee our Saviour and return'd again to our folly And even while thou hast of late appeared for us by delivering us out of the hands of our implacable Enemies of the Romish Faction we have by our sins been fighting against heaven and against thee And now we are no more worthy to be called thy Sons or thy Servants whom neither thy fear hath driven to
Lord Iesus Christ our only Saviour the Prince of Peace look down in much pity and compassion upon this Church and Nation now seeking unto thee in Fasting and Prayer stir up we beseech thee every soul among us to cast forth the accursed thing to root out of our hearts all pride and all wrath and bitterness all unjust prejudice and causeless jealousie all hatred and malice and desire of revenge and whatsoever may hinder us from discerning the things that belong unto our peace And by the power of thy holy Spirit do thou dispose all our hearts to such meekness of wisdom lowliness of mind patience gentleness and long-suffering and forbearance of one another in love and such Honour and Reverence of those whom thou hast set over us as becomes the Sons of Peace that so the God of Peace may be with us Give us grace O Lord serioufly to lay to heart the great Dangers we are in by our unhappy Divisions and the great Obligations which lie upon us to godly Vnion and Concord That as there is but one Body and one Spirit and one Hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all so we may henceforth be all of one Heart and of one Soul united in one holy Bond of Truth and Peace of Faith and Charity and may with one mind and one mouth glorifie thee O Lord who with thy Father and holy Spirit livest and reignest one God world without end Amen ALmighty God who hast promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Priest or Bishop if he be present shall let them depart with this Blessing THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Iesus Christ our Lord And the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen The Order for Evening Prayer ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and after them the Exhortation following COrrect us O Lord Jer. x. 24. but with judgment not in thine anger least thou bring us to nothing O our God Dan. ix encline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold for we do not present our Supplications unto thee for our righteousnesses but for thy great mercies O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do and defer not for thine own sake and for thy people that are called by thy Name DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy Word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the People still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Minister shall kneel and say the Lords Prayer the People also kneeling and repeating it with him OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answer And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Proper Psalms are XI XXVII LXIII ¶ The First Lesson I. Sam. VII to v. 16. Magnificat S. Luke I. 46. MY soul doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden For behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed For he that is mighty hath magnified me and holy is his Name And his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations He hath shewed
thy servants that peace which the world cannot give that both our hearts may be set to obey thy Commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the merits of Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen LIghten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burden of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into Iudgment with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make haste to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the people say this that followeth after the Minister TVrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy people who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God full of compassion long suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deferve punishment and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them and let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Majesty O Lord our heavenly father high and mighty King of kings Lord of lords the only Ruler of Princes who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary and so replenish them with the grace of thy Holy Spirit that they may alway incline to thy will and walk in thy way endue them plenteously with heavenly gifts grant them in health and wealth long to live strengthen them that they may vanquish and overcome all their enemies and finally after this life they may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Royal Family ALmighty God the fountain of all goodness we humbly beseech thee to bless Catherine the Queen Dowager her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and all the Royal Family Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich them with thy heavenly grace prosper them with all happiness and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Clergy and People ALmighty and everlasting God who alone workest great marvels Send down upon our Bishops and Curates and all Congregations committed to their charge the healthful Spirit of thy grace and that they may truly please thee pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing Grant this O Lord for the honour of our Advocate and Mediatour Iesus Christ Amen ¶ A Prayer for the High Court of Parliament MOst gracious God we humbly beseech thee as for this kingdom in general so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most religious and gracious King and Queen at this time assembled That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the advancement of thy glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of their Majesties and their Kingdoms that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest foundations that peace and happiness truth and justice religion and piety may be established among us for all genetations These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Iesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ A Prayer for all the Reformed Churches O God the Father of mercies who of thy great goodness hast united us into the mystical body of Christ that is his Church We as living members thereof mourning with them that mourn and rejoycing with them that rejoyce do now present our Supplications and Prayers at the Throne of Grace in behalf of all the Reformed Churches beseeching thee to look down with an eye of Mercy and Pity upon the sad and mournful estate of such of them whom thou hast delivered over to the hands of superstitious and merciless men who have compell'd so many of them to defile themselves with their Idolatrous Worship stretch out thy Arm against those deceitful and bloody men suffer them not still to triumph over thy Heritage How long Lord shall thy anger burn for ever How long wilt thou forget thy People that prayeth Oh let the cry of the Blood of thy Saints and the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee Deliver thou those that are as Sheep appointed for the slaughter Hear us O God for thy mercies sake and for the honour of thy great Name Plead thy Cause with them that blaspheme thy Truth and prosecute thy People that so all men may say Verily there is a God that judgeth in the Earth Purge all thy Churches from their dregs and make them meet for a glorious Deliverance that so all the world may see the Salvation of our God and that though he hides his face from his People for a season yet he will not cast them off utterly Grant that thy true Religion may so shine as to become the Ioy of the whole earth and that all Antichristian Idolatry Superstition and Cruelty being cast out of thy House all that name the Name of Christ may depart from iniquity and walk worthy of their holy profession that the Kingdom of thy dear Son may come quickly and that all his enemies being made his foot-stool he who is the Lord of lords and King of kings may reign to all the ends of the Earth To whom with thee O Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory for evermore Amen O God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ our only Saviour the Prince of Peace look down in much Pity and Compassion upon this Church and Nation now seeking unto thee in Fasting and Prayer Stir up we beseech thee every Soul among us to cast forth the Accursed Thing to Root out of our hearts all Pride and all Wrath and Bitterness all unjust Prejudice and causeless Iealousie all Hatred and Malice and desire of Revenge and whatsoever may hinder us from discerning the things that belong unto our Peace And by the power of thy Holy Spirit do thou dispose all our hearts to such meekness of Wisdom lowliness of Mind Patience Gentleness and Long-suffering and forbearance of one another in love and such honour and reverence of those whom thou hast set over us as becomes the sons of Peace that so the God of Peace may be with us Give us grace O Lord seriously to lay to heart the great Dangers we are in by our unhappy Divisions and the great Obligations which lie upon us to godly Vnion and Concord that as there is but one Body and one Spirit and one hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all so we may henceforth be all of one heart and of one Soul Vnited in one holy Bond of Truth and Peace of Faith and Charity and may with one Mind and one Mouth glorifie thee O Lord who with thy Father and Holy Spirit livest and reignest one God world without end Amen ¶ A Prayer of S. Chrysostom ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life ever lasting Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 THe grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen FINIS