together to eate tarie one for another If any man hunger let him eate at home that ye come not together vnto condemnation Other things will I set in order when I come The Gospel THe whole multitude of them arose Luk. 23.1 and led him vnto Pilate And they began to accuse him saying We found this fellow peruerting the people and forbidding to pay tribute to Cesar saying that hee is Christ a King And Pilate apposed him saying Art thou the King of the Iewes Hee answered him and sayd Thou sayest it Then said Pilate to the hie Priests and to the people I finde no fault in this man And they were the more fierce saying He mooueth the people teaching thorowout all Iurie and began at Galilee euen to this place When Pilate heard mention of Galilee hee asked whether the man were of Galilee And assoone as he knew that hee belonged vnto Herods Iurisdiction he sent him to Herode which was also at Hierusalem at that time And when Herode sawe Iesus hee was exceeding glad for hee was desirous to see him of a long season because hee had heard many things of him and he trusted to haue seene some miracles done by him Then he questioned with him many words but he answered him nothing The high Priests and Scribes stood foorth and accused him straitly And Herode with his men of warre despised him And when hee had mocked him hee arayed him in white clothing and sent him againe to Pilate And the same day Pilate and Herode were made friendes together for before they were at variance And Pilate called together the high Priests and the Rulers and the people and sayde vnto them Yee haue brought this man vnto me as one that peruerteth the people and beholde I examine him before you and finde no fault in this man of those things whereof yee accuse him no nor yet Herode For I sent you vnto him and loe nothing worthie of death is done vnto him I will therefore chasten him and let him loose For of necessitie hee must haue let one loose to them at that feast And all the people cried at once saying Away with him and deliuer vs Barabbas which for a certain insurrection made in the city and for a murder was cast into prison Pilate spake againe vnto them willing to let Iesus loose But they cried saying Crucifie him crucifie him Hee sayde vnto them the third time What euill hath hee done I finde no cause of death in him I will therefore chasten him and let him goe And they cried with loud voyces requiring that he might be crucified And the voyces of them and of the high Priestes preuailed And Pilate gaue sentence that it should bee as they required and hee let loose vnto them him that for insurrection and murder was cast into prison whom they had desired And hee deliuered to them Iesus to doe with him what they would And as they led him away they caught one Simon of Cyrene comming out of the fielde and on him layed they the Crosse that hee might beare it after Iesus And there followed him a great companie of people and of women which bewailed and lamented him But Iesus turned backe vnto them and sayde Yee daughters of Hierusalem weepe not for me but weepe for your selues and for your children For behold the dayes will come in the which they shall say Happie are the barren and the wombes that neuer bare and the pappes which neuer gaue sucke Then shall they begin to say to the mountaines Fall on vs and to the hils Couer vs. For if they doe this in a greene tree what shal be done in the drie And there were two euil doers led with him to bee slaine And after that they were come to the place which is called Caluarie there they crucified him and the euill doers one on the right hand and the other on the left Then said Iesus Father forgiue them for they wot not what they doe And they parted his rayment and cast lots and the people stoode and beheld And the Rulers mocked him with them saying He saued other men let him saue himselfe if he be verie Christ the chosen of God The souldiers also mocked him and came and offered him vineger and said If thou bee the King of the Iewes saue thy selfe And a superscription was written ouer him with letters of Greeke and Latine and Hebrewe This is the King of the Iewes And one of the euill doers which were hanged rayled on him saying If thou bee Christ saue thy selfe and vs. But the other answered and rebuked him saying Fearest not thou GOD seeing thou art in the same damnation Wee are righteously punished for wee receiue according to our deedes but this man hath done nothing amisse And hee said vnto Iesus Lord remember mee when thou commest into thy kingdome And Iesus sayde vnto him Verily I say vnto thee to day shalt thou be with mee in Paradise And it was about the sixt houre and there was a darkenesse ouer all the earth vntill the ninth houre and the Sunne was darkened and the vaile of the Temple did rent euen through the middes And when Iesus had cryed with a lowde voyce hee said Father into thy hands I commend my spirit And when he thus had said hee gaue vp the ghost When the Centurion sawe what had happened hee glorified God saying Verily this was a righteous man And all the people that came together to that sight and sawe the things which had happened smote their breasts and returned And all his acquaintance and the women that follwed him from Galilee stood a farre off beholding these things And behold there was a man named Ioseph a counsailor and he was a good man and a iust the same had not consented to the counsaile and deed of them which was of Arimathea a citie of the Iewes which same also waited for the kingdome of God he went vnto Pilate and begged the body of Iesus and tooke it downe and wrapped it in a linnen cloth and laide it in a Sepulchre that was hewen in stone wherein neuer man before had beene laid And that day was the preparing of the Sabboth and the Sabboth drew on The women that followed after which had come with him from Galilee beheld the sepulchre and how his body was laid And they returned and prepared sweete odours and oyntments but rested on the Sabboth day according to the commandement On good Friday The Collect. ALmightie God we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy family for the which our Lord Iesus Christ was contented to be betrayed and giuen vp into the hands of wicked men to suffer death vpon the crosse who liueth and reigneth c. ALmightie and euerlasting God by whose spirite the whole bodie of the Church is gouerned and sanctified Receiue our supplications and praiers which we offer before thee for all estates of men in thy holy congregation that euerie member of the same in his
Luk. 14.1 to eat bread on the Sabboth day and they watched him And behold there was a certaine man before him which had the dropsie And Iesus answered spake vnto the Lawyers Pharises saying Is it lawfull to heale on the Sabboth day And they held their peace And he tooke him healed him let him go answered them saying Which of you shal haue an Asse or an Oxe fallen into a pit and will not straightway pul him out on the Sabboth day And they could not answere him again to these things He put forth also a similitude to the ghests when he marked how they preased to be in the highest roomes and said vnto them When thou art bidden to a wedding of any man sitte not downe in the highest roome least a more honourable man then thou bee bidden of him and hee that bade him and thee come and say to thee Giue this man roome and thou begin with shame to take the lowest roome But rather when thou art bidden goe and fit in the lowest roome that when he that bad thee commeth hee may say vnto thee Friend sit vp higher then shall thou haue worship in the presence of them that sit at meate with thee For whosoener exalteth himselfe shall be brought low and he that humbleth himselfe shall be exalted The xviij Sunday after trinitie The Collect. LOrd we beseech thee graunt thy people grace to auoyde the infections of the deuil and with pure heart and minde to followe thee the onely God through Iesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle I Thanke my GOD alwayes on your behalfe 1. Cor. 14. for the grace of God which is giuen you by Iesus Christ that in all things yee are made rich by him in all vtterance and in al knowledge by the which things the testimonie of Iesus Christ was confirmed in you so that yee are behind in no gift waiting for the appearing of our Lord Iesus Christ which shall also strengthen you to the end that ye may be blamelesse in the day of the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ The Gospel WHen the Pharises had heard that Iesus had put the Sadduces to silence Matth 22.34 they came together and one of them which was a Doctour of the Law asked him question tempting him and saying Master which is the greatest commaundement in the Lawe Iesus sayde vnto him Thou shall loue the Lord thy GOD with all thine heart and with all thy soule and with all thy minde This is the first greatest commandement And the second is like vnto it Thou shall thou thy neighbour as thy selfe In these two commaundements hang all the Law the Prophets While the Pharisees were gathered together Iesus asked them saying What thinke ye of Christ whose sonne is he They said vnto him The sonne of Dauid He sayd vnto them How then doth Dauid in spirit call him Lord saying The Lord sayd vnto my Lorde Sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footestoole If Dauid then call him Lord how is he thē his sonne And no man was able to answer him any thing neither durst any man from that day forfh aske him any mo questions The xix Sunday after Trinitie The Collect. O God forasmuch as without thee wee are not able to please thee grant that the working of thy mercie may in all things direct and rule onr hearts through Iesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle THis I say Eph. 4.17 and testifie through the Lord that yee hence foorth walke not as other Gentiles walke in banitie of their minde while they are blinded in their vnderstanding being far from a godly life by the meanes of the ignorance that is in them because of the blindnes ot their hearts which being past repentance haue giuen themselues ouer vnto wantonnesse to worke all maner of vncleannesse euen with greedinesse But ye haue not so learned Christ If so bee that yee haue heard him and haue bene taught in him as the trueth is in Iesu as concerning the conuersation in times past to lay from you the olde man which is corrupt according to the deceiueable lustes to be renewed also in the spirite of your minde and to put on that newe man which after God is shapen in righteousnesse and true holinesse Wherefore put away lying speake euery man trueth vnto his neighbour forasmuch as wee are members one of another Be angry and sinne not Let not the sunne go downe upon your wrath neither giue place to the backbiter Let him that stole steale no more but let him rather labour with his hands the thing which is good that he may gine vnto him that needeth Let no filthie communication proceede out of your mouth but that which is good to edifie withal as oft as neede is that it may minister grace vnto the hearers And grieue not the holy spirit of God by whom ye are sealed vnto the day of redemption Let all bitternesse and fiercenes and wrath and roaring cursed speaking be put away from you with all maliciousnesse Be ye courteous one to another merciful forgiuing one another euen as God for Christs sake hath forgiuen you The Gospel IEsus entred into a ship Mat. 9.1 and passed ouer and came into his owne citie And beholde they bought to him a man sicke of the palsie lying in a bed And when Iesus sawe the faith of them he said to the sicke of the palsie Sonne be of good cheere thy sinnes be forgiuen thee And beholde certaine of the Scribes sayde within themselues This man blasphemeth And when Iesus saw their thoughts he sayd wherefore thinke ye euill in your hearts Whether is it easier to say Thy sinnes be forgiuen thee or to say Arise and walke But that ye may know that the sonne of man hath power to forgiue sinnes in earth Then saith he to the sicke of the palsie Arise take vp thy bed and goe vnto thy house And hee arose and departed to his house But the people that saw it marueiled and glorfied God which had giuen such power vnto men The xx Sunday after Trinitie The Collect. ALmightie and mercifull God of thy bountifull goodnesse keepe vs from all things that may hurt vs that wee being ready both in bodie and soule may with free heartes accomplish those things that than wouldest haue done though Iesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle TAke heede therefore how yee walke circnmspectly Ephes 5.15 not as vnwise but as wise men redeeming the time because the dayes are euill Wherefore be yee not vnwise but vnderstand what the will of the Lord is and be not drunken with wine wherein is excesse but be ye filled with the Spirit speaking vnto your selues in Psalmes and Hymnes and spirituall songs singing and making melodie to the Lord in pour hearts giuing thankes alwayes for all things vnto God the Father in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ submiting your selues one to another in the seare of God The
to him And after that he had opned his mouth he taught them saying Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kingdome of heauen Blessed are they that mourne for they shall receiue comfort Blessed are the meeke for they shall receiue the inheritance of the earth Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righeousnesse for they shall be satisfied Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercie Blessed are the pure in heart for they shal see God Blessed are the peace makers for they shal be called the children of God Blessed are they which suffer persection for righteousnes sake for theirs is the kingdome of heauen Blessed are yee when men reusle you and persecute you and shal falsely say all maner of euill sayings against you for my sake reioyce and be glad for great is your rewarde in heauen For so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you The order for the administration of the Lordes Supper or holy Communion SO many as intend to bee partakers of the holy Communion shall signifie their names to the Curate ouer night or els in the morning afore the beginning of Morning prayer or immediatly after And if any of those be an open and notorious euill liuer so that the Congregation by him is offended or haue done any wrong to his neighbours by worde or deede the Cu. rate hauing knowledge thereof shall call him and aduertise him in any wise not to presume to the Lordes Table vntill hee haue openly de clared him selfe to haue truely repented and amended his former naughtie life that the Congregation may thereby bee satisfied which afore were offended and that he haue recompenced the parties whome hee hath done wrong vnto or at the least declare himselfe to be in full purpose so to doe as soone as he conue niently may The same order shall the Curate vse with those betwixt whom he perceiueth malice and hatred to reigne not suffering them to bee partakers of the Lords Table vntill he know them to be reconciled And if one of the parties so at variance be content to forgiue from the bottome of his heart all that the other hath trespassed against him and to make amends for that he himselfe hath offended and the other partie will not bee perswaded to a godly vnitie but remaine still in his frowardnesse and malice the Minister in that case ought to admit the penitent person to the holy Communion and not him that is obstinate The Table hauing at the Communion time a faire white linnen cloth vpon it shall stand in the body of the Church or in the Chauncel where Morning prayer and Euening prayer be appointed to be said And the Priest standing at the North side of the Table shall say the Lords prayer with this Collect following The Communion ALmightie God vnto whom all hearts bee open all desires knowen and from whom no secretes are hid clense the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy holy spirity that wee may perfectly loue thee worthsly magnifie thy holy name throught christ our Lord. Amen Then shall the Priest rehearse distinctly all the ten Commaundements and the people kneeling shall after euery Commaundement aske God mercy for their trasgression of the same after this sort The Minister God spake these words and sayd I am the Lorde they God Thou shall haue none other gods but me People Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encline our hearts to keepe this Law Minister Thou shall not make to thy selfe any grauen image nor the likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beâ—tath or in the water under the earth Thou shalt not how downe to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a ielous God and visite the sinne of the fathers vpon the children vuto the third fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy vnto thosands in them that loue me and keepe my commandements People Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encline our hearts to keepe this Law Minister Thou shall not take the Name of the Lorde thy God in vaine for the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine People Lord haue mercy vspon vs and entline our hearts c. Minister Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath day Sire dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe but the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt doe no maner of worke thou and thy sonne and thy daughter thy man seruant and thy maide seruant thy â—attell and the stranger that is within thy gates For in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day wherefore the Lord blessed the seuenth day and halowed it People Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encliue our hearts to keepe this law Minister Honour thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee People Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encline our hearts Ac. Minister Thou shall doe no murther People Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encline our hearts Ac. Minister Thou shall not commit adultery People Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encline our hearts Ac. Minister Thou shall not steale People Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encline our hearts Ac. Minister Thou shall not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour People Lord haue mercy vpon vs and encline our hearts Ac. Minister Thou shall not count thy neighbours house thou shall not covet thy neighbours wife nor his servant nor his mayd nor his â—xe nor his Asse nor any thing that is his People Lord haue mercy vpon vs and write all these thy Lawes in our hearts we beseech thee Then shall follow the Collect of the day with one of these two Collects following for the King the Priest standing vp and saying Let vs pray ALmightie God whose kingdome is everlasting and power infinite haue mercy vpon the whole congregation and to rule the heart of thy chosen servant Iames our King and givernour that he knowing whose minister he is may about al things seeke thy honour and glory and that wee subiects duely confidering whole authoritie hee hath may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed worde and ordinance through Iesus Christ our Lord who with thee and the holy Ghost liveth and reigneth ever one God world without end Amen ALmightie and everlasting God we bee taught by thy holy word that the hearts of kings are in thy rule and gouernance and that thou dost dispose and tnrne them as it seemeth best to thy godly wisedom we humbly beseech thee so to dispose and gouerne the heart of Iames thy seruant our King and gouernour that in all his thoughts words and workes hee may euer seeke thy honour and glorie and studie to preserue thy people committed to his charge in wealth peace and
that by the grace of God they will euermore endeuour themselues faithfully to obserue and keepe such things as they by their owne mouth and confession haue assented vnto Secondly forasmuch as Confirmation is ministred to them that be baptized that by imposition of handes and Prayer they may receiue strengch and defence against all temptations to sinne and the assaults of the world and the deuill it is most meete to be ministred when children come to that age that partly by the frailtie of their owne flesh partly by the assaults of the world and the deuil they begin to be in danger to fall into sundry kinds of sinne Thirdly for that it is agreeable with the vsage of the Church in times past whereby it was ordained that Confirmation should be ministred to them that were of perfect age that they being instructed in Christes Religion should openly professe their owne faith and promise to be obedient vnto the will of God And that no man shall thinke that any detriment shall come to children by differing of their Confirmation hee shall know for trueth that it is certaine by Gods word that children being baptized haue all things necessary for their saluation and bevndoubtedly saued A Catechisme that is to say An instruction to be learned of euery childe before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop WHat is your name Answere N. or M. Question Who gaue you this name Answere My Godfather and Godmothers in my Baptisme wherein I was made a member of Christ the childe of God and an inheritour of the kingdome of heauen Question What did your Godfathers and Godmothers then for your Answere They did promise and vowe three things in my name First that I should forske the deuill and all his workes and pompes the vanities of the wicked world and all the sinfull lustes of the flesh Secondly that I should beleeue all the Articles of the Christian faith And thirdly that I should keepe Gods holy will and Commandements and walke in the same all the dayes of my life Question Doest thou not thinke that thou art bound to beleeue and to doe as they haue promised for thee Answere Yes verily and by Gods helpe so I will And I heartily thanke our heauenly Father that hee hath called mee to this state of saluation through Iesus Christ our Sauiour And I pray God to giue me his grace that I may continue in the same vnto my liues ende Question Rehearse the Articles of thy beliefe Answere I Beleeue in God the Father Almightie maker of heauen and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord which was conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the Virgine Mary suffered vnder Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried hee descended into hell the thirde day hee rose againe from the dead hee ascended into heauen and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence hee shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead I beleeue in the holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgiuenesse of sinnes the resurrection of the body and the life euerlasting Amen Question What doest thou chiefly learne in these Articles of thy beliefe Answere First I learne to beleeue in God the Father who hath made me and all the world Secondly in God the Sonne who hath redeemed me and all mankinde Thirdly in God the holy Ghost who sanctifieth mee and all the elect people of God Question You said that your Godfathers and Godmothers did promise for you that you should keepe Gods Commandements Tell me bow many there bee Ansvvere Tenne Question Which be they Ansvvere THe same which God spake in the twentieth Chapter of Exodus saying I am the Lord thy God which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of boundage i. Thou shalt haue none other gods but mee ii Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen image nor the likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath or in the water vnder the earth Thou shalt not bow downe to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a ielous God and bisite the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate mee and shew mercy vnto thousands in them that loue mee and keepe my Commandements iii. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine for the Lord wil not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his Name in vaine iiii Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath day Sixe dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to do but the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt doe no maner of worke thou and thy sonne and thy daughter thy man seruant and thy mayde seruant thy cattell and the stranger that is within thy gates For in sixe dayes the Lord made heauen and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seunth day wherefore the Lord blessed the seuenth day and halowed it v. Honour thy father and thy mother that thy dayes may bee long in the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee vi Thou shalt doe no murther vii Thou shalt not commit adulterie viii Thou shalt not steale ix Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against neighbour x. Thou shalt not couet thy neighboures house thou shalt not couet thy neighbous wife nor his seruant nor his mayde nor his oxe nor his asse nor any thing that is his Question What doest thou chiefly learne by these commaundements Ansvvere I learne two things My duetie towards God and my duetie towards my neighbour Question What is thy duetie towards God Ansvvere My duetie towards God is to beleeue in him to feare him and to loue him with all my heart with all my minde with al my soule and with all my strength To worship him to giue him thankes to put my whole trust in him to call vpon him to honour his holy Name and his word and to serue him truely all the dayes of mhy life Question What is thy duetie to wards thy neighbour Answere My duety towards my neighbour is to loue him as my selfe and to doe to all men as I would they should doe vnto mee To loue honour and succour my father and mother To honour and obey the king and his ministers To submit my selfe to all my gouernours teachers spirituall Pastours and masters To order my selfe lowly and reuerently to all my betters To hurt no body by word or deed To be true and iust in all my dealing To beare no malice nor hatred in my heart To keepe my handes from picking and stealing and my tongue from euill speaking lying and slandering To keepe my body in temperance sobernesse and chastitic Not to couet nor desre other mens goods but to learne and labour truely to get mine owne liuing and to doe my duetie in that state of life vnto the which it shall please
and all the andes of the world haue seene the saluation of our God Shewe your selues ioyfull vnto the Lord all yelandes sing reioice and giue thankes Praise the Lord vpon the Harpe sing to the Harpe With a psalme of thankesgiuing With trumpets also and Shawmes O shew your selues ioyfull before the Lord the King Let the sea make a noise and all that therein is the round World and they that dwell therein Let the floods clap their hands and let the hilles be ioyfull together before the Lorde for hee is come to iudge the carth With righteousnesse shall be iudge the world and the people with cquitie Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne c As it was in the beginning is now c Then a Lesson of the newe Testament And after that Nunc dimittis in English as followeth LOrd now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace according to thy word Nunc dimittis Luke 2. Formine eyes haue seene thy saluation which thou hast prepared before the face of all people Lo be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Glory be the father and to the Some c As it was in the beginning is now c Or else this Psalme GOd be mercifull vnto bs and blesse vs and shew vs the light of his countenance and be mercifull vnto vs. D 〈◊〉 That thy way may bee knowen vpon earth thy sauing health among all nations Let the people prayse thee O God yea let all the people praise thee O let the nations reioice and be glad for thou shalt iudge the folke righteously and gouerne the nations vpon earth Let the people prayse thee O God let all the people praise thee Then shall the earth bring foorth her increase and God euen our owne God shall giue vs his blessing God shall blesse vs and all the endes of the worlde shall fearee him Glory be to the father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and euer shal be world without ende Amen Then shall follow the Creede with other prayers as is before appointed at Morning prayer after Benedictus and with three Collects First of the day The second for peace The third for aide against all perils as hereafter followeth which two last Collects shal be dayly sayd at Euening prayer without alteration The second Collect at Euening prayer O God from whome all holy desires all good counsailes and all iust workes doe proceede giue vnto thy seruants that both our hearts may world cannot giue that both our hearts may bee set to obey thy commandements and also that by thee we being defended from the feare of our enemies may passe our time in rest and quitenessc through the merits of Iesus Christ our Sauiour Amen The third Collect for ayde against all perils LIghten our darkenesse we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great mercie defend vs from all perils and dangers of this night for the loue of thy onely sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ Amen In then feasts of Christmas the Epiphanie Saint Matthie Easter the Ascension Pentecost Saint Iohn Baptist Saint lames Saint Bartholomew Saint Matthew Saint Simon Iude Saint Andrew and Trinity Sunday shal be sung or said immediately after Benedictus this confession of our Christian faith Quicunque vult WHosoeuer will be saued before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholike faith Quicunque vult Which faith except euery one do keepe holy and bndefiled without doubt hee shall perish euerlastingly And the Catholike faith is this that we worship one God in trinitie and trinitie in vnitie Neither confounding the persons nor diuiding the substance For there is one person of the Father another of the Sonne and another of the holy Ghost But the godhead of the Father of the Sonne of the holy Ghost is all one the glory equall the maiestie coeternall Such as the Father is such is the Sonne and such is the holy Ghost The Father vncreate the Sonne vncreate and the holy Ghost vncreate The Father incomprehensible the Sonne incomprehensible and the holy Ghost incomprehensible The Father eternall the Sonne eternall and the holy Ghost eternall And yet they are not three eternals but one eternall As also there be not three incomprehensibles nor three vncreated but one vucreated and one incomprehensible So like wise the Father is almighty the Sonne almighty and the holy Ghost almighty And yet they are not three almighties but one almighty So the Father is God the Sonne is God and the holy Ghost is God And yet they are not three Gods but one God So like wise the Father is Lord the Sonne Lord and the holy Ghost Lord. And yet not three Lords but one Lord. For like as we be compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge euery person by himselfe to be God and Lord. So are wee forbidden by the Catholique Religion to say there be three Gods or three Lords The Father is made of none neither created nor begotten The Sonne is of the Father alone not made nor created but begotten The holy Ghost is of the Father and of the sonne neither made nor created nor begotten but proceeding So three is one Father not three fathers one Sonne not three sonnes one holy Ghost not three holy ghost And in this Trinitie none is afore or after other none is greater or lesse then another But the whole three persons bee coeternall together and cocquall So that in all things as is aforesaid the Vnitie in Trinitic and the Trintie in Vnitie is to be worshipped Hee therefore that will bee saued must thus thinke of the Trinitie Furthermore it is necessary to everlasting saluation that he also beleeue rigthtly in the incarnation of our Lord Iesus Christ For the right faith is that wee beleeue and confesse that our Lord Iesus Christ the Sonne of God is God and man God of the substance of the father begotten before the worlds and man of the substance of his mother borne in the world Perfect God and perfect man of a reasonable soule and humane flesh subsisting Equall to the Father as touching his godhead and inferior to the Father touching his manhood Who although he be God and man yet he is not two but one Christ One not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh but by taking of the manhood into God One altogether not by confusion of substance but by vnitie of person For as the reasonable soule and flesh is one man so God and man is one Christ Who suffered for our saluation descended into hell rose againe the third day from the dead He ascended into heauen he sitteth on the right hand of the Father God Almighty from whence he shalll come to iudge the quicke and the dead At whose comming all men shall rise againe with their bodies and shall giue accompt for their owne workes And they that haue done good shall goe into life
euerlasting and they that haue done euil into euerlasting fire This is the Catholique faith which except a man beleeue faithfully he cannot be saued Glory be to the Fathet and to the Sonne amp c. As it was in the beginning is now c. Thus endcth the order of Morning and Euening prayer throughout thewhole yeere Here followeth the Letanie to be vsed vpon Sundayes Wednesdayes and Fridayes and at other times when it shal be commanded by the Ordinary O God the Father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs iniscrable sinners O God the Father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the Sonne redeemer of the world haue mercie vpon vs miserable sinners O God the Sonne redeemer of the world haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne haue Mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinitic three persons and one God haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinitie three persons and one God haue mercie vpon vs miscrable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare vs good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lord. From all cuill and mischicfe from in sinne from the craftes and assaults of the deuill from thy wrath and from euerlasting damnation Good Lord deliuer vs. From all blindnesse of heart from pride baine glory and hypocrisie from enuie hatred and malice and all vncharitablenesse Good Lord deliuer vs. From fornication and all other deadly sinne and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the deuill Good Lord deliuer vs. From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battell and murther and from sudden death Good Lord deliuer vs. From all sedition and priuie conspiracie from all false doctrine and heresie from hardnesse of heart and contempt of thy word and commandement Good Lord deliuer vs. By the mystery of thy holy incarnation by thy holy natiuitie and circumcision by thy baptisme fasting and temptation Good Lord dcliuer vs. By thine agonie and bloody sweat by thy crosse and passion by thy precious death and buriall by thy glorious resurrection and ascension and by the comming of the Holy Ghost Good Lord deliuer vs. In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the houre of death and in the day ofiudgement Good Lord deliuer vs. We sinners doe beseech thee to heare vs O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and gouerne holy Church vmuerfally in the right way We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to keepe and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy seruant Iames our most gracious King and gouernour We beseech thec to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith feare and loue and that he may euermore haue affiance in thee and euer seeke thy honour and glory We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and Keeper giuing him the victory ouer all his enemies We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and preserue our gracions Queene Anne Prince Henry and the rest of the King and Queenes Royall issue We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastours and Ministers of the Church with true knowledge and vnderstanding of thy worde and that both by their prcaching and liuing they may set it foorth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to indue the Lords of the Counsaile and all the Nobilitie with grace wisedome and vnderstanding We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keepe the Magistrates giuing them grace to execute Iustice and to maintayne trueth We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keepe all thy people We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue to all nations vnity peace and concord We beseeth thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue vs an heart to loue and dreade thee and diligently to line after thy commaundements We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue to all thy people increase of grace to heare meekely thy word and to receiue it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the spirit We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of trueth all such as haue erred and are deceiued We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as doe stande and to comfort and helpe the weake hearted and to raise vp them that fall and finally to beate downe Satan vuder our feete We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that be in danger neressitie and tribulation We befeech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to preserue all that trauaile by lande or by water all women labouring of childe all sicke persons and yong children and to shewe thy pitie vpon all prisoners and captiues We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to defende and prouide for the fatherlesse children and widowes and all that bee desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to haue mercy vpon all men We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to forgiue our enemies persecuters and s slanderers and to turne their hearts We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue and preserue to our bse the kindely fruits of the earth so as in due time wee may enioy them We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue vs true repentance to forgive vs all our sinnes negligences and ignorances and to endue vs with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our liues according to thy holy word We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. Some of God We beseech thee to heare vs. Sonne of God we beseech thee to heare vs. O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Grant vs thy peace O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Haue mercie vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercie vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercie vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue
fasting 1 ocl 2. 12. weeping and mourning rent your hearts and not your clothes Turne you vnto the Lord your God for he is gracious mercifull long suffring of great compassion and ready to pardon wickednes Then no doubt he also shall turne and forgiue and after his chastening hee shall let your encrease remaine for meate and drinke offrings vnto the Lorde your God Blowe out with the trumpet in Sion proclaime a fasting call the congregation and gather the people together warne the congregation gather the Elders bring the children and sucklings together Let the bridegrome goe foorth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet Let the Priests serue the Lord betweene the porch and the altar weeping and saying Be fauourable O Lord be fauorable vnto thy people let not thine heritage be brought to such confusion least the heathen bee lords thereof Wherefore should they say among the Heathen Where is now their God The Gospel WHen yee fast Mat. 6.16 be not sad as the hypocrites are For they diffigure their faces that it may appeare vnto men how that they fast Verely I saye vnto you they haue their reward But thou when thou fastest annoynt thine head and wash thy face that it appeare not vnto men howe that thou fastest but vnto thy father which is in secrete and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly Lay not vp for your selues treasure vpon earth where the rust and moth doeth corrupt and where theeues breake through and steale But lay vp for you treasures in heauen where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt and where theeues do not break through nor steale For where your treasure is there will your hearts be also The first Sunday in Lent The Collect. O Lord which for our sake diddest fast fortie dayes and fortie nights giue vs grace to vse such abstinence that our flesh being subdued to the spirite we may euer obey thy godly motions in righteousnesse and true holines to thy honour and glorie which liuest and raignest c. The Epistle WE as helpers exhort you 2 Cor. 6.1 that yee receiue not the grace of GOD in vaine For he saith I haue heard thee in a time accepted and in the day of saluation haue I succoured thee Behold now is that accepted time Behold now is that day of saluation Let vs giue none occasion of euill that in our office bee found no fault but in all things let vs behaue our selues as the ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in auguish in stripes in prisonments in strifes in labours in watchings in fastings in purenes in knowledge in long suffering in kindnesse in the holy Ghost in loue vnfained in the word of truth in the power of God by the armour of righteousnesse on the right hand and on the left by honour and dishonour by euill report and good report as deceiuers and yet true as vnknowen and yet knowen as dying and behold we liue as chastened and not killed as sorrowing and yet alway merrie as poore and yet making many rich as hauing nothing and yet possessing all things The Gospel THen Iesus was led away of the spirite into the wildernesse Mat 4.1 to bee tempted of the deuill And when hee had fasted fourtie dayes and fourtie nights hee was at the last an hungred And when the tempter came to him hee said If thou bee the sonne of God commaund that these stones bee made bread But hee answered and saide It is written Man shall not liue by bread onely but by euerie word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God Then the deuill taketh him vp into the holy citie and setteth him on a pinacle of the temple and saith vnto him If thou bee the sonne of God cast thy selfe downe headlong for it is written Hee shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee and with their hands they shall hold thee vp least at any time thou dash thy foote against a stone And Iesus said vnto him It is written againe Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Againe the deuill taketh him vp into an exceeding high mountain and sheweth him al the kingdoms of the world and the glorie of them and saith vnto him All these will I giue thee if thou wilt fall downe and worship me Then saith Iesus vnto him Auoid Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord God and him onely shalt thou serue Then the deuil leaueth him and behold the Angels came and ministred vnto him The second Sunday in Lent The Collect. ALmightie God which doest see that we haue no power of our selues to helpe our selues keepe thou vs both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our soules that we may be defended from all aduersities which may happen to the bodie and from all euill thoughts which may assault and hurt the soule through Iersus Christ c. The Epistle WE beseech you brethren 1. Thes 4.1 and exhort you by the Lord Iesus that yee encrease more and more euen as ye haue receiued of vs how yee ought to walke and to please God For yee know what commaundements wee gaue you by our Lord Iesus Christ For this is the will of God euen your holinesse that ye should absteine from fornication and that euerie one of you should know how to keepe his vessell in holinesse and honour and not in the lust of concupiscene as doe the Heathen which know not God that no man oppresse and defraud his brother in bargaining because that the Lord is the auenger of all such things as we told you before testified For God hath not called vs vnto vncleannes but vnto holinesse Hee therefore that despiseth despiseth not man but God which hath sent his holy spirit among you The Gospel IEsus went thence and departed into the coastes of Tyre and Sidon and beholde Matt. 15.21 a woman of Canaan which came out of the same coasts cried vnto him saying Haue mercie on mee O Lord thou sonne of Dauid my daughter is piteously vexed with a deuill But he answered her nothing at all And his disciples came and besought him saying Send her away for she crieth after vs. But he answered and said I am not sent but to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel Then came shee and worshipped him saying Lord helpe me Hee answered and said It is not meete to take the childrens bread and cast it to dogs Shee answered and said Trueth Lord for the dogs eate of the crummes which fall from their masters table Then Iesus answered said vnto her O woman great is thy faith be it vnto thee euen as thou wilt And her daughter was made whole euen the same time The third Sunday in Lent The Collect. WE beseech thee almighty God looke vpon the hartie desire of thy humble seruants and stretch forth the right hand of thy maiestie to bee our defence against all our enemies through Iesus Christ our Lord.
heauen we beseech thee leaue vs not â—oÌ„fortlesse but send to vs thine holy Ghost to comfort vs and exalt vs vnto the same place whither our Sauiour Christ is gone before who liueth and reigneth c. The Epistle THe end of al things is at hand Be ye therfore sober 1. Pet 47. and watch vnto prayer But aboue all things haue feruent loue among your selues For loue shal couer the multitude of sins Be ye barberous one to another wtout grudging As euery man hath receiued the gift euen so minister the same one to another as good ministers of the manifold graces of God If any man speake let him talke as the words of God If any man minister let him do it as of the abilitie which God ministreth to him that God in all things may be glorified through Iesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion for euer and euer Amen The Gospel WHen the comforter is come Ioh. 15.26 whom I will send vnto you from the Father euen the Spirit of trueth which proceedeth of the Father he shall testifie of me and ye shall beare witnes also because ye haue These things haue I sayd vnto you beacause ye should not be offended They shal excoÌ„municate you yea the time shall come that whosoeuer killeth you will thinke that he doth God seruice And such things will they doe vnto you because they haue not knowen the Father neither yet me But these things haue I tolde you that when the time is come ye may remember then that I tolde you Whitsunday The Collect. GOd which as vpon this day hast taught the hearts of thy faithfull people by the sending to them the light of thy holy Spirit Grant vs by the same Spirit to haue a right iudgement in all things and euermore to reioyce in his holy comfort through the merits of Christ Iesu our Sauiour who liueth and reigneth with thee in the vnitie of the same Spirit one GOD world without end Amen The Epistle WHen the fiftie dayes were come to an ende Acts 2.1 they were al with one accord together in one place and suddenly there came a found from heauen as it had bene the comming of a mightie winde and it filled all the house where they sate And there appeared vnto them clouen tongues like as they had beene of fire it sate vpon each one of them and they were all filled with the holy Ghost and began to speake with other tongues euen as the same Spirit gaue them vtterance Then were dwelling at Hierusalem Iewes deuout men out of euery nation of them that are vnder heauen When this was noysed about the multitude came together and were astonied because that euery man heard them speake with his owne language They wondered all and marueilled saying among themselues Beholde are not all these which speake of Galilee And how heare we euery man his owne tongue wherein we were borne Parthians and Medes and Elamites and the inhabiters of Mesopotamia and fo Iury and of Cappadocia of Pontus and Asia Phrygia and Pamphylia of Egypt and of the partes of Libya which is beside Cyrene strangers of Rome Iewes and Proselites Creetes Arabians we haue heard them speake in our owne tongues the great works of God The Gospel IEsus sayd vnto his disciples Ioh. 14.15 If yee loue me keepe my commaundements and I will pray the father and he shall giue you another comforter that hee may abide with you for euer euen the spirit of trueth whom the world can not receiue because the world seeth him not neither knoweth him But yee know him for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you I will not leaue you comfortlesse but will come to you Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more but ye see me For I liue and ye shall liue That day shall ye know that I am in my father and you in me and I in you He that hath my commandements keepeth them the same is he that loueth me And he that loueth me shal be loued of my Father and I wil loue him and will shew mine owne selfe vnto him Iudas saith vnto him not Iudas Iscariot Lord what is done that thou will shew thy selfe vnto vs and not vnto the world Iesus answered and sayd vnto him If a man loue me he will keepe my sayings and my Father will loue him and we wil come vnto him and dwell with him Hee that loueth me not keepeth not my sayings And the word which ye heare is not mine but the Fathers which sent me These things haue I spoken vnto you being yet present with you but the Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom my Father wil send in my Name he shall teach you all things bring all things to your remembrance whatsoeuer I haue said vnto you Peace I leaue with you my peace I giue vnto you not as the world giueth giue I vnto you Let not your hearts be grieued neither feare Ye haue heard how I said vnto you I goe and come againe vnto you If yee loued mee ye would verily reioyce because I said I go vnto the Father For the Father is greater then I. And now haue I shewed you before it come that when it is come to passe yee might beleeue Hereafter will I not talke many words vnto you for the prince of this world commeth and hath nought in me but that the world may know that I loue the Father And as the Father gaue mee Commandement euen so do I. Munday in Whitsun vveeke The Collect. GOd which as vpon this day hast taught the hearts of thy faithfull c. As vpon Whitsunday The Epistle THen Peter opened his mouth Act. 10.34 and saide Of a trueth I perceiue that there is no respect of persons with God but in all people hee that feareth him and worketh righteousnes is accepted with him Ye know the preaching that God sent vnto the children of Israel preaching peace by Iesus Christ which is Lorde ouer all things Which preaching was published thorowout all Iurie and began in Galilee after the Baptisme which Iohn preached how God anoynted Iesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost and with power Which Iesus went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the deuil for God was with him And we are witnesses of all things which he did in the land of the Iewes and at Hierusalem whom they flew and hanged on a tree him God raised vp the thirde day and shewed him openly not to all the people but vnto vs witnesses chosen before of God for the same intent which did eate and drinke with him after hee arose from death And hee commanded vs to preach vnto the people and to testifie that it is he which was ordeined of God to be the iudge of quicke and dead To him giue all the Prophets witnesse that through his Name whosoeuer beleeueth in him shall receiue remission of sinnes While Peter yet spake these wordes
shall ye beleeue if I tell you of heauenly things And no man ascendeth vp to heauen but he that came downe from heauen euen the Sonne of man which is in heauen And as Moses lift vp the serpent in the wildernes euen so must the Sonne of man be lift vp that whosoeuer beleeueth in him perish not but haue euerlasting life The first Sunday after Trinitie The Collect. GOd the strength of al them that trust in thee mercifully accept our prayers And because the weaknesse of our mortall nature can doe no good thing without thee grant vs the helpe of thy grace that in keeping of thy Commandements we may please thee both in will and deed through Iesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle DEarely beloued 1. Iohn 4.7 let vs loue one another for loue commeth of God and euery one that loueth is borne of God and knoweth God He that loueth not knoweth not God For God is loue In this appeareth the loue of God to vs-ward because that God sent his onely begotten Sonne into the world that wee might liue through him Herein is loue not that we loued God but that hee loued vs sent his Sonne to be the agreement for our sinnes Dearely beloued if God so loued vs we ought also one to loue another No man hath seene God at any time If wee loue one another God dwelleth in vs and his loue is perfect in vs. Hereby knowe wee that wee dwell in him and he in vs because hee hath giuen vs of his Spirit And wee haue seene and doe testifie that the Father sent the Sonne to be the Sauiour of the world Whosoeuer confesseth that Iesus is the Sonne of God in him dwelleth God and he in God And we hane knowen beleeued the loue that God hath to vs. God is loue and hee that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him Herein is the loue perfect in vs that we should trust in the day of iudgement For as he is euen so are wee in this world There is no feare in loue but perfect loue casteth on t feare for feare hath painefulnesse He that feareth is not perfect in loue We loue him for he loued vs first If any man say I loue God and yet hate his brother he is a liar For how can he that loueth not his brother whom he hath seene loue God whom he hath not seene And this commandement haue we of him that hee which loueth God sshould loue his brother also The Gospel THere was a certaine rich man Luke 16.19 which was clothed in purple and fine white and fared deliciously euery day And there was a certaine begger named Lazarus which lay at his gate ful of sores desiring to bee refreshed with the crummes which fel from the rich mans boorde and no man gaue vnto him The dogs came also and licked his sores And it fortuned that the begger died and was caried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome The rich man also died and was buried And being in hell in torments hee lift vp his eyes and sawe Abraham afarre off and Lazarus in his bosome and hee cried and sayd Father Abraham haue mercie on mee and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and coole my tongue for I am tormented in this flame But Abraham sayd Sonne remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy plaesure and contrariwise Lazarus receiued paine but now he is comforted thou art punished Beyond all this betweene vs and you there is a great space set so that they which would goe from hence to you cannot neither may come from thence to vs. Then he sayd I pray thee therefore father send him to my fathers house for I haue fiue brethren for to warne them lest they come also into this place of torment Abraham said vnto him They haue Moses and the Prophets let them heare them And he sayd Nay father Abraham but if one come vnto them from the dead they will repent He said vnto him If they heare not Moses and the Prophets neither will thy beleeue though one arise from death againe The ij Sunday after Trinitie The Collect. LOrd make vs to haue a perpetual feare and loue of thy holy name for thou neuer failest to helpe and gouerne them whom thou doest bring vp in thy stedfast loue Grant this c. The Epistle MArueile not my brethren 1. Iohn 3.13 though the worlde hate you Wee know that wee are translated from death vnto life because we loue the brethren He that loueth not his brother abideth in death Whosoeuer hateth his brother is a manslayer And ye know that no manslayer hath eternall life abiding in him Hereby perceiue we loue because he gaue his life for vs and wee ought to giue our liues for the brethren But who so hath this worlds good and seeth his brother haue need and shutteth vy his compassion from his how dwelleth the loue of God in him My babes let vs not loue in word neither in tongue but in deed and in veritie hereby we know that we are of the veritie and can quiet our hearts before him For if our heart condemne vs God is greater then our heart and knoweth all things Dearely beloued if our heart condemne vs not then haue wee trust to Godward and whatsoeuer wee aske we receiue of him because we keepe his commaundements and doe those things which are pleasant in his sight And this is his commaundement that we beleeue on the name of his Sonne Iesus Christ and loue one another as he gaue commandement And hee that keepeth his commaundements dwelleth in him and hee in him and hereby wee know that he abideth in vs euen by the spirit which he hath giuen vs. The Gospel A Certain man ordained a great supper Luke 14.16 and bade many and sent his seruant at supper time to say to them that were bidden Come for all things are nowe ready And they all at once began to make excuse The first sayd vnto him I haue bought a farme and I must needes goe and see it I pray thee haue mee excused And another sayd I haue bought fiue yoke of oxen and I goe to proue them I pray thee haue me excused And another said I haue married a wife and therefore I cannot come And the seruant returned and brought his master word againe thereof Then was the good man of the house displeased and said to his seruant Goe out quickly into the streetes and quarters of the Citie and bring in hither the poore and feeble and the halt and blind And the seruant said Lord it is done as thou hast commaunded and yet there is roume And the Lord said vnto his seruant Go out into the high wayes and hedges and compel them to come in that my house may be filled For I say vnto you that none of these men which were bidden shal taste of my supper The iij. Sunday after Trinitie The Collect. LOrd we
together ly fiâ—led twelue basketswith the broken meat of the fiue bariy loanes which broken meate remained vnto them that had eaten Then those men when they had seene the miracle that Iesus did said This is of a trueth the same Prophet that sthould come into the world If there bee any moe Sundayes before Aduent Sunday to supplie the same shal be taken the seruice of some of those Sundayes that were omitted betweene the Epiphanie and Septuagesima S. Andrewes day The Collect. ALmighte God which didest giue such grace vnto thy hily Apostle Saint Andrew that he readily obeyed the calling of thy Sonne Iesus Christ and followed him without delay graunt vnto vs all that wee being called vp thy holy word may foorth with giue ouer our selues obediently to followe thy holy commaundements through the same Iesus Christ out Lord. The Epistle IF thou acknowledge with thy mouth that Iesus is the Lord Rom. 10.9 beleeue in thy heart that God raised him vp from death thou shall bee safe For to beleeue with the heart iustfieth to knowledge with the mouth maketh a man safe For the Scripture faith whosoeuer beleeueth on him shal not be confounded There is no difference betweene the Iew the Gentile For one is Lord of al which is rich vnto all that cal vpon him For whosoeuer doth call on the Name of the Lord shall be safe How then shall they call on him on whom they haue not beleeued How shall they beleeue on him of whome they haue not heard How shall they heare without a preacher And how shall they preach without they be sent As it is written How beautifull are the seete of them which bring tidings of peace and bring tidings of good things But they haue not allobeyed to the Gospel For Esai faith Lord who hath beleeued our sayings So then faith commeth by hearing and hearing commeth by the word of God But I aske Haue they not herard No doubt their sound went out into all lands and their words into the ends of the world But I demaunde whether Israel did know or no First Moses faith I will prouoke you to enuie by them that are no people by a foolish nation I will anger you Esai after that is bolde and saith I am found of them that sought mee not I am manifest vnto them that asked not after me But against Israel hee saith All day long haue I stretched foorth my hands vnto a people that beleeueth not but speaketh against me The Gospel AS Iesus walked by the sea of Galilee hee saw two brethren Mat. 4.18 Simon which was called Perer and Andrew his brother castinga net into the sea for they were fishers and he said vnto them Follow me and I will make you to become fishers of men And they straightway left their nets and followed him And when he was gone forth from thence he saw other two brethren Iames the sonne of Zebedee and Iohn his brother in the ship with Zebedee their father mending their nets and hee called them And they immediatly left the ship and their father and followed him S. Thomas the Apostle The Collect. ALmightie and euerlining God which for the more confirmation of the faith diddest suffer thy holy Apostle Thomas to bee doubtful in thy sonnes resurxection Grannet vs so perfetly and without all doubt to beleeue in thy Sonne Iesus Christ that our faith in thy sight neuer bee reprooued Heare vs O Lord througe the same Iesus Christ to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour c. The Epistle NOwe yee are not strangers Eph. 2.19 nor forxeiners but citizens with the Saints and of the housholde of God and Are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophers Iesus Christ himselfe being the head corner stone m whome what building soeuer is coupled together it groweth vnto an holy Temple of the Lord in whom ye also are built together to be an habitation of God through the holy Ghost The Gospel THomas one of the twelue Iohn 20. 24 which is called Didymus was not with them when Iesus came The other disciples therefore sayd vnto him wee haue seene the Lorde But he sayd vnto them Except I see in his handes the print of the nailes and put my finger into the print of the nailes and thrust my hand into his side I will not beleeue And after eight dayes againe his disciples were within and Thomas with them Then came Iesus when the doores were shut and stood in the midst and said Peace be vnto you And after that he said to Thomas Bring thy finger hither and see my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and bee not faithlesse but beleeuing Thomas answered and sayd vnto him My Lord and my God Iesus said vnto him Thomas because thou hast seene mee thou hast beleeued Blessed are they that haue not seene and yet haue beleeued And many other signes truely did Iesus in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this booke These are written that ye might belecue that Iesus Christ is the Sonne of God and that in beleeuing ye might haue life through his Name The Conuersion of S. Paul The Collect. GOD which hast taught all the world through the preaching of thy blessed Apostle Saint Paul grant wee beseech thee that we which haue his wonderfull conuersion in remembrence may follow and fuifill thy holy doctrine that hee taught through Iesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle ANd Saul yet breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord went vnto the hie Priest Acts. 9.1 desired of him letters to cary to Damasco to the synagogues that if he found any of this way were they men or women he might bring them bound to Hierusalem And wheÌ„ he iourneyed it fortuned that as he was come nigh to Damasco suddenly there shined round about him a light from heauen and he fell to the curth heard a voice saying to him Saul Saul why persecutest thou me And he said what art thou Lord And the Lord said I am Icsus whom thou persecutest It is hard for thee to kicke against the prick And he both trembling and astonied said Lord what wilt thou haue me to doe And the Lord said vnto him Arise and go into the citie and it shall be tolde thee what thou must doe The men which tourneyed with him stood amazed hearing a voice but seeing no man And Saul arose from the earth when hee opened his eyes he saw no man but they led him by the hand and brought him into Damasco And hee was three dayes without sight and did neither eat nor drinke And there was a certaine disciple at Damasco named Ananias and to him said the Lord in a vision Anamas And hee said Behold I am here Lord. And the Lorde said vnto him Arise and goe into the strcete which is called Straight and seeke in the house of Iudas after one
hand of all that hate vs. That hee would deale mercifully with our fathers and remember his holy Couenaunt that he would performe the oath which hee sware to our father Abraham for to giue vs. That we being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies might serue him without freare all the dayes of our life in such holinesse and righteousnesse as are acceptable for him And thou childe shall bee called the Prophet of the highest for thou shalt goe before the face of the Lord to prepare his wayes To giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people for the remission of sinnes through the tender mercie of our God whereby the day spring from an high hath visited vs. To giue light to them that sit in darknesse and in the shadowe of death and to guide our feete into the way of peace And the childe grew and waxed strong in spirit and was in wildernesse till the day came when he should shew himselfe vnto the Israelites Saint Peters day The Collect. ALmightie God which by thy sonne Iesus Christ hast giuen to thy Apostle S. Peter many excellent gifts and comandedst him earnestly to feede thy flocke make we beseech thee all Bishops and Pastours diligently to preach thy holy word and the people obediently to follow the same that they may receiue the crowne of euerlasting glorie through Iesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle AT the same time Acts 12.1 Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vexe certaine of the congregation and he killed Iames the brother of Iohn with the sword And because hee sawe it pleased the Iewes he proceeded further and tooke Peter also Then were the dayes of sweete bread And when hee had caught him he put him in prison also and deliuered him to foure quaternions of souldiers to bee kept intending after Easter to bring him foorth to the people And Peter was kept in prison but prayer was made without ceasing of the congregation vnto God for him And when Herod would haue brought him out vnto the people the same night slept Peter tweene two souldiers bound with two chaines and the keepers before the doore kept the prison And behold the Angel of the Lord was there present and a light shined in the habitation and he smote Peter on the side and stirred him vp saying Arise vp quickly And his chaines fell from his hands And the Angle said vnto him Gird thy selfe and binde on thy sandales And so hee did And hee faith vnto him East thy garment about thee and follow me And hee came out and followed him and wist not that it was trueth which was done by the Angel but though thee had seene a vision When they were past the first and secoud watch they came vnto the yron gate that leadeth vnto the citie which opened to them by the owne accord and they went out and passed through one streete and foorthwith the Angle departed from him And when Peter was come to himselfe hee said Now I know of a suretie that the Lord hath sent his Angel and hath deliuered me out of the hand of Herod and from all the waiting of the people of the Iewes The Gospel WHen Iesus came into the coastes of the Citie Mat. 16.13 which is called Cesarea Philippi he asked his disciples saying whom do men say that I the sonne of man am They sayde Some say that thou art Iohn Baptist some Elias some Ieremias or one of the Prophets Hee saith vnto them But whom say yee that I am Simon Peter answered and said Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God And Iesus answered and said vnto him Happie art thou Simon the sonne of Iohas for flesh and blood hath not opened that vnto thee but my father which is in heauen And I say vnto thee that thou art Peter and vpon this rocke will I build my congregation and the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it And I will giue vnto thee the keyes of the kingdome of heanen And whatsoeuer thou bindest in earth shall be bound in heauen and whatsoeuer thou loosest in earth shall bee loosed in heauen S. Iames the Apostle The Collect. GRant O mercifull God that as thine holy Apostle Iames leauing his father and all that he had without delay was obedient vnto the calling of thy Sonne Iesus Christ and followed him So we forsking all wordly and carnal affections may be euermore ready to follow thy commandements through Iesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle IN those dayes came Prophets from the Citie of Hierusalem Acts. 11.27 vnto Antioch And there stood vp one of them named Agabus and signified by the Spirite that there should bee great dearth throughout all the world which came to passe in the Emperour Claudius dayes Then the disciples euery man according to his habilitie purposed to send succour vnto the brethren which dwelt in Iewrie which thing they also did and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul At the same time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vexe certaine of the congregation And hee killed Iames the brother of Iohn with the sword and because hee saw it pleased the Iewes he proceeded further and tooke Peter also The Gospel THen came to him the mother of Zebedees children Mat. 20.20 with her sonnes worshipping him and desiring a certaine thing of him And hee said vnto her what wilt thou Shee said vnto him Grant that these my two sonnes may sit the one on the right hand and the other on the lest in they kingdome But Iesus answered and sayd yee wote not what yee aske Are yee able to drinke of the cup that I shall drinke of and to bee baptized with the baptisme that I am baptized with They saide vnto him wee are Hee said vnto them yee shall drinke in deede of my cup and be baptized with the baptisme that I am baptized with but to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to giue but it shall chaunce vnto them that it is prepared for of my father And when the ten heard this they disdained at the two brethren But Iesus called them vnto him and sayde yee knowe that the princes of the nations haue dominion ouer them and they that are great men exercise authoritie vpon them It shall not be so among you But whosoeuer will bee great among you let him bee your minister and whosoeuer will be chiefe among you let him be your seruant Euen as the sonne of man came not to bee ministred vnto but to minister and to giue his life a redemption for many S. Bartholomew Apostle The Collect. O Almightie and euerlasting God which hast giuen grace to thine Apostle Bartholomewe truely to beleeue and to preach the word graunt wee beseech thee vnto thy Church both to loue that hee beleeued and to preach that hee taught through Christ our Lord. The Epistle BY the handes of the Apostles were many signes and wonders shewed among the people
thee we giue thanks to thee for thy great glory O Lord GOD heauenly king God the Father almightie O Lord the only begotten sonne Iesu Christ O Lorde GOD Lambe of God sonne of the Father that takest away the sinnes of the world haue mercy vpon vs. Thou that takest away the sinnes of the world receiue our prayer Thou that fittest at the right hand of God the Father haue mercie vpon vs. For thou onely art holy thou onely art the Lord thou only O Christ with the holy Ghost art most high in the glory of god the father Amen Then the Priest or the Bishop if he be present slall let them depart with this blessing The peace of God which passeth all vnderstanding keepe your hearts and mindes in the knowlege and loue of God and of his sonne Iesus Christ our Lord and the blessing of God almighty the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost be amongst you and remaine with you alwayes Amen Collects to be said after the offertorie when there is no Communion euery such day one And the same may be said also as often as occasion shal serue After the Collects either of Morning and Euening prayer Communion or Letanie by the discretion of the Minister ASsist vs mercifully O Lord in these our supplications and prayers and dispose the way of thy seruants toward the attainement of euerlasting saluation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life they may euer bee defended by thy most gracious and readie helpe though Christ our Lord. Amen O ALmightie Lord and euerliuing God vouchsafe wee beseech thee to direct sanctifie and gouerne both our heartes and bodies in the wayes of thy lawes and in the works of thy commandements that through thy most mighty protection both here and euer we may be preserued in body soule though our Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ Amen GRaunt wee beseech thee almightie God that the wordes which wee haue heard this day with our outward eares may though thy grace be so graffed inwardly in our hearts that they may bring forth in vs the fruit of good liuing to the honour and praise of thy name though Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PReuent vs O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious fauour and further Vs with thy continuall helpe that in all our works begum continucd and ended in the we may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obteine euerlasting life though Iesus Christ out Lord. Amen ALmightie GOD the fountaine of all wisedome which knowest our neccssities before we aske and our ignorance in asking wee beseech thee to haue compassion vpon out infirmities and those things which for our vnworthinesse we dare not and for our blindnesse we cannot aske vouchsafe to giue vs for the worthines of thy sonne Iesus Christ our Lord Amen ALmightie god which hast promised to heare the petitions of them that aske in thy sonnes name we beseech thee mercifully to encline thine eares to vs that haue made now our prayers and supplications vnto thee and graunt that those things which wee haue faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the reliefe of our necessitie and to the setting forth of thy glorie though Iesus Christ our Lord Amen ¶ Vpon the holy dayes if there be no Communion shall be said all that is appointed at the Communion vntill the ende of the Homilie concluding with the generall prayer for the whole estate of Chrifstes Church militant here in earth and one or moe of these Collects before rehearsed as occasion shall serue And there shall bee no celebration of the Lords Supper except there be a good number to communicate with the Priest according to his discretion And if there be not aboue twentie persons in the Parish of discretion to receiue the Communion yet there shall be no Communion except foure or three at the least communicate with the Priest And in Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches where be many Priests and Deacons they shall all receiue the Communion with the Minister euery Sunday at the least except they haue a reasonable cause to the contrarie And to take away the superstition which any person hath or might haue in the bread and wine it shall suffice that the bread be such as is vsually to bee eaten at the table with other meates but the best and purest wheate bread that conueniently may bee gotten And if any of the bread and wine remaine the Curate shall haue it to his owne vse The bread and wine for the Communion shall be prouided by the Curate and the Churchwardens at the charges of the Parish and the Parish shall be discharged of such summes of money or other dueties which hitherto they haue paide for the same by order of their houses euery Sunday And note that euery Parishioner shal communicate at the least three times in the yeere of which Easter to bee one and shall also receiue the Sacraments and other Rites according to the order in this booke appointed And yeerely at Easter euery Parishioner shall reckon with his Parson Vicar or Curate or his or their deputie or deputies and pay to them or him all Ecclesiasticall dueties accustomably due then and at that time to be payed The ministration of Baptisme to be vsed in the Church It appeareth by ancient writers that the Sacrament of Baptisme in the old time was not commonly ministred but at two times in the yeere At Caster and whitfuntide At which times it was openly ministred in the presence of all the Congregation Which custome now being growen out of vse although it cannot for many considerations bee well restored againe it is thought good to follow the same as neere as conueniently may be Wherefore the people are to be admonished that it is most conuenient that Baptisme should not be ministred but vpon Sundays and other holydayes when thr most number of people may come together as well for that the congregation thet present may testifie the recieuing of them that be newly baptized into the number of Christ Church as also becouse in the Baptisme of insants euery man present may bee put in remembrance of his owne profession made to God in his baptisme For which cause also it is expedient that baptisme be ministred in the English tounge Neuerthelesse if necessitie so requeire children may at all times be baptized at home When there are children to bee baptized vpon the Sunday or holy day the parents shall giue knowledge ouer night or in the morning afore the beginning of Morning prayer to the Curate And then the Godfathers Godmothers and people with the children must be ready at the Font either immediatly after the last Lesson at Morning prayer or els immediatly after the last Lesson at Euening prayer as the Curate by his discretion shall appoint And then standing there the Priest shall aske whether the children be baptized or no. If they answere No then shal the Priest say thus DEarely
Lord saue this woman thy seruant Answere Which putteth her trust in thee Priest Be thou to her a strong towre Answere From the face of her enemie Priest Lord heare our prayer Answere And let our crie come vnto thee Priest Let vs pray O Almightie GOD which hast deliuered this woman thy seruant from the great paine and perill of child birth graunt we beseech thee most mercifull Father that shee through thy helpe may both faithfully liue and walke in her vocatiion according to thy will in this life present and also may bee partaker of euerlasting glory in the life to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen The woman that commeth to giue her thankes must offer accustomed offerings and if there bee a Communion it is conuenient that she receiue the holy Communion A Commination against sinners With certaine prayers to be vsed diuers times in the yeere After Morning prayer the people being called together by the ringing of a bell and assembled in the Church the English Lâ—â—â—ie shal be sayd after the accustomed maner which ended the Priest shall goe into the pulpit and say thus BRethren in the primitue Church there was a godly discipline that at the beginning of Lent such persons as were notorious sinners were put to open penance punished in this world that their soules might bee saued in the day of the Lord and that other admonished by their example might bee the more afraid to offend In the stead whereof vntil the sayd discipline may be restored againe which thing is much to be wished it is thought good that at this time in your presence should bee read the generall sentences of Gods cursing against impenitent sinners gathered out of the xxvii Chapter of Deuteronomie and othen places of Scripture and that yee should answere to euery sentence Amen to the intent that you being admonished of the great indignation of God against sinners may thy rather be called to earnest and true repentance and may walke more warily in these dangerous dayes fleeing from such vices for the which yee affirme with your owne mouthes the curse of God to be due Cursed is the man that maketh any carued or molten image an abomination to the Lord the worke of the hands of the craftesman and putteth it in a secret place to worshipst And the people shall answere and say Amen Minister Cursed is he that curseth his father and mother Answere Amen Minister Cursed is he that remoueth away the marke of his neighbours land Answere Amen Minister Cursed is hee that maketh the blinde to goe out of his way Answere Amen Minister Cursed is hee that letteth in indgement the right of the stranger of them that be fatherlesse and of widowes Answere Amen Minister Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour serretly Answere Amen Minister Cursed is he that lieth with his neighbours wife Answere Amen Minister Cursed is hee that taketh reward to slay the soule of innocent blood Answere Amen Minister Cursed is hee that putteth his trust in man and taketh man for his defence and in his heart goeth from the Lord. Answere Amen Minister Cursed are the vnmercifull the fornicatours and adulterers and the couetous persons the worshippers of images slanderers drunkards and extortioners Answere Amen Minister NOw seeing that all they bee accursed as the Prophet Dauid beareth witnesse which doe erre and goe astray from the commaundements of God Psal 119. let vs remembring the dreadfull iudgement hanging ouer our heads and being alwaies at hand returne vnto our Lord God with al contrition and meeknesse of heart bewayling and lamenting our sinfull life knowleding and confessing our offences and seeking to bring foorth worthie fruites of penance For now is the Axe put vnto the roote of the trees Matt. 3. so that euery tree that bringeth not foorth good fruite is he wen downe and cast into the fire Heb. 11 It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God he shall power downe raine vpon the sinners snares fire and brimstone storme and tempest Psal 10. this shall bee their portion to drinke For loe the Lord is commen out of his place Esai 26 to visite the wickednesse of sueh as dwell vpon the earth Mala. 3. But who may abide the day of his comming Who shall bee able to endure when he appeareth His fan is in his hand Matt. 3. and he will purge his floore and gather his wheate into the barne but he will burne the chaffe with vnquenchable fire The day of the Lord commeth as a theefe in the night and when men shall say Peace and all things are safe then shall sudden destruction come vpon them as sorrow commeth vpon a woman traueiling with childe and they shall not escape Then shall appeare the wrath of God in the day of vengeance Rom. 2. which obsrinate sinners through the stubbernnesse of their heart haue heaped vnto themselues which despised the goodnesse patience and long sufferance of God when he called them continually to repentance Then shall they call vpon me saith the Lord but I will not heare Prou. 1. they shall seeken mee early but they shall not finde mee and that because they hated knowledge and receiued not the feare of the Lord but abhorred my counsell and despised my correction Then shall it bee too late to knocke When the doore shalt bee shut and too late to crie for mercie When it is the time of iustice O terrible voyce of most iust iudgement which shalt bee pronounced vpon them Matt. 25. when it shalt be said vnto them Goe yee cursed into the fire euerlasting Which is prepared for the Deuill and his angels 2 cor 6. Therefore brethren take wee heede betime while the day of saluation lasteth for the night commeth when none can Worke Iohn 9. but let vs while we haue the light beleeue in the light and Walker as the children of the light that We be not cast into the vtter darknesse Matt. 25. Where is Weeping and gnashing of teeth Let vs not abuse the goodnes of God Which calleth vs mertifully to amendement and of the endlesse pitie promiseth vs forgiuenesse of thatt Which is past if with a Whole minde and true heart Wereturne vnto him Esai i For though our sinnes bee as red as searlet they sall be as White as snow and though they be like purple yet shal they be as White as wooll Eze. 28. Turne you cleane saith the Lord from all your wickedesse and your snne shalt not be your destruction Cast a way from yon al your vngodlines that ye haue done make you new hearts and a new spirit Wherefore will ye die O ye honse of Is rael seeing that I haue no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord God turne you then and yee shalt liue i. Iohnz Athough we haue ssinned yet haue we an aduocate with the father Iesus Christ the righteous and
remooued because he was wroth There went a smoke out of his presence and a consuming fire out of his mouth so that coales were kindled at it Hee bowed the heauens also and came downe and it was darke vnder his feete He rode vpon the Cherubims and did flie hee came flying vpon the wings of the winde Hee made darkenesse his secret place his Pauilion round about him with darke water and thicke cloudes to couer him At the brightnesse of his presence his cloudes remooued hailestones and coales of fire The Lorde also thundred out of heauen and the Highest gaue his thunder hailestones and coales of fire He sent out his arrowes and scattered them he cast foorth lightnings and destroyed them The springs of waters were seene and the foundations of the round world were discouered at thy chiding O Lord at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasure Hee shalt send downe from the high to fetch me and shalt take me out of many waters Hee shalt deliuer mee from my strongest enemie and from them which hate me for they are too mightie for me They preuented me in the day of my trouble but the Lord was my vpholder He brought me forth also into a place of liberty he brought me forth euen because he had a fauour vnto me The Lorde shalt reward me after my righteous dealing according to the cleannesse of my hands shalt he recompence mee Because I haue kept the wayes of the Lord and haue not forsaken my God as the wicked doeth For I haue an eye vnto all his lawes and will not cast out his commandements from me I was also vncorrupt before him and eschewed mine own wickednesse Therefore shalt the Lord reward me after my righteous dealing and according vnto the cleannesse of my hands in his eye sight With the holy thou shalt be holy and with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect With the cleane thou shalt bee cleane and with the froward thou shalt learne frowardnesse For thou shalt saue the people that are in aduersitie and shalt bring downe the high lookes of the proud Thou also shalt light my candle the Lorde my God shall make my darkenesse to be light For in thee I shall discomfit an hoste of men and with the helpe of my God I shall leape ouer the wall The way of God is an vndefiled way the worde of the Lorde also is tried in the fire hee is the defender of all them that put their trust in him For who is God but the Lord or who hath any strength except our God It is God that girdeth me with strength of warre and maketh my way perfect He maketh my feete like Harts feete and setteth me vpon high Hee teacheth my handes to fight and mine armes shall breake euen a bowe of steele Thou hast giuen me the defence of thy saluation thy right hande also shall holde me vp and thy louing correction shall make me great Thou shalt make roome ynough vnder me for to goe that my foote steps shall not slide I will followe vpon mine enemies and ouertake them neither will I turne againe till I haue destroyed them I will smite them that they shall not be able to stand but fall vnder my feete Thou hast girded me with strength vnto the battell thou shalt throw downe mine enemies vnder me Thou hast made mine enemies also to turne their backes vpon me and I shall destroy them that hate me They shall cry but there shall bee none to helpe them yea euen vnto the Lord shal they cry but he shall not heare them I will beate them as small as the dust before the winde I will cast them out as the clay in the streetes Thou shalt deliuer mee from the struings of the people and thou shalt make me the head of the heathen A people whom I haue not knowen shall serue me Assoone as they heare of mee they shall obey mee but the strange children shall dissemble with me The strange children shall faile and be afraid out of their prisons The Lorde liueth and blessed bee my strong helper and praised be the God of my saluation Euen the God that seeth that I be auenged and subdueth the people vnto me It is hee that deliuereth me from my cruell enemies and setteth mee vp aboue mine aduersaries thou shalt ridde mee from the wicked man For this cause will I giue thankes vnto thee O Lorde among the Gentiles and sing prayses vnto thy Name Great prosperitie giueth hee vnto his King and sheweth louing kindnesse vnto Dauid his anoynted and vnto his seed for euermore Coeli enarrant Psal xix THe heauens declare the glorie of God Morning Prayer and the firmament sheweth his handy worke Oue day telleth another and one night certifieth another There is neither speech nor language but their voyces are heard among them Their sound is gone out into all landes and their wordes into the endes of the world In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sunne which commeth foorth as a bridegrome out of his chamber and reioyceth as a Gyant to runne his course It goeth forth from the vttermost part of the heauen and runneth about vnto the end of it againe and there is nothing hid from the heate thereof The Law of the Lord is an vndefiled Lawe conuerting the soule the testimonie of the Lord is sure and giueth wisedome vnto the simple The statutes of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart the commandement of the Lord is pure and giueth light vnto the eyes The feare of the Lorde is cleane and endureth for euer the iudgements of the Lorde are true and righteous altogether More to be desired are they then gold yea then much fine gold sweeter also then hony and the hony combe Moreouer by them is thy seruant taught and in keeping of them there is great reward Who can tell how oft he offendeth O clense thou me from my secret faults Keepe thy seruaunt also from presumptutous sinnes lest they get the dominion ouer me so shall I be vndefiled and innocent from the great offence Let the wordes of my mouth and the mediitation of my heart be alway acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and my redeemer Exaudiat te Deus Psal xx The Lord heare thee in the day of trouble the name of the God of Iacob defend thee Send thee helpe from the Sanctuarie and strength thee out of Sion Remember all thy offerings and accept thy burnt sacrifice Graunt thee thy hearts desire and fulfill all thy minde We will reioyce in thy saluation and triumph in the name of the Lorde our God the Lorde perfourme all thy petitions Nowe knowe I that the Lord helpeth his anoynted and will heare him from his holy heauen euen with the wholesome strength of his right hand Some put their trust in charets and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God They are brought downe and fallen but we are risen and stand vpright
and crowneth thee with mercie and louing kindnesse Which satisfieth thy mouth with good things making thee yong and lustie as an Eagle The Lord executeth righteousnesse and iudgement for all them that are oppressed with wroug He shewed his wayes vnto Boses his workes vnto the children of Israel The Lord is full of compassion and mercie long suffering and of great goodnesse He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for euer He hath not dealt with vs after our sinnes nor rewarded vs according to our wickednesse For looke howe high the heauen is in comparison of the earth so great is his mercie also toward them that feare him Looke how wide also the East is from the West so farre hath he set our sinnes from vs. Yea like as a father pitieth his owne children euen so is the Lord mercifull vnto them that feare him For he knoweth wherof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust The dayes of man are but as grasse for he florisheth as a flowre of the field For as soone as the winde goeth ouer it it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more But the mercifull goodnes of the Lord endureth for euer and euer vpon them that feare him and his righteousnesse vpon childrens children Euen vpon such as keepe his couenant and thinke vpon his commandements to doe them The Lorde hath prepared his seate in heauen and his kingdome ruleth ouer all O praise the Lorde yee angels of his yee that excell in strength ye that fulfill his commandement and hearken vnto the voice of his wordes O praise the Lord all ye his hostes ye seruants of his that doe his pleasure O speake good of the Lord all ye workes of his in all places of his dominion Praise thou the Lord O my soule Benedic anima mea Psal 104. PRaise the Lord Euening prayer O my soule O Lorde my God thou art become exceeding glorious thou art clothed with maiestie and honour Thou deckest thy selfe with light as it were with a garment and spreadest out the heauens like a curtaine Which layeth the beames of his chamber in the waters and maketh the cloudes his charet and walketh vpon the wings of the winde He maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flaming fire He layd the foundations of the earth that it neuer should mooue at any time Thou coueredst it with the deepe like as with a garment the waters stand in the hilles At thy rebuke they flee at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid They goe vp as high as the hilles and downe to the valleys beneath euen vnto the place which thou hast appointed for them Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe neither turne againe to couer the earth He sendeth the springs into the riuers which runne among the hilles All beasts of the field drinke thereof and the wilde Asses quench their thirst Beside them shall the foules of the ayre haue their habitation and sing among the branches He watereth the hilles from aboue the earth is filled with the fruite of thy workes He bringeth foorth grasse for the cattell and greene herbe for the seruice of men That he may bring foode out of the earth and wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oyle to make him a cherefull countenance and bread to strengthen mans heart The trees of the Lord also are full of sap euen the Cedars of Libanus which he hath planted Wherein the birdes make their nestes and the Firre trees are a dwelling for the Storke The high hilles are a refuge for the wilde Goates and so are the stonie rockes for the Conies Hee appointed the Moone for certaine seasons and the Sunne knoweth his going downe Thou makest darkenesse that it may be night wherein all the beasts of the forest doe mooue The Lions roaring after their pray doe seeke their meate at God The sunne ariseth and they get them away together and lay them downe in their dennes Man goeth foorth to his worke and to his labour vntill the euening O Lord how manifold are thy workes in wisedome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches So is the great and wide sea also wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts There goe the ships and there is that Liuiathan whom thou hast made to take his passime therein These wayte all vpon thee that thou mayest giue them meate in due season When thou giuest it them they gather it and when thou openest thy hand they are filled with good When thou hidest thy face they are troubled When thou takest away their breath they die and are turned againe to their dust When thou lettest thy breath goe forth they shal be made and thou shalt renue the face of the earth The glorious Maiestie of the Lord shall endure foreuer the Lord shall reioyce in his workes The earth shall tremble at the looke of him if he doe but touch the hilles they shall smoke I will sing vnto the Lord as long as I liue I will praise my God while I haue my being And so shall my words please him my ioy shal be in the Lord. As for sinners they shall be consumed out of the earth and the vngodly shal come to an end praise thou the Lord O my soule praise the Lord. Confitemini Domino Psal 105. O Giue thankes vnto the Lord Morning prayer and call vpon his name tell the people what things he hath done O let your songs be of him and praise him and let your talking be of all his wonderous workes Reioyce in his holy Name let the heart of them reioyce that seek the Lord. Seeke the Lord his strength seeke his face euermore Remember the marueilous works that he hath done his wonders and the indgements of his mouth O ye seede of Abraham his seruant ye children of Iacob his chosen Hee is the Lorde our God his iudgements are in all the world He hath bene alway mindfull of his couenant and promise that he made to a thousand generations Euen the couenant that he made with Abraham and the other that he sware vnto Isahac And appointed the same vnto Iacob for a law and to Israel for an euerlasting testament Saying Vnto thee will I giue the land of Chanaan the lot of your inheritance When there were yet but a fewe of them and they strangers in the land What time as they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people He suffered no man to doe them wrong but reproued euen kings for their sakes Touch not mine anoynted doe my Prophets no harme Moreouer hee called for a dearth vpon the land and destroyed all the prouision of bread But hee had sent a man before them euen Ioseph which was solde to be a bond seruant Whose feete they hurt in the stockes the yron entred into his soule Until the time came that his cause was knowen the
enemies and to those that speake euill agaist my soule But deale thou with me O Lord God according vnto thy Name for sweete is thy mercie O deliuer me for I am helpelesse and poore and my heart is wounded within me I go hence like the shadow that departeth and am driuen away as the grashopper My knees are weake through fasting my flesh is dried vp for want of fatnesse I became also a rebuke vnto them they that looked vpon me shaked their heads Helpe me O Lorde my God oh saue me according to thy mercie And they shall know how that this is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it Though they curse yet blesse thou and let them bee confounded that rise vp against me but let thy seruant reioyce Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame and let them couer themselues with their owne confusion as with a cloke As for me I will giue great thankes vnto the Lord with my mouth and prayse him among the multitude For he shal stand at the right hand of the poore to saue his soule from vnrighteous Iudges Dixit Dominus psal 110. THE Lorde sayde vnto my Lorde Morning Prayer sit thou on my right hand vntill I make thine enemies thy footestoole The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion bee thou ruler euen in the middes among thine enemies In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free will offerings with an holy worship the dewe of thy birth is of the wombe of the morning The Lord sware and wil not repent thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Meichisedech The Lord vpon thy right hand shall wound euen Kings in the day of his wrath He shall iudge among the heathen hee shall fill the places with the dead bodies and smite in sunder the heads ouer diuers countreys He shall drinke of the brooke in the way therefore shall hee Lift vp his head Confitebor tibi Psal 111. I Will giue thankes vnto the Lord with my whole heart secretly among the faithfull and in the Congregation The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them that haue pleasure therein His worke is worthy to be praysed and had in honour and his righteousnesse endureth for euer The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done his marrucilous works that they ought to be had in remembrance He hath giuen meate vnto them that feare him hee shall euer be mindfull of his couenant He hath shewed his people the power of his workes that he may giue them the heritage of the heathen The workes of his hands are veritie and iudgement all his commandements are true They stand fast for euer and euer and are done in trueth and equitie He sent redemption vnto his people hee hath commanded his couenant for euer holy and reuerent is his Name The feare of the Lorde is the beginning of wisedome a good vnderstanding haue all they that doe thereafter the prayse of it endureth for euer Beatus vir Psal 112. BLessed is the man that feareth the Lord he hath great delight in his conmandements His seede shal be mightie vpon earth the generation of the faithfull shal be blessed Riches and plenteousnes shal be in his house and his righteousnesse endureth for euer Vnto the godly there ariseth vp light in the darkenesse he is mercifull louing and righteous A good man is mercifull and lendeth and will guide his words with discretion For he shall neuer be moued and the righteous shal be had in an euerlasting remembrance Hee will not bee afraide for any euill tidings for his heart standeth fast and beleeueth in the Lord. His heart is stablished and will not shrinke vntill hee see his desire vpon his enemies Hee hath dispersed abroad and giuen to the poore and his righteousnesse remaineth for euer his horne shall be exalted with honour The vngodly shall see it and it shall grieue him hee shall gnash with his teeth and consume away the desire of the vngodly shall perish Laudate pueri Psal 113. PRayse the Lorde yee seruants O prayse the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time foorth for euermore The Lordes Name is praysed from the rising vp of the Snune vnto the going downe of the same The Lord is high aboue all heathen and his glory aboue the heauens Who is like vnto the Lord out God that hath his dwelling so high and yet humbleth himselfe to beholde the things that are in heauen and earth He taketh vp the simple out of the dust and lifteth poore out of the myre That he may set him with the princes euen with the princes of his people He maketh the barren woman to keepe house and to bee a ioyfull mother of children In exitu Israel Psal 114. WHen Israel came out of Egypt Euening preyer and the house of Iacob from among the strange people Iuda was his sancutuarie and Israel his dominion The sea saw that and fled Iordan was driuen backe The mountaines skipped like Rammes and the little hils like young sheepe What aâ—eth thee O thou sea that thou fleddest and thou Iorden that thou wast driuen backe Ye mountaines that ye skipped like Rammes and ye little hils like yong shepe Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lorde at the presence of the God of Iacob Which turned the hard rocke into a standing water and the flint stone into a springing well Non nobis Domine Psal 115 NOt vnto vs O Lord not vnto vs but vnto thy name giue the praise for thy louing mercie and for thy trueths sake Wherefore shall the heathen say where is now their God As for our God he is in heauen he hath done whatsoeuer pleased him Their idoles are siluer gold euen the worke of mens hands They haue mouthes and speake not eyes haue they and see not They haue eares and heare not noses haue they and smell not They haue handes and handle not feete haue they and walke not neither speake they through their throate They that make them are like vnto them and so are all such as put their trust in them But thou house of Israel trust thou in the Lorde hee is their succour and defence Ye house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender Ye that feare the Lorde put your trust in the Lord hee is their helper and defender The Lord hath beene mindfull of vs and hee shall blesse vs eurn he shall blesse the house of Israel he shall blesse the house of Aaron He shal blesse them that feare the Lord both small great The Lord shall increase you more and more you and your children Ye are the blessed of the Lord which made heauen earth All the whole heauens are the Lordes the earth hath hee giuen to the children of men The dead prayse not thee O Lorde neither all they that got downe into the silence But we will praise the
Lord from this time forth for euermore Prayse the Lord. Dilexi quoniam Psal 116. I Am well pleased Morning prayer that the Lorde hath heard the voyce of my prayer That hee hath inclined his eare vnto me therefore will I call vpou him as long as I liue The snares of death compassed me round about and the paines of hell gate hold vpon me I shall finde trouble and heauinesse and I shall call vpon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliuer my soule Gracious is the Lord and righteous yea one God is mercifull The Lord preserueth the simple I was in misery and he helped me Turne againe then vnto thy rest O my soule for the Lord hath rewarded thee And why thiu hast deliuered my soule from death mine eyes from teares and my feet from falling I will walke before the Lord in the land of the liuing I beleeued and therefore will I speake but I was fore troubled I sayd in my haste All men are lyars What reward shall I giue vnto the Lord for all the benefites that he hath done vnto me I will receiue the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vowes nowe in the presence of all his people right deare in the sight of the Lorde is the death of his Saints Behold O Lord how that I am thy seruant I am thy seruant and the sonne of thine handmaid thou hast broken my bonds in sunder I will offer to thee the sarrifice of thankesgiuing and will call vpon the Name of the Lord. I will pay my vowes vnto the Lord in the fight of all his people in the courts of the Lords house euen in the middes of thee O HierusaleM Praise the Lord. Laudate Dominum Psal 117 O Prayse the Lord all yee heathen prayse him all yee nations For his mercifull kindnesse is euer more and more toward vs and the traeth of the Lorde endureth for euer Prayse the Lord. Confitemini Domino Psal 118 O Giue thankes vnto the Lord for he is gracions because his mercie endureth for euer Let Israel now confesse that he is gracious and that his mercie endureth for euer Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercie endureth for euer Yea let them now that feare the Lord confesse that his mercie endureth for euer I called vpou the Lord in trouble and the Lorde heard me at large The Lord is on my side I will not feare what man doth vnto me The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire vpon mine enemies It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in man It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in Princes All nations compassed me round about but in the name of the Lorde will I destroy them They kept me in on eueryside they kept me in I say on euery side but in the name of the Lord wil I destroy them They came about me like Bees and are extinct euen as the fire among the thornes for in the name of the Lord wil I destroy them Thou hast thrust sore at mee that I might fall but the Lord was my helpe The Lord is my strength and my song and is become my saluation The voice of ioy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe The right hand of the Lorde hath the preeminence the right hand of the Lord bringeth mightie things to passe I wil not die but liue and declare the works of the Lord. The Lord hath chastend and corrected mee but hee hath not giuen me ouer vnto death Open me the gates of righteousnesse that I may goe into them and giue thankes vnto the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord the rightteous shal enter into it I mil thanke thee for thou hast heard me and art become my saluation The same stone which the builders refused is become the head ston in the corner This is the Lords doing and it is marueilous in out eyes This is the day which the Lord hath made wee will reioyce and bee glad in it Helpe me now O Lord O Lord send vs now prosperitie Blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord wee haue wished you good luck ye that be of the house of the Lord. God is the Lord which hath shewed vs light binde the sacrifice with cords yea euen vnto the hornes of the altar Thou art my God and I will thanke thee thou art my God and I will praise thee O giue thankes vnto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercie endureth for euer Beati imaculati Psal 119. BLessed are those that are vndefiled in the way Euening Prayer and walke in the Law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keepe his testimonies and seeke him with their whole heart For they which doe no wickednes walke in his wayes Thou hast charged that wee shal diligently keepe thy commandements O that my wayes were made so direct that I might keep thy statutes So shall I not be confounded while I haue respect vnto all thy commandements I will thanke thee with an vnfained hart when I sall haue learned the iudgements of thy righteousnesse I will keepe thy ceremonies O forsake me not vtterly In quo corriget Wherewithall shall a yong man clense his way euen by ruling himselfe after thy word With my whole heart haue I sought thee O let me not goe wrong out of thy commandements Thy wordes haue I hid within my heart that I should not sinne against thee Blessed art thou O Lord O teach me thy statutes With my lippes haue I been telling of all the iudgements of thy mouth I haue had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies as in all maner of riches I will talke of thy commandements and haue respect vnto thy wayes My delight shall be in thy statutes and I will not forget thy word Retribue seruo tuo O Doe well vnto thy seruant that I may liue and keepe thy word Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wonderous things of thy Lawe I am a stranger vpon earth O hide not thy commandements from me My soule breaketh out for the very fernent desire that it hath away vnto thy iudgements Thou hast rebuked the proud and cursed are they that do erre from thy commandements O turne from me shame and rebuke for I haue kept thy testimonies Princes also did sit and speake aganist me but thy seruant is occupied in thy statutes For thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellers Adhaesit pauimento MY soule cleaueth to the dust O quickent thou mee according to thy word I haue knowledged my wayes and thou heardest me O teach me thy statutes Make me to vnderstand the way of thy commandements and so shall I talke of thy wonderous workes My soule melteth away for very heauinesse comfort thou me according vnto
thy word Take from mee the way of lying and cause thon mee to make much of thy Lawe I haue chosen the way of trueth and thy iudgments haue I said befor me I haue stiken vnto thy testimontes O Lord confound me not I wil runne the way of thy commandements When thou hast set my heart at libertie Legem pone TEach me Morning Prayer O Lord the way of thy statues and I shall keepe it vnto the end Giue me vnderstanding and I shall keepe thy Law yea I shall keepe it with my whole heart Make mee to goe in the path of thy commandements for therein is my desire Incline my heart vnto thy testiinonies and not to couetousnesse O turne away mine eyes lest they behold vanitie and quicken thou me in thy way O stablish thy word in thy seruant that I may feare thee Take away the rebuke that I am afraid of for thy indgements are good Behold my delight is in thy commandements O quicken me in thy righteousnesse Et veniat super me LEt thy louing mercie come also vnto mee O Lord euen thy saluation according vnto thy word So shall I make answere vnto my blasphemers for my trust is in thy word O take not the word of thy trueth vtterly out of my mouth for my hope is in thy iudgements So shall I alway keepe thy Law yea for euer and euer And I will walke at libertie for I seeke thy commandements I will speake of thy testimonies also euen before kings and will not be ashamed And my delight shall be in thy commandements which I haue loued My hands also will I lift vp vnto thy commandements which I haue loued and my studie shal be in thy statutes Memor esto verbi tui O Thinke vpon thy seruant as concerning thy worde wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust The same is my comfort in my trouble for thy word hath quickened me The proud haue had mee exceedingly in derision yet haue I not shrinked from thy Law For I remembred thine euerlasting iudgements O Lord and receiued comfort I am horribly afraid for the vngodly that forsake thy law Thy statutes haue been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage I haue thought vpon thy Name O Lord in the night season and haue kept thy Law This I had because I kept thy commandements Portio mea Domine THou art my portion O Lord I haue promised to keepe thy Law I made my humble petitioÌ„ in thy presence with my whole heart O be mercifull vnto me according to thy word I called mine owne waies to remembrance and turned my feete vnto thy testimonies I made haste and prolonged not the time to keepe thy commandements The congregation of the vngodly haue robbed me but I haue not forgotten thy Law At midnight I will rise to giue thankes vnto thee because of thy righteous iudgements I am a companion of all them that feare thee and keepe thy commandements The earth O Lord is full of thy mercie O tearh mee thy statutes Bonitatem fecisti O Lorde thou hast dealt graciously with thy seruant according vnto thy word O learne mee true vnder standing and knowledge for I haue bleeued thy commandements Before I was troubled I went wrong but now haue I kept thy word Thou art good and gracious O teach me thy statutes The proud haue imagined a lie against mee but I will keepe thy commandements with my whole heart Their heart is as fat as brawne but my delight hath been in thy Law It is good for me that I haue been in trouble that I may learne thy statutes The law of thy month is dearer vnto me then thousands of gold and siluer Manus tuae secerunt me THy hands haue made mee Euening prayer and fashioned me O giue me vnderslanding that I may learne thy commandements They that feare thee will bee glad whan they see me because I haue put my trust in thy word I knowe O Lorde that thy iudgements are right and that thou of very faithfulnesse hast caused me to be troubled O let thy mereifull kindnesse bee my comfort according to thy word vnto thy seruant O let thy louing mercies come vnto mee that I may liue For thy Law is my delight Let the proud be confounded for they goe wickedly about to destroy me but I wil be occupied in thy commandements Let such as feare thee and haue knowen thy testimones be turned vnto me O let my heart be sound in thy statutes that I bee not ashamed Defecit anima mea MY soule hath longed for thy saluation and I haue a good hope because of thy word Mine eyes long fore for thy worde saying O when wilt thou comfort me For I am become like a bottell in the smoke yet doe I not forget thy statutes How many are the dayes of thy seruant when will thou be auenged of them that persecute me The proud haue digged pits for mee which are not after thy Law All thy commandements are true they persecute me falsly O be thou my helpe They had almost made an ende of mee vpon earth but I forsooke not thy commandements O quicken mee after thy louing kindnesse and so shall I keepe the testimonies of thy mouâ—h In aeternum Domine O Lord thy word endureth for euer in heauen Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another thou hast layd the foundation of the earth and it abideth They continue this day according to thine ordinance for all things serue thee If my delight had not been in thy Lawe I should haue perished in my trouble I will neuer forget thy commandements for with them thou hast quickened me I am thine O saue me for I haue sought thy commandements The vngodly layd waite for me to destroy me but I will consider thy testimonies I see that all things come to anende but thy commandement is exceeding broad Quomodo dilexi LOrd what loue haue I vnto thy Law all the day long is my studie in it Thou through thy commandements hast made me wiser then mine enemies for they are euer with me I haue more vnderstanding then my teachers for thy testimonies are my studie I am wiser then the aged because I keepe thy commandements I haue refrained my feete from euery euill way that I may keepe thy word I haue not shrunke from thy iudgements for thou teachest me O how sweete are thy words vnto my throte yea sweeter then honie vnto my mouth Through thy commaundements I get vnderstanding therefore I hate all wicked wayes Lucerna pedibus meis THy worde is a lanterne vnto my feete Morning prayer and a light vnto my paths I haue sworne and am stedfastly purposed to keepe thy righteous iudgements I am troubled aboue measure quicken me O Lrde according to thy word Let the free wil offrings of my mouth please thee O Lorde and teach me thy iudgements My soule is alway in my hand yet do I not forget thy law The vngodly haue layde a
snare for mee but I swarued not from thy commandements Thy testimonies haue I claimed as mine heritage for euer and why they are the very ioy of my heart I haue applied my heart to fulfil thy statutes alway euen vnto the ende Iniquos odio habui I Hate them that imagine euill things but thy Law doe I loue Thou art my defence and shielde and my trust is in thy word Away from me yee wicked I will keepe the commandements of my God O stablish mee according to thy worde that I may liue and let me not be disappointed of my hope Holde thou me vp and I shall be safe yea my delight shall be euer in thy statutes Thou hast troned downe all them that depart from thy statutes for they imagine but deceit Thou pettest away al the vngodly of the earth like drosse therefore I loue thy testimonies My flesh trembleth for feare of thee and I am afraide of thy iudgements Feci iudicium I Deale with the thing that is lawfull and right O giue me not ouer mine oppressors Make thou thy seruant to delight in that which is good that the proude doe me no wrong Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health and for the word of thy righteousnesse O deale with thy seruant according vnto thy louing merrie and teach me thy statutes I am thy seruant O graunt mee vnderstanding that I may know thy testimonies It is time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand for they haue destroyed thy Law For I loue thy commandements aboue golde and precious stone Therefore holde I stright all thy commandemebts and all selfe wayes I vtterly abhorre Mirabilia THy testimonies are wonder full therefore doeth my soule keepe them When thy worde goeth foorth it giueth light and vnderstanding vnto the simple I opened my mouth and drewe in my breath for my delight was in thy commandementes O looke thou vpon me and be mercifull vnto me as thou vsest to doe vnto those that loue thy Name Order my steps in thy worde and so shall no wickednesse haue dominion ouer me O deliuer me from the wrongfull dealings of men and so shall I keepe thy commandementes Shew the light of thy countenance vpon thy seraunt and taech me thy statutes Mine eyes gush out with water because men keepe not thy Law Iustus es Domine RIghteous art thou O Lord and true is thy iudgement The testimonies that thou hast commaunded are exceeding righteous and true My zeale hath euen consumed mee because mine enemies haue forgooten thy words Thy word is tryed to the vttermost and thy seruant loueth it I am small and of no reputation yet doe I not forget thy commandementes Thy righteousuesse is an euerlasting righteousnesse and thy law is the trueth Trouble and heauinesse haue taken hold vpon mee yet is my delight in thy commandementes The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is euerlasting O grant me vnderstanding and I shall liue Clamaui in toto corde meo I call with my whole heart Euening prayer heare mee O Lord I will keepe thy statutes Yea euen vpon thee doe I call helpe me and I shall keepe thy testimonies Early in the morning doe I cry vnto thee for in thy word is my trust Mine eyes preuent the night watches that I might bee occupied in thy words Heare my voice O Lord according vnto thy louing kindnesse quitken me according as thou art eont They drawe nigh that of malice persecute mee and are farre from thy law Be thou nigh at hand O Lord for all thy commandements are true As concerning thy testimonies I haue knowen long since that thou hast grounded them for euer Vide humilitatem O Consider mine aduersitie and deliuer me for I doe not forget thy Law Auenge thou my rause and deliuer me quicken mee according vnto thy word Health is farre from the vngodly for they regard not thy statutes Great is thy mercie O Lord quicken mee as thou art woont Many there are that trouble me and persecute me yet do I not swarue from thy restimonies It grieueth mee when I see the transgressours because they kept not thy Law Consider O Lord how I loue thy commandements O quicken me according to thy louing kindnesse Thy word is true from euerlasting all the iudgements of thy righteousnesse endure for euermore Principes persecuti sunt PRinces haue perseruted me without a cause but my heart standeth in awe of the words I am as glad of thy worde as one that findeth great spoyles As for lyes I hate and abhorre them but thy law doe I loue Seuen times a day doe I praise thee because of thy righteous iudgements Great is the peace that they haue which loue thy Law and they are not offended at it Lord I haue looked for thy sauing health and done after thy commandements My soule hath kept thy testimonies and loued them exceedingly I haue kept thy commandements and testimonies for all my wayes are before thee Appropinquet deprecatio LEt my complaint come before thee O Lord giue me vnderstanding according to thy word Let my supplication come before thee deliuer me according to thy word My lips shall speake of thy praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes Yea my tongue shall sing of thy word for all thy commandements are righteous Let thine hand helpe me for I haue chosen thy commandements I haue louged for thy sauing health O Lord and in thy Law is my delight Oh let my soule liue and it shall praise thee and thy iudgements shall helpe me I haue gone astray like a sheepe that is lost Oh seeke thy seruant for I doe not forget thy commandements Ad Dominum Psal 120. When I was in trouble Morning prayer I called vpon the Lord and he heard me Deliuer my soule O Lord from lying lippes and from a deceitfull tongue What reward shall be giuen or done vnto thee thou false tongue euen mighty and sharpe arrowes with hote burning coales Woe is me that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech and to haue mine habitation among the tents of Cedar My soule hath long dwelt among them that be enemies vnto peare I labour for peare but when I speake vnto them thereof they make them readie to battaile Leuaui oculos Psal 121. I will lift vp mine eyes vnto the hilles from whence commeth my helpe My helpe commeth euen from the Lorde which hath made heauen and earth He will not suffer thy foote to be mooued and he that keepeth thee will not sleepe Behold hee that keepeth Israel shall neithet slumber nor sleepe The Lord himself is thy keeper the Lord is thy defence vpon thy right hand So that the sunne shall not burne the by day neither the moone by night The Lord shall preserue thee from all euill yea it is euen he that shall keepe thy soule The Lord shall preserue thy going out and thy comming in from this time foorth for euermore Laetatus sum Psal 122. I was glad when they said
deligently and warily eschew and auoid all things that should displease thee set thee alwayes before our eyes liue in thy feare working that which may be found accepteble before thy diuine Maie stie through Christ our Lord Amen A prayer for the Euening O Most mighty Lord our father and God e uerlasting full of pitie and compassion we acknowledge and confesse that we be not worthy to lift by our eies to heauen much lesse to present our selues before thy Maiesty with confidence that thou wilt heare our prayers grant our requests if we consider our owne deseruing For our conseiences doe accuse vs and our sinnes witnesse against vs and wee know that thou art an vpright iudge which doest not iustifie the sinners and wicked men but punishest the faults of such as transgresse thy commaunde ments Yet most mercifull Father sith it hath pleased thee to command vs to call on thee in all our troubles aduersities promising euen then to helpe vs When wee feele our selues as it were swallowed vp of death and desperation wee vttterly renounce all worthy confidence and flee to thy soue-raigne bounty as our onely stay and refuge besceehinng thee not to call to remembrance our manisold sinnes and wicked-nesse where by wee continually prouoke thy wrath and in dignation against vs neither our negligence and vnkindnesse which haue neither worthily csreemed nor in our liues sufficiently expressed the sweete comfort of thy Gospell reuealed vnto vs but rather to accept the obedience and death of thy Sonne Iesus Christ who by offering vp his body in Sacrifice once for all hath made sufficient recompense for all our sinnes Haue mercie therefore vpon vs O Lorde and forgiue vs our offences Teach vs by thy holy Spirit that wee may rightly weigh them and earnestly repent for the same and so much the rather O Lorde because that the reprobate and such as thou hast forsaken cannot praise thee nor call vpon thy Name but the repenting heart the sorowfull minde the conscience oppressed hungering and thirsting for thy grace shall euer set foorth thy praise and glory And albeit wee bee but wormes and dust yet thou art our Creator and we be the worke of thy hands yea thou art our Father and wee thy childreen thou art our sheepheard and wee thy flokec thou art our redeemer and we thy people whom thou hast bought thou art our God and wee thine inheritance Correct vs not there fore in thine anger O Lord neither according to our deserts punnish vs but mercifully thastise vs with a fatherly affection that all the world may knowe that at what time soeuera sinner doeth repent him of his sinne from the bottome of his heart thou wilt put away his wickednesse out of thy remembrance as thou hast promised by thine holy prophet Finally forasmuch as it hath pleased thee to make the night for man to rest in as thou hast ordained him the day to trauell Grant O deare Father that we may so take out vodily rest that our soules may continuaily watch for the time that our Lord Iesus Christ shall appeare for our deliuerance out of this mortall life and in the meane season that wee not ouercome by any fantasies dreames or other temptations may fully set our mindes vpon thee loue thee feare thee and rest in thee Furthermore that our sleepe be note excessiue or ouer much after the insatiable desires of our flesh but onely sufficient to content our weake nature that wee may bee the better disposed to liue in all godly conuersatiou to the glory of shine holy Name and profite of our brethren Amen A most necessary prayer O Lord Iesus Christ which art true Sunne of the worlde euermore arising and neuer going downe which by thy most wholesome appearing and sight doest bring foorth preserue nourish and refresh all things aswell that are in heauen as also that are on earth we beseech thee mercifully and fauourably to shine into our hearts that the night and darkenesse of sinnes and the mists of errours on cuery side driuen away thou brightly shining within out hearts we may all out life space go with out any stumbling or offence and may decently and seemely walke as in the day time being pure and cleane from the workes of darkenesse abounding in all good workes which God hath prepared for vs to walke in which with the Father and with the holy Ghost liuest and reignest for euer and euer Amen ⧠The prayer of Manasseh King of the Iewes O Lord Almighty God of our fathers Abra ham Isarâ—nd Iacob and of their righte ouseed 〈◊〉 made heauen and earth with all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which hast bound the sea by the word of thy commandement which haâ—◠〈◊〉 vp the deepe and sealed it by thy terriblâ— glorious name whome all doe feare tremble before thy power for the Maiesty of thy glory cannot bee borne thine angry threatning toward sinners is importable but thy mercifull promise is vnmeasurable and bnscatcable For thou art the most high Lord of great com passion long suffering and most mercifull and repentest for mans miscrics Thou O Lord according to thy great good nesse hast promised repentance and forgiuenesse to them that sinne against thee and for thine infinite mâ—rcies hast appointed repentance vnto sinners that they may bee saued Thou therefore O Lord that art the God of the iust hast not appointed repentance to the iust as to Abraham and Isaac and Iacob which haue not sinned against thee but thou hast appointed repcntance vnto nice that am a sinner for I haue sinned aboue the number of the sand of the sea By transgressions O Lorde are multiplied my transgressions are exceeding many and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of the heauens for the multitude of mine vnrighte ousnes I am bowed downe with many yron bands that I cannot lift vp mine head neither haue I any telese For I haue prouoked thy wrath and done euill before thee I did not thy will neither kept I thy commandements I haue set vp abominations and haue multiplied offences Now therefore I bow the knee of mine heart beseeching thee of grace I haue sinned O Lord I haue sinned and I acknowledge my transgressions but I humbly beseech thee forgiue mee O Lord forgiue mee and destroy mee not with my transgressions Be not angry with me for euer by reseruing euill for mee neither condemne mee into the lower partes of the earth For thou art the God euen the God of them that repent and in me thou wilt shewe all thy goodnesse for thou wilt saue me that am vnworthy according to thy great mercie theresre I will prayse thee for euer all they dayes of my life For all the power of the heauens prayse thee and thine is the glory for euer and euer Amen ⧠A prayer conteining the duetie of euery true Christian O Most mighty God merciful and louing Father I wretched sinner come vnto thee in the name of
meeknesse temperance against such there is no law They truely that are Christs haue crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts The Gospel ANd it chanced as Iesus went to Hierusalem Luke 17.11 that he passed thorow Samaria and Galilee And as he entred into a certaine towne there met him tenne men that were lepers which stood afarre off and put foorth their voices and sayd Iesus master haue mercie on vs. When hee sawe them hee said vnto them Goe shewe your selues vnto the Priestes And it came to passe that as they went they were clensed And one of them when he saw that he was clensed turned backe againe and with a loud voice praised God and fell downe on his face at his feete and gaue him thankes And the same was a Samaritane And Iesus answered and said Are there not ten clensed but where are those nine There not found that returned againe to giue God prayse saue onely this stranger And he said vnto him Arise go thy way thy faith hath made thee whole The xv Sunday after Trinitie The Collect. KEepe we beseeth thee O Lorde thy Church with thy perpetuall mercie And because the frailtie of man without thee cannot but fal keepe vs euer by thy helpe and leade vs to all things profitable to our saluation through Iesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle YEsee how large a letter I haue written vnto you with mine own hand As many as desire with outward appearance to please carnally Gal. 6.11 the same constraine you to bee circumcised onely lest they should suffer persecution for the crosse of Christ for they themselues which are circumcised keep not the law but desire to haue you circucised that they might reioice in your flesh God forbid that I should reioice but in the crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ whereby the world is crucified vnto me I vnto the world For in Christ Iesu neither circumcision auaileth any thing at all nor vncircumcision but a new creature And as many as walke according vnto this rule peace be on them and mercie and vpon Israel that pertaineth to God From henceforch let no man put me to businesse for I beare in my body the markes of the Lord Iesu Brethren the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ bee with your spirit Amen The Gospel NO man can serue two masters For either he shal hate the one and loue the other Mat. 6.24 or els leane to the one and despise the other Ye can not serue God and Mammon Therefore I say vnto you Bee not careful for your life what ye shall eate or drinke nor yet for your body what raiment ye shall put on Is not the life more worth then meatē and the bodie more of value then raiment Behold the foules of the ayre for they sow not neither do they reape nor carie into the barnes and your heauenly Father feedeth them Are ye not much better thē they Which of you by taking carefull thought can adde one cubite vnto his stature And why care ye for raiment Consider the Lilies of the field how they grow they labour not neither do they spinne and yet I say vnto you that euen Salomon in all his royalty was not clothed like one of these Wherefore if God so clothe the grasse of the fielde which though it stand to day is to morrow cast into the fornace shall hee not much more doe the same for you O ye of little faith Therfore take no thought saying What shall wee eate or what shall wee drinke or wherewith shall wee bee clothed After all these things doe the Gentiles seeke For your heauenly Father knoweth that yee haue neede of all these things But rather seeke yee first the kingdome of God and the righteousnesse thereof and all these things shal be ministred vnto you Care not then for the morrow for to morrowe day shall care for it selfe Sufficient vnto the day is the trauaile thereof The xvj Sunday after Trinitie The Collect. LOrd we beseech thee let thy continual pitie clense and defend thy congregation and because it can not continue in safety without thy succour preserue it euermore by thy helpe and goodnesse through Iesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle I Desire that you faint not because of my tribulations that I suffer for your sakes Eph. 3.13 which is your praise For this cause I bow my knees vnto the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which is Father of all that is called father in heauen earth that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory that ye may be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that yee being rooted and grounded in loue might be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the bredth length depth and height and to knowe the excellent loue of the knowledge of Christ that yee might bee filled with all fulnesse which commeth of God Vnto him that is able to doe exceeding abundantly aboue all that wee aske or thinke according to the power that worketh in vs be praise in the congregation by Christ Iesus thorowout al generations from time to time Amen The Gospel AND it fortuned Luke 7.11 that Iesus went into a citie called Naim and many of his disciples went with him much people When he came nigh to the gate of the citie behold there was a dead man caried out which was the onelysonne of his mother and she was widowe and much people of the citie was with her And when the Lord saw her hee had compassion on her said vnto herm Weepe not And he came nigh and touched the coffin and they that bare him stood still And he said Yong man I say vnto thee Arise And he that was dead sate vp and began to speake And he deliuered him to his mother And there came a feare on them all and they gaue the glory vnto God saying A great Prophet is risen vp among vs and hath visited his people And this rumor of him went forth thorowout all Iury and thorowout all the regions which lie round about The xvij Sunday after trinitie The Collect. LOrd we pray thee that thy grace may alwayes preuent and follow vs and make vs continually to bee giuen to all good workes through Iesus Christ our Lord. The Epistle I Which am a prisoner of the Lordes exhort you that yee walke worthie of the vocation wherewith ye are called Eph. 4.1 with all lowlinesse and meekenesse with humblenesse of minde forbearing one another through loue be diligent to keepe the vnitie of the spirit through the bond of peace being one body one spirit euen as ye are called in one hope of your calling Let there be but one Lord one faith one baptisme one God and father of all which is aboue all and through all and in you all The Gospel IT chanced that Iesus went into the house of one of the chiefe Pharises