Church and Monarchy are yet so far still from bringing forth meet Fruits of Repentance that we have not as yet attained to any degree of Sight or Sense or Acknowledgment of our Estate much less to a hearty Humiliation or Contrition before thee for those Sins that have fetch'd down this Vengeance upon us We do now at length in the Bitterness of our Souls most heartily desire to cast down our selves prostrate before thee to put our Hands upon our Mouths and our Mouths in the Dust and acknowledge all Honour and Glory to be due to thee whatsoever becomes of us tho' it be in the Shame and Confusion and Condemnation both of our Bodies and Souls This is our only Portion O Lord this is the mildest that we have reason to expect to receive from thy Judgments in Retribution to our Sins and whatsoever is less than this whatsoever the Bitterness of our Cup in this Life tho' thou should'st cast us into the Place of Dragons and give us to drink of the Wine of Astonishment the most stupifying deadly Potion If thou should'st number us all to the Sword or pour out thy Fire and Brimstone upon us yet if by this chastning of us here thou please to rescue us from that sadder Doom of being condemned with the World this is a most inestimable Mercy of thine beyond all that we have hitherto so unworthily enjoyed O Lord we desire and profess to acquit thy Justice in thy Proceedings to admire thy Patience and Long-suffering to adore the infinite Bounty of thy Goodness towards us that we have not been as Admah and Zeboim as Sodom and Gomorrah that we have had this Day the Liberty to approach unto thee O Lord if it may at length be thy good Pleasure to come home to every of our Souls to strike our Hearts to break up this fallow Ground of ours that all thy precious Seed be no longer so cast away among Thorns and by the Power of thy mighty controuling Spirit that thou wilt once subdue all the Resistances of our Spirits against this most just most holy most reasonable Motion of Humiliation within us O Lord this is the one earnest desire of our Souls that hath cast us this Day low before thy Footstool with Cries and Tears and earnest Groans that thou wilt have mercy upon us that thou wilt thus powerfully reveal thy self unto us who hast thus long smitten and importunately called unto us that being at last returned unto thee in Confession of our Sins and Confusion of Face we may be capable of thy Return to us of the further Impressions of thy Grace and never more contradict quench or grieve that Holy Spirit of thine which hath so long wrestled and contended with us That so at length it may be seasonable with thee to give us the Comfort of thy Help again and the Confidence to approach thy Presence to praise that Majesty that hath not cast out our Prayers nor turned his Mercy from us To whom we desire to ascribe all Honour and Glory and Power and Praise now and for ever Amen A Confession of Sins O Lord great and wonderful God keeping Covenant and Mercy to them that love thee and to them that keep thy Commandments We have sinned with our Forefathers We our Kings our Priests and our Nobles and all the People of the Land and have rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and thy Judgments By our impious and godless Thoughts of thee our Confidence in the Arm of Flesh by placing our Affections too much upon earthly things by neglecting to love and delight in thee by presuming of thy Mercies and yet continuing in our Sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our want of Reverence to thy Service not considering the Awfulness of thy Presence and the Honour due to thee in thy House by our formal and hypocritical Worship by open Prophanation and Sacrilege by shews and pretences of Piety to cover our worldly and wicked Designs we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By vain and rash Oaths Blasphemies and Perjuries especially our careless Breaches of Oaths made to our Sovereign forgetting that such are the Oaths of God and that thou thy self in a more especial manner art a strict Avenger of them by our Execrations of our Selves and Brethren and our Enemies we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our undervaluing thy publick Service and neglecting to bear a Part in it by mispending of that time either there or elsewhere in wanton or worldly Thoughts and Employments and not keeping the Spiritual Sabbath unto thee in serving thee truly all the Days of our Life By not duly observing the Times of Festivity or Fasting appointed by just Authority according to the Example of thy People in all Ages we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By not duly acknowledging thine Ordinance and Authority or the Persons of our Superiors by speaking evil of Dignities and reviling the Rulers of thy People by groundless Jealousies and Suspicions and mis-judging and censuring their Actions and at last proceeding to that highest and most horrible Pitch of Violation of that Image of thine imprinted on them by being as a People that strive with their Priest by not obeying those that have Rule over us and not submitting our selves to them who by Appointment watch over our Souls by neglecting the Care of those committed to our Charge not correcting those Sins which cried loud for exemplary Punishment we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By rash Anger and Malice Hatred and Revenge and the bloody Effects thereof by uncharitable Contentions and Divisions Factions and Animosities by Cruelties Unmercifulness and communicating in the Sins of Blood we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By the manifold Sins of Uncleanness by seeking or not avoiding the occasions thereof by Idleness Intemperance and Drunkenness by immodest Words and Gestures by our shameless boasting or not blushing at those Sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By Theft Rapines and Oppression by vexatious Suits so much practised and countenanced by Exactions by unjust Gains in bargaining by defrauding the Labourer of his Hire by want of due Care in expending what we have and a good Conscience in acquiring more we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as
hath and how he doth bear in his Bosom the rebukes of many People And let his Adversaries be cloathed with shame But upon his Head let his Crown flourish O help him against his Enemies for Vain is the help of Man O God make speed to save him O Lord make hast to help him Jeremiah's Lamentations Prophetical of these times HOW hath the Lord covered us with a Cloud in his Anger And cast down from Heaven unto the Earth the beauty of our Israel and remembered not his Foot-stool in the Day of his Wrath For lo he hath bent his Bow as an Enemy he hath swallowed us up and hath not pitied he hath made desolate the Kingdom and the Princes thereof He hath cast off his Altars and abhorred his Sanctuary and hath given into the Hands of the Enemies the Walls of his Pillars He hath caused our solemn Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten and hath despised in his Indignation the King and the Priest For the Lord hath now accomplished his fury he hath poured out his fierce anger he hath kindled such a fire in Sion as hath devoured the Palaces thereof For the Sins of the Prophets and the Iniquity of the Priests who have shed the Blood of the Just in the midst of her For the Breath of our Nostrils the anointed of the Lord hath been taken in their Pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall live in Peace But we have transgressed and have rebelled and thou hast not pardoned And therefore our Eyes have as yet failed us in our vain help for in our watching we have watched for a Nation that could not save us Behold O Lord and consider to whom thou hast done this O Lord thou hast seen his wrong judge thou his Cause Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against him Thou hast heard their Reproach O Lord and all their imaginations against him The Lips of those that are risen up against him and their devices against him all the Day O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him The Second Prayer REmember O Lord what is come upon us consider and behold our reproach For our Inheritance is turned unto Strangers our Houses to Aliens our Necks are under Persecution we labour and have no rest Our Fathers have sinned and are not we have born our Iniquities The Servants rule over us and there is none to deliver us out of their hands Our Elders have ceased from the gate and our young Men from their Musick The Joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into mourning For the Crown is fallen from our Head and wo unto us that we have sinned For this our Heart is faint for these Things our eyes are dim But wherefore doest thou forget us for ever and forsakest us so long time O turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned renew our Days as of old And do not utterly reject us be not for ever wrath against us O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us Daniel's Prayer and Confession in the behalf of himself and his People O Lord the great and dreadful God! we have sinned and done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Judgments Neither have we hearkned to thy Servants the Prophets which spake in thy name to our Kings our Princes and our Fathers and all the People of this Land O Lord Righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us Confusion of face as at this day unto all that are near and far off through all the Countries whether thou hast driven them because of the trespass that they have trespassed against thee For we have not obeyed the Voice of the Lord our God and therefore the Curse is poured out upon us Even such a Curse as that under the whole Heaven hath not been done to us But now O Lord our God according to all thy Righteousness I beseech thee let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from us Hear the Prayer of thy Servant and cause thy face to shine upon thy Sanctuary which is now desolate O my God encline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold our Desolation For I do not present these Supplications before thee for mine own Righteousness but for thy great Mercies O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord do delay not for thine own sake O my God and for thy Peoples sake that are called by thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us Prayers for the KING The First Prayer LOrd remember our distressed King and all his troubles Let thy hand hold him fast and thine arm strengthen him Let not the Enemy be able to do him violence or the Son of Wickedness hurt him Let thy Truth and Mercy be ever with him and in thy Name let his Throne be exalted O be thou his Father his God and his strong Salvation And let him be as thy first born and glorious among the Kings of the Earth O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him The Second Prayer O Most Powerful Lord God the only Disposer of all the Kings and Kingdoms on the Earth who for the Punishment of the crying Sins of this Nation hast extinguished our Glory and cast the Throne down to the ground Give us not over utterly to Ruin and Confusion but bring back yet in thy good time the Heir of these Kingdoms like the Sun with healing in his Wings to repair the Breaches already made and prevent the Desolations that threaten us And however thou hast been pleased to cast a Cloud upon him in the morning of his Days yet leave him not in this Storm forsake him not thou that art the God of his Salvation but look upon his Wrongs and have compassion on his Innocency and Suffering O let it never be in the Power of Man to bar him from the Throne to which by his Birth thou hast designed him but guide him with those Councils and prosper him with that Success as may settle him in his Throne in Peace Or if the Guilt and Wickedness of his Opposers shall still continue to hinder this do it after thine own way O God with thy mighty Hand and stretched out Arm that they may both know and feel that Thou art the Protector of Kings and the Refuge of them who have no other Trust but in Thee grant this O God for the Glory of thy Name and the Comfort of thy desolate Church and People Amen The Third Prayer O Most Merciful God the only Sanctuary of sad and distressed Souls look down I beseech thee upon thy Servant who here with bended Knees and a wounded Spirit prostrate my self before thee for wo unto us we have lived to see the Crown fallen from our Heads and the Glory departed from our Israel even the anointed of the Lord driven to fly before wicked Men
from evil Amen Priest O Lord open thou our lips Answer And our Mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to help us Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning c. A Prayer LOok down O Lord in the Bowels of thy Pity and lend a tender ear to the Voice of our Lamentation our Adversaries are the chief our Enemies prosper for thou hast afflicted us for the Multitude of our Transgressions the Crown is fallen from the Head wo unto us we have sinned O Lord behold our Afflictions For the Enemy hath magnified himself The Adversary hath spread out his Hand upon all our pleasant things they have entered into and prophaned thy Sanctuary they have seen us low and have mocked at our Sabbaths our solemn Feasts are become their Scorn and our Devotion their Derision O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself Thou art become our Enemy thou hast destroyed our strong Holds thou hast encreased among us Mourning and Lamentation because thou hast despised in the Indignation of thine Anger the King and the Priest See O Lord and consider for we are become very vile The Yoak of our Transgressions is bound by thy hand they are wreathed and come upon our Necks thou hast made our Strength to fail thou hast delivered us into their Hands from whom we are not able to rise up Thou hast trodden under Foot our mighty Men in the midst of us Thou hast called an Assembly to crush our young Men Thou hast trodden us as in a Wine-press Our Enemies hear of our Trouble and they are glad that thou hast done it Behold O Lord for we are in Distress Our Bowels are troubled our Heart is turned within us for we have grivously rebelled abroad the Sword devoureth at home there is Death our Enemies have opened their Mouths against us they hiss and gnash their Teeth they say we have swallowed them up certainly this is the Day that we looked for we have found it we have seen it Thus are we in Derision all the Day long we are become their Song and their Musick O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself They have cried unto us depart ye ye are unclean depart depart touch not yea these Men have said they shall no more sojourn here O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself The Breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord is fallen into their Pits and slaughtered by their Hands of whom yet we said under his Shadow we shall live among the midst of these sad Distractions O Lord behold our Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself Thus do we call to mind our Afflictions and our Miseries the Wormwood and the Gall our Souls have them in Remembrance and they are humbled in us and therefore have we hope it is of the Lords mercy that we are not consumed because his Compassions fails not They are new every Morning great is his Faithfulness for the Lord will not cast us off for ever but tho' he cause Grief yet will he have Compassion according to the Multitude of his Mercies for he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the Children of Men Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World without end Amen PSALM III. A PSALM of David when he fled from Absalom his Son Or the Security of God's Protection LORD how are they increased that trouble me Many are they that rise up against me 2. Many there be which say of my Soul There is no help for him in God Selah 3. But thou O Lord art a Shield for me my Glory and the lifter up of my Head 4. I cryed unto the Lord with my Voice and he heard me forth out of his holy Hill Selah 5. I laid me down and slept I awaked for the Lord sustained me 6. I will not be afraid of Ten Thousands of People that have set themselves against me round about 7. Arise O Lord save me O my God For thou hast smitten all mine Enemies upon the Cheek Bone Thou hast broken the Teeth of the ungodly 8. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord Thy Blessing is upon thy People Selah PSALM VII David prayeth against the Malice of his Enemies professing his Innocency 10. by Faith he seeth his Defence and the Destruction of his Enemies O Lord my God in thee do I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me 2. Lest he tear my Soul like a Lion renting it in pieces while there is none to deliver 3. O Lord my God if I have done this if there be Iniquity in my Hands 4. If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at Peace with me yea I have delivered him that without cause is mine Enemy 5. Let the Enemy persecute my Soul and take it yea let him tread down my Life upon the Earth and lay mine Honour in the Dust Selah 6. Arise O Lord in thine Anger lift up thy self because of the Rage of mine Enemies and awake for me to the Judgment that thou hast commanded 7. So shall the Congregation of the People compass thee about For their Sakes therefore return thou on high 8. The Lord shall judge the People Judge me O Lord according to my Righteousness and according to mine Integrity that is in me 9. Oh let the Wickedness of the wicked come to an end but establish the just For the Righteous God trieth the Hearts and Reins 10. My Defence is of God which saveth the upright in Heart 11. God judgeth the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every Day 12. If he turn he will whet his Sword He hath bent his Bow and made it ready 13. He hath also prepared for him the Instruments of Death he ordaineth his Arrows against the Persecutors 14. Behold he travelleth with Iniquity and hath conceived Mischief and brought forth Falshood 15. He made a Pit and digged it and is fallen into the Ditch which he made 16. His Mischief shall return upon his own Head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own Pate 17. I will praise the Lord according to his Righteousness and will sing Praise to the Name of the Lord most high PSALM XXVII 1. David sustaineth his Faith by the Power of God 4. By his Love to the Service of God 9. By Prayer THE Lord is my Light and my Salvation whom shall I fear The Lord is the Strength of my Life of whom shall I be afraid 2. When the Wicked even mine Enemies and my Foes came upon me to eat up my Flesh they stumbled and fell 3. Though an Host should encamp against me my Heart shall not fear though War should rise against me in this will I be confident 4. One Thing have
against him and with eight hundred thousand chosen Men being mighty Men of Valour 4. And Abijah stood up upon Zemaraim which is in Mount Ephraim and said hear me thou Jeroboam and all Israel 5. Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the Kingdom over Israel to David for ever even to him and to his Sons by a Covenant of Salt 6. Yet Jeroboam the Son of Nebat the Servant of Solomon the Son of David is risen up and hath rebelled against his Lord 7. And there are gathered unto him vain Men the Children of Belial and have strengthned themselves against Rehoboam the Son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted and could not withstand them 8. And now ye think to withstand the Kingdom of the Lord in the Hand of the Sons of David and ye be a great Multitude and there are with you golden Calves which Jeroboam made you for Gods 9. Have ye not cast out the Priests of the Lord the Sons of Aaron and the Levites and have made you Priests after the manner of the Nations of other Lands So that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young Bullock and seven Rams the same may be a Priest of them that are no Gods 10. But as for us the Lord is our God and we have not forsaken him and the Priests which minister unto the Lord are the Sons of Aaron and the Levites wait upon their Business 11. And they burn unto the Lord every Morning and every Evening burnt Sacrifices and sweet Incense the Shew-bread also set they in order upon the pure Table and the Candlestick of gold with the Lamps thereof to burn every Evening for we keep the charge of the Lord our God but ye have forsaken him 12. And behold God himself is with us for our Captain and his Priests with sounding Trumpets to cry alarm against you O Children of Israel fight ye not against the Lord God of your Fathers for you shall not prosper 13. But Jeroboam caused an Ambushment to come about behind them so they were before Judah and the Ambushment was behind them 14. And when Judah looked back behold the Battel was before and behind and they cryed unto the Lord and the Priests sounded with the Trumpets 15. Then the Men of Judah gave a shout and as the Men of Judah shouted it came to pass that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah 16. And the Children of Israel fled before Judah and God delivered them into their Hands 17. And Abijah and his People slew them with a great slaughter so there fell down slain of Israel Five Hundred Thousand chosen Men 18. Thus the Children of Israel were brought under at that time and the Children of Judah prevailed because they relied upon the Lord God of their Fathers 19. And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took Cities from him Bethel with the Towns thereof and Jeshanah with the Towns thereof and Ephraim with the Towns thereof 20. Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the Days of Abijah and the Lord struck him and he died Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest We will cry unto the Lord with our voice yea even unto God will we cry with our voice and he shall hearken unto us for the Lord is gracious and long suffering and of great mercy to them that call upon him People The Lord is nigh to all that be of a contrite heart and will save such as be of an humble Spirit Priest And now Lord what is our hope truly our hope is even in thee People For our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them they called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded Priest The Lord be a Defence for the Oppressed even a Refuge in due time of trouble and they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord never failest them that seek thee People The merciful Goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his Righteousness upon Childrens Children even upon such as keep his Covenant and think upon his Commandments to do them Priest Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that trust in thee thou that upholdeth all such as are falling and liftest up such as be down thou that healest the broken in heart and givest Medicine to heal their Sickness thou that art the Father of Mercy and God of all Consolation thou that art comfort to the Sad and strength to the Weak hear thy Servant we beseech thee look down from Heaven behold and visit us with thy Salvation Glory be to c. The Lord be with you And with thy holy Spirit OUR Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen A Prayer O Lord of Heaven and Earth God of the Spirits of all Flesh we a most sinful and therefore now a most miserable People do in the bitterness of our afflicted Souls humbly fall down at the Footstool of thy Grace most sadly bewailing our many and most heinous Sins we have multiplied our Iniquities into a violation of thy whole Law having neither performed to thee our God nor to Man the Duties thou requirest of us so that by our wicked Works we have denyed that most holy Faith whereof our Mouths have for so long a time made Profession and now in thy just Judgment thou hast set our Sins in order before our Eyes yet return O God in great Mercy unto the many thousands of thy People do thou accept and encrease in our Hearts a Detestation of all Wickedness O let not thy Scourge end in a Desolation or thine Anger go on unto the height of an everlasting Ruin but hear us merciful Father hasten the Aversion of these thy sharp Judgments from us scatter thou the People that delight in War And let the blessing of Peace be upon the Heads of all those that strive and pray for this Blessing and that for his sake by whom thou givest every blessing even Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Priest Hear our Voice O Lord out of thy holy Temple let our Complaint come before thee let it enter even into thy Ears People Our Hearts are in heaviness O let us make our Prayers unto thee in an acceptable time Priest O Lord our Iniquities are against us our Rebellions are many with which we have transgressed against thee but we confess our Wickedness and are sorry for our Sins People Our Confusion is daily before us Fearfulness and Trembling are come upon us and
and they shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds from one end of Heaven to the other 32. Now learn a Parable of the Fig-tree When his Branch is yet tender and putteth forth Leaves ye know that Summer is nigh 33. So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things know that it is near even at the Doors 34. Verily I say unto you this Generation shall not pass till all these Things be fulfilled 35. Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my Words shall not pass away 36. But of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man no not the Angels of Heaven but my Father only 37. But as the Days of Noe were so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be 38. For as in the Days that were before the Flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the Day that Noe entred into the Ark 39. And knew not when the Flood came and took them all away so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be 40. Then shall two be in the Field the one shall be taken and the other left 41. Two Women shall be grinding at the Mill the one shall be taken and the other left 42. Watch therefore for ye know not what Hour your Lord doth come 43. But know this that if the good Man of the House had known in what watch the Thief would come he would have watched and would not have suffered his House to be broken up 44. Therefore be ye also ready for in such an Hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh 45. Who then is a faithful and wise Servant whom his Lord hath made Ruler over his Houshold to give them Meat in due Season 46. Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing 47. Verily I say unto you that he shall make him Ruler over all his Goods 48. But and if that evil Servant shall say in his Heart My Lord delayeth his coming 49. And shall begin to smite his Fellow Servants and to eat and drink with the drunken 50. The Lord of that Servant shall come in a Day when he looketh not for him and in an Hour that he is not aware of 51. And shall cut him asunder and appoint him his Portion with the Hypocrites There shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth Priest Give thy Judgments O God and thy Righteousness to the King People The Lord hear him in the Day of Trouble the Name of the God of Jacob defend him Priest Send him Help from his Sanctuary and strengthen him out of Sion People Let the King rejoice in thy Strength O Lord and let him be exceeding glad of thy Salvation Priest Grant him his Hearts desire and deny him not the Request of his lips People O Lord gird him with Strength unto the Battle throw down his Enemies under him Priest Make them to turn their Backs upon him and disperse those that hate him People Deliver him from the strivings of his People Priest Deliver him from his cruel Enemies and set him above his Adversaries thou shalt rid him from the wicked Man and why because the King puts his strength in the Lord and in the Mercy of the most High he shall not miscarry People Some put their trust in Chariots and some in Horses but we remember the Name of the Lord our God Priest Save Lord and hear us O King of Heaven when we call upon thee People Be thou exalted in thy own strength so will we sing and praise thy power Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen O Lord God that dost build up Jerusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel wherefore art thou absent so long and why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy Pasture O think upon thy Congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old think upon the tribe of thine Inheritance and mount Sion where thou hast dwelt Lift up thy Feet and disperse all those our Enemies which have done ill in thy Sanctuary For they have broken down the carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers They have defiled the dwelling places of thy Name yea they said in their hearts let us make havock of them altogether O God how long shall the adversary do this dishonour how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosom to scatter the enemy Arise O God maintain thine own cause remember how the foolish Man blasphemeth thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the presumption of those that hate thee encreaseth ever more and more Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen A Prayer O Eternal God and most merciful Father we humbly beseech thee to be merciful unto us and be near to help us in all those extremities which our Sins threaten to bring upon us our Enemies are strengthned against us because our rebellions are multiplied against thee and we deserve to suffer what our Enemies threaten and sudden destruction and with desolation but there is mercy with thee that thou mayst be feared and there is mercy with thee that they may not be feared shew us therefore thy mercy O Lord and let us so fear thee that we may never be brought to feel or fear them and that for our Jesus and thy Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for the Church ALmighty God and gracious Father we confess against our selves that we are most worthy of all the Judgments that thou hast threatned against us these Kingdoms this Church which is now under the Cross and near to utter ruin and extirpation unless thy mercy stept in between thy fierce Wâ—ath and our heinous Sins and howsoever the voice of our crying Sins hath ascended into thine Ears and stirred up Destroyers to root us out that we be no more a People and that thy Name be no more called upon nor hallowed by us yet we most humbly beseech thee to hear the Prayers and Supplications with strong Cryings and Tears which once our blessed Saviour offered for us upon the Cross and in the Garden and daily represents unto thee and for his all-sufficient Merits which speak better things than the Blood of Abel hear not the cry of our Sins but hear the cry of his Blood and therein wash away all our Sins let our great Miseries and Dangers suffice for that which is past and let that Orator in thy own bosom that is thine own fatherly goodness perswade and prevail for us and purchase our Deliverance and Safety hear us for our selves and others look upon us with the Eyes of Pity and Compassion consider our Enemies how many and how mighty they be and they
PRAYERS OF Intercession FOR THEIR Use who Mourn in Secret FOR THE Publick Calamities OF THIS NATION WITH An Anniversary Prayer for the 30th of January Very Necessary and Useful in Private Families as well as in Congregations By Jo. Huit D. D. LONDON Printed in the Year 1659. Prayers of Intercession for their Use who Mourn in Secret for the Publick Calamities of this Nation A Preparatory Prayer O Lord I find in that Book of thine which cannot deceive me that the oftner thy Servant Abraham prayed to thee the more he got ground upon thee and came at last to that holy Confidence as not only to pray to thee for himself but to be importunate and press thee in the behalf of others Lord I confess my Case is different for Abraham was the Father of the Faithful but I am not worthy to be reckoned among his Children He had the Honour to be called thy Friend but my Sins have been such that unless thy Mercy interveen may make thee look upon me as thine Enemy He prayed unto thee for a People of whose Sins he was no Partaker But my Address is to thee for them in whose Iniquities I am involved and have some way or other deeply contributed to the hastning and bringing down those terrible Judgments of thine which now lye so heavy upon us So that alas I am unworthy to appear before thee for my self and how shall I dare to supplicate thee for others O that there were a Moses to stand in the Gap to turn away thy wrathful Indignation from us O that there were a David a Daniel or a Jeremiah to pour out their Souls before thee yet hear me O my God for though these holy Saints of thine have now no being upon Earth yet their Prayers remain upon Record for every Soul that mourns in secret to make use of O Holy and Blessed Spirit kindle but the same fervency in my Heart while I repeat their Words as was in them and I know I shall be heard King David's Prayers for the Church and People The First Prayer O God! wherefore art thou absent from us so long or why is thy Wrath so hot against the Sheep of thy Pasture O think upon thine Inheritance whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Lift up thy Feet that thou mayest utterly destroy every Enemy that hath done evil in thy Sanctuary For behold they break down all the carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers Yea they have said in their Hearts let us make havock of them altogether and thus have they designed to ruine all the Houses of God in the Land But O God! how long shall the Adversary do this Dishonour How long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy Name for ever Arise O God! maintain thine own Cause remember how the foolish Man blasphemeth thee daily But O deliver not the Soul of thy Turtle Dove into their hands for the Presumption of them that hate thee encreaseth more and more O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us The Second Prayer O Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy People that prayeth How long wilt thou feed us with the Bread of Tears and give us Plenteousness of Tears to drink O turn us again thou God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole Remember that thou diddest once plant a Vine among us and when it had taken root it filled the Land Our Hills were covered with the Shadow of it and the Boughs were like the goodly Cedar Trees But now thou hast broken down her hedge so that all they that go by pluck off her Grapes The wild Bore of the Wood doth root it up and the Beasts of the Field devour it Yet turn us again O Lord God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole For we will not go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us The Third Prayer HOld not thy tongue O God keep not still silence refrain not thy self O God For lo thine Enemies make a murmuring and they that hate thee have lifted up their Head They have imagined craftily against thy People and have taken counsel against thy sacred Ones Behold they have cast their Heads together with one consent and are confederate against thee They have said come and let us root them out that they may be no more a People and that their Name may be no more in remembrance They come daily round about us like Water and compass us together on every side But O my God! make them like unto a Wheel and as the stubble before the Wind. Who say let us take unto our selves the Houses of God in possession O make their faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us The Fourth Prayer O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad thou hast been displeased at us O turn thee unto us again Thou hast moved the Land and divided it O heal the Sores thereof for it shaketh Thou hast shewn thy People heavy things and given us a drink of deadly Wine Thou hast made us turn our backs upon our Enemies so that they which hate us spoil our goods Thou makest us to be rebuked of our Neighbours to be laughed to scorn and to be had in derision of them that are round about us But though all this be come upon us yet do we not forget thee nor behave our selves frowardly in thy Covenant Our Heart is not turned back nor our steps gone out of thy way No not when thou hast smitten us into the Place of Dragons and covered us with the shadow of death Up Lord why sleepest thou awake and be not absent from us for ever But O! wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble For our Soul is brought low even unto the dust and our belly cleaveth to the grave Arise help us and deliver us for thy mercy sake O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us King David's Tears O My God why hast thou forsaken thine anointed and art displeased with him For lo thou hast broken the Covenant of thy Servant and cast his Crown to the ground Thou hast overthrown all his hedges and broken down his strong holds So that all they that go by spoil him and he is become a Rebuke to his Neighbours For thou hast set up the right hand of his Enemies and made all his Adversaries to rejoyce Thou hast put out his Glory and cast his Throne down to the Ground The Days of his Youth hast thou seasoned with bitterness and covered him with dishonour But Lord how long wilt thou hide thy self for ever And shall thy Wrath still burn like Fire Remember O Lord the rebuke that thy Servant
at this Day By Lying Detraction and contumely by censuring and rash Judgments by false Witness and perverting the course of Justice we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By Desire of Change and Uncontentedness in our Estates by giving our selves over to lustful covetous and inordinate Affections by desire of Peace not so much for thine own Honour or the publick Good as the Satisfaction of our own private Lusts by neglecting Acts of Charity and doing as we would be done unto and not doing our Duty in that State of Life unto the which it hath pleased thee to call us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our want and neglect of those necessary Christian Duties of Humiliation and godly Sorrow for Sins of due Indignation and Revenge upon our selves for them of confessing and forsaking of Restitution and Satisfaction to others and by not bringing forth Fruits worthy of Repentance we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By Impatience under thy correcting Hand by not endeavouring our Amendment by it in reflecting upon our Sins as the Causes of it by despising thy Chastisements in not rejoycing in Tribulations and not glorifying thee that hast counted us worthy to suffer for Righteousness sake we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By fretting our selves because of the ungodly and being envious at the evil doers by not loving our Enemies not blessing them that curse us not doing good to them that hate us not praying for those that despitefully use us and persecute us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By presuming to do evil that good may come thereon by placing Piety in Opinions by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels by scrupling at Things indifferent and making no Conscience of known Sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By running into open Prophaneness under Colour of avoiding Superstition by guiding our Conscience by Humours Fancies and not by the certain Rules of thy Law by having itching Ears and heaping to our selves Teachers and by having Mens Persons in Admiration because of advantage we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our unreformed continuing in our former Sins since thy heaviest Judgments came out against us our not melting not turning to thee in Humiliation and Contrition and Change of Life or not preparing to meet our God when he is come out in Fury against us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By those open or secret but still unmortified crying Sins of a wretched People which have so enraged a long suffering God as to deliver up our Glory the Joy of our Hearts and the Breath of our Nostrils into the Power and Malice of bloody Men to be assaulted with a Rage that reacheth up to Heaven we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our fatal Stupidity under this Vengeance of thine our Want of Zeal of Courage of a due Detestation of so vile an Enterprize our not confessing of thee when we have been most signally called unto it we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By bowing our Shoulders to bear and crouching down with Issachar under our Burthens because the Land is pleasant and Rest seemed good unto us by not putting out our selves and restoring our Soveraign but neglecting that Prize that thou wast pleased lately to put into our Hands and forsaking our own Mercy we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our too much Formality and Coldness in our Devotion by being wearied at the Return of our Days of Humiliation and secretly repining at the length and frequency of our Prayers by honouring thee with our Lips while our Hearts have been far from thee especially we of this Family have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By preferring Sacrifice before Obedience and by holding fast our Iniquities and yet thinking to be heard for our much speaking we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from our secret Sins Try us O Lord God and search the ground of our Hearts prove and examine our Thoughts and look well if there be any other way of Wickedness in us and lead us in the way everlasting A Prayer O Almighty and most Merciful Father who art the Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long suffering and abundant in Goodness and Truth keeping Mercy for Thousands and forgiving Iniquity Transgression and Sins Look down upon us with thy compassionate Eyes who are here before thee in the Bitterness of our Souls and do now with troubled Spirits with broken and contrite Hearts most humbly beg Pardon for these Multitude of our Offences Look we humbly beseech thee upon the Blood of thy Son which speaketh better Things than that of Abel for his sake spare us Lord spare thy People that those Sins rise not up against us for his Passions sake expose us not for a Prey to their cruel Hands who would both devour and deride us Spare us Lord spare thy People for the Glory of thy Name O deliver us and be merciful to all these our Sins through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest only ALmighty God our Heavenly Father who of his great Mercy hath promised Forgiveness of Sins to all them that with hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your Sins confirm and strengthen you in all Goodness and bring you to everlasting Salvation both of Body and Soul through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The Lord's Prayer OUR Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this Day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us
I desired of the Lord that will I seek after That I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the Days of my Life to behold the Beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple 5. For in the time of Trouble he shall hide me in his Pavilion in the secret of his Tabernacle shall he hide me he shall set me up upon a Rock 6. And now shall mine Head be lifted up above mine Enemies round about me Therefore will I offer in his Tabernacle Sacrifices of Joy I will sing yea I will sing Praises unto the Lord 7. Hear O Lord when I cry with my Voice Have mercy also upon me and answer me 8. When thou saidst Seek ye my Face my Heart said unto thee Thy Face Lord will I seek 9. Hide not thy Face far from me put not thy servant away in anger thou hast been my Help leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation 10. When my Father and my Mother forsake me then the Lord will take me up 11. Teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in a plain path because of mine enemies 12. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies for false witnesses are risen up against me and such as breath out Cruelty 13. I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living 14. Wait on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart wait I say on the Lord PSALM XLVI 1. The Confidence the Church hath in God 8. An exhortation to behold it GOD is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble 2. Therefore will not we fear though the Earth be moved and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the Sea 3. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof Selah 4. There is a river the streams thereof shall make glad the City of God the holy Place of the Tabernacle of the most high 5. God is in the midst of her she shall not be moved God shall help her and that right early 6. The Heathen raged the Kingdoms were moved he uttered his Voice the Earth melted 7. The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge Selah 8. Come behold the works of the Lord what desolation he hath made in the Earth 9. He maketh Wars to cease unto the end of the Earth he breaketh the Bow and cutteth the Spear in sunder he burneth the Chariot in the Fire 10. Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted among the Heathen I will be exalted in the Earth 11. The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge Selah PSALM LXXXIII 1. A Complaint to God of the Enemies Conspiracies 9. A Prayer against them that oppress the Church KEEP not thou silence O God hold not thy peace and be still O God 2. For lo thine Enemies make a Tumult and they that hate thee have lift up their Head 3. They have taken crafty counsel against thy People and consulted against thy hidden ones 4. They have said Come and let us cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance 5. For they have consulted together with one consent they are confederate against thee 6. The Tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagarens 7. Gebal and Ammon and Amalek the Philistines with the Inhabitants of Tyre 8. Assur also is joyned with them they have holpen the Children of Lot Selah 9. Do unto them as unto the Midianites as to Sisera as to Jabin at the Brook of Kison 10. Which Perished at Endor they became as dung for the Earth 11. Make their Nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb yea all their Princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna 12. Who said let us take to our selves the Houses of God in possession 13. O my God make them like a wheel as the stubble before the Wind. 14. As the fire burneth a Wood and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire 15. So persecute them with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storm 16. Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy Name O Lord 17. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever yea let them be put to shame and perish 18. That Men may know that thou whose Name alone is JEHOVAH art the most high over all the Earth PSALM LXXXVI 1. David strengthneth his Prayer by the conscience of his Religion 5. By the goodness and power of God 11. He desireth the continuance of former Grace 14. Complaining of the proud he craveth some token of God's Goodness BOW down thine ear O Lord hear me For I am poor and needy 2. Preserve my Soul for I am holy O thou my God save thy Servant that trusteth in thee 3. Be merciful unto me O Lord for I cry unto thee daily 4. Rejoyce the Soul of thy Servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my Soul 5. For thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6. Give ear O Lord unto my Prayer and attend to the voice of my Supplications 7. In the Day of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me 8. Among the Gods there is none like unto thee O Lord neither are there any works like unto thy works 9. All Nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10. For thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art God alone 11. Teach me thy way O Lord I will walk in thy Truth unite my heart to fear thy Name 12. I will praise thee O Lord my God with all my heart and I will glorifie thy Name for evermore 13. For great is thy Mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my Soul from the lowest Hell 14. O God the Proud are risen against me and the Assemblies of violent Men have sought after my Soul and have not set thee before them 15. But thou O Lord art a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy and truth 16. O turn unto me and have mercy upon me give thy Strength unto thy Servant and save the Son of thine Handmaid 17. Shew me a Token for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed Because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me The First Lesson proper for this Occasion the Second of Samuel XV Chapter 1. Absalom by fair Speeches and Courtesies stealeth the Hearts of Israel 7. Under Pretence of a Vow he obtaineth leave to go to Hebron 10. He maketh there a great Conspiracy 13. David upon the News flieth from Jerusalem 19. Ittai would not leave him 24. Zadok and Abiathar are sent back with the Ark 30. David and his Company go up Mount Olivet weeping 31. He curseth Ahitophels Counsel
32. Hushai is sent back with Instructions AND it came to pass after this that Absalom prepared him Chariots and Horses and Fifty Men to run before him 2. And Absalom rose up early and stood beside the way of the Gate And it was so that when any Man that had a Controversy came to the King for Judgment then Absalom called unto him and said of what City art thou And he said Thy Servant is of one of the Tribes of Israel 3. And Absalom said unto him See thy matters are good and right but there is no Man deputed of the King to hear thee 4. Absalom said moreover oh that I were made Judge in the Land that every Man which hath any Suit or Cause might come unto me and I would do him Justice 5. And it was so that when any Man came nigh to him to do him obeysance he put forth his Hand and took him and kissed him 6. And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the King for Judgment So Absalom stole the Hearts of the Men of Israel 7. And it came to pass after forty years that Absalom said to the King I pray thee let me go pay my Vow which I have vowed unto the Lord in Hebron 8. For thy Servant vowed a Vow while I abode in Geshur in Syria saying if the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem then I will serve the Lord 9. And the King said unto him Go in Peace So he arose and went to Hebron 10. But Absalom sent Spies throughout all the Tribes of Israel saying as soon as ye hear the Sound of the Trumpet then ye shall say Absalom reigneth in Hebron 11. And with Absalom went two hundred Men out of Jerusalem that were called and they went in their Simplicity and they knew not any thing 12. And Absalom sent for Ahitophel the Gilonite Davids Counsellor from his City even from Giloh while he offered Sacrifices And the Conspiracy was strong for the People increased continually with Absalom 13. And there came a Messenger to David saying the Hearts of the Men of Israel are after Absalom 14. And David said unto all his Servants that were with him at Jerusalem arise and let us flee for we shall not else escape from Absalom Make speed to depart lest he overtake us suddenly and bring evil upon us and smite the City with the edge of the Sword 15. And the Kings Servants said unto the King Behold thy Servants are ready to do whatsoever my Lord the King shall appoint 16. And the King went forth and all his Houshold after him and the King left Ten Women which were Concubines to keep the House 17. And the King went forth and all the People after him and tarried in a Place that was far off 18. And all his Servants passed on beside him and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the Gittites Six Hundred Men which came after him from Gath passed on before the King 19. Then said the King to Ittai the Gittite wherefore goest thou also with us Return to thy Place and abide with the King For thou art a Stranger and also an Exile 20. Whereas thou camest but yesterday should I this Day make thee go up and down with us seeing I go whether I may return thou and take back thy Brethren Mercy and Truth be with thee 21. And Ittai answered the King and said as the Lord liveth and as my Lord the King liveth surely in what Place my Lord the King shall be whether in Death or Life even there also will thy Servant be 22. And David said to Ittai go and pass over And Ittai the Gittite passed over and all his Men and all the little ones that were with him 23. And all the Country wept with a loud Voice and all the People passed over The King also himself passed over the Brook Kidion and all the People passed over towards the way of the Wilderness 24. And lo Zadok also and all the Levites were with him bearing the Ark of the Covenant of God and they set down the Ark of God and Abiathar went up until all the People had done passing out of the City 25. And the King said unto Zadok carry back the Ark of God into the City If I shall find favour in the Eyes of the Lord he will bring me again and shew me both it and his Habitation 26. But if he thus say I have no delight in thee Behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good unto him 27. The King said also unto Zadok the Priest Art not thou a Seer Return into the City in Peace and your Two Sons with you Ahimaaz thy Son and Jonathan the Son of Abiathar 28. See I will tarry in the Plain of the Wilderness until there come Word from you to certify me 29. Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the Ark of God again to Jerusalem and they tarried there 30. And David went up by the Ascent of Mount Olivet and wept as he went up and had his Head covered and he went bare-foot And all the People that was with him covered every Man his head and they went up weeping as they went up 31. And one told David saying Ahitophel is among the Conspirators with Absalom And David said O Lord I pray thee turn the Counsel of Ahitophel into Foolishness 32. And it came to pass that when David was come to the top of the mount where he worshipped God behold Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his Coat rent and Earth upon his Head 33. Unto whom David said if thou passest on with me then thou shalt be a Burden unto me 34. But if thou return to the City and say unto Absalom I will be thy Servant O King as I have been thy Fathers Servant hitherto so will I now also be thy Servant Then mayest thou for me defeat the Counsel of Ahitophel 35. And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the Priests Therefore it shall be that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the Kings House thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the Priests 36. Behold they have there with them their Two Sons Ahimaaz Zadok's Son and Jonathan Abiathar's Son And by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear 37. So Hushai David's Friend came into the City and Absalom came into Jerusalem The First Lesson Part of the II. of Chronicles CHAP. XIII Abijah succeeding maketh War against Jeroboam 4. He declareth the Right of his Cause 13. Trusting in God he overcometh Jeroboam NOW in the Eighteenth Year of King Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah 2. He reigned Three Years in Jerusalem his Mothers Name was Michaiah the Daughter of Uriel of Gibea and there was War between Abijah and Jeroboam 3. And Abijah set the Battel in array with an Army of valiant Men of War even four hundred thousand chosen Men Jeroboam also set the Battel in array
bear a tyrannous hate against us Our Goods our Lands our Lives will not suffice their boundless Ambition Our Religion our Souls and if it were possible our God is that they strike at curse thou their Angers for it is fierce and their Wrath for it is cruel Divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel as for us deliver us out of their Hands and unite us together in the bond of Peace that being freed from our many and tyrannous Enemies we may ever bless thy sacred and holy Name and evermore serve thee without fear in Holiness and Righteousness all the Days of our Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble Servants and stretch forth the right Hand of thy Majesty to be our Defence against all our Enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we which for our evil deeds are justly punished by the comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon our Infirmities and Miseries and in all our Dangers and Necessities stretch forth thy right Hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty God which art more ready to hear than we to pray and are wont to give more than either we desire or deserve pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy forgiving us those things whereof we are afraid and giving unto us that that our Prayers dare not presume to ask through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of January the Anniversary of England's Captivity and Tyrants Liberty O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most suitable to thy Justice and performest thy Pleasure always in such manner to us that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy ways be not equal we thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgment which as this Day befel us in thy permitting cruel Men Sons of Belial to execute their fury of their Rebellions upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their Hands in the Blood and Murder of the Lords Anointed that was drawn down by the great and long Provocations of this Nation sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinful wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this Days sore Vengeance the effect as well as the defect of our Impieties the work of our own Hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgment but our own most horrible Sin for which alone did not multitude of other Sins cry out against us thou mightest justly descend down upon us all as thou didst in Sodom and leave us no other memorial than to be the frightful Monuments of thine Indignation and Fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and merciful therefore it is that we are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to Repentance And now O Lord looking on this particular signal Judgment and thy last Trump warning us to flie from the Wrath to come We come forth to meet our God mourning in our Prayers before thee and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure and the removal of these Plagues of long continuance from us for the all-sufficient merits of the Death and Sufferings of our blessed Saviour O forgive our great and manifold Transgressions and for his bloody Passion sake deliver this Nation from Blood-guiltiness that of this Day especially O God of our Salvation Let not our crying Sins intercept our Prayers or thy Blessings but hear the Voice of our Tears and hearing forgive and heal us retire not quite from us into thine own Place Laugh not at our Calamities neither Mock in this Day of our Visitation Vindicate thy own Cause and thine own Providence that it may appear unto Men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the Earth and that by thee Kings do Reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of Violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold Hopes and Desires let not their mischievous imaginations Prosper least they be too Proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have Fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them Shew some Token on his seed for Good that their Enemies may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast Holpen and Comforted them Bow the Hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou didst those of Israel to David that they acknowledge and receive joyfully the Heir of these three Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a Nail in a sure Place behold his Injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his Enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their Oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by Birth-light thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this Day for this Blessing make no longer tarrying but according to the time thou hast Plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons Teeth and pull us out of the Burnings like a Fire-brand We beseech thee that this Day we may spread before thee the Words of Rabshekah the Proud railing and Scornful reproach of our Enemies Behold this Day their Exaltation and our Mourning O Lord our Eyes are towards thee For whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many Thousands that call on thee that Salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of Peace unto thy People Think upon those that are peaceable and faithful in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the World see that there is a God that judgeth the Earth and will send deliverance to his People in their needful time of trouble But whatsoever is let us not behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian Humility run the race thou settest before us and patiently bear the Indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our Prayers may return unto our own Bosoms and that thou wilt make thy Judgments temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in well-doing we may commit our selves unto thee our God as unto a faithful Creator and that both our King and we may say with a Christian submission and cheerfulness It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good to whom we desire to ascribe Honour Praise Dominion and Thanksgiving now and for evermore Amen FINIS The Contents A Preparatory Prayer folio 3 King Davids prayer for the Church and People 4 King Davids second Prayer 5 King Davids third prayer ibid. King Davids fourth prayer 6 King Davids Tears 7 Jeremiahs Lamentations prophetical of these times ibid. Jeremiahs second prayer 8 Daniels prayer and confession in the behalf of himself and his people 9 The first prayer for the King 10 The second prayer for the King ibid. The third prayer for the King 11 Preparatory ejaculations precede the Litany 12 A Litany of intercession ibid. A prayer for the Church 16 A prayer for the Queen Mother and the Royal Progeny ibid. A prayer for the Afflicted 17 Certain Verses of several psalms ibid. A prayer 18 A Confession of sins 20 A prayer 25 An Absolution to be pronounced by the priest only ibid The Lords prayer 26 More prayers ibid. Psalms proper upon this occasion to be read viz. III folio 53. VII fol. 56. XXVII fol. 57. XLVI fol. 58 LXXXIII fol. 75. LXXXVI fol. 60. 28 The first Lesson proper upon this occasion is out of the 2 Book of Samuel XV Chapter folio 34 Another Lesson upon this occasion is in the 2 of Chronicles XIII Chapter fol. 37 More Lessons fitting this occasion viz. 2 Samuel 16 17 18 and 20. Chapters Numbers 16. Chap. Isai. 22. Amos. 4. Joel 2 and Ezekiel 9. Chapters Then shall priest and people repeat those sayings 39 Another prayer 40 Then shall the priest and people repeat those sayings 41 The second Lesson proper for this occasion is the 24 Chapter of St. Matthew 44 Then shall the priest and people repeat those sayings 47 Another prayer 49 A prayer for the Church ibid. More prayers 50 A proper prayer for the 30th of January being the Anniversary of Englands Captivity and Tyrants Liberty 53