A thousand shall fall beside thee and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee 8 Yea with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the ungodly 9 For thou Lord art my hope thou hast set thine house of defence very high 10 There shall no evill happen unto thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling 11 For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways 12 They shall bear thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone 13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet 14 Because he hath set his love upon me therefore shall I deliver him I shall set him up because he hath known my name 15 He shall call upon me and I will hear him yea I am with him in trouble I will deliver him and bring him to honour 16 With long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation The Prayer O Lord God our hope and our strong hold have mercy upon us and defend us under the shadow of thy wings that we trusting under thy defence may by thy faithfulnesse and truth be covered as with a shield and buckler Give thy Angels charge concerning us and our habitations that we may be preserved and kept in all our ways that no evill happen uâ—to us no plague come nigh our dwelling no terrors of the night no arrows of thy vengeance by day may disturb our peace or safety Let thy ministring Spirits bear us in their hands and keep us from precipice fâ—om frâ—cture of bones from dislocations noisome 〈◊〉 sharp diseases stupidities and deformities that we may tread under our feet all the snares of the roaring lion and the great dragon the Devill who seeks our bodily and ghostly hurt Doe thou set thy love upon us and deliver us from all our troubles and at the end of our days shew us thy salvation and satisfie us with long life even of a blessed eternity in thy Kingdom through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 92. A meditation of the great works of God in the destruction of the wicked and the preservation of the godly IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto thy name O most Highest 2 To tell of thy loving kindnesse early in the morning and of thy truth in the night season 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute upon a loud instrument and upon the harp 4 For thou Lord hast made me glad through thy works and I will rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of thy hands 5 O Lord how glorious are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep 6 An unwise man doth not well consider this and a fool doth not understand it 7 When the ungodly are green as the grasse and when all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish then shall they be destroyed for ever but thou Lord art the most highest for evermore 8 For lo thine enemies O Lord lo thine enemies shall pâ—rish and all the workers of wickedness shall be destoyed 9 But mine horn shall bee exalted like the horn of an unicorn for I am anointed with fresh oyle 10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies and mine eare shall heare his desire of the wicked that rise up against me 11 The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree and â—hall spread abroad like a cedar in Lebanus 12 Such as be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God 13 They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age and shall be fat and well liking 14 That they may shew how true the Lord my strength is and that there is no unrighteousnesse in him The Prayer O Lord God thou art the most highest for evermore thy works are glorious and thy thoughts are very deep make our hearts and tongues loud instruments of thy praises that we may tell of thy mercy in the morning of thy truth in the night and that we may rejoyce in giving thee thanks for the operations of thy hands all the days and nights of our life Let thy mercifull kindnesse descend evermore upon the righteous that they may flourish like a palm tree being continually watered with the dew of temporall and spirituall blessings and may bring forth fruits of a holy conversation and grant that we thy servants being planted in the house of God and firmly fixed in the blessed communion of Saints may flourish in the Courts of thy house thy celestial temple to all eternity O let not our portion be amongst the ungodly and unrighteous make us not to communicate in their wickednesse so much as by consent or approbation that we may never perish and be destroyed in the furiousnesse of thine anger which thou treasurest up against the day of vengeance and righteous judgement even the day of the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 93. A Prayer that God would preserve his Church against the storms and flouds of persecution THE Lord is King and hath put on glorious apparell the Lord hath put on his apparell and girded himself with strength 2 He hath made the round world so sure that it cannot be moved 3 Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared thou art from everlasting 4 The flouds are risen O Lord the flouds have lift up their voice the flouds lift up their waves 5 The waves of the sea are mighty and rage horribly but the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier 6 Thy testimonies O Lord are very sure holinesse becommeth thine house for ever The Prayer O Lord our King who art girded with strength and hast prepared thy seat from everlasting establish thy testimonies in our hearts as a sure foundation of temporall and eternall happinesse Preserâ—e thy house the holy Catholique Church in peace and holinesse which is its defence and ornament and although the flouds of persecution and secular disadvantages have lift up their waves to overthrow it yet because it is built upon a rock the rock Christ Jesus make it to stand firm and sure against all the malice of hell and earth and all the powers of them both for thou ô Lord art mightier theâ— all the waves and storms of her enemies To thee O Lord who dwellest on high and art mightier be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 94. A Prayer for patience comfort and assistance to the godly and that God would disappoint the designes of the wicked O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth thou God to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy self 2 Arise thou judge of the world and reward the proud after their deserving 3 Lord how long shall the ungodly how long shall the ungodly triumph 4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully and make such proud boasting 5
in pieces like a potters vessell 10 Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be learned ye that are judges of the earth 11 Serve the Lord in fear and rejoyce unto him with reverence 12 Kisse the Son lest he be angry and so he perish from the right way if his wrath be kindled yea but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him The Prayer O Blessed Jesu into whose hands is committed all dominion and power in the Kingdomes and Empires of the world out of whose mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it thou mightest smite the Nations and rule them with a rod of yron on whose vesture and on whose thigh a name is written King of Kings and Lord of Lords we adore thee in thy infinite excellency and most glorious exaltation beseeching thee to reveale thy name and the glory of thy Kingdome to the Heathen which know thee not and to the uttermost parts of the earth which are given thee for thy possession and inheritance And to us give thy grace to serve thee in fear and plant the reverence of thy law and of thy name in our hearts lest thy wrath be kindled against us and thou break us in pieces like vessels of dishonour Have mercy on us O King of Kings for we have put our trust in thee thou art our Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 3. A Prayer for defence against all our Enemies Bodily and Ghostly LOrd how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise against me 2 Many one there be that say of my soul There is no help for him in his God 3 But thou O Lord art my defender thou art my worship and the lifter up of mine head 4 I did call upon the Lord with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill 5 I laid me down and slept and rose up again for the Lord sustained me 6 I will not be afraid for ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about 7 Up Lord and help me O my God for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the check-bone thou hast brokâ—n the teeth of the ungodly 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord and thy blessing is upon thy people The Prayer O Lord our defender have pity upon us behold the armies of the Flesh the World and the Devill fight against our Soules and multiply against us every day temptations and disadvantages We are not able of our selves as of our selves to think a good thought much lesse to put to flight the armies of them that have set themselves against us round about But thou O Lord art our defender thou art our worship and the lifter up of our heads Up Lord and help us arme us with the shield of faith and the sword of the Spirit and in all times of temptation and battell cover our heads with the helmet of Salvation so shall we not be afraid for ten thousands of our enemies for salvation belongeth unto thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 4. A Prayer in which we exercise an act of hope in God and desire his providence over us HEare me when I call O God of my righteousnesse for thou hast set me at liberty when I was in trouble have mercy upon me and hearken unto my prayer 2 O ye sonnes of men how long will ye blaspheme mine honour and have such pleasure in vanity and seek after leasing 3 Know this also that the Lord hath chosen to himself the man that is godly when I call upon the Lord he will heare me 4 Stand in awe and sinne not commune with your own heart and in your chamber and be still 5 Offer the sacrifice of righteousnesse and put your trust in the Lord. 6 There be many that say Who will shew us any good 7 Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us 8 Thou hast put gladnesse in my heart since the time that their corn and wine and oyle increased 9 I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onely that makest me dwell in safety The Prayer O God who art the author of all righteousnesse from whom all grace and safety and glory does proceed hear the prayers of thy humble servants whensoever we call upon thee in our trouble for our trust is in thee alone and no creature can shew us any good unlesse it derives from thee shew the light of thy countenance upon us let thy providence guide all our actions and sufferings to thy glory and our spirituall benefit and consigne us to the blessednesse of thy Kingdome by the testimony of thy holy Spirit that we may not place our ioyes and hopes upon the good things of this life which perish and cannot satisfie but in the eternal fountain of all true felicities that thou being our treasure our hearts may be fixed upon thee by the bands of Charity and Obedience that thou maist make us to dwell in safety here and when our days are done we may lay us down in peace and take our rest in thy armes expecting the comming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 5. A prayer for blessing upon all pious people and for protection against the malice of wicked men POnder my words O Lord consider my meditation 2 O hearken thou unto the voyce of my calling my King and my God for unto thee will I make my prayer 3 My voyce shalt thou hear betimes O Lord early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up 4 For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickednesse neither shall any evill dwell with thee 5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight for thou hatest all them that work vanity 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing the Lord will abhorre both the bloud thirsty and deceitfull man 7 But as for me I will come into thy house even upon the multitude of thy mercy and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple 8 Lead me O Lord in thy righteousnesse because of mine enemies make thy way plain before my face 9 For there is no faithfulnesse in his mouth their inward parts are very wickednesse 10 Their throat is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue 11 Destroy thou them O God let them perish through their own imaginations cast them out in the multitude of their ungodlinesse for they have rebelled against thee 12 And let all them that put their trust in thee rejoyce they shall ever be giving of thanks because thou defendest them they that love thy name shall be joyfull in thee 13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous and with thy favourable kindnesse wilt thou defend him as with a shield The Prayer O Most holy and blessed Lord God who canst take no pleasure in wickednesse neither can evill come nigh thy dwelling defend us and all thy holy Church from the
fraud and malice of blood-thirsty and deceitfull men and from the crafty insinuations of all them that work vanity but let thy blessings bee upon the righteous and let thy favourable kindnesse defend thy whole Church as with a shield that all those who put their trust in thy mercy may be ever giving of thanks and may be joyfull in thee O lead us in thy righteousnesse that we become not a rejoycing to our enemies but that we may worship thee in feare and come into thy house to make our prayers unto thee and to give thee thanks for the multitude of thy mercies which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 6. A Prayer of a penitent person for remission of his sinnes O Lord rebuke me not in thine indignation neither chasten me in thy displeasure 2 Have mercy upon mee O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed 3 My soul is also sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me 4 Turn thee O Lord and deliver my soul O save me for thy mercies sake 5 For in death no man remembreth thee and who will give thee thanks in the pit 6 I am weary of my groaning every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my tears 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble and worn away because of all mine enemies 8 Away from me all ye that work vanity for the Lord hath heard the voyce of my weeping 9 The Lord hath heard my petition the Lord will receive my prayer 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vered they shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose property is alwayes to have mercy and to forgive behold with the eyes of thy pity and compassion the estate of thy humble servants made most miserable by reason of our sins Hear the voyce of our weeping pity our groaning strengthen us for we are weak heal us for our bones are vexed and deliver our soules from death that being saved from the bottomlesse pit we may give thanks to thy holy Name O turn from the severity of thy displeasure and visit us with thy mercy and salvation For all our sinnes give us a great sorrow and contrition and in our sorrows let thy comforts sustain us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 7. A prayer for defence of our Innocence against the unjust molestation of our enemies O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me and deliver me 2 Lest he devour my soul like a Lion and tear it in peeces while there is none to help 3 O Lord my God if I have done any such thing or if there be any wickednesse in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evill unto him that dealt friendly with me yea I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soule and take me yea let him tread my life down upon the earth and lay mine honour in the dust 6 Stand up O Lord in thy wrath and lift up thy self because of the indignation of mine enemies arise up for me in the judgement that thou hast commanded 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee for their sakes therefore lift up thy self again 8 The Lord shall judge the people give sentence with me O Lord according to my righteousnesse and according to the innocency that is in mee 9 O let the wickednesse of the ungodly come to an end but guide thou the just 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins 11 My help commeth of God which preserveth them that are true of heart 12 God is a righteous Judge strong and patient and God is provoked every day 13 If a man will not turn he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors 15 Behold he travaileth with mischiefe he hath concâ—ived sorrow and brought forth ungodlinesse 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other 17 For his travell shall come upon his own head and his wickednesse shall fall on his own pate 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord according to his righteousnesse and will praise the name of the Lord the most High The Prayer O God from whom commeth our help thou art a righteous Judge and preservest all that are true of heart deliver us from our persecutors who travell with mischief against us and have digged a pit for our destruction O let their wickedness and malicious devices against thy servants come utterly to an end for evermore Thou O Lord art strong and able to take vengeance and yet being provoked every day still art patient towards us and compassionate Deliver us from their wrath to whom we have done no injustice or displeasure pardon our offences against thee and protect our innocency against them that we may praise thy name and give thanks unto thee for thy righteousnesse and sâ—lvation who art blessed for evermore Amen PSALME 8. A contemplation of the Divine beauty and excellency manifested in his Creatures O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens 2 Out of the month of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger 3 For I will consider the heavens even the works of thy fingers the moon and the starres which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the son of man that thou visitest him 5 Thou madest him lower then the angels to crown him with glory and worship 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet 7 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowls of the aire and the fishes of the sea and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas 9 O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world The Prayer O Lord God Father of men and Angels God of all the Creatures who hast created all things in a wonderfull order and hast made them all conveyances of thy mercies to mankinde give us great and dreadfull apprehensions of thy glory and immensity thy Majesty and mercy that we may adore thee as our Creator love thee as our Redeemer fear thee as our God obey thee as our Governour and praise thee as the author and fountain of all perfections and all good which thou hast communicated to thy creatures that they may all in their proportions doe thee service who hast to that end made the world and redeemed us by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Morning
Prayer PSALME 9. A Prayer of poore and oppressed people against their persecutors I Will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart I will speak of all thy marvellous works 2 I will be glad and rejoyce in thee yea my songs will I make of thy name O thou most Highest 3 While mine enemies are driven back they shall fall and perish at thy presence 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou art set in the throne that judgest right 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen and destroyed the ungodly thou hast put out their name for ever and ever 6 O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetuall end even as the cities which thou hast destroyed their memoriall is perished with them 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever hee hath also prepared his seat for judgement 8 For he shall judge the world in righteousnesse and minister true judgement unto the people 9 The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast never failed them that seeke thee 11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion shew the people of his doings 12 For when he maketh inquisition for blood he remembreth them and forgetteth not the complaint of the poore 13 Have mercy upon me O Lord consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me thou that liftest me up from the gates of death 14 That I may shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion I will rejoyce in thy salvation 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken 16 The Lord is known to execute judgement the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the people that forget God 18 For the poor shall not alway be forgotten the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever 19 Up Lord and let not man have the upper hand let the heathen be judged in thy sight 20 Put them in fear O Lord that the heathen may know themselves to be but men The Prayer O Lord God who art a defence for the oppressed and a refuge in due time of trouble have mercy upon us thy servants who are violently assaulted by enemies without and weaknesses and temptations within Thou never failest them that seek thee but lovest to hear the poor make their complaint unto thee in their trouble and art known to execute judgement upon them that oppresse them Pity us and look upon the trouble we suffer of them that hate us deliver us from the strivings of our adversaries lift us up from the gates of death that being safe under thy mercies and protection we may give thanks unto thee with our spirits and voices we may embrace thee with a lively faith fear thee with all our hearts serve thee with all our powers faculties both of soul and body all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 10. A Prayer to God in times of Persecution and Warre against the Church WHy standest thou so farre off O Lord and hidest thy face in the needfull time of trouble 2 The ungodly for his owne lust doth persecute the poor let them be taken in the crafty wilinesse that they have imagined 3 For the ungodly hath made boast of his own hearts desire and speaketh good of the covetous whom God abhorreth 4 The ungodly is so proud that he careth not for God neither is God in all his thoughts 5 His wayes are alway grievous thy judgements are far above out of his sight and therefore defieth he all his enemies 6 For he hath said in his heart Tush I shall never be cast down there shall no harm happen unto me 7 His mouth is full of cursing deceit and fraud under his tongue is ungodlinesse and vanity 8 Hee sitteth lurking in the theevish corners of the streets and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent his eyes are set against the poor 9 For he lieth waiting secretly even as a lion lurketh he in his den that he may ravish the poor 10 He doth ravish the poor when he getteth him into his net 11 He falleth down and humbleth himself that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hand of his Captains 12 He hath said in his heart Tush God hath forgotten he hideth away his face and he will never see it 13 Arise O Lord God and lift up thine hand forget not the poor 14 Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God while he doth say in his heart Tush thou God carest not for it 15 Surely thou hast seen it for thou beholdest ungodlinesse and wrong 16 That thou maist take the matter into thine hand the poor committeth himself unto thee for thou art the helper of the friendlesse 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious take away his ungodlinesse and thou shalt find none 18 The Lord is King for ever and ever and the heathen are perished out of the land 19 Lord thou hast heard the desire of the poore thou preparest their heart and thine eare hearkneth thereto 20 To help the fatherlesse and poor unto their right that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them The Prayer O Lord God who beholdest all the actions of men and seest all the ungodlinesse of sinners and the wrong they doe unto thy servants we flie unto thee for succour and defence in this our needfull time of trouble Behold O Lord how the Enemies of thy Church have set their eyes against her and use all violences and arts that thy poor servants may fall under the hands of their Captains Thou seest their malice and their confidences they fear thee not neither art thou O God in all their thoughts But thou art our King for ever and ever and the helper of the friendlesse We commit our selves wholly to thy mercy and providence take the matter into thine own hand let them perish out of the land that are exalted against thee and against thy Church that we being delivered from feare of our enemies may serve thee with constant and regular devotions all the dayes of our life through Jesus our Lord. Amen PSALME 11. An addresse to God by way of hope and confidence in him and a prayer against our secret enemies IN the Lord put I my trust how say ye then to my soul that she should flee as a bird unto the hill 2 For lo the ungodly bend their bow and make ready their arrows within the quiver that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart 3 For the foundations will bee cast down and what hath the righteous done 4 The Lord is in his holy temple the Lords seat is in heaven 5 His eyes consider the poore and his
triumph over me 2 For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed but such as transgresse without a cause shall be put to confusion 3 Shew me thy wayes O Lord and teach me thy paths 4 Lead me forth in thy truth and learn me for thou art the God of my salvation in thee hath been my hope all the day long 5 Call to remembrance O Lord thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesse which hath been ever of old 6 Oh remember not the sinnes and offences of my youth but according to thy mercy think thou upon me O Lord for thy goodnesse 7 Gracious and righteous is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way 8 Them that be meek shall he guide in judgement and such as be gentle them shall he learn his way 9 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies 10 For thy names sake O Lord be mercifull unto my sinne for it is great 11 What man is he that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose 12 His soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the land 13 The secret of the Lord is among them that fear him and he will shew them his covenant 14 Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net 15 Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me for I am desolate and in misery 16 The sorrowes of my heart are enlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles 17 Look upon mine adversity and misery and forgive me all my sinne 18 Consider mine enemies how many they are and they bear a tyrannous hate against me 19 O keep my soul and deliver me let me not be confounded for I have put my trust in thee 20 Let perfectnesse and righteous dealing wait upon me for my hope hath been in thee 21 Deliver Israel O God out of all his troubles The Prayer O Gracious and Righteous Lord God who art the guide of the meek and teachest the humble and gentle in thy way forgive the sins and offences of our youth and although by them we have deserved thy wrath and that we be put to confusion yet be pleased to think upon us for thy goodnesse and according to thy mercy that when thou hast forgiven us all our sinne and taken away our adversity and all our misery thou maist keep our soules in perâ—ectnesse and righteous dealing that at last we may dwell at ease free from trouble and safe from all our enemies even when we shall inherit the land of everlasting rest where thou livest and raignest eternal God world without end Amen PSALME 26. A Prayer of preparation to the holy Sacrament and to death BE thou my judge O Lord for I have walked innocently my trust hath been also in the Lord therefore shall I not fall 2 Examine me O Lord and prove me try out my reins and my heart 3 For thy loving kindnesse is ever before mine eyes and I will walk in thy truth 4 I have not dwelt with vain persons neither will I have fellowship with the deceitfull 5 I have hated the congregation of the wicked and will not sit among the ungodly 6 I will wash my hands in innocency O Lord and so will I goe to thine altar 7 That I may shew the voyce of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works 8 Lord I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth 9 O shut not up my soul with the sinners nor my life with the bloud-thirsty 10 In whose hands is wickednesse and their right hands are full of gifts 11 But as for me I will walk innocently O Lord deliver me and be mercifull unto me 12 My foot standeth right I will praise the Lord in the congregations The Prayer O Lord our Judge whose loving kindnesse is great and alwayes before our eyes manifested in the abundant acts of thy grace and providence make us to love and frequent all the actions ministeries and conveyances of thy graces to us especially thy holy Sacraments O dear God endue our Soules with faith and charity and holy penitence that our hands and hearts our Souls and bodies being washed in innocency and penance we may goe to thy holy Table and may in the whole course of our life walk righteously and in obedience to thee that in this world hating the congregation of the wicked and the fellowship of the deceitfull and vain persons at last our Soules may not be shut up with sinners nor our lives with the bloud-thirsty but wee may have our portion in the eternall habitation of thy house where thine honour dwelleth and reigneth world without end Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 27. A Prayer that being freed from our Enemies we may attend the services of Religion and serve God in his holy Temple THe Lord is my light and my salvation whom then shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom then shall I be afraid 2 When the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eate up my flesh they stumbled and fell 3 Though an host of men were laid against me yet shall not my heart be afraid and though there rose up War agaist me yet will I put my trust in him 4 One thing have I desired of the Lord which I will require even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the faire beauty of the Lord and to visit his Temple 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me and set me up upon a rock of stone 6 And now shall he lift up mine head above mine enemies round about me 7 Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladnesse I will sing and speak praises unto thâ— Lord. 8 Hearken unto my voyce O Lord when I cry unto thee have mercy upon me and hear me 9 My heart hath talked of thee seek ye my face thy face Lord will I seek 10 O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast thy servant away in displeasure 11 Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation 12 When my father and my mother forsake me the Lord taketh me up 13 Teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in the right way because of mine enemies 14 Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries for there are false witnesses risen up against me and such as speak wrong 15 I should utterly have fainted but that I beleeve verily to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living 16 O tarry thou the Lords leisuâ—â— be strong and he shall comfort thine heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God thou hast been our succour
our light and salvation leave us not neither forsake us when we are assaulted by enemies without and by temptations from within but lead us in the right way which thou hast appointed for us to walk in and when thou hast lift up our heads above our enemies round about us grant that we may spend our days in prayer and giving praises to thee and in all other actions of holy Religion visiting thy temple with frequent addresses of devotion and contemplating and admiring the fair beauty of the Lord and that being secure in such imployments being hid in thy Tabernacle and taking Sanctuary within the secret place of thy dwelling we may at last come unto thy heavenly Jerusalem where the gates of thy Temple are open day and night there seeing the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living praising thee to all eternity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 28. A prayer for deliverance from death and damnation VNto thee will I cry O Lord my strength think no scorn of me lest if thou make as though thou hearest not I become like them that go down into the pit 2 Heare the voyce of my humble petitions when I cry unto thee when I hold up my hands toward the mercy-seat of thy holy temple 3 O pluck me not away neither destroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers which speak friendly to their neighbours but imagine mischief in their hearts 4 Reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickednesse of their own inventions 5 Recompence them after the work of their hands pay them that they have deserved 6 For they regard not in their minde the works of the Lord nor the operation of his hands therefore shall he break them down and not build them up 7 Praised be the Lord for he hath heard the voyce of my humble petitions 8 The Lord is my strength and my shield my heart hath trusted in him and I am helped therefore my heart danceth for joy and in my song will I praise him 9 The Lord is my strength and he is the wholsome defence of his anointed 10 O save thy people and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance feed them and set them up for ever The Prayer O Lord my strength and confidence my shield and the defence of all that hope in thee hear the voyce of our humble petitions We hold up our hands to thy mercy-seat praying thee for pity and pardon of our sinnes reward us not according to our deeds nor according to the wickednesse of our inventions for if thou shouldest deal with us according to the operation of our hands we should be like them that go down into the pit and our inheritance would be death and destruction But our heart hath trusted in thee and thou hast helped us continue thy loving kindnesse to us and pluck us not away neither destroy us with the ungodly and wicked doers but magnifie thy mercies in the salvation of our soules through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 29. In which God is adored and the mightinesse of his power and voyce is celebrated BRing unto the Lord O ye mighty bring young Rams unto the Lord ascribe unto the Lord worship and strength 2 Give the Lord the honour due unto his Name worship the Lord with holy worship 3 It is the Lord that commandeth the waters it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder 4 It is the Lord that ruleth the Sea the voyce of the Lord is mighty in operation the voyce of the Lord is a glorious voyce 5 The voyce of the Lord breaketh the Cedar trees yea the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Libanus 6 He made them also to skip like a calfe Libanus also and Sirion like a young Unicorn 7 The voyce of the Lord divideth the flames of fire the voice of the Lord shaketh the wildernesse yea the Lord shaketh the wildernesse of Cades 8 The voice of the Lord maketh the Hindes to bring forth young and discovereth the thick bushes in his Temple doth every man speak of his honour 9 The Lord sitteth above the water floud and the Lord remaineth a King for ever 10 The Lord shall give strength unto his people the Lord shall give his people the blessing of peace The Prayer O Most glorious God who makest the thunder thy voice is mighty in operation and is a glorious voice give us grace that we may hear thy voice and obey it with reverence and humility Thou that breakest the Cedar trees let thy word rend our hearts with sorrow and contrition for our sinnes that so we may feel the power and the mercy of thy voice and may ascribe unto thee worship and strength worshipping thee with a holy worship all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 30. A Prayer for deliverance from sicknesse and death and damnation I Will magnifie thee O Lord for thou hast set me up and not made my foes to triumph over me 2 O Lord my God I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me 3 Thou Lord hast brought my soul out of hell thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit 4 Sing praises unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks to him for a remembrance of his holinesse 5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and in his pleasure is life heavinesse may endure for a night but joy commeth in the morning And in my prosperity I said I shall never be removed thou Lord of thy goodnesse hadst made my hill so strong 7 Thou didst turn thy face from me and I was troubled 8 Then cried I unto thee O Lord and gat me unto my Lord right humbly 9 What profit is there in my bloud when I go down to the pit 10 Shall the dust give thanks unto thee or shall it declare thy truth 11 Heare O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper 12 Thou hast turned my heavinesse into joy thou hast put off my sackcloth and gâ—rded me with gladnesse 13 Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever The Prayer O Lord our God whose mercy is infinite but thy wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and even in this short time of thy wrath thou remembrest mercy we cry unto thee and addresse our selves unto thee right humbly O turn not thy face away from us keep our life from them that goe downe into the pit and preserve our souls from hell and although thou sometimes sendest heavinesse unto us and trouble upon our loyns yet let it be but as for a night let thy mercy dawn upon us and shine as in a glorious morning for thou art more pleased in demonstrations of thy mercy then in shewing thy displeasure O Lord heal us and be mercifull unto us and save us turn our heavinesse into joy and gird us
thy mercy is as infinite as thy self O let not thy hand be heavy upon us but forgive the wickednesse of our sin and compasse us about with songs of deliverance then shall we be glad and rejoyce in thee O Lord who art become our mighty Saviour and most mercifull Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 33. A prayer to God for the graces of feare hope and Religion REjoyce in the Lord O ye righteous for it becometh well the just to be thankfull 2 Praise the Lord with harp sing psalmes unto him with the lute and instrument of ten strings 3 Sing unto the Lord a new song sing praises lustily unto him with a good courage 4 For the word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithfull 5 He loveth righteousnesse and judgement the earth is full of the goodnesse of the Lord. 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth 7 He gathereth the waters of the Sea together as it were upon an heap and layeth up the deep as in a treasure house 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord stand in awe of him all ye that dwell in the world 9 For he spake and it was done he comâ—â—â—ded and it stood fast 10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to nought and maketh the devices of the people to bee of none effect and casteth out the counsels of Princes 11 The counsell of the Lord shall endure for ever and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation 12 Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord Jehovah and blessed are the folk that he hath chosen to him to be his inheritance 13 The Lord looked down from Heaven and beheld all the children of men from the habitation of his dwelling he considereth all them that dwell in the earth 14 He fashioneth all the hearts of them and understandeth all their works 15 There is no King that can be saved by the multitude of an host neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength 16 An Horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength 17 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy 18 To deliver their soules from death and to feed them in the time of dearth 19 Our soul hath patiently tarried for the Lord for he is our help and our shield 20 For our heart shall rejoyce in him because wee have hoped in his holy name 21 Let thy mercifull kindnesse O Lord be upon us like as we doe put our trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God who lovest righteousnesse and judgement who fillest the earth with thy goodnesse and lookest down from Heaven upon the children of men Consider us O Lord and let thy grace fashion our hearts and produce in our souls such forms and impresses as may bear thy Image and seem beauteous in thy eyes that thou maist be our God and choose us for thine inheritance Let thy mercy feed us thy hands deliver us from death and snatch us from the jaws of hell teach us to fear thee to put our trust in thy mercy patiently to tarry for thee and the revelation of thy loving kindnesses to hope in thy holy Name and to rejoyce in thy salvation giving thee thanks and praise with a good courage with humble and religious affections all the days of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 34. A Prayer that we being dispos'd by holy living may receive and have a sense and taste of the Divine goodnesse I Will alway give thanks unto the Lord his praise shall ever be in my mouth 2 My soul shall make her boast of the Lord the humble shall hear thereof and be glad 3 O praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his name together 4 I sought the Lord and he heard me yea he delivered me out of all my fear 5 They had an eye unto him and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed 6 Lo the poor crieth and the Lord heareth him yea and saveth him out of all his troubles 7 The Angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him and delivereth them 8 O taste and see how gracious the Lord is blessed is the man that trusteth in him 9 O fear the Lord ye that be his Saints for they that fear him lack nothing 10 The lions doe lack and suffer hunger but they which seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good 11 Come ye children and hearken unto me I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 12 What man is he that lusteth to live and would fain see good dayes keep thy tongue from evill and thy lips that they speak no guile 13 Eschew evill and do good seek peace and ensue it 14 The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his eares are open unto their prayers 15 The countenance of the Lord is against them that doe evill to root out the remembrance of them from the earth 16 The righteous cry and the Lord heareth them and delivereth them out of all their troubles 17. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart and will save such as be of an humble spirit 18 Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of all 19 He keepeth all his bones so that not one of them is broken 20 But misfortune shall slay the ungodly and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate 21 The Lord delivereth the souls of his servants and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute The Prayer O Most mercifull and gracious Lord whose eies are over the righteous and thine ears are open unto their prayers give us we beseech thee a contrite heart and an humble spirit a fear of thy Name a watchfulnesse over our tongue that we speak no guile a care of our actions that we eschew all evill and a zeal of thy Name that we may do good that being thus prepared with holy dispositions we may be delivered out of all our troubles by the hands of thy mercy we may be defended against our enemies by the custody of Angels we may be provided for so as to want no manner of thing that is good by the ministration of thy providence that so in all the whole course of our life we may feel the goodnesse of the Lord seeing and tasting the sweetnesses of thy mercy which may be to us an antepast of eternity and as an earnest of the Spirit to consigne us to the fruition of the glories of thy Kingdome who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 35. A Prayer to be delivered from our Enemies PLead thou my cause O Lord with them that strive with me and fight thou against them that fight against me 2 Lay
our groaning is not hid wee confesse before thee our many wickednesses and are truly sorry for our sins our wickednesses are gone over our head and are a sore burden too heavy for us to bear our enemy the Devill is malicious and mighty our weaknesses many our temptations strong our consciences doe busily accuse us Where shall we appear in the day of Judgement How shall we stand upright in the eternall scrutiny Our trust is in thy merits O blessed Jesu thou art our Judge and our Advocate thou shalt answer for us O Lord our God Put us not to rebuke O Lord in thine anger for it is insupportable neither let thy whole displeasure arise for that is vast and mountainous as our sinnes and will break us in pieces O let not the arrows of thy vengeance stick fast in us for our sins are wounds enough and make us restlesse and miserable Touch our sores gently and let not thy hands presse us unlesse to drive forth our corruption then shall we follow the thing that good is and rejoyce greatly in thy mercies O Lord God of our salvation who hast redeemed us and saved us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 39. A meditation of the shortnesse and vanity of our life and a prayer preparatory to death I Said I will take heed to my ways that I offend not in my tongue 2 I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my sight 3 I held my tongue and spake nothing I kept silence yea even from good words but it was pain and grief to mee 4 My heart was hot within me and while I was thus musing the fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue 5 Lord let me know mine end and the number of my days that I may be certified how long I have to live 6 Behold thou hast made my days as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanity 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them 8 And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee 9 Deliver me from all mine offences and make mee not a rebuke unto the foolish 10 I became dumb and opened not my mouth for it was thy doing 11 Take thy plague away from me I am even consumed by the means of thy heavy hand 12 When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin thou makest his beauty to consume away like as it were a moth fretting a garment every man therefore is but vanity 13 Hear my prayer O Lord and with thine ears consider my calling hold not thy peace at my tears 14 For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were 15 O spare me a little that I may recover my strengthâ— before I goe hence and be no more seen The Prayer O Eternall God who art without beginning or end of days thou hast given us a short portion of time in the generations of this world our condition is vain unsatisfying and full of disquiet and we have no hope but in thee O Lord. O teach us to number our days to remember and to know our end that so we may never sin against thee and grant that we may live as always dying being of mortified souls and bodies of bridled tongues and affections and that in stead of heaping up riches we may strive for a treasure of good works laying up in store against the time to come that having recovered our strength lost by the commission of sins when we go hence and are no more seen we may have a residence in those mansions which are prepared for the Saints by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 40. A thanksgiving to God for his deliverances and a prayer for redemption from sins and defence against our enemies I Waited patiently for the Lord and he enclined unto me and heard my calling 2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit out of the mire and clay and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings 3 And hee hath put a new song in my mouth even a thanksgiving unto our God 4 Many shall see it and fear and shall put their trust in the Lord. 5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord and turned not unto the proud and to such as goe about with lies 6 O Lord my God great are thy wondrous works which thou hast done like as be also thy thoughts which are to us-ward and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee 7 If I would declare them and speak of them they should be moe then I am able to expresse 8 Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not have but mine ears hast thou opened 9 Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sinne hast thou not required then said I Lo I come 10 In the volume of the book it is written of me that I should fulfill thy will O my God I am content to doe it yea thy Law is within my heart 11 I have declared thy righteousnesse in the great congregation lo I will not refrain my lips O Lord and that thou knowest 12 I have not hid thy righteousnesse within my heart my talking hath been of thy truth and of thy salvation 13 I have not kept back thy loving mercy and truth from the great congregation 14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me O Lord let thy loving kindnesse and thy truth alway preserve me 15 For innumerable troubles are come about me my sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up yea they are moe in number then the hairs of mine head and my heart hath failed me 16 O Lord let it be thy pleasure to deliver me make haâ—te O Lord to help me 17 Let them bee ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it let them be driven backward and put to rebuke that wish me evill 18 Let them be desolate and rewarded with shame that say unto me Fie upon thee fie upon thee 19 Let all those that seek thee be joyfull and glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say alway The Lord be praised 20 As for me I am poor and needy but the Lord careth for me 21 Thou art my helper and redeemer make no long tarrying O my God The Prayer O Lord our God whose works are wondrous and thy thoughts which are to us-ward full of mercy and admirable in wisdome we adore and worship thy infinite perfections and thy providence in the disposing of all thy creatures and the effects of all causes which in an infinite variety thou orderest to thy glory and the good of all faithfull people Thou hast dealt with us in mercy and although our sins are so multiplied that they are moe in number then the hairs
she is the daughter of a King and thou takest pleasure in her beauty let her not alwaies be clothed in mourning garments but let her be decked with exteriour Ornaments and secular advantages such as may truly promote the interests of holy Religion Let Kings and Queens be nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers unto her and so let the sound of thy Gospell go into all the Earth that her children may be Princes in all Lands and Ministers of thy Kingdome advancing thy honour and furthering the salvation of all men for whom thou didst give thy precious bloud that all people may worship thee and give thee thanks for ever who together with the Father and the holy Ghost livest and reignest one God world without end Amen PSALME 46. A Prayer for protection and for confidence in God in times of publike distractions and for the peace of Christendome GOD is our hope and strength a very present help in trouble 2 Therefore will we not fear though the earth be moved and though the hills be carried into the midst of the Sea 3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same 4 The rivers of the floud thereof shall make glad the City of God the holy place of the tabernacle of the most Highest 5 God is in the midst of her therefore shall she not be removed God shall help her and that right early 6 The Heathen make much adoe and the Kingdomes are moved but God hath shewed his voyce and the earth shall melt away 7 The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge 8 O come hither and behold the works of the Lord what destruction he hath brought upon the earth 9 He maketh Wars to cease in all the World he breaketh the bow and knappeth the spear in sunder and burneth the Chariots in the fire 10 Be still then and know that I am God I will bee exalted among the Heathen and I will be exalted in the earth 11 The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge The Prayer O Most mercifull Saviour Jesu Prince of Peace at whose birth all the Kingdomes of the World were in peace and tranquillity bethou in the midst of us for our refuge and present help in times of trouble and publick calamities when the Kingdome is moved and the hearts of men shake at the tempest of the same Dear God unite all the parts of Christendome with the union of Faith and Charity and the fruits of them a blessed and universall Peace Break the bow of the mighty knappe the spear of the Warriour in sunder and burn the Chariots in the fire that Warres may cease in all the World and we all may feel the promised blessing of the Gospel that our Swords may be converted into plowshares and our Spears into pruning hooks that thy Name and thy Kingdome may be exalted among the heathen and in all the Nations of the earth who livest the reignest over all in the unity of the blessed Trinity God eternall world without end Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 47. A Prayer for the exaltation of Christs Kingdom and that all the Princes of the world may joyntly adore Jesus reigning in the Heavens O Clap your hands together all ye people O sing unto God with the voice of melody 2 For the Lord is high and to bee feared he is the great King upon all the earth 3 He shall subdue the people under us and the nations under our feet 4 He shall chuse out an heritage for us even the worship of Jacob whom he loved 5 God is gone up with a merry noise and the Lord with the sound of the trump 6 O sing praises sing praises unto our God O sing praises sing praises unto our King 7 For God is the King of all the earth sing ye praises with understanding 8 God reigneth over the heaâ—hen God sitteth upon his holy seat 9 The Princes of the people are joyned unto the people of the God of Abraham for God which is very high exalted doth defend the earth as it were with a shield The Prayer O Lord God King of Heaven who raignest a great King in all the Earth thou art high above all creatures and art to be feared in all the Kingdomes of the earth let the seed of thy Gospel be disseminated in all the corners of the habitable World let thy grace break down all the strong holds of sin and Satan subduing all people under thee and the Nations under thy feet that the Princes of the Nations that have not known thy Name may be joyned to thy people the people of the God of Abraham becomming one sheepfold under one Shepheard Iesus Christ our blessed Lord our Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 48. A Prayer for the prosperity of the Church GReat is the Lord and highly to be praised in the City of our God even upon his holy hill 2 The hill of Sion is a fair place and the joy of the whole earth upon the north side lieth the City of the great King God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge 3 For lo the Kings of the earth are gathered and gone by together 4 They marvelled to see such things they were astonied and suddenly cast down 5 Fear came there upon them and sorrow as upon a woman in her travell 6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea through the east winde 7 Like as wee have heard so have we seen in the City of the Lord of hosts in the City of our God God upholdeth the same for ever 8 We wait for thy loving kindnesse O God in the midst of thy temple 9 O God according unto thy name so is thy praise unto the worlds end thy right hand is full of righteousnesse 10 Let the mount Sion rejoyce and the daughters of Juda be glad because of thy judgements 11 Walk about Sion and goe round about her and tell the towers thereof 12 Mark well her bulwarks set up her houses that yee may tell them that come after 13 For this God is our God for ever and ever he shall be our guide unto death The Prayer O Great God who art highly to be praised who hast manifested thy power and thy mercy in the constitution propagation and defence of thy Holy Church by the miraculous assistances and effects of thy Holy Spirit insomuch that the Kings of the earth marvelled to see such things and were astonied and suddenly cast down acknowledging the powers of thy Kingdome and submitting to thy laws with faith and obedience be pleased according to thy gracious promise to uphold the same for ever let not the gates of hell prevail against thy Church be thou known in her palaces as a sure refuge make her the joy of the whole earth and let her be glad and rejoyce because of thy judgements so shall we praise thee in the midst of thy Temple waiting for thy
3 Thou hast shewed thy people heavy things thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine 4 Thou hast given a token for such as fear thee that they may triumph because of the truth 5 Therefore were thy beloved delivered help me with thy right hand and hear me 6 God hath spoken in his holinesse I will rejoyce and divide Sichem and mete out the valley of Succoth 7 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of my head Judah is my law-giver 8 Moab is my wash-pot over Edom will I cast out my shoe Philistia be thou glad of me 9 Who will lead me into the strong city who will bring me into Edom 10 Hast thou not cast us out O God wilt not thou O God goe out with our hosts 11 O be thou our help in trouble for vain is the help of man 12 Through God will we doe great acts for it is hee that shall tread down our enemies The Prayer O Lord God who for our sins hast shewed us heavy things and given us a drink of deadly Wine and yet hast never failed them that fear thee but hast given them a token that they may triumph because of thy truth and mercy consigning them to redemption and deliverance by the testimony and comforts of the holy Spirit O be thou our help in trouble for all our hope is in thee and we disclaim all confidence in our selves or in the arm of flesh praying thee for aid that in thy strength we may tread down our enemies and give thee thanks who art the fountain of strength and the disposer of Victories through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 61. A Prayer for the King and for comfort in sadnesse HEar my crying O God give ear vnto my prayer 2 From the ends of the earth will I call unto thee when my heart is in heavinesse 3 O set me up upon the rock that is higher then I for thou hast been my hope and a strong tower for me against the enemy 4 I will dwell in thy tabernacle for ever and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings 5 For thou O Lord hast heard my desires and hast given an heritage unto those that feare thy name 6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life that his years may endure throughout all generations 7 He shall dwell before God for ever O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulnesse that they may preserve him 8 So will I always sing praise unto thy name that I may daily perform my vows The Prayer O Blessed Jesu thou that art the rock higher then all the world upon whom thy Church is built and all our hopes rely be mercifull unto us and give ear unto our prayers be unto us a fountain of comfort whensoever our heart is in heavinesse for under the covering of thy wings there is joy and health and safety save all those that fear thy name and give thy blessing to thine heritage and that the blessings of thy people may be lasting and perpetuall give unto thy servant the King long life let thy loving kindnesse and faithfulnesse alway preserve him be a strong tower for him against all his enemies and at last bring him to an eternall Kingdome where no enemies shall assault or disturb his Peace that he may dwell before thee for ever and rejoyce in the participation of the blessings of thy kingdome who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 62. A Prayer that we may trust in God onely in all our troubles MY soul truly waiteth still upon God for of him commeth my salvation 2 He verily is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not greatly fall 3 How long will yee imagine mischiefe against every man ye shall be slain all the sort of you yea as a tottering wall shall ye be and like a broken hedge 4 Their device is onely how to put him out whom God will exalt their delight is in lies they give good words with their mouth but curse with their heart 5 Neverthelesse my soul wait thou still upon God for my hope is in him 6 He truly is my strength and my salvation he is my defence so that I shall not fall 7 In God is my health and my glory the rock of my might and in God is my trust 8 O put your trust in him alway ye people poure out your hearts before him for God is our hope 9 As for the children of men they are but vain the children of men are deceitfull upon the weights they are altogether lighter then vanity it self 10 O trust not in wrong and robbery give not your selves unto vanity if riches increase set not your heart upon them 11 God spake once and twice I have also heard the same that power belongeth unto God 12 And that thou Lord art mercifull for thou rewardest every man according to his work The Prayer O Lord God of whom commeth our salvation thou art our defence and strength our health and our glory give us thy grace that we may put our whole trust in thee alway that we may pour out our hearts before thee in all our troubles that we may wait still upon thee for the performance of our expectation in all our longings and desires Be thou our defence uphold us that we may not fall into those great sins which lay waste our consciences or into such miseries as make us without hope or remedy the miseries of despair obstinate malice or the woes of a sad eternity Teach us to despise riches to disclaim all trust in the creatures not to delight in lies or vanity not to multiply wrongs and robbery that when thou shalt come with power and great glory to reward every man according to his work thou maist be mercifull unto us pardoning our sinnes and accepting us to life eternall through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 63. A Prayer for deliverance from the miseries of our pilgrimage with longing and desires after God and the joyes of Heaven O God thou art my God early will I seek thee 2 My soul thirsteth for thee my flesh also longeth after thee in a barren and dry land where no water is 3 Thus have I looked for thee in holinesse that I might behold thy power and glory 4 For thy loving kindnesse is better then the life it self my lips shall praise thee 5 As long as I live will I magnifie thee on his manner and lift up my hands in thy name 6 My soul shall be satisfied even as it were with marrow and fatnesse when my mouth praiseth thee with joyfull lips 7 Have I not remembred thee in my bed and thought upon thee when I was waking 8 Because thou hast been my helper therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoyce 9 My soul hangeth upon thee thy right hand hath upholden me 10 These also that seek the hurt of my soul they
shall go under the earth 11 Let them fall upon the edge of the sword that they may be a portion for foxes 12 But the King shall rejoyce in God all they also that swear by him shall be commended for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped The Prayer O Mercifull and deare God whose loving kindnesse is better then the life it self defend us against the malice and designes of all them that seek the hurt of our souls and make us to rejoyce in thy help and under the shadow of thy wings O let the day-spring of thy favour visit us from on high that we may seek thee with an early devotion pursue after thee with a constant and an active industry and at last possesse thee with the firm comprehensions of love and charity that in this world we looking for thee in holinesse of living longing and thirsting after thee with fervent desires may for ever hereafter behold thy power and glory and our souls be eternally satisfied even as with marrow and fatnesse when our lips and hearts shall praise thee to all eternity Grant this for the love and honour of Jesus Christ our onely Mediator and Redeemer Amen PSALME 64. A Prayer for deliverance from the slander and mischiefs of all wicked persons HEar my voyce O God in my prayer preserve my life from fear of the enemy 2 Hide me from the gathering together of the froward and from the insurrection of wicked doers 3 Which have whet their tongue like a sword and shoot out their arrows even bitter words 4 That they may privily shoot at him that is perfect suddenly do they hit him and fear not 5 They courage themselves in mischief and commune among themselves how they may lay snares and say that no man shall see them 6 They imagine wickednesse and practise it that they keep secret among themselves every man in the deep of his heart 7 But God shall suddenly shoot at them with a swift arrow that they shall be wounded 8 Yea their own tongues shall make them fall insomuch that whoso seeth them shall laugh them to scorn 9 And all men that see it shall say This hath God done for they shall perceive that it is his work 10 The righteous shall rejoyce in the Lord and put his trust in him and all they that are true of heart shall be glad The Prayer O Lord God thou that hearest the voice of our prayers and considerest the cries of them that flie unto thee for succour deliver us and all thy whole Church from the gathering together of the froward and from the insurrection of wicked doers Disappoint their snares infatuate their Counsels distract their consultations and blast all their designes let the swords and arrows of their tongues be shot in vain that they may never hit any of thy servants nor wound him that is perfect Make them to fall O God in their hopes whereby they courage themselves in mischief and fear not and do thou laugh them to scorn that we who have put our trust in thee may rejoyce in thee and confesse that it is thy work to give salvation and deliverance to thy people whom thou lovest in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 65. A Prayer for spirituall blessings and for fruitfulnesse of the earth THou O God art praised in Sion and unto thee shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem 2 Thou that hearest the prayer unto thee shall all flesh come 3 My misdeeds prevail against me O be thou mercifull unto our sins 4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and receivest unto thee he shall dwell in thy Court and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house even of thy holy temple 5 Thou shalt shew us wonderfull things in thy righteousnesse O God of our salvation thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth and of them that remain in the broad sea 6 Which in his strength setteth fast the mountains and is girded about with power 7 Which stilleth the raging of the sea and the noise of his waves and the madnesse of his people 8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth shall be afraid at thy tokens thou that makest the out-goings of the morning and evening to praise thee 9 Thou visitest the earth and blessest it thou makest it very plenteous 10 The river of God is full of water thou preparest their corn for so thou providest for the earth 11 Thou waterest her furrows thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof thou makest it soft with the drops of rain and blessest the increase of it 12 Thou crownest the year with thy goodnesse and thy clouds drop fatnesse 13 They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wildernesse and the little hils shall rejoyce on every side 14 The folds shall be full of sheep the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn that they shall laugh and sing The Prayer O God the hope of all the ends of the earth and of them that remaine in the broad sea be thou mercifull unto our sinnes and let not our misdeeds prevail against us so as either to make us habitually sinfull or endlesly miserable but give us the blessings of thy chosen let us receive the influences of thy graces and benediction by the participation of thy Word and Sacraments in thy holy temple And as thou embracest us with thy right hand shewing us wonderfull things in thy righteousnesse and salvation so let thy left hand be under our heads and give us such a portion of temporall blessings as shall be necessary for us Make the earth plenteous and blesse the increase of it crown the yeare with goodnesse and let the clouds drop fatnesse that the valleys standing thick with corn may laugh and sing thy praises and that we being refreshed with the multitude of thy blessings may praise thee in Sion and at last be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house in the celestiall Jerusalem where thou livest and reignest one God world without end Amen PSALME 66. A Prayer that God would support us in times of trouble and deliver us O Be joyfull in God all ye lands sing praises unto the honour of his name make his praise to be glorious 2 Say unto God O how wonderfull art thou in thy works through the greatnesse of thy power shall thine enemies be found liers unto thee 3 For all the world shall worship thee sing of thee and praise thy name 4 O come hither and behold the works of God how wonderfull he is in his doing towards the children of men 5 He turned the sea into dry land so that they went through the water on foot there did we rejoyce thereof 6 He ruleth with his power for ever his eyes behold the people and such as will not beleeve shall not be able to exalt themselves 7 O praise our God ye people and make the voyce of his praise to be
damsels playing with the timbrels 26 Give thanks O Israel unto God the Lord in the congregations from the ground of the heart 27 There is little Benjamin their ruler and the Princes of Judah their counsell the princes of Zabulon and the Princes of Nephthali 28 Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in us 29 For thy temples sake at Jerusalem so shall Kings bring presents unto thee 30 When the company of the Spear-men and multitude of the mighty are scattered abroad among the beasts of the people so that they humbly bring pieces of silver and when he hath scattered the people that delight in warre 31 Then shall the Princes come out of Egypt the Morians land shall soon stretch out her hands unto God 32 Sing unto God O ye kingdomes of the earth O sing praises unto the Lord. 33 Which sitteth in the heavens over all from the beginning lo he doth send out his voyce yea and that a mighty voyce 34 Ascribe ye the power to God over Israel his worship and strength is in the clouds 35 O God wonderfull art thou in thy holy places even the God of Israel he will give strength and power unto his people blessed be God The Prayer O Lord God mighty and mercifull thou ridest upon the heavens as it were upon an horse thou art the father of the fatherlesse and defendest the cause of the widow have mercy upon thy holy Church and since her Lord and Spouse is gone up on high even to his holy habitation leave us not comfortlesse but send the holy Ghost in assistances and gifts to dwel amongst us that by his aid we may escape death spirituall and the bitternesse of the temporall Send a gracious rain even the dew of thy divine favours upon thine inheritance to refresh us in our wearinesse and sadnesses Make thy people innocent and chast as the dove and besides the beauty of internall sanctity let thy Church be covered with silver wings and her feathers like gold decked and assisted with exteriour advantages as may best promote thy honour and the services of religion Let all the Princes and lands of the earth stretch their hands out unto thee O God and confesse thy mightinesse and thy honour that thy Gospel going forth into all lands peace and all thy blessings may follow it and thy praise be multiplied from generation to generation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 69. A prayer in times of persecution for the cause of Religion SAve me O God for the watâ—rs are come in even unto my soul. 2 I stick fast in the deep mire where no ground is I am come into deep waters so that the flouds run over me 3 I am weary of crying my throat is dry my sight faileth me for waiting so long upon my God 4 They that hate me without a cause are moe then the hairs of my head they that are mine enemies and would destroy me guiltlesse are mighty 5 I payed them the things that I never took God thou knowest my simplenesse and my faults are not hid from thee 6 Let not them that trust in thee O Lord God of hosts be ashamed for my cause let not them that seek thee be confounded through me O Lord God of Israel 7 And why for thy sake have I suffered reproof shame hath covered my face 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren even an aliant unto my mothers children 9 For the zeal of thy house hath even eaten me and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen upon me 10 I wept and chastned my self with fasting and that was turned to my reproof 11 I put on sackcloth also and they jested upon me 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me and the drunkards make songs upon me 13 But Lord I make my prayer unto thee in an acceptable time 14 Hear me O God in the multitude of thy mercy even in the truth of thy salvation 15 Take me out of the mire that I sink not oh let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters 16 Let not the water-floud drown me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me 17 Hear me O Lord for thy loving kindnesse is comfortable turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies 18 And hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble oh haste thee and hear me 19 Draw nigh unto my soul and save it oh deliver me because of mine enemies 20 Thou hast known my reproof my shame and my dishonour mine adversaries are all in thy sight 21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart I am full of heavinesse I looked for some to have pity on me but there was no man neither found I any to comfort me 22 They gave me gall to eat and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink 23 Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withall and let the things that should have been for their wealth be unto them an occasion of falling 24 Let their eyes be blinded that they see not and ever bow down their backs 25 Poure out thine indignation upon them and let thy wrathfull displeasure toke hold of them 26 Let their habitation be void and no man to dwell in their tents 27 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded 28 Let them fall from one wickednesse to another and not come into thy righteousnesse 29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living and not bee written among the righteous 30 As for me when I am poor and in heavinesse thy help O God shall lift me up 31 I will praise the name of God with a song and magnifie it with thanksgiving 32 This also shall please the Lord better then a bullock that hath horns and hoofs 33 The humble shall consider this and be glad seek ye after God and your soul shall live 34 For the Lord heareth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners 35 Let heaven and earth praise him the sea and all that moveth therein 36 For God will save Sion and build the Cities of Juda that men may dwell there and have it in possession 37 The posterity also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein The Prayer O Blessed Jesu whose loving kindnesse is comfortable who for our sakes didst taste vineger and gall that thou mightest redeem us from the bitternesse of death and sin and establish to thy self a Church in holy Religion and defend it with thy favour and power have mercy upon thy servants who suffer from the hands of their enemies for the testimony of a good conscience and the doctrines of a Cathâ—like faith Let not them that trust in thee O Lord God of hosts be ashamed but let
even as the drops that water the earth 7 In his time shall the righteous flourish yea and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth 8 His dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other and from the floud unto the worlds end 9 They that dwell in the wildernesse shall kneel before him his enemies shall lick the dust 10 The kings of Tharsis and of the Isles shall give presents the kings of Arabia and Saba shall bring gifts 11 All kings shall fall down before him all nations shall doe him service 12 For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth the needy also and him that hath no helper 13 He shall be favourable to the simple and needy and â—hall preserve the souls of the poor 14 Hee shall deliver their soules from falshood and wrong and dear shall their bloud be in his sight 15 He shall live and unto him shall be given of the gold of Arabia prayer shall be made ever unto him and daily shall he be praised 16 There shall be an heap of corn in the earth high upon the hils his fruit shall shake like Libanus and shall be green in the city like grasse upon the earth 17 His name shall endure for ever his name shall remain under the sun among the posterities which shall be blessed through him and all the heathen shall praisâ— him 18 Blessed be the Lord God even the God of Israel which onely doth wondrous things 19 And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever and all the earth shall be filled with his majesty Amen Amen The Prayer O Blessed Jesu who didst descend from heaven into the womb of the blessed Virgin like rain into a fleece of wooll thou that punishest the wrong doer and defendest the children of the poor and them that have no helper have mercy upon thy Holy Church be pleased by her ministery to extend thy blessings and thy dominion from the one Sea to the other even unto the worlds end that all Kings of the earth may fall down before thee and all Nations may do thee service Make thy righteous people to flourish and so subdue their enemies under them delivering them from falshood and wrong that they may be blessed with abundance of Peace and be satisfied with thy righteousnesse and salvation through thy mercies O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 73. A Prayer that we may have our portion in God and not in the good things of the men of this world TRuly God is loving unto Israel even unto such as are of a clean heart 2 Neverthelesse my feet were almost gone my treadings had welnigh slipt 3 And why I was grieved at the wicked I doe also see the ungodly in such prosperity 4 For they are in no perill of death but are lusty and strong 5 They come in no misfortune like other folk neither are they plagued like other men 6 And this is the cause that they be so holden with pride and overwhelmed with cruelty 7 Their eyes swell with fatnesse and they doe even what they lust 8 They corrupt other and speak of wicked blasphemy their talking is against the most Highest 9 For they stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven and their tongue goeth through the world 10 Therefore fall the people unto them and thereout suck they no small advantage 11 Tush say they how should God perceive it is there knowledge in the most Highest 12 Lo these are the ungodly these prosper in the World and these have riches in possession and I said Then have I cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocency 13 All the day long have I been punished and chastened every morning 14 Yea and I had almost said even as they but lo then should I have condemned the generation of thy children 15 Then thought I to understand this but it was too hard for me 16 Untill I went into the sanctuary of God then understood I the end of these men Namely how thou dost set them in slippery places and castest them down and destroyest them 18 Oh how suddenly doe they consume perish and come to a fearfull end 19 Yea even like as a dream when one awaketh so shalt thou make their image to vanish out of the City 20 Thus my heart was grieved and it went even through my reins 21 So foolish was I and ignorant even as it were a beast before thee 22 Neverthelesse I am alway by thee for thou hast holden me by my right hand 23 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsâ—ll and after that receive me with glory 24 Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee 25 My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever 26 For lo they that forsake thee shall perish thou hast destroyed all them that commit fornication against thee 27 But it is good for me to hold me fast by God to put my trust in the Lord God and to speak of all thy works in the gates of the daughter of Sion The Prayer O Lord God who art loving unto all thy Church even unto all such as are of a clean heart give unto us hearts humble and mercifull that we may never be holden with pride nor overwhelmed with cruelty and sanctifie our words and lips that we may never blaspheme thy holinesse nor our talking be ever against thee or thy honour O God most Highest give unto us such religious and mortified affections that we may never thirst after the temporall advantages and prosperities of the wicked set not our feet in slippery places lest we be suddenly cast down and have our portion in the lot of the wicked who perish and come to a fearfull end guide us with thy â—ounsell that we holding us fast by thee and putting our trust in thee ô God thou mayest be the strength of our hearts the hope of our souls and the ground of all our confidence and content in this life and after this life is ended thou maiest receive us with glory and be our portion for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 74. A Prayer against Sacrilegious persons and all the Enemies of the Church O God wherefore art thou absent from us so long why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture 2 O think upon thy congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old 3 Think upon the tribe of thy inheritance and mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt 4 Lift up thy feet that thou maist utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evill in thy sanctuary 5 Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy congregations and set up their banners for tokens 6 He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees was known to bring it to an excellent work 7 But now they break down all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers 8 They
cry unto God with my voyce even unto God will I cry with my voyce and he shall hearken unto me 2 In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran and ceased not in the night season my soul refused comfort 3 When I am in heavinesse I will think upon God when my heart is vexed I will complain 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking I am so feeble that I cannot speak 5 I have considered the dayes of old and the yeares that are past 6 I call to remembrance my song and in the night I commune with mine own heart and search out my spirits 7 Will the Lord absent himself for ever and will hee be no more intreated 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will he shut up his loving kindnesse in displeasure 10 And I said It is mine own infirmity but I will remember the yeares of the right hand of the most highest 11 I will remember the works of the Lord and call to minde thy wonders of old time 12 I will think also of all thy works and my talking shall be of thy doings 13 Thy way O God is holy who is so great a God as our God 14 Thou art the God that doth wonders and hast declared thy power among the people 15 Thou hast mightily delivered thy people even the sons of Jacob and Joseph 16 The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and were afraid the depths also were troubled 17 The clouds poured out water the aire thundred and thine arrows went abroad 18 The voyce of thy thunder was heard round about the lightnings shone upon the ground the earth was moved and shook withall 19 Thy way is in the sea and thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not known 20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron The Prayer O God who dost wonders and hast declared thy power amongst all people let the observation of thy mercies and loving kindnesses make such deep impression in our hearts and memories that when we are in heavinesse we may remember the years of thy right hand and call to mind the wonders of old time that although thou somtimes withdrawest the brightnesse of thy countenance from us and shuttest up thy loving kindnesse in a short displeasure yet the experience of thy old mercies which never fail may sustain our infirmities and the expectation of thy loving kindnesses may cure all our impatience till in thy due time the sense of thy favours may actually relieve all our distresses and thy right hand lead us like sheep into the folds of eternall rest and security through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 78. A Commemoration of Gods blessings to his Church of old of his Judgements upon sinners and his mercies to the penitent HEar my law O my people encline your eares unto the words of my mouth 2 I will open my mouth in a parable I will declare hard sentences of old 3 Which we have heard and known and such as our fathers have told us 4 That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to shew the honour of the Lord his mighty and wonderfull works that hee hath done 5 He made a covenant with Jacob and gave Israel a law which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children 6 That their posterity might know it and the children which were yet unborn 7 To the intent that when they came up they might shew their children the same 8 That they might put their trust in God and not to forget the works of God but to keep his Commandements 9 And not to be as their forefathers a faithlesse and stubborn generation a generation that set not their heart aright and whose spirit cleaved not stedfastly unto God 10 Like as the children of Ephraim which being harnessed and carrying bows turned themselves back in the day of battell 11 They kept not the covenant of God and would not walk in his law 12 But forgat what he had done and the wonderfull works that he had shewed for them 13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers in the land of Egypt even in the field of Zoan 14 He divided the sea and let them goe through he made the waters to stand on a heap 15 In the day time also he led them with a cloud and all the night through with a light of fire 16 Hee clave the hard rocks in the wildernesse and gave them drink thereof as it had been out of the great depth 17 He brought waters out of the stony rock so that it gushed out like the rivers 18 Yet for all this they sinned more against him and provoked the most Highest in the wildernesse 19 They tempted God in their hearts and required meat for their lust 20 They spake against God also saying Shall God prepare a table in the wildernesse 21 He smote the stony rock indeed that the water gushed out and the streams flowed withall but can he give bread also or provide flesh for his people 22 When the Lord heard this he was wroth so the fire was kindled in Jacob and there came up heavy displeasure against Israel 23 Because they beleeved not in God and put not their trust in his help 24 So he commanded the clouds above and opened the doores of heaven 25 He rained down Manna also upon them for to eat and gave them food from heaven 26 So man did eat Angels food for he sent them meat enough 27 He caused the east winde to blow under heaven and through his power he brought in the south-west-winde 28 He rained flesh upon them as thick as dust and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea 29 He let it fall among their tents even round about their habitation 30 So they did eat and were well filled for hee gave them their own desire they were not dissapointed of their lust 31 But while the meat was yet in their mouthes the heavy wrath of God came upon them and slew the wealthiest of them yea and smote down the chosen men that were in Israel 32 But for all this they sinned yet more and beleeved not his wondrous works 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity and their years in trouble 34 When he slew them they sought him and turned them early and enquired after God 35 And they remembred that God was their strength and that the high God was their Redeemer 36 Neverthelesse they did but flatter him with their mouth and dissembled with him in their tongue 37 For their heart was not whole with him neither continued they stedfast in his covenant 38 But he was so mercifull that hee forgave their misdeeds and destroyed them not 39 Yea many a time turned he his wrath away and would not suffer his whole displeasure
habitation and a residence for thy holy Spirit grounding us in faith building us up in hope and perfecting us in charity that we being joyned in the communion of Saints in the union of the holy Catholique Church militant on earth may all partake of the blessings of thy Church triumphant in the City of thee our God in the celestiall Jerusalem where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 88. A Prayer in time of sicknesse and danger of death O Lord God of my salvation I have cryed day and night before thee O let my prayer enter into thy presence incline thine ear unto my calling 2 For my soul is full of trouble and my life draweth nigh unto hell 3 I am counted as one of them that goe down into the pit and I have been even as a man that hath no strength 4 Free among the dead like unto them that be wounded and lie in the grave which be out of remembrance and are cut away from thy hand 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in a place of darknesse and in the deep 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me and made me to be abhorred of them 8 I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth 9 My sight faileth for very trouble Lord I have called daily upon thee I have stretched out my hands unto thee 10 Doest thou shew wonders among the dead or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee 11 Shall thy loving kindnesse be shewed in the grave or thy faithfulnesse in destruction 12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark and thy righteousnesse in the land where all things are forgotten 13 Unto thee have I cried O Lord and early shall my prayer come before thee 14 Lord why abhorrest thou my soul and hidest thou thy face from me 15 I am in misery and like unto him that is at the point to die even from my youth up thy terrours have I suffered with a troubled minde 16 Thy wrathfull displeasure goeth over me and the fear of thee hath undone me 17 They came round about me dayly like water and compâ—ssed me together on every side 18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight The Prayer O Lord God of our salvation who for our sakes wert wounded and didst die and lie in the grave but yet alone of all that ever died wert free among the dead and by thine own power didst arise again with victory and triumph have mercy upon thy servant for thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms my soul is full of trouble by reason of my sins and my life draweth nigh unto the grave restore me unto thy favour and let me not go down into the dark nor my life into the place where all things are forgotten but let me shew forth thy loving kindnesse amongst thy redeemed ones in the land of the living for the living the living he shall praise thee and confesse the holinesse and the mercies of thy holy Name O hide not thou thy face from me but give me health of body and restore and preserve me in the life of righteousnesse and so blesse me with opportunities of doing thee service that I may redeem the time past and by thy grace may grow rich in good works always abounding in the work of the Lord that when thou shalt demand my soul to be rendred up into thy hands my soul may not be abhorred of thee nor suffer thy terrors but may feel an eternity of blessings in the resurrection of the just through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 89. A Prayer for the King in time of Wars or any publike calamity MY song shall be alway of the loving kindnesse of the Lord with my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from one generation to another 2 For I have said mercy shall be set up for ever thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen I have sworn unto David my servant 4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever and set up thy throne from one generation to another 5 O Lord the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous works and thy truth in the congregation of the saints 6 For who is he among the clouds that shall be compared unto the Lord 7 And what is he among the gods that shall be like unto the Lord 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the counsell of the Saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him 9 O Lord God of hosts who is like unto thee thy truth most mighty Lord is on every side 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt and destroyed it thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm 12 The heavens are thine the earth also is thine thou hast laid the foundation of the round world and all that therein is 13 Thou hast made the North and the South Tabor and Hermon shall rejoyce in thy Name 14 Thou hast a mighty arm strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand 15 Righteousnesse and equity is the habitation of thy seat mercy and truth shall goe before thy face 16 Blessed is the people O Lord that can rejoyce in thee they shall walk in the light of thy countenance 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name and in thy righteousnesse shall they make their boast 18 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy loving kindnesse thou shalt lift up our horns 19 For the Lord is our defence the holy one of Israel is our King 20 Thou spakest sometimes in vision unto thy Saints and saidest I have laid help upon one that is mighty I have exalted one chosen out of the people 21 I have found David my servant with my holy oyle have I anointed him 22 My hand shall hold him fast and my arme shall strengthen him 23 The enemy shall not be able to doe him violence the son of wickednesse shall not hurt him 24 I shall smite down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him 25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him and in my Name shall his horn be exalted 26 I will set his dominion also in the sea and his right hand in the flouds 27 He shall call me Thou art my Father my God and my strong salvation 28 And I will make him my first-born higher then the Kings of the earth 29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant shall stand fast with him 30 His seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the days of heaven 31 But if his children forsake
my law and walk not in thy judgements 32 If they break my statutes and keep not my commandements I will visit their offences with the rod and their sin with scourges 33 Neverthelesse my loving kindnesse will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my truth to fail 34 My covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips I have sworn once by my holinesse that I will not fail David 35 His seed shall endure for ever and his seat is like as the sun before me 36 He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon and as the faithfull witnesse in Heaven 37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine anointed and art displeased at him 38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant and cast his crown to the ground 39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges and broken down his strong holds 40 All they that goe by spoil him and hee is become a rebuke to his neighbours 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies and made all his adversaries to rejoyce 42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword and givest him not victory in the battell 43 Thou hast put out his glory and cast his throne down to the ground 44 The days of his youth hast thou shortned and covered him with dishonour 45 Lord how long wilt thou hide thy self for ever and shall thy wrath burn like fire 46 Oh remember how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men for nought 47 What man is he that liveth and shall not see death and shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hell 48 Lord where are thy old loving kindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth 49 Remember Lord the rebuke that thy servants have and how I doe bear in my bosome the rebukes of many people 50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee and slandered the foot-steps of thine anointed praised be the Lord for evermore Amen Amen The Prayer O Lord God of hosts thou art greatly to be feared in the councell of the saints and to be had in reverence of all the world let thy strong hand and thy mighty arm blâ—sse and preserve thine Anointed the King as thou hast exalted thy chosen from among the People so let the greatnesse of thy blessings and assistances distinguish him from all the world make his throne as the days of heaven smite down his enemies before his face let thy hand hold him fast that the enemy may not be able to do him violence and let thine arm strengthen him that the sonnes of wickednesse may not hurt him O do thou never put his glory out nor cover him with dishonour but give him victory in battels honour and rejoycing in time of peace confidence in thee reverence amongst his people and continuall defence in thy salvation that when thou hast finished his days in peace and honour his seed may be established in his throne and endure for ever like as the sun before thee Grant this O King of Kings for his sake to whom thou hast given all power and dominion in heaven and earth even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 90. A meditation of death and a prayer preparatory to it LOrd thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another 2 Before the mountains were brought forth or ever the earth and the world were made thou art God from everlasting and world without end 3 Thou turnest man to destruction again thou sayest Come again ye children of men 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday seeing that is past as a watch in the night 5 As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grasse 6 In the morning it is green and groweth up but in the evening it is cut down dried up and withered 7 For wee consume away in thy displeasure and are afraid at thy wrathfull indignation 8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sins in the sight of thy countenance 9 For when thou art angry all our days are gone we bring our years to an end as it were a tale that is told 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone 11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth so is thy displeasure 12 O teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdome 13 Turn thee again O Lord at the last and be gracious unto thy servants 14 O satisfie us with thy mercy and that soon so shall we rejoyce and be glad all the days of our life 15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity 16 Shew thy servants thy work and their children tâ—y glory 17 And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us prosper thou the work of our hands upon us O prosper thou our handy work The Prayer O Eternall God whose beeing was before the mountains were brought forth before the earth and the world were made even from everlasting and world without end have mercy upon us weak and impotent people the children of men who fade away suddenly like the grasse remove our misdeeds from before thee and our secret sins from the sight of thy countenance be not angry with us neither consume us in thy displeasure teach us to number all the days of our life and to reckon on still to the day of death that when our days are gone and our years are brought to an end like a tale that is told thou mayest turn unto us at the last and be gracious unto us in the pardon of our sins in the restraining the power and malice of all our ghostly enemies in giving us opportunity of all spirituall assistances and advantages that our lamps being trimmed and burning bright with charity and devotion wee may enter into the bride-chamber there for ever to behold the glorious majesty of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen PSALME 91. A Prayer for protection in all dangers WHoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almâ—ghty 2 I will say unto the Lord Thou art my hope and my strong hold my God in him will I trust 3 For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter and from the noisome pestilence 4 He shall defend thee under his wings and thou shalt be safe under his feathers his faithfulnesse and truth shall be thy shield and buckler 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day 6 For the pestilence that walketh in darknesse nor for the sicknesse that destroyeth in the noon day 7
They smite down thy people O Lord and trouble thine heritage 6 They murder the widow and the stranger and put the fatherlesse to death 7 And yet they say Tush the Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Jacob regard it 8 Take heed ye unwise among the people O ye fools when will ye understanâ— 9 He that planted the eare shall he not heare or hee that made the eye shall he not see 10 Or he that nurtureth the heathen it is he that teacheth man knowledge shall not he punish 11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are but vain 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest O Lord and teachest him in thy law 13 That thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity untill the pit be digged up for the ungodly 14 For the Lord will not fail his people neither will he forsake his inheritance 15 Untill righteousnesse turn again unto judgement all such as be true of heart shall follow it 16 Who will rise up with me against the wicked or who will take my part against the evill doers 17 If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my soul had been put to silence 18 But when I said My foot hath slipped thy mercy O Lord held me up 19 In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart thy comforts have refreshed my soul. 20 Wilt thou have any thing to doe with the stoole of wickednesse which imagineth mischief as a law 21 They gather them together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent bloud 22 But the Lord is my refuge and my God is the strength of my confidence He shall recompence them their wickednesse and destroy them in their own malice yea the Lord our God shall destroy them The Prayer O Lord God Judge of the world to whom vengeance belongeth and the execution of righteous judgements have mercy upon us chasten us with thy gentlenesse and fatherly correction when we sin against thee teach us in thy law be our refuge and our confidence in our troubles and give us patience in times of adversity that in the multitude of sorrows thy comforts may refresh us thy mercies may relieve us thy grace may pardon and confirm us that our feet slip not and our souls be not put to silence Have pitty upon all distressed and miserable people do justice upon all that murder the widow that put the fatherlesse to death that grinde the face of the poor Fail not thy people O Lord and forsake not thine inheritance but destroy the devices of all them that imagine mischief as a law and are confederate against the righteous to condemne the innocent to discountenance Religion to disadvantage thy worship and service that in the day of eternall vengeance when thou shalt reward the proud after their deserving and the pit be digged for the ungodly we may have the lot of thine inheritance and reign in the fellowship of Saints who give honour and praise to thee O Lord God Almighty world without end Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 95. A Hymne invitatory to the worship of God and a prayer for obedience to his will O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and shew our selves glad in him with psalmes 3 For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods 4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hils is his also 5 The sea is his and he made it and his hands prepared the dry land 6 O come let us worship and fall down and kneele before the Lord our maker 7 For he is the Lord our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hands 8 To day if ye will heare his voyce harden not your hearts as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse 9 When your fathers tempted me proved mee and saw my works 10 Fourty years long was I grieved with this generation and said It is a people that doe erre in their hearts for they have not known my ways 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest The Prayer O Great God the Lord our Maker who art a King above all gods give us the graces of humility and holy religion that we may worthily praise and worship thy glories and perfections infinite We are the people of thy pasture let thy mercies lead us and feed and refresh our souls with the divine nutriment of thy Word and Sacraments we are the sheep of thy hands do thou guide us that we may never goe astray or if we do bring us home into the sheepfold of our great Shepheard that we hearing his voyce may not harden our hearts neither tempting thy mercies nor provoking thy wrath that our hearts being preserved from error and our ways from obliquity and crookednesse we may at last enter into thy eternall rest through the merits and guidance of our great Shepheard Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer Amen PSALME 96. A hymne of adoration and magnifying the glories of God O Sing unto the Lord a new song sing unto the Lord all the whole earth 2 Sing unto the Lord and praise his name be telling of his salvation from day to day 3 Declare his honour unto the heathen and his wonders unto all people 4 For the Lord is great and cannot worthily be praised he is more to be feared then all gods 5 As for all the gods of the heathen they be but idols but it is the Lord that made the heavens 6 Glory and worship are before him power and honour are in his sanctuary 7 Ascribe unto the Lord O ye kindreds of the people ascribe unto the Lord worship and power 8 Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his name bring presents and come into his courts 9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse let the whole earth stand in awe of him 10 Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is King and that it is he which hath made the round world so fast that it cannot be moved and how that he shall judge the people righteously 11 Let the heavens rejoyce and let the earth be glad let the sea make a noise and all that therein is 12 Let the field be joyfull and all that is in it then shall all the trees of the wood rejoyce before the Lord. 13 For he cometh for he cometh to judge the earth and with righteousnesse to judge the world and the people with his truth The Prayer O Lord God in whose sanctuary is power and honour before whose presence is glory and worship fill our lips and souls with great devotion and reverence towards thee our God Make us to love thy goodnesse to adore thy omnipotency to reverence thy justice to
unto the prayer of poor wretched destitutes it becomes an eternall monument and a record of thy honour and all generations which shall be born shall praise thee Look down O Lord from thy Sanctuary hear the mournings of us and of all distressed people send us health anâ— life so long as it may be a blessing and do noâ— shorten our days in wrath but give us grace so to spend all our time in the works of repeÌ„tance and holinesse that when our years fail and our change is come we may be translated to the new heavens which shall never perish and wax old there to continue and stand fast in thy sight for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 103. A thanksgiving to God for all his benefits and mercies PRaise the Lord O my soul and all that is within me praise his holy name 2 Praise the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits 3 Which forgiveth all thy sin and healeth all thy infirmities 4 Which saveth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindnesse 5 Which satisfieth thy mouth with good things making thee young and lusty as an eagle 6 The Lord executeth righteousnesse and judgement for all them that are oppressed with wrong 7 He shewed his ways unto Moses his works unto the children of Israel 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and of great goodnesse 9 He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for ever 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our wickednesse 11 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of â—he earth so great is his mercy also toward them that fear him 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west so far hath he set our sins from us 13 Yea like as a father pitieth his own children even so is the Lord mercifull unto them that fear him 14 For he knoweth whereof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust 15 The days of man are but as grasse for hee flourisheth as a flower of the field 16 For assoon as the winde goeth over it it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the mercifull goodnesse of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousnesse upon childrens children 18 Even upon such as keep his covenant and think upon his commandements to do them 19 The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven and his kingdome ruleth over all 20 O praise the Lord ye angels of his ye that excell in strength ye that fulfill his commandement and hearken unto the voyce of his words 21 O praise the Lord all ye his hosts ye servants of his that do his pleasure 22 O speak good of the Lord all ye works of his in all places of his dominion praise thou the Lord O my soul. The Prayer O Most merciful God whose mercy is as high as the heavens as great and many as the moments of eternity thou hast opened thy hand wide to fill us with blessings and the sweet effects of thy loving kindnesse thou art pitifull as a Father tender as a Mother carefull as a guardian and exceeding mercifull to all them that fear thee we pray thee to fill our souls with great apprehensions and impresses of thy unspeakable mercies that our thankfulnesse may be as great as our needs of mercy are and let thy mercifull loving kindnesse endure for ever and ever upon us all Keep no anger in store for us chide us not in thy displeasure satisfie our mouths with good things remove all our sins from us as far as the east is from the west heal all our infirmities and save our lives from destruction for these are mercies thou delightest in and because we cannot praise thee accordingly to thy excellencies take our souls in thy due time into the land of everlasting praises that we may spend a whole eternity in ascribing to thy name praise and honour and dominion Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 104. A contemplation of the wisdome and goodnesse of God manifested in his creatures PRaise the Lord O my soul O Lord my God thou art become exceeding glorious thou art clothed with majesty and honour 2 Thou deckest thy self with light as it were with a garment and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain 3 Which layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters and maketh the clouds his chariot and walketh upon the wings of the winde 4 He maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flaming fire 5 He laid the foundations of the earth that it never should move at any time 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment the waters stand in the hils 7 At thy rebuke they flee at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid 8 They go up as high as the hils and down to the valleys beneath even unto the place which thou hast appointed for them 9 Thou hast set them their bounds which they shal not passe neither turn again to cover the earth 10 He sendeth the springs into the rivers which run among the hils 11 All beasts of the field drink thereof and the wilde asses quench their thirst 12 Beside them shall the fowls of the air have their habitation and sing among the branches 13 He watereth the hils from above the earth is filled with the fruit of thy works 14 He bringeth forth grasse for the cattell and green herb for the service of men 15 That he may bring food out of the earth and wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oyl to make him a châ—erful countenance and bread to strengthen mans heart 16 The trees of the Lord also are full of sap even the Cedars of Libanus which he hath planted 17 Wherein the birds make their nests and the sirretrees are a dwelling for the stork 18 The high hils are a refuge for the wild goats and so are the stony rocks for the conies 19 He appointed the moon for certain seasons and the sun knoweth his going down 20 Thou makest darknesse that it may be night wherein all the beasts of the forest doe move 21 The lions roaring after their prey doe seek their meat at God 22 The sun ariseth and they get them away together and lay them down in their dens 23 Man goeth forth to his work and to his labour untill evening 24 O Lord how manifold are thy works in wisdome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches 25 So is the great and wide sea also wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts 26 There go the ships and there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein 27 These wait all upon thee that thou mayest give them meat in due season 28 When thou givest in them they gather it and
when thou openest thy hand they are filled with good 29 When thou hidest thy face they are troubled when thou takest away their breath they die and are turned again to their dust 30 When thou lettest thy breath go forth they shall be made and thou shalt renew the face of the earth 31 The glorious majesty of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall rejoyce in his works 32 The earth shall tremble at the look of him if he do but touch the hils they shall smoke 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will praise my God while I have my being 34 And so shall my words please him my joy shall be in the Lord. 35 As for sinners they shall be consumed out of the earth and the ungodly shall come to an end praise thou the Lord O my soul praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God who art exceeding glorious who art clothed with majesty and honor thou hast created all things with admirable wisdome established them with excellent order and hast provided for them with mercy singular providence be pleased to give us grace that we may remember thou hast created us all for thy glory that thou hast planted thine image on us and hast crowned all our years with thy mercies and loving kindnesse let us never disobey thy will forget thy mercies or deface thine image in us but when all thy creatures praise thee in their manner let not us whom thou hast made in dignity next to Angels disturb the blessed order of Creation by our sins and irregular disobedience Open thy hand O Lord and fill us with good things both spirituall and temporall that when thou takest away our breath that we die and turn again to our dust thou mayest not hide thy face away from us but communicate to us the light of thy countenance and the glories of thy Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 105. A commemoration of Gods care of his Church and blessings to his people O Give thanks unto the Lord and call upon his Name tell the people what things he hath done 2 O let your songs be of him and praise him and let your talking be of all his wondrous works 3 Râ—joyce in his holy Name let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. 4 Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore 5 Remember the marvellous works that hee hath done his wonders and the judgements of his mouth 6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant ye children of Jacob his chosen 7 Hee is the Lord our God his judgements are in all the world 8 Hee hath been alway mindfull of his covenant and promise that he made to a thousand generations 9 Even the covenant that he made with Abraham and the oath that he sware unto Isaac 10 And appointed the same unto Jacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting testament 11 Saying Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan the lot of your inheritance 12 When there were yet but a few of them and they strangers in the land 13 What time as they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 14 He suffered no man to doe them wrong but reproved even Kings for their sakes 15 Touch not mine Anointed and doe my Prophets no harm 16 Moreover he called for a dearth upon the land and destroyed all the provision of bread 17 But he had sent a man before them even Joseph which was sold to be a bond-servant 18 Whose feet they hurt in the stocks the iron entred into his soul. 19 Vntill the time came that his cause was known the Word of the Lord tried him 20 The King sent and delivered him the Prince of the people let him goe free 21 He made him Lord also of his house and ruler of all his substance 22 That he might inform his Princes after his will and teach his senators wisdome 23 Israel also came into Egypt and Jacob was a stranger in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people exceedingly and made them stronger then their enemies 25 Whos 's heart turned so that they hated his people and dealt untruly with his servants 26 Then sent he Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen 27 And these shewed his tokens among them and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darknesse and it was dark and they were not obedient unto his Word 29 He turned their waters into bloud and slew their fish 30 Their land brought forth frogs yea even in their Kings chambers 31 He spake the word and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarter 32 He gave them hailstones for rain and flames of fire in their land 33 He smote their vines also and fig-trees and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts 34 He spake the word and the grashoppers came and caterpillers innumerable and did eat up all the grasse in their land and devouted the fruit of their ground 35 He smote all the first-born in their land even the chief of all their strength 36 He brought them forth also with silver and gold there was not one feeble person among their Tribes 37 Egypt was glad at their departing for they were afraid of them 38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering and fire to give light in the night season 39 At their desire he brought quailes and he filled them with the bread of heaven 40 He opened the rock of stone and the waters flowed out so that the rivers ran in dry places 41 For why hee remembred his holy promise and Abraham his servant 42 And he brought forth his people with joy and his chosen with gladnesse 43 And gave them the lands of the heathen and they took the labours of the people in possession 44 That they might keep his statutes and observe his laws The Prayer O Lord God who art alway mindfull of thy covenant and promise to a thousand generations and didst deliver the seed of Abraham the children of Jacob thy chosen from the slavery of Egypt from the waves of the sea from the rage of Pharaoh from the thirst and famine of the wildernesse continue the like mercies to all Christian people deliver us from the bondage of our sins preserve us in the Ark of the Church that we perish not in the waves of this troublesom world save us from the fury of all our temporall and ghostly enemies feed us with food from heaven and give us competency of good things on earth that we may keep thy statutes and observe thy Laws and at last receive the promises of a blessed eternity which in the covenant of thy Gospel thou hast made unto all that beleeve in thee and are obedient to thy Word Grant this O blessed Jesu to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen â—vening Prayer PSALME 106. A
commemoration of Gods frequent pardons and mercies to the penitent O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 Who can expresse the noble acts of the Lord or shew forth all his praise 3 Blessed are they that alway keep judgement and doe righteousnesse 4 Remember me O Lord according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation 5 That I may see the felicity of thy chosen and rejoyce in the gladnesse of thy people and give thanks with thine inheritance 6 Wee have sinned with our fathers we have done amisse and dealt wickedly 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt neither kept they thy great goodnesse in remembrance but were disobedient at the sea even at the Red sea 8 Neverthelesse he helped them for his names sake that he might make his power to be known 9 He rebuked the Red sea also and it was dried up so he led them through the deep as through a wildernesse 10 And he saved them from the adversaries hand and delivered them from the hand of the enemy 11 As for those that troubled them the waters overwhelmed them there was not one of them left 12 Then beleeved they his words and sang praise unto him 13 But within a while they forgat his works and would not abide his counsell 14 But lust came upon them in the wildernesse and they tempted God in the desert 15 And he gave them their desire and sent leannesse withall into their soul. 16 They angred Moses also in the tents and Aaron the saint of the Lord. 17 So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the congregation of Abiram 18 And the fire was kindled in their company the flame burnt up the ungodly 19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten image 20 Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf that eateth hay 21 And they forgat God their Saviour which had done so great things in Egypt 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham and fearfull things by the Red sea 23 So he said he would have destroyed them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the gap to turn away his wrathfull indignation lest he should destroy them 24 Yea they thought scorn of that pleasant land and gave no credance unto his word 25 But murmured in their tents and hearkned not unto the voice of the Lord. 26 Then lift he up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wildernesse 27 To cast out their seed among the nations and to scatter them in the lands 28 They joyned themselves unto Baal-peor and ate the offering of the dead 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their own inventions and the plague was great among them 30 Then stood up Phineas and prayed and so the plague ceased 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousnesse among all posterities for evermore 32 They angred him also at the waters of strife so that he punished Moses for their sakes 33 Because they provoked his spirit so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips 34 Neither destroyed they the heathen as the Lord commanded them 35 But were mingled among the heathen and learned their works 36 Insomuch that they worshipped their idols which turned to their own decay yea they offered their sonnes and daughters unto devils 37 And shed innocent bloud even the bloud of their sons and of their daughters whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan and the land was defiled with bloud 38 Thus were they stained with their own works and went a whoring with their own inventions 39 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance 40 And he gave them over into the hand of the heathen and they that hated them were Lords over them 41 Their enemies oppressed them and had them in subjection 42 Many a time did he deliver them but they rebelled against him with their own inventions and were brought down in their wickednesse 43 Neverthelesse when he saw their adversity hee heard their complaint 44 He thought upon his covenant and pitied them according unto the multitude of his mercies yea he made all those that had led them away captive to pity them 45 Deliver us O Lord our God and gather us from among the heathen that we may give thanks unto thy holy Name and make our boast of thy praise 46 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and world without end and let all the people say Amen The Prayer O Lord God full of mercy and pity who didst many times deliver thy people from their adversity when thou for their rebelling against thee with their inventions hadst given them into the hand of the heathen Remember us O Lord according unto the savour thou bearest unto thy people and visit us with thy salvation that though we have done amisse and dealt wickedly against thee and against thy covenant yet be pleased to help us for thy Name sake and make thy power to be known in the mighty deliverance and redemption of us from so great danger and misery Give us grace to beleeve thy words to abide thy counsels to walk in thy Laws to relinquish our own sinfull and vain desires to obey our Governours Ecclesiasticall and Civill that we may not have the lot of Dathan and Abiram but at last may receive our portion in the felicity of thy chosen giving thee thanks with thine inheritance for that thou hast turned from us thy wrathfull indignation pitying us and saving us according to the multitude of thy mercies Thy Name be blessed O Lord God everlastingly and world without end through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 107. A thanksgiving for deliverance from miseries and dangers O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy 3 And gathered them out of the lands from the East and from the West from the North and from the South 4 They went astray in the wildernesse out of the way and found no city to dwell in 5 Hungry and thirsty their soul fainted in them 6 So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distresse 7 He led them forth by the right way that they might go to the city where they dwelt 8 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the empty soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodnesse 10 Such as sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death being fast bound in misery and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the word of the Lord and lightly regarded the counsell of the most High 12 He also brought down their heart through heavinesse they fell
down and there was none to help them up 13 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse 14 For he brought them out of darknesse and out of the shadow of death and brake their bonds in sunder 15 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 16 For he hath broken the gates of brasse and smitten the bars of iron in sunder 17 Foolish men are plagued for their offence and because of their wickednesse 18 Their soul abhorred all manner of meat and they were even hard at deaths door 19 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble he delivered them out of their distresse 20 He sent his word and healed them and they were saved from their destruction 21 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 22 That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving and tell out his works with gladnesse 23 They that go down to the sea in ships and occupy their businesse in great waters 24 These men see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep 25 For at his word the stormy winde ariseth which lifteth up the waves thereof 26 They are caried up to the heaven and down again to the deep their soul melteth away because of the trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man â—nd are at their wits end 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble he delivâ—reth them out of their distresse 29 For he maketh the storm to cease so that the waves thereof are still 30 Then are they glad because they be at rest and so he briâ—geth them unto the haven where they would be 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 32 That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the seat of the elders 33 Which turneth the flouds into a wildernesse and drieth up the water springs 34 A fruitfull land maketh he barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein 35 Again he maketh the wildernesse a standing water and water springs of a dry ground 36 And thâ—re he setteth the hungry that they may build them a City to dwell in 37 That they may sow their land and plant vineyards to yeeld them fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them so that they multiply exceedingly and suffereth not their cattell to decrease 39 And again when they are minished and brought low through oppression through any plague or trouble 40 Though he suffer them to be evill intreated through tyrants and let them wander out of the way in the wildernesse 41 Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery and maketh him housholds like a flock of sheep 42 The righteous will consider this and rejoyce and the mouth of all wickednesse shall be stopped 43 Who so is wise will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving kindnesse of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God gracious and good whose mercy endureth for ever have mercy upon us when in our trouble we cry unto thee for when our hearts are brought down through heaviness there is none to help us up or to deliver us out of our distress but only thou ô Lord. We have sinned we have rebelled against thee and lightly regarded thy counsels wee have walked and sate in darknesse and in the shadows of death being fast bound in the captivity and misery of sin O bring us out of darknesse and break our bonds asunder guide us through the desert of this world in which grows nothing but sadnesse and discontent still the tempests and smooth the flouds of misery which are ready to overwhelm us and in thy due time bring us to eternall rest and to the haven where we would fain be that in the congregation of thy holy people we may praise thee for thy goodnesse and declare the wonders thou hast done for us in delivering us from sin and misery and death and bringing us to a City to dwell in where there is life and light and joy eternall in the beholding the face of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 108. A Prayer for victory against our Enemies O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will sing and give praise with the best member I have 2 Awake thou lute and harp I my self will awake right early 3 I will give thanks unto thee O Lord among the people I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 4 For thy mercy is greater then the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds 5 Set up thy selfe O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth 6 That thy beloved may be delivered let thy right hand save them and hear thou me 7 God hath spoken in his holinesse I will rejoyce therefore and divide Sichem and mete out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head 9 Juda is my law-giver Moab is my washpot over Edâ—m will I cast out my shooe upon the Philistines will I triumph 10 Who will lead me into the strong city and who will bring me into Edom 11 Hast not thou forsaken us O God and wilt not thou O God goe forth with our hosts 12 O help us against the enemy for vain is the help of man 13 Through God we shall doe great acts and it is he that shall tread down our enemies The Prayer O Lord God whose mercy is greater then the Heavens and thy glory is above all the earth be thou exalted in thine owne strength and magnifie thy power and thy mercy in defending us and all thy holy Church against all our enemies temporall and spirituall Forsake us not O God our defence for vain is the help of man do thou strengthen us and go forth with our hosts to battell that we being defended and armed by thee may doe acts great and good fighting thy battels and putting our confidence in thy righteousnesse onely and salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 109. A Prayer against Gods enemies and especially Traitors prophetically intended against the person of Judas HOld not thy tongue O God of my praise for the mouth of the ungodly yea and the mouth of the decâ—itfull is opened upon me 2 And they have spoken against me with false tongues they compassed me about also with words of hatred and fought against me without a cause 3 For the love that I had unto them lo they take now my contrary part but I give my self unto prayer 4 Thus have they rewarded me evill for good and hatred for my good will 5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him and let Satan stand
at his right hand 6 When sentence is given upon him let him be condemned and let his prayer be turned into sin 7 Let his dayes be few and let another take his office 8 Let his children be fatherlesse and his wife a widow 9 Let his children be vagabonds and beg their bread let them seek it also out of desolate places 10 Let the extortioner consume all that he hath and let the stranger spoil his labour 11 Let there be no man to pity him nor to have compassion upon his fatherlâ—sse children 12 Let his posterity be destroyed and in the next generation let his name be clean put out 13 Let the wickednesse of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord and let not the sin of his mother be done away 14 Let them alway be before the Lord that he may root out the memoriall of them from off the earth 15 And that because his minde was not to doe good but persecuted the poor helplesse man that he might slay him that was vexed at the heart 16 His delight was in cursing and it shall happen unto him he loved not blessing therefore shall it be far from him 17 He clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment and it shall come into his bowels like water and like oyle into his bones 18 Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon him and as the girdle that he is always girded withall 19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies and to those that speak evill against my soul. 20 But deal thou with me O Lord God according unto thy name for sweet is thy mercy 21 O deliver me for I am helplesse and poor and my heart is wounded within me 22 I goe hence like the shadow that departeth and am driven away as the grashopper 23 My knees are weak through fasting my flesh is dried up for want of fatnesse 24 I became also a rebuke unto them they that looked upon me shaked their heads 25 Help me O Lord my God Oh save me according to thy mercy 26 And they shall know how that this is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it 27 Though they curse yet blesse thou and let them be confounded that rise up against me but let thy servant rejoyce 28 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a cloke 29 As for me I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth and praise him among the multitude 30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor to save his soul from unrighteous judges The Prayer O God of our praise who wast contented that thy Son Jesus Christ should be betrayed into the hands of sinners by one of his own Apostles the Traitor Judas and in punishment of so great impiety didst suffer Satan to stand at his right hand tempting him to despair and to give sentence upon himself to condemne himself and to execute his own judgement and gavest his Bishoprick to another let thy righteous judgements finde out all those that are Traitors to their Prince enemies to the Church Apostates from Religion Hypocrites under specious pretences and beauteous titles that they may be clothed with shame and may cover themselves with their own confusion as with a cloke that by thy punishments in this life they may be driven to a sharp and salutary repentance and may be saved in the life to come Deal thou with us O Lord according to thy mercy take away thy curse and let not thy blessing be far from us let not our wickednesse nor the wickednesse of our fathers be had in remembrance in thy sight let our minds be alway to do good and our hearts and lips be given unto prayer and our prayers so guided by thy assistances that they be not turned into sin that when we go hence like the shadow that departeth and are driven away like the grashopper when the days of our vanity and rejoycing are past we may stand at thy right hand and our souls be saved from the lot and portion of the unrighteous through the righteousnesse and passion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 110. A Hymne in the honour of Christs Kingdom and Priesthood and exaltation THe Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstool 2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion be thou ruler even in the midst among thine enemies 3 In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will-offerings with an holy worship the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning 4 The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek 5 The Lord upon thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath 6 He shall judge among the heathen he shall fill the places with the dead bodies and smite in sunder the heads over divers countreys 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way therefore shall he lift up his head The Prayer O Eternall God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who when thy Son had drank of the brook in the way to the grave and to our redemption beginning his passion by the brook Cedron and tasting the waters of bitternesse till he had drunk off the whole chalice of thy wrath upon the Crosse didst lift up his head and set him at thy right hand till thou shalt make all his enemies his footstool fill our hearts with his love and praises that we may pay him the offerings of our souls and bodies in an holy worship and joyfull thanksgiving for all the parts and mysteries of our redemption for his birth in the womb of his holy Mother pure and virginall like the morning dew for his Death and Passion and for his continuall mediation and intercession by which he does officiate in his eternall Priesthood which is after the order of Melchisedek Remember us blessed Jesu in the Day of thy power when thou shalt come to judge the world and the places fill'd with dead bodies shall give up their dead that we may sit at thy right hand to magnifie and behold the glories of thy Kingdome for ever and ever Amen PSALME 111. An Eucharisticall Hymne for the benefits of the holy Gospel particularly of the blessed Sacrament I Will give thanks unto the Lord with my whole heart secretly among the faithfull and in the congregation 2 The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein 3 His work is worthy to be praised and had in honour and his righteousnesse endureth for ever 4 The mercifull and gracious Lord hath so done his marvellous works that they ought to be had in remembrance 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him he shall ever be mindâ—ull of his covenâ—nâ— 6 He hath
they kept me in I say on every side but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them 12 They came about me like bees and are extinct even as the fire among the thorns for in the name of the Lord will I destroy them Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall but the Lord was my help 14 The Lord is my strength and my song and is become my salvation 15 The voyce of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe 16 The right hand of the Lord hath the preeminence the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe 17 I will not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord hath chastened and corrected me but he hath not given me over unto death 19 Open me the gates of righteousnesse that I may goe into them and give thâ—nks unto the Lord. 20 This is the gaâ—e of the Lord the righteous shall enter into it 21 I will thank thee for thou hast heard me and art become my salvation 22 The same stone which the builders refused is become the head stone in the corner 23 This is the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it 25 Help me now O Lord O Lord send us now prosperity 26 Blessed be he that commeth in the name of the Lord we have wished you good luck ye that be of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord which hath shewed us light binde the sacrifice with cords yea even unto the horns of the altar 28 Thou art my God and I will thank thee thou art my God and I will praise thee 29 O give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever The Prayer O Most gracious Lord our strength and our song thou art become our salvation and thy mercy endureth for ever be thou on our side take part with them that help us let the voyce of joy and health be within our dwellings and when thou chastenest and correctest us for our sins give us not over unto death but fix our faith and hopes upon the head stone in the corner even our Lord Jesus Christ that in all the assaults made against us by our ghostly enemies the right hand of the Lord may have the preeminence and bring mighty things to passe even victory and deliverance unto thy servants that we putting no confidence in the best of men may trust in thee O Lord till at last when thou openest the everlasting gates of righteousnesse we may enter in and give thee thanks and praise through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 119. A Prayer for Religion zeale love of the law of God and meditation in it BLâ—ssed are those that are undefiled in the way and walk in the Law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and seek him with their whole heart 3 For they which do no wickednesse walk in his ways 4 Thou hast charged that we shall diligently keep thy commandements 5 O that my ways were made so direct that I might keep thy statutes 6 So shall I not be confounded while I have respect unto all thy commandements 7 I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart when I shall have learned the judgements of thy righteousnesse 8 I will keep thy ceremonies O forsake me not utterly The Prayer O Blessed Lord God whose words are light and life to the obedient and beleeving soul let thy grace so purifie our hearts and actions that we may be undefiled in thy way keeping thy testimonies and seeking thee with our whole heart that our ways being made direct without wandring into by-paths we may go into our country the land of eternall and glorious promises through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. WHerewithall shall a young man cleanse his way even by ruling himself after thy word 2 With my whole heart have I sought thee O let me not go wrong out of thy commandements 3 Thy words have I hid within my heart that I should not sin against thee 4 Blessed art thou O Lord O teach me thy statutes 5 With my lips have I been telling of all the judgements of thy mouth 6 I have had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies as in all manner of riches 7 I will talk of thy commandements and have respect â—â—to thy ways 8 My delight shall be in thy statutes and I will not forget thy word The Prayer GRant O Lord that our affections and endeavours be not divided between thee and the world but that we may seek thee with our whole heart cleansing our ways from all impurity giving to thy service our youth and more perfect age even all our days and all our powers taking more delight in the way of thy testimonies then in all manner of riches and fading pleasures that we delighting in thee and the ways that lead to thee may be beloved of thee with an eternall love through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen III. O Doe well unto thy servant that I may live and keep thy word 2 Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wondrous things of thy law 3 I am a stranger upon earth O hide not thy commandements from me 4 My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire that it hath alway unto thy judgements 5 Thou hast rebuked the proud and cursed are they that do erre from thy commandements 6 O turn from me shame and rebuke for I have kept thy testimonies 7 Pâ—inces did also sit and speak against me but thy serâ—ant is occupied in thy statutes 8 For thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellers The Prayer O Lord God our Father and our Guardian we are strangers upon the earth farre removed from our country and we are in darknesse and walk in the shadow of death let not this darknesse seize upon our souls hide not thy commandements from us but open our eyes with the light of thy holy Spirit that we may see the wondrous things of thy law and admire thy glories and adore thy might and obey all thy righteous precepts and although our hearts be already enkindled with the love of thy law yet make our desires to serve thee more fervent that our lukewarmnesse may arise up to the flames and ardors of a Cherubim that while we are busied in thy statutes making them our delight and our counsellors shame and rebuke may always be turned from us and we ever rejoyce with hope and confidence in thee through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen IV. MY soul cleaveth to the dust O quicken thou me according to thy word 2 I have knowledged my ways and thou heardest me O teach me thy statutes 3 Make me to understand the way of thy commandments and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works 4 My soul
against the stones The Prayer O Lord our God thou hast placed us in this world like pilgrims and strangers far from our Contrey far from rest give us souls and desires so abstract so religious and contemplative that all our hopes our joys and longings may be to enjoy thee and thy glories in the celestiall Jerusalem and let thy comforts refresh us in this our captivity and exile that in our heavinesse thou maist be our joy our songs and melody may be the songs of Sion the praises of thy Name that when thou hast delivered us from the wrath and malice of our enemies and dashed all their wickednesse which they have conceived and would bring forth to our destruction against the Rock Christ Jesus we may be blessed amongst thy children and be carried into our Countrey the Land of glorious promises there to reign with thee who livest and governest all things world without end Amen PSALME 138. A Prayer and a thanksgiving for Gods mercies I Will give thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart even before the gods will I sing praise unto thee 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple and praise thy name because of thy loving kindnâ—sse and truth for thou hast magnified thy name and thy word above all things 3 When I called upon thee thou heardest me and enduedst my soul with much strength 4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee O Lord for they have heard the words of thy mouth 5 Yea they shall sing in the ways of the Lord that great is the glory of the Lord. 6 For though the Lord be high yet hath he respect unto the lowly as for the proud he beholdeth them afarre off 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble yet shalt thou refresh me thou shalt stretch forth thine hand upon the furiousnesse of mine enemies and thy right hand shall save mee 8 The Lord shall make good his loving kindnesse toward me yea thy mercy O Lord endureth for ever despise not then the works of thine own hands The Prayer O Lord God who hast magnified thy Name and Word above all things make good thy loving kindnesses towards us and endue our souls with much strength that thine hand being stretched forth upon the furiousness of all our ghostly enemies and we being saved by thy right hand may praise thee and all thy glories serving thee here with a lowly minde and a great industry that at last we may worship thee in thy holy Temple in the midst of all the Myriads of Angels where thy glory is great and farre exalted above all gods Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 139. A meditation of the omnipresence of God and a prayer that we may alwayes walk as in his sight O Lord thou hast searched me out and known mee thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising thou understandest my thoughts long before 2 Thou art about my path and about my bed and spiest out all my ways 3 For lo there is not a word in my tongue but thou O Lord knowest it altogether 4 Thou hast fashioned me behinde and before and laid thine hand upon me 5 Such knowledge is too wonderfull and excellent for me I cannot attain unto it 6 Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit or whither shall I go then from thy presence 7 If I climb up into heaven thou art there if I go down to hell thou art there also 8 If I take the wings of the morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea 9 Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me 80 If I say Peradventure the darknesse shall cover me then shall my night be turned to day 11 Yea the darknesse is no darknesse with thee but the night is as clear as the day the darknesse and light to thee are both alike 12 For my reins are thine thou hast covered mee in my mothers womb 13 I will give thanks unto thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made marvellous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well 14 My bones are not hid from thee though I be made secretly and fashioned beneath in the earth 15 Thine eyes did see my substance yet being unperfect and in thy book were all my members written 16 Which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them 17 How dear are thy counsels unto me O God O how great is the summe of them 18 If I tell them they are mo in number then the sand when I wake up I am present with thee 19 Wilt thou not slay the wicked O God depart from me ye blood-thirsty men 20 For they speak unrighteously against thee and thine enemies take thy Name in vain 21 Do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee 22 Yea I hate them right fore even as though they were mine enemies 23 Try me O God and seek the ground of my heart prove me and examine my thoughts 24 Look well if there be any way of wickednesse in me and lead me in the way everlasting The Prayer O Lord our God who art infinite in wisdom and present in all places filling heaven and earth and hell with the effects of thy mighty power and communications of thy glorious essence let thy hand lead us and thy right hand hold us in all our ways always considering that thou art present understanding our thoughts and words even long before they are and seeing our most secret ways as clearly as in the sight of the sun print thy fear mightily upon our souls that we may be as fearfull of committing sins in secret as in the eyes of all the world that we hating all iniquity and loving thy counsels as our dearest treasures and guide may by the paths of a holy life be conducted into the way everlasting through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 140. A Prayer for deliverance from the mischiefe of all wicked persons DEliver me O Lord from the evil man and preserve me from the wicked man 2 Which imagine mischief in their hearts and stirre up strife all the day long 3 They have sharpned their tongues like a serpent adders poison is under their lips 4 Keep me O Lord from the hands of the ungodly preserve me from the wicked men which are purposed to overthrow my goings 5 The proud have laid a snare for me and spread a net abroad with cords yea and set traps in my way 6 I said unto the Lord Thou art my God hear the voice of my prayers O Lord. 7 O Lord God thou strength of my health thou hast covered my head in the day of battle 8 Let not the ungodly have his desire O Lord let not his mischievous imaginations prosper lest they bee too proud 9 Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them that compasse
me about 10 Let hot burning coals fall upon them let them be cast into the fire and into the pit that they never rise up again 11 A man full of words shall not prosper upon the earth evil shall hunt the wicked person to overthrow him 12 Sure I am that the Lord will avenge the poor and maintain the cause of the helplesse 13 The righteous also shall give thanks unto thy name and the just shall continue in thy sight The Prayer O Lord God thou strength of our health thou that avengest the poor and maintainest the cause of the helplesse deliver us O Lord and preserve us from the evil and wicked man that neither his example may corrupt us nor his counsels mislead us nor his prosperity scandalize us nor his strife disquiet us nor his mischief disturb our safety but do thou cover our heads in the day of battell and contestation against all our bodily and ghostly enemies that although they hunt us to overthrow us yet we may prosper upon earth under thy favour and protection and at last being removed from all fears and sadnesse and dangers may continue in thy sight amongst the congregation of the just for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 141. A Prayer for the vertue of religion for holinesse of life and for deliverance from the snares of our enemies LOrd I call upon thee haste thee unto me and consider my voyce when I cry unto thee 2 Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incense and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice 3 Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and keep the door of my lips 4 O let not mine heart be enclined to any evil thing let me not be occupied in ungodly works with the men that work wickednesse lest I eat of such things as please them 5 Let the righteous rather smite me friendly and reprove me 6 But let not their precious balms break mine head yea I will pray yet against their wickednesse 7 Let their Judges be overthrown in stony places that they may hear my words for they are sweet 8 Our bones lie scattered before the pit like as when one breaketh and heweth wood upon the earth 9 But mine eyes look unto thee O Lord God in thee is my trust O cast not out my soul. 10 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me and from the traps of the wicked doers 11 Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together and let me ever escape them The Prayer O Lord our trust and confidence haste thee unto us and consider our voyce when we call upon thee in our trouble and necessity let our prayers ascend up unto thee as incense and be as the savour of the evening and the morning sacrifice We begge of thee nothing but grace and power to fulfill thy will let not our hearts be inclined to any evil set a watch O Lord before our mouth and keep the door of our lips let us not be busied in ungodly works that we may never offend in our thoughts or words or actions and when we do amisse do thou smite us friendly reprove us with the checks of a tender conscience that thy fatherly correction may like precious balm cure all the wounds made by our own infirmities that we escaping all the snares of wickednesse may for ever hear and obey thy sweet words and our souls may never be cast out of thy presence but for ever may rejoyce in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen Evening Prayer PSALME 142. A Prayer in all sadnesse and in the hour of death I Cried unto the Lord with my voyce yea even unto the Lord did I make my supplication 2 I poured out my complaints before him and shewed him of my trouble 3 When my spirit was in heavinesse thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me 4 I looked also upon my right hand and saw there was no man that would know me 5 I had no place to flee unto and no man cared for my soul. 6 I cried unto thee O Lord and said Thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the living 7 Consider my complaint for I am brought very low 8 O deliver me from my persecutors for they are too strong for me 9 Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks unto thy Name which thing if thou wilt grant me then shall the righteous resort unto my company The Prayer O Lord God thou art our hope and our portion in the land of the living consider our complaint and misery thou art our place to flee unto thou onely art our sanctuary O hide us under the covert of thy wings keep us from all the dangers which multiply upon us when our spirits are in heavinesse and our bodies pressed with infirmities be thou always at our right hand and assist us so with the strength of thy grace that our temptations and our enemies not being above our strength deriv'd from thee our soul may with confidence go forth of prison and give eternall thanks unto thy Name in the companies of the Righteous through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 143. A Prayer that God would pardon our sins and direct us in the way of righteousnesse HEare my prayer O Lord and consider my desire hearken unto me for thy truth and righteousnesse sake 2 And enter not into judgement with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul he hath smitten my life down to the ground he hath laid me in the darknesse as the men that have been long dead 4 Therefore is my spirit vexed within me and my heart within me is desolate 5 Yet do I remember the time past I muse upon all thy works yea I exercise my selfe in the works of thy hands 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee my soul gaspeth â—nto thee as a thirsty land 7 Hear me O Lord and that soon for my spirit waxeth faint hide not thy face from me lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit 8 O let me hear thy loving kindnesse betimeâ— in the morning for in thee is my trust shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my soul unto thee 9 Deliver me O Lord from mine enemies for I flee unto thee to hide me 10 Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee for thou art my God let thy loving spirit lead me forth into the land of righteousnesse 11 Quicken me O Lord for thy Names sake and for thy righteousnesse sake bring my soul out of trouble 12 And of thy goodnesse slay mine enemies and destroy all them that vex my soul for I am thy servant The Prayer O Lord our Judge and our Redeemer hearken unto us for thy truth and righteousnesse sake deliver us from the guilt of
all our sinnes and those great punishments which are due to us for the same Enter not into judgement with us for in thy sight no man can be justified by any worthinesse of his own Endue our souls with the righteousnesse of a holy faith living and working by charity Shew us the way that we should walk in teach us to do whatsoever pleaseth thee quicken our souls in the paths of life and so continue the conduct of thy Spirit to us that it may never leave us till we be brought forth of this world into the land of righteousnesse to dwell with thee eternally through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Morning Prayer PSALME 144. A thanksgiving for Victory and a prayer for the blessings of Peace BLessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight 2 My hope and my fortresse my castle and deliverer my defender in whom I trust which subdueth my people that is under me 3 Lord what is man that thou hast such respect unto him or the son of man that thou so regardest him 4 Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth away like a shadow 5 Bow the heavens O Lord and come down touch the mountains and they shall smoke 6 Cast forth thy lightning and tear them shoot out thine arrows and consume them 7 Send down thy hand from above deliver me and take me out of the great waters from the hand of strange children 8 Whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of wickednesse 9 I will sing a new song unto thee O God and sing praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed lute 10 Thou hast given victory unto kings and hast dâ—livered David thy servant from the perill of the sword 11 Save me and deliver me from the hand of strange children whose mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity 12 That our sons may grow up as the young plants and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the Temple 13 That our garners may be full and plenteous with all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour and there be no decay no leading into captivity and no complaining in our streets 15 Happy are the people that be in such a case yea blessed are the people which have the Lord for their God The Prayer O Lord our strength our hope and fortresse our castle and deliverer our defender in whom we trust bow the heavens O Lord come down and save us send down thine hand from above deliver us and take us from the great waters from those miseries and afflictions which come upon us by reason of our sins from the condition of mortality and from the hand of strange children whose right hand is a right hand of wickednesse Give us O Lord victory and peace and all the blessings of thy peace with which thou usest to adorn and beautifie the dwellings of the righteous that we may be happy in the continuall descent of thy favours but above all our happinesse may consist in being thy people and thou being our God that we may be blessed for ever in so blessed a relation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 145. A meditation of the glory and Majesty of God and the mightinesse of his kingdome I Will magnifie thee O God my King and I will praise thy Name for ever and ever 2 Every day will I give thanks unto thee and praise thy name for ever and ever 3 Great is the Lord and marvellous worthy to bee praised there is no end of his greatnesse 4 One generation shall praise thy works unto another and declare thy power 5 As for me I will be talking of thy worship thy glory thy praise and wondrous works 6 So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvellous acts and I will also tell of thy greatnesse 7 The memoriall of thine abundant kindnesse shall be shewed and men shall sing of thy righteousnesse 8 The Lord is gracious and mercifull long-suffering and of great goodnesse 9 The Lord is loving unto every man and his mercy is over all his works 10 All thy works praise thee O Lord and thy saints give thanks unto thee 11 They shew the glory of thy Kingdome and talk of thy power 12 That thy power thy glory and mightinesse of thy Kingdome might be known unto men 13 Thy kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages 14 The Lord upholdeth all such as fall and lifteth up all those that be down 15 The eyes of all wait upon thee O Lord and thou givest them their meat in due season 16 Thou openest thine hand and fillest all things living with plenteousnesse 17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works 18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him yea all such as call upon him faithfully 19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will help them 20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him but scattereth abroad all the ungodly 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy name for ever and ever The Prayer O God our King thou art marvellous worthy to be praised and there is no end of thy greatnesse give us enlarged and sanctified hearts and lips that we may sing of thy righteousnesse and magnifie thy glory thy worship and wondrous works All thy works praise thee O Lord and thy saints give thanks unto thee Make us holy and righteous in thy sight we are already the works of thine hands and then wee have a double title to praise thee Uphold us O Lord that we fall not and lift us up when we are down give us meâ—t in due season for our souls and for our bodies that we being filled with the plenteousnesse of thy mercies here may have our best and all our desires fulfilled and satisfied hereafter amongst such as fear thee and give thanks unto thy holy name for ever Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake to whom with thee O Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 146. A Prayer that we may trust in God onely and not in an arm of flesh PRaise the Lord O my soul while I live will I praise the Lord yea as long as I have any beeing I will sing praises unto my God 2 O put not your trust in Princes nor in any childe of man for there is no help in them 3 For when the breath of man goeth forth hee shall turn again to his earth and then all his thoughts perish 4 Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help and whose hope is in the Lord his God 5 Which made heaven and earth