The hungry he replenished With all things that were good And through his power he made the rich Oft-times to want their food And calling to rememberance His mercy every deal Hath holpen up assistantly His servant Israel According to his promise made To Abraham before And to his seed successively To stand for evermore The song of Simeon called Nunc dimittis O Lord because my hearts desire Hath wished long to see My onely Lord and Saviour Thy Son before I die The joy and health of all mankinde Desired long before Which now is come into the world Of mercy bringing store Thou sufferest thy servant now In peace for to depart According to thy holy Word Which lighteneth my heart Because mine eyes which thou hast made To give my body light Have now beheld thy saving health Which is the Lord of might Whom thou mercifully hast set Of thine abundant grace In open sight and visible Before all peoples face The Gentiles to illuminate And Satan overquel And eke to be the glory of Thy people Israel The Symbol or Creed of Athanasius called Quicunque vult WHat man soever he be that salvation will attain The Catholick belief he must before all things retain Which faith unless he wholly keep and undefiledly Without all doubt eternally he shall be sure to die The Catholick belles is this that God we worship one In Trinity and Trinity in Unity alone So as we neither do confound the persons of the three Nor yet the substance whole of one in sunder parted be One Person of the father is another of the Son Another Person proper of the holy Ghost alone Of Father Son and holy Ghost but one the Godhead is Like Glory coeternal eke The Majesty likewise Such as the Father is such is the Son in each degree And such also we do beleeve the holy Ghost to be Uncreate is the father and uncreate is the Son The holy Ghost uncreate so uncreate is each one Incomprehensible Father is incomprehensible Son And comprehensible also is the holy Ghost of none The Father is eternal and the Son eternal so And in like sort eternal is the holy Ghost also And yet though we beleeve that each of thâ—se eternal be Yet there but one Eternal is and not Eternals three As ne incomprehensible we he yet uncreate three But one incomprehensible one uncreate hold to be Almighty so the Father is the Son Almighty so And in like sort Almighty is the holy Ghost also And albeit that every one of these Almighty be Yet there but one Almighty is And not Almighties three The Father God is God the Son God holy Ghost also Yet are there not three Gods in all but one God and no mo So likewise Lord the Father is and Lord also the Son And Lord the holy Ghost yet are there not three Lords but one For as we are compell'd to grant by Christian verity Each of the persons by himself both God and Lord to be So Catholick religion forbiddeth us alway That either Gods be three or that there Lords be three to say Of none the Father is ne made ne create nor begot The Son is of the Father not create ne made but got The holy Ghost is of them both the Father and the Son Ne made ne create nor begot but doth proceed alone So we one Father hold not three one Son also not three One holy Ghost alone and not three holy Ghosts to be None in this Trinity before nor after other is Ne greater any then the rest ne lesser be likewise But every one among themselves of all the Persons three Together coeternal all and all coequal be So Unity in Trinity as said it is before And Trinity in Unity in all things we adore Therefore what man soever that salvation will attain This faith touching the Trinity of force he must retain And needful to eternal life it is that every wight Of the incarnating of Christ our Lord beleeve aright For this the right faith is that we beleeve and eke do know That Christ our Lord the Son of God is God and man also God of his Fathers substance got before the world began And of his Mothers substance born in world a very man Both perfect God and perfect Man in one one Jesus Christ That doth of reasonable soul and humane flesh subsist Touching his Godhead equal with his Father God is he Touching his Manhood lower then his father in degree Who though he be both very God and very man also Yet is he but one Christ alone and is not persons two One not by turning of Godhead into the flesh of man But by taking manhood to God this being one began All one not by confounding of the substance into one But onely by the Unity that is of one Person For as the reasonable soul and flesh but one man is So in one Person God and Man is but one Christ likewise Who suffered for to save us all to hell he did descend The third day rose again from death to heaven he did ascend He sits at the right hand of God th' Almighty Father there From thence to judge the quick and dead again he shall appear At whose return all men shall rise with bodies new restor'd And of their own works they shall give account unto the Lord. And they into eternal life shall go that have done well Who have done ill shall go into eternal fire to dwell This is the Catholick belief who doth not faithfully Beleeve the same without all doubt he saved cannot be To Father Son and holy Ghost all glory be therefore As in beginning was is now and shall be evermore The Lamentation of a sinner O Lord turn not away thy face From him that lies prostrate Lamenting sore his sinful life Before thy mercy gate Which gate thou openest wide to those That do lament their sin Shut not that gate against me Lord But let me enter in And call me not to mine account How I have lived here For then I know right well O Lord How vile I shall appear I need not to confess my life I am sure thou canst tell What I have been and what I am I know thou know'st it well O Lord thou know'st what things be past And eke the things that be Thou know'st also what is to come Nothing is hid from thee Before the heavens and earth were made Thou know'st what things were then As all things else that have been since Among the sons of men And can the things that I have done Be hidden from thee then Nay nay thou know'st them all O Lord Where they were done and when Wherefore with tears I come to thee To beg and to intreat Even as the child that hath done ill And feareth to be beat So come I to thy mercy gate Where mercy doth abound Requiring mercy for my sin To heal my deadly wound O Lord I need not to repeat What I do beg or crave Thou know'st O Lord
out of his throne Our Lord Jesus Christ thy dear Son Lord Jesus Christ shew forth thy might That thou art Lord of lords by right Thy poor afflicted flock defend That we may praise thee without end God holy Ghost our Comforter Be our patron help and succour Give us one minde and perfect peace All gifts of grace in us increase Thou living God in persons three Thy name be prais'd in unitie In all our need so us defend That we may praise thee without end FINIS PRAYERS A form of prayer to be used in private houses every morning and evening Morning prayer ALmighty God and most merciful Father we do not present our selves here before thy Majesty trusting in our own merits or worthiness but in thy manifold mercies which hast promised to hear our prayers and grant our requests which we shall make to thee in the name of thy beloved Son Jesus Christ our Lord who also hath commanded us to assemble ourselves together in his name with full assurance that he will not onely be amongst us but also be our Mediatour and Advocate towards thy Majesty that we may obtain all things which shall seem expedient to thy blessed will for our necessities Therefore we beseech thee most merciful Father to turn thy loving countenance towards us and impute not unto us our manifold sins and offences whereby we justly deserve thy wrath and sharp punishment but rather receive us to thy mercy for Jesus Christs sake accepting his death and passion as a just recompence for all our offences in whom thou art well pleased and through whom thou canst not be offended with us And seeing that of thy great mercies we have quietly passed this night grant O heavenly Father that we may bestow this day wholly in thy service so that all our thoughts words and deeds may redound to the glory of thy great name and good example to all men who seeing our good works may glorify thee our heavenly Father And forasmuch as of thy mere favour and love thou hast not onely created us to thine own similitude and likeness but also hast chosen us to be heirs with thy dear Son Jesus Christ of that immortal kingdom which thou preparedst for us from the beginning of the world we beseech thee to increase our faith and knowledge and to lighten our hearts with thy holy Spirit that we may in the mean time live in godly conversation and integrity of life knowing that idolaters adulterers covetous men contentious persons drunkards gluttons and such like shall not inherit the kingdom of God And because thou hast commanded us to pray one for another we do not onely make request O Lord for our selves and for them that thou hast already called to the true understanding of thy heavenly will but for all people and nations of the world who as they know by thy wonderful works that thou art God over all 〈◊〉 they may be instructed by thy holy Spirit to beleeve in thee their onely Saviour and Redeemer But forasmuch as they cannot beleeve except they hear nor cannot hear but by preaching and none can preach except they be sent therefore O Lord raise up faithful distributers of thy mysteries who setting apart all worldly respects may both in their life and doctrine onely seek thy glory Contrarily confound Satan and Antichrist with all hirelings whom thou hast already cast off into a reprobate sense that they may not by sects schisms heresies and errours disquiet thy little flock And because O Lord we be fallen into the latter days and dangerous times wherein ignorance hath gotten the upper hand and Satan by his ministers seeketh by all means to quench the light of thy gospel we beseech thee to maintain thy cause against those ravening wolves and strengthen all thy servants whom they keep in prison and bondage Let not thy long-suffering be an occasion either to increase their tyranny or to discourage thy children neither yet let our sins and wickedness be an hinderance to thy mercies but with speed O Lord consider these great miseries For thy people Israel many times by their sins provoked thine anger and thou punishedst them by thy just judgement yet though their sins were never so grievous if they once returned from their iniquity thou receivedst them to mercy We therefore most wretched sinners bewail our manifold sins and earnestly repent us of our former wickedness and ungodly behaviour towards thee and whereas we cannot of our selves purchase thy pardon yet we humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christs sake to shew thy mercies upon us receive us again to thy favour Grant us dear Father these our requests and all other things necessary for us and thy whole Church according to thy promise in Jesus Christ our Lord In whose name we beseech thee as he hath taught us saying Our Father which art c. Evening prayer O Lord God Father everlasting and full of pity we acknowledge and confess that we be not worthy to lift up our eyes to heaven much less to present our selves before thy Majesty with confidence that thou wilt hear our prayers and grant our requests if we consider our own deservings for our consciences do accuse us and our sins do witness against us and we know that thou art an upright Judge which dost not justify the sinners and wicked men but punishest the faults of all such as transgress thy commandments yet most merciful Father since it hath pleased thee to command us to call on thee in all our troubles and adversities promising even then to help us when we feel our selves as it were swallowed up of death and desperation we utterly renounce all worldly confidence and the to thy sovereign bounty as our onely stay and refuge beseeching thee not to call to remembrance our manifold sins and wickedness whereby we continually provoke thy wrath and indignation against us neither our negligence and unkindness which have neither worthily esteemed nor in our lives sufficiently expressed the sweet comfort of thy gospel revealed unto us but rather to accept the obedience and death of thy Son Jesus Christ who by offering up his body in sacrifice once for all hath made a sufficient recompence for all our sins Have mercy therefore upon us O Lord and forgive us our offences Teach us by thy holy Spirit that we may rightly weigh them and earnestly repent us for the same And so much the rather O Lord because that the reprobate and such as thou hast forsaken cannot praise thee nor call upon thy name but the repenting heart the sorrowful minde the conscience oppressed hungring and thirsting for thy grace shall ever set forth thy praise and glory And albeit we be but worms and dust yet thou art our Creatour and we be the work of thy hands yea thou art our Father and we thy children thou art our Shepherd and we thy flock thou art our Redeemer and we thy people whom thou hast bought thou art our God and
all the world and all that therein doth endure verse 2 For he hath fastly founded it above the seas to stand And laid alow the liquid flouds to flow beneath the land verse 3 For who is he O Lord that shall ascend into thy hill Or pass into thy holy place there to continue still verse 4 Whose hands are harmless and whose heart no spot there doth defile His soul not set on vanity who hath not sworn to guile verse 5 Him that is such a one the Lord shall place in blissful plight And God his God and Saviour shall yeeld to him his right verse 6 This is the brood of travellers in seeking of his grace As Jacob did the Israelite in that time of his race verse 7 Ye princes ope your gates stand ope the everlasting gate For there shall enter in thereby the king of glorious state verse 8 Who is the king of glorious state the strong and mighty Lord The mighty Lord in battel stout and trial of the sword verse 9 Ye princes ope your gates stand ope the everlasting gate For there shall enter in thereby the king of glorious state verse 10 Who is the king of glorious state the Lord of hosts it is The kingdom and the royalty of glorious state is his Ad te Domine Psal xxv T. S. I Lift my heart to thee my God and guide most just Now suffer me to take no shame for in thee do I trust verse 2 Let not my foes rejoyce nor make a scorn of me And let them not be overthrown that put their trust in thee verse 3 But shame shall them befal which harm them wrongfully Therefore thy paths and thy right ways unto me Lord descry verse 4 Direct me in thy truth and teach me I thee pray Thou art my God and Saviour on thee I wait alway verse 5 Thy mercies manifold I pray thee Lord remember And eke thy pity plentiful for they have been for ever verse 6 Remember not the faults and frailty of my youth Remember not how ignorant I have been of thy truth Nor after my deserts let me thy mercy finde But of thine own benignity Lord have me in thy minde verse 7 His mercy is full sweet his truth a perfect guide Therefore the Lord will sinners teach and such as go aside verse 8 The humble he will teach his precepts for to keep He will direct in all his ways the lowly and the meek verse 9 For all the ways of God are truth and mercy â—oth To them that keep his testament the witness of his troth The second part verse 10 Now for thy holy name O Lord I thee intreat To grant me pardon for my sin for it is wondrous great verse 11 Whoso doth fear the Lord the Lord will him direct To lead his life in such a way as he doth best accept 12 12 His soul shall evermore in goodness dwell and stand His seed and his posterity inherit shall the land verse 13 All those that fear the Lord know his secret intent And unto them he doth declare his will and testament verse 14 Mine eyes and eke my heart to him I will advance That pluckt my feet out of the snare of sin and ignorance verse 15 With mercy me behold to thee I make my mone For I am poor and desolate and comfortless alone verse 16 The troubles of my heart are multipli'd indeed Bring me out of this misery necessity and need verse 17 Behold my poverty mine anguish and my pain Remit my sin and mine offence and make me clean again verse 18 O Lord behold my foes how they do still increase Pursuing me with deadly hate that lain would live in peace verse 19 Preserve and keep my soul and eke deliver me And let me not be overthrown because I trust in thee verse 20 Let my simple pureness me from mine enemies shend Because I look as one of thine that thou shoudst me defend verse 21 Deliver Lord thy folk and lend them some relief I mean thy chosen Israel from all their pain and grief Judica me Domine Psal xxvi T. S. LOrd be my Judge and thou shalt see my paths be right and plain I trust in God and hope that he will strength me to remain verse 2 Prove me my God I thee desire my ways to search and try As men do prove their gold with fire my reins and heart espy verse 3 Thy goodness said before my face I durst behold always For of thy truth I tread the trace and will do all my days verse 4 I do not lust to haunt or use with men whose deeds are vain To come in house I do refuse with the deceitful train verse 5 I much abhor the wicked sort their deeds I do despise I do not once to them resort that hurtful things devise verse 6 My hands I wash and do proceed in works to walk upright Then to thine altar I make speed to offer there in sight verse 7 That I may speak and preach the pralse that doth belong to thee And so declare how wondrous ways thou hast been good to me verse 8 O God the house I love most dear to me it doth excel I have delight and would be near whereas thy grace doth dwell verse 9 O shut not up my soul with them in fin that take their fill Nor yet my life among those men that seek much bloud to spill verse 10 Whose hands are heapt with craft and guile their lives thereof are full And their right hand with wrench and wile for bribes doth pluck and pull verse 11 But I in righteousness intend my time and days to serve Have mercy Lord and me defend so that I do not swerve verse 12 My foot is stay'd for all assays it standeth well and right Wherefore to God will I give praise in all the peoples sight Dominus illuminatio Psal xxvii J. H. THe Lord is both my health and light shall man make me dismaâ—d Sith God doth give me strength and might why should I be afraid verse 2 While that my foes with all their strength begin with me to brall And think to eat me up at length themselves have caught the fall verse 3 Though they in camp against me lie my heart is not afraid In battel pight if they will try I trust in God for aid verse 4 One thing of God I do require that he will not deny For which I pray and will desire till he to me apply verse 5 That I within his holy place my life throughout may dwell To see the beauty of his face and view his temple well verse 6 In time of dread he shall me hide within his place most pure And keep me secret by his side as on a rock most sure verse 7 At length I know the Lords good grace shall make me strong and stout My foes to foil and clean deface that compass me about verse 8 Therefore within his house will I give sacrifice of praise With
wickedness on him shall have no power verse 24 His foes likewise I will destroy before his face in fight And those that hate him I will plague and strike them with my might verse 25 My truth and mercy eke withall shall still upon him lie And in my Name his horn eke shall be listed up on high verse 26 His kingdom I will set to be upon the sea and land And eke the running flouds shall he embrace with his right hand verse 27 He shall depend with all his heart on me and thus shall say My Father and my God thou art my rock of health and stay verse 28 As my first-born I will him take of all on earth that springs His might and honour I will make above all earthly kings verse 29 My mercy shall be with him still as I my self have told My faithful covenant to fulfil my mercy I will hold verse 30 And eke his seed I will sustain for ever strong and sure So that his seat shall still remain while heaven doth endure The fourth part verse 31 If that his sons for sake my law and so begin to swerve And of my judgements have none aw nor will not them observe verse 32 Or if they do not use aright my statutes to them made And set all my commandments light and will not keep my trade verse 33 Then with the rod will I begin their doings to amend And so with scourging for their sin if that they do offend verse 34 My mercy yet and my goodness I will not take him fro Nor handle him with craftiness and so my truth forgo verse 35 But sure my covenant I will hold with all that I have spoke No word the which my lips have told shall alter or be broke verse 36 Once sware I by my holiness and that perform will I With David I shall keep promise to him I will not lie verse 37 His seed for evermore shall reign and eke his throne of might As doth the sun it shall remain for ever in my fight verse 38 And as the moon within thesky for ever standeth fast A faithful witness from on high so shall his kingdom last verse 39 But now O Lord thou dost reject and now thou changest cheer Yea thou art wroth with thine elect thine own anointe dear verse 40 The covenant with thy servant made Lord thou hast quite undone And down upon the ground also hast cast his royal crown The fifth part verse 41 Thou pluck'st his hedges up with might his walls thou dost confound Thou beatest eke his bulwarks down and break'st them to the ground verse 42 That he is sore destroy'd and torn of comers by throughout And so is made a mock and scorn to all that dwell about verse 43 Thou their right hand hast lifted up that him so sore annoy And all his foes that him devour lo thou hast made to joy verse 44 His swords edge thou dost take away that should his foes withstand To him in war no victory thou giv'st nor upper hand verse 45 His glory thou dost also waste his throne his joy his mirth By thee is overthrown and cast full low upon the earth verse 46 Thou hast cut off and made full short his youth and lusty days And rais'd of him an ill report with shame and great dispraise verse 47 How long away from me O Lord for ever wilt thou turn And shall thine anger still alway as fire consume and burn verse 48 O call to minde remember then my time consumeth fast Why hast thou made the sons of men as things in vain to waste verse 49 What man is he that liveth here and death shall never see Or from the hand of hell his soul shall he deliver free verse 50 Where is O Lord thine own goodness so oft declar'd beforn Which by thy truth and uprightness to David thou hast sworn verse 51 The great rebukes to minde I call that on thy servants lie The railings of the people all born in my breast have I verse 52 Wherewith O Lord thine enemies blasphemed have thy Name The steps of thine anointed one they cease not to defame verse 53 All praise to thee O Lord of hosts both now and eke for ay Through sky and earth and all the coasts Amen amen I say Domine refugium Psal xc J. H. THou Lord hast been our sure defence our place of ease and rest In all times past yea so long since as cannot be exprest verse 2 Ere there was made mountain or hâ—â—l the earth and world abroad From age to age and always still for ever thou art God verse 3 Thou grindest man through grief and pain to dust or clay and then And then thou say'st again Return again ye sons of men verse 4 The lasting of a thousand years what is it in thy sight As yesterday it doth appear or as a watch by night verse 5 So soon as thou dost scatter them then is their life and trade All as asleep and like the grass whose beauty soon doth fade verse 6 Which in the morning shines full bright but fadeth by and by And is cut down ere it be night all with'red dead and dry verse 7 For through thine anger we consume our might is much decay'd And of thy fervent wrath and sume we are full sore afraid verse 8 The wicked works that we have wrought thou sett'st before thine eye Our privy faults yea eke our thoughts thy countenance doth spie verse 9 For through thy wrath our days do waste thereof doth nought remain Our yearâ— consume as words or blasts and are not call'd again verse 10 Our time is threescore years and ten that we do live on mold If one see fourscore surely then we count him wondrous old The second part verse 11 Yet of this time the strength and chief the which we count upon Is nothing else but painful grief and we as blasts are gone verse 12 Who once doth know what strength is there what might thine anger hath Or in his heart who doth thee fear according to thy wrath verse 13 Instruct us Lord to know and try how long our days remain That then we may our hearts apply true wisdom to attain verse 14 Return O Lord how long wilt thou forth on in wrath proceed Shew favour to thy servants now and help them at their need verse 15 Refresh us with thy mercy soon and then our joy shall be All times so long as life doth last in heart rejoyce will we verse 16 As thou hast plagued us before now also make us glad And for the years wherein full sore affliction we have had verse 17 O let thy work and power appear and on thy servants light And shew unto thy children dear thy glory and thy might verse 18 Lord let thy grace and glory stand on us thy servants thus Confirm the works we take in hand Lord prosper them to us Qui habitat Psal xci J. H. HE that within the secret place of
all the trees within their coasts down did he overthrow verse 34 He spake then caterpillers did and grashoppers abound verse 35 Which are the grass in all their land and fruit of all their ground The fifth part verse 36 The first-begotten in their land eke deadly did he smite Yea the beginning and first-fruit of all their strength and might verse 37 With gold and silver he them brought from Egypt land to pass And in the number of their tribes no feeble one there was verse 38 Egypt was glad and joyful then when they did thence depart For terrour and the fear of them was faln upon their heart verse 39 To shroud them from the parching heat a cloud he did display And fire he sent to give them light when night had hid the day verse 40 They asked and he caused quails to rain at their request And fully with the bread of heaven their hunger he represt verse 41 He opened the stony rock and waters gushed out And eke the dry and parched ground like rivers ran about verse 42 For of his holy covenant ay mindful was he tho Which to his servant Abraham he plighted long ago verse 43 He brought his people forth with mirth and his elect with joy Out of the cruel land where they had liv'd in great annoy verse 44 And of the heathen men he gave to them the fruitful lands The labours of the people eke they took into their hands verse 45 That they his holy statutes might observe for evermore And faithfully obey his laws praise ye the Lord therefore Confitemini Domino Psal cvi N. PRaise ye the Lord for he is good his mercy dures for ay verse 2 Who can express his noble acts or all his praise display verse 3 They blessed are that judgement keep and justly do alway verse 4 With favour of thy people Lord remember me I pray And with thy saving health O Lord vouchsafe to visit me verse 5 That I the great felicity of thine elect may see And with thy peoples joy I may a joyful minde possess And may with thine in heritance a glorying heart express verse 6 Both we and eke our fathers all have finned every one We have committed wickedness and lewdly we have done verse 7 The wonders great which thou O Lord hast done in Egypt land Our fathers though they saw them all yet did not understand Nor they thy mercies multitude did keep in thank ful minde But at the sea yea the Red sea rebelled most unkinde verse 8 Nevertheless he saved them for honour of his Name That he might make his power known and spread abroad his fame verse 9 The Red sea he did then rebuke and forthwith it was dri'd And as in wilderness so through the deep he did them guide verse 10 He sav'd them from the cruel hand of their despiteful foe And from the enemies hand he did deliver them also The second part verse 11 The waters their oppressours whelâ—'d not one was lestalive verse 12 Then they beleev'd his word and praise in song they did him give verse 13 But by and by unthankfully his works they clean forgat And for his counsel and his will they did neglect to wait verse 14 But lusted in the wilderness with fond and greedy lust And in the desert tempted God the stay of all their trust verse 15 And then their wanton minds desire he suffred them to have But wasting leanness therewithal into their souls he gave verse 16 Then when they lodged in their tents at Moses they did grutch Aâ—ron the holy of the Lord so did they envy much verse 17 Therefore the earth did open wide and Dathan did devour And all Abirams company did cover in that hour verse 18 In their assembly kindled was the hot consuming fire And wasting flame did then burn up the wicked in his ire verse 19 Upon the hill of Horeb they an idol-calf did frame And there the molten image they did worship of the same verse 20 Into the likeness of a calf which feedeth on the grass Thus they their glory turn'd and all their honour did deface verse 21 And God their onely Saviour unkindly they forgot Which many great and mighty things in Egypt land had wrought The third part verse 22 And in the land of Ham for them most wondrous works had done And by the Red sea dreadful things performed long agone verse 23 Therefore for their so shewing them forgetful and unkinde To bring destruction on them all he purpos'd in his minde Had not his chosen Moses stood before him in the break To turn his wrath lest he on them with slaughter should him wreak verse 24 They did despise the pleasant land that he behight to give Yea and the words that he had spoke they did no whit believe verse 25 But in their tents with grudging heart they wickedly repin'd Nor to the voice of God the Lord they gave an hearkning minde verse 26 Therefore against them lifted he his strong revenging hand Them to destroy in wilderness ere they should see the land verse 27 And to destroy their seed among the nations with his rod. And through the countreys of the world to scatter them abroad verse 28 To Baal-peor then they did adjoyn themselves also And ate the offerings of the dead so they forsook him tho verse 29 Thus with their own inventions his wrath they didprovoke And in his sore enkindled wrath the plague upon them broke verse 30 But Phinehas stood 〈◊〉 with zeal the sinners vile to â—â—ay And judgement he did execute and then the plague did stay The fourth part verse 31 It was imputed unto him for righteousness that day And from thenceforth so counted iâ— from race to race I say verse 32 At waters eke of Meribuh they did him angry make Yea so far forth that Moses was then punisht for their sake verse 33 Because they vext his spirit so sore that in impatient heat His lips spake unadvisedly his fervour was so great verse 34 Nor as the Lord commanded them they slew the people tho verse 35 But were among the heathen mixt and learn'd their works also verse 36 And did their idols serve which were their ruine and decay verse 37 To fiends their sons and daughters they did offer up and slay verse 38 Yea with unkindly murdring knife the guiltless bloud they spilt Yea their own sons and daughters bloud without all cause of guilt Whom they to Canaan idols then offred with wicked hand And so with bloud of innocentâ— defiled was the land verse 39 Thus were they stained with the works of their own filthy way And with their own inventions a whoring they did stray verse 40 Therefore against his people was the Lords wrath kindled sore And even his own inheritance he did abhor therefore verse 41 Into the hands of heathen men he gave them for a prey And made their foes their lords whom they were forced to obey The fifth part verse 42 Yea
Whereas the wicked and perverse with grief shall stop their voice verse 43 But who is wise that now full well he may these things record For certainly such shall perceive the kindness of the Lord. Paratum cor Psal cviii J. H. O God my heart prepared is and eke my tongue is so I will advance my voice in long and giving praise also verse 2 Awake my viol and my harp sweet melody to make And in the morning I my self right early will awake verse 3 By me among the people Lord still praised shalt thou be And I among the heathen folk will sing O Lord to thee verse 4 Because thy mercy Lord is great above the heavens high And eke thy truth doth reach the clouds within the Josty skie verse 5 Above the starry heavens high exalt thy felt O God And Lord display upon the earth thy glory all abroad verse 6 That thy dearly beloved may he set at libertie Help O my God with thy right hand and hearken unto me verse 7 God in his holiness hath spoke wherefore my joys abound Sichem I will divide and mere the vale of Succoth-ground verse 8 And Gilead shall be mine own Manasses mine shall be My head-strength Ephraim and law shall Judah give for me verse 9 Moab my washpot and my shoe on Edom will I throw Upon the land of Palestine in triumph will I go verse 10 Who shall into the city strong be guide to conduct me Or how by whom to Edom land conveyed shall I be verse 11 Is it not thou O Lord which late hadst us forsaken quite And thou O Lord which with our hosts didst not go forth to fight verse 12 Give us O Lord thy saving aid when troubles do assail For all the help of man is vain and can no whit avail verse 13 Through God we shall do valiant acts and worthy of renown He shall suodue our enemies yea he shall tread them down Deus laudem tuam Psal cix N. IN speechless silence do nor hold O God thy tongue always O God even thou I say that art the God of all my praise verse 1 The wicked and the guileful mouth on me disclosed be And they with false and lying tongues have spoken unto me 〈◊〉 They did beset me round about with words of hateful spight Without all cause of my desert against me they did light 〈◊〉 For my good will they were my foes but then 'gan I to pray My good with ill my friendliness with hate they did repay 〈◊〉 Set thou the wicked over him to have the upper hand It his right hand eke suffer thou his hateful foe to stand When he is judged let him then condemned be therein And let the prayer that he makes be turned into sin 〈◊〉 Few be his days his charge also let thou another take His children let be fatherless his wife a widow make verse 10 Let his off-spring be vagabonds to beg and seek their bread Wandring out of the wasted place where erst they have been fed verse 11 Let covetous extortioners catch all his goods and store And let the stranger spoil the fruit of all his toil before verse 12 Let there be none to pity him let there be none at all That on his children fatherless will let their mercy fall The second part verse 13 And so let his posterity for ever be destroy'd Their name out blotted in the age that after shall succeed verse 14 Let not his fathers wickedness from Gods remembrance fall And let not thou his mothers sin be done away at all verse 15 But in the presence of the Lord let them remain for ay That from the earth their memory he may cut clean away verse 16 Sith mercy he forgot to shew but did pursue with spight The troubled man and sought to slay the woful-hearted wight verse 17 Ash-did cursing love it shall betide unto him so And as he did not blessing love it shall be far him fro verse 18 As he with cursing clad himself so it like water shall Into his bowels and like oyl into his bones befal verse 19 As garment let it be to him to cover him foray And as a girdle wherewith he shall girded be alway verse 20 Lo let the same be from the Lord the guerdon of my foe Yea and of those that evil speak against my soul also verse 21 But thou O Lord that art my God deal thou I say with me After thy Name deliver me for good thy mercies he verse 22 Because in depth of great distress I needy am and poor And eke within my pained breast my heart is wounded sore The third part verse 23 Even so do I depart away as doth declining shade And as the grashopâ—er so I am shaken off and sade verse 24 With falling long from needful food enfeebled are my knees And all her fatness hath my flesh enforced been to leese verse 25 And I also a vile reproach to thâ—u am made to be And they that did upon me look did shake their heads at me verse 26 But thou O Lord thâ—t art my God none aid and succour be According to thy mercy Lord save and deliver me verse 27 And they shall know thereby that this Lord is thy mighty hand And that thou thou hast done it Lord so shall they understand verse 28 Although they curse with spite yet thou shalt bless with loving voice They shall aris and come to shame thy servant shall rejoyce verse 29 Let them be clothed all with shame that enemies are to me And with confusion as a cloke eke covered let them be verse 30 But greatly I will with my mouth give thanks unto the Lord And I among the multitude his praises will record verse 31 For he with help at his right hand will stand the poor man by To save him from the man that would condemn his soul to die Dixit Dominus Psal cx N. THe Lord did say unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand Till I have made thy foes a stool whereon thy feet shall stand verse 2 The Lord shall out of Sion send the sceptre of thy might Amid thy mortal foes be thou the Ruler in their sight verse 3 And in the day on which thy reign and power they shall see Then hereby free-will-offerings shall the peepâ—â— offer thee Yea with an holy worshipping then shall they offer all Thy births dew is the dew that doth from womb of morning fall verse 4 The Lord hath sworn and never will repent what he doth say By th' order of Melchisedech thou art a Priest for ay verse 5 The Lord thy God on thy right hand that standeth for thy stay Shall wound for thee the stately kings upon his wrathful day verse 6 The heathen he shall judge and fill the place with bodies dead And over divers countreys shall in sunder smite the head verse 7 And he shall drink out of the brook tâ—at râ—nnâ—th in the way Wherefore he shall lift up on high
we thine inheritance Correct us not therefore in thine anger O Lord neither according to our deserts punish us but mercifully chastise us with a fatherly affection that all the world may know that at what time so ever a sinner doth repent him of his sins from the bottom of his heart thou wilt put away all his wickedness out of thy remembrance as thou hast promised by thy holy prophet Finally forasmuch as it hath pleased thee to make the night for man to rest in as thou hast ordained him the day to travail in grant O dear Father that we may so take our bodily rest that our souls may continually watch for the time that our Lord Jesus Christ shall appear for our deliverance out of this mortal life and in the mean season that we not overcome by any fantasies dreams or other temptations may fully set our minds upon thee love thee fear thee and rest in thee furthermore that our sleep be not excessive or overmuch after the insatiable desires of the flesh but onely sufficient to content our weak nature that we may be the better disposed to live in all godly conversation to the glory of thy most holy name and the profit of our brethren So be it A godly prayer to be said at all times HOnour and praise be given to thee O Lord God almighty most dear Father of heaven for all thy mercies and loving kindness shewed unto us in that it hath pleased thy gracious goodness freely and of thine own accord to elect and choose us to salvation before the beginning of the world and even like continual thanks be given to thee for creating us after thine own image for redeeming us with the precious bloud of thy dear Son when we were utterly lost for sanctifying us with thy holy Spirit in the revelation and knowledge of thy holy word for helping and succouring us in all our needs and necessities for saving us from all dangers of body and soul for comforting us so fatherly in all our tribulations and persecutions for sparing us so long and giving us so large a time of repentance These benefits O most merciful Father like as we acknowledge to have received them of thy onely goodness even so we beseech thee for thy dear Son Jesus Christs sake grant us always thy holy Spirit that we may continually grow in thankfulness towards thee to be led in all truth and comforted in all our adversities O Lord strengthen our faith kindle it more in ferventness and love towards thee and our neighbours for thy sake Suffer us not most dear Father to receive thy word any more in vain but grant us always the assistance of thy grace and holy Spirit that in heart word and deed we may sanctify and do worship to thy name help to amplify and increase thy kingdom and whatsoever thou sendest we may be heartily well content with thy good pleasure and will Let us not lack the thing O Father without the which we cannot serve thee but bless thou so all the works of our hands that we may have sufficient and not be chargeable but rather helpful to others Be merciful O Lord to our offences and seeing our debt is great which thou hast forgiven us in Jesus Christ make us to love thee and our neighbours so much the more Be thou our Father our captain and defender in all temptations hold thou us by thy merciful hand that we may be delivered from all inconveniences and end our lives in the sanctifying and honouring of thy holy name through Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour So be it Let thy mighty hand and out-stretched arm O Lord be still our defence thy mercy and loving kindness in Jesus Christ thy dear Son our salvation thy true and holy word our instruction thy grace and holy Spirit our comfort and consolation unto the end and in the end So be it O Lord increase our faith A confession for all estates and times O Eternal God and most merciful Father we confess and acknowledge here before thy divine Majesty that we are miserable sinners conceived and born in sin and iniquity so that in us there is no goodness For the flesh evermore rebelleth against the spirit whereby we continually transgress thy holy precepts and commandments and so purchase to our selves through thy just judgement death and damnation Notwithstanding O heavenly Father forasmuch as we are displeased with our selves for the sins the we have committed against thee and do unfeignedly repent us of the same we most humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christs sake to shew thy mercy upon us to forgive us all our sins and increase thy holy Spirit in us that we acknowledging from the bottom of our hearts our own unrighteousness may from henceforth not onely mortifie our sinful lusts and affections but also bring forth such fruits as may be agreeable to thy most blessed will not for the worthiness thereof but for the merits of thy dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our onely Saviour whom thou hast already given an oblation and offering for our sins and for whose sake we are certainly perswaded that thou wilt deny us nothing that we shall ask in his name according to thy will for thy Spirit doth assure our consciences that thou art our merciful Father and so lovest us thy children through him that nothing is able to remove thy heavenly grace and favour from us To thee therefore O Father with thy Son and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen A prayer to be said before a man begin his work O Lord God most merciful Father and Saviour seeing it hath pleased thee to command us to travail that we may relieve our need we beseech thee of thy grace so to bless our labours that thy blessing may extend unto us without the which we are not able to continue and that this great favour may be a witness unto us of thy bountifulness and assistance so that thereby we may know the fatherly care that thou hast over us Moreover O Lord we beseech thee that thou wouldst strengthen us with thy holy Spirit that we may faithfully travail in our estate and vocation without fraud or deceit and that we may endeavour our selves to follow thy holy ordinance rather then to seek to satisfie our greedy affections or desire to gain And if it please thee O Lord to prosper our labour give us a minde also to help them that have need according to that ability that thou of thy mercy shalt give us And knowing that all good things come of thee grant that we may humble our selves to our neighbours and not by any means lift up our selves above them which have not received so liberal a portion as thou of thy mercy hast given unto us And if it please thee to try and exercise us by greater poverty and need then our flesh would desire that thou wouldst yet O Lord grant us grace to know that