appear unto men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the earth and that by thee Kings do reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold hopes and defires let not their mischievous imaginations prosper least they be too proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them shew some good token on his seed for good that their enemies may see it and be ashamed â—…ecause thou Lord hast holpen and comforted them Bow the hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou dist those of Israel to David that they may acknowledge and receive joyfully the Heir of these Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a nail in a sure place behold his injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by his Birth-right thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this day for this blessing make no long tarrying but according to the time thou hast plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons teeth and pull us out of the burnings like a firebrand We beseech thee that We may this day spread beforâ—… thee the words of Rabshekah the proud railings and scornfull reproaches of our enemies Behold this day their exaltation and our mourning O Lord our eyes are towards thee for whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many thousands that call on thee That salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of peace unto thy People Think upon all those that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the world see that there is a God that judgeth the earth and send deliverance to his people in their needful time of trouble But whatsoever thy purpose is let not us behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian humility run the race that thou settest before us and qatiently bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our prayers may return into our own bosomes and that thou wilt make thy judgements temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in wel-doing we may commit our selves to thee our God as unto a faithful Creator And that both our King and we may say with all Christian submission and cheerfulness It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good And here O Lord we offer unto thee all possible praise and thanks for all the Glory of thy Grace that hath shined forth in thine Anointed our late Soveraign and that thou wert pleased to own him this Day especially in the midst of his Enemies and in the hour of death and to endue him with such eminent Patience Meekness Humility Charity and all other Christian Virtues according to the example of thine own Son suffering the fury of his and thine Enemies for the preservation of thy Church and People We Praise thee also for the Courage and Comfort thou hast given unto us of his Party by that owning and assisting him or any that have suffered in that Righteous Cause And we beseech thee give us all grace to Remember and provide for our latter end by a Careful studious imitation of those blessed patterns of thy Saints and Martyrs that have gone before us that we may be made worthy to Receive benefit by their prayers which they in Communion with thy Church Catholick offer up unto thee for that part of it here Militant and yet in sight with and danger from the flesh that following tâ—…e Blessed stepps of their Holy Lives and Deaths we may also â—…hew forth the Light of a good example for the Glory of thy Name the Conversion of Enemies and the improvement of those Generations we shall shortly leave behind us and then with all those that have born the Heat and burthen of the day thy Servant whose Sufferings and Labours we this day commemorate receive the Reward of our Labours the Harvest of our Hopes even the Salvation of our own souls and that for the merits and through the mediation of thy Son our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Evening Prayer FOR the thirtieth of Ianuary The Letany O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer c. O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity c. Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy most precious blood and â—…e not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evill and mischief from sin from the crafts and affaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting â—…ation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition and privy conspiracy from all false doctrine and heresie from hardness of heart and contempt of thy word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy incarnation by thy holy nativity circumcision by thy baptism fasting and temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine agony and bloudy sweat by thy Cross and passion by thy precious death and buriall by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of Judgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear Us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and
and â—…bey him as thy Minister not â—…nly for wrath but for consciâ—…ce sake least contemning â—…ine ordinance we incur that damnation thou hast threatneâ—… to all those that resist the highâ—… powers Hear us O Lord fâ—… his sake who is the Prince 〈◊〉 the Kings of the Earth eveâ—… Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Most gracious Lord God the Ruler of Princes wheâ—… they are in their thrones anâ—… their Protector when they aâ—… in perill look down mercifullâ—… from Heaven we most humbly pray thee upon the low estate 〈◊〉 thine anointed our King comfort him in his troubles defenâ—… him in his dangers strengthen him in his good resolutions and command thine Angels to pitcâ—… their tents round about hiâ—… that he may be defended froâ—… the hands of all those that desire his hurt and may be re-established in the just rights oâ—… his throne through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon him and deâ—…er him O God the Father c. O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon him â—…nd deliver him O God the Son c. O God the holy Ghost proâ—…eeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon him â—…d deliver him O God the holy Ghost c. O holy blessed and glorious â—…rinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon him and deliver him O holy blessed and glorious c. Remember not Lord his offences nor the offences of his fore-Fathers neither take thou â—…engeance of his sins spare him good Lord spare thy servant â—…om thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and â—…e not angry with him for ever Spare him good Lord. From all evill and mischief from the Insurrection of wicked doers from the frowardness and madnesse of the People Good Lord deliver him From mouths full of cursing and bitternesse from all thosâ—… that speak evill of dignities and from those that slander the foot steps of thine Anointed Good Lord deliver him From them that are confederates and speak so disdainfully against him and from all thosâ—… that hate him without a cause Good Lord deliver him We sinners do beseech thee tâ—… hear us O Lord God and thaâ—… it may please thee to look upoâ—… the face of thine Anointed and to visit him with thy salvation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to plead his cause against them thaâ—… strive with him and to fighâ—… against those that fight againâ—… him We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to hear him in these dayes of his trouble and to send him help from thy Sanctuary We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to arise and maintain his cause and to remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to give him patience in this time of adversiâ—…y untill the pit be digged up for the ungodly We beseech thee c. That it may please thee in the multitude of the sorrows that he hath in his heart to let thy comforts refresh his soul. We beseech thee c. That it may please thee not to deliver him over to the will of his adversaries nor to false witnesses risen up against him or to such as speak wrong We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to defend him under thy wings and that thy faithfulnesse and truth may be his Shield and Buckler We beseech thee c. That it may please thee to satisfie him with thy mercy and that soon so that he and we may rejoyce all the dayes of our life We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. A Prayer For the Church LOrd who hast promised to thine Apostles to be with them alwayes unto the end of the world and for a supply of their mortality hast in thy gracious providence over thy Church continued a perpetuall succession of Bishops and Pastors to feed their severall Flocks whereof the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers Inspire them by thy grace that their lips may preserve knowledge and the people seek thy Law at their mouth Bless them O Lord with the blessings of Levi blesse their substance and accept the work of their hands smite through the loyns of them that rise up against them and of them that hate them that they rise not again that they may shine forth as lights before us holding forth the word of life till we all come in the unity of Faith and the knowledge of Jesus Christ unto that perfection and fulnesse of thine everlaâ—…ing Kingdome Amen ALmighty God and gracious Father we confess against our selves that we are most worthy of all the Judgements that thou hast threatned against us these Kingdomes and this Church which is now under the Crosse and neer to utter ruin and extirpation unless thy mercy step in between thy fierce wrath and our hainous sins And howsoever the voice of our crying sins hath ascended into thine ears and stirred up destroyers to root us out that we be no more a people and that thy name be no more called upon nor hallowed by us yet we most humbly beseech thee to hear the prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears which once our blessed Saviour offered for us upon the Crosse and in the garden and which he daily represents unto thee And for his all-sufficient merits which speak better things than the blood of Abel hear not the cry of our sins but the cry of his blood and therein wash all our sins Let our great miseries and dangers suffice for that which is past and let that Oratour in thy own bosome even thine own fatherly goodness perswade and prevail for us and purchase our deliverance and safety Hear us for our selves and others Look upon us with the eyes of pitty and compassion consider our enemies how many and how mighty they be and they bear a tyrannous hate against us Our goods our lands our lives will not suffice their boundlesse ambition our religion our souls and if it were possible our God is that they strike at curse thou their anger for it is fierce and their wrath for it is cruel Divide them in Iacob and scatter them in Israel As for us deliver us out of their hands and unite us together in the bond of peace that being freed from our many and tyrannous enemies we may ever bless thy sacred and holy name and evermore serve thee without fear in all holiness and righteousness all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to our defence against all our enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we which for our evill deeds are justly punished by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully
successefull on these thy gasping forlorn patients that thy great work of recovery and change the cleansing of our polluted leprous souls may be effectually wrought upon us by this hand of thine Lord save us from these sad effects by a powerfull removall of the Cause or else we certainly perish To this end O Lord we resigne our selves up to thy divine Methods be they the sharpest that thou seest necessary to dispense to us we desire to embrace them cheerfully and not to interpose any thought of ours in contradiction to thy most safe most medicinable prescriptions It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good not ours but thy sacred will be done Be it unto us according to thy good pleasure In the mean time Lord permit us to intercede for others that are not worthy to pray for our selves O let the sorrowfull sighing of the poore of the oppressed and there is no Comforter let the black gloomy Calamities that are fallen upon him that is more worth then ten thousand of us come before thee Let thy Protection still continue unto him if it be thy sacred Will Thy Host of guardian Angels that once appeared in the Mount the Horses and Charriots round about Elisha environ and surround that sacred Head and by thine own wayes and means and in thine own season restore him with out the effusion of any more blood to his Fathers Crown Thron And Lord that it might yet be an acceptable time a season wherein thou mightest be accessible to our Prayers which we offer up in great Humility for thy poore wasted disconsolate Church amongst us That thou wouldest repair her breaches restore her dayes as of old that thou wouldest arise and have mercy upon Sion and Compassionate to see her in the Dust Lord where is thy Pitty And the sounding of the Bowels thy zeale to the place where thy rest dwelleth Will the Lord absent himself for ever And will he be no more entreated Are his mercies clean gone for ever and his promises come utterly to an end for evermore Lord remember thy old loving kindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth Arise O Lord and come into thy Rest thou and the Ark of thy strength But if these Calamities and Desolations must still go on and advance to the height of an irremediable ruine yet O Lord intermix thy sweet and Comfortable Allays with this bitter Cup Take us into thine immediate hand of Protection and Guidance sanctifie all thy methods unto us and by the same omnipotent work whereby thou bringest a most glorious light out of the blackest darknesse be pleased to produce all thy Divinest good things out of the saddest evils and if it may yet be thy blessed will to work the same work by the return of thy Mercies which the continuance of thy punishments is wont to be assigned for And Lord receive us all under the safe guard of thy Divine Presence the pillar of fire and Cloud to cover and direct us That in every turn of thy hand we may see and admire thy glorious and gracious Disposals and by the happy experience that even this also is to us for good we may be for ever engaged to ascribe unto thee all Honour and Glory and render unto thee the uniform obedience of our hearts world without end Amen Amen VIII O Most gracious Lord God the Creator of all things but of men and all mankinde a tender Compassionate Father in Jesus Christ Thou that hast enlarged thy designes and purposes of Grace and mercy as the Bowels and blood-shedding of thy Son with an earnest desire that every weak or sinfull man should partake of that Abiss that infinite treasure of thy Bounty Thou that hast bequeathed unto us that Legacy and Example of a sacred inviolable Peace a large diffusive Charity we meekly beseech thee to overshadow with thy heavenly grace the souls of all men over all the world O Lord thou lover of soules to bring home to the acknowledgment and embraces of thy Son all that are yet strangers to that profession and in whatsoever any of us who have already received that mercy from thee may be any way usefull or instrumentall to that so glorious an end to direct and encline our hearts towards it to work in us all an holy zeale to thy Name and tender Bowels to all those whose eternity is concern'd in it O give us a true serious full comprehension and value of that one great Interest of others as well as of our selvâ—… shew us the meanest of us some way to contribute towards it if it be but our daily affectionate Prayers for the enlarging of thy Kingdome and the care of approving all our Actions so as may most effectually attract all others to this profession And for all those that have already that glorious name of thy Son called upon them blessed Lord that they may at length according to the many Engagements of their profession depart from iniquity That that holy City that new Ierusalem may at length according to thy promise descend from Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband Christ That that Tabernacle of God with men may be illustriously visible among us that we may be a peculiar People and thou inhabiting in power among us That we which have so long professed thee may no longer be content with that form of knowledge which so often engenders strife contentions animosities separating from and condemning one another and that most unchristian detestable guilt of blood but endeavour and earnestly contend for the uniform effectuall practise of all the precepts of thy Son the Fruit and Power of Godlinesse That all the People and Princes of Christendom the Pastors and Sheep of thy fold may at length in some degree walk worthy of that light and warmth that knowledge of those graces that the Sun of righteousness with healing on his wings hath so long poured out upon us Lord purge and powerfully work out of all our hearts that prophanenesse and Atheisticalnesse those sacrilegious thirsts and enormous violations of all that is holy those Unpeaceable Rebellious Mutinous and withall Tyrannizing cruell spirits those prides and haughtinesses judgeing and condemning defaming and despising of others those unlimited ambitions and covetings joyned with the Invasion violation of others rights those most reproachfull excesses and abominable impurities which to the shame of our unreformed obdurate hearts do still remain unmortified unsubdued among us but above all those infamous Hypocrisies of stiborning Religion to be the Engine of advancing our secular designes or the disguise to conceale the foulest intentions of bringing down that most sacred name whereby we should be saved to be the vilest instrument of all Carnalities And by the power of thy controwling Spirit Lord humble and subdue all that exalts it self against the obedience of Christ And when thou hast cast out so many evill spirits be thou pleased thy self to possesse and enrich our souls to
is come upon us consider and behold our Reproach For our Inheritance is turned to strangers our Houses to Aliens our Necks are under Persecution we labour and have no rest Our Fathers have sinned and are not and we have born our Iniquities Yea servants rule over us and there is none that delivers us out of their hands Our Elders have ceased from the Gate and our Young men from their Musick The Ioy of our Heart is ceased our Dance is turned into mourning For the Crown is fallen from our Head and Wo unto us that We have sinned For this our heart is faint for these things our Eyes are dim But wherefore dost thou forget us for Ever and forsakest us so long time O Turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Renew our dayes as of old And do not utterly Reject us be not for ever Wroth against us O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us Daniel's Prayer and Confession in the Behalf of Himself and his People O Lord the Great and dreadfull God We have sinned and done wickedly and have Rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Iudgements Neither have we hearkned to thy Servants the Prophets which spake in thy Name to our Kings our Princes and our Fathers and all the People of this Land O Lord Righteousness belongeth unto thee but unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day unto all that are near and far off through all the Countries whither thou hast driven them because of the Trespasse that they have trespassed against thee For we have not obeyed the Voice of the Lord our God and therefore the Curse is poured out upon us Even such a Curse as that under the whole Heaven hath not been done as hath been done unto Us. But now O Lord our God according to all thy Righteousness I beseech thee let thine Anger and thy Fury be turned away from us Hear the Prayer of thy servant and cause thy Face to shine upon thy Sanctuary which is now desolate O my God incline thine Ear and hear Open thine Eyes and behold our Desolation For I do not present these supplications before thee for our own Righteousnesse but for thy Great Mercies O Lord hear O Lord Forgive O Lord do delay not for Thine own sake O my God and for thy Peoples sake that are called by â—…y Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us Prayers for the King LOrd Remember our distressed King and all his Troubles Amen Let thine Hand hold him fast and thine Arm strengthen him Amen Let not the Enemy be able to do him violence or the Son of Wickedness hurt him Amen Let thy Truth and Mercy be ever with him and in thy Name let his Throne be exalted Amen O be thou his Father his God and his strong Salvation Amen And let him be as the Fiâ—… born and Glorious among tâ—… Kings of the Earth Amen O God make speed to savâ—… him O Lord make haste to help him II. O Most Powerful Lord God the only disposer of all the Kings and Kingdomes of the Earth who for the Punishment of the Crying sins of this Nation hast extinguished our Glory and cast the Throne down to the Ground Give us not over utterly to Ruine and Confusion But bring back in thy good time the Heir of these Kingdomes like the Sun with Healing in his Wings to repair the Breaches already made and prevent the Desolations that â—…reaten us And however thou hast been pleased to cast a cloud upon â—…im in the Morning of his Days yet leave him not in this storm Forsake him not Thou that art the God of his salvation But look upon his Wrongs and have Compassion on his Innocency O let it never be in the Power of men to barr him from the Throne to which by his Birth thou hast designed him But Guide him with those Counsels and prosper him with that success as may settle him in his Throne in Peace Or if the Guilt and Wickedness of his Opposers shall still continue to hinder this Do it after thine own way O God with thy mighty hand and stretched out Arm That they may both know and feel that thou art the Protector of Kings and the Refuge of all them who have no other Trust but Thee Grant this O Lord for the Glory of thy Name and the Comfort of thy desolate Church and People Amen O Most Mercifull God the only Sanctuary of sad and distressed souls Look down I beseech Thee upon thy servant who here with bended Knees and a wounded spirit prostrate my self before Thee For Wo unto us we have lived to see the Crown fall from our Heads and the Glory departed from our Israel even the Anoynted of the Lord driven to fly before wicked men and they who have divided his Inheritance triumphing over him But thou O Lord how long how long shall Bloody Designs and Rebellious imaginations prosper Shall not the Judge of the whole Earth do Right Or hast thou forgotten to be Gracious and shuttest up thy tender Mercy in displeasure O No Thou art the same God who in the midst of Judgment remembrest Mercy Thine Arm is not shortned that thou canst not save nor thine Ear heavy that thou canst not hear Arise then O Lord Arise Let the World see that thou art the Father of the Fatherless and the Helper of them to Right that suffer Wrong Shew it O Lord especially at this time in multiplying all thy comforts upon our distressed King And as thou hast strangely and Wonderfully delivered him from those who so eagerly hunted after his Life So let it appear to the World that thou hast not done this to make him more miserable or to continue him in the Condition of an Exâ—…e But rather that thou hast reserved him for Faithfull Hands and fairer Opportunities and more prosperous successes And though that was not the Time nor those the Means by which thou hast designed to restore the Kingdom to him Yet that thou hast not forsaken him but that He is still in thy Care still under the shadow of thy Wings who alone art able to do more for him then we can pray for and Gloriously to bring him back again by wayes we cannot think of In the mean time O Lord whilst thou thinkest fit to keep him under the sharpnesse of this Discipline Teach him to kisse the Hand that chastens him and humbly to submit his Earthly Crown to thy Divine Will and Pleasure knowing that thou canst either Restore him That when it seems good to thee Or else give him a Crown infinitely more Glorious which no man can take from him Lord He is more Precious to thee then he can possibly be to us Dispose of Him therefore in the multitude of thy Mercies And let thy Holy Spirit take so 〈◊〉 Possession and Guidance of â—…im that among all the Diffiâ—…ties of his most perplexed