and they shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds from one end of Heaven to the other 32. Now learn a Parable of the Fig-tree When his Branch is yet tender and putteth forth Leaves ye know that Summer is nigh 33. So likewise ye when ye shall see all these things know that it is near even at the Doors 34. Verily I say unto you this Generation shall not pass till all these Things be fulfilled 35. Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my Words shall not pass away 36. But of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man no not the Angels of Heaven but my Father only 37. But as the Days of Noe were so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be 38. For as in the Days that were before the Flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the Day that Noe entred into the Ark 39. And knew not when the Flood came and took them all away so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be 40. Then shall two be in the Field the one shall be taken and the other left 41. Two Women shall be grinding at the Mill the one shall be taken and the other left 42. Watch therefore for ye know not what Hour your Lord doth come 43. But know this that if the good Man of the House had known in what watch the Thief would come he would have watched and would not have suffered his House to be broken up 44. Therefore be ye also ready for in such an Hour as you think not the Son of Man cometh 45. Who then is a faithful and wise Servant whom his Lord hath made Ruler over his Houshold to give them Meat in due Season 46. Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing 47. Verily I say unto you that he shall make him Ruler over all his Goods 48. But and if that evil Servant shall say in his Heart My Lord delayeth his coming 49. And shall begin to smite his Fellow Servants and to eat and drink with the drunken 50. The Lord of that Servant shall come in a Day when he looketh not for him and in an Hour that he is not aware of 51. And shall cut him asunder and appoint him his Portion with the Hypocrites There shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth Priest Give thy Judgments O God and thy Righteousness to the King People The Lord hear him in the Day of Trouble the Name of the God of Jacob defend him Priest Send him Help from his Sanctuary and strengthen him out of Sion People Let the King rejoice in thy Strength O Lord and let him be exceeding glad of thy Salvation Priest Grant him his Hearts desire and deny him not the Request of his lips People O Lord gird him with Strength unto the Battle throw down his Enemies under him Priest Make them to turn their Backs upon him and disperse those that hate him People Deliver him from the strivings of his People Priest Deliver him from his cruel Enemies and set him above his Adversaries thou shalt rid him from the wicked Man and why because the King puts his strength in the Lord and in the Mercy of the most High he shall not miscarry People Some put their trust in Chariots and some in Horses but we remember the Name of the Lord our God Priest Save Lord and hear us O King of Heaven when we call upon thee People Be thou exalted in thy own strength so will we sing and praise thy power Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen O Lord God that dost build up Jerusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel wherefore art thou absent so long and why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy Pasture O think upon thy Congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old think upon the tribe of thine Inheritance and mount Sion where thou hast dwelt Lift up thy Feet and disperse all those our Enemies which have done ill in thy Sanctuary For they have broken down the carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers They have defiled the dwelling places of thy Name yea they said in their hearts let us make havock of them altogether O God how long shall the adversary do this dishonour how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosom to scatter the enemy Arise O God maintain thine own cause remember how the foolish Man blasphemeth thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the presumption of those that hate thee encreaseth ever more and more Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen A Prayer O Eternal God and most merciful Father we humbly beseech thee to be merciful unto us and be near to help us in all those extremities which our Sins threaten to bring upon us our Enemies are strengthned against us because our rebellions are multiplied against thee and we deserve to suffer what our Enemies threaten and sudden destruction and with desolation but there is mercy with thee that thou mayst be feared and there is mercy with thee that they may not be feared shew us therefore thy mercy O Lord and let us so fear thee that we may never be brought to feel or fear them and that for our Jesus and thy Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for the Church ALmighty God and gracious Father we confess against our selves that we are most worthy of all the Judgments that thou hast threatned against us these Kingdoms this Church which is now under the Cross and near to utter ruin and extirpation unless thy mercy stept in between thy fierce Wâ—ath and our heinous Sins and howsoever the voice of our crying Sins hath ascended into thine Ears and stirred up Destroyers to root us out that we be no more a People and that thy Name be no more called upon nor hallowed by us yet we most humbly beseech thee to hear the Prayers and Supplications with strong Cryings and Tears which once our blessed Saviour offered for us upon the Cross and in the Garden and daily represents unto thee and for his all-sufficient Merits which speak better things than the Blood of Abel hear not the cry of our Sins but hear the cry of his Blood and therein wash away all our Sins let our great Miseries and Dangers suffice for that which is past and let that Orator in thy own bosom that is thine own fatherly goodness perswade and prevail for us and purchase our Deliverance and Safety hear us for our selves and others look upon us with the Eyes of Pity and Compassion consider our Enemies how many and how mighty they be and they
I desired of the Lord that will I seek after That I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the Days of my Life to behold the Beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple 5. For in the time of Trouble he shall hide me in his Pavilion in the secret of his Tabernacle shall he hide me he shall set me up upon a Rock 6. And now shall mine Head be lifted up above mine Enemies round about me Therefore will I offer in his Tabernacle Sacrifices of Joy I will sing yea I will sing Praises unto the Lord 7. Hear O Lord when I cry with my Voice Have mercy also upon me and answer me 8. When thou saidst Seek ye my Face my Heart said unto thee Thy Face Lord will I seek 9. Hide not thy Face far from me put not thy servant away in anger thou hast been my Help leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation 10. When my Father and my Mother forsake me then the Lord will take me up 11. Teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in a plain path because of mine enemies 12. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies for false witnesses are risen up against me and such as breath out Cruelty 13. I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living 14. Wait on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart wait I say on the Lord PSALM XLVI 1. The Confidence the Church hath in God 8. An exhortation to behold it GOD is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble 2. Therefore will not we fear though the Earth be moved and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the Sea 3. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof Selah 4. There is a river the streams thereof shall make glad the City of God the holy Place of the Tabernacle of the most high 5. God is in the midst of her she shall not be moved God shall help her and that right early 6. The Heathen raged the Kingdoms were moved he uttered his Voice the Earth melted 7. The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge Selah 8. Come behold the works of the Lord what desolation he hath made in the Earth 9. He maketh Wars to cease unto the end of the Earth he breaketh the Bow and cutteth the Spear in sunder he burneth the Chariot in the Fire 10. Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted among the Heathen I will be exalted in the Earth 11. The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge Selah PSALM LXXXIII 1. A Complaint to God of the Enemies Conspiracies 9. A Prayer against them that oppress the Church KEEP not thou silence O God hold not thy peace and be still O God 2. For lo thine Enemies make a Tumult and they that hate thee have lift up their Head 3. They have taken crafty counsel against thy People and consulted against thy hidden ones 4. They have said Come and let us cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance 5. For they have consulted together with one consent they are confederate against thee 6. The Tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagarens 7. Gebal and Ammon and Amalek the Philistines with the Inhabitants of Tyre 8. Assur also is joyned with them they have holpen the Children of Lot Selah 9. Do unto them as unto the Midianites as to Sisera as to Jabin at the Brook of Kison 10. Which Perished at Endor they became as dung for the Earth 11. Make their Nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb yea all their Princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna 12. Who said let us take to our selves the Houses of God in possession 13. O my God make them like a wheel as the stubble before the Wind. 14. As the fire burneth a Wood and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire 15. So persecute them with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storm 16. Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy Name O Lord 17. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever yea let them be put to shame and perish 18. That Men may know that thou whose Name alone is JEHOVAH art the most high over all the Earth PSALM LXXXVI 1. David strengthneth his Prayer by the conscience of his Religion 5. By the goodness and power of God 11. He desireth the continuance of former Grace 14. Complaining of the proud he craveth some token of God's Goodness BOW down thine ear O Lord hear me For I am poor and needy 2. Preserve my Soul for I am holy O thou my God save thy Servant that trusteth in thee 3. Be merciful unto me O Lord for I cry unto thee daily 4. Rejoyce the Soul of thy Servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my Soul 5. For thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6. Give ear O Lord unto my Prayer and attend to the voice of my Supplications 7. In the Day of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me 8. Among the Gods there is none like unto thee O Lord neither are there any works like unto thy works 9. All Nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10. For thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art God alone 11. Teach me thy way O Lord I will walk in thy Truth unite my heart to fear thy Name 12. I will praise thee O Lord my God with all my heart and I will glorifie thy Name for evermore 13. For great is thy Mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my Soul from the lowest Hell 14. O God the Proud are risen against me and the Assemblies of violent Men have sought after my Soul and have not set thee before them 15. But thou O Lord art a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy and truth 16. O turn unto me and have mercy upon me give thy Strength unto thy Servant and save the Son of thine Handmaid 17. Shew me a Token for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed Because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me The First Lesson proper for this Occasion the Second of Samuel XV Chapter 1. Absalom by fair Speeches and Courtesies stealeth the Hearts of Israel 7. Under Pretence of a Vow he obtaineth leave to go to Hebron 10. He maketh there a great Conspiracy 13. David upon the News flieth from Jerusalem 19. Ittai would not leave him 24. Zadok and Abiathar are sent back with the Ark 30. David and his Company go up Mount Olivet weeping 31. He curseth Ahitophels Counsel
bear a tyrannous hate against us Our Goods our Lands our Lives will not suffice their boundless Ambition Our Religion our Souls and if it were possible our God is that they strike at curse thou their Angers for it is fierce and their Wrath for it is cruel Divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel as for us deliver us out of their Hands and unite us together in the bond of Peace that being freed from our many and tyrannous Enemies we may ever bless thy sacred and holy Name and evermore serve thee without fear in Holiness and Righteousness all the Days of our Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble Servants and stretch forth the right Hand of thy Majesty to be our Defence against all our Enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen GRant we beseech thee Almighty God that we which for our evil deeds are justly punished by the comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon our Infirmities and Miseries and in all our Dangers and Necessities stretch forth thy right Hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty God which art more ready to hear than we to pray and are wont to give more than either we desire or deserve pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy forgiving us those things whereof we are afraid and giving unto us that that our Prayers dare not presume to ask through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen FINIS A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of January the Anniversary of England's Captivity and Tyrants Liberty O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most suitable to thy Justice and performest thy Pleasure always in such manner to us that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy ways be not equal we thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgment which as this Day befel us in thy permitting cruel Men Sons of Belial to execute their fury of their Rebellions upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their Hands in the Blood and Murder of the Lords Anointed that was drawn down by the great and long Provocations of this Nation sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinful wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this Days sore Vengeance the effect as well as the defect of our Impieties the work of our own Hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgment but our own most horrible Sin for which alone did not multitude of other Sins cry out against us thou mightest justly descend down upon us all as thou didst in Sodom and leave us no other memorial than to be the frightful Monuments of thine Indignation and Fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and merciful therefore it is that we are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to Repentance And now O Lord looking on this particular signal Judgment and thy last Trump warning us to flie from the Wrath to come We come forth to meet our God mourning in our Prayers before thee and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure and the removal of these Plagues of long continuance from us for the all-sufficient merits of the Death and Sufferings of our blessed Saviour O forgive our great and manifold Transgressions and for his bloody Passion sake deliver this Nation from Blood-guiltiness that of this Day especially O God of our Salvation Let not our crying Sins intercept our Prayers or thy Blessings but hear the Voice of our Tears and hearing forgive and heal us retire not quite from us into thine own Place Laugh not at our Calamities neither Mock in this Day of our Visitation Vindicate thy own Cause and thine own Providence that it may appear unto Men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the Earth and that by thee Kings do Reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of Violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold Hopes and Desires let not their mischievous imaginations Prosper least they be too Proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have Fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them Shew some Token on his seed for Good that their Enemies may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast Holpen and Comforted them Bow the Hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou didst those of Israel to David that they acknowledge and receive joyfully the Heir of these three Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a Nail in a sure Place behold his Injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his Enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their Oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by Birth-light thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this Day for this Blessing make no longer tarrying but according to the time thou hast Plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons Teeth and pull us out of the Burnings like a Fire-brand We beseech thee that this Day we may spread before thee the Words of Rabshekah the Proud railing and Scornful reproach of our Enemies Behold this Day their Exaltation and our Mourning O Lord our Eyes are towards thee For whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many Thousands that call on thee that Salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of Peace unto thy People Think upon those that are peaceable and faithful in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the World see that there is a God that judgeth the Earth and will send deliverance to his People in their needful time of trouble But whatsoever is let us not behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian Humility run the race thou settest before us and patiently bear the Indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our Prayers may return unto our own Bosoms and that thou wilt make thy Judgments temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in well-doing we may commit our selves unto thee our God as unto a faithful Creator and that both our King and we may say with a Christian submission and cheerfulness It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good to whom we desire to ascribe Honour Praise Dominion and Thanksgiving now and for evermore Amen FINIS The Contents A Preparatory Prayer folio 3 King Davids prayer for the Church and People 4 King Davids second Prayer 5 King Davids third prayer ibid. King Davids fourth prayer 6 King Davids Tears 7 Jeremiahs Lamentations prophetical of these times ibid. Jeremiahs second prayer 8 Daniels prayer and confession in the behalf of himself and his people 9 The first prayer for the King 10 The second prayer for the King ibid. The third prayer for the King 11 Preparatory ejaculations precede the Litany 12 A Litany of intercession ibid. A prayer for the Church 16 A prayer for the Queen Mother and the Royal Progeny ibid. A prayer for the Afflicted 17 Certain Verses of several psalms ibid. A prayer 18 A Confession of sins 20 A prayer 25 An Absolution to be pronounced by the priest only ibid The Lords prayer 26 More prayers ibid. Psalms proper upon this occasion to be read viz. III folio 53. VII fol. 56. XXVII fol. 57. XLVI fol. 58 LXXXIII fol. 75. LXXXVI fol. 60. 28 The first Lesson proper upon this occasion is out of the 2 Book of Samuel XV Chapter folio 34 Another Lesson upon this occasion is in the 2 of Chronicles XIII Chapter fol. 37 More Lessons fitting this occasion viz. 2 Samuel 16 17 18 and 20. Chapters Numbers 16. Chap. Isai. 22. Amos. 4. Joel 2 and Ezekiel 9. Chapters Then shall priest and people repeat those sayings 39 Another prayer 40 Then shall the priest and people repeat those sayings 41 The second Lesson proper for this occasion is the 24 Chapter of St. Matthew 44 Then shall the priest and people repeat those sayings 47 Another prayer 49 A prayer for the Church ibid. More prayers 50 A proper prayer for the 30th of January being the Anniversary of Englands Captivity and Tyrants Liberty 53
hath and how he doth bear in his Bosom the rebukes of many People And let his Adversaries be cloathed with shame But upon his Head let his Crown flourish O help him against his Enemies for Vain is the help of Man O God make speed to save him O Lord make hast to help him Jeremiah's Lamentations Prophetical of these times HOW hath the Lord covered us with a Cloud in his Anger And cast down from Heaven unto the Earth the beauty of our Israel and remembered not his Foot-stool in the Day of his Wrath For lo he hath bent his Bow as an Enemy he hath swallowed us up and hath not pitied he hath made desolate the Kingdom and the Princes thereof He hath cast off his Altars and abhorred his Sanctuary and hath given into the Hands of the Enemies the Walls of his Pillars He hath caused our solemn Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten and hath despised in his Indignation the King and the Priest For the Lord hath now accomplished his fury he hath poured out his fierce anger he hath kindled such a fire in Sion as hath devoured the Palaces thereof For the Sins of the Prophets and the Iniquity of the Priests who have shed the Blood of the Just in the midst of her For the Breath of our Nostrils the anointed of the Lord hath been taken in their Pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall live in Peace But we have transgressed and have rebelled and thou hast not pardoned And therefore our Eyes have as yet failed us in our vain help for in our watching we have watched for a Nation that could not save us Behold O Lord and consider to whom thou hast done this O Lord thou hast seen his wrong judge thou his Cause Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against him Thou hast heard their Reproach O Lord and all their imaginations against him The Lips of those that are risen up against him and their devices against him all the Day O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him The Second Prayer REmember O Lord what is come upon us consider and behold our reproach For our Inheritance is turned unto Strangers our Houses to Aliens our Necks are under Persecution we labour and have no rest Our Fathers have sinned and are not we have born our Iniquities The Servants rule over us and there is none to deliver us out of their hands Our Elders have ceased from the gate and our young Men from their Musick The Joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into mourning For the Crown is fallen from our Head and wo unto us that we have sinned For this our Heart is faint for these Things our eyes are dim But wherefore doest thou forget us for ever and forsakest us so long time O turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned renew our Days as of old And do not utterly reject us be not for ever wrath against us O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us Daniel's Prayer and Confession in the behalf of himself and his People O Lord the great and dreadful God! we have sinned and done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Judgments Neither have we hearkned to thy Servants the Prophets which spake in thy name to our Kings our Princes and our Fathers and all the People of this Land O Lord Righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us Confusion of face as at this day unto all that are near and far off through all the Countries whether thou hast driven them because of the trespass that they have trespassed against thee For we have not obeyed the Voice of the Lord our God and therefore the Curse is poured out upon us Even such a Curse as that under the whole Heaven hath not been done to us But now O Lord our God according to all thy Righteousness I beseech thee let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from us Hear the Prayer of thy Servant and cause thy face to shine upon thy Sanctuary which is now desolate O my God encline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold our Desolation For I do not present these Supplications before thee for mine own Righteousness but for thy great Mercies O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord do delay not for thine own sake O my God and for thy Peoples sake that are called by thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us Prayers for the KING The First Prayer LOrd remember our distressed King and all his troubles Let thy hand hold him fast and thine arm strengthen him Let not the Enemy be able to do him violence or the Son of Wickedness hurt him Let thy Truth and Mercy be ever with him and in thy Name let his Throne be exalted O be thou his Father his God and his strong Salvation And let him be as thy first born and glorious among the Kings of the Earth O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him The Second Prayer O Most Powerful Lord God the only Disposer of all the Kings and Kingdoms on the Earth who for the Punishment of the crying Sins of this Nation hast extinguished our Glory and cast the Throne down to the ground Give us not over utterly to Ruin and Confusion but bring back yet in thy good time the Heir of these Kingdoms like the Sun with healing in his Wings to repair the Breaches already made and prevent the Desolations that threaten us And however thou hast been pleased to cast a Cloud upon him in the morning of his Days yet leave him not in this Storm forsake him not thou that art the God of his Salvation but look upon his Wrongs and have compassion on his Innocency and Suffering O let it never be in the Power of Man to bar him from the Throne to which by his Birth thou hast designed him but guide him with those Councils and prosper him with that Success as may settle him in his Throne in Peace Or if the Guilt and Wickedness of his Opposers shall still continue to hinder this do it after thine own way O God with thy mighty Hand and stretched out Arm that they may both know and feel that Thou art the Protector of Kings and the Refuge of them who have no other Trust but in Thee grant this O God for the Glory of thy Name and the Comfort of thy desolate Church and People Amen The Third Prayer O Most Merciful God the only Sanctuary of sad and distressed Souls look down I beseech thee upon thy Servant who here with bended Knees and a wounded Spirit prostrate my self before thee for wo unto us we have lived to see the Crown fallen from our Heads and the Glory departed from our Israel even the anointed of the Lord driven to fly before wicked Men
and they who have divided his Inheritance triumphing over him But thou O Lord how long shall bloody Designs and Rebellious Imaginations prosper Shall not the Judge of the whole Earth do right Or hast thou forgot to be gracious and shut up thy tender Mercy in Displeasure O no thou art the same God who in the midst of Judgment remembreth Mercy Thine Arm is not shortned that thou canst not save nor thine Ears heavy that thou canst not hear Arise thou O God arise let the World see that thou art the Father of the Fatherless and Helper of them to right that suffer wrong Shew it O Lord especially at this time in multiplying all thy Comforts on 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 the more miserable or to continue him in the condition of an Exile but rather that thou hast reserved him for faithfuller Hands and fairer Opportunities and more prosperous Successes And though this were not the time nor this the means by which thou hadst designed to restore the Kingdom to him yet that thou hast not yet 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 than we can pray for and gloriously to bring him back again by ways we cannot think of In the mean time O Lord whilst thou thinkest fit to keep him under the sharpness of this Discipline teach him to kiss the Hand that chastens him and humbly to submit his Earthly Crown to thy divine Will and Pleasure as knowing that thou canst either restore him that when it seems good to thee or give a Crown infinitely more glorious which no Man can take from him Lord he is more precious to thee than he can be possibly to us dispose of him therefore in the Multitude of thy Mercies and let thy holy Spirit take so full Possession of him and Guidance that among all the Difficulties of his most perplexed Affairs he may constantly continue his Duty towards thee and live and dye thy faithful Servant in Jesus Christ Amen A LITANY of Intercession Preparatory Ejaculations to precede the LITANY O That thou wouldest hear me O God! that thou wouldest so prepare my Heart that thou mayest hear me That thou wouldest hear me yet once more though I am but Dust and Ashes That thou wouldest hear me for all those whom by the bonds of Duty of Charity or Affection I am bound to pray for O Lord hear my Prayers And let my Cry come unto thee The LITANY THat it may please thee O God to bless the whole Catholick-Church of thy Son Christ and as it hath been planted in his Death and watered with his Blood so it may be still nourished by his Sacraments and governed by his Word that the Uncharitableness of Men may not make the Rents and Divisions of it wider and that howsoever we may differ in the Superstructions the Foundation of Christian Faith may never be cast down O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to look compassionately on this persecuted Part of thy Church now driven from thy publick Altars into Corners and secret Closets that thy Protection may be over us where-ever we shall be scattered and a Remnant preserved amongst us by whom thy Name may be glorified and thy Sacraments administred and the Souls of thy Servants kept up upright in the midst of a corrupting and of a corrupted Generation O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to be gracious to Him who was once designed by thee to be the Nursing Father of this thy Church but for the Sins both of Priests and People is now cast out as an unprofitable Branch and that in thy due time thou wouldst deal with him according to the Innocency of his Person and Justice of his Cause O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to comfort him in the sadness of his Spirit and guide him in the Perplexities of his Mind and support him in streights and necessities of his Fortunes To raise him Friends abroad to convert or confound the Hearts of his Enemies at home To do some mighty Thing for him which I in particular know not how to pray for and by the secret Windings and powerful workings of thy Providence to make the Stone which these foolish Builders have refused the head stone of the corner O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to preserve him with an unspotted Soul and an unshaken Faith and that no Splendor of any Earthly Crown may so dazzle him as to make him forget either himself or thee or to do any unworthy thing to lose that Heavenly Crown which thou hast prepared for him and nothing but his Sins is able to keep from him O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to shew mercy to the Queen his Mother the Dukes his Brethren in exile with him and the rest of that scattered and oppressed Family to guide them with thy Counsels to defend them by thy Power to provide for them in thy mercy and to make them in their several ways Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to deal graciously with that Remnant of the loyal Nobility and all others of that ruined Side who have chosen rather to suffer in thy Cause than to participate with the Sins of a more successful Party O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to spread the wings of thy Protection over all those whom thou hast made near or dear unto me to preserve them safe in Body and Soul from the Snares of their Enemies and the Iniquities of the times that no Sin may lay waste their Consciences nor Evil come near their Dwellings O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to recompence all those whom thou hast raised to be Instruments of any good to me such as have taken care of my Soul and instructed me in the way to Heaven such as have counselled me when I have gone astray supplyed me in my wants comforted me in my heaviness and have had that high Charity for me as to reprove me when I have sinned O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to let the Day spring from on high shine upon all those that sit in Darkness and in the shadow of Death who either do not know thy Name or knowing it are carried by strong Delusions into the ways of Error and false Perswasion O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to confirm those who as yet stand fast on the Foundations of thy holy Truth that neither the Persecution of the Church
in which they were baptized nor the Tentations of the Times nor the Snares of cunning Men who watch all advantages may make them fall from their first Faith and miserably wander after their own Imaginations O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to comfort and raise up those weak and dejected Spirits which are ready to sink under the burden of a troubled or affrighted Conscience that as thou hast shewed them their Sins and the Punishments due for them so thou wouldest shew them their Saviour and by directing them to lay hold upon his Cross keep them from a final and everlasting Shipwrack O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to hear the Groans and Cries of all that are afflicted either outwardly or inwardly in Body or Soul especially such who being oppressed for Conscience sake have no Place to fly unto nor no Man careth for their Souls O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to listen compassionately to the deep sighing of the Prisoners and by thy mighty Power to deliver such who for obeying thee and a good Conscience are or shall be designed to Death or Ruin O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to soften the Hearts of all unrighteous Judges who now have the Power over us and to make them know with trembling that there is a Judge higher than they O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to forgive all who more particularly are Enemies to me or mine all that have any way traduced or slandered me even to turn their hearts and to extend thy Charity to them in all those degrees of mercy which I desire may be shown to my own Soul O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to hear all those Servants of thine who either have the Charity to pray for me or desire my Prayers for them but above all that it may please thee to hear the Prayers of thy Son Jesus Christ who now sits gloriously on thy right hand to intercede both for me and them O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake O Lord hear my Prayers and let my Cry come unto thee O Lord Pardon my Prayer and let not my Sins and my Unworthiness interpose between thy Mercy-seat and me Amen Amen A Prayer for the Church ALmighty and Everlasting God who only workest great marvels shew the Riches of thy Goodness to thy desolate and persecuted Church that now sits mourning in her own Dust and Ruins torn by Schism and stripped and spoiled by Sacrilege And thou who after long Captivity didst bring back thy People to rebuild their Temple look upon us with the same Eyes of mercy Restore us once again the publick Worship of thy Name the reverent Administrations of thy Sacraments raise up the former Government both in Church and State that we may no longer be without King without Priest without God in the World but may once more enter into thy Courts with Praise and serve thee with that Reverence that Unity and Order as may be acceptable in thy Sight through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the Queen Mother and the Royal Progeny ALmighty God the Fountain of all Goodness we humbly beseech thee to be gracious to the Queen Mother to comfort her in her sad Afflictions and to direct her Ways and Counsels as may conduce to the setling of her Posterity here in Peace enlarge thy Blessings on all the Branches of the Royal Family Those that are driven to fly for Refuge into Foreign Parts take them all into thy Care cover them under thy Wings and in thy due time make them so many Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the Afflicted O Lord God Merciful and Gracious the only Sanctuary and Refuge for those that are in Misery and Trouble hear I beseech thee the Groans and Cries of all that are afflicted outwardly or inwardly in Body or Mind especially such who suffer in a righteous Cause whose Loyalty hath been more dear unto them than their Fortunes and a good Conscience more than their Lives Consider them O God in their several Extremities whether at home or abroad comfort them in their Distresses supply them in their Wants Let the sorrowful sighing of all that are oppressed come before thee and by the greatness of thy Power preserve thou those that are appointed to dye Convert and soften the hard Hearts of their implacable Enemies and asswage their thirst of Blood which still cries more and more or if thou otherwise hast decreed to bring any more of us thro' the red Sea into the Land of Promise prepare us for this Passage and guide us by thy Blessed Spirit thro' the Shadows of Death continue our Christian Courage and Constancy to the utmost strengthen our Faith confirm our Hope and let our Charity overflow even to the forgiving of them by whose unjust Sentence we perish that so dying in thy Peace we may enter into the Joys prepared for us thro' the Mediation of our Saviour who hath gone the same way before us even Jesus Christ the Righteous Amen Psalm 10. Verse 1. Why standest thou so far off O Lord and hidest thy Face in the needful Time of Trouble Psalm 8. Verse 1 2 3. Lord how are they increased that trouble us many are they that rise up against us many there be that say of our Souls there is no Help for them in their God But thou O Lord art our Defender thou art our Worship and the Lifter up of our Head Jeremiah 10. Verse 24. Correct us O Lord and yet in thy Judgment not in thy Fury lest we should be consumed and brought to nothing Psalm 130. Verse 3. If thou wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it A Prayer O Thou most blessed Judge Eternal We the unworthiest and sinfullest of all the Children of Men that have so long abused and prophaned thy Mercies provoked thy Judgments unsheathed thy glittering Sword forced all the Arrows and Darts out of thy Quiver and with our multiply'd abominable crying Sins brought down a Desolation on a most pleasant Land that former delight of thine the Glory of all Lands We that after thy Wrath was poured out upon us have yet further encreased our Sins as thou hast increased the Weight and Number of thy Judgments on us and walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy Discipline and Visitations suffered all thy precious Methods of reducing us thy Admonitions and thy Stripes to be utterly lost and frustate amongst us And now the Axe is laid to the Root of the Tree and above all the Sword of Violence died with the Blood of thine Anointed among us and with that all the bloody Presages that we cannot without Horror but apprehend a final utter Vastation threatned to a long flourishing
an horrible dread hath overwhelmed us and it is thy great Mercy only that we are not consumed for we have sinned O Lord we have transgressed and done wickedly yea we have rebelled and departed from thy Precepts and from thy Commandments Priest Innumerable Troubles are come about us and our Sins have taken hold upon us that we are not able to look up yea they are more in number than the hairs of our Head and our Hearts have failed us O Lord Righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us Confusion of Face because of all the Offences we have committed against thee People Yet Compassion and Forgiveness is with thee though we have rebelled against thee O Lord according to thy Goodness we beseech thee let thine Anger and thy Wrath be turned away from us and cause thy Face to shine upon thy Servants Incline thine Ears and hear open thine Eyes and behold our Afflictions for we do not present our Supplications before thee in our own Righteousness but for thy manifold and great Mercies Priest We have sinned we have sinned against thee O Heavenly Father and are no more worthy to be called thy Sons People Yet O Lord hear O Lord forgive consider do it and defer not for thine own sake O our God Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World without end Amen Priest Hear our Prayer O Lord and hide not thy self from our Petitions and hearken unto the Words of our Mouth for Strangers are risen up against us and Tyrants which have not God before their Eyes seek after our Souls People Cast us not away in the times of our Weakness forsake us not when our Strength faileth us Priest O remember not our Offences but according to thy Mercy think thou upon us for thy Goodness sake People O turn thee unto us and have mercy upon us for we are desolate and in Misery Priest The Sorrows of our Hearts are enlarged O bring thou us out of all our Troubles People Turn us O God our Saviour and let thine Anger cease from us send down from on high and deliver us take us out of those many Waters Priest Why art thou absent from us so long Why is thy Wrath so hot against the Sheep of thy Pasture People Wherefore hidest thou thy Face and forgettest our Misery and Trouble For our Soul is brought low unto the Dust and our Belly cleaveth unto the Ground Priest Look upon our Adversity and Misery and forgive us all our Sins Arise O Lord and help us and deliver us for thy Mercies sake so shall it be known that it is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be World without end Amen The Second Lesson proper for this Occasion is XXIV Chapter of St. Matthew 1. Christ foretelleth the Destruction of the Temple What and how great Calamities shall be before it 29. The Signs of his coming to Judgment 36. And because that Day and Hour is unknown 42. We ought to watch like good Servants expecting every moment our Masters coming AND Jesus went out and departed from the Temple and his Disciples came to him for to shew him the Buildings of the Temple 2. And Jesus said unto them see ye not all these Things verily I say unto you there shall not be left here one Stone upon another that shall not be thrown down 3. And as he sate upon the Mount of Olives the Disciples came unto him privately saying tell us when shall these Things be and what shall be the Sign of thy coming and of the end of the World 4. And Jesus answered and said unto them take heed that no Man deceive you 5. For many shall come in my Name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many 6. And ye shall hear of Wars and rumours of Wars See that ye be not troubled For all these things must come to pass but the End is not yet 7. For Nation shall rise against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and there shall be Famines and Pestilence and Earthquakes in divers Places 8. All these are the beginning of Sorrows 9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you And ye shall be hated of all Nations for my Names sake 10. And then shall many be offended and betray one another and shall hate one another 11. And many false Prophets shall rise and shall deceive many 12. And because Iniquity shall abound the Love of many shall wax cold 13. But he that shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved 14. And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the World for a Witness unto all Nations and then shall the end come 15. When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet stand in the holy Place whoso readeth let him understand 16. Then let them which be in Judea flee into the Mountains 17. Let him which is on the House top not come down to take any thing out of his House 18. Neither let him which is in the Field return back to take his Cloths 19. And wo unto them that are with Child and to them that give suck in those Days 20. But pray ye that your Flight be not in the Winter neither on the Sabbath Day 21. For then shall be great Tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the World to this time no nor ever shall be 22. And except those Days should be shortned there should no Flesh be saved But for elects sake those Days shall be shortned 23. Then if any Man shall say unto you lo here is Christ or there believe it not 24. For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great Signs and Wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect 25. Behold I have told you before 26. Wherefore if they shall say unto you Behold he is in the Desert go not forth Behold he is in the secret Chambers believe it not 27. For as the Lightning cometh out of the East and shineth even unto the West So shall also the coming of the Son of Man be 28. For wheresoever the Carcase is there will the Eagles be gathered together 29. Immediately after the Tribulation of those Days shall the Sun be darkned and the Moon shall not give her Light and the Stars shall fall from Heaven and the Powers of the Heaven shall be shaken 30. And then shall appear the Sign of the Son of Man in Heaven And then shall all the Tribes of the Earth mourn and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven with Power and great Glory 31. And he shall send his Angels with a great Sound of a Trumpet