then in shewing thy displeasure O Lord heale us and be mercifull unto us and save us turne our heavinesse into joy and gird us with gladnesse so shall we give thanks unto thee for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 31. A Prayer for protection against our enemies and all dangers of soule and body and specially at the houre of death IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousnesse 2 Bow down thine eare to me make hast iâ— deliver mee 3 And be thou my strong rock and the house of defence that thou maist save me 4 For thou art my strong rock and my castleâ— be thou also my guide and lead me for thy names sake 5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me for thou art my strength 6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of truth 7 I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities and my trust hath been in the Lord. 8 I will be glad and reioyce in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble and hast known my soul in adversities 9 Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemie but hast set my feet in a large room 10 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am in trouble and my eye is consumed for very heavinesse yea my soul and my body 11 For my life is waren old with heavinesse and my yeares with mourning 12 My strength faileth me because of mine iniquity and my bones are consumed 13 I became a reproof among all mine enemies but specially among my neighbours and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me and they that did see me without conveyed themselves from me 14 I am clean forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am become like a broken vessell 15 For I haue heard the blasphemy of the multitude and fear is on every side while they conspire together against me and take their counsell to take away my life 16 But my hope hath been in thee O Lord I haue said Thou art my God 17 My time is in thy hand deliver me from the hand of mine enemies and from them that persecute me 18 Shew thy servant the light of thy countenance and save me for thy mercies sake 19 Let me not be confounded O Lord for I haue called upon thee let the ungodly be put to confusion and be put to silence in the grave 20 Let the lying lips be put to silence which cruelly disdainfully and despitefully speak against the righteous 21 O how plentifull is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that feare thee and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee even before the sonnes of men 22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues 23 Thanks be to the Lord for he hath shewed me marvellous great kindnes in a strong city 24 And when I made hast I said I am cast out of the sight of shine eyes 25 Neverthelesse thou heardest the voice of my prayer when I cried unto thee 26 O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth them that are faithfull and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer 27 Be strong and he shall stablish your heart all ye that put your trust in the Lord. The Prayer O God our rock and the house of our defence let us be glad and rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation Consider O Lord our trouble and in thy pitty know our soules beset round about with enemies and adversities Shut us not up into the hands of our enemies nor our lives within the grave Our time O Lord is in thy hand to thee pertaine the issues of life and death and though our strength hath failed us because of our iniquity and our bones are vexed by reason of our sinnes yet our hope is in thee O Lord we have said Thou art our God deliver us from all our enemies bodily and ghostly turne our sadnesse into joy and our mourning into gladnesse least our bodies soules be consumed for very heavinesse Let us not be put to confusion nor to silence in the grave but let us see thy marvellous loving kindnesse and partake of thy plentifull goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that feare thee even before the sonnes of men O let us never be cast out of the sight of thine eyes but deale with us in mercy loving kindnesse Into thy hands we commend our Spirits resigning our selves up to thy providence and disposition either to life or death as thou in thy infinite wisedome shalt find most proportionable to thy glory and our eternall good beseeching thee to be our guide to death and to lead us for thy Name sake to everlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 32. A Confession of sinnes and a prayer for pardon EVENING PRAYER BLessed is he whose unrighteousnesse is forgiven and whose sinne is covered 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sinne and in whose spirit there is no guile 3 For while I held my tongue my bones consumed away through my daily complaining 4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night and my moisture is like the drought in Summer 5 I will knowledge my sinne unto thee and mine unrighteousnesse haue I not hid 6 I said I will confesse my sinnes unto the Lord and so thou forgavest the wickednesse of my sinne 7 For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found but in the great water flouds they shall not come nigh him 8 Thou art a place to hide me in thou shalt preâ—erve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance 9 I will enform thee and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt goe and I will guide thee with mine eye 10 Be ye not like to Horse and Mule which haue no understanding whose mouthes must be holden with biâ— bridle lest they fall upon thee 11 Great plagues remaine for the ungodly but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord mercy embraceth him on every side 12 Be glad O ye righteous and rejoyce in the Lord be ioyfull all ye that are true of heart The Prayer O Lord God eternall Iudge of men and Angells whose property is alwayes to have mercy and to forgive have mercy upon us who confesse our sinnes unto thee to be so great and many that were not thy mercy infinite we might despaire of having our unrighteousnesse forgiven or our sins covered O deare God preserve us from the great plagues that remaine for the ungodly and let thy mercy imbrace us on every side Impute not unto us the sins we have multiplyed against thee against all the world for we
proud after their deserving 3 Lord how long shall the ungodly how long shall the ungodly triumph 4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully and make such proud boasting 5 They smite down thy people O Lord and trouble thine heritage 6 They murder the widow and the stranger and put the fatherlesse to death 7 And yet they say Tush the Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Iacob regard it 8 Take heed yee unwise among the peoyle O yee fooles when will yee understand 9 He that planted the eare shall he not heare or he that made the eye shall he not see 10 Or he that nurtureth the heathen it is he that teacheth man knowledge shall not he punish 11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are but vain 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest O Lord and teachest him in thy law 13 That thou mayest give him patience in time of adversitie untill the pit be digged up for the ungodly 14 For the Lord will not faile his people neither will he forsake his inheritance 15 Untill righteousnesse turne again unto iudgement all such as be true in heart shall follow it 16 Who will rise up with me against the wicked or who will take my part against the evill doers 17 If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my soule had been put to silence 18 But when I said My foot hath slipped thy mercie O Lord held me up 19 In the multitude of the sorrowes that I had in my heart thy comforts haue refreshed my soule 20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stoole of wickednesse which imagineth mischiefe as a law 21 They gather them together against the soule of the righteous and condemne the innocent bloud 22 But the Lord is my refuge and my God is the strength of my confidence 23 He shall recompense them their wickednesse and destroy them in their own malice yea the Lord our God shall destroy them The Prayer O Lord God Iudge of the world to whom vengeance belongeth and the execution of righteous judgements have mercie upon us chasten us with thy gentlenesse and fatherly correction when we sin against thee teach uâ—lin thy law be our refuge and our confidence in our troubles and give us patience in times of adversitie that in the multitude of sorrowes thy comforts may refresh us thy mercies may relieve us thy grace may pardon and confirme us that our feet slip not and our soules be not put to silence Have pittie upon all distressed and miserable people do justice upon all that murder the widow that put the fatherlesse to death that grinde the face of the poore Faile not thy people O Lord and forsake not thine inheritance but destroy the devices of all them that imagine mischiefe as a law and are confederate against the righteous to condemne the innocent to discountenance Religion to disadvantage thy worship and service that in the day of eternall vengeance when thou shalt reward the proud after their deserving and the pit be digged for the ungodly we may have the lot of thine inheritance and reigne in the fellowship of Saints who give honour and praise to thee O Lord God Almighty world without end Amen PSALME 95. A Hymne invitatory to the worship of God and a prayer for obedience to his will MORNING PRAYER O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily reioyce in the strength of our salvation 2 Let us come before his presence with thankesgiving and shew ourselves glad in him with psalmes 3 For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods 4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth and the strength of the hils is his also 5 The sea is his and he made it and his hands prepared the drie land 6 O come let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our maker 7 For he is the Lord our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hands 8 To day if yee will heare his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the wildernesse 9 When your fathers tempted me proued me and saw my workes 10 Forty yeares long was I grieued with this generation and said It is a people that do erre in their hearts for they have not knowne my wayes 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest The Prayer O Great God the Lord our Maker who art a King above all gods give us the graces of humility and holy religion that we may worthily praise and worship thy glories and perfections infinite We are the people of thy pasture let thy mercies leade us and feed and refresh our soules with the divine nutriment of thy Word and Sacraments we are the sheep of thy hands do thou guide us that we may never go astray or if we do bring us home into the sheepfold of our great shepheard that we hearing his voyce may not harden our hearts neither tempting thy mercies nor provoking thy wrath that our hearts being preserved from errour and our wayes from obliquitie and crookednesse we may at last enter into thy eternall rest through the merits and guidance of our great Shepheard Iesus Christ our Mediatour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 96. A hymne of adoration and magnifying the glories of God O Sing unto the Lord a new song sing unto the Lord all the whole earth 1 Sing unto the Lord and praise his name be telling of his salvation from day to day 3 Declare his honour unto the heathen and his wonders unto all people 4 For the Lord is great and cannot worthily be praised he is more to be feared then all Gods 5 As for all the gods of the heathen they be but idols but it is the Lord that made the heavens 6 Glory and worship are before him power and honour are in his sanctuary 7 Ascribe unto the Lord O ye kindreds of the people ascribe unto the Lord worship and power 8 Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his name bring presents and come into his courts 9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse let the whole earth stand in aw of him 10 Câ—ll it out among the heathen that the Lord is King and that it is he which hath made the round world so fast that it cannot be moved and how that he shall iudge the people righteously 11 Let the heavens reioyce and let the earth he glad let the sea make a noise and all that therein is 12 Let the field be ioyfull and all that is in it then shall all the trees of the wood reioyce before the Lord. 13 For he cometh for he cometh to iudge the earth and with righteousnesse to iudge the world and the people with his truth The Prayer O Lord God in whose sanctuary is power and honour before whose presence
made unto all that believe in thee and are obedient to thy Word Grant this O blessed Iesu to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen PSALME 106. A commemoration of Gods frequent pardons and mercies to the penitent EVENING PRAYER OGiue thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for ever 2 Who can expresse the noble acts of the Lord or shew forth all his praise 3 Blessed are they that alway keep judgement and doe righteousnesse 4 Remember me O Lord according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation 5 That I may see the felicity of thy chosen and reioyce in the gladnesse of thy people and give thanks with thine inheritance 6 We haue sinned with our fathers we haue done amisse and dealt wickedly 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt neither kept they thy great goodnesse in remembrance but were disobedient at the sea even at the Red sea 8 Neverthelesse he helped them for his names sake that he might make his power to be knowne 9 He rebuked the Red sea also and it was dried up so he led them through the deep as through a wildernesse 10 And he saved them from the adversaries hand and delivered them from the hand of the enemy 11 As for those that troubled them the waters overwhelmed them there was not one of them left 12 Then beleeved they his words and sang praise unto him 13 But within a while they forgat his works and would not abide his counsell 14 But lust came upon them in the wildernesse and they tempted God in the desert 15 And he gaue them their desire and sent leannesse withall into their soul 16 They angred Moses also in the tents and Aaron the saint of the Lord. 17 So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the congregation of Abiram 18 And the fire was kindles in their company the flame burnt up the ungodly 19 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped the molten image 20 Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf that eateth hay 21 And they forgat God their Saviour which had done so great things in Egypt 22 Wonderous works in the land of Ham and fearfull things by the Red sea 23 So he said he would have destroyed them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the gap to turn away his wrathfull indignation lest he should destroy them 24 Yea they thought scorn of that pleasant land and gave no creâ—ance unto his word 25 But murmured in their tents and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. 26 Then lift he up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wildernesse 27 To cast out their seed among the nations and to scatter them in the lands 28 They ioyned themselves unto Baalâ—peor and ate the offering of the dead 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their own inventions and the plague was great among them 30 Then stood up Phinees and prayed and so the plague ceased 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousnesse among all posterities for evermore 32 They angred him also at the waters of strife so that he punished Moses for their sakes 33 Because they provoked his spirit also that he spake unadvisedly with his lips 34 Neither destroyed they the heathen as the Lord commanded them 35 But were mingled among the heathen and learned their workes 36 Insomuch that they worshipped their idols which turned to their own decay yea they offered their sonnes and daughters unto devils 37 And shed innocent bloud even the bloud of their sonnes and of their daughters whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan and the land was defiled with bloud 38 Thus were they stained with their owne workes and went a whoring with their owne inventions 39 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance 40 And he gave them over into the hand of the heathen and they that hated them were lords over them 41 Their enemies oppressed them and had them in subiection 42 Many a time did he deliver them but they rebelled against him with their owne inventions and were brought downe in their wickednesse 43 Neverthelesse when he saw their adversity he heard their complaint 44 He thought upon his covenant and pitied them according unto the multitude of his mercies yea he made all those that had led them away captive to pity them 45 Deliver us O Lord our God and gather us from among the heathen that we may give thankes unto thy holy Name and make our boast of thy praise 46 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting and world without end and let all the people say Amen The Prayer O Lord God full of mercy and pity who didst many times deliver thy people from their adversity when thou for their rebelling against thee with their inventions hadst given them into the hand of the heathen Remember us O Lord according unto the favour thou bearest unto thy people and visit us with thy salvation that though we have done amisse and dealt wickedly against thee and against thy covenant yet be pleased to helpe us for thy Name sake and make thy power to be known in the mighty deliverance and redemption of us from so great danger and misery Give us grace to believe thy words to abide thy counsels to walke in thy Lawes to relinquish our own sinfull and vain desires to obey our Governours Ecclesiasticall and Civill that we may not have the lot of Dathan and Abiram but at last may receive our port on in the felicity of thy chosen giving thee thankes with thine inheritance for that thou hast turned from us thy wrathfull indignation pitying us and saving us according to the multitude of thy mercies Thy Name be blessed O Lord God everlastingly and world without end through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALME 107. A thankesgiving for deliverâ—â—â—e from miseries and dangers MORNING PRAYER O Give thankes unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercie endureth for ever 2 Let them give thankes whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy 3 And gathered them out of the lands from the East and from the West from the North and from the South 4 They went astray in the wildernesse out of the way and found no city to dwell in 5 Hungry and thirsty their soule fainted in them 6 So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distresse 7 He led them forth by the right way that they might go to the city where they dwelt 8 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the empty soule and filleth the hungry soule with goodnesse 10 Such as siâ— in darknesse and in
mercifull and gracious Lord hath so done his marvellous workes that they ought to be had in remembrance 5 He hath given meat unto them that feare him he shall ever be mindfull of his covenant 6 He hath shewed his people the power of his workes that he may give them the heritage of the heathen 7 The workes of his hands are verity and iudgement all his commandments are true 8 They stand fast for euer and euer and are done in truth and equity 9 He sent redemption unto his people he hath commanded his couenant for euer holy and reuerend is his Name 10 The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome a good understanding haue all they that do thereafter the praise of it endureth for ever The Prayer O Blessed Iesu whose righteousnesse endureth for ever thy worke is worthy to be praised and had in honour for that thou hast been mercifull and gracious to us and hast given meat even the food of the blessed Sacrament unto them that feare thee that by participation of thy holy Communion we should have thee in remembrance and ever be mindfull of thy covenant plant thy fear in our hearts give us wisedome and good understanding and make us to have pleasure in thee and all thy workes that we obeying the precepts of thy holy Gospell and performing the conditions of thy covenant which thou hast established for ever in truth and equity in verity and judgement we may worthily praise and adore thy reverend and holy Name among the faithfull in this life and in the great congregation of Saints in the life to come through thy mercies O blessed Iesu to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 112. A Prayer for the feare of the Lord for charity and the blessings of the righteous BLessed is the man that feareth the Lord he hath great delight in his commandments 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth the generation of the faithfull shall be blessed 3 Riches and plenteousnesse shall be in his house and his righteousuesse endureth for euer 4 Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darknesse he is mercifull louing and righteous 5 A good man is mercifull and lendeth and will guide his words with discretion 6 For he shall never be moued and the righteous shall be had in an euerlasting remembrance 7 He will not be afraid for any euill tidings for his heart standeth fast and belieueth in the Lord. 8 His heart is stablished and will not shrinke untill he see his desire upon his enemies 9 He hath dispersed abroad and giuen to the poore and his righteousnesse remaineth for euer his horne shall be exalted with honour 10 The ungodly shall see it and it shall grieue him he shall gnash with his teeth and consume away the desire of the ungodly shall perish The Prayer O Lord God who art to be feared in the generations of the world teach us the feare of thy Name that we may feare to offend thee and that delighting in thy Commandments we may serve thee without feare of our enemies in holinesse and righteousnesse all our dayes Let thy light rise upon the darknesse of our understandings let thy mercies and gentlenesse cure all thoughts of unmercifulnesse in us and make us charitable of tender bowels yearning with pitty over the needs of the poore Teach us to guide our words with discretion make us never to be moved from our purposes of holy living stablish our hearts in thy love that in the day of restitution of all things thou mayest give us the portion of the charitable the rewards of thy right hand and when the wicked shall gnash with their teeth and consume away in a sad eternity we may be satisfied with the riches and plenteousnesse of thy house for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 113. A thankesgiving to God for his acts of providence and particular care over the poore and humble PRaise the Lord yee seruants O praise the Name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for euermore 3 The Lords name is praised from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same 4 The Lord is high aboue all heathen and his glory aboue the heauens 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God that hath his dwelling so high and yet humbleth himselfe to behold the things that are in heauen and earth 6 He taketh up the simple out of the dust and lifteth the poore out of the mire 7 That he may set him with the princes euen with the princes of his people 8 He maketh the barren woman to keepe house and to be a ioyfull mother of children The Prayer O Lord God whose dwelling is on high and yet thou humblest thy selfe to behold the things that are in Heaven and earth have mercy upon us thy humble servants and lift us up from the gates of death take us out of the mire that we sinke not into the bottomlesse pit of misery and infelicity and when for our sinnes thou humblest us as low as the dust let thy mercie exalt us and restore us to the light of thy countenance and the joy of thy salvation that when thou shalt call all the world to judgement from the rising of the Sun to the going down thereof we may be set with the Princes of thy people with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in thine eternall Kingdome to sing praises to thy Name from this time forth for evermore Amen PSALME 114. A thankesgiving to God for the deliverance of his people from bondage and misery EVENING PRAYER WHen Israel came out of Egypt and the house of Iacob from among the strange people 2 Iuda was his sanctuary and Israel his dominion 3 The sea saw that and fled Iordan was driuen backe 4 The mountaines skipped like rammes and the little hills like young sheep 5 What aileth thee O thou sea that thou fleddest and thou Iordan that thou wast driuen backe 6 Yee mountaines that yee skipped like rammes and yee little hills like young sheep 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Iacob 8 Which turned the hard rocke into a standing water and the flint stone into a springing well The Prayer O Lord God at whose presence the earth trembles who workest salvation and deliverance for thy Church in all ages and didst deliver thy people from the bondage of Aegypt with a mighty hand and an arme stretched out in miraculous effects deliver us from the bondage of sin from the tyrannie of the devill from the Empire and Dominion of the flesh that our bodies and soules being mortified our flesh brought under subjection of the spirit our appetites made subordinate to reason and our soules wholy conformable to thy will our hard stony hearts may be converted into hearts of flesh and into a springing well bringing forth the waters of
pleasure in wickednesse neither can evill come nigh thy dwelling defend us and all thy holy Church from the fraud and malice of bloud-thirsty and deceitfull men and from the crafty insinuations of all them that work vanity but let thy blessings be upon the righteous and let thy favourable kindnesse defend thy whole Church as with a shield that all those who put their trust in thy mercy may be ever giving of thanks may be joyfull in thee O lead us in thy righteousnesse that we become not a rejoyceing to our enemies but that we may worship thee in feare and come into thy house to make our prayers unto thee and to give thee thanks for the multitude of thy mercies which thou hast given us in our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 6. A Prayer of a penitent person for remission of his sinnes EVENING PRAYER O Lord rebuke me not in thine indignation neither chasten me in thy displeasure 2 Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vered 3 My soul is also sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me 4 Turn thee O Lord and deliver my soul O save me for thy mercies sake 5 For in death no man remembreth thee and who will give thee thanks in the pit 6 I am weary of my groaning every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my teares 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble worn away because of all mine enemies 1 Away from me all ye that work vanity for the Lord hath heard the voyce of my weeping 9 The Lord hath heard my petition the Lord will receive my prayer 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed they shall be turned back put to shame suddenly The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose property is alwaies to have mercy and to forgive behold with the eyes of thy pitty compassioÌ„ the estate of thy humble servants made most miserable by reason of our sinnes Hear the voyce of our weeping pitty our groaning strengthen us for we are weak heale us for our bones are vexed and deliver our soules from death that being saved from the bottomlesse pit we may give thanks to thy holy name O turn from the severity of thy displeasure and visit us with thy mercy and salvation For all our sinnes give us a great sorrow and contrition and in our `sorrowes let thy comforts sustain us through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALME 7. A prayer for defence of our Innocence against the uniust molestation of our enemies O Lord my God in thee have I put my trust save me from all them that persecute me deliver me 2 Least he devour my soule like a Lion tear it in pieces while there is none to help 3 O Lord my God if I have done any such thing or if there be any wickednes in my hands 4 If I have rewarded evill unto him that dealt friendly with me yea I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soule take me yea let him tread my life down upon the earth and lay mine honour in the dust 6 Stand up O Lord in thy wrath and lift up thy selfe because of the indignation of mine enemies arise up for me in the iudgement that thou hast commanded 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee for their sakes therefore lift up thy selfe again 8 The Lord shall iudge the people give sentence with me O Lord according to my righteousnesse and according to the innocencie that is in me 9 O let the wickednesse of the ungodly come to an end but guide thou the iust 10 For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins 11 My help commeth of God which preserveth them that are true of heart 12 God is a righteous iudge strong and patient and God is provoked every day 13 If a man will not turn he will whâ—t his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutours 15 Behold he travaileth with mischief he hath conceived sorrow and brought forth ungodlines 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other 17 For his travail shall come upon his own head and his wickednesse shall fall on his owne pate 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord according to his righteousnes and will praise the name of the Lord the most High The Prayer O God from whom commeth our help thou art a righteous Iudge and preservest all that are true of heart deliver us from our persecutors who travail with mischief against us and have digged a pit for our destruction O let their wickednesse and malicious devices against thy servants come utterly to an end for evermore Thou O Lord art strong and able to take vengeance yet being provoked every day still art patient towards us compassionate Deliver us from their wrath to whom we have done no injustice or displeasure pardon our offences against thee protect our Innocency against them that we may praise thy name and give thanks unto thee for thy righteousnesse and salvation who art blessed for evermore Amen PSALME 8. A Contemplation of the Divine beauty and excellency manifested in his Creatures O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger 3 For I will consider the heavens even the works of thy fingers the moon and the starres which thou hast ordained 4 What is man that thou art mindfull of him and the sonne of man that thou visitest him 5 Thou madest him lower then the angells to crown him with glory and worship 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands and thou hast put all things in subiection under his feet 7 All sheep and oxen yea and the beasts of the field 8 The fowls of the aire and the fishes of the sea and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas 9 O Lord our governour how excellent is thy name in all the world The Prayer O Lord God Father of men and Angells God of all the Creatures who hast created all things in a wonderfull order and hast made them all conveyances of thy mercies to mankinde give us great and dreadfull apprehensions of thy glory and immensity thy Majesty and mercy that we may adore thee as our Creator love thee as our redeemer fear thee as our God obey thee as our Governour and praise thee as the author fountaine of all perfections and all good which thou hast communicated to thy creatures that they may all in their proportions doe thee service who
hast to that end made the world redeemed us by our Lord Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 9. A prayer of poore and oppressed people against their persecutors MORNING PRAYER I Will giue thanks unto thee O Lord with my whole heart I will speak of all thy marvellous works 2 I will be glad and reioyce in thee yea my songs will I make of thy name O thou most Highest 3 While mine enemies are driven back they shall fall and perish at thy presence 4 For thou hast maintained my right and my cause thou art set in the throne that iudgest right 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen and destroyed the vngodly thou hast put out their name for ever and ever 6 O thou enemy destructions are come to a perpetuall end even as the cities which thou hast destroyed their memoriall is perished with them 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever he hath also prepared his seat for iudgement 8 For he shall iudge the world in righteousnesse and minister true iudgement unto the people 9 The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast never failed them that seek thee 11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Sion shew the people of his doings 12 For when he maketh inquisition for bloud be remembreth them and forgotteth not the complaint of the poore 14 Have mercy upon me O Lord consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate mee thou that liftest me up from the gates of death 14 That I may shew all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Sion I will reioyce in thy salvation 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the same net which they hid privily is their foot taken 16 The Lord is known to execute iudgement the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the people that forget God 18 For the poore shall not alway be forgotten the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever 19 Up Lord and let not man have the upper hand let the heathen be iudged in thy sight 20 Put them in fear O Lord that the heathen may know themselves to be but men The Prayer O Lord God who art a defence for the oppressed and a refuge in due time of trouble have mercy upon us thy servants who are violently assaulted by enemies without and weaknesses and temptations within Thou never failest them that seek thee but lovest to heare the poore make their complaint unto thee in their trouble and art known to execute judgement upon them that oppresse them Pitty us and look upon the trouble we suffer of them that hate us deliver us from the strivings of our adversaries lift us up from the gates of death that being safe under thy mercies and protection we may give thankes unto thee with our spirits voyces we may embrace thee with a lively faith feare thee with all our hearts serve thee with all our powers faculties both of soule and body all the dayes of our life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 10. A prayer to God in times of Persecution and Warre against the Church VVHy standest thou so farre off O Lord and hidest thy face in the needfull time of trouble 2 The ungodly for his own iust doth persecute â—he poore let them be taken in the crafty wilines that they have imagined 3 For the ungodly hath made boast of his own â—eares desire and speaketh good of the covetous whom God abhorreth 4 The ungodly is so proud that he careth not for God neither is God in all his thoughts 5 His wayes are alway greivous thy iudgements are farre aboue out of his sight therefore â—efieth he all his enemies 6 For he hath said in his heart Tush I shall â—ever be cast down there shall no harm happen into me 7 His mouth is full of cursing deceit and â—aud under his tongue is ungodlinesse and vaâ—ity 8 He sitteth lurking in the theevish corners of the streets and privily in his lurking dennes doth he murder the innocent his eyes are set against the poore 9 For he lieth waiting secretly even as a lion lurketh he in his denne that he may ravish the poore 10 He doth ravish the poore when he getteth him into his net 11 He falleth â—own and humbleth himselfe that the congregation of the poore may fall into the hand of his Captains 12 He hath said in his heart Tush God hath forgotten he hideth away his face and he will never see it 13 Arise O Lord God and lift vp thine hand forget not the poore 15 Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God while he doth say in his heart Tush thou God carest not for it 15 Surely thou hast seen it for thou beholdest ungodlinesse and wrong 16 That thou mayest take the matter into thy hand the poore committeth himself unto thee for thou art the helper of the friendlesse 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly malicious take away his ungodlinesse and thou shalt find none 18 The Lord is King for ever and ever and the heathen are perished out of the land 19 Lord thou hast heard the desire of the poor thou preparest their heart and thine eare hearkeneth thereto 20 To help the fatherlesse and poore unto their right that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them The Prayer O Lord God who beholdest all the actions of men and seest all the ungodlinesse of sinners and the wrong they doe unto thy servants we flye unto thee for succour and defence in this our needfull time of trouble Behold ô Lord how the Enemies of thy Church have set their eyes against her and use all violences and arts that thy poore servants may fall under the hands of their Captaines Thou seest their malice and their confidences they feare thee not neither art thou O God in all their thoughts But thou art our King for ever and ever and the helper of the friendlesse We commit our selves wholly to thy mercy providence take the matter into thine own hand let them perish out of the land that are exalted against thee and against thy Church that we being delivered from feare of our enemies may serve thee with constant and regular devotions all the dayes of our life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 11. An addresse to God by way of hope and confidence in him and a prayer against our secret Enemies IN the Lord put I my trust how say ye then to my soul that she should flee as a bird unto the hill 2 For lo the ungodly bend their bow and make ready their arrows within the quiver that they may privily shoot at them whith are true of heart 3 For the foundations will be cast down and what hath the righteous done 4
Which is a short rule of a good life and a desire of innocency and sanctity MORNING PRAYER LOrd who shall dwell in thy tabernacle or who shall rest upon thy holy hill 2 Even he that seadeth an uncorrupt life and doth the thing which is right and speaketh the truth from his heart 3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue nor done evill to his neighbour hath not standered his neighbour 4 He that setteth not by himselfe but is lowly in his own eyes and maketh much of them that feare the Lord. 5 He that sweareth unto his neighbour and disappointeth him not though it were to his own hinderance 6 He that hath not given his mony upon usury nor taken reward against the innocent 7 Whoso doth these things shall never fall The Prayer O Lord let thy mercy preserve us in holinesse and innocency or if through infirmity wee fall make us to rise again by penitence that wee may lead an uncorrupt life with humility and truth and justice not slandering our neighbour not invading his right not breaking our trust not oppressing the indigent and necessitous but doing good to all and especially making much of them that feare the Lord that we may never fall from thy favour but at the end of our weary pilgrimage we may take our rest upon thy holy hill and dwell in thy tabernacle where thou raignest with infinite glory and felicities God Eternall world without end Amen PSALME 16. A Prayer for the blessings of God providence and preservation in this life and for glory hereafter PReserve me O God for in thee have I put my trust 2 O my soul thou hast said unto the Lord Thou art my God my goods are nothing unto thee 3 All my delight is upon the Saints that are in the earth and vpon such as excell in vertue 4 But they that run after another god shall have great trouble 5 Their drink offerings of bloud will I not offer neither make mention of their names within my lips 6 The Lord himselfe is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup thou shalt maintain my lot 7 The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground yea I have a goodly heritage 8 I will thank the Lord for giving me warning my reins also chasten me in the night season 9 I have set God alwayes before me for he is on my right hand therefore I shall not fall 10 Wherefore my heart was glad and my glory reioyced my flesh also shall rest in hope 11 For why thou shalt not leave my soul in hell neither shalt thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption 12 Thou shalt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore The Prayer O God who art the portion of our inheritance our God and our preserver preserve and maintaine all those good things which thou hast wrought in us and for us and that we may never fall give us thy grace that we may set thee alwayes before us rejoycing in thee and delighting in the Saints that are upon the earth that when our flesh shall see corruption our Soules may not be left in hell but may walke in the paths of life and in the day of restitution of all things both bodies and Soules may have a goodly heritage even the lot of thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore and where we may see the face and the glory of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 17. A Prayer for protection against the injuries of our Enemies Bodily and Ghostly HEare the right O Lord consider my complaint and hearken unto my prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equall 3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season thou hast tried me and shalt find no wickednesse in me for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend 4 Because of mens works that are done against the words of my lips I have kept me from the wayes of the destroyer 5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths that my foot-steps slip not 6 I have called upon thee O God for thou shalt heare me encline thine eare to me and hearken unto my words 7 Shew thy marvellous loving kindnes thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee from such as resâ—st thy right hand 8 Keep me as the apple of an eye hide me under the shadow of thy wings 9 From the ungodly that trouble me mine enemies compasse me round about to take away my soul 10. They are inclosed in their owne fat and their mouth speaketh proud things 11 They lie waiting in our way on every side turning their eyes down to the ground 12 Like as a lyon that is greedy of his preyâ— and as it were a lions whelp lurking in secret places 13 Up Lord disappoint him and cast him down deliver my soul from the ungodly which is a sword of thine 14 From the men of thy hand O Lord from the men I say and from the evill world which haue their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure 15 They haue children at their desire and leave the rest of their substance for their babes 16 But as for me I will behold thy presence in righteousnesse and when I awake up after thy likenesse I shall be satisfied with it The Prayer O Most mercifull Iesu thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee defend us and deliver us from the hands of all our Enemies and although they are a sword of thine and an instrument sent from thee to chastise us for our sinnes yet arise O Lord in mercy and strength disappoint them and cast them down least they destroy our soules that when thou hast visited us with thy fatherly correction and tryed us like as Silver is tryed thou maist find no wickednesse in us Sanctify our hearts and lips that we may not think a thought displeasing unto thee and that our mouth may not offend Keep us as the apple of an eye hide us under the shadow of thy wings of mercy and providence keep us from the wayes of the destroyer and hold up our goings in thy paths that we may persevere in righteousnesse and our footsteps may not slip that in the day of the resurrection of the Iust we may behold thy presence and receive infinite satisfactions in the vision beatificall Grant this O mercifull Saviour and Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 18. A Prayer for strength and Victory in Warre temporall or spirituall together with an act of hope and confidence in God EVENING PRAYER I Will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord is my stony rock and my defence my Saviour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horn also of my
was borne thou art my God even from my mothers wombe 11 O go not from me for trouble is hard at hand and there is none to help me 12 Many oxen are come about mee fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side 13 They gape upon mee with their mouthes as it were a ramping and roaring lion 14 I am poured out like water and all my bones are out of ioynt my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melâ—ing wax 15 My strength is dried up like a pot-sheard and my tongue cleaveth to my gummes and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death 16 For many dogs are come about me and the counsell of the wicked layeth siege against mee 17 They pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they stand staring and looking upon me 18 They part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture 19 But be not thou farre from me O Lorde thou art my succour hast thee to help me 20 Deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the power of the dog 21 Save me from the lions mouth thou hast heard me also from among the hornes of the unicorns 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee 23 O praise the Lord ye that feare him magnifie him all ye of the seed of Iacob and feare him all ye seed of Israel 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poore he hath not hid his face from him but when he called unto him he heard him 25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation my vowes will I performe in the sight of them that fear him 26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied they that seek after the Lord shall praise him your heart shall live for ever 27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves and be turned unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him 28 For the Kingdom is the Lords and he is the governour among the people 29 All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped 30 All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him and no man hath quickned his own soule 31 My seed shall serve him they shall be couuted unto the Lord for a generation 32 They shall come and the heavens shall declare his righteousnesse unto a people that shall be born whom the Lord hath made The Prayer O Mercifull Iesu who for our sakes did'st suffer thy selfe to be betrayed tormented spitupon crucified and to dye that thou mightest purchase for us redemption from the sting of death the miseries of hell the malice and power of the Divell deliver our soules from the sword of thy Vengeance cut us not off by untimely death free our darling from the power of the dog our soules from being a prey unto the Divell snatch us out of the Lions mouth who goeth up and downe seeking whom he may devoure O Iesu be a Iesus unto us and let those victories which thou hast obtained over Satan and Hell and the grave bring us peace and Righteousnesse and a Crown of glory in the Heavens where thou livest and reignest in the great congregation of Saints and Angells one God world without end Amen PSALME 23. A prayer that God would guide and feed and support us as a sheapherd doth his flock THe Lord is my sheapherd therefore can I lack nothing 2 He shall feed me in a green pasture and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort 3 He shall convert my soul and bring me forth in the paths of righteousnesse for his names sake 4 Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me 5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me thou hast anointed my head with oyle and my cup shall be full 6 But thy loving kindnesse and mercy shall follow me all the dayes of mylife I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever The Prayer O Blessed Iesu thou great Sheapherd and Bishop of our Soules let thy grace convert us let thy mercy guide us in the paths of righteousnesse feed us with thy Word and Sacraments refresh us with the comforts of thy Holy Spirit and in the whole course of our life which is nothing else but a valley of miseries and a shadow of death let thy rod correct us like a Father when we doe amisse and thy staffe support us in all our troubles and necessities O let thy loving kindnesse and mercy follow us all our daies that after this life we may dwell in thy house for ever where thou hast prepared a Table and a full cup of blessing for thy People and shalt anoynt their heads with the oyle of an eternall gladnesse in the fruition of thy glories ô blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen PSALME 24. A Meditation upon the ascension of our Blessed Saviour and a Prayer for Sanctity that we may ascend where he is MORNING PRAYER THe earth is the Lords and all that therein is the compasse of the world and they that dwell therein 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas and prepared it upon the flouds 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord or who shall rise up in his holy place 4 Even he that hath clean hands and a pure heart and that hath not life up his mind unto vanity nor sworn to deceive his neighbour 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousnesse from the God of his salvation 6 This is the generation of them that seek him even of them that seek thy face O Iacob 7 Life up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 8 Who is the King of glory it is the Lord strong and mighty even the Lord mighty in battell 9 Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in 10 Who is the King of glory even the Lord of hosts he is the King of glory The Prayer O Blessed Iesu King of glory Lord of Hosts and King of all the Creatures to whom the everlasting doores were opened that thou mightest enter into thy Kingdome which thou didst open to all believers after thou hadst overcome the sharpnesse of death give us clean hands and a pure heart teach us to follow thy innocency to imitate thy sanctity that we may receive from thee our Lord the eternall rewards and blessings of righteousnesse and ascend thither whither thou ô God of our salvation art gone before who livest and raignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost eternall God world without end Amen PSALME 25. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for deliverance from Sinne and Punishment VNto thee O Lord
shall comfort thine heart and put thou thy trust in the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God thou hast been our succour our light and salvation leave us not neither forsake us when we are assaulted by enemies without and by temptations from within but lead us in the right way which thou hast appointed for us to walke in and when thou hast lift up our heads above our enemies round about us grant that we may spend our dayes in prayer and giving prayses to thee and in all other actions of holy Religion visiting thy temple with frequent addresses of devotion and contemplating and admiring the faire beauty of the Lord that being secure in such imployments being hid in thy Tabernacle and taking Sanctuary within the secret place of thy dwelling we may at last come unto thy heavenly Ierusalem where the gates of thy Temple are open day and night there seeing the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living praising thee to all eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 28. A Prayer for deliverance from death and damnation VNto thee will I cry O Lord my strength think no scorn of me lest if thou make as though thou hearest not I become like them that go down into the pit 2 Heare the voice of my humble petitions when I cry unto thee when I hold up my hands toward the mercy-seat of thy holy temple 3 O pluck me not away neither destroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers which speak friendly to their neighbours but imagine mischief in their hearts 4 Reward them according to their deeds and according to the wickednesse of their owne inventions 5 Recompense them afte the work of their hands pay them that they have deserved 6 For they regard not in their mind the works of the Lord nor the operation of his hands therefore shall be break them down and noâ— build them up 7 Praised be the Lord for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions 8 The Lord is my strength and my shield my heart hath trusted in him and I am helped therefore my heart danceth for ioy and in my song will I praise him 9 The Lord is my strength and he is the wholesome defence of his anointed 10 O save thy people and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance feed them and set them up for ever The Prayer O Lord my strength and confidence my shield and the defence of all that hope in thee heare the voyce of our humble petitions We hold up our hands to thy mercy seat praying thee for pitty and pardon of our sinnes reward us not according to our deeds nor according to the wickednesse of our inventions for if thou shouldest deale with us according to the operation of our hands we should be like them that go down into the pit and our inheritance would be death and destruction But our heart hath trusted in thee and thou hast helped us continue thy loving kindnesse to us and pluck us not away neither destroy us with the ungodly and wicked doers but magnifie thy mercies in the salvation of our soules through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 29. In which God is adored and the mightinesse of his power and voyce is celebrated BRing unto the Lord O ye mighty bring young Rammes unto the Lord ascribe unto the Lord worship and strength 2 Give the Lord the honour due unto his name worship the Lord with holy worship 3 It is the Lord that commandeth the waters it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder 4 It is the Lord that ruleth the Sea the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice 5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedar trees yea the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Libanus 6 He made them also to skip like a calfe Libanus also and Sirion like a young Unicorn 7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire the voice of the Lord shaketh the wildernesse yea the Lord shaketh the wildernesse of Cades 8 The voice of the Lord maketh the Hindes to bring forth young and discovereth the thick bushes in his Temple doth every man speak of his honour 9 The Lord sitteth aboue the water floud and the Lord remaineth a King for ever 10 The Lord shall giue strength unto his people the Lord shall giue his people the blessing of peace The Prayer O Most glorious God who makest the thunder thy voyce is mighty in operation and is a glorious voyce give us grace that we may heare thy voyce and obey it with reverence and humility Thou that breakest the Cedar trees let thy word rend our hearts with sorrow and contrition for our sinnes that so we may feel the power and the mercy of thy voyce and may ascribe unto thee worship and strength worshipping thee with a holy worship all the daies of our life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 30. A Prayer for deliverance from sicknesse and death and damnation MORNING PRAYER I Will magnify thee O Lord for thou hast set me up and not made my foes to triumph over me 2 O Lord my God I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me 3 Thou Lord hast brought my soule out of hell thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit 4 Sing praises unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks to him for a remembrance of his holinesse 5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and in his pleasure is life heavinesse may endure for a night but ioy commeth in the morning 6 And in my prosperity I said I shall never be removed thou Lord of thy goodnesse hadst made my hill so strong 7 Thou didst turne thy face from mee and I was troubled 8 Then cried I unto thee O Lord and gat me unto my Lord right humbly 9 What profit is there in my blond when I go down to the p t 10 Shall the dust give thankes unto thee or shall it declare thy truth 11 Heare O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper 12 Thou hast turned my heavinesse into ioy thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladnesse 13 Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my Dod I will give thankes unto thee for ever The Prayer O Lord our God whose mercy is infinite but thy wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and even in this short time of thy wrath thou remembrest mercy we cry unto thee and addresse our selves unto thee right humbly O turne not thy face away from us keep our life from them that goe down into the pit and preserve our soules from hell and although thou sometimes send est heavinesse unto us and trouble upon our loynes yet let it be but as for a night let thy mercy dawne upon us and shine as in a glorious morning for thou art more pleased in demonstrations of thy mercy
have been like to Horse and Mule without understanding brutish in our passions sensuall in our affections of unbridled heates and distemperatures But thy mercy is as infinite as thy selfe O let not thy hand be heavy upon us but forgive the wickednesse of our sinne and compasse us about with songs of deliverance then shall we be glad and rejoyce in thee O Lord who art become our mighty Saviour and most mercifull Redeemer Iesu Amen PSALME 33. A Prayer to God for the graces of feare hope and Religion REjoyce in the Lord O ye righteous for it becometh well the iust to be thankfull 2 Praise the Lord with harp sing psalmes unto him with the lute and instrument of ten strings 3 Sing unto the Lord a new song sing praises lustlly unto him with a good courage 4 For the word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithfull 5 He loveth righteousnesse and iudgement the earth is full of the goodnes of the Lord. 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth 7 He gathereth the waters of the Sea together as it were upon an heap and layeth up the deep as in a treasure house 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord stand in awe of him all ye that dwell in the world 9 For he spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast 10 The Lord bringeth the counsell of the Heathen to nought and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect and casteth out the counsells of Princes 11 The counsell of the Lord shall endure for ever and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation 12 Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord Iehova and blessed are the folk that he hath chosen to him to be his inheritance 13 The Lord looked down from Heaven and beheld all the children of men from the habitation of his dwelling he considereth all them that dwell in the earth 14 He fashioneth all the hearts of them and understandeth all their works 15 There is no King that can be saved by the multitude of an host neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength 16 An Horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength 17 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy 18 To deliver their souls from death and to feed them in the time of dearth 19 Our soul hath patiently tarried for the Lord for he is our help and our shield 20 For our heart shall reioyce in him because we haue hoped in his holy name 21 Let thy mercifull kindnesse O Lord be upon us like as we doe put our trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God who lovest righteousnesse and judgement who fillest the earth with thy goodnesse and lookest downe from Heaven upon the children of men Consider us O Lord and let thy grace fashion our hearts and produce in our soules such formes and impresses as may beare thy Image and seem beauteous in thy eyes that thou maist be our God and choose us for thine inheritance Let thy mercy feed us thy hands deliver us from death and snatch us from the jawes of hell teach us to feare thee to put our trust in thy mercy patiently to tarry for thee and the revelation of thy loving kindnesses to hope in thy holy Name and to rejoyce in thy salvation giving thee thanks and praise with a good courage with humble and religious affections all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 34. A Prayer that we being dispos'd by Holy living may receive and have a sense and tast of the Divine goodnesse I Will alway give thanks unto the Lord his praise shall ever be in my mouth 2 My soul shall make her boast of the Lord the humble shall heare thereof and be glad 3 O praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his name together 4 I sought the Lord and he heard me yea he delivered me out of all my fear 5 They had an eye unto him and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed 6 Lo the poore crieth and the Lord heareth him yea and saveth him out of all his troubles 7 The Angell of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him delivereth them 8 O taste and see how gracious the Lord is blessed is the man that trusteth in him 9 O fear the Lord ye that be his Saints for they that fear him lack nothing 10 The lions doe lack and suffer hunger but they which seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good 11 Come ye children and hearken unto me I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 12 What man is he that lusteth to live and would fain see good dayes keep thy tongue from evill and thy lips that they speak no guile 13 Eschew evill and doe good seek peace and ensue it 14 The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous his eares are open unto their prayers 15 The countenance of the Lord is against them that doe evill to root out the remembrance of them from the earth 16 The righteous cry and the Lord heareth them delivereth them out of all their troubles 17 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart and will save such as be of an humble spirit 18 Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of all 19 He keepeth all his bones so that not one of them is broken 20 But misfortune shall slay the ungodly they that hate the righteous shall be desolate 21 The Lord delivereth the souls of his servants and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute The Prayer O Most mercifull and gracious Lord whose eyes are over the righteous and thine eares are open unto their prayers give us we beseech thee a contrite heart and an humble spirit a feare of thy Name a watchfulnesse over our tongue that we speak no guile a care of our actions that we eschew all evill and a zeale of thy Name that we may doe good that being thus prepar'd with holy dispositions we may be delivered out of all our troubles by the hands of thy mercy we may be defended against our enemies by the custody of Angells we may be provided for so as to want no manner of thing that is good by the ministration of thy providence that so in all the whole course of our life we may feel the goodnesse of the Lord seeing and tasting the sweetnesses of thy mercy which may be to us an antepast of eternity and as an earnest of the Spirit to consigne us to the fruition of the glories of thy Kingdome who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 35. A Prayer to be delivered from our Enemies
without end Amen PSALME 57. A Prayer to be delivered from the power of the Devill and slander of men and that we may put our confidence in God BE mercifull unto me O God be mercifull unto me for my soul trusteth in thee and under the shadow of thy wings shall be my refuga untill this tyranny be overpast 2 I will call unto the most high God even unto the God that shall performe the cause which I haue in hand 3 He shall send from heaven and save me from the reproof of him that would eat me up 4 God shall send forth his mercy and truth my soul is among Lions 5 And I lie even among the children of men that are set on fire whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword 6 Set up thy self O God aboue the heavens and thy glory aboue all the earth 7 They haue laid a net for my feet and pressed down my soul they haue digged a pit before me are fallen into the mids of it themselves 8 My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise 9 Awake up my glory awake lute and harp I my self will awake right early 10 I will giue thanks unto thee O Lord among the people and I will sing unto thee among the Nations 11 For the greatnesse of thy mercy reacheth unto the Heavens and thy truth unto the Clouds 12 Set up thy self O God aboue the heavens and thy glory above all the earth The Prayer O Most high and mighty God who hast set thy selfe above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth doe thou send from heaven and save us from the reproofe of all our ghostly Enemies who would eate us for our soul is among Lions and the Devill is busie seeking to devoure us O send out thy mercy and truth deliver us from the malitious slander of men and from the dreadfull accusations of the Devills at the day of judgement who are set on fire against us and their teeth are speares and arrowes gnashing at us to teare us in pieces Let thy mercy sustaine us let thy righteousnesse be interpos'd in answer for us that as our enemies accuse us thy mercies may acquit us through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 58. A Prayer that Gods people may be delivered from the malice of wicked men ARe your mindes set upon righteousnesse O ye congregation and do ye iudge the thing that is right O ye sonnes of men 2 Yea ye imagine mischief in your heart upon the earth and your hands deal with wickednesse 3 The ungodly are froward even from their mothers wombe assoon as they be born they go astray and speak lies 4 They are as venemous as the poyson of a serpent even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her eares 5 Which refuseth to heare the voice of the charmer charm he never so wisely 6 Breake their teeth O God in their mouthes smite the iaw-bones of the Lions O Lord let them fall away like water that runneth apace and when they shoot their arrows let them be rooted out 7 Let them consume away like a sâ—ail and be like the untimely fruit of a woman and let them not see the sunne 8 Orever your pots be made hot with thorns so let indignation vex him even as a thing that is raw 9 The righteous shall reioyce when he seeth the vengeance he shall wash his foot steps in the bloud of the ungodly 10 So that a man shall say Uerily there is a reward for the righteous doubtlesse there is a God that iudgeth the earth The Prayer O Almighty Lord thou God that judgest the earth who preparest rewards for the righteous and executest vengeance against the ungodly deliver all thy chosen people from the peevishnesse of froward and ungodly men whose hands deale with wickednesse and they imagine mischiefe in their hearts And to thy servants give thy grace that our minds may be set upon righteousnesse that we may judge the thing that is right never refusing to heare thy voyce or stopping our eares like the deafe adder against thy holy precepts that we may have no iniquity in our mouthes nor unrighteousnesse in our actions and at last we may have the reward of the righteous the inheritance of thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 59. A Prayer against Hereticks and all other Enemies of the Church EVENING PRAYER DEliver me from mine enemies O God defend me from them that rise up against me 2 O deliver me from the wicked doers and save me from the bloud-thirsty men 3 For lo they lye waiting for my soul the mighty men are gathered against me without any offence or fault of me O Lord. 4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault arise thou therefore to help me and behold 5 Stand up O Lord God of hosts thou God of Israel to visit all the heathen and be not mercifull unto them that offend of malicious wickednesse 6 They go to and fro in the evening they grin like a dog and runne about through the city 7 Behold they speak with their mouth and swords are in their lips for who doth heare 8 But thou O Lord shalt have them in derision and thou shalt laugh all the heathen to scorn 9 My strength will I ascribe unto thee for thou art the God of my refuge 10 God sheweth me his goodnesse plenteously and God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies 11 Slay them not least my people forget it but scatter them abroad among the people and put them down O Lord our defence 12 For the sinne of their mouth and for the words of their lips they shall be taken in their pride and why their preaching is of cursing and lies 13 Consume them in thy wrath consume them that they may perish and know that it is God which ruleth in Iacob and unto the ends of the world 14 And in the evening they will returne grin like a dog and will goe about the City 15 They will run here and there for meat and grudge if they be not satisfied 16 As for me I will sing of thy power and will praise thy mercy be times in the morning for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble 17 Unto thee O my strength will I sing for thou O God art my refuge and my mercifull God The Prayer O Lord God of Israel visit us with thy salvation and deliver us from the malice of wicked doers and the violences of blood thirsty men Let not them prosper ô Lord in their machinations whose preaching is of cursing and lies and who offend of malicious wickednesse shew us thy goodnesse plenteously that we may never forget thy mercies or thy Lawes for thou art our defence and refuge and our mercifull God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 60. A Prayer in time of Warre or temptation O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us
seen O God how thou goest how thou my God and King goest in the sanctuarie 25 The singers go before the Minâ—treâ—s follow after in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels 26 Giue thanks O Israel unto God the Lord in the congregations from the ground of the heart 27 There is little Beniamin their ruler and the princes of Iuda their counsell the princes of Zabulon and the princes of Nephthali 28 Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee stablish the thing O God that thou hast wrought in us 29 For thy temples sake at Ierusalem so shall Kings bring presents unto thee 30 When the company of the spear-men and multitude of the mighty are scattered abroad among the beasts of the people so that they humbly bring pieces of silver and when he hath scattered the people that delight in warre 31 Then shall the Princes come out of Egypt the Morians land shall soon stretch out her hands unto God 32 Sing unto God O ye kingdomes of the earth O sing praises unto the Lord. 33 Which sitteth in the Heavens over all from the beginning lo he doth send out his voice yea and that a mighty voice 34 Ascribe ye the power to God over Israel his worship and strength is in the clouds 35 O God wonderfull art thou in thy holy places even the God of Israel he will giue strength and power unto his people blessed be God The Prayer O Lord God mighty and mercifull thou ridest upon the heavens as it were upon an horse thou art the Father of the Fatherlesse and defendest the cause of the widdow have merey upon thy holy Church and since her Lord and Spouse is gone up on high even to his holy habitation leave us not comfortiesse but send the holy Ghost in assistances and gifts to dwell amongst us that by his ayd we may escape death spirituall and the bitternesse of the temporall Send a gracious raine even the dew of thy Divine favours upon thine inheritance to refresh us in our wearinesse and sadnesses Make thy people innocent chast as the dove and besides the beauty of internall sanctity let thy Church be covered with silver wings and her feathers like gold decked and assisted with exteriour advantages as may best promote thy honour and the services of Religion Let all the Princes and lands of the earth stretch their hands out unto thee O God and confesse thy mightinesse and thy honour that the Gospell going forth into all lands peace and all thy blessings may follow it and thy praise be multiplyed from generation to generation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 69. A Prayer in times of persecution for the cause of Religion EVENING PRAYER SAve me O God for the waters are come in even unto my soul 2 I stick fast in the deep mire where no ground is I am come into deep waters so that the flouds run over me 3 I am weary of crying my throat is drie my fight faileth me for waiting so long upon my God 4 They that hate me without a cause are moe then the haires of my head they that are mine enemies and would destroy me guiltlesse are mighty 5 I payed them the things that I never took God thou knowest my simplenesse and my faults are not hid from thee 6 Let not them that trust in thee O Lord God of hosts be ashamed for my cause let not those that seek thee be confounded through me O Lord God of Israel 7 And why for thy sake haue I suffered reproof shame hath covered my face 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren even an aliant unto my mothers children 9 For the zeal of thy house hath even eaten me and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen upon me 10 I wept and chastened my self with fasting and that was turned to my reproof 11 I put on sackcloth also and they iested upon me 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me and the drunkards make songs upon me 13 But Lord I make my prayer unto thee in an acceptable time 14 Heare me O God in the multitude of thy mercy even in the truth of thy salvation 15 Take me out of the mire that I sink not oh let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters 16 Let not the water-floud drowne me neither let the deep swallow me up and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me 17 Heare me O Lord for thy loving kindnesse is comfortable turn thee unto me according to the multitude of thy mercies 18 And hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble oh hast thee and heare me 19 Draw nigh unto my soul and save it oh deliver me because of mine enemies 20 Thou hast known my reproof my shame and my dishonour mine adversaries are all in thy sight 21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart I am full of heavinesse I looked for some to haue pity on me but there was no man neither found I any to comfort me 22 They gave me gall to eat and when I was thirsty they gave me vineger to drink 23 Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withall and let the things that should haue been for their wealth be unto them an occasion of falling 24 Let their eyes be blinded that they see not and ever bow down their backs 25 Poure out thine indignation upon them let thy wrathfull displeasure take hold of them 26 Let their habitation be void and no man to dwell in their tents 27 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded 28 Let them fall from one wickednesse to another and not come into thy righteousnesse 29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living and not be written among the righteous 30 As for me when I am poor and in heavinesse thy help O God shall lift me up 31 I will praise the name of God with a song and magnify it with thanksgiving 32 This also shall please the Lord better then a bullock that hath hornes and hoofs 33 The humble shall consider this and be glad seek ye after God and your soul shall live 34 For the Lord heareth the poore and despiseth not his prisoners 35 Let heaven and earth praise him the sea and all that moveth therein 36 For God will save Sion and build the Cities of Iuda that men may dwell there and have it in possession 37 The posterity also of his servants shall inherit it and they that love his name shall dwell therein The Prayer O Blessed Iesu whose loving kindnesse is comfortable who for our sakes didst tast vineger and gall that thou mightest redeeme us from the bitternesse of death and sinne and establish to thy selfe a Church in holy Religion and defend it with thy favour and power have mercy upon thy servants who suffer from the hands of their Enemies
those that are appoynted to die 13 And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee reward thou them O Lord seven fold into their bosome 14 So we that be thy people and sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for ever and will alway be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord God of thine inheritance who conveyest many blessings to the children of men by the prayers and ministery of thy Church let our Prayers obtain of thee mercies and deliverances for her O Lord thou hast planted thy Church in the humility and poverty and death of thy Sonne thou hast watered it with the blood of thy Apostles and Martyrs thou hast made it flourish and spread forth its branches by the warmth and heate and graces of thy holy spirit and hast according to thy promise still preserved it in the midst of all enmities and disadvantages Thy Lawes and righteous commandements have been a scorn and derision to Iewes and Gentiles the flesh of thy servants have been meat for the beasts of the Land and still she weares the purple robe of mockery and the crowne of thornes which at first she took from the head and side of her Dearest Lord At last O Lord be gratious unto thine inheritance help us ô God of our salvation for the glory of thy Name let not thine enemies devour the Church and lay wast her dwelling places be mercifull unto our sinnes preserve all those that by malice of their enemies are appoynted to death or prison or any other misery let us still enjoy the freedom of thy Gospell the food of thy word the sweet refreshings of thy Sacraments publike Communions in thy Church and all the benefits of the society of Saints and let not our sinnes cause thee to remove the Candlestick from us but make thy people and the sheep of thy pasture secure and glad in thy salvation that we may shew forth thy praise in this world and in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 80. A Prayer for the Church HEare O thou Shepheard of Israel thou that leadest Ioseph like a sheep shew thy self also thou that sittest upon the cherubims 2 Before Ephraim Beniamin and Manasses stirre up thy strength and come and help us 3 Turn us again O God shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 4 O Lord God of hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears and givest them plenteousnesse of tears to drink 6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours and our enemies laugh us to scorn 7 Turn us again thou God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it 9 Thou madest room for it and when it had taken root it filled the land 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees 11 She stretched out her branches unto the sea and her boughs unto the river 12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedge that all they that go by pluck off her grapes 13 The wild bore out of the wood doth root it up and the wild beasts of the field devoure it 14 Turn thee again thou God of hosts look down from heaven behold and visit this vine 15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest so strong for thy self 16 It is burnt with fire and cut down and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the sonne of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self 18 And so will not we go back from thee O let us live and we shall call upon thy name 19 Turn us again O Lord God of hosts shew the light of thy countenance and we shall be whole The Prayer O Thou shepheard of Israel thou that sittest upon the Cherubims stirre up thy strength and come and help thy people that prayeth unto thee for mercy and protection Thou hast made affliction the portion of thy Children in this life thou feedest them with bread of teares and givest them plenteousnesse of teares to drinke yet be pleased to shew the light of thy countenance upon us to lighten our darknesses to relieve our miseries to heal our sicknesses and let not thy Church become a strife unto her neighbours but reunite her divisions and make her not a prey to them that would devoure her and then laugh her to scorne O Lord hedge her about with thy mercies with the custody of Angels with the patronage of Kings and Princes with the hearts and hands of Nobles and the defence of the whole secular arme least the wild beasts of the field pluck off her grapes destroy the vintage and root up the vine it selfe but let her so flourish under the beams of thy favour and providence that it may take root and spread and fill all lands that the name of the man of thy right hand the God and Man Christ Iesus may be glorified thy Church enlarged and defended and we blessed with thy health and salvation Grant this O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake our only Saviour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 81. A festivall song and a Prayer for the grace and blessings of obedience to Gods Lawes SIng we merrily unto God our strength make a cheerfull noise unto the God of Iacob 2 Take the psalme bring hither the tabret the merry harp with the lute 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon even in the time appoynted and upon our solemne feast day 4 For this was made a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Iacob 5 This he ordained in Ioseph for a testimony when he came out of the land of Egypt and had heard a strange language 6 I eased his shoulder from the burden and his hands were delivered from making the pots 7 Thou calledst upon me in troubles and I delivered thee and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon thee 8 I proved thee also at the waters of strife 9 Heare O my people and I will assure thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me 10 There shall no strange god be in thee neither shalt thou worship any other god 11 I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I shall fill it 12 But my people would not heare my voyce and Israel would not obey me 13 So I gave them up unto their own hearts lust and let them follow their own imaginations 14 O that my people would have hearkned unto me for if Israel had walked in my wayes 15 I should soon have put down their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries 16
duties and by the feare of thee being taught to keep thy testimonies and never to forget the Law thou givest us we may be delivered from thy wrath and punishment and at last praise thee upon thy holy hill in thine everlasting habitation thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 100. A Psalme of praise to God for his mercy and truth O Be ioyfull in the Lord all yee lands serue the Lord with gladnesse and come before his presence with a song 2 Be yee sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we our selues we are his people and the sheep of his pasture 3 O go your way into his gates with thankesgiving and into his courts with praise be thankfull unto him and speak good of his Name 4 For the Lord is gracious his mercie is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation The Prayer O Lord our God who hast created us out of nothing and hast redeemed us from misery and death when we were thine enemies shewing great expresses of thy loving kindnesse when we were vessels of wrath and inheritors of perdition â—reveiling thy truth unto us in the Sermons of the Gospell teach us to walke as thou hast commanded us to believe as thou hast taught us that we may inherit what thou hast promised us for thou art the way the truth and the life we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture thou art our guide and our defence let thy grace teach us to serve thee and thy holy Spirit assist and promote our endeavours with the blessings of gladnesse and chearfulnesse of Spirit that we may love to speak good of thy Name and at last may go into the courts of thy Temple with praise and a song in our mouthes to thy honour and eternall glory whose mercy and truth is everlasting and revealed unto the Church in our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 101. A Prayer for a holy life MY song shall bee of mercie and iudgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 2 O let me have understanding in the way of godlinesse 3 When wilt thou come unto me I will walke in my house with a perfect heart 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand I hate the sinnes of unfaithfulnesse there shall no such cleave unto me 5 A froward heart shall depart from me I will not know a wicked person 6 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour him will I destroy 7 Whoso hath also a proud look and high stomacke I will not suffer him 8 Mine eyes look unto such as be faithfull in the land that they may dwell with me 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my seruant 10 There shall no deceitfull person dwell in my house he that telleth lies shall not tarrie in my sight 11 I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land that I may root out all wicked doers from the citie of the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall purity who art of pure eyes and canst behold no unrighteousnesse or impurity enlighten our understandings that we may have knowledge in the way of godlinesse make our paths straight and our hearts perfect take from us the sinnes of unfaithfulnesse correct and mortifie in us all froward and peevish dispositions let us love the society of the saints and hate the fellowship of the wicked that we may not be destroyed with the ungodly nor be rooted out from the Citie of the Lord and banished from the sweetnes of thy presence for with thee is light and health and salvation to thy Name be all honour and glory and praise ascribed world without end Amen PSALME 102. A Prayer for comfort in sadnesse anxiety of spirit sicknesse or any other affliction MORNING PRAYER HEare my prayer O Lord and let my crying come unto thee 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble â—encline thine eares unto me when I call O heare me and that right soon 3 For my dayes are consumed away like smoake and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand 4 My heart is smitten down and withered like grasse so that I forget to eat my bread 5 For the voyce of my groaning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh 6 I am become like a pelican in the wildernesse and like an owle that is in the desert 7 I have watched and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the house top 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long and they that are mad upon me are sworne together against me 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread and mingled my drinke with weeping 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath for thou hast taken me up and cast me down 11 My dayes are gone like a shadow and I am withered like grasse 12 But thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercie upon Sion for it is time that thou have mercie upon her yea the time is come 14 And why thy servants thinke upon her stones and it pittieth them to see her in the dust 15 The heathen shall feare thy Name O Lord and all the kings of the earth thy maiestie 16 When the Lord shall build up Sion and when his glorie shall appeare 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poore destitute and despiseth not their desire 18 This shall be written for those that come after and the people which shall be borne shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuarie out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth 20 That he might heare the mournings of such as be in captivitie and deliver the children appointed unto death 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Sion and his worship at Ierusalem 22 When the people are gathered together and the kingdomes also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my iourney and shortened my dayes 24 But I said O my God take me not away in the midst of mine age as for thy yeares they endure throughout all generations 25 Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the worke of thy hands 26 They shall perish but thou shalt endure they all shall wax old as doth a garment 27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed but thou art the same and thy yeares shall not faile 28 The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight The Prayer O Eternall God who endurest for ever and thy remembrance throughout all generations have pittie upon us according to the infinite treasures of thy loving kindnesse heare the voyce of our groaning for thy indignation and thy wrath lieth hard upon us and our sinnes have put an edge upon thy sword and a thorne into our wounded
take now my contrary part but I give my selfe unto prayer 4 Thus have they rewarded me evill for good and hatred for my good will 5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him and let Satan stand at his right hand 6 When sentence is given upon him let him be condemned and let his prayer be turned into sinne 7 Let his dayes be few and let another take his office 8 Let his children be fatherlesse and his wise a widow 9 Let his children be vagabonds and beg their bread let them seek it also out of desolate places 10 Let the extortionet consume all that he hath and let the stranger spoil his labour 11 Let there be no man to pitie him nor to have compassion upon his fatherlesse children 12 Let his posterity be destroyed and in the next generation let his name be clean put out 13 Let the wickednesse of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord and let not the sinne of his mother be done away 14 Let them alway be before the Lord that he may root out the memoriall of them from off the earth 15 And that because his minde was not to do good but persecuted the poore helplesse man that he might slay him that was vexed at the heart 16. His delight was incursing and it shall happen unto him he loved not blessing therefore shall it be far from him 17 He clothed himselfe with cursing like as with a raiment and it shall come into his bowels like water and like oyl into his bones 18 Let it be unto him as the cloke that he hath upon him and as the girdle that he is alway girded withall 19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies and to those that speak evil against my soul 20 But deal thou with me O Lord God according unto thy name for sweet is thy mercy 21 O deliver me for I am helplesse and poore and my heart is wounded within me 22 I go hence like the shadow that departeh am driven away as the grashopper 23 My knees are weak through fasting my flesh is dried up for want of fatnesse 24 I became also a rebuke unto them they that looked upon me shaked their heads 25 Help me O Lord my God Oh save me according to thy mercy 26 And they shall know how that this is thy hand and thou Lord hast done it 27 Though they curse yet blesse thou and let them be confounded that rise up against me but let thy servant reioyce 28 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a cloke 29 As for me I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth and praise him among the multitude 30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poore to save his soul from unrighteous iudges The Prayer O God of our praise who wast contented that thy sonne Iesus Christ should be betrayed into the hands of sinners by one of his own Apostles the Traitor Iudas and in punishment of so great impiety did'st suffer Satan to stand at his right hand tempting him to despaire and to give sentence upon himselfe to condemne himselfe and to execute his owne judgement and gavest his Bishoprick to another let thy righteous judgements finde out all those that are Traytors to their Prince enemies to the Church Apostates from Religion Hypocrites under specious pretences and beauteous titles that they may be clothed with shame and may cover themselves with their owne confusion as with a cloke that by thy punishments in this life they may be driven to a sharpe and salutary repentance and may be saved in the life to come Deale thou with us O Lord according to thy mercy take away thy curse and let not thy blessing be farre from us let not our wickednesse nor the wickednesse of our fathers be had in remembrance in thy sight let our mindes be alway to do good our hearts and lips be given unto prayer and our prayers so guided by thy assistances that they be not turned into sin that when we go hence like the shadow that departeth and are driven away like the grashopper when the dayes of our vanity and rejoycing are past we may stand at thy right hand and our soules be saved from the lot and portion of the unrighteous through the righteousnesse and passion of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALM 110. A Hymne in the honour of Christs Kingdome and Priesthood and exaltation MORNING PRAYER THe Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand untill I make thine enemies thy footstoole 2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion be thou ruler even in the midst among thine enemies 3 In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will-offerings with an holy worship the dew of thy birth is of the wombe of the morning 4 The Lord sware and will not repent Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek 5 The Lord upon thy right hand shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath 6 He shall iudge among the heathen he shall fill the places with the dead bodies and smite in sunder the heads over divers countreys 7 He shall drinke of the brooke in the way therefore shall he lift up his head The Prayer O Eternall God Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who when thy Son had dranke of the brooke in the way to the grave and to our redemption beginning his passion by the brooke Cedron and tasting the waters of bitternesse till he had drunke of the whole chalice of thy wrath upon the Crosse didst lift up his head and set him at thy right hand till thou shalt make all his enemies his footstoole fill our hearts with his love and praises that we may pay him the offerings of our soules bodies in an holy worship joyfull thankesgiving for all the parts and mysteries of our redemption for his birth in the wombe of his holy Mother pure and virginall like the morning dew for his Death and Passion and for his continuall mediation and intercession by which hee does officiate in his eternall Priesthood which is after the order of Melchisedâ—k Remember us blessed Iesu in the Day of thy power when thou shalt come to judge the world and the places fill'd with dead bodies shall give up their dead that we may sit at thy right hand to magnifie and behold the glories of thy Kingdome for ever and ever Amen PSALME 111. An Eucharisticall Hymne for the benefits of the holy Gospell particularly of the blessed Sacrament I Will give thankes unto the Lord with my whole heart secretly among the faithfull and in the congregation 2 The workes of the Lord are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein 3 His worke is worthy to be praised and had in honour and his righteousnesse endureth for ever 4 The
repentance and fruits springing up to life eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 115. A Prayer against idolatry and for confidence in the true God NOt unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give the praise for thy loving mercy and for thy truths sake 2 Wherefore shall the heathen say Where is now their God 3 As for our God he is in heaven he hath done whatsoever pleased him 4 Their idols are silver and gold even the worke of mens hands 5 They haue mouthes and speake not eyes haue they and see not 6 They have eares and heare not noses haue they and smell not 7 They haue hands and handle not feet haue they and walke not neither speake they through their throat 8 They that make them are like unto them and so are all such as put their trust in them 9 But thou house of Israel trust thou in the Lord he is their succour and defence 10 Yee house of Aaron put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 11 Yee that feare the Lord put your trust in the Lord he is their helper and defender 12 The Lord hath been mindfull of us and he shall blesse us euen he shall blesse the house of Israel he shall blesse the house of Aaron 13 He shall blesse them that feare the Lord both small and great 14 The Lord shall increase you more and more you and your children 15 Yee are the blessed of the Lord which made heauen and earth 16 All the whole heauens are the Lords the earth hath he given to the children of men 17 The dead praise not thee O Lord neither all they that go down into the silence 18 But we will praise the Lord from this time forth for euermore Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God omnipotent whose seat is in Heaven and thou hast done whatsoever pleased thee in Heaven and earth give us thy grace that in all our troubles we may make thee our Succour and Defence and put our trust in thee onely that we receiving thy mercies and the satisfaction of all our hopes from thy plenteousnesse and loving kindnesse we may give praise unto thy Name never ascribing to our selves any honour or the glorie and thankes of any good action or prosperous successe but to thee who art the Authour and Giver of all good things Preserve us from all dangers of idolatrie from worshipping or loving any vain imaginations and making any thing to be our confidence besides thee our God that so thou mayest be mindfull of us and blesse us in all our wayes and when we die and go down into the silence we may have our portion amongst the blessed of the Lord in the inheritance of thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 116. An act of love and thanksgiving to God for deliverance from sinne and death MORNING PRAYER I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer 2 That he hath enclined his eare unto me therefore will I call upon him as long as I live 3 The snares of death compassed me round about and the paines of hell gat hold upon me 4 I shall finde trouble and heavinesse and I shall call upon the name of the Lord O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul 5 Bratious is the Lord and righteous yea our God is mercifull 6 The Lord preserveth the simple I was in misery and he helped me 7 Turn again then unto they rest O my soul for the Lord hath rewarded thee 8 And why thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling 9 I will walke before the Lord in the land of the living 10 I beleeved and therefore will I speak but I was sore troubled I said in my hast All men are liars 11 What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me 12 I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. 13 I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints 14 Behold O Lord how that I am thy servant I am thy servant and the sonne of thine handmaid thou hast broken my bonds in sunder 15 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. 16 I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the sight of all his people in the courts of the Lords house even in the mids of thee O Ierusalem Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercies Gracious and Righteous give unto us hearts filled with love and praises to thy holy name for thou hearest our prayers thou breakest asunder the bonds of our sinnes thou deliverest our soules from trouble and heavinesse and snatchest us from the snares of death and savest us from the paines of hell O mercyfull God let our soules rest in thee and be satisfied in the pleasures of thy mercy that we may receive the cup of blessing and salvation and celebrate the Eucharist in honour of thy name and in remembrance of thy infinite benefits which thou hast done unto us and at last may pay our great Allelujah to the Lord in the courts of the Lords house in the midst of the celestiall Jerusalem through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 117. An invitation to all people to praise Gods mercy and truth O Praise the Lord all yee heathen praise him all ye nations 2 For his mercifull kindnesse is ever more and more towards us and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Praise the Lord. The Prayer O Blessed Iesu who art not only the glory of thy people Israel but the light of the Gentiles let thy mercifull kindnesse be ever more and more towards the sonnes of men that the nations which have not known thee may hear thy truth and feele thy mercies and call upon thy name and thy grace may be confirmed upon us till we receive the fulnesse and perfection of thy graces in the full fruition of the glories of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 118. A Psalme of thanksgiving for the mercies and salvation which are given us in Iesus Chrst O Give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious because his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let Israel now confesse that he is gracious and that his mercy endureth for ever 3 Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 4 Yea let them now that feare the Lord confesse that his mercy endureth for ever 5 I called upon the Lord in trouble and the Lord heard me at large 6 The Lord is on my side I will not feare what man doth unto me 7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me therefore shall I see my desire upon mine enemies 8 It is better to trust in the Lord then to put any confidence in
quicken thou me according to thy word 2 I have knowledged my wayes and thou heardest me O teach me thy statutes 3 Make me to understand the way of thy commandments and so shall I talke of thy wonderous works 4 My soul melteth away for very heavinesse comfort thou me according unto thy word 5 Take from me the way of lying and cause thou me to make much of thy law 6 I have chosen the way of truth and thy iudgements have I laid before me 7 I have sticken unto thy testimonies O Lord confound me not 8 I will run the way of thy commandments when thou hast set my heart at libertie The Prayer VVE have chosen the way of thy truth O Lord and laid thy judgements before us and yet through our infirmities and the disadvantages of the flesh we are in heavinesse and drive on slowly like Pharao's chariots with the wheels off our soules and our desires cleave unto the dust and to things below and we are not active in thy services O quicken us according to thy word refresh our wearinesse comfort our sadnesse take from us the way of lying and vanity set our hearts at liberty from the bondage of sinne from the fetters of temptation from the incumbrances of the world and then we shall runne the way of thy commandments never ceasing to run till we arrive at the land of eternall rest and righteousnesse where thou livest and raignest world without end Amen V. MORNING PRAYER TEach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I shall keep it unto the end 2 Giue me understanding and I shall keep thy Law yea I shall keep it with my whole heart 3 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments for therein is my desire 4 Encline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to couteousnesse 5 O turne away mine eyes lest they behold vanity and quicken thou me in thy way 6 O stablish thy word in thy seruant that I may feare thee 7 Take away the rebuke that I am afraid of for thy judgements are good 8 Behold my delight is in thy commandments O quicken me in thy righteousnesse The Prayer O Lord God who art of infinite Sanctity and hast given us thy Law that we walking in so divine a rule may imitate the perfection of thy holinesse make us to go all our dayes in the path of thy Commandments take from us all greedy and inordinate appetite of the creature let not our hearts be inclined to covetousnesse nor our eyes wander after vanity but grant that we being established in thy Law and walking in thy feare may persevere in the wayes of righteousnesse keeping the way of thy statutes even unto the end that the rebuke which for our sinnes we may justly feare may by thy mercies and pardon be taken away from us through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen VI. LEt thy loving mercy also come unto me O Lord euen thy saluation according unto thy word 2 So shall I make answer unto my blasphemers for my trust is in thy word 3 O take not the word of thy truth utterly out of my mouth for my hope is in thy iudgements 4 So shall I alway keep thy law yea for euer and euer 5 And I will walke at liberty for I seek thy commandments 6 I will speake of thy testimonies also euen before kings and will not be ashamed 7 And my delight shall be in thy commandments which I haue loued 8 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments which I haue loued and my study shall be in thy statutes The Prayer LEt thy loving mercy come unto us O Lord and thy salvation for thou alwayes keepest promise and never disappointest the hopes of them that trust in thee Give us confidence and boldnesse in thee that we may never fear or blush to confesse thee before men but may speake of thy testimonies even before Kings and may never be ashamed of thy Word which is the ground of our hope but that our hands may be lift up to performe thy Law and our study our love and our delight may be in it even for ever and ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen VII O Thinke upon thy seruant as concerning thy word wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust 2 The same is my comfort in my trouble for thy word hath quickened me 3 The proud haue had me exceedingly in derision yet have I not shrinked from thy law 4 For I remembred thine euerlasting iudgements O Lord and receiued comfort 5 I am horribly afraid for the ungodly that forsake thy law 6 Thy statutes haue been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage 7 I haue thought upon thy name O Lord in the night season and haue kept thy law 8 This I had because I kept thy commandments The Prayer THinke upon us O Lord in all our desires in all our feares in all our troubles let thy Law give us comfort redresse and satisfaction that in our trouble we may thence derive comfort in our feares we may there fixe our anchor of hope and from thence we may get defence against the derisions and insolencies of the proud and grant that thy grace may reward thy grace in us and a further degree of sanctity may crowne the first beginnings and when by thy assistances we thinke upon thy Name and keep thy Law we begge this onely that our reward may be still to keep thy Commandments Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen VIII THou art my portion O Lord I haue promised to keep thy law 2 I made my humble petition in thy presence with my whole heart O be mercifull unto mee according to thy word 3 I called mine own wayes to remembrance and turned my feet unto thy testimonies 4 I made haste and prolonged not the time to keep thy commandments 5 The congregation of the ungodly haue robbed me but I haue not forgotten thy law 6 At midnight I will rise to giue thankes unto thee because of thy righteous iudgements 7 I am a companion of all them that feare thee and keep thy commandments 8 The earth O Lord is full of thy mercy O teach me thy statutes The Prayer O Beare God be thou our portion and the lot of our inheritance and be mercifull unto us when ever we make our humble petition in thy presence and above all the desires of our soules let us receive satisfaction in this request give us repentance and thy holy Spirit that we calling our owne wayes to remembrance may be truly sorrowfull for our past sinnes and may make hast prolonging not the time but early and instantly turne our feet unto thy testimonies that we being companions of all that feare thee may bee partakers of all the blessings in the communion of Saints through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen IX O Lord thou hast dealt graciously with thy servant according unto thy word 2 O learne me true understanding
and knowledge for I have believed thy commandments 3 Before I was troubled I went wrong but now have I kept thy word 4 Thou art good and gracious O teach me thy statutes 5 The proud have imagined a lye against me but I will keepe thy commandments with my whole heart 6 Their heart is as fat as brawn but my delight hath been in thy law 7 It is good for me that I have been in trouble that I may learne thy statutes 8 The law of thy mouth is dearer unto me then thousands of gold and silver The Prayer THou O Lord art gracious even in the execution of thy judgements and displeasure against sinners and thou sendest chastisement and correction to us when we goe wrong that thou mayest chide us into obedience and the blessings of eternity let not idlenesse and sensuality make us remisse in our duty nor our own vanity and the sense of thy favour make us proud nor the want of holy discipline make us impudent and refractory but let thy mercies and thy judgements learne us thy statutes and make them dearer to us than thousands of gold and silver that while we make thy statutes to be our treasure our heart may be fixed on them in a continuall meditation through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen X. EVENING PRAYER THy hands haue made me and fashioned me O give me understanding that I may learne thy commandments 2 They that feare thee will be glad when they see me because I have put my trust in thy word 3 I know O Lord that thy iudgements are right and that thou of very faithfulnesse hast caused me to be troubled 4 O let thy mercifull kindnesse be my comfort according to thy word unto thy servant 5 O let thy loving mercies come unto me that I may live for thy law is my delight 6 Let the proud be confounded for they go wickedly about to destroy me but I will be occupied in thy commandments 7 Let such as feare thee and have known thy testimonies be turned unto me 8 O let my heart be sound in thy statues that I be not ashamed The Prayer O Lord our Maker thy hands have made us and fashioned us let thy holy Spirit regenerate us and thy grace forme us anew that the old man being destroyed the new man may be produced in righteousnesse and sanctity that our hearts may be sound in thy statutes without hypocrisie and inordinate ends full of candour and ingenuity that thy loving mercies comming unto us in a full streame we may live in them and be turned unto thee never to be removed from thy Law and love Grant this for the love of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen XI MY soule hath longed for thy saluation and I have a good hope because of thy word 2 Mine eyes long sore for thy word saying O when wilt thou comfort me 3 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke yet do I not forget thy statutes 4 How many are the dayes of thy servant when wilt thou be avenged of them that persecute me 5 The proud haue digged pits for me which are not after thy law 6 All thy commandments are true they persecute me falsly O be thou my helpe 7 They had almost made an end of me upon earth but I forsook not thy commandments 8 O quicken me after thy loving kindnesse and so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth The Prayer O Lord our helper teach us to remember our end to consider our yeares that are past that we in consideration how few the dayes of thy servants are which are yet to come may quicken our industry and affections to thy Law that by a double and more active endeavour in the wayes of thy Commandments we may redeeme the time and by thy mercy being delivered from all them that trouble and perfecute us we may be refreshed in thy eternall comforts through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen XII O Lord thy word endureth for euer in heauen 2 Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another thou hast laid the foundation of the earth and it abideth 3 They continue this day according to thine ordinance for all things serue thee 4 If my delight had not been in thy law I should haue perished in my trouble 5 I will neuer forget thy commandments for with them thou hast quickened me 6 I am thine Oh saue me for I haue sought thy commandments 7 The ungodly laid wait for me to destroy me but I will consider thy testimonies 8 I see that all things come to an end but thy commandment is exceeding broad The Prayer O Lord out Guide thou hast laid the Foundation of the earth sure and it abideth but thy Word endureth for ever in Heaven and though Heaven and Earth shall passe away yet one tittle of thy Word shall never passe in vaine and unaccomplished teach us to obey thee with a regular obedience that since all the creatures continue according to thine ordinance and serve thee we onely may not disobey thee and disturbe the order of Creation by a rebellion of creatures against their Maker least thy wrath arise upon us and we perish in our trouble Have mercy upon us and deliver us from thy wrath through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen XIII LOrd what loue haue I unto thy law all the day long is my studie in it 2 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser then mine enemies for they are ever with me 3 I haue more understanding then my teachers for thy testimonies are my study 4 I am wiser then the aged because I keep thy commandments 5 I have refrained my feet from every evill way that I may keep thy word 6 I have not shrunke from thy iudgements for thou teachest me 7 O how sweet are thy words unto my throat yea sweeter then hony unto my mouth 8 Through thy commandments I get understanding therefore I hate all wicked wayes The Prayer O Lord our Governour who art the Fountain of all wisedome and understanding and hast commanded that all that lacke wisedome should aske it of thee who givest liberally make us wise and understanding in the observation of thy Commandments that we may refraine our feet from every evill way and never shrinke from thy judgements but may delight and study in all the expresses of thy will which thou hast revealed to us by our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen XIIII MORNING PRAYER THy word is a lantern unto my feet and a light unto my paths 2 I have sworn and am stedfastly purposed to keep thy righteous iudgements 3 I am troubled above measure quicken me O Lord according to thy word 4 Let the free-will offerings of my mouth please thee O Lord and teach me thy judgments 5 My soul is alway in my hand yet do I not forget thy law 6 The ungodly have laid a snare for me but yet I swerved not from thy commandments 7 Thy testimonies have I claimed as
night 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all euill yea it is even he that shall keep thy soule 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth for evermore The Prayer O Lord God our Keeper who dwellest upon the eternall hills from whence commeth all our helpe let thy mercies and thy providence watch over us by day and night that neither the vanities of the one nor the terrours of the other may disturbe our peace or safety Let not our feet be moved but be fixed upon the Rocke Christ Iesus and so order our goings making us to walke in the way of thy Commandments that thou mayest go in and out before us till at last we come into thy presence to dwell with thee for evermore through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 122. A Prayer for the peace and prosperity of the Church I Was glad when they said unto me We will go into the house of the Lord. 2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates O Ierusalem 3 Ierusalem is builded as a city that is aâ— unity in it selfe 4 For thither the Tribes go up even the Tribes of the Lord to testifie unto Israel to give thankes unto the name of the Lord. 5 For there is the seat of iudgement even the seat of the house of David 6 O pray for the peace of Ierusalem they shall prosper that love thee 7 Peace be within thy walls and plenteousnesse within thy palaces 8 For my brethren and companions sakes I will wish thee prosperity 9 Yea because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek to do thee good The Prayer O Blessed Iesu who didst descend according to thy humane Nature from the House of thy servant David and hast planted a church and defended it with a mighty hand and great assistances be pleased to preserve peace within her walls and send plenteousnesse within her palaces that all that love her peace may prosper and receive the blessings which thou givest to thy faithfull people in the communion of Saints Take from her all schismes and divisions that she may be like a city that is at unity within it selfe strong in faith abounding in hope and rich in the treasures of charity that at last she may be removed to a fellowship of all those joyes and felicities which are laid up for the inhabitants of the heavenly Ierusalem which is from above and is the mother of us all Grant this O blessed Iesu our onely Mediatour and Redeemer Amen PSALME 123. An eiaculation or a lifting up our soules to God for helpe in trouble VNto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the heavens 2 Behold even as the eyes of servants look vnto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistresse even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God untill he have mercy upon us 3 Have mercy upon us O Lord have mercy upon us for we are utterly despised 4 Our soule is filled with the scornfull reproofe of the wealthy and with the despitefulnesse of the proud The Prayer O Lord God that dwellest in the Heavens have mercy upon us in all our troubles in contempt in our poverty and when ever we are oppressed by any injurious practices of the proud Thou art our Lord and Master we are thy servants our eyes wait upon thee till thou have mercy upon us let us not be ashamed of our hope nor unfaithfull in our services nor distrustfull of thy providence but make us diligent labourers in our calling good husbands of our talents and faithfull in all thy house that we first serving thee may at last sit downe at meat with thee at thy table in thy Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 124. A thankesgiving for our deliverance from the power of all our enemies and a confessing God to be the Authour of it IF the Lord himselfe had not been on our side now may Israel say if the Lord himselfe had not been on our side when men rose up against us 2 They had swallowed us up quicke when they were so wrathfully displeased at us 3 Yea the waters had drowned us and the streame had gone over our soule 4 The deep waters of the proud had gone even over our soule 5 But praised be the Lord which hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth 6 Our soule is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are delivered 7 Our helpe standeth in the Name of the Lord which hath made heaven and earth The Prayer O Lord God which hast made Heaven and Earth in whose Name our helpe standeth we praise and blesse thy Name that in our troubles and temptations thou hast stood on our side and pleaded for us against them that rose against us It was thy hand O Lord and the helpe of thy mercy that relieved us the waters of affliction had drowned us and the streame had gone over our soule if the Spirit of the Lord had not moved upon the waters Thou O Lord didst blast the designes of our enemies with the breath of thy displeasure and to thee O Lord we ascribe the praise and honour of our redemption Perpetuate thy mercies to us let us never be given over as a prey to our ghostly enemies but breake their snares discover and weaken all their temptations by which they would destroy our soules that we being delivered from sin may be preserved from thy wrath through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 125. A Prayer for confidence in God and for deliverance from the portion of the wicked THey that put their trust in the Lord shall be even as the mount Ston which may not be removed but standeth fast for ever 2 The hills stand about Ierusalem even so standeth the Lord round about his people from this time forth for evermore 3 For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put their hand unto wickednesse 4 Do well O Lord unto those that be good and true of heart 5 As for such as turne backe unto their owne wickednesse the Lord shall leade them forth with the evill doers but peace shall be upon Israel The Prayer O Lord God our Trust and Confidence in whom whosoever trusteth shall never be removed but standeth fast for ever let thy mercies and the guard of holy Angels stand round about us and about all thy holy people like the hills for our defence and safety that we may be inaccessible by all the intendments of our enemies O let us not put our hands to wickednesse neither let our portion be in the lot of the ungodly whom thou leadest forth to destruction but let us receive the blessing which our Lord Iesus left unto his Church even the peace of God the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost to whom be all honour
and glory ascribed of men and Angels now and for ever Amen PSALME 126. A contemplation of the ioyes and blessings of them that depart hence in the Lord. EVENING PRAYER WHen the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion then were we like unto them that dreame 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with ioy 3 Then said they among the heathen The Lord hath done great things for them 4 Yea the Lord hath done great things for us already whereof we reioyce 5 Turne our captivity O Lord as the rivers in the south 6 They that sow in teares shall reap in ioy 7 He that now goeth on his way weeping and beareth forth good seed shall doubtlesse come again with ioy and bring his sheaves with him The Prayer O Lord God who hast promised salvation to thy people and hast done great things for us already deliver us from the captivity and bondage of sinne and misery Fill our hearts with holy sorrow and compunction when ever we trespasse against thee and teach us so to deny our selves to mortifie our affections to crucifie our lusts and all the temptations of the flesh that we going on our way with mourning and weeping despising the pleasures of this life may when thy great harvest shall come and thy reapers the Angells shall separate the wheat from the tares come before thee with joy and bring our sheaves with us to be laid up in thy granary that so we may escape the everlasting burning through the mercies of Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 127. A Prayer for God's blessing to go along with the temporall good things he gives us EXcept the Lord build the house their labour is but lost that build it 2 Except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain 3 It is but lost labour that ye hast to rise up early and so late take rest and eat the bread of carefulnesse for so he giveth his beloved sleep 4 Lo children and the fruit of the wombe are an heritage and gift that commeth of the Lord. 5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant even so are the young children 6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate The Prayer O Lord God without whose blessing all our labours are vain and unprofitable and our possessions are but bitter and unpleasant let thy blessing be upon our labours and our substance our children and our dwelling that the good things of this life may be an heritage and gift from thee issues of thy favour and an earnest of a greater blessing make our soules diligent in thy service not importunate and greedy for the increase of riches let our dwellings be safe and peaceable and our families increase in thy blessings that we feeling the comforts of thy favour here may be stirted up to great desires after the blessings of eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 128. A Prayer for the feare of God and the blessings of the Godly BLessed are all they that feare the Lord and walk in his wayes 2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thine hands O well is thee and happy shalt thou be 3 Thy wife shall be as the fruitfull vine upon the walls of thine house 4 Thy children like the olive-branches round about thy table 5 Lo thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. 6 The Lord from out of Sion shall so blesse thee that thou shalt see Ierusalem in prosperity all thy life long 7 Yea that thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israell The Prayer O Lord God who hast promised to multiply thy blessings upon them that feare thee teach us the feare of the Lord and let thy spirit so assist us that we may walke in thy wayes with great observation of all our actions and much diligence to performe thy holy will that we may receive the blessings of the righteous blessings of the right hand and of the left hand and may rejoyce in the blessing and peace of thy church waiting for the consummation of all blessing and peace in thy eternall Kingdome through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 129. A Prayer against the enemies of the Church MAny a time have they fought against me from my youth up may Israell now say 2 Yea many a time have they vexed me from my youth up but they have not prevailed against mee 3 The plowers plowed upon my back and made long furrows 4 But the righteous Lord hath hewen the snares of the ungodly in pieces 5 Let them be confounded and turned backward as many as have evill will at Sion 6 Let them be even as the grasse growing upon the house tops which withereth afore it be plucked up 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosome 8 So that they which go by say not so much as the Lord prosper you we wish you good luck in the name of the Lord. The Prayer O Most blessed Jesu who for our sinnes didst suffer the plowers to plow upon thy back and make long furrows suffering shame and whipping for our sakes and all the contradictions of sinners and didst leave sorrows and afflictions intailed upon thy Church that by suffering with thee shee might at last raigne with thee in glory Deliver us and all thy holy Church from all that fight against us hew the snares of the ungodly in pieces let the designes of them that have evill will at thy Church be like the grasse growing upon the house tops withered and blasted before it comes to maturity and make us to prosper under thy mercies and in the good wishes and devout prayers of holy people through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 130. A penitentiall Psalme or a prayer for pardon and redemption from sinnes OUt of the deep have I called unto thee O Lord Lord hear my voyce 2 Oh let thine eares consider well the voyce of my complaint 3 If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done amisse O Lord who may abide it 4 For there is mercy with thee therefore shalt thou be feared 5 I look for the Lord my soul doth wait for him in his word is my trust 6 My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch I say before the morning watch 7 O Israell trust in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption 8 And he shall redeem Israell from all his sinnes The Prayer O Lord God blessed Iesu with whom is mercy and plentious redemption who didst redeem thy people from all their sinnes paying the ransome of thine own bloud to purchase us freedome and salvation let the height of thy mercy take us up from the deep abysse of sin and misery O be not extreme to marke what we have done amisse for it is impossible we should abide the extremity of thy
MORNING PRAYER PLead thou my cause O Lord with them that strive with me and fight thou against them that fight against me 2 Lay hand upon the shield and buckler and stand up to help me 3 Bring forth the spear and stop the way against them that persecute me say unto my soul I am thy salvation 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul let them be turned back and brought to confusion that imagine mischief for me 5 Let them be as the dust before the winde and the Angell of the Lord scattering them 6 Let their way be dark and slippery and let the Angell of the Lord persecute them 7 For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause yea even without a cause have they made a pit for my soul 8 Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares and his net that he hath laid privily catch himselfe that he may fall into his own mischiefe 9 And my soul be ioyfull in the Lord it shall reioyce in his salvation 10 All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him yea the poore and him that is in misery from him that spoyleth him 11 False witnesse did rise up they laid to my charge things that I knew not 12 They rewarded me evill for good to the great discomfort of my soul 13 Neverthelesse when they were sick I put on sackcloth and humbled my soul with fasting and my prayer shall turn into mine own bosome 14 I behaved my selfe as though it had been my friend or my brother I went heavily as one that mourneth for his mother 15 But in mine adversity they reioyced and gathered them together yea the very abjects came together against me unawares making mowes at me and ceased not 16 With the flatterers were busy mockers which gnashed upon me with their teeth 17 Lord how long wilt thou look upon this O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me and my darling from the lions 18 Sâ— will I give thee thankes in the great congregation I will praise thee among much people 19 O let not them that are mine enemies triumph over mee ungodly neither let them wink with their eyes that hate me without a cause 20 And why their communing is not for peace but they imagine deceitfull words against them that are quiet in the land 21 They gaped on me with their mouthes and said Fie on thee fie on thee we saw it with our eyes 22 This thou hast seen O Lord hold not thy tongue then goe not farre from me O Lord. 23 Awake and stand up to iudge my quarrells avenge thou my cause my God and my Lord. 24 Iudge me O Lord my God according to thy righteousnesse and let them not triumph over mee 25 Let them not say in their hearts There there so would we have it neither let them say we have devoured him 26 Let them be put to confusion and shame together that reioyce at my trouble let them be cloathed with rebuke and dishonour that boast themselves against me 27 Let them be glad and reioyce that favour my righteous dealing yea let them say alway Blessed be the Lord which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant 28 And as for my tongue it shall be talking of thy righteousnesse and of thy praise all the day long The Prayer O Lord our God who art the shield of the oppressed and the Buckler of all that trust in thee deliverus from all the assaults and intendments of our Enemies against us who without cause make pits for our Soules let the Angel of the Lord scatter all their mischievous imaginations least they triumph over us and say we have devoured them strive thou with them that strive with us and fight against them that fight against us Preserve us in innocency that we neither sinne against thee nor doe injustice to them and restore us to our Peace so shall we talk of thy righteousnesse and thy praise all the day long and give thee thankes in the great congregation of Saints because thou hast pleasure in the prosperity of thy servants and hast redeemed them from the hands of their Enimies through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 36. A Prayer desiring the joyes of Heaven the blessings of Eternity MY heart sheweth me the wickednesse of the ungodly that there is no feare of God before his eyes 2 For he flattereth himselfe in his own sight untill his abominable sinne be found out 3 The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit he hath left off to behave himselfe wisely and to do good 4 He imagineth mischief upon his bed and hath set himself in no good way neither doth he abhorre any thing that is evill 5 Thy mercy O Lord reacheth unto the heavens and thy faithfulnesse unto the clouds 6 Thy righteousnesse standeth like the strong mountains thy iudgements are like the great deep 7 Thou Lord shalt save both man and beast how excellent is thy mercy O God and the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings 8 They shall be satisfied with the plenteousnes of thy house and thou shalt give them drink of thy pleasures as out of the river 9 For with thee is the well of life and in thy light shall we see light 10 O continue forth thy loving kindnesse unto them that know thee and thy righteousnesse unto them that are true of heart 11 O let not the foot of pride come against me and let not the hand of the ungodly cast me down 12 There are they fallen all that work wickednesse they are cast down and shall not be able to stand The Prayer O God whose mercy reacheth unto the Heavens and thy righteousnesse unto the clouds teach us to abhorre every thing that is evill and to set our selves in every good way that thy feare being alwaies before our eyes and our trust being under the shadow of thy wings thou maist continue forth thy loving kindnesse to us all the daies of our life that at last we may be satisfied with the plenteousnesse of thy house and may drinke down rivers of pleasures deriving from thee the eternall fountain and well of life and in the light of thy Countenance may see everlasting light through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 37. A Prayer that we may trust and delight in God and that our lot may be amongst the godly and not in the seeming prosperity of the wicked EVENING PRAYER FRet not thy selfe because of the ungodly neither be thou envious against the evill doers 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grasse and be withered even as the green hearb 3 Put thou thy trust in the Lord and be doing good dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed 4 Delight thou in the Lord and he shall give thee thy hearts desire 5
from me 22 Hast thee to help me O Lord God my salvation The Prayer O Lord who knowest all our desires and from whom our groning is not hid we confesse before thee our many wickednesses and are truly sorry for our sinnes our wickednesses are gone over our head and are a sore burden too heavy for us to beare our enemy the Devill is malitious and mighty our weakenesses many our temptations strong our consciences do busily accuse us Where shall we appeare in the day of judgment How shall we stand upright in the eternall scrutiny Our trust is in thy merits O blessed Iesu thou aâ—t our Iudge and our Advocate thou shalt answer for us O Lord our God Put us not to rebuke O Lord in thine anger for it is insupportable neither let thy whole displeasure arise for that is vast and mountainous as our sinnes and will breake us in pieces O let not the arrowes of thy vengeance stick fast in us for our sinnes are wounds enough and make us restlesse and miserable Touch our sores gently and let not thy hands presse us unlesse to drive forth our corruption then shall we follow the thing that good is and rejoyce greatly in thy mercies O Lord God of our salvation who hast redeemed us and saved us through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 39. A meditation of the shortnesse and vanity of our life and a prayer preparatory to death I Said I will take heed to my wayes that I offend not in my tongue 2 I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle while the ungodly is in my sight 3 I held my tongue and spake nothing I kept silence yea even from good words but it was pain and grief to me 4 My heart was hot within me and while I was thus musing the fire kindled and at the last I spake with my tongue 5 Lord let me know mine end and the number of my dayes that I may be certified how long I have to liue 6 Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were a span long and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee and verily every man living is altogether vanitie 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himselfe in vain he heapeth up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them 8 And now Lord what is my hope truly my hope is even in thee 9 Deliver me from all mine offences and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish 10 I became dumbe and opened not my mouth for it was thy doing 11 Take thy plague away from me I am even consumed by the means of thy heavy hand 12 When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sinne thou makest his beauty to consume away like as it were a moth fretting a garment every man therefore is but vanitie 13 Heare my prayer O Lord and with thine eares consider my calling hold not thy peace at my teares 14 For I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were 15 O spare me a little that I may recover my strength before I go hence and he no more seene The Prayer O Eternall God who art without beginning or end of dayes thou hast given us a short portion of time in the generations of this world our condition is vaine unsatisfying and full of disquiet and we have no hope but in thee O Lord. O teach us to number our dayes to remember and to know our end that so we may never sinne against thee and grant that we may live as alwayes dying being of mortified soules bodies of bridled tongues and affections and that instead of heaping up riches we may strive for a treasure of good workes laying up in store against the time to come that having recovered out strength lost by the commission of sinnes when we go hence and are no more seen we â—ay have a residence in those mansions which are prepared for the Saints by our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 40. A Thanks giving to God for his deliverances and a prayer for redemption from sinnes and defence against our Enemies I Waited patiently for the Lord and he enclined unto me and heard my calling 2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit out of the mire and clay and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth even a thanksgiving unto our God 4 Many shall see it and feare and shall put their trust in the Lord. 5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord and turned not unto the proud and to such as go about with lies 6 O Lord my God great are thy wondrous works which thou hast done like as be also thy thoughts which are to us-ward and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee 7 If I would declare them and speak of them they should be moe then I am able to expresse 8 Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not haue but mine eares hast thou opened 9 Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sinne hast thou not required then said I Lo I come 10 In the volume of the book it is written of me that I should fulfill thy will O my God I am content to doe it yea thy Law is within my heart 11 I have declared thy righteousnesse in the great congregation lo I will not refrain my lips O Lord and that thou knowest 12 I haue not hid thy righteousnesse within my heart my talking hath been of thy truth and of thy salvation 13 I haue not kept back thy loving mercy and truth from the great congregation 14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me O Lord let thy loving kindnesse and thy truth alway preserve me 15 For innumerable troubles are come about me my sinnes haue taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up yea they are moe in number then the haires of mine head and my heart hath failed me 16 O Lord let it be thy pleasure to deliver me make hast O Lord to help me 17 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it let them be driven backward and put to rebuke that wish me evill 18 Let them be desolate and rewarded with shame that say unto me Fie upon thee fie upon thee 19 Let all those that seek thee be ioyfull and glad in thee and let such as love thy salvation say alway The Lord be praised 20 As for me I am poor and needy but the Lord careth for me 21 Thou art my helper and redeemer make no long tarrying O my God The Prayer O Lord our God whose works are wondrous and thy thoughts which are to us-ward full of mercy and admirable in wisdome we adore and worship thy infinite perfections and thy providence in the disposing of all thy creatures and the effects of all causes which in an infinite variety thou orderest to thy glory and the good of all
thy countenance produce the beams of spirituall joy in our soules and let thy truth lead us in the way of thy salvation that when we goe unto thy dwelling places where thou manifestest thy presence we may approach unto thee with joy and gladnesse rejoycing in nothing more then in doing thee serviee and singing praises to thy name for the help of thy countenance which thou givest us in our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 44. A Prayer in time of Warre MORNING PRAYER WE haue heard with our eares O God our fathers haue told us what thou hast done in their time of old 2 How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand and planted them in how thou hast destroyed the Nations and cast them out 3 For they gat not the Land in possession through their own sword neither was it their own arm that helped them 4 But thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hadst a favour unto tham 5 Thou art my King O God send help unto Iacob 6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies and in thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us 7 For I will not trust in my bow it is not my sword that shall help me 8 But it is thou that savest us from our enemies puttest them to confusion that hate us 9 We make our boast of God all day long and will praise thy name for ever 10 But now thou art farre off and puttest us to confusion and goest not forth with our Armies 11 Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies so that they which hate us spoil our goods 12 Thou lettest us to be eaten up like sheep and hast scattered us among the Heathen 13 Thou sellest thy people for nought and takest no money for them 14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us 15 Thou makest us to be a by-word among the heathen and that the people shake their heads at us 16 My confusion is daily before me and the shame of my face hath covered me 17 For the voice of the slanderer aud blasphemer for the enemy and avenger 18 And though all this be come upon us yet doe we not forget thee nor behave our selves frowardly in thy covenant 19 Our heart is not turned back neither our steps gone out of thy way 20 No not when thou hast smitten us into the place of Dragons and covered us with the shadow of death 21 If we have forgotten the name of our God and holden up our hands to any strange god shall not God search it out for he knoweth the very secrets of the heart 22 For thy sake also are we killed all the day long and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain 23 Up Lord why sleepest thou awake and be not absent from us for ever 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble 25 For our soul is brought low even unto the dust our belly cleaveth unto the ground 26 Arise and help us and deliver us for thy mercies sake The Prayer OLord God of hosts who for our sinnes hast suffered the sword to take vengeance upon us and to plead thy cause againstus O hide not thy face from us and forget not our misery and trouble We are killed all day long and are accounted as sheep appointed to be slaine we are covered with the shadow of death ' and they which hate us spoil our goods Deale with us in pitty and as thou hast done to our Fathers of old time when they called upon thee in their trouble so deale with us thou overthrewest their enemies and didst tread them under that arose up against them Arise and helpe us and deliver us also for thy mercy sake our owne sword cannot helpe us but let thy right hand and thine arme and the light of thy countenance worke deliverance and salvation for us Goe forth with our Armies O thou God of Hosts doe thou fight our Battells that we may not turne our backs upon our enemies but Crowne us with Victory and Peace that we may make our boast of thee all day long and praise thy Name for ever who art holy and just and mercifull the great God of Battells and recompences From thee let mercy now ever proceed and to thy Name let honour be for ever ascribed of all the Hosts of Heaven and Earth world without end Amen PSALME 45. A Prayer for the conversion of the Heathen and prosperity of the Church MY heart is enditing of a good matter I speak of the things which I haue made unto the King 2 My tongue is the pen of a ready writer 3 Thou art fairer then the children of men full of grace are thy lips because God hath blessed thee for ever 4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh O thou most mighty according to thy worship and renown 5 Good luck haue thou with thine honour ride on because of the word of truth of meeknesse and righteousnesse and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things 6 Thy arrows are very sharp and the people shall be subdued unto thee even in the middest among the Kings enemies 7 Thy seat O God endureth for ever the scepter of thy Kingdome is a right scepter 8 Thou hast loved righteousnesse and hated iniquity wherefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladnesse aboue thy fellows 9 All thy garments smell of myrrhe aloes and cassia out of the ivorie palaces where by they haue made thee glad 10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable women upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in a vesture of gold wrought about with divers colours 11 Hearken O daughter and consider encline thine eare forget also thine own people and thy fathers house 12 So shall the King haue pleasure in thy beauty for he is thy Lord God and worship thou him 13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift like as the rich also among the people shall make their supplication before thee 14 The Kings daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought gold 15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-works the virgins that be her fellowes shall bear her company and shall be brought unto thee 16 With joy and gladnesse shall they be brought and shall enter into the Kings Palace 17 In stead of thy fathers thou shalt haue children whom thou mayest make Princes in all Lands 18 I will remember thy name from one generation unto another therefore shall the people giue thanks unto thee world without end The Prayer O Blessed Iesu Prince of the Catholike Church thou art fairer then the children of men thy lips are full of grace thine Armies mighty thy head is Crowned with Majesty and clothed with worship and renowne have mercy upon thy holy Church
for the testimony of a good conscience the doctrines of a Catholike faith Let not them that trust in thee O Lord God of Hosts be ashamed but let them who for thy sake have suffered reproofe be delivered from them that hate them and from the deep waters of persecutions and discomforts that we and all thy faithfull people being saved from our Enemies may praise thee and thy faithfulnesse in this world and may finally inherit the land of promise which thou hast made to all that suffer persecution for a cause of righteousnesse even the possession of thine inheritance thy Kingdome in Heaven where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 70. A Prayer to God for blessings upon faithfull People and deliverance from our Enemies HAst thee O God to deliver mee make hast to help me O Lord. 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul let them be turned backward and put to confusion that wish me evill 3 Let them for their reward be soon brought to shame that crie over me There there 4 But let all those that seek thee be ioyfull and glad in thee and let all such as delight in thy salvation say alway The Lord be praised 5 As for me I am poore and in misery baste thee unto mee O God 6 Thou art my helper and my redeemer O Lord make no long tarrying The Prayer O Lord God our Helper and Redeemer have mercy upon us and all thy faithfull people make haste and help us ô God against all those that seek after our soules to doe us mischiefe make us to delight in thee to waite for thy salvation to trust in thy mercies to rejoyce in thy excellencies and perfection that our feet being directed by thy guidance our weaknesses strengthned by thy power our sinnes pardoned by thy mercies and our soules justified by thy free grace we may alwaies give thee praise with the humble addresses of devotion and thankfulnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 71. A Prayer for the continuance of Gods favours to us even to our old age and a longing for a happy departure MORNING PRAYER IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousnesse encline thine eare unto me and save me 2 Be thou my strong hold whereunto I may alway resort thou hast promised to help me for thou art my house of defence and my castle 3 Deliver me O my God out of the hand of the ungodly out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruell man 4 For thou O Lord God art the thing that I long for thou art my hope even from my youth 5 Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born thou art he that took me out of my mothers wombe my praise shall be alway of thee 6 I am become as it were a monster unto many but my sure trust is in thee 7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praise that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long 8 Cast me not away in the time of age forsake me not when my strength faileth me 9 For mine enemies speak against me and they that lay wait for my soul take their counsel together saying God hath forsaken him persecute him and take him for there is none to deliver him 10 Go not farre from me O God my God hast thee to help me 11 Let them be confounded and perish that are against my soul let them be covered with shame and dishonour that seek to doe me evill 12 As for me I will patiently abide alway and will praise thee more and more 13 My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousnesse and salvation for I know no end thereof 14 I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God and will make mention of thy righteousnesse only 15 Thou O God hast taught me from my youth up untill now therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works 16 Forsake me not O God in mine old age when I am gray-headed untill I have shewed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to all them that are yet for to come 17 Thy righteousnesse O God is very high and great things are they that thou hast done O God who is like unto thee 18 O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turn and refresh me yea and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again 19 Thou hast brought me to great honour and comforted me on every side 20 Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulnesse O God playing upon an instrument of musick unto thee will I sing upon the harp O thou holy one of Israel 21 My lips will be fain when I sing unto thee and so will my soule whom thou hast delivered 22 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousnesse all the day long for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to do me evil The Prayer O Lord God our house of defence and our Castle who by thy mercies and thy loving Spirit hast taught us and led us in thy wayes from our first years untill now thou hast brought us to great honour even the honour of being Christians the honour of adoption to be thy Children and heires of thy glorious promises coheir◠with thy Sonne Iesus Christ and hast comforted us on every side with a continuall streame of thy mercies and refreshments give us thy grace that we may love thee and long for thee above all the things of this World and as thou hast holden us up ever since we were borne so let thy mercy goe along with us all our daies Cast us not away in the time of age and give us grace that we may never cast thee or thy Lawes from us Let not thy grace and the ghostly strength we derive from thee forsake us when our naturall strength failes us but let our spirit grow upon the disadvantages of the flesh and begin to receive the happinesse of eternity by an absolute conquest over the weakned and decaying body that after we have by thy aide passed through the great troubles and adversities thou shewest unto all thy Children in this world we may lye downe in righteousnesse and with thy favour that when thou bringest us out from the deep of the earth againe we may have a joyfull resurrection to the society of Saints and Angells and the full fruition of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen PSALME 72. A Prayer for the exaltation and propagation of Christs Kingdome GIve the King thy judgements O God and thy righteousnesse unto the Kings sonne 2 Then shall he iudge the people according unto right and defend the poore 3 The mountains also shall bring peace and the little hills righteousnesse unto the people 4 He shall keep the simple folk by their right defend the children of the poore and punish the wrong doer 5
timber asore out of the thick trees was known to bring it to an excellent work 7 But now they break down all the carved work thereof with axes and hammers 8 They have set fire upon thy holy places and have defiled the dwelling place of thy name even unto the ground 9 Yea they said in their hearts Let us make havock of them altogether thus have they burnt up all the houses of God in the land 10 We see not our tokens there is not one prophet more no not one is there among us that understandeth any more 11 O God how long shall the adversarie do this dishonour how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever 12 Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosome to consume the enemy 13 For God is my King of old the help that is done upon earth he doth it himself 14 Thou diddest divide the sea through thy power thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters 15 Thou smotest the heads of leviathan in pieces and gavest him to be meat for the people in the wildernesse 16 Thou broughtest out fountains and waters out of the hard rocks thou driedst up mighty waters 17 The day is thine and the night is thine thou hast prepared the light and the sunne 18 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast made summer and winter 19 Remember this O Lord how the enemy hath rebuked and how the foolish people have blasphemed thy name 29 O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the multitude of the enemies and forget not the congregation of the poor for ever 21 Look upon the covenant for all the earth is full of darknesse and cruell habitations 22 Oh let not the simple go away ashamed but let the poor and needy give praise unto thy name 23 Arise O God maintain thine own cause remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily 24 Forget not the voyce of thine enemies the presumption of them that hate thee increaseth ever more and more The Prayer O Lord God Blessed Iesu who with thy precious blood hast purchased to thy selfe and redeemed a Church that it should serve thee in holinesse righteousnesse being delivered from feare of all their adversaries forget not the congregation of thy poor people for ever maintaine thine owne cause deliver the soule of thy Turtle dove from the multitude of her enemies Preserve with thy right band all the places appointed for thy publike service let a guard of flaming Cherubins as at the gate of Paradise stand sentinell and keep from the invasions of sacrilegious persons the pollutions of all impure Church-robbers all thy dwelling places that thou mayest for ever dwell among us defending the poore bringing help to all thy people and particular blessings assistances to the tribe of thine owne inheritance which thou hast sanctified to thy worship and service through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 75. A Prayer against the terrors of the day of Judgement MORNING PRAYER VNto thee O God doe we give thanks yea unto thee doe we giue thankes 2 Thy name also is so nigh and that doe thy wondrous workes declare 3 When I receiue the congregation I shall iudge according unto right 4 The earth is weak and all the inhabiters thereof I bear up the pillars of it 5 I said unto the fools Deal not so madly and to the ungodly Set not up your horn 6 Set not up your horn on high and speak not with a stiffe neck 7 For promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor yet from the South 8 And why God is the iudge he putteth down one and setteth up another 9 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is full mixt and he poureth out of the same 10 As for the dregs thereof all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them and suck them out 11 But I will talk of the God of Iacob and praise him for ever 12 All the horns of the ungodly also will I break and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted The Prayer O Lord God the Iudge of all the world from whom commeth all promotion and all punishment have mercy upon us now at the houre of death and in the day of Iudgement when thou shalt judge all the congregations of men and Angells according unto right ô give us grace to expect thy comming in humility and charity that we be not stiffe-necked and exalted in our owne opinions and conceptions but may submit to thy yoke with meeknesse and obedience that when thou shalt poure forth the cup of thy vengeance upon the ungodly we may not drinke or tast of the dregs of it but may sit downe at thy Table in the Supper of the Lamb and be satisfied with the blessings of eternity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 76. A Prayer that we may feare Gods Iudgements and be freed from the terrors of men IN Iury is God known his name is great in Israel 2 At Salem is his tabernacle and his dwelling in Sion 3 There brake â—e the arrows of the bow the shield the sword and the battell 4 Thou art of more honour and might then the hills of the robbers 5 The proud are robbed they haue slept their sleep and all the men whose hands were mighty haue found nothing 6 At thy rebuke O God of Iacob both the chariot and horse are fallen 7 Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry 8 Thou didst cause thy iudgement to be heard from heaven the earth trembled and was still 9 When God arose to iudgement and to help all the meek upon earth 10 The fiercenesse of man shall turn to thy praise and the fiercenesse of them shalt thou refraine 11 Promise unto the Lord your God and keep it all ye that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared 12 He shall refrain the spirit of Princes and is wonderfull among the Kings of the earth The Prayer O Lord God whose dwelling is in heaven and thy Name is great in all the world plant the dread and reverence of thee and thy power in our hearts let thy threatnings and thy judgements which are heard from heaven and executed upon disobedient and gainsaying people make us to tremble at the remembrance of our sinnes and in the consideration of our weakenesses and demerits and let thy mercies and the remembrance of thy infinite loving kindnesses make our hearts still full of evenesse tranquillity that we may not feare the fiercenesse of man or the wrath of those whose Spirits thou canst refraine least we be disturbed in our duties towards thee but let us so feare thee that we may never offend against thee but may passe from feare to love from apprehensions of thy wrath to the sense and comforts of thy mercies
through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 77. A Prayer that the experience of Gods goodnesse may produce hope in us and remove from us all fearfullnesse and doubting I Will crie unto God with my voice even unto God will I crie with my voice and he shall hearken unto me 2 In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran and ceased not in the night season my soul refused comfort 3 When I am in heavinesse I will think upon God when my heart is vexed I will complaine 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking I am so feeble that I cannot speak 5 I haue considered the dayes of old and the yeares that are past 6 I call to remembrance my song and in the night I commune with mine owne heart and search out my spirits 7 Will the Lord absent himselfe for ever and will he be no more intreated 8 Is his mercy cleane gone for ever and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious and will he shut up his loving kindnes in displeasure 10 And I said It is mine owne infirmitie but I will remember the yeares of the right hand of the most highest 11 I will remember the works of the Lord and call to minde thy wonders of old time 12 I will think also of all thy works and my talking shall be of thy doings 13 Thy way O God is holy who is so great a God as our God 14 Thou art the God that doth wonders and hast declared thy power among the people 15 Thou hast mightily delivered thy people even the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph 16 The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and were afraid the depths also were troubled 17 The clouds poured out water the aire thundred and thine arrows went abroad 18 The voice of thy thunder was heard round about the lightnings shone upon the ground the earth was moved and shook withall 19 Thy way is in the sea thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not knowne 20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron The Prayer O God who dost wonders and hast declared thy power amongst all people let the observation of thy mercies and loving kindnesses make such deep impression in our hearts and memories that when we are in heavinesse we may remember the yeares of thy right hand and call to mind the wonders of old time that although thou sometimes withdrawest the brightnesse of thy countenance from us and shuttest up thy loving kindnesse in a short displeasure yet the experience of thy old mercies which never faile may sustaine our infirmities and the expectation of thy loving kindnesses may cure all our impatience till in thy due time the sense of thy favours may actually releeve all our distresses and thy right hand lead us like sheep into the folds of eternall rest and security through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 78. A Commemoration of Gods blessings to his Church of old of his Judgements upon sinners and his mercies to the penitent EVENING PRAYER HEare my law O my people encline your eares unto the words of my mouth 2 I will open my mouth in a parable I will declare hard sentences of old 3 Which we haue heard and knowne and such as our fathers have told us 4 That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to shew the honour of the Lord his mighty and wonderfull works that he hath done 5 He made a covenant with Iacob and gaue Israel a law which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children 6 That their posterity might know it and the children which were yet unborn 7 To the intent that when they came up they might shew their children the same 8 That they might put their trust in God and not to forget the works of God but to keep his Commandements 9 And not to be as their forefathers a faithlesse and stubborn generation a generation that set not their heart aright and whose spirit â—leaved not stedfastly unto God 10 Like as the children of Ephraim which being haruessed and carrying bows turned themselves back in the day of battell 11 They kept not the covenant of God and would not walk in his law 12 But forgat what he had done and the wonderfull works that he had shewed for them 13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers in the land of Egypt even in the field of zoan 14 He divided the sea and let them goe through he made the waters to stand on an heap 15 In the day time also he led them with a cloud and all the night through with a light of fire 16 He clave the hard rocks in the wildernesse and gaue them drink thereof as it had been out of the great depth 17 He brought waters out of the stony rock so that it gushed out like the rivers 18 Yet for all this they sinned more against him and provoked the most Highest in the wildernesse 19 They tempted God in their hearts and required meat for their lust 20 They spake against God also saying Shall God prepare a table in the wildernesse 21 He smote the stony rock indeed that the water gushed out and the streams flowed withall but can he giue bread also or provide flesh for his people 22 When the Lord heard this he was wroth so the fire was kindled in Iacob and there came up heavy displeasure against Israel 23 Because they beleeved not in God and put not their trust in his help 24 So he commanded the clouds aboue and opened the doores of heaven 25 He rained down Manna also upon them for to eat and gaue them food from heaven 26 So man did eat Angells food for he sent them meat enough 27 He caused the east winde to blow under heaven and through his power he brought in the south-west winde 28 He rained flesh upon them as thick as dust and feathered fowles like as the sand of the sea 29 He let it fall among their tents even round about their habitation 30 So they did eat and were well filled for he gaue them their own desire they were not disappointed of their lust 31 But while the meat was yet in their mouthes the heavy wrath of God came upon them and slew the wealthiest of them yea and smote downe the chosen men that were in Israel 32 But for all this they sinned yet more and beleeved not his wonderous works 33 Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanity and their yeares in trouble 34 When he slew them they sought him and turned them early and enquired after God 35 And they remembred that God was their strength and that the high God was their Redeemer 36 Neverthelesse they did but flatter him with their mouth and dissembled with him in their tongue 37 For their heart was not whole with him neither continued they stedfast in his
covenant 38 But he was so mercifull that he forgaue their misdeeds and destroyed them not 39 Yea many a time turned he his wrath away and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise 40 For he considered that they were but flesh and that they were even a winde that passeth away and cometh not againe 41 Many a time did they provoke him in the wildernesse and grieved him in the desert 42 They turned back and tempted God and moved the holy one in Israel 43 They thought not of his hand and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy 44 How he had wrought his miracles in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan 45 He turned their waters into bloud so that they might not drink of the rivers 46 He sent lice among them and devoured them up and frogs to destroy them 47 He gaue their fruit unto the caterpiller and their labour unto the graâ—hopper 48 He destroyed their vines with hailstones and their mulberrie trees with the frost 49 He smote their cattell also with hailstones and their flocks with hot thunderbolts 50 He cast upon them the furiousnesse of his wrath anger displeasure and trouble and sent evill Angells among them 51 He made a way to his indignation and spared not their soul from death but gaue their life over to the pestilence 52 And smote all the first-born in Egypt the most principall and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham. 53 But as for his owne people he led them forth like sheep and carried them in the wildernesse like a flock 54 He brought them out safely that they should not fear and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea 55 And brought them within the borders of his sanctuary even to his mountain which he purchased with his right hand 56 He cast out the heathen also before them caused their land to be divided among them for an heritage and made the tribes of Israell to dwell in their tents 57 So they tempted and displeased the most high God and kept not his testimonies 58 But turned their backs and fell away like their forefathers starting aside like a broken bow 59 For they grieved him with their hill altars and provoked him to displeasüre with their images 60 When God heard this he was wroth and took sore displeasure at Israel 61 So that he forsook the sabernacle in Sâ—lo even the tent that he had pitched among them 62 He dellvered their power into captivity and their beauty into the enemies hand 63 He gaue his people over also unto y e sword and was wroth with his inheritance 64 The fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage 65 Their priests were slain with the sword and there were no widows to make lamentation 66 So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep and like a Giant refreshed with wine 67 He smote his enemies in the hinder parts and put them to a perpetuall shame 68 He refused the tabernacle of Ioseph and those not the tribe of Ephraim 69 But chose the tribe of Iuda even the hill of Sion which he loved 70 And there he builded his temple on high and laid the foundation of it like the ground which he hath made continually 71 He chose David also his servant and took him away from the sheepfolds 72 As he was following the ewes great with young ones he took him that he might feed Iacob his people and Israel his inheritance 73 So he fed them with a faithfull and true heart and ruled them prudently with all his power The Prayer O Lord God of Our Fathers God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob thou that leddest thy people through the Wildernesse with a light and with a cloud and with thy bright Angell for their sakes turning rocks into a springing well and making the Sea and the River become dry land so making demonstration of the greatnesse of thy mercy by the greatnesse of thy miracles and didst still goe on to make all thy creatures leave their natures to serve them even then when they tempted and provoked thee ten times in the desert O be pleased to doe unto us as thou didst to them lead us through the desert of this World with the light of thy holy Spirit and from the rock which for our sakes thou didst smite with thy heavy rod the rock Christ Iesus let water and bloud streame forth to cleanse and to refresh us Give us of the bread that came down from heaven the flesh of thy deare Sonne to eat that we being purified by his bloud and nourished by that celestiall Manna our hearts may be set aright and our spirits may cleave stedfastly unto thee O God that we may remember thy works and trust in thy mercies and may keep thy commandements O never let the fire of thy wrath be kindled towards us nor thy heavy displeasure come up against us let us not consume our daies in folly and vanity least our yeares be spent in trouble but when through infirmity we fall let thy gentle correction call us home that we may turne us early and seek after thee our God who art our strength and our mercifull Redeemer that we may never feele the furiousnesse of thy eternall wrath nor have our portion amongst the evill Angells but may be conducted by thy mercies and providence to the border of thy sanctuary and to the mountain where thou reignest over all the creatures one God world withoutend Amen PSALME 79. A Prayer that God would deliver his Church from the cruelty of all her persecutors MORNING PRAYER O God the heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy temple have they defiled and made Ierusalem an heap of stones 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the aire and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land 3 Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Ierusalem and there was no man to bury them 4 We are become an open shame to our enemies a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us 5 Lord how long wilt thou be angry shall thy iealousie burn like fire for ever 6 Poure out thine indignation upon the heathen that have not known thee and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy nameÌ„ 7 For they have devoured Iacob and laid waste his dwelling place 8 O remember not our old sinnes but have mercy upon us and that soon for we are come to great misery 9 Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull unto our sinnes for thy names sake 10 Wherefore do the heathen say Where is now their God 11 O let the vengeance of thy servants bloud that is shed be openly shewed upon the heathen in our sight 12 O let the sorrowfull sighing of the prisoners come before thee according to the greatnesse of thy power preserve thou
dwell in the tents of ungodlinesse 12 For the Lord God is a light and defence the Lord will give grace and worship and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life 13 O Lord God of hosts blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God of hosts who dwellest in the heavens seated in essentiall and eternall felicities fill our hearts with desires and longings to enter into those Courts where thou sittest attended with the beauteous orders of Angells and millions of beautified spirits and that our desires may receive infinite satisfactions give us thy helpe that we going through the vale of misery the pooles may be filled with water our hearts and eyes may runne over with teares of repentance and overflow with sorrow and contrition for our sinnes that we living a godly life going from strength to strength from vertue to vertue at last we may appeare in Sion unto the God of Gods beholding the face of thine anointed thy Christ and our Iesus and may dwell one day in thy Courts even all the long day of eternity through the same Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 85. A thanksgiving for Gods free mercy in the pardon of our sinnes and a prayer for the continuance and increase of his mercies to us LOrd thou art become gratious unto thy land thou hast turned away the captivity of Iacob 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people and covered all their sinnes 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure and turned thy selfe from thy wrathfull indignation 4 Turn us then O God our Saviour and let thine anger cease from us 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another 6 Wilt thou not turn againe quicken us that thy people may reioyce in thee 7 Shew us thy mercy O Lord and grant us thy salvation 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me for he shall speak peace unto his people and to his saints that they turne not again 9 For his salvation is nigh them that feare him that glory may dwell in our land 10 Mercy and truth are met together righteousnesse and peace have kissed each other 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousnesse hath looked down from heaven 12 Yea the Lord shall shew loving kindnesse and our land shall give her increase 13 Righteousnesse shall go before him and he shall direct his going in the way The Prayer O Most gracious God who art reconciled unto us in our Saviour Iesus having for his sake forgiven the offences of thy people and covered all their sinnes with the robe of his most immaculate sanctity and righteousnesse let thy grace convert and quicken us that we may rejoyce in thee and thy salvation in faith of thy promises in hope of the actuall communication of thy mercies to us and in love to thee for so great blessings and redemption and when thou hast spoken peace unto our soules and reconciled us to thy selfe in the bloud of thy Son give us the grace of perseverance that we may never turne again to folly but may follow mercy and truth all our dayes and at last be satisfied with thy righteousnesse and peace eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 86. A prayer for sanctity and preservation MORNING PRAYER BOw down thine eare O Lord and heare me for I am poore and in misery 2 Preserve thou my soule for I am holy my God save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee 3 Be mercifull unto me O Lord for I will call daily upon thee 4 Comfort the soule of thy servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soule 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6 Give eare Lord unto my prayer and ponder the voyce of my humble desires 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou hearest me 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee O Lord there is not one that can do as thou doest 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10 For thou art great and doest wonderous things thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walke in thy truth O knit my heart unto thee that I may feare thy Name 12 I will thanke thee O Lord my God with all my heart and will praise thy Name for evermore 13 For great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soule from the nethermost hell 14 O God the proud are risen against me and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soule and have not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lord God art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering plenteous in goodnesse and truth 16 O turne thee then unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and helpe the son of thine handmaid 17 Shew some good token upon me for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me The Prayer O Lord God good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee give eare unto our prayers and ponder the voyce of our desires when ever we call upon thee in our trouble Let the soules of thy servants be refreshed with thy comforts and defend us from the congregations of proud and naughty men Turne thee unto us with mercy give thy strength unto us teach us thy lawes make us to walke in thy truth give us the feare of thy Name and knit our hearts to thee with the indissoluble bands of charity and obedience that our soules being saved from the nethermost hell we may worship thee O Lord glorifie thy name who art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and plenteous in goodnesse and truth which thou hast manifested to us in our deliverance and redemption through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 87. A contemplation of the excellencies of Sion or the celestiall Ierusalem HEr foundations are upon the holy hills the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Iacob 2 Uery excellent things are spoken of thee thou city of God 3 I will thinke upon Rahab and Babylon with them that know me 4 Behold ye the Philistims also and they of Tyre with the Morians lo there was he borne 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was borne in her and the most High shall stablish her 6 The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people that he was borne there 7 The singers also and trumpeters also shall he rehearse all my fresh springs shall be in thee The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in Sion and delightest to have thy habitation in the hearts of men thou hast built the
Church as a City upon a hill and laid the foundation of it upon the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ being the chiefe Corner-stone make us to be a spirituall building fit for thy habitation and a residence for thy holy Spirit grounding us in faith building us up in hope and perfecting us in charity that we being joyned in the communion of Saints in the union of the holy Catholike Church militant on earth may all partake of the blessings of thy Church triumphant in the City of thee our God in the celestiall Ierusalem where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen PSALME 88. A prayer in time of sicknesse and danger of death O Lord God of my salvation I have cried day and night before thee O let my prayer enter into thy presence incline thine eare unto my calling 2 For my soule is full of trouble and my life draweth nigh unto hell 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit and I have been even as a man that hath no strength 4 Free among the dead like unto them that be wounded and lie in the grave which be out of remembrance and are cut away from thy hand 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in a place of darknesse and in the deep 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me and made me to be abhorred of them 8 I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth 9 My sight faileth for very trouble Lord I have called daily upon thee I have stretched out my hands unto thee 10 Doest thou shew wonders among the dead or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee 11 Shall thy loving kindnesse be shewed in the grave or thy faithfulnesse in destruction 12 Shall thy wondrous workes be knowne in the darke and thy righteousnesse in the land where all things are forgotten 13 Unto thee haâ—e I eried O Lord and early shall my prayer come before thee 14 Lord why abhorest thou my soule and hidest thou thy face from me 15 I am in misery and like unto him that is at the point to die even from my youth up thy terrours have I suffered with a troubled minde 16 Thy wrathfull displeasure goeth over me and the feare of thee hath undone me 17 They came round about me daily like water and compassed me together on every side 18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight The Prayer O Lord God of our salvation who for our sakes wert wounded and didst die and lie in the grave but yet alone of all that ever died wert free among the dead and by thine own power didst arise againe with victory and triumph have mercy upon thy servant for thine indignation lieth hard upon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes my soul is full of trouble by reason of my sinnes and my life draweth nigh unto the grave restore me unto thy favour and let me not go down into the darke nor my life into the place where all things are forgotten but let me shew forth thy loving kindnesse amongst thy redeemed ones in the land of the living for the living the living he shall praise thee and confesse the holinesse and the mercies of thy holy Name O hide not thou thy face from me but give me health of body and restore and preserve me in the life of righteousnesse and so blesse me with opportunities of doing thee service that I may redeem the time past and by thy grace may grow rich in good workes alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord that when thou shalt demand my soule to be rendred up into thy hands my soule may not be abhorred of thee nor suffer thy terrours but may feele an eternity of blessings in the resurrection of the just through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 89. A Prayer for the King in time of Warres or any publike calamitie EVENING PRAYER MY song shall be alway of the loving kindnesse of the Lord with my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from one generation to another 2 For I have said mercy shall be set up for ever thy truth shalt thou stablish in the heavens 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen I have sworne unto David my servant 4 Thy seed will I stablish for ever and set up thy throne from one generation to another 5 O Lord the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous workes and thy truth in the congregation of the saints 6 For who is he among the clouds that shall be compared unto the Lord 7 And what is he among the gods that shall be like unto the Lord 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the counsell of the saints and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him 9 O Lord God of hosts who is like unto thee thy truth most mighty Lord is on every side 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt and destroyed it thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy might arme 12 The heavens are thine the earth also is thine thou hast laid the foundation of the round world and all that therein is 13 Thou hast made the North and the South Tabor and Harmon shall reioyce in thy Name 14 Thou hast a mighty arme strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand 15 Righteousnesse and equity is the habitation of thy feat mercy and truth shall go before thy face 16 Blessed is the people O Lord that can reioyce in thee they shall walke in the light of thy countenance 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name and in thy righteousnesse shall they make their boast 18 For thou art the glory of their strength and in thy loving kindnesse thou shalt lift up our hornes 19 For the Lord is our defence the holy one of Israel is our King 20 Thou spakest sometimes in vision unto thy Saints and saidest I have laid helpe upon one that is mighty I have exalted one chosen out of the people 21 I have found David my servant with my holy oyle have I anointed him 22 My hand shall hold him fast and my arme shall strengthen him 23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence the son of wickednesse shall not hurt him 24 I shall smite down his foes before his face and plague them that hate him 25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him and in my Name shall his horne be exalted 26 I will set his dominion also in the sea and his right hand in the flouds 27 He shall call me thou art my father my God and my strong salvation 28 And I will make him my first-borne higher than the kings of the earth 29 My mercy will I keep for him for
consciences O build up the ruines of our soules repaire the breaches of our comforts and our hopes and let thy glorie now appeare for that shines brightest in the beames of thy mercie and when thou turnest unto the prayer of poore wretched destitutes it becomes an eternall monument and a record of thy honour and all generations which shall be borne shall praise thee Looke downe O Lord from thy Sanctuary heare the mournings of us and of all distressed people send us health and life so long as it may be a blessing and do not shorten our dayes in wrath but give us grace so to spend all our time in the workes of repentance and holinesse that when our yeares faile and our change is come we may be translated to the new heavens which shall never perish and wax old there to continue and stand fast in thy sight for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 103. A thanksgiving to God for all his benefits and mercies PRaise the Lord O my soul and all that is within me praise his holy name 2 Praise the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits 3 Which forgiveth all thy sinne and healeth all thine infirmities 4 Which saveth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindnesse 5 Which satisfieth thy mouth with good things making thee young and lusty as an eagle 6 The Lord executeth righteousnesse and iudgement for all them that are oppressed with wrong 7 He shewed his waies unto Moses his works unto the children of Israell 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and of great goodnesse 9 He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for ever 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sinnes nor rewarded us according to our wickednesse 11 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth so great is his mercy also toward them that feare him 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west so farre hath he set our sinnes from us 13 Yea like as a father pittieth his own children even so is the Lord mercifull unto them that fear him 14 For he knoweth whereof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust 15 The dayes of man are but as grasse for he flourisheth as a flower of the field 16 For assoon as the winde goeth over it it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the mercifull goodnesse of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousnesse upon childrens children 18 Even upon such as keep his covenant and think upon his commandements to do them 19 The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven and his kingdome ruleth over all 20 O praise the Lord ye angells of his ye that excell in strength ye that fulfill his commandment and hearken unto the voice of his words 21 O praise the Lord all ye his hosts ye servants of his that do his pleasure 22 O speak good of the Lord all ye works of his in all places of his dominion praise thou the Lord O my soul The Prayer O most mercifull God whose mercy is as high as the heavens as great and many as the momeÌ„ts of eternity thou hast opened thy hand wide to fill us with blessings and the sweet effects of thy loving kindnesse thou art pittifull as a Father tender as a Mother carefull as a guardian exceeding mercifull to all them that fear thee we pray thee to fill our soules with great apprehensions and impresses of thy unspeakable mercies that our thankfulnesse may be as great as our needs of mercy are and let thy mercifull loving kindnes endure for ever ever upon us all Keep no anger in store for us chide us not in thy displeasure satisfy our mouths with good things remove all our sinnes from us as far as the east is from the west heale all our infirmities and save our lives from destruction for these are mercies thou delightest in and because we cannot praise thee accordingly to thy excellencies take our soules in thy due time into the land of everlasting praises that we may spend a whole eternity in ascribing to thy name praise honour and dominion Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen PSALME 104. A contemplation of the wisedome and goodnesse of God manifested in his creatures EVENING PRAYER PRaise the Lord O my soul O Lord my God thou art become exceeding glorious thou art clothed with maiesty and honour 2 Thou deckest thy self with light as it were with a garment and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain 3 Which layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters and maketh the clouds his chariot and walketh upon the wings of the winde 4 He maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flaming fiâ—e 5 He laid the foundations of the earth that it never should move at any time 6 Thou covered'st it with the deep like as with a garment the waters stand in the hills 7 At thy rebuke they flee at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid 8 They go up as high as the hils and down to the valleys beneath even unto the place which thou hast appointed for them 9 Thou hast set them their bounds which they shall not passe neither turne again to cover the earth 10 He sendeth the springs into the rivers which run among the hils 11 All beasts of the field drinke thereof and the wilde asses quench their thirst 12 Beside them shall the fowles of the aire have their habitation and sing among the branches 13 He watereth the hills from above the earth is filled with the fruit of thy workes 14 He bringeth forth grasse for the cattell and green herbe for the service of men 15 That he may bring food out of the earth and wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oyle to make him a cheerfull countenance and bread to strengthen mans heart 16 The trees of the Lord also are full of sap even the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted 17 Wherein the birds make their nests and the firre-trees are a dwelling for the storke 18 The high hils are a refuge for the wilde goates and so are the stony rockes for the confes 19 He appointed the moon for certain seasons and the sun knoweth his going down 20 Thou makest darknesse that it may be night wherein all the beasts of the forrest do move 21 The lions roaring after their prey do seek their meat at God 21 The sun ariseth and they get them away together and lay them down in their dennes 23 Man goeth forth to his worke and to his labour untill the evening 24 O Lord how manifold are thy workes in wisdome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches 25 So is the great and wide sea also wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts 26 There go the
ships and there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein 27 These wait all upon thee that thou mayest give them meat in due season 28 When thou givest it them they gather it and when thou openest thy hand they are filled with good 29 When thou hidest thy face they are troubled when thou takest away their breath they die and are turned again to their dust 30 When thou lettest thy breath go forth they shall be made and thou shalt renew the face of the earth 31 The glorious maiesty of the Lord shall endure for ever the Lord shall reioyce in his workes 32 The earth shall tremble at the look of him if he do but touch the hills they shall smoke 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will praise my God while I have my being 34 And so shall my words please him my joy shall be in the Lord. 35 As for sinners they shall be consumed out of the earth and the ungodly shall come to an end praise thou the Lord O my soul praise the Lord. The Prayer O Lord God who art exceeding glorious who art clothed with majesty and honour thou hast created all things with admirable wisedome established them with excellent order and hast provided for them with mercy and singular providence be pleased to give us grace that we may remember thou hast created us all for thy glory that thou hast planted thine image on us and hast crowned all our yeares with thy mercies and loving kindnesse let us never disobey thy will forget thy mercies or deface thine image in us but when all thy creatures praise thee in their manner let not us whom thou hast made in dignity next to Angels disturbe the blessed order of Creation by our sinnes and irregular disobedience Open thy hand O Lord and fill us with good things both spirituall and temporall that when thou takest away our breath that we die and turne again to our dust thou mayest not hide thy face away from us but communicate to us the light of thy countenance and the glories of thy Kingdome thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 105. A commemoration of Gods care of his Church and blessings to his people MORNING PRAYER OBive thankes unto the Lord and call upon his Name tell the people what things he hath done 2 O let your songs be of him and praise him and let your talking be of all his wondrous workes 3 Reioyce in his holy Name let the heart of them reioyce that seek the Lord. 4 Sèek the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore 5 Remember the marvellous workes that he hath done his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth 6 O yee seed of Abraham his servant yee children of Iacob his chosen 7 He is the Lord our God his iudgements are in all the world 8 He hath been alway mindfull of his covenant and promise that he made to a thousand generations 9 Even the covenant that he made with Abraham and the oath that he sware unto Isaac 10 And appointed the fame unto Iacob for a law and to Israel for an everlasting testament 11 Saying unto thee will I give the land of Canaan the lot of your inheritance 12 When there were yet but a few of them and they strangers in the land 13 What time as they went from one nation to another from one kingdome to another people 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong but reproved even Kings for their sakes 15 Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harme 16 Moreover he called for a dearth upon the land and destroyed all the provision of bread 17 But he had sent a man before them even Ioseph which was sold to be a bond-servant 18 Whose feet they hurt in the stockes the iron entred into his soule 19 Untill the time came that his cause was known the Word of the Lord tried him 20 The King sent and delivered him the prince of the people let him go free 21 He made him Lord also of his house and ruler of all his substance 22 That he might informe his princes after his will and teach his senatours wisedome 23 Israel also came into Egypt and Iacob was a stranger in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people exceedingly and made them stronger than their enemies 25 Whos 's heart turned so that they hated his people and dealt untruly with his servants 26 Then sent he Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen 27 And these shewed his tokens among them and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darknesse and it was darke and they were not obedient unto his Word 29 He turned their waters into bloud and slew their fish 30 Their land brought forth frogs yea even in their Kings chambers 31 He spake the word and there came all manner of flies and lice in all their quarters 32 He gave them hailstones for raine and flames of fire in their land 33 He smote their vines also and fig-trees and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts 34 He spake the word and the grashoppers came and caterpillars innumerable and did eat up all the grasse in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground 35 He smote all the first-borne in their land even the chiefe of all their strength 36 He brought them forth also with silver and gold there was not one feeble person among their Tribes 37 Egypt was glad at their departing for they were afraid of them 38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering and fire to give light in the night season 39 At their desire he brought quailes and he filled them with the bread of heaven 40 He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out so that the rivers ran in dry places 41 For why he remembred his holy promise and Abraham his servant 42 And he brought forth his people with ioy and his chosen with gladnesse 43 And gave them the lands of the heathen and they took the labours of the people in possession 44 That they might keep his statutes and observe his lawes The Prayer O Lord God who art alway mind full of thy covenant and promise to a thousand generations and didst deliver the seed of Abraham the children of Iacob thy chosen from the slavery of Egypt from the waves of the sea from the rage of Pharaoh from the thirst and â—amine of the wildernesse continue the like mercies to all Christian people deliver us from the bondage of our sinnes preserve us in the Aâ—ke of the Church that we perish not in the waves of this troublesome world save us from the â—â—ry of all our temporall and ghostly enemies â—eed us with food from heaven and give us competency of good things on earth that we may keep thy statutes and observe thy Lawes and at last receive the promises of a blessed eternity which in the covenant of thy Gospell thou hast
mine heritage for ever and why they are the very â—oy of my heart 8 I have applied my heart to fulfill thy statutes alway even unto the end The Prayer O Sonne of righteousnesse that camest to bring light unto the world by thy word and example and illumination of thy holy spirit let thy spirit lead us thy example guide us thy word teach us that we may not love darknesse more then light but may keep thy righteous judgements according to our many purposes and our vow of baptisme keep us from the snare of the ungodly and from our own selves the dangers of our own concupiscence and the miseries of our infirmity leave not our soules in our own hands but keep them under thy protection and government least we swerve from thy commandments but that applying our hearts alway to fulfill thy statutes even unto the end we may possesse thy law as our portion and inheritance for ever Grant this O blessed Iesu for thy promise and for thy mercies sake that we may glorifie thee in the unity of themost mysterious Trinity now and for evermore Amen XV. I Hate them that imagine evill things but thy law do I love 2 Thou art my defence and shield and my trust is in thy word 3 Away from me yee wicked I will keep the commandments of my God 4 O stablish me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be disappoynted of my hope 5 Hold thou me up and I shall be safe yea my delight shall be ever in thy statutes 6 Thou hast troden down all them that depart from thy statutes for they imagine but deceit 7 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like drosse therefore I love thy testimonies 8 My flesh trembleth for feare of thee and I am afraid of thy iudgements The Prayer O God our defence and shield thou that treadest down all them that depart from thy law and puttest away the ungodly of the earth like drosse let thy mercies hold us up that we may be safe from sinne and death eternall make us to hate all evill things all evill imaginations that we being stablished with a trust in thee and building our expectations upon thy mercies and promises we may not be disappointed of our hope but may live with thee eternally through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen XVI I Deal with the thing that is lawfull and right O give me not over unto mine oppressors 2 Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good that the proud do me no wrong 3 Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health and for the word of thy righteousnesse 4 O deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy and teach me thy statutes 5 I am thy servant O grant me understanding that I may know thy testimonies 6 It is time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand for they have destroyed thy law 7 For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stone 8 Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments and all false waies I utterly abhorre The Prayer O Lord God thou seest with what miseries and dangers we are incompassed our ghostly enemies seek to do us wrong and to oppresse our soules give us not over unto their malice but arme us against their pride and insolency by faith in thy word by hope of thy mercies and looking for thy health and by love unto thy commandments that so in this world and in the eternall retribution of the Saints thou maist deal with thy servants according to thy loving mercy Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen XVII THy testimonies are wonderfull therefore doth my soul keep them 2 When thy word goeth forth it giveth light and understanding unto the simple 3 I opened my mouth and drew in my breath for my delight was in thy commandments 4 O look thou upon me and be mercifull unto me as thou usest to do unto those that loue thy name 5 Order my steps in thy word and so shall no wickednesse have dominion over me 6 O deliver me from the wrongfull dealings of men and so shall I keep thy commandments 7 Shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servant and teach me thy statutes 8 Mine eyes gush out with water because men keep not thy law O Iust and deare God shew the light of thy countenance upon thy servants and let this light give unto us understanding in thy law that our steps being ordered in thy word thou maist deliver us from the wrongfull dealings of men and from the malicious enmities of our Ghostly adversaries that by their temptations and our own weaknesse we may never be brought under the dominion of sinne and wickednesse that when thy word goeth forth to call to judgement all people quick and dead thou maist be mercifull unto us and save us as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name Grant this for the merits and mercies of our dearest Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen XVIII RIghteous art thou O Lord and true is thy iudgement 2 The testimonies that thou hast commanded are exceeding righteous and true 3 My zeal hath even consumed me because mine enemies have forgotten thy words 4 Thy word is tried to the uttermost and thy servant loveth it 5 I am small and of no reputation yet do I not forget thy commandments 6 Thy righteousnesse is an everlasting righteousnesse and thy law is the truth 7 Trouble and heavinesse have taken hold upon me yet is my delight in thy commandments 8 The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is everlasting O grant me understanding and I shall live The Prayer O Righteous Lord God whose judgements are true and thy testimonies exceeding righteous enkindle our soules with zeale to thy Lawes and service that the continuall remembrance of thy Commandments may so enable our soules as to give a greatnesse and reputation to us in thy estimation even the greatnesse of humility and obedience which are more honourable in thy eyes than all the pompes and vanities of this world Grant this for his sake who for our sakes humbled himselfe to the forme of a servant and became obedient to the death of the Crosse even Iesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen XIX EVENING PRAYER I Call with my whole heart heare me O Lord I will keep thy statutes 2 Yea even upon thee do I call helpe me and I shall keep thy testimonies 3 Early in the morning do I cry unto thee for in thy word is my trust 4 Mine eyes prevent the night watches that I might be occupied in thy words 5 Heare my voice O Lord according unto thy loving kindnesse quicken me according as thou art wont 6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me and are farre from thy law 7 Be thou nigh at hand O Lord for all thy commandments are true 8 As
concerning thy testimonies I have known long since that thou hast grounded them for ever The Prayer O Lord God of eternall mercy and truth give us hearts fixed upon thy divine beauties and an actuall intention in our prayers that we may call upon thee with our whole hearts and do thou heare in Heaven when we call upon thee deliver us from all them that of malice draw nigh to persecute and afflict us be thou also night at hand and nothing can disturbe our safety Make us to seek to thee early in the morning let our eyes and our prayers prevent the night watches that we may be safe in our conversation with thee and our daily approaches to thy mercy-seat where thou sittest attended with Cherubims and Seraphims glorious in thy Selfe incomprehensible in thy Attributes and infinitely rejoycing in thy mercies which thou shewest unto us in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen XX. O Consider mine adversity and deliver me for I do not forget thy law 2 Avenge thou my cause and deliver me quicken me according unto thy word 3 Health is farre from the ungodly for they regard not thy statutes 4 Great is thy mercie O Lord quicken me as thou art wont 5 Many there are that trouble me and persecute me yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies 6 It grieveth me when I see the transgressours because they keep not thy law 7 Consider O Lord how I love thy commandments O quicken me according to thy loving kindnesse 8 Thy word is true from everlasting all the iudgements of thy righteousnesse endure for evermore The Prayer O Lord thy mercy is great thy Word is true from everlasting and in the truth of thy Word and in the mercies of thy promises and loving kindnesse thou lovest to be knowne to the sonnes of men O give us thy health and salvation that our soules being delivered from the heavie pressure of sin and quickened in thy Word thou mayest avenge us of all our ghostly enemies and deliver us in thy righteousnesse in the day of thy eternall vengeance upon the ungodly through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen XXI PRinces have persecuted me without a cause but my heart standeth in aw of thy words 2 I am as glad of thy word as one that findeth great spoiles 3 As for lies I hate and abhorre them but thy law do I love 4 Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous iudgements 5 Great is the peace that they have which love thy law and they are not offended at it 6 Lord I have looked for thy saving health and done after thy commandments 7 My soule hath kept thy testimonies and loved them exceedingly 8 I have kept thy commandments and testimonies for all my wayes are before thee The Prayer ALL our wayes O God are before thee let all our wayes be directed by thee and teach us to walke as in thy presence Make us to hate and abhorre lyes and vanitie and give us so much love and so much zeale of thy Name and honour that we may make it a businesse to give thee praises with a frequent and daily devotion that we standing in aw of thy Word and holy Lawes and doing after thy Commandments our expectations may be satisfied with thy saving health and we may at last enjoy the peace which they have that love thy Law even the peace of a good conscience here and of a blessed eternity hereafter through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen XXII LEt my complaint come before thee O Lord give me understanding according to thy word 2 Let my supplication come before thee deliver me according to thy word 3 My lips shall speake of thy praise when thou hast taught me thy statutes 4 Yea my tongue shall sing of thy word for all thy commandments are righteous 5 Let thine hand helpe me for I have chosen thy commandments 6 I have longed for thy saving health O Lord and in thy law is my delight 7 O let my soule live and it shall praise thee and thy iudgements shall helpe me 8 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost Oh seek thy servant for I do not forget thy commandments The Prayer O Lord God we have gone astray from thy Commandments and been like lost sheep thou art our Shepheard and our mercifull Guide O seek thy servants let thy hand helpe us let thy care and providence reduce us into the way of thy statutes that we being delivered according to thy Word from thy wrath and from our owne corruptions and irregularities may at last be satisfied with thy saving health and our lips may speak of thy praise in the quire of Saints and Angels singing glorious Anthems to all eternity to the honour of thee O Lord God eternall who livest and reignest world without end Amen PSALM 120. A Prayer to be delivered from false tongues and cohabitation with wicked persons MORNING PRAYER WHen I was in trouble I called upon the Lord and he heard me 2 Deliver my soule O Lord from lying lips and from a deceitfull tongue 3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee thou false tongue even mighty and sharpe arrowes with hot burning coales 4 Wo is me that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech and to have mine habitation among the tents of Cedar 5 My soule hath long dwelt among them that be enemies unto peace 6 I labour for peace but when I speak unto them thereof they make them ready to battell The Prayer O Lord God who hearest the prayers of them that call upon thee in their calamities and distresses have mercy upon us thy servants who live in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation whereof we our selves make too great a part we beseech thee so to order the circumstances and opportunities of our life that we may live in the society of holy people whose example and conversation may be a continuall incentive to the wayes of peace and righteousnesse and deliver us from a necessity of conversing with turbulent spirits angry and unpeacefull dispositions who upon all occasions make themselves ready to battell Sanctifie our hearts and lips with a burning coale from thy altar that our words may be holy and profitable and keep us from all slander and scandall and the rewards of both the sharpe arrowes of thy vengeance the hot burning coales of thy wrath Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen PSALME 121. A Prayer for Gods protection over us I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my helpe 2 My helpe cometh even from the Lord which hath made heauen and earth 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved and he that keepeth thee will not sleep 4 Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep 5 The Lord himselfe is thy keeper the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand 6 So that the sun shall not burne thee by day neither the moon by
increased and thy blessings may descend upon us in a plentifull proportion to supply all our necessities through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 135. A Prayer that God would avenge his People of their Enemies and an invitation of them to praise his Name O Praise the Lord laud yee the name of the Lordâ— praise it O yee seruants of the Lord. 2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord in the courts of the house of our God 3 O praise the Lord for the Lord is gracious O sing praises unto his name for it is louely 4 For why the Lord hath chosen Iacob unto himselfe and Israel for his own possession 5 For I know that the Lord is great and that our Lord is aboue all gods 6 Whatsoeuer the Lord pleased that did he in heauen and in earth and in the sea and in all deep places 7 He bringeth forth the clouds from the ends of the world and sendeth forth lightnings with the rain bringing the windes out of his treasures 8 He somâ—e the first-borne of Egypt both of man and beast 9 He hath sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee O thou land of Egypt upon Pharaoh and all his seruants 10 He smote diuers nations and slew mighty kings 11 Sehon king of the Amorites and Og the king of Basan and all the kingdomes of Canaan 12 And gaue their land to be an heritage euen an heritage unto Israel his people 13 Thy name O Lord endureth for euer so doth thy memoriall O Lord from one generation to another 14 For the Lord will avenge his people and be gracious unto his seruants 15 As for the images of the heathen they are but siluer and gold the worke of mens hands 16 They haue mouthes and speak not eyes haue they but they see not 17 They haue eares and yet they heare not neither is there any breath in their mouthes 18 They that make them are like unto them and so are all they that put their trust in them 19 Praise the Lord ye house of Israel praise the Lord ye house of Aaron 20 Praise the Lord ye house of Leui ye that feare the Lord praise the Lord. 21 Praised be the Lord out of Sion which dwelleth at Ierusalem The Prayer O Lord God in whose sight the death of all the Saints is precious and to whom the soules of the Martyrs from under the Altar call to avenge their bloud that is shed like water upon the earth be gracious unto us thy servants avenge all thy people of their enemies that all that hate and persecute thy Church being either brought to repentance or confusion thy Name and thy memoriall may be celebrated to all generations thy Kingdome and thy comming may be hastened that the Saints may receive the consummation of their glories by resurrection of their bodies and receiving the crowne of righteousnesse which thou hast prepared for all that put their trust in thee and that we all standing in the house of the Lord even in the courts of the house of our God for ever may praise thy Name which is gracious and lovely even for ever and ever Amen PSALME 136. A Prayer of thankesgiving to God for his eternall mercies EVENING PRAYER O Giue thankes unto the Lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer 2 O giue thankes unto the God of all gods for his mercy endureth for euer 3 O thank the Lord of all lords for his mercy endureth for euer 4 Which onely doth great wonders for his mercy endureth for euer 5 Which by his excellent wisedome made the heauens for his mercy endureth for euer 6 Which laid out the earth about the waters for his mercy endureth for euer 7 Which hath made great lights for his mercy endureth for ever 8 The sun to rule the day for his mercy endureth for euer 9 The moon and the starres to gouerne the night for his mercy endureth for euer 10 Which smote Egypt with their first-born for his mercy endureth for euer 11 And brought out Israel from among them for his mercy endureth for euer 12 With a mighty hand and a stretched out arme for his mercy endureth for euer 13 Which diuided the Red sea in two parts for his mercy endureth for euer 14 And made Israel to go through the midst of it for his mercy endureth for euer 15 But as for Pharaoh and his host he ouerthrew them in the Red sea for his mercy endureth for euer 16 Which led his people through the wildernesse for his mercy endureth for euer 17 Which smote great kings for his mercy endureth for euer 18 Yea and slew mighty kings for his mercy endureth for euer 19 Sehon king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for euer 20 And Og the king of Basan for his mercy endureth for euer 21 And gaue away their land for an heritage for his mercy endureth for euer 22 Euen for an heritage unto Israel his seruant for his mercy endureth for euer 23 Which remembred us when we were in trouble for his mercy endureth for ever 24 And hath deliuered us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for euer 25 Which giueth food to all flesh for his mercy endureth for euer 26 O giue thankes unto the God of heauen for his mercy endureth for euer 27 O giue thankes unto the Lord of lords for his mercy endureth for euer The Prayer O God of Heaven and Lord of lords who by thy excellent wisedome hast made the Heavens and onely doest great wonders in Heaven and Earth making all thy creatures to be expresses of thy power and of thy loving mercy let thy mighty hand and stretched out arme leade us through the midst of this world and the throng of all our enemies giving us food for the sustenance of our bodies the light of the sun of righteousnesse to leade us in our goings and great apprehensions of thy mercy to excite in us Devotion and true Religion that we praising thy mercies and being relieved and sustained by thy loving kindnesse may at last come to the land of promise which thou givest for an heritage to thy people and may receive the mercies of thy Kingdome which endure for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 137. A Prayer for redemption of the Church from captivity and persecution BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembred thee O Sion 2 As for our harpes we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein 3 For they that led us away captiue required of us then a song and melody in our heavinesse sing us one of the songs of Sion 4 How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land 5 If I forget thee O Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning 6 If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roofe of my mouth yea if I preferrs not Ierusalem in my mirth 7 Remember the children of Edom O Lord in the day