govern thy holy Church universally in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holiness of life thy servant CHARLS the second our most gracious King and Governours We beseech thee to hear us good â—…rd That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord That it may please thee to bless and preserve the Queen Mother the Duke of York the Duke of Glocester with all the rest of the royall Progeny We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastors and Ministers of the Church with true knowledge understanding of thy word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute justice and to maintain truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations unity peace and concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy Commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that be in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travell by land or by water all women labouring of childe all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pitty upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecuters and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech thee to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which are in heaven c. And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evill Amen The Versicle O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answer Neither reward us after our iniquities Let us pray O God mercifull Father that despisest not the fighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowfull mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the Devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodnesse they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church though Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou diddest in their dayes and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. As it was in the beginning 〈◊〉 now c. From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ. Graciously hear us O Christ graciously hear us O Lord Christ. The versicle O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee ALmighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ â—…aker of all things Judge of all men we acknowledge and â—…wail our manifold sins and wickedness which we from time to time most greivously have committed by thought word and deed against thy divine â—…jesty provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us we do earnestly repent and be heartily sorry for these our misdoings the remembrance of them is grievous unto us the burden of them is intolerable Have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most mercifull Father for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christs sake forgive us all that is past and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newnesse of life to the honour and glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God our Heavenly Father who of thy Grâ—… mercy hast promised forgiveness of sins to All them which with Hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto Thee Have mercy upon Us pardon and deliver us from all our sins Confirm and strengthen us in all Goodness and bring us to Everlasting Life
Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance and mount Sion where thou hast dwelt Lift up thy Feet and disperse all those our Enemies which have done evill in thy sanctuary For they have broken down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers they have defiled the â—…welling places of thy name yea they â—…aid in their hearts let us make haâ—…ock of them altogether O God how long shall the Adversary doe this dishonour â—…ow long shall the Enemy blasâ—…heme thy name for ever Why withdrawest thou thy hand â—…hy pluckest not thou thy right hand â—…ut of thy bosome to scatter the eneâ—…y Arise O God maintain thine â—…wn cause Remember how the foolish man blasphemes thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the presumption of them that â—…ate thee encreaseth ever more and more Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The Creed I Believe in God the Fathâ—… Almighty maker of heaveâ—… and earth and in Jesuâ—… Christ his onely Son our Lordâ—… which was conâ—…eived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mâ—…ry suffered under Ponce Pilatâ—… was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and fitteth on the right hand oâ—… God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgivenesse of fins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen Let us Pray The Lord be with you And with thy spirit Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Amen O Thou most mighty Creator and wise Ruler of all things who hast reserved the disposall of all events to thine own all-seeing Wisdome and never permittest any thing to be done by the malice of men or Devils but what thou discernest absolutely most usefull and profitable for thy Servants Thou who aâ—… good beyond all that we can judge or chuse even when thy judgements are most terrible and astonishing We thy sinfull creatures do here prostrate our souls before thee desiring to adore and tremble at thy presence to admire the finger of thine own hand in that great vengeance which did as upon this Day befall us Lord it is the provocation of our â—…ns that hath reached up to heaven that hath brought down these amazing punishments upon earth thou hast abounded to us in mercies beyond all the Nations of the world granted us all the advantages we could pray for and we murmured against thy bounty rebelled against thy most obliging methods of melting and over coming an obdurate people And then what remained but that thou shouldest withdraw those graces which we had so long abused and prophaned Deprive us of all our ornaments leave us naked and bare cast us out into the open field to the loathing of our persons Judge us as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged and give us blood in jealousie and fury And thus hast thou in thy just displeasure proceeded with us thou hast abased our glory thou haâ—… in our very faces thou haâ—… reproach upon all that 〈◊〉 â—…cious amongst us Thou hast permitted an host not onely against the daily sacrifice to cast down the truth to the ground but even against thine own Ordnance thine own inscription the Image of thine own power amongst us and in all this to practise and prosper Lord thou hast called us to lamentation and bitter mourning beyond the weeping of Rachel fâ—… her children or the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo Lord they are our rebellions against thee which thou hast Visited upon our late Soveraigne our beloved Iâ—…siah and to the aggravation of our sin and woe they were our hands that executed this butchery upon him In this thoâ—… hast more then delivered up thâ—… Nation unto Sathan to the adversary to buffet and thresh us thou hast delivered us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 selves to assassinate our 〈◊〉 Our greatest sin is our 〈◊〉 punishment The utmost of our provocations against thee is the utmost of thy inflictions upon us And yet O Lord all these accursed effects of our sins have not served to alien us from them none repenteth of his way or saith what have I done But every one rusheth into his course as the horse rusheth into the battell And since O Lord we have not in this 〈◊〉 heard the things that 〈◊〉 to our peace what can we expect but that they should for ever be hid from our eyes That our measure being filled up and thy righteous servant removed by our violence from holding up our Pillars we should all become one common Ruine That the earth should swallow us up for Coraâ—…s sins or the destruction of thine own antient people the Jeâ—… should be the reward of the obduration of thine own people And then O Lord t is thy great mercy to our late Soveraign that thou hast taken him away from the evill to come And it is the joy of our hearts in the midst of our lamentations that having so fitted him for thy self given him that wonderfull measure of Patience Constancy and Magnanimity thou weâ—… pleased to crown all these Graces with perseverance here and in exehaâ—… 〈◊〉 his crown of thornes 〈◊〉 incumbrances of a broken Kingdome on earth hast received him into a participation of thy crown of Glory As for us O Lord we are laid at thy feet to hear what the Lord God will say concerning us whatsoever thy purposes are we desire to embrace them Christianly though it be to cast us away as straw to the dung-hill but if yet there may be place of mercy Lord lift up the ligâ—… of thy countenance and be gracious to the remnant of thine heritage To this end O Lord convert us from the evill of our wayes and our enemies from the cruelty of theirs thou God of purity and peace grant that we be no longer a wicked nor a self-destroying Nation but that we may all at length joyn together in a serious unfeignâ—… humiliation for the shedâ—… 〈◊〉 that precious innocent blâ—… and all those other sinns that have brought down thy desertions on us Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake Amen II. O Lord this is a day 〈◊〉 trouble of rebuke and blasphemy a day wherein a wonderfull and horrible thing was 〈◊〉 in our land most 〈◊〉 blood shed with more barbarous aggravations then we know where to paralell on this side the murder of thy dear Son And because sentence against this
government O let the wickednesse of the wicked come to an end but guide thou the just Give O Lord rest from our fears 〈◊〉 from our sorrows and from â—…he oppressions under which we â—…n Let thine hand O Lord 〈◊〉 â—…own towards thy servants â—…nd thine indignation towards â—…hine and the Kings Enemies 〈◊〉 down O Lord from heaâ—… and behold from the habiâ—…tion of thy holinesse and of thy glory restraine not we beâ—… thee thy zeale nor thy strength nor the soundings of thy Bowels and of thy Mercies â—…rds us Heare us O Lord 〈◊〉 King of Heaven when we câ—…l upon thee and grant our 〈◊〉 and that for Jesus Christ sake our onely Lord and Saviour Amen IV. BLessed Lord in whose fight the death of thy Saints 〈◊〉 most precious we magnifie thy name for those wonderfull 〈◊〉 â—…ions of thy Grace on our 〈◊〉 Martyred Soveraigne which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant Meek suffering of all barbarous indignitiâ—… and at last resisting even 〈◊〉 blood and even then pursuiâ—… that glorious Pattern and praâ—…ing for his Murtherers Let 〈◊〉 Memory O Lord be ever bleâ—… among us and his example efficacious upon us that we may follow him as he follow'd Christ And O Lord we beseech thee let not his blood out-cry hiâ—… Prayers but let those that spilt the one obtain benefit by the other that by their Conviction and Repentance his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation our Religion be vindicated from the scandall of so horrid a fact our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners and all for Jesus Christ his sake Amen V. O Just and Righteous Judge who didst once for the inquity of thy People Israel give up thy Ark into the hands of the Philistines We thy sinfull Creatures that are now under as great a degree both of guilt and punishment doe here cast our selves down before thee acknowledging that we are not worthy any longer to retain the honour of Christian Profession that have so long defamed it by enormous Practises and that we who loved darknesse more then light deserve to have our Candlestick removed and to be given up to that â—…undation of Atheism and Prophanenesse which now invades this gasping Church yet O Lord deale not with us after our sins but turn thee again thou Lord of Hosts look down from heaven behold and visite this Vine do not abhor us for thy names-sake do not disgrace the Throne of thy Glory Behold see we beseech thee we are all thy People though a rebellious and stiff-necked generation yet thy name is called upon us leave us not neither forsake us O Lord God of our salvation but though thou feed us with bread of Adversity and water of Affliction yet let not our Teachers be removed into a corner but let our eyes see our Teachers let not Sion complain that she hath none to lead her by the hand among all the Sons that she hath brought up but provide her such supports in this her declining Condition that she may have a seed and Remnant left And in what degree soever thou shalt permit this storm to encrease upon this poor Church be pleased proportionably to fortifie and confirm all those that are Members of it that no one may be shaken or moved with these Afflictions nor pervert that glorious advantage of suffering for thee into an occasion of Apostatizing from thee But that we may all run with patience the race that is set before us and cheerfully partake of the Afflictions of the Gospel that in suffering for Christ here we may reign with him for ever hereafter and all for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Lord and Saviour Amen O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King Who putteth his trust in thee Send him help from thy holy Place And evermore mightily defend him Confound the designes of all those that are risen up against him And let not their rebellious wickednesse approach near to hurt him Let the Curse of Saul light upon the endeavours of those men who contrive or Imagine mischief for him And let the blessings of David remaine upon his Head and upon his Seed for evermore O Lord hear our Prayer And let our Cry come unto thee VI. O Lord God of Hosts who didst deliver David thy servant from the perill of the Sword Hear us we beseech thee most miserable sinners who do here poure out our souls before thee intirely desiring the protection of thy hand upon thy Servant the King let him finde safety under the shadow of thy wings and preserve his Person as the Apple of thine own Eye Suffer not that Sword which thou hast put into his Hands to be wrested out by the hand of man but blesse his Counsels with successe and his enterprises with Victory that he may become a terrour to all those that oppose him and as the dew of the latter rain upon the hearts of all those that do still continue loyall to him And O thou that takest no delight in the misery of one single sinner spare mercifull Lord spare a great though most sinfull Nation pitty a despised Church and a distracted State heale those wounds which our sins have made so wide that none but thine own hands can close them and in the tendernesse of thine unspeakable compassion hasten to put so happy an end to these wasting Divisions that thy service may be more duly celebrated thine Anointed more conscienciously obeyed that the Church may be restored to a true Christian Unity and the Kingdome to its former Peace And that for his sake who is the Prince of peace and that shed his precious blood to purchase our peace even Jesus Christ the righteous to whom with theâ—… O Father and the blessed spirit be all Honour and Glory world without end Amen VI. O Thou most mighty Creator and wise Governour of all that hast for our sins and provocations given us to drink of a most bitter astonishing cup and demonstrated by thy late proceedings with us how inexorable thou art towards us who have been so obstinate and obdurate toward thee that would not hear in that our Day the things belonging to our peace and now they are hid from our eyes We those wretched Creatures of thine do yet desire to adore and prostrate our soules before thee to put our hands upon our mouthes and our mouths into the Dust and acknowledge all Honour and Glory to be due unto thee whatsoever becomes of us Though to these amazing Calamities thou shouldest yet super-add thy fire and Brimstone from Heaven and all the horrors of astonished hearts and the eternal Worm and Flames the due portion of the damned in Hell O Lord thou art most just in all thy judgments and infinitely merciful that we live to call upon thee this day O that these sharp last necessary methods of thine may at length prove
plant and root and confirm and secure in us all those precious fruits of Piety and Faith and Obedience and Zeal towards thee of Purity and Meeknesse and Simplicity and Contentednesse and Sobriety in our selves of Justice and Charity and Reaceablenesse and Bowels of Mercy and Compassion towards all others That having seriously and Industriously as our Holy Vocation engageth us used all Diligence to add unto our Faith Virtue and to Virtue patience and Perseverance in all Christian Practise we may adorn that Profession which we have thus long depraved and having had our Fruits unto Holynesse we may attain our End ever asting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen IX O Long suffering and eternal King that for the Condemnation that for sin came into the World wert lifted up upon the Cross and taken from this earth by that shamefull death and hast shewed forth thy self to all that Chuse to follow thy stepps a Pattern and Copy of long-sufferance and Patience and offeredst up thy Intercession tothy Coeternal Father for those Enemies of God which Crucified Thee Do thou O Lord Thou the same Lover of Mankind afford thy Mercy and pardon to all those that are Enemies to us which either by Treachery or Reproach or Contumely or Envy or by any other means through the subtilty of Calumny of the Devil that lover of Hatred have expressed their Madness or Malice against us But especially those that have embrued their hands in the blood of thine Anointed Father forgive them for they know not what they do Lord lay not this sin to their Charge or to the Charge of a sinfull wretched People Change thou their Counsels from that mischievous to a sweet Christian temper of gentleness infuse into their hearts sincere and unfeigned Love bind them fast to us in the inviolable Bands of Spiritual friendship and by what means thou knowest most fit make them Partakers of eternal Life and O thou Father of Compassions pitty all those afflicted that trust in Thee draw all to the divine love of thee be thou president in all things and assistant to all together with us thy sinful and unprofitable Servants and make us all Heirs of thy Kingdom for unto Thee it belongeth to shew Mercy and to save us O our God for thine is the Power for ever Amen X. O Lord We beseech thee Mercifully Hear our Prayers and spare all those which Confess their sins unto thee that They whose Consciences by sin are accused by thy Mercifull Pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord Amen XI O Most mighty God and Mercifull Father which hast Compassion on all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made which wouldest not the Death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our Trespasses receive and Comfort us which are grieved with the Burthen of our sins Thy property is always to have Mercy to thee only pertaineth to forgive sins spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into Judgment with thy servants which are vile earth and Miserable sinners but so turn thine ire from us which meekly acknowledge our Vilenesse and truly repent us of our Faults so make hast to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen XII TUrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy People which turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying for thou art 〈◊〉 Merciful God long-suffering and of great pitty Thou sparest when we deserve punishment and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy spare thy people O Lord spare them and let not thine Heritage be brought to nought Hear us O Lord for thy Mercy is great and after the Multitude of thy mercies look upon us through Iesâ—… Christ our Lord Amen XIII O Lord the only begotten Son Jesus Christ O Lord God Lamb of God Son of the Father that takest away the sins of the world have Mercy upon us Thou that takest away the sins of the world receive our Prayers Thou that sittest at the Right hand of God the Father have Mercy upon us for thou only art holy thou only art the Lord thou only O Christ with the Holy Ghost art most high in the Glory of God the Father Amen The Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your Hearts and Minds in the Knowledge and Love of God and his Son Iesus Christ our Lord. And the Blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you alwayes Amen A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of Ianuary O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most sutably to thy Justice and performest thy pleasure allwayes in such manner that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy wayes be not equall We thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgement which as this day besel us in thy permitting cruel men sons of â—…eliall to execute the fury of their Rebellion upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their hands in the Blood and Murder of the Lords Anointed was drawn down by the great and long provocations of this Nations sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinfull wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this dayes sore vengeance the effect as well as desert of our impieties the work of our own hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgement but our most horrid sin for which alone did not multitude of other sins cry out against us thou mightest justly descend down upon us all as thou didst in Sodom and leave us no other memorial then to be the frightfull Monuments of thy Indignation and fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and merfull therefore it is that We are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to repentance And now Lord looking on this particular signal Judgement as thy last Trump warning us to fly from the wrath to come We come forth to meet our God mourning in our prayers before thee and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure and the removall of these plagues of long continuance from us for the all-sufficient merits of the death and sufferings of our blessed Saviour O forgive our great and manifold transgressions and for his bloody Passions sake deliver this Nation from blood-guiltinesse that of this day especially O God of our Salvation Let not our crying sins intercept our Prayers or thy blessings but hear the voice of our tears and hearing forgive and heal us retire not quite from us into thine own place laugh not at our calamities neither mock in this day of our vifitation Vindicate thine own Cause and thine own Providence that it may
world without end Amen V. O Lord God that dost build up Hierusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel Wherefore art thou absent so long Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture O think upon thy Congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance and mount Sion where thou hast dwelt Lift up thy Feet and disperse all those our Enemies which have done evill in thy sanctuary For they have broken down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers they have defiled the dwelling places of thy name yea they said in their hearts let us make havock of them altogether O God how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour how long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy name for ever Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosome to scatter the enemy Arise O God maintain thine own cause Remember how the foolish man blasphemes thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the presumption of them that hate thee encreaseth ever more and more Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The Creed I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord which was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven â—…teth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge 〈◊〉 quick and the dead I belâ—…ve in the holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgivenesse of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen Let us Pray The Lord be with you And with thy spirit Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them thâ—… trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Amen I. O Lord this is a day of trouble of rebuke and blasphemy a day wherein a wonderfull and horrible thing was committed in our land most sacred â—…nnocent blood shed with more barbarous aggravations then we know where to parallel on this side the murder of thy dear Son And because sentence against this evill work hath not been exâ—…ed speedily the hearts of this people are wholy set in them to do evill this respite which thou hast given us to work our Repentance hath served onely to compleat our sin by adding an obstinate impenitency to the former Guilt and so fitting us for that finall excision which thou hast threatned to obdurate sinners And now O Lord this fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation is all that remains unto us who have thus despised the riches of thy mercy Yet O Lord out of these depths do we desire to call upon thee Lord hear 〈◊〉 voice and if that finall 〈◊〉 tence be not irreversibly gâ—… out against us be pleased 〈◊〉 turn thy wrath away 〈◊〉 to suffer thy whole displeasâ—…e to arise To this end thou O 〈◊〉 who breakest the gates of 〈◊〉 and smitest the bars of 〈◊〉 sunder be thou pleased to 〈◊〉 these unrelenting hearts of 〈◊〉 to work in every one of us 〈◊〉 sense of our horrid abomâ—… ons especially that of this day as may cast us down in the 〈◊〉 est degree of Humiliation and Contrition before thee that 〈◊〉 we may be capable of that â—…tation which thou hast promiâ—… to the humble that Comfort which thou hast assigned to Mourners through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen II. BLessed Lord in whose sight the death of thy Saints is most precious we magnifie thy name for those wonderfull effusious of thy grace on our late Martyred Soveraign which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant Meek suffering of all barbarous indignities and at lost resisting even unto blood and even then pursuing that glorious Pattern and praying for his Murtherers Let his Memory O Lord be ever blessed among us and his example efficacious upon us that we may follow him as he followed Christ And O Lord we beseech thee let not his blood out-cry his Prayers but let those that spilt the one obtain benefit by the other that by their Conviction and Repentance his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation our Religion be vindicated from the scandal of so horrid a fact our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners and all for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King Who putteth his trust in thee Send him help from thy holy Place And evermore mightily defend him Confound the designs of all those that are risen up against him And let not their rebellious wickednesse approach near to hurt him Let the Curse of Saul light upon the endeavours of those men who contrive or Imagine mischief for him And let the blessings of David remain upon his head and upon his â—…ed for euermore O Lord hear our Prayer And let our crycome unto thee III. O Lord God Infinite in Power by whom the Thrones of Kings are established and their persons made sacred Take we beseech thee into thine immediate and divine protection thine anointed Servant the King that no sacrilegious profane hand may come near to touch him In all his wayes let thy Spirit guide him and thy holy Angels pitch their tents about him O Lord comfort him in his troubles defend him in his dangers support him in his cause shew some token on him for good even now O God when the Sons of violence are in their pride and triumph over him whom thou hast exalted designing and rejoycing to root out that religion which thine own right hand hath planted Defeat their purposes O thou preserver of men and let not their mischeivous imaginations any longer prosper but blast all their Counsels wither away all their Armies like grass scorched by the Sun Bow down at last their stiff necks and obdurate hearts to a desire of that peace which hath so long been an abomination to them That this miserable Nation may no further pursue their own ruin but being by so many bitter punishments made sensible of thine anger for this unnatural division may at last be reduced within their first obedience to the glory of thy Name the vindication of our defamed religion the comfort of our afflicted King and the happiness of this yet bleeding dom And confirm all this to Us O Lord by the merits and through the
mediation of thine own dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord Amen IV. O Eternal and supreme Majesty we most humbly beseech thee to pour down the Richest of thy Mercies on thy servant the King to take him into thine Immediate and especial protection and proportion thine Assistances and RElief to the Greatness of his Needs and Destitutions O what great troubles and Adversities hast thou shewed him Thou hâ—… set up the Right hand of his Enemies and made all his Adversaries to rejoyce thou hast taken away the Edge of his Sword and givest him not Victory in the day of Battail thou hast put out his Glory and Cast his Throne down to the ground Lord how long wilt thou hide thy self for ever Behold O God our Defender and look upon the face of thine Anoynted and though thou hast permitted our sins to reduce his Affairs to this Hopelesse Condition yet from thence let thy Soveraign Mercy raise him O Lord we know not what to do only our Eyes are upon Thee O magnifie thy strength in this his greatest weakness and by thine own power effect that towards which he hath nothing of Humane Contribution create peace for 〈◊〉 and Create the means for the obtaining it Protect his â—…red person direct and prosâ—…er all his designes fasten him as 〈◊〉 Nail in a sure place and hang â—…on him all the Glory of his â—…hers House that he â—…ay be the Repairer of the Breach the Restorer of Cities to dwell in that he may be a Nursing Father to thy Church and may Comfort the waste places of Sion But if our sins have so far incensed thee that as thou hast taken away one King in thy wrath so thou wilt not give us another except it be in thine Anger if thou hast designed him to succeed his blessed Father not in his Throne but in his sufferings grant him likewise to succeed him in his Virtues Confirm to him that inward Soveraignty over his own Passions more valuable then a Thousand Kingdoms Chuse him for thy self in the Furnace of afflictions and make him so cheerfully to wear his Crown of Thorns with his Saviour here that he may receivâ—… a Crown of Glory from him hereafter and that for the Mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen V. O Thou blessed and only Potentate most just in thy Judgements and wondeâ—…ull in thy mercies we thy sinfull Creatures cast our selves down before thee desiring in all humility to adore that Justice of thine which hath suffered our iniquities to prevail against the cause and enterprises of our Soveraign and yet to praise and magnifie that mercy which hath 〈◊〉 suffer'd them to prevail â—…inst his person but hath in 〈◊〉 midst of the greatest and â—…ost amazing dangers provided him a way of escape plucked him as a brand out of the fire and by thine own gracious proâ—…ction at once defeated both the fears of his friends and â—…nd the hopes of his Enemies Praised be the Lord which hast not given him over for a prey unto their teeth And since thou hast been pleased thus far to condescend to the prayers and groaâ—… of thy servants O 〈◊〉 not our Lord be angry and we will speak beseeching thee who hast thus powerfully rescued him from Egypt not to suffer him to perish in the Wilderness but though his passage be through the red sea yet at last to bring him to a Canaan O thou whose wayes are in the great deep who madest Iosephs imprisonment the way to hiâ—… advancement and the impoverishing of Iob the means of doubling his wealth let the same over-ruling Providence dispose of all late adverse events to those ends which all Loyall hears gasp after Lord be thou pleas'd to breathe upon theâ—…â—…y bones and they shall 〈◊〉 livâ—… in thy sight In the meaâ—… time O Lord let thy comforts refresh his soul in the midst of these sad calamities sanctifie them unto him that he may come out of these tribulations like gold out of the fire purified but not consumed that so whatsoever becomes of his transitory Crown here he may by a constant enduring of temptations be secured of that Crown of life which fadeth not away grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen VI. O Thou King of Nations who dost according to thy will in all the Kingdoms of the Earth who hast made us drink deep of the Cup of trembling and yet seemest to have bitter dregs behinde for us We thy wretched Creatures that have highly contributed to that common weight of sin under which the Land sinks humbly prostrate our selves at thy feet desiring with all sincere contrition to confesse that thou art Righteous in all that is hitherto come upon us All that we have hitherto sufferd being but the sad arrears of the sins of our Peace when we waxed fat and kicked against thee And that thou shalt likewise be most just in the utmost of thy future inflictions which what ever they prove cannot exceed the sins of our calamitous dayes who in the time of our distress have sinned yet more against the Lord who have passed through the fire to Moloch with an undaunted obstinacy suffer'd all the flamings of thy wrath rather than we would renounce any of our detestable things Nay as if our old were too infirm we have made new Leagues with death new agreements with hell proceeding from evil to worse and making every new Calamity thou sendst to reclaim us the occasion of some fresh impiety And now O Lord wilt thou not visit for these things shal not thy soul be avenged on such a Nation as this We are they O Lord that have perverted all thy dispensations toward us grown wanton under thy mercies and desperate under thy Judgements and is there any third method left for those that have frustrated both these Behold O Lord these desperate these gasping Patients at thy feet who have lost sense and motion to all things but the resistance of their remedy O give us not utterly over but continue to administer to us whatsoever may remove this stupefaction and bring us to a feeling of our own condition And what sharpnesse and severity soever thou disceruest necessary for that purpose forbear not O Lord to give us those wounds of a friend O say not concerning us why should ye be smitten any more but rather cast us into the place of Dragons and cover us with the shadow of death if by so doing we may be brought to remember the Name of the Lord our God Lord this is the one great necessary wherein we are principally concern'd to sollicite thee that our Eyes may be opened that we may see every one the plague of his own heart that so instead of those Atheâ—…cal disputes we make of thy providence we may all â—…oyn in an humble Adoration of thy Justice and confessing that our destruction is of our selves abhorre our selves and Repent in dust and ashes And when by thâ—… greater
which for our evill deeds are worthily punished by the Comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen X. ALmighty God we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy Family for the which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to betrayed and given up into the hands of wicked men and to suffer death upon the Cross who liveth and reigneth c. Amen XI ALmighty and Everlasting God by whose Spirit the whole Body of the Church is governed and sanctified receive our supplications and prayers which We offer up before thee for all eâ—…ates of Men in thy holy congregation that every member of the same in his vocation and Ministery may truly and godly serve thee through our Lord Jesus Christ who liveth and reigneth c. Amen XII Assist us mercifully O Lord in these our supplications and prayers and dispose the way of thy servants toward the attainment of everlasting salvation that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life they may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help through Christ our Lord Amen XIII ALmighty God which hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to Us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto Thee and grant that those things which We have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of Ianuary O Blessed Lord God who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most sutably to thy Justice and performest thy pleasure allwayes in such manner that thou canst also appeal to us whether thy wayes be not equall We thy poor afflicted People fall down before thee acknowledging the Justice of thy proceedings with us and that the amazing Judgement which as this day befell us in thy permitting cruel men sons of Beliall to execute the fury of their Rebellion upon Our late Gracious Soveraign and to imbrew their hands in the Blood and Mur der of the Lords Anointed was drawn down by the great and long provocations of this Nations sins against thee For all which and our own parts in which we sinfull wretches here met together desire to humble our selves before thee and to tremble at thy presence in this dayes fore vengeance the effect as well as desert of our impieties the work of our own hands upon our selves thy heavy Judgement but our most horrid sin for which alone did not multitudes of other sins cry out against us thou mightest justly descend down upon us all as thou didst in Sodom and leave us no other memorial than to be the frightfull Monuments of thy Indignation and fury to all Posterity Gracious is the Lord and mercifull therefore it is that We are not consumed O let thy long-suffering and patience lead us to repentance And now Lord looking on this particular signal Judgement as thy last Trump warning us to fly from the wrath to come We come forth to meet our God mourning in our prayers before thee and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure and the removall of these plagues of long continuance from us for the all-sufficient merits of the death and sufferings of our blessed Saviour O forgive our great and manifold transgressions and for his bloody Passions sake deliver this Nation from blood-guiltinesse that of this day especially O God of our Salvation Let not our crying sins intercept our Prayers or thy blessings but hear the voice of our tears and hearing forgive and heal us retire not quite from us into thine own place laugh not at our calamities neither mock in this day of our visitation Vindicate thine own Cause and thine own Providence that it may appear unto men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the earth and that by thee Kings do reign And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of violence against our late King even to kill and take possession of his Throne and Revenews Yet frustrate now at length their bold hopes and desires let not their mischievous imaginations prosper least they be too proud let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have fancied let them not say of his Family God hath forsaken them let us persecute them shew some good token on his seed for good that their enemies may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen and comforted them Bow the hearts of the Subjects of this Land as thou didst those of Israel to David that they may acknowledge and receive joyfully the heir of these Kingdoms and fasten thou him as a nail in a sure place behold his injuries and have compassion on his Innocency and let the desire of his enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite but bring him maugre all their oppositions to a peaceable possession of that Throne to which by his Birth-right thou hast designed him and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family O Lord we wait on thee this day for this blessing make no long tarrying but according to the time thou hast plagued us send us deliverance Snatch the prey out of the Lyons teeth and pull us out of the burnings like a firebrand We beseech thee that We may this day spread before thee the words of Rabshekah the proud railings and scornfull reproaches of our enemies Behold this day their exaltation and our mourning O Lord our eyes are towards thee for whom nothing is hard let it not seem a small thing to thee that we suffer but concenter our Prayers with the many thousands that call on thee That salvation may come to our King and through him thy blessing of peace unto thy People Think upon all those that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land and deal thou with us according to thy Word wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust Let the world see that there is a God that judgeth the earth and will send deliverance to his people in their needfull time of trouble But whatsoever thy purpose is let not us behave our selves frowardly but with all Christian humility run the race that thou settest before us and patiently bear the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him And we meekly beseech thee that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions our prayers may return into our own bosomes and that thou wilt make thy judgements temporal and not spiritual upon us but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations that we be not delivered to evil but that in wel-doing we may commit our selves to thee our God as unto a faithful Creator And that both our King and we may
O God wherefore art thou absent from us so long why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture O think upon thine Inheritance which thou hast purchased and Redeemed of old Lift up thy feet that thou mayst utterly destroy every Enemy that hath done Evil in thy Sanctuary For behold they break down all the caâ—…ed Works thereof with Axes and Hammers Yea they have said in their hearts Let us make havock of them altogether And thus have they designed to ruin all the Houses of God in the land But O God how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour how long shall the Enemy Blaspheme thy Name for ever Arise O God maintain thine own Cause Remember how the Foolish man blasphemeth thee daily But O deliver not the soul of thy Turtle Dove into their Hands For the Presumption of them that hate Thee increaseth more and more O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us II. O Lord God of Hosts how long wilt thou be angry with thy People that Prayeth How long wilt thou feed us with the Bread of Tears and give us plenteousnesse of Tears to drink O Turn us again Thou God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole Remember that Thou didst once plant a Vine amongst us And when it had taken Root it filled the Land Our Hills were covered with the shadow of it and the Boughs thereof were like the Goodly Cedar Trees But now thou hast broken down her Hedge so that all they that go by pluck off her Grapes The wild Boar of the Wood doth root it up and the Beasts of the Field devour it Yet turn us again O Lord God of Hosts shew us the Light of thy Countenance and we shall be whole For we will not go back from thee O let us live and we shall â—…ll upon thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us III. HOld not thy Tongue O God keep not still silence Refrain not thy self O God For â—…o Thine Enemies make a murmuring and they that hate Thee have lift up their Head They have imagined craftily against thy People and have taken Counsell against thy secret ones Behold they have cast their heads together with one Consent and are Confederate against Thee They have said Come let us root them out that they may be no more a People and that their Name may be no more in remembrance They come daily round about 〈◊〉 like Water and compasse us on every side But O my God make them like unto a Wheel and as the stubble before the Wind Who say Let us take unto Our selves the Houses of God in Possession O make their Faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek Thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us IV. O God thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad Thou hast been displeased at us O Turn thee unto us again Thou hast moved the Land and divided it O heal the sores thereof for it shaketh Thou hast shewn Thy People heavy things and given us a Drink of Deadly Wine Thou hast made us to turn our backs upon our Enemies so that they which hate Us spoil our Goods Thou makest us to be rebuked of our Neighbours to be laugh'd to scorn and to be had in derision of them that are round about us But though all this be come upon us yet do we not forget Thee nor â—…ave our selves frowardly in Thy Coâ—…ant Our heart is not turned back nor our steps gone out of thy Way No not when thou hast smitten us into the place of Dragons and covered us with the shadow of Death Up Lord Why sleepest thou Awake and be not absent from Us for ever But O why hidest Thou Thy Face and forgettest our Misery and Trouble For our soul is brought low even unto the Dust and our Belly â—…eaveth unto the ground Arise help us and deliver us for Thy Mercies sake O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us King David's Tears O My God why hast thou forsaken Thine Anointed and art displeased with him For Lo Thou hast broken the Covenant of thy servant and cast his Crown to the Ground Thou hast overthrown all his Hedges and broken down his strong holds So that all they that go by spoil him and he is become a Rebuke to his Neighbours For thou hast set up the Right hand of his Enemies and made all his Adversaries to rejoyce Thou hast put out his Glory and hast cast his Throne down to the Ground The Dayes of his Youth hast Thou seasoned with Bitternesse and covered him with dishonor But Lord how long wilt thou â—…ide thy self for Ever and shall thy Wrath still burn like Fire Remember O Lord the rebuke that Thy Servant hath and how he doth bear in his Bosom the Rebukes of many People And let his Adversaries be clothed with sham But upon his Head let his Crown flourish O help him against his Enemies for vain is the help of Man O God make speed to save Him O Lord make haste to help Him Jeremiah's Lamentations Propheticall of these Times HOw hath the Lord covered us with a Cloud in his anger and cast down from Heaven unto Earth the Beauty of Israel and remembred not his Footstool in the Day of his Wrath For Lo he hath bent his Bow as an Enemy He hath swallowed us up and hath not pittied He hath made desolate the Kingdom and the Princes thereof He hath cast off his Altars and abhorred his Sanctuary and hath given into the Hands of the Enemies the Walls of his Palaces He hath caused our solemn Feastâ—… and Sabbaths to be forgotten and hath despised in his Indignation the King and the Priest For the Lord hath now accomplished his ' Fury He hath poured out his fierce Anger He hath kindled such a Fire in Sion as hath devoured the Palaces thereof For the sins of the Prophets and and the Iniquities of the Priests who have shed the blood of the Iust in the midst of her For the Breath of our nostrils the Anointed of the Lord hath been taken in their Pits Of whom we said under his shadow shall we live in Peace But we have Transgressed and Rebelled and Thou hast not pardoned And therefore our eyes have as yet failed in our vain help For in our Watching we have watched for a Nation that could not save us Behold O Lord and Consider to whom thou hast done this O Lord Thou hast seen his Wrong Judge thou his Cause Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against him Thou hast heard all their Reproach O Lord and all their Imaginations against him The lips of thos that have risen up against him and their Devices against him all the Day O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him II. REmember O Lord what
is come upon us consider and behold our Reproach For our Inheritance is turned to strangers our Houses to Aliens our Necks are under Persecution we labour and have no rest Our Fathers have sinned and are not and we have born our Iniquities Yea servants rule over us and there is none that delivers us out of their hands Our Elders have ceased from the Gate and our Young men from their Musick The Ioy of our Heart is ceased our Dance is turned into mourning For the Crown is fallen from our Head and Wo unto us that We have sinned For this our heart is faint for these things our Eyes are dim But wherefore dost thou forget us for Ever and forsakest us so long time O Turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Renew our dayes as of old And do not utterly Reject us be not for ever Wroth against us O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us Daniel's Prayer and Confession in the Behalf of Himself and his People O Lord the Great and dreadfull God We have sinned and done wickedly and have Rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Iudgements Neither have we hearkned to thy Servants the Prophets which spake in thy Name to our Kings our Princes and our Fathers and all the People of this Land O Lord Righteousness belongeth unto thee but unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day unto all that are near and far off through all the Countries whither thou hast driven them because of the Trespasse that they have trespassed against thee For we have not obeyed the Voice of the Lord our God and therefore the Curse is poured out upon us Even such a Curse as that under the whole Heaven hath not been done as hath been done unto Us. But now O Lord our God according to all thy Righteousness I beseech thee let thine Anger and thy Fury be turned away from us Hear the Prayer of thy servant and cause thy Face to shine upon thy Sanctuary which is now desolate O my God incline thine Ear and hear Open thine Eyes and behold our Desolation For I do not present these supplications before thee for our own Righteousnesse but for thy Great Mercies O Lord hear O Lord Forgive O Lord do delay not for Thine own sake O my God and for thy Peoples sake that are called by â—…y Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to help us Prayers for the King LOrd Remember our distressed King and all his Troubles Amen Let thine Hand hold him fast and thine Arm strengthen him Amen Let not the Enemy be able to do him violence or the Son of Wickedness hurt him Amen Let thy Truth and Mercy be ever with him and in thy Name let his Throne be exalted Amen O be thou his Father his God and his strong Salvation Amen And let him be as the Fiâ—… born and Glorious among tâ—… Kings of the Earth Amen O God make speed to savâ—… him O Lord make haste to help him II. O Most Powerful Lord God the only disposer of all the Kings and Kingdomes of the Earth who for the Punishment of the Crying sins of this Nation hast extinguished our Glory and cast the Throne down to the Ground Give us not over utterly to Ruine and Confusion But bring back in thy good time the Heir of these Kingdomes like the Sun with Healing in his Wings to repair the Breaches already made and prevent the Desolations that â—…reaten us And however thou hast been pleased to cast a cloud upon â—…im in the Morning of his Days yet leave him not in this storm Forsake him not Thou that art the God of his salvation But look upon his Wrongs and have Compassion on his Innocency O let it never be in the Power of men to barr him from the Throne to which by his Birth thou hast designed him But Guide him with those Counsels and prosper him with that success as may settle him in his Throne in Peace Or if the Guilt and Wickedness of his Opposers shall still continue to hinder this Do it after thine own way O God with thy mighty hand and stretched out Arm That they may both know and feel that thou art the Protector of Kings and the Refuge of all them who have no other Trust but Thee Grant this O Lord for the Glory of thy Name and the Comfort of thy desolate Church and People Amen O Most Mercifull God the only Sanctuary of sad and distressed souls Look down I beseech Thee upon thy servant who here with bended Knees and a wounded spirit prostrate my self before Thee For Wo unto us we have lived to see the Crown fall from our Heads and the Glory departed from our Israel even the Anoynted of the Lord driven to fly before wicked men and they who have divided his Inheritance triumphing over him But thou O Lord how long how long shall Bloody Designs and Rebellious imaginations prosper Shall not the Judge of the whole Earth do Right Or hast thou forgotten to be Gracious and shuttest up thy tender Mercy in displeasure O No Thou art the same God who in the midst of Judgment remembrest Mercy Thine Arm is not shortned that thou canst not save nor thine Ear heavy that thou canst not hear Arise then O Lord Arise Let the World see that thou art the Father of the Fatherless and the Helper of them to Right that suffer Wrong Shew it O Lord especially at this time in multiplying all thy comforts upon our distressed King And as thou hast strangely and Wonderfully delivered him from those who so eagerly hunted after his Life So let it appear to the World that thou hast not done this to make him more miserable or to continue him in the Condition of an Exâ—…e But rather that thou hast reserved him for Faithfull Hands and fairer Opportunities and more prosperous successes And though that was not the Time nor those the Means by which thou hast designed to restore the Kingdom to him Yet that thou hast not forsaken him but that He is still in thy Care still under the shadow of thy Wings who alone art able to do more for him then we can pray for and Gloriously to bring him back again by wayes we cannot think of In the mean time O Lord whilst thou thinkest fit to keep him under the sharpnesse of this Discipline Teach him to kisse the Hand that chastens him and humbly to submit his Earthly Crown to thy Divine Will and Pleasure knowing that thou canst either Restore him That when it seems good to thee Or else give him a Crown infinitely more Glorious which no man can take from him Lord He is more Precious to thee then he can possibly be to us Dispose of Him therefore in the multitude of thy Mercies And let thy Holy Spirit take so 〈◊〉 Possession and Guidance of â—…im that among all the Diffiâ—…ties of his most perplexed
satisfied with the blood already spilt among us but standest thou still â—…ith a sword upon thine Altar Must Aarons rod be suffered to â—…ther in thine own house in thine 〈◊〉 sight while Corah's and Daâ—…han's do bud and blossom Canst thou O God look on and see the golden pot ravish'd from thine own Tabernacle Canst thou endure to be in the Temple and see those Lights of the Sanctuary put out which thou thy self hast light up Wilt thou suffer the Labourers to be driven out of thy own Vineyard after their working so long there by thy Divine appointment Shall thy House of Prayer become at length a den of Theives and thou thy self stand by as unconcernd whilst they rob thee of thine Honour Thou that saidst to the waves be ye still wilt thou suffer the winds to arise the contrary winds of false Doctrine and to blow against this Ship which thy self hast so long been inâ—… wilt thou sleep in the Ship while thy Disciples are cast over board Lord carest thou noâ—… we perish When shall thy Ministers takâ—… down their Harps from the Wilâ—… upon which they hang. When shall they be permitted openly to sing the Lordâ—… song though in this strangâ—… Land When O when shall we see the Ark of God to return back from the House of Dagon and David dancing before it When wilt thou open the mouths of thine own Zacharias's the Priests of the Lord that were called to wait upon thee at thine Altar but who are now struck dumb from ofâ—…ating before thee When wilt thou extend merâ—… into us in the sight of those â—…at hate us who are set over us 〈◊〉 give us a reviving to set up the â—…ouse of God and to repair â—…he Desolations thereof and to give a Wall in Iudah and in Ieâ—…salem When shall we accompany the Tribes even the Tribes of the Lord unto the Lords House there to testifie unto Israel to give thanks unâ—… the Name of the Lord for the â—…ation of our Religion in the 〈◊〉 of so many fiery trialls and the restauration of our Liberties afâ—…r so sharp a captivity When Lord shall we be allowed to eat bread again freely in thy House yea though it be but to gather the â—…rums that fall from our Masters table How long shall it be ere thou bid 〈◊〉 look with joy vpon Zion the Citty of our Solemnities as thou didst bid thy People the Jews When wilt thou comfort us and say your eyes shall see Ierusalem a quiet habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down not one of the stakes thereof shall be removed neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken O how amiable are thy Dwellings thou Lord of Hosts My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into thy Courts and to go unto thine Altars But Lord It is not for us to know the times and seasons which the Father hath put in his own Power And therefore I desire humbly to submit the successe of all our Prayers and Supplications of our actions and sufferings together with the time of our deliverance unto thy sole pleasure earnestly beseeching thee for thy Grace which is alone sufficient for us that we may cheerfully wait upon thee without thinking thy stay too long till thou have mercy â—…on us The Lord our God is a God of â—…compences and shall surely requitâ—…â—…r Enemies But The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Lawgiver the Lord is our King he will save us Thou art the Lord and therefore Lord even when thou pleasest and what thou pleasest Not our time but thy time Not our way but thy way Not our Will but thy Will be done Thy Will be done in Earth as it is Heaven Amen A Prayer for the Church 〈◊〉 England O Lord look down in mercy and compassion upon oâ—… dear Mother the afflicted Church of England to whose breasts thou hast applyed us And grant that we may draw from thence neither blood nor wind but the sincere milk of thy word of an holy Conversation Behold Lord she is none of those Mothers which are for the dividing of their children O preserve thou her children that they also may none of them be for the dividing of their Mother Make her yet once more happy in a Moses and an Aaron in nursing Fathers to go in and out before this People and holy Ministers to stand before thee our God and suffer not â—…e sins of this Nation to be â—…onger to pull down the walls â—…our Sion and Ierusalem then â—…s thy goodness and mercy to â—…ild them up again O that this Church of England â—…ay live in thy sight For which end behold her Priests how they keep silence even from good words which is pain and grief unto them and are denied even a place between the Porch and the Altar though only to weep there for the sparing of the Temple Behold her Virgins how they 〈◊〉 least for want of a Vision the People perish and her Widdows 〈◊〉 they make Lamentation to see Iudgement begin so severely at the House of God Behold how she her self like another Racheb weeps for her children because they are not because they are not suffered to comfort their own Mother and to defend her from all such whâ—… mock at her Sabbaths and sâ—… lemn Feasts and make her seâ—… vice and Devotions their deâ—… sion and scorn O Lord behold her Afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified him self against her See O Lord and considerâ—… for she is become very vile But we trust by how much she iâ—… become vile in the eyes of man she shall be the more precious in the sight of thee her God And though others set light by her blood yet thou hast promised not to despise her team especially when thou thy self hast washed them in the blood of thy Son O therefore we beseech thee put thou her Tears in thy bottle and let not her sighs and her groans seem little in thy sight Accept of those Humiliations and graciously answer the Prayers which are offered up in secret for her Visit O visit her in Mercy and Compassion now after the time that thou hast afflicted her and for the many years wherein she hath suffered Adversity Let that purple Robe of mockery wherewith first thy self wert clad and now of late this Church of thine be changed at length into garments of joy and gladnesse Let that Crown of thorns which was taken from thy Temples and platted upon hers be now taken from both and crown her instead thereof with Roses out of her own Sharon Let the Print of the nails in thy hands and feet be as the Balm of Gilead to heal and close up the wounds which are made in hers And let the hole in thy precious side be a safe hiding-place and Sanctuary till this
Persecution be overpassed Though this year be begun in bitterness yet O suffer it not to end so But cause it to be proclaimed the acceptable yeâ—… of the Lord to all that mouâ—… in Sion As thou hast given unto tâ—… Church an Head of gold so donâ—… let her stand like Nebuchadnezaâ—… Image upon feet of clay Thougâ—… she be made to lie among the poâ—… yet thou canst cover her again wiâ—… silver wings making her featherâ—… like gold Thou art Almighty and canâ—… do it yea thou art Almercifulâ—… and wilt do it O then shew heâ—… now especially some tokeâ—… for good that they which hate her may see it and be ashamed because thou O Lord haâ—… holpen her and comforted her Give her instead of a Rent a Girdle instead of vain Repetitions the Holy Spirit and Office of Prayerâ—… for the bread of Adversity the blessed Manna of thy Word and Sacraments and for the cup of trembling and astonishment the cup of salvation Suffer not Pharaoh's thin and â—…sted Ears of corn to deâ—… those full and good Ears which have sprung up here in Gods field Neither do thou punish our former slighted â—…nty with a succeeding famine of thy Word Give unto her beauty for ashes the 〈◊〉 of Ioy for mourning the garâ—… Prayer for the spirit of beaâ—…ss Give her the custody of Angels the Patronage of Kings and Princes the hearts and â—…ds of Nobles the prayers and tears of Priests and the deâ—…ce of the whole secular Arm. O thou that hast the Key of Daâ—… that openest and no man shutâ—… open thou the mouths of thy Miâ—…rs and suffer no more any man 〈◊〉 them Open thou the doors of 〈◊〉 own House for thy servants to 〈◊〉 in and let no one dare upon 〈◊〉 pâ—…ill of their souls to keep us out And since we have taken upon us to speak unto our Lord not for the sparing of a Sodom but of this thine own Sion leâ—… not our Lord be angry and wâ—… will speak unto him once more Preserve her and all her sons anâ—… daughters in all storms and againâ—… all temptations in this present stormâ—… and against the present and all future temptations that we may do nothing to scandall our holy Calling by sacrificing our Consciences to the purchase of our case Give us innocence mixt with prudence the Doves eye in the Serpents head And teach us to beware of the Dragons Poyson even when we are made to feel the Dragons sting And when the winds shall blow fiercest against thine Ark yet then we beseech thee to preserve the Vessel though thou shalt change the Pilots And however in thy secret wisdom thou mayst suffer many of the Lights to be blown out yet we pray thee Lord be not so severe upon our justly-deserving sins as to remove the Candlestick All this and whatsoever else thou â—…e more needfull for our bleeding Mother or for any of her persecuted Children we beg at thy mercifull hands for thy Sons sake who purchased this Church with his own blood Iesus Christ our Saviour To whom with thee O Father and the ever blessed Spirit be all Honour and Glory Submission and Adoration in all places at all times in all Estates and Conditions by all men and Angels World without End Amen Amen A Prayer for the Kings Birth-day May 29. O Lord God the great disposer of Kings and Kingdomes and who in thy Mercy didst design thy servant our persecuted Soveraign Lord King Charls to be the Heir of these Kingdomes though in thy secret Judgements towards this sinfull Nation thou hast suffered the sons of violence to keep him hitherto from inheriting his Fathers Throne We thy unworthy servants are here nâ—…et together upon the Anniversary Day of his Nativity to offer unto thee a gratefull commemoration our humble thansgivings for thy great Blessing in bestowing upon us at first so hopefull a Prince And withall to bewail our unworthiness of having so good and gratious a Prince as yet to exercise his Raign over us we bewail those many sins of ours whereby we have helped to cut off the Royall Father and whereby we still assist to the keeping our of his Royall Son However we beseech thee O Lord to grant that as thy hands did fashion him and as he was fearfully and wonderfully made in his Mothers womb so his heart may still be in those hands of thine to preserve him from all danger and to mould him to all Christian and Princely Graces Give him years of Happiness and Joy for those years of bitterness and sorrow wherewith thou hast afflicted his soul. Cause him to know that the end for which he was born was not so much to govern others as to submit himself to thee and to lay his Crown and Scepter at the Feet of the Lamb. And grant Holy Father that that as now he has finished twenty nine years of his life and most of those years under the severity of thy Discipline So he may spend the Remainder of his life and may have those years doubled and trebled to him in the successes of thy favour As thou dost add days to his years so let it be thy good pleasure to add happiness to his days exchanging his Banishment into restauration and his Crown of thorns into a Crown of Majesty here of Glory hereafter This day didst thou take him out of his Mothers womb to live here a little time O mayst thou at the last day take both him and us out of our Mothers womb again even the grave and the womb of the Earth to live with thee for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Amen The Ministers Prayer for the People O Most mercifull Lord God and Lover of souls who hast given Commandment to thy Priests to weep and to pray between the Porch and the Alâ—…n and to cry spare thy people O Lord spare them O most blessed Jesu who art â—…n everlasting Priest and the great Shepheard and Bishop of our souls O most holy Spirit who dost sanctifie and preserve us building us up into an holy Temple for thy self to dwell in O Father Son and Holy Ghost three Persons and one God who delightest in the Conversion of sinners and to see souls daily added unto thy Church Bless this whole Congregation and have mercy upon this Parish who are committed to my charge to take care over their souls Lord I am unworthy of so great an honour and too unfit for so great a Burthen yet in obedience to thy Call I have undertaken it and I trust by thy Assistance to be able to feed both thy sheep and thy Lambs Keep them always within thy Fold that they may never wander nor go astray preserve them from Wolves though they should be set in the very midst of them Teach them to know thy voice and to be obedient to thy Call And when any of them shall straggle into the Wildernesse yet then Lord do not thou leave
look upon our infirmities and miseries and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen ALmighty God which art more ready to hear than we to pray and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy forgiving us those things whereof we are afraid and giving unto us that that our prayers dare not presume to aske through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the Clergy O Most mercifull Father Lord God of all Order and Peace who hast appointed Bishops and Pastors to be our spirituall guides to oversee and to feed us in their taking care for our Souls We most humbly beseech thee suffer not a Rebellious Novelty by violence to remove this most Ancient Christian Institution Fight thou for them whose Arms are their Tears and Prayers and let not the Patrimony which belongs to thee be made a prey to the rapine of these wicked times That so by the goodnesse of thy mighty strength this poor Church may continue till he come again who is the Shep-heard of our Souls even Iesus Christ our Lord to whom c. THe Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen A Prayer to be said during these sad times of Trouble O Lord our God mercifull and gracious and abundant in goodnesse and truth who dost according to thy will in the Armies of Heaven and rulest over all the Kingdomes of the Earth in whose hand is power and might and none is able to withstand thy Arm we most vile sinners approach before thy Throne of grace bewayling those manifold transgressions that have provoked thy wrath and indignation against us We know O Lord that affliction cometh not forth of the dust neither doth trouble spring out of the ground but it is thou that with rebukes dost chasten man for sin We confess that we were a wealthy and a carelesse Nation and our Land was as the garden of Eden our deliverances were great and thy blessings were multiplied we dwelt alone without fear of evill and were become the envy of those that were round about us Peace was within our Walls and plenteousnesse within our Pallaces But when we had eaten and were full and had waxen fat we kicked against thee our Maker who hadst done so great things for us our heart was lifted up and forgot thee our God and lightly esteemed the rock of our salvation We loathed the Manna that rained down upon us our Peace became a wearinesse and we snuffed at our happinesse we murmured against Moses in our Tents and made light of thine Annoynted whom thou hadst set over us Therefore hast â—…ou recompenced our wayes upon our own heads and suffered our destruction to proceed from our selves our wickednesse doth correct us our backsliding doth reprove us and our iniquity is become our ruine Thou hast broken us with a grievous breach thy anger hath divided us and thy fury hath dashed us one against another Thou hast mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of us and made us a Nation void of Counsell and understanding instead of Peace thou hast sent bitternesse and hast sent a fire into our bowells and it is kindled round about us And now O Lord behold the sword is drunk with our blood and we are numbred to the slaughter the high-wayes are unoccupied and the Travailers go through by-paths our fields are divided our inheritance is for a spoil and our substance to the robbers We are become a reproach to the foolish people and servants â—…ar rule over us The mean man is risen against the Honourable and the fire out of the â—…amble devoureth the lofty â—…dars our Women are cast out of their pleasant places and the robe is pulled from the â—…ged there is no respect had to the Priests nor favour to the Elders Thy Sanctuaries even the excellency of thy strength are prophaned and they have defiled the places where thine honoÌ„ur dwelleth and yet still the seat of wickednesse frameth mischief by a Law and it turnâ—…h judgement backward and â—…ddeth justice stand afar off â—…d deviseth deceitful matters against those that are quiet in the Land Nay there is a lying Spirit gone out into the mouth of the Prophets they prophecy falsely and the people delight to have it so and they strengthen the hands oâ—… evill doers that they turn 〈◊〉 back from their wickednesse Thus are we covered with a cloud in thine anger and our beauty is cast down to the ground But O Lord shall thine Indignation be poured out for ever shall thy jealousie burn like fire O passe by the transgressions of the remnant of thine heritage and take away the rebuke of thy people O remove from us reproach and contempt and strengthen the spoyled against the destroyers Bow down thine ear and consider the oppression of the poor the sighing of the needy the groaning of the Prisoners that are fast bound in misery and Iron Lift up thy self because of the rage of thine Adversaries consider the desolation they have made in thy Courts and all that the Enemy hath done wickedly in thy Sanctuary And yet still they are compassed with pride and doath themselves with violence as with a garment How long O Lord shall they boast themselves in mischief how long shall they decree unrighteous decrees and write grievousnesse which they have prescribed O make not a full end with us but correct us in mercy though thou leave us not altogether unpunished Helps us O Lord our God for we rest on thee and under the shadow of thy wings shall be our refuge untill this Tyranny be overpast Disappoint therefore the devices of the crafty let not the Rebellious exalt themselves any more and suffer not the Tabernacles of the Robbers to prosper And as thou hast begun to shew thy Servants thy greatnesse and thy mighty hand so continue thy marvellous loving kindnesse to those who put their trust in thee The Battailâ—… is thine O Lord thou hast preserved us from the Arm of flesh yea it is thou that hast wrought all our works in us even when there was no might against that great company that came against us When we were few in number and there was none to help us then thine own Arm brought salvation and thy righteousnesse sustained us O perfect therefore thy handy work Give salvation to our King and deliver CHARLS thy Servant from the perill of the Sword bind up his soul iâ—… the bundle of life gird him with strength to the Battail contend with those who contend with him subdue thou the people under him and suffer no weapon formed against him to prosper O deliver him at length from the strivings of the People and lift up his head above his Enemies round about him give him the shield of thy salvation and let thy gentlenesse
heart are in larged Our iniquities and the punishments which attend upon them are a burden too heavy for us to bear And therefore in the anguish and bitternesse of our souls we return unto thee humbly beseeching thee in whom alone is our help to have respect unto the Prayers of thy servants O shut not up thy loving kindnesse in displeasure let not thine anger burn against the sheep of thy pasture But bind up the breach of this People Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee Behold the tears of the distressed Orphans and Widdows and of all such as are oppressed and have no comforter How long O Lord holy and true doest thou forbear to command deliverances Remember thy tender mercies which have been ever of old and save us as thou hast done heretofore Remember thy promise of deliverance to those who call upon thee in the day of trouble And when the blood that hath been shed calls aloud for verigeance O then hearken unto the voice of thy Sons blood which speaks better things behold the Lamb of God who was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities And to this end regard the sincerity of thine Anointed maintain thine own cause and preserve unto him that power which thou hast given him bind his soul in the bundle of life let mercy and truth preserve him and let his Throne be established for ever before thee Blesse them that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land And as for those that have risen up against him we beseech thee melt and mollifie their hearts to the entertainment of compassion and love reclaim them to obedience lay not their sin to their charge but guide their feet into the way of Peace Give to those that have done wrong the grace to repent and to those that have suffered wrong minds ready to forgive And if any shall be averse from Peace O thou that art the wonderfull Counsellor turn their wisdome into foolishness confound their practises and let their mischief return upon their own heads And when thou hast vouchsafed to give us that tranquillity which we beg at thy hands give 〈◊〉 grace to embrace it with all thankfulnesse to obey our Governours to live at unity among our selves evermore blessing thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Collects I. LOrd raise up we pray thee thy power and come amongst us and with great might succor us that where as through our sins and wickednesse we be sore let and hindred thy bountifull grace and mercy through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord may speedily deliver us to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be honour and glory world without end Amen II. ALmighty and everlasting God which dost govern all things in heaven and earth mercifully hear the supplications of thy people and grant us thy peace all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen III. ALmighty and everlasting God mercifully look upon our afflictions and in all our dâ—…ngers and necessities stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us through Christ our Lord Amen IV. GOd who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that for mans frailnesse we cannot alwayes stand uprightly Grant to us the health of body and soul that all those things which we suffer for sin by thy help we may well passe and overcome through Christ our Lord Amen V. O Lord we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy People that we which are justly punished for our offences may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness for the Glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth and reigneth world without end Amen VI. LOrd We beseech thee to keep thy Church and houshold continually in the true Religion that they which do leane only on thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VII WE beseech thee Almighty God look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to be our defence against all our enemies through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen VIII GOd the Protector of all that trust in thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy increase and multiply upon us thy mercy that thou being our ruler and guide we may so pass through things temporall that we finally lose not things eternall Grant this Heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord Amen XI LOrd we beseech thee let thy continual pitty cleanse and defend thy congregation and because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour preserve it evermore by thy help and goodnesse through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Certain additionall Prayers In the time of War O Almighty God who art high above all Nations and whose glory is above the Heavens the comfortable successe of all enterprises is from thee onely to be looked for Thou art he which givest victory unto Kings to thee it is all one to save by many or few thou canst make one to chase a thousand thou canst cause the hearts even of the most valiant to melt their hands to be weak their minds to faint and their knees to fall away like water If thou fight for us we cannot miscarâ—…y If thou favour us not we must needs be discomfited O be gracious unto us and be on our side now that men are risen up against us They take crafty Counsell against thy Church and consult how to cut us off from being a Nation and by what means to quench the light of thy Truth which hath shined in our streets Their desire is to imbrue their hands in blood and to advance their own ambition by our overthrow O turn their Counsels into foolishness Let not their mischeivous imaginations prosper lest they be too proud O our God make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the winde Scatter the People that delight in War Go out O Lord with our Armies give wisdom and courage to our Captains gird them with strength unto the battell be with our Souldiers teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight Assist all the Consultations prosper the Policies crown those enterprises with good successe which are undertaken for the common good and comfort of the Weal-publique Doubtless O Lord we have deserved thine anger and our sins do cry loud in thine ears for vengeance and it were but just with thee if thou shouldst make us a prey and â—…spoil unto our Enemies But O Gracious God let us now fall into thy hands for thy mercies are great and let us not fall into the hands of men whose displeasure at us is not for our sins but for our Profession and Religions sake and that they may fill their own inlarged and insatiable desire with those blessings of wealth which thou hast given us Put therefore thy hook into their nostrills and