shall thy light break forth as the morning and thine health shall spring forth spéedily and thy righteousness shall go before thée the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward Then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer thou shalt cry and he shall say Here I am if thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke the putting forth of the finger and speaking vanity And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfie the afflicted soul then shall thy light rise in obscurity and thy darkness be as the noon-day And the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfie thy soul in drought and make fat thy bones and thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations and thou shalt be called The repairer of the breath The restorer of paths to dwell in If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and shalt honour him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasure nor speaking thine own words Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thée to ride upon the high places of the earth and féed thée with the heritage of Iacob thy father for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it ¶ After the First Lesson shall follow Te Deum Laudaemus in English VVE praise thee O God we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee the Father everlasting To thee all Angels cry aloud the heavens and all the powers therein To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually do cry Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee The noble army of Martyrs praise thee The holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee The Father of an infinite Majesty Thine honourable true and only Son Also the holy Ghost the Comforter Thou art the King of glory O Christ Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man thou didst not abhor the Virgins womb When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father We believe that thou shalt come to be our Iudge We therefore pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud Make them to be numbred with thy Saints in glory everlasting O Lord save thy people and bless thine heritage Govern them and lift them up for ever Day by day we magnifie thee And we worship thy Name ever world without end Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this day without sin O Lord have mercy upon us have mercy upon us O Lord let thy mercy lighten upon us as our trust is in thee O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be confounded For the second Lesson the One and twentieth Chapter of St. Luke ANd he looked up and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites And he said Of a truth I say unto you that this poor widow hath cast in more then they all For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had And as some spake of the temple how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts he said As for these things which ye behold the daies will come in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down And they asked him saying Master but when shall these things be and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass And he said Take heed that ye be not deceived for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and the time draweth near go ye not therefore after them But when ye shall hear of Wars and commotions be not terrified for these things must first come to pass but the end is not by and by Then said he unto them Nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom And great earthquakes shall be in divers places and famines and pestilences and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven But before all these they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons being brought before kings rulers for my names sake And it shall turn to you for a testimony Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate before what ye shall answer For I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist And ye shall be betrayed both by parents and brethren and kinsfolks and friends and some of you shall they cause to be put to death And ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake But there shall not an hair of your head perish In your patience possess ye your souls And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies then know that the desolation thereof is nigh Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains and let them which are in the midst of it depart out and let not them that are in the countreys enter thereinto For these be the days of vengeance that all things which are written may be fulfilled But wo unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations and Jerusalem shall be troden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity the sea and the waves roaring mens hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven shall be shaken And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory And when these things begin to come to pass then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh And he spake to them a parable Behold the fig-tree and all the trees When they now shoot forth ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand So likewise ye when ye see these things come to pass know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand Verily I say unto you This generation
A FORM OF COMMON PRAYER To be used on Wednesday the 5th of April Being the day of the GENERAL FAST Appointed by His Majesties Proclamation for Imploring Gods blessing on His Majesties Naval Forces Set forth by His Majesties Authority LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1665. The Order for Morning Prayer ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice one or more of these sentences of Scripture and then say the Exhortation that followeth REnt your heart and not your Joel 2. 13 garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful flow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil To the Lord our God belong Dan. 9. 9 10. mercies and forgiveness though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his-laws which he set before us O Lord correct me but with judgement not in Jer. 10. 24. thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost shéep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord and grant O most merciful Father for his sake that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounc'd by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and begin the Lords Prayer the people also repeating it with him OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom 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 trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answ And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus shall be sung or said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and people O Come let us humble our selves before the Psal 95 6. Lord and fall down before him with reverence and fear For he is the Lord our God and we are the people 7. of his pasture and the sheep of his hands Let us repent and turn from our wickedness Act. 3. 19. and our sins shall be forgiven us For this shall every one that is godly make his Psal 32. 7. prayer unto thee O Lord in a time when thou mayest be found In my trouble I will call upon the Lord and Psal 18. 2. complain unto my God so shall I be safe from mine enemies So shall he hear my voice out of his holy temple 6. and my eomplaint shall come before him it shall enter even into his ears Hear my prayer O God and let my crying Ps 102. 1. come unto thee Thou art my King O God send help unto Jacob. Psal 44. 5. Through thee will we overthrow our enemies 6. and in thy Name will we tread them under that rise up against us For I will not trust in my bow it is not my 7. sword that shall help me But it is thou that savest us from our enemies 8. and puttest them to confusion that bare us There is no King that can be saved by the multitude Ps 33. 15. of an Host neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength Therefore in thee O Lord have I put my trust Ps 31. 1. let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousness Bow down thine ear to me and save me make 2. haste to deliver me I will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord Ps 18. 1. 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 salvation and my refuge Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that Ps 33. 17. fear him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy O be favourable and gracious unto Sion Ps 51. 28. build thou the walls of Ierusalem Let thy merciful
of his Father before all worlds God of God Light of Light very God of very God begotten not made being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven O Almighty God King of all kings and Gevernour of all things whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners and to be merciful to them that truly repent Save and deliver us we humbly beseech thee from the hands of our enemies abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved evermore from all perils to glorifie thee who art the only giver of all victory through the merits of thy only Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Epistle Ephes VI. 10. FInally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand Stand therefore having your Ioyns girt about with truth and having on the brest-plate of righteousness And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance The Gospel S. Matth. V. 1. ANd Iesus seeing the multitudes went up into a mountain and when he was set his disciples came unto him And he opened his mouth and taught them saying Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you I Believe in one God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible And in one Lord Iesus Christ the only begotten Son of God begotten of his Father before all worlds God of God Light of Light very God of very God begotten not made being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made man and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate He suffered and was buried and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of the Father And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead whose kingdom shall have no end And I believe in the holy Ghost the Lord and giver of life who procéedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified who spake by the Prophets And I believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins And I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come Amen ¶ Then followeth the Sermon and after that shall be said LEt your light so shine before men that they S. Mat. 5. 16. may sée your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Lay not up for your selves treasures upon S. Matth. 6. 19 20. earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal but lay up for your selves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal Let us pray for the whole state of Christs Church militant here on earth ALmighty and everliving God who by thy holy Apostle hast taught us to make prayers wicked thing Vnite our hearts that we may fear thy Name and then we need not fear what Man can do unto us O let our ways be such as may please Thee that Thou mayest make even our enemies to be at Peace with us here and when we have accomplish'd our Warfare upon earth maist admit us to the blessed Vision of everlasting Peace in thine own glorious presence through his Merit and Mediation who is both the Lord of Hosts and the Prince of Peace Iesus Christ our Lord and blessed Saviour Amen O God the Protector of all that trust in Thée without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and so great dangers and séest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves Mercifully look upon our infirmities Raise up thy power and come among us and with great might succour us and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to help and defend us against all our enemies Look we pray thee upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants Encrease and multiply upon us thy mercies that we who for our evil déeds do worthily deserve to be punished by the comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved and that Thou being our Saviour and Deliverer our Ruler and our Guide we may so pass the waves of this troublesom World that finally we may come to the land of everlasting life there to reign with Thée world without end through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God who 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 Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Priest shall let them depart with this blessing THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of 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 always Amen The Order for Evening Prayer ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice one or more of these sentences of Scripture and then say the Exhortation that followeth REnt your heart and not your Joel 2. 13. garments and turn unto the Lord your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil To the Lord our God belong Dan. 9. 9 10. mercies and forgiveness though we have rebelled against him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walk in his laws which he set before us O Lord correct me but with judgement not in Jer. 10. 24. thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost shéep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord and grant O most merciful Father for his sake that we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life to the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounc'd by the Priest alone standing the people still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The people shall answer here and at the end of all other Prayers Amen ¶ Then shall the Minister kneel and begin the Lords Prayer the people also repeating it with him OVr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom 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 trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answ And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus shall be sung or said this Hymn following one Verse by the Priest and another by the Clerk and people O Come let us humble our selves before the Psal 95. 6. Lord and fall down before him with reverence and fear For he is the Lord our God and we are the people 7. of his pasture and the sheep of his hands Let us repent and turn from our wickedness Act. 3. 19. and our sins shall be forgiven us For this shall every one that is godly make his Psal 32. 7. prayer unto thee O Lord in a time when thou mayest be found In my trouble I will call upon the Lord and Psal 18. 2. complain unto my God so shall I be safe from mine enemies So shall he hear my voice out of his holy temple 6. and my complaint shall come before him it shall enter even into his ears Hear my prayer O God and let my crying Ps 102. 1. come unto thee Thou art my King O God send help unto Jacob. Psal 44. 5. Through thee will we overthrow our enemies 6. and in thy Name will we tread them under that rise up against us For I will not trust in my bow it is not my 7. sword that shall help me But it is thou that savest us from our enemies 8. and puttest them to confusion that hate us There is no King that can be saved by the multitude Ps 33. 16. of an Host neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength Therefore in thee O Lord have I put my trust Ps 31. 1. let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy righteousness Bow down thine ear to me and save me make 2. haste to deliver me I will love thee O Lord my strength the Lord Ps 18. 1. 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 salvation and my refuge Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Ps 33. 17. him and upon them that put their trust in his mercy O be favourable and gracious unto Sion Ps 51. 18. build thou the walls of Ierusalem Let thy merciful kindness O Lord be upon us Ps 33. 21. like as we do put our trust in thee Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall