The booke of common prayer and adminystracion of the Sacramentes and other rytes and Ceremonies in the Churche of Englande Londini in officina EdoVardi Whitchurche Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum ⧠⧠The Contentes of thys boke i. A Preface ii Of Ceremonyes why some be abolisshed and some retayned iii. The ordre how the Psalter is appointed to be read iiii The table for thorder of the Psalmes to be sayd at Morning and Euening prayer v. The order howe the rest of holy Scripture is appoynted to be read vi Proper Psalmes and Lessons at Morning and Euening prayer for certayne feastes and dayes vii An Almanacke viii The table and Kalender for Psalmes and Lessons with necessarie Rules apperteining to thesame ix Th order for Mornyng prayer and Euenyng prayer throughout the yeare x. The Letany xi The Collectes Epistles and Gospelles to bee vsed at the mynystracyon of the holy Communyon throughoute the yeare xii Th order of the ministracion of the holy Communyon xiii Baptisme both Publique and Priuate xiiii Confyrmacyon where also is a Cathechysme for chyldren xv Matrimonie xvi Visitacion of the sicke xvii The Communion of the sicke xviii Buriall xix The thankes geuing of women after childe byrth xx A Comminacion against sinners with certayne prayers to be vsed dyuerse tymes in the yeare The Preface THere was neuer any thyng by the wyt of man so well deuysed or so sure establysshed whyche in contynuaunce of tyme hath not been corrupted as emong other thynges it may plainly appeare by the cōmon prayers in the Churche cōmonly called deuine seruice The first originall and grounde whereof if a man would searche oute by the auncyente fathers he shall fynde that thesame was not ordained but of a good purpose and for a greate aduauncement of godlynes For they so ordred the matter that all the whole Byble or the greatest part thereof should be read ouer once in the yere entēdyng therby that the Cleargie and speciallye suche as were ministers of the congregacyon shoulde by often readyng and meditacyon of Goddes worde be styrred vp to Godlynes themselues and be more hable also to exhorte other by wholesome doctryne and to confute them that wer aduersaries to the truth And further that the people by dayly hearing of holy scrypture read in the church should contynually profyt more and more in the knowledge of God and be the more enflamed with the loue of hys true religyon But these many yeres passed this godly and decente ordre of the auncyente fathers hath been so altered broken and neglected by plantyng in vncertayne Storyes Legendes Respondes Verses vayne Repeticions Commemoracions Sinodalles that commonly whē any boke of the Bible was begon before three or foure Chapters were read out al the rest were vnread And in thys sorte the boke of Esai was begonne in Aduent and the booke of Genesis in Septuagesima but they were only begonne and neuer read throughe After a lyke sorte were other bokes of holy scripture vsed And moreouer wheras Sainct Paul would haue such language spoken to the people in the Churche as they myghte vnderstande and haue profyt by hearyng the same The seruice in thys Churche of Englande these many yeres haue been read in Latine to the people which they vnderstode not so that they haue heard with their eares onely and theyr heartes spirite and mynde haue not been edifyed thereby And furthermore notwythstandyng that the auncyente fathers haue deuyded the Psalmes into seuen porcyons wherof euery one was called a Nocturne now of late time a fewe of them haue been dayly sayd and oft repeated and the rest vtterly omytted Moreouer the noumbre and hardnes of the rules called the Pye and the manyfolde chaungeinges of the seruyce was the cause that to turne the booke onely was so hard and intricate a matter that manye tymes there was more busynes to fynde out what should be read then to reade it when it was founde out These inconueniences therefore consydered here is set furth suche an ordre whereby the same shal bee redressed And for a readinesse in thys matter here is drawen out a Kalender for that purpose whych is playne and easy to be vnderstanden wherin so muche as may be the reading of holy scriptures is so set furth that all thynges shal be done in ordre without breaking one piece therof from an other For this cause be cut of Anthemes Respondes Inuitatories and suche lyke thynges as did breake the continuall course of the reading of the scripture Yet because there is no remedie but that of necessitie there must be some rules therefore certayne rules are here set furthe whiche as they be few in numbre so they be playne and easy to bee vnderstanden So that here you haue an ordre for prayer as touching the reading of holye scripture muche agreable to the mynde and purpose of tholde fathers and a greate deale more profitable and commodious then that which of late was vsed It is more profitable because here are left out many thynges whereof some be vntrue some vncertayne some vayne and supersticious and is ordeined nothing to be read but the very pure woorde of God the holye scriptures or that whiche is euidentlye grounded vpon the same and that in suche a language and ordre as is most easy and playne for the vnderstandyng both of the readers and hearers It is also more commodious bothe for the shortnes thereof and for the playnnes of the ordre and for that the rules be few and easy Furthermore by this ordre the Curates shall nede none other bookes for theyr publyque seruice but thys booke and the Byble By the meanes whereof the people shall not bee at so greate charge for bookes as in tymes past they haue been And where heretofore there hath been greate diuersitie in saying and synging in churches within this realme some folowyng Salisbury vse some Herforde vse some the vse of Bangor some of Yorke and some of Lincolne Now from hence foorthe all the whole Realme shall haue but one vse And yf any would iudge thys waye more paynfull because that all thinges must be read vpon the booke whereas before by the reason of so often repeticion they could saye many thynges by hearte If those men will weigh their labour with the profite and knowledge whiche daylye they shall obteyne by readyng vpon the booke they wyll not refuse the payne in consideracion of the great profite that shall ensue thereof And forasmuche as nothyng can almost bee so playnely sette foorthe but doubtes may ryse in the vse and practisyng of the same To appease all suche diuersitie if any aryse and for the resolucion of al doubtes concernyng the maner howe to vnderstande dooe and execute the thynges conteyned in this booke The parties that so doubte or diuerslye take anye thyng shall alwaye resorte to the Bysshoppe of the Dyocesse who by hys dyscrecion shall take ordre for the quieting and appeasyng of the
vnto the people by the autoritie of the scripture home the mercye and goodnes of God hath in all ages been shewed to his people in their necessities and extremities by meanes of hearty and faythful prayers made to almightie god specially where people be gathered together with one fayth and mynd to offre vp theyr heartes by prayer as the best Sacrifices that Christian menne can yelde The Table and Kalender expressing the ordre of the Psalmes and Lessons to be sayed at the Morning and Euening prayer throughout the yere excepte certayne proper feastes as the rules folowyng more playnely declare ¶ The order howe the Psalter is appoynted to be readde THe Psalter shal be read through once euery Moneth And because that some Monethes be longer then some other bee it is thoughte good to make them euen by thys meanes To euery Moneth shall be appoynted as concernyng thys purpose iust .xxx. dayes And because Ianuary and Marche hath one day aboue the said numbre and February which is placed betwene them both hath onely .xxviii. dayes February shall borowe of eyther of the Monethes of Ianuary March one day And so the Psalter which shal be read in February must begin the last daye of Ianuary and ende the first daye of Marche And wheras Maye Iuly August Octobre and Decembre haue .xxxi. dayes a piece it is ordered that the same Psalmes shall be read the last daye of the sayd Monethes which were read the day before So that the Psalter may begin agayne the first day of the next Monethes ensuing Now to know what Psalmes shal be read euery daye loke in the Kalender the numbre that is appoynted for the Psalmes and then fynd the same numbre in this Table and vpon that numbre shall you see what Psalmes shal be sayd at Morning and Euening prayer And where the Cxix Psalme is deuided into .xxii. porcyons is ouerlong to bee read at one tyme it is so ordred that at one tyme shall not bee read aboue foure or fyue of the sayed porcyons as you shall perceyue to be noted in this Table folowyng And here is also to be noted that in this Table and in all other partes of the seruice where any Psalmes are appoynted the numbre is expressed after the great Englishe Byble which from the .ix. Psalme vnto the Cxlviii Psalme folowyng the deuision of the Hebrues doeth varye in numbres from the common Latine translacion ⧠⧠The Table for the ordre of the Psalmes to be sayd at Morning and Euening prayer  ¶ Morning prayer ¶ Euening prayer i i. ii iii. iiii v. vi vii viii ii ix x. xi xii xiii xiiii iii xv xvi xvii xviii iiii xix xx xxi xxii xxiii v xxiiii xxv xxvi xxvii xxviii xxix vi xxx xxxi xxxii xxxiii xxxiiii vii xxxv xxxvi xxxvii viii xxxviii xxxix xl xli xlii xliii ix xliiii xlv xlvi xlvii xlviii xlix x l. li. lii liii liiii lv xi lvi lvii lviii lix lx lxi xii lxii lxiii lxiiii lxv lxvi lxvii xiii lxviii lxix lxx xiiii lxxi lxxii lxxiii lxxiiii xv lxxv lxxvi lxxvii lxxviii xvi lxxix lxxx lxxxi lxxxii lxxxiii lxxxiiii lxxxv xvii lxxxvi lxxxvii lxxxviii lxxxix xviii xc xci xcii xciii xciiii xix xcvi xcvii xcviii xcix c. ci xx cii ciii ciiii xxi cv cvi xxii cvii. cviii cix xxiii cx cxi cxii cxiii cxiiii cxv xxiiii cxvi cxvii cxviii cxix Inde iiii xxv Inde v. Inde iiii xxvi Inde v. Inde iiii xxvii cxx cxxi cxxii cxxiii cxxiiii cxxv cxxvi cxxvii cxxviii cxxix cxxx cxxxi xxviii cxxxii cxxxiii cxxxiiii cxxxv cxxxvi cxxxvii cxxxviii xxix cxxxix cxl cxli. cxlii cxliii xxx cxliiii cxlv cxlvi cxlvii cxlviii cxlix cl ⧠⧠The ordre how the rest of holy scripture besyde the Psalter is appoynted to be read I Hold Testament is appoynted for the fyrst Lessons at Mornyng and Euenyng prayer and shal be read throughe euery yere once except certayne bookes and Chapyters whych be least edyfying and myght best be spared and therfore be left vnreadde The newe testamente is appoynted for the seconde Lessons at Morning and Euening praier and shal be read ouer orderly euery yere thrise besyde the Epistles and gospels except the Apocalyps out of the whyche there be onely certayne Lessons appoynted vpon dyuerse propre feastes And to knowe what lessons shal be read euery daye finde the day of the moneth in the Kalender folowyng and there ye shall perceyue the bokes and Chapyters that shall bee read for the Lessons both at Morning and Euenyng prayer And here is to be noted that whensoeuer there be any propre Psalmes or Lessons appoynted for any feast moueable or vnmoueable then the Psalmes and lessons appoynted in the kalender shal be omited for the time Ye muste note also that the Collect Epistle and Gospel appoynted for the Sundaye shall serue all the wieke after excepte there fall some feast that hath hys proper Thys is also to be noted concernyng the Leape yeres that the .xxv. day of February whyche in Leape yere is counted for two daies shal in those two dayes alter neyther Psalme nor lesson but the same Psalmes and lessons whyche bee sayed the fyrste daye shall also serue for the seconde daye Also whersoeuer the beginning of any lesson Epistle or Gospell is not expressed there ye must beginne at the beinning of the Chapter And wheresoeuer is not expressed howe farre shall be read there shall you reade to the ende of the Chapter ¶ Proper Psalmes and Lessons for dyuerse feastes and daies at Morning and Euening prayer On Christmas day at morning prayer Psalme xix Psalme xlv Psalm lxxxv The fyrst Lesson Esaye .ix. The .ii. Lesson Luke .ii. vnto And vnto men a good wyll At Euening prayer Psalm lxxxix Psalme Cx. Psal Cxxxii. The first Lesson Esaie .vii. God spake once agayne to Achas c. vnto the ende The seconde Lesson T it .iii. The kyndnesse and loue c. vnto Foolyshe questions On sainct Stephens daye at morning praier   The second Lesson Actes .vi. and .vii. Stephen full of fayth and power vnto And when fourtie yeres were c. At Euening prayer   The seconde Lesson Actes .vii. And when fourtie yeares were expired there appeared vnto Moyses c. vnto Stephen full of the holy gost On sainct Iohn the euāgelistes day at Mornīg prayer   The second Lesson Apocalip .i. The whole Chapiter At Euening prayer   The second Lesson Apocalips .xxii. On the Innocentes daye at mornīng praier  The fyrst Lesson Ierem .xxxi. vnto Moreouer I heard Ephraim  On the Circūcision daye at morning praier  The fyrst Lesson Genesis .xvii. The second Lesson Roma .ii. At Euening prayer  The .i. Lesson Deu .x. And nowe Israel c. The second Lesson Collossi .ii. On the Epiphanie at Morning prayer  The fyrst Lesson Esaye .lx. The second Lesson Luke .iii. And it fortuned c. At Euening prayer  The fyrst Lesson Esaye .xlix. The second Lesson Iohn .ii. After
this he went downe to Capernaum On Wednesday before Easter at Euenyng prayer  The fyrst Lesson Ozee .xiii. xiiii  On thursday before Easter at Morning prayer  The fyrste Lesson Daniel .ix.  At Euening prayer  The fyrst Lesson Ieremie .xxxi.  On Good Fridaye at Morning prayer  The fyrst Lesson Genesis .xxii.  At Euening prayer  The fyrst lesson Esay .liii.  On Easter euen at Mornyng prayer  The fyrst Lesson zachary .ix.  On Easter daye at Mornyng prayer Psalme ii Psalm lvii Psalme cxi The fyrst lesson Exo .xii. The second lesson Ro .vi. At Euening prayer Psalm cxiii Psal cxiiii Psal cxviii  The second lesson Act .ii. On Mondaye in Easter weke at Morning prayer   The second Lesson Math .xxviii. At Euening prayer   The second Lesson Actes .iii. On tuesdaye in Easter weke at Morning prayer   The second Lesson Luk .xxiiii. vnto And behold two of them At Euening prayer   The second Lesson i. Corinth .xv. On the ascencyon daye at Mornyng prayer Psalme viii Psalme xv Psalme xxi  The second lesson Ioh .xiiii. At Euening prayer Psalme xxiiii Psalme lxviii Psalme Cviii.  The second lesson Ephe .iiii. On Whitsunday at mornyng prayer Psalm xlviii Psalm lxvii  The second lesson Actes .x. Then Peter opened his c. At Euening prayer Psalm Ciiii. Psalm Cxlv.  The second Lesson Act .xix It fortuned when Apollo went to Corinthum c. vnto After these thynges On Trinitie sunday at Morning prayer  The fyrst lesson Genesis .xviii. The second Lesson Math .iii. Conuersion of S. Paul at morning praier   The second Lesson Actes .xxii. vnto They heard hym At Euening prayer   The second lesson Actes .xxvi. Sainct Barnabies daye at morning prayer   The seconde lesson Actes .xiiii. At Euening prayer   The seconde lesson Actes .xv. vnto After certayne dayes Sainct Iohn Baptistes daye at Mornyng prayer  The fyrst lesson Malachi .iii. The seconde lesson Math .iii. At Euening prayer  The fyrst lesson Malachi .iiii. The seconde lesson Math .xiiii. vnto When Iesus heard Saint Peters day at morning prayer   The second Lesson Actes .iii. At Euening prayer   The second Lesson Actes .iiii. All sainctes daye at Mornyng prayer  The first lesson Sapien .iii. vnto Blessed is rather the barrayne The second lesson Hebre .xi. xii Sainctes by fayth subdued vnto Yf you endure chastising At Euening prayer  The first lesson Sapien .v. vnto Hys Ielosie also The seconde lesson Apocalips .xix. vnto And I sawe an Aungell stande ¶ A briefe declaracion when euery Terme begynneth and endeth BE it knowen that Easter terme beginneth alwayes the .xviii. day after Easter rekening Easter day for one and endeth the mondaye next after the Ascencyon daye Trinitie terme begynneth alway the Fryday next after Corpus Christi day and endeth the wednesday fortnyght after Michelmas Terme begynneth the nynth or tenth daye of October and endeth the .xxviii. or .xxix. day of Nouembre Hillarie terme begynneth the .xxiii. or .xxiiii. day of Ianuary and endeth the .xii. or .xiii. day of Februarye In Easter terme on the Ascencion day In Trinitie terme on the Natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist In Michelmas terme on alhallowes day and al soules day In Hillarye terme on Candlemas day the kynges Iudges at Westminster doe not vse to syt in iudgemente nor vpon any Sundayes ¶ An Almanacke for .xix. yeares ¶ The yere of our Lord. ¶ The Golden numbre ¶ The epact ¶ The cicle of the sunne ¶ Dominicall letter Easter day M.D.lii â—… iiii xxi C â— xvii Aprill M.D.liii â—… xv xxii A ii Aprill M.D.liiii â—… xxvi xxiii G xxv Marche M.D.lv â—… vii xxiiii F xiiii Aprill M.D.lvi â—… xviii xxv E â— v. Aprill M.D.lvii â—… xxix xxvi C xviii Aprill M.D.lviii â—… xi xxvii B x. Aprill M.D.lix â—… xxii xxviii A xxvi Marche M.D.lx â—… iii i G â— xiiii Aprill M.D.lxi â—… xiiii ii E vi Aprill M.D.lxii â—… xxv iii D  M.D.lxiii â—… xxvi iiii C  M.D.lxiiii â—… xvii v B â— Â M.D.lxv â—… xxviii vi G  M.D.lxvi â—… ix vii F  M.D.lxvii â—… xx viii E  M.D.lxviii â—… i ix D â— Â M.D.lxix â—… xii x B  M.D.lxx â—… xxiii xi A  ¶ Ianuary hath .xxxi. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening praier i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„ i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„ â—… A Kalend. Circumcisi i Ge. xvii Rom. ii Deute x Collos ii  b iiii No.  ii Genes i Mat. i Genes ii Roma i â—… c iii No.  iii iii ii iiii ii  d Prid. No.  iiii v iii vi iii â—… e Nonas  v vii iiii viii iiii â—… f viii Id. Epiphanie vi Esay lx Luke iii Esai xlix Iohn ii  g vii Id.  vii Gene. ix Math. v Genes xi Roma v â—… A vi Id.  viii xii vi xiii vi â—… b v Id.  ix xiiii vii xv vii  c iiii Id.  x xvi viii xvii viii xiii d iii Id. Sol in aqua xi xviii ix xix ix ii e Prid. Id.  xii xx x xxi x  f Idus Hilarii xiii xxii xi xxiii xi â—… g xix kl Februarii xiiii xxiiii xii xxv xii  A xviii kl  xv xxvi xiii xxvii xiii â—… b xvii kl  xvi xxviii xiiii xxix xiiii â—… c xvi kl Anthoni xvii xxx xv xxxi xv  d xv kl  xviii xxxii xvi xxxiii xvi â—… e xiiii kl  xix xxxiiii xvii xxxv i. Corin. i â—… f xiii kl Fab. Bast xx xxxvi xviii xxxvii ii  g xii kl Agnes xxi xxxix xix xxxix iii â—… A xi kl Vincent xxii xl xx xli iiii â—… b x kl  xxiii xlii xxi xliii v  c ix kl  xxiiii xliiii xxii xlv vi â—… d viii kl CoÌ„ Paule xxv xlvi Acte xxii xlvii Act. xxvi  e vii kl  xxvi xlviii ma. xxiii xlix i. Cor. vii â—… f vi kl  xxvii l xxiiii Exodi i. viii â—… g v kl  xxviii Exodi ii xxv iii ix  A iiii kl  xxix iiii xxvi v x â—… b iii kl  xxx vi xxvii vii xi â—… c Prid. kl  i viii xxviii ix xii ¶ February hath .xxviii. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening praier i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„ i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„  d Kalend.  ii Exodi x. Mark i. Exodi xi i. cor xiii xi e iiii No. Puri mary iii xii ii xiii xiiii xix f iii No. Blase iiii xiiii iii xv xv â—… g Prid. No.  v xvi iiii xvii xvi  A Nonas Agathe vi xviii v xix ii Cori. i â—… b viii Id. Doroth. vii xx vi xxi ii v c vii Id.  viii xxii vii xxiii iii  d vi Id.  ix xxiiii viii xxxii iiii xiii e v Id.  x xxxiii ix xxxiiii v ii
least communicate with the priest And in Cathedrall and Collegiate churches where bee many priestes and Deacons they shall all receyue the Communion with the Minister euery Sundaie at the least except they haue a reasonable cause to the contrary And to take away the supersticiō which any person hath or might haue in the bread and wyne it shall suffyse that the bread be suche as is vsual to be eaten at the Table with other meates but the best and purest wheate bread that conuenienly may be gotten And yf anye of the bread or wine remayne the Curate shall haue it to his owne vse Although no ordre can be so perfectly deuised but it may be of sonne either for theyr ignoraunce and infirmitie or els of malice and obstinacie misconcostrued depraued and interpreted in a wrong part And yet because brotherly charitie willeth that somuche as conuenientlie maye be offences should be taken awaye therefore we willyng to doe the same Wheras it is ordeined in the boke of common prayer in the administracion of the lordes Supper that the communicantes knelyng should receyue the holy Communion which thyng beeing well mente for a significacion of the humble gratefull acknowledgeing of the benefices of Christ geuen vnto the worthye receyuer and to auoyde the prophanacion and disordre which about the holy Communion might els ensue Leste yet the same kneling might be thought or taken otherwise we doe declare that it is not meant therby that any adoracion is done or ought to be done eyther vnto the Sacramentall bread or wyne there bodely receyued or vnto any reall and essenciall presence there beeyng of Christes naturall fleshe and bloud For as concerning the Sacramentall bread and wyne they remayne still in theyr very natural substaunces and therfore may not bee adored for that were Idolatrie to be abhorred of all faithful Christians And as concerning the naturall body and bloud of oure fauiour Christ they are in heauen and not here for it is agaynste the trueth of Chryestes true naturall body to be moe in places then in one at one tyme. The bread and wyne for the Communion shall be prouyded by the Curate and the church wardens at the charges of the Parishe the Parishe shal be discharged of suche summes of moneye or other dueties which hetherto they haue payd for the same by ordre of their houses euery Sundaye And note that euery Parishioner shall communicate at the leaste three tymes in the yeare of which Easter to bee one and shal also receyue the Sacramētes and other rites according to the order in this Boke appoynted And yerely at Easter euery Parishioner shal rekē with his Person Vicar or Curate or hys or theyr deputie or deputies and pay to them or him all Ecclesiasticall dueties accustomably due then and at that tyme to bee payde ¶ The Ministracion of Baptisine to be vsed in the Churche IT appeareth by auncyente wryters that the Sacrament of Baptisme in the olde time was not commonlye ministed but at two tymes in the yeare at Easter and Whitsontide At whych times it was openlye ministred in the presence of all the congregacion which custome now beyng growen oute of vse although it cannot for many consideracyons bee well restored agayne yet it is thoughte good to folowe the same as nere as conuenientlye may bee wherfore the people are to bee admanisshed that it is moste conuenient that baptisme shoulde not bee ministred but vpon Sundayes and other holye dayes when the most noumbre of people may come together aswel for that the congregacion there presente maye testifie the receiuing of them that be newely Baptised into the noumbre of Christes Churche as also because in the Baptisme of infantes euery man presente maye be put in remembraunce of his owne profession made to God in his Baptisme For whiche cause also it is expediente that Baptisme bee ministred in the Englishe tongue Neuerthelesse yf necessitie so require children maye at all tymes be Baptised at home ¶ Publique Baptisme When there are children to be Baptised vpon the Sundaye or holy daye the Parentes shal geue knowledge ouernight or in the Morning afore the beginning of Mornyng prayer to the Curate And then the godfathers godmothers people with the childrē must be ready at the Fonie either immediately after the last Lesson at Morning praier or els immediately after the last Lesson at Euening prayer as the Curate by his discrecion shal appoint And the standing there the Priest shall aske whether the children be Baptised or no. If they answere no Then shall the Priest saye thus DEarely beloued forasmuch as al mē be conceiued and borne in synne and that our Sauiour Christ sayeth none can entre into the kyngdome of God except he be regenerate and borne a new of water and the holy goste I beseche you to call vpon God the father through our lord Iesus Christe the of his bounteous mercy he wil graunte to these children that thing which by nature they cannot haue that they maye be Baptised with water and the holy goste and receiued into Christes holye churche and be made liuely membres of the same ¶ Then the Priest shall saye ¶ Let vs praye ALmightie and euerlasting god which of thy great mercy didst saue Noe and his familie in the Arke from perishing by water and also diddest safelye leade the children Israel thy people through the redde Sea figuring therby thy holy Baptisme and by the Baptisme of thy welbeloued sonne Iesus Chryste diddest sanctifie the floud Iordā and al other waters to the misticall wasshyng awaye of synne We beseche thee for thy infinite mercyes that thou myit mercifully loke vpon these childrē sanctifie them and washe them with thy holy gost that they being deliuered from thy wrath maye be receiued into the Arke of Christes churche and beeing stedfast in faith ioyefull through hope and rooted in charitie maye so passe the waues of this troublesome worlde that finally they maye come to the lande of euerlastyng lyfe there to reigne with thee world without ende through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmightie and immortall god the ayde of al that nede the helper of all that flee to thee for succoure the lyfe of them that beleue and the resurreccion of the dead We call vpon thee for these infantes that they comming to thy holy Baptisme may receiue remisstō of their sines by spirituall regeneracion Receiue them O Lord as thou hast promised by thy welbeloued sonne saying Aske you shall haue seke and you shall finde knocke and it shal be opened vnto you So geue now vnto vs the aske Let vs that seke find Open the gate vnto vs that knocke the these infantes may enioye the euerlasting benedicciō of thy heauenly wasshing and maye come to the eternall kingdom which thou hast promysed by Christ our Lorde Amen Then shal the Priest say heare the wordes of the Gospel written by Sainct Marke in the tenth Chapter Mark x. AT a certayne
i xix Miche ii iii  c xiii kl  xix iii xx iiii iiii â—… d xii kl Faste xx v xxi vi v â—… e xi kl S. Mathâ—… xxi vii xxii Naum. i. vi  f x kl  xxii naum ii xxiii iii vii â—… g ix kl  xxiii Abacuc i xxiiii Abacu ii viii â—… A viii kl  xxiiii iii xxv Sopho. i ix  b vii kl  xxv Soph. ii xxvi iii x â—… c vi kl  xxvi Agge i xxvii Agge ii xi  d v kl  xxvii zacah i xxviii zac ii iii. xii â—… e iiii kl  xxviii iii. v. Mark i. vi xiii â—… f iii kl S Michael xxix vii ii viii xiiii  g Prid Kl. Hierome xxx ix iii x xv ¶ Octobre hath .xxxi. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening praier i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„ i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„ â—… A Kalend.  i zacha xi Mar. iiii zacha xii i. cor xvi â—… b vi No.  ii xiii v xiiii ii Cor. i â—… c v No.  iii Malac. i vi Malac. ii ii â—… d iiii No. Fayth iiii iii vii iiii iii  e iii No.  v Tobi. i viii Tobi. ii iiii â—… f Prid. No.  vi iii ix iiii v  g Nonas  vii v x vi vi â—… A viii Id.  viii vii xi viii vii â—… b vii Id.  ix ix xii x viii  c vi Id.  x xi xiii xii ix  d v Id.  xi xiii xiiii xiiii x â—… e iiii Id.  xii Iudith i xv Iudit ii xi  f iii Id. Edward xiii iii xvi iiii xii â—… g Prid. Id. Sol in scor xiiii v Luk. di i vi xiii â—… A Idus  xv vii di i viii Galath i  b xvii kl Nouember xvi ix ii x ii â—… c xvi kl  xvii xi iii xii iii  d xv kl Luke euaÌ„ge xviii xiii iiii xiiii iiii xvii e xiiii kl  xix xv v xvi v â—… f xiii kl  xx Sapie i. vi Sapie ii vi  g xii kl  xxi iii vii iiii Ephesi i â—… A xi kl  xxii v viii vi ii â—… b x kl  xxiii vii ix viii iii  c ix kl  xxiiii ix x x iiii â—… d viii kl Chrispine xxv xi xi xii v  e vii kl  xxvi xiii xii xiii vi â—… f vi kl Fast xxvii xv xiii xvi Philip. i â—… g v kl SimoÌ„ 〈◊〉 xxviii xvii xiiii xviii ii  A iiii kl  xxix xix xv Eccle. i iii â—… b iii kl  xxx Eccle. ii xvi iii iiii â—… c Prid Kl.  xxx iiii xvii v Colloss i. ¶ Nouember hath .xxx. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening prayer i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„ i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„  d Kalend. Al sainctes i Sap. iii heb 11.12 Sapie v Apoc. xix â—… e iiii No.  ii Eccl. vi Lu. xviii Eccle. vii Collo ii â—… f iii No.  iii viii xix ix iii  g Prid. No.  iiii x xx xi iiii â—… A Nonas  v xii xxi xiii i. thessa i  b viii Id. Leonard vi xiiii xxii xv ii â—… c vii Id.  vii xvi xxiii xvii iii â—… d vi Id.  viii xviii xxiiii xix iiii  e v Id.  ix xx Iohn i xxi v â—… f iiii Id.  x xxii ii xxiii ii thess i â—… g iii Id. Martin xi xxiiii iii xxv ii  A Prid. Id.  xii xxvi iiii xxvii iii â—… b Idus Sol in sagit xiii xxviii v xxix i. Tim. i â—… c xviii kl Decembre xiiii xxx vi xxxi ii iii  d xvii kl  xv xxxii vii xxxiii iiii â—… e xvi kl  xvi xxxiiii viii xxxv v  f xv kl  xvii xxxvi ix xxxvii vi â—… g xiiii kl  xviii xxxviii x xxxix ii timo i â—… A xiii kl  xix xl xi xli ii  b xii kl  xx xlii xii xliii iii â—… c xi kl  xxi xliiii xiii xlv iiii â—… d x kl  xxii xlvi xiiii xlvii Titus i.  e ix kl S. Clement xxiii xlviii xv xlix ii iii â—… f viii kl  xxiiii l xvi li Philem.  g vii kl Katherine xxv Baru i xvii Baru ii Hebre. i. â—… A vi kl  xxvi iii xviii iiii ii â—… b v kl  xxvii v xix vi iii  c iiii kl  xxviii Esaye i xx Esay ii iiii â—… d iii kl Faste xxix iii xxi iiii v â—… e Prid Kl. Andrew xxx v Actes i. vi vi ¶ December hath .xxxi. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening prayer i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„ i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„  f Kalend.  i Esai vii Actes ii Esai viii Heb. vii â—… g iiii No.  ii ix iii x viii â—… A iii No.  iii x iiii xii ix â—… b Prid. No.  iiii xiii v xiiii x  c Nonas Nicolas v xv vi xvi xi â—… d viii Id.  vi xvii di vii xviii xii â—… e vii Id. Concep ma. vii xix di vii xx xxi xiii  f vi Id.  viii xxii viii xxiii Iames. i â—… g v Id.  ix xxiiii ix xxv ii â—… A iiii Id.  x xxvi x xxvii iii â—… b iii Id.  xi xxviii xi xxix iiii â—… c Prid. Id. Sol in cap xii xxx xii xxxi v â—… d Idus Lucie xiii xxxii xiii xxxiii i. Petr. i.  e xix kl Ianuary xiiii xxxiiii xiiii xxxv ii â—… f xviii kl  xv xxxvi xv xxxvii iii  g xvii kl  xvi xxxviii xvi xxxix iiii â—… A xvi kl  xvii xl xvii xli v â—… b xv kl  xviii xlii xviii xliii ii Pet. i. â—… c xiiii kl  xix xliiii xix xlv ii â—… d xiii kl Faste xx xlvi xx xlvii iii â—… e xii kl Thomas 〈◊〉 xxi xlviii xxi xlix i. Iohn i  f xi kl  xxii l xxii li ii â—… g x kl S. Clement xxiii lii xxiii liii iii  A ix kl Fast xxiiii liii xxiiii lv iiii â—… b viii kl Christmas xxv Esai ix Luke ii Esay vii Titu iii â—… c vii kl S. Stephen xxvi lvi ac vi vii lvii Acte vii â—… d vi kl S. Iohn euaÌ„ xxvii lviii Apoca. i. lix Apoc. xxii â—… e v kl Innocentes xxviii Ier. xxxi Act. xxv Esa lx i. Iohn v â—… f iiii kl  xxix Esay lxi xxvi lxii ii Iohn i  g iii kl  xxx lxiii xxvii lxiiii iii. Iohn i â—… A 〈◊〉 ka  xxx lxv xxviii lxvi Iude. i ¶ The ordre where Morning and Euening prayer shal be vsed and sayde The Morning and Euening prayer shal be vsed in suche place of the Church Chapel or ChauÌ„cel and the Minister shal so turne hun as the people may best heare And yf there be any controuersie therin the matter shal be referred to the ordenarye and he
Prophete of the highest for thou shalt goe before the face of the Lord to prepare hys wayes To geue knowledge of saluacion vnto his people for the remission of theyr synnes Through the tender mercy of our God wherby the daye spryng from an high hath visited vs. To geue light to them that sit in darkenes and in the shadowe of death and to guide our fete into the way of peace Glorye bee to the father and to the sonne and to the holy gost As it was in the beginning is nowe and euer c. Or els thys Psalme Iubilate deo psa c O Be ioyfull in the lord al ye landes serue the lord with gladnes and come before his presence with a song Be ye sure that the lord he is god it is he that hath made vs and not we our selues we are his people and the shepe of his pasture O goe youre waye into hys gates with thankesgeuing and into his courtes with prayse be thankefull vnto hym and speake good of hys name For the Lord is gracious his mercy is euerlasting and hys trueth endureth from generacion to generacion Glory be to the father and to the sonne and to the. c. As it was in the beginning is now and euer shal be world without ende Amen Then shal be sayd the Crede by the Minister and the people standing I Beleue in god the father almightie maker of heauen and earth And in Iesus Chryste hys onely sonne our Lorde Which was conceiued by the holy goste borne of the virgin Marye Suffred vnder Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buryed he descended into hell The thyrd daye he rose agayn from the dead He ascended into heauen and sitteth on the right hande of God the father almightye From thence shall he come to iudge the quicke and the dead I beleue in the holye goste The holye Catholyke Churche The communyon of Saynctes The forgeuenesse of synnes The resurreccyon of the body And the lyfe euerlastyng Amen ¶ And after that these prayers folowyng aswel at Euenyng prayer as at Morning prayer all deuoutely knelyng The Minister first pronouncyng with a loude voyce The Lorde be with you Aunswere And with thy spirite The Minister ¶ Let vs pray Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lorde haue mercy vpon vs. ¶ Then the Minister Clerkes and people shall saye the Lordes prayer in Englishe with a loude voyce ¶ Our father which art in heauen c. Then the Minister standing vp shal saye O lorde shewe thy mercy vpon vs. Aunswere And graunt vs thy saluacion ¶ Priest O Lorde saue the kyng Aunswere And mercifully heare vs when we call vpon thee ¶ Priest Indue thy ministers with righteousnes Aunswere And make thy chosen people ioyfull Priest O lord saue thy people Aunswere And blesse thyne enheritaunce Priest Geue peace in our tyme O Lorde Aunswere Because there is none other that fighteth for vs but onely thou O God Priest O God make cleane our heartes within vs. Aunswere And take not thyne holy spirite from vs. Then shall folowe three Collectes The first of the day which shal be the same that is appointed at the Communion The second for peace The third for grace to liue wel And the two last Collectes shal neuer alter but dayly be said at Morning prayer throughout all the yeare as foloweth The second Collecte for Peace O God whiche arte aucthour of peace and louer of concorde in knowledge of whom standeth oure eternall lyfe whose seruice is perfecte freedome defende vs thy humble seruauntes in al assaultes of our enemies that we surely trustyng in thy defence may not feare the power of any aduersaryes through the might of of Iesu Christ our lord Amen The thyrd Collect for grace O Lord our heauenly father almightie and euerlasting god which hast safely brought vs in the beginning of thys daye defende vs the same with thy mightie power and graunte that this day we fall into no synne neither runne into any kinde of daunger but that all our doynges maye be ordered by thy gouernaunce to doe alwayes that is righteous in thy syghte throughe Iesus Chryste oure Lorde Amen ¶ An ordre for Euening prayer throughout the yeare The Priest shall saye ¶ Our father which art c Then lykewyse he shall saye O Lorde open thou our lyppes Aunswere And our mouth shall shewe foorth thy prayse Priest O God make spede to saue vs. Aunswere Lord make hast to helpe vs. Priest Glory bee to the father to the sonne to the holy goste As it was in the beginning is nowe and euer shall be world without ende Amen Prayse ye the Lorde Then Psalmes in ordre as they be appoynted in the Table for Psalmes excepte there be proper Psalmes appoynted for that daye Then a Lesson of the olde Testamente as is appoynted lykewyse in the Kalender except there be proper Lessons appoynted for that day After that Magnificat in Englishe as foloweth Magnificat MY soule doeth magnifie the Lorde and my spirite hath reioysed in God my Sauioure For he hath regarded the lowelines of his handmayden For behold from henceforth al generacions shal cal me blessed For he that is mightie hath magnified me and holy is hys name And hys mercy is on them that feare hym throughout al generacions He hath shewed strēgth with hys arme he hath scattered the proude in the ymaginacyon of theyr heartes He hath put down the mightie from their seate and hath exalted the humble and meke He hath fylled the hungrye with good thynges and the riche he hath sente emptye awaye He remembryng his mercy hathe holpen hys seruaunte Israel as he promised to our forefathers Abraham and hys seede for euer Glory bee to the father and to the sonne to the holy ghost As it was in the beginnyng is nowe and euer shal be worlde without ende Amen ¶ Or els this Psalme Cantate domino psa xcviii O Syng vnto the Lorde a newe song for he hathe done merueylous thynges With his owne ryght hand and with hys holye arme hath he gotten hymselfe the victory The Lorde declared hys saluacyon hys ryghteouseness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen He hathe remembred hys mercye and trueth towarde the house of Israel and all the endes of the world haue seen the saluacyon of oure God Shew youre selues ioyfull vnto the Lorde all ye landes sing reioyce and geue thankes Prayse the Lorde vpon the harpe syng to the harpe with a Psalme of thankesgeuyng With trompettes also shawmes O shewe youre selues ioyfull before the Lorde the kyng Let the sea make a noyse and all that therein is the round worlde and they that dwell therein Let the floudes clappe theyr handes and let the hylles be ioyfull together before the Lorde for he is come to iudge the earthe With righteousnes shall he iudge the world and the people with equitie Glory be to the father c. As it was in the
c. ¶ Then a Lesson of the new Testament And after that Nunc dimittis in Englishe as foloweth LOrde nowe lettest thou thy seruaunte departe in peace according to thy worde For myne eyes haue seene thy saluacyon Whyche thou hast prepared before the face of all people To be a light to lyghten the Gentyles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Glory be to the father and to the sonne to the holy ghoste As it was in the beginnyng is nowe c. Amen ¶ Or els this Psalme Deus misereatur psal lxvii GOd be mercyfull vnto vs and blesse vs and shew vs the lyght of hys countenaunce and bee mercyfull vnto vs. That thy way may be knowen vpon earth thy sauyng health among all nacions Let the people prayse thee O God yea let all the people prayse thee O let the nacyons reioyce and bee gladde for thou shalte iudge the folke righteously and gouerne the nacyons vpon earth Lette the people prayse thee O God lette all the people prayse thee Then shall the earth bryng foorth her increase and God euen our owne God shall geue vs hys blessyng God shall blesse vs and all the endes of the worlde shall feare hym Glory bee to the father to the sonne to the holy ghost As it was in the beginnyng is nowe c Then shall folowe the Crede with other prayers as is before appointed at Morning prayer after Benedictus And with three Collectes Fyrst of the daye the second of peace thyrde for ayde agaynste all perilles as hereafter foloweth Whiche two last Collectes shal be dayly sayde at Euenyng prayer withoute alteracion The seconde Collect at Euening prayer O God from whom all holy desyres all good counsayles and all iuste workes dooe procede geue vnto thy seruauntes that peace which the world cannot geue that bothe our heartes may be sette to obeye thy commaundementes and also that by thee we beyng defended from the feare of oure enemyes maye passe oure tyme in reste and quyetnes through the merites of Iesus Christ our Sauiour Amen The thyrd Collecte for ayde agaynst all perilles LIghten our darkenes we beseche thee O Lord by thy great mercy defend vs from al perilles and daungers of this nighte for the loue of thy onelye sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ Amen In the feastes of Christmas the Epiphanie saincte Mathie Easter Thassencion Pentecost Sainct Iohn Baptist Sainct Iames Sainct Bartholomew Sainct Mathew Saincte Simon and Iude Sainct Andrew and Trinitie Sundaye shal be songe or sayde immediatly after Benedictus this confession of oure Christen fayth Quicūque vult WHosoeuer wil be saued before al thinges it is necessarye that he holde the catholyke fayth Which fayth except euery one do kepe holy and vndefyled withoute doubte he shall perishe euerlastinglye And the catholike fayth is this that wee worshippe one God in Trinitie and Trinitie in vnitie Neyther confoundinge the persons nor deuydinge the substaunce For there is one person of the father another of the sōne and another of the holy ghoste But the Godhead of the father of the sonne and of the holy ghost is al one the glori equal the maiestie coeternal Suche as the father is such is the sonne and such is the holy ghoste The father vncreate the sonne vncreate and the holye ghost vncreate The father incomprehensible the sonne incomprehensible and the holy ghost incomprehensible The father eternall the sonne eternal and the holy goste eternall And yet they are not three eternalles but one eternall As also there be not three incomprehensibles nor three vncreated but one vncreated and one incomprehensible So lykewise the father is almighty the sonne almightie and the holy ghost almightie And yet they are not thre almighties but one almightie So the father is God the sonne is God and the holye ghoste is God And yet are they not three Goddes but one God So lykewyse the father is Lorde the sonne Lorde and the holy ghoste Lorde And yet not three Lordes but one Lorde For lyke as we be compelled by the Christian veritie to acknowledge euery person by himself to be god and Lord. So are we forbidden by the catholike religion to saye thers be three Goddes or three Lordes The father is made of none neither created nor begottē The sonne is of the father alone not made nor created but begotten The holy ghost is of the father and of the sonne neyther made nor created nor begotten but procedinge So there is one father not three fathers one sonne not three sonnes one holy ghost not three holy ghostes And in this Trinitie none is afore or after other none is greater nor lesse then another But the whole three persons be coeternal together and coequall So that in all thynges as is aforesayde the vnitie in Trinitie and the Trinitie in vnitie is to be worshipped He therefore that wyll be saued muste thus thinke of the Trinitie Furthermore it is necessarye to euerlastinge saluacion that he also beleue rightely in the incarnacion of our Lord Iesu Christe For the righte fayth is that we beleue and confesse that our Lord Iesus Christ the sonne of God is god and man God of the substaunce of the father begotten before the worldes and man of the substaunce of his mother borne in the worlde Perfecte God and perfecte man of a reasonable soule and humayne fleshe subsistinge Equall to the father as touching his Godhead and inferioure to the father touching his manhode Who although he be God and man yet he is not two but one christ One not by conuersion of the godhead into flesshe but by taking of the manhode into God One altogether not by confusion of substaunce but by vnitie of person For as the reasonable soule and flesshe is one man so God and man is one christ Who suffered for oure saluacion descended into hell role agayn the thyrd daye from the dead He ascended into heauen he sitteth on the ryght hande of the father God almyghtie from whence he shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead At whose comming all men shall ryse agayne with their bodyes and shal geue accoumpt for theyr owne workes And they that haue done good shall goe into life euerlasting and they that haue done euill into euerlasting fyre This is the Catholike faith which except a man beleue faythfully he can not be saued Glory bee to the father and to the sonne and to the holy gost As it was in the beginning is nowe and euer shall bee world without ende Amen ¶ Thus endeth the ordre of Morning and Euening prayer through the whole yeare ¶ Here foloweth the Letany to be vsed vpon Sundaies Wednesdaies and Frydayes and at other tymes when it shal be commaunded by the Ordenarye O God the father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable synners O God the father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable synners O God the sonne redemer of the worlde haue mercy vpon vs miserable synners
shadow of death I wil feare no euil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comfort me Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me thou hast annointed my head with Oile and my cup shal be full But thy louing kindnes and mercy shal folow me al the daies of my life I wil dwel in the house of the lord for euer Domini est terra psal xxiiii Mornīg prayer THe earth is the lordes and al that therein is the compasse of the world and they that dwel therein For he hath founded it vpon the Seas and prepared it vpon the sloudes Who shall ascende into the hil of the lord or who shall ryse vp in hys holy place Euen he that hath cleane handes and a pure hearte and that hath not lift vp his minde vnto vanitie nor sworne to deceiue his neighboure He shal receiue the blessyng from the lord and ryghteousnes from the God of hys saluacion This is the generacion of thē that seke him euen of them that seke thy face O Iacob Lift vp your heades O ye gates and be ye lift vp ye euerlastyng doores and the king of glory shall come in Who is the king of glory it is the lord strong and mightie euen the Lorde mightie in battayl Lifte vp your heades O ye gates and be ye lyfte vp ye euerlastyng dores and the kyng of glory shall come in Who is the kyng of glory euen the Lorde of hostes he is the kyng of glory Ad te domine psal xxv INto thee O Lord wil I lift vp my soule my God I haue put my trust in thee O let me not be cōfounded neyther let myne enemyes triumphe ouer me For al they that hope in thee shal not be ashamed but such as transgresse without a cause shal be put to confusyon Shewe me thy waies O lord and teache me thy pathes Leade me furth in thy trueth and learne me for thou art the god of my saluacion in thee hath been my hope al the day long Cal to remembraunce O Lord thy tender mercyes and thy louing kindnes which hath been euer of olde Oh remember not the synnes and offences of my youth but accordyng to thy mercy thinke thou vpon me O Lorde for thy goodnesse Gracious and righteous is the lord therfore wil he teache synners in the waye Them that be meke shal he guide in iudgement and such as be gentle them shall he learne hys waye Al the pathes of the Lord are mercy and trueth vnto such as kepe hys couenaunt and his testimonies For thy names sake O Lord be merciful vnto my sinne for it is great What man is he that feareth the lord him shal he teache in the way that he shall chose Hys soule shal dwel at ease and hys seede shall enherite the lande The secretes of the Lord are among them that feare him and he wyll shewe them hys couenaunt Mine iyes are euer lokyng vnto the lord for he shal plucke my fete out of the nette Turne thee vnto me and haue mercy vpon me for I am desolate and in misery The sorowes of my hearte are enlarged O bring thou me out of my troubles Loke vpon mine aduersitie and misery and forgeue me all my synne Considre mine enemies how many they are they beare a tyrannous hate agaynst me O kepe my soule and delyuer me let me not be confounded for I haue put my trust in thee Let perfectnes and righteous dealing waite vpon me for my hope hath been in thee Deliuer Israel O God out of al hys troubles Iudica me domine Psal xxvi BE thou my iudge O lord for I haue walked innocētly my trust hath been also in the lord therfore shall I not fall Examine me O Lord and proue me trye out my reynes and my heart For thy louing kindnes is euer before mine eyes and I wyll walke in thy trueth I haue not dwelt with vayne persones neither wyll I haue felowship with the deceitfull I haue hated the congregacion of the wicked and wyll not sit emong the vngodly I wil washe my handes in innocencie O Lord and so wil I goe to thyne altare That I may shewe the voyce of thankesgeuing and tell of al thy wonderous workes Lorde I haue loued the habitacion of thy house and the place where thine honor dwelleth O shut not vp my soule with the sinners nor my life with the bloud thyrstie In whose handes is wickednes and their righte handes are full of giftes But as for me I will walke innocentlye O deliuer me and be mercifull vnto me My foote standeth right I wyll prayse the Lorde in the congregacions Dominus illuminacio psal xxvii Euening prayer THe lord is my light and my saluaciō whom then shal I feare the lorde is the strength of my lyfe of whom then shal I be afrayde When the wicked euen mine enemies and my foes came vpon me to eate vp my fleshe they stombled and fell Thoughe an host of men were layed against me yet shall not my heart be afrayd and though there rose vp warre agaynst me yet wil I put my trust in hym One thing haue I desyred of the Lord whiche I wyll require euen that I may dwel in the house of the Lord al the dayes of my lyfe to beholde the fayre bewty of the lord and to visite his temple For in the tyme of trouble he shall hyde me in his Tabernacle yea in the secret place of his dwelling shal he hide me and set me vp vpon a rocke of stone And nowe shall he lyft vp my head aboue myne enemyes rounde about me Therfore will I offre in his dwelling an oblacyon with great gladnes I wil sing and speake praises vnto the lord Hearken vnto my voyce O lorde when I crye vnto thee haue mercy vpon me and heare me My hearte hath talked of thee seke ye my face thy face lorde wyll I seke O hyde not thou thy face fro me nor cast thy seruaunte away in dyspleasure Thou hast been my succour leaue me not neither forsake me O God of my saluacion When my father and my mother forsake me the lord taketh me vp Teache me thy way O lord and leade me the ryght way because of mine enemyes Deliuer me not ouer into the wil of mine aduersaryes for there are false witnesses risen vp againste me and suche as speake wrong I should vtterly haue faynted but that I beeleue verely to see the goodnes of the lord in the lande of the liuing O tary thou the lordes laisure be strong and he shal comfort thine heart and put thou thy trust in the Lorde Ad te domine clamabo psal xxviii VNto thee will I crye O lord my strength thinke no scorne of me lest if thou make thee as thoughe thou hearest not I become like them that goe downe into the pytte Heare the voyce of my humble peticions when I cyre vnto thee when I hold vp my handes towarde the mercye
the lorde and so thou forgauest the wyckednes of my sinne For this shall euery one that is godlye make hys prayer vnto thee in a tyme when thou mayest be founde but in the great water fluddes they shall not come nighe hym Thou arte a place to hyde me in thou shalte preserue me from trouble thou shalte compasse me rounde aboute with songes of delyueraunce I wyll enforme thee and teache thee in the way wherein thou shalt goe and I wyll guyde thee with myne eye Be ye not lyke horse and mule whyche haue no vnderstaning whose mouthes must be holden with bitte and bridle lest they fall vpon thee Great plagues remaine for the vngodly but whoso putteth his trust in the lord mercy embraceth him on euery syde Be glad O ye righteous and reioyce in the Lord and bee ioyfull all ye that are true of hearte Exultate iusti in domino Psalm xxxiii REioice in the lord O ye righteous for it becommeth well the iust to be thankefull Prayse the lorde with harpe syng Psalmes vnto hym with the lute and instrument of ten strynges Syng vnto the Lorde a newe song syng prayses iustlye vnto hym with a good corage For the worde of the Lord is true and al his workes are faithfull He loueth righteousnes and iudgemente the earthe is full of the goodnes of the lorde By the worde of the Lord were the heauens made and al the hostes of them by the breath of hys mouth He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpō an heape and layeth vp the depe as in a treasure house Let all the earth feare the lorde stand in awe of him al ye that dwell in the worlde For he spake and it was done he commaunded and it stode faste The lord bryngeth the counsell of the heathen to naught and maketh the deuises of the people to be of none effect and casteth out the counsailes of princes The counsayll of the Lorde shall indure for euer and the thoughtes of hys hearte from generacion to generacion Blessed are the people whose god is the Lord Iehouah blessed are the folke that haue chosen hym to bee theyr inheritaunce The lorde loked downe from heauen and behelde all the children of men from the habitacion of his dwellyng he cōsidereth all them that dwell in the earth He fashioned all the heartes of them and vnderstandeth all theyr workes There is no king that can be saued by the multitude of an host neither is any mightie man deliuered by much strēgth A horse is coumpted but a vayne thyng to saue a man neither shall he deliuer any man by hys great strength Beholde the iye of the lorde is vpon them that feare him and vpon them that put theyr trust in his mercy To delyuer theyr soules from death and to feede them in tyme of dearth Our soule hath paciently taried for the lord for he is oure helpe and our shielde For our heart shall reioyce in him because we haue hoped in hys holy name Let thy mercifull kyndnesse O lorde be vpon vs like as we haue put our trust in thee Benedicam dominum Psalm xxxiiii I Wyll alwaye geue thankes vnto the Lord his praise shall euer be in my mouth My soule shal make her bost in the lord the humble shal heare therof and be glad O prayse the Lorde with me and let vs magnifye hys name together I sought the Lorde and he hearde me yea he deliuered me out of all my feare They had an eye vnto hym and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed Loe the poore cryeth and the Lord heareth hym yea and saueth hym out of all his troubles The Aungel of the Lord tarieth round aboute them that feare hym and deliuereth them O taste and see howe gracious the Lorde is blessed is the man that trusteth in hym O feare the Lord ye that be hys sainctes for they that feare hym lacke nothing The lyons doe lacke and suffre hunger but they whyche s eke the Lorde s hall want no maner of thyng that is good Come ye children and hearken vnto me I wyll teache you the feare of the Lord. What man is he that lusteth to lyue and woulde fayne see good dayes kepe thy tongue from euill and thy lippes that they speake no guyle Eschewe euyll and doe good seke peace and ensue it The eyes of the Lorde are ouer the righteous and hys eares are open vnto theyr prayers The countenaunce of the Lord is againste them that doe euil to roote out the remēbraunce of them frō of the earthe The righteous crye and the Lord heareth them and deliuereth them out of all theyr troubles The lorde is nygh vnto them that are of a contrite heart and wyll saue suche as be of an humble spirite Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth hym out of all He kepeth all hys bones so that not one of them is broken But misfortune shal staye the vngodly and they that hate the righteous shal be desolate The Lorde deliuereth the soules of hys seruauntes and all they that put theyr truste in hym shall not bee destitute Iudica domine nocentes Psalm xxxv Mornīg prayer PLeade thou my cause O Lorde with them that striue with me and fight thou againste them that fighte agaynst me Lay hand vpon the shielde and buckeler and stand vp to helpe me Bring furth the speare and stoppe the way against them that persecute me saye vnto my soule I am thy saluacion Let them be confounded and put to shame that seke after my soule let them be turned backe and brought to confusiō that ymagine mischiefe for me Let them be as the dust before the wynde and the aungel of the Lorde scattering them Let their way be darke and slippery and let the Aungell of the Lorde persecute them For they haue prieuely layde theyr nette to destroye me without a cause yea euen without a cause haue they made a pytte for my soule Let a sodaine destruccion come vpon him vnawares and hys net that he hath layde priuely catch himself that he may fall into hys owne mischiefe And my soule be ioyfull in the Lord it shall reioyce in his saluacyon And my bones shall saye Lorde who is lyke vnto thee whiche deliuerest the poore from hym the is to strong for hym yea the pore him the is in misery from him the spoyleth hym False witnes did rise vp they laid to my charge thynges that I knowe not They rewarded me euill for good to the great discoumforte of my soule Neuerthelesse when they wer sicke I put on sackeclothe and humbled my soule with fasting my prayer shall turne into myne owne bosome I behaued my self as though it had been my frend or my brother I went heuely as one the mourneth for his mother But in myne aduersitie they reioysed gathered them together yea the verye abiectes came together agaynste me vnawares makyng mowes at me and ceassed not With the flatterers
and his name perishe And if he come to see me he speaketh vanitie and hys hearte conceyueth falsehode within hym selfe and when he cometh foorth he telleth it All myne enemies whisper together againste me euen agaynst me doe they imagine this euyll Let the sentence of giltynes procede againste hym and nowe that he lyeth let him ryse vp nomore Yea euē myne owne familiar frēd whō I trusted which did also eate of my bread hath layde great wayte for me But bee thou mercyfull vnto me O Lorde rayse thou me vp agayne and I shall rewarde them By this I know that thou fauourest me that mine enemie doeth not triumphe agaynst me And when I am in health thou vpholdest me and shalt set me before thy face for euer Blessed bee the Lorde God of Israel worlde withoute ende Amen Quemadmodum Psalm xlii Lyke as the harte desireth the water brokes so lōgeth my soule after thee O God My soule is a thyrst for god yea euē for the lyuing god when shall I come to appeare before the presence of god My teares haue been my meate daye and nyghte whyle they dayly say vnto me where is now thy God Nowe when I thinke thereupon I powre out my hearte by my selfe for I wente with the multitude and broughte them forth into the house of God In the voyce of prayse and thankesgeuyng among suche as kepe holy daye Why arte thou so full of heauines O my soule and why arte thou so vnquiet within me Put thy trust in God for I wyll yet geue hym thankes for the helpe of hys countenaunce My God my soule is vexed within me therfore wyll I remembre thee concerning the land of Iordane and the little hyll of Hermon One depe calleth another beecause of the noyse of thy water pipes all thy waues and stormes are gone ouer me The Lord hath graunted his louyng kyndnes on the day tyme and in the night season did I syng of him and made my prayer vnto the God of my lyfe I will saye vnto the God of my strength why haste thou forgotten me why goe I thus heauelye whyle the enemye oppresseth me My bones are smitten a sunder as with a sweord while myne enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth Namely whyle they saye daylye vnto me where is nowe thy God Why arte thou so vexed O my soule and why arte thou so disquyeted within me O putte thy truste in God for I wyll yet thanke hym whiche is the helpe of my countenaunce and my God Iudica me deus Psalm xliii GEue sentence with me O God and defend my cause agaynst the vngodly people O delyuer me from the deceytfull and wicked man For thou arte the God of my strength why hast thou put me from thee and why goe I so heauely whyle the enemye oppresseth me Oh send out thy lyght and thy trueth that they may leade me and bryng me vnto thy holy hyll and to thy dwellyng And that I may goe vnto the alter of God euen vnto the God of my ioye and gladnesse and vpon the harpe wyll I geue thankes vnto thee O God my God Why art thou so heauy O my soule and why arte thou so disquieted within me O put thy trust in God for I wil yet geue hym thankes whiche is the helpe of my countenaunce and my God Deus auribus nostris Psalm xliiii Mornīg prayer WE haue heard with oure eares O god our fathers haue told vs what the hast done in theyr tyme of old How thou hast driuen out the heathen with thy hand and planted them in how thou hast destroyed the nacions and cast them out For they gat not the lande in possession throughe theyr owne sweorde neyther was it theyr owne arme that helped them But thy ryght hand and thyne arme and the lighte of thy countenaunce because thou haddest a fauour vnto them Thou art my kings O God send helpe vnto Iacob Through thee will we ouerthrowe oure enemies and in thy name wil we treade them vnder that rise vp against vs. For I wyll not truste in my bowe it is not my sweorde that helpe me But it is thou that sauest vs from oure enemie and puttest them to confusyon that hate vs. We make oure boaste of God all daye long and will prayse thy name for euer But nowe thou arte farre of and puttest vs to confusyon and goest not foorth with our armies Thou makest vs to tourne oure backes vpō our enemies so that they whiche hate vs spoyle our goodes Thou lettest vs bee eaten vp lyke shepe and haste scattered vs among the Heathen Thou sellest thy people for naught and takest no money for them Thou makest vs to be rebuked of our neyghbours to bee laughed to scorne and had in derisiō of them that are round about vs. Thou makest vs to bee a by worde among the Heathen and that the people shake theyr heades at vs. By confusion is daylie beefore me and the shame of my face hath couered me For the boyce of the slaunderer and blasphemer for the enemye and auenger And though all this be come vpō vs yet do we not forgeat thee nor behaue our selues frowardly in thy couenaunt Our hearte is not turned backe nether our steppes gone out of thy waye No not when thou hast smitten vs into the place of dragons and couered vs with the shadowe of death Yf we haue forgotten the name of oure god and holdē vp oure handes to any straunge God shall not God searche it out for he knoweth the very secretes of the hearte For thy sake also are we kylled all the day long and are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne Vp Lord why slepest thou awake and be not absent from vs for euer Wherfore hydest thou thy face and forgettest our myserie and trouble For oure soule is brought lowe vnto the duste oure bellye cleueth vnto the grounde Aryse and helpe vs and delyuer vs for thy mercye sake Eructauit cor meum Psalm xlv MY hearte is endytyng of a good matter I speake of the thynges whyche I haue made vnto the kyng My tongue is the penne of a readye wryter Thou arte fayrer then the chyldren of men full of grace are thy lyppes because God hath blessed thee for euer Gyrde thee with thy sweorde vpon thy thyghe O thou moste mightie accordyng to thy worshyp and renowne Good lucke haue thou with thyne honoure ryde on beecause of the worde of trueth of mekenes righteousnes and thy ryght hand shall teache thee terrible thynges Thy arrowes are very sharpe and the people shal be subdued vnto thee euen in the middest among the Kynges enemies Thy seate O God endureth for euer the scepter of thy Kyngdom is a ryght scepter Thou hast loued righteousnes and hated iniquitie wherfore God euen thy God hath annoynted thee with the oyle of gladnes aboue thy felowes All thy garmentes smell of Myrre Aloes and Cassia oute of the yuerye palaces whereby they haue made thee gladde
and tremblyng are come vpon me and horrible dreade hath ouerwhelmed me And I sayd O that I had winges lyke a doue for then would I slie a waye and be at rest Lo then would I geat me a waye farre of and remayne in the wildernes I would make hast to escape because of the stormy winde and tempest Destroie theyr tonges O Lorde and deuide them for I haue spied vnrighteousnes and stryfe in the citie Day and night goe they aboute within the walles therof mischiefe also and sorowe are in the middest of it Wickednes is therin deceipt and guile goe not out of their stretes For it is not an open enemie that hath done me this dishonor for then I coulde haue borne it Neyther was it myne aduersarye that did magnifie himselfe agaynst me for then paraduenture I would haue hid my selfe from hym But it was euen thou my companion my guide and my owne familier frende We toke swete counsaile together and walked in the house of god as frendes Let death come hastely vpon thē and let them goe downe quicke into hel for wickednes is in their dwellinges and among them As for me I will call vpon god and the Lorde shall saue me In the euenyng and morning and at noone daye will I pray and that instantlye and he shall heare my voyce It is he that hathe deliuered my soule in peace from the battaile that was against me for there were many with me Yea euen God that endureth for euer shall heare me and bryng thē downe for they will not turne nor feare god He layed his handes vpon suche as be at peace with hym and he brake his couenaunt The wordes of his mouth were softer thē butter hauing warre in hys heart hys wordes were smother thē oyle and yet bee they very swordes O cast thy burthen vpon the lord and he shall norish thee and not suffer the righteous to fall for euer And as for them thou O God shalt bring them into the pit of destruccion The bloudthyrstie deceitefull men shal not liue out halfe theyr dayes neuertheles my trust shall be in thee O lord Miserere mei deus quoniam Psalm lvi Mornīg prayer Be mercifull vnto me O god for man goeth about to deuoure me he is dayly fightyng and troubling me Myne enemies are dayly in hand to swalowe me vp for they be mani the fight against me O thou most highest Neuertheles though I am somtyme afrayd yet I putte my trust in thee I wil prayse god because of his word I haue put my trust in god and will not feare what fleshe can doe vnto me They dayly mistake my wordes all that they imagine is to doe me euill They holde all together and kepe them selues close and marke my steppes when they laye wayte for my soule Shal they escape for theyr wickednes thou O god in thy displeasure shall call them downe Thou tellest my flittinges put my teares into thy bottel are not these thynges noted in thy boke Whensoeuer I call vpon thee then shall mine enemyes be put to flyght this I knowe for God is on my syde In gods wordes wil I reioyce in the lordes word wil I comfort me Yea in God haue I put my truste I will not bee afraide what man can doe vnto me Vnto thee O God wyll I paye my vowes vnto thee wil I geue thankes For thou haste deliuered my soule from deathe and my feete from fallyng that I may walke before god in the light of the liuing Miserere mei deus psalm lvii BE mercifull vnto me O god be mercifull vnto me for my soule trusteth in thee and vnder the shadow of thy wynges shal be my refuge vntill this tirannye bee ouerpast I will call vnto the most hygh God euen to the God that shall perfourme the cause which I haue in hand He shall send from heauen and saue me from the reprofe of him that would eate me vp God shall sende foorth his mercy and trueth my soule is among Lyons And I lye euen among thee chyldren of men that are set on fyer whose teeth are speares and arowes and theyr tongue a sharpe sweorde Set vp thy self O god aboue the heauens and thy glory aboue all the earth They haue layde a nette for my feete and pressed downe my soule they haue digged a pyt before me and are fallen into the middes of it them selues My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed I wil sing and geue prayse Awake vp my glorye awake lute and harpe I my selfe will awake right early I will geue thankes vnto thee O Lord among the people and I will sing vnto thee among the nacions For the greatnesse of thy mercye reacheth vnto the heauens and thy trueth vnto the cloudes Set vp thy selfe O God aboue the heauens and thy glory aboue all the earth Si vere vtique iusticiam Psalm lviii ARe youre myndes set vpon righteousnes O ye congregacion and doe ye iudge the thyng that is ryght O ye sonnes of men Yea ye imagine mischiefe in youre heart vpon the earthe and your handes deale with wickednes The vngodly are froward euē frō theyr mothers wōbe as sone as they be borne they goe astray and speake lyes They are as venemous as the poyson of a serpente euen lyke the deafe Adder that stoppeth her eares Which refuseth to heare the voyce of the charmer charme he neuer so wisely Breake their teethe O God in theyr mouthes smite the chawe bones of the Lyons O Lorde let them fall awaye like water that runneth a pace and when they shote theyr arrowes let them be rooted oute Let them consume awaye like a snayle and bee lyke the vntimely fruite of a woman and let them not see the sunne Or euer our pottes be made whote with thornes so let indignacion vexe him euen as a thyng that is rawe The righteous shal reioyce when he seeth the vengeaunce he shall washe his fotesteppes in the bloud of the vngodly So that a man shal say verely there is a rewarde for the righteous doutles there is a God that iudgeth in the earth Eripe me de inimicis Psalm lix Euenīg prayer DEliuer me from mine enemies O God defende me from them that ryse vp agaynst me O deliuer me from the wicked doers and saue me from the bloudthyrstie men For loe they lye waytyng for my soule the mightie men are gathered together agaynste me without any offence or faulte of me O Lorde They runne and prepare themselues without my faulte arise thou therfore to helpe me and beholde Stand vp O lorde God of hostes thou God of Israel to visite all the hethen and be not merciful vnto them that offend of malicious wickednes They goe too and fro in the euenyng they grinne lyke a dogge and runne about through the citie Behold they speake with theyr mouthe and sweordes are in their lippes for who doth heare But thou O Lord shalt haue them in derision and thou shalt laugh
sparowe hath found her an house and the swallowe a nest where she may lay her yong euen thy aulters O Lord of hostes my king and my God Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be alway praysing thee Blessed is that man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are thy wayes Whiche goyng through the vayle of miserye vse it for a well and the pooles are filled with water They will goe from strength to strength and vnto the God of Gods appeareth euery one of them in Syon O Lord God of hostes heare my prayer hearken O God of Iacob Behold O God our defender and loke vpon the face of thine annoynted For one daye in thy courtes is better then a thousande I had rather be a dore keper in the house of my god then to dwel in the tentes of vngodlines For the lorde god is a light and defence the Lorde will geue grace and worship and no good thyng shall he withhold from them that liue a godly life O Lorde God of hostes blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee Benedixisti domine psal lxxxv LOrd thou art become gracious vnto thy land thou hast turned a way the captiuitie of Iacob Thou hast forgeuen the offence of thy people and couered all theyr sinnes Thou hast taken a way all thy displeasure and turned thy selfe from thy wrathful indignacion Turne vs then O God our sauiour and let thine angre ceasse from vs. Wilt thou be displeased at vs for euer wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generacion to an other Wilt thou not turne again and quicken vs that thy people may reioyce in thee Shewe vs thy mercy O Lorde and graunt vs thy saluacion I wil hearken what the lord god wil say concerning me for he shal speake peace vnto his people and to his sainctes that they turne not agayne For his saluacion is nye them that feare him that glory may dwel in our lande Mercye and trueth are met together righteousnes and peace haue kissed eche other Truth shal florish out of the earth and righteousnes hath loked down from heauen Yea the lord shal shew louing kindnes and our land shal geue her encrease Righteousnes shal goe before him and he shal direct his going in the waye Inclina domine aurem psal lxxxvi Mornīg prayer BOw downe thine eare O Lorde and heare me for I am poore and in misery Preserue thou my soule for I am holy my god saue thy seruaunt that putteth his trust in thee Be mercifull vnto me O lord for I will call dayly vpon thee Comfort the soule of thy seruaunt for vnto thee O lord doe I lift vp my soule For thou lord art good and gracious and of great mercy vnto al them that call vpon thee Geue eare Lord vnto my prayer and ponder the voyce of myne humble desyres In the time of my trouble I will call vpon thee for thou hearest me Among the gods there is none like vnto thee O Lord there is not one that can doe as thou doest All nacions whom thou hast made shal come and worship thee O Lord and shall glorifye thy name For thou art great and doest wonderous thinges thou art God alone Teache me thy waye O Lorde and I will walke in thy truth O knit my heart vnto thee that it may feare thy name I wil thanke thee O lorde my God with all my heart and will prayse thy name for euermore For great is thy mercy towarde me and thou hast deliuered my soule from the nethermost hell O God the proud are riesen against me and the congregacion of naughty menne haue sought after my soule and haue not set thee before theyr eyes But thou O Lord God artful of compassion and mercy long suffering plenteous in goodnes and trueth O turne thee then vnto me and haue mercy vpon me geue thy strength vnto thy seruaunte and helpe the sonne of thyne handmayd Shewe some good token vpon me for good that they whiche hate me maye see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me Fundamenta eius Psal lxxxvii HEr foundacions are vpon the holy hilles the Lorde loued the gates of Syon more then all the dwellinges of Iacob Very excellent thinges are spoken of thee thou citie of God I wil thinke vpon Rahab and Babilon with them that knowe me Beholde ye the Philistines also and they of Tyre with the Morians loe there was he borne And of Syon it shal be reported that he was borne in her and the most high shall stablishe her The Lord shal rehearse it when he wryteth vp the people that he was borne there The syngers also and Trumpetters shal he rehearse all my freshe springes shal be in thee Domine deus salutis psal lxxxviii O Lorde God of my saluacion I haue cryed day and night before thee O lette my prayer enter into thy presence encline thine eare vnto my calling For my soule is ful of trouble and my life draweth nigh vnto hell I am counted as one of them that goe downe vnto the pyt and I haue been euen as a man that hath no strength Free among the dead like vnto them that be wounded and lye in the graue whiche be out of remembraunce and are cut away from thy hand Thou hast layd me in the lowest pit in a place of darkenes and in the diepe Thine indignacion lyeth harde vpon me and thou hast vexed me with all thy stormes Thou hast put a way myne acquayntaunce farre fro me and made me to be abhorred of them I am so fast in prieson that I can not geat furth My sight fayleth for very trouble Lord I haue called daily vpon thee I haue stretched out my handes vnto the. Doest thou shewe wonders among the dead or shall the dead rise vp agayn and prayse thee Shal thy louing kindnes be shewed in the graue or thy faythfulnes in destruccion Shal thy wonderous workes be knowen in the darke thy rightousnes in the land where al thinges are forgottē Vnto thee haue I cryed O Lorde and earely shall my prayer come before thee Lorde why abhorrest thou my soule and hydest thy face fro me I am in misery and like vnto him that is at the poynt to dye euen from my youth vp thy terrours haue I suffred with a troubled mind Thy wrathful displeasure goeth ouer me and the feare of thee hath vndone me They came round about me dayly lyke water and compassed me together on euery syde My louers and frendes hast thou put a way fro me and hid myne acquaintaunce out of my sight Misericordias domini psal lxxxix Euening prayer MY s ong shal be alwaye of the louyng kindnes of the Lorde with my mouth will I euer be shewing thy trueth from one generacion to another For I haue sayde mercy shal be set vp for euer thy truth shalt thou stablishe in the heauens I haue made a couenant with my chosen I haue
same so that the same order bee not contrary to anye thyng conteyned in thys booke And yf the Bysshoppe of the Dyocesse be in anye doubte then may he sende for the resolucion thereof vnto the Archebishoppe Though it be appoynted in the aforewritten Preface that all thynges shal be read and song in the Churche in the Englyshe tongue to the ende that the congregacion may be thereby edyfyed yet it is not mente but when men say Morning and Euening prayer priuately they may say the same in any language that they themselues doe vnderstande And all Priestes and Deacons shal be bounded to say dayly the morning and Euening prayer either priuately or openly except they be letted by preachyng studying of diuinitie or by some other vrgent cause And the Curate that ministreth in euery Parishe Churche or Chapel being at home not beeing otherwyse reasonablye letted shall saye the same in the Parishe Churche or Chapell where he ministreth and shall tolle a bell thereto a conuenient tyme before he beginne that suche as be disposed maye come to heare Gods worde and to praye wyth hym ¶ Of Ceremonies why some be abolisshed and some retayned OF such Ceremonies as be vsed in the Churche and haue had their beginning by the institucyon of mā some at the first were of godly entent and purpose deuysed and yet at length turned to vanitie and supersticiō some entred into the churche by vndiscrete deuocion and such a zele as was without knowledge and forbecuse they were winked at in the beginning they grewe dayly to more and more abuses which not onely for theyr vnprofitablenes but also because they haue much blynded the people and obscured the glory of god are worthy to be cut awaye cleane reiected Other there be whyche although they haue been deuised by man yet it is thought good to reserue them styll aswel for a decent ordre in the Churhe for the whiche they were fyrste deuised as because they parteine to edificacion whereunto all thynges done in the Churche as the Apostle teacheth ought to be referred And although the kepyng or omittyng of a Ceremonie in it selfe consydered is but a small thyng yet the wilful and contempteous transgression and breaking of a cōmon ordre discipline is no small offence before god Let all thynges bee done emong you saieth S. Paul in a semely and due ordre The appointment of the whiche ordre parteineth not to priuate men therfore no mā ought to take in hande nor presume to appoynte or alter any publyke or common ordre in Christes churche except he be lawfullye called and aucthorized thereunto And whereas in thys oure tyme the myndes of men are so diuerse that some thinke it a great matter of conscience to depart from a piece of the least of their Ceremonies they be so addicted to their olde customes and agayne on the other syde some bee so newe fangled that they would innouate all thyng and so doe despyse thold that nothyng can lyke them but that is newe it was thoughte expediente not so muche to haue respecte howe to please and satisfie eyther of these parties as how to please god and profite them both And yet lest any man should be offended whom good reasō might satisfie here be certayne causes rendred why some of the accustomed Ceremonies be put away and some retained and kept styll Some are put away because the great excesse multitude of them hath so encreased in these latter dayes that the burthen of them was intollerable wherof S. Augustyne in hys tyme complayned that they were growen to suche a noumbre that the state of Christian people was in worse case cōcerning that matter then were the Iewes And he coūsailed that such yoke and burthen should be takē away as time waould serue quietly to doe it But what would S. Augustyne haue said yf he had seen the Ceremonies of late dayes vsed emong vs whereunto the multitude vsed in his time was not to be compared This our excessiue multitude of Ceremonies was so great and many of them so darke that they did more cōfounde and darken then declare set forth Chiristes benefites vnto vs. And besides this Christes gospel is not a Ceremonial law as much of Moses law was but it is a religion to serue God not in bondage of the figure or shadow but in the fredom of spirite being contente onely with those Ceremonies which doe serue to a decent ordre and godly discipline and such as be apte to stirre vp the dul mind of man to the remēbraunce of his duetie to god by some notable and special significacion whereby he myght be edified Furthermore the moste weyghtie cause of thabolishement of certayn Ceremonies was that they were so farre abused partely by the supersticious blyndnesse of the rude and vnlearned and partely by the vnsacyable auaryce of such as sought more theyr own lucre then the glory of God that the abuses coulde not well be taken away the thyng remayning styll But nowe as concerning those persons whyche peraduenture wyll bee offended for that some of thold Ceremonies are reteyned stil if they considre that without some Ceremonies it is not possible to kepe any ordre or quiet discipline in the church they shall easely perceyue iust cause to reforme their iudgementes And if they thinke much that any of thold doe remain would rather haue all deuised a new Thē such men graunting some Ceremonies conuenient to be had surely where the olde may be wel vsed there they cannot reasonably reproue the olde onely for their age without bewraying of their owne foly For in such a case they ought rather to haue reuerence vnto thē for their antiquitie yf they wyll declare thē selues to be more studious of vnitie concord then of innouacions new fanglenes whiche asmuche as may be with the true setting forth of Christes religion is alwayes to be eschewed Furthermore such shal haue no iust cause with the Ceremonies reserued to be offended For as those be taken away which were most abused did burthen mens consciences without any cause so the other that remayne are retayned for a discipline and ordre which vpon iuste causes may be altered chaunged therefore are not to be estemed equal with gods law And moreouer they be nether darke nor dombe Ceremonies but are so set forth that euery man may vnderstād what they doe meane and to what vse they doe serue So that it is not like that they in tyme to come should be abused as the other haue been And in these oure doynges we condemne no other nacions nor prescribe any thing but to our own people onely For we thinke it conuenient that euery countrey should vse suche Ceremonies as they shall thynke best to the setting forth of Gods honoure or glory and to the reducing of the people to a most perfecte and Godly liuing without errour or supersticion And that they should putte awaye other thynges whyche from
tyme to tyme they perceiue to be most abused as in mens ordinaunces it often chaunceth dyuersely in dyuerse countreyes ¶ An Acte for the vniformitie of common prayer and administracion of the Sacramentes WHere there hath been a very Godly ordre set furth by autoritie of Parlamēt for common prayer and administraciō of the Sacramentes to be vsed in the mother tongue within this Church of England agreable to the word of God and the primatiue Church very cōfortable to al good people desyring to liue in Christen conuersacion moste profitable to the state of this Realme vpon the whiche the mercy fauour and blessyng of almighty god is in no wise so readilye and plenteously powred as by commō prayers due vsing of the Sacramentes often preaching of the gospel with the deuocion of the hearers And yet this notwithstanding a great noumbre of people in diuerse partes of thys realme folowing their owne sensualitie and liuing either withoute knowledge or due feare of God doe wilfully and damnablye before almightie God absteyne and refuse to come to theyr Parishe Churches and other places where commō prayer adminystracion of the Sacramentes preachyng of the word of God is vsed vpon the Sundayes and other dayes ordeyned to be holy dayes For reformacion herof be it enacted by the King our souereigne lord with thassent of the Lordes and commons in this present Parlament assembled and by the autoritie of the same that frō and after the feast of al Sainctes next coming al euery person and persons enhabiting within this Realme or any other the kynges Maiesties dominions shal diligently and faythfully hauing no lawefull or reasonable excuse to be absent endeuour themselues to resorte to theyr Parishe Churche or Chapell accustomed or vpon reasonable let therof to some vsual place where cōmon prayer such seruice of God shal be vsed in such tyme of let vpon euery Sunday and other dayes ordeyned and vsed to be kept as holy daies then and there to abide ordrely soberly during the time of the cōmon prayer preachinges or other seruice of God there to bee vsed ministred vpō payn of punishment by the Censures of the church And for the due execucion herof the Kynges most excellent maiestie the Lordes temporal and all the Commons in this presente Parlament assembled dooeth in Goddes name earnestlye require and charge all tharchbishoppes Bishoppes and other Ordenaries that they shall endeuour themselues to the vttermoste of theyr knowledges that the due and true execuciō herof may be had throughoute theyr Dyocesses and charges as they will aunswere before God for such euils and plages wherewith almyghtie God may iustly punishe his people for neglecting thys good and wholesome lawe And for theyr autoritie in this behalfe be it further likewise enacted by the autoritie aforesayde that all and synguler the same Archbishops Bishops al other theyr officers exercisyng ecclesiastical iurisdiccion aswel in place exempt as not exempt within their Dyocesses shall haue full power and autoritie by this Acte to refourme correct and punishe by Censures of the churche all and synguler persones whiche shall offende within anye theyr iurisdiccions or Dyocesses after the sayd feast of all sainctes next comming against thys Acte and statute anye other lawe statute priuiledge libertie or prouision heretofore made had or suffered to the contrary notwithstanding And because there hath ariesen in the vse and exercise of the foresayde common seruice in the Churche heretofore sette foorth diuerse doubtes for the fashion and maner of the ministracion of the same rather by the curiositie of the minister and mistakers then of any other woorthy cause therfore aswel for the more playne and manifest explanacion hereof as for the more perfeccion of the sayde ordre of cōmon seruice in some places where it is necessari to make the same prayer and fashion of seruice more earneste and fitte to stire christian people to the true honoring of almighty God The kinges most excellent maiestie with thassent of the lordes and Commons in this presēt Parlament assembled and by thauctoritie of the same hath caused the foresayde ordre of common seruice entituled The booke of Common prayer to be faythfully godly perused explaned and made fully perfect by the foresaid autoritie hath annexed and ioyned it so explaned and perfected to thys present statute adding also a fourme and maner of makyng consecrating of Archebishops Bishops priestes and Deacons to be of lyke force autoritie value as the same like foresayde boke entituled The boke of Common prayer was before and to be accepted receued vsed and estemed in like sort and maner with the same clauses of prousions and excepcions to al ententes construccions and purposes as by the Acte of Parlamente made in the seconde yere of the kinges Maiesties reigne was ordeined limited expressed and appoynted for the vniformitie of seruice and administracion of the Sacramentes throughout the realme vpō such seueral paynes as in the said Act of Parlament is expressed And the sayd former Act to stande in full force and strength to all ententes and construccions to be applyed practised and put in vre to and for the establishing of the boke of common praier now explained and herunto annexed also the said fourme of making of Archbishops Bishops priestes and Deacons hereunto annexed as it was for the former boke And by thautoritie aforesayd it is nowe further enacted that if any maner of persone or persones enhabiting being within this Realme or any other the kinges Maiesties dominions shall after the sayde feaste of all Sainctes willinglye and wittinglye heare and bee present at anye other maner or fourme of common prayer of administracion of the Sacramentes of makyng of ministers in the churches or of anye other rites conteyned in the booke annexed to this Acte then is mencioned and set furth in the sayd boke or that is contrary to the fourme of sondry prouisions excepcions conteined in the foresayde former statute and shal be thereof conuicted accordyng to the lawes of this realme before the Iustices of Assise Iustices of Oyer and Determiner Iustices of peace in theyr Sessions or any of them by the verdict of twelue men or by his or theyr own confession or otherwyse shall for the fyrst offence suffre impriesonment for sixe monethes without bayle or maynprice and for the seconde offence beeyng likewise conuicted as is aboue sayde empriesonment for one whole yere and for the third offence in like maner empriesonment duryng hys or theyr liues And for the more knowledge to be geuen hereof and better obseruacion of this lawe Be it enacted by the auctoritie aforesaid that al and singuler Curates shal vpon one Sunday euery quarter of the yere duryng one whole yere nexte folowyng the foresayd feast of al Sainctes next coming reade thys present Acte in the Churche at the time of the most assembly and likewise once in euery yere folowing at the same tyme declaring
f iiii Id. Sol. in Pis xi xxxv x xl vi  g iii Id.  xii Le. xviii xi Leui. xix vii â—… A Prid. Id.  xiii xx xii Nume x. viii  b Idus Valentine xiiii Num. xi xiii xii ix xviii c xvi kl Marche xv xiii xiiii xiiii x â—… d xv kl  xvi xv xv xvi xi  e xiiii kl  xvii xvii xvi xviii xii â—… f xiii kl  xviii xix Luke di i xx xiii â—… g xii kl  xix xxi di i xxii Galath i  A xi kl Mildrede xx xxiii ii xxiiii ii â—… b x kl  xxi xxv iii xxvi iii i c ix kl  xxii xxvii iiii xxviii iiii  d viii kl The place of the lepe yere xxiii xxix v xxx v â—… e vii kl xxiiii xxxi vi xxxii vi  f vi kl 〈…〉 xxv xxxiii vii xxxiiii Ephesi i â—… g v kl  xxvi xxxv viii xxxvi ii â—… A iiii kl  xxvii Deute i ix Deute ii iii  b iii kl  xxviii iii x iiii iiii â—… c 〈◊〉 Kl.  xxix v xi vi v ¶ Marche hath .xxxi. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening praier i. LessoÌ„ ii LessoÌ„ i. LessoÌ„ ii Lesson â—… d Kalend. Dauid xxx Deu. vii Luk. xii deu viii Ephe. vi  e vi No. Chadde i ix xiii x Philip. i â—… f v No.  ii xi xiiii xii ii  g iiii No. Adrian iii xiii xv xiiii iii â—… A iii No.  iiii xv xvi xvi iiii â—… b Prid. No.  v xvii xvii xviii Collos i  c Nonas  vi xix xviii xx ii â—… d viii Id.  vii xxi xix xxii iii â—… e vii Id.  viii xxiii xx xxiiii iiii  f vi Id.  ix xxv xxi xxvi i. thessa i. â—… g v Id. EquinoctiuÌ„ x xxvii xxii xxviii ii â—… A iiii Id. Sol in arieâ—… xi xxix xxiii xxx iii  b iii Id.  xii xxxi xxiiii xxxii iiii â—… c Prid. Id.  xiii xxxiii Iohn i xxxiiii v  d Idus  xiiii Iosu i ii Iosu ii ii thes i. â—… e xvii kl Aprilis xv iii iii iii ii â—… f xvi kl  xvi iiii iiii iiii iii  g xv kl  xvii v v v i. timo i â—… A xiiii kl Edward xviii vi vi vi ii iii â—… b xiii kl  xix vii vii vii iiii  c xii kl  xx viii viii viii v â—… d xi kl  xxi ix ix ix vi â—… e x kl  xxii x x xi ii timo i  f ix kl Fast xxiii xii xi xx ii â—… g viii kl Annunci xxiiii xxi xii xxii iii  A vii kl  xxv xxiii xiii xxiiii iiii â—… b vi kl  xxvi Iudi. i xiiii Iudi. ii Titus i â—… c v kl  xxvii iii xv iiii ii iii  d iiii kl  xxviii v xvi vi Phile. i. â—… e iii kl  xxix vii xvii viii Heb. i. â—… f 〈◊〉 Kl.  xxx ix xviii x ii ¶ Aprill hath .xxx. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening praier i. LessoÌ„ ii LessoÌ„ i. LessoÌ„ ii Lesson  g Kalend.  i Iudic. xi Ioh. xix Iudi. xii Heb. iii xi A iiii No.  ii xiii xx xiiii iiii  b iii No.  iii xv xxi xvi v xix c Prid. No. Ambrose iiii xvii Actes i xviii vi viii d Nonas  v xix ii xx vii xvi e viii Id.  vi xxi iii Ruth i viii v f vii Id.  vii Rut. ii iiii iii ix  g vi Id.  viii iiii v i. Reg. i x xiii A v Id.  ix i. Re. ii vi iii xi ii b iiii Id. Sol in tau x iiii vii v xii  c iii Id.  xi vi viii vii xiii x d Prid. Id.  xii viii ix ix Iacob i  e Idus  xiii x x xi ii xviii f xviii Kl. Maii. xiiii xii xi xiii iii vii g xvii kl  xv xiiii xii xv iiii  A xvi kl  xvi xvi xiii xvii v xv b xv kl  xvii xviii xiiii xix i. Pet. i iiii c xiiii kl  xviii xx xv xxi ii  d xiii kl  xix xxii xvi xxiii iii xii e xii kl  xx xxiiii xvii xxv iiii i f xi kl  xxi xxvi xviii xxvii v  g x kl  xxii xxviii xix xxix ii Pet. i ix A ix kl S. Georg xxiii xxx xx xxxi ii  b viii kl  xxiiii ii Re. i xxi ii Re. ii iii xvii c vii kl 〈…〉 xxv iii xxii iiii i. Iohn i vi d vi kl  xxvi v xxiii vi ii  e v kl  xxvii vii xxiiii viii iii xiiii f iiii kl  xxviii ix xxv x iiii iii g iii kl  xxix xi xxvi xii v  A Prid. kl  xxx xiii xxvii xiiii ii iii. Ioh ¶ Maye hath .xxxi. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening praier i. LessoÌ„ ii LessoÌ„ i. LessoÌ„ ii Lesson â—… b Kalend Philip Ia i ii Re. xv Act. viii ii re xvi Iuoas i  c vi No.  ii xvii xxviii xviii Roma i â—… d v No. The crosse iii xix Math. i. xx ii â—… e iiii No.  iiii xxi ii xxii iii  f iii No.  v xxiii iii xxiiii iiii â—… g Prid. No.  vi iii. Re. i iiii iii. reg i v â—… A Nonas Iohn beuer vii ii v ii vi  b viii Id.  viii iii vi iiii vii â—… c vii Id.  ix v vii ix viii â—… d vi Id.  x ix viii x ix  e v Id. Sol in Ge. xi xi ix xii x â—… f iiii Id.  xii xiii x xiiii xi  g iii Id.  xiii xv xi xvi xii â—… A Prid. Id.  xiiii xvii xii xviii xiii â—… b Idus  xv xix xiii xx xiiii  c xvii kl Iunii xvi xxi xiiii xxii xv â—… d xvi kl  xvii iiii Re. i xv iiii re ii xvi â—… e xv kl  xviii iii xvi iiii i. Cor. i.  f xiiii kl  xix v xvii vi ii â—… g xiii kl  xx vii xviii viii iii â—… A xii kl Heline xxi ix xix x iiii  b xi kl  xxii xi xx xii v â—… c x kl  xxiii xiii xxi xiiii vi  d ix kl  xxiiii xv xxii xvi vii â—… e viii kl  xxv xvii xxiii xviii viii â—… f vii kl  xxvi xix xxiiii xx ix  g vi kl  xxvii xxi xxv xxii x â—… A v kl  xxviii xxiii xxvi xxiiii xi â—… b iiii kl  xxix xxv xxvii xxv xii  c iii kl  xxx i. Esdr i. xxviii i. Esd iii xiii  d 〈◊〉 Kl.  xxx iii Mark i iiii xiiii ¶ Iune hath .xxx. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening praier i. Lesson
ii Lesson i. Lesson ii Lesson  e Kalend.  i i. esd iiii Mar. ii i. Esdr v i. Cor. xv â—… f iiii No.  ii vi iii vi xvi â—… g iii. No.  iii vii iiii vii ii Cor. i. â—… A Prid. No.  iiii viii v viii ii â—… b Nonas  v ix vi x iii  c viii Id.  vi ii Esd i vii ii esd iii iiii â—… d vii Id.  vii iiii viii v v â—… e vi Id.  viii vi ix viii vi  f v. Id. Edmond ix ix x xiii vii â—… g iiii Id.  x Hester i xi Heste ii viii  A iii. Id. Barnabe xi iii Act. xiiii iiii Actes xv â—… b Prid. Id.  xii v Mar. xii vi ii Cor. ix â—… c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Can. xiii vii xiii viii x  d xviii kl Iuly xiiii ix xiiii Iob. i xi â—… e xvii kl  xv Iob. ii xv iii xii â—… f xvi kl  xvi iiii xvi v xiii  g xv kl  xvii vi Luke i vii Galath i. â—… â— xiiii kl  xviii viii ii ix ii â—… b xiii kl  xix x iii xi iii  c xii kl  xx xii iiii xiii iiii â—… d xi kl Edward kiÌ„g xxi xiiii v xv v  e x. kl  xxii xvi vi xvii xviii vi â—… f ix kl Fast xxiii xix vii xx Ephesi i. â—… g viii kl 〈…〉 xxiiii Mal. iii. Mat. iii Mal. iiii mat xiiii  A vii kl  xxv Iob. xxi Lu. viii Iob. xxii Ephes ii â—… b vi kl  xxvi xxiii ix xxiiii xxv iii â—… c v. kl  xxvii 26.27 x xxviii iiii  d iiii kl Fast xxviii xxix xi xxx v â—… e iii. kl 〈…〉 xxix xxxi Acte iii. xxxii Actes iiii  f 〈◊〉 kl  xxx xxxiii Luk. xii xxxiiii Ephes vi ¶ Iuly hath .xxxi. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening praier i. LessoÌ„ ii LessoÌ„ i. LessoÌ„ ii Lesson â—… g Kalend.  i iob xxxv Luk. xiii iob xxxvi Philip. i â—… A vi No. VisitacioÌ„ ii xxxvii xiiii xxxviii ii  b v No. of our lady iii xxxix xv xi iii â—… c iiii No.  iiii xli xvi xlii iiii â—… d iii No.  v Prou. i xvii Prou. ii Collos i  e Prid. No.  vi iii xviii iiii ii â—… f Nonas Dog dayes vii v xix vi iii â—… g viii Id.  viii vii xx viii iiii  A vii Id.  ix ix xxi x i. thessa i. â—… b vi Id.  x xi xxii xii ii  c v Id.  xi xiii xxiii xiiii iii xviii d iiii Id.  xii xv xxiiii xvi iiii â—… e iii Id.  xiii xvii Iohn i xviii v  f Prid. Id. Sol in Leo xiiii xix ii xx ii thess i â—… g Idus Margarete xv xxi iii xxii ii â—… A xvii kl August xvi xxiii iiii xxiiii iii  b xvi kl  xvii xxv v xxvi i. timo i â—… c xv kl  xviii xxvii vi xxviii ii iii i d xiiii kl  xix xxix vii xxx iiii  e xiii kl  xx xxxi viii Eccles i v â—… f xii kl  xxi Eccle. ii ix iii vi  g xi kl Mari mag xxii iiii x v ii timo i â—… A x kl  xxiii vi xi vii ii â—… b ix kl Fast xxiiii viii xii ix iii  c viii kl 〈…〉 xxv x xiii xi iiii â—… d vii kl  xxvi xii xiiii Ierem. i Titus i â—… e vi kl vii sleper xxvii Iere. ii xv iii ii iii  f v kl  xxviii iiii xvi v Phile. i â—… g iiii kl  xxix vi xvii vii Heb. i  A iii kl  xxx viii xviii ix ii â—… b Prid. Kl.  xxx x xix xi iii ¶ August hath .xxxi. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening praier i. Lesson ii Lesson i. Lesson ii Lesson â—… c Kalend. Lammas i Iere. xii Ioh. xx Ier. xiii Hebr. iiii â—… d iiii No.  ii xiiii xxi xv v â—… e iii. No.  iii xvi Actes i. xvii vi  f Prid. No.  iiii xviii ii xix vii â—… g Nonas  v xx iii xxi viii â—… A viii Id.  vi xxii iiii xxiii ix  b vii Id.  vii xxiiii v xxv x â—… c vi Id.  viii xxvi vi xxvii xi  d v. Id.  ix xxviii vii xxix xii â—… e iiii Id. S. Laurence x xxx viii xxxi xiii â—… f iii. Id.  xi xxxii ix xxxiii Iacobi i.  g Prid. Id.  xii xxxiiii x xxxv ii â—… A Idus  xiii xxxvi xi xxxvii iii â—… b xix kl SepteÌ„bris xiiii xxxviii xii xxxix iiii  c xviii kl AssuÌ„p mary xv xl xiii xli v â—… d xvii kl Sol in Vir. xvi xlii xiiii xliii i. Petri. i. â—… e xvi kl  xvii xliiii xv xlv xlvi ii  f xv kl  xviii xlvii xvi xlviii iii â—… g xiiii kl  xix xlix xvii l iiii  A xiii kl  xx li xviii lii v â—… b xii kl Barnard xxi LameÌ„ i. xix LameÌ„ ii ii Pete i. â—… c xi kl  xxii iii xx iiii ii  d x. kl Fast xxiii v xxi Ezech. ii iii â—… e ix kl 〈…〉 xxiiii Ezec. iii. xxii vi i. Iohn i. â—… f viii kl  xxv vii xxiii xiii ii  g vii kl  xxvi xiiii xxiiii xviii iii â—… A vi kl  xxvii xxxiii xxv xxxiiii iiii  b v. kl Augustine xxviii Danie i xxvi Dani. ii v â—… c iiii kl  xxix iii xxvii iiii ii iii. Ioh. â—… d iii kl  xxx v xxviii vi Iude. i.  e Prid. kl  xxx vii Math. i. viii Roma i. ¶ September hath .xxx. dayes     ¶ Psalmes Morning praier Euening praier i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„ i. Lesson ii LessoÌ„ â—… f Kalend.  i Dani. ix Math. ii Danie x Roma ii â—… g iiii No.  ii xi iii xii iii  A iii No.  iii xiii iiii xiiii iiii â—… b Prid. No.  iiii Ozee i v oze ii iii. v â—… c Nonas Dog da. end v iiii vi v. vi vi  d viii Id.  vi vii vii viii vii â—… e vii Id.  vii ix viii x viii  f vi Id. Nati mary viii xi ix xii ix â—… g v Id.  ix xiii x xiiii x â—… A iiii Id.  x Ioel. i xi Ioel. ii xi  b iii Id.  xi iii xii Amos. i. xii â—… c Prid. Id.  xii Amos. ii xiii iii xiii â—… d Idus  xiii iiii xiiii v xiiii  e xviii kl Octobre xiiii vi xv vii xv â—… f xvii kl Sol. in Libra xv viii xvi ix xvi â—… g xvi kl  xvi Abdias i xvii Ionas i. i. Cor. i.  A xv kl  xvii ion ii iii xviii iiii ii â—… b xiiii kl  xviii Miche
or hys deputie shall appoynt the place the chauncels shall remayne as they haue done in tymes past And here is to be noted that the Minister at the tyme of the communion and at all other tymes in hys ministracion shall vse neyther Albe Vestment nor Cope but beeyng Archebisshop or Bisshop he shall haue and weare a rochet and being a Priest or Deacon he shal haue and weare a surples onelye ¶ An ordre for Morning prayer daylye throughoute the yeare At the beginning both of Morning praier lykewise of Euening prayer the Minister shal reade with a loude voyce some one of these sentences of the scriptures that folowe And then he shall saye that whiche is wrytten after the sayde sentences Ezechiel xviii AT what tyme soeuer a sinner dooeth repente hym of his synne frō the bottome of his heart I wyll putte all hys wickednes out of my remembraunce sayeth the Lorde Psal li. I doe knowe myne owne wickednes and my synne is alwaye agaynst me Psal li. Turne thy face awaye from oure synnes O Lorde and blot out all oure offences Psalm li A sorowfull spirite is a sacrifice to God despyse not O Lorde humble and contryte heartes Ioel. ii Rente youre heartes and not your garmentes and turne to the Lord youre God because he is gentle and merciful he is paciente and of muche mercy and suche a one that is sory for youre affliccyons Dani. ix To thee O Lorde God belongeth mercy and forgeuenes for we haue gone awaye from thee and haue not harkened to thy voyce wherby we might walke in thy lawes whyche thou hast appoynted for vs. Ierem. ii Correct vs O Lord and yet in thy iudgement not in thy furye leste we shoulde be consumed and brought to nothing Math. iii Amend your lyues for the kyngdome of God is at hand Luke xv I wyll goe to my father and saye to him father I haue synned agaynste heauen and agaynste thee I am no more worthy to bee called thy sonne Psa cxlii Entre not into iudgement with thy seruauntes O lorde for no fleshe is righteous in thy sighte i. Iohn i. Yf we saye that we haue no synne we deceyue our selues and there is no trueth in vs. DEarely beloued brethren the scripture moueth vs in sondrye places to acknowledge and confesse our manifold sinnes and wickednes that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of almyghtie God oure heauenly father but confesse them with an humble lowely penitent and obedient heart to th ende that we may obtayne forgeuenes of the same by his infinite goodnes and mercy And although we oughte at all times humbly to knowledge our sinnes before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do whē we assemble and mete together to rendre thankes for the greate benefites that we baue receyued at his handes to set foorth his moste worthy prayse to heare his most holy worde and to aske those thinges whych be requisite and necessarie aswell for the body as the soule Wherfore I praye and beseche you as many as be here present to accompanie me with a pure heart and humble voyce vnto the throne of the heauenly grace saying after me ¶ A generall confession to bee sayde of the whole congregacion after the Minister kneelyng ALmighty and most merciful father we haue erred straied from thy waies lyke lost shepe We haue folowed to much the deuises desires of our own heartes We haue offended against thy holy lawes We haue lefte vndone those thynges whiche we oughte to haue done and we haue done those thynges whyche we oughte not to haue done and there is no healthe in vs but thou O Lorde haue mercy vpon vs myserable offendours Spare thou them O God which confesse theyr faultes Restore thou them that be penitent accordyng to thy promyses declared vnto mankynde in Christe Iesu oure Lorde And graunt O most mercyfull father for hys sake that we may hereafter lyue a godly ryghteous and sobre lyfe to the glory of thy holy name Amen ¶ The absolucion to be pronounced by the Minister alone ALmightye God the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ whiche desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turne from hys wyckednes liue and hath geuen power and commaundement to hys ministers to declare pronounce to hys people being penitent the absolucion and remission of theyr synnes he pardoneth and absolueth all them whyche truely repent vnfaynedly beleue hys holy ghospell Wherfore we beseche him to graunte vs true repentaunce and hys holy spirite that those thynges maye please hym whiche we doe at thys presente and that the rest of our lyfe hereafter may bee pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternall ioye through Iesus Christe oure Lorde ¶ The people shall aunswere Amen Then shall the Minister begyn the Lordes prayer with a loude voyce OVre father which arte in heauen halowed bee thy name Thy kingdome come Thy wyll bee done in earth as it is in heauen Geue vs thys day our dayly bread And forgeue vs oure trespasses as we forgeue them that trespasse agaynste vs. And leade vs not into temptacion But delyuer vs from euell Amen ¶ Then lykewyse he shall saye O Lorde open thou oure lippes Aunswer And our mouth shall shewe foorth thy prayse ¶ Priest O God make spede to saue vs. ¶ Aunswer O Lorde make hast to helpe vs. ¶ Priest Glory be to the father and to the sonne to the holy ghoste As it was in the beginnyng is nowe and euer shall bee worlde without ende Amen Prayse ye the Lorde ¶ Then shal be sayd or song this Psalme folowyng O Come let vs syng vnto the Lord let vs hartely reioyce in the strength of oure saluacyon Let vs come before hys presence with thankesgeuyng and shewe oure selfe glad in hym with Psalmes For the Lorde is a great God and a great kyng aboue al Goddes In hys hand are all the corners of the earthe and the strength of the hylles is hys also The sea is hys and he made it and his handes prepared the drye lande O come let vs worship and fall downe and knele before the Lorde oure maker For he is the Lorde oure God and wee are the people of his pasture and the shepe of hys handes To daye yf ye wyll heare hys voyce harden not youre heartes as in the prouocacion and as in the day of temptacyon in the wyldernes When your fathers tempted me proued me and sawe my workes Fortie yeares long was I grieued with this generacion and sayde it is a people that doe erre in theyr heartes for they haue not knowen my wayes Vnto whom I sware in my wrathe that they shoulde not entre into my reste Glory be to the father and to the sōne to the holy ghost As it was in the beginning is nowe and euer shall be worlde wythout ende Amen Then
it that the scripture might be fulfylled saying They haue parted my raymente among them and for my coate did they cast lottes And the souldiers dyd suche thynges in dede There stode by the crosse of Iesus hys mother and hys mothers sister Mary the wyfe of Cleophas and Marye Magdalene When Iesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple whom he loued stāding he sayth vnto his mother woman behold thy sonne Then said he to the disciple beholde thy mother And from that houre the disciple toke her for hys owne After these thynges Iesus knowyng that all thynges were nowe performed that the scripture might bee fulfylled he sayeth I thyrste So there stoode a vessell by full of vynegre therefore they fylled a sponge with vinegre and wounde it aboute with Isope and put it to his mouthe Assoone as Iesus then receyued of the vynegre he sayd It is fynished and bowed his head and gaue vp the ghoste The Iewes therefore because it was the preparyng of the Sabbothe that the bodies should not remayne vpon the Crosse on the Sabboth daye for that Sabboth daye was an hye daye besoughte Pilate that theyr legges myghte bee broken and that they mighte bee taken downe Then came the souldiers and brake the legges of the fyrst and of the other which was crucified with him But when they came to Iesus and sawe that he was dead already they brake not hys legges but one of the souldiours with a speare thruste hym into the syde and forthwith there came out bloud water And he that sawe it bare record and his record is true And he knoweth that he sayeth true that ye myght beleue also For these thynges were done that the scripture shoulde bee fulfylled ye shall not breake a bone of hym And agayne another scripture sayeth they shal loke vpon him whom they haue pearsed After this Ioseph of Aramathia whych was a disciple of Iesus but secretely for feare of the Iewes besought Pilate that he might take downe the body of Iesus And Pilate gaue him licence He came therfore toke the body of Iesus And there came also Nichodemus which at the beginning came to Iesus by night and brought of Myrre and Aloes mingled together aboute an hundreth pounde weight Then toke they the body of Iesus and wounde it in linnen clothes with the Odours as the maner of the Iewes is to burye And in the place where he was crucifyed there was a garden and in the garden a newe Sepulchre wherein was neuer man layde There layde they Iesus therefore because of the preparing of the Sabbothe of the Iewes for the Sepulchre was nye at hande ¶ Easter Euen ¶ The Epistle i. Pete iii IT is better yf the wyll of God be so that ye suffre for well doyng then for euyll doyng Forasmuche as Christ hath once suffred for synnes the iuste for the vniuste to bryng vs to God and was kylled as perteyning to the fleshe but was quickened in the spirites In whiche spirite he also wente and preached to the spirites that were in prieson whyche sometyme had been disobediente when the long sufferyng of God was once loked for in the dayes of Noe whyle the Arke was a preparyng wherein a fewe that is to saye eyghte soules were saued by the water lyke as Baptisme also nowe saueth vs not the puttyng a waye of the fylthe of the fleshe but in that a good conscyence consenteth to GOD by the resurreccyon of Iesus Christ which is on the right hand of God and is gone into heauen Aungels powers and mighte subdued vnto hym ¶ The Gospell Mathew xxvii WHen the euen was come there came a riche mā of Aramathia named Ioseph which also was Iesus disciple He went vnto Pilate and begged the body of Iesus Then Pilate cōmaunded the body to be delyuered And whē Ioseph had taken the body he wrapped it in a cleane linnen cloth laid it in his new toumbe which he had hewen out euen in the rocke rolled a great stone to the dore of the Sepulchre departed And there was mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer agaynst the Sepulchre The next daye that foloweth the day of preparing the high Priestes and Phariseis came togather vnto Pylate saying Sir we remembre that this deceiuer saied while he was yet alyue After three dayes I wil rise again Commaunde therefore that the Sepulchre bee made sure vntyll the thyrd day lest his disciples come and steale him away and say vnto the people he is risē from the dead and the last errour shal be worse then the fyrst Pilate said vnto them ye haue a watche goe youre waye make it as sure as ye can So they went and made the Sepulchre sure with the watchemen and sealed the stone ¶ Easter daye At morning prayer in stede of the Psalme O come let vs. c. These Anthemes shal be song or sayd CHryste rysing agayne from the dead nowe dyeth not Death from henceforth hath no power vpon hym For in that he dyed he dyed but once to put a way synne but in that he liueth he liueth vnto god And so likewise counte your selues dead vnto sinne but liuing vnto God in Christ Iesus our Lord. CHrist is rysen agayne the first fruites of thē that slepe for seeing that by man came death by man also cometh the resurreccion of the dead For as by Adam all men doe dye so by Christ al men shal be restored to lyfe ¶ The Collecte ALmightie god which through thy only begottē sonne Iesus Christ haste ouercome death and opened vnto vs the gate of euerlasting life we humbly beseche thee that as by thy special grace preuenting vs thou doest put in our mindes good desires so by thi cōtinual helpe we may bring thesame to good effect through Iesus Christ our lord who liueth and reigneth c. ¶ The Epistle Collo iii. IF ye be risen again with Christ seke those thīges which are aboue where Christ sitteth on the right hande of God Sette youre affeccion on heauenly thinges and not on earthly thynges For ye are dead and your lyfe is hid with Christ in god Whensoeuer Christ which is our lyfe shal shew him selfe then shall ye also appeare with him in glory Mortifie therfore your earthy membres fornicacion vnclennesse vnnatural luste euil concupiscence and couetousnes whiche is worshippyng of Idols for whiche thynges sake the wrath of god vseth to come on the children of vnbeliefe among whom ye walked sometyme when ye lyued in them ¶ The Gospell Iohn xx THe first day of the Sabbothes came Mary Magdalen early whē it was yet darke vnto the Sepulchre and sawe the stone taken awaye from the graue Then she ranne and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Iesus loued and sayth vnto thē they haue taken away the Lord out of the graue and we cannot tell where they haue layd hym Peter therfore wente forth and that other disciple and came vnto the
Trinitie ¶ The Collect. GRaunt Lorde we beseche thee that the course of thys world may be so peaceably ordred by the gouernaūce that thy congregacion may ioyfully serue thee in all godly quietenes through Iesus Christ our Lorde ¶ The Epistle i. Pet. iii BE you all of one mynde and of one hearte loue as brethren be pietifull be curteous meke not renderyng euyll for euyll or rebuke for rebuke but contrarywyse blesse knowyng that ye are thereunto called euen that ye should bee heyres of the blessyng For he that dooeth long after lyfe and loueth to see good dayes lette hym refrayne his tongue from euil his lippes that they speake no gyle Let him eschew euil and doe good let him seke peace and ensue it For the eyes of the Lord are ouer the righteous his eares are open vnto their prayers Again the face of the Lord is ouer thē that do euil Moreouer who is he that wil harme you if ye folowe that which is good yea happye are ye if anye trouble happen vnto you for righteousnes sake Be not ye afrayd for any terrour of them neither be ye troubled but sanctifye the Lord God in your heartes ¶ The Gospell Luke v. YE came to passe that when the people preaced vpon hym to heare the woord of God he stoode by the lake of Genazareth saw two shippes stand by the lakes side but the fishermen were gone out of them were washyng their nettes And he entered into one of the shippes which pertained to Simon and prayed him that he woulde thrust out a little from the lande And he sate down taught the people out of the shyp When he had left speakyng he sayde vnto Simon launche out into the depe let slip your nettes to make a draught And Simon aunswered and sayd vnto him Maister we haue laboured al nighte and haue taken nothyng Neuerthelesse at thy commaundemente I will looce furth the nerre And when they had so done they inclosed a greate multitude of fysshes But theyr nette brake and they beckened to theyr felowes which were in the other shyppe that they shoulde come and helpe them And they came and fylled bothe shippes that they souke agayn When Simon Peter sawe this he fell down at Iesus knees saying Lorde goe from me for I am a sinnefull man For he was astonied and all that were with him at the draughte of fishes whiche they had taken and so was also Iames and Iohn the sonnes of zebede whiche were parteners with Simon And Iesus sayde vnto Simon feare not from hencefurth thou shalte catche men And they brought the shippes to lande and forsoke all and folowed him The sixth Sunday after Trinitie ¶ The Collect. GOd Which hast prepared to them that loue thee suche good thinges as passe al mās vnderstanding Powre into our heartes suche loue towarde thee that we louing thee in all thynges may obteyne thy promises whiche excede all that we can desyre through Iesus Christ our lord ¶ The Epistle Rom. vi KNowe ye not that all we whiche are baptised in Iesus Christ are baptised to dye with him We are buried then with hym by baptisme for to dye that likewise as Christ was raysed frō death by the glory of the father euen so we also shoulde walke in a newe lyfe For if we bee graft in death like vnto him euen so shall we be partakers of the holy resurrecciō Knowing thys that your olde man is crucifyed with him also that the body of sinne myght vtterly be destroyed that hencefoorth we shoulde not bee seruautes vnto sinne For he that is dead is iustified frō sinne Wherefore if we be dead with Christe we beleue that we shal also liue with him knowing that Christ beeing raysed from death dyeth no more Death hath no more power ouer him For as touching that he dyed he dyed concernyng sinne once And as touchyng that he liueth he liueth vnto God Lykewyse considre ye also that ye are dead as touching sinne but are aliue vnto God through Iesus Christ our Lorde ¶ The Gospell Math. v. IEsus sayd vnto his disciples except your righteousnes exceade the ryghteousnes of the Scribes and Phariseis ye cannot entre into the kingdom of heauen Ye haue heard that it was sayde vnto them of olde time Thou shalte not kyll whosoeuer kylleth shal be in daunger of iudgement But I saye vnto you that whosoeuer is angry with hys brother vnaduisedlye shal be in daunger of iudgement And whosoeuer saye vnto his brother Racha shal be in daūger of a coūsel But whosoeuer faith thou foole shal be in daūger of hel fyer Therefore if thou offrest thy gifte at the altare and there remembrest that thy brother hath ought agaynst thee leaue there thyne offering before the altare and goe thy way first and be reconciled to thy brother then come and offer thy gift Agree with thine aduersarye quickelye whyles thou arte in the waye with him lest at any tyme the aduersary deliuer thee to the iudge the iudge delyuer thee to the minister and then thou be cast into prieson Verely I saye vnto thee thou shalte not come out thence tyll thou haue payde the vttermost farthing The seuenth Sunday after Trinitie ¶ The Collecte LOrd of al power and might whiche art the auctour geuer of al good thinges graffe in our hartes the loue of thy name increase in vs true religion nouryshe vs with all goodnes and of thy greate mercye kepe vs in the same through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Epistle Rom. vi I Speake groslye because of the infirmitie of your fleshe As ye haue geuē your membres seruaūtes to vnclennes and to iniquitie from one iniquitie to an other euen so now geue ouer your mēbres seruauntes vnto righteousnes the ye may be sanctifyed For when ye wer seruauntes of sinne ye were voyde of righteousnes What fruite had you then in those thinges whereof ye are now ashamed for the end of those thinges are death But now are ye deliuered frō synne made the seruaūtes of God haue your fruite to be sanctified the ende euerlasting life For the rewarde of sinne is deathe but eternall life is the gift of God through Iesus Christ our Lord. ¶ The Gospell mar viii IN those dayes when there was a very great cōpanye and had nothyng to eate Iesus called his disciples vnto him said vnto them I haue compassion on the people because thei haue been now with me three dayes and haue nothyng to eate And yf I sende them awaye fastyng to theyr owne houses they shall faynt by the waye for diuers of them came from farre And his Disciples aunswered hym where shoulde a man haue bread here in the wildernesse to satisfye these And he asked them howe many loaues haue ye They sayd seuen And he commaunded the people to sitte downe on the grounde And he toke the seauen loaues And when he had geuen thankes he brake
sufficient correccion for al her sinnes A voice cried in wildernesse prepare the way of the lord in the wyldernes make streight the path of oure God in the deserte Let al valleyes be exalted euery moūtaine hil be layed low whatso is croked let it be made strayght let the rough be made playne fieldes For the glory of the Lorde shal appeare and al flesh shal at once see it for why the mouth of the Lorde hath spoken it Thesame voice spake Now crye And the Prophet aūswered what shal I cry that al fleshe is grasse that al the goodlines therof is as the floure of the field The grasse is withered the floure falleth awaye Euen so is the people as grasse whē the breath of the lorde bloweth vpō thē Neuertheles whether the grasse wither or the the floure fade away yet the word of our god endureth for euer Go vp vnto the hie hil O siō thou that bringest good tidinges lifte vp thy voyce with power O thou preacher Ierusalem lifte it vp without feare and say vnto the cities of Iuda Beholde your god beholde the lord god shall come with power beare rule with his arme Beholde he bryngeth hys treasure with hym his workes goe before him He shal fede his flocke like an heardmā He shal gather the lambes together with hys arme and cary them in hys bosome and shal kindly intreate those that beare yong ¶ The Gospell Luke i. ELizabethes time came the she suould bee deliuered and she broughte foorth a sonne And her neyghbours and her cosins heard how the lord had shewed great mercy vpon her and reioised with her And it fortuned that in the eight day thei came to circumcise the childe and called his name zachary after the name of his father And his mother aunswered and sayd not so but his name shal be called Iohn And they sayed vnto her There is none in thy kynred the is named with thys name And they made signes to his father howe he woulde haue him called And he asked for writing tables and wrote saying hys name is Iohn And they meruayled all And hys mouth was opened immediatlye and his tong also and he spake praised god And feare came on all them that dwelt nye vnto hym And all these sayinges was noised abroade throughout al the hie countrey of Iewry and they the heard them layd them vp in their heartes saying what maner of child shal this be And the hand of the lord was with hym And his father zacharias was filled with the holy gost and prophecied saying Praised be the lord God of Israell for he hath visited redemed his people And hath raised vp an horne of saluaciō vnto vs in the house of his seruāt Dauid Euen as he promised by the mouth of his holy Prophetes which were sence the world began That we should be saued frō our enemies and frō the hand of al the hate vs. That he would deale mercifully with our fathers and remembre his holy couenaūt And he would perfourme the othe whiche he sware to our father Abrahā for to forgeue vs. That we beyng delyuered out of the handes of our enemies myghte serue hym without feare al the dayes of our life in such holinesse righteousnes as are acceptable for him And thou child shalt be called the Prophete of the hiest for thou shalt goe before the face of the lord to prepare his wayes To geue knowledge of saluacyon vnto his people for the remissiōn of synnes Through the tender mercy of our god whereby the day spring frō an high hath visited vs. To geue light to thē that sate in darkenes and in the shadow of death to guide our fete into the way of peace And the child grew waxed strong in spirite and was in wyldernes til the daye came when he should shewe hymselfe vnto the Israelites Sainct Peters daye ¶ The Collect. ALmightie god whiche by the sonne Iesus Christ hast geuen to thy Apostle Saincte Peter many excellente giftes and commaundest hym earnestly to fede thy stocke make we beseche thee al Bisshops and Pastours diligently to preache thy holy worde and the people obedientlye to folowe the same that they may receyue the crown of euerlastyng glory though Iesus Christ our Lorde ¶ The Epistle Actes xii AT the same time Herode the king stretched forth hys handes to vexe certaine of the congregaciō And he kylled Iames the brother of Iohn with the sweord And beecause he sawe it pleased the Iewes he proceded farther and tooke Peter also Then were the dayes of swete bread And when he had caught him he put him in prieson also delyuered hym to foure quaternions of souldiers to be kepte entending after Easter to bring him forth to the people And Peter was kept in prieson but prayer was made without ceasing of the congregacyon vnto god for hym And whē Herode would haue broughte hym out vnto the people thesame nyghte slepte Peter betwene two souldiers boūd with two chaines and the kepers before the dore kept the prieson And behold the Aungel of the lorde was there present and a light shined in the habitacion And he smote Peter on the side and styrred hym vp saying arise vp quickely And his chaines fel from his handes And the Aungel s ayd vnto hym gyrd thy selfe and binde on thy sandales And he so did And he sayth vnto him cast thy garment about thee folow me And he came out folowed him and wist not that it was trueth whiche was done by the Aungel but thought he had seen a vision When they were past the first second watche they came vnto the yron gate that leadeth vnto the citie whiche opened to them by the own accord And they went out passed thorow one strete and forth with the Angel departed from him And when Peter was come to himselfe he sayd nowe I know of a suretie that the lord hath sent his Aungell and hath deliuered me out of the hande of Herode and from all the wayting of the people of the Iewes ¶ The Gospell Mat. xvi WHen Iesus came into the coastes of the Citie which is called Cesarea Philippi he asked hys disciples saying whom doe men say that I the sonne of man am They sayed Some saye that thou art Iohn Baptist some Helias some Ieremias or one of the prophetes He saith vnto thē but whō say ye that I am Simō Peter aunswered and said Thou art Christ the sōne of the liuing god And Iesus aūswered and sayd vnto hym Happy art thou Simō the sonne of Ionas for fleshe and bloud hath not opened that vnto thee but my father whiche is in heauen And I say vnto thee the thou art Peter and vpon this rocke I wil build my cōgregaciō And the gates of hell shall not preuaile against it And I wil geue vnto thee the keies of the kyngdome of heauen And whatsoeuer thou bindest in earth shall be bounde in
that is taughte in the worde ministre vnto hym that teacheth in all good thynges Be not deceiued God is not mocked for whatsoeuer a manne soweth that shall he reape Gala. vi Whyle we haue tyme lette vs doe good vnto all menne and specyallye vnto them whyche are of the householde of faythe i. Tim. vi Godlines is great riches if a man be contented with that he hath for we brought nothing into the world neither may we cary any thyng oute i. Tim. vi Charge them which are riche in this worlde that they be ready to geue and glad to distribute laying vp in store for themselues a good foundacyon agaynste the tyme to come that they may attayne eternall lyfe Heb. vi God is not vnrighteous that he wil forgeat your workes labour that procedeth of loue whiche loue ye haue shewed for his names sake whiche haue ministred vnto sainctes yet doe ministre Heb. xiii To doe good and to distribute forgeat not for with suche sacrfices God is pleased i Ioh. iii. Whoso hathe this worldes good and seeth hys brother haue nede and shutteth vp his compassion from hym howe dwelleth the loue of God in him Tob. iiii Geue almose of thy goodes and turne neuer thy face from any poore man and then the face of the Lord shal not be turned awaye from thee Tob. iiii Be mercifull after thy power If thou haste muche geue plenteouslye If thou haste litle doe thy diligence gladlye to geue of that little for so gatherest thou thy selfe a good rewarde in the day of necessitie Prou. xix He that hath pitie vpon the poore lendeth vnto the Lorde and loke what he layeth out it shal be payed hym agayne Psal lxi Blessed be the man that prouideth for the sycke and nedy the Lord shall deliuer hym in the tyme of trouble Then shall the church wardens or some other by them appoynted gather the deuocion of the people and put the same into the poore mens bore and vpō the offring daies appoynted euery man and woman shall pay to the curate the due and accustomed offringes after whiche done the priest shall saye Let vs praye for the whole state of Christes Churche militante here in earth ALmightie and euerliuing God whiche by thy holy Apostle haste taught vs to make prayers and supplicacyons and to geue thankes for all menne we humbly beseche thee moste mercifullye to accepte our almose If there bee none almose geuē vnto the pore then shal the wordes of acceptyng our almes be lefte oute vnsayde and to receyue these oure prayers which we offer vnto wordes thy deuine maiestye besechyng thee to inspire contynually the vniuersall churche with the spirite of trueth vnitie and our concorde and graunte that all they that doe confesse thy holye name maye agree in the trueth of thy holy woord and lyue in vnitye and godlye loue We beeseche thee also to saue and defende all chrystian Kynges Prynces and gouernours and specially thy seruaunt Edward oure Kyng that vnder hym we maye bee godly and quietly gouerned and graunte vnto hys whole counsayle and to all that bee put in auctoritie vnder hym that they may truelye and indifferentlye minister iustice to the punyshmente of wyckednes and vice and to the maintenaunce of Goddes true religion and vertue Geue grace O heauenlye father to all Bisshoppes Pastours and Curates that they may bothe by theyr lyfe and doctryne sette foorthe thy true and lyuelye woord and rightly and duely administer thy holy Sacramentes and to all thy people geue thy heauenly grace and especiallye to thys congregacion here presente that with meke heart and due reuerence they maye heare and receyue thy holy woorde truely seruing thee in holynes and ryghteousnes all the dayes of theyr lyfe And we moste humbly beseche thee of thy goodnes O Lorde to comfort and succour all them whiche in this transitory life be in trouble sorowe nede syckenes or anye other aduersitie Graunte this O father for Iesus Christes sake oure only mcdiatour and aduocate Amen Then shall folow this exhortacion at certayne tymes when the Curate shall see the people negligent to come to the holy Communion WE be come together at this time dereli beloued brethren to fede at the Lordes supper vnto the whiche in Gods behalfe I did you all that bee here present and beseche you for the Lorde Iesus Christes sake the ye wyll not refuse to come therto being so louinglye called and bidden of God himself Ye knowe howe grieuouse and vnkynde a thyng it is when a man hathe prepared a ryche feaste decked his table with all kynde of prouisyon so that there lacketh nothyng but the geastes to sitte downe and yet they whyche bee called withoute any cause moste vnthankefullye refuse to come Whyche of you in suche a case woulde not bee moued Who moulde not thynke a greate iniurye and wrong doone vnto hym Wherfore moste dearelye beloued in Chryste take ye good hede leste ye with drawing youre selues from thys holye supper prouoke Goddes indygnacyon agaynste you It is an easye matter for a man to saye I wyll not communicate because I am otherwyse letted with worldlye busines but suche excuses bee not so easelye accepted and allowed before God If anye man saye I am a grieuouse sinner and therefore am afrayde to come wherefore then doe you not repent and amend When God calleth you bee you not ashamed to saye you wyll not come when you should returne to God wyll you excuse youreselfe and saye that you bee not readye Consydre earnestlye with youre selues howe lyttle suche fayned excuse shall auayle beefore God They that refused the feaste in the Gospell beecause they hadde boughte a farme or woulde trye theyr yokes of oxen or beecause they were maryed were not so excused but counted vnwoorthy of the heauenlye feaste I for my parte am here presente and accordyng vnto myne offyce I bydde you in the name of GOD I call you in Chrystes behalfe I exhorte you as you loue youre owne saluacyon that ye wyll bee partakers of thys holye Communyon And as the sonne of God dyd vouchesafe to yelde vp hys soule by deathe vpon the Crosse for youre healthe euen so it is youre duetye to receyue the Communyon together in the remembraunce of hys deathe as he hymselfe commaunded Nowe yf you wyll in nowyse thus dooe considre with youre selues howe greate iniurye you dooe vnto GOD and howe sore punyshemente hangeth ouer youre heades for the same And whereas you offend GOD so fore in refusyng thys holye Banquete I admonyshe exhorte and beeseche you that vnto thys vnkyndenesse ye wyll not adde any more Whyche thyng ye shall dooe yf ye stande by as gasers and lookers on them that dooe communycate and bee no partakers of the same youre selues For what thyng can this bee accoumpted els then a further contempt and vnkindenes vnto God Truely it is a great vnthankefulnes to say nay when ye
Drink ye all of thys for this is my bloud of the newe Testamente which is shed for you and for many for remissyon of sinnes doe thys as oft as ye shall drinke it in remembraunce of me Then shall the Minister first receyue the Communion in bothe kyndes himselfe and nexte delyuer it to other Ministers yf anye be there presēt that they may helpe the chiefe Minister and after to the people in theyr handes kneelyng And when he delyuereth the bread he shall saye Take and eate thys in remembraunce that Christe dyed for thee and fede on him in thy heart by fayth with thankes geuyng And the minister that deliuereth the cup shall saye Drinke this in remembraunce that Christes bloud was shed for thee and be thankefull Then shal the Priest saye the Lordes prayer the people repeating after hym euery peticyon After shal be sayde as foloweth O Lorde and heauenlye father we thy humble seruauntes entierly desyre thy fatherly goodnesse mercyfullye to accepte thys oure Sacrifyce of prayse and thankes geuyng moste besechyng thee to graunte that by the merites and death of thy sonne Iesus Christe and throughe faith in hys bloud we and all thy whole churche may obtayne remissiō of our sinnes and al other benefites of his Passiō And here we offer and prsēt vnto thee O lord our selues our soules and bodies to bee a reasonable holye and lyuely Sacrifice vnto thee humblye besechyng thee that all we whyche bee partakers of thys holye Communion maye bee fulfylled with thy grace and heauenlye benediccion And althoughe we bee vnworthy throughe oure manyfolde synnes to offre vnto thee any sacrifyce yet we beseche thee to accepte thys our bounden duetie and seruice not weyghing our merites but pardonyng oure offences throughe Iesus Christe oure Lord by whom and with whom in the vnitie of the holye ghost all honour and glory bee vnto thee O father almyghtie worlde without ende Amen Or this ALmightie and euerliuing god we most hartely thanke thee for that thou doest vouchesafe to fede vs whyche haue duely receyued these holy misteries with the spirituall foode of the moste precyous body and bloud of thy sonne our Sauyour Iesus Christe and doest assure vs thereby of thy fauoure and goodnesse towarde vs and that we bee verye membres incorporate in thy mistycall bodye whyche is the blessed companye of all faythfull people and bee also heyres through hope of thy euerlastyng kyngdome by the merites of the most precyous deathe and Passyon of thy deare sonne we nowe moste humblye beseche thee heauenlye father so to assiste vs with thy grace that we may continue in that holy felowship and doe all suche good workes as thou hast prepared for vs to walke in throughe Iesus Christe oure Lorde to whom with thee and the holy ghost be all honour and glory worlde without ende Amen Then shal be sayd or song GLorye bee to GOD on hyghe And in earthe peace good wyll towardes menne We prayse thee we blesse thee we woorshyp thee we gloryfy thee we geue thankes to thee for thy great glorye O Lorde GOD heauenly kyng God the father almyghtye O Lorde the only begotten sonne Iusu Chrysse O Lorde God Lame of God sonne of the father that takeste awaye the synnes of the worlde haue mercye vpon vs Thou that takest awaye the synnes of the worlde haue mercye vpon vs. Thou that takeste awaye the sinnes of the worlde receyue our prayer Thou that fittest at the righte hand of God the father haue mercye vpon vs For thou onely arte holy Thou onely are the Lorde Thou onely O Christe with the holy ghost art most highe in the glory of God the father Amen Then the Priest or the Bishop yf he be present shal let them departe with this blessing THe peace of God whiche passeth all vnderstānding kepe your heartes and myndes in the knowledge and loue of God and of his sonne Iesu Christ our Lorde and the blessing of God almightie the father the sonne and the holy ghost bee amongest you and remayne with you alwayes Amen Collectes to be sayd after the Offertorie when there is no Cōmunion euery such daye one And the same maye be sayde also as often as occasion shall serue after the Collectes eyther of Morning and Euening prayer Communion or Letany by the discrecion of the Minister ASsist vs mercifully O Lorde in these our supplicacions and prayers and dispose the waye of thy seruauntes towarde the attaynemente of euerlastyng saluacyon that among all the chaunges and chaunces of this mortall lyfe they maye euer be defended by thy moste gracyous and ready helpe throughe Christe oure Lorde Amen O Almightie Lorde and euerliuyng God vouchsafe we beeseche thee to directe sanctifye and gouerne bothe oure heartes and bodies in the wayes of thy lawes and in the workes of thy commaundemētes that through thy most mightie proteccyon both here and euer we maye be preserued in body and soule through our Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christe Amen GRaunt we beseche thee almightie god that the wordes whiche we haue hearde this daye with oure outwarde eares may throughe thy grace bee so grafted inwardlye in oure heartes that they may bryng for the in vs the fruite of good lyuing to the honour and prayse of thy name throughe Iesus Christe oure Lorde Amen PReuent vs O Lorde in all our doinges with thy moste gracyous fauoure and further vs with thy contynuall helpe that in all oure workes begon continued and ended in thee we maye glorifye thy holy name and fynally by thy mercye obtayne euerlastyng lyfe throughe Iesus Chryste oure Lorde Amen ALmightye God the fountayne of all wysdome whyche knowest our necessities before we aske and oure ignoraunce in asking we beseche thee to haue compassyon vpon our infirmities and those thinges whiche for our vnworthinesse we dare not and for oure blindnes we cannot aske vouchesafe to geue vs for the worthynesse of thy sonne Iesus Christe oure Lourde Amen ALmightie God whiche haste promised to heare the peticyons of them that aske in thy sonnes name we beeseche thee mercifully to enclyne thyne eares to vs that haue made nowe oure prayers and supplycacyons vnto thee and graunte that those thynges whiche we faithfully asked accordyng to the wyll may effectually bee obteyned to the reliefe of oure necessitie and to the settyng foorth of thy glorye through Iesus Christe our Lorde Amen Vpon the holy dayes yf there be no Communion shal be sayde al that is appoynted at the Communiō vntill the ende of the Homelye concludyng with the generall prayer for the whole state of Christes church militant here in earth one or moe of these Collectes beefore rehearsed as occasion shall serue And there shal be no celebracion of the Lordes supper except there bee a good noumbre to commnunicate with the priest according to his discrecyon And yf there bee not aboue twentye persons in the Parishe of discrecion to receiue Communion yet there shal be no Communiō except foure or three at the
The cōmunion of Sainctes The forgeuenes of sinnes The resurreccion of the body And the lyfe euerlastyng Amen Question What doest thou chiefllye learne in these articles of thy beliefe Aunswere Fyrst I learne to beleue in god the father who hath made me and al the worlde Secondly in God the sonne who hath redemed me and al mankynde Thirdly in god the holy gost who sanctifieth me and al the elect people of god Question You sayd that your godfathers and godmothers dyd promise for you that you should kepe gods commaundementes Tell me howe many there be Aunswere Tenne Question Which be they Aunswere THesame which God spake in the .xx. Chapiter of Exodus saying I am the Lorde thy god whyche haue broughte thee out of the lande of Egipte out of the house of bondage i. Thou shalt haue none other Goddes but me ii Thou shalte not make to thy selfe any grauen ymage nor the likenes of any thyng that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath nor in the water vnder the earth Thou shalte not bowe downe to them nor worshippe them for I the Lord thy god am a gelous god and visite the synnes of the fathers vpon the childrē vnto the thyrd and fourth generacion of them that hate me and shew mercy vnto thousandes in thē that loue me kepe my commaundementes iii. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy god in vayne for the lord wil not hold him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne iiii Remember thou kepe holy the Sabboth day Sixe dayes shalt thou laboure doe al that thou hast to doe but the seuenth daye is the Sabboth of the Lorde thy God In it thou shalte doe no maner of woorke thou and thy sonne and thy daughter thy man seruaunte and thy mayde seruaunte thy Cattell and the straunger that is wythin thy gates for in sixe dayes the Lorde made heauen and earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day Wherefore the Lorde blessed the seuenth daye and hallowed it v. Honour thy father and thy mother that thy daies may be long in the lande whiche the Lorde thy god geueth thee vi Thou shalt doe no murther vii Thou shalt not commit adultery viii Thou shalt not steale ix Thou shalt not beare false witnes agaist thi neighbour x. Thou shalte not coueite thy neyghbours house thou shalte not coueite thy neighbours wyfe nor hys seruaunte nor his maid nor his oxe nor his asse nor any thing that is his Question What dooeste thou chieflye learne by these commaundementes Aunswere I learne two thinges My duetie towardes god and my duetye towardes my neighboure Question What is thy duetie towardes God Aunswere My duetie towardes God is to beleue in hym to feare hym and to loue hym with all my hearte wyth all my mynde with all my soule and with all my strength To worshyppe hym To geue him thankes To put my whole trust in hym To call vpon hym To honoure his holy name and his word and to serue hym truly al the dayes of my life Question What is thy duetie towardes thy neighbour Aunswere My duetie towardes my neighbour is to loue him as my selfe And to doe to al men as I would they should doe vnto me To loue honoure and succoure my father and mother To honoure and obey the kyng and hys ministers To submitte my selfe to al my gouernours teachers spiritual Pastours and Maisters To ordre my self lowly and reuerētly to all my betters To hurte no body by worde nor dede To be true and iust in al my dealyng To beare no malyce nor hatred in my heart To kepe my handes from picking and stealing and my tongue from euill speaking lying and slaundering To kepe my body in temperaunce sobernesse and chastitie Not to couet nor desyre other mennes goodes But learne and labour truly to geat mine own liuing and to do my duetie in that state of life vnto which it shal please God to call me Question My good childe knowe thys that thou art not hable to doe these thynges of thy self nor to walke in the cōmaundemētes of God and to serue him without hys special grace whiche thou muste learne at al tymes to call for by diligent prayer Let me heare therfore if thou canst sate the Lordes prayer Aunswere OVr father whiche art in heauen hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy wyll be done wyll be done in earth as it is in heauē Geue vs this day our dayly bread And forgeue vs oure trespasses as we forgeue them that trespasse against vs. And leade vs not in to temptacion But deliuer vs from euil Amen Question What desirest thou of God in thys prayer Aunswere I desyre my Lorde God our heauenly father who is the geuer of all goodnes to sende his grace vnto me and to all people that we maye worship him serue hym and obey him as we oughte to doe And I pray vnto God that he wyll sende vs all thynges that be nedeful both for our soules and bodyes And that he will be mercifull vnto vs and forgeue vs oure synnes and that it will please hym to saue and defende vs in al daungers gostly and bodely And that he wil kepe vs from all synne and wickednes and from our gostly enemy and from euerlastyng death And this I trust he wil doe of his mercye and goodnesse throughe our Lorde Iesu Christ And therfore I saye Amen So be it So sone as the children can saye in their mother tong the Articles of the faith the Lordes praier the .x. commaundementes and also can aunswere to suche questions of this shorte Cathechisme as the Bishop or suche as he shall appoynte shal by his discrecion appose them in then shal they be brought to the Bisshoppe by one that shal be his Godfather or Godmother that euery chylde maye haue a witnesse of his confirmacion And the Bisshoppe shall confyrme them on thys wyse ¶ Confirmacion Our helpe is in the name of the Lorde Aunswere Which hath made both heauen and earth Minister Blessed is the name of the Lorde Aunswere Hencefurth world without ende Minister Lorde heare our prayer Aunswere And let our crye come to thee ¶ Let vs praye ALmightie euerliuyng God who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these thy seruaūtes by water and the holy gost and hast geuen vnto them forgeuenes of al their synnes strengthen them we beseche thee O lord with the holy gost the comforter and dayly encrease in them thy manifolde giftes of grace the spirite of wysedome and vnderstanding the spirite of counsel and gostely strength the spirite of knowledge and true godlynesse and fulfyll them O Lorde with the spirite of thy holy feare Amen Then the Bisshop shal lay hys hande vpon euery child seuerally saying Defende O Lorde this childe with thy heauenlye grace that he may continue thyne for euer and dayly encrease in thy holy spirite more and more vntil he come vnto thy euerlastyng kyngdome Amen Then shall
mediatour and redemer Amen ¶ The thankes geuing of weomen after childe birth commonly called the Churching of women The woman shall come into the churche and there shall knele down in some conuenient place nigh vnto the place where the Table standeth and the Priest standing by her shall saye these wordes or such like as the case shall require FOrasmuch as it hath pleased almighty god of his goodnes to geue you safe deliueraunce and hath preserued you in the great daunger of childbirth ye shall therfore geue hearty thankes vnto God and praye ¶ Then shall the Priest say this Psalme I Haue lyfted vp myne eyes vnto the hylles from whence cometh my helpe My helpe cometh euen from the Lord whiche hath made heauen and earth He will not suffre thy foote to be moued and he that kepeth thee will not slepe Behold he that kepeth Israel shall neither flumber nor slepe The lord himself is thy keper the lorde is thy defence vpon thy right hande So that the Sunne shal not burne thee by daye neither the Moone by night The Lord shall preserue thee from al euill yea it is euen he that shal kepe thy soule The Lorde shall preserue thy going out and thy coming in from this time furth for euermore Glory be to the father and to the sonne c As it was in the beginning is nowe c. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. ¶ Our father which art in heauen c. And leade vs not into temptacion Aunswere But deliuer vs from euill Amen Priest O Lord saue this woman thy seruaunt Aunswere Which putteth her trust in thee Priest Be thou to her a strong tower Aunswere From the face of her enemy Priest Lord heare our prayer Aunswere And let our crye come vnto thee Priest ¶ Let vs pray O Almighty god which hast deliuered this woman thy seruaunt from the great payn peril of childe byrth Graunt we beseche thee most merciful father that she through thy helpe maye both faithfully liue walke in her vocacion according to thy will in this life present And also maye be partaker of euerlasting glori in the life to come through Iesus Christ our lord Amē ¶ The woman that cometh to geue her thankes must offre accustomed offeringes and if there be a Communion it is conuenient that she receiue the holy Communion ¶ A Comminacion against synners with certayne prayers to be vsed dyuerse tymes in the yere ¶ After Morning prayer the people beyng called together by the rynging of a bell and assembled in the Churche the Englishe Letany shal be sayde after the accustomed maner whiche ended the Priest shall goe into the pulpitte and saye thus BRethren in the primatiue Churche there was a godly discipline that at the begynning of Lent suche persones as were notorious sinners were put to open penaunce punished in thys world that their soules myght bee saued in the daye of the Lord. And that others admonished by their exaumple might be more afrayd to offēd In the stede whereof vntyll the sayd discipline may be restored agayn whiche thyng is much to be wisshed it is thought good that at thys tyme in your presence should be read the generall sentences of God cursyng against impenitent sinners gathered out of the .xxvii. Chapter of Deuteronomie and other places of scripture And that ye shoulde aunswere to euery sentence Amen To thintēt that you being admonished of the great indignacion of god against sinners may the rather be called to earnest and true repentaunce and may walke more warely in these daungerous daies fleing from such vices for the which ye affirme with your own mouthes the curse of God to be due Cursed is the man that maketh any carued or molten ymage an abhominacion to the Lorde the woorke of the handes of the craftes man and putteth it in a secrete place to worship it And the people shall aunswere and saye Amen Ministre Cursed is he that curseth his father and mother Aunswere Amen Minister Cursed is he that remoueth awaye the marke of hys neighbours land Aunswere Amen Minister Cursed is he that maketh the blynde to goe out of hys waye Aunswere Amen Minister Cursed is he that letteth in iudgement the right of the straunger of them that be fatherles and of wiedowes Aunswere Amen Minister Cursed is he that smiteth his neighbour secretely Aunswere Amen Minister Cursed is he that lyeth with his neighbours wife Aunswere Amen Minister Cursed is he that taketh reward to slay the soule of innocent bloud Aunswere Amen Minister Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man and taketh manne for hys defence and in hys hearte goeth from the Lorde Aunswere Amen Ministre Cursed are the vnmercifull the fornicatours and adulterers and the couetous persones the woorshippers of ymages slaunderers drunkardes and extorcioners Aunswere Amen The Minister NOw seeyng that all they be accursed as the Prophete Dauid beareth witnes psa cxviii which doe erre go a stray from the commaundementes of god let vs remembryng the dreadfull iudgement hangyng ouer oure heades and beeyng alwayes at hande returne vnto oure Lorde God with all contricion and mekenesse of heart bewayling and lamentyng our sinful lyfe knowledgeing and confessing our offences and seking to bryng furth worthy fruites of penaunce Math. iii For nowe is the Axe put vnto the roote of the trees so that euery tree which bryngeth not furth good fruite is hewen downe and cast into the fyre Hebre. x. It is a fearefull thyng to fal into the handes of the liuyng god Psalm x he shall powre downe rayn vpon the sinners snares fyre brimstone storme and tempest thys shal be theyr porcion to drynke Esa xxvi For loe the lord is comen out of hys place to visyte the wickednes of suche as dwell vpon the earthe Mala. iii But who may abide the day of his comyng who shal be able to endure when he appeareth Hys fanne is in his hand and he wyll pourge hys floore and gather hys wheate into the barne Math. iii but he wyll burne the chaffe with vnquencheable fyre The day of the lord cometh as a these vpon the night and when men shall saye peace and all thynges are safe i. Tess v. then shall sodeynlye destruccion come vpon them as sorowe cometh vpon a woman trauayling with childe Roma ii and they shall not escape then shall appeare the wrath of God in the day of vēgeaunce whiche obstinate sinners through the stubbernes of theyr heart haue heaped vnto themselfe whiche despysed the goodnesse pacience and long sufferaunce of God Prouer. i when he called them continually to repentaunce Then shall they call vpon me sayth the lord but I wyll not heare they shall seke me early but they shal not fynde me that because they hated knowledge and receyued not the feare of the Lord but abhorred my counsayle and despysed my correccyon
wrath thinkest vpon mercye Spare thy people good Lorde spare them and lette not thy herytage bee brought to confusion heare vs O lord for thy mercy is great and after the multytude of thy mercyes loke vpon vs. Here endeth the boke of common praier The psalter or Psalmes of Dauid after the trāslacion of the greate Byble poynted as it shal be sayed or song in Churches ☞ ¶ The Psalmes of Dauid Beatus vir qui non abiit psal i. Mornīg prayer BLessed is that man that hath not walked in the coūsel of the vngodly nor stande in the way of sinners and hath not sit in the seate of the scornefull But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law wil he exercyse hymselfe daye and night And he shall be like a tree planted by the water side that wil bryng furth hys fruite in due season Hys leafe also shall not wyther and loke whatsoeuer he doeth it shall prosper As for the vngodly it is not so with them but they are lyke the chaffe which the wind scattereth awaye from the face of the earth Therefore the vngodly shall not bee hable to stande in the iudgement neither the sinners in the congregacyon of the ryghteous But the lord knoweth the way of the righteous and the way of the vngodly shall peryshe Quare fremuerunt gentes psal ii WHy doe the Heathen so furiously rage together and why doe the people ymagine a vayne thyng The kinges of the earth stande vp and the rulers take counsayle together agaynst the Lord and against hys annoynted Let vs breake their bandes a sunder and cast away their cordes from vs. He that dwelleth in heauen shal laugh them to scorne the lord shall haue them in derision Then shall he speake vnto them in his wrath and vexe them in hys sore displeasure Yet haue I set my kyng vpon my holy hyll of Syon I wil preache the lawe wherof the lord hath sayed vnto me thou art my sonne this day haue I begotten thee Desyre of me and I shall geue thee the heathen for thine enheritaunce and the vttermost part of the earth for thy possession Thou shalt bruise them with a rodde of yron and breake them in pieces lyke a potters bessell Be wyse now therefore O ye kynges be learned ye that are iudges of the earth Serue the Lorde in feare and reioyce vnto hym wyth reuerence Kisse the sonne left he be angry and so ye perishe from the ryght waye if his wrath be kiendled yea but a little blessed are all they that put theyr trust in hym Domine quid multiplicati psal iii. LOrd how are they encreased that trouble me many are they that ryse aganst me Many one there be that say of my soule there is no helpe for hym in hys God But thou O Lord art my defendour thou art my worship and the lifter vp of my head I did call vpon the Lord with my voice and he heard me out of hys holy hyll I layed me downe and slepte and rose vp agayne for the Lord sustayned me I wil not be afraid of ten thousandes of people that haue set themselues against me round about Vp Lorde and helpe me O my God for thou smytest all myne enemyes vpon the cheke bone thou haste broken the teeth of the vngodly Saluacion belongeth vnto the Lord and thy blessing is vpon the people Cum inuocarem psal iiii HEare me when I call O God of my ryghteousnesse thou haste set me at libertie when I was in trouble haue mercye vpon me and hearken vnto my prayer O ye sonnes of men how long wyll ye blaspheme myne honor and haue suche pleasure in vanitie and seeke after leasyng Knowe thys also that the Lorde hath chosen to hymselfe the man that is godlye when I call vpon the Lorde he wil heare me Stande in awe and synne not comen with youre owne hearte and in your chambre and be styll Offre the sacrifice of righteousnesse and put your truste in the Lorde There bee manye that wyll saye who wyll shewe vs any good LORD lyfte thou vp the lyghte of thy countenaunce vpon vs. Thou haste putte gladnes in my hearte sence the tyme that theyr corne and wyne and oyle increased I wyll laye me downe in peace and take my reste for it is thou Lorde only that makest me dwel in safetie Verba mea auribus Psalm v. POnder my wordes O LORDE consyder my meditacyon O herken thou vnto the voyce of my callyng my kyng and my God for vnto thee wyl I make my prayer My voyce shalte thou heare betimes O Lorde earlye in the mornyng wyll I directe my prayer vnto thee and wyll loke vp For thou arte the God that hathe no pleasure in wickednesse neyther shall any euyll dwell with thee Suche as bee foolyshe shall not stande in thy syghte for thou hatest all them that worke vanitie Thou shalte destroye them that speake leasyng the Lorde wyll abhorre bothe the bloudthirstye and deceytfull man But as for me I wyll come into thy house euen vpon the multitude of thy mercye and in thy feare wyl I worshyp towarde thy holy temple Leade me O lord in thy righteousnes because of myne enemies make thy waye playne before my face For there is no faithfulnes in his mouth theyr inwarde partes are very wickednes Theyr throte is an open sepulchre they flatter with their tongue Destroye thou them O God let them peryshe throughe theyr owne ymaginacyons cast them out in the multitude of theyr vngodlynes for they haue rebelled agaynst thee And let all them that put theyr truste in thee reioyce they shall euer be geuyng of thankes because thou defendest thē they that loue thy name shal be ioyefull in thee For thou Lorde wylte geue thy blessyng vnto the ryghteous and with thy fauourable kyndnesse wilt thou defend him as with a shielde Domine ne in furore Psalm vi Euening prayer O Lorde rebuke me not in thyne indignacion neyther chasten me in thy displeasure Haue mercy vpon me O Lord for I am weake O Lorde heale me for my bones are vexed My soule is also sore troubled but Lorde howe long wilte thou punishe me Turne thee O Lorde and delyuer my soule oh saue me for thy mercies sake For in death no man remembreth thee and who wil geue thee thankes in the pitte I am wearye of my gronyng euery night washe I my bedde and water my couche with my teares My beautie is gone for verye trouble and worne awaye because of all my enemies Awaye fro me all yet that worke vanitie for the Lorde hath hearde the voyce of my wepyng The Lorde hath hearde my peticyon the Lorde wyll receyue my prayer All myne enemyes shall bee confounded and sore vexed they shal be turned backe and put to shame sodeynly Domine deus meus psalm vii O Lorde my God in thee haue I put my trust saue me from all them that persecute me and delyuer me Left he
deuoure my soule lyke a Lion and teare it in pieces whyle there is none to helpe Oh Lorde my God yf I haue done any suche thyng or yf there be any wickednes in my handes Yf I haue rewarded euyll vnto hym that dealte frendlye with me yea I haue delyuered hym that withoute anye cause is myne enemye Then let myne enemie persecute my soule and take me yea let hym treade my lyfe downe vpon the earthe and laye myne honour in the duste Stande vp O Lorde in thy wrath and lyfte vp thy selfe because of the indignacions of myne enemies aryse vp for me in the iudgement that thou hast commaunded And so shall the congregacion of the people come aboute thee for theyr sakes therefore lyft vp thy selfe agayne The Lord shall iudge the people geue sentence with me O Lord accordyng to my righteousnesse and accordyng to the innocencie that is in me Oh let the wickednesse of the vngodly come to an ende but guyde thou the iuste For the righteous god trieth the very heartes and reines My helpe cometh of God which preserueth them that are true of heart God is a righteous iudge strong and paciente and God is prouoked euery daye Yf a man will not turne he will wheat his sweorde he hath bent hys bowe and made it ready He hath prepared for him the instrumentes of deathe he ordeyneth his arrowes agaynst the persecutours Beholde he trauayleth with mischiefe he hathe conceyued sorow and brought foorth vngodlynes He hath grauen and digged vp a pytte and is fallen hym selfe into the destruccion that he made for other For hys trauayle shall come vpon hys owne head and hys wickednesse shall fall vpon his owne pate I wyll geue thankes vnto the Lorde accordyng to hys ryghteousnesse and wyll prayse the name of the Lorde the moste hyghest Domine dominus noster Psalm viii O Lorde oure gouernour how excellent is thy name in all the worlde thou that haste sette thy glorye aboue the heauens Oute of the mouth of very babes and suckelynges haste thou ordeyned strength because of thyne enemyes that thou mightest styll the enemie and the auenger For I wyll consydre thy heauens euen the worke of thy fyngers the Moone and the sterres whyche thou hast ordeyned What is man that thou arte mindefull of hym and the sonne of man that thou vysitest hym Thou madest hym lower then the Aungels to crowne hym with glory and worship Thou makest hym to haue dominion of the woorkes of thy handes and thou hast put all thinges in subieccyon vnder hys feete All shepe and oxen yea and the beastes of the fielde The foules of the ayre and the fishe of the sea and whatsoeuer walketh thorow the pathes of the seas O Lorde oure gouernour howe excellent is thy name in all the worlde Confitebor tibi Psalm ix Morning prayer I Wyll geue thankes vnto thee O LORD with my whole hearte I wyll speake of all thy marueylous woorkes I wyll be gladde and reioyce in thee yea my songes wil I make of thy name O thou most hyest Whyle myne enemies are drieuen backe they shall fall and peryshe at thy presence For thou haste mainteyned my right and my cause thou arte sette in the throne that iudgest ryghte Thou haste rebuked the Heathen and destroyed the vngodly thou haste put out theyr name for euer and euer O thou enemye destruccions are come to a perpetuall ende euen as the cyties whiche thou haste destroyed theyr memoriall is perished with them But the Lorde shall endure for euer he hathe also prepared hys seate for iudgement For he shall iudge the worlde in righteousnesse and minister true iudgement vnto the people The Lorde also wyll bee a defence for the oppressed euen a refuge in due tyme of trouble And they that knowe thy name wyll putte theyr truste in thee for thou Lorde haste neuer fayled them that seeke thee O prayse the Lorde whyche dwelleth in Sion shewe the people of his doynges For when he maketh inquisicion for bloud he remembreth them and forgeatteth not the complaynt of the poore Haue mercye vpon me O Lorde consydre the trouble whiche I suffre of them that hate me thou that lyftest me vp from the gates of death That I maye shewe all thy prayses within the portes of the daughter of Syon I wyll reioyce in thy saluacyon The Heathen are sunken downe in the pytte that they made in the same nette whiche they hydde priuely is theyr owne foote taken The Lorde is knowen to execute iudgement the vngodly is trapped in the woorke of hys owne handes The wicked shal be turned vnto hell and all the people that forgeat God For the poore shall not bee alwaye forgotten the pacyent abiding of the meke shall not perishe for euer Vp Lorde and let not man haue the vpper hand let the Heathen be iudged in thy syghte Putte them in feare O Lorde that the Heathen maye knowe them selues to bee but men Vt quid domine psalm x. WHy standest thou so farre of O Lorde and hydest thy face in the nedefull tyme of trouble The vngodly for his owne luste doeth persecute the poore let them be taken in the craftye wilines that they haue ymagined For the vngodly hathe made boaste of his owne heartes desyre and speaketh good of the couetouse whom God abhorreth The vngodlye is so proude that he careth not for God neyther is God in all hys thoughtes Hys wayes are alwaye greuouse thy iudgementes are farre aboue oute of hys syghte and therefore defyeth he all hys enemyes For he hath sayd in his heart tushe I shall neuer be cast downe there shall no harme happen vnto me His mouthe is full of cursyng and disceyte and fraude vnder his tongue is vngodlines and vanitie He sitteth lurkyng in the theuishe corners of the stretes and priuely in his lurkyng dennes dothe he murther the innocent hys eyes are sette agaynst the poore For he lyeth wayting secretelye euen as a Lion lurketh he in hys denne that he maye rauishe the poore He doeth rauishe the poore when he geatteth him into his nette He falleth downe and humbleth hym selfe that the congregcyon of the poore maye fall into the hande of hys captaynes He hathe sayde in his hearte tushe God hathe forgotten he hydeth awaye his face and he wyll neuer see it Aryse O Lord God and lyft vp thyne hand forgeat not the poore Wherefore shoulde the wicked blaspheme God whyle he doeth say in hys hearte tushe thou God carest not for it Surely thou haste seen it for thou beholdeste vngodlynesse and wrong That thou mayest take the matter into thy hande the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee for thou arte the helper of the frendlesse Breake thou the power of the vngodlye and malicyous take awaye his vngodlynes and thou shalt fynde none The Lorde is kyng for euer and euer and the Heathen are perished out of the lande Lord thou haste hearde the desyre of the poore thou preparest theyr heart and thyne eare harkened
thereto To helpe the fatherlesse and poore vnto theyr ryghte that the manne of the earthe bee no more exalted agaynste them In domino confido psalm xi IN the Lorde putte I my truste howe saye ye then to my soule that she shoulde flye as byrde vnto the hyll For loe the vngodly bende theyr bowe and make readye theyr arrowes within the quyuer that they maye prieuelye shoote at them whiche are true of heart For the foundacions wyll be caste downe and what hath the righteous done The Lorde is in hys holy Temple the Lordes seate is in heauen His eyes consydre the poore and his eye liddes tryeth the children of men The LORDE aloweth the ryghteous but the vngodly and hym that delighteth in wickednesse dooeth hys soule abhorre Vpon the vngodlye he shall rayne snares fyre and brimstone storme and tempeste thys shal bee theyr porcyon to drynke For the righteous Lorde loueth righteousnes hys countenaunce wyll beholde the thyng that is iuste Saluum me fac domine Psalm xii Euening prayer HElpe me Lorde for there is not on godly manne lefte for the faythfull are minished from among the chyldren of men They talke of vanitie euerye one with hys neyghboure they doe but flatter with theyr lippes and dissemble in theyr double hearte The Lorde shall roote out all disceytfull lippes and the tongue that speaketh proude thynges Whyche haue sayde with oure tongue wyll we preuayle we are they that ought to speake who is Lord ouer vs Nowe for the coumforteles troubles sake of the nedye because of the depe sighing of the poore I wyll vp sayeth the Lorde and will helpe euerye one from hym that swelleth agaynste hym and wyll sette them at reste The wordes of the Lorde are pure woordes euen as the siluer whych from earth is tryed and purifyed seuen times in the fyre Thou shalte kepe them O Lorde thou shalte preserue hym from thys generacyon for euer The vngodlye walke on euery syde when they are exalted the chyldren of men are put to rebuke Vsquequo domine Psalm xiii Howe long wylt thou forgeat me O Lorde for euer how long wilt thou hyde thy face from me Howe long shall I seeke counsayle in my soule and bee so vexed in my hearte howe long shall myne enemyes triumphe ouer me Consydre and heare me Lorde my God lighten myne eyes that I slepe not in death Leste myne enemie saye I haue preuayled agaynste him for yf I bee caste downe they that trouble me wyll reioyce at it But my truste is in thy mercye and my hearte is ioyeful in thy saluacion I wyll syng of the Lord because he hath delte so louingly with me yea I wyll prayse the name of the Lorde the moste hygheste Dixit incipiens psal xiiii THe foole hath sayd in hys heart there is no God They are corrupte and become abhominable in their doinges there is not one that doeth good no not one The Lord loked down from heauen vpon the children of men to see if there were any that woulde vnderstande and seke after God But they are al gone out of the way they are altogether become abhominable there is none that doeth good no not one Theyr throte is an open sepulchre with their tongues they haue deceiued the person of aspes is vnder their lippes Their mouth is ful of cursyng and bitternesse their feete are swyfte to shedde bloude Destruccion and vnhappinesse is in their wayes and the way of peace haue they not knowen there is no feare of god before theyr eyes Haue they no knowledge that they are all such workers of mischiefe eating vp my people as it were bread And call not vpon the Lorde there were they brought in great fear euen where no feare was for God is in the generacion of the righteous As for you ye haue made a mocke at the counsayle of the poore because he putteth hys trust in the Lorde Who shall geue saluacion vnto Israel out of Sion whē the Lord turneth the captiuitie of his people then shal Iacob reioyce and Israel shal be glad Domine quis habitabit psal xv Morning prayer Lorde who shall dwel in thy tabernacle who shal rest vpon thy holy hyll Euen he that leadeth an vncorrupte life and doeth the thing which is ryght and speaketh the trueth from hys hearte He that hath vsed no deceste in hys tongue nor done euill to hys neyghbours and hath not slaundered hys neyghbours He that setteth not by hymselfe but is lowlye in hys own eyes and maketh much of them that feare the Lorde He that sweareth vnto his neigbboure and dysapoynteth hym not though it were to his own hinderaunce He that hath not geuen his money vpon vsury nor takē rewarde against the innocent Whoso doth these thynges shall neuer fall Conserua me domine psal xvi PReserue me O god for in thee haue I put my trust O my soule thou hast said vnto the Lord thou art my god my goodes are nothing vnto thee At my delight are vpon the Saintes that are in the earth and vpon suche as excell in vertue But they that runne after another God shal haue great trouble Their drinke offeringes of bloud will not I offer neyther make mencion of their names within my lyppes The lord himselfe is the porcion of mine enheritaunce and of my cup thou shalt mayntayne my lot The lot is fallen vnto me in a fayre grounde yea I haue a goodly heritage I wil thanke the Lord for geuing me warning my reines also chasten me in the night season I haue set god alwayes before me for he is on my right hand therfore I shall not fall Wherefore my heart was glad and my glory reioysed my fleshe also shall rest in hope For why thou shalte not leaue my soule in hell neyther shalt thou suffre thy holy one to see corrupcion Thou shalt shewe me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnes of ioye and at thy right hande there is pleasure for euermore Exaudi domine iusticiam psal xvii HEeare the right O lord consider my complaint and hearken vnto my prayer that goeth not out of fained lyppes Let my sentence come forth from thy presence and let thyne eyes loke vpon the thyng that is equall Thou hast proued and visited myne hearte in the nyghte season thou hast tried me and shal finde no wickednes in me for I am vtterlye purposed that my mouth shall not offende Because of mennes workes that are done agaynste the wordes of thy lyppes I haue kepte me from the wayes of the destroyer O hold thou vp my goynges in thy pathes that my fotesteppes slyp not I haue called vpon thee O god for thou shalte heare me incline thine eare to me and hearken vnto my wordes Shewe thy marueilous louing kindnes thou that art the sauioure of them that trust in thee from suche as resiste thy ryght hande kepe me as the apple of an eye hide me vnder the shadow of thy wynges From the vngodly that
trouble me myne enemies compasse me rounde aboute to take awaye my soule They are inclosed in their owne fatte and theyr mouth speaketh proude thynges They lye waiting in out may on euery side turning their eyes down to the grounde Like as a lion that is gredy of his pray and as it were a Lions whelpe lurkyng in secrete places Vp Lord disapoint him and cast hym down delyuer my soule from the vngodly which is a sweorde of thyne From the men of thy hand O Lord from the men I saye and from the euill worlde whiche haue their porcion in this lyfe whose bellyes thou fyllest with thy hydde treasure They haue children at their desyre and leaue the reste of their substaunce for their babes But as for me I wyll beholde thy presence in righteousnes and when I awake vp after thy lykenes I shal be satisfied with it Diligain te domine psal xviii Euening prayer I Wil loue thee O Lord my strength the Lord is my stony rocke and my defence my sauioure my God and my might in whom I wil trust my buckeler the horne also of my saluacion and my refuge I wil call vpon the Lord which is worthy to be praysed so shall I be safe fro myne enemyes The sorowes of death compassed me and the ouerflowinges of vngodlynes made me afrayde The paines of hell came about me the snares of death ouertoke me In my trouble wil I cal vpon the Lord and complayne vnto my God So shall he heare my voyce out of hys holy temple and my complaint shall come before hym it shall entre euen into hys eares The earth trembled and quaked the very foundacyons also of the hilles shoke and were remoued because he was wroth There went a smoke oute of his presence a consuming fyre out of hys mouth so that coles were kindled at it He bowed the heauens also and came downe and it was darke vnder hys feete He roade vpon the Cherubins and dyd flye he came flying vpon the winges of the wynde He made darkenes his secrete place his pauilion rounde aboute hym with darke water and thicke cloudes to couer hym At the brightnesse of hys presence hys cloudes remoued hayle stones and coles of fyre The Lorde also thundred oute of heauen and the highest gaue hys thunder hayle stones and coles of fyre He sent out hys arowes and scattred them he cast forth lygh enynges and destroyed them The springes of waters were seen and the foundacyons of the rounde worlde were dyscouered at thy chydyng O Lorde at the blastyng of the breath of thy displeasure He shall sende down from the high to fetche me and shall take me out of many waters He shall deliuer me from my strongest enemye and from them which hate me for they are to mightie for me They preuented me in the daye of my trouble but the lord was my vpholder He broughte me foorth also into a place of libertye he brought me forth euen because he had a fauoure vnto me The Lord shal rewarde me after my righteous dealyng according to the clennes of my hādes shal he recompence me Because I haue kepte the wayes of the Lorde and haue not forsaken my god as the wycked doeth For I haue an eye vnto all hys lawes and wil not caste out hys commaundementes from me I was also vncorrupte beefore hym and eschewed myne owne wyckednesse Therfore shall the Lord rewarde me after my righteous dealyng and according vnto the clennesse of my handes in hys eye syghte With the holy thou shalt be holy and with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect With the cleane thou shalt be cleane and with the froward thou shalt learne frowardnes For thou shalte saue the people that are in aduersitie and shalt bryng down the high lokes of the proude Thou also shalt lyght my Candle the lorde my god shall make my darkenes to be lyght For in thee I shall discomforte an hoste of men and wyth the helpe of my god I shall leape ouer the wall The way of god is an vnderfiled way the word of the lord also is tried in the fier he is the defender of al them that put their trust in hym For who is god but the Lord or who hath any strength except our God It is God that gyrdeth me wyth strength of warre and maketh my waye perfect He maketh my fete like hartes fete setteth me vp on high He teacheth my handes to fighte and mine armes shall breake euen a bowe of stele Thou hast geuen me the defence of thy saluacion thy right hande also shall holde me vp thy louing correccion shal make me great Thou shalt make roume inough vnder me for to goe that my fote steppes shall not slyde I will folowe vpon myne enemyes and ouertake them neyther wyl I turne agayne tyl I haue destroyed them I will smite them that they shall not be hable to stande but fall vnder my feete Thou hast girded me with strength vnto the battail thou shalt throwe downe myne enemyes vnder me Thou hast made mine enemies also to turne their backes vpon me and I shal destroye them that hate me They shall crye but there shall be none to helpe them yea euen vnto the Lord shal they crye but he shal not heare thē I will beate them as small as the dust before the wynde I wyll cast them out as the claye in the stretes Thou shalt deliuer me from the striuinges of the people and thou shalt make me the head of the heathen A people whom I haue not knowen shall serue me Assone as they heare of me they shall obeye me but the straunge children shall dissemble with me The straunge children shal faile and be afraid out of their prisons The Lorde lyueth and blessed bee my strong helper and praysed be the God of my saluacion Euen the god which seeth that I be auenged subdueth the people vnto me It is he that deliuereth me from my cruell enemyes and setteth me vp aboue mine aduersaryes thou shalt rydde me from the wycked man For this cause I wil geue thankes vnto thee O lorde emong the Gentiles and syng prayses vnto thy name Great prosperitie geueth he vnto his king and sheweth louing kindnes vnto Dauid his annointed and vnto his sede for euermore Celi enarrant gloriam dei psal xix Mornīg prayer THe heauens declare the glorye of God and the fyrmament sheweth his handy woorke One day telleth another and one night certifyeth another There is neither speche nor language but theyr voyces are heard among them Theyr sounde is gone oute into all landes and theyr woordes into the endes of the worlde In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sunne which cometh furth as a brydegrome out of hys chaumbre and reioyseth as a Gyant to runne hys course It goeth furth from the vttermost part of the heauen runneth about vnto the ende of it agayne and there is nothing hid from the heate therof The lawe of
seate of thy holy Temple O plucke me not awaye neyther destroy me with the vngodly and wycked doers whyche speake frendlye to theyr neighbours but imagine mischiefe in their heartes Reward them accordyng to their dedes and accordyng to the wickednes of their owne inuencions Recompence them after the worke of their handes paye them that they haue deserued For they regarde not in their mind the workes of the lord nor the operaciō of his handes therfore shal he breake them downe and not build them vp Praised be the lord for he hath heard the voice of my humble peticions The Lorde is my strength and my shield my hearte hath trusted in hym and I am holpē therefore my heart daunceth for ioye and in my song will I prayse hym The lord is their strength and he is the wholesome defence of hys annoynted O saue thy people and geue thy blessyng vnto thine enheritaunce fede them and set them vp for euer Afferte domino psal xxix BRing vnto the Lorde O ye mightye bring young Rammes vnto the Lorde ascribe vnto the Lorde worship and strength Geue the lord the honour due vnto hys name worshyp the lord with holy worship It is the Lorde that commaundeth the waters it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder It is the Lorde that ruleth the sea the voyce of the lorde is mightye in operacion the voyce of the Lorde is a gloryous voyce The voice of the Lorde breaketh the Cedre trees yea the lord breaketh the Cedres of Libanus He made them also to skip lyke a calfe Libanus also and Syrion like a young vnicorne The voyce of the Lorde deuydeth the flames of fyre the voice of the lorde shaketh the wyldernesse yea the lorde shaketh the wyldernes of Cades The voice of the lord maketh the Hindes to bryng furth young and discouereth the thicke busshes in hys Temple doeth euery man speake of his honour The lord sitteth aboue the water floud and the lorde remayneth a kyng foreuer The lord shal geue strength vnto hys people the lord shal geue his people the blessyng of peace Exaltabo te domine psal xxx Mornīg prayer I Wil magnifie thee O Lord for thou hast set me vp and not made my foes to triumphe ouer me O lord my god I cryed vnto thee and thou haste healed me Thou Lord hast brought my soule out of hell thou hast kept my lyfe from them that goe down to the pyt Sing prayses vnto the lord O ye Sainctes of hys and geue thankes vnto him for a remēbraunce of his holynesse For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye and in hys pleasure is lyfe heauines may endure for a nighte but ioy cometh in the morning And in my prosperitie I sayd I shal neuer be remoued thou lorde of thy goodnes hadst made my hyll so strong Thou didst turne thy face fro me and I was troubled Then cryed I vnto thee O lorde and gat me vnto my lorde ryght humbly What profite is there in my bloud when I goe down to to the pyt Shall the dust geue thankes vnto thee or shal it declare thy trueth Heare O Lord and haue mercy vpon me Lorde be thou my helper Thou hast turned my heauines to ioye thou hast putte of my sackecloth and gyrded me with gladnes Therfore shal euery good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I wil geue thankes vnto the for euer In te domine speraui psal xxxi IN thee O lord haue I put my trust let me neuer be put to confusion deliuer me in thy righteousnes Bowe down thine eare to me make hast to deliuer me And be thou my strong rocke and house of defence that thou mayest saue me For thou art my strong rocke and my castel be thou also my gyde and leade me for thy names sake Drawe me out of the nette that they haue layd prieuely for me for thou art my strength Into thy handes I commende my spirite for thou hast redemed me O Lord thou God of trueth I haue hated them that holde of supersticious vanities and my trust hath been in the Lorde I wil be glad and reioice in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble and hast knowē my soule in aduersitie Thou hast not shutte me vp into the hand of the enemy but hast set my fete in a large rowme Haue mercy vpon me O lord for I am in trouble mine iye is consumed for veri heauines euē my soule my body For my life is waxen olde with heauines and my yeres with mourning My strength faileth me because of mine iniquitie and my bones are corrupt I became a reprofe among al mine enemies but specially emong my neighbours and they of mine acquaintaunce were afrayde of me and they that did see me without conueyed themselues from me I am cleane forgotten as a dead man out of mind I am become like a broken vessell For I haue hearde the blasphemy of the multitude and feare is on euery side while they conspire together against me and take theyr counsell to take away my life But my hope hath been in thee O Lorde I haue sayde thou art my God My tyme is in thy hande deliuer me from the hande of myne enemies and from them that persecute me Shew thy seruaunt the light of thy countenaunce and saue me for thy mercies sake Let me not be confounded O lorde for I haue called vpon thee let the vngodly be put to confusion and be put to sylence in the graue Let the lying lippes be putte to silence whiche cruellye disdaynfully dispitefully speake agaynst the ryghteous O how plentifull is thy goodnes which thou hast layde vp for them that feare thee and that thou hast prepared for thē that put their trust in thee euen before the sonnes of mē Thou shalt hide them prieuely by thyne owne presence from the prouoking of al men thou shalt kepe them secretly in thy tabernacle from the stryfe of tongues Thankes be to the lord for he hath shewed me marueilous great kindnes in a strong citie And when I made hast I said I am cast out of the sight of thine iyes Neuerthelesse thou hardest the voice of my prayer when I cryed vnto thee O loue the lord al ye his Sainctes for the lorde preserueth them that are faithful and plenteously rewardeth the proude doer Be strong and he shall stablishe your heart all ye that put your trust in the Lord. Beati quorum Psalm xxxii Euenīg prayer Blessed is he whose vnrighteousnes is forgeuen and whose sinne is couered Blessed is the man vnto whom the lorde imputeth no synne and in whose spirite there is no gyle For whyle I helde my tong my bones consumed awaie through my dayly complayning For thy hand is heauy vpon me day and nighte and my moisture is lyke the drouth in the Sommer I wil knowledge my sinne vnto thee and myne vnryghteousnesse haue I not hyd I sayd I wyll confesse my sinnes vnto
trouble And the Lord shal stande by them and saue them he shall deliuer them from the vngodly and shal saue them because they put theyr trust in him Domine ne in furore psal xxxviii Mornīg prayer But me not to rebuke O Lord in thyne anger neyther chasten me in thy heauy displeasure For thine arowes sticke fast in me and thy hande presseth me sore There is no health in any flesh because of thy dispeasure neither is there any rest in my bones by reason of my sinne For my wickednesses are gone ouer my head and are like a sore burthen to heauy for me to beare My woūdes stinke are corrupt through my foolishnes I am brought into so great trouble and miserye that I goe mourning all the day long For my loynes are filled with a fore disease and there is no whole part in my body I am feble and sore smitten I haue roared for the very disquietnes of my heart Lorde thou knowest all my desyre and my groning is not hydde from thee My heart panteth my strength hath fayled me and the light of mine eyes is gone from me My louers and my neighbours dyd stande loking vpon my trouble and my kinsmen stode afarre of They also that sought after my life layd snares for me and they that went about to doe me euil talked of wickednes and ymagined deceit all the day long As for me I was lyke a deafe man and hearde not and as one that is domme which doeth not open his mouth I became euen as a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reprofes For in thee O Lorde haue I put my trust thou shalte aunswere for me O Lord my God I haue required that they euen myne enemies shoulde not tryumphe ouer me for when my foote slipt they reioysed greatly agaynst me And I truely am set in the plage my heauines is euer in my sight For I will confesse my wickednesse and be sorye for my synne But mine enemies liue and are mightye and they that hate me wrongfully are many in number They also that rewarde euill for good are agaynst me because I folow the thing that good is Forsake me not O Lord my God be not thou farre fro me Haste thee to helpe me O Lord God my saluacion Dixi cuftodiam vias psal xxxix I Sayd I wil take hede to my wayes that I offende not in my tongue I wil kepe my mouth as it were with a brydle whyle the vngodlye is in my sight I helde my tongue and spake nothyng I kept sylence yea euen frō good wordes but it was payn griefe to me My heart was hote within me and while I was thus musyng the fyre kiendled and at the laste I spake with my tongue Lorde let me knowe myne ende and the number of my dayes that I may be certifyed how long I haue to liue Beholde thou hast made my dayes as it were a spanne long and mine age is euen as nothyng in respecte of thee and verely euery man liuing is altogether vanitie For man walketh in a vayne shadowe and disquieteth himselfe in vayn he heapeth vp riches and cannot tel who shall gather them And now lord what is my hope truely my hope is euen in thee Deliuer me from all myne offences and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolishe I became domme and opened not my mouthe for it was thy doing Take thy plague away from me I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande When thou with rebukes doest chasten man for sinne thou makest his beauty to consume awaye like as it were a mothe fretting a garmente euerye man therefore is but vanitie Heare my prayer O Lorde and with thyne eares considre my calling hold not thy peace at my teares For I am a straunger with thee and a soiourner as all my fathers were Oh spare me a little that I maye recouer my strengeth before I goe hence and be no more seen Expectans expectaui Psalm xl I Wayted paciently for the lorde and be enclined vnto me and heard my calling He brought me also out of the horrible pit oute of the myre and claye and set my fete vpon the rocke and ordered my goinges And he hath put a new song in my mouth euē a thankes geuing vnto our God Many shall see it and feare and shall putte their trust in the Lorde Blessed is the man that hath set hys hope in the Lorde and turned not vnto the proude and to suche as goe about with lyes O Lord my God great are thy woonderous woorkes which thou hast done lyke as be also thy thoughtes which are to vsward and yet there is no man that ordereth them vnto thee If I would declare them and speake of thē they should be moe then I am hable to expresse Sacrifice and meateofferyng thou wouldest not haue but mine eares hast thou opened Burnte offeringes and sacrifice for sinne hast thou not required then sayd I loe I come In the volume of the Booke it is written of me that I should fulfill thy will O my God I am content to doe it yea thy lawe is within my heart I haue declared the ryghteousnes in the great congregacion loe I will not refrayue my lippes O Lorde and that thou knowest I haue not hydde thy righteousnes within my heart my talking hath been of thy trueth and of thy saluacion I haue not kepte backe thy louyng mercye and trueth from the great congregacion Withdraw not thou thy mercy fro me O Lord lette thy louing kindnes and thy trueth alway preserue me For innumerable troubles are come about me my sinnes haue taken suche holde vpon me that I am not hable to loke vp yea they are moe in number then the heere 's of my head and my heart hath fayled me O Lord let it be thy pleasure to deliuer me make hast O Lorde to helpe me Let them be ashamed and cōfounded together that seke after my soule to destroy it let them be drieuen backeward and put to rebuke that wishe me euill Let them be desolate and rewarded with shame that say vnto me fye vpon thee fye vpon thee Let all those that seke thee be ioyful glad in thee let such as loue thy saluacion say alway the lorde be praysed As for me I am poore and nedye but the Lorde careth for me Thou art my helper and redemer make no long tarying O my God Beatus qui intelligit Psalm xli Euening prayer Blessed is he that considereth the poore nedye the Lord shall deliuer him in the tyme of trouble The Lorde preserue hym and kepe him aliue that he may be blessed vpon earth and deliuer not thou him into the will of his enemies The Lorde coumfort hym when he lyeth sicke vpon hys bed make thou all his bed in his sickenesse I sayd Lord be merciful vnto me heale my soule for I haue sinned agaynst thee Mine enemies speake euil of me when shall he dye
Kynges daughters were among thy honorable wemen vpō thy right hand did stand the Quene in a vesture of golde wrought about with dyuerse colors Herken O daughter and consydre enclyne thyne eare forgeat also thyne owne people and thy fathers house So shall the kyng haue pleasure in thy bewtie for he is thy Lorde God and worshyp thou hym And the daughter of Tire shall be there with gyft lyke as the ryche also among the people shall make theyr supplycacion before thee The Kynges daughter is al glorious within her clothing is of wrought golde She shal be broughte vnto the kyng in rayment of nedle worke the vyrgins that be her felowes shal beare her company and shal be brought vnto thee With ioye and gladnesse shall they be brought and shall entre into the Kynges palace In steade of thy fathers thou shalt haue chyldren whom thou mayst make Princes in all landes I wyll remembre thy name from one generacyon vnto another therefore shall the people geue thankes vnto thee worlde without ende Deus noster refugium Psalm xlvi GOd is oure hope and strength a very presente helpe in trouble Therfore wyl not we feare though the earth be moued though the hilles be caried into the middest of the sea Though the waters therof rage and swell and thoughe the mountaynes shake at the tempest of the same The riuers of the fludde therof shall make glad the cytye of God the holy place of the tabernacle of the most hyest God is in the middest of her therfore shall she not bee remoued God shall helpe her and that righte early The Heathen make muche a doe and the kingdomes are moued but God hathe shewed hys voyce and the earth shal melte awaye The Lorde of hostes is with vs the god of Iacob is oure refuge O come hyther and behold the workes of the Lord what destruccion he hath brought vpon the earth He maketh warres to cease in all the world he breaketh the bowe and knappeth the speare in sunder and burneth the chariotes in the fyre Be styll then and knowe that I am God I wil be exalted among the Heathen and I wil be exalted in the earthe The Lord of hostes is with vs the God of Iacob is our defence Omnes gentes plaudite Psalm xlvii Euening prayer Clap youre handes together all ye people O syng vnto God with the voyce of melodye For the Lorde is hye and to bee feared he is the great kyng vpon all the earth He shall subdue the people vnder vs and the nacions vnder oure feete He shall chose out an heritage for vs euen the worshyp of Iacob whom he loued God is gone vp with a mery noyse and the Lord with the sounde of the trompe O syng prayses syng praises vnto our God O sing prayses syng prayses vnto our Kyng For God is the Kyng of al the earth sing ye prayses with vnderstandyng God reygneth ouer the Heathen God sytteth vpon hys holy seate The Princes of the people are ioyned vnto the people of the God of Abraham for God whiche is very hye exalted doeth defend the earth as it were with a shielde Magnus dominus Psalm xlviii GReat is the Lorde and highely to bee praysed in the cytie of our God euen vpon his holy hyll The hyll of Sion is a fayre place and the ioye of the whole earth vpon the Northsyde lyeth the cytie of the great Kyng God is well knowen in her palaces as a sure refuge For loe the kynges of the earthe are gathered and gone by together They marueyled to see suche thynges they were astonied and sodeynly cast downe Feare came there vpon thē and sorow as vpon a woman in her trauaile Thou shalt breake the shippes of the sea through the East wynde Like as we haue heard so haue we sene in the citie of the lord of hostes in the citie of our god god vpholdeth thesame for euer We waite for thy louing kindnes O god in the middes of thy temple O god according vnto thy name so is thy praise vnto the worldes ende thy right hand is ful of righteousnes Let the mount Sion reioice and the doughters of Iuda be glad because of thy iudgementes Walke about Sion and goe rounde about her and tel the towers therof Marke wel her bulwarkes set vp her houses that ye may tel them that come after For this God is our God for euer and euer he shal be oure guide vnto death Audite hee gentes psal xlix O Heare ye this al ye people pōder it with your eares all ye that dwell in the worlde High and lowe riche and poore one with another My mouth shall speake of wysdome and my heart shall muse of vnderstanding I wil encline mine eare to the parable and shew my darke speache vpon the harpe Wherfore should I feare in the dayes of wickednesse and when the wyckednesse of my heles compasseth me rounde aboute There be some that putte their trust in their goodes and boast themselues in the multitude of their richesse But no man may delyuer his brother nor make agrement vnto god for hym For it cost more to redeme their soules so that he must let that alone for euer Yea though he lyue long and see not the graue For he seeth that wisemen also die and perishe together as wel as the ignoraunt and foolishe and leaue their riches for other And yet they thynke that their houses shall continue for euer and that their dwelling places shal endure from one generacion to another and call the landes after their owne names Neuertheles man wil not abide in honor seeyng he may be compared vnto the beastes that perishe this is the way of them This is their foolishnes and their posteritie prayse theyr saying They lye in the hell like shepe death gnaweth vpon them and the righteous shall haue dominaciō of them in the morning their beautie shal consume in the sepulchre out of their dwellyng But god shal delyuer my soule from the place of hel for he shall receyue me Be not thou afraid though one be made riche or if the glory of hys house be encreased For he shal cary nothyng away with him when he dyeth neyther shal hys pompe folowe hym For whyle he lyued he counted hymselfe an happy man and so long as thou doest wel vnto thy selfe men wyl speake good of thee He shall folowe the generacions of his fathers and shall neuer see lyght Man beyng in honor hath no vnderstanding but is compared vnto the beastes that peryshe Deus deorum dominus psal l. Mornīg prayer THe lord euen the most mightie god hath spoken and called the world from the rising vp of the sunne vnto the goyng down therof Out of Sion hath god appeared in perfecte beautie Oure god shall come and shall not kepe silence there shall goe before him a consuming fier and a mightie tempest that be styred vp rounde about hym He shall call the heauen from aboue and
all Heathen to skorne My strength wil I ascribe vnto thee for thou art the god of my refuge God sheweth me his goodnes plenteously and God shall let me see my desyre vpon mine enemies Slay them not lest my people forgeat it but scatter them abroade among thy people and put them downe O Lorde our defence For the sinne of theyr mouth and for the wordes of theyr lippes they shal be taken in their pride and why theyr preachyng is of cursyng and lyes Consume them in thy wrathe consume them that they may perishe and knowe that it is God which ruleth in Iacob and vnto the endes of the worlde And in the euening they wil returne grenne like a dogge and will goe about the citie They wyll runne here and there for meate and grudge if they be not satisfyed As for me I will syng of thy power and will prayse thy mercy betimes in the morning for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble Vnto thee O my strength will I syng for thou O God art my refuge and my mercifull God Deus repulistinos psalm lx O God thou that haste cast vs out and scattered vs abroade thou haste also been displeased O turne thee vnto vs agayne Thou hast moued the land and deuided it heale the sores therof for it shaketh Thou hast shewed thy people heauye thynges thou haste geuen vs a drinke of deadly wyne Thou hast geuen a token for such as feare thee that they may tryumphe because of the trueth Therfore were thy beloued deliuered helpe me with thy right hand and heare me God hathe spoken in hys holinesse I will reioyce and deuyde Sichem and mete out the valley of Sucoth Gilead is mine and Manasses is myne Ephraim also is the strength of my head Iuda is my law geuer Moab is my washe pot ouer Edom will I cast oute my shooe Philistia be thou glad of me Who will leade me into the strong citie who wyll bryng me into Edom Hast thou not cast vs out O god wilt not thou O god goe oure with our hostes O bee thou oure helpe in trouble for vayne is the helpe of man Thorowe God me shall doe greate actes for it is he that shall treade downe our enemies Exaudi deus depreca psal lxi HEare my crying O god geue eare vnto my prayer From the endes of the earth will I call vnto thee when my hearte is in heauines Oh set me vp vpon the rocke that is hyer then I for thou haste been my hope and a strong tower for me agaynste the enemye I will dwel in thy tabernacle for euer and my trust shal be vnder the coueryng of thy winges For thou O Lorde haste heard my desires and hast geuen an heritage vnto those that feare thy name Thou shalte graunt the kyng a long lyfe that his yeares may endure thorow out all generacions He shall dwell before God for euer O prepare thy louing mercye and feythfulnes that they may preserue hym So will I alwaye syng prayse vnto thy name that I may dayly perfourme my vowes Nonne deo subiecta psalm lxii Mornīg prayer MY soule truelye wayteth styll vpon God for of hym cometh my saluacion He verely is my strength and my saluacyon he is my defence so that I shall not greatly fall Howe long wyll ye ymagyne myschyefe agaynste euerye manne ye shall bee slayne all the sorte of you yea as a tottering wal shal ye be and lyke a broken hedge Their deuise is onely how to put hym out whom god wyll exalte their delight is in lyes they geue good wordes wyth their mouth but curse with their heart Neuertheles my soule waite thou stil vpon God for my hope is in hym He truely is my strength and my saluacion he is my defence so that I shal not fall In god is my health and my glory the rocke of my might and in god is my trust O put your trust in him alway ye people powre out your heartes before hym for god is our hope As for the children of men they are but vaine the children of men are disceitful vpon the waightes thei are altogether lighter then vanitie it selfe O trust not in wrong and robery geue not your selues vnto vanitie if riches encrease set not your hearte vpon them God spake once and twise I haue also heard the same that power belongeth vnto god And that thou lord art merciful for thou rewardest euery man accordyng to hys worke Deus deus meus psal lxiii O God thou art my god early will I seke thee My soule thyrsteth for thee my flashe also longeth after thee in a barren drye land where no water is Thus haue I loked for thee in holynes that I might beholde thy power and glory For thy louing kindnes is better then the lyfe it selfe my lyppes shall prayse thee As long as I lyue will I magnifie thee on thys maner and lifte vp my handes in thy name My soule shal be satisfied euen as it were with mary and fatnesse wen my mouth prayseth thee with ioyfull lyppes Haue I not remembred thee in my bed and thought vpon thee when I was wakyng Because thou hast been my helper therfore vnder the shadowe of thy wynges wyll I reioyce My soule hangeth vpon thee thy right hande hath vpholden me These also that seke the hurte of my soule they shall goe vnder the earth Let them fall vpon the edge of the sweord that they maye be a porcion for foxes But the kyng shall reioyce in god al they also that sweare by him shall be cōmended for the mouth of them that speake lyes shal be stopped Eaudi deus orationem meam psal lxiiii HEare my voyce O God in my praier preserue my life from feare of the enemy Hide me from the gathering together of the froward and from the insurreccion of wycked doers Which haue whet their tongue like a sweord shote oute their arowes euen bitter wordes That they may priuely shote at him which is perfecte sodeinly doe they hym and feare not They courage themselues in mischiefe and common among themselues how they may lay snares and say that no man shall see them They imagine wickednes and practise it that they keepe secret among themselues euery mā in the depe of his heart But god shal sodeinly shote at them with swift arrow that they shal be wounded Yea their own tonges shal make them fal insomuche that whoso seeth them shall laugh them to scorne And all men that see it shall saye this hath God done for they shall perceaue that it is hys worke The righteous shall reioyce in the lord and put hys trust in hym and all they that are true of heart shal be glad Tedecet himnus psal lxv Evening prayer THou O god art praysed in Sion and vnto thee shal the vowe be perfourmed in Ierusalem Thou that hearest the praier vnto thee shal al fleshe come My misdedes preuaile against me Oh
he thou mercyfull vnto our synnes Blessed is the man whom thou chosest and receauest vnto thee he shall dwell in thy court and shal be satisfyed with the pleasures of thy house euen of thy holy temple Thou shalt shew vs wonderful thinges in thy righteousnes O god of our saluacion thou that art the hope of al the endes of the earth and of them that remayne in the broade sea Which in his stength setteth fast the mountaynes and is gyrded about with power Whiche stilleth the ragyng of the sea and the noyse of hys waues and the madnes of his people They also that dwel in the vttermost partes of the earth shal be afraid at thy tokens thou that makest the outgoinges of the morning and euening to prayse thee Thou visitest the earth and blessest it thou makest it very plenteous The ryuer of God is full of water thou preparest theyr corne for so thou prouidest for the earth Thou watrest her forowes thou sendest raine into the litle valleys therof thou makest it softe with the droppes of rayne and blessest the increase of it Thou crownest the yeare with thy goodnesse and thy cloudes droppe fatnes They shal drop vpon the dwellinges of the wildernes and the litle hylles shall reioyce on euery syde The foldes shal be ful of shepe the valleys also shall stand so thicke with corne that they shall laugh and syng Iubilate deo psal lxvi O Be ioyefull in god all ye landes syng prayses vnto the honer of his name make his praise to be glorious Say vnto god O howe wonderfull art thou in thy workes thorowe the greatnes of thy power shal thine enemyes be founde lyers vnto thee For al the world shal Worship thee syng of thee and praise thy name O come hither and beholde the woorkes of God howe wonderfull he is in his doing towarde the children of men He turned the sea into drye lande so that they went thorowe the water on foote there did we reioyce therof He ruleth with his power for euer hys eyes beholde the people and such as wil not beleue shal not be able to exalte themselues O prayse oure God ye people and make the voice of hys prayse to be heard Which holdeth our soule in lyfe and suffereth not our fete to slyp For thou O god hast proued vs thou also hast tryed vs lyke as siluer is tryed Thou broughtest vs into the snare and layd trouble vpon our loynes Thou sufferedst men to ryde ouer our heades we wente thorow fyre and water and thou broughtest vs oute into a welthy place I will goe into thy house with burnt offerynges and wil pay thee my vowes which I promysed with my lippes and spake with my mouth when I was in trouble I will offre vnto thee fat burnte sacrifices with the insence of rammes I wil offre bullockes and goates O come hither and harken al ye that feare god and I wil tell you what he hath done for my soule I called vnto him with my mouth and gaue him praises with my tongue If I encline vnto wickednes with my heart the lord will not heare me But god hath heard me and consydered the voyce of my prayer Praised be god which hath not cast out my praier nor turned hys mercy fro me Deus miscreatur nostri Psal lxvii GOd be mercifull vnto vs and blesse vs and shewe vs the lyghte of hys countenaunce and be mercifull vnto vs. That thy waye maye be knowen vpon earth thy sauyng health among al nacions Let the people prayse thee O God yea let all the people prayse thee O let the nacions reioice and be glad for thou shalt iudge the folke righteously and gouerne the nacions vpon earth Let the people prayse thee O god let al the people prayse thee Then shal the earth bryng furthher increase and God euen our own god shall geue vs hys blessing God shal blesse vs and al the endes of the world shal feare hym Exurgat deus Psalm lxviii Mornīg prayer LEt God aryse and let hys enemyes be scatered lette them also that hate hym flye before hym Lyke as the smoke vanisheth so shalt thou dryue them awaye and lyke as waxe melteth at the fier so let the vngodly peryshe at the presence of god But let the righteous be glad and reioice before God let them also be mery and ioyfull O sing vnto god and syng prayses vnto hys name magnifie him that rideth vpon the heauens as it were vpon an horse prayse him in his name yea and reioice before hym He is a father of the fatherles and defendeth the cause of widowes euen god in his holy habitacion He is the god that maketh men to be of one mynde in an house bringeth the priesoners out of captiuitie but letteth the runneagates continue in scarcenes O god when thou wentest furth before the people when thou wentest through the wildernes The earth shoke and the heauens dropped at the presence of Ood euen as Sinay also was moued at the presence of god which is the god of Israel Thou O god sendest a gracious rayne vpon thine enheritaunce and refreshedst it when it was wery Thy congregacions shall dwell therein for thou O God hast of thy goodnes prepared for the poore The Lord gaue the worde greate was the companye of the preachers Kinges with their armies did flie and were discomfited and they of the housholde deuyded the spoile Though ye haue lyen among the pottes yet shall ye be as the winges of a doue that is couered wyth syluer wynges and her fethers lyke golde When the almightie scattered kynges for theyr sake then were they as white as snowe in Salmon As the hill of Basan so is gods hill euen an highe hill as the hyll of Basan Why hop ye so ye high hilles this is gods hil in the which it pleaseth hym to dwell yea the Lorde wyll abide in it for euer The charettes of god are .xx. M. euen thousandes of Angels and the Lorde is emong them as in the holy place of Sinay Thou art gone vp on high thou hast led captiuitie captiue and receiued giftes for men yea euē for thine enemies that the Lorde God might dwell among them Praised be the lord daily euen the god which helpeth vs and powred his benefites vpon vs. He is our god euen the god of whom commeth saluaciō god is the lord by whom we escape death God shal wounde the head of hys enemyes and the heary scalpe of such a one as goeth on styll in his wyckednes The Lord hath sayd I wil bring my people again as I did from Basan myne own wyll I bryng agayne as I did some tyme from the depe of the sea That thy fote may be dipped in the bloud of thine enemiesand that the tongue of thy dogges maye be redde throughe thesame It is wel seen O god how thou goest how thou my god and kyng goest in the sanctuary The fingers goe before the minstrels folowe after in the
middest are the damosels playing with the timbrelles Geue thankes O Israel vnto god the lord in the congregacions from the grounde of the heart There is little Beniamin their ruler and the princes of Iuda theyr counsel the princes of zabulon and the princes of Nephtali Thy God hath sent furth strength for thee stablishe the thing O God that thou hast wrought in vs. For thy temples sake at Ierusalem so shal kinges bring presentes vnto thee When the companye of the speare men and multitude of the mightie are scattered abrode emong the beastes of the people so that they humbly bring pieces of siluer when he hath scattered the people that delight in warre Then shal the Princes come out of Egipt the Morians land shal sone stretche out her handes vnto God Sing vnto God O ye kyngdomes of the earth O syng prayses vnto the Lorde Which sitteth in the heauens ouer all frō the beginning lo he doth send out his voyce yea and that a mighty voice Ascribe ye the power to God ouer Israel hys worshyp and strength is in the cloudes O God wonderful art thou in thy holy places euen the God of Israel he will geue strength and power vnto hys people blessed be God Saluum me fac deus Psal lxix Euening prayer SAue me O God for the waters are come in euen vnto my soule I sticke fast in the depe myre where no ground is I am come into depe waters so that the floudes runne ouer me I am wery of crying my throte is drye my sight fayleth me for wayting so long vpon my god They that hate me withoute a cause are moe then the heere 's of my head they that are mine enemies and would destroy me gyltles are mighty I payed them the thinges that I neuer tooke God thou knowest my simplenes my faultes are not hid from thee Let not them that trust in thee O lord God of hostes be ashamed for my cause let not those that seeke thee be confounded through me O Lord God of Israel And why for thy sake haue I suffred reprofe shame hath couered my face I am become a straunger vnto my brethren euen an aleant vnto my mothers children For the zeale of thyne house hath euen eaten me and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee are fallen vpon me I wept and chastned my self with fasting and that was turned to my reprofe I put on a sackecloth also and they iested vpon me They that sytte in the gate speake agaynst me and the drunkardes make songes vpon me But Lorde I make my prayer vnto thee in an acceptable tyme. Heare me O God in the multitude of thy mercy euen in the trueth of thy saluacion Take me out of the myre that I sinke not Oh let me be deliuered from them that hate me and out of the depe waters Let not the water floud drowne me neither let the depe swalow me vp and let not the pit shut her mouth vpon me Heare me O lord for thy louing kindnes is cōfortable turne the vnto me according to the multitude of thy mercies And hyde not thy face from thy seruaunte for I am in trouble Oh hast thee and heare me Draw nigh vnto my soule and saue it Oh deliuer me because of mine enemies Thou hast knowen my reprofe my shame and my dishonour mine aduersaries are all in thy sight Thy rebuke hath broken my hert I am ful of heauines I looked for some to haue pietie on me but there was no man neither found I any to comfort me They gaue me gall to eate and when I was thyrstie they gaue me vinegre to drinke Let theyr table be made a snare to take thēselues withall and let the thynges that shoulde haue been for theyr wealth be vnto them an occasion of falling Let their eies be blinded that they see not and euer bowe thou down their backes Powre oute thyne indignacyon vpon them and lette thy wrathfull displeasure take holde of them Let their habitacion be voide and no man to dwel in their tentes For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten and they talke how they may vexe them whom thou hast wounded Let them fall from one wyckednesse to another and not come into thy ryghteousnesse Let them be wiped out of the boke of the liuing and not to be written among the righteous As for me when I am poore and in heauinesse thy helpe O God shal lyft me vp I wil prayse the name of god with a song and magnifye it with thankes geuing This also shal please the Lord better then a bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes The humble shal considre this and be glad seeke ye after god and your soule shall lyue For the lord heareth the poore and despiseth not hys prysoners Let heauen and earth praise him the sea and al that moueth therin For god wil saue Siō and builde the cities of Iuda that men may dwel there and haue it in possession The posteritie also of hys seruauntes shall enherite it and they that loue hys name shall dwell therin Deus in adiutorium psal lxx HAst the O god to deliuer me make hast to helpe me O Lorde Let them be ashamed and confounded that seke after my soule let them be turned backward and put to confusyon that wyshe me euill Let them for their rewarde bee sone broughte to shame that crye ouer me there there But let al those that seke thee be ioyful and glad in thee and let all suche as dilighte in thy saluacion say alwaye the lorde be praysed As for me I am poore and in miserie haste thee vnto me O god Thou art my helper and my redemer O Lorde make no long tarying In te domine speraui psal lxxi Mornīg prayer IN thee O lord haue I put my trust let me neuer be put to confusyon but ridde me and deliuer me in thy righteousnes enclyne thyne eare vnto me saue me Be thou my strong holde whereunto I may alwaye resort thou hast promysed to helpe me for thou art my house of defence and my castell Deliuer me O my god out of the hande of the vngodly out of the hande of the vnrighteous and cruel man For thou O lorde god art the thing that I long for thou art my hope euen from my youth Throughe thee haue I been holden vp euer sence I was borne thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wombe my prayse shal be alwaye of thee I am become as it wer a monstre vnto many but my sure trust is in thee Oh let my mouth be filled with thy prayse that I maye syng of thy glory and honor al the day long Cast me not away in the time of age forsake me not when my strength fayleth me For myne enemyes speake agaynst me and they that laye wayte for my soule take their counsayll together saying God hath forsaken hym persecute hym and take hym for there is none to deliuer hym Goe not farre fro
euen vnto the grounde Yea they said in their heartes let vs make hauocke of them altogether thus haue they brent vp all the houses of god in the lande We see not oure tokens there is not one Prophete more no not one is there among vs that vnderstandeth any more O god how long shal the aduersary doe this dishonor how long shal the enemy blaspheme thy name for euer Why withdrawest thou thy hande why pluckest thou not thy right hand out of thy bosome to consume the enemy For God is my king of olde the helpe that is done vpon earth he doeth it hymselfe Thou dyddest deuyde the Sea throughe thy power thou brakest the heades of the dragons in the waters Thou smotest the heades of Leuiathan in pieces and gauest hym to be meate for the people in the wildernesse Thou broughtest out fountaynes and waters out of the hard Rockes thou driuedst vp mightie waters The day is thyne and the nyght is thine thou hast prepared the light and the sunne Thou hast set al the borders of the earth thou hast made somer and wynter Remember this O lord how the enemy hath rebuked and how the foolish people hath blasphemed thy name O deliuer not the soule of the Turtle Doue vnto the multitude of the enemyes and forgeat not the congregacyon of the poore for euer Loke vpon the couenaunt for al the earth is ful of darkenes and cruel habitacions O let not the simple goe away ashamed but let the poore and nedy geue prayse vnto thy name Arise O god maintaine thine own cause remembre howe the foolysh man blasphemeth thee dayly Forgeat not the voice of thyne enemies the presumpcion of them that hate thee encreaseth euer more and more Confirebimur tibi psal lxxv Mornīg prayer INto thee O god doe we geue thankes vnto thee doe we geue thankes Thy name also is nyghe and that doe thy wonderous workes declare When I receiue the congregacion I shal iudge according vnto ryghte The earth is weake and all the inhabitours thereof I beare vp the pillers of it I sayd vnto the fooles deale not so madly and to the vngodly set not vp your horne Set not vp your horne on high and speake not with a stiffe necke For promocion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor yet from the South And why god is the iudge he putteth down one and setteth vp another For in the hande of the lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is full mixte and he powreth out of thesame As for the dregges therof al the vngodly of the earth shall drinke them and sucke them out But I wil talke of the god of Iacob praise him for euer All the hornes of the vngodly also wil I breake and the hornes of the righteous shal be exalted Notus in Iudea Psal lxxvi IN Iewry is god knowen his name is greate in Israel At Salem is hys tabernacle and hys dwellyng in Sion There brake he the arowes of the bowe the shielde the sweord and the battayle Thou art of more honour and might then the hilles of the robbers The proude are robbed they haue slepte their stepe and al the men whose handes were mightie haue found nothing At thy rebuke O god of Iacob both the charret and horse is fallen Thou euen thou art to be feared and who may stande in thy sight when thou art angry Thou didst cause thy iudgement to be heard from heauē the earth trembled and was styll When god arose to indgemente and to helpe al the meke vpon earth The fearcenes of man shal turne to thy prayse and the fearcenes of other shalt thou restrayne Promise vnto the lorde your god and kepe it al ye that be rounde about hun bring presentes vnto hun that ought to be feared He shal restrayne the spirite of Princes and is wonderfull emong the kinges of the earth Voce mea ad dominum Psal lxxvii I Will crye vnto God with my voyce euen vnto God wil I crye with my voice he shal hearkē vnto me In the time of my trouble I sought the lord my sore ran and ceassed not in the nyght season my soule refused comfort When I am in heauines I will thynke vpon god when my heart is vexed and wil complayne Thou holdest mine eyes wakyng I am so feble that I cannot speake I haue considered the dayes of olde and the yeres that are past I cal to remembraunce my song and in the night I common with mine own heart and searche out my spirites Will the Lorde absent himselfe for euer and wil he be no more entreated Is his mercye cleane gone for euer and is hys promise come vtterlye to an ende for euermore Hath God forgotten to be gracious and wil he shut vp his louing kindnes in displeasure And I said it is mine own infirmitie but I wil remember the yeres of the right hand of the most hyghest I wil remember the workes of the Lord and call to mind thy wonders of olde tyme. I wil thinke also of al thy workes and my talking shal be of thy doinges Thy way O God is holy who is so great a god as our God Thou art the God that doth woonders and hast declared thy power emong people Thou hast myghtelye deliuered thy people euen the sonnes of Iacob and Ioseph The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and were afrayd the depthes also wer troubled The cloudes powred out water the ayre thundred thine arowes went abrode The voyce of the thunder was heard rounde about the lightninges shone vpon the ground the earth was moued and shoke withall Thy way is in the sea and thy pathes in the great waters and thy foote steppes are not knowen Thou leddest thy people like shepe by the hande of Moses and Aaron Attendite popule psal lxxviii Euenīg prayer HEare my law O my people encline your eares vnto the woordes of my mouth I will open my mouth in a parable I will declare hard sentences of olde Which we haue heard and knowen and suche as our fathers tolde vs. That we should not hide thē from the children of the generacions to come but to shewe the honor of the lorde his mighty and wonderful workes that he hath done He made a couenant with Iacob and gaue Israel a law which he cōmaūded our forefathers to teache their childrē That theyr posteritie myght knowe it and the children which were yet vnborne To the intent that when they came vp they might shew theyr children thesame That they might put theyr trust in God and not to forgeat the workers of god but to kepe his commaundemētes And not to be as theyr forefathers a faithles and stubburne generacion a generacion that set not their hearte aright and whose spirite cleaueth not stedfastly vnto God Like as the children of Ephraim which being harnessed and carying bowes turned themselues backe in the day of battayle They kepte not the couenante of
God and woulde not walke in his lawe But forgat what he had done and the wonderful workes that he had shewed for them Marueilous thinges did he in the sight of our fathers in the lande of Egipt euen in the fielde of zoan He deuided the sea and let them goe through he made the waters to stande on a heape In the daye tyme also he led them with a cloude and all the nyght through with a light of fier He claue the hard rockes in the wildernes and gaue them drynke therof as it had been out of the great depth He brought waters out of the stony rocke so that it gushed out lyke the ryuers Yet for all thys they sinned more against him and prouoked the most highest in the wildernes They tempted God in theyr heartes and required meate for theyr lust They spake agaynst God also saying shall god prepare a table in the wildernes He smote the stony rocke in dede that the water gushed out and the streames flowed withall but can he geue bread also or prouide fleshe for hys people When the Lord hearde this he was wroth so the fier was kindled in Iacob there came vp heauy displeasure against Israel Because they beleued not in God and put not theyr truste in hys helpe So he commaunded the cloudes aboue and opened the dores of heauen He rayned down Manna also vpon them for to eate and gaue them fode from heauen So man did eate Angels fode for he sente them meate enoughe He caused the East wind to blowe vnder the heauen and through hys power he brought in the Southweste wynde He rayned flesh vpon them as thicke as dust and fethered foules lyke as the sande of the sea He let it fall emong their tentes euen rounde about their habitacion So they did eate and were well filled for he gaue them theyr owne desire they were not disappoynted of theyr lust But while the meate was yet in their mouthes the heauie wrath of god came vpon them and slew the welthiest of thē yea and smote downe the chosen men that were in Israel But for al thys they sinned yet more and beleued not his wonderous workes Therfore their daies did he consume in vanitie and their yeares in trouble When he slewe them they sought hym and turned them earely and enquired after God And they remembred that God was theyr strength and that the high god was theyr redemer Neuertheles they did but flatter him with theyr mouthes and dissembled with hym in theyr tongues For theyr heart was not whole with hym neyther contynued they stedfast in his couenaunt But he was so mercifull that he forgaue theyr misdedes and destroyed them not Yea many a tyme turned he his wrath away and would not suffer his whole displeasure to aryse For he considered that they were but fleshe and that they were euen a wynde that passeth awaye and cometh not agayne Many a time did they prouoke hym in the wildernes and greued hym in the desert They turned backe and tempted god and moued the holy one in Israel They thought not of hys hande and of the daye when he delyuered them from the hand of the enemie Howe he had wrought his miracles in Egipte and hys wonders in the field of Zoan He turned theyr waters into bloud so that they mighte not drynke of the ryuers He sent lice emong them and deuoured them vp frogges to destroye them He gaue theyr fruites vnto the caterpiller and their labor vnto the grashopper He destroied theyr vines with haile stones and their mulbery trees with the frost He smote theyr cattel also with haile stones their flockes with hote thunderboltes He cast vpon them the furiousnes of hys wrath angre displeasure and trouble and sent euil Aungels among them He made a waye to his indignacion and spared not theyr soule from death but gaue theyr lyfe ouer to the Pestilence And smote all the first borne in Egipt the most principal and mightiest in the dwellynges of Ham. But as for his owne people he led thē furth lyke shepe caryed them in the wildernes lyke a flocke He brought them out safely that they should not feare ouerwhelmed theyr enemies with the sea And brought them in the borders of hys sanctuarye euen in his mountayne which he purchased with his right hand He cast out the heathen also before them caused their land to bee deuided emong them for an heritage and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in theyr tentes So they tempted and displeased the most high god kept not his testimonies But turned theyr backes and fel awaye like their forefathers startyng asyde like a broken bowe For they greued him with theyr hill altars and prouoked hym to displeasure with theyr ymages When God heard this he was wroth and toke sore dyspleasure at Israel So that he forsoke the tabernacle in Silo euen the tente that he had pitched emong them He deliuered theyr power into captiuitie and their beautie into the enemies hand He gaue his people ouer also into the sweord and was wroth with his inheritaunce The fier confumed the yong men and theyr maidens wer geuen to mariage Theyr Priestes were slayne with the sweord and there were no widdowes to make lamentacion So the Lord awaked as one out of stepe like a Giaunt refreshed with wyne He smote his enemyes in the hindre partes and put them to a perpetuall shame He refused the tabernacle of Ioseph and chose not the tribe of Ephraim But chose the tribe of Iuda euen the hyll of Sion which he loued And there he builded his temple on hie and laid the foundacion of it like the ground which he hath made continually He chose Dauid also his seruaunte and toke hym awaye from the shepe foldes As he was folowing the ewes greate with yong ones he toke him that he might fede Iacob his people Israel hys enheritaunce So he fed them with a faithfull and true heart and ruled them prudently with all hys power Deus venerunt psalm lxxix Mornīg prayer O God the Heathē are come into thy enheritaunce thy holy temple haue they defyled and made Ierusalem an heape of stones The dead bodies of thy seruauntes haue they geuen to be meate vnto foules of the ayre and the fleshe of thy sainctes vnto the beastes of the lande Theyr bloud haue they shed like water on euery side of Ierusalem and there was no man to bury them We are become an open shame to oure enemyes a verye scorne and derision vnto them that are rounde about vs. Lord how long wilt thou be angrie shal thy gelousy burne like fier for euer Power out thyne indignacion vpon the Heathē that haue not knowen thee and vpon the kyngdomes that haue not called vpon thy name For they haue deuoured Iacob laid wast his dwelling place O remember not oure olde synnes but haue mercie vpon vs and that soone for we are come to great misery Helpe vs
sworne vnto Dauid my seruaunt Thy seede will I stablishe for euer and set vp thy throne from one generacion to another O Lorde the very heauens shall prayse thy wonderous workes and thy trueth in the congregacion of the sainctes For who is he among the cloudes that shal be compared vnto the Lorde And what is he among the Goddes that shal be lyke vnto the Lorde God is very greatly to bee feared in the counsayle of the Sainctes and to bee had in reuerence of all them that are about hym O Lord God of hostes who is lyke vnto thee thy trueth most mighty Lorde is on euery side Thou rulest the rageing of the sea thou stillest the waues therof when they arise Thou haste subdued Egipte and destroyed it thou haste scatered thyne enemyes abroade with thy mighty arme The heauens are thyne the earth also is thyne thou hast layd the foundacion of the round world all that therin is Thou haste made the North and the South Tabor and Hermon shall reioyce in thy name Thou hast a mighty arme strong is thy hand and hygh is thy right hand Righteousnes and equitie is the habitacion of thy seate mercy and trueth shall goe before thy face Blessed is the people O Lorde that can reioyce in thee they shall walke in the light of thy countenaunce Theyr delite shal be dayly in thy name and in thy ryghteousnes shall they make theyr boaste For thou arte the glorye of theyr strength and in thy louyng kindnes thou shalt lift vp our hornes For the lorde is oure defence the holy one of Israel is our Kyng Thou spakest sometyme in visions vnto thy Sainctes and saydste I haue layde helpe vpon one that is mightie I haue exalted one chosen out of the people I haue founde Dauid my seruaunte with my holye oyle haue I annoynted hym My hand shall hold him faste and my arme shall strengthen him The enemie shall not bee hable to doe hym violence the sonne of wickednes shall not hurt hym I shall smyte downe hys foes before hys face and plage them that hate hym My trueth also and my mercy shall bee with hym and in my name shall hys horne be exalted I wyll sette hys dominion also in the sea and hys ryghte hand in the floudes He shall call me thou arte my father my God and my strong saluacyon And I wyll make hym my firste borne hygher then the Kynges of the earth My mercy will I kepe for hym for euermore and my couenaunt shall stand fast with hym Hys seede also wyll I make to endure for euer and hys throne as the dayes of heauen But yf his children forsake my law and walke not in my iudgementes If they breake my statutes and kepe not my commaundementes I wyll visite theyr offences with the rodde and theyr synne with scourges Neuerthelesse my louing kindnesse wil I not vtterly take from hym nor suffre my trueth to fayle My couenante wyll I not breake nor alter the thyng that is gone oute of my lippes I haue sworne once by my holynes that I will not faile Dauid His sede shall endure for euer and his seate is like as the sunne before me He shall stande fast for euermore as the mone and as the faithfull witnes in heauen But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine anoynted and art displeased at hym Thou hast broken the couenaunt of thy seruaunt and cast hys croune to the grounde Thou hast ouerthrowen al his hedges and broken downe hys strong holdes Al they that goe by spoyle hym and he is become a rebuke to hys neyghbours Thou haste sette vp the ryght hand of hys enemyes and made all hys aduersaries to reioyce Thou hast taken away the edge of hys sweord and geuest hym not victory the battayle Thou hast put out his glory and cast his throne downe to the grounde The dayes of hys youth hast thou shortened and couered hym with dishonour Lorde howe long wilt thou hide thy selfe for euer shall thy wrath burne like fier O remember howe short my tyme is wherfore hast thou made all men for nought What man is he that lyueth and shall not see death and shall he delyuer his owne soule from the hand of hell Lorde where are thy olde louyng kindnesse whiche thou swarest vnto Dauid in thy trueth Remembre Lorde the rebuke that thy seruauntes haue how I doe beare in my bosome the rebukes of many people Wherewith thyne enemies haue blasphemed thee and slaundered the fotesteppes of thine anoynted praysed be the Lorde for euermore Amen Domine refugium psalm xc Mornīg prayer LOrde thou hast been our refuge from one generacyon to another Before the mountaynes were broughte foorthe or euer the earth and the worlde were made thou arte god fro euerlastyng and world without ende Thou turnest man to destruccion agayne thou sayest come agayne ye children of men For a thousand yeares in thy sight are but as yesterday seyng that is past as a watche in the night Assone as thou scaterest them they are euen as a slepe fade away sodainly lyke the grasse In the morning it is grene and groweth vp but in the euenyng it is cut downe dried vp and withered For we consume away in thy displeasure and are afrayd at thy wrathfull indignacyon Thou haste set our misdedes before thee and oure secrete synnes in the light of thy countenaunce For whē thou arte angry al our daies are gone we bring our yeares to an ende as it were a tale that is tolde The dayes of oure age are therescore yeares and ten and though mē be so strong that they come to fourescore yeares yet is theyr strength thē but labour and sorowe so sone passeth it awaye and we are gone But who regardeth the power of thy wrath for euē therafter as man feareth so is thy displeasure O teache vs to noumbre oure dayes that we may applye our heartes vnto wisdome Turne thee agayne O lorde at the last and be gracious vnto thy seruauntes O satisfye vs with thy mercy and that sone so shal we reioyce and be glad all the dayes of our lyfe Comforte vs agayne now after the tyme that thou haste plagued vs and for the yeares wherin we haue suffered aduersitie Shew thy seruauntes thy marke and theyr chyldren thy glory And the glorious maiesty of the Lorde our God bee vpon vs prosper thou the worke of our handes vpon vs O prosper thou our handy worke Qui habitat Psalm xci WHoso dwelleth vnder the defence of the most hygh shall abide vnder the shadowe of the almightie I wyll say vnto the lorde thou art my hope and my strong holde my God in him will I trust For he shall delyuer thee from the snare of thy hunter and from the noysome pestilence He shall defende thee vnder hys wynges and thou shalte be safe vnder his fethers his faithfulnes and trueth shal be thy shield and buckeler Thou shalt not be afrayde for any terrour by nighte nor for
the arrowe that flieth by daye For the pestilence that walketh in the darkenes nor for the sickenes that destroyeth in the noone daye A thousande shall fall besyde thee and ten thousande at thy ryght hand but it shall not come nigh thee Yea with thyne eies shalte thou beeholde and see the rewarde of the vngodly For thou lorde arte my hope thou hast set thyne house of defence very hye There shall no euyll happen vnto thee neyther shall anye plague come nie thy dwellyng For he shall geue his Aungels charge ouer thee to kepe thee in all thy wayes They shall beare thee in theyr handes that thou hurt not thy fote agaynst the stone Thou shalte goe vpon the Lion and adder the yong Lyon and the dragon shalt thou treade vnder thy feete Because he hath set his loue vpon me therefore shall I delyuer hym I shall set hym vp because he hath knowen my name He shall call vpon me and I wyll heare hym yea I am with hym in trouble I will deliuer hym and bryng hym to honour With long life wil I satisfye him shew him my saluaciō Bonum est confitere Psalm xcii IT is a good thyng to geue thankes vnto the lorde to syng prayses vnto thy name O most high To tel of thy louyng kindnes early in the morning and of thy truth in the night season Vpon an instrument of ten stringes and vpō the lute vpon a loude instrument and vpon the harpe For thou Lorde hast made me glad through thy workes and I wil reioyce in geuing praise for the operacions of thy handes O lord how glorious are thy workes and thy thoughtes are very depe An vnwise man dooeth not well consider this and a foole doth not vnderstande it When the vngodlye are grene as the grasse and when all the workes of wickednes doe storyshe then shall they be destroyed for euer but thou lord art the most high for euermore For loe thyne enemies O Lord lo thyne enemies shal perishe and all the workers of wickednes shal be destroyed But my horne shal be exalted like the horne of an vnicorne for I am anoynted with freshe oyle Myne eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies and mine eare shall heare his desire of the wicked that rise vp against me The righteous shall florishe lyke a Palme tree and shall spreade abrode lyke a Cedre in Libanus Suche as be planted in the house of the lorde shall florish in the courtes of the house of our God They shall also bryng forth more fruite in theyr age and shal be fat and well lykyng That they may shewe how true the Lord my strength is and that there is none vnrighteousnes in hym Dominus regnauit Psalm xciii Euening prayer THe Lord is kyng hath put on glorious apparell the lorde hath put on his apparel and girded him selfe with strength He hathe made the rounde worlde so sure that it cannot be moued Euer sence the world began hath thy seate been prepared thou art from euerlastyng The floudes are rysen O Lorde the floudes haue lift vp theyr noyce the floudes lift vp their waues The waues of the sea are mightie and rage horribly but yet the Lorde that dwelleth on hie is mightier Thy testimonies O Lorde are very sure holynes becommeth thyne house for euer Deus vltionum Psal xciiii O Lord god to whom vengeaunce belongeth thou god to whom vengeaunce belongeth shewe thy selfe Arise thou iudge of the worlde and rewarde the proude after their deseruing Lorde how long shall the vngodly how long shall the vngodly triumphe How long shall wycked doers speake so disdaynefully and make suche proude boastyng They smite down thy people O Lord and trouble thine heritage They murther the widdowe and the straunger and put the fatherles to death And yet they say tushe the Lord shal not see neyther shall the god of Iacob regarde it Take hede ye vnwise among the people O ye fooles when wyll ye vnderstande He that planted the eare shal he not heare or he that made the eye shall he not see Or he that nurtereth the Heathen it is he that teacheth man knowledge shal he not punishe The Lord knoweth the thoughtes of man that they are but vayne Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest O lorde and teachest in thy lawe That thou mayest geue hym pacyence in tyme of aduersitie vntil the pyt be digged vp for the vngodly For the Lord wyl not fayle his people neyther wyl he forsake his enheritaunce Vntil righteousnes turne agayn vnto iudgement all such as be true of heart shall folowe it Who wyl ryse vp with me against the wicked or who wyl take my parte against the euyll doers Yf the Lorde had not helped me it had not failed but my soule had been put to silence But when I saied my foote hath slipped thy mercye O lord helped me vp In the multitude of the sorowes that I had in my heart thy comfortes haue refreshed my soule Wilt thou haue any thyng to doe with the stole of wickednes which ymagineth mischiefe as a lawe They gather them together against the soule of the righteous and condemne the innocent bloud But the lord is my refuge and my god is the strength of my confydence He shall recompence them their wickednes and destroye them in their own malice yea Lorde oure God shal destroye them Venite exultemus psal xcv Mornīg Prayer O Come let vs sing vnto the lorde let vs hartely reioyce in the strength of our saluacion Let vs come before his presence with thankes geuing and shewe our selues glad in hym with Psalmes For the Lord is a great God and a great kyng aboue all Goddes In his hand are al the corners of the earth and the strength of the hilles is hys also The sea is hys and he made it and hys handes prepared the drye lande O come let vs worship and fall downe and knele before the Lord our maker For he is the Lord our god and we are the people of his pasture and the shepe of hys handes To day if ye wil heare his voice hardē not your heartes as in the prouocacion and as in the day of temptacion in the wyldernesse When your fathers tempted me proued me and sawe my workes Fortye yeres lang was I greued with that generacion and sayde it is a people that door erre in their heartes for they haue not knowen my wayes Vnto whom I sware in my wrath that they shoulde not entre into my rest Cantate domino canticum psal xcvi O Sing vnto the lord a new song syng vnto the lord all the whole earth Sing vnto the Lord and prayse hys name be telling of his saluacion from daye to daye Declare his honour vnto the Heathen and hys wonders vnto all people For the lord is great and cannot worthely be praised he is more to be feared then all goddes As for all the gods of the Heathen they be but Idols but it is the
Lord that made the heauens Glory and worship are before him power and honour are in hys Sanctuary Ascrybe vnto the Lorde O ye kynredes of the people ascribe vnto the Lorde worship and power Ascribe vnto the Lorde the honoure due vnto hys name bring presentes and come into hys courtes O worship the Lorde in the beautie of holynesse lette the whole earth stande in awe of hym Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is kyng and that it is he which hath made the rounde world so fast that it cannot be moued and howe that he shall iudge the people righteously Let the heauens reioyce and let the earth be glad lette the sea make a noyse and all that therein is Let the field be ioyful and al that is in it then shall all the trees of the wood reioyce before the Lorde For he cometh for he cometh to iudge the earth and wyth righteousnes to iudge the worlde and the people wyth hys trueth Domimus regnauit Psal xcvii THe Lord is king the earth may be glad therof yea the multitude of the Isles may be glad therof Cloudes and darkenes are roūd about him righteousnes and iudgemente are the habitacion of his seate There shall goe a fyre before hym and bunre vp his enemies on euery side Hys lyghtenynges gaue shyne vnto the worlde the earth saw it and was afrayd The hilles melted lyke waxe at the presence of the lorde at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth The heauens haue declared his righteousnesse and al the people haue seen hys glory Confounded be all they that worship carued ymages and that delight in vaine goddes worship hym al ye goddes Syon heard of it and reioised and the daughters of Iuda were glad because of thy iudgement O Lord. For thou lorde art hier then all that are in the earth thou art exalted farre aboue all goddes O ye that loue the Lord se that ye hate the thing whyche is euill the Lorde preserueth the soules of hys saynctes he shall deliuer them from the hande of the vngodly There is sprong vp a light for the righteous and a ioyefull gladnes for such as be true hearted Reioyce in the Lord ye righteous and geue thankes for a remembraunce of hys holynes Cantate domino Psal xcviii Euening prayer O Sing vnto the Lorde a newe song for he hath done marueylous thynges With his own right hand and with his holy arme hath he gotten hymselfe the victory The Lorde declared hys saluacion his righteousnes hath he openly shewed in the sight of the Heathen He hath remembred hys mercye and trueth towarde the house of Israel and al the endes of the world haue seen the saluacyon of our god Shewe pour selues ioyefull vnto the Lorde al ye landes syng reioyce and geue thankes Psrayse the Lorde vpon the harpe syng to the harpe with a Psalme of thankesgeuing With trumpettes also and shawmes O shew your selues ioyefull before the Lorde the Kyng Lette the Sea make a noyse and all that therein is the round worlde and they that dwell therein Let the fluddes clappe theyr handes and lette the hylles be ioyfull together before the Lorde for he is come to iudge the earth With rightousnes shall he iudge the worlde and the people with equitie Dominus regnauit psalm xcix THe Lorde is kyng be the people neuer so vnpaciente he sytteth betwene the Cherubins be the earth neuer so vnquiet The Lorde is great in Sion and hye aboue all people They shal geue thankes vnto thy name whiche is great wonderfull and holy The Kynges power loueth iudgemente thou haste prepared equitie thou hast executed iudgemente and righteousnesse in Iacob O magnifye the Lorde oure God and fall downe before his footestole for he is holy Moyses and Aaron among his Priestes and Samuel among suche as call vpon hys name these called vpon the Lorde and he hearde them He spake vnto them oute of the cloudye pyller for they kepte hys testimonies and the law that he gaue them Thou heardest them O Lorde our God thou forgauest them O God and punishedst theyr owne inuencions O magnifye the Lorde our God and worshyp him vpon his holy hyll for the Lorde our God is holy Iubilate deo psalm c. O Bee ioyefull in the lorde all ye landes serue the Lorde with gladnesse and come before hys presence with a song Be ye sure that the Lorde he is God it is he that hathe made vs and not we our selues we are hys people and the shepe of his pasture O goe your way into his gates with thankesgeuyng and into hys courtes with prayse bee thankefull vnto hym and speake good of his name For the lorde is gracious his mercye is euerlastyng and his trueth endureth from generacion to generacion Misericordiam psalm ci MY song shal be of mercy and iudgemente vnto thee O lorde will I syng O lette me haue vnderstandyng in the waye of godlynes When wilt thou come vnto me I will walke in my house with a perfect hearte I will take no wicked thyng in hand I hate the synnes of vnfaythfulnes there shal no such cleaue vnto me A froward hearte sall depart from me I will not know a wicked person Whoso prieuely slaundreth his neighbour hym will I destroye Whoso hathe also a proude loke and hye stomake I will not suffer him Mine eyes looke vpon suche as bee faithful in the lande that they may dwell with me Whoso leadeth a godly lyfe he shal be my seruaunte There shal no disceytful person dwell in my house he that telleth lyes shall not tary in my sight I shal soone destroye al the vngodly that are in the land that I maye roote oute all wicked dooers from the cytie of the Lorde Domine exaudi oracionem meam psalm cii Mornīg prayer HEare my prayer O Lorde and let my crying come in vnto thee Hyde not thy face fro me in the tyme of my trouble enclyne thyne eares vnto me when I call O heare me and that ryght soone For my dayes are consumed awaye lyke smoke and my bones are brent vp as it were a fyrebrand My hearte is smitten downe and withered lyke grase so that I forgeat to eate my bread For the voyce of my groning my bones will scante cleaue to my fleshe I am become like a Pellicane of the wildernes and lyke an Owle that is in the deser te I haue watched and am euen as it were a sparowe that sitteth alone vpon the house toppe Mine enemies reuile me all the day long and they that are mad vpon me are sworne together agaynst me For I haue eaten asshes as it mere bread and mingled my drynke with weping And that because of thyne indignacion and wrathe for thou hast taken me vp and cast me downe My dayes are gone like a shadowe and I am withered lyke grasse But thou O lorde shalt endure for euer and thy remembraunce throughout all generacions Thou shalte aryse and haue mercy vpon
so shall my woordes please hym my ioye shal be in the Lorde As for sinners they shal be consumed oute of the earthe and the vngodly shall come to an ende prayse thou the lord O my soule prayse the Lorde Confitemini domino psalm cv Mornīg prayer O Geue thankes vnto the Lord and cal vpon his name tell the people what thinges he hath done O let youre songes be of him and prayse hym and let youre talkyng be of all his wonderous workes Reioyce in his holy name let the hearte of them reioyce that seeke the Lorde Seke the Lorde and his strength seke his face euermore Remembre the meruaylous workes that he hathe doone his wonders and the iudgementes of his mouth O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt ye children of Iacob his chosen He is the Lorde oure God his iudgementes are in all the worlde He hathe been alway mindfull of his couenaunt and promyse that he made to a thousand generacyons Euen the couenaunte that he made with Abraham and the othe that he swore vnto Isaac And appoynted thesame vnto Iacob for a lawe and to Israel for an euerlastyng Testament Saying vnto thee wyll I geue the land of Canaan the lot of your enheritaunce When there was yet but a few of them and they straungers in the lande What tyme as they wente from one nacyon to another from one kingdom to another people He suffred no man to doe them wrong but reproued euen kinges for theyr sakes Touche not myne annoynted and doe my Prophetes no harme Moreouer he called for a dearth vpon the land and destroyed all the prouision of bread But he had sent a man before them euen Ioseph whyche was solde to be a bond seruaunt Whose feete they hurte in the stockes the yron entred into his soule Vntyll the tyme came that hys cause was knowen the worde of the Lord tryed hym The king sent and delyuered hym the Prince of the people let him goe free He made him Lorde also of his house and ruler of all hys substaunce That he myght enfourme his Princes after hys wyll and teache his Senatours wysedome Israel also came into Egipt and Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Ham. And he encreased hys people excedyngly and made them stronger then their enemyes Whose heart turned so that they hated his people and dealt vntruely with hys seruauntes Then sent he Moses his seruaunt and Aaron whom he had chosen And these shewed his tokens among them and wonders in the lande of Ham. He sente darkenes and it was darke and they were not obedyent vnto hys worde He turned their waters into bloud and slew their fishe Their land brought forth frogges yea euē in their kinges chambres He spake the word and there came all maner of flies and lyce in all theyr quarters He gaue them hayle stones for rayne and slambes of fyre in theyr lande He smote their vines also and fig trees and destroied the trees that were in their coastes He spake the woorde and the greshoppers came Caterpillers innumerable did eate vp all the grasse in theyr lande and deuoured the fruite of their grounde He smote al the fyrst borne in their lande euen the chief of all their strength He broughte them forth also with siluer and golde there was not one feble person among their tribes Egipt was glad at their departyng for they were afrayd of them He spred oute a cloude to bee a coueryng and fier to geue light in the night season At theyr desyre he broughte quayles and he fylled them with the bread of heauen He opened the rocke of stone and the waters flowed out so that ryuers ran in the drye places For why he remembreth hys holy promyse and Abraham his seruaunt And he brought forth his people with ioye and hys chosen with gladnes And gaue them the landes of the Heathen and they toke the labours of the people in possession That they might kepe hys statutes obserue hys lawes Confitemini domino psal cvi Euening prayer O Geue thankes vnto the lord for he is gracious and hys mercy endureth for euer Who can expresse the noble actes of the lord or shew forth all hys prayse B1essed are they that alwaye kepe iudgemente and dooe righteousnes Remembre O lorde accordyng to thy fauoure that thou bearest vnto thy people O visite me with thy saluacion That I may see the felicitie of thy chosen and reioyce in the gladnes of thy people and geue thankes with thine enheritaunce We haue sinned with our fathers we haue done amysse and dealt wickedly Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egipt neyther kepte they thy greate goodnes in remembraunce but were disobedient at the sea euen at the redde sea Neuertheles he helped them for his names sake that he might make his power to be knowen He rebuked the red sea and it was dried vp so he led them through the depe as through a wildernes And he saued them from the aduersaries hand and deliuered them from the hande of the enemye As for those that troubled them the waters ouerwhelmed them there was not one of them lefte Then beleued they his wordes and sang praise vnto him But within a whyle they forgatte his workes and would not abyde hys counsayle But lust came vpon them in the wildernes and they tempted god in the deserte And he gaue them their desire and sent leanesse wythall into their soule They angred Moses also in the tentes and Aaron the sainct of the Lorde So the earth opened and swalowed vp Dathan and couered the congregacion of Abiram And the fier was kiendled in their companye the flame brent vp the vngodly They made a calfe in Horeb and worshipped the molten ymage Thus they turned their glory into the similitude of a calf that eateth haye And they forgat god their Sauioure whiche had done so great thynges in Egipt Wonderous woorkes in the lande of Ham and fearefull thynges by the red sea So he said he would haue destroied them had not Moyses his chosē stand before him in the gappe to turne away hys wrathfull indignacion leste he shoulde destroye them Yea they thought scorne of that pleasaunt land and gaue no credence vnto hys worde But murmured in their tentes and harkened not vnto the voyce of the Lorde Then lift he vp his hand against them to ouerthrow them in the wildernes To cast out their sede among the nacions and to scatter them in the landes They ioyned themselues vnto Baal Peor and eate the offerynges of the dead Thus they prouoked hym vnto anger with their own inuencions and the plague was great among them Then stode vp Phinees prayed so the plague ceased And that was coumpted vnto him forrighteousnes amōg all posterities for euermore They angred hym also at the waters of stryfe so that he punished Moses for theyr sakes Because they prouoked hys spirite so that he spake vnaduisedly wyth hys lyppes Neyther destroyed they the Heathen as
the Lorde commaunded them But were mingled among the Heathen and learned their workes Insomuch that thei worshipped their ydols which turned to their own decay yea thei offred their sonnes and daughters vnto deuilles And shed innocente bloud euen the bloud of their sonnes and of their daughters whom thei offered vnto the ydols of Canaan and the lande was defiled with bloud Thus were they stayned with their owne woorkes and went a whoring with their own inuencions Therfore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people insomuch that he abhorred hys owne enheritaunce And he gaue them ouer into the hand of the Heathen and they that hated them were Lordes ouer them Their enemyes oppressed them had them in subieccyon Many a tyme did he deliuer thē but they rebelled against him with their owne inuencions and were brought downe in their wyckednesse Neuerthelesse when he saw their aduerstie he heard their complaynte He thoughte vpon his couenaunt and pitied them according vnto the multitude of his mercies yea he made all those that had led them awaye captiue to pitie them Deliuer vs O lord oure god and gather vs frō among the Heathen that we may geue thankes to thy holy name and make our boast of thy prayse Blessed be the Lord god of Israel from euerlasting and worlde without ende and let all people saye Amen Confitemini domino Psal cvii. Mornīg prayer O Geue thankes vnto the lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer Let them geue thankes whom the Lorde hath redemed and deliuered from the hande of the enemye And gathered them out of the landes from the East and from the west from the North and from the South They went astraye in the wildernes out of the way and founde no citie to dwel in Hungry and thirstie their soule faynted in them So they cryed vnto the lord in their trouble and he delyuered them from their distresse He led them furth by the ryght way that they might goe to the citie where they dwelt O that men would therfore praise the lorde for his goodnes and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men For he satisfied the emptie soule and filleth the hungrye soule with gladnes Such as sit in darkenes and in the shadow of death being fast bounde in miserye and yron Because they rebelled against the wordes of the lord and lightly regarded the counsayle of the most high He also brought down their heart thorow heauines they fell down and there was none to helpe them vp So when they cryed vnto the lord in their trouble he deliuered them out of their distresse For he brought them out of darkenes and out of the shadowe of death and brake their bondes in sundre O that men would therfore prayse the lord for his goodnes and declare the wonders that he doth for the childrē of men For he hath broken the gates of brasse and smytten the barres of yron in sundre Foolysh men are plaged for their offence and because of their wickednes Their soule abhorred al maner of meate and they were euen hard at deathes dore So when they cried vnto the lord in their trouble he deliuered them out of their distresse He sent hys worde and healed them and they were saued from their destruccion O that mē would therfore praise the lord for his goodnes and declare the wonders that he dooeth for the chyldren of men That they would offer vnto hym the sacrifice of thankes geuing and tell out hys workes with gladnes They that goe down to the sea shippes and occupy their busynes in great waters These men see the workes of the lord and his wonders in the depe For at hys worde the stormy winde aryseth which lifteth vp the waues therof They are caryed vp to heauen and downe agayne to the depe theyr soule melteth away because of the trouble They rele to and fro and stacker like a dronken man and are at their wyttes ende So when they crye vnto lord in their trouble he deliuereth them out of their distresse For he maketh the storme to ceasse so that the waues therof are styll Then are they glad because they be at rest and so he bringeth them vnto the hauen where they would be O that men would therefore prayse the lorde for his goodnes and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men They that would exalte hym also in the congregacyon of the people and prayse hym in the seate of the elders Which turneth the fluddes into a wildernes and drieth vp the water sprynges A fruitefull land maketh he barren for the wickednes of them that dwell therein Againe he maketh the wyldernes a standing water and water sprynges of a drye grounde And there he setteth the hungry that they may build them a citie to dwell in That they may sowe their lande and plante vineyardes to yelde them fruites of encrease He blesseth them so that they multiply excedingly and suffereth not their cattell to decrease And agayne when they are minished and broughte lowe through oppression through plage or trouble Though he suffre them to be euil intreated through Tirantes let thē wander out of the waye in the wildernes Yet helpeth he the poore out of miserye and maketh hym housholdes like a flocke of shepe The righteous will consider thys and reioyce and the mouth of al wickednes shal be stopped Whoso is wise will ponder these thynges and they shall vnderstand the louing kindnes of the Lord. Paratum cormeum psal cviii Euenīg prayer O God my heart is ready my heart is ready I will syng and geue prayse with the best member that I haue Awake thou lute and harpe I my selfe wil awake right early I wil geue thankes vnto thee O Lord among the people I wil sing prayses vnto thee among the nacions For thy mercy is greater then the heauens and thy truth reacheth vnto the cloudes Set vp thy self O god aboue the heauens and thy glory aboue al the earth That thy beloued may be deliuered let thy righte hand saue them and heare thou me God hath spoken in his holines I wil reioyce therfore and denide Sichem and mete out the valey of Sucoth Gilead is mine and Manasses is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Iuda is my lawe geuer Mcab is my washepot ouer Edom will I cast out my shoe vpon the Philistines will I tryumphe Who wyll leade me into the strong citie and who wyll bring me into Edom Hast not thou forsakē vs O god and wilt not thou god goe furth with our hostes O helpe vs against the enemy for vain is the helpe of mā Through god we shall doe great Actes and it is he that shall treade down our enemies Deus laudem psal cix HOld not thy tong O god of my prayse for the mouth of the vngodlye yea and the mouth of the deceitfull is opened vpon me And they haue spoken against me with false
tonges they compassed me about also with wordes of hatred fought against me without a cause For the loue that I had vnto them lo they take now the contrary part but I geue my selfe vnto prayer Thus haue they rewarded me euill for good and hatred for my good will Set thou an vngodly man to be ruler ouer hym and let Sathan stand at his right hand When sentence is geuen vpon him let him be condemned and let his prayer be turned into sinne Let his dayes be fewe and let an other take hys office Let his children be fatherles and his wife a wiedowe Let his children be vagabondes and begge their bread let them seke it also out of desolate places Let the extorcioner consume all that he hath and let the straungers spoyle his labour Let there be no man to pietie hym nor to haue compassion vpon his fatherless children Let his posteritie be destroyed and in the next generacion let his name be cleane put out Let the wickednes of hys fathers be had in remēbrance in the sight of the Lord and let not the sinne of his mother be done away Let them alwaye be before the lorde that he may roote but the memoriall of them from of the earth And that because his mind was not to doe good but persecuted the poore helpeles man that he might slay him that was vexed at the heart His delight was in cursing and it shal happen vnto him he loued not blessyng therefore shall it be farre from hym He clothed himselfe with curssing like as with a rayment and it shall come into his bowelles like water and like oile into hys bones Let it be vnto hym as a cloke that he hath vpon hym and as the gyrdel that he is alwaye girded withall Let it thus happen from the Lord vnto myne enemies and to those that speake euill agaynst my soule But deale thou with me O lord god accordyng vnto thy name for swete is my mercy O deliuer me for I am helples and poore and my heart is wounded within me I goe hence lyke the shadow that departeth and am dryuen awaye as the Grashopper My knees are weake through fasting my flesh is dried vp for want of fatnes I became also a rebuke vnto them they that loked vpon me shaked their heades Helpe me O Lorde my God Oh saue me accordyng to thy mercy And they shall know how that this is thy hande and that thou Lorde hast done it Though they cursse yet blesse thou and let them be confounded that rise vp agaynst me but let thy seruaunt reioice Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame and let them couer themselues with theyr owne confusyon as wyth a cloke As for me I wyll geue great thankes vnto the lord with my mouth and prayse hym emong the multitude For he shall stande at the right hande of the poore to saue hys soule from vnryghteous iudges Dixit dominus domino meo Psal cx Mornīg prayer THe lord sayd vnto my lord syt thou on my right hand vntyll I make thyne enemyes thy fotestole The lord shal send the rod of thy power out of Sion be thou ruler euen in the middest emong thyne enemies In the day of thy power shal the people offer the free wyl offeringes with an holy worship the dewe of thy birth is of the wombe of the morning The lord sware and wil not repent thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech The lorde vpon the righte hande shall wounde euen kinges in the daye of hys wrath He shall bee iudge emong the heathen be shall fyll the places with dead bodyes and smite in sunder the heades ouer dyuerse couutreies He shall drinke in the broke of the way therfore shall he lyft vp hys head Confitebor tibi domine psal cxi I Wil geue thākes vnto the lord with my whole hearte secretly emong the faithfull and in the congregaciō The workes of the lord are great sougt out of all them that haue pleasure therein His worke is worthy to be praysed and had in honoure and his righteousnes endureth for euer The merciful and gracious lord hath so done his merueylous workes that they ought to be had in remembraunce He hath geuen meate vnto them that feare hym he shall euer be myndfull of hys couenaunt He hath shewed his people the power of his workes that he may geue them the heritage of the heathen The workes of his handes are veritie and iudgement al hys commaundementes are true They stande fast for euer and euer and are doen in trueth and equitie He sent redempcion vnto hys people he hath commaunded hys couenaunt for euer holy and reuerent is hys name The feare of the lord is the beginning of wisedome a good vnderstanding haue al they that doe thereafter the praise of it endureth for euer Beatus vir psal cxii BLessed is the man that feareth the lord he hath great delight in hys commaundementes His sede shal be mightie vpon earth the generacion of the faythfull shal be blessed Riches and plenteousnes shal be in his house and his rightteousnes endureth for euer Vnto the godly there aryseth vp light in the darknes he is mercifull louing and ryghteous A good man is mercyfull and lendeth and wil guyde hys wordes with discrecion For he shal neuer be moued and the righteous shal be had in an euerlastyng remembraunce He wil not be afrayd for any euil tidinges for his hearte standeth fast and beleueth in the Lorde His heart is stablished and wil not shrinke vntil he see his desyre vpon hys enemyes He hath dispersed abroade and geuen to the poore and his righteousnes remayneth for euer hys horne shal be exalted with honoure The vngodly shall see it and it shall greue hym he shall gnashe with hys teeth and consume awaye the desire of the vngodly shall peryshe Laudate pueri psal cxiii PRaise the lord ye seruauntes O praise the name of the lorde Blessed be the name of the Lord from thys tyme furth for euermore The lordes name is praised frō the rising vp of the Sunne vnto the goyng downe of thesame The lord is high aboue al heathē and his glory aboue the heauens Who is lyke vnto the lord our god that hath his dwelling so high and yet humbleth hymselfe to beholde the thynges that are in heauen and earth He taketh vp the simple out of the dust and lifteth the pore out of the myer That he may set him with the princes euen with the princes of hys people He maketh the barren woman to kepe house and to bee a ioyfull mother of chyldren In exitu Israel Psal cxiiii Euenīg prayer WHen Israel came oute of Egipte and the house of Iacob from emong the straunge people Iuda was hys sanctuarye and Israel hys domynyon the sea saw that and fled Iordan was driuen backe The mountaines skipped like Rammes and the litle hilles lyke yong shepe What ayleth thee O thou sea that thou steddest and
thou Iordan that thou wart dryuen backe Ye moūtaines that ye skipped like Rammes and ye little hilles lyke yong shepe Tremble thou earth at the presence of the lord at the presence of the god of Iacob which turned the harde rocke into a standing water and the flinte stone into a springing well Non nobis domine Psal cxv NOt vnto vs O Lorde not vnto vs but vnto thy name geue the prayse for thy louing mercy and for thy truethes sake Wherfore shal the heathen say where is now their God as for our god he is in heauen he hath done whatsoeuer pleased hym Their Idols are syluer and gold euen the worke of mens handes They haue mouth and speake not eyes haue they and see not They haue eares and heare not noses haue they and smel not They haue handes and handell not fete haue they and walke not neyther speake they through their throte They that make them are lyke vnto them and so are all such as put their trust in them But thou house of Israel truste thou in the Lorde he is their succour and defence Ye house of Aaron put your trust in the lorde he is theyr helper and defender Ye that feare the Lorde trust ye in the Lorde he is theyr helper and defender The Lorde hath been myndfull of vs and he shall blesse vs euen he shall blesse the house of Israel he shal blesse the house of Aaron He shall blesse them that feare the Lorde both small and greate The Lorde shall encrease you more and more you and your chyldren Ye are the blessed of the Lorde whiche made heauen and earth All the whole heauens are the Lordes the earth hath he geuen to the chyldren of men The dead prayse not thee O Lorde neither al they that goe down into the sylence But we wyll prayse the Lord from thys tyme furth for euermore Dilexi quoniam Psal cxvi Mornīg prayer I Am well pleased that the Lord hath heard the voyce of my prayer That the hath enclyned hys care vnto me therfore wyll I call vpon hym as long as I lyue The snares of death compassed me rounde about and the paynes of hell gate holde vpon me I shall fynde trouble and heauines and I shall call vpon the name of the lorde O lorde I beseche thee delyuer my soule Gracyous is the lord and righteous yea out god is mercyfull The lord preserueth the simple I was in misery and he helped me Turne agayne then vnto thy rest O my soule for the lord hath rewarded thee And why thou hast deliuered my soule from death myne eyes from teares and my fete from fallyng I wil walke before the lord in the land of the lyuing I beleued and therefore wyll I speake but I was sore troubled I sayd in my hast all men are lyers What rewarde shall I geue vnto the Lord for al the benefytes that he hath done vnto me I wil receiue the cup of saluacion and cal vpon the name of the lorde I wyl paye my vowes now in the presence of all his people right deare in the sight of the Lorde is the death of hys saynctes Behold O lord how that I am thy seruaunte I am thy seruaunt and the sonne of thy handmayd thou hast broken my bones in sunder I wil offer to thee the sacrifice of thankesgeuing and wyl call vpon the name of the Lorde I will pay my vowes vnto the Lord in the sight of al his people in the courtes of the Lordes house euen in the middest of thee O Ierusalem Prayse the Lorde Laudate dominum psal cxvii O Prayse the Lorde all ye heathen prayse hym all ye nacions For his mercifull kindnes is euer more and more towarde vs and the trueth of the Lorde endureth for euer Prayse the Lorde Consitemini domino psal cxviii O Geue thankes vnto the Lord for he is gracious because hys mercy endurerth for euer Let Israel nowe confesse that he is gracyous and that hys merry endureth for euer Let the house of Aaron now confesse that his mercy endureth for euer Yea let them nowe that feare the Lorde confesse that his mercy endureth for euer I called vpon the Lord in trouble and the lorde heard me at large The lord is on my syde I wil not feare what man dooeth vnto me The lord taketh my part with them that helpe me therfore shall I see my desyre vpon myne enemyes It is better to trust in the lord then to put any confidence in man It is better to trust in the lord then to put any confidence in Princes All nacions compassed me rounde about but in the name of the lorde wyll I destroye them They kept me in on euery syde they kept me in I say on euery syde but in the name of the lord I wyll destroy them They came about me lyke Bees and are extinct euen as the fyre emong the thornes for in the name of the lord I wil destroye them Thou hast thrust sore at me that I myghte fall but the lorde was my helpe The lord is my strength and my song and is become my saluacion The voice of ioye and health is in the dwellynges of the ryghteous the ryght hande of the lord bringeth myghty thynges to passe The right hand of the lord hath the preheminence the right hand of the lord bringeth mightie thinges to passe I wil not die but liue and declare the workes of the lord The lorde hath chastned and corrected me but he hath not geuen me ouer vnto death Open me the gates of righteousnes that I may goe into them and geue thankes vnto the lord Thys is the gate of the lord the righteous shall enter into it I wil thanke thee for thou hast heard me and art become my saluacion Thesame stone which the builders refused is become the head stone in the corner Thys is the lordes doing it is marueilous in our eyes This was the day which the lord hath made we will reioyce and be glad in it Helpe me now O lord O lord sende vs now prosperitie B1essed be he that cometh in the name of the lord we haue wisshed you good lucke ye that be of the house of the lorde God is the lorde which hath shewed vs light binde the sacrifice with coardes yea euen vnto the hornes of the altare Thou art my god and I wyll thanke thee thou arte my God and I wil prayse thee O geue thankes vnto the lord for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer Beati immaculati psal cxix Euenīg prayer BLessed are those that bee vndefyied in the waye and walke in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that kepe his testimonies and seeke hym wih theyr whole heart for they which doe no wickednes walke in hys wayes Thou hast charged that we shal diligently kepe thy commaundementes O that my waies were made so directe that I might kepe thy statutes So shal I not be confounded whyle I haue respecte vnto
all the commaundementes I wil thanke thee with an vnfained heart when I shall haue learned the iudgementes of thy ryghteousnes I will kepe thy Ceremonies O forsake me not vtterly In quo corrigit WHerwith shall a yong man clense hys waye euen by ruling hymselfe after thy worde With my whole heart haue I soughte thee O let me not goe wrong out of thy commaundementes Thy wordes haue I hyd within mine heart that I should not synne agaynste thee Blessed art thou O Lorde O teache me thy statutes With my lippes haue I been telling of al the iudgementes of thy mouth I haue had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies as in all maner of riches I wil talke of thy commaundementes and haue respecte vnto thy wayes My delight shal be in thy statutes and I wil not forgeat thy worde Retribue seruo I Do wel vnto thy seruant that I may liue and kepe thy woord Open thou mine eyes that I may see the wonderous thinges of thy lawe I am a straunger vpon earth O hyde not thy commaundementes My soule breaketh out for the very seruent desyre that he hath alway vnto thy iudgementes Thou hast rebuked the proude and cursed are they that doe erre from thy commaundementes O turne fro me shame and rebuke for I haue kept thy testimonies Princes also did sit and speake agaynst me but thy seruaunt is occupyed in thy statutes For thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellers Adhesit pauimento MY soule cleaueth to the dust O quicken thou me according to thy woord I haue knowledged my waies and thou heardest me O teache me thy statutes Make me to vnderstande the way of thy commaundementes and so shal I talke of thy wonderous workes My soule melteth away for very heauines comfort thou me according to thy woord Take fro me the way of lying and cause thou me to make much of thy lawe I haue chosen the waye of trueth and thy iudgementes haue I layd before me I haue sticken vnto thy testimonies O Lord confounde me not I will runne the waye of thy commaundementes when thou hast set my heart at libertie Legem pone Mornīg prayer TEache me O Lorde the waye of thy statutes and I shall kepe it vnto the ende Geue me vnderstanding and I shal kepe thy law yea I shal kepe it with my whole heart Make me to goe in the path of thy commaundementes for theirin is my desyre Encline my heart vnto thy testimonies and not to couetousnes O turne awaye mine iyes lest they beholde vanitie and quicken thou me in thy way O stablish thy word in thy seruaunte that I maye feare thee Take away the rebuke that I am afraid of for thy iudgementes are good Beholde my delyghte is in thy commaundementes O quicken me in thy righteousnes Et veniat super me LEt thy louing mercy come also vnto me O lord euē thy saluacion according vnto thy woord So shal I make aunswere vnto my blasphemers for my trust is in thy woord O take not the woorde of thy trueth vtterly out of my mouth for my hope is in thy iudgementes So shall I alway kepe thy lawe yea for euer and euer And I will walke at libertie for I seke thy commaundementes I will speake of thy testimonies also euen before kinges and wil not be ashamed And my delight shal be in thy commaundementes which I haue loued My handes also wil I lift vp vnto thy cōmaundementes which I haue loued and my studye shal be in thy statutes Memor esto verbi tui O Thinke vpon thy seruaūt as concerning thy word wherin thou hast caused me to put my trust Thesame is my coumforte in my trouble for thy word hath quickened me The proude haue had me exceadynglye in derision yet haue I not shrinked from thy lawe For I remēber thine euerlasting iudgementes O lord and rececyued comfort I am horriblye afraide for the vngodly that forsake thy lawe Thy statutes haue been my songes in the house of my pilgrimage I haue thoughte on thy name O Lord in the night season and haue kept thy lawe This I had because I kept thy commaundementes Portio mea domine THou art my porcion O lord I haue promised to kepe thy lawe I made mine humble peticion in thy presence with my whole heart O be merciful vnto me according vnto thy worde I called mine owne waies to remembraunce and turne my fete into thy testimonies I made hast and prolonged not the time to kepe thy commaundementes The congregacion of the vngodly haue robbed me but I haue not forgotten thy lawe At midnight I will rise to geue thankes vnto thee beecause of thy righteous iudgementes I am a companion of all them that feare thee and keepe thy commaundementes The earth O Lorde is full of thy mercy O teache me thy statutes Bonitatem fecisti O Lorde thou hast dealt graciously with thy seruaunt according vnto thy woorde O learne me true vnderstanding and knowledge for I haue beleued thy commaundementes Before I was troubled I went wrong but now haue I kept thy worde Thou arte good and gracious O teache me thy statutes The proude haue imagined a lie againste me but I wyll kepe thy commaundementes with my whole hearte Their hearte is fat as brawne but my delyghte hathe been in thy lawe It is good for me that I haue ben in trouble that I may learne thy statutes The law of thy mouth is dearer vnto me then thousandes of golde and siluer Manus tue fecerunt me Euening prayer THy handes haue made me and fashioned me O geue me vnderstandyng that I may learne thy commaūdementes They that feare thee will be glad when they see me beecause I haue put my trust in thy worde I knowe O Lorde that thy iudgementes are right and that thou of very faithfulnes hast caused me to be troubled O let thy mercifull kyndnes be my comforte according to thy worde vnto thy seruaunt O let thy louyng mercies come vnto me that I may lyue for thy law is my delight Let the proude bee confounded for they goe wickedlye about to destroy me but I will be occupied in thy commaundementes Let such as feare thee and haue knowen thy testimonies be turned vnto me Oh let my heart be sounde in thy statutes that I be not ashamed Defecit anima mea MY soule hath longed for thy saluacion and I haue a good hope because of thy woorde Mine iyes long sore for thy woorde saying O when wilt thou comfort me For I am become like a bottel in the smoke yet doe I not forgeat thy statutes How many are the daies of thy seruaunt when wylt thou be auenged of them that persecute me The proude haue digged pittes for me whiche are not after thy lawe Al thy cōmaundementes are true they persecute me falsly O be thou my helpe They had almost made an ende of me vpon earthe but I forsoke not thy commaundementes O quickē me after thy louing kindnes
and so shall I kepe the testimonies of thy mouth Ineternum domine O Lord thy worde endureth for euer in heauen Thy trueth also remayneth from one generacion to another thou hast layde the foundacion of the earthe and it abideth They continue this daye according to thyne ordinaunce for all thynges serue thee If my delight had not been in thy law I should haue perished in my trouble I will neuer forgeat thy commaundementes for with thē thou hast quickened me I am thyne Oh saue me for I haue soughte thy commaundementes The vngodly laid waite for me to destroye me but I wil considre thy testimonyes I see that all thynges come to an end but thy commaundemente is exceadyng broade Quomodo dilexi LOrd what loue haue I vnto thy law all the day long is my study in it Thou through thy commaundementes hast made me wiser then mine enemies for they are euer with me I haue more vnderstanding then my teachers for thy testimonies are my study I am wiser then the aged because I kepe thy commaundementes I haue refrayned my fete from euery euill waye that I may kepe thy worde I haue not shronke from thy iudgementes for thou teachest me O how swete are thy wordes vnto my throte yea sweter then hony vnto my mouth Through thy commaundementes I geat vnderstanding therfore I hate all wicked wayes Lucerna pedibus meis Mornīg prayer THy word is a lanterne vnto my feete and a light vnto my pathes I haue sworne and am stedfastly purposed to kepe thy righteous iudgementes I am troubled aboue measure quicken me O Lorde according vnto thy worde Let the frewil offeringes of my mouth please thee O lord and teache me thy iudgementes My soule is alway in my hand yet doe not I forgeat thy lawe The vngodly haue laid a snare for me but yet I swarued not from thy commaundementes Thy testimonies haue I claymed as mine heritage for euer and why they are the very ioye of my hearte I haue applyed my heart to fulfyll thy statutes alway euē vnto the ende Iniquos odio habui I Hate them that imagine euill thinges but thy law do I loue Thou arte my defence and shielde and my trust is in thy woorde Awaie from me ye wicked I will kepe the commaundementes of my God O stablishe me according vnto thy word that I may liue and let me not be disappoynted of my hope Holde thou me vp and I shal be safe yea my delight shal be euer in thy statutes Thou hast troden downe all them that departe from thy statutes for they imagine but deceipt Thou puttest away al the vngodly of the earth like drosse therfore I loue thy testimonies My fleshe trembleth for feare of thee and I am afrayed of thy iudgementes Feci iudicium I Deale with the thyng that is lawfull and righte O geue me not ouer vnto myne oppressours Make thou thy seruaunt to delyght in that which is good that the proude doe me no wrong Mine iyes are wasted away with loking for thy health for the worde of thy righteousnes O deale with thy seruaūt accordyng vnto thy louing mercy and teache me thy statutes I am thy seruaunte O graunt me vnderstanding that I maye know thy testimonies It is time for thee Lord to lay to thine hand for they haue destroyed thy lawe For I loue thy commaundementes aboue golde and precious stone Therefore holde I straighte all thy commaundementes and all false wayes I vtterly abhorre Mirabilia THy testimonies are wonderfull therefore dooeth my soule kepe them When thy word goeth furth it geueth light and vnderstandyng euen vnto the simple I opened my mouthe and drew in my breath for my delyght was in thy commaundementes O loke thou vpon me and bee mercyfull vnto me as thou vsest to doe vnto those that loue thy name Ordre my steppes in thy word and so shal no wickednes haue dominion ouer me O deliuer me from the wrongful dealinges of men and so shall I kepe thy commaundementes Shew the light of thy countenaunce vpon thy seruaunt and teache me thy statutes Myne iyes gushe oute with water because men keepe not thy lawe Iustus es domine RIghteous are thou O Lord and true is thy iudgemente The testimonies that thou hast commaunded are exceading righteous and true My zeale hath euen consumed me because mine enemies haue forgotten thy wordes Thy worde is tried to the vttermost and thy seruaunt loueth it I am small and of no reputacion yet doe not I forgeat thy commaundementes Thy rightousnes is an euerlastyng rightousnes and thy law is the trueth Trouble and heauines haue taken holde vpon me yet is my delight in thy commaundementes The righteousnesse of thy testimonies is euerlastyng O graunt me vnderstandyng and I shall lyue Clamaui in toto corde meo Euening prayer I Call with my whole heart heare me O Lord I wil kepe thy statutes Yea euen vpō thee doe I cal helpe me and I shall kepe thy testimonies Earely in the morning doe I crie vnto thee for in thy word is my trust Mine iyes preuent the night watches that I mighte bee occupied in thy wordes Heare my voice O lord according vnto thy louing kindnes quicken me accordyng as thou art wont They drawe nyghe that of malice persecute me and are farre from thy lawe Be thou nigh at hand O Lorde for all thy commaundementes are true As concerning thy testimonies I haue knowen long sēce that thou hast grounded them for euer Vide humilitatem O Consider mine aduersitie and delyuer me for I doe not forgeat thy law Auenge thou my cause and deliuer me quicken me according vnto thy worde Health is farre from the vngodly for they regarde not thy statutes Great is thy mercy O lord quicken me as thou art wont Many there are that trouble me and persecute me yet doe not I swarue from thy testimonies It greueth me whē I see the transgressours because they kepe not thy lawe Considre O Lord how I loue thy commaundementes O quicken me accordyng to thy louing kindnes Thy worde is true from euerlasting al the iudgementes of thy righteousnes endure for euermore Principes persecuti sunt PRynces haue persecuted me withoute a cause but my heart standeth in awe of thy wordes I am as gladde of thy worde as one that fyndeth great spoyles As for lies I hate abhorre thē but thy law doe I loue Seuen times a day doe I praise thee because of thy righteous iudgementes Great is the peace that they haue whiche loue thy lawe and they are not offended at it Lorde I haue loked for thy sauing health and done after thy commaundementes My soule hath kept thy testimonies and loued them exceadingly I haue kept thy commaundementes and testimonies for al my wayes are before thee Appropinquet deprecatio LEt my complaint come before thee O Lord geue me vnderstanding according vnto thy worde O let my supplicacyon come before thee deliuer me accordyng to thy worde My lyppes shall
speake of thy prayse when thou haste taught me thy statutes Yea my tongue shall syng of thy woorde for all thy commaundementes are righteous Let thine hand helpe me for I haue chosen thy commaundementes I haue longed for thy sauing health O Lord and in thy lawe is my delyght O let my soule liue and it shal praise thee and thy iudgementes shall helpe me I haue gone astraye lyke a shepe that is lost Oh seke thy seruaunt for I doe not forgeat thy commaundementes Ad dominum cum tribularer psal cxx Mornīg prayer WHen I was in trouble I called vpon the lord and he healed me Deliuer my soule O lord from lying lyppes and from a deceiptfull tongue What rewarde shal be geuen or doen vnto thee thou false tongue euen mightie and sharpe arrowes with hote burnyng coles Woe is me that I am constreined to dwel with Mesech and to haue myne habytacyon emong the tentes of Cedar My soule hath long dwelt emong them that be enemyes vnto peace I labor for peace but when I speake vnto them thereof they make them ready to battayle Leuaui oculos meos psal cxxi I Will lifte vp myne eyes vnto the hilles from whence commeth my helpe My helpe commeth euen from the lord which hath made heauen and earth He wil not suffre thy fote to be moued and he that kepeth thee will not slepe Beholde he that kepeth Israel shal neyther slomber nor slepe The lord himselfe is thy keper the lord is thy defence vpon thy ryght hande So that the sunne shal not burne thee by day neyther the Mone by nyght The Lord shal preserue thee from al euil yea it is euen he that shall kepe thy soule The Lorde shal preserue thy going out and thy comming in from thys tyme furth for euermore Letatussum psal cxxii I Was glad when they sayd vnto me we wil goe into the house of the Lorde Our fete shal stand in thy gates O Ierusalem Ierusalem is builded as a citie that is at vnitie in it self For thether the tribes goe vp euē the tribes of the lord to testifie vnto Israel to geue thankes vnto the name of the lord For there is the seate of iudgement euen the seate of the house of Dauid O pray for the peace of Ierusalem they shal prosper that loue thee Peace be within thy walles and plenteousnes within thy palaces For my brethren and companions sakes I will wishe thee prosperitie Yea because of the house of the lord our God I wil seke to doe thee good Ad te leuaui oculos meos psal cxxiii VNto thee lyft I vp myne iyes O thou that dwellest in the heauens Behold euen as the iyes of seruauntes loke vnto the handes of theyr maisters and as the iyes of a mayden vnto the hand of her maistres euen so our iyes waite vpon the lord our God vntil he haue mercy vpon vs. Haue mercy vpon vs O lord haue mercy vpon vs for we are vtterly despysed Our soule is filled with the scorneful reprofe of the welthy and with the despitefulnes of the proude Nisi quia dominus psal cxxiiii IF the Lorde himself had not been on our syde nowe may Israel say If the Lord himselfe had not been on our side when men rose vp agaynst vs. They had swallowed vs vp quicke when they were so wrathfully displeased at vs. Yea the waters had drowned vs and the streame had gone ouer our soule The diepe waters of the proude had gone euen ouer our soule But praysed be the Lord which hath not geuen vs ouer for a praye vnto theyr teeth Our soule is escaped euen as a byrde out of the snare of the fouler the snare is broken and we are deliuered Our helpe standeth in the name of the Lord which hath made heauen and earth Qui confidunt in domino psal cxxv THey that put theyr trust in the Lorde shal be euen as the Mount Syon whiche may not be remoued but standeth fast for euer The hilles stand about Hierusalem euen so standeth the Lord rounde about hys people from thys tyme furth for euermore For the rod of the vngodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put their hand vnto wickednes Doe well O Lorde vnto those that be good and true of heart As for such as turne backe vnto theyr owne wickednes the Lord shal leade thē furth with the euil doers but peace shal be vpon Israel In conuertendo psal cxxvi Euening prayer WHen the lord turned again the captiuitie of Syon then were we like vnto them that dreame Then was out mouth filled with laughter and our tong with ioye Then sayd they emong the Heathen the lord hath dooen great thinges for them Yea the lorde hath dooen great thinges for vs alreadye whereof we reioyce Turne our captiuite O lorde as the riuers in the south They that sowe in teares shall reape in ioye He that now goeth on his way weping and beareth furth good sede shal doubtles come agayn with ioye and bryng his sheaues with him Nisi dominus edifica psal cxxvii EXcept the Lorde builde the house their labour is but lost that build it Except the Lord kepe the citie the watche man waketh but in vayne It is but lost labour that ye hast to ryse vp earely and so late take rest and eate the bread of carefulnes for so he geueth his beloued slepe Loe children and the fruite of thy woombe are an heritage and gyft that cometh of the Lord. Like as the arrowes in the hande of the Gyant euen so are the yong children Happye is the man that hath his quyuer full of them they shall not be ashamed when they speake with theyr enemies in the gate Beati omnes psal cxxviii BLessed are al they that feare the Lorde and walke in his wayes For thou shalt eate the laboures of thyne handes O well is thee and happy shalt thou be Thy wyfe shal be as the fruitfull vyne vpon the walles of thyne house Thy children like the Oliue braunches rounde aboute thy table Loe thus shal the man be blessed that feareth the Lorde The Lorde from out of Syon shall so blesse thee that thou shalt see Ierusalem in prosperitie all thy life long Yea that thou shalte see thy childres children and peace vpon Israel Sepe expugnauerunt psal cxxix MAnye a tyme haue they foughte agaynst me fro my youth vp may Israel now say Yea manye a tyme haue they vexed me fro my youth vp but they haue not preuayled agaynst me The plowers plowed vpon my backe and made long forowes But the ritghteous Lorde hath hewen the snares of the vngodly in pieces Let them be confounded and turned backeward as many as haue euill will at Syon Let them be euen as the grasse growyng vpon the house toppes which withereth a fore it be plucked vp Wherof the mower filleth not his hande neither he that bindeth vp the sheaues his bosome So that they which goe by say not so much
as the lord prosper you we wyshe you good lucke in the name of the Lorde Deprofundis clamaui psal cxxx OVt of the depe haue I called vnto thee O lord lord heare my voyce Oh let thyne eares consider well the voyce of my complaynt If thou lord will be extreme to marke what is done amisse O lord who may abyde it For there is mercy with thee therefore shalt thou be feared I loke for the lord my soule doeth wayte for him in his woord is my trust My soule flyeth vnto the lord before the morning watch I say before the morning watche O Israel trust in the Lord for with the Lorde there is mercy and with hym is plenteous redempcion And he shal redeme Israel from at his sinnes Domine non est exaltatum psal cxxxi LOrd I am not hye minded I haue no proude lokes I doe not exercise my self in great matters which are to hye for me But I refrayn my soule and kepe it lowe like as a childe that is wayned from his mother yea my soule is euen as a wayned childe O Israel trust in the lord from thys time furth for euermore Memento domine Dauid psal cxxxii Mornīg prayer LOrde remember Dauid and all his trouble Howe he sware vnto the lorde and vowed a vowe vnto the almightie God of Iacob I will not come within the tabernacle of my house nor climbe vp into my bed I will not suffre my eyes to slepe nor my eye liddes to slumbre neythter the temples of my head to take anye reste Vntill I fynde out a place for the temple of the Lord an habitacion for the mighty God of Iacob Loe we hearde of the same at Ephrata and found it in the wood We will goe into hys Tabernacle and fall lowe on oure knees before his fotestoole Aryse O lorde into thy restyng place thou and the Arke of thy strength Let thy Priestes bee clothed with righteousnes and let thy sainctes sing with ioyfulnes For the seruaunt Dauids sake turne not awaye the presence of thyne annoynted The Lord hath made a faithfull othe vnto Dauid and he shall not shrinke from it Of the fruite of thy body shall I set vpon thy seate If thy chyldren wyll kepe my couenaunte and my testymonies that I shall learne them theyr chyldren also shall sitte vpon thy seate for euermore For the Lorde hath chosen Syon to be an habitacion for himselfe he hath longed for her Thys shal be my reste for euer here wyll I dwell for I haue a delight therein I will blesse her vitailes with encrease and will satisfye her poore with bread I will decke her Priestes with health and her saynctes shall reioyce and syng There shall I make the horne of Dauid to florish I haue ordeyned a lanterne for mine annoynted As for hys enemies I shall clothe them with shame but vpon himselfe shall his crowne florishe Ecce quam bonum psal cxxxiii BEholde howe good and ioyfull a thyng it is brethren to dwell together in vnitie It is like the precious oyntment vpon the head that ranne downe vnto the hearde euen vnto Aarons bearde and went downe to the skyrtes of his clothyng Like as the dewe of Hermon whiche fell vpon the hill of Syon For there the Lorde promised his blessyng and lyfe for euermore Ecce nunc benedicite dominum Psalm cxxxiiii BEholde now praise the Lorde all ye the seruauntes of the Lorde Ye that by night stand in the house of the Lorde euen in the courtes of the house of our God Lift vp your handes in the sanctuary and praise the lord The lord that made heauen and earth geue thee blessyng out of Syon Laudate dominum psalme cxxxv O Prayse the Lorde laud ye the name of the Lord praise it O ye seruauntes of the Lorde Ye that stand in the house of the lord in the courtes of the house of our God O prayse the lord for the lorde is gracious O syng prayses vnto his name for it is louely For why the lorde hath chosen Iacob vnto hymselfe and Israel for hys own possession For I know that the Lorde is great and that our Lord is aboue all Goddes Whatsoeuer the Lorde pleased that did he in heauen and in earth and in the Sea and to all depe places He bringeth foorth the cloudes from the endes of the world and sendeth foorthe lightninges with the rayne bryngyng the wyndes out of his treasures He smote the first borne of Egipt both of man of beast He hath sent tokens and wonders into the middest of thee O thou lande of Egipte vpon Pharao and all hys seruauntes He smote dyuerse nacions and slewe myghty kynges Sehon kyng of the Amorites and Og the kyng of Basā and all the kingdomes of Canaan And gaue theyr lande to be an heritage euen an herytage vnto Israel hys people Thy name O lord endureth for euer so doeth thy memoriall O Lorde from one generacion to another For the Lord wil auenge his people and be gracious vnto his seruauntes As for the images of the heathen they are but siluer and golde the worke of mennes handes They haue mouthes and speake not iyes haue they but they see not They haue eares and yet they heare not neyther is there any breath in theyr mouthes They that make them are lyke vnto them and so are all they that put theyr trust in them Praise the lord ye house of Israel praise the lord ye house of Aaron Praise the Lorde ye house of Leui ye that feare the lord praise the Lorde Praysed bee the Lorde oute of Sion whiche dwelle that Ierusalem Confitemini domino Psalm cxxxvi Euening prayer O Geue thankes vnto the Lorde for he is gracious and his mercy endureth foreuer O geue thankes vnto the God of all gods for hys mercy endureth for euer O thanke the Lord of all Lordes for his mercy endureth for euer Whiche only doth great wonders for his mercy endureth for euer Whiche by his excellente wisedome made the heauens for hys mercy endureth for euer Which laid out the earth aboue the waters for hys mercy endureth for euer Whiche hath made greate lightes for his mercy endureth for euer The Sunne to rule the daye for his mercye endureth for euer The Mone and the starres to gouerne the night for hys mercy endureth for euer Whyche smote Egipt with theyr first borne for hys mercy endureth for euer And brought out Israel from among them for hys mercy endureth for euer With a mighty hand and stretched out arme for his mercy endureth for euer Whyche deuided the redde Sea in two partes for hys mercy endureth for euer And made Israel to goe thorow the middes of it for hys mercy endureth for euer But as for Pharao and his hoaste he ouerthrewe them in the redde sea for his mercy endureth for euer Whiche led his people through the wildernes for his mercy endureth for euer Which smote great kinges for his merci endureth for euer Yea and
slew myghtie kynges for his mercy endureth for euer Sehon kyng of the Ammorites for hys mercy endureth for euer And Og the kyng of Basan for hys mercye endureth for euer And gaue awaye theyr land for an heritage for his mercy endureth for euer Euen for an heritage vnto Israell hys seruaunte for hys mercy endureth for euer Whych remembred vs when we were in trouble for hys mercy endureth for euer And hathe delyuered vs from our enemies for hys mercy endureth for euer Whyche geueth foode to all fleshe for hys mercy endureth for euer O geue thankes vnto the god of heauen for hys mercy endureth for euer O geue thankes to the Lorde of Lordes for hys mercye endureth for euer Super flumina psalm cxxxvii BY the waters of Babilon we satte downe and wept when we remembred thee O Syon As for oure harpes we hanged them vp vpon the trees that are therein For they that ledde vs away captiue required of vs then a long and melody in our heauines syng vs one of the sōges of Syon How shall me syng the Lordes song in a straunge lande If I forgeat thee O Hierusalem let my ryght hand forgeat her connyng If I doe not remembre thee let me tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouthe yea yf I preferre not Hierusalem in my mirth Remember the children of Edom O Lorde in the daye of Hierusalem how they said downe with it downe with it euen to the grounde O daughter of Babilon wasted with miserye yea happie shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou haft serued vs. Blessed that he be that taketh thy children and throweth them agaynst the stones Confitebor tibi domine psalm cxxxviii I Wil geue thankes vnto thee O lord with my whole hearte euen before the gods will I syng prayse vnto thee I wyll worship towarde thy holy temple and praise thy name because of thy louing kindnes and truth for thou hast magnified thy name and thy worde aboue all thynges When I called vpon thee thou heardest me and enduedst my soule with muche strength All the kinges of the earth shall prayse thee O Lorde for they haue heard the wordes of thy mouth Yea they shall syng in the wayes of the Lord that greate is the glory of the Lorde For though the Lord be high yet hath he respect vnto the lowly as for the proude he beholdeth them afarre of Thoughe I walke in the middeste of trouble yet shalte thou refreshe me thou shalt stretche furth thyne hande vpon the furiousnes of mine enemies and thy ryghte hand shall saue me The Lorde shall make good his louing kindenes towarde me yea thy mercy O lord endureth for euer despise not thē the workes of thyne owne handes Domine probasti me Psalm cxxxix Mornīg prayer O Lord thou hast searched me oute and knowen me thou knowest my downe sittyng and myne vprysing thou vnderstandest my thoughtes long before Thou arte about my path and about my bedde and spiest out all my wayes For loe there is not a worde in my tong but thou O lord knowest it altogether Thou hast fashioned me behind and before and laid thine hand vpon me Suche knowledge is to wonderful and excellent for me I cannot attayne vnto it Whether that I goe then frō thy spirite Or whether shal I goe then from thy presence If I climbe vp into heauen thou art there if I goe downe to hell thou arte there also If I take the winges of the morning and remayne in the vttermost partes of the sea Even there also shall thy hand leade me thy right hand shall holde me If I saye peraduenture the darkenes shall couer me thē shall my night be turned to day Yea the darkenes is no darkenes with thee but the night is as cleare as the day the darkenes and lighte to thee are both alike For my reines are thyne thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe I will geue thankes vnto thee for I am fearefullye and wonderouslye made marueilous are thy workes and that my soule knoweth ryght well My bones are not hid from thee thoughe I bee made secretly and fashioned beneath in the earth Thine eies did see my substaunce yet being vnperfecte and in thy boke were al my members wrytten Which day by day were fashioned when as yet there was none of them How deare are thy counsailes vnto me O gods how great is the summe of them If I tell them they are moe in number then the sande whē I wake vp I am present with thee Wilte thou not sley the wicked O god depart from me ye bloud thyrsty men For they speake vnrighteously against thee and thine enemyes take thy name in vayne Doe not I hate them O lorde that hate thee and am not I grieued with those that ryse vp agaynst thee Yea I hate them righte sore euen as thoughe they were mine enemyes Trye me O god and seke the ground of mine heart proue me and examyne my thoughtes Loke well if there be any waye of wickednes in me and leade me in the way euerlastyng Eripe me domine psal cxl DEliuer me O lord from the euil men and preserue me from the wicked men Whiche imagine mischiefe in their heartes and stire vp strife al the day long They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent adders poyson is vnder theyr lyppes Kepe me O lord from the handes of the vngodly preserue me from the wicked men which are purposed to ouerthrow my goynges The proud haue laid a snare for me and spred a net abrode with cordes yea and set trappes in my waye I said vnto the lorde thou art my god heare the voyce of my prayers O Lorde O lord god thou strength of my health thou hast couered my head in the daye of battayle Let not the vngodly haue his desyre O Lorde let not hys mischeuous imaginacion prospere lest they be to proude Let the mischiefe of their own lippes fal vpon the head of them that compasse me about Let hote burnyng coales fall vpon them let them be caste into the fier and into the pit that they neuer rise vp agayne A man ful of wordes shal not prospere vpon the earth euil shal hunt the wicked person to ouerthrow hym Sure I am that the lord wil auenge the poore and maintayn the cause of the helpeles The righteous also shal geue thankes vnto thy name and the iust shall continue in thy syght Domine clamaui psal cxli. LOrd I cal vpon thee hast thee vnto me and consider my voyce when I crye vnto thee Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight as the incence and let the lifting vp of my handes be an euening sacrifice Set a watch O Lord before my mouth and kepe the dore of my lyppes O let not myne heart be enclined to any euil thyng let me not be occupied in vngodly workes with the men that worke wyckednes lest I eate of suche thynges as please them Let the righteous rather smite me
frēdly and reproue me But let not their precious balmes breake mine head yea I wyl pray yet agaynst their wickednes Let their iudges be ouerthrowen in stony places that they may heare my wordes for they are swete Oure bones lye scatered beefore the pit like as when one breaketh and heweth wood vpon the earth But mine eies loke vnto thee O Lorde God in thee is my trust O cast not out my soule Kepe me from the snare which they haue layd for me and from the trappes of the wycked doers Let the vngodly fal into their own nettes together and let me euer escape them Voce mea ad dominum psal cxlii Euenīg prayer I Cried vnto the lord with my voice yea euen vnto the Lord did I make my supplycacion I powred out my complayntes before him and shewed hym of my trouble When my spirite was in heauines thou knewest my path in the way wherein I walke haue they priuely laid a snare for me I loked also vpon my right hand and see there is no man that would know me I had no place to flie vnto and no man cared for my soule I cried vnto thee O lord and saied thou art my hope and my porcyon in the lande of the liuing Consider my comylaynt for I am brought very lowe O deliuer me from my persecutours for they are to strong for me Bring my soule out of prison that I maye geue thankes vnto thy name which thing if thou wilt graunt me thē shal the ryghteous resort vnto my company Domine exaudi psal cxliii HEare my prayer O Lord and considre my desire herken vnto me for thy trueth and righteousnes sake And enter not into iudgemente with thy seruaunt for in thy syght shall no man liuing be iustified For the enemy hath persecuted my soule he hath smytten my lyfe down to the grounde he hath layed me in the darkenes as the men that haue been long dead Therefore is my spirite vexed within me and my hart within me is desolate Yet I doe remembre the tyme paste I muse vpon all thy workes yea I exercise my self in the workes of thy hādes I stretch forth my handes vnto thee my soule gaspeth vnto thee as a thyrsty lande Heare me O lorde and that soone for my spirite waxeth faynte hyde not thy face from me leste I be lyke vnto them that goe down to the pit O let me heare thy louyng kyndnes betymes in the morning for in thee is my truste shewe thou me the waye that I should walke in for I lift vp my soule vnto thee Deliuer me O lorde from mine enemyes for I flie vnto thee to hyde me Teache me to doe the thyng that pleaseth thee for thou art my god let thy louing spirite leade me forth vnto the land of ryghteousnes Quickē me O lord for thy names sake and for thy righteousnes sake bryng my soule out of trouble And of thy goodnes slea mine enemies and destroy all thē that vexe my soule for I am thy seruaunt Benedictus dominus psal cxliiii Mornīg prayer BLessed bee the Lorde my strength whiche teacheth my handes to warre and my fingers to fight My hope and my fortres my castell and delyuerer my defender in whom I truste whiche subdueth my people that is vnder me Lord what is man that thou hast such respect vnto hym or the sonne of man that thou so regardest hym Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth away lyke a shadowe Bowe thy heauens O lorde and come down touche the mountaynes and they shall smoke Cast forth the lightning and teare them shote out thine arrowes and consume them Send down thyne hand from aboue deliuer me and take me out of the great waters from the hand of straunge children Whose mouth talketh of vanitie and their right hand is a ryght hand of wyckednes I will sing a new song vnto thee O god and syng praises vnto thee vpon a ten stringed lute Thou that geuest victory vnto kinges and hast deliuered Dauid thy seruaunt from the perill of the sweord Saue me and deliuer me from the hand of struange children whose mouth talketh of vanitie and their right hande is a ryght hande of iniquitie That oure sonnes maye growe vp as the yong plantes and that our daughters may be as the pullished corners of the temple That our garners may be ful and plenteous with al maner of store that our shepe may bryng forth thousandes and ten thousandes in our stretes That our oxen may be strong to laboure that there be no decay no leading into captiuitie and no complaining in our stretes Happy are the people that be in such a case yea blessed are the people which haue the lord for theyr God Exaltabo te deus psal cxlv I Wil magnifie thee O god my king and I wil prayse thy name for euer and euer Euery day wil I geue thankes vnto the and praise thy name for euer and euer Great is the lord and marueilous worthy to bee praysed there is no ende of hys greatnes One generacyon shal praise thy worke vnto another and declare thy power As for me I will be talking of thy worship thy glory thy prayse and wonderous workes So that men shal speake of the mighte of thy marueilous actes and I wyll also tell of thy greatnes The memoriall of thyne aboundaunt kindnes shal be shewed and men shal syng of thy ryghteousnes The lord is gracious and mercifull long suffering and of great goodnes The lord is louing vnto euery man and his mercy is ouer all hys workes All thy workes prayse thee O lord and thy sainctes geue thankes vnto thee They shew the glory of thy kingdom talke of thy power That thy power thy glory and mightines of thy kingdom might be knowen vnto men Thy kingdom is an euerlasting kingdome and thy dominion endureth thorowout all ages The Lorde vpholdeth all suche as fall and lyfteth vp all those that be down The eies of al waite vpon thee O Lorde and thou geuest them theyr meate in due season Thou openest thyne hande and fillest all thinges liuing with plenteousnes The lord is righteous in al his wayes and holy in all hys workes The lord is nie vnto al them that cal vpon him yea al such as call vpon hym faythtfully He wil fulfyl the desyre of them that feare him he also will heare theyr crye and wyll helpe them The lord preserueth al them that loue him but scatereth abrode all the vngodly My mouth shall speake the prayse of the Lorde and let all fleshe geue thankes vnto hys holy name for euer and euer Lauda anima mea psal cxlvi PRaise the lord O my soule while I liue wil I prayse the lord yea as long as I haue any being I wil sing prayses vnto my god O put not your trust in Princes nor in any childe of man for there is no helpe in them For when the breath of mā goeth furth he shal turne again to hys
earth and then all hys thoughtes peryshe Blessed is he that hath the God of Iacob for hys helpe and whole hope is in the Lord hys god Which made heauen and earth the Sea and al that therin is which kepeth hys promyse for euer Which helpeth them to ryght that suffre wrong whiche fedeth the houngry The lord loseth men out of prieson the lord geueth syght to the blynde The lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the ryghteous The lord careth for the straūgers he defendeth the fatherlesse and widdowe as for the waye of the vngodly he turneth it vpsyde downe The lorde thy god O Sion shall be kyng for euermore and thorowout all generacions Laudate dominum psal cxlvii Euenīg prayer O Prayse the lorde for it is a good thyng to syng prayses vnto our God yea a ioyfull and pleasaunt thyng is it to be thankefull The lord doth build vp Hierusalem and gather together the outcastes of Israel He healeth those that are broken in heart and geueth medecine to heale their sickenes He telleth the number of the starres and calleth them al by their names Great is our lord and great is his power yea his wisdom is infinite The lorde setteth vp the meke and bringeth the vngodly down to the grounde O sing vnto the lord with thankesgeuing sing praise vpon the harpe vnto our god Whiche couereth the heauen with cloudes and prepareth raine for the earth and maketh the grasse to growe vpon the mountaynes and hearbe for the vse of men Which geueth fodder vnto the cattell and fedeth the young rauens that call vpon hym He hath not pleasure in the strength of an horse neither delighteth he in any mans legges But the lordes delight is in them that feare hym and put theyr trust in hys mercy Prayse the Lorde O Ierusalem prayse thy God O Syon For he hath made faste the barres of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth the with floure and wheate He sendeth furth his commaundement vpon earth and his word runneth very swiftly He geueth snowe lyke wolle and scattereth the hoare frost lyke asshes He casteth foorth hys yse lyke morselles who is hable to abide his frost He sendeth out his worde and melteth them he bloweth with his winde and the waters slowe He sheweth his woorde vnto Iacob hys statutes and ordinaunces vnto Israel He hath not dealte so with any nacion neyther haue the Heathen knowledge of hys lawes Laudate dominum de celis psalm cxlviii O Prayse the lorde of heauen praise him in the heigth Praise him al ye Aungels of his praise him al his host Prayse him sunne and Mone praise him al ye starres and lyght Prayse him al ye heauens and ye waters that be aboue the heauens Let them prayse the name of the Lorde for he spake the worde and they were made he cōmaunded and they were created He hath made them fast for euer and euer he hath geuen them a lawe whiche shall not be broken Prayse the Lorde vpon earth ye dragons all diepes Fier and haile snow and vapors winde and storme fulfilling his worde Mountaynes and al hils fruitefull trees and al Cedres Beastes and all cattel wormes and fethered foules Kinges of the earth and all people princes and al iudges of the worlde Young men and maidens olde men and children praise the name of the Lorde for his name onely is excellent and hys prayse aboue heauen and earth He shall exalte the horne of his people al his saintes shal praise him euen the children of Israel euen the people that serueth hym Cantate domino psalm cxlix O Sing vnto the Lorde a newe song let the congregacion of sainctes prayse him Let Israel reioyce in him that made him and lette the children of Syon be ioyefull in theyr Kyng Let them prayse hys name in the daunce let them syng prayses vnto him with tabret and harpe For the Lorde hathe pleasure in his people and helpeth the meke hearted Let the sainctes be ioyefull with glory let them reioyce in theyr beddes Let the praises of God be in their mouth and a two edged sweorde in theyr handes To bee auenged of the Heathen and to rebuke the people To bynde theyr kinges in chaynes and theyr nobles with linkes of yron That they may be auenged of them as it is written such honour haue all his sainctes Laudate dominum psalm cl O Prayse God in his holines praise hym in the firmament of his power Prayse hym in hys noble actes prayse hym according to his excellent greatnesse Prayse hym in the sound of the trumpet prayse hym vpon the lute and harpe Prayse him in the cimbals and daunces prayse hym vpon the stringes and pype Prayse hym vpon the well tuned cimbals prayse hym vpon the loud cimbals Let euery thyng that hath breath prayse the Lorde ¶ The ende of thys Booke ¶ Certain godly prayers to be vsed for sondrye purposes ¶ A generall confession of sinnes to be sayd euery mornyng O Almightye God oure heauenly father I confesse and knowledge that I am a miserable a wretched synner and haue manyfolde wayes moste grieuously transgressed thy most godli commaundementes thorowe wicked thoughtes vngodly lustes synfull woordes and dedes and in my whole lyfe In synne am I borne and conceued and there is no goodnes in me inasmuch as if thou shouldest entre into thy narrow iudgemente with me iudgeyng me accordyng vnto thesame I were neuer able to suffre or abide it but must nedes perishe and bee damned for euer So little helpe coumforte or succour is there eyther in me or in anye other creature Onely this is my coumfort O heauenly father that thou didst not spare thy onely deare beloued sonne but diddest geue him vp vnto the most bitter and moste vile and slaunderous death of the crosse for me that he mighte so paye the raunsome for my sinnes satisfie thy iudgement stil and pacifie thy wrath reconcile me againe vnto thee and purchase me thy grace fauour and euerlastyng lyfe Wherfore thorow the merite of his most bitter death and passion and thorow his innocēt bloudsheding I beseche thee O heauenly father that thou wilt vouchsafe to be gracious and merciful vnto me to forgeue and to pardon me all my sinnes to lighten my hearte with thy holye spirite to renue confirme and strengthen me with a ryght and a perfect fayth and to enflame me in loue toward thee and my neighboure that I maye hencefoorthe with a willyng and a gladde hearte walke as it becometh me in thy most godly commaundementes and so gloryfye prayse thee euerlastyngly And also that I maye with a free concyence and quiete hearte in all maner of temptacyons afflyccyons or necessyties euen in the verye pangues of deathe crye boldelye and merelye vnto thee and saye I beeleue in God the father almyghtye maker of heauen and earthe And in Iesus Christ c. But O lord God
heauenly father to comfort my self in affliccion and temptacyon with these articles of the christen faith it is not in my power For fayth is thy gyft and forasmuche as thou wylte bee prayed vnto and called vpon for it I come vnto thee to praye and beseche thee bothe for that and for all my other necessities euen as thy deare beloued sonne oure Sauiour Chryst Iesus hathe hym selfe taught vs. And from the very botome of my hearte I crye and saye O oure father whyche arte in heauen c. ¶ Prayers to be sayde in the mornyng O Mercyfull Lord God heauenly father I rendre most hygh laudes prayse and thankes vnto thee that thou hast preserued me bothe thys nyghte and all the tyme and dayes of my lyfe hytherto vnder thy proteccion and hast suffred me to lyue vntill thys presente houre And I beseche thee hartely thou wylte vouchesafe to receyue me thys day and the residue of my whole lyfe from hencefoorthe into thy tuicion rulyng and gouernyng me with thy holye spiryte that all maner of darkenes of misbeliefe infidelitie and of carnall lustes and affeccions may be vtterly chased and driuen out of my heart and that I may bee iustified and saued both body and soule thorow a right and a perfect fayth and so walke in the lyght of thy most godly trueth to thy glorye and prayse and to the profite and furtheraunce of my neighbour thorow Iesus Christ our Lorde and sauiour Amen ALl possible thankes that we are hable we rendre vnto thee O Lorde Iesus Christe for that thou hast willed thys nyght past to bee prosperous vnto vs and we beseche thee lykewyse to prosper all thys same daye vnto vs for thy glory and for the health of oure soule and that thou which art the true light not knowing ani going down and which art the sunne eternal geuing life foode and gladnes vnto all thynges vouchsafe to shyne into oure myndes that we maye not any where stumble to fall into any synne but may through thy good guiding and conductyng come to the lyfe euerlastyng Amen O Lorde Iesus Christe which art the true sunne of the world euermore arysyng neuer going down which by thy moste holesome appearing fight doest bring furth preserue nourish and refreshe all thinges aswel that are in heauē as also that are on earth we beseche thee mercifully and fauourably to shine into oure heartes that the nyghte and darkenes of sinnes and the mistes of errours on euery side drieuē away thou brightly shining within our hertes we may al our lyfe space goe without any stumbling or offence may decently and semely walke as in the day time being pure and cleane from the woorkes of darkenesse and abounding in al good workes which god bath prepared for vs to walke in whyche wyth father and wyth the holy gost lyuest and reygnest for euer and euer Amen O God and lord Iesus Christ thou knowest yea hast also taught vs how great the infirmitie weakenesse of man is and how certain a thyng it is that it can nothing doe without thy godly helpe If man trust to himself it cannot be auoyded but that he muste headlong runne and fall into a thousande vndoynges and mischiefes O oure father haue thou pietie compassion vpon the weakenes of vs thy children bee thou prest ready to helpe vs alwayes shewing thy mercy vpon vs prospering whatsoeuer we godlye goe aboute so that thou geuing vs light we may see what thynges are truely good in dede thou encouragyng vs we may haue an earnest desire to thesame and thou being oure gyde we maye come where to obtayne them for we hauing nothyng but mistrust in our selues doe yelde and commytte oure selues full and whole vnto the alone whiche workest all thynges in al creatures to thy honour glory So be it ¶ A prayer agaynst temptacion O Lorde Iesus Christe the onely staye and fence of oure mortal state our onely hope our onely saluacyon oure glory our triumphe who in the fleshe which thou haddest for oure onely cause taken vpon thee didst suffre thy selfe to be tempted of Sathan and who onely and alone of all men didst vtterly ouercome vanquishe sinne death the worlde the deuil and al the kingdome of hell and whatsoeuer thou hast to ouercomed for our behofe it is that thou hast ouercomed it neyther hath it been thy wyll to haue any of thy seruauntes kepe battail or fight with any of the foresaid euis but of purpose to rewarde vs with a crown of the more glory for it and to thintente that thou myghtest lykewyse ouerthrow Sathan in thy members as thou hadst afore done in thyne owne person geue thou we beseche thee vnto vs thy souldyers O Lion moste victorious of the trybe of Iuda strength against the roaring Lion which continually wandreth to and fro sekyng whom he may deuour Thou being that same serpent the true geuer of health and life that wer nayled on high vpon a tree geue vnto vs thy litle sely ones wilines agaynst the deceitfull a wayting of the most subtyle serpente Thou beyng a lambe as white as snowe the vanquisher of Satans tyranny geue vnto vs thy litle shepe the strength and vertue of thy spirite that beeyng in oure owne selues weake and feble and in thee strong valeant we may withstande and ouercome all assaultes of the deuyll so that our gostly enemy may not glory on vs but beeing conquerers through thee we may geue thankes to thy mercye which neuer leaueth them destitute that put their truste in thee who lyuest and reygnest God for euer wythoute ende Amen ¶ A prayer for obteyning of wysedome Sapien. ix O God of our fathers and Lord of mercy thou that hast made all thynges with thy worde and ordeyned man through thy wisedom that he should haue dominacion ouer the creature whiche thou haste made that he shoulde order the worlde accordyng to equitie righteousnes execute iudgement with a true heart geue me wisdō which is euer about thy seat put me not out frō among thy children for I thy seruaūt sonne of thy handmayde am a feble person of a shorte tyme and to yonge to the vnderstandyng of thy iudgement lawes yea though a man be neuer to perfecte among the children of men yet if thy wisedome be not with him he shal be nothing worthe Oh sende thy wisedome out of thy holye heauens and from the throne of thy maiestie that she maie be with me and labour with me that I maie know what is acceptable in thy sight for she knoweth and vnderstandeth all thinges and she shall conducte me right soberlye in my woorkes and preserue me in her power So shall my workes be acceptable Amen A Prayer against worldly carefulnes O Most deare tender father our defender nourisher endue vs with thy grace that we may cast of the great blindnes of our mindes carefulnes of worldly thinges may put our