arguings every impure lust and filthy desire all pride and envie all hypocrisie and lying all inordinate love of this world and base Covetousnesse all hardnesse of heart and unrelenting dispositions all peevishnesse and hasty anger all mindfulnesse of injuries and revengfulnesse all blasphemy and irreligion and every motion of soule and body which can withdraw us from thee and is against thy will and commandement II. Gracious Father give us perfect pardon for what is past and a perfect repentance of all our evills that for the time to come we may with pure spirits with broken and contrite hearts with sanctified lips and holy desires serve thee religiously walke humbly with our God converse justly and charitably with men and possesse our soules in patience and holinesse and our bodies in sanctification and honour through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The prayer of absolution to be said by the Minister alone according to his piety and discretion when he sees cause not frequently OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus the great shepheard and Bishop of our soules that lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world who promised paradise to the repenting theife and gave pardon to the woman taken in adultery he pardon and forgive all your sins knowne and unknowne *** O Blessed Jesus in whatsoever thy servants as men bearing flesh about them and inhabiting this world or deceived by the Devil have sinn'd whether in word or deed whether in thought or desire whether by omission or commission let it be forgiven unto them by thy word and by thy spirit and for ever preserve thy servants from sinning against thee and from suffering thine eternal anger for thy promise sake and for thy glorious Names sake O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then devoutly and distinctly say the Lords Prayer Our Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome come * Thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven * Give us this day our daily bread * And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespas against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom the power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen The Doxology GLory be to the Father of mercies the Father of Men and Angels the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory be to the most holy and eternall sonne of God the Blessed Saviour and Redeemer of the World the Advocate of sinners the Prince of Peace the Head of the Church and the mighty Deliverer of all them that call upon him Glory be to the holy and Eternall spirit of God the Holy Ghost the comforter the sanctifying and life-giving Spirit All Glory and thankes all honour and power all love and obedience be to the Blessed and undivided Trinity one God Eternall The Heavens declare thy glory the Earth confesses thy providence the sea manifests thy power and every spirit and every understanding creature celebrates thy greatnesse for ever end ever * All glory and majesty all praises and dominion be unto thee O God Father Son and Holy Ghost for ever and ever Amen Then arising from their knees let the Psalter be read in order as shall be judged convenient that is to say The ordinary portions for every day Morning and Evening prayers and Psalmes particularly chosen for speciall dayes of festivity or of Humiliation respectively After the Psalmes ending with Glory be to the Father c. Read a chapter in the old Testament The chapter out of the old Testament is to be read on Sundaies and Festivals and not omitted without great occasion but on ordinary daies it may suffice after the Psalmes immediately to reade the lesson out of the new Testament After which recite this Hymne to the honour of God saying the verses interchangeably * REjoyce in the Lord ye righteous for praise is comely for the Upright ¶ The word of the Lord is true and all his works are faithfull * He loveth righteousnesse and judgement the earth is full of the goodnesse of the Lord. ¶ By the word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth * He gathereth the waters of the Sea together as an heape he layeth up the depth in storehouses ¶ Let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him * Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercie ¶ To deliver their soules from death and to keep them alive in the time of famine * Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of all ¶ Evill shall slay the wicked and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate * Incline not my heart to any evill thing to practise wicked works with Men that work iniquity and let me not eat of their dainties ¶ Cause me to heare thy loving kindenesse in the morning for in thee do I trust cause me to know the way wherein I should walke for I lift up my soule unto thee * Teach me to do thy will for thou art my God thy spirit is good lead me into the Land of uprightnesse ¶ Gather not my soule with sinners nor my life with bloody men * The poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles ¶ O tast and see that the Lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him * O how great is thy goodnesse which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of Men. ¶ Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of Man Thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavillion from the strife of tongues * O love the Lord all ye his Saints for the Lord preserveth the faithfull and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer ¶ Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all you that hope in the Lord. Glory be to the Father c. Or this * SIng praises unto God sing praises sing praises unto our King sing praises For God is the King of all the Earth sing ye praises with understanding ¶ God reigneth over the Nations God sitteth upon the throne of his holinesse * He is our refuge and strength a very present helpe in trouble ¶ Many O Lord our God are thy wonderfull workes which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are towards us They cannot be reckon'd in order * For God is my King of old working salvation in the midst of the Earth ¶ Thou didst cleave the fountaine and the floud thou driest up mighty rivers * The daye is thine the night also is thine thou hast prepared the light and the Sunne ¶ Thou hast set all the borders of the Earth thou hast made Summer and Winter * Give unto the Lord the glorie due unto his name worship
not for the foulnesse but if we were tempted we did fall and where we did fall there we did love to lie we have sinn'd worse then the adulteresse or the theife more then the publican or the prodigal oftner then David or Manasses we have sinn'd against greater mercies a more determin'd conscience a better law a clearer revelation more terrible threatnings and better much better promises II. We know O God and tremble at the sad remembrance that all our sins shall be plac'd before our faces at the day of thy dreadfull appearance O looke upon us with a mighty pity let not the Angel of wrath snatch our precious soules from thy beatifick presence Take not the sweet refreshments of thy Spirit from us one houre O Dearest Lord thou lover of soules take not our lives from us while our soules are unprepared and unready unexcus'd and unpardon'd for thou knowest the abysse of our sins and thou knowest what is that abysse of flames and anger which is prepared for foolish and unwary soules III. Most Blessed Saviour Jesus thou gavest thy life to redeeme us from death and thou art the Judge of those actions for which thou wert a sacrifice and to give sentence upon those men for whom thou art an advocate and makest perpetuall intercession O suffer us not to fall under thine eternall anger destroy the whole body of sin in us bring our understandings into the obedience of God our affections under the dominion of reason our reason into a perfect subordination to thy Holy Spirit that we may love thee and feare thee and by repentance and charity may enter into thy favour and dwell there by a holy perseverance all our daies through Jesus Christ our Lord. IV. The Prayers DOe thou open our eyes that we may see our own vilenesses and forsake them and our foolish errors that we may amend them and all our infirmities that we may watch against them and all our dutie that we may pursue it earnestly and passionately prudently and intirely presently and for ever Cause us to returne to our duty with greater fervor and devotion then ever we have sinn'd against thee with pleasure and delight and as we have dishonourd thee by our unworthinesse so grant that we may glorifie thee tentimes more weeping bitterly for our sins watching against them strictly hating them infinitely and forsaking them utterly O grant that we may every day renew our repentances and vowes of a better life and make us to doe every day what we promise and what is our dutie so imprinting a holy religion and a severe repentance in our spirits that we may confesse our sins with a reall and humble sorrow and beg for pardon because we desire it and aske for thy helpe because wee will make use of it and number our sins because wee will leave them not resting in formes of godlinesse but living in the power of it in love and duty in holinesse and godly choice through Jesus Christ our Lord. V. MOst Gracious God and Father imprint in our hearts great apprehensions of thy power and thy glories of thy judgement and thy mercies of our sins and of our change approaching of our fugitive life and the day of our death of our duty and our danger and the inexpressible terrors of the day of Judgement and in proportion to such apprehensions teach us O God to walke in this world with fear and caution with hope and purity with diligence and devotion religiously and usefully humbly and charitably with love and obedience to thee with love and Justice to our neighbours with sober spirits and chast bodies with temperance and peace with faith and patience with health and holinesse in the favour of God and the friendlinesse of our neighbours in the communion of the Church and in obedience to all good lawes that we being blessed by thy providence defended by thy ministring Angels conducted by thy good Spirit instructed by thy word nourished by the body of Christ cleansed by his blood and clothed with his righteousnesse may grow from grace to grace in the increase of God to the fulnesse of Christ being subjects of thy Kingdome of grace in this world and heirs of the Kingdome of glory in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. VI. GIve us pardon O thou God of mercy and peace for all the errors and follies the ignorances and omissions the rash words and imprudent actions of which any of us hath been guilty this day or at any time before we confesse our sins every day and yet every day sin against thee and we pray unto thee for all the blessings that we neede and thou givest us all that we pray for and much more but yet we regard thee not but every day have new matter of shame and sorrow Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us FOr if thou Lord wilt be extreme to marke what is done amisse we shall not be able to abide or stand upright in judgement Thy mercy is great and thou hast blessed us this day and kept us from the evils of our inclination and the evils of temptation and though in the things wherein our consciences doe not accuse us we are not justified but by thy mercies loving-kindnesse in Christ Jesus yet we rejoyce in thy goodnesse to us and praise thy bounties and thy love and hope in thy mercies and beg of thee that thou wilt pardon us and keepe us this night and ever sanctify and save us blesse us at home and abroad in the workes of our calling and the duties of religion in our persons and relations make us to doe what pleaseth thee and to be what thou hast designed us to be and to receive what thou hast promised and to keepe us from all the evill we have deserved for Jesus Christ his sake our dearest Lord and Saviour Amen THe Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communication of the holy Spirit of God be with us and with all our relatives and with all the servants of God for ever and ever Amen Varieties to be added upon the great Festivals of the Yeare Upon Christmas day The Psalmes appointed at Morning Prayer Psalme 2. Psalme 45. Psalme 110. Evening Prayer Psalme 87. Psalme 89. The Hymne for Christmas day to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening Prayer * PRaise waiteth for thee O God in Sion and unto thee shall the vow be performed * O thou that hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come * Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts He shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house even of thy Holy Temple * By terrible things in righteousnesse wilt thou answer us O God of our salvation who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of them that are a far off upon the sea *
Come and hear all ye that fear God and I will declare what he hath done for my soule * The people that walked in darknesse hath seen a great light and they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shin'd * O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he hath done for the children of men * He turneth the wildernesse into a standing water and dry ground into water-springs * He maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a joyfull mother of Children * For unto us a child is borne unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders * His name shall be called wonderfull counsellor the mighty God the everlasting Father the prince of peace * Of the increase of his Government and peace there shall be no end * He shall sit upon the throne of David to order his Kingdome and to establish it with judgement and justice for ever and ever * O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and declare the wonders that he hath done for the children of Men. Minister Glory be to God on high Answer And on earth peace good will towards men Minister Amen Answer Amen Then proceed to the Nicene Creed The collect to be inserted after the first collect of the Morning and Evening prayer and may be said during the twelve daies ALmighty God who hast so loved the world that for our redemption from sin misery thou gavest thy son that he taking upon him our nature and being borne of a Virgin might performe to thee the obedience which mankind owed and pay the price in which we were indebted and teach us what thou wouldest have us to doe and convey to us all the good which thou didst designe for us overshadow us with thy holy Spirit of grace that we may conceive Christ in our hearts by faith relyup on him in a holyhope and expresse him in anexcellent charity that as he was pleased to take upon him our nature so we may be borne againe and be partakers of the Divine nature that conforming to his image following his example and being filled with his Spirit we may grow in the knowledge and love of God and live in righteousnesse that being thy sons by a holy adoption we may partake of the inheritance of thy welbeloved son the firstborne of all the creatures our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen Upon Good Friday Instead of the Psalmes of the day read at Morning Prayer Psalme 22. Psalme 25. Psalme 51. Evening Prayer Psalme 81. Psalme 85. Psalme 86. Psalme 88. or any three of them The Collect. O Most Blessed most gracious Saviour Jesus who by thyobedience unto death even the death of the crosse didst become the sacrifice of the world the great example of patience the Lord of life the good shepherd laying downe thy life for thy sheepe and the mediator betweene God and man let thy wounds heale thy blood cleanse thy death make us to live and thy Spirit make us to worke righteousnesse all our daies that we may by thy aide and by thy example obey our heavenly Father with all our powers and all our faculties with our reason and our affections with our soules and with our bodies with our time and with our estate in prosperity and adversity that we may beare our crosse patiently and doe thy worke cheerefully and be ready to benefit mankind with great charity and great industry that being followers of thy life and partakers of thy death we may receive a part in the resurrection of the just to the joyes of God in thy inheritance O most blessed most Gracious Saviour Jesus Amen For Easter day The Psalmes appointed for Morning Prayer Psalme 30. Psalme 45. Psalme 47. Evening Prayer Psalme 57. Psalme 66. Psalme 72. The Hymne to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening prayer IN thee O Lord I have put my trust let me never be put to confusion but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousnesse incline thine ear unto me and save me ¶ Be thou my strong hold whereunto I may alway resort thou hast promised to helpe me for thou art my house of defence and my Castle * For thou O Lord God art the thing that I long for thou art my hope even from my youth ¶ Thorough thee have I beene holden up ever since I was borne thou art he that tooke me out of my mothers wombe my praises shall be alwaies of thee * O let my mouth be filled with thy praise that I may sing of thy glory and honour all the day long ¶ Thy righteousnesse O God in very high and great things are they which thou hast done O God who is like unto thee◠* O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me and yet didst thou turne and refresh me yea and broughtest me from the deepe of the earth againe ¶ Thou hast brought to me great honour and comforted me on every side * Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulnesse O God playing upon an instrument of musick unto thee will I sing upon the harp O thou holy one of Israel ¶ My lips will be faine when I sing unto thee and so will my soule whom thou hast delivered * Blessed be the Lord God even the God of Israel which onely doth wondrous things ¶ And blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever and all the earth shall be filled with his Majesty Amen Amen Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect O Most Holy most Glorious Saviour and redeemer Jesu who for our sakes didst descend from the glories of God to the paines and labours of the earth and didst passe from a painfull life to an ignominious death from the bitternesse of death to the darkenesse of the grave and by thy divine power didst raise thy selfe from death to life againe we give thee thanks for thy infinite love to us and all mankind we acknowledge thee to be our Lord and confesse thee to be our God we adore thy Majesty and rejoyce in thy mercies we humbly pray thee to enable us with thy Spirit to beleive all thy doctrines and to obey all thy Commandements that after a holy and a religious life spent in doing honour to thy holy Name we may be partakers of thy holy resurrection passing from death to life from the darkenesses of the grave to the light of Heaven from an imperfect duty to the perfection of holinesse in the fruition of the joyes of God in thy eternall Kingdome O Most holy Most Glorious Saviour and Redeemer Jesu Amen Upon Ascension day Instead of the Psalmes of the day read at Morning Prayer Psalme 15. Psalme 21. Psalme 24. Evening Prayer Psalme 92. Psalme 96. Psalme 97. The Collect. O Blessed High Priest Holy Jesus King of the world and head of the Church who
when thou hadst taken upon thee our Nature and our sin and appeased thy Fathers wrath and perform'd all his will and overcome death and rescued all obedient soules from the hand of the enemy didst ascend to thy Eternall Father and open the Kingdome of Heaven to all beleivers thou hast espoused thy Church unto thy selfe with the eternall circles of thy providence with thy love and with thy care with thy word and with thy Spirit thy promises and thy holy intercession thou hadst a feeling of our infirmities and art our mercifull High Preist makeing intercession for us for ever O be pleased to represent and supply all our wants excuse all our infirmities pity all our calamities pardon our sins and send downe thy holy spirit of grace into our hearts that though we walke upon the earth yet our conversation may be in heaven and there also may be our portion and inheritance for ever through thy mercies O most Gracious Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen For Whitsunday Psalmes for Morning Prayer Psalme 87. Morning Prayer Psalme 89. Evening Prayer Psalme 2. Evening Prayer Psalme 45. Evening Prayer Psalme 110. The Hymne to be said after the second lesson at Morning and Evening Prayer * SIng a loud unto God our strength make a joyfull noise unto the God of Jacob. ¶ I will remember the workes of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate of all thy workes and talke of thy doings * Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people ¶ Vow and pay unto the Lord your God let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared * He shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the Kings of the earth ¶ Say unto God how terrible art thou in thy workes thorough the greatnesse of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee * Sion heard and was glad and the daughters of Judah rejoyced because of thy judgements O Lord. ¶ For thou Lord art high above all the earth thou art exalted farre above all Gods * Light is sowne for the righteous and gladnesse for the upright in heart ¶ Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thankes at the remembrance of his Holinesse * The Lord hath made knowne his salvation his righteousnesse hath he openly shewed in the sight of the Heathen ¶ He hath remembred his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel all the ends of the earth have seene the salvation of our God * Give unto the Lord O ye kinreds of the people give unto the Lord glory and strength ¶ For he commeth For he commeth to judge the earth he shall judge the world with righteousnesse and the people with his truth Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Collect. O Eternall God the Great Father of spirits the great Lover of soules who didst send thy holy Spirit upon thy Church in the day of Pentecost and hast promised that he shall abide with thy Church for ever let thy holy Spirit lead us into all truth defend us from all sin enrich us with his gifts refresh us with his comforts rule in our hearts for ever conduct us with his truth and lead us in the way everlasting that we living by thy Spirit and walking in him may by him be sealed up to the day of our redemption O let thy Spirit witnesse to our spirits that we are the children of God and make us to be so for ever through Jesus our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the same Spirit one God world without end Amen Upon Trinity Sunday O Blessed ineffable and most mysterious Trinity how admirable are thy beauties how incomparable are thy perfections how incomprehensible are those relations of the three most Blessed Persons which we believe and admire and adore but understand not The Angels are amazed in the unimaginable beauties of that glorious presence and are swallowed up with the Ocean of thy infinity How then can we who are in the lowest order of understanding creatures and have removed our selves further from thee and the participation of thy excellencies by a sinfull life praise thee either according to our duty or thy glories yet be pleased to accept the humblest adorations and with a favourable and a gracious eye behold the lowest worshippings and duty of thy servants We confesse and glory in thy omnipotency thy immensity thy goodnesse thy uncircumscribed Nature thy truth thy mercy thy omniscience O let us also receive thy blessings and gracious influences that we may adore thee with all our powers and possibilities for ever love thee with all our affections for ever serve with our best and earliest and all our industry that being here wholly inebriated with love and busied in thy service and the duties of a holy obedience we may to all eternity rejoyce in the beholding of those glories which are above all capacities above all heavens above all Angels even those glories which streame forth from the throne of the Eternall God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to whom be glory and dominion honour and adoration eternally confessed due and humbly paid by all men and all Angels world without end Amen A Collect to be used upon any of the Festivals or Commemoration of the Apostles ALmighty God who hast built thy holy Church upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himselfe being the cheife corner stone we blesse and magnifie thy Name thy holy and ever glorious Name for thy great graces which thou gavest to thy Apostles and Prophets and Martyrs in the daies of their flesh and this day we have thy servant S. Paul S. Peter S. James c. here name the Apostle c. in remembrance praising thee for the benefits which the church hath received by his ministery and example we pray unto thee to give us thy grace that we obeying thy doctrine which he taught and publish'd and following his example as he followed Christ we also may with safety and holinesse passe through this vally of tears that serving thee in our generation advancing thy honour and obeying thy lawes we may in the society and communion of Saints and Angels sing eternall Hallelujahs to the honour of thy mercy and of thy majesty through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen An Office or Order for the Holy Sacrament of the LORDS SUPPER An Office or order for the Administration of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the way of the Apostolicall Churches and the doctrine of the Church of England THE ANTECOMMUNION OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive
never heard and know what was never revealed below O grant that she may have aydes that her she never did neede even mighty assistances in proportion to her new and strang erstate that whatsoever is in the darkenesse or in the fire in the secret regions of wrath and the horrible places of torment and fearful exspectations may not afflict or affright the lambe of thy flock the price of thy bloud the child of thy kingdome and the portion of thine owne inheritance Amen V. O sweetest Jesu say unto this soule This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise say unto this foule Feare not for it is my Fathers pleasure to give thee a Kingdome Let this soule dwell in safe and pleasant regions and be supported with the hope of God comforted with a holy conscience rejoyce in a confirm'd pardon be recreated with the visitation of Angels and walke in white whithersoever the Lambe shall goe Amen VI. Give unto this decaying dying body a blessed and a glorious resurrection to this weary and afflicted this penitent and redeemed soule a portion in the blessed sentence of the right hand amongst the blessed children of thy Father who shall receive the Kingdome prepared for them from the beginning of the world Amen VII Remember O God the good things which by thy grace and by the aides of thy holy Spirit thy servant hath done in all his life and remember not his evil deedes which by the weakenesse of the flesh and the temptations of the Devil and the evil contingencies of this world have afflicted and humbled the soule of thy servant remember thy holy Son did die for these and thy holy Spirit was the cause of those and for whom thou hast given thy Son and to whom thou hast given thy Spirit give thy eternal pardon and thy eternal glories thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen After the soule is departed the Minister may say this prayer in behalfe of the living friends and relatives of the dead ALmighty God who governest all things in heaven and earth with infinite wisedome and infinite mercy and bringest good out of evil comfort out of sorrow and after a gentle visitation dost refresh thy children with the light of thy countenance with the blessings of thy providence with the returnes of thy grace and the comforts of thy holy Spirit have mercy upon this family and returne to them all with thy loving kindnesse exchanging their present sorrow into the advantages of holinesse and blessing Be thou now and ever what thou gloriest in a Father of the Fatherlesse a Husband to the Widow a God of comfort to them that mourn◠in secret Grant that thy servant may not weepe as men without hope nor murmure at thy dispensation nor complaine of any thing but themselves nor desire any thing but that thy will be done nor doe any thing but what is agreeable to thy holy word and commandement and grant that when thou smitest any of us it may increase thy feare in us and when thou doest good to any of us in smiting or forbearing in chastising or comforting it may increase thy love in us and let thy holy Spirit so prevail over all our wills and understandings our affections and the outward man our interests and our hopes that we may live in this world pleasing to thee and may goe out of this world with the peace of a holy conscience and may have a joyful resurrection in the last day to a participation of the glories of God thorough Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Blessing THE Lord blesse you and keepe you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace The blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and holy Ghost be amongst you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen Prayers and devotions to be us'd at the Burial of the Dead The Minister before the Corps entring at the Church doore may begin with one or more of these sentences A Good name is better then precious ointment and the day of death then the day of ones birth It is better to goe to the house of mourning then to goe to the house of feasting for that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart I am the resurrection and the life saith the Lord He that beleiveth in me yea though he were dead yet shall he live And whosoever liveth and beleiveth in me shall not die for ever It is appointed to all men once to die and after death comes judgement I would not have you to be ignorant concerning them which are asleepe that we sorrow not even as others without hope For if we beleive that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleepe in Jesus will God bring with him After the Corps is set downe in the body of the Church let Morning or Evening prayer be read according to the time of the day with this difference onely Instead of the usual Psalmes Read Psalme 39. Psalme 49. Psalme 90. For the first lesson read Job 14. or 19. After the first lesson read Psalme 88. For the second lesson read 1 Corinth 15. from verse 12 to the end After the second lesson read Nunc dimittis * LOrd now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word ¶ For mine eyes have seen thy salvation * Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people ¶ To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. After the usual prayers are done then the Corps carried being to the grave the Minister shall read this lesson Ecclesiastes 12. REmember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth while the evil daies come not nor the yeers draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them While the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkned nor the clouds return after the rain In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow themselves and the grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the windows be darkned And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and feares shall be in the way and the almond-tree shall flourish and the grashopper shall be a burden and desire shall fail because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets Or ever the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowle be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern Then shall the dust retrun
4 9 13 May 30 25 28 1676 Mar. 26 April 30 4 21 27 Dec. 3 1677 April 15 May 20 24 June 10 24 2 1678 Mar. 31 5 9 May 26 26 1 1679 April 20 25 29 June 15 23 Nov. 30 1680 11 16 20 6 24 28 1681 3 8 12 May 29 25 27 1682 16 21 25 June 11 24 Dec. 3 1683 8 13 17 3 25 2 1684 Mar. 30 4 8 May 25 26 Nov. 30 1685 April 19 24 28 June 14 23 29 1686 4 9 13 May 30 25 28 1687 Mar. 27 1 5 22 26 27 An Almanack for 50. years The year of our Lord The Golden Number The Epact The Dominical Letter Sundays after the Epiphany Septuagesima Sunday Shrovetuesday 1688 17 7 A g 5 Feb. 12 Febr. 27 1689 18 18 f 2 Jan. 27 12 1690 19 29 e 5 Feb. 16 Mar. 4 1691 1 11 d 4 8 Febr. 24 1692 2 22 c b 2 Jan. 24 9 1693 3 3 A 5 Febr. 12 28 1694 4 14 g 4 4 20 1695 5 25 f 1 Jan. 20 5 1696 6 6 e d 4 Febr. 9 25 1697 7 17 c 3 Jan. 31 16 1698 8 28 b 6 Febr. 20 Mar. 8 1699 9 9 A 4 5 Febr. 21 1700 10 20 g f 3 Jan. 28 13 1701 11 1 e 5 Febr. 16 Mar. 4 1702 12 12 d 3 1 Febr. 17 1703 13 23 c 2 Jan. 24 9 1704 14 4 b A 5 Febr. 13 28 1705 15 15 g 4 4 20 1706 16 26 f 1 Jan. 20 5 An Almanack for 50. years The year of our Lord Easter day Rogation Sunday Ascension day Trinity Sunday Sundays after Trinity Advent Sunday 1688 April 15 May 20 May 24 June 10 24 Dec. 2 1689 Mar. 31 5 9 May 26 26 1 1690 April 20 25 29 June 15 23 Nov. 30 1691 12 17 21 7 24 29 1692 Mar. 27 1 5 May 22 26 27 1693 April 16 21 25 June 11 24 Dec. 3 1694 8 13 17 3 25 2 1695 Mar. 24 April 28 2 May 19 27 1 1696 April 12 May 17 21 June 7 24 Nov. 29 1697 4 9 13 May 30 25 28 1698 24 29 June 2 June 19 23 27 1699 9 14 May 18 4 25 Dec. 3 1700 Mar. 31 5 9 May 26 26 1 1701 April 20 25 29 June 15 23 Nov. 30 1702 5 10 14 May 31 25 29 1703 Mar. 28 2 6 23 26 28 1704 April 16 21 25 June 11 24 Dec. 3 1705 8 13 17 3 25 2 1706 Mar. 24 April 28 May 2 May 19 27 1 A Table To finde Easter for ever The Golden Number A B C D E F G 1 April 9. 10 11 12 6 7 8 2 Mar. 26. 27 28 29 30 31 April 1 3 April 16. 17 18 19 20 14 15 4 April 9. 3 4 5 6 7 8 5 Mar. 26. 27 28 29 23 24 15 6 April 16. 17 11 12 13 14 15 7 April 2. 3 4 5 6 Mar. 31 April 1 8 April 23. 24 25 19 20 21 22 9 April 9. 10 11 12 13 14 8 10 April 2. 3 Mar. 28 29 30 31 April 1 11 April 16. 17 18 19 20 21 22 12 April 9. 10 11 5 6 7 8 13 Mar. 26. 27 28 29 30 31 25 14 April 16. 17 18 19 13 14 15 15 April 2. 3 4 5 6 7 8 16 Mar. 26. 27 28 22 23 24 25 17 April 16. 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 April 2. 3 4 5 Mar. 30 31 April 1 19 April 23. 24 18 19 20 21 22 When you have found the Sunday letter for that year on which you require Easter guide your eye downward from it till you come over against that number which is Prime for that year and that number which is directly under the Dominical and collateral to the Prime shews the time of Easter But note that the name of the Moneth is set at the left hand or else just with the Figure and follows not as in other Tables by descent but collaterally A Table of what is contained in this Book A Preface The Church Calendar with a Table of Lessons for every day of the year An advertisement to the Reader touching the lengthening or shortning of the Offices Morning Prayer throughout the year Evening Prayer throughout the year Additionals to the former Offices viz. A prayer before Sermon A prayer after Sermon A prayer when a sick person desires to be publickly prayed for A prayer for seasonable weather A prayer on the same occasion or in the time of any other judgment A shorter form of Morning prayer for a family A short form of Evening prayer for a family Varieties to be added upon the great Festivals or Solemnities of the year viz. Upon Christmass day Good Friday Easter day Ascension day Whitsunday Trinity Sunday A Collect to be used upon any of the Festivals or commemoration of the Apostles * Note that the Collect for Christmass day may be used upon the Annunciation An Office or Order for administration of the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper A form of administration of the Holy Sacrament of Baptism Devotions and proper offices for Women viz. An Office for safe child-birth An Office of publick Thanksgiving for safe childbirth or deliverance from any great sickness calamity or fear A prayer to be said immediately after the womans delivery to be said by the Minister or any other attendant A prayer for the new born child A prayer to be said by a new married wife A prayer for a fruitful womb A prayer to be said by an afflicted wife in behalf of a vicious husband A prayer of thanksgiving if she have escaped any violence or danger from him A mothers prayer for her children The Widows prayer A prayer to be used by the widow if she have children of both sexes The Offices or Forms of Prayer and Devotion for the miserable and afflicted viz. An Office to be said in the days of persecution of a Church by Sacrilegious or violent persons A prayer for an Army or Navy in time of War An Office for Prisoners for Prisoners in General of Debt of Crime condemn'd to death or Warre or Oppression An Office or form of prayer for Sailers or Mariners A form of prayer and blessing to be used over him that in the beginning of a journey desires the prayers of the Minister of the Church A prayer in behalf of Fools or Changelings A prayer for Madmen A prayer in behalf of Hereticks and seduced persons * Note that these three last prayers are also to be used upon Good Friday An Office at the Visitation of the sick An Office for Burial of the dead A form of dâ—â—otion to be used and said in the days of sorrow and affliction of a family or private person A private prayer to be said by or for a person apt to be afflicted with fear of death Gods anger the uncertain state of his soul. A form of Thanksgiving after a plentiful harvest after recovery from a a plague or other sickness after a Victory or the prosperous ending of a Warre The Great
Penitential Letanies The Psalter or Psalms of David after the Kings Translations with Arguments newly fitted to the design and sense of every Psalm An Advertisement to them that shall use these PRAYERS BEcause no prayers are the more pleasing to God for being long and they are oftentimes displeasing even to good men if they be very long and yet on the other side if the devotion be long it is the better and if that be lasting it ought to be supplied with materials like gummes to the Altar of incense and fuel for the holy fires he that collected these devotions did design to serve the advantages both of length and shortness that the most devout may be fitted and the most secular and imployed may not be wearied 1. Therefore although every thing is set down at length that the trouble of references and turnings back might be avoided and therefore seem longer then they are and the Hymnes are sometimes double that the variety might be more apt to please and to instruct and the Offices are made full that upon the more solemne days when people come with a greater and more active devotion and greater leisure their time and their piety might be imployed yet on other days there is but one Lesson appointed and one Hymne to follow it 2. The prayers are divided into smaller portions that with ease any of them may be omitted by persons whose occasions force them from their attendance on longer Offices besides that there are two forms of Morning and Evening Prayer the one shorter the other longer 3. In the beginning of Morning and Evening Prayer some of the devotions which are set down are desired and intended to be used but seldome not onely to avoid tediousness but for other reasons very obvious that the Ministers more solemn power and office might not be less regarded by being daily and consequently very often without just dispositions offered I mean it concerning the form of Absolution The Confession may be shortned as there is cause by making use onely of some of the sections and leaving out the other 4. If upon Communion days the morning Prayer and the Communion Office be not read at one time but the morning Prayer be read at seven or eight of the clock in the morning and the Communion office at the time of celebration or if it be convenient that they be both together if then the Sermon be in the afternoon the length will be very tolerable 5. These Prayers being intended onely as a charitable ministery to them who are not permitted to use those which were appointed formerly there is no necessity upon any one and he may use as much or as little as he please and therefore no man will have cause to complain of length or shortness ☞ For the Offices themselves I pray God bless them to all those ends whither they are designed and to which in their own nature they can minister And as I humbly recommend them to Gods blessing so I doe submit them to the judgement of my afflicted Mother the Church of England and particularly to the censure of my spiritual Superiours and I desire that these Prayers may no longer be used in any publick place then my L ds the B ps upon prudent enquiries and grave considerations shall perceive them apt to minister to Gods glory and useful to the present or future necessities of the Sons and Daughters of the Church of England MORNING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE Say one or more of these Sentences HE that covereth his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses though we have rebelled against him Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God to walke in his lawes which he hath set before us by his servants the prophets Dan. 9. 10. If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us But if we confesse our sins he is faithfull and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousnesse 1 John 1. 8 9. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise â—sal 51. 17. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby ye have transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit For why will ye die I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth saith the Lord God Wherefore turne your selves and live ye Ezek. 18. 31 32. After which say Draw nigh therefore unto God and he will draw nigh unto you Cleanse your hands and purifie your hearts Humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and make a confession of your sins unto him with a hearty sorrow and a humble hope begging for pardon at the throne of Grace Let us pray The Confession I. O Almighty God Great Lord of Heaven and Earth we miserable sinners with fear and shame cast our selves downe before thee humbly confessing our manifold sins and unsufferable wickednesses by which we have deserved thy wrath and that we should be separated from the sweetest comforts of thy presence for ever II. We confesse O Great God we have sinned against thee by knowledge and by ignorance by folly and by surprize by word and deed by anger and desires by night and by day in private and in publick by the lusts of the flesh and the vanity and pride of our spirits our sins of omission are infinite and the sins of our tongue cannot be numbred O God thy words and lawes are holy and thy judgements are terrible but we have broken all thy righteous lawes and commandements and we have great cause to be afraid of thy severest judgements and where shall we appeare when thou art angry with us III. But thou shalt answer for us O Lord our God Thou art our Judge but thou art our Redeemer we have sin'd but thou O Blessed Jesus art our Advocate Have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most miserable sinners Enter not into judgement with us least we die let not thine anger arise least we be consumed but spare us gracious Lord spare thy servants whom thou hast redeem'd with thy most precious blood O reserve not evil in store for us against the day of vengeance but shew thy goodnesse in us and let thy mercies be magnified upon us deliver us O Lord from the power of sin and preserve us from the punishments of it through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Deprecation to be used upon solemn daies or at the discretion of him that ministers I. O Lord our God whose power is infinite whose glory is supreme whose mercie is without measure whose goodnesse is unspeakeable despise not thy returning servants who earnestly beg for pardon and to be reconciled to thee sanctify O God our bodies and soules search out our spirits and cast out all iniquity from within us all weak principles and false
this Psalme * PLeade thou my cause O Lord with them that strive with me for they have laid their net to destroy me without a cause yea even without a cause have they made a pit for my soule ¶ Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoyce over me neither let them winke with the eye that hate me without a cause * For they speake not peace but they devise deceitfull matters against them that are quiet in the land ¶ They rewarded me evill for good to the great discomfort of my soule * Stirre up thy selfe and awake to my judgement even unto my cause my God and my Lord. ¶ Judge me O Lord my God according to my righteousnesse and let them not rejoyce over me * And my soule shall be joyful in the Lord it shall rejoyce in his salvation ¶ All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee which deliverest the poore from him that is too strong for him yea the poore and needy from him that spoileth him * Let them shout for joy and be glad that favour my righteous cause yea let them say continually let the Lord be magnified which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants ¶ Trust in the Lord and doe good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed * Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him fret not thy selfe because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to passe ¶ For the Lord shall laugh at him for he seeth that his day is comming * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Minister The Lord be with you Answer And with thy Spirit Let us pray Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Collect. ALmighty and everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and lovest not that a sinner should die before thee and before thy Angels there is joy in heaven at the conversion of a sinner thou hast promised pardon to the penitent and salvation to them that persevere O grant that we may never presume on thy mercy or despise the riches of thy goodnesse but that thy forbearance and long suffering may lead us to repentance create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we truly mourning for our sins and forsaking them condemning our selves and justifying thee crucifying the old man and becomming new creatures may obtaine of thee mercy and remission that though we are now worthily punished for our sins by the comfort of thy grace we may be mercifully releived through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen I. The prayer for the Church O Eternal God thou preserver of men and the Great lover of soules have pitty and compassion upon thine afflicted handmaid the Church of England Thou hast humbled us for our pride and chastised us for our want of discipline O forgive us all our sins by which thou hast been provoked to anger and to Jealousie to despise our sorrowes and to arme thy selfe against us II. Blessed God smite us not with a final and exterminating judgement call not the watchmen off from their guards nor the Angels from their charges let us not die by a famine of thy Word and Sacraments If thou smitest us with the rod of a man thou canst sanctify every stroke unto us and canst bring good out of the evil and delightest to doe so but nothing can bring us a recompence if thou hatest us and sufferest the soules of thy people to perish III. Unite our hearts and tongues take away the Spirit of error and division from amongst us and so order all the accidents of thy providence that religion may increase and our devotion may be great and popular and truth may be incouraged and promoted and thy Name glorified and thy servants comforted and instructed that thy holy Spirit may rule and all interests may stoope and obey publish and advance the honour of our Lord Jesus Amen For the Superiour Clergy O Most blessed Saviour Jesus King of Heaven and earth the head and prince of the Catholick Church who hast appointed thy servants Ministers and stewards in the house of thy Father to give bread to the hungry and drinke to them that thirst after the water of life flowing from the Fountaines of our Saviour continue and blesse sanctify and adorne with thy gifts and graces all the Spiritual guides and governours which thou hast appointed over us that they may continue in thy service to comfort the afflicted to instruct the ignorant to confirme the strong to defend and promote thy truth to intercede for thy servants to open the kingdome of heaven to all beleivers and to shut up the disobedient and rebellious in everlasting prisons by the keyes of the Kingdome by thy word and Sacraments by thy power and by thy Spirit remove not the Candlestick from us neither doe thou quench the light of Israel but let thy servants our Bishops and Priests be like burning and shining lights in the Temple of God by a continual never failing never broken succession offering up the daily sacrifice rejoycing in the plenty of peace and the imployments of thy house in holy offices and a daily ministration that thou being for ever pleas'd and for ever glorified we may be thy peculiar people a chosen generation a royal priest-hood clothed with righteousnesse and singing with joyfulnesse Eternall Hallelujahs to the honour of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen For Priests and the Inferiour Clergy MOst Blessed and Eternal Jesu who art a Preist for ever after the order of Melchisedek and hast separated thy servants to minister to thee in holy offices and to convey holy things unto the people give unto all thy servants the Ministers of thy word and Sacraments the spirit of prudence and knowledge of faith and charity of watchfulnesse and holy zeale that they as good helpes in Government may declare thy will faithfully to their congregations and administer the Sacraments purely and devoutly and by their holy life become an example to thy litle flock that so they with cheerfulnesse and joy may render an account of their charge and may by thy mercy obtaine the blessing of thy Preisthood the glories of thy Kingdome O most Blessed and Eternall Saviour who livest and reignest with the Father and the holy Spirit eternal God world without end Amen The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. To this office may be added the confession of sins taken out of S. Ephraim the Syrian in the Evening prayer for a family and said immediately before the collect Or else Immediately before the blessing as opportunity shall require or permit may be said the Let any described at the end of these devotions Any of these prayers or psalmes may upon any occasion ordinary or extraordinary be used in any of the other offices In time of VVarre to the foregoing offices may be added these following prayers taken out of a special
FORMS of PRAYER Publick and Private Together with The PSALTER or PSALMS of David after the KINGS Translation Cum clamore valido et lachrymis preces offerens exauditus est pro suā reverentiā A Collection of offices OR FORMS of PRAYER IN Cases Ordinary and Extraordinary Taken out of the Scriptures and the ancient Liturgies of several Churches especially the GREEK Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David according to the Kings Translations with Arguments to the same S. Ignatius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed by J. Flesher for R. Royston at the sign of the Angel in Ivy-lane 1658. The PREFACE WHen Judges were instead of Kings and Hophni and Phinehas were among the Priests every man did what was right in his own eyes but few did what was pleasing in the eyes of the Lord and the event was this God put on his fierce anger against them and stirr'd up and arm'd the Enemies of their Country and Religion and they prevail'd very farre against the expectation and confidence of them who thought the goodness of their cause would have born out the iniquity of their persons and that the impiety of their adversaries would have disabled them even from being made Gods scourges and instruments of punishing his own people The sadness of the event proved the vanity of their hopes for that which was the instrument of their worship the determination of their religious addresses the place where God did meet his people from which the Priests spake to God and God gave his Oracles that they dishonourably and miserably lost The ark of the Lord was taken the impious Priests who made the Sacrifice of the Lord to become an abomination to the people were slain with the sword of the Philistines old Eli lost his life and the wife of Phinehas died with sorrow and the miscarriages of childbirth crying out That the Glory was departed from Israel because the Ark of God was taken 2. In these things we also have been but too like the sons of Israel for when we sinned as greatly we also have groaned under as great and sad a calamity For we have not onely felt the evils of an intestine Warre but God hath smitten us in our spirit and laid the scene of his judgements especially in Religion he hath snuffed our lamp so near that it is almost extinguished and the sacred fire was put into a hole of the earth even then when we were forced to light those tapers that stood upon our Altars that by this sad truth better then by the old ceremony we might prove our succession to those holy men who were constrained to sing hymnes to Christ in dark places and retirements 3. But I delight not to observe the correspondencies of such sad accidents which as they may happen upon divers causes or may be forc'd violently by the strength of fancy or driven on by jealousy and the too fond opinings of troubled hearts and afflicted spirits so they doe but help to vex the offending part and relieve the afflicted but with a phantastick and groundless comfort I will therefore deny leave to my own affections to ease themselves by complaining of others I shall onely crave leave that I may remember Jerusalem and call to minde the pleasures of the Temple the order of her services the beauty of her buildings the sweetness of her songs the decency of her Ministrations the assiduity and Oeconomy of her Priests and Levites the daily sacrifice and that eternal fire of devotion that went not out by day nor by night these were the pleasures of our peace and there is a remanent felicity in the very memory of those spiritual delights which we then enjoyed as antepasts of heaven and consignations to an immortality of joyes And it may be so again when it shall please God who hath the hearts of all Princes in his hand and turneth them as the rivers of waters and when men will consider the invaluable loss that is consequent and the danger of sin that is appendant to the destroying such forms of discipline and devotion in which God was purely worshipped and the Church was edified and the people instructed to great degrees of piety knowledge and devotion 4. And such is the Liturgy of the Church of England I shall not need to enumerate the advantages of Liturgy in general though it be certain that some Liturgy or other is most necessary in publick addresses that so we may imitate the perpetual practice of all setled Churches since Christianity or ever since Moses Law or the Jewish Church came to have a setled foot and any rest in the land of Canaan 2. That we may follow the example and obey the precept of our blessed Saviour who appointed a set form of devotion and certainly they that profess enmity against all Liturgy can in no sense obey the precept given by him who gave command When ye pray say Our Father 3. That all that come may know the condition of publick Communion their Religion and manner of address to God Almighty 4. That the truth of the proposition the piety of the desires and the honesty of the petitions the simplicity of our purposes and the justice of our designs may be secured before-hand because Whatsoever is not of faith is sin and it is impossible that we should pray to God in the extempore prayers of the Priest by any faith but unreasonable unwarranted insecure and implicit 5. That there may be union of hearts and spirits and tongues 6. That there may be a publick symbol of Communion in our prayers which are the best instruments of endearing us to God and to one another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Private prayer not assisted with the concord and unity of a publick spirit is weaker and less effectual saith S. Basil. 7. That the Ministers less learned may have provisions of devotions made for them 8. That the more learned may have no occasion of ostentation ministred to them lest their best actions their prayers be turned into sin 9. That extravagant levities and secret impieties be prevented 10. That the offices Ecclesiastical may the better secure the articles of Religion 11. That they may edify the people by being repositories of holy and necessary truths ready form'd out of their needs and described in their Books of daily use for that was one of the advices of the Apostle teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs 12. That men by the intervening of authority may be engaged to certain devotions 13. That not onely the duty but the very form of its ministration may be honoured by the countenance of authority and not be exposed to contempt by reason of the insufficiency of its external warrant 14. That the assignation of such offices appropriating them to the ministery of certain persons may be a cancel to secure the inclosures of the Clerical orders from the usurpings and invasions of pretending and unhallowed spirits 15.
is contained in the Common Prayer Book to be conformable to that order which our blessed Saviour Christ did both observe and command to be observed And a little after he offers to joyn issue upon this point That the Order of the Church of England set out by authority of the innocent and godly Prince Edward the sixth in his high Court of Parliament is the same that was used in the Church fifteen hundred years past 20. And I shall go near to make his words good For very much of our Liturgy is the very words of Scriptures The Psalms and Lessons and all the Hymnes save one are nothing else but Scripture and owe nothing to the Romane Breviaries for their production or authority So that the matter of them is out of question holy and true As for the form none ever misliked it but they that will admit no form for all admit this that admit any But that these should be parts of Liturgy needs not to be a question when we remember that Hezekiah and the Princes made it a Law to their Church to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the Seer and that Christ himself did so and his Apostles after the manner of the Jews in the Feast of Passeover sung their Hymnes and portions of the great Allelujah in the words of David and Asaph the Seer too and that there was a song in heaven made up of the words of Moses and David and Jeremy the Seer and that the Apostles and the Church of God always chose to doe so according to the commandment of the Apostle that we sing Psalms and Hymnes to God I know not where we can have better then the Psalms of David and Asaph and these were ready at hand for the use of the Church insomuch that in the Christian Synaxes particularly in the Churches of Corinth S. Paul observed that every man had a Psalm it was then the common devotion and Liturgy of all the faithful and so for ever and the Fathers of the fourth Councel of Toledo justify the practice of the Church in recitation of the Psalms and Hymnes by the example of Christ and his Apostles who after Supper sung a Psalm and the Church did also make hymns of her own in the honour of Christ sung them Such as was the Te Deum made by S. Ambrose and S. Augustine and they stood her in great stead not onely as acts of direct worship to Christ but as Conservators of the articles of Christs Divinity of which the Fathers made use against the heretick Artemon as appears in Eusebius lib. 5. cap. 28. Eccles. Hist. 21. That reading the Scripture was part of the Liturgy of the Apostolical ages we finde it in the tenth Canon of the Apostles in Albinus Flaccus Rabanus Maurus and in the Liturgy attributed to S. James Deinde leguntur fusissimè oracula sacra veteris Testamenti Prophetarum Filii Dei Incarnatio demonstratur Passio Resurrectio ex mortuis ascensus in Coelum secundus item adventus ejus cum gloria Atque id fit singulis diebus c. 22. So that since thus farre the matter of our devotions is warranted by Gods Spirit and the form by the precedents of Scripture too and the ages Apostolical above half of the English Liturgy is as Divine as Scripture it self and the choice of it for practice is no less then Apostolical 23. Of the same consideration is the Lords Prayer commanded by our blessed Saviour in two Evangelists the Introit is the Psal. 95. and the Responsories of Morning and Evening Prayer ejaculations taken from the words of David and Hezekiah the Decalogue recited in the Communion is the ten words of Moses and without peradventure was not taken into the Office in imitation of the Romane for although it was done upon great reason and considering the great ignorance of the people they were to inform yet I think it was never in any Church Office before but in Manuals and Catechisms onely yet they are made Liturgick by the suffrages at the end of every Commandement and need no other warrant from antiquity but the 20. Chapter of Exodus There are not many parts beside and they which are derive themselves from an elder house then the Romane Offices The Gloria Patri was composed by the Nicene Councel the latter Versicle by S. Jerome though some eminently learned and in particular Baronius is of an opinion that it was much more ancient It was at first a confession of faith and used by a newly baptized Convert and the standers by and then it came to be a Hymne and very early annexed to the Antiphones and afterwards to the Psalms and Hymnes all except that of S. Ambrose beginning with Te Deum because that of it self is a great Doxology It is seven times used in the Greek Office of Baptism and in the recitation of it the Priest and people stood all up and turned to the East and this custome ever continued in the Church and is still retained in the Church of England in conformity to the ancient and Primitive custome save onely that in the Let any we kneel which is a more humble posture but not so ancient the Letanies having usually been said walking not kneeling or standing But in this the variety is an ornament to the Churches garment S. Gregory added this Doxology to the Responsory at the beginning of prayer after O Lord make hast to help us That was the last and yet above a thousand years old and much elder then the body of Popery And as for the latter part of the Doxology I am clearly of opinion that though it might by S. Hierome be brought into the Latine Church yet it was in the Greek Church before him witness that most ancient Hymne or Doxology 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 However as to the matter of the Doxology it is no other then the Confession of the three most blessed persons of the Trinity which Christ commanded and which with greatest solemnity we declare in Baptism and certainly we can no ways better or more solemnly and ritually give glory to the Holy Trinity then by being baptized into the profession and service of it The Trisagion was taught to the Greek Church by Angels but certain it is it sprang not from a Romane fountain and that the Canon of our Communion is the same with the old Canon of the Church many hundred years before Popery had invaded the simplicity of Christian Religion is evident if we compare the particulars recited by S. Basil Innocentius his Epistle to John Archbishop of Lyons Honorius the Priest Alcuinus and Walafridus Strabo and if we will we may adde the Liturgy said to be S. James's and the Constitution of S. Clement for whoever was the author of these certainly they were ancient Radulphus Tongrensis and the later Ritualists Cassander Pamelius Hittorpius Jacobus Goar and the rest
there by any such thing as regeneration by the Ministery of the word and begetting in Christ and Fathers and Sons after the common faith as the expressions of the Apostle make us to beleeve certain it is the blessings of Religion doe descend most properly from our spiritual Fathers and with most plentiful emanation And this hath been the Religion of all the world to derive very much of their blessings by the Priests particular and signal ministration Melchisedech blessed Abraham Isaac blessed Jacob and Moses and Aaron blessed the people So that here is benediction from a Prince from a Father from the Aaronical Priest from Melchisedech of whose order is the Christian in whose Law it is a sanction that in grea◠needs especially the Elders of the Church be sent for and let them pray over him that is distressed That is the great remedy for the great necessity And it was ever much valued in the Church insomuch that Nectarius would by no means take investiture of his Patriarchal Sea until he had obtained the benediction of Diodorus the Bishop of Cilicia Eudoxia the Empress brought her son Theodosius to S. Chrysostome for his blessing and S. Austin and all his company received it of Innocentius Bishop of Carthage It was so solemne in all marriages that the marrying of persons was called Benediction So it was in the fourth Councel of Carthage Sponsus sponsa cùm benedicendi sunt à Sacerdote c. benedicendi for married ... And in all Church Offices it was so solemne that by a Decree of the Councel of Agatho A. D. 380. it was decreed ante benedictionem Sacerdotis populus egredi non praesumat By the way onely here is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for two parts of the English Liturgy For the benediction in the Office of marriage by the authority of the Councel of Carthage and for concluding the Office of Communion with the Priests or Bishops benediction by warrant of the Councel of Agatho which Decrees having been derived into the practice of the universal Church for very many ages is in no hand to be undervalued lest we become like Esau and we miss it when we most need it For my own particular I shall still press on to receive the benediction of holy Church till at last I shall hear a Venite benedicti and that I be reckoned amongst those blessed souls who come to God by the ministeries of his own appointment and will not venture upon that neglect against which the piety and wisdome of all Religions in the world infinitely doe prescribe 44. Now the advantages of confidence which I have upon the forms of benediction in the Common Prayer-book are therefore considerable because God himself prescribed a set form of blessing the people appointing it to be done not in the Priests extempore but in an established form of words and because as the authority of a prescript form is from God so that this form may be also highly warranted the solemne blessing at the end of the Communion is in the very words of S. Paul 45. For the forms of Absolution in the Liturgy though I shall not enter into consideration of the Question concerning the quality of the Priests power which is certainly a very great ministery yet I shall observe the rare temper and proportion which the Church of England uses in commensurating the forms of Absolution to the degrees of preparation and necessity At the beginning of the Morning and Evening Prayer after a general Confession usually recited before the devotion is high and pregnant whose parts like fire enkindle one another there is a form of Absolution in general declarative and by way of proposition In the Office of the Communion because there are more acts of piety and repentance previous and presupposed there the Churches form of Absolution is optative and by way of intercession But in the Visitation of the sick when it is supposed and enjoyned that the penitent shall disburthen himself of all the clamorous loads upon his conscience the Church prescribes a medicinal form by way of delegate authority that the parts of justification may answer to the parts of good life For as the penitent proceeds so does the Church pardon and repentance being terms of relation they grow up together till they be compleat this the Church with greatest wisdom supposes to be at the end of our life grace by that time having all its growth that it will have here therefore then also the pardon of sins is of another nature then it ever was before if being now more actual and compleat whereas before it was in fieri in the beginnings and smaller increases and upon more accidents apt to be made imperfect and revocable So that the Church of England in these manners of dispensing the power of the Keys does cut off all disputings and impertinent wranglings whether the Priests power were Judicial or declarative for possibly it is both and it is optative too and something else yet for it is an emanation from all the parts of his Ministery and he never absolves but he preaches or prays or administers a Sacrament for this power of remission is a transcendent passing through all the parts of the Priestly Offices For the keys of the Kingdome of heaven are the promises the threatnings of the Scripture and the prayers of the Church and the Word and the Sacraments and all these are to be dispensed by the Priest and these keys are committed to his Ministery and by the operation of them all he opens and shuts heaven gates ministerially and therefore S. Paul calls it verbum reconciliationis and says it is dispensed by Ministers as by Embassadors or Delegates and therefore it is an excellent temper of the Church so to prescribe her forms of Absolution as to shew them to be results of the whole Priestly Office of Preaching of dispensing Sacraments of spiritual Cure and authoritative deprecation And the benefit which pious and well disposed persons receive by these publick Ministeries as it lies ready formed in our blessed Saviours promise erit solutum in coelis so men will then truly understand when they are taught to value every instrument of grace or comfort by the exigence of a present need as in a sadness of spirit in an unquiet conscience in the arrest of death 46. I shall not need to procure advantages to the reputation of the Common Prayer by considering the imperfections of whatsoever hath been offered in its stead but yet a 1 form of worship composed to the dishonour of the Reformation accusing it of darkness and intolerable inconvenience 2 a direction without a rule 3 a rule without restraint 4 a prescription leaving an indifferency to a possibility of licentiousness 5 an office without any injunction of external acts of worship not prescribing so much as kneeling 6 an office that onely once names reverence but forbids it in the ordinary instance and enjoyns it in
fires of devotion then the straw and the stubble which some men did suddenly or weakly rake together when ever they were to dress their Sacrifice Now although these prayers have no authority to give them power yet they are humbly and charitably intended and that may get them love and they have been as to the matter of them approved by persons of great learning and great piety and that may sufficiently recommend them to the use of those who have no other or no better and they no way doe violence to Authority and therefore the use of them cannot be insecure and they contain in them no matter of question or dispute and therefore cannot be justly suspected of interest or partiality and they are especially in the chiefest offices collected out of the devotions of the Greek Church with some mixture of the Mozarabick and AEthiopick and other Liturgies and perfected out of the fountains of Scripture and therefore for the material part have great warrant and great authority and therefore if they be used with submission to Authority it is hop'd they may doe good and if they be not used no man will be offended 49. I hope there will be no need of an apology or an excuse for doing an act of charity If no man will confess that he needs any of these they can be let alone for they are intended onely for them that doe but if there be a need these prayers may help to obtain of God to take that need away and to supply it in the mean while But there is nothing else intended in this design but that we may see what excellent forms of prayer were used in the ancient Church what a rare repository of Devotion the Scripture is how it was the same spirit of prayer that assisted the Church of England and other Churches of God how much better the Curates of souls may help themselves with these or the like offices then with their own extempore how their present needs may be supplied and their devotion enlarged and a day of Religion intirely spent and a provision made for some necessities in which our calamities and our experience of late have too well instructed us For which and for other great reasons all Churches have admitted variety of Offices In the Greek Church it is notorious they have three publick Books and very many added afterwards by their Patriarchs their Bishops and their Priests some are said often and others sometimes and in Spain the Mozarabick office was used until the time of Alfonsus the 6 th and to this very day in six Parishes in Toledo and in the Cathedral Church it self in the Chappel of Frier Francis Ximenez and at Salamanca upon certain days in the Chappel of Doctor Talabricensis And after all these may be admitted into the use and ministery of families for all the necessities of which here is something provided 50. He that gathered these things together intends as humbly as piously as charitably as he can doe in any action whatsoever and if any of his brethren can tell his heart better then himself I am sure he may say much more of it but if any man can think I have in it any purpose less pious or less severe or that there is any obliquity or any thing but what is here expressed I must answer for it if there be and he must answer for it if there be not January hath xxxi days The Moon xxx Sun in Aquar riseth h. 7. m. 52. sec. 34. In lat 52. setteth h. 4. m. 7. sec. 26. Jan. 10.  h. 8. m. 3. sec. 56. In lat 54.  h. 3. m. 56. sec. 4.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less 19 1 A Calend. Circumcision * * * * 8 2 b 4 Non.  Gen. 1. Matt. 1 Gen. 2. Rom. 1.  3 c 3  3 2 4 2 16 4 d Pr. No.  5 3 6 3 5 5 e Nonae Edward K. 7 4 8 4  6 f 8 Idus Epiphany * * * * 13 7 g 7  Gen. 9. Matt. 5 Gen. 12 Rom. 5. 2 8 A 6 Lucian 13 6 14 6  9 b 5  15 7 16 7 10 10 c 4  17 8 18 8  11 d 3  19 9 20 9 18 12 e Pr. Idus  21 10 22 10 7 13 f Idus Hilary Bp. 23 11 24 11  14 g 19 Cal. of February 25 12 26 12 15 15 A 18  27 13 28 13 4 16 b 17  29 14 30 14  17 c 16 Sulpitius Bp. 31 15 32 15 12 18 d 15 Prisca Virg. 33 16 34 16 1 19 e 14 Ulstan Bp. 35 17 37 1 Cor. 1.  20 f 13 Fabian 38 18 39 2 9 21 g 12 Agnes 40 19 41 3  22 A 11 Vincent Mart. 42 20 43 4 17 23 b 10  44 21 45 5 6 24 c 9 Timothy Bp. 46 22 47 6  25 d 8 Conv. S. Paul * * * * 14 26 e 7 Polycar Mart. Gen. 48 Mat. 23 Gen. 49 1 Cor. 7. 3 27 f 6  50 24 Exod. 1 8  28 g 5  Exod. 2 25 3 9 11 29 A 4 Valerius Bp. 4 26 5 10 19 30 b 3 C. R. M. 7 27 8 11 8 31 c Pr. Cal.  9 28 10 12 February hath xxviii days The Moon xxix Sun in Pisc. riseth h. 7. m. o. sec. 28. latit 52. setteth h. 4. m. 59 sec. 32. Feb. 8.  h. 7. m. 1. sec. 40. latit 54.  h. 4. m. 58 sec. 20.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less  1 d Calend. Fast Exo. 11 Mark 1 Exo. 12 1 Cor. 13 16 2 e 4 Non. Purific Mary * 2 * 14 5 3 f 3 Blasius Exo. 13 3 Exo. 14 15  4 g Pr. No.  15 4 16 16 13 5 A Nonae Agathe 17 5 18 2 Cor. 1 2 6 b 8 ld  19 6 20 2  7 c 7  21 7 22 3 10 8 d 6  23 8 24 4  9 e 5 Apollon Virg 32 9 33 5 18 10 f 4 Scholast Virg. 34 10 Lev. 18 6 7 11 g 3  Lev. 19 11 20 7  12 A Prid. ld  26 12 Nu. 11 8 15 13 b Idus  Nu. 12 13 13 9 4 14 c 16 Cal. Valentine 14 14 16 10  15 d 15  17 15 20 11 12 16 e 14  21 16 22 12 1 17 f 13  23 Lu. di 1 24 13  18 g 12  25 dim 1 27 Galat. 1 9 19 A 11  30 2 31 2  20 b 10  32 3 35 3 17 21 c 9  36 4 Deut. 1 4 6 22 d 8  Deut. 2 5 3 5  23 e 7 Fast 4 6 5 6 14 24 f 6 S. Matthias * 7 * Ephes. 1 3 25 g 5  6 8 7 2  26 A 4  8 9 9
3 11 27 b 3 Aug. B. Hippo 10 10 11 4  28 c Pr. Cal. Osw. p Co. 12 11 15 5 in every Bissextile the Golden Numbers are to be supposed to stand the day after the place they now possess as 16 upon the 3. day 5 upon the 4 13. upon the 6 and so in all the rest because in every Leap-year the changes of the Moon are upon those following days March hath xxxi days The Moon xxx Sun in Arietâ— riseth h. 6. m. 0. sec. 0. sets h. 6. m. 0. sec. 0. throughout the World March 10.  h. 6. m. 0. sec. 0.       Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less 19 1 d Calend. David Deu. 16 Luk. 12 Deu. 17 Ephes. 6 8 2 e 6 Non. Cedde 18 13 19 Philip. 1 16 3 f 5  20 14 21 2 5 4 g 4  22 15 24 3  5 A 3  25 16 26 4 13 6 b Pr. No.  27 17 28 Coloss. 1 2 7 c Nonae Perpetua 29 18 30 2  8 d 8 Id.  31 19 32 3 10 9 e 7  33 20 34 4  10 f 6  Josua 1 21 Josua 2 1 Thess. 1 18 11 g 5  3 22 4 2 7 12 A 4 Gregory 5 23 6 3  13 b 3  7 24 8 4 15 14 c Prid. Id.  9 John 1 10 5 4 15 d ldus  23 2 24 2 Thess. 1  16 e 17 Cal. Aprilis Judg. 1 3 Judg. 2 2 12 17 f 16 Patrick Bp. 3 4 4 3 1 18 g 15 Edward 5 5 6 1 Tim. 1  19 A 14 Joseph sp Mar 7 6 8 2 3 9 20 b 13 Cuthbert 9 7 10 4  21 c 12 Benedict 11 8 12 5 17 22 d 11  13 9 14 6 6 23 e 10  15 10 16 2 Tim. 1  24 f 9 Fast 17 11 18 2 14 25 g 8 Annâ—n Mary * 12 * 3 3 26 A 7  Judg. 19 13 Judg. 20 4  27 b 6 Init. R. Caroli 21 14 Ruth 1 Titus 1 11 28 c 5 Dorothy Virg. Ruth 2 15 3 2 3  29 d 4  4 16 1 Sam. 1 Philemon 19 30 e 3  1Sam 2 17 3 Hebr. 1 8 31 f Pr. Cal. Adelme Bp. 4 18 5 2 April hath xxx days The Moon xxix Sun in Taur riseth h. 4. m. 50. sec. 32. latit 52. setteth h. 7. m. 0. sec. 28. April 9.  h. 4. m. 56. sec. 20. latit 54.  h. 7. m. 1. sec. 40.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less 16 1 g Calend.  1 Sam. 6 Joh. 19 1 Sa. 7 Hebr. 3. 5 2 A 4 Non.  8 20 9 4  3 b 3 Richard 10 21 11 5 13 4 c Pr. No. Ambrose 12 Acts 1 13 6 2 5 d Nonae  14 2 15 7  6 e 8 Id.  16 3 17 8 10 7 f 7  18 4 19 9  8 g 6  20 5 21 10 18 9 A 5  22 6 23 11 7 10 b 4  24 7 25 12  11 c 3 Guthliac Con 26 8 27 13 15 12 d Prid. Id.  28 9 29 James 1 4 13 e Idus  30 10 31 2  14 f 18 Cal. May. 2 Sam. 1 11 2 Sa. 2 3 12 15 g 17 Oswal Archb. 3 12 4 4 1 16 A 16  5 13 6 5  17 b 15  7 14 8 1 pet 1 9 18 c 14  9 15 10 2  19 d 13 Alphege 11 16 12 3 17 20 e 12  13 17 14 4 6 21 f 11  15 18 16 5  22 g 10  17 19 18 2 Pet. 1 14 23 A 9 S. George 19 20 20 2 3 24 b 8 Ulfrid Conf. 21 21 22 3  25 c 7 Mark Evang. * 22 * 1John 1 11 26 d 6  2 Sa. 23 23 2 Sa. 24 2  27 e 5  1 Kin. 1 24 1 Kin. 2 3 19 28 f 4  3 25 4 4 8 29 g 3  5 26 6 5  30 A Pr. Cal.  7 27 8 2 3 John May hath xxxi days The Moon xxx Sun in Gem. riseth h. 4. m. 7. sec. 26. latit 52.  setteth h. 7. m. 52. sec. 34. May 11  h. 3. m. 56. sec. 4. latit 54.  h. 8. m. 3. sec. 56.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less 16 1 b Calend. Phil. Jacob. * * * Jude 5 2 c 6 Non.  1 Kin. 9 Acts 28 1 Ki. 10 Rom. 1  3 d 5 Inv. of Cross. 11 Matt. 1 12 2 13 4 e 4  13 2 14 3 2 5 f 3  15 3 16 4  6 g Pr. No. Joh. Porr Lâ—â— 17 4 18 5 10 7 A Nonae Jo. of Beverly 19 5 20 6  8 b 8 Id.  21 6 22 7 18 9 c 7  2 Kin. 1 7 2 Kin. 2 8 7 10 d 6  3 8 4 9  11 e 5  5 9 6 10 15 12 f 4  7 10 8 11 4 13 g 3  9 11 10 12  14 A Prid. ld  11 12 12 13 12 15 b Idus  13 13 14 14 1 16 c 17 Cal. June 15 14 16 15  17 d 16  17 15 18 16 9 18 e 15  19 16 20 1 Cor. 1  19 f 14 Dunstan 21 17 22 2 17 20 g 13  23 18 24 3 6 21 A 12  25 19 Ezra 1 4  22 b 11  Ezra 3. 20 4 5 14 23 c 10  5 21 6 6 3 24 d 9  7 22 9 7  25 e 8 Aldelmus Bp. Neh. 1 23 Neh. 2 8 11 26 f 7 Augustine 4 24 5 9  27 g 6 Bede Priâ—st 6 25 8 10 19 28 A 5  9 26 10 11 8 29 b 4  13 27 Hest. 1 12 16 30 c 3  Hest. 2 28 3 13 5 31 d Pr. Cal. Petronil Virg. 4 Mark 1 5 1â— June hath xxx days The Moon xxix Sun in Cancer riseth h. 3. m. 44. sec. 36. latit 52. setteth h. 8. m. 15. sec. 24. June 11.  h. 3. m. 32. sec. 48. latit 54.  h. 8. m. 27. sec. 12.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less â— 1 e Calend. Nicom Maâ—t Hest. 6 Mark 2 Hest. 7 1. Cor. 15 13 2 f 4 Non.  8 3 9 16 2 3 g 3 Erasm. Bish. Job 1 4 Job â—2 2 Cor. 1  4 A Pr. No.  3 5 4 2 10 5 b Nonae Boniface Bish. 5 6 6 3  6 c 8 Id.  7 7 8 4 18 7 d 7  9 8 10 5 7 8 e 6  11 9 12 6  9 f 5  13 10 14 7 15 10 g 4  15 11 16
8 4 11 A 3 Barnabas Ap. * * * *  12 b Prid. Id.  17,18 Mar. 12 Job 19 2 Cor. 9 12 13 c Idus  20 13 21 10 1 14 d 18 Cal. of July 22 14 23 11  15 e 17  24 25 15 26 27 12 9 16 f 16  28 16 29 13  17 g 15 Botulph Con. 30 Luke 1 31 Galat. 1 17 18 A 14  32 2 33 2 6 19 b 13  34 3 35 3  20 c 12  36 4 37 4 14 21 d 11  38 5 39 5 3 22 e 10 Alban Martyr 40 6 41 6  23 f 9 Fast 42 7 Prov. 1 Ephef I 11 24 g 8 John Baptâ—st * * * *  25 A 7  Prov. 2 Luke 8 Prov. 3 Ephes. 2 19 26 b 6  4 9 5 3 8 27 c 5  6 10 7 4  28 d 4 Leo Bp. â—ast 8 11 9 5 16 29 e 3 Peter Paul * * * * 5 30 f Pr. Cal.  Pro. 10 Luk. 12 Pro. 11 Ephes. 6 July hath xxxi days The Moon xxx Sun in Leo riseth h. 4. m. 7. sec. 26. In lat 52. setteth h. 7. m. 52. sec. 34. July 12.  h. 3. m. 56. sec. 4. In lat 54.  h. 8. m. 3. sec. 56.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less  1 g Calend. Visit. of Mary Pro. 12 Luk. 13 Pro. 13 Philip. 1 13 2 A 6 Non.  14 14 15 2 2 3 b 5  16 15 17 3  4 c 4  18 16 19 4 10 5 d 3  20 17 21 Coloss. 1  6 e Pr. No.  22 18 23 2 18 7 f Nonae  24 19 25 3 7 8 g 8 Idus  26 20 27 4  9 A 7 Cyril Bp. 28 21 29 1 Thess. 1 15 10 b 6  31 22 Eccles. 1 2 4 11 c 5 Benedict Eccles. 2 23 3 3  12 d 4  4 24 5 4 12 13 e 3  6 John 1 7 5 1 14 f Pr. Idus  8 2 9 2 Thess. 1  15 g Idus Swithin 10 3 11 2 â— 16 A 17 Cal. of August 12 4 Jerem. 1 3  17 b 16 Kenelm King Jerem. 2 5 3 1 Tim. 1 17 18 c 15 Arnulph Bp. 4 6 5 2 3 6 19 d 14  6 7 7 4  20 e 13 Marg. Virg. 8 8 9 5 14 21 f 12  10 9 11 6 3 22 g 11 Mary Magd. 12 10 13 2 Tim. 1  23 A 10  14 11 15 2 11 24 b 9 Fast 16 12 17 3  25 c 8 James Apâ—stle * 13 * 4 19 26 d 7 Anne Mother Jer. 18 14 19 Titus 1 8 27 e 6 of Mary 20 15 21 2 3  28 f 5 Samson Bp. 22 16 23 Philemon 6 29 g 4  24 17 25 Hebr. 1 5 30 A 3  26 18 27 2  31 b â— r. Cal. German Bp. 28 19 29 3 August hath xxxi days The Moon xxx Sun in Virg riseth h. 4. m. 59. sec. 32. latit 52. setteth h. 7. m. 0. sec. 28. August 13.  h. 4. m. 56. sec. 20. latit 54.  h. 7. m. 1 sec. 40.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less 13 1 c Calend. Lammas Jere. 30 Joh. 20 Jere. 31 Hebr 4. 2 2 d 4 Non.  32 21 33 5  3 e 3  34 Acts 1. 35 6 10 4 f Pr. No.  36 2 37 7  5 g Nonae  38 3 39 8 18 6 A 8 Id. Transfigurat 40 4 41 9 7 7 b 7 Name of IHS 42 5 43 10  8 c 6  44 6 45 46 11 15 9 d 5  47 7 48 12 4 10 e 4 Laurence 49 8 50 13  11 f 3  51 9 52 James 1 12 12 g Prid. Id.  Lam. 1 10 Lam. 2 2 1 13 A Idus  3 11 4 3  14 b 19 Cal. of September 5 12 Ezec. 2 4 9 15 c 18  Ezec. 3 13 6 5  16 d 17  7 14 13 1 Pet. 1 17 17 e 16  14 15 18 2 6 18 f 15  33 16 34 3  19 g 14  Dan. 1 17 Dan. 2 4 14 20 A 13  3 18 4 5 3 21 b 12 Bernar. Conf. 5 19 6 2 Pet. 1  22 c 11  7 20 8 2 11 23 d 10 Tim. Ep. Fast 9 21 10 3  24 e 9 Barthâ—s Apâ—â—â— * 22 * 1 John 1 19 25 f 8 Lewis King Dan. 11 23 Dan. 12 2 8 26 g 7  Hist. Su 24 Prov. 30 3  27 A 6  Hosea 1 25 Hos. 2 3 4 16 28 b 5  4 26 5 6 5 5 29 c 4 Behead of Joh. 7 27 8 2 3 Joh.  30 d 3  9 28 10 Jude 3 31 e Pr. Cal. Paulinus Bp. 11 Matt. 1 12 Rom. 1 September hath xxx days The Moon xxix Sun in Libra riseth h. 6. m. 0. sec. 0. sets h. 6. m. 0. throughout the World Septemb. 13.  h. 6. m. 0. sec. 0.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less 2 1 f Calend. Giles Hos. 13. Matt. 2 Hos. 14 Rom. 2 10 2 g 4 Non.  Joel 1 3 Joel 2 3  3 â— 3  3 4 Amos 1 4 18 4 b Pr. No.  Amos 2 5 3 5 7 5 c Nonae  4 6 5 6  6 d 8 Id.  6 7 7 7 15 7 e 7 Enurchus Bp. 8 8 9 8 4 8 f 6 Nativ Mary Obad. 1 9 Jonah 1 9  9 g 5  Jon. 2 3 10 4 10 12 10 A 4  Micah 1 11 Mich. 2 11 1 11 b 3  3 12 4 12  12 c Prid. Id.  5 13 6 13 9 13 d Idus  7 14 Nah. 1 14  14 e 18 Cal. of Octob. Ex Nah. 2 15 3 15 17 15 f 17 altation of â— Hab. 1 16 Hab. 2 16 6 16 g 16  3 17 Zeph. 1 1 Cor. 1  17 A 15 Lambert Bp. Zeph. 2 18 3 2 14 18 b 14  Hagg. 1 19 Hagg. 2 3 3 19 c 13  Zech. 1 20 Zec. 2 3 4  20 d 12 Fast 4 5 21 6 5 11 21 e 11 S. Mattâ—ew * 22 * 6  22 f 10  Zach. 7 23 Zech. 8 7 19 23 g 9  9 24 10 8 8 24 A 8  11 25 12 9  25 b 7 Firminius Bp. 13 26 14 10 16 26 c 6 Cyprian Malac. 1 27 Malac. 2 11 5 27 d 5  3 28 4 12.  28 c 4 Exuperius Bp. Tobit 1 Mark 1 Tobit 2 13 13 29 f 3 S. â—ichael * 2 * 14 2 30 g Pr. Cal. Hierome Pres. Tobit 3 3 Tobit 4 15 October hath xxxi days The Moon xxx Sun in Scorp riseth h. 7. m. 0. sec.
28. latit 52. setteth h. 4. m. 59. sec. 32. Octob. 3.  h. 7. m. 1. sec. 40. latit 54.  h. 4. m. 58. sec. 20.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less  1 A Calend. Remigius Exod â— ad verse 14. Mark 4 Joth 20 1 Cor. 16 10 2 b 6 Non. Leodeger Bp. Tobit 7 5 22 2 Cor. 1  3 c 5  9 6 Tob. 10 2 18 4 d 4  11 7 12 3 7 5 e 3  13 8 14 4  6 f Pr. No. S. Faith Judith 1 9 Judith 2 5 15 7 g Nonae  3 10 4 6 4 8 A 8 Id. Pelagia Virg. 5 11 6 7  9 b 7  7 12 8 8 12 10 c 6  9 13 10 9 1 11 d 5  11 14 12 10  12 e 4 Wilthfrid Bp. 13 15 14 11 9 13 f 3 Edward King 15 16 16 12  14 g Prid. Id.  Wisd. 1 Lu. di 1 Wisd. 2 13 17 15 A Idus  3 dim 1 4 Galat. 1 6 16 b 17 Cal. of November 5 2 6 2  17 c 16 Ethelderd Vir 7 3 8 3 14 18 d 15 Luke Evanâ— * 4 * 4 3 19 e 14 Fredesw Virg. Wisd. 9 5 Wis. 10 5  20 f 13  11 6 12 6 11 21 g 12 11000 Virg. 13 7 14 Ephes. 1.  22 A 11 Mary Salom. 15 8 16 2 19 23 b 10  17 9 18 3 8 24 c 9  19 10 Ecclus 1 4  25 d 8 Crispine Ecclus 2 11 3 5 16 26 e 7  4 12 5 6 5 27 f 6 Fast 6 13 7 Philip. 1  28 g 5 Simon Jude * 14 * 2 13 29 A 4 Narcissus Bp. Ecclus 8 15 Ecclus 9 3 2 30 b 3  10 16 11 4  31 c Pr. Cal. Fast 12 17 13 Coloss. 1 November hath xxx days The Moon xxix Sun in Sagittar riseth h. 7. m. 52. sec. 34. latit 52. setteth h. 4. m. 7. sec. 26. Novemb. 12.  h. 8. m. 3. sec. 56. latit 54.  h. 3. m. 56. sec. 4.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less 10 1 d Calend. All Saints * * * * 18 2 e 4 Non.  Ecclus 14 Luc. 18 Ecclus 15 Coloss. 2 7 3 f 3 Wenefrid 16 19 17 3  4 g Pr. No.  18 20 19 4 15 5 A Nonae  20 21 21 1 Thess. 1 4 6 b 8 Id. Leonard 22 22 23 2  7 c 7 Willibr archb 24 23 25 26 ad verse 6. 3 12 8 d 6  27 24 28 4 1 9 e 5  29 John 1 30 5  10 f 4  31 2 32 2 Thess. 1 9 11 g 3 Martin Bp. 33 3 34 2  12 A Prid. Id.  35 4 36 3 17 13 b Idus Brice Bp. 37 5 38 1 Ti â— 1 6 14 c 18 Cal. of December 39 6 40 â—â—3  15 d 17 Machure Bp. 41 7 42 4 14 16 e 16  43 8 44 5 3 17 f 15 Hugh Bp. 45 9 46 adv 20 6  18 g 14  47 10 48 2 Tim. 1 11 19 A 13 Elizabeth 49 11 50 2  20 b 12 Edmund King 51 12 Baruc. 1 3 19 21 c 11 Present Mary Baruc. 2 13 3 4 8 22 d 10 Cicily Viâ—g 4 14 5 Titus 1  23 e 9 Clement Bp. 6 15 â—saiah 1 2 3 16 24 f 8  Isaiah 2 16 3 Philemon 5 25 g 7 Katherine Vir. 4 17 5 Hebr. 1  26 A 6  6 18 7 2 13 27 b 5  8 19 9 3 2 28 c 4  10 20 11 4  29 d 3 Fast 12 21 13 5 10 30 e Pr. Cal. Andrew Apost * Aâ—â—s 1 * 6 December hath xxxi The Moon xxx Sun in Capric riseth h. 8. m. 15. sec. 24. latit 52. setteth h. 3. m. 44. sec. 36. Decemb. 11.  h. 8. m. 27. sec. 12. latit 54.  h. 3. m. 32. sec. 48.      Morning prayer Evening prayer      1 Lesson 2 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Less  1 f Calend.  Isai. 14 Acts 2 Isai. 15 Hebr. 7 18 2 g 4 Non.  16 3 17 8 7 3 A 3 Barbara 18 4 19 9  4 b Pr. No. Osmund Bp. 20 21 5 22 10 15 5 c Nonae  23 6 24 11 4 6 d 8 Id. Nicholas Bp. 25 dim 7 26 12  7 e 7  27 dim 7 28 13 12 8 f 6 Concep Mary 29 8 30 James 1. 1 9 g 5  31 9 32 2  10 â— 4  33 10 34 3 9 11 b 3  35 11 36 4  12 c Prid. Id.  37 12 38 5 â—7 13 d Idus Lucie Virg. 39 13 40 1 Pet. 1 6 14 e 19 Cal. of January 41 14 42 2  15 f 18  43 15 44 3 â—â— 16 g 17 O Sapientia 45 16 46 4 3 17 A 16  47 17 48 5  18 b 15  49 18 50 2 Pet. 1 â—1 19 c 14  51 19 52 2  20 d 13 Fast 53 20 54 3 19 21 e 12 Thom. Apost * 21 * 1 John 1 8 22 f 11  Isai. 55 22 Isai. 56 2  23 g 10  57 23 58 3 16 24 A 9  59 24 60 4 5 25 b 8 Christmass * * * *  26 c 7 S. Stephen * * * * 3 27 d 6 â— John * * * * 2 28 e 5 â—nnocents * Acts 25 * 1 John 5  29 f 4  Isai. 61 26 Isai. 62 2 John 10 30 g 3  63 27 64 3 John  3â— A Pr. Cal. â—ilvester Bp. 65 28 66 Jude Proper Lessons to be read on Sundays and all the moveable Feasts throughout the year whose Lessons are not set down in the Calendar Sundays of Advent Mattens Evensong 1 Isaiah 1. Isaiah 2. 2 5 24 3 25 26 4 30 32    Sundays after Christmass Mattens Evensong 1 Isaiah 37. Isaiah 38. 2 41 43    Sundays after Epiphany Mattens Evensong 1 Isaiah 44. Isaiah 46. 2 51 53 3 55 56 Sundays after Epiphany Mattens Evensong 4 Isaiah 57. Isaiah 58. 5 59 64 Septuagesima Genesis 1. Genesis 2. Sexagesima 3 6 Quinquages 9 12 Quadragesima or the First Sunday in Lent 19 22 2 27 34 3 39 42 4 43 45 5 Exodus 3. Exod. 5. 6 9 10 Easter day   1 Lesson Exod. 12. Exodus 14. 2 Lesson Rom. 6. Acts 2. Sundays after Easter Mattens Evensong 1 Numbers 16. Numbers 22. 2 23 25 3 Deuteron 4. Deuteronom 5. 4 6 7 5 8 9 Ascension day 10 2 Kings 2. Sunday after Ascension day 12 Deuteron 13. Whitsunday   1 Lesson 16 Wisdome 1. 2 Lesson Acts 10. from v. 34. to the end Acts 19. to v. 21. Trinity Sunday   1 Lesson Genesis 18. Josua 1. 2 Lesson
sanctifie all the events of thy providence and the changes of our life that we may for ever love and for ever fear thee and all things may worke together for our Good unto thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The blessing The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communication of the holy spirit of God be with us and with all our Relatives and with all the servants of God this day and for evermore Amen The end of Morning Prayer EVENING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE EVENING PRAYER Throughout the YEARE Say one or more of these Sentences O Lord the hope of Israel all that forsake thee shall be ashamed because they have for saken the Lord the fountaine of living waters O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us have mercy upon us for thy names sake for our backslidings are many we have sinned against thee Seeke the Lord while he may be found call upon him when he is neer There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the remnant of the transgression of his heritage he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercie Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabits eternity whose name is holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to renew the heart of them that are contrite After which adde this short exhortation I Beseech you that are present to joyne with me in a humble confession of sins to Almighty God casting your selves downe with all humility before the throne of Grace The Confession I. ALmighty God powerfull and mercifull thou art a jealous God against persevering sinners but a gracious father to the penitent let thy mercifull eares be opened to the petitions of thy servants who with sorrow and shame confesse their sins unto thee II. We have loved the world not thee we have obeyed the desires of our owne hearts not thy holy lawes and Commandements we have often left our dutie undone but cease not to please our senses and to feed greedily upon vanity thou hast commanded us to love our brethren and instead of loving them we have slandered and reproached injured and tempted them envied their good and rejoyced in their calamity III. O Blessed God we are asham'd when we rememberd our owne follies our violent passions our peevishnesse and pride our vaine thoughts and unprofitable words our uncharitable and uselesse conversation we spend our daies in idlenesse and folly our nights in the images and causes of death and though our sins are so many that we cannot number them yet we so little apprehend our owne dangers that we neither leave them utterly nor heartily deplore them IV. But O God thou God of pity and compassion have mercy upon us For thou art our Father mercifull and gracious and thou hast revealed to mankind an infinite mercy in Jesus Christ. For his sake be pleased to give us repentance and to give us pardon and grant that our soules being wash'd in the blood of the holy Lambe and the Baptisme of repentance we may live a gracious a holy and a blessed life in all godlinesse and honesty and sobriety and may die in the love of God in the charity of our neighbours in the Communion of the Church and in a sure and certaine hope of life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen The prayer of Absolution to be said by the Minister alone according to his piety and discretion when he sees cause OUr Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus the great Shepherd and Bishop of our soules that lambe of God that taketh away the sins of the world who promised Paradise to the repenting theife and gave pardon to the woman taken in adultery he pardon and forgive all your sins knowne and unknowne *** O Blessed Jesus in whatsoever thy servants as men bearing flesh about them and inhabiting this world or deceived by the Devill have sinn'd whether in word or deed whether in thought or desire whether by omission or commission let it be forgiven unto them by thy word and by thy spirit and for ever preserve thy servants from sinning against thee and from suffering thine eternall anger for thy promise sake and for thy glorious Names sake O Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Amen Then devoutly and distinctly say the Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome come * Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven * Give us this day our daily bread* And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us* And lead us not into temptation* But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the power and the Glory for ever Amen The Doxology GLory be to the Father of mercies the Father of Men and Angels the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Glory be to the most holy and eternall sonne of God the Blessed Saviour and Redeemer of the World the Advocate of sinners the Prince of Peace the Head of the Church and the mighty Deliverer of all them that call upon him Glory be to the holy and Eternall spirit of God the Holy Ghost the comforter the sanctifying and life-giving Spirit All Glory and thankes all honour and power all love and obedience be to the Blessed and undivided Trinity one God Eternall The Heavens declare thy glory the Earth confesses thy providence the sea manifests thy power and every spirit and every understanding creature celebrates thy greatnesse for ever and ever* All glory and majesty all praises and dominion be unto thee O God Father Son and Holy Ghost for ever and ever Amen Then arising from their knees let the Psalme's be said in order unlesse some extraordinary occasion doe intervene in which case let Psalmes be selected according to the occasion or as is afterwards described concluding with Glory be to the Father c. Then read upon all Sundaies and Festivals of the yeare a chapter in the old Testament either in order or by choice After the lesson recite this Hymne * I Will remember the workes of the Lord surely I will remember the wonders of old I will meditate of allthy workes and talke of thy doings ¶ Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God * Thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people ¶ Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry * For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red it is full of mixture and he powreth out of the same
our hopes and the perfection of our desires to live with thee in the holinesse of thy Kingdome of grace and glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. For Peace O Almighty and most gracious Father who art the fountaine of peace and the Father of Unions we pray unto thee for peace for love and for thy salvation Let a holy peace for ever dwell in our consciences Let peace and holinesse and Gods blessing for ever adorne support and enlarge this family Let there be peace and Union of minds in all Christian assemblies one heart and one voice the same faith and an eternal charity Make warrs to cease in all the world that the peace and the designe of the Gospel may be advanced the lawes of the holy Jesus may be obeyed and his Name be magnified in all the world for ever and ever Amen III. For all Christian Princes and the Ecclesiastical state ALmighty God who rulest in the Kingdomes of men and in all events of the world defend those with thy mercy whom thou hast adorned with thy power lift up the horne advance the just interests of all Christian Kings Princes and states by the power of thy venerable and lifegiving passion *** Give unto all them who serve thee in the ministeries of religion wisedome and holinesse the blessings of peace and great abilities to minister prosperously to the good of soules by the power and aides of thy holy Spirit of wisdome IV. Pardon all our sins take away our iniquities from us all and preserve us from all danger and trouble from need and persecution from the temptations of the Devill from the violence and fraud of all our enemies Keep us O God from sinning against thee and from suffering thy wrath through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen V The collect for the Evening O Almighty Father who givest the Sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the Moone and of the Stars for a light by night vouchsafe to receive us this night and ever into thy favour and protection defending us from all sad casualties and evill accidents ruling and governing us with thy holy spirit that all darknesse and hurtfull ignorance all infidelity and weaknesse of heart all inordinate fear and carnall affections may be remooved far from us that we being justified by the mercies of God in our Lord Jesus may be sanctified by thy spirit and glorified by thy infinite mercies in the day of the glorious appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen VI. For a blessed death O Most gracious and most holy Redeemer who by dying for us becamest the author of life unto us and hast subdued all the powers of hell and the grave taking away the sting of death and breaking in peices the powers of darknesse have mercy upon us now and at the hour of our Death Let thy holy Spirit governe all our words and actions our thoughts and designes our civill entercourse and the duties of religion and grant to us so perfectly to obey his commandements and attend his motions all the daies of our life that we may by holy habits and a constant performance of our dutie waite for the coming of our Lord and be ready to enter with him at whatsoever hour he shall come VII O be mercifull unto us in the day of our calamity and of thy visitation strengthen our faith in the day of our sicknesses trial when the Cloud is thicke the storme is great that we may rely upon thy grace invocate thy mercies hope in thy goodnesse and receive the end of our hopes the salvation of our soules O Let us never descend into the dwellings of the wicked nor into the place of them that know not God but be pleas'd here to guide us with thy councell and after that receive us with thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this O Eternall God thou fountaine of life and pardon there is no number of thy daies nor of thy mercies be mercifull unto us now and at the hour of our death let not thy servants be arrested with sudden death that we be neither unready in our accounts nor snatched hence with an imperfect duty nor surprised in an act of sin nor called upon when our lampes are untrimm'd let it be neither violent nor untimely hasty nor unblessed but after the ordinary visitation of men having in it an excellent patience and an exemplar piety and the greatest senses and demonstrations of thy eternall mercies Preserve O God our reason and religion our faith and our hope our sense and our speech perfect and usefull till the last of our daies and grant that we may die the death of the righteous and let our last end be like to his free from debt and deadly sin having first discharg'd all our obligations of justice and made competent provision for our relatives that none of ours be left miserable and unprovided in our departure but grant that being blessed by thy providence and sanctified with thy spirit they may for ever be servants of the Lord Jesus II. Thou knowest Lord the secrets of our hearts shut not up thy mercifull eyes and eares unto our prayers but spare us O Lord most holy O God most mighty O holy and mercifull Saviour thou most worthy Judge eternall suffer us not at our last hour for any paines of death to fall from thee but strengthen us with a mighty grace and support us with an infinite mercy giving us perfect measures or repentance and great treasures of charity that at the generall resurrection in the last day we may be found acceptable in thy sight and receive that blessing which thy welbeloved son shall then pronounce to all them that love and feare thee saying Come ye Blessed children of my Father receive the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world * This mercy O most mercifull Father vouchsafe to give unto us and all thy servants through Jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer Amen Here may be inserted any of the portions of the prayer of intercession which is at the end of Morning Prayer The Blessing THe Lord blesse you and keep you The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace The blessing of God Almighty the Father Son and Holy Ghost be amongst you and abide with you and be your portion for ever and ever Amen The end of Evening Prayer To be added to the foregoing Offices upon speciall occasions immediately before the blessing at Morning or Evening Prayer A prayer before Sermon O Lord God fountaine of life giver of all good things who givest to men the blessed hope of eternall life by our Lord Jesus Christ and hast promised thy holy Spirit to them that aske him Be present with us in the dispensation ofthy holy word and Sacraments grant that we being preserved from all evil by
thy power and among the diversities of opinions and judgments in this world from all errors and false doctrines and led into all truth by the conduct of thy holy spirit may for ever obey thy heavenly calling that we may not be onely hearers of the word of life but doers also of good workes keeping faith and a good conscience living an unblameable life usefully and charitably religiously and prudently in all godlinesse and honesty before thee our God and before all the world that at the end of our mortal life we may enter into the light and life of God to sing praises and eternall hymnes to the glory of thy name in eternal ages through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen In whose name let us pray in the words which himselfe commanded saying OUr Father which art in heaven * Hallowed be thy Name * Thy Kingdome come * Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven * Give us this day our daily bread * And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us * And lead us not into temptation * But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen A prayer of Thanksgiving after Sermon if it be convenient by reason of the time or other circumstances I. ALmighty God our glory and our hope our Lord and Master the Father of mercy and the God of all comfort we humbly present to thee the sacrifice of a thankfull spirit in a joyfull acknowledgment of those infinite favours by which thou hast supported our state enriched our spirits comforted our sorrowes releiv'd our necessities blessed and defended our persons instructed our ignorances and promoted our eternall interest * We praise thy name for that portion of thy holy word of which thou hast made us partakers this day Grant that it may bring forth fruit unto thee and unto holinesse in our whole life to the glory of thy holy name the edification of our Brethren and the eternall comfort of our soules in the day of our Lord Jesus II. Have mercy upon all that desire and upon all that need our praiers Ease the paines of the sick support the spirit of the disconsolate heare the cries of Orphans and Widdowes in their calamity and restore all that are oppressed to their rights and sanctify to them all their wrongs pity the folly and pity the calamities of poor mankind in mercy remembring them that are appointed to die comfort and support their spirits perfect and accept their repentance and receive the soules returning unto thee whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood III. Lord pity and pardon direct and blesse sanctify and save us all Give repentance to all that live in sinne and perseverance to all thy sons and servants for his sake who is thy beloved and the foundation of all our hopes Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory praise and adoration love and obedience now and for evermore Amen If this whole office be said at Morning or Evening Prayer respectively the Collect before sermon here put downe may be used instead of the Usual prayer before sermon ending with the Lords prayer and the Sermon to begin immediately before the blessing The Sermon being ended the prayer of thankes-giving may be said and the congregation dismissed with the blessing set downe at the end of Evening Prayer A prayer when a sick person desires to be publikely prayed for I. O Almighty and most gracious Father who art the fountaine of life and health and pardon hear the prayers of thy servants in behalfe of our Brother or Sister the miserable for the afflicted of sinners for him or her whom thou hast smitten Lord lay no more upon him then thou shalt enable him to beare but give him patience and doe thou thy selfe open a door for his escape even by a holy and a reformed life and a speedy recovery or else by a blessed death as thou in thy infinite loving kindnesse shalt choose for thy glory and his eternall interest II. Lord give unto thy servant a perfect repentance and a perfect pardon of all his sins Remember not the errors of his youth the weaknesse of his spirit the surprises of his life and the crimes of his choice but joyne his present sufferings to the passion his prayers to the intercession and his repentance to the merits of our dearest Saviour Jesus that he may be pardoned and pitied comforted and supported sanctified and saved in the day of recompenses III. Blessed Jesus who hast overcome all the powers of sinne Hell and the grave take from thy servant all inordinate fear of death give him a perfect resignation of his will and conformity to thine restraine the power of the enemy that he may not prevaile against the soule which thou hast redeemed If it be thy will give him a speedy restitution of his health and a holy use of the affliction or if thou hast otherwise decreed preserve him in thy fear and favour and receive his soule to mercy to pardon and eternal life through thy mercies and for thy compassion sake O Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Amen I. For seasonable weather in time of drowth immoderate raine or scarcity or death of Cattel c. O Lord God whose providence is universal and sufferest nothing to happen in vaine have mercy upon thy servants who have deserved thy wrath and to suffer thy indignation in every expression by which thou art pleas'd to signifie it Thou O God coverest the Heaven with clouds and preparest raine for the earth thou makest the grasse to growe upon the mountains and herbe for the use of men Thou givest fodder unto the cattel and feedest the young ravens that call upon thee Heare us O God who are thy servants and the sheep of thy pasture we have indeed wandered and gone astray but doe thou be mercifull unto us and bring us home to thee Take away thine anger from us Blesse the labours of the husbandman and the fruits of the feild refresh the weary earth with seasonable showers or seasonable weather for thou hast the key of raine and the key of providence thou didst bind up the heavens with ribs of iron and thou didst open againe the sluces of water at the prayer of thy servant Elijah and thy hand is not shortned and thy mercies have no limit II. Open thy hand O God and fill us with thy loving kindnesse that the Mower may fill his hand and he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosome that our garners may be full with all manner of store that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no breaking in or going out that our hearts may be replenish'd with food and gladnesse that there be no complaining in our streets Give us sufficient for this life
often forget our selves and still neglect and despise our owne danger III. BUt O God our Father mercifull and gracious have mercy upon us Be pleased to admit thy servants to a full pardon of all our sins let us not persevere in any one sinne nor passe from one sin to another Smite us not O God in thy anger and let not thy wrath descend upon our guilty heads Thy anger O God is insufferable thy vengeance is the portion of accursed soules and thou hast prepared the everlasting fire for the Devill and his Angels for ever O Lord thou Father of our life and lover of soules let us never have our portion in the bottomlesse pit in the lake that burueth with fire and brimstone for ever but let our portion be in the actions of repentance in the service of God in the aids and comforts of thy Spirit in dutie and holinesse in the light of thy countenance and in the likenesse and in the inheritance of our Lord Jesus O God let not thy arrowes smite us nor thy judgements consume us keep us from all expressions of thy wrath and let us rejoice in thy mercies and loving-kindnesses for ever and ever Amen IV. And that thy servants may reasonably and humbly hope for thy final mercies and deliverance be pleased to give us all that we need in order to the performance of our dutie and worke all that in us by which we may please thee Instruct us in thy truth and prepare the means of salvation for us providing for the necessities and complying with the capacities of evey one of us Take from us all blindnesse of heart and carelessenesse of spirit all irreligion and wilful ignorance Create in us a love of holy things and open our hearts that we may perceive and love and retaine the things of God with diligence and humility and industry O God our Father pity our weaknesses temptations our avocations and unavoidable divertisements the prejudices and evill contingencies happening in the state of our lives Enable us with sufficient and active graces to doe whatsoever thou requirest of us severally Require no more of any one of us then thou hast or shalt give unto us neither doe thou exact all that for we all confesse our weaknesses and defects our strange imperfections and inexcusable wandrings and omissions but be pleased to cure all our vitious inclinations and take care to remoove from us all those temptations which without thy mighty grace are not to be avoided and if they come are by our weaknesses not to be overcome Keep us O God from flattery and irreligion from vicious complyances and evill customes and let not the reverence of any man cause us to sin against thee keep us upright in our religion and worshippings of thee and let no change of the World engage us in a state of life against our duty for Jesus Christ his sake our Dearest Lord and Saviour V. Keep us O God by thy holy Spirit of grace from all the sins of idlenesse and intemperance from injustice and sensuality from the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes from the pride of life and vanity of spirit from being carelesse of our dutie of false in our trust from breach of promise or reproachfull language from slandering or traducing any man from false accusation and false witnesse from faction and envie Grant us thy grace that we may be diligent in our businesse just in our charges provident of our time watchfull in our dutie carefull of every word we speak O make us to be pleased in the offices of religion usefull to those that imploy us dutifull to our superiors loving to each other conscientious in private humble in publick patient in adversity religious and thankful in prosperity VI. O Blessed God take care of our soules and of our bodies keep us from sharp and tedious sicknesses let us never fall into want or be unprovided for in our age and forsake us not O God when we are gray-headed Grant us great measures of thy Spirit that we may abstaine from all appearances of evill and from all occasions of it and that we may take care to doe whatsoever is honest and of good report that having laid up a treasure of good workes against the day of thy visitation we may rejoyce in the day of our death and find mercy at the day of judgement through the goodnesse of our God and by the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen VII Blesse and sanctify defend and save all Christian Kings Princes Governors and States Grant that all powers Civil and Ecclesiasticall may joyne together in the promoting the honour of God and the kingdome of the Lord Jesus and may find the blessings of God and the rewards of the Lord Jesus in this world and in the world to come Give health and comfort peace and holinesse long life and increase of grace to the cheifest of this family his Wife and children grant that their portion may be in religion and the love of God keep them from all evill by the guard of Angels and lead them into all good by the conduct of thy good Spirit VIII In mercy and great compassion remember all them that are miserable and afflicted persecuted or poore that have lost their estates or lost their liberty their health or their peace their innocence or their hopes restore them O Lord to all good and to all usefull comforts and let not the enemie of mankind invade thy portion or destroy any soule for whom thou hast paid the price of thy most precious blood Hear us O God in mercy and blesse all our relations and prosper all our labours and sanctify all our intentions and forgive us all our sins and releive all our necessities and defend us from all dangers and especially from our own selves from our evill habits and foolish customes from our weake principles and sad infirmities from our evill concupiscence and vitious inclinations from the power of the Devill and from thy wrath and bring us in mercy and truth in holinesse and comfort in labour and certainty to a fruition of the glories of God in the inheritance of our blessed Saviour Grant this O God our Father for the merits and by the redemption and intercession of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communication of the holy Spirit of God be with us defend and guide sanctify and save us and al our relatives and all the servants of God this day and for evermore Amen A short forme of Evening prayer for a family In the name of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father c. The HYMNE O* Lord our Lord how excellent is thy Name in all the Earth thou hast set thy glory above the Heavens ¶ When I consider thy heavens the work of thy fingers the moone and the stars which thou hast ordained *
office published by the authority of Queene Elizabeth 1597. I. A prayer for an Army or Navy in time of VVarre O Almighty Lord God of hosts the prince of peace and the everlasting Counsellor we humbly beseech thee so to conduct encourage and defend our Armies and Fleets with thy mighty arme and thy wise providence that what they shall attempt or take in hand for defence of this Church and State may be prosperous and blessed Direct and lead them all in safety strengthen their Governours and leaders with sound counsell and wise Conduct The officers and souldiers with ready obedience and valiant resolution Blesse their conflicts with signal victories give them blessed opportunities of effecting the purposes of peace and justice with the least bloodshed Preserve them from contagious diseases from the violence of sword and sicknesses from evill accidents or crafty designes from treachery or surprise from carelesnesse of their duty and fromall irreligion from confusion or feare from mutiny and disorder Give them an happy and an honourable returne that we being defended from our enemies thy servant our Soveraigne or Supreme may rejoice in thy mercies and thy church may give thee thankes in the daies of peace and all thy people may worship thee in a holy religion giving thee praise and honour and glory for ever in Eternal ages through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Or this I. O Most mighty Lord God who reignest over all the Kingdomes of Men thou hast power in thy hand to cast downe and to raise up to save thy servants and to rebuke their enemies and in all ages hast given victory to the people effecting by small numbers what man cannot doe by the multitude of an Host Let thy eares be now open unto our praiers and thy merciful eyes upon our trouble and our danger O Lord doe thou judge our cause in righteousnesse and mercy prosper our armes and defend our armies Establish us in the rights thou hast given us in our lands and in our goods in our Government and in our lawes in our Religion and in all the holy orders which thou hast appointed to minister to all who shall be heires of salvation II. Never let ambition or Cruelty thirst of Empire or thirst of blood the greedinesse of of spoile or the pleasures of a victory make us either to love warre or to neglect all the just wayes of peace and grant unto the Army such piety and prudence such happy circumstances and blessed events that none of them may doe any act misbecoming Christians Disciples and servants of the prince of peace Doe thou O God blesse them in all their just actions and necessary defences that they may neither doe wrong nor suffer any Let not our enemies have their unjust desires nor their mischeivous imaginations prosper leaft we become a scorne and derision to our oppressors The race is not to the swift nor the battle to thestrong and a horse is counted but a vaine thing to save a man but our trust is in the name of the Lord our God he is our strength and our defence for it is thou O Lord who canst indifferently save with many or with few III. Wherefore from thy holy sanctuary open thine eyes and behold stretch forth thy hand and helpe defend and save our Armies and Navies O thou God of power from all evil of man and all evil of chance Cover their heads in the day of battle and danger send thy feare before thy servants that our enemies may flee before them let thy faith make them valiant in fight and put to flight the armies of Aliens Rebels c. and by this shall thy servants know thou favourest us in that our Enemy doth not triumph against us and shall alwaies confesse to the praise of thy name that it was thou Lord the sheild of our hope and the sword of our glory who hast done great things for us and evermore say Praised be the Lord that hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants Heare us O Lord for the glory of thy name for thy loving mercy and for thy truth sake through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen An Office for Prisoners THe foregoing ordinary Offices are fitted for all mankind in General and so may be also used by these in their Prisons To which they may adde what is fit for them in the following devotions and upon Solemne occasion or upon special necessity or devotion they may intirely and distinctly use the following prayers and psalmes c. In the Name of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father which art in Heaven c. Versicle O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to helpe us Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Psalme I Will cry unto God with my voice even unto God will I cry with my voice and he shall hearken unto me ¶ In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord in the night my sore ceased not my soule refused to be comforted * When I am in heavinesse I will thinke upon God when my heart is vexed I will complaine ¶ O remembet how short my time is wherefore hast thou made all men for nought * I goe hence like the shadow that departeth and am driven away as the grashopper But the Lord shall endure for ever he hath also prepared his seat for judgement ¶ For he shall judge the world in righteousnesse and minister true judgement unto his people * The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble ¶ And they that know thy Name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast never failed them that seeke thee * Deliver me O Lord from the evil man preserve me from the violent man ¶ I know that the Lord will maintaine the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poore * Surely the righteous shall give thankes unto they Name the upright shall dwell in thy presence ¶ O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee according to the greatnesse of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die * The humble shall consider this and be glad Seeke ye after God and your soule shall live ¶ For the Lord heareth the poore and despiseth not his prisoners * Who is like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high ¶ Who humbleth himselfe to behold the things that are in heaven and earth * He raiseth up the poore out of the dust and lifteth the needy out of the Dunghil ¶ Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore * For he satisfieth the longing soule and filleth the hungry soule with goodnesse ¶ Such as sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death being bound in affliction and iron * He bringeth them out of darknesse and the shadow of death and breaketh their bands in sunder ¶ O that men would praise the Lord for
woman c from all the violence and fraud of the Spirits of darknesse from the weakenesse of humane nature from the curse and power of evil habits and from Eternal damnation through the mercies of God and the grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen I. For Prisoners under oppression by false accusation by unjust warre for a good Conscience or unreasonable dealings of men by vexatious law-suits and violent injurious bargaines O Almighty God most mercifull most gracious Father who hast glorified thy eternal son and exalted him to be a covenant for the people a light of the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them that sit in darkenesse out of the prison-house Thou standest at the right hand of the poore to save his soule from unrighteous Judges thou art a defence for the oppressed and a refuge in due time in the time of trouble O looke upon thy servants who suffer wrong from the violent and unjust usages of our oppressors If it be thy will speedily rescue us from our calamity we submit to thy will and pleasure and adore thy providence and thy wisedome in every dispensation but we begge of thee together with the suffering give us patience and a way for us to escape and sanctify both thy justice in our suffering and thy mercy in our delivery Doe thou judge our cause O Lord defend our persons give good unto our persecutors and not evil give them a love of justice and repentance pardon and holinesse send peace O Lord in all our daies and in al our dwellings let there be no leading into captivity no complaining in the houses of bondage and let not our portion be with persecutors but with the poore and the persecuted with the harmelesse and the innocent with them that doe good and suffer evil for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and onely Saviour Amen II. O God of mercy extend thy loving kindnesse to all thy servants who are under the same or any other great affliction deliver them O God from all evil from their owne weaknesse and their enemies power blesse them with thy providence sanctify them by thy grace pardon them by thy mercy defend them with thy power conduct them by thy Spirit enrich them with thy wisedome and bring them to all holy and usefull comforts in this world and to never ceasing glories in the world to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen THE Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the Communication of the holy Spirit of God be with us and with all our relatives and with all the servants of God for ever and ever Amen An office or forme of prayer for Sailers or Mariners Our Father which art in Heaven c. Versicle O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to helpe us Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Psalme * BLessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his helpe and whose hope is in the Lord his God ¶ Which made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that therein is which feedeth the hungry * The Lord is great and cannot worthily be praised he is more to be feared then all Gods ¶ His dominion is from one sea to the other and from the floud unto the worlds end * Whither then shall I goe from thy Spirit or whither shall I goe from thy presence ¶ If I climbe up into heaven thou art there If I goe down to hell thou art there also * If I take the wings of the morning and remaine in the uttermost parts of the sea ¶ Even there also shall thy hand lead me and thy right hand shall hold me * They that goe downe to the sea in ships and doe businesse in great waters ¶ These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deep * For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind which lifteth up the waves thereof ¶ They mount up to the heaven they goe downe againe to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble * They reele to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits-end ¶ Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble and he bringeth them out of their distresses * He maketh the storme a calme so that the waves thereof are still ¶ Then are they glad because they be at quiet so he bringeth them unto the desired haven * O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull workes to the sons of men ¶ O Lord God of hosts who is like unto thee thy truth most mighty Lord is on every side * Thou rulest the raging of the sea thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise ¶ Thou shalt shew us wonderful things in thy righteousnesse O God of our salvation thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth and of them in the broad sea * They also that dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth shall be afraid at thy tokens thou that makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise thee ¶ The Lord hath said I will bring my people again as I did from Basan mine owne will I bring again as I did some time from the deepe of the sea * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Or this to be said especially in a storme or danger of Shipwrack * THE Lord is King Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared thou art from everlasting ¶ The flouds are risen O Lord the flouds have lift up their voice the flouds lift up their waves * The waves of the sea are mighty and rage horribly but the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier ¶ Awake awake put on strength O arme of the Lord awake as in the ancient daies in the generations of old * Art not thou he which hath dried the sea the waters of the great deepe that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to passe over ¶ Thou art the God that doeth wonders and hast declared thy power among the people * Thou hast mightily delivered thy people even the sons of Jacob and Joseph ¶ The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and were afraid the depths also were troubled * The clouds powred out waters the aire thundred and thine arrowes went abroad ¶ The voice of thy thunder was heard round about the lightnings shone upon the ground the earth was mooved and shooke withall * Thy way is in the sea and thy paths in the great waters and thy footsteps are not knowne ¶ Therefore I will cry unto God with my voice even unto God will I cry with my voice and he shall hearken unto me * Heare me O God in the multitude of thy mercy even in the truth of thy salvation ¶ Take me out of the mire that I
his infinite mercy bring thee to the regions of holinesse and eternal peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen I. A prayer to be used in behalfe of Fooles or Changelings O Eternal and most blessed Saviour Jesus who art the wisedome of the Father and art made unto us wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and Redemption have pity upon the miserable people to whom thou hast given life and no understanding Thou didst create us of nothing and gavest us being when we were not and createdst in us capacity of blessings when we had none and gavest us many when we did not understand them thou bringest infants from the wombe and from the state of nature to the state of grace and from their mothers breasts thou doest often convey them to the bosome of Jesus and yet they doe nothing but thou art glorified in thy free gift O be gracious to all Natural fooles and innocents for thou hatest nothing which thou hast made and lovest every soule which thou hast redeemed we that have reason can deserve heaven no more then these can but these doe not deserve hell so much as we have done Impute not to them their follies that are unavoidable nor the sins which they discerne not nor the evils which they cannot understand keepe them from all evil and sad mischances and make supply of their want of the defences of reason by the special guard of Angels and let thy obedience and thy sufferings be accepted and thy intercession prevaile for them that since they cannot glorify thee by a free obedience thou mayest be glorified by thy free mercies to them and for their destitution of good in this world let them receive eternal blessings in the world to come through thy mercies O eternal and most Blessed Saviour Jesus Amen II. A prayer for Madmen ALmighty God whose wisedome is infinite whose mercy is eternal whose tranquillity is essential and whose goodnesse hath no shore In judgement remember mercy and doe thou delight to magnify thy mercy upon them who need it but cannot aske it who are in misery but feele it not who doe actions without choice and choose without discretion and sober understanding Pity the evil they suffer and pardon the evils that they have done and impute not unto them the evils which they rather beare then act and let not their entry into this calamity be an exclusion from their future pardon but let this sad calamity and judgement which they beare be united to the sufferings of our Lord and be sanctified by his intercession and become an instrument of their peace Lord restore them to their health and understanding take from them all violent passions and remove all evil objects far from their eyes and eares create a cleane heart and renew a right Spirit in them Give them sober thoughts and meeke Spirits contempt of the world and love of holy things suffer them not to doe violence to any man and let no man doe violence to them let them be safe under the conduct of thy providence and the publick lawes and be innocent under the conduct of thy holy Spirit that when thou shalt returne and speake peace to thy people they may rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation thou didst O God shew mercy to Nebuchadnezar gavest to him the heart of a man after he had sin'd and fallen into the lot of beasts and wildnesse and thy hand is not shortned that thou canst not helpe but let thy mercies and loving kindnesse returne upon thy servants as at first that thou mayest rejoyce in thy mercies and salvation because thou hast pleasure in the prosperity of thy Servants Grant this Almighty God and Father for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and dearest Saviour Amen III. A prayer in behalfe of Hereticks and seduced persons O Most blessed most Gracious Saviour Jesus who art the way and the truth and the life thou art a light to them that sit in darkenesse the light that lightneth every man that commeth into the world preserve thy Church in peace and truth in love and holinesse to thy second comming Reduce every misbeleiver to the fold of thy Church instruct every ignorant person in the wayes of Godly wisedome subdue the pride of man and bring every understanding to the obedience of thy sacred law Let no mans vanity or ignorance divide the church let not any holy truth be sullied with the mixture of impure and heretical doctrines nor evil principles disorder the beauties of religion and godly living nor any doctrines of men be taught as the commandement of God but grant that the truth of God may be publikely maintained constantly taught hūbly beleived zealously practized by all men in their several stations that in the church of God there be no contention but in giving honour to each other and glory to God in all the wayes of faith and charity through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. Blesse the ministery of thy holy word in its ordinary dispensation grant it may prevaile mightily for the convincing of them that have no faith for the reprooving of the errors of them whose faith is not pure for the confirming them who are weake in faith for the perfecting them who are novices in faith open the hearts of all gainsayers take from them all their prejudices and all their passions their secular interests and confident opinions that they may humbly and meekely attend to the voice of God in the mouths of thy servants in the pages of scripture in the doctrines of the Spirit that they may doe nothing against the truth but for the truth that they may not quench the Spirit nor despise prophecying nor shut their eyes against the light and their hearts against the love of God but grant that in all things being obedient to the heavenly calling they may receive the blessings of truth and peace in this world and in the world to come exalting the kingdome and partaking the glories of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen These three last prayers are to be used upon any of the great Festivals of the yeare especially Easter day Ascension day Whitsunday and upon 8 dayes after these Festivals or upon good Friday Prayers and Psalmes to be used by the Minister and Curate of Soules at the Visitation of the sick In the Name of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Our Father which art in Heaven c. Minister O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make hast to helpe us * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. Then recite this Psalme * REbuke me not O Lord in thine anger neither correct me in thy heavy displeasure ¶ Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weake O Lord heate me for my bones are vexed * My soule is also sore troubled but Lord how long wilt thou punish me ¶ Turne thee O Lord and deliver my soule O save me for thy mercies sake * For in death no
to the earth as it was and the spirit shall returne unto God who gave it People Blessed be God The Minister while they are preparing to interre the Corps shall say this Psalme * THE wicked is driven away in his wickednesse but the righteous hath hope in his death ¶ I said in the cutting off of my daies I shall goe to the gates of the grave I am deprived of the residue of my yeares * I said I shall not see the Lord even the Lord in the land of the living I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world ¶ I have set the Lord alwaies before me because he is at my right hand I shall not be mooved * Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoyceth my flesh also shall rest in hope ¶ For thou wilt not leave my soule in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption * As for me I will behold thy face in righteousnesse when I awake with thy likenesse I shall be satisfied ¶ Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is the fulnesse of joy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore * Glory be to the Father c. ¶ As it was in the beginning c. When the Corps is in the grave the Minister shall say Forasmuch as it hath pleas'd Almighty God to take to himselfe the soule of our deare brother here departed we lay his body in the ground for out of it was it taken dust it is unto dust it does return but we lay it downe in a sure and certain hope of the resurrection from the grave For the Lord himselfe shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then those which are alive and remaine shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the aire and so shall we be ever with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words Let us pray * Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Christ have mercy upon us * Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven c. I. O Almighty God with whom doe live the spirits of the just men made perfect we give thee humble thankes that thou hast delivered the soule of thy servant N. N. from the calamities of this life putting a period to his sin and to his paines O be pleased shortly to fill up the numbers of thine elect and hasten thy kingdome and to us thy servants grant that we may die to sin and live to righteousnesse living a holy and a gracious life peaceable and blessed that when we have served thee in our generations we may die the death of the righteous leaving a good name and a faire example behind and our good workes may follow us that being holy in our lives we may be blessed in our death and with this thy servant and all other departed in thy love and feare may lie in the bosome of our Lord till by the trump of God we shall be awakened in the resurrection of the just to reigne with thee in thy Kingdome through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. O most blessed Saviour Jesus who art the resurrection and the life and in whose sight the death of thy saints is precious looke upon us thy servants whose life is vanity and our dayes passe away like a tale that it told and as the remembrance of a passenger that stayeth but a night the dayes of our pilgrimage are few and evil and we disquiet our selves in vaine O looke upon us with a gracious eye give us thy holy Spirit of wisedome and peace to guide us in the wayes of God that our affections and our conversation being in heaven and being weaned from this world we may die daily and every day be doing good that laying up a treasure of good workes we may rejoyce in the day of our death and may be freed from the terrors of the day of judgement and the gates of hell may not prevail against us O preserve us from that eternal wrath which shall destroy all thine enemies and let our portion be with the charitable and the merciful on the right hand of the Father where thou sittest and reignest in the glory of God to eternal ages world without end Amen If it be opportune then here may be added one of the prayers for a blessed death at the end of Evening prayer throughout the yeare ending with the usual benediction The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ c. A forme of Devotion TO Be used and said in the daies OF Sorrow and Affliction A forme of Devotion to be used and said in the daies of Sorrow and Affliction of a family or of private persons In the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Our Father c. O God make speed to save us O Lord make hast to helpe us Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. The Psalme HIde not thyface far from me O Lord put not thy servant away in anger thou hast been my helpe leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation ¶ O my God I cry in the day time but thou hearest not and in the night season I am not silent * But thou art holy O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel ¶ Our Father trusted in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them * But I am a worme and no man smitten of thee Lord afflicted tormented forsaken ¶ Thou hast filled me with bitternesse and hast made me drunken with worm-wood thou hast remooved my soule far off from peace and I have forgotten prosperity * But O God thou art my God early will I seek thee be not thou far from me O Lord O my strength hast thee to help me ¶ I acknowledge my sin unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid I will confesse my transgressions unto the Lord O doe thou forgive the iniquity of my sin * Thou art my hiding place thou shalt preserve me from trouble thou shalt compasse me about with songs of deliverance ¶ Lord make me to know my end and the measure of my daies what it is that I may know how fraile I am * Behold thou hast made my daies as an hand breadth and mine age is as nothing before thee verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity ¶ And now O Lord what wait I for Surely my hope is in thee * Deliver me from all my transgressions remove thy stroke away from me I am even consumed by the blow of thy hand ¶ When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for iniquity thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moath Surely every man is vanity * Hear my prayer O Lord and give eare unto my cry hold not thy peace at my teares For I am a stranger with thee and
Give me grace to despise the world and all its interests and possessions that while we set not our affections upon them we may not be too much afflicted when we are crossed in them but let our great care be to please thee our greatest fears least we should sin against thee let our dutie be our imployment thy providence our portion thy Spirit our guide thy law our rule That when this cloud is passed over we may see the brightnesse of thy face and perpetual showers of grace and mercy refreshing our sad and weary spirits so shall thy servants sing praises to the honour of thy Name when thou shalt have saved our soules from death our eyes from teares and our feet from falling grant these mercies O blessed God and Father for Jesus Christ his sake our dearest Lord and Saviour Amen A private prayer to be said by or for a person mutatis mutandis apt to be afflicted with feare of death or Gods anger and the uncertaine state of his of her soule O Eternal God most gracious Father in much mercy compassion behold me thy servant loaden with my sins encompassed with infirmity assaulted by enemies without and apt to be betrayed by my owne weaknesses within If I am cheerfull I am apt to be carelesse of my dutie If I am sad I am timorous and unsafe too ready to distrust thee and to sinke under the burden of those calamities which by my sins I have deserved O God I confesse with sorrow and shame that I resolve often to give my selfe intirely to thy service but I am so perpetually beaten with the violent tempests and stormes of passion that all my hopes and all my feares grow unactive and uselesse and are overcome by them and sinke under my owne evil customes and infirmities Lust Pride Ambition Anger And under this state of infelicity I groane and labour and to thee I humbly make my complaint for thou art my hope and my strength my rock and my might my Saviour and defender my support and my deliverer O hear the saddest cries of thy humble and afflicted servant and give me ease from my greatest sorrowes Give me a cheerfull heart and a severe spirit a love of thy mercies and a trembling at thy judgements an infinite desire to please thee and a great fear to offend thee and though I humbly desire of thy glorious goodnesse to secure and promote my eternall interest by what instruments thou pleasest yet because thou art my Father and my mercifull God I begg of thy infinite goodnesse to take care of my infirmities and to pity my weaknesses and make my religion to be to me the pleasantest thing in the world that nothing may tempt me from thee and prevaile in the daies of my weaknesses and disadvantage II. O Blessed God be pleas'd to give me a perfect repentance for all my sins and admit me to a full pardon and not onely so but if it be thy gracious will consigne this my pardon by some testimony from heaven by a holy and humble hope by a strong faith and a cheerfull spirit by joy in God and a command over my passions by meeknesse and charity by forgiving every one that troubles me and every one that offends me O God my God give to thy servant an excellent religion and a devout spirit and grant that I may take great pleasure in the service of God in obedience to my spirituall superiors in doing the works of that dutie to which thou hast called me in my present state of life and never suffer me to fall into a despairing or an amazed conscience into the evils of a tedious or impatient a wounded or an afflicted spirit but grant that rejoycing in thee evermore and delighting in doing my dutie in mortifying my passions in loving and serving my dearest Relations I may be preserved in thy fear and thy favour and nothing may be able to separate me from the love of God in Christ Jesus Amen III. O my deareft Saviour take from thy servant all inordinate fear of death and give me a great desire after heaven and heavenly things and when thou shalt call me from this world conduct me by the graces and comforts of thy Holy Spirit evenly and holily certainly and cheerfully to the regions of hope and joy that in thy armes I may expect and long for the day of recompences and of thy glorious appearing O God hear the prayer and most passionate desires of thy servant and since thou hast commanded us in the time of need to come with boldnesse to the throne of grace grant that I may be accepted by thy mercies and loving kindnesse through the merits and intercession of my Lord in whom I desire to live and for whom I will not refuse to die our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus to whom with thee O blessed Father and most Holy Spirit I humbly give all honour and thankes and glory and love and service and desire to doe so for ever Amen A forme or prayer of Thanksgiving The Preface to the following office Since it hath pleased God to heare our prayers and to give us the blessing we now feele and rejoyce in the blessing of Peace Health Plenty Victory c. let us faithfully and devoutly give thankes unto God for his great benefit and grace and say Psalmes Eucharistical or of thanksgiving upon special times of festivity to be added to any of the foregoing offices or to be said distinctly After a plentifull Harvest Our Father which art in Heaven c. * O Be joyful in God all ye lands sing praises unto the honour of his Name make his praise to be glorious ¶ O come hither and behold the works of God how wonderful he is in his doing toward the children of men * Thou visitest the earth and blessest it thou makest it very plenteous ¶ Thou waterest her furrowes thou sendest raine into the little vallies thereof thou makest it soft with the drops of raine and blessest the increase of it * Thou crownest the yeare with thy goodnesse and thy clouds drop fatnesse ¶ They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wildernesse and the little hils shall rejoyce on every side * The folds shall be full of sheepe the vallies also shall stand so thick with corne that they shall laugh and sing ¶ Praised be God which hath not cast out our prayer nor turned his mercy from us * Let us now feare the Lord our God that giveth raine both the former and the latter raine in his season ¶ He reserveth unto us the appointed weekes of the harvest * Lord what is man that thou hast respect unto him or the Son of man that thou so regardest him ¶ The eyes of all waite upon the O Lord and thou givest them their meat in due season * Thou openest thine hand and fillest all things living with plenteousnesse ¶ The Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his workers * The Lord is
slumber 4 Behold he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep 5 The Lord is thy keeper the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand 6 The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil he shall preserve thy soul. 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and even for evermore PSAL. CXXII A preparatory hymn for the people of God in their ascent to the places and solemnities of religion he prayes for the prosperity of the Church I Was glad when they said unto me Let us goe into the house of the Lord. 2 Our feet shall stand within thy gates O Jerusalem 3 Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together 4 Whither the tribes go up the tribes of the Lord unto the testimony of Israel to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. 5 For there are set thrones of judgement the thrones of the house of David 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee 7 Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces 8 For my brethren and companions sakes I will now say Peace be within thee 9 Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek thy good PSAL. CXXIII The people under the tyranny of Antiochus complain to God of their sad condition and humbly wait on God UNto thee lift I up mine eyes O thou that dwellest in the heavens 2 Behold as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God untill that he have mercy upon us 3 Have mercy upon us O Lord have mercy upon us for we are exceedingly filled with contempt 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease and with the contempt of the proud PSAL. CXXIV The people newly escaped from their enemies acknowledge their great danger and God onely to be the author of their safety and their victory IF it had not been the Lord who was on our side now may Israel say 2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us the stream had gone over our soul 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6 Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers the snare is broken and we are escaped 8 Our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth PSAL. CXXV The perpetuity of the Church Gods continuall presence with her the lot of the wicked differs from the portion of Gods people THey that trust in the Lord shal be as mount Zion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever 3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity 4 Do good O Lord unto those that be good and to them that are upright in their hearts 5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked wayes the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity but peace shall be upon Israel Ev. Pr. PSAL. CXXVI Thy joy of the Jewes at their retuâ—n from Babylon they pray for the remaining part the future joy of them that presently mourn WHen the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that dream 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue with singing Then said they among the heathen The Lord hath done great things for them 3 The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad 4 Turne again our captivity O Lord as the streames in the south 5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy 6 He that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtlesse come again with rejoycing bringing his sheaves with him PSAL. CXXVII Without God we must undâ—rtake nothing children are a blessing to the righteous EXcept the Lord build the house they labour in vain that build it except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain 2 It is vain for you to rise up early to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep 3 Lo children are an heritage of the Lord the fruit of the womb is his reward 4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so are children of the youth 5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be ashamed but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate PSAL. CXXVIII The blessiâ—gs of them that fear God in their wives and children and the peace of the Church BLessed is every one that feareth the Lord that walketh in his wayes 2 For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands happy shalt thou be and it shall be well with thee 3 Thy wife shall be as a fruitfull vine by the sides of thine house thy children like olive plants round about thy table 4 Behold that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. 5 The Lord shall blesse thee out of Zion and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the dayes of thy life 6 Yea thou shalt see thy childrens children and peace upon Israel PSAL. CXXIX The indefatigable malice of the enemies of the Church they prevail not but are at last accursed and cut off MAny a time have they afflicted me from my youth may Israel now say 2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth yet they have not prevailed against me 3 The plowers plowed upon my back they made long their furrows 4 The Lord is righteous he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion 6 Let them be as the grasse upon the house tops which withereth afore it groweth up 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosome 8 Neither doe they which goe by say The blessing of the Lord be upon you we blesse you in the name of the Lord. PSAL. CXXX A prayer for pardon of sins an act of hope in God and a celebration of his mercy The Psalm is paenitential OUt of the depths have I cryed unto thee O Lord. 2 Lord hear my voice let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications 3 If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand 4 But there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayst be feared 5 I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope 6