at this Day By Lying Detraction and contumely by censuring and rash Judgments by false Witness and perverting the course of Justice we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By Desire of Change and Uncontentedness in our Estates by giving our selves over to lustful covetous and inordinate Affections by desire of Peace not so much for thine own Honour or the publick Good as the Satisfaction of our own private Lusts by neglecting Acts of Charity and doing as we would be done unto and not doing our Duty in that State of Life unto the which it hath pleased thee to call us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our want and neglect of those necessary Christian Duties of Humiliation and godly Sorrow for Sins of due Indignation and Revenge upon our selves for them of confessing and forsaking of Restitution and Satisfaction to others and by not bringing forth Fruits worthy of Repentance we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By Impatience under thy correcting Hand by not endeavouring our Amendment by it in reflecting upon our Sins as the Causes of it by despising thy Chastisements in not rejoycing in Tribulations and not glorifying thee that hast counted us worthy to suffer for Righteousness sake we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By fretting our selves because of the ungodly and being envious at the evil doers by not loving our Enemies not blessing them that curse us not doing good to them that hate us not praying for those that despitefully use us and persecute us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By presuming to do evil that good may come thereon by placing Piety in Opinions by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels by scrupling at Things indifferent and making no Conscience of known Sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By running into open Prophaneness under Colour of avoiding Superstition by guiding our Conscience by Humours Fancies and not by the certain Rules of thy Law by having itching Ears and heaping to our selves Teachers and by having Mens Persons in Admiration because of advantage we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our unreformed continuing in our former Sins since thy heaviest Judgments came out against us our not melting not turning to thee in Humiliation and Contrition and Change of Life or not preparing to meet our God when he is come out in Fury against us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By those open or secret but still unmortified crying Sins of a wretched People which have so enraged a long suffering God as to deliver up our Glory the Joy of our Hearts and the Breath of our Nostrils into the Power and Malice of bloody Men to be assaulted with a Rage that reacheth up to Heaven we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our fatal Stupidity under this Vengeance of thine our Want of Zeal of Courage of a due Detestation of so vile an Enterprize our not confessing of thee when we have been most signally called unto it we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By bowing our Shoulders to bear and crouching down with Issachar under our Burthens because the Land is pleasant and Rest seemed good unto us by not putting out our selves and restoring our Soveraign but neglecting that Prize that thou wast pleased lately to put into our Hands and forsaking our own Mercy we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our too much Formality and Coldness in our Devotion by being wearied at the Return of our Days of Humiliation and secretly repining at the length and frequency of our Prayers by honouring thee with our Lips while our Hearts have been far from thee especially we of this Family have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By preferring Sacrifice before Obedience and by holding fast our Iniquities and yet thinking to be heard for our much speaking we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from our secret Sins Try us O Lord God and search the ground of our Hearts prove and examine our Thoughts and look well if there be any other way of Wickedness in us and lead us in the way everlasting A Prayer O Almighty and most Merciful Father who art the Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long suffering and abundant in Goodness and Truth keeping Mercy for Thousands and forgiving Iniquity Transgression and Sins Look down upon us with thy compassionate Eyes who are here before thee in the Bitterness of our Souls and do now with troubled Spirits with broken and contrite Hearts most humbly beg Pardon for these Multitude of our Offences Look we humbly beseech thee upon the Blood of thy Son which speaketh better Things than that of Abel for his sake spare us Lord spare thy People that those Sins rise not up against us for his Passions sake expose us not for a Prey to their cruel Hands who would both devour and deride us Spare us Lord spare thy People for the Glory of thy Name O deliver us and be merciful to all these our Sins through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest only ALmighty God our Heavenly Father who of his great Mercy hath promised Forgiveness of Sins to all them that with hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your Sins confirm and strengthen you in all Goodness and bring you to everlasting Salvation both of Body and Soul through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The Lord's Prayer OUR Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this Day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us
and they who have divided his Inheritance triumphing over him But thou O Lord how long shall bloody Designs and Rebellious Imaginations prosper Shall not the Judge of the whole Earth do right Or hast thou forgot to be gracious and shut up thy tender Mercy in Displeasure O no thou art the same God who in the midst of Judgment remembreth Mercy Thine Arm is not shortned that thou canst not save nor thine Ears heavy that thou canst not hear Arise thou O God arise let the World see that thou art the Father of the Fatherless and Helper of them to right that suffer wrong Shew it O Lord especially at this time in multiplying all thy Comforts on our distressed King And as thou hast strangely and wonderfully delivered him from those who so eagerly hunted after his Life so let it appear to the World that thou hast not done this to make him the more miserable or to continue him in the condition of an Exile but rather that thou hast reserved him for faithfuller Hands and fairer Opportunities and more prosperous Successes And though this were not the time nor this the means by which thou hadst designed to restore the Kingdom to him yet that thou hast not yet forsaken him but that he is still in thy Care still under the Shadow of thy Wings who alone art able to do more for him than we can pray for and gloriously to bring him back again by ways we cannot think of In the mean time O Lord whilst thou thinkest fit to keep him under the sharpness of this Discipline teach him to kiss the Hand that chastens him and humbly to submit his Earthly Crown to thy divine Will and Pleasure as knowing that thou canst either restore him that when it seems good to thee or give a Crown infinitely more glorious which no Man can take from him Lord he is more precious to thee than he can be possibly to us dispose of him therefore in the Multitude of thy Mercies and let thy holy Spirit take so full Possession of him and Guidance that among all the Difficulties of his most perplexed Affairs he may constantly continue his Duty towards thee and live and dye thy faithful Servant in Jesus Christ Amen A LITANY of Intercession Preparatory Ejaculations to precede the LITANY O That thou wouldest hear me O God! that thou wouldest so prepare my Heart that thou mayest hear me That thou wouldest hear me yet once more though I am but Dust and Ashes That thou wouldest hear me for all those whom by the bonds of Duty of Charity or Affection I am bound to pray for O Lord hear my Prayers And let my Cry come unto thee The LITANY THat it may please thee O God to bless the whole Catholick-Church of thy Son Christ and as it hath been planted in his Death and watered with his Blood so it may be still nourished by his Sacraments and governed by his Word that the Uncharitableness of Men may not make the Rents and Divisions of it wider and that howsoever we may differ in the Superstructions the Foundation of Christian Faith may never be cast down O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to look compassionately on this persecuted Part of thy Church now driven from thy publick Altars into Corners and secret Closets that thy Protection may be over us where-ever we shall be scattered and a Remnant preserved amongst us by whom thy Name may be glorified and thy Sacraments administred and the Souls of thy Servants kept up upright in the midst of a corrupting and of a corrupted Generation O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to be gracious to Him who was once designed by thee to be the Nursing Father of this thy Church but for the Sins both of Priests and People is now cast out as an unprofitable Branch and that in thy due time thou wouldst deal with him according to the Innocency of his Person and Justice of his Cause O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to comfort him in the sadness of his Spirit and guide him in the Perplexities of his Mind and support him in streights and necessities of his Fortunes To raise him Friends abroad to convert or confound the Hearts of his Enemies at home To do some mighty Thing for him which I in particular know not how to pray for and by the secret Windings and powerful workings of thy Providence to make the Stone which these foolish Builders have refused the head stone of the corner O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to preserve him with an unspotted Soul and an unshaken Faith and that no Splendor of any Earthly Crown may so dazzle him as to make him forget either himself or thee or to do any unworthy thing to lose that Heavenly Crown which thou hast prepared for him and nothing but his Sins is able to keep from him O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to shew mercy to the Queen his Mother the Dukes his Brethren in exile with him and the rest of that scattered and oppressed Family to guide them with thy Counsels to defend them by thy Power to provide for them in thy mercy and to make them in their several ways Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to deal graciously with that Remnant of the loyal Nobility and all others of that ruined Side who have chosen rather to suffer in thy Cause than to participate with the Sins of a more successful Party O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to spread the wings of thy Protection over all those whom thou hast made near or dear unto me to preserve them safe in Body and Soul from the Snares of their Enemies and the Iniquities of the times that no Sin may lay waste their Consciences nor Evil come near their Dwellings O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to recompence all those whom thou hast raised to be Instruments of any good to me such as have taken care of my Soul and instructed me in the way to Heaven such as have counselled me when I have gone astray supplyed me in my wants comforted me in my heaviness and have had that high Charity for me as to reprove me when I have sinned O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to let the Day spring from on high shine upon all those that sit in Darkness and in the shadow of Death who either do not know thy Name or knowing it are carried by strong Delusions into the ways of Error and false Perswasion O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to confirm those who as yet stand fast on the Foundations of thy holy Truth that neither the Persecution of the Church
against him and with eight hundred thousand chosen Men being mighty Men of Valour 4. And Abijah stood up upon Zemaraim which is in Mount Ephraim and said hear me thou Jeroboam and all Israel 5. Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the Kingdom over Israel to David for ever even to him and to his Sons by a Covenant of Salt 6. Yet Jeroboam the Son of Nebat the Servant of Solomon the Son of David is risen up and hath rebelled against his Lord 7. And there are gathered unto him vain Men the Children of Belial and have strengthned themselves against Rehoboam the Son of Solomon when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted and could not withstand them 8. And now ye think to withstand the Kingdom of the Lord in the Hand of the Sons of David and ye be a great Multitude and there are with you golden Calves which Jeroboam made you for Gods 9. Have ye not cast out the Priests of the Lord the Sons of Aaron and the Levites and have made you Priests after the manner of the Nations of other Lands So that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young Bullock and seven Rams the same may be a Priest of them that are no Gods 10. But as for us the Lord is our God and we have not forsaken him and the Priests which minister unto the Lord are the Sons of Aaron and the Levites wait upon their Business 11. And they burn unto the Lord every Morning and every Evening burnt Sacrifices and sweet Incense the Shew-bread also set they in order upon the pure Table and the Candlestick of gold with the Lamps thereof to burn every Evening for we keep the charge of the Lord our God but ye have forsaken him 12. And behold God himself is with us for our Captain and his Priests with sounding Trumpets to cry alarm against you O Children of Israel fight ye not against the Lord God of your Fathers for you shall not prosper 13. But Jeroboam caused an Ambushment to come about behind them so they were before Judah and the Ambushment was behind them 14. And when Judah looked back behold the Battel was before and behind and they cryed unto the Lord and the Priests sounded with the Trumpets 15. Then the Men of Judah gave a shout and as the Men of Judah shouted it came to pass that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah 16. And the Children of Israel fled before Judah and God delivered them into their Hands 17. And Abijah and his People slew them with a great slaughter so there fell down slain of Israel Five Hundred Thousand chosen Men 18. Thus the Children of Israel were brought under at that time and the Children of Judah prevailed because they relied upon the Lord God of their Fathers 19. And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took Cities from him Bethel with the Towns thereof and Jeshanah with the Towns thereof and Ephraim with the Towns thereof 20. Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the Days of Abijah and the Lord struck him and he died Priest Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost People As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest We will cry unto the Lord with our voice yea even unto God will we cry with our voice and he shall hearken unto us for the Lord is gracious and long suffering and of great mercy to them that call upon him People The Lord is nigh to all that be of a contrite heart and will save such as be of an humble Spirit Priest And now Lord what is our hope truly our hope is even in thee People For our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them they called upon thee and were holpen they put their trust in thee and were not confounded Priest The Lord 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 never failest them that seek thee People The merciful Goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his Righteousness upon Childrens Children even upon such as keep his Covenant and think upon his Commandments to do them Priest Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that trust in thee thou that upholdeth all such as are falling and liftest up such as be down thou that healest the broken in heart and givest Medicine to heal their Sickness thou that art the Father of Mercy and God of all Consolation thou that art comfort to the Sad and strength to the Weak hear thy Servant we beseech thee look down from Heaven behold and visit us with thy Salvation Glory be to c. The Lord be with you And with thy holy Spirit OUR Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen A Prayer O Lord of Heaven and Earth God of the Spirits of all Flesh we a most sinful and therefore now a most miserable People do in the bitterness of our afflicted Souls humbly fall down at the Footstool of thy Grace most sadly bewailing our many and most heinous Sins we have multiplied our Iniquities into a violation of thy whole Law having neither performed to thee our God nor to Man the Duties thou requirest of us so that by our wicked Works we have denyed that most holy Faith whereof our Mouths have for so long a time made Profession and now in thy just Judgment thou hast set our Sins in order before our Eyes yet return O God in great Mercy unto the many thousands of thy People do thou accept and encrease in our Hearts a Detestation of all Wickedness O let not thy Scourge end in a Desolation or thine Anger go on unto the height of an everlasting Ruin but hear us merciful Father hasten the Aversion of these thy sharp Judgments from us scatter thou the People that delight in War And let the blessing of Peace be upon the Heads of all those that strive and pray for this Blessing and that for his sake by whom thou givest every blessing even Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Priest Hear our Voice O Lord out of thy holy Temple let our Complaint come before thee let it enter even into thy Ears People Our Hearts are in heaviness O let us make our Prayers unto thee in an acceptable time Priest O Lord our Iniquities are against us our Rebellions are many with which we have transgressed against thee but we confess our Wickedness and are sorry for our Sins People Our Confusion is daily before us Fearfulness and Trembling are come upon us and