to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said the Creed by the Minister and the people standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and people shall say the Lords prayer with a loud voice 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 ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon thée Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answer And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but onely thou O God Priest O God make clean our hearts within us Answer And take not thy holy Spirit from us ¶ In stead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two be used O Almighty God the soveraign Commander of all the world in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand We bless and magnifie thy great and glorious Name for this happy victory the whole glory whereof we do ascribe to thee who art the only giver of victory And we beseech thée give us grace to improve this great mercy to thy glory the advancement of thy Gospel the honour of our Soveraign and as much as in us lieth to the good of all mankind And we beséech thée give us such a sense of this great mercy as may engage us to a true thankfulness such as may appear in our lives by an humble Ioy and obedient walking before thée all our days through Iesus Christ our Lord. To whom with thée and the holy Spirit as for all thy mercies so in particular for this victory and deliverance be all glory and honour world without end Amen O Almighty God who art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies We yield thée praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers where with we were compassed We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beséeching thée still to continue such thy mercies towards us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty deliverer through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The second Collect for Peace O God who art the authour of peace and lover of concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life whose service is perfect fréedom defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our Enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries through the might of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The third Collect for Grace O Lord our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day defend us in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Here followeth the Litany O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Sun Redéemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity thrée Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redéemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from all false doctrine heresie and schism from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Qativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloudy Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of Iudgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thée to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée to kéep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thée in righteousness and holiness
of life thy servant Charles our most gracious King and Governour We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve our gracious Quéen Catherine Mary the Queen Mother James Duke of York and all the Royal Family We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute Iustice and to maintain Truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations Vnity Peace and Concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy Commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord That it may please thée to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that are desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée to forgive our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beséech thée to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in heaven c. Priest O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answer Neither reward us after our iniquities Let us pray O God merciful Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thée in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Lord Christ Priest O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thée Let us pray WE humbly beséech thée O Father mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Name turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thée in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our onely Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Most gracious and glorious Lord God who by thy great power hast made and by thine infinite wisdom dost dispose and order all things the Protectour of those that trust in thée and their Deliverer in time of their distress Our Enemies compassed us about on every side but thou hast delivered us by thy mercy They were many and did rage horribly but thou O Lord who dwellest on high art mightier They intended that mischief which through thy goodness to us they were not able to perform And when they had marked us out for ruine thou didst then bring upon them swift destruction Out of the déep of the Sea we cried unto thée O Lord and thou didst hear us We acknowledge and confess O our God that it is not our own strength that hath helped us not the number of our Ships nor the courage of our Souldiers nor yet the
is infinite The Lord setteth up the meek and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground O sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving sing praises upon the harp unto our God Who covereth the heaven with clouds and prepareth rain for the earth and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains and herb for the use of men Who giveth fodder unto the cattel and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse neither delighteth he in any mans legs But the Lords delight is in them that fear him and put their trust in his mercy Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Sion For he hath made fast the bars of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the flower of wheat He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth and his word runneth very swiftly He giveth snow like wooll and scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes He casteth forth his ice like morsels who is able to abide his frost He sendeth out his word and melteth them he bloweth with his wind and the waters flow He sheweth his word unto Iacoh his statutes and ordinances unto Israel He hath not dealt so with any nation neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws The first Lesson is 1 Sam. 2. to 11. ANd Hannah prayed and said My heart rejoyceth in the Lord mine horn is exalted in the Lord my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies because I rejoyce in thy salvation There is none holy as the Lord for there is none beside thée neither is there any rock like our God Talk no more so excéeding proudly let not arrogancie come out of your mouth for the Lord is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed The bows of the mighty men are broken and they that stumbled are girt with strength They that were full have hired out themselves for bread and they that were hungry ceased so that the barren hath born seven and she that hath many children is waxed feeble The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up He raiseth up the poor out of the dust and lifteth up the begger from the dunghil to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory for the pillars of the earth are the Lords and he hath set the world upon them He will keep the feet of his saints and the wicked shall be silent in darkness for by strength shall no man prevail The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces out of heaven shall he thunder upon them the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth and he shall give strength unto his king and exalt the horn of his anointed Magnificat MY soul doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden For behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed For he that is mighty hath magnified me and holy is his Name And his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations He hath shewed strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble and méek He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away He remembring his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel as he promised to our forefathers Abraham and his séed for ever Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The second Lesson is 1 Thess 5. BUt of the times and the seasons brethren ye have no néed that I write unto you For your selves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night For when they shall say Peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape But ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief Ye are all the children of light and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness Therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sover For they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunken in the night But let us who are of the day be sover putting on the breast-plate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation For God hath not appointed us to wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Iesus Christ who died for us that whether we wake or sléep we should live together with him Wherefore comfort your selves together and edifie one another even as also ye do And we beséech you brethren to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and to estéem them very highly in love for their works sake And be at peace among your selves Now we exhort you brethren warn them that are unruly comfort the féeble-minded support the weak be patient toward all men Sée that none render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is gold both among your selves and to all men Rejoyce evermore Pray without ceasing In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Iesus concerning you Quench not the spirit Despise not prophesnings Prove all things hold fast that which is good Abstain from all appearance of evil And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Iesus Christ Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it Brethren pray for us Gréet all the brethren with an holy kiss I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you Amen Cantate Domino Psal xcviii O Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things With his own right hand and with his holy arm hath he gotten himself the victory The Lord declared his salvation his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen He hath remembred his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel and all the ends of the world have séen the salvation of our God Shew your selves joyful unto the Lord all ye lands sing rejoyce and give thanks Praise the Lord upon the harp sing to the harp with a psalm of thanksgiving With trumpets also and shawms O shew your selves joyful before the Lord the King Let the sea make a noise and all that therein is the round world and they that dwell therein Let the flouds clap their hands and let the hills be joyful together
before the Lord for he is come to judge the earth With righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said the Creed by the Minister and the people standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and people shall say the Lords prayer with a loud voice 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 ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon thée Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answer And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but onely thou O God Priest O God make clean our hearts within us Answer And take not thy holy Spirit from us ¶ Instead of the first Collect shall these two be used O Almighty God the soveraign Commander of all the world in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand We bless and magnifie thy great and glorious Name for this happy Victory the whole glory whereof we do ascribe to thee who art the onely giver of Victory And we beseech thee give us grace to improve this great mercy to thy glory the advancement of thy Gospel the honour of our Soveraign and as much as in us lieth to the good of all mankind And we beseech thee give us such a sense of this great mercy as may engage us to a true thankfulness such as may appear in our lives by an humble holy and obedient walking before thee all our days through Iesus Christ our Lord To whom with thee and the holy Spirit as for all thy mercies so in particular for this Victory and Deliverance be all glory and honour world without end Amen O Almighty God who art a strong Tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their Enemies We yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent Dangers wherewith we were compassed We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies towards us that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all just works do proceed Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give that both our hearts may be set to obey thy commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the merits of Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen LIghten our darkness we beseech thée O Lord and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thy onely Son our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Majesty O Lord our heavenly Father High and Mighty King of Kings Lord of Lords the onely Ruler of Princes who dost from thy Throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may alway incline to thy Will and walk in thy way endue him plenteously with heavenly gifts grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies and finally after this life he may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A prayer for the Royal Family Almighty God the Fountain of all goodness we humbly beseech thee to bless our gracious Queen Catherine Mary the Q. Mother James Duke of York and all the Royal Family Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich them with thy heavenly grace prosper them with all happiness and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Clergy and People ALmighty and everlasting God who alone workest great marvels send down upon our Bishops and Curates and all Congregations committed to their charge the healthful Spirit of thy grace and that they may truly please thee pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing Grant this O Lord for the honour of our Advocate and Mediatour Iesus Christ Amen O Lord God our strength and our salvation We thy unworthy Servants the sinful People of these three Nations whom by thy miraculous Providence thou didst lately rescue from the miseries of a Civil War at home and hast now crowned with Victory against a potent Enemy abroad in grateful acknowledgement of thy so great and often-repeated Mercies are here now before thee with humble yet inflamed hearts desirous to oster up unto thee our Sacrifice of praise and thanks calling Heaven and Earth to witness with us that as it was the Miracle of thy meer Mercy which raised us out of the depth of those miserable Confusions in which we lay so it is thy Power alone O our God by which we stand thy good Providence by which we prosper More particularly with the highest expressions of our devoutest hearts we magnifie thy great and glorious Name O Lord our God for that remarkable Victory wherewith thou hast lately blest the Naval Forces of our gracious Soveraign O continue forth thy loving kindness towards him Let thy tender mercies prevent and follow him all the days of his life Let his Reign be prosperous and his arms victorious and let the blessings of safety and happy success attend all those that fight his Battels Subdue more and more unto him the People that is under him and the Nations under his feet Preserve him from the gathering together of the froward and from the insurrection of the evil doers Let no weapon that is form'd against him prosper but make him and his always to return with Honour and Victory and Ioy and Triumph O let all the Blessings of Heaven and Earth be poured out upon the sacred Head of thine Anointed and from thence flow down even to the skirts of the meanest of his People in Peace and Plenty and Prosperity That so both Prince and People may with one mind and with one mouth glorifie thee O God most gracious for this thy unspeakable goodness not onely presenting thee as this day the fruit of the lips giving thanks unto thy Name but also through the entire course of a holy life ever offering up unto thee Souls and Bodies which thou hast created redeemed and preserved to be a living and holy Sacrifice acceptable unto thee through Iesus Christ To whom with thee O Father Almighty in the unity of the holy Ghost be glory in the Church throughout all ages world without end Amen ¶ Then shall follow this Prayer which shall be used continually so long as the Navy is abroad O Most glorious and powerful Lord God who alone hast spread out the heavens and compassed the waters with bounds until night and day come to an end at whose command the winds blow and who rulest the raging of the sea Thou art terrible in all thy works of wonder the great God to be feared above all We therefore adore thy divine Majesty acknowledging thy power and imploring thy goodness Be pleased to receive into thine Almighty and most gracious protection the persons of thy servants that fight for us and the Ships and Navies in which they serve preserve them all from the dangers of the sea and from the violence of the enemy and from every sad accident that they may be a safeguard to our most gracious Soveraign and his Kingdoms and a security for such as pass on the Seas upon their lawful occasions Help Lord and save them for thy mercies sake that they may return in safety with Honour and Victory and good success to enjoy the blessings of the land and the fruit of their labours and that all the inhabitants of these Islands being blest with plenty prosperity peace and quietness may serve thee our God in righteousness and true holiness and with a thankful remembrance of all thy mercies may ever praise and glorifie thy holy Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer of Saint Chrysostom ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thée and dost promise that when two or thrée are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life everlasting Amen 2 Corinth 13. 14. THe grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen FINIS LONDON Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1666.