dwell in the tents of ungodlinesse 12 For the Lord God is a light and defence the Lord will give grace and worship and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life 13 O Lord God of hosts blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee The Prayer O Lord God of hosts who dwellest in the heavens seated in essentiall and eternall felicities fill our hearts with desires and longings to enter into those Courts where thou sittest attended with the beauteous orders of Angells and millions of beautified spirits and that our desires may receive infinite satisfactions give us thy helpe that we going through the vale of misery the pooles may be filled with water our hearts and eyes may runne over with teares of repentance and overflow with sorrow and contrition for our sinnes that we living a godly life going from strength to strength from vertue to vertue at last we may appeare in Sion unto the God of Gods beholding the face of thine anointed thy Christ and our Iesus and may dwell one day in thy Courts even all the long day of eternity through the same Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 85. A thanksgiving for Gods free mercy in the pardon of our sinnes and a prayer for the continuance and increase of his mercies to us LOrd thou art become gratious unto thy land thou hast turned away the captivity of Iacob 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people and covered all their sinnes 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure and turned thy selfe from thy wrathfull indignation 4 Turn us then O God our Saviour and let thine anger cease from us 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another 6 Wilt thou not turn againe quicken us that thy people may reioyce in thee 7 Shew us thy mercy O Lord and grant us thy salvation 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me for he shall speak peace unto his people and to his saints that they turne not again 9 For his salvation is nigh them that feare him that glory may dwell in our land 10 Mercy and truth are met together righteousnesse and peace have kissed each other 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth and righteousnesse hath looked down from heaven 12 Yea the Lord shall shew loving kindnesse and our land shall give her increase 13 Righteousnesse shall go before him and he shall direct his going in the way The Prayer O Most gracious God who art reconciled unto us in our Saviour Iesus having for his sake forgiven the offences of thy people and covered all their sinnes with the robe of his most immaculate sanctity and righteousnesse let thy grace convert and quicken us that we may rejoyce in thee and thy salvation in faith of thy promises in hope of the actuall communication of thy mercies to us and in love to thee for so great blessings and redemption and when thou hast spoken peace unto our soules and reconciled us to thy selfe in the bloud of thy Son give us the grace of perseverance that we may never turne again to folly but may follow mercy and truth all our dayes and at last be satisfied with thy righteousnesse and peace eternall through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 86. A prayer for sanctity and preservation MORNING PRAYER BOw down thine eare O Lord and heare me for I am poore and in misery 2 Preserve thou my soule for I am holy my God save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee 3 Be mercifull unto me O Lord for I will call daily upon thee 4 Comfort the soule of thy servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my soule 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6 Give eare Lord unto my prayer and ponder the voyce of my humble desires 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou hearest me 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee O Lord there is not one that can do as thou doest 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10 For thou art great and doest wonderous things thou art God alone 11 Teach me thy way O Lord and I will walke in thy truth O knit my heart unto thee that I may feare thy Name 12 I will thanke thee O Lord my God with all my heart and will praise thy Name for evermore 13 For great is thy mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my soule from the nethermost hell 14 O God the proud are risen against me and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soule and have not set thee before their eyes 15 But thou O Lord God art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering plenteous in goodnesse and truth 16 O turne thee then unto me and have mercy upon me give thy strength unto thy servant and helpe the son of thine handmaid 17 Shew some good token upon me for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me The Prayer O Lord God good and gracious and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee give eare unto our prayers and ponder the voyce of our desires when ever we call upon thee in our trouble Let the soules of thy servants be refreshed with thy comforts and defend us from the congregations of proud and naughty men Turne thee unto us with mercy give thy strength unto us teach us thy lawes make us to walke in thy truth give us the feare of thy Name and knit our hearts to thee with the indissoluble bands of charity and obedience that our soules being saved from the nethermost hell we may worship thee O Lord glorifie thy name who art full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and plenteous in goodnesse and truth which thou hast manifested to us in our deliverance and redemption through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 87. A contemplation of the excellencies of Sion or the celestiall Ierusalem HEr foundations are upon the holy hills the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Iacob 2 Uery excellent things are spoken of thee thou city of God 3 I will thinke upon Rahab and Babylon with them that know me 4 Behold ye the Philistims also and they of Tyre with the Morians lo there was he borne 5 And of Sion it shall be reported that he was borne in her and the most High shall stablish her 6 The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth up the people that he was borne there 7 The singers also and trumpeters also shall he rehearse all my fresh springs shall be in thee The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in Sion and delightest to have thy habitation in the hearts of men thou hast built the
upon me O God after thy great goodnesse according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences 2 Wash me throughly from my wickednes and cleanse me from my sinne 3 For I knowledge my faults and my sinne is ever before me 4 Against thee only have I sinned and done this evill in thy sight that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying cleare when thou art iudged 5 Behold I was shapen in wickednesse and in sinne hath my mother conceived me 6 But lo thou requirest truth inward parts and shalt make me to understand wisdome secretly 7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssope and I shall be clean thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter then snow 8 Thou shalt make me heare of ioy and gladnesse that the bones which thou hast broken may reioyce 9 Turn thy face from my sinnes and put out all my misdeeds 10 Make me a clean heart O God and xenew a right spirit within me 11 Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me 12 O giue me the comfort of thy help again and stablish me with thy free Spirit 13 Then shall I teach thy wayes unto the wicked sinners shall be converted unto thee 14 Deliver me from bloud-guiltinesse O God thou that art the God of my health and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousnesse 15 Thou shalt open my lips O Lord and my mouth shall shew thy praise 16 For thou desirest no sacrifice else would I give it thee but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings 17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and a contrice heart O God shalt thou not despise 18 O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the walls of Ierusalem 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousnesse with the burnt-offerings and oblations then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar The Prayer O Most mercifull God whose goodnesse is great and the multitudes of thy mercies are innumerable have mercy upon us for our sinnes are ever before us represented by the continuall accusations of a troubled conscience We have sinned against thee and done evill in thy sight and yet because thou art the God of mercy and fountaine of eternall purity delighting in the conversion and salvation of a sinner we present unto thee the sacrifice of a troubled Spirit of broken and contrite hearts beseeching thee to let the dew of thy favour and the fire of thy love wash away our sinnes and purifie our soules Make us cleane hearts O God and pure hands though our sinnes be as scarlet yet make them like wooll though they be as purple yet make them as white as snow Restore the voice of joy and gladnesse to us let us not be for ever separate from the sweet refreshings of thy favour presence but give us the comforts of thy help again and let thy free Spirit loose us from the bondage of sinne and establish us in the freedome and liberty of the Sonnes of God so shall we sing of thy righteousnesse and our lips shall give thee praise in the congregation of thy Redeemed ones now henceforth and for ever Amen PSALME 52. A Prayer for deliverance from tyranny oppression and slander VVHy boastest thou thy self thou tyrant that thou canst do mischief 2 Whereas the goodnesse of God endureth yet daily 3 Thy tongue imagineth wickednesse and with lies thou cuâ—test like a sharp rasour 4 Thou hast loved unrighteousnesse more then goodnesse and to talke of lies more then righteousnesse 5 Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt O thou false tongue 6 Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever he shall take thee and pluck thee out of thy dwelling root thee out of the land of the living 7 The righteous also shall see this and fear and shall laugh him to scorn 8 Lo this is the man that took not God for his strength but trusted unto the multitude of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickednesse 9 As for me I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever 10 I will alwayes giue thanks unto thee for that thou hast done and I will hope in thy name for thy Saints like it well The Prayer O Almighty God whose goodnesse endureth daily extend this thy goodnesse towards us thy servants and defend us from the tyranny and malice of all our Enemies who boast themselves in mischiefe keep us from the obloquy of false tongues and from the slander of lying persons who talke of lyes more then righteousnesse that we being nourished by thy goodnesse and watered with the dew of divine blessings may flourish like a green olive in the house of God bringing forth the fruits of tender mercy and abounding in peace and that we may by the suffusion of anointing of the holy Ghost be consign'd to thy everlasting Kingdome there to reign with thee who reignest eternally one God world without end Amen PSALME 53. A Prayer for Redemption of the Church from the persecution of Atheists and Persons irreligious EVENING PRAYER THe foolish body hath said in his heart There is no God 2 Corrupt are they and become abominable in their wickednesse there is none that doth good 3 God looked downe from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God 4 But they are all gone out of the way they are altogether become abominable there is also none that doth good no not one 5 Are not they without understanding that work wickednes eating up my people as if they would eat bread they haue not called vpon God 6 They were afraid where no fear was for God hath broken the bones of him that besieged thee thou hast put them to confusion because God hath despised them 7 Oh that the salvation were given unto Israel out of Sion oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivitie 8 Then should Iacob rejoyce and Israel should be right glad The Prayer O Lord God who dwellest in heaven and lookest downe from thence upon the children of men be pleased to give salvation to thy people out of Sion thy holy habitation and preserve thy Church from the malice of such persons as have not called upon thee but would eate up thy people as they would eate bread that we being delivered from the captivity of sinnes miseries may serve thee with freedome of spirit in joy and spirituall rejoycing all the dayes of our life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALME 54. A Prayer for deliverance from our Enemies SAve me O God for thy names sake and avenge me in thy strength 2 Heare my prayer O God and hearken unto the words of my mouth 3 For strangers are risen up against me and tyrants which haue not God before their eyes seek after my soul 4 Behold God is my helper the Lord
The haters of the Lord should have been found liars but their time should have endured for ever 17 He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-floure and with hony out of the stonie-rock should I have satisfied thee The Prayer O Lord God our strength whose mercies are infinite whose Majesty is glorious whose goodnesse is amiable above all the excellencies in the World enlarge our hearts with joy and rejoycings in thy glories open our mouths wide and fill our lips with thy praises that upon the solemne feast daies we may commemorate thy excellencies and mercies and the great mysteries of our redemption and Religion adoring thee with thankes and joyfulnesse who art mysterious in thy words and marvellous mercifull in all thy works and that we may in the best manner expresse our thankfulnes to thee give us thy grace that we may heare thy voyce that we may obey thee walk in thy Laws that we follow not our owne imaginations nor be given to our own hearts lusts but that we resigning our selves only to thy holy will pleasure thou mayest heare our prayers when ever any storme of trouble falls upon us and turne thine hand against our adversaries and that we being delivered from the burden of our sinnes may be fed with the choicest of thy viands and with food from the Rocke Christ Iesus even his most precious bodie and bloud nourishing us up to life eternall through the same Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 82. A Prayer for the Princes and Judges of the world that they may do right iudgement EVENING PRAYER GOd standeth in the congregation of Princes he is a Iudge among gods 2 How long will yee give wrong iudgement and accept the persons of the ungodly 3 Defend the poore and fatherlesse see that such as be in need and necessitie have right 4 Deliver the outcast and poore save them from the hand of the ungodly 5 They will not be learned nor understand but walke on still in darknesse all the foundations of the earth be out of course 6 I have said yee are gods and yee all are children of the most Highest 7 But yee shall die like men and fall like one of the Princes 8 Arise O God and iudge thou the earth for thou shalt take all the heathen to thine inheritance The Prayer O Almighty Iudge of Men and Angels thou God of Gods and Prince of Princes let thy Spirit of anointing rest upon the Princes and Rulers within the pale of the Vniversall Church and let thy righteousnesse and judgements guide all those that sit in the seat of the Iudges that they may minister justice and true judgement unto the people defending and promoting the interests of true Religion relieving the oppressed encouraging vertue and dishonouring vitious persons delivering the poore and saving them from the hand of the ungodly that men may not walke on still in darknesse but their evill deeds may be discovered and brought to light that we may all live before thee in righteousnesse expecting the great day of righteous judgement which we begge we may all behold with confidence receiving thy mercies and beholding thy face in glory thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 83. A Prayer against the Enemies of the Church particularly sacrilegious persons HOld not thy tongue O God keep not still silence refrain not thy selfe O God 2 For lo thine enemies make a murmuring and they that hate thee have lift up their head 3 They have imagined craftily against thy people and taken counsell against thy secret ones 4 They have said Come and let us root them out that they be no more a people and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance 5 For they have cast their heads together with one consent and are confederate against thee 6 The tabernacles of the Edoinites and the Ismaelites the Moabites and Hâ—garenes 7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek the Philistines with them that dwell at Tyre 8 Assur also is ioyned unto them and have holpen the children of Lot 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites unto Sisera and unto Iabin at the brook of Rison 10 Which perished at Endor and became as the dung of the earth 11 Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb yea make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana 12 Which say Let us take to our selves the houses of God in possession 13 O my God make them like unto a wheel and as the stubble before the winde 14 Like as the fire that burneth up the wood and as the flame that consumeth the mountaines 15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storme 16 Make their faces ashamed O Lord that they may seek thy name 17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more let them be put to shame and perish 18 And they shall know that thou whose name is Iehovah art onely the most highest over all the earth The Prayer O Lord God who wert known to thy people Israel by thy name Iehovah thou art onely the highest over all the earth arise and defend thy people and deliver thy secret ones from the murmurings councels and crafty imaginations of thine enemies against them Fixe the foundations of the Church upon a Rocke and preserve thine inheritance in peace and safety Infatuate the councels restrain the sacrilegious appetites of all such persons who would rob all thy houses and take them to their owne possession and make their faces so ashamed and their hearts afraid that they may return from covetousnesse and impiety and seek thy Name repenting of all their sinnes and living in justice and religion that at last they may come into an everlasting possession of thy house and of thy Temple where thine Honour dwelleth and reigneth eternally world without end Amen PSALME 84. A Prayer of desire and longings after the ioyes of Heaven O How amiable are thy dwellings thou Lord of hosts 2 My soule hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh reioyce in the living God 3 Yea the sparrow hath found her an house and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young even thy altars O Lord of hosts my King and my God 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be alway praising thee 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee in whose heart are thy wayes 6 Which going through the vale of misery use it for a well and the pooles are filled with water 7 They will go from strength to strength and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion 8 O Lord God of hosts heare my prayer hearken O God of Iacob 9 Behold O God our defender and look upon the face of thine Anointed 10 For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand 11 I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to
be afraid for any terrour by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day 6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkenes nor for the sicknesse that destroyeth in the noone day 7 A thousand shall fall beside thee and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee 8 Yea with thine eyes shalt thou behold and â—ee the reward of the ungodly 9 For thou Lord art my hope thou hast set thine house of defence very high 10 There shall no evill happen unto thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling 11 For he shall give his Angells charge over thee to keep thee in all thy wayes 12 They shall beare thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone 13 Thon shalt goe upon the lion and adder the young lion and the dragon salt thou tread under thy feet 14 Because he hath set his love upon me therefore shall I deliver him I shall set him up because he hath known my name 15 He shall call upon me and I will heare him yea I am with him in trouble I will deliver him and bring him to honour 16 With long life will I satisfie him and shew him my salvation The Prayer O Lord God our hope and our strong hold have mercy upon us and defend us under the shadow of thy wings that we trusting under thy defence may by thy faithfulnesse and truth be covered as with a shield and buekler Give thy Angels charg concerning us and our habitations that we may be preserved and kept in all our wayes that no evill happen unto us no plague come nigh our dwelling no terrors of the night no arrowes of thy vengeance by day may disturbe our peace or safety Let thy ministring Spirits beare us in their hands and keep us from precipice from fracture of bones from dislocations noysome or sharp diseases stupidities and deformities that we may tread under our feet all the snares of the roaring lion and the great dragon the Divell who seeks our bodily and ghostly hurt Doe thou set thy love upon us and deliver us from all our troubles and at the end of our dayes shew us thy salvation and satisfie us with long life even of a blessed eternity in thy Kingdom through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen PSALM 92. A meditation of the great works of God in the destruction of the wicked and the preservation of the godly IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto thy name O most Highest 2 To tell of thy loving kindnesse earely in the morning and of thy truth in the night season 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute upon a loud instrument and upon the harp 4 For thou Lord hast made me glad through thy works and I will rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of thy hands 5 O Lord how glorious are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep 6 An unwise man doth not well consider this and a foole doth not understand it 7 When the ungodly are green as the grasse and when all the workers of wickednesse do flourist then shall they be destroyed for ever but thou Lord art the most highest for evermore 8 For lo thine enemies O Lord lo thine enemies shall perish and all the workers of wickednesse shall be destroyed 9 But mine horne shall be exalted like the horne of an unicorn for I am anoynted with fresh oyle 10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies and mine eare shall heare his desire of the wlcked that rise up against me 11 The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Lebanus 12 Such as be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God 13 They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age and shall be fat and well liking 14 That they may shew how true the Lord my strength is and that there is no unrighteousnesse in him The Prayer O Lord God thou art the most highest for evermore thy workes are glorious and thy thoughts are very deep make our hearts and tongues loud instruments of thy prayses that we may tell of thy mercy in the morning of thy truth in the night and that we may rejoyce in giving thee thankes for the operations of thy hands all the dayes and nights of our life Let thy mercifull kindnesse descend evermore upon the righteous that they may flourish like a palm tree being continually watered with the dew of temporall and spirituall blessings and may bring forth fruits of a holy conversation and grant that we thy servants being planted in the house of God and firmly fixed in the blessed communion of Saints may flourish in the Courts of thy house thy celestiall temple to all eternity O let not our portion be amongst the ungodly and unrighteous make us not to communicate in their wickednesse so much as by consent or approbation that we may never perish and be destroyed in the furiousnesse of thine anger which thou treasurest up against the day of vengeance righteous judgement even the day of the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen PSALME 93. A Prayer that God would preserve his Church against the stormes and flouds of persecution EVENING PRAYER THe Lord is King and hath put on glorious apparell the Lord hath put on his apparell and girded himselfe with strength 2 He hath made the round world so sure that it cannot be moved 3 Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared thou art from everlasting 4 The flouds â—are risen O Lord the flouds have lift up their voyce the flouds lift up their waves 5 The waves of the sea are mighty and rage horribly but the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier 6 Thy testimonies O Lord are very sure holinesse becometh thine house for ever The Prayer O Lord our King who art girded with strength and hast prepared thy seat from everlasting establish thy testimonies in our hearts as a sure foundation of temporall eternall happinesse Preserve thy house the holy catholique Church in peace and holinesse which is its defence and ornament and although the flouds of persecution and secular disadvantages have lift up their waves to overthrow it yet because it is built upon a rocke the rocke Christ Iesus make it to stand firm and sure against all the malice of hell and earth and all the powers of them both for thou ô Lord art mightier then all the waves stormes of her enemies To thee O Lord who dwellest on high and art mightier be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen PSALME 94. A prayer for patience comfort and assistance to the godly and that God would disappoynt the designes of the wicked O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth thou God to whom vengeance belongeth shew thy selfe 2 Arise thou iudge of the world and reward the
consciences O build up the ruines of our soules repaire the breaches of our comforts and our hopes and let thy glorie now appeare for that shines brightest in the beames of thy mercie and when thou turnest unto the prayer of poore wretched destitutes it becomes an eternall monument and a record of thy honour and all generations which shall be borne shall praise thee Looke downe O Lord from thy Sanctuary heare the mournings of us and of all distressed people send us health and life so long as it may be a blessing and do not shorten our dayes in wrath but give us grace so to spend all our time in the workes of repentance and holinesse that when our yeares faile and our change is come we may be translated to the new heavens which shall never perish and wax old there to continue and stand fast in thy sight for ever through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen PSALME 103. A thanksgiving to God for all his benefits and mercies PRaise the Lord O my soul and all that is within me praise his holy name 2 Praise the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits 3 Which forgiveth all thy sinne and healeth all thine infirmities 4 Which saveth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindnesse 5 Which satisfieth thy mouth with good things making thee young and lusty as an eagle 6 The Lord executeth righteousnesse and iudgement for all them that are oppressed with wrong 7 He shewed his waies unto Moses his works unto the children of Israell 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy long-suffering and of great goodnesse 9 He will not alway be chiding neither keepeth he his anger for ever 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sinnes nor rewarded us according to our wickednesse 11 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth so great is his mercy also toward them that feare him 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west so farre hath he set our sinnes from us 13 Yea like as a father pittieth his own children even so is the Lord mercifull unto them that fear him 14 For he knoweth whereof we be made he remembreth that we are but dust 15 The dayes of man are but as grasse for he flourisheth as a flower of the field 16 For assoon as the winde goeth over it it is gone and the place thereof shall know it no more 17 But the mercifull goodnesse of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that fear him and his righteousnesse upon childrens children 18 Even upon such as keep his covenant and think upon his commandements to do them 19 The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven and his kingdome ruleth over all 20 O praise the Lord ye angells of his ye that excell in strength ye that fulfill his commandment and hearken unto the voice of his words 21 O praise the Lord all ye his hosts ye servants of his that do his pleasure 22 O speak good of the Lord all ye works of his in all places of his dominion praise thou the Lord O my soul The Prayer O most mercifull God whose mercy is as high as the heavens as great and many as the momeÌ„ts of eternity thou hast opened thy hand wide to fill us with blessings and the sweet effects of thy loving kindnesse thou art pittifull as a Father tender as a Mother carefull as a guardian exceeding mercifull to all them that fear thee we pray thee to fill our soules with great apprehensions and impresses of thy unspeakable mercies that our thankfulnesse may be as great as our needs of mercy are and let thy mercifull loving kindnes endure for ever ever upon us all Keep no anger in store for us chide us not in thy displeasure satisfy our mouths with good things remove all our sinnes from us as far as the east is from the west heale all our infirmities and save our lives from destruction for these are mercies thou delightest in and because we cannot praise thee accordingly to thy excellencies take our soules in thy due time into the land of everlasting praises that we may spend a whole eternity in ascribing to thy name praise honour and dominion Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour Amen PSALME 104. A contemplation of the wisedome and goodnesse of God manifested in his creatures EVENING PRAYER PRaise the Lord O my soul O Lord my God thou art become exceeding glorious thou art clothed with maiesty and honour 2 Thou deckest thy self with light as it were with a garment and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain 3 Which layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters and maketh the clouds his chariot and walketh upon the wings of the winde 4 He maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flaming fiâ—e 5 He laid the foundations of the earth that it never should move at any time 6 Thou covered'st it with the deep like as with a garment the waters stand in the hills 7 At thy rebuke they flee at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid 8 They go up as high as the hils and down to the valleys beneath even unto the place which thou hast appointed for them 9 Thou hast set them their bounds which they shall not passe neither turne again to cover the earth 10 He sendeth the springs into the rivers which run among the hils 11 All beasts of the field drinke thereof and the wilde asses quench their thirst 12 Beside them shall the fowles of the aire have their habitation and sing among the branches 13 He watereth the hills from above the earth is filled with the fruit of thy workes 14 He bringeth forth grasse for the cattell and green herbe for the service of men 15 That he may bring food out of the earth and wine that maketh glad the heart of man and oyle to make him a cheerfull countenance and bread to strengthen mans heart 16 The trees of the Lord also are full of sap even the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted 17 Wherein the birds make their nests and the firre-trees are a dwelling for the storke 18 The high hils are a refuge for the wilde goates and so are the stony rockes for the confes 19 He appointed the moon for certain seasons and the sun knoweth his going down 20 Thou makest darknesse that it may be night wherein all the beasts of the forrest do move 21 The lions roaring after their prey do seek their meat at God 21 The sun ariseth and they get them away together and lay them down in their dennes 23 Man goeth forth to his worke and to his labour untill the evening 24 O Lord how manifold are thy workes in wisdome hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches 25 So is the great and wide sea also wherein are things creeping innumerable both small and great beasts 26 There go the