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The second service, or Office of the faithful enlarged, according to ancient forms For a private use.
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Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.
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THE Second Service OR Office of the Faithful ENLARGED According to Ancient Forms For a Private Vse GLory be to God on High on Earth Peace Good Will towards Men. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his People c. to And thou O Child God be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the Light of his Countenance and be merciful unto us Prevent us O Lord in all our Doings with thy most Gracious Favour and further us with thy continual Help that as by thy ' special Grace preventing us thou dost put into our Minds Good Desires so by thy continual Help we may bring the same to good Effect and in all our Works begun continued and ended in Thee we may glorifie thy Holy Name and finally by thy Mercy may obtain everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Almighty God unto whom all Hearts be open c. Then the Offertory and Prayers for the whole State of Christs Church Invitatory Ye that do truly and earnestly Repent c. the Confession Absolution and Sentences following The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Love of God the Father and the Communication of the Holy Ghost be with you all Amen R. And with thy Spirit Lift up your Hearts R. We lift them up unto the Lord. Let us give Thanks unto our Lord God R. It is meet and right so to do It is very meet right and our bounden Duty that we should adore worship and glorifie Thee and at all Times and in all Places give Praise and Thanks unto Thee O Lord Holy Father Almighty Everlasting God Eternal Independent Self-sufficient Being of Infinite Wisdom Power and Goodness who hast prepared thy Throne in the Heavens and dwellest in the High and Holy Place yet the Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Thee for thou fillest Heaven and Earth Thou coverest thy Self with Light as with a Garment dwelling in the Light which no Man can approach unto whose Judgments are unsearchable and thy ways past finding out Thou O most Glorious Majesty thou art LORD alone For thou hast made Heaven the Heaven of Heavens with all their Host the Earth and all things therein the Seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and thy Dominion ruleth over all R. The Heavens are Thine the Earth also is Thine Thou hast founded the whole World and all that therein is The Host of Heaven worshipeth Thee A thousand thousand minister unto Thee and ten thousand times ten thousand attend upon Thee R. And we poor Mortals adore thy most Excellent Majesty and recognize and revere thy most just and absolute Dominion When we consider the Heavens the Work of thy Fingers the Moon and the Stars which thou hast ordained Lord what is Man that Thou art mindful of Him and the Son of Man that Thou visitest Him All Nations in respect of Thee are but as a Drop of a Bucket and as the small Dust of the Ballance as nothing yea less than Nothing and Vanity What then are we a little handful of thy poor Creatures among so many Millions of our own Kind besides so many Myriades of thy more excellent Creatures which continually attend upon Thee and with profound Reverence cover their Faces before Thee that thou shouldest have any regard unto us R. Who is like unto the Lord our God who hath his Dwelling so high and yet humbleth himself to behold the things which are in Heaven and Earth But such is thy Providence which extends to All thy Creatures even to the Sparrow upon the House top and so boundless thy Love and Goodness that though the Glory of thy Majesty might justly deterr the Purest of Mortals from any Address to Thee thou dost not only graciously invite us but by thy most Gracious Commands hast made that or rather reinforced it as our Duty which otherwise of it self were a most desireable Favour And though the Holiness of thy Majesty might make such sinful Wretches tremble to approach thy Presence yet such is thy Clemency that for our Encouragement thou hast provided for us both a Propitiation for our Sins and a Mediatour for our Infirmities in Christ Jesus thy beloved Son and our blessed Lord and Saviour in whom and through whom thou hast most admirably demonstrated in thy infinite Wisdom at once both thy Justice and Severity against Sin and thy Mercy and Clemency to thy poor Creatures to the Admiration even of thy blessed Angels R. Great and Marvellous are thy Works Lord God Almighty Just and True are thy Ways thou King of Saints Who shall not fear Thee O Lord and Glorifie thy Name In his Name therefore in Grateful Obedience to thy Gracious Commands and thankful Acceptance of those thy Gracious Encouragements we humbly as we can present our selves before Oh that we could do it with that Reverence and Devotion that is meet and with all those thy Glorious Creatures in Heaven and all thy faithful and devote Servants upon Earth Adore and Worship thy Supream most Glorious Majesty Acknowledging and Recognizing thy most just and absolute Dominion over us all R. Blessed be the Lord God of our Fathers for ever and ever Thine O Lord is the Magnificence and the Power and the Glory and the Victory and the Majesty for all that is in Heaven and in Earth is thine thine is the Kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted as Head over all We are all thine by right of Creation R. The Heavens are Thine the Earth also is Thine Thou hast founded the whole World and all that therein is By right of Sustentation and Preservation * * In Thee we live and move and have our Being And we the Sinful Sons of Men all thine also by right of Redemption R. Vnto Him that loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood to Him be Glory and Dominion for ever and ever Amen And we here present with all the Members of thy visible Church Thine also by special Dedication and Consecration which we for our part do each here again Ratify and Confirm R. We confirm O Lord we ratify and confirm it with all our Souls for ever Humbly beseeching Thee in the Name and for the Sake and Merits of the same our Lord Jesus Christ thy Beloved Son our Blessed Redeemer whom thou hast proposed to be a Propitiation for us in his Blood to Pardon all our Sins and make us perfectly and compleatly Thine by thy Holy Spirit of Sanctification that He may be in us and abide with us for ever may illuminate our Minds to know Thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent and to apprehend the Excellence of those Glories which thou hast designed us for and proposed unto us such as Eye has not seen nor Ear heard nor Heart of Man conceived and the Excellence of these Means and Ordinances which thou hast appointed for us for the Attainment thereof which thou hast
hid from the Wise and Prudent of the World but revealest unto Babes And therefore with Angels c. Thou art worthy O Lord to receive Glory and Honour and Power for thou hast created all things and for thy Pleasure they are and were Created Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to reeive Power and Riches and Wisdom and Strength and Honour and Glory and Blessing For thou wast slain and hast redeemed us unto God by thy Blood out of every Kindred and Tongue and People and Nation Blessing Honour Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever Almighty God who hast given c. The Collect for the Second Sunday after Easter Almighty God our Heavenly Father c. The Prayer of Consecration Wherefore Holy Father according to his Holy Institution Commemorating that his bitter but most precious Death and Passion and solemnly Representing the same before thy Divine Majesty as the great most Holy and Only Propitiation for all our Sins and the Sins of the whole World and being mindful also of his Powerful Resurrection Glorious Ascension into Heaven and Blessed Session at thy right Hand to intercede for us till he shall come again with great Power and Glory to judge both the Living and the Dead and to distribute to every one according to their Works done in the Flesh we offer and render unto thee by him our most humble Adoration highest Praises and most hearty Thanks for thy inestimable Clemency Goodness and Benignity to us therein and thereby demonstrated to Men and Angels and most humbly and earnestly Supplicate and Beseech thee that this our Unbloody Reasonable and Spiritual Sacrifice may be acceptable and well Pleasing unto thee most Mighty God by our Anointed Jesus who gave himself for us an Offering and a Sacrifice to thee for a sweet smelling Savour that thou will be pleased graciously to behold the same and look upon this Token and Memorial of the Covenant from thy Glorious Throne in Heaven and be Propitious to us in the free and full Pardon of all our Sins in a Liberal and Bountiful Collation of thy Rich Treasure of the Inestimable Graces of thy Holy Spirit upon us and in a gracious Audience of the Prayers which we here offer unto thee and send down thy Holy Spirit upon these Proposited Elements to Sanctify and Bless them that to us who partake thereof this Bread may be made the Precious Body of thy Christ and this Wine the Precious Blood of thy Christ to the Remission of all our Sins and to the mighty Confirmation of us in all Grace and to Eternal Life And here we offer and present unto Thee O Lord our selves our Souls and Bodies c. as in that which immediately follows the Lord's Prayer beginning O Lord and Heavenly Father And we humbly beseech thee O Father the great Creator and Supream Lord and Governour of the whole Universe and of all therein to behold with thy Favour this great Propitiation for the Sins of the whole World and be Propitious to the Vniversal Church diffused over all the Earth which thy Beloved Son our Saviour hath purchased with his own precious Blood and to the whole Race of Mankind Behold with Mercy and Pity all our Misery and Sufferings through the Envy Malice and Subtility of those Rebels against thee the Apostate Spirits of the Kingdom of Darkness Behold the great Havock they have made and Confusions they have wrought in the World and even in thy Church and among thy People who are called by thy Name And let all our Sufferings be united to the Sufferings of our Saviour and being sanctified by them be accepted by thee and all the Malice and Mischiefs of those thine and our inveterate Enemies be computed to the filling up of their Measure that they may be cast out and the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour thy Son be set up in full Power and Glory throughout the whole World R. How long O Lord Holy and True dost thou not judge and avenge the Sufferings of thy poor Creatures upon those Spiritual Wickednesses thine and our Enemies who vex us with their Wiles O Lord raise and restore thy Vniversal Church to its primitive Purity Holiness Zeal and Fruitfulness in Good Works and let the light of thy Countenance so shine upon it that from thence it may be reflected into the Eyes and Hearts of all those who sit in Darkness that so they may be brought out of their Darkness into Thy Light unto Thee the God of Light and Life And we humbly beseech Thee most Gracious and Merciful Father to look down and behold in much Mercy and Pity the deplorable State and Condition of this Church and Nation who have hitherto withstood all the gracious Methods of thy Holy and manifest Providence for our Correction and Reformation without any Works meet for Repentance or any due sence of thy Hand and Gracious Designs therein or of the Day of our Visitations but say We are Rich and increased with Goods and have need of nothing and know not that we are wretched and miserable and poor in true Treasure and blind and naked overspread with Pharisaism Formality and Carnal Security and tainted with the leaven not only of the Pharisees but even of the Sadduces and in the very State of thy ancient People the Jews in the Day of their Visitation so that we have great Reason to fear that we have filled up our Measure and that the Day of our Calamity and of thy just Vengeance is near approaching But thou art God and not Man thou knowest our Frame and that we are but Dust a God ready to pardon Gracious and Merciful slow to anger and of great Kindness yet can we not expect to be wholly unpunished but we beseech Thee correct us in measure with Judgment not in thine Anger least thou bring us to nothing And remember O Lord that our Sins are in Truth our greatest Misery and how much we suffer therein through the secret Energy of our invisible Enemies Pour out therefore thy Fury upon them for they have devoured and consumed us but help us O God of our Salvation for the Glory of thy Name and deliver us and purge away our Sins for thy Name 's Sake Send forth a powerful Spirit of Reformation amongst us and stir up the Hearts and Spirits of thy faithful Servants to be industrious for the Promotion thereof strengthen them thereunto and bless them therein And we humbly beseech thee O Lord who knowest how to deliver the Godly out of Temptations and to reserve the Vnrighteous unto the Day of Judgment to be punished if thou after all art provoked to bring a Flood of Calamities and Destruction upon the World of the Vngodly and to leave the Outward Worshippers and Formal Christians to be tordden down by the Gentiles that thou wilt remember all the True Worshippers within the Temple and before the Altar who indeed