imployments and not keeping the spiritual sabath unto thee in serving thee truly all the dayes of our life By not duely observing the times of Festivity or fasting appointed by just Authority according to the example of thy people in all ages we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnes belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By not duely acknowledging thine Ordinance and Authority in the Persons of our Superiours by speaking evill of Dignities and reviling the Rulers of thy People by groundlesse jealousies and suspicions misjudging and censuring their Actions And at lâ—…st proceeding to that 〈◊〉 and most â—…rrid pitch of violation of that Image of thine imprinted on them by being as a People that strive with their Priests by our not obeying them that have the rule over us and not submitting our selves to them who by thy appointment watch over our souls by neglecting our care of those Committed to our Charge not Correcting those sins which have Cryed loud for exemplary Punishment we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By rash Anger Malice Hatred and Revenge and the bloody effects thereof by uncharitable Contentions and Divisions Factions and Animosities by Cruelty and Unmercifulnesse and communicating in the sinnes of Blood we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusâ—…on of face as at this day By the manifold sins of Uncleannesse by seeking or not avoiding the occasions thereof by Idlenesse Intemperance and Drunkennes by immodest words and gestures by our shamelesse boasting or not blushing at those sinnes we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By Thefts Rapines and Oppressions scandalizing thereby the Honour and Iustice of a good Cause by vexatious suites so much practised and countenanced by exactions by unjust gains in bargaining by defrauding the labourer of his hire by want of due care in expending what we have and a good Conscience in acquiring more We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By lying detraction and contumely by endeavouring to advantage a good Cause by falshood and unjust means by censuring and rash judgments by false witness and perverting the course of Justice we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By desire of change and uncontentednesse in our Estates by giving our selves over to lustfull covetous and inordinate affections by desiring Peace not so much for thine 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 to and not doing our duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased thee to call us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto 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 ourselves 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 unto 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 own sins as the causes of it by despising thy chastisements in not rejoycing in â—…lations 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 unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By fretting ourselves because of the ungodly and being envious against the evill doers by not loving our enemies not blessing them that curse us not doing good to them that hate us nor praying for those that despightfully use us and persecute us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By presuming to do evill that good may come thereon by placing piety in opinions by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels in scrupling at indifferent things and making no conscience of known sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto 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 humourâ—… and 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 unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from these and from our secret sins Try us O good God and search the ground of our hearts prove us 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 for forgivenesse O Almighty and most mercifull Father who art the Lord the Lord God mercifull and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands and forgiving iniquity transgressions and sins Look down upon us with thy compassionate eyes who are here before thee in the bitterness of our soules and doe now with troubled spirits with broken and with contrite hearts most humbly beg pardon for these multitudes of our offences Look we humbly beseech thee upon the bloud of thy Sonne which speaks better things then that of Abelâ—… for his sake spare us Lord spare thy people that these sins rise not up against us for his passions sake expose us not for a prey to their cruell hands who would both devour and deride us R. Spare us O Lord spare thy people for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull to all these our sins through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest onely ALmighty God our heavenly Father who of his great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins to all them which 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 goodneâ—… and bring you to everlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen The Lords Prayer OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will â—…e done in earth as it is in heaâ—…en Give us this day our 〈◊〉 bread And forgive us 〈◊〉 â—…espasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And
satisfaction of our own private lusts by neglecting acts of Charity and doing as we would be done to and not doing our duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased thee to call us We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto 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 ourselves 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 righteousnesse belongs unto 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 own 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 righteousnesse sake We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By fretting ourselves because of the ungodly and being envious against the evill doers by not loving our enemies not blessing them that curse us not doing good to them that hate us nor praying for those that despightfully use us and persecute us We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By presuming to do evill that good may come thereon by placing piety in opinion by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels in scrupling at things indifferent and making no conscience of known sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By running into open prophanesse under colour of avoiding superstition by guiding our conscience by humours and 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 unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from these and from our secret sins Try us O good God and search the ground of our hearts prove us and examine our thoughts and look well if thâ—…re be any other way of wickednesse in us and lead us in the way everlasting A Prayer for forgiveness O Almighty and most mercifull Father who art the Lord God mercifull and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodnesse and truth keeping mercy for thousands and forgiving iniquity transgressions and sins Look down upon us with thy compassionate eyes who are here before thee in the bitternesse of our soules and doe now with troubled spirits with broken and with contrite hearts most humbly beg pardon for these multitudes of our offences Look we humbly beseech thee upon the blood of thy sonne which speaks better things then that of Abell for his sake spare us Lord spare thy people that these sins rise not up against us for his passions sake expose us not for a prey to their cruell hands who would both devoure and deride us R. Spare us Lord spare thy people for the glory of thy name O deliver us and be mercifull to all these our sins through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily ly bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Amen O Lord open thou our lips And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise 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 LAMENTATIONS out of Jeremy the Prophet LOok down O LORD in the Bowels of thy pitty and lend a tender ear unto the voice of our Lamentations Our Adversaries are the chief our enemies prosper For thou hast afflicted us for the multitude of our transgressions The Crown is fallen from the head wo unto us that we have sinned O Lord behold our afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself The Adversary hath spread out his hand upon all our pleasant things they have entred into and have prophaned thy sanctuaries They have seen us low and they have mocked at our Sabboaths our solemn feasts are become their scorn and our devotions their derision O Lord behold our afflictions for the Enemy hath magnified himself Thou art become our Enemy thou hast increased among us Mourning and Lamentation because thou hast despised in the indignation of thine anger both the King and the Priest See O Lord and consider for we are become very vile All our people sigh The yoak of our transgressions is bound by thy hand they are wreathed and come up upon our necks thou hast made our strength to faile thou hast delivered it into their hands from whom we are not able to rise up Thou hast troden us as in a Winepresse our enemies heare our trouble and they are glad thou hast done it Behold O Lord for we are in distresse Our bowels are troubled our heart is turned within us for we have grievously Rebelled abroad the sword devoureth at home there is 〈◊〉 death Our enemies have opened their mouth against us they hiss and they gnash their Teeth they say We have swallowed them up certainly this is the day that we looked for we have found we have seen it Thus are we in derision all the day long Wee are become their Song and their Musick O Lord behold our afflictions fâ—… the enemy hath magnified himself They have cryed unto us depart ye ye are unclean depart depart touch not yea theâ—… men have said they shall no more soâ—…ourn here O Lord behold our afflictions for the enemy hath magnified himself The breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord is taken in their pits and slaughtered by their hands of whom yet we said under his shadow we shall live among the midst of these sad distractions O Lord behold this and behold our afflictions for the enemy hath very highly magnified himself Thus do we call to minde our afflictions and our miseries the Wormwood and the Gall our souls have them in remembrace and they are humbled in us and therefore have we hope It is of the Lords mercy that we are not consumed because his compassions faile not They are new every morning great is his faithfulnesse For the Lord will not cast off for ever but though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his Mercies For he doth not afflict willingly nor
for the Clergy 332 A prayer to be said during these sad times of trouble 304 A prayer for preservation from the enemy 312 A Confession of sins and prayer for pardon 314 A Prayer for the King 318 A prayer for the preservation of the University and City of Oxford 330 A prayer drawn by his Majesties speciall directions and dictates for a blessing on the treaty at Uxbridge 323 A prayer for peace 325 A prayer for the ending of the present troubles 329 IX Collects I. 334 II. III. 335 IV. V. 336 VI. 337 VII VIII 338 IX 339 Certain additionall Prayers In the time of war 339 A Prayer for a Souldier 3â—… A Prayer upon the re-admission of the formerly Secluded Members Februaryâ—…1 â—…1 1659. 348 A Prayer upon the Assembling of the present Parliament April 25. 1660. 351 A Thanksgiving for his Majesties safe arrivall and return to his kingdome May 25. 1660. 354 Private Forms of Prayer fit for these sad Times Psalm 10. vers 1. WHy standest thou so far off O Lord and hidest thy face in the needfull time of trouble Psal. 3 v. 1 2 3. Lord how are they increased that trouble us many are they that rise up against us Many one there be that say of our soules there is no help for them in their God But thou O Lord art our desender thou art our worship and the lifâ—…r up of our heads Ier. 10. 24. Correct us O Lord and yet in thy judgement not in thy fury least we should be consumed and brought to nothing Psal. 130. 3. If thou Lord wilt be extream to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it O come let us worship let us humble our selves let us fall low and kneel before the Lord our Maker Then this generall Confession to be said all kneeling O Thou Judge eternall we the finfullest of all the sons of Men that have abused thy Mercies provoked thy judgments unsheathed thy glittering sword forced all the Arrows and Darts out of thy Quiver and with our multiplied abominable crying sins brought down a desolation on a most pleasant land that former delight of thine the glory of all lands We that after thy wrath was poured out upon us have yet further encreased our sinns as thou hast encreased the weight and number of thy Judgments upon us walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy disciplines and visiâ—…ations suffered all thy pretious methods of reducing us thine admonitions and thy stripes to be utterly lost and frustrate among us brought down a blast and mildew upon all that hath been undertaken to repaire our breaches and reduce our Peace We do now at length in thâ—… remorse and bitterness of our soules desire to cast our selves down upon the ground before thee to confess and acknowledge thy patience and Long suffering that we have not been under the sharpest of thy displeasure and to adore thy goodness whatsoever becomes of us though it be in the shame and confusion and Condemnation both of our bodies and our soules Lord this is the mildest that we have reason to expect from thy Iustice in retribution to our sins and whatsoever is less then this whatsoever the bitternesse of our â—…up be in this life though thou shouldest cast us into the place of Dragons give us to drink of the wine of astonishment the most stupifying deadly poâ—…ion number us all to the sword poure out thy fire and brimstone upon us Yet if by thus chastizing of us here thou please to rescue us from that sadder doome of being condemned with the world This is a most inestimable mercy of thine beyond all that we have hitherto so unworthily enjoyed Lord we desire and professe to acquit thy justice in thy proceedings to adore the bounty of thy goodness and patience towards us that we have not long ago been as Admah and Zeboim as Sodom and Gomorrah that we have this day liberty to approach thee Lord that it may yet be thy good pleasure to come home to every one of our soules to strike our hearts to break up these fallow grounds of ours that all thy pretious seed be no longer so cast away among thorns And by the power of thy mighty controwling convincing spirit that thou wouldest once subdue all the resistances of our spirits against this most holy most reasonable motion of humiliation within us Lord this is the one earnest desire of our soules that hath cast us low this day before thy footstoole with cryes and tears and earnest groans that thou wouldest have this mercy upon us that thou wouldest thus powerfully reveale thy self unto us who hast thus long smitten importunatly called unto us That being returned unto thee in fasting weeping and mourning and renting of our hearts we might be capable of thy returns unto us of the further impressions of thy grace and never more contradict or quench or grieve that spirit of thine which hath thus long contended and wrestled with us that so it may be seasonable with thee to give us the comfort of thy help again and the confidence to approach thy pâ—…ce to praise that Majesty 〈◊〉 hath not cast out our Prayer nor turned his mercy from us To whom be all honour and glory power and praise now and for ever Amen O Lord the great and dreadfull God keeping Covenant and Mercy to them that love thee and to them that keep thy Commandments We have sinned with our fore-fathers We our Kings and our Priests our Nobles and all the People of this Land and have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts and thy judgements By our impious and godlesse thoughts of thee our confidences in the arme of flesh by placing our affections too much upon earthly things by neglecting to love aâ—…d delight in thee by presuming of thy meâ—… and yet continuing in 〈◊〉 we have provoked and râ—…ed against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By our want of reverence to thy service not considering the awfulnesse of thy presence and that honour due to thee in thy House by our formall and hypocritical worship by open prophanation and sacriledge by shews and pretences of Piety to cover our worldly and wicked designes we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By vain and rash Oaths Blasphemies and Perâ—…uries especially our carelesse breaches of Oathes made to our Soveraigns forgetting that such are the Oaths of God and that thou thy self in a more especial manner art a strict avenger of them by our execrations of our selves our brethren and our enemies we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By our undervaluing thy publique Service and neglecting to bear a part in it by mispending of that time either there or elsewhere in wanton or worldly thoughts and
advantages And though thou hast now violently removed thy Tabernacle yet O Lord let not one pin of it be lost But erect it again amongst us in the wonted order and beauty for thy goodnesse sake for thy merâ—… sake for thy Son Christ Iesus sake â—…ur onely Lord and Saviour Amen O Lord which dost teach us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth send thy holy Ghost poure into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity the very bond of peace and all virtues without whicâ—… whosoever liveth is counted deaâ—… before thee Grant this for thine onely Son Jesus Christ's sake The Conclusion THe Almighty Lord which is a most strong tower to allâ—… them that put their trust in him to whom all things in Heaven iâ—… earth and under the earth doâ—… bow and obey be now and evermore our defence The defence of this afflicted Church The defence of these diâ—…cted Realmes The defence of all â—…ch who do or suffer for the testimony â—…f a good Conscience The defence of â—…e blessed and holy offices of our Moâ—…r the â—…hurch The defence of this â—…nd all other congregations that meet â—…gether in thy holy fear The defence 〈◊〉 our dear relations both at home â—…nd abroad The defence of our â—…n persons The defence of our souls â—…dies and estates And make us all to know and â—…el that there is no other name â—…nder heaven given unto man 〈◊〉 whom and through whom we â—…ay receive re-establishment in our â—…eligion restauration of our Liâ—…rties reconciliation with thee â—…r God together with peace and â—…fety among men felicity here â—…d salvation hereafter but oneâ—… the name of our Lord Iesus â—…rist To whom with theâ—… O Father and the blessed spirit 〈◊〉 ascribed as iâ—… most due all Hâ—… nour and Glory Praise Might Majesty Dominioâ—… and Adoration of all Aâ—…gels of all Men and of 〈◊〉 Creatures now and for 〈◊〉 Amen Amen A FORME OF Prayer FOR the Thirtieth of Ianuary A form of Prayer for the 30th of January Preface to be read standing 1. RIghteous art thou O Lord when I plead with thee yet let me talke with thee of thy judgments whereâ—…ore doth the way of the wicked â—…rosper wherefore are all they â—…appy that deal very treacherâ—…usly 2. Thou bast planted them yea â—…ey grow and bring forth fruit â—…ou art neare in their lips and â—…rre from their reines whereâ—…re holdest thou thy tongue â—…ile the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous thâ—…â—…e 3. They have condemned anâ—… killed the Just and he doth noâ—… refist them 4. They make a man an offendâ—… for a word and lay snares for him that reproâ—…eth thâ—…m in the gate 〈◊〉 turn aside the Iust for a thing of nought 5. They say let us lay wâ—… for blood let us lurke privily foâ—… the Innocent blood 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cause we shall findâ—… 〈◊〉 substance we shall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…es with spoile 6. Wherefore they 〈◊〉 their Net and burn Iucense 〈◊〉 their Drâ—…gg because by it theiâ—… pâ—…tion is fat and their â—…eat plenâ—…â—…s 7. Art not thou from everlasting my Lord my God my holy one O Lord thou hast 〈◊〉 them for Judgment 〈◊〉 mighty God thou hast establiâ—…ed them for Correction 8. But thougâ—… the righteous be prevented by death yet shall he be at rest 9. For his soule pleased the Lord therefore he hath hasted to take him from among the wicked 10. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die and their departure is taken for misery and their going from us for utter destruction but they are in peace 11. For though they be punished in the sight of men yet is their reward full of immortality 12. And after a little chastenlug they shall be greatly rewarded for God hath proved them and found them worthy for himself 13. As Gold in the fire hath he tried them and received them as a burnt offering 14. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works follow them 15. For if we have been planted with him in the likenesse of his death we shall also be in the likenesse of his resurrection 16. O our God we are ashamed and blush to lift up our faces to thee for our iniquities are increased over our beads and our trespasse is gone up to Heaven since the dayes of our Fathers have we been in a great trespasse unto this day and for our Iniquities have we our Kings and our Priests been delivered to the sword to captivity to a spoil and to confusion of face as it is this day 17. What shall we say or how shall we clear our selves God hath found out the Iniquity of his Servants We have transgressed and rebelled thou hast not pardoned 18. Thou hast covered with anger and persecuted us thou hast slain and not pittied 19. The Lord hath kindled a fire in Zion and it hath devoured the foundations thereof 20. For the sins of her Prophets and her Priests that have shed the blood of the Iust in the midst of her 21. And now O Lord thou art most Just in all that is come upon us for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly 22. Behold we are before thee in our trespasse for we cannot stand before thee because of this 23. O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us yet do thou it for thy names sake for we have sinned against thee 24. Be not wrath very sore neither remember iniquity for ever 25. Be mercifull O Lord to thy people whom thou hast redeemed and lay not innocent blood to the charge of thy people 26. Deliver us from bloud-guiltiness thou God of our health and our tongue shall sing of thy righteousness 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 O come let us worship let us bumble our selves let us fall low and kneel before the Lord our Maker Then this General Confession to be said All kneeling OThou Judge Eternall we the sinfullest of all the sons of men that have abused thy Mercies provoked thy Judgements unsheathed thy glittering Sword forced all the Arrows and Darts of thy Quiver and with our multiplied abominable crying sins brought down a desolation on a most pleasant Land that former delight of thine the glory of all Lands We that after thy wrath was poured out upon us have yet further encreased our sins as thou hast encreased the weight and number of thy Judgements upon us walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy disciplines and visitations suffered all thy pretious methods of reducing us thine admonitions and thy â—…ripes to be utterly lost and â—…ate amongst us brought down a blast mildew upon all that has been undertaken to repair our breaches reduce our peace We do now at length in the remorse and bitterness of our souls desire to cast our selves down upon the ground before thee to
confess and acknowledg thy patience and long-suffering that we have not been under the sharpest of thy displeasures and to adore thy goodness whatsoever becomes of us though it be in the shame and confusion and condemnation both of our bodies and soules Lord this is the mildest that we have reason to expect from thy Justice in retribution to our sinnes And whatever is lesse then this whatsoever the bitterness of our cup be in this life though thou shouldest cast us into the place of Dragons give us to drink of the Wine of astonishment the most stupifying deadly potion number us all to the sword pour out thy fire and brimstone upon us Yet if by thus chastizing of us here thou please to rescue us from that sadder doom of being condemned with the world this is a most inestimable mercy of thine beyond all that we have hitherto so unworthily enjoyed Lord we desire and profess to acquit thy Justice in thy proceedings to adore the bounty of thy Goodness and patience towards us that we have not long ago been as Admah and Zeboim as Sodom and Gomorrah that we have this day liberty to approach thâ—… Lord that it may yet be tâ—… good pleasure to come home 〈◊〉 every one of our soules to strike our hearts to break up these fallow grounds of ours that all thâ—… pretious seed be no longer 〈◊〉 cast away amongst thornes And by the power of thy mighty controuling convincing Spirit that thou wouldest once subdue all the resistances of our spirits against this most reasonable motion of humiliation within us Lord this is the one earneâ—… desire of our souls that hath caâ—… us low this day before thy fooâ—… stool with cries and tears earnest groans that thou wouldst have this mercy upon us that thou wouldest thus powerfully reveal thy self unto us who hast thus long smitten and importunately called unto us that being at last returnd unto thee in weeping fasting and mourning and renting of our hearts we might be capable of thy returns to us of the further impressions of thy grace and never more contradict or quench or grieve that spirit of thine which hath thus long contended and wrestled with us that so it may be seasonable with thee to give us the comfort of thy help again and the confidence to approach thy presence to praise that Majesty which hath not cast out our prayer nor turned his mercy from us to whom be all honour power glory and praise now and for ever Amen O LORD the great and dreadfull God keeping Covenant and mercy to them that love thee and to them that keep thy Commandments we have finned with our forefathers We our Kings our Priests our Nobles and all the People of this Land and have Rebelled evâ—… by departing from thy Precepts and thy judgements BY our impious and godlesse thoughts of thee our confidences in the Arm of Flesh by placing our affections too much upon earthly things by neglecting to love and delight in thee by presuming of thy mercies and yet continuing in our sinâ—… we have provoked and Rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By our want of Reverence to thy Service not considering the awfulness of thy presence and that honour due to thee in thy house by our formall and hypocritical worship by open prophanation and sacriledge by shews and pretences of piety to cover our worldly and wicked designes we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By vain and rash Oaths blasphemies and perjuries especially our careless breaches of Oaths made to our Soveraign forgeting that such are the Oaths of God and that thou thy self in a more especiall manner art a strict avenger of them by our execrations of our selves our Brethren and our Enemies we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnes belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By undervaluing thy publick Service and neglecting to beaâ—… a part in it by mispending oâ—… that time either there or elsewhere in wanton or worldly thoughts and imployments and not keeping the spiritual Sabboth unto thee in serving thâ—… truly all the dayes of our life by not duely observing the times of Festivity or Fasting appointed by just Authority according to the example of thy people in all ages we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousnesse belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By not duely acknowledging thine Ordinance and Authority in the persons of our Superiours by speaking evill of Dignities and reviling the Rulers of thy People by groundless jealousies and suspitions misjudging and censuring their actions and at last proceeding to that highest and horrid pitch of violation of that Image of thine imprinted on them By being as a People that strive with their Priests by not obeying them that have the rule over us and not submitting ourselves to them who by thy Appointment watch over our souls by neglecting the care of those committed to our charge not correcting those sins which have cryed loud for exemplary punishment We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By rash anger malice hatred and revenge and the bloody effects thereof by uncharitable contentions and divisions factions and animosities by cruelty and unmercifulness and communicating in the sins of blood We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By the manifold sins of uncleannesse by seeking or not avoiding the occasions thereof by idlenesse intemperance and drunkennesse by immodest words and gestures by our shamelesse boasting or not blushing at those sins We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By Thefts Rapines and Oppressions scandalizing thereby the Honour and Justice of a good Cause by vexatious suites so much practised and countenanced by exactions by unjust gains in bargaining by defrauding the labourer of his hire by want of due care in expending what we have and a good conscience in acquiring more We have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By lying detraction and contumely by endeavouring to advantage a good Cause by falshood and unjust means by censuring and rash judgments by false Witnesse and perverting the course of Justice we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us confusion of face as at this day By desire of change and uncontentednesse in our Estates by giving ourselves over to lustfull covetous and inordinate affections by desiring Peace not so much for thine honour or the publique good as the
grieve the children of men Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is noâ—… and ever shall be world without end Amen The Psalms for the Day 7. 10. 22. 37. First Lesson 2 Chron. 35. from 〈◊〉 20. ad fin Lament 5. Zacâ—… 12. v. 10. ad finem A Form Collected out of the Psalms I. HEar our voice O Lord out of thy holy Temple let our complaint come before thee let it enter even into thy ears Our heart is in heavinesse O let us make our Prayer unto thee in an acceptable time Lord our iniquities are against us our rebellions are many wherewith we have transgressed against thee But we confess our wickednesses and are sorry for our sins Our confusion is daily before us fearfulness and trembling are come upon us and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed us and it is thy great mercy onely that we are not consumed for we have sinned O Lord we have transgressed and done wickedly yea we have rebelled and departed from thy precepts and from thy Commandements Innumerable troubles are come about us our sins have taken hold upon us that we are not able to look up yea they are more in number then the hairs of our heads and our hearts have failed us O Lord righteousnesse belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of face because of all the offences we have committed against thee Yet compassion and forgivenesse is with thee though we have rebelled against thee O Lord according to thy goodnesse we beseech thee let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away from us and cause thy face to shine upon thy servants Incline thine ears and hear open thine eyes and behold our afflictions for we doe not present our supplications before thee in our own righteousness but for thy manifold and great mercies We have sinned against heaven and against thee and are no more worthy to be called thy Sons Yet O Lord hear O Lord forgive consider and doe it deferre not for thine own sake O our God Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now aâ—…d ever shall be world without end Amen II. HEar our prayers O Lord and hide not thy self from our Petitions and hearken unto the words of our mouth for strangers are risen up against us and Tyrants which have not God before their eyes seek after our Souls Cast us not away in the time of our weaknesse forsake us not when our strength faileth us O remember not our offences but according to thy mercy think thou upon us for thy goodness O turn thee unto us and have mercy upon us for we are desolate and in misery The sorrows of our hearts are enlarged O bring thou us out of all our troubles Turn us O God our Saviour and let thine anger cease from us send down from on high and deliver us take us out of these many waters Why art thou absent from us so long why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture Wherefore hidest thou thy face and forgettest our misery and trouble for our soul is brought low unto the dust our belly cleaveth to the ground Look upon our adversity and misery and forgive us all our sins Arise O Lord and help us and deliver us for thy mercy sake so shall it be known that it is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen III. 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 The Lord is nigh unto all them that be of a contrite heart and will save such as are of an humble spirit And now Lord what is our hope truly our hope is even in thee For our Fathers hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou diâ—… deliver them they called upon thee and were holpen they put their trâ—… in thee and were not confounded The Lord will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble and they that know thy name will pâ—… their trust in thee for thou Lord never failest them that seek thee The mercifull goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upâ—… them that fear him and his righteousness upon Childrens Children even upon such as keep his Coveâ—… and think upon his Commandâ—… to do them Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that trust in thee thou that upholdest all such as are falling and liftest up such as be down thou that healest the broken in heart and givest medicine to heale their sicknesse thou that art the Father of mercy and God of all consolation that art comfort to the sad and strength to the weak hear thy servants we beseech thee look down from Heaven behold and visite us with thy salvation 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 appointed by the Calendar of the Church for the 30th of January throughout all time is the 27. Chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew GIve the King thy judgements O God The Lord hear him in the day of trouble the name of the God of Iacob defend him Send him help from his Sanctuary and strengthen him out of Sion Let the King rejoyce in thy strength O Lord let him be exceeding glad of thy salvation Grant him his hearts desire and deny him not the request of his lips O Lord gird him with strength into the battaile throw down his Enemies under him Make them to turn their backs upon him and disperse them that hate him Deliver him from the strivings of his people Deliver him from his cruell Enemies and set him up above his adversaries thou shalt rid him from the wicked man and why because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercy of the most high he shall not miscarry Some put their trust in Charriots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God Save Lord and hear us O King of Heaven when we call upon thee Be thou exalted in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holâ—… Ghost As it was in the beginning is noâ—… and ever shall be world without end Amen V. O Lord God that doest buildâ—… up Hierusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel Wherefore art thou absent so longâ—… Why is thy wrath so hot against tâ—… sheep of thy pasture O think upon thy Congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old
Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance and mount Sion where thou hast dwelt Lift up thy Feet and disperse all those our Enemies which have done evill in thy sanctuary For they have broken down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers they have defiled the â—…welling places of thy name yea they â—…aid in their hearts let us make haâ—…ock of them altogether O God how long shall the Adversary doe this dishonour â—…ow long shall the Enemy blasâ—…heme thy name for ever Why withdrawest thou thy hand â—…hy pluckest not thou thy right hand â—…ut of thy bosome to scatter the eneâ—…y Arise O God maintain thine â—…wn cause Remember how the foolish man blasphemes thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the presumption of them that â—…ate thee encreaseth ever more and more Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The Creed I Believe in God the Fathâ—… Almighty maker of heaveâ—… and earth and in Jesuâ—… Christ his onely Son our Lordâ—… which was conâ—…eived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mâ—…ry suffered under Ponce Pilatâ—… was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and fitteth on the right hand oâ—… God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgivenesse of fins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen Let us Pray The Lord be with you And with thy spirit Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Amen O Thou most mighty Creator and wise Ruler of all things who hast reserved the disposall of all events to thine own all-seeing Wisdome and never permittest any thing to be done by the malice of men or Devils but what thou discernest absolutely most usefull and profitable for thy Servants Thou who aâ—… good beyond all that we can judge or chuse even when thy judgements are most terrible and astonishing We thy sinfull creatures do here prostrate our souls before thee desiring to adore and tremble at thy presence to admire the finger of thine own hand in that great vengeance which did as upon this Day befall us Lord it is the provocation of our â—…ns that hath reached up to heaven that hath brought down these amazing punishments upon earth thou hast abounded to us in mercies beyond all the Nations of the world granted us all the advantages we could pray for and we murmured against thy bounty rebelled against thy most obliging methods of melting and over coming an obdurate people And then what remained but that thou shouldest withdraw those graces which we had so long abused and prophaned Deprive us of all our ornaments leave us naked and bare cast us out into the open field to the loathing of our persons Judge us as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged and give us blood in jealousie and fury And thus hast thou in thy just displeasure proceeded with us thou hast abased our glory thou haâ—… in our very faces thou haâ—… reproach upon all that 〈◊〉 â—…cious amongst us Thou hast permitted an host not onely against the daily sacrifice to cast down the truth to the ground but even against thine own Ordnance thine own inscription the Image of thine own power amongst us and in all this to practise and prosper Lord thou hast called us to lamentation and bitter mourning beyond the weeping of Rachel fâ—… her children or the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo Lord they are our rebellions against thee which thou hast Visited upon our late Soveraigne our beloved Iâ—…siah and to the aggravation of our sin and woe they were our hands that executed this butchery upon him In this thoâ—… hast more then delivered up thâ—… Nation unto Sathan to the adversary to buffet and thresh us thou hast delivered us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 selves to assassinate our 〈◊〉 Our greatest sin is our 〈◊〉 punishment The utmost of our provocations against thee is the utmost of thy inflictions upon us And yet O Lord all these accursed effects of our sins have not served to alien us from them none repenteth of his way or saith what have I done But every one rusheth into his course as the horse rusheth into the battell And since O Lord we have not in this 〈◊〉 heard the things that 〈◊〉 to our peace what can we expect but that they should for ever be hid from our eyes That our measure being filled up and thy righteous servant removed by our violence from holding up our Pillars we should all become one common Ruine That the earth should swallow us up for Coraâ—…s sins or the destruction of thine own antient people the Jeâ—… should be the reward of the obduration of thine own people And then O Lord t is thy great mercy to our late Soveraign that thou hast taken him away from the evill to come And it is the joy of our hearts in the midst of our lamentations that having so fitted him for thy self given him that wonderfull measure of Patience Constancy and Magnanimity thou weâ—… pleased to crown all these Graces with perseverance here and in exehaâ—… 〈◊〉 his crown of thornes 〈◊〉 incumbrances of a broken Kingdome on earth hast received him into a participation of thy crown of Glory As for us O Lord we are laid at thy feet to hear what the Lord God will say concerning us whatsoever thy purposes are we desire to embrace them Christianly though it be to cast us away as straw to the dung-hill but if yet there may be place of mercy Lord lift up the ligâ—… of thy countenance and be gracious to the remnant of thine heritage To this end O Lord convert us from the evill of our wayes and our enemies from the cruelty of theirs thou God of purity and peace grant that we be no longer a wicked nor a self-destroying Nation but that we may all at length joyn together in a serious unfeignâ—… humiliation for the shedâ—… 〈◊〉 that precious innocent blâ—… and all those other sinns that have brought down thy desertions on us Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake Amen II. O Lord this is a day 〈◊〉 trouble of rebuke and blasphemy a day wherein a wonderfull and horrible thing was 〈◊〉 in our land most 〈◊〉 blood shed with more barbarous aggravations then we know where to paralell on this side the murder of thy dear Son And because sentence against this
successefull on these thy gasping forlorn patients that thy great work of recovery and change the cleansing of our polluted leprous souls may be effectually wrought upon us by this hand of thine Lord save us from these sad effects by a powerfull removall of the Cause or else we certainly perish To this end O Lord we resigne our selves up to thy divine Methods be they the sharpest that thou seest necessary to dispense to us we desire to embrace them cheerfully and not to interpose any thought of ours in contradiction to thy most safe most medicinable prescriptions It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good not ours but thy sacred will be done Be it unto us according to thy good pleasure In the mean time Lord permit us to intercede for others that are not worthy to pray for our selves O let the sorrowfull sighing of the poore of the oppressed and there is no Comforter let the black gloomy Calamities that are fallen upon him that is more worth then ten thousand of us come before thee Let thy Protection still continue unto him if it be thy sacred Will Thy Host of guardian Angels that once appeared in the Mount the Horses and Charriots round about Elisha environ and surround that sacred Head and by thine own wayes and means and in thine own season restore him with out the effusion of any more blood to his Fathers Crown Thron And Lord that it might yet be an acceptable time a season wherein thou mightest be accessible to our Prayers which we offer up in great Humility for thy poore wasted disconsolate Church amongst us That thou wouldest repair her breaches restore her dayes as of old that thou wouldest arise and have mercy upon Sion and Compassionate to see her in the Dust Lord where is thy Pitty And the sounding of the Bowels thy zeale to the place where thy rest dwelleth Will the Lord absent himself for ever And will he be no more entreated Are his mercies clean gone for ever and his promises come utterly to an end for evermore Lord remember thy old loving kindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy truth Arise O Lord and come into thy Rest thou and the Ark of thy strength But if these Calamities and Desolations must still go on and advance to the height of an irremediable ruine yet O Lord intermix thy sweet and Comfortable Allays with this bitter Cup Take us into thine immediate hand of Protection and Guidance sanctifie all thy methods unto us and by the same omnipotent work whereby thou bringest a most glorious light out of the blackest darknesse be pleased to produce all thy Divinest good things out of the saddest evils and if it may yet be thy blessed will to work the same work by the return of thy Mercies which the continuance of thy punishments is wont to be assigned for And Lord receive us all under the safe guard of thy Divine Presence the pillar of fire and Cloud to cover and direct us That in every turn of thy hand we may see and admire thy glorious and gracious Disposals and by the happy experience that even this also is to us for good we may be for ever engaged to ascribe unto thee all Honour and Glory and render unto thee the uniform obedience of our hearts world without end Amen Amen VIII O Most gracious Lord God the Creator of all things but of men and all mankinde a tender Compassionate Father in Jesus Christ Thou that hast enlarged thy designes and purposes of Grace and mercy as the Bowels and blood-shedding of thy Son with an earnest desire that every weak or sinfull man should partake of that Abiss that infinite treasure of thy Bounty Thou that hast bequeathed unto us that Legacy and Example of a sacred inviolable Peace a large diffusive Charity we meekly beseech thee to overshadow with thy heavenly grace the souls of all men over all the world O Lord thou lover of soules to bring home to the acknowledgment and embraces of thy Son all that are yet strangers to that profession and in whatsoever any of us who have already received that mercy from thee may be any way usefull or instrumentall to that so glorious an end to direct and encline our hearts towards it to work in us all an holy zeale to thy Name and tender Bowels to all those whose eternity is concern'd in it O give us a true serious full comprehension and value of that one great Interest of others as well as of our selvâ—… shew us the meanest of us some way to contribute towards it if it be but our daily affectionate Prayers for the enlarging of thy Kingdome and the care of approving all our Actions so as may most effectually attract all others to this profession And for all those that have already that glorious name of thy Son called upon them blessed Lord that they may at length according to the many Engagements of their profession depart from iniquity That that holy City that new Ierusalem may at length according to thy promise descend from Heaven prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband Christ That that Tabernacle of God with men may be illustriously visible among us that we may be a peculiar People and thou inhabiting in power among us That we which have so long professed thee may no longer be content with that form of knowledge which so often engenders strife contentions animosities separating from and condemning one another and that most unchristian detestable guilt of blood but endeavour and earnestly contend for the uniform effectuall practise of all the precepts of thy Son the Fruit and Power of Godlinesse That all the People and Princes of Christendom the Pastors and Sheep of thy fold may at length in some degree walk worthy of that light and warmth that knowledge of those graces that the Sun of righteousness with healing on his wings hath so long poured out upon us Lord purge and powerfully work out of all our hearts that prophanenesse and Atheisticalnesse those sacrilegious thirsts and enormous violations of all that is holy those Unpeaceable Rebellious Mutinous and withall Tyrannizing cruell spirits those prides and haughtinesses judgeing and condemning defaming and despising of others those unlimited ambitions and covetings joyned with the Invasion violation of others rights those most reproachfull excesses and abominable impurities which to the shame of our unreformed obdurate hearts do still remain unmortified unsubdued among us but above all those infamous Hypocrisies of stiborning Religion to be the Engine of advancing our secular designes or the disguise to conceale the foulest intentions of bringing down that most sacred name whereby we should be saved to be the vilest instrument of all Carnalities And by the power of thy controwling Spirit Lord humble and subdue all that exalts it self against the obedience of Christ And when thou hast cast out so many evill spirits be thou pleased thy self to possesse and enrich our souls to
through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Amen O Lord open thou our Liâ—… And our Mouth shall shew fâ—…th thy Praise O God make speed to save 〈◊〉 O Lord make haste to help us Glory be to the Father and 〈◊〉 the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Psal. 42 43 55 59 64 94. The First Lesson 2 Sam. 1. After the Lesson A Form Collected out of the Psaâ—… I. HEar our voice O Lord out of thy holy Temple let our complaint come before thee let it enter even into thy ears Our heart is in heaviness O let us make our Prayer unto thee in an acceptable time Lord our iniquities are against us our rebellions are many wherewith we have transgressed against thee But we confess our wickednesses and are sorry for our sins Our confusion is daily before us fearfulness and trembling are come upon us and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed us and it is thy great mercy onely that we are not consumed for we have sinned O Lord 〈◊〉 have transgressed and done wickedly yea we have rebelled and departed from thy precepts and from thy Commandments Innumerable troubles are come about us our sins have taken hold upon us that we are not able to look up yea they are more in number then the hairs of our heads and our hearts have failed us O Lord righteousnesse belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of face because of all the offences we have committed against thee Yet compassion and forgivenesse is with thee though we have rebelled against thee O Lord according to thy goodness we beseech thee let thine â—…ger and thy wrath be turned away from us and cause thy face to shine upon thy servants Incline thine ears and hear open thine eyes and behold our afflictions for we do not present our supplications before thee in our own righteousness but for thy manifold and great mercies We have sinned against heaven and against thee and are no more worthy to be called thy Sons Yet O Lord hear O Lord forgive consider and do it deferre not for thine own sake O our God Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen II. HEar our prayers O Lord and hide not thy self from our Petitions and hearken unto the words of our mouth foâ—… strangers are risen up against us and Tyrants which have not God before their eyes 〈◊〉 after our Souls Cast us not away in the time of our weaknesse forsake us not when â—…r strength faileth us O remember not our offences but according to thy mercy think thou upon us for thy goodness O turn thee unto us and have mercy upon us for we are desolate and in misery The sorrows of our hearts are enlarged O bring thou us out of all our troubles Turn us O God our Saviour and let thine anger cease from us send down from on high and deliver us take us out of these many waters Why art thou absent from us so long why is thy wrath so 〈◊〉 against the sheep of thy paâ—… Wherefore hidest thou thy face 〈◊〉 forgettest our misery and trouble for our soul is brought low 〈◊〉 tâ—…e dust our belly cleaâ—…eth to the gâ—…d Look upon our adversity and misery forgive us all our sins Arise O Lord and help us and deliver us for thy mercy sake so shall it be known that it is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning in now and ever shall be world without end Amen III. 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 The Lord is nigh unto all them that be of a contrite heart and will â—…ave such as are of an humble spirit And now Lord what is our hope truly our hope is even in thâ—… 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 The Lord will be a defence for the oppressed even a refuge in due time of trouble and they that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord never failest them that seek thee The mercifull 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 Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that trust in thee thou that upholdest 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 that art comfort to the sad and strength to the weak hear thy servants we beseech thee look down from Heaven behold and visit us with thy salvation 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 Heb. 12. or St Iames 5. IV. GIve the King thy judgements O God The Lord hear him in the day of trouble the name of the God of Iacâ—… defend him Send him help from his Sanctuary and strengthen him out of Sion Let the King rejoyce in thy strength O Lord let him be exceeding glad of thy salvation Grant him his hearts desire and deny him not the request of his lips O Lord giâ—… him with strength unto the battaile throw down his Enemies under him Make them to turn their backs upon him and disperse them that hate him Deliver him from the sirivings of his people Deliver him from his cruell Enemies and set him up above his adversaries thou shalt rid him from the wicked man and why because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercy of the most high he shall not miscarry Some put their trust in Charriots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God Save Lord and hear us O King of Heaven when we call upon thee Be thou exalted in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be
world without end Amen V. O Lord God that dost build up Hierusalem and gather together the outcasts of Israel Wherefore art thou absent so long Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture O think upon thy Congregation whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance and mount Sion where thou hast dwelt Lift up thy Feet and disperse all those our Enemies which have done evill in thy sanctuary For they have broken down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers they have defiled the dwelling places of thy name yea they said in their hearts let us make havock of them altogether O God how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour how long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy name for ever Why withdrawest thou thy hand why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosome to scatter the enemy Arise O God maintain thine own cause Remember how the foolish man blasphemes thee daily Forget not the voice of thine Enemies the presumption of them that hate thee encreaseth ever more and more Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen The Creed I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord which was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into Hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven â—…teth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge 〈◊〉 quick and the dead I belâ—…ve in the holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the Communion of Saints the forgivenesse of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen Let us Pray The Lord be with you And with thy spirit Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them thâ—… trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evill Amen I. O Lord this is a day of trouble of rebuke and blasphemy a day wherein a wonderfull and horrible thing was committed in our land most sacred â—…nnocent blood shed with more barbarous aggravations then we know where to parallel on this side the murder of thy dear Son And because sentence against this evill work hath not been exâ—…ed speedily the hearts of this people are wholy set in them to do evill this respite which thou hast given us to work our Repentance hath served onely to compleat our sin by adding an obstinate impenitency to the former Guilt and so fitting us for that finall excision which thou hast threatned to obdurate sinners And now O Lord this fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation is all that remains unto us who have thus despised the riches of thy mercy Yet O Lord out of these depths do we desire to call upon thee Lord hear 〈◊〉 voice and if that finall 〈◊〉 tence be not irreversibly gâ—… out against us be pleased 〈◊〉 turn thy wrath away 〈◊〉 to suffer thy whole displeasâ—…e to arise To this end thou O 〈◊〉 who breakest the gates of 〈◊〉 and smitest the bars of 〈◊〉 sunder be thou pleased to 〈◊〉 these unrelenting hearts of 〈◊〉 to work in every one of us 〈◊〉 sense of our horrid abomâ—… ons especially that of this day as may cast us down in the 〈◊〉 est degree of Humiliation and Contrition before thee that 〈◊〉 we may be capable of that â—…tation which thou hast promiâ—… to the humble that Comfort which thou hast assigned to Mourners through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen II. BLessed Lord in whose sight the death of thy Saints is most precious we magnifie thy name for those wonderfull effusious of thy grace on our late Martyred Soveraign which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant Meek suffering of all barbarous indignities and at lost resisting even unto blood and even then pursuing that glorious Pattern and praying for his Murtherers Let his Memory O Lord be ever blessed among us and his example efficacious upon us that we may follow him as he followed Christ And O Lord we beseech thee let not his blood out-cry his Prayers but let those that spilt the one obtain benefit by the other that by their Conviction and Repentance his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation our Religion be vindicated from the scandal of so horrid a fact our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners and all for Jesus Christ his sake Amen O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King Who putteth his trust in thee Send him help from thy holy Place And evermore mightily defend him Confound the designs of all those that are risen up against him And let not their rebellious wickednesse approach near to hurt him Let the Curse of Saul light upon the endeavours of those men who contrive or Imagine mischief for him And let the blessings of David remain upon his head and upon his â—…ed for euermore O Lord hear our Prayer And let our crycome unto thee III. O Lord God Infinite in Power by whom the Thrones of Kings are established and their persons made sacred Take we beseech thee into thine immediate and divine protection thine anointed Servant the King that no sacrilegious profane hand may come near to touch him In all his wayes let thy Spirit guide him and thy holy Angels pitch their tents about him O Lord comfort him in his troubles defend him in his dangers support him in his cause shew some token on him for good even now O God when the Sons of violence are in their pride and triumph over him whom thou hast exalted designing and rejoycing to root out that religion which thine own right hand hath planted Defeat their purposes O thou preserver of men and let not their mischeivous imaginations any longer prosper but blast all their Counsels wither away all their Armies like grass scorched by the Sun Bow down at last their stiff necks and obdurate hearts to a desire of that peace which hath so long been an abomination to them That this miserable Nation may no further pursue their own ruin but being by so many bitter punishments made sensible of thine anger for this unnatural division may at last be reduced within their first obedience to the glory of thy Name the vindication of our defamed religion the comfort of our afflicted King and the happiness of this yet bleeding dom And confirm all this to Us O Lord by the merits and through the
Persecution be overpassed Though this year be begun in bitterness yet O suffer it not to end so But cause it to be proclaimed the acceptable yeâ—… of the Lord to all that mouâ—… in Sion As thou hast given unto tâ—… Church an Head of gold so donâ—… let her stand like Nebuchadnezaâ—… Image upon feet of clay Thougâ—… she be made to lie among the poâ—… yet thou canst cover her again wiâ—… silver wings making her featherâ—… like gold Thou art Almighty and canâ—… do it yea thou art Almercifulâ—… and wilt do it O then shew heâ—… now especially some tokeâ—… for good that they which hate her may see it and be ashamed because thou O Lord haâ—… holpen her and comforted her Give her instead of a Rent a Girdle instead of vain Repetitions the Holy Spirit and Office of Prayerâ—… for the bread of Adversity the blessed Manna of thy Word and Sacraments and for the cup of trembling and astonishment the cup of salvation Suffer not Pharaoh's thin and â—…sted Ears of corn to deâ—… those full and good Ears which have sprung up here in Gods field Neither do thou punish our former slighted â—…nty with a succeeding famine of thy Word Give unto her beauty for ashes the 〈◊〉 of Ioy for mourning the garâ—… Prayer for the spirit of beaâ—…ss Give her the custody of Angels the Patronage of Kings and Princes the hearts and â—…ds of Nobles the prayers and tears of Priests and the deâ—…ce of the whole secular Arm. O thou that hast the Key of Daâ—… that openest and no man shutâ—… open thou the mouths of thy Miâ—…rs and suffer no more any man 〈◊〉 them Open thou the doors of 〈◊〉 own House for thy servants to 〈◊〉 in and let no one dare upon 〈◊〉 pâ—…ill of their souls to keep us out And since we have taken upon us to speak unto our Lord not for the sparing of a Sodom but of this thine own Sion leâ—… not our Lord be angry and wâ—… will speak unto him once more Preserve her and all her sons anâ—… daughters in all storms and againâ—… all temptations in this present stormâ—… and against the present and all future temptations that we may do nothing to scandall our holy Calling by sacrificing our Consciences to the purchase of our case Give us innocence mixt with prudence the Doves eye in the Serpents head And teach us to beware of the Dragons Poyson even when we are made to feel the Dragons sting And when the winds shall blow fiercest against thine Ark yet then we beseech thee to preserve the Vessel though thou shalt change the Pilots And however in thy secret wisdom thou mayst suffer many of the Lights to be blown out yet we pray thee Lord be not so severe upon our justly-deserving sins as to remove the Candlestick All this and whatsoever else thou â—…e more needfull for our bleeding Mother or for any of her persecuted Children we beg at thy mercifull hands for thy Sons sake who purchased this Church with his own blood Iesus Christ our Saviour To whom with thee O Father and the ever blessed Spirit be all Honour and Glory Submission and Adoration in all places at all times in all Estates and Conditions by all men and Angels World without End Amen Amen A Prayer for the Kings Birth-day May 29. O Lord God the great disposer of Kings and Kingdomes and who in thy Mercy didst design thy servant our persecuted Soveraign Lord King Charls to be the Heir of these Kingdomes though in thy secret Judgements towards this sinfull Nation thou hast suffered the sons of violence to keep him hitherto from inheriting his Fathers Throne We thy unworthy servants are here nâ—…et together upon the Anniversary Day of his Nativity to offer unto thee a gratefull commemoration our humble thansgivings for thy great Blessing in bestowing upon us at first so hopefull a Prince And withall to bewail our unworthiness of having so good and gratious a Prince as yet to exercise his Raign over us we bewail those many sins of ours whereby we have helped to cut off the Royall Father and whereby we still assist to the keeping our of his Royall Son However we beseech thee O Lord to grant that as thy hands did fashion him and as he was fearfully and wonderfully made in his Mothers womb so his heart may still be in those hands of thine to preserve him from all danger and to mould him to all Christian and Princely Graces Give him years of Happiness and Joy for those years of bitterness and sorrow wherewith thou hast afflicted his soul. Cause him to know that the end for which he was born was not so much to govern others as to submit himself to thee and to lay his Crown and Scepter at the Feet of the Lamb. And grant Holy Father that that as now he has finished twenty nine years of his life and most of those years under the severity of thy Discipline So he may spend the Remainder of his life and may have those years doubled and trebled to him in the successes of thy favour As thou dost add days to his years so let it be thy good pleasure to add happiness to his days exchanging his Banishment into restauration and his Crown of thorns into a Crown of Majesty here of Glory hereafter This day didst thou take him out of his Mothers womb to live here a little time O mayst thou at the last day take both him and us out of our Mothers womb again even the grave and the womb of the Earth to live with thee for ever through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Amen The Ministers Prayer for the People O Most mercifull Lord God and Lover of souls who hast given Commandment to thy Priests to weep and to pray between the Porch and the Alâ—…n and to cry spare thy people O Lord spare them O most blessed Jesu who art â—…n everlasting Priest and the great Shepheard and Bishop of our souls O most holy Spirit who dost sanctifie and preserve us building us up into an holy Temple for thy self to dwell in O Father Son and Holy Ghost three Persons and one God who delightest in the Conversion of sinners and to see souls daily added unto thy Church Bless this whole Congregation and have mercy upon this Parish who are committed to my charge to take care over their souls Lord I am unworthy of so great an honour and too unfit for so great a Burthen yet in obedience to thy Call I have undertaken it and I trust by thy Assistance to be able to feed both thy sheep and thy Lambs Keep them always within thy Fold that they may never wander nor go astray preserve them from Wolves though they should be set in the very midst of them Teach them to know thy voice and to be obedient to thy Call And when any of them shall straggle into the Wildernesse yet then Lord do not thou leave
bring them back by the same way they came Let it appear that thou art in the midst of us and that we shall not be moved That thou wilâ—… help us and that very early Let there be no invasion no going out nor no crying in our streets But set thou Peace in our Borders Make strong the bars of our gates especially let the Gospel of thy Son sound yet lowder among us that by it many Souls may be gathered unto thee So we thy People and thâ—… sheep of thy Pasture shall praise thee for ever and from Generation to Generation we will set forth thy glory through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour Amen A Prayer for a Souldier O Lord it is thy glory to be called The Lord of Hosts and it is thou alone from whom when men have made their most politick and puissant preparations the victory must be looked for Draw my heart I beseech thee from all relying upon my own valour or upon the strength of the battail in which I stand and teach me to look upward and to wait and trust only upon thee Thou givest conquest and thou givest courage thou deliverest from the perill of the Sword or else makest death a means of happinesse to thy servants Forgive my sins I pray thee and assure me of pardon by the witnesse of thy Spirit that the guilt thereof make not my heart to tremble within me and to behold death as a messenger to convey me into hell If thou O Lord bee on my side peace being made betwixt thee and my soul through Christ what can be against me what hazard can befall my soul Nothing shall be able to deprive me of thy love Let not spoil or blood or mine own advancement be the ends of mine attempts but make me to aim only at thy glory in the defence of thy truth and in the good and safety of the Kingdome wherein I live The issue of all things to thee O Lord is known but to man it is hidden Prepare me therefore indifferently to whatsoever shall befall me If I die give me comfort in my last breathing and take my soul into thy gracious hand If I be taken captive give me patience give me wisdom and godly courage to do nothing contrary to the honour of my Country or prejudicial to the profession of a faithfull Christian If I return with life and victory make me thankfull Keep me from taking from thee any part of thy glory Preserve me from those riotous lascivious and blaspheming courses which are the usuall fruits of good successe let me not think devotion to be an enemy to resolution or that a religious fear of thy Majesty doth abate the spirit that should be in a Souldier but settle me in this that the assurance of a lawfull cause the hope and confidence of a better life by the merits of Christ the care to please thee and to depend upon thy power are the only true grounds of valour which can give a man boldnesse and life in the day of battel Vouchsafe me these and all other needfull favours in and for Christ Jesus sake Amen A Prayer upon the strange revolution on the twenty first of February 1659. when the formerly secluded Members were readmitted into the House of Commons O Most mighty God who sittest upon the Cherubims be the people never so impatient and after thine own counsells governest all that is done among the children of Men. We most humbly confess that it is for our sins that thou hast so often changed thy rod and brought such variety of confusions upon us that all the world stands a gaze to see what will become of such a people that will not see the things that belong unto their peace But O gracious God though we forget our selves forget not thou thine own goodnesse for there is yet time for mercy and such an expedient left as may cure all our wounds and close up all our divisions by restoring him who was once designed by thee to be the common Father of us all though we like rebellious children have disdainfully cast him from us And as thou hast begun already to shew some glimmerings of our future happiness by unexpectedly dissolving the Assembly of those Achitophels who by their dark counsels have so long obstructed it so go on we most earnestly beg of thee and let not the sins of this wretched Nation hinder thee from compleating what thou hast for thine own glory so wonderfully begun Work powerfully upon the minds of all that are any wayes concerned in the redeeming of our peace Give them but as much honest courage to do right as they have formerly shewn in acting all those mischiefs that have been done among us O plead the cause of an oppressed KING strenghthen the hands and hearts of all that appear for him direct his counsels prosper his enterprizes make his very enemies to be at peace with him and when thou shalt vouchsafe to us our former happiness both in Church and State give us then thankfull hearts to imbrace it as a blessing from thy hands alone who hast wrought these great wonders for us for Iesus Christ's sake Amen A Prayer upon the Assembling of the present Parliament April 25. 1660. O Most great most wise and most powerfull Lord God in whose hands are the hearts of all men and turned them as thou doest the rivers of waters Shew thy power and come among us and be present at this great meeting when after so many years of confusion there 's once more a consultation had to settle this distracted Church and Nation and as there is nothing hid from thee who seest the very thoughts and ends and divided interests of them that meet together so there is nothing so impossible to thee but that thou canst by the hidden workings of thy Providence unite what thou findest divided and oversway every counsell and design and every imagination that shall set it self against thee Let there be no root of bitternesse among them which are intrusted in this great work no thoughts of revenge No Ambition of making themselves great no particular or separate interest of their own but instead of these give them bowels of compassion towards their bleeding and expiring Country strike a sense into them of the blood already shed and the desolation yet to come if they prevent it not And let thy fear run through all their consultations that remembring the sad account which in the last great day will be required of them they may unanimously set themselves to find out those blessed expedients as may restore the voice of joy and peace into our dwellings in such a way as may be most for the glory of thy great Name the righting of those that are opprest and the setling of the happinesse of this Church and Nation upon the right basis of that former government from which it hath stood so long so unhappily divided And â—…his as being neither impossible to thy
evill work hath not been erecuted speedily the hearts 〈◊〉 this people are wholy set in thâ—… to doe evill this respite which thou hast given us to work oâ—… Repentance hath served onâ—… to compleat our sin by adding an obstinate impenitency to 〈◊〉 former Guilt and so fitting us for that finall excision which thou hast threatned to obdurate sinners And now O Lord this fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation is all that remains unto us who have thus despised the riches of thy mercy Yet O Lord out of these depths do we desire to call upon thee Lord hear our voice and if that finall sentence be not irreversibly gone 〈◊〉 against us be pleased yet to turn thy wrath away and not to suffer thy whole displeasure to arise To this end thou O Lord who breakest the gates of brasse and smitest the bars of Iron in â—…der be thou pleased to rend these unrelenting hearts of ourâ—… to work in every one of us such a sense of our horrid abominations especially that of this day as may cast us down in the lowest degree of Humiliation and Contrition before thee that so we may be capable of that exaltation which thou hast promised to the humble that Comfort which thou hast assigned to Mourners through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen III. O Lord God that rulest over all the Kingdomes of the earth that hast threatned that for the sinnes of the Land the Kings thereof should be many and hast told us that if we doe wickedly we should be consumed both we and our King We miserable and wretched sinners do here in the bitternesse of our soul â—…ostrate our selves before thy Throne of Grace acknowledging against our selves that we have made thee to serve with our sins and wearied thee with our iniquities so that in the fiercenesse of thine anger thou hast wounded us with the wound of an enemy and chastised us with the chastisement of a oruel one for in the indignation of thy fury thou hast despised the King and the Priest Wo unto us that we have sinned the Crown is fallen from our Head and the beauty of our Israel is slain by the hands of wicked men Thou hast suffered the Breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord to be taken in their Pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall have Peace and Protection The fire out of the Bramble hath devoured the lofty Cedars the Base are risen up against the Honourale the Subjects against their King whom after much contumelious usage forgetting the Oath of God their own Covenant their own Protestation and their often reiterated Vows to preserve his Person Crown and Dignity and all this with their hands lifted up to thee our God of Truth have yet brought him as a Lamb to the slaughter and with wicked hands hâ—… murdered thy Vice-gerent 〈◊〉 though he had not been anointed with oyle A wonderfull and horrible sin is committed in the Land over passing the deeds of the wicked a sin that no Nation no people ever committed and such as the Sun never saw since it withdrew its light at the Passion of thy dear Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Other Rebels have murdered Kings but as it was in it self a deed of darknesse so they acted thâ—… sin in darknesse shunning the light But this Paricide 〈◊〉 committed with a high hand presumptuously in the fight of the Sun and owned as an Act of Justice The cry of this Innocent blood of a righteous King of our own King a King too good for so wicked a People is entered into thy presence and cals loud to thee for vengeance upon this whole Nation so that we may justly expect that thou shouldest â—…ot us and our posterity out of this Land which is made an abomination stained polluted with the blood of thine Anointed Servant and Martyr But the Judge of all the earth will not destroy the Innocent with the Guilty for though our sins are many and grievous yet in our tears we will wash our hands from this sin saying our hands have not shed this blood And therefore when thou shalt make inquisition for blood lay not we beseech thee this blood to our Charge Be mercifull O Lord be mercifull unto thy people whom thou hast redeemed and let not this Innocent blood be required neither of us nor of our Posterity For as before this great wickednesse was committed we prayed against it and in our Devotions entred our Protestation in Heaven before thee against so impious so hâ—… lish Resolutions of the bloody Assassinates So since these sons of Belial have brought their mischievous imaginations to passe for which our soules are wounded and humbled within us we do from our hearts detest this Damnable Parricide and doe from our souls renounce this abhorred Murder of thine Anomted Servant our late Soveraigne King Charls Saying with Iacob O my soul come not thou into their Secret unto their Assembly mine honor be not thou united for in their anger they have slain a man the best of men the Lords Anointed Cursed be their Anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruel yea we wil yet pray against their wickednes for now they go on to strengthen one wickednesse with another They Decree unrighteous Decrees and write grievous things which they have prescribed thereby to establish wickedness by a Law to remove the bounds of the People and destroy the very Foundations But O thou preserver of men and God of all order blast all their designes which tend to nothing but Anarchy and Confusion and destruction and scandal of the Christian Religion but let all their turning of things upside down be esteemed as the Potters clay Let it be in thy sight as the Rebellion of Corah Dathan and Abiram and now O Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh let not the Congregation of the Lord be as sheep which have no shepheard Though our breach be great like the sea yet thou canst heal it Be mercifull we beseech thee to these three Kingdomes united under one Crown by establishing the King in his Fathers Throne Plead thou his cause and that thou mayest give rest unto the Land make his wâ—… prosperous direct all his Coâ—… sels and Crown all his Designâ—… with success raise him up frieâ—… abroad and at home turn 〈◊〉 hearts of the People to their Soveraigne upon whom we 〈◊〉 seech thee to double the Gâ—… and Graces of his Father as tâ—… didst the spirit of Elijah on 〈◊〉 sha Cloath him with Majâ—… Power that he may subdue 〈◊〉 Rebellious and appear terrible to thine and his Enemies that so he may restore the daily Sâ—…crifice thy publique Worship 〈◊〉 Service relieve the Oppressâ—… and bring the punishment of tâ—… Innocent blood of his Father upon those Murderers that shed it as water spilt upon the ground Hasten O Lord by him to restore Peace and Righteousnesse Truth and Equity Let them kiss each other under his
government O let the wickednesse of the wicked come to an end but guide thou the just Give O Lord rest from our fears 〈◊〉 from our sorrows and from â—…he oppressions under which we â—…n Let thine hand O Lord 〈◊〉 â—…own towards thy servants â—…nd thine indignation towards â—…hine and the Kings Enemies 〈◊〉 down O Lord from heaâ—… and behold from the habiâ—…tion of thy holinesse and of thy glory restraine not we beâ—… thee thy zeale nor thy strength nor the soundings of thy Bowels and of thy Mercies â—…rds us Heare us O Lord 〈◊〉 King of Heaven when we câ—…l upon thee and grant our 〈◊〉 and that for Jesus Christ sake our onely Lord and Saviour Amen IV. BLessed Lord in whose fight the death of thy Saints 〈◊〉 most precious we magnifie thy name for those wonderfull 〈◊〉 â—…ions of thy Grace on our 〈◊〉 Martyred Soveraigne which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant Meek suffering of all barbarous indignitiâ—… and at last resisting even 〈◊〉 blood and even then pursuiâ—… that glorious Pattern and praâ—…ing for his Murtherers Let 〈◊〉 Memory O Lord be ever bleâ—… among us and his example efficacious upon us that we may follow him as he follow'd Christ And O Lord we beseech thee let not his blood out-cry hiâ—… Prayers but let those that spilt the one obtain benefit by the other that by their Conviction and Repentance his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation our Religion be vindicated from the scandall of so horrid a fact our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners and all for Jesus Christ his sake Amen V. O Just and Righteous Judge who didst once for the inquity of thy People Israel give up thy Ark into the hands of the Philistines We thy sinfull Creatures that are now under as great a degree both of guilt and punishment doe here cast our selves down before thee acknowledging that we are not worthy any longer to retain the honour of Christian Profession that have so long defamed it by enormous Practises and that we who loved darknesse more then light deserve to have our Candlestick removed and to be given up to that â—…undation of Atheism and Prophanenesse which now invades this gasping Church yet O Lord deale not with us after our sins but turn thee again thou Lord of Hosts look down from heaven behold and visite this Vine do not abhor us for thy names-sake do not disgrace the Throne of thy Glory Behold see we beseech thee we are all thy People though a rebellious and stiff-necked generation yet thy name is called upon us leave us not neither forsake us O Lord God of our salvation but though thou feed us with bread of Adversity and water of Affliction yet let not our Teachers be removed into a corner but let our eyes see our Teachers let not Sion complain that she hath none to lead her by the hand among all the Sons that she hath brought up but provide her such supports in this her declining Condition that she may have a seed and Remnant left And in what degree soever thou shalt permit this storm to encrease upon this poor Church be pleased proportionably to fortifie and confirm all those that are Members of it that no one may be shaken or moved with these Afflictions nor pervert that glorious advantage of suffering for thee into an occasion of Apostatizing from thee But that we may all run with patience the race that is set before us and cheerfully partake of the Afflictions of the Gospel that in suffering for Christ here we may reign with him for ever hereafter and all for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Lord and Saviour Amen O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King Who putteth his trust in thee Send him help from thy holy Place And evermore mightily defend him Confound the designes of all those that are risen up against him And let not their rebellious wickednesse approach near to hurt him Let the Curse of Saul light upon the endeavours of those men who contrive or Imagine mischief for him And let the blessings of David remaine upon his Head and upon his Seed for evermore O Lord hear our Prayer And let our Cry come unto thee VI. O Lord God of Hosts who didst deliver David thy servant from the perill of the Sword Hear us we beseech thee most miserable sinners who do here poure out our souls before thee intirely desiring the protection of thy hand upon thy Servant the King let him finde safety under the shadow of thy wings and preserve his Person as the Apple of thine own Eye Suffer not that Sword which thou hast put into his Hands to be wrested out by the hand of man but blesse his Counsels with successe and his enterprises with Victory that he may become a terrour to all those that oppose him and as the dew of the latter rain upon the hearts of all those that do still continue loyall to him And O thou that takest no delight in the misery of one single sinner spare mercifull Lord spare a great though most sinfull Nation pitty a despised Church and a distracted State heale those wounds which our sins have made so wide that none but thine own hands can close them and in the tendernesse of thine unspeakable compassion hasten to put so happy an end to these wasting Divisions that thy service may be more duly celebrated thine Anointed more conscienciously obeyed that the Church may be restored to a true Christian Unity and the Kingdome to its former Peace And that for his sake who is the Prince of peace and that shed his precious blood to purchase our peace even Jesus Christ the righteous to whom with theâ—… O Father and the blessed spirit be all Honour and Glory world without end Amen VI. O Thou most mighty Creator and wise Governour of all that hast for our sins and provocations given us to drink of a most bitter astonishing cup and demonstrated by thy late proceedings with us how inexorable thou art towards us who have been so obstinate and obdurate toward thee that would not hear in that our Day the things belonging to our peace and now they are hid from our eyes We those wretched Creatures of thine do yet desire to adore and prostrate our soules before thee to put our hands upon our mouthes and our mouths into the Dust and acknowledge all Honour and Glory to be due unto thee whatsoever becomes of us Though to these amazing Calamities thou shouldest yet super-add thy fire and Brimstone from Heaven and all the horrors of astonished hearts and the eternal Worm and Flames the due portion of the damned in Hell O Lord thou art most just in all thy judgments and infinitely merciful that we live to call upon thee this day O that these sharp last necessary methods of thine may at length prove
make him great put a stop at last to the madnesse of the people say to the destroying Sword it is now enough send us a seasonable and quiet calm visit us with the joy of thy Countenance and make us glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted us O restore to us our solemn Assemblies bring us back into thy Courts to praise thee and let us once more worship thee in the beauty of thy holinesse Save us O Lord from our Enemies and from the hands of all that hate us That so we may serve thee without fear living a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty looking for the blessed appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. To whom with thee and the holy Spirit be all honour and praise world without end AMEN A Prayer for preservation from the Enemy O Eternall God and most mercifull Father we humbly beseech thâ—… to be mercifull unto us and in the Riches of thy unspeakable mercies be near to help and succour us in all those extremities which our sins threaten to bring upon us The Rebellious are strengthned against us by our multiplied Rebellions against thee and we deserve to suffer what our Enemies threaten even suddain surprizall and destruction to desolation But there is mercy with thee that thou mayst be feared and there is mercy with thee that they may not be fearâ—… Shew us therefore thy merâ—…y O Lord and let us so fear â—…ee that we may be never forâ—…d to feel or fear them And â—…hen thou wilt correct us for â—…ur sins O Lord in judgement â—…emember mercy and let us â—…all into thy hands and not into the hands of men let us fall â—…to thy hands and not into â—…he hands of ungracious and â—…godly men into thy hands â—…nd not into the hands of sacriâ—…gious and seditious men into thy mercifull hands and not into the cruell hands of thine and our enemies even for Jesus Christs sake our only Mediator and Redeemer AMEN A Confession of Sins and Prayer for Pardon O Lord of heaven and earth God of the spirits of all flesh we a most sinfull and therefore now a most miserable People do in the bitternesse of our afflicted Souls humbly fall down at the foot-stool of thy grace most sadly bewailing our many and most hainous 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 onr wicked works we have denied that most holy faith whereof our Mouths have for so long a time made profession These things O Lord have we done and because in goodnesse thou wert pleased to â—…eep silence how many of us have thought wickedly that thou â—…ert altogether such an one as â—…ur selves which either didst approve or at least wouldst not punish the Crimes that we doâ—…ed on And now in thy just judgments thou hast set our sins in order before our eyes in the continued scourge of this â—…sting Rebellion we may well perceive that the sins we have done have not been barely infirmities but Rebellions against thee In the Rapines acted upon the substance thou hast given 〈◊〉 we cannot but consider that by Oaths and Blasphemies we have robbed thee of thine Honour and have oft-times stollen much of that precious time which should have been spent in thy service Nay we have added sin to sin so that one Crime hath brought forth another Transgression and thou hast shewed us even this in thy Judgâ—… ments we now feel in that thâ—… present War hath brought forth an infectious disease and dotâ—… now threaten famine to us We confesse O Lord with all thankfulnesse of heart that thou hast been pleased to sweeten the bitterness of this Cup by many strange successes by frequent and unexpected Victories and yet thou hast so allayed each favour of thine hand with the mixture of some sudden crosse that herein thou hast set our Repentance too before the sight of our eyes and lets us see 't is mixt with so much coldnesse Hypocrisie that there may be as much guilt in such a kind of Repentance as before there was in our sins Yet return O God in great mercy return unto the many thousands of thy people do thou accept and increase in our hearts detestatioÌ„ of all wickedness that our sorrows for sin may be as compleatly perfect 〈◊〉 we desire thou shouldst make â—…ur Peace and that for times â—…ereafter our hearty observance of thy whole Law may still run along with such sorrows O let â—…ot thy scourge end in a desolation nor thine anger go on unto the height of an everlasting mine But hear us mercifull Father hasten the aversion of these thy sharp judgements from us and let not the noise of this accursed Rebellion be any longer heard in our streets Scatter thou the People that delight in War and let the blessing of Peace be upon the Heads of all those who strive and pray for this blessing and that for his sake by whose hand thou givest every blessing Jesus-Christ our Lord Amen A Prayer for the KING O Lord God infinite 〈◊〉 power by whom thâ—… thrones of Kings are established and their Persons made sacred Take we beseech thee into thy immediate and divine protection thine Anointed Servant the King that no Sacrilegious prophane hand come near to touch him in all his wayes let thy Spirit guide him and thy holy Angels pitch their Tâ—…s about him Comfort him in his troubles defend him in his dangers support him in his Cause blesse him in the confusion of all those that rise up against him shew some token on him even now O God when the Sons of Violence are in the highest of their Pride when they have joyned Nation â—…o Nation Covenant to Covenant and Army to Army to â—…ull down him whom thou â—…ast exalted and to Root out â—…hat Religion which thine own â—…ght hand hath planted Deâ—…t their purposes O thou preserver of men and let not their mischievous imaginations â—…ny longer prosper but blast â—…ll their Counsells wither away their Armies like grasse â—…orched by the Sun bow down a last their stiff necks and obdurate hearts to a desire of that Peace which hath so long been 〈◊〉 abomination to them That this miserable Nation may no further pursue their own Ruine â—…d take pleasure in shedding their own blood but being by so many bitter punishments made sensible of thy Anger for this unnaturall division may at last be reduced within their first obedience to the glory of thy Name the vindication of oâ—… defamed Religion the joy 〈◊〉 our afflicted King and the hapâ—… pinesse of this yet bleedinâ—… Kingdom And confirm all thâ—… to us O Lord by the merits and through the mediation oâ—… thine own dear Son Jesus Chrisâ—… our Lord Amen A Prayer for the preservation of the University and City of Oxford O Almighty God who are the only sure