at this Day By Lying Detraction and contumely by censuring and rash Judgments by false Witness and perverting the course of Justice we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By Desire of Change and Uncontentedness in our Estates by giving our selves over to lustful covetous and inordinate Affections by desire of Peace not so much for thine own Honour or the publick Good as the Satisfaction of our own private Lusts by neglecting Acts of Charity and doing as we would be done unto and not doing our Duty in that State of Life unto the which it hath pleased thee to call us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our want and neglect of those necessary Christian Duties of Humiliation and godly Sorrow for Sins of due Indignation and Revenge upon our selves for them of confessing and forsaking of Restitution and Satisfaction to others and by not bringing forth Fruits worthy of Repentance we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By Impatience under thy correcting Hand by not endeavouring our Amendment by it in reflecting upon our Sins as the Causes of it by despising thy Chastisements in not rejoycing in Tribulations and not glorifying thee that hast counted us worthy to suffer for Righteousness sake we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By fretting our selves because of the ungodly and being envious at the evil doers by not loving our Enemies not blessing them that curse us not doing good to them that hate us not praying for those that despitefully use us and persecute us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By presuming to do evil that good may come thereon by placing Piety in Opinions by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels by scrupling at Things indifferent and making no Conscience of known Sins we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By running into open Prophaneness under Colour of avoiding Superstition by guiding our Conscience by Humours Fancies and not by the certain Rules of thy Law by having itching Ears and heaping to our selves Teachers and by having Mens Persons in Admiration because of advantage we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our unreformed continuing in our former Sins since thy heaviest Judgments came out against us our not melting not turning to thee in Humiliation and Contrition and Change of Life or not preparing to meet our God when he is come out in Fury against us we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By those open or secret but still unmortified crying Sins of a wretched People which have so enraged a long suffering God as to deliver up our Glory the Joy of our Hearts and the Breath of our Nostrils into the Power and Malice of bloody Men to be assaulted with a Rage that reacheth up to Heaven we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our fatal Stupidity under this Vengeance of thine our Want of Zeal of Courage of a due Detestation of so vile an Enterprize our not confessing of thee when we have been most signally called unto it we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By bowing our Shoulders to bear and crouching down with Issachar under our Burthens because the Land is pleasant and Rest seemed good unto us by not putting out our selves and restoring our Soveraign but neglecting that Prize that thou wast pleased lately to put into our Hands and forsaking our own Mercy we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By our too much Formality and Coldness in our Devotion by being wearied at the Return of our Days of Humiliation and secretly repining at the length and frequency of our Prayers by honouring thee with our Lips while our Hearts have been far from thee especially we of this Family have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day By preferring Sacrifice before Obedience and by holding fast our Iniquities and yet thinking to be heard for our much speaking we have provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord Righteousness belongs to thee But unto us Confusion of Face as at this Day Who can tell how oft he offendeth O cleanse thou us from our secret Sins Try us O Lord God and search the ground of our Hearts prove and examine our Thoughts and look well if there be any other way of Wickedness in us and lead us in the way everlasting A Prayer O Almighty and most Merciful Father who art the Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long suffering and abundant in Goodness and Truth keeping Mercy for Thousands and forgiving Iniquity Transgression and Sins Look down upon us with thy compassionate Eyes who are here before thee in the Bitterness of our Souls and do now with troubled Spirits with broken and contrite Hearts most humbly beg Pardon for these Multitude of our Offences Look we humbly beseech thee upon the Blood of thy Son which speaketh better Things than that of Abel for his sake spare us Lord spare thy People that those Sins rise not up against us for his Passions sake expose us not for a Prey to their cruel Hands who would both devour and deride us Spare us Lord spare thy People for the Glory of thy Name O deliver us and be merciful to all these our Sins through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest only ALmighty God our Heavenly Father who of his great Mercy hath promised Forgiveness of Sins to all them that with hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you pardon and deliver you from all your Sins confirm and strengthen you in all Goodness and bring you to everlasting Salvation both of Body and Soul through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The Lord's Prayer OUR Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this Day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation but deliver us
hath and how he doth bear in his Bosom the rebukes of many People And let his Adversaries be cloathed with shame But upon his Head let his Crown flourish O help him against his Enemies for Vain is the help of Man O God make speed to save him O Lord make hast to help him Jeremiah's Lamentations Prophetical of these times HOW hath the Lord covered us with a Cloud in his Anger And cast down from Heaven unto the Earth the beauty of our Israel and remembered not his Foot-stool in the Day of his Wrath For lo he hath bent his Bow as an Enemy he hath swallowed us up and hath not pitied he hath made desolate the Kingdom and the Princes thereof He hath cast off his Altars and abhorred his Sanctuary and hath given into the Hands of the Enemies the Walls of his Pillars He hath caused our solemn Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten and hath despised in his Indignation the King and the Priest For the Lord hath now accomplished his fury he hath poured out his fierce anger he hath kindled such a fire in Sion as hath devoured the Palaces thereof For the Sins of the Prophets and the Iniquity of the Priests who have shed the Blood of the Just in the midst of her For the Breath of our Nostrils the anointed of the Lord hath been taken in their Pits of whom we said under his shadow we shall live in Peace But we have transgressed and have rebelled and thou hast not pardoned And therefore our Eyes have as yet failed us in our vain help for in our watching we have watched for a Nation that could not save us Behold O Lord and consider to whom thou hast done this O Lord thou hast seen his wrong judge thou his Cause Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against him Thou hast heard their Reproach O Lord and all their imaginations against him The Lips of those that are risen up against him and their devices against him all the Day O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him The Second Prayer REmember O Lord what is come upon us consider and behold our reproach For our Inheritance is turned unto Strangers our Houses to Aliens our Necks are under Persecution we labour and have no rest Our Fathers have sinned and are not we have born our Iniquities The Servants rule over us and there is none to deliver us out of their hands Our Elders have ceased from the gate and our young Men from their Musick The Joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into mourning For the Crown is fallen from our Head and wo unto us that we have sinned For this our Heart is faint for these Things our eyes are dim But wherefore doest thou forget us for ever and forsakest us so long time O turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned renew our Days as of old And do not utterly reject us be not for ever wrath against us O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us Daniel's Prayer and Confession in the behalf of himself and his People O Lord the great and dreadful God! we have sinned and done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Judgments Neither have we hearkned to thy Servants the Prophets which spake in thy name to our Kings our Princes and our Fathers and all the People of this Land O Lord Righteousness belongs unto thee but unto us Confusion of face as at this day unto all that are near and far off through all the Countries whether thou hast driven them because of the trespass that they have trespassed against thee For we have not obeyed the Voice of the Lord our God and therefore the Curse is poured out upon us Even such a Curse as that under the whole Heaven hath not been done to us But now O Lord our God according to all thy Righteousness I beseech thee let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from us Hear the Prayer of thy Servant and cause thy face to shine upon thy Sanctuary which is now desolate O my God encline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold our Desolation For I do not present these Supplications before thee for mine own Righteousness but for thy great Mercies O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord do delay not for thine own sake O my God and for thy Peoples sake that are called by thy Name O God make speed to save us O Lord make haste to help us Prayers for the KING The First Prayer LOrd remember our distressed King and all his troubles Let thy hand hold him fast and thine arm strengthen him Let not the Enemy be able to do him violence or the Son of Wickedness hurt him Let thy Truth and Mercy be ever with him and in thy Name let his Throne be exalted O be thou his Father his God and his strong Salvation And let him be as thy first born and glorious among the Kings of the Earth O God make speed to save him O Lord make haste to help him The Second Prayer O Most Powerful Lord God the only Disposer of all the Kings and Kingdoms on the Earth who for the Punishment of the crying Sins of this Nation hast extinguished our Glory and cast the Throne down to the ground Give us not over utterly to Ruin and Confusion but bring back yet in thy good time the Heir of these Kingdoms like the Sun with healing in his Wings to repair the Breaches already made and prevent the Desolations that threaten us And however thou hast been pleased to cast a Cloud upon him in the morning of his Days yet leave him not in this Storm forsake him not thou that art the God of his Salvation but look upon his Wrongs and have compassion on his Innocency and Suffering O let it never be in the Power of Man to bar him from the Throne to which by his Birth thou hast designed him but guide him with those Councils and prosper him with that Success as may settle him in his Throne in Peace Or if the Guilt and Wickedness of his Opposers shall still continue to hinder this do it after thine own way O God with thy mighty Hand and stretched out Arm that they may both know and feel that Thou art the Protector of Kings and the Refuge of them who have no other Trust but in Thee grant this O God for the Glory of thy Name and the Comfort of thy desolate Church and People Amen The Third Prayer O Most Merciful God the only Sanctuary of sad and distressed Souls look down I beseech thee upon thy Servant who here with bended Knees and a wounded Spirit prostrate my self before thee for wo unto us we have lived to see the Crown fallen from our Heads and the Glory departed from our Israel even the anointed of the Lord driven to fly before wicked Men
I desired of the Lord that will I seek after That I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the Days of my Life to behold the Beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple 5. For in the time of Trouble he shall hide me in his Pavilion in the secret of his Tabernacle shall he hide me he shall set me up upon a Rock 6. And now shall mine Head be lifted up above mine Enemies round about me Therefore will I offer in his Tabernacle Sacrifices of Joy I will sing yea I will sing Praises unto the Lord 7. Hear O Lord when I cry with my Voice Have mercy also upon me and answer me 8. When thou saidst Seek ye my Face my Heart said unto thee Thy Face Lord will I seek 9. Hide not thy Face far from me put not thy servant away in anger thou hast been my Help leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation 10. When my Father and my Mother forsake me then the Lord will take me up 11. Teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in a plain path because of mine enemies 12. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies for false witnesses are risen up against me and such as breath out Cruelty 13. I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living 14. Wait on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart wait I say on the Lord PSALM XLVI 1. The Confidence the Church hath in God 8. An exhortation to behold it GOD is our refuge and strength a very present help in trouble 2. Therefore will not we fear though the Earth be moved and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the Sea 3. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof Selah 4. There is a river the streams thereof shall make glad the City of God the holy Place of the Tabernacle of the most high 5. God is in the midst of her she shall not be moved God shall help her and that right early 6. The Heathen raged the Kingdoms were moved he uttered his Voice the Earth melted 7. The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge Selah 8. Come behold the works of the Lord what desolation he hath made in the Earth 9. He maketh Wars to cease unto the end of the Earth he breaketh the Bow and cutteth the Spear in sunder he burneth the Chariot in the Fire 10. Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted among the Heathen I will be exalted in the Earth 11. The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge Selah PSALM LXXXIII 1. A Complaint to God of the Enemies Conspiracies 9. A Prayer against them that oppress the Church KEEP not thou silence O God hold not thy peace and be still O God 2. For lo thine Enemies make a Tumult and they that hate thee have lift up their Head 3. They have taken crafty counsel against thy People and consulted against thy hidden ones 4. They have said Come and let us cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance 5. For they have consulted together with one consent they are confederate against thee 6. The Tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagarens 7. Gebal and Ammon and Amalek the Philistines with the Inhabitants of Tyre 8. Assur also is joyned with them they have holpen the Children of Lot Selah 9. Do unto them as unto the Midianites as to Sisera as to Jabin at the Brook of Kison 10. Which Perished at Endor they became as dung for the Earth 11. Make their Nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb yea all their Princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna 12. Who said let us take to our selves the Houses of God in possession 13. O my God make them like a wheel as the stubble before the Wind. 14. As the fire burneth a Wood and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire 15. So persecute them with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storm 16. Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy Name O Lord 17. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever yea let them be put to shame and perish 18. That Men may know that thou whose Name alone is JEHOVAH art the most high over all the Earth PSALM LXXXVI 1. David strengthneth his Prayer by the conscience of his Religion 5. By the goodness and power of God 11. He desireth the continuance of former Grace 14. Complaining of the proud he craveth some token of God's Goodness BOW down thine ear O Lord hear me For I am poor and needy 2. Preserve my Soul for I am holy O thou my God save thy Servant that trusteth in thee 3. Be merciful unto me O Lord for I cry unto thee daily 4. Rejoyce the Soul of thy Servant for unto thee O Lord do I lift up my Soul 5. For thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee 6. Give ear O Lord unto my Prayer and attend to the voice of my Supplications 7. In the Day of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me 8. Among the Gods there is none like unto thee O Lord neither are there any works like unto thy works 9. All Nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name 10. For thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art God alone 11. Teach me thy way O Lord I will walk in thy Truth unite my heart to fear thy Name 12. I will praise thee O Lord my God with all my heart and I will glorifie thy Name for evermore 13. For great is thy Mercy toward me and thou hast delivered my Soul from the lowest Hell 14. O God the Proud are risen against me and the Assemblies of violent Men have sought after my Soul and have not set thee before them 15. But thou O Lord art a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy and truth 16. O turn unto me and have mercy upon me give thy Strength unto thy Servant and save the Son of thine Handmaid 17. Shew me a Token for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed Because thou Lord hast holpen me and comforted me The First Lesson proper for this Occasion the Second of Samuel XV Chapter 1. Absalom by fair Speeches and Courtesies stealeth the Hearts of Israel 7. Under Pretence of a Vow he obtaineth leave to go to Hebron 10. He maketh there a great Conspiracy 13. David upon the News flieth from Jerusalem 19. Ittai would not leave him 24. Zadok and Abiathar are sent back with the Ark 30. David and his Company go up Mount Olivet weeping 31. He curseth Ahitophels Counsel
32. Hushai is sent back with Instructions AND it came to pass after this that Absalom prepared him Chariots and Horses and Fifty Men to run before him 2. And Absalom rose up early and stood beside the way of the Gate And it was so that when any Man that had a Controversy came to the King for Judgment then Absalom called unto him and said of what City art thou And he said Thy Servant is of one of the Tribes of Israel 3. And Absalom said unto him See thy matters are good and right but there is no Man deputed of the King to hear thee 4. Absalom said moreover oh that I were made Judge in the Land that every Man which hath any Suit or Cause might come unto me and I would do him Justice 5. And it was so that when any Man came nigh to him to do him obeysance he put forth his Hand and took him and kissed him 6. And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the King for Judgment So Absalom stole the Hearts of the Men of Israel 7. And it came to pass after forty years that Absalom said to the King I pray thee let me go pay my Vow which I have vowed unto the Lord in Hebron 8. For thy Servant vowed a Vow while I abode in Geshur in Syria saying if the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem then I will serve the Lord 9. And the King said unto him Go in Peace So he arose and went to Hebron 10. But Absalom sent Spies throughout all the Tribes of Israel saying as soon as ye hear the Sound of the Trumpet then ye shall say Absalom reigneth in Hebron 11. And with Absalom went two hundred Men out of Jerusalem that were called and they went in their Simplicity and they knew not any thing 12. And Absalom sent for Ahitophel the Gilonite Davids Counsellor from his City even from Giloh while he offered Sacrifices And the Conspiracy was strong for the People increased continually with Absalom 13. And there came a Messenger to David saying the Hearts of the Men of Israel are after Absalom 14. And David said unto all his Servants that were with him at Jerusalem arise and let us flee for we shall not else escape from Absalom Make speed to depart lest he overtake us suddenly and bring evil upon us and smite the City with the edge of the Sword 15. And the Kings Servants said unto the King Behold thy Servants are ready to do whatsoever my Lord the King shall appoint 16. And the King went forth and all his Houshold after him and the King left Ten Women which were Concubines to keep the House 17. And the King went forth and all the People after him and tarried in a Place that was far off 18. And all his Servants passed on beside him and all the Cherethites and all the Pelethites and all the Gittites Six Hundred Men which came after him from Gath passed on before the King 19. Then said the King to Ittai the Gittite wherefore goest thou also with us Return to thy Place and abide with the King For thou art a Stranger and also an Exile 20. Whereas thou camest but yesterday should I this Day make thee go up and down with us seeing I go whether I may return thou and take back thy Brethren Mercy and Truth be with thee 21. And Ittai answered the King and said as the Lord liveth and as my Lord the King liveth surely in what Place my Lord the King shall be whether in Death or Life even there also will thy Servant be 22. And David said to Ittai go and pass over And Ittai the Gittite passed over and all his Men and all the little ones that were with him 23. And all the Country wept with a loud Voice and all the People passed over The King also himself passed over the Brook Kidion and all the People passed over towards the way of the Wilderness 24. And lo Zadok also and all the Levites were with him bearing the Ark of the Covenant of God and they set down the Ark of God and Abiathar went up until all the People had done passing out of the City 25. And the King said unto Zadok carry back the Ark of God into the City If I shall find favour in the Eyes of the Lord he will bring me again and shew me both it and his Habitation 26. But if he thus say I have no delight in thee Behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good unto him 27. The King said also unto Zadok the Priest Art not thou a Seer Return into the City in Peace and your Two Sons with you Ahimaaz thy Son and Jonathan the Son of Abiathar 28. See I will tarry in the Plain of the Wilderness until there come Word from you to certify me 29. Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the Ark of God again to Jerusalem and they tarried there 30. And David went up by the Ascent of Mount Olivet and wept as he went up and had his Head covered and he went bare-foot And all the People that was with him covered every Man his head and they went up weeping as they went up 31. And one told David saying Ahitophel is among the Conspirators with Absalom And David said O Lord I pray thee turn the Counsel of Ahitophel into Foolishness 32. And it came to pass that when David was come to the top of the mount where he worshipped God behold Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his Coat rent and Earth upon his Head 33. Unto whom David said if thou passest on with me then thou shalt be a Burden unto me 34. But if thou return to the City and say unto Absalom I will be thy Servant O King as I have been thy Fathers Servant hitherto so will I now also be thy Servant Then mayest thou for me defeat the Counsel of Ahitophel 35. And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the Priests Therefore it shall be that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the Kings House thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the Priests 36. Behold they have there with them their Two Sons Ahimaaz Zadok's Son and Jonathan Abiathar's Son And by them ye shall send unto me every thing that ye can hear 37. So Hushai David's Friend came into the City and Absalom came into Jerusalem The First Lesson Part of the II. of Chronicles CHAP. XIII Abijah succeeding maketh War against Jeroboam 4. He declareth the Right of his Cause 13. Trusting in God he overcometh Jeroboam NOW in the Eighteenth Year of King Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah 2. He reigned Three Years in Jerusalem his Mothers Name was Michaiah the Daughter of Uriel of Gibea and there was War between Abijah and Jeroboam 3. And Abijah set the Battel in array with an Army of valiant Men of War even four hundred thousand chosen Men Jeroboam also set the Battel in array