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A Form of prayer to be used on Wednesday the fifth day of June next ensuing within the cities of London and Westminster, and ten miles distance of the same : and on Wednesday the nineteenth of the same June through the rest of the whole kingdom, being the fast-day appointed by the King and Queen's proclamation to implore the blessing of Almighty God upon Their Majesties Forces by sea and land, success in the war now declared against the French king ...
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Lord Iesus Christ our only Saviour the Prince of Peace look down in much pity and compassion upon this Church and Nation now seeking unto thee in Fasting and Prayer stir up we beseech thee every soul among us to cast forth the accursed thing to root out of our hearts all pride and all wrath and bitterness all unjust prejudice and causeless jealousie all hatred and malice and desire of revenge and whatsoever may hinder us from discerning the things that belong unto our peace And by the power of thy holy Spirit do thou dispose all our hearts to such meekness of wisdom lowliness of mind patience gentleness and long-suffering and forbearance of one another in love and such Honour and Reverence of those whom thou hast set over us as becomes the Sons of Peace that so the God of Peace may be with us Give us grace O Lord serioufly to lay to heart the great Dangers we are in by our unhappy Divisions and the great Obligations which lie upon us to godly Vnion and Concord That as there is but one Body and one Spirit and one Hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all so we may henceforth be all of one Heart and of one Soul united in one holy Bond of Truth and Peace of Faith and Charity and may with one mind and one mouth glorifie thee O Lord who with thy Father and holy Spirit livest and reignest one God world without end Amen ALmighty God who hast promised to hear the petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to us that have made now our prayers and supplications unto thee and grant that those things which we have faithfully asked according to thy will may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity and to the setting forth of thy glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Priest or Bishop if he be present shall let them depart with this Blessing THe peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God and of his Son Iesus Christ our Lord And the blessing of God Almighty the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always Amen The Order for Evening Prayer ¶ Let him that ministreth read with a loud voice these Sentences of Scripture and after them the Exhortation following COrrect us O Lord Jer. x. 24. but with judgment not in thine anger least thou bring us to nothing O our God Dan. ix encline thine ear and hear open thine eyes and behold for we do not present our Supplications unto thee for our righteousnesses but for thy great mercies O Lord hear O Lord forgive O Lord hearken and do and defer not for thine own sake and for thy people that are called by thy Name DEarly beloved brethren the Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of almighty God our heavenly Father but confess them with an humble lowly penitent and obedient heart to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God yet ought we most chiefly so to do when we assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits that we have received at his hands to set forth his most worthy praise to hear his most holy Word and to ask those things which are requisite and necessary as well for the body as the soul Wherefore I pray and beseech you as many as are here present to accompany me with a pure heart and humble voice unto the throne of the heavenly grace saying after me ¶ The Confession to be said of the whole Congregation after the Minister all kneeling ALmighty and most merciful Father We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts We have offended against thy holy laws We have left undone those things which we ought to have done And we have done those things which we ought not to have done And there is no health in us But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable offenders Spare thou them O God which confess their faults Restore thou them that are penitent According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Iesu our Lord. And grant O most merciful Father for his sake That we may hereafter live a godly righteous and sober life To the glory of thy holy Name Amen ¶ The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest alone standing the People still kneeling ALmighty God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ who desireth not the death of a sinner but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live and hath given power and commandment to his Ministers to declare and pronounce to his people being penitent the absolution and remission of their sins He pardoneth and absolveth all them that truly repent and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel Wherefore let us beseech him to grant us true repentance and his holy Spirit that those things may please him which we do at this present and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then the Minister shall kneel and say the Lords Prayer the People also kneeling and repeating it with him OUr Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen ¶ Then likewise he shall say O Lord open thou our lips Answer And our mouth shall shew forth thy praise Priest O God make speed to save us Answer O Lord make haste to help us ¶ Here all standing up the Priest shall say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Priest Praise ye the Lord. Answer The Lords name be praised ¶ Proper Psalms are XI XXVII LXIII ¶ The First Lesson I. Sam. VII to v. 16. Magnificat S. Luke I. 46. MY soul doth magnifie the Lord and my spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden For behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed For he that is mighty hath magnified me and holy is his Name And his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations He hath shewed
thy servants that peace which the world cannot give that both our hearts may be set to obey thy Commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the merits of Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen LIghten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burden of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into Iudgment with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make haste to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the people say this that followeth after the Minister TVrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy people who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God full of compassion long suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deferve punishment and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them and let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Majesty O Lord our heavenly father high and mighty King of kings Lord of lords the only Ruler of Princes who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary and so replenish them with the grace of thy Holy Spirit that they may alway incline to thy will and walk in thy way endue them plenteously with heavenly gifts grant them in health and wealth long to live strengthen them that they may vanquish and overcome all their enemies and finally after this life they may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Royal Family ALmighty God the fountain of all goodness we humbly beseech thee to bless Catherine the Queen Dowager her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and all the Royal Family Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich them with thy heavenly grace prosper them with all happiness and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Clergy and People ALmighty and everlasting God who alone workest great marvels Send down upon our Bishops and Curates and all Congregations committed to their charge the healthful Spirit of thy grace and that they may truly please thee pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing Grant this O Lord for the honour of our Advocate and Mediatour Iesus Christ Amen ¶ A Prayer for the High Court of Parliament MOst gracious God we humbly beseech thee as for this kingdom in general so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most religious and gracious King and Queen at this time assembled That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the advancement of thy glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of their Majesties and their Kingdoms that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest foundations that peace and happiness truth and justice religion and piety may be established among us for all genetations These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Iesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ A Prayer for all the Reformed Churches O God the Father of mercies who of thy great goodness hast united us into the mystical body of Christ that is his Church We as living members thereof mourning with them that mourn and rejoycing with them that rejoyce do now present our Supplications and Prayers at the Throne of Grace in behalf of all the Reformed Churches beseeching thee to look down with an eye of Mercy and Pity upon the sad and mournful estate of such of them whom thou hast delivered over to the hands of superstitious and merciless men who have compell'd so many of them to defile themselves with their Idolatrous Worship stretch out thy Arm against those deceitful and bloody men suffer them not still to triumph over thy Heritage How long Lord shall thy anger burn for ever How long wilt thou forget thy People that prayeth Oh let the cry of the Blood of thy Saints and the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee Deliver thou those that are as Sheep appointed for the slaughter Hear us O God for thy mercies sake and for the honour of thy great Name Plead thy Cause with them that blaspheme thy Truth and prosecute thy People that so all men may say Verily there is a God that judgeth in the Earth Purge all thy Churches from their dregs and make them meet for a glorious Deliverance that so all the world may see the Salvation of our God and that though he hides his face from his People for a season yet he will not cast them off utterly Grant that thy true Religion may so shine as to become the Ioy of the whole earth and that all Antichristian Idolatry Superstition and Cruelty being cast out of thy House all that name the Name of Christ may depart from iniquity and walk worthy of their holy profession that the Kingdom of thy dear Son may come quickly and that all his enemies being made his foot-stool he who is the Lord of lords and King of kings may reign to all the ends of the Earth To whom with thee O Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory for evermore Amen O God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ our only Saviour the Prince of Peace look down in much Pity and Compassion upon this Church and Nation now seeking unto thee in Fasting and Prayer Stir up we beseech thee every Soul among us to cast forth the Accursed Thing to Root out of our hearts all Pride and all Wrath and Bitterness all unjust Prejudice and causeless Iealousie all Hatred and Malice and desire of Revenge and whatsoever may hinder us from discerning the things that belong unto our Peace And by the power of thy Holy Spirit do thou dispose all our hearts to such meekness of Wisdom lowliness of Mind Patience Gentleness and Long-suffering and forbearance of one another in love and such honour and reverence of those whom thou hast set over us as becomes the sons of Peace that so the God of Peace may be with us Give us grace O Lord seriously to lay to heart the great Dangers we are in by our unhappy Divisions and the great Obligations which lie upon us to godly Vnion and Concord that as there is but one Body and one Spirit and one hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all so we may henceforth be all of one heart and of one Soul Vnited in one holy Bond of Truth and Peace of Faith and Charity and may with one Mind and one Mouth glorifie thee O Lord who with thy Father and Holy Spirit livest and reignest one God world without end Amen ¶ A Prayer of S. Chrysostom ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life ever lasting Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 THe grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen FINIS