and worke vnto thy diuine Maiestie and promising in thee and for thee vnto this our King all loyall and faithfull allegiance and to his seede his heires and successors after him in all generations whom wee beseech thee to follow with all increase of honour and happinesse in this world and to crowne with immortalitie and glory in the world to come for Iesus Christ his sake our onely Lord and Sauiour Amen O God which art the authour of peace and louer of concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternall life whose seruice is perfect freedome defend vs thy humble seruants in all assaults of our enemies that wee surely trusting in thy defence may not feare the power of any aduersaries through the might of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen The third Collect for grace O Lord our heauenly Father Almighty and euerlasting God which hast safely brought vs to the beginning of this day defend vs in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sinne neither runne into any kinde of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy gouernance to do alwayes that is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ It is ordered that the Letany shall not be omitted the seuen and twentieth day of March though it fall vpon Munday Tuesday Thursday or Saturday O God the Father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the Father of heauen c. O God the Son redeemer of the world haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the Sonne redeemer of the world c. O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Sonne haue mercie vpon vs miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding c. O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God haue mercie vpon vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity c. Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sinnes spare vs good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood and bee not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lord. From all euill and mischiefe from sinne from the crafts and assaults of the deuill from thy wrath and from euerlasting damnation Good Lord deliuer vs. From all blindnesse of heart from pride vaine glory and hypocrisie from enuy hatred and malice and all vncharitablenesse Good Lord deliuer vs. From fornication and all other deadly sinne and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the deuill Good Lord deliuer vs. From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battell and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliuer vs. From all sedition and priuy conspiracie from all false doctrine and heresie from hardnesse of heart and contempt of thy word and commandement Good Lord deliuer vs. By the mysterie of thy holy incarnation by thy holy natiuitie and circumcision by thy baptisme fasting and temptation Good Lord deliuer vs. By thine agonie and bloody sweat by thy crosse and passion by thy precious death and buriall by thy glorious resurrection and ascension and by the comming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliuer vs. In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the houre of death and in the day of iudgement Good Lord deliuer vs. We sinners do beseech thee to heare vs O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule gouerne thy holy Church vniuersally in the right way We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to keepe and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of life thy seruant Charles our most gracious King and Gouernour We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith feare and loue and that hee may alwayes haue affiance in thee and euer seeke thy honour and glory We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to bee his defender and keeper giuing him the victory ouer all his enemies We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and preserue our gracious Queene Mary Fredericke the Prince Elector Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth his wife with their Princely issue We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Pastours Ministers of the Church with true knowledge and vnderstanding of thy word and that both by their preaching and liuing they may set it foorth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to endue the Lords of the Counsaile and all the Nobilitie with grace wisedome and vnderstanding We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keepe the Magistrates giuing them grace to execute iustice and to maintaine trueth We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse and keepe al thy people We besech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue to all nations vnitie peace and concord We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue vs an heart to loue and dread thee and diligently to liue after thy commandements We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue to all thy people increase of grace to heare meekly thy word and to receiue it with pure affection and to bring foorth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of trueth all such as haue erred and are deceiued We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and helpe the weake hearted and to raise vp them that fall and finally to beate downe Satan vnder our feet We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to succour helpe and comfort all that bee in danger necessitie and tribulation We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to preserue all that trauaile by land or by water all women labouring of childe all sicke persons and yong children and to shew thy pitie vpon all prisoners and captiues We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to defende and prouide for the fatherlesse children and widowes and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to haue mercy vpon all men We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to forgiue our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turne their hearts We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. That it may please thee to giue and preserue to our vse the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enioy them We beseech thee to heare vs
good Lord. That it may please thee to giue vs true repentance to forgiue vs all our sinnes negligences and ignorances and to endue vs with the grace of thy holy spirit to amend our liues according to thy holy word We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord. Sonne of God we beseech thee to heare vs. Sonne of God we beseech thee to heare vs. O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Grant vs thy peace O Lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world Haue mercy vpon vs. O Christ heare vs. O Christ heare vs. Lord haue mercie vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Christ haue mercie vpon vs. Christ haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercy vpon vs. Lord haue mercie vpon vs. Our Father which art in heauen c. And leade vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euill Amen The Versicle O Lord deale not with vs after our sinnes Answere Neither reward vs after our iniquities Let vs pray O God mercifull Father that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as bee sorrowfull mercifully assist our prayers that wee make before thee in all our troubles and aduersities whensoeuer they oppresse vs and graciously heare vs that those euils which the craft and subtiltie of the deuill or man worketh against vs bee brought to naught and by the prouidence of thy goodnesse they may bee dispersed that wee thy seruants being hurt by no persecutions may euermore giue thankes vnto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thy Names sake O God we haue heard with our eares and our fathers haue declared vnto vs the noble workes that thou diddest in their dayes and in the olde time before them O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thine honour Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne c. As it was in the beginning is now c. From our enemies defend vs O Christ Graciously looke vpon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrowes of our hearts Mercifully forgiue the sinnes of thy people Fauourably with mercy heare our prayers O Sonne of Dauid haue mercy vpon vs. Both now and euer vouchsafe to heare vs O Christ Graciously heare vs O Christ Graciously heare vs O Lord Christ The versicle O Lord let thy mercy be shewed vpon vs. The answere As we doe put out trust in thee Let vs pray VVEe humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to looke vpon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Names sake turne from vs all those euils that wee most righteously haue deserued and graunt that in all our troubles wee may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercie and euermore serue thee in holinesse and purenesse of liuing to thy honour and glory through our onely Mediatour and Aduocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psal 46. 1. GOd is our hope and strength a very present helpe in trouble 2 Therefore will we not feare though the earth be mooued and though the hils bee caried into the midst of the sea 3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell and though the mountaines shake at the tempest of the same 4 The riuers of the flood thereof shall make glad the Citie of God the holy place of the Tabernacle of the most highest 5 God is in the middest of her therefore shall shee not be remoued God shall helpe her and that right early 6 The Lord of hosts is with vs the God of Iacob is our refuge Psa 132. 8 8 Arise O Lord into thy resting place thou and the Arke of thy strength 9 Let thy Priests be clothed with righteousnesse and let thy saints sing with ioyfulnesse 10 For thy seruant Dauids sake turne not away the presence of thine anoynted 11 The Lord hath made a faithfull oath vnto Dauid and he will not shrinke from it 12 Of the fruit of thy body shall I set vpon thy seate 13 If thy children will keepe my couenant and my testimonies that I shall learne them their children also shall sit vpon thy seate for euermore Psal 72. 1 Giue thy iudgements therefore vnto the King O God and thy righteousnesse vnto the Kings sonne 2 Then shall hee iudge the people according vnto right and defend the poore 3 The mountaines also shall bring peace and the little hilles righteousnesse vnto the people 4 Hee shall keepe the simple folke by their right defend the children of the poore and punish the wrong doer 5 In his time shall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as his reigne endureth Psal 18. 35 Thou shalt giue him the defence of thy saluation thy right hand also shall hold him vp and thy louing kindnesse shall make him great Psal 132. 19 As for his enemies they shall bee clothed with shame but vpon himselfe shall his crowne flourish Psal 61. 7 Hee shall dwell before God for euer O prepare thy louing mercy and faithfulnesse that they may preserue him Psal 68. 28 And now O Lord we humbly beseech thee for thy Temples sake stablish the thing that thou hast wrought in vs. Psal 28. 10 O saue thy people and giue thy blessing vnto thine inheritance feed them set them vp for euer Psal 145. 12 That thy power thy glory and thy kingdome may be knowen vnto men Psal 79. 14 So that wee thy people and the sheepe of thy pasture shall giue thee thanks for euer and we will alway bee shewing forth thy prayse from generation to generation 21 Our mouth shall speake the prayse of the Lord and let all flesh giue thankes vnto his holy Name for euer and euer Let vs pray O Lord God most mercifull Father who as vpon this day of thine especiall grace and fauor didst place thy seruant King Charles our Soueraigne in the royall throne of this Kingdome thereby assuring vs of the continuance of thy Gospel sacred trueth amongst vs to the great ioy and comfort of our hearts we thine vnworthy seruants heere assembled together in memory of this thy mercy most humbly beseech thy Fatherly goodnesse to grant vs grace that we may in word deede and heart shew our selues alwayes thankefull vnto thee for the same and that as his Maiestie hath now finished one whole yeere of his happy gouernement so through thy grace he may in all honour vertue and godlinesse continue the same his glorious reigne ouer vs many and many yeeres yet to come and we dutifully obey him as faithfull and loyall subiects that so wee may long enioy him with the continuance of thy great blessings which by him thou hast powred vpon vs through Iesus Christ our Lord. ALmighty God and heauenly Father by whom Kings doe reigne and Princes are set vp to rule the people which hast by thy power and goodnesse safely and quietly aduanced to the Throne of this Kingdome thy seruant our Souereigne Lord King Charles to
this Law depart out of thy mouth but occupie thy minde therein day and night that thou mayest obserue and do according to all that is written therein for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous and then thou shalt doe wisely Haue not I commaunded thee that thou shouldest bee strong and hardy and not feare nor bee faint hearted for I the Lord thy God am with thee whithersoeuer thou goest Then Iosuah commanded the officers of the people saying Goe through the middest of the hoste and command the people saying Prepare your victuals for after three dayes yee shall passe ouer this Iordane to goe in and enioy the land which the Lord your God giueth you to possesse it And vnto the Reubenites Gadites and halfe the tribe of Manasses spake Iosuah saying Remember the word which Moses the seruant of the Lord commanded you saying The Lord your God hath giuen you rest and hath giuen you this land Your wiues your children and your cattell shall remaine in the land which Moses gaue you on this side Iordane but ye shall goe before your brethren armed all that bee men of warre and helpe them vntill the Lord haue giuen your brethren rest as hee hath you and vntill they also haue obtained the land which the Lord your GOD giueth them and then shall yee returne vnto the land of your possession and enioy it which land Moses the Lords seruant gaue you on this side Iordan toward the Sun rising And they answered Iosuah saying All that thou hast commanded vs wee will doe and whithersoeuer thou sendest vs we will goe According as we obeyed Moses in all things so will wee obey thee onely the Lord thy God bee with thee as he was with Moses And whosoeuer he be that doth disobey thy mouth and will not hearken vnto thy words in all that thou commandest him let him die onely be strong and of good courage The first Chapter of the second Booke of the Chronicles Or this may bee the first Lesson AND Solomon the Sonne of Dauid waxed strong in his kingdome and the Lord his God was with him and magnifyed him in dignity And Solomon spake vnto all Israel to the Captaines ouer thousands to the Captaines ouer hundreds to the Iudges and to euery Officer in all Israel and to the ancient fathers And so Solomon and all the Congregation with him went to the high place that was at Gibeon for there was the Tabernacle of the Congregation of God which Moses the seruant of the Lord made in the wildernes But the Arke of God had Dauid brought from Kiriath-iarim into the place which Dauid had made therefore for hee had pitched a tent for it at Hierusalem Moreouer the brasen Altar that Bezaleel the sonne of Vri the sonne of Hur had made was there before the Tabernacle of the Lord and Solomon and the Congregation went to visit it And Solomon went vp there before the Lord to the brazen Altar that was before the Tabernacle of the Congregation and offered a thousand whole burnt offerings vpon it And the same night did God appeare vnto Solomon and sayd vnto him Aske what I shal giue thee And Solomon said vnto God Thou hast shewed great mercy vnto Dauid my father and hast made mee to reigne in his stead Now therefore O Lord God let thy promise which thou madest vnto Dauid my father be true for thou hast made me king ouer a people which is like the dust of the earth in multitude Giue mee now wisedome and knowledge that I may be able to go in and out before this people for who els can iudge this people that is so great And God said to Solomon Because this was in thine heart and because thou hast not asked treasure and riches nor honour nor the liues of thine enemies neither yet long life but hast asked wisdome knowledge for thy self to iudge my people ouer whom I haue made thee king Wisedome and knowledge is granted vnto thee and I will giue thee treasure and riches and glory so that among the kings that haue beene before thee or after thee none was or shal be like thee And so Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon to Hierusalem from the Tabernacle of the Congregation and reigned ouer Israel And Solomon gathered charets horsemen and he had a thousand and foure hundred charets and twelue thousand horsemen whom he bestowed in the charet cities and with the King at Hierusalem And the King made siluer and gold at Hierusalem as plenteous as stones Cedar trees made he as plenteous as the mulbery trees that grow in the valleyes Also Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt and fine linnen the kings marchants receiued the fine linnen for a price They came also and brought out of Egypt a charet for sixe hundred pieces of siluer euen an horse for an hundred and fifty and so brought they horses for al the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Syria by their owne hand Te Deum laudamus VVEe praise thee O God we knowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doeth worship thee the Father euerlasting To thee all Angels cry alowde the heauens and all the powers therein To thee Cherubin and Seraphin continually doe cry Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heauen and earth are full of the Maiestie of thy glory The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee The noble armie of Martyrs praise thee The holy Church thoughout all the world doeth knowledge thee The Father of an infinite Maiestie Thy honourable true and onely Sonne Also the holy Ghost the Comforter Thou art the King of glory O Christ Thou art the euerlasting Sonne of the Father When thou tookest vpon thee to deliuer man thou diddest not abhorre the Virgins wombe When thou haddest ouercome the sharpenesse of death thou diddest open the kingdome of heauen to all beleeuers Thou sittest on the right hand of God in the glory of the Father We beleeue that thou shalt come to be our Iudge We therefore pray thee helpe thy seruants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood Make them to bee numbred with thy Saints in glory euerlasting O Lord saue thy people and blesse thine heritage Gouerne them and lift them vp for euer Day by day we magnifie thee And wee worship thy Name euer world without ende Uouchsafe O Lord to keepe vs this day without sinne O Lord haue mercy vpon vs haue mercy vpon vs. O Lord let thy mercie lighten vpon vs as our trust is in thee O Lord in thee haue I trusted let me neuer be confounded The second Lesson taken out of the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romanes the thirteenth Chapter LEt euery soule bee subiect vnto the higher powers for there is no power but of God and the powers that bee are ordeined of God Whosoeuer therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that
resist shall receiue to themselues iudgement For Princes are not to bee feared for good workes but for euill Wilt thou then be without feare of the power do wel so shalt thou haue praise of the same For hee is the minister of God for thy wealth but if thou do euil feare for he beareth not the sword for nought for he is the minister of God to take vengeance on him that doeth euill Wherefore ye must be subiect not because of wrath onely but also for conscience sake For for this cause yee pay also tribute for they are Gods ministers applying themselues for the same thing Giue to all men therefore their duetie tribute to whom ye o we tribute custome to whom custome feare to whom feare honour to whom ye o we honour O we nothing to any man but to loue one another for he that loueth another hath fulfilled the Law For this Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not steale Thou shalt not beare false witnes Thou shalt not couet and if there be any other Commandement it is briefly comprehended in this saying euen in this Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Loue doth not euill to his neighbour therefore is loue the fulfilling of the Law And that considering the season that it is now time that wee should arise from sleepe for now is our saluation neerer then when wee beleeued it The night is past and the day is at hand let vs therefore cast away the workes of darkenesse and let vs put on the armour of light So that wee walke honestly as in the day not in gluttony and drunkennesse neither in chambering and wantonnesse nor in strife and enuying But put yee on the Lord Iesus Christ and take no thought for the flesh to fulfill the lusts of it After the second Lesson shall be vsed and said Benedictus in English as followeth BLessed be the Lord God of Israel for hee hath visited and redeemed his people And hath raised vp a mighty saluation for vs in the house of his seruant Dauid As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets which haue been since the world began That we should be saued from our enemies and from the hands of all that hate vs. To performe the mercie promised to our forefathers and to remember his holy Couenant To performe the oath which hee sware to our forefather Abraham that he would giue vs. That we being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies might serue him without feare In holinesse and righteousnes before him all the dayes of our life And thou Childe shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest for thou shalt goe before the face of the Lord to prepare his wayes To giue knowledge of saluation vnto his people for the remission of their sinnes Through the tender mercie of our God whereby the day spring from an high hath visited vs. To giue light to them that sit in darkenesse and in the shadow of death and to guide our feete into the way of peace Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and euer shal be world without end Amen Or this C. Psalme O Be ioyfull in the Lord all yee lands serue the Lord with gladnesse and come before his presence with a song Bee ye sure that the Lord he is God it is hee that hath made vs and not wee our selues wee are his people and the sheepe of his pasture O goe your way into his gates with thankesgiuing and into his courts with praise be thankeful vnto him and speake good of his Name For the Lord is gracious his mercie is euerlasting and his trueth endureth from generation to generation Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and euer shall be world without end Amen I Beleeue in God the Father Almighty maker of heauen and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord which was conceiued by the holy Ghost borne of the virgin Mary suffered vnder Ponce Pilate was crucified dead and buried hee descended into hell the third day hee rose againe from the dead he ascended into heauen and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence shall hee come to iudge the quicke and the dead I beleeue in the holy Ghost the holy Catholike Church the communion of Saints the forgiuenesse of sinnes the resurrection of the body and the life euerlasting Amen And after that these Prayers following aswell at Euening prayer as at Morning prayer all deuoutly kneeling The Minister first pronouncing with a loude voyce The Lord be with you People And with thy Spirit Minister Let vs pray Lord haue mercie vpon vs. Christ haue mercie vpon vs. Lord haue mercie vpon vs. Our Father which art in heauen c. Minister O Lord shew thy mercy vpon vs. People And grant vs thy saluation Minister O Lord saue the King People Who putteth his trust in thee Minister Send him helpe from thy holy place People And euermore mightily defend him Minister Let the enemies haue none aduantage ouer him People Let not the wicked approach to hurt him Minister Indue thy Ministers with righteousnesse People And make thy chosen people ioyfull Minister O Lord saue thy people People And blesse thine inheritance Minister Giue peace in our time O Lord. People Because there is none other that fighteth for vs but onely thou O God Minister O God make cleane our heartes within vs. People And take not thy holy Spirit from vs. A Prayer for the Kings Maiestie O Lord our heauenly Father high and mightie King of kings Lord of lords the onely ruler of Princes which doest from thy Throne behold all the dwellers vpon the earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy fauour to behold our most gracious Souereigne Lord King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that hee may alway incline to thy will and walke in thy way indue him plentifully with heauenly gifts grant him in health and wealth long to liue strengthen him that hee may vanquish and ouercome all his enemies and finally after this life hee may attaine euerlasting ioy felicity through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Or this O Lord thou hast dealt graciously with our land and we thy vnworthy creatures acknowledge our selues infinitely blessed in thy seruant our dread Souereigne King Charles whom thou hast chosen and anointed to rule ouer vs and wee are at this time here gathered together before heauen and before thee to make a gratefull commemoration of the time and of the day wherein this thine vnspeakeable goodnesse began to bee powred vpon vs and to offer vp our vowes and sacrifices of thanksgiuing and praise vnto thy glorious Name which cannot worthily of vs be praised humbly beseeching thee to accept the vnworthy oblation of our selues vowing all holy obedience in thought word