contrivances of the Adversaries of True Religion distracted with intestine differences and divisions at home do with all humility and sincerity acknowledge and confess That by our unthankfulness for thy wonderful mercies and deliverances insensibleness and stupidity under thy manifold iudgments impiety and other daily provocations of thy vengeance we have justly deserved thy wrath and indignation against us Wherefore we are here met together this day desiring with broken and penitent hearts to present our selves before the Throne of Grace beseeching thee in mercy to pardon the great â—ffences of us thy servants and the crying sins of this Nation to remove the evils which we now lie under to avert those judgments which we justly deserve to reconcile our dâ—fferences and heal our breaches to unite ouâ— hearts in the profession of the True Religion which thine own right hand hath planteâ— and established in this Kingdom and in an holy conversation answerable thereunto To which end we humbly beséech thee abundantly to bestow the choicest of thy blessings teâ—poral and spiritual upon the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the High Court of Parliament that all their consultations may tend to the glory of thy great Name the safeâ—y and honour of the King the advancement of Piety and preservation of the Church and the security peace and prosperity of all eâ—tates and conditions of men in this Kingdom All which we humbly beg in the Name and through the Mediation of thy Son and our blessed Saviour Iesus Christ Amen The Collect for Grace O Lord our heavenly Father Alnâ—ighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day desend us in the same with thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our dâ—ings may be ordered by thy governance to â—o always that is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amâ—n ¶ Here followeth the Litany O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of Heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the world have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three Persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord out offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins space us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and he not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evill and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypâ—crisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord-deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from all false doctrine heresie and schism from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarâ—â—ation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloudy Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precioâ—s Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the coming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our weâ—â—th in the hour of death and in the day of Iudgment Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church â—â—â—verâ—al in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strongthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy servant Charles ouâ— most gracious King and Governour We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he may evermore have affiance in thee and ever seek thy honour and glory We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée to bless and preserve our gracious Queen Catherine James Duke of York and all the Royal Family We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth and shew it accordingly We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee-to endue the Lords of the Council and all the Nobility with grace wisdom and understanding We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates giving them grace to execute Iustice and to maintain Truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations Unity Peace and Concord We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee and diligently to live after thy Commandments We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give â—o all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy Word and to receive it with pure affection and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erret and are deceived We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand and to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan uâ—der our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are in danger necessity and tribulation We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water all women labouring of child all sick persons and young
children and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows and all that are desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecutors and â—anderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth so as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit to amend our sives according to thy holy Word We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God we beseech thee to hear us Son of God we beseech thee to hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Grant us thy peace O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world Have mercy upon us O Christ hear us O Christ hear us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven â—c Priest O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answ Neither reward us after our iniquities Let us pray O God merciful Father that â—espisest not the sighing of a contrite heart nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities whensoever they oppress us and graciously hear us that those evils which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us be brought to nought and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy Names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the â—oble works that thou didst in their days and in the old time before them O Lord arise help us and deliveâ— us for thine honour 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 a world without end Amen From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us Christ Graciously hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Lord Christ Priest O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer As we do put our trust in thee Let us pray WE humbly beseech thee O Father mercifully to look upon our infirmities and for the glory of thy Name euen from us all those evils that we most righteouâ—â—â— have deserved and grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust anâ— confidence in thy mercy and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our only Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast-made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent Create make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission forgiveness through Iesus Christ our Lord. 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 yâ— 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 burthen 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 judgment with thy servants who are â—vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repentâ—us of our faults and so make haste to help us in thiâ— worst 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 deserve 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 O Almighty God and our most gracious Father the Sovereign Commander of all the world in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand Thou art the Lord of hosts the God of battels and the strength of all Nations If thou keepest not the City and the Kingdom the Watchman waketh but in vain Nor can victory wait upon the justest Designs upon the wisest Counsels upon the strongest Armies unless thou teachest their hands to war and their fingers to fight Thou art the steddy Hope of all the ends of the earth and of them which remain in the broad Sea Go forth we humbly beseech thee at this time by thy more especial assistance with His Majesties Fleet and Naval Forces and bless them all In all their Counsels let Wisdom lead them in all their Enterprises Courage assist them and thy blessing every where crown them with victory and good success That so they may at last bring back Honour to our Sovereign safety and strength to these his Kingdoms and to all his Subjects plenty and prosperity and a fasting peace And smally that by these and all thy mercies we may be still more engaged to a true and real thankfulness to thee our God such as may appear in our lives by an humble holy and obedient walking before thee all our days Erant this O merciful Father for thy Son
the world was not worthy they wandred in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth And these all having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise God having provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect Deus misereatur Psal 67. GOd be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance and be merciful unto us That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations Let the people praise thée O God yea let all the people praise thee O let the nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the nations upon earth Let the people praise thee O God let all she people praise thee Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing God shall bless us and all the end of the world shall fear him Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said thâ— Creed by the Minister and the people standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these Prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and people shall say the Lords prayer with a loud voice OUr Father which art in heaven hallowed de 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 Amen ¶ Then the priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Priest O Lord save thy servants Answer Who do put their trust in thee Priest Send us help from thy holy place Answer And evermore mightily defend us Priest Let the enemy have no advantage over us Answer Nor the wicked approch to hurt us Priest Be unto us O Lord a strong towre Answer From the face of our enemies Priest O Lord hear our prayer Answer And let our cry come unto thee Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answer And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in out time O Lord. Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but onely thou O God Priest O God make clean our hearts within us Answer And take noâ— thy holy Spirit from us ¶ In stead of the first Collect shall these two be usedâ— O Most glorious and powerful Lord God who alone hast spread out the heavens and compassed the waters with bounds until night and day come to an end We adore thy divine Majesty acknowledging thy power and imploring thy goodness Be pleased to receive into thine Almighty and most gracious protection the persons of thy servants that fight for us and the Ships and Navies in which they serve preserve them all from the dangers of the sea and from the violence of the enemy and from every sad accident that they may be a safeguard to our most gracious Sovereign and his Kingdoms and a security for such as pass on the seas upon their lawful occasions Help Lord and save them for thy mercies sake that they may return in safety with honour and victory and good success to enjoy the blesâ—ings of the land and the fruit of their labours and that all the inhabitants of these Islands being blest with plenty and prosperity peace and quietness may serve thee our God in righteousness and true holiness and with a thankful remembrance of all thy mercies may ever praise and glorifie thy holy Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Almighty God King of all kings and Governour of all things whose power no creature is able to resist to whom it belongeth iustly to punish sinners to be merciful to them that truly repent Save and deliver us we humbly beseech thee from the hands of our enemies abate their pride asswage their malice and confound their devices that we being armed with thy defence may be preserved evermore from all perils to glorifie thee who art the only giver of all victory through the merits of thy only Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all iust works do proceed Give unto 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 onely Son our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen ALmighty everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent Create make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness may obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Iesus Christ our Lord. 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 burthen 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 judgment 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 TUrn 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 deserve 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 onely 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 King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy holy Spirit that he may asway incline to thy will and walk in thy way endue him plenteously with heavenly gifts grant him in health and wealth long to live strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies and finally after this life he 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 our gracious Queen Catherine James Duke of York 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 O Almighty God and our most gracious Father the Sovereign Commander of all the world in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand Thou art the Lord of hosts the God of battels and the strength of all Nations If thou keepest not the City and the Kingdom the Watchman waketh but in vain Nor can victory wait upon the justest Designs upon the wisest Counsels upon the strongest Armies unless thou teachest their hands to war and their fingers to fight Thou art the steady Hope of all the ends of the earth and of them which remain in the broad Sea Go forth we humbly beseech thee at this time by thy more especial assistance with His Majesties Fleet and Naval Forces and bless them all In all their Counsels let Wisdom lead them in all their Enterprises Courage assist them and thy blessing every where crown them with Victory and good Success That so they may at last bring back Honour to our Sovereign safety and strength to these his Kingdoms and to all his Subjects plenty and prosperity and a lasting peace and finally that by these and all thy mercies we may be still more engaged to a true and real thankfulness to thee our God such as may appear in our lives by an humble holy and oâ—â—dient walking before thee all our days Grant this O merciful Father for thy Son Iesus Christ his sake Amen O God the Protectour of all that trust in Thee without whom nothing is strong nothing is holy who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and so great dangers and seest that we have no power of our selves to help our selves Mercifully look upon our infirmities Raise up thy power and come among us and with great might succour us and in all our dangers and necessities stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to help and defend us against all our enemies Look we pray thee upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants Encrease and multiply upon us thy mercies that we who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished by the comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved and that thou being our Saviour and Deliverer our Ruler and our Guide we may so pass the waves of this troublesom world that finally we may come to the land of everlasting life there to reign with Thee world without end through Iesus Christ our Lord. 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 Fulfill 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 worlâ—â— to come life everlasting Amen 2 Corinth 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 LONDON Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker Printers to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1673 4.