THE PSALTER OF DAVID WITH Titles and Collects according to the matter of each PSALM. OXFORD, Printed by Leonard Lichfield, Printer to the University. 1644. The Preface. IT is Natural for all men when they are straitened with fears, or actual infelicities, to run for succour, to what their fancy or the next opportunity presents, as an instrument of their ease and remedy. But that which distinguishes men in these cases, is the choice of their Sanctuary: for to rely upon the Reeds of Egypt, or to snatch at the Bulrushes of Nilus, may well become a drowning man, whose reason is so wholly invaded and surprised by fear▪ as to be useless to him in that confusion: But he whose condition (although it be sad) is still under the Mastery of reason, and hath time to deliberate, unless he places his hopes upon something that is likely to cure his misery, or at least to ease it, by making his affliction less, or his patience more, does deserve that misery he groans under: stripes and remediless miseries are the lot of Fools, but afflictions that happen to wise men or good men, represent indeed the sadnesses of mortality, but they become Monuments and advantages of their Piety and Wisdom. In this most unnatural War commenced against the greatest solennities of Christianity, and all that is called, God, I have been put to it to run somewhether to Sanctuary; but whether, was so great a question, that had not Religion been my guide, I had not known where to have found rest or safety, when the King and the Laws, who by God and Man respectively are appointed the protectors of Innocence and truth, had themselves the greatest need of a Protector. And when in the beginning of these troubles I hastened to His Majesty, the case of the King and His good Subjects, was something like that of I saack, ready to be sacrificed, the wood was prepared, the fire kindled, the knife was lift up, and the hand was striking, that if we had not been something like Abraham too, and against hope have believed in hope, we had been as much without comfort, as we were in outward appearance without remedy. It was my custom long since to secure myself against the violences of Discontents abroad, as Gerson did against temptations, in angulis & libellis, in my books and my retirements: But now I was deprived of both them, and driven to a public view and participation of those dangers and miseries which threatened the Kingdom, and disturbed the evenness of my former life. I was therefore constrained to amass together all those arguments of hope and comfort, by which Men in the like condition were supported; & amongst all the great examples of trouble and confidence, I reckoned King David one of the biggest, and of greatest consideration. For considering that he was a King, vexed with a Civill-Warre, his case had so much of ours in it, that it was likely the devotions he used might fit our turn, and his comforts sustain us. And indeed when I came to look upon the Psalter with a nearer observation, and an eye diligent to espy my advantages and remedies there deposited, I found very many Prayers against the enemies of the King and Church, and the miseries of War. I found so many admirable promises, so rare variety of expressions of the mercies of God, so many consolatory hymns, the commemoration of so many deliverances from dangers, and deaths, and Enemies, so many miracles of mercy and salvation, that I began to be so confident as to believe there could come no affliction great enough, to spend so great a stock of comfort as was laid up in the treasure of the Psalter: the saying of S. Paul was here verified, if sin [and misery] did abound, than did grace superabound, and as we believe of the Passion of Christ, it was so great as to be able to satisfy for a thousand Worlds; so it is of the comforts of David's Psalms, they are more than sufficient to repair all the breaches of Mankind. But for the particular occasion of creating confidences in us that God will defend his Church, and his Anointed, and all that trust in him, against all their Enemies, (which was our case, and contained in it all our needs for the present) I found so abundant supply, that of 150. Psalms, some whereof are Historical, many Encharisticall, many Prophetical, and the rest Prayers for several occasions. 34 of them are expressly made against Gods and our Enemies; Eleven expressly for the Church, four for the King; that is, a third part of the Psalms relate particularly to the present occasion, besides many clauses of respersion in the other which if collected into one, would of themselves be great arguments of hope to prevail in so good a cause. This which experience taught me now, I was promised before by a frequent testimony of the Doctors of the Church, who give the Psalter such a Character as is due to the best and most useful book in the whole World. viz. The most profitable of books: the treasure of Holy instructions, consummationem totius paginae Theologicae, the perfection of the whole Scripture; so the ordinary Gloss calls it; arma juvenum, parva Biblia, tribulatorum solatia, the young man's armoury, the little Bible, the comfort of the distressed, so others; to be said by all men upon all occasions, is the counsel of the most devout amongst them. But concerning the Psalter there are good words enough, and real observation of advantages in the several prefaces before the Commentaries upon the Psalms, set forth by the Fathers and Writers of the first and middle ages. I leave the particular enumeration of them, to the Learned Divines of our Church, to whom it is more proper; the sum of them is this which Tertullian alone hath expressed in his Apology against the Gentiles, Omnes Bibliothecas, & omnia monumenta unius Prophetae serinium vincit, in quo, videtur thesaurus collocatus esle to totius Iudaici Sacramenti. & inde etiam nostri, this book alone of the Prophet David, hath in it some excellencies beyond all the monuments of Learning in any Library whatsoever, and is the store house both of the jewish and Christian Religion. But that which pleases me most is the fancy of S. Hilary, expounding the Psalter to be meant by the Key of David, spoken of by S. john in his Revelation: And properly enough; for if we consider how many mysteries of Religion are opened to us in the Psalter, how many things concerning Christ, what clear vaticinations concerning his Birth, his Priesthood, his Kingdom, his Death the very circumstances of his Passion, his Resurrection, and all the degrees of his Exaltation more clearly and explicitly recorded in the Psalter, then in all the old Prophets besides, we may easily believe that Christ with a Key of David in his hand, is nothing else but Christ fully opened and manifested to us in the Psalms in the whole mystery of our Redemption. Omnes penè psalmi Christi personam sustinent, saith Tertullian. Almost all the Psalms represent the person of Christ. Now this Key of David, opens not only the Kingdom of Grace, by Revelation of the mysteries of our Religion, but the Kingdom of Heaven too, it being such a Collection of Prayers, Eucharist, acts of hope, of love, of patience, and all other Christian virtues, that as the everlasting Kingdom is given to the Heir of the House of David, so the Honour of opening that Kingdom is given to the first Prince of that family; the Psalms of his Father David are one of the best inlets into the Kingdom of the son. Something to this purpose is that saying of one of the old Doctors, vox psalmodiae si recto corde dirigatur, in tantum omnipotenti Deo aditum ad animum aperit, ut intentae animae vel Prophetiae mysteria, vel compunctionis spiritum infundat. The saying or singing of Psalms opens a way so wide for God to enter into the heart, that a devout soul does usually from such an employment receive the grace of compunction and contrition, or of understanding Prophecies. Upon such premises as these, or better, the Church of God in all ages hath made David's Psalter the greatest part of her public and private devotions; sometimes dividing the Psalter into seven parts, that every week's devotion might spend it all. Sometimes decreeing that it should be said day and night. Otherwhile enjoined the recitation of the whole Psalter before the celebration of the blessed Sacrament; and after some time it was made the public office of the Church. It was the general use of Christendom, to say the Psalms Antiphonatim, by way of verse and answer, saith Suidas; and so Ancient, that the Religious of S. Mark in Alexandria used it▪ saith Philo the Iew; and S. Ignatius, or else Flavianus and Diodorus brought it first into the Church of Antioch. And for the private Devotions, that they chiefly consisted of the Psalms we have great probability from the strict requiring it of the Clergy, and particularly from them who came to be ordained, great readiness of saying the Psalter by heart. It was S. Hieroms counsel to Rusticus, and when S. Gregory was to ordain the Bishop of Ancona, his inquiry concerning his Canonical sufficiency was, if he could say David's Psalms without book; and for a disability of doing it, john the Priest was rejected from the Bishopric of Ravenna. But this I conceive more relates to their private, then to their public devotions, for I cannot think but that in respect of the public Liturgy, it was enough for Bishops and Priests to read the Psalms; the requiring ability remember them was to engage them to a frequent use of so admirable devotions in their private offices. But the Psalms were not only of use to the Church, as they lay in their own position and form, but the devout men of several ages drew them into Collects, Antiphonaries, Responsories, and all other parts of their devotions. They made their Prayers out of the Psalms, their confessions, their doxologies, their ejaculations for the most part were clauses or periods of the Psalter. St Hierome made a collection of choice versicles, and put them together into their several classes, and that was much of his devotion▪ the Collection is still extant under the Name of St Hierom's Psalter. St Athanasius made an Index of the several occasions and matters of prayer and Eucharist, and fitted Psalms to each particular, that was his devotion, the Psalms entire as they lay, only he made titles of his own. I have seen of latter time a short hymn of some eight verses, which are indeed very choice sentences out of several Psalms set together to make up a compendium of Liturgy or Breviary of our necessities and devotions, collected by St Bernardine, it is a very good Copy to be followed. But if we look into the old Liturgies of the Eastern and Western Churches▪ and where we will almost into the private devotions of the old writers, we may say of them in the expression of the Prophet, Hau●ieeant aquas è fontibus Salvatoris, they drew their waters from the fountains of our Blessed Saviour, but through the limbecks of David. But the practice of this devotion I derived from a higher precedent, even of Christ and his Apostles: for before the passion immediately, they sung a Psalm, saith the Scripture, Hymno dicto, saith the vulgar Latin, having recited or said a Psalm. But however, it was part of David's Psalter that was sung, it was the great Allelujah, as the Jews called it, beginning at the 113 psalm, to the 119 exclusively, part of that was sung. But this devotion continued with our Blessed Saviour as long as breath was in him, for when he was upon the Cross he recited the 22th Psalm ad verbum, saith the tradition of the Church, and that he began it, saith the Scripture, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? The whole psalm is rather a history▪ then a prediction of the passion; and what Tertullian saith of the whole Psalter is particularly verified of this, filium ad Patrem, id est, Christum ad Deum verba facientem representat, it represents the Son's address to his Father, that is, Christ speaking to God, Against the example of Christ if we confront the practice of Antichrist, nothing can be said greater in commendation of this manner of devotion: for B. Hippolytus, in his oration of the end of the world, saith, that in the days of Antichrist, Psalmorum decantatio cessabit, they shall then no more use the singing or saying of the Psalms; which when I had observed. without any further deliberation I fixed, upon the Psalter, as the best weapon against him, whose coming we have great reason to believe is not far off, so great preparation is making for him. From the example of Christ this grew to be a Practice Apostolical, and their devotion came exactly home to the likeness of the design of this very Book: they turned the Psalms into prayers. Thus it was said of Paul and Silas. Act. 16. They prayed a Psalm, so it is in the Greek; and we have a Copy left us of one of the prayers or collects which they made out of the bowels of the second psalm, it is in the fourth Chapter of the Acts, beginning at the 24 verse, and ends at the 31. And now I have shown the reasons of my choice, and the precedents that I have followed. This last comes home to every circumstance of my Book. I only add this, that since according to the instruction of our blessed Saviour, God is to be worshipped in Spirit and in truth, no worshipping can be more true, or more spiritual than the Psalter said with a pure mind and a hearty devotion. For David was God's instrument to the Church, teaching and admonishing us (as our duty is to each other) in Psalms and Hymns, and spiritual Songs, and the spirit of truth was the Grand Dictator of what David wrote; so that we may confidently use this devotion as the Church of God ever did, making her addresses to God most frequently by the Psalms: so Prudentius reports the guise of Christendom. Te ment purâ, simplici, Te voce, te cantu pio, Rogare curvato genu, Flendo & canendo discimus. hymn. 2. Cathemer, The Prayers which I have collected out of the Psalms are nothing else, but the matter of the Psalms put into another mood, and fitted to the necessities of Christendom, and of ourselves in particular, according to the first designation or secondary intention of the blessed Spirit: for the use of them could not expire in the person of David, though first occasioned (many of them) by his personal necessities: for all Scripture was written for our learning upon whom the ends of the world are come, (saith the Apostle) & Christ, & his Apostles, and the Church of all ages, hath taught us by their example and precepts, that the purposes of the holy Ghost were of great extent, and the profits universal both for times and occasions: so also were the prayers which the Church made out of the Psalms and sung them in her public offices. S. Austin found great advantages by such devotions, as himself witnesses; cum reminiscor lacrymas meas quas Fud● ad cantus Ecclesiae in primordijs recuperatae fidei meae, magnam instituti hujus utilitatem agnosco. When I call to mind the many tears I shed when I heard the Hymns and Psalms of the Church, I cannot but acknowledge the great benefit of this institution. And yet besides the spiritual sense of an actual devotion, which is sooner had in this use of the Psalms then of other prayers, I have had a meditation that this manner of devotion might be a good Symbol and instrument of Communion between Christians of a different persuasion: For if we all would communicate in the same private devotions, it were a great degree of Peace and Charity. The Nicene Fathers in their zeal against Heresy, forbade their People to be present at the prayers of Heretics; and they had great reason so long as they derived their Heresy into their Liturgy, into their very forms of baptism: But I am much scandalised, when I see a man refuse to communicate with me in my prayers even such as are in his own breviary or Manual. For me thinks it is strange that the Lords Prayer itself should be unhallowed in the mouth of a Protestant, and yet the whole office from the mouth of one of their Priests, though never so wicked, though a Necromaneer, a secret Jew, or any thing, so of their Communion, shall lose no tittle of its sanctity and value. So long as nothing of controversy is brought into our prayers (and certainly we may very well pray to God without disputing) and devotion is not made a party, he that refuses to join with me in what himself confesses true and holy upon pretence I am a heretic, will certainly prove himself a Schismatic. For true it is, a Heretic is to be avoided, that is in his temptation and in his heresy, just as a notorious Fornicator, an Adulterer, a sentenced drunkard, and no more, the Apostles rule excommunicates all alike, with such men no not to eat, and this rule cannot with so much ease and certainty be put to practise in the case of heresy, as in the case of drunkenness, because heresy is as much harder to be judged, as the soul is more invisible than the body, especially if we make heresy to be an error, not in the great articles of faith only, but to consist in minutes also, as all they do who refuse to communicate with Persons disagreeing even in the smallest article. But he that is ready to join with all the societies of Christians in the world, in those things which are certainly true, just and pious, gives great probation that he hath at least, animum Catholicum, no Schismatical soul, because he would actually communicate with all Christendom, if bona sides in falso articulo, a sincere per suasion (be it true or false) did not disoblige him, since he clearly distinguishes persons from things, and in all good things communicates with persons bad enough in others. This is the Communion of charity, and when the Communion of belief is interrupted by misperswasion on one side, and too much confidence and want of charity on the other, the erring party hath humane infirmity to excuse him, but the uncharitable nothing at all. This therefore is the best and surest way, because we are all apt to be deceived, to be sincere in our disquisitions, modest in our determinations, charitable in our censures, and apt to communicate in things of evident truth and confessed holiness. And such is this devotion; the whole matter whereof is the Psalms of David, and the prayers Symbolical, and alike in substance, and of the same expression throughout where it is not altered by circumstances. So that I thought I might not imprudently intend this Book as an instrument of public charity to Christians of different confessions. For I see that all sorts of people sing or say David's Psalms, and by that use, if they understand the consequences of their own Religion, accept set forms of prayer for their Liturgy, and this form in special is one of their own choices for devotion; so that if all Christians, that think David's Psalms lawful devotion, and shall observe the Collects from them to be just of the same Religion, would join in this or the like form, I am something confident the product would be charity, besides other spiritual advantages. For my own particular since all Christendom is so much divided, and subdivided into innumerable Sects, I knew not how to give a better evidence of my own belief, and love of the Communion of Saints, and detestation of Schism, then by an act of Religion, whose consequence might be (if men please) the advancement of an universal Communion. For in that which is most concerning and is the best preserver of charity, I mean practical devotion and active piety, the differences of Christendom are not so great and many, to make an eternal disunion and fracture; and if we instance in prayer, there is none at all abroad (some indeed we have commensed at home, but) in the great divisions of Christendom, none at all but concerning the object of our prayers and adorations. For the Socinian shuts the Holy Ghost from his Litanies, and places the Son of God in a lower form of address. But concerning him I must say, as S. Paul said of the Unbelievers, what have I to do with them that are without? For this very thing that they disbelieve the article of the holy Trinity, they make themselves uncapable of the communion of other Christian people of the Nicene Faith, and we cannot so much at join with them in good prayers, because we are not agreed concerning the persons to whom our devotions must be addressed; and Christendom never did so lightly esteem the article of the holy Trinity, as not to glory in it, and confess it publicly, and express it in all our offices. The holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son must be worshipped and glorified. But since all Christians of any public confession and government, that is, all particular and national Churches agree in the matter of prayers, and the great object, God in the mystery of the Trinity, if the Church of Rome would make her addresses to God only, through Jesus Christ our Lord, and leave the Saints in the Calendar, without drawing them into her offices (which they might do without any prejudice to the suits they ask, unless Christ's intercession without their coniuncture were imperfect.) that we might all once pray together, we might hope for the blessings of peace and charity to be upon us all. I am sure they that have commenced this war against the King and the Church, first fell out with our Liturgy and refused to join with us in our prayers: I have therefore a strong persuasion, that if we were joined in our prayers, we should quickly be united in affections: and to this purpose I have some reason to believe this Psalter may do good service. For I have seen an Essay of this design made by that prudent and pious moderator of controversies, George Cassander, who did much for the peace of Christendom, when disagreeing interests and opinions made the great Schism in the Western Churches, he put forth devotions, and with them Collects for each Psalm. But I said, it was a mere Essay, they are short of what he could have done: but when I saw his name at them, I guessed what every man else would have guessed concerning him, it was a pursuance of his great design for peace and charity. I have seen three more, the first by an old Saxon Priest or Bishop▪ in which there is nothing of offence, nothing but pious and primitive for the matter, but the Collects so short, that the Psalm did scarce pass through the Prayer, so little of the relish is left, that the percolation is scarce disceruable. A second was printed at Lions, 1545. without the Authors name, with a complying design of avoiding all offence, and a not engaging God in our scholastical wranglings, but quite contrary to the Saxon; the prayers are so full of paraphrase, that I resolved to go further, and see if I could speed better, and at last met with a Psalter printed lately at Antwerp by command, very fairly indeed, with a Title and a Collect to every Psalm, all free from dispute, and partaking in the questions of Christendom, not so much as a gust or relish of his own party till the Psalter be done, the prayers all good, and here I had fixed, but that I had found them very often to be impertinent. But that which I observed in all these is, that the design seems alike, and they are a form of devotion made for no private Sect, but for the benefit of all Christian people, which the Author of the Antwerp Psalter declines in his additional Devotions, where he brings in Litanies to Saints as grossly as he had before avoided it with discretion. If any man's piety receives advantage by this intendment, it is what I wish; but I desire that his charity might increase too, and that he would say a hearty prayer, when his devotion grows high and pregnant, for me and my family; for I am more desirous my posterity should be pious than honourable. I have no ends of my own to serve, but to purchase an interest of prayers; for I would fain have these Devotions go out into a blessing to all them that shall use them, and yet return into my own bosom too: and if I may but receive the blessings of the Psalter, even the sure mercies of David, it will be like the reward of five Cities for the improvement of a few talents; I shall venture again in a greater negotiation, and traffic for ten talents; for there is no honour so great as to serve God in a great capacity; and though I wait not at the Altar, yet I will pay there such oblations of my time and industris, as I can redeem from the services of his Majesty, and the impertinencies of my own life. THE PSALTER OF DAVID, with Titles and Collects fitted to each Psalm, etc. PSALM. 1. A Prayer that we may continually meditate in God's law, & have no fellowship with wicked persons in the manner of their living or dying. MORNING PRAYER. Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners: and hath not sit in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his delight is in the Law of the Lord: & in his Law will he exercise himself day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the water side: that will bring forth his fruit in due season. 4 His leaf also shall not wither: & look whatsoever he doth, it shall prosper. 5 As for the ungodly, it is not so with them: but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth. 6 Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand in the judgement: neither the sinners in the Congregation of the righteous. 7 But the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: and the way of the ungodly shall perish. The Prayer. O Holy jesus, fountain of all blessing, the word of the Eternal Father, be pleased to sow the good seed of thy word in our hearts, and water it with the dew of thy divinest Spirit, that while we exercise ourselves in it day and night, we may be like a tree planted by the water side, bringing forth in all times and seasons the fruits of a holy conversation, that we may never walk in the way of sinners, nor have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but that when this life is ended, we may have our portion in the congregation of the righteous, and may be able to stand upright in judgement, through the supporting arm of thy mercy, O blessed Saviour and Redeemer jesus. Amen, PSALM. 2. A Prayer to promote Christ's Kingdom, and for grace to serve him with fear and Reverence. Why do the heathen so furiously rage together: and why do the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The K●ngs of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together: against the Lord, and against his Anointed. 3 Let us break their bonds asunder: and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath: and vex them in his sore displeasure. 6 Yet have I set my King: upon my holy hill of Zion. 7 I will preach the law whereof the Lord hath said unto me: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. 8 Desire of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance: & the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9 Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron▪ and break them in pieces like a potter's vessel. 10 Be wise now therefore, O ye Kings: be learned, ye that are judges of the earth. 11 Serve the Lord in fear: and rejoice unto him with reverence. 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish from the right way: if his wrath be kindled (yea but a little) blessed are all they that put their trust in him. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus, into whose hands is committed all dominion and power in the Kingdoms and Empires of the world, out of whose mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it thou mightest smite the Nations and rule them with a rod of iron, on whose vesture and on whose thigh a name is written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, we adore thee in thy infinite excellency and most glorious exaltation, beseeching thee to reveal thy name and the glory of thy Kingdom to the Heathen which know thee not, and to the uttermost parts of the earth which are given thee for thy possession and inheritance. And to us give thy grace to serve thee in fear, and plant the reverence of thy law and of thy name in our hearts lest thy wrath be kindled against us, and tho● break us in pieces like vessels of dishonour. Have mercy on us▪ O King of Kings, for we have put our trust in thee, thou art our Saviour & Redeemer jesus, Amen. PSALM 3. A Prayer for defence against all our Enemies, Bodily and Ghostly. LOrd, how are they increased that trouble me: many are they that rise against me. 2 Many one there be that say of my soul: There is no help for him in his God. 3 But thou, O Lord, art my defender: thou art my worship, and the li●ter up of mine head. 4 I did call upon the Lord with my voice: and he heard me out of his holy hill. 5 I laid me down and slept, & rose up again: for the lord sustained me. 6 I will not be afraid for ten thousands of people: that have set themselves against me round about. 7 Up Lord, and held me, O my God: for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheekbone, thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly. 8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord: and thy blessing is upon thy people. The Prayer. O Lord our defender have pity upon us, behold the armies of the flesh, the world, and the Devil fight against our Souls, and multiply against us every day temptations and disadvantages. We are not able of ourselves, as of ourselves, to think a good thought, much less to put to flight the armies of them that have set themselves against us round about. But thou, O Lord, art our defender, thou art our worship and the lifter up of our heads. Up Lord & help us, arm us with the shield of faith, & the sword of the Spirit, & in all times of temptation and battle cover our heads with the helmet of Salvation, so shall we not be afraid for ten thousands of our enemies, for salvation belongeth unto thee, through jesus Christ our Lord, AMEN. PSALM 4. A Prayer in which we exercise an act of hope in God, and desire his providence over us. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness, for thou hast ●et me at liberty when I was in trouble, have mercy upon me, and hearken unto my prayer. 2 O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme mine honour: and have such pleasure in vanity, and seek after leasing? 3 Know this also, that the Lord hath chosen to himself the man that is godly: when I call upon the Lord, he will hear me. 4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart, and in your chamber, and be still. 5 Offer the sacrifice of righteousness: and put your trust in the Lord. 6 There be many that say: who will show us any good. 7 Lord, lift thou up: the light of thy countenance upon us. 8 Thou hast put gladness in my heart: since the time that their corn, and wine and oil increased▪ 9 I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest: for it is thou Lord only that makest me dwell in safety. The Prayer▪ O God who art the author of all righteousness, from whom all grace, and safety, and glory does proceed, hear the prayers of thy humble servants whensoever we call upon thee in our trouble, for our trust is in thee alone, and no creature can show us any good unless it derives from thee, show the light of thy countenance upon us, let thy providence guide all our actions & sufferings to thy glory, and our spiritual benefit, and consign us to the blessedness of thy Kingdom by the testimony of thy holy spirit, that we may not place our joys and hopes upon the good things of this life which perish and cannot satisfy, but in the Eternal fountain of all true felicities, that thou being our treasure, our hearts may be fixed upon thee by the bands of Charity and Obedience, that thou mayst make us to dwell in safety here, and when our days are done, we may lay us down in peace and take our rest in thy arms, expecting the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. PSALM 5. A prayer for blessing upon all pious people, and for protection against the malice of wicked men. POnder my words, O Lord: consider my meditation. 2 O harken thou unto the voice of my calling, my King and my God: for unto thee will I make my prayer. 3 My voice shalt thou hear betimes. O Lord: early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. 4 For thou are the God that hast no pleasure in wickedness: neither shall any evil dwell with thee. 5 Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight: for thou hatest all them that work vanity. 6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor both the bloodthirsty and deceltfull ●man. 7 But as for me, I will come into thy house, even upon the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. 8 Led me, O Lord, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies: make thy way plain before my face. 9 For there is no faithfulness in his mouth: their inward parts are very wickedness. 10 Their throat is an open sepulchre: they flatter with their tongue. 11 Destroy thou them, O God, let them perish through their own imaginations: cast them out in the multitude of their ungodliness, for they have rebelled against thee. 12 And let all them that put their trust in thee, rejoice: they shall ever be giving of thanks, because thou defendest them, they that love thy name shall be joyful in thee. 13 For thou Lord wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous: and with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him, as with a shield. The Prayer. O Most Holy and blessed Lord God, who canst take no pleasure in wickedness, neither can evil come nigh thy dwelling, defend us and all thy holy Church from the fraud and malice of bloodthirsty and deceitful men, and from the crafty insinuations of all them that work vanity: but let thy blessings be upon the righteous, and let thy favourable kindness defend thy whole Church as with a shield, that all those who put their trust in thy mercy may be ever giving of thanks, & may be joyful in thee. O lead us in thy righteousness that we become not a rejoicing to our enemies, but that we may worship thee in fear, and come into thy house to make our prayers unto thee, and to give thee thanks for the multitude of thy mercies which thou hast given us in our Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 6. A Prayer of a penitent person for remission of his sins. EVENING PRAYER. O Lord rebuke me not in thine indignation: neither chasten me in thy displeasure. 2 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak: O Lord heal me, for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul is also sore troubled: but Lord how long wilt thou punish me? 4 Turn thee, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy's sake. 5 For in death no man remembreth thee: and who will give thee thanks in the pit? 6 I am weary of my groaning, every night wash I my bed: and water my couch with my tears. 7 My beauty is gone for very trouble: & worn away because of all mine enemies. 1 Away from me all ye that work vanity: for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. 9 The Lord hath heard my petition: the Lord will receive my prayer. 10 All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed: they shall be turned back, & put to shame suddenly. The Prayer. O Most merciful God, whose property is always to have mercy and to forgive, behold with the eyes of thy pity & compassion the estate of thy humble servants, made most miserable by reason of our sins. Hear the voice of our weeping, pity our groaning, strengthen us, for we are weak, heal us, for our bones are vexed, and deliver our souls from death, that being saved from the bottomless pit, we may give thanks to thy holy name. O turn from the severity of thy displeasure, and visit us with thy mercy and salvation. For all our sins give us a great sorrow and contrition, and in our `sorrowess let thy comforts sustain us, through jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. PSALM 7. A prayer for defence of our Innocence against the unjust molestation of our enemies. O Lord my God, in thee have I put my trust, save me from all them that persecute me, & deliver me. 2 Lest he devour my soul like a Lion, & tear it in pieces: while there is none to help. 3 O Lord my God, if I have done any such thing: or if there be any wickedness in my hands. 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me: yea, I have delivered him that without any cause is mine enemy. 5 Then let mine enemy persecute my soul, & take me: yea, let him tread my life down upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. 6 Stand up, O Lord, in thy wrath, and lift up thyself: because of the indignation of mine enemies, arise up for me in the judgement that thou hast commanded. 7 And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee: for their sakes therefore lift up thyself again. 8 The Lord shall judge the people, give sentence with me, O Lord: according to my righteousness, and according to the innocence that is in me. 9 O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end: but guide thou the just. 10 For the righteous God: trieth the very hearts and reins. 11 My help cometh of God: which preserveth them that are true of heart. 12 God is a righteous judge, strong and patient: and God is provoked every day. 13 If a man will not turn, he will wh●t his sword: he hath bend his bow, and made it ready. 14 He hath prepared for him the instruments of death: he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. 15 Behold, he travaileth with mischief: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness. 16 He hath graven and digged up a pit: and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for other. 17 For his travail shall come upon his own head: and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate. 18 I will give thanks unto the Lord, according to his righteousness: and will praise the name of the Lord the most High. The Prayer. O God from whom cometh our help, thou art a righteous judge and preservest all that are true of heart, deliver us from our persecutors who travail with mischief against us, and have digged a pit for our destruction. O let their wickedness and malicious devices against thy servants come utterly to an end for evermore. Thou, O Lord, art strong and able to take vengeance, & yet being provoked every day still art patient towards us & compassionate. Deliver us from their wrath to whom we have done no injustice or displeasure: pardon our offences against thee, & protect our Innocency against them, that we may praise thy name and give thanks unto thee for thy righteousness and salvation, who art blessed for evermore. Amen. PSALM 8. A Contemplation of the Divine beauty and excellency manifested in his Creatures. O Lord our governor, how excellent is thy name in all the world: thou that hast set thy glory above the heavens! 2 Out of the mouth of very babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies: that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 For I will consider the heavens, even the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained. 4 What is man that thou art mindful of him: and the son of man that thou visitest him? 5 Thou madest him lower than the angels: to crown him with glory and worship. 6 Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands: and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. 7 All sheep and oxen: yea, and the beasts of the field. 8 The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas. 9 O Lord our governor: how excellent is thy name in all the world! The Prayer. O Lord God, Father of men and Angels, God of all the Creatures, who hast created all things in a wonderful order, and hast made them all conveyances of thy mercies to mankind, give us great and dreadful apprehensions of thy glory and immensity, thy Majesty and mercy, that we may adore thee as our Creator, love thee as our redeemer, fear thee as our God, obey thee as our Governor, and praise thee as the author & fountain of all perfections, and all good which thou hast communicated to thy creatures, that they may all in their proportions do thee service, who hast to that end made the world & redeemed us by our Lord & Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 9 A prayer of poor and oppressed people against their persecutors. MORNING PRAYER. I Will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: I will speak of all thy marvellous works. 2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: yea, my songs will I make of thy name, O thou most Highest. 3 While mine enemies are driven back: they shall fall and perish at thy presence. 4 For thou hast maintained my right, and my cause: thou art set in the throne that judgest right. 5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, and destroyed the ungodly thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. 6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: even as the cities which thou hast destroyed, their memorial is perished with them. 7 But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath also prepared his seat for judgement. 8 For he shall judge the world in righteousness: and minister true judgement unto the people. 9 The Lord also will be a defence for the oppressed: even a refuge in due time of trouble. 10 And they that know thy name, will put their trust in thee: for thou Lord hast never failed them that seek thee. 11 O praise the Lord which dwelleth in Zion: show the people of his doings. 12 For when he maketh inquisition for blood, be remembreth them: and forgotteth not the complaint of the poor. 14 Have mercy upon me, O Lord: consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me: thou that liftest me up from the gates of death. 14 That I may show all thy praises within the ports of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation. 15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the same net which they hid privily, is their foot taken. 16 The Lord is known to execute judgement: the ungodly is trapped in the work of his own hands. 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell: and all the people that forget God. 18 For the poor shall not always be forgotten: the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever. 19 Up Lord, and let not man have the upper hand: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. 20 Put them in fear (O Lord:) that the heathen may know themselves to be but men. The Prayer. O Lord God who art a defence for the oppressed, and a refuge in due time of trouble, have mercy upon us thy servants, who are violently assaulted by enemies without, and weaknesses and temptations within. Thou never failest them that seek thee, but lovest to hear the poor make their complaint unto thee in their trouble, and art known to execute judgement upon them that oppress them. Pity us, and look upon the trouble we suffer of them that hate us: deliver us from the strive of our adversaries, lift us up from the gates of death, that being safe under thy mercies and protection, we may give thanks unto thee with our spirits & voices, we may embrace thee with a lively faith, fear thee with all our hearts, serve thee with all our powers & faculties both of soul and body, all the days of our life, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 10. A prayer to God in times of Persecution and War against the Church. Why standest thou so far off (O Lord) and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble? 2 The ungodly for his own just doth persecute ●he poor: let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined. 3 For the ungodly hath made boast of his own ●eares desire: and speaketh good of the covetous whom God abhorreth. 4 The ungodly is so proud that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are always grievous: thy judgements are far above out of his sight, & therefore ●efieth he all his enemies. 6 For he hath said in his heart, Tush, I shall ●ever be cast down: there shall no harm happen into me. 7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and ●aud: under his tongue is ungodliness and vanity. 8 He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets: and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent, his eyes are set against the poor. 9 For he lieth waiting secretly, even as a lion lurketh he in his den: that he may ravish the poor. 10 He doth ravish the poor: when he getteth him into his net. 11 He falleth ●own and humbleth himself: that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hand of his Captains. 12 He hath said in his heart, Tush, God hath forgotten: he hideth away his face, and he will never see it. 13 Arise (O Lord God) and lift up thine hand: forget not the poor. 15 Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God: while he doth say in his heart, Tush, thou God carest not for it? 15 Surely thou hast seen it: for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong. 16 That thou mayest take the matter into thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee, for thou art the helper of the friendless. 17 Break thou the power of the ungodly & malicious: take away his ungodliness, and thou shalt find none. 18 The Lord is King for ever and ever: and the heathen are perished out of the land. 19 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor: thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth thereto. 20 To help the fatherless and poor unto their right: that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them. The Prayer. O Lord God, who beholdest all the actions of men, and seest all the ungodliness of sinners and the wrong they do unto thy servants, we fly unto thee for succour and defence in this our needful time of trouble. Behold, o Lord, how the Enemies of thy Church have set their eyes against her, and use all violences and arts that thy poor servants may fall under the hands of their Captains. Thou seest their malice and their confidences, they fear thee not, neither art thou, O God, in all their thoughts. But thou art our King for ever and ever, and the helper of the friendless. We commit ourselves wholly to thy mercy & providence, take the matter into thine own hand, let them perish out of the land that are exalted against thee, and against thy Church, that we being delivered from fear of our enemies, may serve thee with constant and regular devotions all the days of our life, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 11. An address to God by way of hope and confidence in him, and a prayer against our secret Enemies. IN the Lord put I my trust: how say ye then to my soul, that she should flee as a bird unto the hill? 2 For lo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver: that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart. 3 For the foundations will be cast down: and what hath the righteous done? 4 The Lord is in his holy temple: the Lords seat is in heaven. 5 His eyes consider the poor: and his eyelids trieth the children of men. 6 The Lord alloweth the righteous: but the ungodly, and him that delighteth in wickedness doth his soul abhor. 7 Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, storm and tempest: this shall be their portion to drink. 8 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness: his countenance will behold the thing that is just. The Prayer. O Lord who art our hope and our refuge, and the exceeding great reward of all that trust in thee, have mercy upon us thy servants, who have no confidences but upon thy mercies and infinite loving kindness. Defend us from all secret plots & designs, intended against our peace and securities by them that privily shoot at us, and would overthrow the foundations of our repose and safety. And that we may be better entitled to thy protection and care over us, make us to love righteousness, and to follow the things that are just, that by thy grace we being defended from taking delight in wickedness, may also be delivered from the portion of the ungodly, which thou givest them to drink, upon whom thou rainest snares, fire and brimstone, storm and tempest. Deliver us, O Lord, from the eternal pressure of thy wrath, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 12. A prayer for defence against the dangers of evil Company. EVENING PRAYER. HElp me, Lord, for there is not one godly man left: for the faithful are minished from among the children of men. 2 They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour: they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble with their double heart. 3 The Lord shall root out all deceitful lips: and the tongue that speaketh proud things. 4 Which have said, With our tongue we will prevail: we are they that ought to speak, who is Lord over us? 5 Now for the comfortless troubles sake of the needy: and because of the deep sighing of the poor. 6 I will up (saith the Lord:) and will help every one from him that swelleth against him, and will see them at rest. 7 The words of the Lord are pure words: even as the silver which from the earth is tried, & purified seven times in the fire, 8 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord: thou shalt preserve him from this generation for ever. 9 The ungodly walk on every side: when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke. The Prayer. O Most blessed jesus, who in thy eternal providence dost suffer the ●ares and the wheat to grow together until the harvest, permitting heretics and vicious persons to communicate in the external Society of thy people, grant us thy grace, that we may so believe, & heartily obey all thy pure words and dictates, which thou hast taught us in thy holy Gospel, that we may be kept unspotted of the world, and although the ungodly walk on every side, yet we may persevere in the ways of righteousness, and increase the number of the godly, that at last we may be admitted into the glorious fellowship of Saints & Angels, who behold thy face & the glories of thy Kingdom, where thou livest and raignest, with the Father & the holy Ghost, Eternal God world without end. Amen. PSALM 13. A Prayer in time of temptation. HOw long wilt thou forget me (O Lord) for ever: how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? 2 How long shall I seek counsel in my soul, & be so vexed in my heart: how long shall mine enemy's triumph over me? 3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death. 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him: for if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it. But my trust is in thy mercy: and my heart is joyful in thy salvation. I will sing of the Lord, because he hath dealt so lovingly with me: yea, I will praise the name of the Lord most Highest. The Prayer. O God the giver of all grace, the author of all Ghostly strength, look with compassion upon our infirmities, and how unequally we are assaulted by many, by powerful, by malicious adversaries. How long, O Lord, how long shall we seek for rest and find none? O give us either peace or victory, and preserve us that we sleep not in the death of sin, lest our grand enemy the Devil, say, he hath prevailed against us. Our trust is in thy mercy, and thy delight is in it; strengthen us so with thy grace that we may fight a good fight, and conquer, and be crowned with a crown of righteousness, which we beg we may receive from the hands, and by the mercies of our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 14. A Prayer against Atheism and irreligion. THe fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. 2 They are corrupt and become abominable in their doings: there is not one that doth good, (no not one.) 3 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men: to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God. 4 But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable: there is none that doth good, no not one. 5 Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues have they deceived: the poison of asps is under their lips. 6 Their mouth is tull of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood. 7 Destruction and unhappiness is in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. 8 Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief: eating up my people as it were bread? 9 And call not upon the Lord, there were they brought in great fear (even where no fear was:) for God is in the generation of the righteous. 10 As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor: because he putteth his trust in the Lord. 11 Who shall give salvation unto Israel out of Zion: when the Lord turneth the captivity of his people, then shall jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. The Prayer. O Eternal God, Creator of the world, conserver of the Creatures, whose essence and goodness and perfections are infinite, and made so manifest in the creation, order, protection, and disposition of thy creatures, that without the greatest sin and folly in the world, we cannot but acknowledge thee, and adore thee with the lowest adorations of soul and body, and with the most profound humility. Preserve us, O Lord, in great Religion, Veneration, and reverence of thy Divine perfections. Keep us from all distrust of thy providence, all doubtings of thy infiniteness, or of any other article of our faith, and grant that we confessing thee before all the world, may be acknowledged for thy children, and rewarded among thy servants, not for our righteousness but through the merits and mercies of our dearest Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 15. Which is a short rule of a good life, and a desire of innocency and sanctity. MORNING PRAYER. LOrd, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle: or who shall rest upon thy holy hill? 2 Even he that seadeth an uncorrupt life: and doth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart. 3 He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour: & hath not slandered his neighbour. 4 He that setteth not by himself, but is lowly in his own eyes: and maketh much of them that fear the Lord. 5 He that sweareth unto his neighbour, and disappointeth him not: though it were to his own hindrance. 6 He that hath not given his money upon usury: nor taken reward against the innocent. 7 Whoso doth these things: shall never fall. The Prayer. O Lord let thy mercy preserve us in holiness and innocency, or if through infirmity we fall, make us to rise again by penitence, that we may lead an uncorrupt life with humility, and truth, and justice, not slandering our neighbour, not invading his right, not breaking our trust, not oppressing the indigent and necessitous, but doing good to all, and especially making much of them that fear the Lord; that we may never fall from thy favour, but at the end of our weary pilgrimage we may take our rest upon thy holy hill, and dwell in thy tabernacle where thou raignest with infinite glory and felicities, God Eternal, world without end. Amen. PSALM. 16. A Prayer for the blessings of God providence and preservation in this life, and for glory hereafter. PReserve me, O God: for in thee have I put my trust. 2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord: Thou art my God, my goods are nothing unto thee. 3 All my delight is upon the Saints that are in the earth: and upon such as excel in virtue. 4 But they that run after another god: shall have great trouble. 5 Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer: neither make mention of their names within my lips. 6 The Lord himself is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou shalt maintain my lot. 7 The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground: yea, I have a goodly heritage. 8 I will thank the Lord for giving me warning: my reins also chasten me in the night season. 9 I have set God always before me: for he is on my right hand, therefore I shall not fall. 10 Wherefore my heart was glad, and my glory rejoiced: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 11 For why? thou shalt not leave my soul in hell: neither shalt thou suffer thine Holy one to see corruption. 12 Thou shalt show me the path of life, in thy presence is the fullness of joy: and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore. The Prayer. O God, who art the portion of our inheritance, our God, and our preserver, preserve and maintain all those good things which thou hast wrought in us, and for us, and that we may never fall, give us thy grace, that we may set thee always before us, rejoicing in thee, and delighting in the Saints that are upon the earth, that when our flesh shall see corruption, our Souls may not be left in hell, but may walk in the paths of life, and in the day of restitution of all things, both bodies and Souls may have a goodly heritage, even the lot of thy right hand where there is pleasure for evermore, and where we may see the face, and the glory of our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM. 17. A Prayer for protection against the injuries of our Enemies, Bodily and Ghostly. Hear the right, O Lord, consider my complaint: and hearken unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. 2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence: and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equal. 3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season, thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me: for I am utterly purposed, that my mouth shall not offend. 4 Because of men's works that are done against the words of my lips: I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer. 5 O hold thou up my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps slip not. 6 I have called upon thee, O God, for thou shalt hear me: incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words. 7 Show thy marvellous loving kindness, thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee: from such as resist thy right hand. 8 Keep me as the apple of an eye▪ hide me under the shadow of thy wings. 9 From the ungodly that trouble me: mine enemies compass me round about, to take away my soul. 10. They are enclosed in their own fat: and their mouth speaketh proud things. 11 They lie waiting in our way on every side: turning their eyes down to the ground. 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his preys and as it were a lion's whelp lurking in secret places. 13 Up Lord, disappoint him, and cast him down: deliver my soul from the ungodly, which is a sword of thine. 14 From the men of thy hand, O Lord, from the men, I say, and from the evil world: which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure. 15 They have children at their desire: and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. 16 But as for me, I will behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it. The Prayer. O Most merciful jesus, thou that art the Saviour of them that put their trust in thee, defend us, and deliver us from the hands of all our Enemies, and although they are a sword of thine, and an instrument sent from thee, to chastise us for our sins, yet arise, O Lord, in mercy and strength, disappoint them and cast them down, lest they destroy our souls, that when thou hast visited us with thy fatherly correction, and tried us like as Silver is tried, thou mayst find no wickedness in us. Sanctify our hearts and lips, that we may not think a thought displeasing unto thee, and that our mouth may not offend: Keep us as the apple of an eye, hide us under the shadow of thy wings of mercy and providence: keep us from the ways of the destroyer, and hold up our goings in thy paths, that we may persevere in righteousness, and our footsteps may not slip: that in the day of the resurrection of the Just, we may behold thy presence, and receive infinite satisfactions in the vision beatifical. Grant this O merciful Saviour and Redeemer jesus. Amen. PSALM. 18. A Prayer for strength and Victory in War, temporal or spiritual, together, with an act of hope and confidence in God. EVENING PRAYER. I Will love thee (O Lord) my strength, the Lord is my stony rock and my defence: my Saviour, my God, and my might, in whom I will trust, my buckler, the horn also of my salvation, and my refuge. 2 I will call upon the Lord, which is worthy to be praised: so shall I be safe from mine enemies. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me: and the overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid. 4 The pains of hell came about me: the snares of death overtook me. 5 In my trouble I will call upon the Lord and complain unto my God. 6 So shall he hear my voice out of his holy temple: and my complaint shall come before him, it shall enter even into his ears. 7 The earth trembled and quaked: the very foundations also of the hills shook and were removed, because he was wroth. 8 There went a smoke out of his presence: and a consuming fire out of his mouth, so that coals were kindled at it. 9 He bowed the heavens also & came down: and it was dark under his feet. 10 He road upon the cherubims, & did fly: he came flying upon the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his secret place: his pavilion round about him, with dark water, and thick clouds to cover him. 12 At the brightness of his presence, his clouds removed: hail stones and coals of fire. 13 The Lord also thundered out of heaven, and the highest gave his thunder: hailstones and coals of fire. 14 He sent out his arrows and scattered them: he cast forth lightnings & destroyed them. 15 The springs of waters were seen, and the foundations of the round world were discovered at thy chiding, O Lord: at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasure. 16 He shall send down from the high to fetch me: & shall take me out of many waters. 17 He shall deliver me from my strongest enemy, and from them that hate me: for they are too mighty for me. 18 They prevented me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my upholder. 19 He brought me forth also into a place of liberty: he brought me forth, even because he had a favour unto me. 20 The Lord shall reward me after my righteous dealing: according to the cleanness of my hands shall he recompense me. 21 Because I have kept the ways of the Lord: & have not forsaken my God as the wicked doth. 22 For I have an eye unto all his laws: and will not cast out his Commandments from me. 23 I was also uncorrupt before him: and eschewed mine own wickedness. 24 Therefore shall the Lord reward me after my righteous dealing: and according unto the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. 25 With the holy thou shalt be holy: & with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect. 26 With the clean thou shalt be clean: and with the froward thou shalt learn frowardness. 27 For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity: and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud. 28 Thou shalt also light my candle: the Lord my God shall make my darkness to be light. 29 For in thee I shall discomfit an host of men: and with the help of my God I shall leap over the wall. 30 The way of God is an undefiled way: the word of the Lord also is tried in the fire, he is the defender of all them that put their trust in him. 31 For who is God but the Lord: or who hath any strength except our God? 32 It is God that girdeth me with strength of war: and maketh my way perfect. 33 He maketh my feet like Hearts feet: and setteth me up on high. 34 He teacheth mine hands to fight: and mine arms shall break even a bow of steel. 35 Thou hast given me the defence of thy salvation: thy right hand also shall hold me up, & thy loving correction shall make me great. 36 Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go: that my foot steps shall not slide. 37 I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake them: neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them. 38 I will smite them, that they shall not be able to stand: but fall under my feet. 39 Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou shalt throw down mine enemies under me. 40 Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me: and I shall destroy them that hate me. 41 They shall cry, but there shall be none to help them: yea even unto the Lord shall they cry, but he shall not hear them. 42 I will beat them as small as the dust before the wind: I will cast them out as the clay in the streets. 43 Thou shalt deliver me from the strive of the people: and thou shalt make me the head of the heathen. 44 A people whom I have not known: shall serve me. 45 Assoon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: but the strange children shall dissemble with me. 46 The strange children shall fail: and be afraid out of their prisons. 47 The Lord liveth, & blessed be my strong helper: & praised be the God of my salvation. 48 Even the God that seeth that I be avenged: and subdueth the people unto me. 49 It is he that delivereth me from my (cruel) enemies, and setteth me up above mine adversaries: thou shalt ●id me from the wicked man. 50 For this cause will I give thanks unto thee (O Lord) among the Gentiles: and sing praises unto thy name. 51 Great prosperity giveth He unto his King: and showeth loving kindness unto David his anointed, & unto his seed for evermore. The Prayer. O God our Saviour, the rock upon whom all our hopes are built, our strength and defence, our salvation and our refuge; hear our voice out of thy holy temple, let our complaint come before thee, and enter even into thy Ears. The sorrows of death compass us, and we are afraid, because of the overflowings of ungodliness: Our enemies are strong, yea, they are too mighty for us, and we have no hope to escape, unless thou preventest them in the day of our trouble, and deliverest us from the strive of our enemies. But in thee, O Lord, is our hope, do thou teach our hands to fight, and gird us with strength unto the battle: Make us to have an eye unto all thy laws, that we may eschew our own wickedness, and be uncorrupt before thee, then shalt thou give us the defence of thy salvation, and we shall give thanks unto thee, o Lord, and sing praises unto thy name, who art become our strong helper, and the God of our Salvation, which thou hast given unto us in our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 19 A Prayer for preservation from sin, and for love of God's law. MORNING PRAYER. THe heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament showeth his handy work. 2 One day telleth another: and one night certifieth another. 3 There is neither speech nor language: but their voices are heard among them. 4 Their sound is gone out into all lands: and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun: which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course. 6 It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. 7 The law of the Lord is an undefiled law converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, and giveth wisdom unto the simple. 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, and rejoice the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, and giveth light unto the eyes. 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, and endureth for ever: the judgements of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they then gold, yea then much fine gold: sweeter also than honey & the honey comb. 11 Moreover by them is thy servant taught: and in keeping of them there is great reward. 12 Who can tell how oft he offendeth? O cleanse thou me from my secret faults. 13 Keep thy servant also from presumptuous sins, lest they get the dominion over me: so shall I be undefiled and innocent from the great offence. 14 Let the words of my mouth, & the meditation of my heart: be always acceptable in thy sight. 15 O Lord: my strength, and my redeemer. The Prayer. O Most blessed jesus, thou son of righteousness, who camest forth from the bosom of thy Eternal Father, as a Bridegroom out of his chamber, be pleased to plant in our hearts the fear of the Lord, and in our bodies the purity and cleanness of chastity, and make them to abide there for ever: Lighten our eyes with the light of thy Gospel, and the bright revelation of thy whole will and pleasure, that so being guided by thy grace, we may be cleansed from all our secret sins, and preserved from presumptuous and great offences, so shall the thoughts and meditation of our heart, the words of our mouth, and all our actions be always acceptable in thy sight, O Lord our Saviour, our strength, and our redeemer jesus. Amen. PSALM 20. A Prayer that God would hear our petitions which we make to him in times of trouble. THe Lord hear thee in the day of trouble: the name of the God of jacob defend thee. 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary: and strengthen thee out of Zion. 3 Remember all thy offerings: and accept thy burnt-sacrifice. 4 Grant thee thy hearts desire: and fulfil all thy mind. 5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and triumph in the name of the Lord our GOD: the Lord perform all thy petitions. 6 Now know I that the Lord helpeth his anointed, and will hear him from his holy heaven: even with the wholesome strength of his right hand. 7 Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. 8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. 9 Save Lord, & hear us, O King of heaven: when we call upon thee. The Prayer. O King of heaven, who art the health and strength of our right hand, have mercy upon us, and hear us when we call upon thee; let our prayers come into thy presence like a burnt offering of a sweet savour: for in all our troubles we disclaim all confidences in any of thy creatures, and remember thy name only, O Lord our God. Teach us what to ask, and how to come into thy presence, that we may never beg of thee any thing but what is agreeable to thy will, and may then promote thy glory when thou suppliest our necessities, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 21. A Prayer for the King. THe King shall rejoice in thy strength, O Lord: exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation. 2 Thou hast given him his heart's desire: and hast not denied him the request of his lips. 3 For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness: and shalt set a Crown of pure gold upon his head. 4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life: even for ever and ever. 5 His honour is great in thy salvation: glory and great worship shalt thou lay upon him. 6 For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity: and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance. 7 And why? because the King putteth his trust in the Lord: and in the mercy of the most Highest he shall not miscarry. 8 All thine enemies shall feel thine hand: thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee. 9 Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of thy wrath: the Lord shall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall consume them. 10 Their fruit shalt thou root out of the earth: and their seed from among the children of men. 11 For they intended mischief against thee: and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform. 12 Therefore shalt thou put them to flight: and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them. 13 Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. The Prayer. O Eternal God, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, have mercy upon thy servant the King; as thou hast set a Crown of gold upon his head, and given him power and command to rule thy people with justice and piety, so do thou hear the request of his lips, grant him the desire of his heart, and prevent both his desires and requests with the blessings of thy goodness: give him great honour and Reverence in the sight of his People, and of all the Nations round about: let all his enemies feel thine hand, and put them to flight that arise up against him, that when thou hast given him the blessings of a long life and prosperous, and made him glad with the joy of thy countenance, at last he may be crowned with everlasting felicity, and reign with thee in thy eternal Kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 22. A meditation upon the Passion of our Blessed Saviour. EVENING PRAYER. MY God, my God, (look upon me) why hast thou forsaken me: and art so far from my health, and from the words of my complaint. 2 O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not: and in the night season also I take no rest. 3 And thou continuest holy: O thou worship of Israel. 4 Our fathers hoped in thee: they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them. 5 They called upon thee, and were holpen: they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded. 6 But as for me, I am a Worm and no man: a very scorn of men, and the outcast of the people. 7 All they that see me, laugh me to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying, 8 He trusted in God, that he would deliver him: let him deliver him if he will have him. 9 But thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb: thou wast my hope when I hanged yet upon my mother's breasts. 10 I have been left unto thee ever since I was borne: thou art my God, even from my mother's womb. 11 O go not from me, for trouble is hard at hand: and there is none to help me. 12 Many oxen are come about me: fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side. 13 They gape upon me with their mouths: as it were a ramping and roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart also in the midst of my body is even like mel●ing wax. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my gums: and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death. 16 For (many) dogs are come about me: and the counsel of the wicked layeth siege against me. 17 They pierced my hands and my feet, I may tell all my bones: they stand staring and looking upon me. 18 They part my garments among them: and cast lots upon my vesture. 19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord thou art my succour, hast thee to help me. 20 Deliver my soul from the sword: my darling from the power of the dog. 21 Save me from the lion's mouth: thou hast heard me also from among the horns of the unicorns. 22 I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. 23 O praise the Lord ye that fear him: magnify him all ye of the seed of jacob, and fear him all ye seed of Israel. 24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor, he hath not hid his face from him: but when he called unto him, he heard him. 25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation: my vows will I perform in the sight of them that fear him. 26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied: they that seek after the Lord, shall praise him, your heart shall live for ever. 27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him. 28 For the Kingdom is the Lords: and he is the governor among the people. 29 All such as be fat upon earth: have eaten and worshipped. 30 All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him: and no man hath quickened his own soul. 31 My seed shall serve him: they shall be cowted unto the Lord for a generation. 32 They shall come, and the heavens shall declare his righteousness: unto a people that shall be born, whom the Lord hath made. The Prayer. O Merciful jesus, who for our sakes didst suffer thyself to be betrayed, tormented, spitupon, crucified, and to die, that thou mightest purchase for us redemption from the sting of death, the miseries of hell, the malice and power of the Devil, deliver our souls from the sword of thy Vengeance, cut us not off by untimely death, free our darling from the power of the dog, our souls from being a prey unto the Devil, snatch us out of the Lion's mouth, who goeth up and down seeking whom he may devour. O jesus, be a jesus unto us, and let those victories which thou hast obtained over Satan, and Hell, and the grave, bring us peace and Righteousness, and a Crown of glory in the Heavens where thou livest and reignest, in the great congregation of Saints and Angels, one God world without end. Amen. PSALM 23. A prayer that God would guide, and feed, and support us as a shepherd doth his flock. THe Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing. 2 He shall feed me in a green pasture: and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort. 3 He shall convert my soul: and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff comfort me. 5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me: thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full. 6 But thy loving kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of mylife: & I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus, thou great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls, let thy grace convert us, let thy mercy guide us in the paths of righteousness: feed us with thy Word and Sacraments, refresh us with the comforts of thy Holy Spirit, and in the whole course of our life, which is nothing else but a valley of miseries, and a shadow of death, let thy rod correct us like a Father when we do amiss, and thy staff support us in all our troubles and necessities. O let thy loving kindness and mercy follow us all our days, that after this life, we may dwell in thy house for ever, where thou hast prepared a Table, and a full cup of blessing for thy People, and shalt anoint their heads with the oil of an eternal gladness in the fruition of thy glories, o blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus. Amen. PSALM 24. A Meditation upon the ascension of our Blessed Saviour, and a Prayer for Sanctity, that we may ascend where he is. MORNING PRAYER. THe earth is the Lords, and all that therein is: the compass of the world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas: and prepared it upon the floods. 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord: or who shall rise up in his holy place? 4 Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart: and that hath not life up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour. 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord: and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of them that seek him: even of them that seek thy face, O jacob. 7 Life up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors: and the King of glory shall come in. 8 Who is the King of glory: it is the Lord strong and mighty, even the Lord mighty in battle. 9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors: and the King of glory shall come in. 10 Who is the King of glory: even the Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus, King of glory, Lord of Hosts, and King of all the Creatures, to whom the everlasting doors were opened, that thou mightest enter into thy Kingdom, which thou didst open to all believers, after thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death: give us clean hands and a pure heart: teach us to follow thy innocency, to imitate thy sanctity, that we may receive from thee our Lord the eternal rewards and blessings of righteousness, and ascend thither whither thou, o God of our salvation, art gone before, who livest and raignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost eternal God world without end. Amen. PSALM 25. A penitential Psalm, or a prayer for deliverance from Sin and Punishment. Unto thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul, My God, I have put my trust in thee: O let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemy's triumph over me. 2 For all they that hope in thee, shall not be ashamed: but such as transgress without a cause, shall be put to confusion. 3 Show me thy ways, O Lord: and teach me thy paths. 4 Led me forth in thy truth, and learn me: for thou art the God of my salvation, in thee hath been my hope all the day long. 5 Call to remembrance, O Lord, thy tender mercies: and thy loving kindness which hath been ever of old. 6 Oh remember not the sins and offences of my youth: but according to thy mercy think thou upon me (O Lord) for thy goodness. 7 Gracious and righteous is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 8 Them that be meek shall he guide in judgement: and such as be gentle, them shall he learn his way. 9 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth: unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 10 For thy name's sake, O Lord: be merciful unto my sin, for it is great. 11 What man is he that feareth the Lord: him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. 12 His soul shall dwell at ease: and his seed shall inherit the land. 13 The secret of the Lord is among them that fear him: and he will show them his covenant. 14 Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord: for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. 15 Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me: for I am desolate and in misery. 16 The sorrows of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my troubles. 17 Look upon mine adversity and misery: and forgive me all my sin. 18 Consider mine enemies how many they are: and they bear a tyrannous hate against me. 19 O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be confounded, for I have put my trust in thee. 20 Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me: for my hope hath been in thee. 21 Deliver Israel, O God: out of all his troubles. The Prayer. OGratious and Righteous Lord God, who art the guide of the meek, and teachest the humble and gentle in thy way, forgive the sins and offences of our youth, and although by them we have deserved thy wrath, and that we be put to confusion, yet be pleased to think upon us for thy goodness, and according to thy mercy, that when thou hast forgiven us all our sin, and taken away our adversity and all our misery, thou mayst keep our souls in perfectness and righteous dealing, that at last we may dwell at ease, free from trouble, and safe from all our enemies, even when we shall inherit the land of everlasting ●est, where thou livest and raignest eternal God world without end. AMEN. PSALM 26. A Prayer of preparation to the holy Sacrament, and to death. BE thou my judge, O Lord, for I have walked innocently: my trust hath been also in the Lord, therefore shall I not fall. 2 Examine me, O Lord, and prove me: try out my reins and my heart. 3 For thy loving kindness is ever before mine eyes: and I will walk in thy truth. 4 I have not dwelled with vain persons: neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful. 5 I have hated the congregation of the wicked: and will not sit among the ungodly. 6 I will wash my hands in innocency, O Lord: and so will I go to thine altar. 7 That I may show the voice of thanksgiving: and tell of all thy wondrous works. 8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house: & the place where thine honour dwelleth. 9 O shut not up my soul with the sinners: nor my life with the bloodthirsty. 10 In whose hands is wickedness: and their right hands are full of gifts. 11 But as for me, I will walk innocently? O Lord deliver me, and be merciful unto me. 12 My foot standeth right: I will praise the Lord in the congregations. The Prayer. O Lord our judge, whose loving kindness is great, and always before our eyes manifested in the abundant acts of thy grace and providence, make us to love and frequent all the actions, ministeries, and conveyances of thy graces to us, especially thy holy Sacraments. O dear God, endue our Souls with faith and charity, and holy penitence, that our hands & hearts, our Souls and bodies, being washed in innocency and penance, we may go to thy holy Table, and may in the whole course of our life, walk righteously and in obedience to thee, that in this world hating the congregation of the wicked, and the fellowship of the deceitful and vain persons, at last our Souls may not be shutup with sinners, nor our lives with the bloodthirsty, but we may have our portion in the eternal habitation of thy house, where thine honour dwelleth and reigneth world without end. Amen. PSALM 27. A Prayer that, being freed from our Enemies, we may attend the services of Religion, and serve God in his holy Temple. EVENING PRAYER▪ THe Lord is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked (even mine enemies and my foes) came upon me to eat up my flesh: they stumbled and fell. 3 Though an host of men were laid against me, yet shall not my heart be afraid: and though there rose up War against me, yet will I put my trust in him. 4 One thing have I desired of the Lord, which I will require: even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to visit his Temple. 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle: yea, in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone. 6 And now shall he lift up mine head: above mine enemies round about me. 7 Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness: I will sing and speak praises unto the Lord. 8 Harken unto my voice, O Lord, when I cry unto thee: have mercy upon me, & hear me. 9 My heart hath talked of thee, seek ye my face: thy face Lord will I seek. 10 O hide not thou thy face from me: nor cast thy servant away in displeasure. 11 Thou hast been my succour: leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. 12 When my father and my mother forsake me: the Lord taketh me up. 13 Teach me thy way, O Lord: and lead me in the right way, because of mine enemies. 14 Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries: for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as speak wrong. 15 I should utterly have fainted: but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 16 O tarry thou the Lords leisure: be strong, and he shall comfort thine heart, and put thou thy trust in the Lord. The Prayer. O Lord God, thou hast been our succour, our light and salvation, leave us not, neither forsake us when we are assaulted by enemies without, and by temptations from within, but lead us in the right way which thou hast appointed for us to walk in: and when thou hast lift up our heads above our enemies round about us, grant that we may spend our days in prayer, and giving praises to thee, and in all other actions of holy Religion, visiting thy temple with frequent addresses of devotion, and contemplating, and admiring the fair beauty of the Lord, that being secure in such employments, being hid in thy Tabernacle, and taking Sanctuary within the secret place of thy dwelling, we may at last come unto thy heavenly jerusalem, where the gates of thy Temple are open day and night, there seeing the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, praising thee to all eternity, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 28. A Prayer for deliverance from death and damnation. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my strength: think no scorn of me, lest if thou make as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit. 2 Hear the voice of my humble petitions when I cry unto thee: when I hold up my hands toward the mercy-seat of thy holy temple. 3 O pluck me not away (neither destroy me) with the ungodly and wicked doers: which speak friendly to their neighbours, but imagine mischief in their hearts. 4 Reward them according to their deeds: and according to the wickedness of their own inventions. 5 Recompense them after the work of their hands: pay them that they have deserved. 6 For they regard not in their mind the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands: therefore shall be break them down, and no● build them up. 7 Praised be the Lord: for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions. 8 The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart danceth for joy, and in my song will I praise him. 9 The Lord is my strength: and he is the wholesome defence of his anointed. 10 O save thy people, and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance: feed them, and set them up for ever. The Prayer▪ O Lord my strength and confidence, my shield and the defence of all that hope in thee, hear the voice of our humble petitions: We hold up our hands to thy mercy seat, praying thee for pity, and pardon of our sins: reward us not according to our deeds, nor according to the wickedness of our inventions; for if thou shouldest deal with us according to the operation of our hands, we should be like them that go down into the pit, and our inheritance would be death and destruction. But our heart hath trusted in thee and thou hast helped us; continue thy loving kindness to us, and pluck us not away, neither destroy us with the ungodly and wicked doers, but magnify thy mercies in the salvation of our souls, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 29. In which God is adored, and the mightiness of his power and voice is celebrated. BRing unto the Lord (O ye mighty) bring young Rams unto the Lord: ascribe unto the Lord worship and strength. 2 Give the Lord the honour due unto his name: worship the Lord with holy worship. 3 It is the Lord that commandeth the waters: it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder. 4 It is the Lord that ruleth the Sea, the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation: the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice. 5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedar trees: yea, the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Libanus. 6 He made them also to skip like a calf: Libanus also and Sirion like a young Unicorn. 7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire, the voice of the Lord shaketh the wilderness: yea, the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Cades. 8 The voice of the Lord maketh the Hinds to bring forth young, and discovereth the thick bushes: in his Temple doth every man speak of his honour. 9 The Lord sitteth above the water flood: and the Lord remaineth a King for ever. 10 The Lord shall give strength unto his people: the Lord shall give his people the blessing of peace. The Prayer. O Most glorious God who makest the thunder, thy voice is mighty in operation, and is a glorious voice, give us grace that we may hear thy voice, and obey it with reverence and humility. Thou that breakest the Cedar trees, let thy word rend our hearts with sorrow and contrition for our sins, that so we may feel the power and the mercy of thy voice, and may ascribe unto thee worship and strength, worshipping thee with a holy worship all the days of our life, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM. 30. A Prayer for deliverance from sickness and death and damnation. MORNING PRAYER. I Will magnify thee, O Lord, for thou hast set me up: and not made my foes to triumph over me. 2 O Lord my God, I cried unto thee: and thou hast healed me. 3 Thou Lord hast brought my soul out of hell: thou hast kept my life from them that go down to the pit. 4 Sing praises unto the Lord (O ye Saints of his:) and give thanks to him for a remembrance of his holiness. 5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and in his pleasure is life: heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 6 And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be removed: thou Lord of thy goodness hadst made my hill so strong. 7 Thou didst turn thy face (from me:) and I was troubled. 8 Then cried I unto thee, O Lord: and got me unto my Lord right humbly. 9 What profit is there in my blond: when I go down to the p t? 10 Shall the dust give thanks unto thee: or shall it declare thy truth? 11 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord be thou my helper. 12 Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness. 13 Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing: O my Dod, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. The Prayer. O Lord our God whose mercy is infinite, but thy wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and even in this short time of thy wrath thou remember'st mercy, we cry unto thee, and address ourselves unto thee right humbly: O turn not thy face away from us; keep our life from them that go down into the pit, and preserve our souls from hell; and although thou sometimes send est heaviness unto us, and trouble upon our loins, yet let it be but as for a night, let thy mercy dawn upon us, and shine as in a glorious morning; for thou art more pleased in demonstrations of thy mercy, then in showing thy displeasure. O Lord heal us, and be merciful unto us, and save us, turn our heaviness into joy, and gird us with gladness, so shall we give thanks unto thee for ever, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 31. A Prayer for protection against our enemies and all dangers of soul and body, and specially at the hour of death. IN thee, O Lord, have I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion, deliver me in thy righteousness. 2 Bow down thine ear to me: make haste i● deliver me. 3 And be thou my strong rock, and the house of defence: that thou mayst save me. 4 For thou art my strong rock, and my castle● be thou also my guide, and lead me for thy name's sake. 5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. 6 Into thy hands I commend my spirit: for thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, thou God of truth. 7 I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities: and my trust hath been in the Lord. 8 I will be glad, and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble, and hast known my soul in adversities. 9 Thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: but hast set my feet in a large room. 10 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: and my eye is consumed for very heaviness; yea, my soul and my body. 11 For my life is waren old with heaviness: and my years with mourning. 12 My strength faileth me, because of mine iniquity: and my bones are consumed. 13 I became a reproof among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbours: and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me, and they that did see me without, conveyed themselves from me. 14 I am clean forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become like a broken vessel. 15 For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude: and fear is on every side, while they conspire together against me, and take their counsel to take away my life. 16 But my hope hath been in thee, O Lord: I have said, Thou art my God. 17 My time is in thy hand, deliver me from the hand of mine enemies: and from them that persecute me. 18 Show thy servant the light of thy countenance: and save me for thy mercy's sake. 19 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confusion, and be put to silence in the grave. 20 Let the lying lips be put to silence: which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous. 21 O how plentiful is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee: and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee, even before the sons of men! 22 Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence, from the provoking of all men: thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues. 23 Thanks be to the Lord: for he hath showed me marvellous great kindness in a strong city. 24 And when I made haste, I said: I am cast out of the sight of shine eyes. 25 Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my prayer: when I cried unto thee. 26 O love the Lord all ye his Saints: for the Lord preserveth them that are faithful, and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer. 27 Be strong, and he shall establish your heart: all ye that put your trust in the Lord. The Prayer. O God our rock and the house of our defence, let us be glad and rejoice in thy mercies and salvation. Consider, O Lord, our trouble, and in thy pity know our souls beset round about with enemies and adversities: Shut us not up into the hands of our enemies, nor our lives within the grave. Our time, O Lord, is in thy hand, to thee pertain the issues of life and death, and though our strength hath failed us because of our iniquity, and our bones are vexed by reason of our sins, yet our hope is in thee, O Lord, we have said, Thou art our God: deliver us from all our enemies bodily and ghostly: turn our sadness into joy, and our mourning into gladness, lest our bodies & souls be consumed for very heaviness. Let us not be put to confusion nor to silence in the grave, but let us see thy marvellous loving kindness, and partake of thy plentiful goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, even before the sons of men. O let us never be cast out of the sight of thine eyes, but deal with us in mercy & loving kindness. Into thy hands we commend our Spirits, resigning ourselves up to thy providence and disposition, either to life or death, as thou in thy infinite wisdom shalt find most proportionable to thy glory, and our eternal good, beseeching thee to be our guide to death, and to lead us for thy Name sake to everlasting life, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 32. A Confession of sins, and a prayer for pardon. EVENING PRAYER. BLessed is he whose unrighteousness is forgiven: and whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sin: and in whose spirit there is no guile. 3 For while I held my tongue: my bones consumed away through my daily complaining. 4 For thy hand is heavy upon me day and night: and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. 5 I will knowledge my sin unto thee: and mine unrighteousness have I not hid. 6 I said, I will confess my sins unto the Lord: and so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. 7 For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: but in the great water floods they shall not come nigh him. 8 Thou art a place to hide me in, thou shalt preserve me from trouble: thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. 9 I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go: and I will guide thee with mine eye. 10 Be ye not like to Horse and Mule, which have no understanding whose mouths must be holden with bi● & bridle, lest they fall upon thee. 11 Great plagues remain for the ungodly: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord, mercy embraceth him on every side. 12 Be glad, O ye righteous, and rejoice in the Lord: & be joyful all ye that are true of heart. The Prayer. O Lord God, eternal judge of men and Angels, whose property is always to have mercy and to forgive, have mercy upon us who confess our sins unto thee to be so great and many, that were not thy mercy infinite, we might despair of having our unrighteousness forgiven, or our sins covered. O dear God preserve us from the great plagues that remain for the ungodly, and let thy mercy embrace us on every side. Impute not unto us the sins we have multiplied against thee, & against all the world; for we have been like to Horse and Mule without understanding, brutish in our passions, sensual in our affections, of unbridled heats, and distemperatures. But thy mercy is as infinite as thyself; O let not thy hand be heavy upon us, but forgive the wickedness of our sin, and compass us about with songs of deliverance, then shall we be glad and rejoice in thee, O Lord, who art become our mighty Saviour and most merciful Redeemer jesus. Amen. PSALM. 33. A Prayer to God for the graces of fear, hope, and Religion. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for it becometh well the just to be thankful. 2 Praise the Lord with harp: sing psalms unto him with the lute and instrument of ten strings. 3 Sing unto the Lord a new song: sing praises lustlly (unto him) with a good courage. 4 For the word of the Lord is true: and all his works are faithful. 5 He loveth righteousness and judgement: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made: and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth. 7 He gathereth the waters of the Sea together, as it were upon an heap: and layeth up the deep as in a treasure house. 8 Let all the earth fear the Lord: stand in awe of him all ye that dwell in the world. 9 For he spoke, and it was done: he commanded, and it stood fast. 10 The Lord bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to nought: and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the counsels of Princes. 11 The counsel of the Lord shall endure for ever: and the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation. 12 Blessed are the people whose God is the Lord jehova: and blessed are the folk that he hath chosen to him to be his inheritance. 13 The Lord looked down from Heaven, and beheld all the children of men: from the habitation of his dwelling he considereth all them that dwell in the earth. 14 He fashioneth all the hearts of them: and understandeth all their works. 15 There is no King that can be saved by the multitude of an host: neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength. 16 An Horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man: neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength. 17 Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him: and upon them that put their trust in his mercy. 18 To deliver their souls from death: and to feed them in the time of dearth. 19 Our soul hath patiently tarried for the Lord: for he is our help and our shield. 20 For our heart shall rejoice in him: because we have hoped in his holy name. 21 Let thy merciful kindness (O Lord) be upon us: like as we do put our trust in thee. The Prayer. O Lord God, who lovest righteousness and judgement, who fillest the earth with thy goodness, and lookest down from Heaven upon the children of men: Consider us, O Lord, and let thy grace fashion our hearts, and produce in our souls such forms and impresses, as may bear thy Image, and seem beauteous in thy eyes, that thou mayst be our God, and choose us for thine inheritance. Let thy mercy feed us, thy hands deliver us from death, and snatch us from the jaws of hell: teach us to fear thee, to put our trust in thy mercy, patiently to tarry for thee, and the revelation of thy loving kindnesses, to hope in thy holy Name, and to rejoice in thy salvation, giving thee thanks and praise with a good courage, with humble and religious affections, all the days of our life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM. 34. A Prayer, that we being disposed by Holy living, may receive and have a sense and taste of the Divine goodness. I Will always give thanks unto the Lord: his praise shall ever be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make her boast of the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof and be glad. 3 O praise the Lord with me: and let us magnify his name together. 4 I sought the Lord, and he heard me: yea, he delivered me out of all my fear. 5 They had an eye unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. 6 Lo, the poor crieth, and the Lord heareth him: yea, and saveth him out of all his troubles. 7 The Angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him: & delivereth them. 8 O taste and see how gracious the Lord is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him. 9 O fear the Lord ye that be his Saints: for they that fear him lack nothing. 10 The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they which seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good. 11 Come ye children and hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. 12 What man is he that lusteth to live, and would fain see good days: keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips that they speak no guile. 13 Eschew evil, and do good: seek peace, and ensue it. 14 The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous: & his ears are open unto their prayers. 15 The countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil: to root out the remembrance of them from the earth. 16 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth them: & delivereth them out of all their troubles. 17 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and will save such as be of an humble spirit. 18 Great are the troubles of the righteous▪ but the Lord delivereth him out of all. 19 He keepeth all his bones: so that not one of them is broken. 20 But misfortune shall slay the ungodly: & they that hate the righteous, shall be desolate. 21 The Lord delivereth the souls of his servants: and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute. The Prayer. O Most merciful and gracious Lord, whose eyes are over the righteous, and thine ears are open unto their prayers, give us, we beseech thee, a contrite heart, and an humble spirit, a fear of thy Name, a watchfulness over our tongue, that we speak no guile, a care of our actions that we eschew all evil, and a zeal of thy Name that we may do good; that being thus prepared with holy dispositions, we may be delivered out of all our troubles by the hands of thy mercy, we may be defended against our enemies by the custody of Angels, we may be provided for, so as to want no manner of thing that is good, by the ministration of thy providence, that so in all the whole course of our life, we may feel the goodness of the Lord, seeing and tasting the sweetnesses of thy mercy, which may be to us an antepast of eternity, and as an earnest of the Spirit to consign us to the fruition of the glories of thy Kingdom, who livest and reignest ever one God, world without end. Amen. PSALM 35. A Prayer to be delivered from our Enemies. MORNING PRAYER. Pled thou my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: and fight thou against them that fight against me. 2 Lay hand upon the shield and buckler: and stand up to help me. 3 Bring, forth the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back, and brought to confusion, that imagine mischief for me. 5 Let them be as the dust before the wind: and the Angel of the Lord scattering them. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the Angel of the Lord persecute them. 7 For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause: yea, even without a cause have they made a pit for my soul. 8 Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares: and his net that he hath laid privily, catch himself: that he may fall into his own mischief. 9 And my soul be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation. 10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him: yea, the poor and him that is in misery, from him that spoileth him? 11 False witness did rise up: they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good: to the great discomfort of my soul. 13 Nevertheless, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall turn into mine own bosom, 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend, or my brother: I went heavily as one that mourneth for his mother. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered them together: yea, the very abjects came together against me unawares, making mows at me, and ceased not. 16 With the flatterers were busy mockers: which gnashed upon me with their teeth. 17 Lord, how long wilt thou look upon this▪ O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me, and my darling from the lions. 18 S● will I give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. 19 O let not them that are mine enemy's triumph over me ungodly: neither let them wink with their eyes that hate me without a cause. 20 And why? their communing is not for peace: but they imagine deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land. 21 They gaped on me with their mouths: and said, Fie on thee, fie on thee, we saw it with our eyes. 22 This thou hast seen, O Lord: hold not thy tongue then, go not far from me, O Lord. 23 Awake and stand up to judge my quarrels avenge thou my cause, my God, and my Lord. 24 judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness: and let them not triumph over me. 25 Let them not say in their hearts, There, there, so would we have it: neither let them say, we have devoured him. 26 Let them be put to confusion and shame together that rejoice at my trouble: let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonour that boast themselves against me. 27 Let them be glad and rejoice that favour my righteous dealing: yea, let them say always, Blessed be the Lord, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. 28 And as for my tongue, it shall be talking of thy righteousness: and of thy praise all the day long. The Prayer. O Lord our God, who art the shield of the oppressed, and the Buckler of all that trust in thee, deliverus from all the assaults and intendments of our Enemies against us, who without cause make pits for our Souls: let the Angel of the Lord scatter all their mischievous imaginations, lest they triumph over us, and say, we have devoured them: strive thou with them that strive with us, and fight against them that fight against us. Preserve us in innocency, that we neither sin against thee, nor do injustice to them, and restore us to our Peace, so shall we talk of thy righteousness, and thy praise all the day long, and give thee thanks in the great congregation of Saints, because thou hast pleasure in the prosperity of thy servants, and hast redeemed them from the hands of their Enemies through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 36. A Prayer desiring the joys of Heaven, the blessings of Eternity. MY heart showeth me the wickedness of the ungodly: that there is no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flattereth himself in his own sight: until his abominable sin be found out. 3 The words of his mouth are unrighteous, and full of deceit: he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good. 4 He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way: neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil. 5 Thy mercy (O Lord) reacheth unto the heavens: and thy faithfulness unto the clouds. 6 Thy righteousness standeth like the strong mountains: thy judgements are like the great deep. 7 Thou Lord shalt save both man and beast, how excellent is thy mercy, O God: and the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. 8 They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness of thy house: and thou shalt give them drink of thy pleasures as out of the river. 9 For with thee is the well of life: and in thy light shall we see light. 10 O continue forth thy loving kindness unto them that know thee: and thy righteousness unto them that are true of heart. 11 O let not the foot of pride come against me: and let not the hand of the ungodly cast me down. 12 There are they fallen (all) that work wickedness: they are cast down and shall not be able to stand. The Prayer. O God whose mercy reacheth unto the Heavens and thy righteousness unto the clouds, teach us to abhor every thing that is evil, and to set ourselves in every good way, that thy fear being always before our eyes, and our trust being under the shadow of thy wings, thou mayst continue forth thy loving kindness to us, all the days of our life, that at last we may be satisfied with the plenteousness of thy house, and may drink down rivers of pleasures, deriving from thee the eternal fountain and well of life, and in the light of thy Countenance, may see everlasting light, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 37. A Prayer that we may trust and delight in God, and that our lot may be amongst the godly, and not in the seeming prosperity of the wicked. EVENING PRAYER. FRet not thyself because of the ungodly: neither be thou envious against the evil doers. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass: and be withered even as the green herb. 3 Put thou thy trust in the Lord, and be doing good: dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4 Delight thou in the Lord: and he shall give thee thy hearts desire. 5 Commit thy way unto the Lord, and put thy trust in him: and he shall bring it to pass. 6 He shall make thy righteousness as clear as the light: and thy just dealing as the noon day. 7 Hold thee still in the Lord, and abide patiently upon him: but grieve not thyself at him whose way doth prosper, against the man that doth after evil counsels. 8 Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil. 9 Wicked doers shall be rooted out: and they that patiently abide the Lord, those shall inherit the land. 10 Yet a little while and the ungodly shall be clean gone: thou shalt look after his place, and he shall be away. 11 But the meek spirited shall possess the earth: and shall be refreshed in the multitude of peace. 12 The ungodly seeketh counsel against the just: and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 13 The Lord shall laugh him to scorn: for he hath seen that his day is coming. 14 The ungodly have drawn out the sword, and have bend their bow: to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of a right conversation. 15 Their sword shall go through their own heart: and their bow shall be broken. 16 A small thing that the righteous hath: is better than great riches of the ungodly. 17 For the arms of the ungodly shall be broken: and the Lord upholdeth the righteous. 18 The Lord knoweth the days of the godly: and their inheritance shall endure for ever. 19 They shall not be confounded in the perilous time: and in the days of dearth they shall have enough. 20 As for the ungodly, they shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall consume as the fat if lambs: yea, even as the smoke shall they consume away. 21 The ungodly borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous is merciful and liberal. 22 Such as be blessed of God shall possess the land: and they that be cursed of him shall be ●●oted out. 23. The Lord ordereth a good man's going: and maketh his way acceptable to himself. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be cast away: for the Lord upoldeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old: and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread. 26 The righteous is ever merciful, and dareth: and his seed is blessed. 27 Flee from evil, and do the thing that is good: and dwell for evermore. 28 For the Lord loveth the thing that is right: he forsaketh not his that he godly, but they are preserved for ever. 29 The righteous shall be punished: as for the seed of the ungodly, it shall be rooted out. 30 The righteous shall inherit the land: and dwell therein for ever. 31 The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wisdom: and his tongue will be talking of judgement. 32 The law of his God is in his heart: and his goings shall not slide. 33 The ungodly seeth the righteous: and seeketh occasion to slay him. 34 The Lord will not leave him in his hand: nor condemn him when he is judged. 35 Hope thou in the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall promote thee, that thou shalt possess the land: when the ungodly shall perish, thou shalt see it. 36 I myself have seen the ungodly in great power: and flourishing like a green bay-tree. 37 And I went by, and lo he was gone: I sought him, but his place could no where be found. 38 Keep innocence, and take heed unto the thing that is right: for that shall bring a man peace at the last. 39 As for the transgressors, they shall perish together: and the end of the ungodly is, They shall be rooted out at the last. 40 But the salvation of the righteous cometh of the Lord: which is also their strength in the time of trouble. 41 And the Lord shall stand by them and save them: he shall deliver them from the ungodly, and shall save them, because they put their trust in him. The Prayer. O God Almighty, who never forsakest the godly, but preservest them for ever, let thy Law be in our hearts, fixed and grounded, that we may keep innocency, and take heed to the thing that is right: order our goings, and make thy way acceptable to thyself, that we delighting in thee alone, committing our ways wholly to thy providence, and putting our trust in thy mercies, we may not be confounded in the perilous times, but may be refreshed in the multitude of peace, having peace all our days, and peace at the last, in the inheritance of Saints, who have refused the guilded glories of this world, which is the lot of the wicked and ungodly people, and are satisfied with the expectation of true joys, and the rewards of innocency, through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 38. A Prayer for remission of sins. MORNING PRAYER. PUt me not to rebuke (O Lord▪) in thine anger: neither chasten me in thine heavy displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me: and thy hand presseth mesore. 3 There is no health in my flesh, because of thy displeasure: neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sin. 4 For my wickednesses are gone over my head: and are like a sore burden too heavy for me to bear. 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt: through my foolishness. 6 I am brought into so great trouble and misery: that I go mourning all the day long. 7 For my loins are filled with a sore disease: and there is no whole part in my body. 8 I am feeble and sore smitten: I have roared for the very disquietness of my heart. 9 Lord, thou knowest all my desire: and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10 My heart panteth, my strength hath sailed me: and the sight of min● eyes is gone from me. 11 My lovers and my neighbours did stand looking upon my trouble: and my kinsmen stood afar off. 12 They also that sought after my life, laid snares for me: and they that went about to do me evil, talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long. 13 As for me, I was like a deaf man, and heard not: and as one that is dumb, which doth n●t open his mouth. 14 I became even as a man that heareth not: and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O Lord, have I put my trust: thou shalt answer for me, O Lord my God. 16 I have required that they (even mine enemies) should not triumph over me: for when my foot slipped, they rejoiced greatly against me. 17 And I truly am set in the plague: and my heaviness is ever in my sight. 18 For I will confess my wickedness: and be sorry for my sin. 19 But mine enemies live and are mighty: and they that hate me wrongfully, are many in number. 20 They also that reward evil for good, are against me: because I follow the thing that good is. 21 Forsake me not, O Lord my God: be not thou far from me. 22 Hast thee to help me: O Lord God my salvation. The Prayer. O Lord who knowest all our desires, and from whom our groaning is not hid, we confess before thee our many wickednesses, and are truly sorry for our sins; our wickednesses are gone over our head, and are a sore burden too heavy for us to bear, our enemy the Devil is malicious and mighty, our weaknesses many, our temptations strong, our consciences do busily accuse us. Where shall we appear in the day of judgement? How shall we stand upright in the eternal scrutiny? Our trust is in thy merits, O blessed jesus, thou a●t our judge and our Advocate, thou shalt answer for us, O Lord our God. Put us not to rebuke, O Lord, in thine anger, for it is insupportable, neither let thy whole displeasure arise, for that is vast and mountainous as our sins, and will break us in pieces. O let not the arrows of thy vengeance stick fast in us, for our sins are wounds enough, and make us restless and miserable. Touch our sores gently, and let not thy hands press us, unless to drive forth our corruption, then shall we follow the thing that good is, and rejoice greatly in thy mercies, O Lord God of our salvation, who hast redeemed us, and saved us, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 39 A meditation of the shortness and vanity of our life, and a prayer preparatory to death. I Said, I will take heed to my ways: that I offend not in my tongue. 2 I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle: while the ungodly is in my sight. 3 I held my tongue, and spoke nothing: I kept silence yea, even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me. 4 My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the fire kindled: and at the last I spoke with my tongue. 5 Lord let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live. 6 Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long: and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee, and verily every man living is altogether vanity. 7 For man walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them. 8 And now Lord, what is my hope: truly my hope is even in thee. 9 Deliver me from all mine offences: and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish. 10 I became dumb, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doing. 11 Take thy plague away from me: I am even consumed by the means of thy heavy hand. 12 When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away like as it were a moth fretting a garment: every man therefore is but vanity. 13 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and with thine ears consider my calling: hold not thy peace at my tears. 14 For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner: as all my fathers were. 15 O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength: before I go hence, and he no more seen. The Prayer. O Eternal God, who art without beginning or end of days, thou hast given us a short portion of time in the generations of this world; our condition is vain, unsatisfying and full of disquiet, and we have no hope but in thee, O Lord. O teach us to number our days, to remember, and to know our end, that so we may never sin against thee; and grant that we may live as always dying, being of mortified souls & bodies, of bridled tongues and affections, and that instead of heaping up riches, we may strive for a treasure of good works, laying up in store against the time to come, that having recovered out strength, lost by the commission of sins, when we go hence, and are no more seen, we ●ay have a residence in those mansions which are prepared for the Saints, by our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 40. A Thanks giving to God for his deliverances, and a prayer for redemption from sins, and defence against our Enemies. I Waited patiently for the Lord: and he inclined unto me, and heard my calling. 2 He brought me also out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay: and set my feet upon the rock, and ordered my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth: even a thanksgiving unto our God. 4 Many shall see it, and fear: and shall put their trust in the Lord. 5 Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the Lord: and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies. 6 O Lord my God, great are thy wondrous works which thou hast done: like as be also thy thoughts which are to us-ward, and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. 7 If I would declare them and speak of them: they should be more than I am able to express. 8 Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldst not have: but mine ears hast thou opened. 9 Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required: then said I, Lo, I come. 10 In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O my God: I am content to do it, yea, thy Law is within my heart. 11 I have declared thy righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, and that thou knowest. 12 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart: my talking hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation. 13 I have not kept back thy loving mercy and truth: from the great congregation. 14 Withdraw not thou thy mercy from me, O Lord: let thy loving kindness and thy truth always preserve me. 15 For innumerable troubles are come about me, my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up: yea, they are more in number then the hairs of mine head, and my heart hath failed me. 16 O Lord, let it be thy pleasure to deliver me: make haste (O Lord) to help me. 17 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it: let them be driven backward and put to rebuke that wish me evil. 18 Let them be desolate and rewarded with shame, that say unto me: Fie upon thee, fie upon thee. 19 Let all those that seek thee, be joyful and glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation, say always▪ The Lord be praised. 20 As for me, I am poor and needy: but the Lord careth for me. 21 Thou art my helper and redeemer: make no long tarrying, O my God. The Prayer. O Lord our God whose works are wondrous, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward full of mercy and admirable in wisdom; we adore and worship thy infinite perfections, and thy providence in the disposing of all thy creatures, and the effects of all causes, which in an infinite variety thou orderest to thy glory, and the good of all faithful people. Thou hast dealt with us in mercy; and although our sins are so multiplied that they are more in number then the hairs of our head, yet thou hast not suffered us to fall into the horrible pit of eternal misery and destruction, but hast set our feet upon the rock Christ Jesus, and by his graces and holy Laws hast ordered our goings. Let it be thy pleasure still to deliver us, for we are not able of ourselves to look up, and our enemies still seek after our souls to destroy us. Make no long tarrying, ● God, show thyself our helper and redeemer, so shall we talk of thy truth and of thy salvation, in the assemblies of thy servants in this life, hoping that we shall hereafter declare thy righteousness in the great congregation of Saints and Angels, singing eternal praises to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, Amen. PSALM. 41. A Prayer for the grace of charity, for pardon of sins, and for deliverance from false friends and Traitors. EVENING PRAYER. BLessed is he that considereth the poor (and needy:) the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble. 2 The Lord preserve him and keep him alive, that he may be blessed upon earth: and deliver not thou him into the will of his enemies. 3 The Lord comfort him when he lieth sick upon his bed: make thou all his bed in his sickness. 4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me: when shall he die, and his name perish? 6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself, and when he cometh forth, he telleth it. 7 All mine enemies whisper together against me: even against me do they imagine this evil. 8 Let the sentence of guiltiness proceed against him: and now that he lieth, let him rise up no more. 9 Yea, even mine own familiar friend whom I trusted: which did also eat of my bread, hath laid great wait for me. 10 But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord: raise thou me up again, and I shall reward them. 11 By this I know thou favourest me: that mine enemy doth not triumph against me. 12 And when I am in my health, thou upholdest me: and shalt set me before thy face for ever. 13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: world without end. Amen. The Prayer. O Blessed Jesus, Saviour of the World, be merciful unto us, and heal our sins, for we have sinned against thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy children, but yet make us thy servants, and give us testimony that we are translated from death to life, by charity and love to all our Brethren. O make our bowels yearn with pity and compassion over the necessities of the poor and needy, and give us grace and power to help them and relieve their miseries, that we being merciful as our Heavenly Father is, may receive such blessings and assistances as thou hast provided for the charitable, deliverance from our open enemies, safety from private treachery and conspiracies, comfort in our sicknesses, health of body and pardon of our sins, through thy mercies and blessed charity, o most merciful Saviour and Redeemer jesus. Amen. PSALM. 42. A Prayer for comfort in spiritual desertion, and dryness of affection, and that we may long and sigh after God. LIke as the hart desireth the water brooks: so longeth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul is a thirst for God, yea, even for the living God: when shall I come to appear before the presence of God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night: while they daily say unto me. Where is now thy God? 4 Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself: for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the hense of God. 5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving: among such as keep holy day. 6 Why art thou so full of heaviness (O my soul:) and why art thou so disquieted within me? 7 Put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance. 8 My God, my soul is vexed within me: therefore will I remember thee concerning the land of jordan, and the little hill of Hermon. 9 One deep calleth another, because of the noise of the water-pipes, all thy waves and storms are gone over me. 10 The Lord hath granted his loving kindness on the day time: and in the night season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life. 11 I will say unto the God of my strength, Why hast thou forgotten me: why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? 12 My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword: while mine enemies (that trouble me) cast me in the teeth. 13 Namely, while they say daily unto me: Where is now thy God? 14 Why art thou so vexed, O my soul: and why art thou so disquieted within me? 15 O put thy trust in God: for I will yet thank him which is the help of my countenance, and my God. The Prayer. O Eternal and living God, thou art the help of our countenance and our God, thou art the thing that we long for, and our hearts are vexed within us, and disquieted when we feel not the comforts of thy spirit, and those actual exultations, and that spiritual gust, which thou dost often give to thy people, as earnests of a glorious immortality. O Lord pity our infirmities, and give us earnest longings for the fruition of thee our God in the actions of holy Religion: Grant to us vivacity of spirit, unweariedness in devotion, delight and complacency in spiritual exercises, that when our souls are vexed with temptations and sadnesses, we may remember thee concerning the land of promise, and be comforted and encouraged in our duties, by the expectation of those glories which thou hast laid up for them that love the appearing of our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 43. A Prayer for cheerfulness of spirit in our devotions. GIve sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people: O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man. 2 For thou art the God of my strength, why hast thou put me from thee: and why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me? 3 O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me: and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling. 4 And that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness: and upon the harp will I give thanks unto thee, O God my God. 5 Why art thou so heavy, O my soul: and why art thou so disquieted within me? 6 O put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God. The Prayer. O God our defender and deliverer, thou art the God of our strength, and our ghostly confidence: let the light of thy countenance produce the beams of spiritual joy in our souls, and let thy truth lead us in the way of thy salvation, that when we go unto thy dwelling places where thou manifestest thy presence, we may approach unto thee with joy and gladness, rejoicing in nothing more than in doing thee serviee, and singing praises to thy name for the help of thy countenance, which thou givest us in our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ, Amen. PSALM 44. A Prayer in time of War. MORNING PRAYER. WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us: what thou hast done in their time of old. 2 How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and planted them in: how thou hast destroyed the Nations, and cast them out. 3 For they got not the Land in possession through their own sword: neither was it their own arm that helped them. 4 But thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou hadst a favour unto tham. 5 Thou art my King (O God:) send help unto jacob. 6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies: and in thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. 7 For I will not trust in my bow: it is not my sword that shall help me. 8 But it is thou that savest us from our enemies: & puttest them to confusion that hate us. 9 We make our boast of God all day long: and will praise thy name for ever. 10 But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion: and goest not forth with our Armies. 11 Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies: so that they which hate us spoil our goods. 12 Thou lettest us to be eaten up like sheep: and hast scattered us among the Heathen. 13 Thou sellest thy people for nought: and takest no money for them. 14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours: to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us. 15 Thou makest us to be a byword among the heathen: and that the people shake their heads at us. 16 My confusion is daily before me: and the shame of my face hath covered me. 17 For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer: for the enemy and avenger. 18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee: nor behave ourselves frowardly in thy covenant. 19 Our heart is not turned back: neither our steps gone out of thy way. 20 No not when thou hast smitten us into the place of Dragons: and covered us with the shadow of death. 21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and holden up our hands to any strange god: shall not God search it out? for he knoweth the very secrets of the heart. 22 For thy sake also are we killed all the day long: and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain. 23 Up Lord, why sleepest thou: awake, and be not absent from us for ever. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face: and forgettest our misery and trouble? 25 For our soul is brought low even unto the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the ground. 26 Arise and help us: and deliver us for thy mercy's sake. The Prayer. OLord God of hosts, who for our sins hast suffered the sword to take vengeance upon us, and to plead thy cause againstus, O hide not thy face from us, and forget not our misery and trouble. We are killed all day long, and are accounted as sheep appointed to be slain, we are covered with the shadow of death ', and they which hate us, spoil our goods. Deal with us in pity, and as thou hast done to our Fathers of old time, when they called upon thee in their trouble, so deal with us: thou overthrewest their enemies, and didst tread them under that arose up against them. Arise, and help us, and deliver us also for thy mercy sake: our own sword cannot help us, but let thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance work deliverance and salvation for us. Go forth with our Armies, O thou God of Hosts, do thou fight our Battles, that we may not turn our backs upon our enemies, but Crown us with Victory and Peace, that we may make our boast of thee all day long, and praise thy Name for ever, who art holy, and just, and merciful, the great God of Battles and recompenses. From thee let mercy now & ever proceed, and to thy Name let honour be for ever ascribed of all the Hosts of Heaven and Earth, world without end. Amen. PSALM. 45. A Prayer for the conversion of the Heathen, and prosperity of the Church. MY heart is enditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made unto the King. 2 My tongue is the pen: of a ready writer. 3 Thou art fairer than the children of men: full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever. 4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty: according to thy worship and renown. 5 Good luck have thou with thine honour: ride on, because of the word of truth, of meekness and righteousness, and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. 6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee: even in the midst among the King's enemies. 7 Thy seat (O God) endureth for ever: the sceptre of thy Kingdom is a right sceptre. 8 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: wherefore God (even thy God) hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. 9 All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia: out of the ivory palaces, where by they have made thee glad. 10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in a vesture of gold (wrought about with divers colours.) 11 Harken (O daughter) and consider, incline thine ear: forget also thine own people, and thy father's house. 12 So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty; for he is thy Lord (God) and worship thou him. 13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift: like as the rich also among the people shall make their supplication before thee. 14 The King's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-works the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee. 16 With joy and gladness shall they be brought: and shall enter into the King's Palace. 17 In stead of thy fathers thou shalt have children: whom thou mayest make Princes in all Lands. 18 I will remember thy name from one generation unto another: therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee world without end. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus, Prince of the Catholic Church, thou art fairer than the children of men, thy lips are full of grace, thine Armies mighty, thy head is Crowned with Majesty, and clothed with worship and renown: have mercy upon thy holy Church, bless her for ever with righteousness, and let the oil of gladness refresh her amidst the multitude of her sorrows and afflictions: And because she is the daughter of a King, and thou takest pleasure in her beauty, let her not always be clothed in mourning garments, but let her be decked with exterior Ornaments and secular advantages, such as may truly promote the interests of holy Religion. Let Kings and Queens be nursing Fathers, and nursing Mothers unto her, and so let the sound of thy Gospel go into all the Earth, that her children may be Princes in all Lands, and Ministers of thy Kingdom, advancing thy honour, and furthering the salvation of all men, for whom thou didst give thy precious blood, that all people may worship thee, and give thee thanks for ever, who together with the Father and the holy Ghost, livest and reignest one God world without end. Amen. PSALM 46. A Prayer for protection, and for confidence in God in times of public distractions, and for the peace of Christendom. GOd is our hope and strength: a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore will we not fear though the earth b● moved: and though the hills be carried into the midst of the Sea. 3 Though the waters thereof rage & swell: and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same. 4 The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the City of God: the holy place of the tabernacle of the most highest. 5 God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed: God shall help her, and that right early. 6 The Heathen make much ado, and the Kingdoms are moved: but God hath showed his voice, and the earth shall melt away. 7 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of jacob is our refuge. 8 O come hither, and behold the works of the Lord: what destruction he hath brought upon the earth. 9 He maketh Wars to cease in all the World: he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and burneth the Chariots in the fire. 10 Be still then, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the Heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of jacob is our refuge. The Prayer. O most merciful Saviour jesus, Prince of Peace, at whose birth all the Kingdoms of the World were in Peace and tranquillity, be thou in the midst of us for our refuge and present help in times of trouble and public calamities, when the Kingdom is moved, and the hearts of men shake at the tempest of the same. Dear God, unite all the parts of Christendom with the union of Faith & Charity, and the fruits of them, a blessed & universal Peace. Break the bow of the mighty, knap the spear of the Warrior in sunder, and burn the Chariots in the fire, tha● Wars may cease in all the World, and we all may feel the promised blessing of the Gospel, that our Swords may be converted into ploughshares, and our Spears into pruning hooks, that thy Name and thy Kingdom may be exalted among the heathen, and in all the Nations of the earth, who livest and reignest over all, in the unity of the blessed Trinity, God eternal, world without end. Amen. PSALM 47. A Prayer for the exaltation of Christ's Kingdom, and that all the Princes of the World may jointly adore jesus reigning in the Heavens. EVENING PRAYER. O Clap your hands together (all ye people:) O sing unto God with the voice of melody. 2 For the Lord is high, and to be feared: he is the great King upon all the earth. 3 He shall subdue the people under us: and the nations under our feet. 4 He shall choose out an heritage for us: even the worship of jacob whom he loved. 5 God is gone up with a merry noise: and the Lord with the sound of the trump. 6 O sing praises, sing praises unto (our) God: O sing praises, sing praises unto our King. 7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. 8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon his holy seat. 9 The Princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham: for God (which is very high exalted) doth defend the earth as it were with a shield. The Prayer. O Lord God King of Heaven, who raignest a great King in all the Earth; thou art high above all creatures, and art to be feared in all the Kingdoms of the earth, let the seed of thy Gospel be disseminated in all the corners of the habitable World: let thy grace break down all the strong holds of sin and Satan, subduing all people under thee, and the Nations under thy feet, that the Princes of the Nations, that have not known thy name, may be joined to thy people, the people of the God of Abraham, becoming one sheepfold under one shepherd, jesus Christ our blessed Lord, our Saviour and Redeemer. Amen. PSALM 48. A Prayer for the prosperity of the Church. GReat is the Lord, and highly to be praised: in the City of our God, even upon his holy hill. 2 The hill of Zion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth: upon the north side lieth the City of the great King, God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge. 3 For lo, the Kings of the earth are gathered, and gone by together. 4 They marbelled to see such things: they were astonished and suddenly cast down. 5 Fear came there upon them, and sorrow: as upon a woman in her travail. 6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea: through the east wind. 7 Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the City of the Lord of hosts, in the City of our God: God upholdeth the same for ever. 8 We wait for thy loving kindness (O God:) in the midst of thy temple. 9 O God, according unto thy name, so is thy praise unto the world's end: thy right hand is full of righteousness. 10 Let the mount Zion rejoice, and the daughters of juda be glad: because of thy judgements. 11 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: and tell the towers thereof. 12 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses: that ye may tell them▪ that come after. 13 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he shall be our guide unto death. The Prayer. O Great God, who art highly to be praised, who hast manifested thy power and thy mercy in the constitution, propagation, and defence of thy Holy Church, by the miraculous assistances and effects of thy Holy Spirit, insomuch that the Kings of the earth marvailed to see such things, and were astonished and suddenly cast down, acknowledging the powers of thy Kingdom, and submitting to thy laws with faith and obedience: be pleased, according to thy gracious promise, to uphold the same for ever, let not the gates of Hell prevail against thy Church, be thou known in her palaces as a sure refuge, make her the joy of the whole earth, and let her be glad and rejoice because of thy judgements, so shall we praise thee in the midst of thy Temple, waiting for thy loving kindness, that according as thy name is, so may thy praise be, infinite and eternal, world without end. Amen. PSALM 49. A Prayer that we may despise perishing riches, and put our trust in God only. O Hear ye this, all ye people: ponder it with your ears all ye that dwell in the world. 2 High and low, rich and poor: one with another. 3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom: and my heart shall muse of understanding. 4 I will incline mine ear to the parable: and show my dark speech upon the harp. 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness: and when the wickedness of my heels compass me round about? 6 There be some that put their trust in their goods: and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. 7 But no man may deliver his brother: nor make an agreement to God for him. 8 For it cost more to redeem their souls: so that he must let that alone for ever. 9 Yea, though he live long: and see not the grave. 10 For he seeth that wise men also die, and perish together: as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other. 11 And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever: and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another, and call the lands after their own names. 12 Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour: seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish, this is the way of them. 13 This is their foolishness: and their posterity praise their saying. 14 They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning: their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of their dwelling. 15 But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell: for he shall receive me. 16 Be not thou afraid though one be made rich: or if the glory of his house be increased. 17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth: neither shall his pomp follow him. 18 For while he lived, he counted himself an happy man: and so long as thou dost well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee. 19 He shall follow the generation of his fathers: and shall never see light. 20 Man being in honour hath no understanding: but is compared unto the beasts that perish. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus, thou only Redeemer of souls, who by thy death and passion hast delivered us from the place of Hell, give us grace to put our whole trust in thee, and in the riches of thy mercy and loving kindness, always remembering our end, the vanity and shortness of our lives, the certainty of our departure: Teach us to despise the world and worldly things, and to lay our treasure up in heaven by charity and actions of religion, that while we live here, we may have our conversation in heaven, by love, by hope, and by desires, that when our beauty shall consume in the sepulchre out of our earthly dwellings, we may be received into everlasting habitations, always to enjoy thee, who livest and reignest eternal God world without end. Amen. PSALM 50. A Prayer that we may lead a Holy life, and find mercy in the day of judgement. MORNING PRAYER. THe Lord, even the most mighty God hath spoken: and called the world, from the rising up of the sun, unto the going down thereof. 2 Out of Zion hath God appeared: in perfect beauty. 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him. 4 He shall call the heaven from above: and the earth, that he may judge his people. 5 Gather my Saints together unto me: those that have made a covenant with me, with sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak: I myself will testify against thee, O Israel, for I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices, or for thy burnt-offerings: because they were not always before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thine house: nor he-goats out of thy folds. 10 For all the beasts of the forest are mine: and so are the cattles upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls upon the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are in my sight. 12 If I be hungry I will not tell thee: for the whole world is mine, and all that is therein. 13 Thinkest thou that I will eat bulls flesh: and drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving: and pay thy vows unto the most Highest. 15 And call upon me in the time of trouble: so will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me. 16 But unto the ungodly said God: Why dost thou preach my Laws, and takest my Covenant in thy mouth? 17 Whereas thou hatest to be reform: and hast cast my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a Thief, thou consentedst unto him: and hast been partaker with the Adulterers. 19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wickedness: and with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit. 20 Thou sattest and spakest against thy brother: yea, and hast slandered thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue, and thou thoughtest wickedly, that I am even such a one, as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast done. 22 O consider this, ye that forget God: lest I pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you. 23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise, he honoureth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation right, will I show the salvation of God. The Prayer. O Most mighty God, who art more pleased with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and the oblation of our souls in the vows of obedience and a holy life, then with the burnt offerings and sacrifices of Bullocks and Goats: let thy grace reform our lives and manners: keep our mouth from slander and obloquy, from guile and deceit: let us never consent to actions of injustice or uncleanness, that we partake not with Thiefs or with Adulterers, either in their sin or punishment, that when thou shalt appear in perfect beauty with a consuming fire before thee, and a tempest round about thee, with terrors and glorious Majesty, calling the heavens and the earth together, that thou mayest judge all thy people, thou mayest gather us among thy Saints, and give us the mercies and the portion of thine inheritance, that so we may honour thee by an eternal oblation of praise and thanksgiving in the Heavens, where thou, O God, declarest thy salvation to all thy elect people, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 51. A Prayer for pardon of sins, and the restitution of God's favour. HAve mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness: according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences. 2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness: and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I knowledge my faults: and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, & clear when thou art judged. 5 Behold, I was shapen in wickedness: and in sin hath my mother conceived me. 6 But lo, thou requirest truth inward parts: and shalt make me to understand wisdom secretly. 7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness: that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9 Turn thy face from my sins: and put out all my misdeeds. 10 Make me a clean heart, O God: and xenew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from thy presence: and take not thy holy Spirit from me. 12 O give me the comfort of thy help again: and establish me with thy free Spirit. 13 Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked: & sinners shall be converted unto thee. 14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou that art the God of my health: and my tongue shall sing of thy righteousness. 15 Thou shalt open my lips (O Lord:) and my mouth shall show thy praise. 16 For thou desirest no sacrifice, else would I give it thee: but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings. 17 The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit: a broken and a contrice heart (O God) shalt thou not despise. 18 O be favourable and gracious unto Zion: build thou the walls of jerusalem. 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt-offerings and oblations: then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar. The Prayer. O Most merciful God, whose goodness is great, and the multitudes of thy mercies are innumerable, have mercy upon us, for our sins are ever before us represented, by the continual accusations of a troubled conscience. We have sinned against thee, and done evil in thy sight, and yet because thou art the God of mercy, and fountain of eternal purity, delighting in the conversion and salvation of a sinner, we present unto thee, the sacrifice of a troubled Spirit, of broken and contrite hearts, beseeching thee to let the dew of thy favour, and the fire of thy love wash away our sins, and purify our souls. Make us clean hearts, O God, and pure hands: though our sins be as scarlet, yet make them like wool, though they be as purple, yet make them as white as snow. Restore the voice of joy and gladness to us, let us not be for ever separate from the sweet refresh of thy favour & presence, but give us the comforts of thy help again, and let thy free Spirit lose us from the bondage of sin, and establish us in the freedom and liberty of the Sons of God, so shall we sing of thy righteousness, and our lips shall give thee praise in the congregation of thy Redeemed ones, now, henceforth, and for ever. Amen. PSALM 52. A Prayer for deliverance from tyranny, oppression, and slander. Why boastest thou thyself, thou tyrant: that thou canst do mischief? 2 Whereas the goodness of God: endureth yet daily. 3 Thy tongue imagineth wickedness: and with lies thou cuttest like a sharp razor. 4 Thou hast loved unrighteousness more than goodness: and to talk of lies more than righteousness. 5 Thou hast loved to speak all words that may do hurt: O thou false tongue. 6 Therefore shall God destroy thee for ever: he shall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, & root thee out of the land of the living. 7 The righteous also shall see this, and fear: and shall laugh him to scorn. 8 Lo, this is the man that took not God for his strength: but trusted unto the multitude of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. 9 As for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever. 10 I will always give thanks unto thee for that thou hast done: and I will hope in thy name, for thy Saints like it well. The Prayer. O Almighty God, whose goodness endureth daily, extend this thy goodness towards us thy servants, and defend us from the tyranny and malice of all our Enemies, who boast themselves in mischief: keep us from the obloquy of false tongues, and from the slander of lying persons, who talk of lies more than righteousness, that we being nourished by thy goodness, and watered with the dew of divine blessings, may flourish like a green olive in the house of God, bringing forth the fruits of tender mercy, and abounding in peace, and that we may by the suffusion of anointing of the holy Ghost, be consigned to thy everlasting Kingdom, there to reign with thee, who reignest eternally, one God world without end. Amen. PSALM 53. A Prayer for Redemption of the Church from the persecution of Atheists, and Persons irreligious. EVENING PRAYER. THe foolish body hath said in his heart: There is no God. 2 Corrupt are they and become abominable in their wickedness: there is none that doth good. 3 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men: to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God. 4 But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable: there is also none that doth good, no not one. 5 Are not they without understanding that work wickedness: eating up my people as if they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. 6 They were afraid where no fear was: for God hath broken the bones of him that besieged thee, thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised them. 7 Oh that the salvation were given unto Israel out of Zion: oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivity! 8 Then should jacob rejoice: and Israel should be right glad. The Prayer. O Lord God who dwellest in heaven, and lookest down from thence upon the children of men, be pleased to give salvation to thy people out of Zion thy holy habitation, and preserve thy Church from the malice of such persons as have not called upon thee, but would eat up thy people, as they would eat bread; that we being delivered from the captivity of sins & miseries, may serve thee with freedom of spirit, in joy and spiritual rejoicing, all the days of our life, through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen. PSALM 54. A Prayer for deliverance from our Enemies. SAve me, O God, for thy name's sake: and avenge me in thy strength. 2 Hear my prayer, O God: and hearken unto the words of my mouth. 3 For strangers are risen up against me: and tyrants (which have not God before their eyes) seek after my soul. 4 Behold, God is my helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul. 5 He shall reward evil unto mive enemies: destroy thou them in thy truth. 6 An offering of a free heart will I give thee, and praise thy name (O Lord:) because it is so comfortable. 7 For he hath delivered me out of all my trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies. The Prayer. O Blessed Jesus, our God and our helper, whose Name is comfortable, the hope of all that are miserable, and the relief of the oppressed, harken unto our prayers, and for thy Names sake, save us from the tyranny of those that are risen up against us, and seek after our souls. Give us thy grace, that we may set thee always before our eyes, to obey thy Laws, to follow thy example, to trust in thy protection, to give praises unto thy holy Name, who livest and reignest with the Father and the holy Ghost, one God world without end. Amen. PSALM 55. A Prayer for deliverance from treachery, and the conspiracies of our secret Enemies. Hear my prayer, O God: and hide not thyself from my petition. 2 Take heed unto me, and hear me: how I mourn in my prayer, and am vexed. 3 The enemy crieth so, and the ungodly cometh on so fast: for they are minded to do me some mischief, so maliciously are they set against me. 4 My heart is disquieted within me: and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me: and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove: for than would I fly away, & be at rest. 7 Lo than would I get me away far off: and remain in the wilderness. 8 I would make haste to escape: because of the stormy wind and tempest. 9 Destroy their tongues (O Lord) and divide them: for I have spied unrighteousness and strife in the City. 10 Day and night they go about within the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the mids of it. 11 Wickedness is therein: deceit and guil● go not out of their streets. 12 For it is not an open enemy that hath done me this dishonour: for than I could have born it. 13 Neither was it mine adversary that did magnify himself against me: for then (peradventure) I would have hid myself from him. 14 But it was even thou my companion: my guide and mine own familiar friend, 15 We took sweet counsel together: and walked in the house of God as friends. 16 Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. 17 As for me, I will call upon God: and the Lord shall save me. 18 In the evening, and morning, and at noon day will I pray, and that instantly: and he shall hear my voice. 19 It is he that hath delivered my soul in peace, from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me. 20 Yea, even God that endureth for ever, shall hear me, and bring them down: for they will not turn, nor fear God. 21 He laid his hands upon such as be at peace with him: and he broke his covenant. 22 The words of his mouth were softer than butter, having war in his heart: his words were smother than oil, and yet be they very swords. 23 O cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall nourish thee: and shall not suffer the righteous to fall for ever. 24 And as for them: thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. 25 The bloodthirsty & deceitful men shall not live out half their days: nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O Lord. The Prayer. O Eternal God, who hast promised to nourish and defend all them that cast their burden upon thee, deliver the souls of thy servants in peace from the battle that is against us: Fearfulness and trembling are come upon us, and the fear of death is fallen upon us, for our Enemies are maliciously set against us, and minded to do us mischief, and we know not whether to flee away or be at rest, for mischief and sorrow are round about us. O rescue us from the public enmity of our open adversaries, and from the secret conspiracies of all our private Enemies, so shall we pray unto thee, and that instantly, and praise thy Name, in the Evening, in the Morning, and in the noon day, dedicating to thy honour and worship, the beginning, the growth, and the decrease of our life, even all our days, because thou hast not suffered us to fall for ever, but hast brought us from the pit of destruction, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 56. A Prayer that we may trust in God, and have such carefulness over our ways, that we give our Enemies no advantage. MORNING PRAYER. BE merciful unto me, O God, for man goeth about to devour me: he is daily fight and troubling me. 2 Mine enemies are daily in hand to swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most Highest. 3 Nevertheless, though I am sometime afraid: yet put I my trust in thee. 4 I will praise God because of his word: I have put my trust in God, and will not fear what flesh can do unto me. 5 They daily mistake my words: all that they imagine is to do me evil. 6 They hold all together, and keep themselves close: and mark my steps when they lay wait for my soul. 7 Shall they escape for their wickedness: thou (O God) in thy displeasure shalt cast them down. 8 Thou tellest my flittings, put my tears into thy bottle: are not these things noted in thy book? 9 Whensoever I call upon thee, then shall mine enemies be put to flight: this I know, for God is on my side. 10 In God's word will I rejoice: in the Lord's word will I comfort me. 11 Yea, in God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. 12 Unto thee (O God) will I pay my vows: unto thee will I give thanks. 13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling: that I may walk before God in the light of the living. The Prayer. O Lord God, in whom we have trusted, have mercy upon us, who are daily troubled with sadnesses in the world, temptations of the Devil, weaknesses of the flesh, malicious surmisings and mistake of our Enemies, and whatsoever may make us miserable, and disturb our peace: give us great assistances of thy grace, that we may walk without scandal, resist and overcome the Devil, despise the things of this world, and be strengthened in our spirits with ghostly confidence, that whensoever we call upon thee, we may have thee on our side, and our enemies be put to flight; that our souls being delivered from death, and our feet from falling, we may at last be admitted into the light of the living, there to walk eternally before thee our God, who livest and reignest in the Unity of the blessed Trinity, world without end. Amen. PSALM. 57 A Prayer to be delivered from the power of the Devil, and slander of men, and that we may put our confidence in God. BE merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me, for my soul trusteth in thee: and under the shadow of thy wings shall be my refuga until this tyranny be overpast. 2 I will call unto the most high God: even unto the God that shall perform the cause which I have in hand. 3 He shall send from heaven: and save me from the reproof of him that would eat me up. 4 God shall send forth his mercy and truth: my soul is among Lions. 5 And I lie even among the children of men (that are set on fire:) whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 6 Set up thyself, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth. 7 They have laid a net for my feet: and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, & are fallen into the mids of it themselves. 8 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. 9 Awake up my glory, awake lute and harp: I myself will awake right early. 10 I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing unto thee among the Nations. 11 For the greatness of thy mercy reacheth unto the Heavens: and thy truth unto the Clouds. 12 Set up thyself, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth. The Prayer. O Most high and mighty God, who hast set thyself above the heavens, and thy glory above all the earth, do thou send from heaven and save us from the reproof of all our ghostly Enemies, who would eat us, for our soul is among Lions, and the Devil is busy seeking to devour us. O send out thy mercy and truth, deliver us from the malicious slander of men, and from the dreadful accusations of the Devils at the day of judgement, who are set on fire against us, and their teeth are spears and arrows, gnashing at us to tear us in pieces. Let thy mercy sustain us, let thy righteousness be interposed in answer for us, that as our enemies accuse us, thy mercies may acquit us, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 58. A Prayer that God's people may be delivered from the malice of wicked men. ARe your minds set upon righteousness, O ye congregation: and do ye judge the thing that is right, O ye sons of men? 2 Yea, ye imagine mischief in your heart upon the earth: and your hands deal with wickedness. 3 The ungodly are froward even from their mother's womb: assoon as they be born, they go astray, and speak lies. 4 They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent: even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears. 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer: charm he never so wisely. 6 Break their teeth (O God) in their mouths, smite the jaw-bones of the Lions, O Lord: let them fall away like water that runneth apace, and when they shoot their arrows, let them be rooted out. 7 Let them consume away like a s●ail, and be like the untimely fruit of a woman: and let them not see the sun. 8 Orever your pots be made hot with thorns: so let indignation vex him even as a thing that is raw. 9 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his foot steps in the blood of the ungodly. 10 So that a man shall say, Uerily there is a reward for the righteous: doubtless there is a God that judgeth the earth. The Prayer. O Almighty Lord, thou God that judgest the earth, who preparest rewards for the righteous, and executest vengeance against the ungodly, deliver all thy chosen people from the peevishness of froward and ungodly men, whose hands deal with wickedness, and they imagine mischief in their hearts. And to thy servants give thy grace, that our minds may be set upon righteousness, that we may judge the thing that is right, never refusing to hear thy voice, or stopping our ears like the deaf adder against thy holy precepts, that we may have no iniquity in our mouths, nor unrighteousness in our actions, and at last we may have the reward of the righteous, the inheritance of thy Kingdom, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM. 59 A Prayer against Heretics, and all other Enemies of the Church. EVENING PRAYER. DEliver me from mine enemies, (O God:) defend me from them that rise up against me. 2 O deliver me from the wicked doers: and save me from the bloodthirsty men. 3 For lo, they lie waiting for my soul: the mighty men are gathered against me, without any offence or fault of me, O Lord. 4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: arise thou therefore to help me, and behold. 5 Stand up (O Lord God of hosts) thou God of Israel, to visit all the heathen: and be not merciful unto them that offend of malicious wickedness. 6 They go to and fro in the evening: they grin like a dog, and run about through the city. 7 Behold, they speak with their mouth, and swords are in their lips: for who doth hear? 8 But thou, O Lord, shalt have them in derision: and thou shalt laugh all the heathen to scorn. 9 My strength will I ascribe unto thee: for thou art the God of my refuge. 10 God showeth me his goodness plenteously: and God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. 11 Slay them not, lest my people forget it: but scatter them abroad among the people, and put them down, O Lord our defence. 12 For the sin of their mouth, and for the words of their lips, they shall be taken in their pride: and why? their preaching is of cursing and lies. 13 Consume them in thy wrath, consume them, that they may perish: and know that it is God which ruleth in jacob, and unto the ends of the world. 14 And in the evening they will return: grin like a dog, and will go about the City. 15 They will run here and there for meat: and grudge if they be not satisfied. 16 As for me, I will sing of thy power, and will praise thy mercy be times in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble. 17 Unto thee (O my strength) will I sing: for thou, O God, art my refuge, and my merciful God. The Prayer. O Lord God of Israel, visit us with thy salvation, and deliver us from the malice of wicked doers, and the violences of blood thirsty men. Let not them prosper, o Lord, in their machinations, whose preaching is of cursing and lies, and who offend of malicious wickedness: show us thy goodness plenteously, that we may never forget thy mercies or thy Laws, for thou art our defence and refuge, and our merciful God, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM. 60. A Prayer in time of War or temptation. O God, thou hast cast us out, and scattered us abroad: thou also hast been displeased, O turn thee unto us again. 2 Thou hast moved the land, and divided it: heal the sores thereof, for it shaketh. 3 Thou hast showed thy people heavy things: thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine. 4 Thou hast given a token for such as fear thee: that they may triumph because of the truth. 5 Therefore were thy beloved delivered: help me with thy right hand, and hear me. 6 God hath spoken in his holiness, I will rejoice and divide Sichem: and meet out the valley of Succoth, 7 Gilead is mine, and Manasses is mine: Ephraim also is the strength of my head, juda is my lawgiver. 8 Moa● is my washpot, over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia be thou glad of me. 9 Who will lead me into the strong city: who will bring me into Edom? 10 Hast thou not cast us out, O God: will't not thou, O God, go out with our hosts? 11 O be thou our help in trouble: for vain is the help of man. 12 Through God will we do great arts: for it is he that shall tread down our enemies. The Prayer. O Lord God, who for our sins hast showed us heavy things, and given us a drink of deadly Wine, and yet hast never failed them that fear thee, but hast given them a token that they may triumph because of thy truth and mercy, consigning them to redemption and deliverance by the testimony and comforts of the Holy spirit: Obe thou our help in trouble, for all our hope is in thee, and we disclaim all confidence in ourselves, or in the arm of flesh, praying thee for aid, that in thy strength we may tread down our enemies, and give thee thanks who art the fountain of strength, and the disposer of victories, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 61. A Prayer for the King, and for comfort in sadness. Hear my crying, O God: give ear unto my prayer. 2 From the ends of the earth will I call unto thee: when my heart is in heaviness. 3 O ●et me up upon the rock that ●● higher than I: for thou hast been my hope, and a strong tower for me against the enemy. 4 I will dwell in thy ●labernacle for ever: and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings. 5 For thou, O Lord, hast heard my desires: and hast given an heritage unto those that fear thy name. 6 Thou shalt grant the King a long life: that his years may endure through out all generations. 7 He shall dwell before God for ever: O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness, that they may preserve him. 8 So will I always sing praise unto thy name: that I may daily perform my vows. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus, thou that art the rock higher than all the world, upon whom thy Church is built, and all our hopes rely: be merciful unto us, and give ear unto our prayers, be unto us a fountain of comfort whensoever our heart is in heaviness, for under the covering of thy wings there is joy, and health, and safety: save all those that fear thy name, and give thy blessing to thine heritage; and that the blessings of thy people may be lasting and perpetual, give unto thy servant the King long life, let thy loving kindness and faithfulness always preserve him, be a strong tower for him against all his enemies, and at last bring him to an eternal Kingdom, where no enemies shall assault or disturb his Peace, that he may dwell before thee for ever, and rejoice in the participation of the blessings of thy kingdom, who livest and raignest ever one God world without end. Amen. PSALM 62. A Prayer that we may trust in God only in all our troubles. MORNING PRAYER. MY soul truly waiteth still upon God: for of him cometh my salvation. 2 He verily is my strength and my salvation▪ he is my defence, so that I shall not greatly fall. 3 How long will ye imagine mischief against every man: ye shall be slain all the sort of you, yea, as a tottering wal● shall ye be, and like a broken hedge. 4 Their device is only how to put him out whom God will exalt: their delight is in lies, they give good words with their mouth, but curse with their heart. 5 Nevertheless, my soul, wait thou still upon God: for my hope is in him. 6 He truly is my strength and my salvation: he is my defence, so that I shall not fall. 7 In God is my health and my glory: the rock of my might, and in God is my trust. 8 O put your trust in him always (ye people:) pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. 9 As for the children of men, they are but vain: the children of men are deceitful upon the weights, they are altogether lighter than vanity itself. 10 O trust not in wrong and robbery, give not yourselves unto vanity: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. 11 God spoke once and twice: I have also heard the same, that power belongeth unto God. 12 And that thou Lord art merciful: for thou rewardest every man according to his work. The Prayer. O Lord God of whom cometh our salvavation, thou art our defence and strength, our health and our glory, give us thy grace, that we may put our whole trust in thee always, that we may pour out our hearts before thee in all our troubles, that we may wait still upon thee for the performance of our expectation in all our longings and desires. Be thou our defence, uphold us that we may not fall into those great sins, which lay waste our consciences, or into such miseries as make us without hope or remedy, the miseries of despair, obstinate malice, or the woes of a sad eternity. Teach us to despise riches, to disclaim all trust in the creatures, not to delight in lies, or vanity, not to multiply wrongs and robbery, that when thou shalt come with power and great glory to reward every man according to his work, thou mayest be merciful unto us pardoning our sins, and accepting us to life eternal, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 63. A Prayer for deliverance from the miseries of our pilgrimage, with longing and desires after God, and the Joys of Heaven. O God, thou art my God: early will I seek thee. 2 My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee: in a barren and dry land where no water is. 3 Thus have I looked for thee in holiness: that I might behold thy power and glory. 4 For thy loving kindness is better than the life itself: my lips shall praise thee. 5 As long as I live will I magnify thee on this manner: and lift up my hands in thy name. 6 My soul shall be satisfied even as it were with marrow & fatness: when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips. 7 Have I not remembered thee in my bed: and thought upon thee when I was waking? 8 Because thou hast been my helper: therefore under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. 9 My soul hangeth upon thee: thy right hand hath upholden me. 10 These also that seek the hurt of my soul: they shall go under the earth. 11 Let them fall upon the edge of the sword: that they may be a portion for foxes. 12 But the King shall rejoice in God, all they also that swear by him shall be commended: for the mouth of them that speak lies, shall be stopped. The Prayer. O Merciful and dear God, whose loving kindness is better than the life itself, defend us against the malice and designs of all them, that seek the hurt of our souls, and make us to rejoice in thy help, and under the shadow of thy wings. O let the dayspring of thy favour visit us from on high, that we may seek thee with an early devotion, pursue after thee with a constant, and an active industry, and at last possess thee with the firm comprehensions of love and charity; that in this world, we looking for thee in holiness of living, longing and thirsting after thee with fervent desires, may for ever hereafter behold thy power and glory, and our souls be eternally satisfied, even as with marrow and fatness, when our lips and hearts shall praise thee to all eternity. Grant this, for the love and honour of jesus Christ, our only mediator and Redeemer. Amen. PSALM 64. A Prayer for deliverance from the slander and mischiefs of all wicked Persons. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 2 Hide me from the gathering together of the froward: and from the insurrection of wicked doers. 3 Which have what their tongue like a sword: and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words. 4 That they may privily shoot at him that is perfect: suddenly do they hit him, and fear not. 5 They courage themselves in mischief: and commune among themselves how they may lay snares, and say that no man shall see them. 6 They imagine wickedness, and practise it: that they keep secret among themselves every man in the deep of his heart. 7 But God shall suddenly shoot at them with a swift arrow: that they shall be wounded. 8 Yea, their own tongues shall make them fall: insomuch that whoso seeth them, shall laugh them to scorn. 9 And all men that see it, shall say, This hath God done: for they shall perceive that it is his work. 10 The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord, and put his trust in him: and all they that are true of heart shall be glad. The Prayer. O Lord God, thou that hearest the voice of our prayers, and considerest the cries of them that fly unto thee for succour, deliver us and all thy whole Church from the gathering together of the froward, and from the insurrection of wicked doers. Disappoint their snares, infatuate their Counsels, distract their consultations, and blast all their Designs; let the swords and arrows of their tongues be shot in vain, that they may never hit any of thy servants, nor wound him that is perfect. Make them to fall (O God) in their hopes whereby they courage themselves in mischief and fear not, and do thou laugh them to scorn, that we who have put our trust in thee, may rejoice in thee, and confess, that it is thy work, to give salvation and deliverance to thy people whom thou lovest in our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 65. A Prayer for spiritual blessings, and for fruitfulness of the Earth. EVENING PRAYER. THou O God, art praised in Zion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed in jerusalem 2 Thou that hearest the prayer: unto thee shall all flesh come. 3 My misdeeds prevail against me: O be thou merciful unto our sins. 4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and receivest unto thee: he shall dwell in thy Court, and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy holy temple. 5 Thou shalt show us wonderful things in thy righteousness, O God of our salvation: thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea. 6 Which in his strength setteth fast the mountains: and is girded about with power. 7 Which stilleth the raging of the sea: and the noise of his waves, and the madness of his people. 8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth, shall be afraid at thy tokens: thou that makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise thee. 9 Thou visitest the earth, and blessest it: thou makest it very plenteous. 10 The river of God is full of water: thou preparest their corn, for so thou providest for the earth, 11 Thou waterest her furrows, thou sendest rain into the little valleys thereof: thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it. 12 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness: and thy clouds drop fatness. 13 They shall drop upon the dwellings of the wilderness: and the little hills shall rejoice on every side. 14 The folds shall be full of sheep: the valleys also shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing. The Prayer. O God the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad Sea, be thou merciful unto our sins, and let not our misdeeds prevail against us, so as either to make us habitually sinful, or endlessely miserable, but give us the blessings of thy chosen; let us receive the influences of thy graces and benediction, by the participation of thy word and Sacraments in thy holy temple. And as thou embracest us with thy right hand, showing us wonderful things in thy righteousness and salvation, so let thy left hand be under our heads, and give us such a portion of temporal blessings, as shall be necessary for us. Make the earth plenteous, and bless the increase of it, crown the year with goodness, and let the clouds drop fatness, that the valleys standing thick with corn, may laugh and sing thy praises, and that we being refreshed with the multitude of thy blessings, may praise thee in Zion, and at last be satisfied with the pleasures of thy house in the celestial jerusalem, where thou livest and reignest, one God world without end. Amen. PSALM 66. A Prayer that God would support us in times of trouble and deliver us. O Be joyful in God all ye lands: sing praises unto the honour of his name, make his praise to be glorious. 2 Say unto God, O how wonderful art thou in thy works: through the greatness of thy power shall thine evemies he found liars unto ●hee. 3 For all the world shall worship thee: sing of thee, and praise thy name. 4 O come hither, and behold the works of God: how wonderful he is in his doing towards the children of men. 5 He turned the sea into dry land: so that they went through the water on foot, there did we rejoice thereof. 6 He ruleth with his power for ever, his eyes behold the people: and such as will not believe, shall not be able to exalt themselves. 7 O praise our God (ye people:) and make the voice of his praise to be heard. 8 Which holdeth our soul in life: and suffereth not our feet to slip. 9 For thou (O God) hast proved us: thou also hast tried us, like as silver is tried. 10 Thou broughtest us into the snare: and lapedst trouble upon our loins. 11 Thou suffered'st men to ride over our heads: we went through fire and water, and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. 12 I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings: and will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips, and spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble. 13 I will offer unto thee fat burnt-sacrifices, with the incense of rams: I will offer bullocks and goats. 14 O come hither and hearken all ye that fear God: and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul. 15 I called unto him with my mouth: and gave him praises with my tongue. 16 If I incline unto wickedness with my heart: the Lord will not hear me. 17 But God hath heard me: and considered the voice of my prayer. 18 Praised be God, which hath not cast out my prayer: nor turned his mercy from me. The Prayer. O Lord God, who art wonderful in thy works, & in thy doings, towards the children of men, thou chastisest every one whom thou receivest, proving us and trying us, like as silver is tried, let thy merciful hands lead us through the fire of afflictions, and the waters of temporal chastisements, so as we may not be consumed with the flames of thy wrath, nor the waters go over our souls, but that we being sustained by the comforts of thy spirit, and refreshed with the dew of thy graces, we may at last be brought out into a wealthy place, even the place of eternal treasures. O give us thy grace, that our hearts incline not to wickedness, and that our feet slip not, that so we regarding thy laws, and having respect to obey thy holy will and pleasure, thou mayest hear our prayers, the greatness of thy power may cast down all our Enemies, that they may never be able to exalt themselves; that while thou holdest our souls in life, we may never cease praising thee, who haste never turned thy mercy from us, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM. 67. A Prayer that all men may bless God, and God may bless all men. GOd be merciful unto us, and bless us: and show us the light of his countenance, and be merciful unto us. 2 That thy way may be known upon earth: thy saving health among all Nations. 3 Let the people praise thee, O God: yea, let all the people praise thee. 4 O let the Nations rejoice and be glad: for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the Nations upon earth. 5 Let the people praise thee, O God: let all the people praise thee. 6 Then shall the earth bring forth her increase: and God eden our own God shall give us his blessing. 7 God shall bless us: and all the ends of the world shall fear him. The Prayer. O Lord God, thou Governor of all Nations, and the righteous judge of the whole earth, be merciful unto us and bless us. Thou makest the Sun to shine upon all the corners of the habitable world, giving his light both to the good and bad; let the light of thy countenance diffuse itself to all Nations, and to all men. Lighten all our darknesses with the beams of thy divine favour, teach thy ways unto all the people of the earth, and give thy saving health to all Nations, that while all join with one consent to fear thee, and to give thee praises, thou mayest govern us all in peace & righteousness, and when thou shalt come to judge us, we may receive thy everlasting mercies. Grant this, for jesus Christ his sake, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen. PSALM. 68 A Prayer for defence and propagation of the Catholic Church. MORNING PRAYER. LEt God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him, flee before him. 2 Like as the smoke vanisheth, so shalt thou drive them away: and like as wax melteth at the fire, so let the ungodly perish at the presence of God. 3 But let the righteous be glad and rejoice before God: let them also be merry and joyful. 4 O sing unto God, and sing praises unto his name: magnify him that rideth upon the Heavens, as it were upon an horse, praise him in his name, yea, and rejoice before him. 5 He is a father of the fatherless, and defendeth the cause of the widows: even God in his holy habitation. 6 He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in an house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity: but letteth the runagates continue in scarceness. 7 O God, when thou goest forth before the people: when thou goest through the wilderness. 8 The earth shook, and the heavens dropped at the presence of God: even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God, which is the God of Israel. 9 Thou, O God, sentest a gracious rain upon thine inheritance: and refreshedst it when it was weary. 10 Thy congregation shall dwell therein: for thou, O God, hast of thy goodness prepared for the poor. 11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of the preachers. 12 Kings with their Armies did flee and were discomfited: and they of the household divided the spoil. 13 Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a do●e: that is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold. 14 When the Almighty scattered Kings for their sake: then were they as white as snow in Salmon. 15 As the hill of Basan, so is God's hill▪ even an high hill, as the hill of Basan. 16 Why hop ye so ye high hills? this is God's hill, in the which it pleaseth him to dwell: yea, the Lord will abide in it for ever. 17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of Angels: and the Lord is among them as in the holy place of Sinai. 18 Thou art gone up on high, thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men: yea, even for thine enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them. 19 Praised be the Lord daily: even the God which helpeth us, & poureth his benefits upon us. 20 He is our God, even the God of whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by whom we escape death. 21 God shall wound the head of his enemies: and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickedness. 22 The Lord hath said, I will bring my people again, as I did from Basan: mine own will I bring again, as I did sometime from the deep of the sea. 23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies: and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red through the same. 24 It is well seen, O God, how thou goest: how thou my God and King goest in the sanctuary. 25 The singers go before, the Minstrels follow after: in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels. 26 Give thanks, O Israel, unto God the Lord, in the congregations: from the ground of the heart. 27 There is little Benjamin their ruler, and the princes of juda their counsel: the princes of Zabulon, and the princes of Nephthali. 28 Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee: establish the thing, O God, that thou hast wrought in us. 29 For thy temples sake at jerusalem: so shall Kings bring presents unto thee. 30 When the company of the spear-men, and multitude of the mighty, are scattered abroad among the beasts of the people (so that they humbly bring pieces of silver:) and when he hath scattered the people that delight in war. 31 Then shall the Princes come out of Egypt: the Morions land shall soon stretch out her hands unto God. 32 Sing unto God, O ye kingdoms of the earth: O sing praises unto the Lord. 33 Which sitteth in the Heavens over all from the beginning: lo, he doth send out his voice, yea, and that a mighty voice. 34 Ascribe ye the power to God over Israel: his worship and strength is in the clouds. 35 O God, wonderful! art thou in thy holy places: even the God of Israel, he will give strength and power unto his people, blessed be God. The Prayer. O Lord God, mighty and merciful, thou ride upon the heavens, as it were upon an horse, thou art the Father of the Fatherless, and defendest the cause of the widow; have merey upon thy holy Church; and since her Lord and Spouse is gone up on high, even to his holy habitation, leave us not comfortiesse, but send the holy Ghost in assistances and gifts to dwell amongst us; that by his aid, we may escape death spiritual, and the bitterness of the temporal. Send a gracious rain, even the dew of thy Divine favours upon thine inheritance, to refresh us in our weariness and sadnesses. Make thy people innocent & chaste as the dove▪ and besides the beauty of internal sanctity, let thy Church be covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold, decked and assisted with exterior advantages, as may best promote thy honour and the services of Religion. Let all the Princes and lands of the earth, stretch their hands out unto thee, O God, and confess thy mightiness and thy honour; that the Gospel going forth into all lands, peace and all thy blessings may follow it, and thy praise be multiplied from generation to generation, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 69. A Prayer in times of persecution for the cause of Religion. EVENING PRAYER. SAve me, O God: for the waters are come in, even unto my soul. 2 I stick fast in the deep mire where no ground is: I am come into deep waters, so that the floods run over me. 3 I am weary of crying, my throat is dry: my fight faileth me for waiting so long upon my God. 4 They that hate me without a cause, are more than the hairs of my head: they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltless, are mighty. 5 I paid them the things that I never took: God thou knowest my simpleness, and my faults are not hid from thee. 6 Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my cause: let not those that seek thee, be confounded through me, O Lord God of Israel. 7 And why? for thy sake have I suffered reproof: shame hath covered my face. 8 I am become a stranger unto my brethren even an alien unto my mother's children. 9 For the zeal of thy house hath even eaten me: and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee, are fallen upon me. 10 I wept and chastened myself with fasting: and that was turned to my reproof. 11 I put on sackcloth also: and they jested upon me. 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me: and the drunkards make songs upon me. 13 But Lord, I make my prayer unto thee: in an acceptable time. 14 Hear me, O God, in the multitude of thy mercy: even in the truth of thy salvation. 15 Take me out of the mire that I sink not: oh let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 16 Let not the water-floud drown me, neither let the deep swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. 17 Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving kindness is comfortable: turn thee unto me, according to the multitude of thy mercies. 18 And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: oh hast thee, and hear me. 19 Draw nigh unto my soul, and save it: oh deliver me, because of mine enemies. 20 Thou hast known my reproof, my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all in thy sight. 21 Thy rebuke hath broken my heart, I am full of heaviness: I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me. 22 They gave me gall to eat: and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink. 23 Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withal: and let the things (that should have been for their wealth) be unto them an occasion of falling. 24 Let their eyes be blinded that they see not: and ever bow down their backs. 25 Pour out thine indignation upon them: & let thy wrathful displeasure take hold of them. 26 Let their habitation be void: and no man to dwell in their tents. 27 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten: and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded. 28 Let them fall from one wickedness to another: and not come into thy righteousness. 29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living: and not be written among the righteous. 30 As for me, when I am poor and in heaviness: thy help (O God) shall lift me up. 31 I will praise the name of God with a song: and magnify it with thanksgiving. 32 This also shall please the Lord better than a bullock, that hath horns and hoofs. 33 The humble shall consider this, and be glad: seek ye after God, and your soul shall live. 34 For the Lord heareth the poor: and despiseth not his prisoners. 35 Let heaven and earth praise him: the sea, and all that moveth therein. 36 For God will save Zion, and build the Cities of juda: that men may dwell there, and have it in possession. 37 The posterity also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name, shall dwell therein. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus, whose loving kindness is comfortable, who for our sakes didst taste vinegar and gall, that thou mightest redeem us from the bitterness of death and sin, and establish to thyself a Church in holy Religion, and defend it with thy favour and power: have mercy upon thy servants, who suffer from the hands of their Enemies, for the testimony of a good conscience, & the doctrines of a Catholic faith. Let not them that trust in thee, O Lord God of Hosts, be ashamed, but let them, who for thy sake have suffered reproof, be delivered from them that hate them, and from the deep waters of persecutions and discomforts, that we and all thy faithful people, being saved from our Enemies, may praise thee and thy faithfulness in this world, and may finally inherit the land of promise, which thou hast made to all that suffer persecution for a cause of righteousness, even the possession of thine inheritance, thy Kingdom in Heaven, where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end. Amen. PSALM. 70. A Prayer to God for blessings upon faithful People, and deliverance from our Enemies. HAst thee, O God, to deliver me: make haste to help me, O Lord. 2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward and put to confusion, that wish me evil. 3 Let them (for their reward) be soon brought to shame: that cry over me, There, there. 4 But let all those that seek thee, be joyful and glad in thee: and let all such as delight in thy salvation, say always The Lord be praised. 5 As for me, I am poor and in misery: baste thee unto me (O God.) 6 Thou art my helper and my redeemer: O Lord, make no long tarrying. The Prayer. O Lord God our Helper and Redeemer, have mercy upon us, and all thy faithful people: make haste and help us, o God, against all those that seek after our souls to do us mischief: make us to delight in thee, to wait for thy salvation, to trust in thy mercies, to rejoice in thy excellencies and perfection: that our feet being directed by thy guidance, our weaknesses strengthened by thy power, our sins pardoned by thy mercies, and our souls justified by thy free grace, we may always give thee praise with the humble addresses of devotion and thankfulness, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM. 71. A Prayer for the continuance of God's favours to us, even to our old age, and a longing for a happy departure. MORNING PRAYER. IN thee, O Lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion: but rid me and deliver me in thy righteousness, incline thine ear unto me, and save me. 2 Be thou my strong hold, whereunto I may always resort: thou hast promised to help me, for thou art my house of defence, and my castle. 3 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly: out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 4 For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope even from my youth. 5 Through thee have I been holden up ever since I was born: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb, my praise shall be always of thee. 6 I am become as it were a monster unto many: but my sure trust is in thee. 7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praise: (that I may sing of thy glory) and honour all the day long. 8 Cast me not away in the time of age: forsake me not when my strength faileth me. 9 For mine enemies speak against me, and they that lay wait for my soul, take their counsel together, saying: God hath forsaken him, persecute him, and take him, for there is none to deliver him. 10 Go not far from me, O God: my God hast thee to help me. 11 Let them be confounded and perish, that are against my soul: let them be covered with shame and dishonour, that seek to do me evil. 12 As for me, I will patiently abide always: and will praise thee more and more. 13 My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousness and salvation: for I know no end thereof. 14 I will go forth in the strength of the Lord God: and will make mention of thy righteousness only. 15 Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth up until now: therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works. 16 Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am gray-headed: until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come. 17 Thy righteousness, O God, is very high: and great things are they that thou hast done, O God, who is like unto thee? 18 O what great troubles and adversities hast thou showed me, and yet didst thou turn and refresh me: yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again▪ 19 Thou hast brought me to great honour: and comforted me on every side. 20 Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulness (O God) playing upon an instrument of music: unto thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou holy one of Israel. 21 My lips will be fain when I sing unto thee: and so will my soul whom thou hast delivered. 22 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to do me evil. The Prayer. O Lord God our house of defence and our Castle, who by thy mercies and thy loving Spirit, hast taught us and led us in thy ways, from our first years until now, thou hast brought us to great honour, even the honour of being Christians, the honour of adoption to be thy Children, and heirs of thy glorious promises, coheirs with thy Son jesus Christ, and hast comforted us on every side, with a continual stream of thy mercies and refreshments: give us thy grace that we may love thee, and long for thee above all the things of this World: and as thou hast holden us up ever since we were borne, so let thy mercy go along with us all our days. Cast us not away in the time of age, and give us grace that we may never cast thee or thy Laws from us. Let not thy grace, and the ghostly strength we derive from thee, forsake us when our natural strength fails us, but let our spirit grow upon the disadvantages of the flesh, and begin to receive the happiness of eternity, by an absolute conquest over the weakened and decaying body; that after we have by thy aid passed through the great troubles and adversities thou showest unto all thy Children in this world, we may lie down in righteousness and with thy favour: that when thou bringest us out from the deep of the earth again, we may have a joyful resurrection to the society of Saints and Angels, and the full fruition of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 72. A Prayer for the exaltation and propagation of Christ's Kingdom. GIve the King thy judgements (O God:) and thy righteousness unto the King's son. 2 Then shall he judge the people according unto right: and defend the poor. 3 The mountains also shall bring peace: and the little hills righteousness unto the people. 4 He shall keep the simple folk by their right: defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrong doer. 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endureth, from one generation to another. 6 He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool: even as the drops that water the earth. 7 In his time shall the righteous flourish: yea, and abundance of peace, so long as the moon endureth. 8 His dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other: and from the flood unto the world's end. 9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall kneel before him: his enemies shall lick the dust. 10 The kings of Thankss and of the Isles shall give presents: the kings of Arabia and Saba shall bring gifts. 11 All kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall do him service. 12 For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth: the needy also, and him that hath no helper. 13 He shall be favourable to the simple and needy: and shall preserve the souls of the poor. 14 He shall deliver their souls from falsehood and wrong: and dear shall their blood be in his sight. 15 He shall live, and unto him shall be given of the gold of Arabia: prayer shall be made ever unto him, and daily shall he be praised. 16 There shall be an heap of corn in the earth high upon the hills: his fruit shall shake like Libanus, and shall be green in the city, like grass upon the earth. 17 His name shall endure for ever, his name shall remain under the sin among the posterities: which shall be blessed through him, and all the heathen shall praise him. 18 Blessed be the Lord God, even the God of Israel: which only doth wondrous things. 19 And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and all the earth shall be filled with his majesty. Amen, Amen. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus, who didst descend from heaven into the womb of the blessed Virgin, like rain into a fleece of wool, thou that punishest the wrong doer, and defendest the children of the poor, and them that have no helper; have mercy upon thy Holy Church, be pleased by her ministry to extend thy blessings and thy dominion from the one Sea to the other, even unto the world's end, that all Kings of the earth may fall down before thee, and all Nations may do thee service. Make thy righteous people to flourish, and so subdue their enemies under them, delivering them from falsehood and wrong, that they may be blessed with abundance of Peace, and be satisfied with thy righteousness and salvation through thy mercies, O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesus. Amen. PSALM 73. A Prayer that we may have our portion in God, and not in the good things of the men of this World. EVENING PRAYER. TRuly God is loving unto Israel: even unto such as are of a clean heart. 2 Nevertheless, my feet were almost gone: my tread had well-nigh s●●pt. 3 And why? I was grieved at the wicked: I do also see the ungodly in such prosperity. 4 For they are in no peril of death: but are lusty and strong. 5 They come in no misfortune like other folk: neither are they plagued like other men. 6 And this is the cause that they be so holden with pride: and over whelmed with cruelty. 7 Their eyes swell with fatness: and they do even what they lust. 8 They corrupt other, and speak of wicked blasphemy: their talking is against the most Highest. 9 For they stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven: and their tongue goeth through the world. 10 Therefore fall the people unto them: and thereout suck they no small advantage. 11 Tush (say they) how should God perceive it: is there knowledge in the most Highest? 12 Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the World, and these have riches in possession: and I said, Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. 13 All the day long have I been punished: and chastened every morning. 14 Yea, and I had almost said even as they: but so, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children. 15 Then thought I to understand this: but it was to● hard for me. 16 Until I went into the sanctuary of God: then understood I the end of these men. 17 Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery places: and castest them down, and destroyest them. 18 Oh how suddenly do they consume: perish, and come to a fearful end! 19 Yea, even like as a dream when one awaketh so shalt thou make their image to vanish out of the City. 20 Thus my heart was grieved: and it went even through my reins. 21 So foolish was I and ignorant: even as it were a beast before thee. 22 Nevertheless I am always by thee: for thou hast holden me by my right hand. 23 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel: and after that receive me with glory. 24 Whom have I in heaven but thee: and there is none upon earth that I desire in comparison of thee. 25 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 26 For lo, they that forsake thee, shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that commit for●ication against thee. 27 But it is good for me so hold me fast by God, to put my trust in the Lord God: and to speak of all thy works (in the gates of the daughter of Zion.) The Prayer. O Lord God who art loving unto all thy Church, even unto all such as are of a clean heart, give unto us hearts humble and merciful, that we may never be holden with pride, nor overwhelmed with cruelty; and sanctify our words and lips, that we may never blaspheme thy holiness, nor our talking be ever against thee, or thy honour. O God most Highest, give unto us such religious and mortified affections, that we may never thirst after the temporal advantages and prosperities of the wicked: set not our feet in slippery places, lest we be suddenly cast down, and have our portion in the lot of the wicked, who perish and come to a fearful end: guide us with thy counsel, that we holding us fast by thee, and putting our trust in thee, o God, thou mayest be the strength of our hearts, the hope of our souls, and the ground of all our confidence and content in this life, and after this life is ended, thou mayest receive us with glory, and be our portion for ever, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 74. A Prayer against Sacrilegious persons and all the Enemies of the Church. O God wherefore art thou absent from us so long: why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture? 2 O think upon thy congregation: whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old. 3 Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance: and mount Zion wherein thou hast dwelled. 4 Lift up thy feet, that thou mayst utterly destroy every enemy: which hath done evil in thy sanctuary. 5 Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy congregations: and set up their banners for tokens. 6 He that hewed timber afore out of the thick trees: was known to bring it to an excellent work. 7 But now they break down all the carved work thereof▪ with axes and hammers. 8 They have set fire upon thy holy places: and have defiled the dwelling place of thy name, even unto the ground. 9 Yea, they said in their hearts, Let us make havoc of them altogether: thus have they burnt up all the houses of God in the land. 10 We see not our tokens, there is not one prophet more: no not one is there among us that understandeth any more. 11 O God how long shall the adversary do this dishonour: how long shall the enemy blaspheme thy name, for ever? 12 Why withdrawest thou thy hand: why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosom to consume the enemy? 13 For God is my King of old: the help that is done upon earth, he doth it himself. 14 Thou didst divide the sea through thy power: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 15 Thou smotest the heads of leviathan in pieces and gavest him to be meat for the people in the wilderness. 16 Thou broughtest out fountains and waters out of the hard rocks: thou driedst up mighty waters. 17 The day is thine, and the night is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 18 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. 19 Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy hath rebuked: and how the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. 29 O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the multitude of the enemies: and forget not the congregation of the poor for ever. 21 Look upon the covenant: for all the earth is full of darkness, and cruel habitations. 22 Oh let not the simple go away ashamed: but let the poor and needy give praise unto thy name. 23 Arise, O God, maintain thine own cause: remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily. 24 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the presumption of them that hate thee, increaseth ever more and more. The Prayer. O Lord God Blessed jesus, who with thy precious blood hast purchased to thyself, and redeemed a Church, that it should serve thee in holiness & righteousness, being delivered from fear of all their adversaries, forget not the congregation of thy poor people for ever, maintain thine own cause, deliver the soul of thy Turtle dove from the multitude of her enemies. Preserve with thy right band all the places appointed for thy public service, let a guard of flaming Cherubins (as at the gate of Paradise) stand sentinel, and keep from the invasions of sacrilegious persons, & the pollutions of all impure Church-robbers, all thy dwelling places, that thou mayest for ever dwell among us, defending the poor, bringing help to all thy people, and particular blessings & assistances to the tribe of thine own inheritance, which thou hast sanctified to thy worship and service, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 75. A Prayer against the terrors of the day of Judgement. MORNING PRAYER. Unto thee (O God) do we give thanks: yea, unto thee do we give thanks. 2 Thy name also is so nigh: and that do thy wondrous works declare. 3 When I receive the congregation: I shall judge according unto right. 4 The earth is weak, and all the inhabiters thereof: I bear up the pillars of it. 5 I said unto the fools, Deal not so madly: and to the ungodly, Set not up your horn. 6 Set not up your horn on high: and speak not with a stiff neck. 7 For promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West: nor yet from the South. 8 And why? God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. 9 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same. 10 As for the dregs thereof: all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them, and suck them out. 11 But I will talk of the God of jacob: and praise him for ever. 12 All the horns of the ungodly also will I break: and the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. The Prayer. O Lord God the judge of all the world, from whom cometh all promotion and all punishment, have mercy upon us now, at the hour of death, and in the day of judgement, when thou shalt judge all the congregations of men and Angels according unto right: o give us grace to expect thy coming in humility and charity, that we be not stiffnecked and exalted in our own opinions and conceptions, but may submit to thy yoke with meekness and obedience, that when thou shalt pour forth the cup of thy vengeance upon the ungodly, we may not drink or taste of the dregs of it, but may sit down at thy Table in the Supper of the Lamb, and be satisfied with the blessings of eternity, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 76. A Prayer that we may fear God's judgements, and be freed from the terrors of men. IN jury is God known: his name is great in Israel. 2 At Salem is his tabernacle: and his dwelling in Zion. 3 There broke ●e the arrows of the bow: the shield, the sword, and the battle. 4 Thou art of more honour and might: then the hills of the robbers. 5 The proud are robbed, they have slept their sleep: and all the men (whose hands were mighty) have found nothing. 6 At thy rebuke (O God of jacob:) both the chariot and horse are fallen. 7 Thou even thou art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when thou art angry? 8 Thou didst cause thy judgement to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still. 9 When God arose to judgement: and to help all the meek upon earth. 10 The fierceness of man shall turn to thy praise: and the fierceness of them shalt thou refrain. 11 Promise unto the Lord your God, and keep it, all ye that be round about him: bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. 12 He shall refrain the spirit of Princes: and is wonderful among the Kings of the earth. The Prayer. O Lord God, whose dwelling is in heaven, and thy Name is great in all the world, plant the dread and reverence of thee and thy power in our hearts: let thy threatenings and thy judgements, which are heard from heaven, and executed upon disobedient and gainsaying people, make us to tremble at the remembrance of our sins, and in the consideration of our weaknesses and demerits: and let thy mercies and the remembrance of thy infinite loving kindnesses make our hearts still, full of evenness & tranquillity, that we may not fear the fierceness of man, or the wrath of those, whose Spirits thou canst refrain, lest we be disturbed in our duties towards thee, but let us so fear thee, that we may never offend against thee, but may pass from fear to love, from apprehensions of thy wrath, to the sense and comforts of thy mercies, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM. 77. A Prayer that the experience of God's goodness may produce hope in us, and remove from us all fearfulness and doubting. I Will cry unto God with my voice: even unto God will I cry with my voice, and he shall hearken unto me. 2 In the time of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran and ceased not, in the night season my soul refused comfort. 3 When I am in heaviness I will think upon God: when my heart is vexed, I will complain. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so feeble that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old: and the years that are past. 6 I call to remembrance my song: and in the night I commune with mine own heart, and search out my spirits. 7 Will the Lord absent himself for ever: and will he be no more entreated? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever: and is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious: and will he shut up his loving kindness in displeasure? 10 And I said, It is mine own infirmity▪ but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most highest. 11 I will remember the works of the Lord: and call to mind thy wonders of old time. 12 I will think also of all thy works: and my talking shall be of thy doings. 13 Thy way, O God, is holy: who is so great a God (as our God?) 14 Thou art the God that doth wonders: and hast declared thy power among the people. 15 Thou hast mightily delivered thy people▪ even the sons of jacob and joseph. 16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and were afraid: the depths also were troubled. 17 The clouds poured out water, the air thundered: and thine arrows went abroad. 18 The voice of thy thunder was heard round about: the lightnings shone upon the ground, the earth was moved, and shook withal. 19 Thy way is in the sea, & thy paths in the great waters: and thy footsteps are not known. 20 Thou leddest thy people like sheep: by the hand of Moses and Aaron. The Prayer. O God who dost wonders, and hast declared thy power amongst all people, let the observation of thy mercies and loving kindnesses, make such deep impression in our hearts and memories, that when we are in heaviness, we may remember the years of thy right hand, and call to mind the wonders of old time, that although thou sometimes withdrawest the brightness of thy countenance from us, and shutest up thy loving kindness in a short displeasure, yet the experience of thy old mercies, which never fail, may sustain our infirmities, and the expectation of thy loving kindnesses, may cure all our impatience, till in thy due time, the sense of thy favours may actually relieve all our distresses, and thy right hand lead us like sheep into the folds of eternal rest and security, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 78. A Commemoration of God's blessings to his Church of old, of his Judgements upon sinners, and his mercies to the penitent. EVENING PRAYER. Hear my law, O my people: incline your ears unto the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare hard sentences of old. 3 Which we have heard and known: and such as our fathers have told us. 4 That we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come: but to show the honour of the Lord, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done. 5 He made a covenant with jacob, and gave Israel a law: which he commanded our forefathers to teach their children. 6 That their posterity might know it: and the children which were yet unborn. 7 To the intent that when they came up: they might show their children the same. 8 That they might put their trust in God: and not to forget the works of God, but to keep his Commandments. 9 And not to be as their forefathers, a faithless and stubborn generation: a generation that set not their heart aright▪ and whose spirit ●leaved not steadfastly unto God. 10 Like as the children of Ephraim: which being haruessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the day of battle. 11 They kept not the covenant of God: and would not walk in his law. 12 But forgot what he had done: and the wonderful works that he had showed for them. 13 Marvellous things did he in the sight of our forefathers in the land of Egypt: even in the field of zoan. 14 He divided the sea, and let them go through: he made the waters to stand on an heap. 15 In the day time also he led them with a cloud: and all the night through with a light of fire. 16 He clavae the hard rocks in the wilderness▪ and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth. 17 He brought waters out of the stony rock: so that it gushed out like the rivers. 18 Yet for all this they sinned more against him: and provoked the most Highest in the wilderness. 19 They tempted God in their hearts: and required meat for their lust 20 They spoke against God also, saying: Shall God prepare a table in the wilderness? 21 He smote the stony rock indeed, that the water gushed out, and the streams flowed withal: but can he give bread also, or provide flesh for his people? 22 When the Lord heard this, he was wroth: so the fire was kindled in jacob, and there came up heavy displeasure against Israel. 23 Because they believed not in God: and put not their trust in his help. 24 So he commanded the clouds above: and opened the doors of heaven. 25 He reigned down Manna also upon them for to eat: and gave them food from heaven. 26 So man did eat Angel's food: for he sent them meat enough. 27 He caused the east wind to blow under heaven: and through his power he brought in the south-west▪ wind. 28 He reigned flesh upon them as thick as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. 29 He let it fall among their tents: even round about their habitation. 30 So they did eat and were well filled, for he gave them their own desire: they were not disappointed of their lust. 31 But while the meat was yet in their mouths, the heavy wrath of God came upon them, and slew the wealthiest of them: yea, and smote down the chosen men that were in Israel. 32 But for all this they sinned yet more: and believed not his wondrous works. 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity: and their years in trouble. 34 When he slew them, they sought him: and turned them early, and enquired after God. 35 And they remembered that God was their strength: and that the high God was their Redeemer. 36 Nevertheless, they did but flatter him with their mouth: and dissembled with him in their tongue. 37 For their heart was not whole with him: neither continued they steadfast in his covenant. 38 But he was so merciful, that he forgave their misdeeds: and destroyed them not. 39 Yea many a time turned he his wrath away: and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise. 40 For he considered that they were but flesh: and that they were even a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. 41 Many a time did they provoke him in the wilderness: and grieved him in the desert. 42 They turned back and tempted God: and moved the holy one in Israel. 43 They thought not of his hand: and of the day when he delivered them from the hand of the enemy. 44 How he had wrought his miracles in Egypt: and his wonders in the field of Zoan. 45 He turned their waters into blood: so that they might not drink of the rivers. 46 He sent louse among them and devoured them up: and frogs to destroy them. 47 He gave their fruit unto the caterpillar: and their labour unto the grasshopper. 48 He destroyed their vines with hailstones: and their mulberry trees with the frost. 49 He smote their cattle also with hailstones: and their flocks with hot thunderbolts. 50 He cast upon them the furiousness of his wrath, anger, displeasure, and trouble: and sent evil Angels among them: 51 He made a way to his indignation, and spared not their soul from death: but gave their life over to the pestilence. 52 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt: the most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham. 53 But as for his own people, he led them forth like sheep: and carried them in the wilderness like a flock. 54 He brought them out safely that they should not fear: and overwhelmed their enemies with the sea. 55 And brought them within the borders of his sanctuary: even to his mountain, which he purchased with his right hand. 56 He cast out the heathen also before them: caused their land to be divided among them for an heritage, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 57 So they tempted and displeased the most high God: and kept not his testimonies. 58 But turned their backs, and fell away like their forefathers: starting aside like a broken bow. 59 For they grieved him with their hill altars: and provoked him to displeasüre with their images. 60 When God heard this, he was wroth: and took sore displeasure at Israel. 61 So that he forsook the sabernacle in S●lo: even the tent that he had pitched among them. 62 He delvered their power into captivity: and their beauty into the enemy's hand. 63 He gave his people over also unto the sword: and was wroth with his inheritance. 64 The fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not given to marriage. 65 Their priests were slain with the sword: and there were no widows to make lamentation. 66 So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep: and like a Giant refreshed with wine. 67 He smote his enemies in the hinder parts: and put them to a perpetual shame. 68 He refused the tabernacle of joseph: and those not the tribe of Ephraim. 69 But chose the tribe of juda: even the hill of Zion, which he loved. 70 And there he builded his temple on high: and laid the foundation of it like the ground which he hath made continually. 71 He chose David also his servant: and took him away from the sheepfolds. 72 As he was following the ewes great with young ones, he took him: that he might feed jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 73 So he fed them with a faithful and true heart: and ruled them prudently with all his power. The Prayer. O Lord God of Our Fathers, God of Abraham, Isaac, and jacob, thou that leddest thy people through the Wilderness with a light and with a cloud, and with thy bright Angel, for their sakes turning rocks into a springing well, and making the Sea and the River become dry land, so making demonstration of the greatness of thy mercy, by the greatness of thy miracles, and didst still go on to make all thy creatures leave their natures to serve them, even then when they tempted and provoked thee ten times in the desert: O be pleased to do unto us as thou didst to them: lead us through the desert of this World with the light of thy holy Spirit; and from the rock, which for our sakes thou didst smite with thy heavy rod, the rock Christ jesus, let water and blood stream forth, to cleanse and to refresh us. Give us of the bread that came down from heaven, the flesh of thy dear Son to eat, that we being purified by his blood, and nourished by that celestial Manna, our hearts may be set aright, and our spirits may cleave steadfastly unto thee, O God, that we may remember thy works, and trust in thy mercies, and may keep thy commandments. O never let the fire of thy wrath be kindled towards us, nor thy heavy displeasure come up against us; let us not consume our days in folly and vanity, lest our years be spent in trouble, but when through infirmity we fall, let thy gentle correction call us home, that we may turn us early, and seek after thee our God, who art our strength and our merciful Redeemer, that we may never feel the furiousness of thy eternal wrath, nor have our portion amongst the evil Angels, but may be conducted by thy mercies and providence, to the border of thy sanctuary, and to the mountain where thou reignest over all the creatures, one God world withoutend. Amen▪ PSALM 79. A Prayer that God would deliver his Church from the cruelty of all her persecutors. MORNING PRAYER. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled, and made jerusalem an heap of stones. 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the air: and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land. 3 Their blood have they shed like water on every side of jerusalem: and there was no man to bury them. 4 We are become an open shame to our enemies: a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us. 5 Lord, how long wilt thou be angry: shall thy jealousy burn like fire for ever? 6 Pour out thine indignation upon the heathen that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy namen. 7 For they have devoured jacob: and laid waste his dwelling place. 8 O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon: for we are come to great misery. 9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: O deliver us, and be merciful unto our sins for thy name's sake. 10 Wherefore do the heathen say: Where is now their God? 11 O let the vengeance of thy servants blood that is shed: be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight. 12 O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee: according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are apppointed to die. 13 And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee: reward thou them (O Lord) seven fold into their bosom. 14 So we that be thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, shall give thee thanks for ever: and will always be showing forth thy praise from generation to generation. The Prayer. O Lord God of thine inheritance, who conveyest many blessings to the children of men, by the prayers and ministry of thy Church, let our Prayers obtain of thee mercies and deliverances for her. O Lord thou hast planted thy Church in the humility, and poverty, and death of thy Son, thou hast watered it with the blood of thy Apostles and Martyrs, thou hast made it flourish, and spread forth its branches, by the warmth, and heat, and graces of thy holy spirit, and hast according to thy promise, still preserved it in the midst of all enmities and disadvantages. Thy Laws and righteous commandments have been a scorn and derision to jews and Gentiles, the flesh of thy servants have been meat for the beasts of the Land, and still she wears the purple robe of mockery, and the crown of thorns which at first she took from the head and side of her Dearest Lord: At last, O Lord, be gracious unto thine inheritance, help us, o God of our salvation, for the glory of thy Name, let not thine enemies devour the Church, and lay waste her dwelling places: be merciful unto our sins, preserve all those that by malice of their enemies are apppointed to death, or prison, or any other misery: let us still enjoy the freedom of thy Gospel, the food of thy word, the sweet refresh of thy Sacraments, public Communions in thy Church, and all the benefits of the society of Saints, and let not our sin's cause thee to remove the Candlestick from us, but make thy people and the sheep of thy pasture secure and glad in thy salvation, that we may show forth thy praise in this world, and in the world to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 80. A Prayer for the Church. Hear, O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest joseph like a sheep: show thyself also thou that sittest upon the cherubims. 2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses: stir up thy strength, and come and help us. 3 Turn us again, O God: show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. 4 O Lord God of hosts: how long wilt thou be angry with thy people that prayeth? 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears: and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink. 6 Thou hast made us a very strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh us to scorn. 7 Turn us again thou God of hosts: show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. 8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 9 Thou madest room for it: and when it had taken root, it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it: and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedar-trees. 11 She stretched out her branches unto the sea: and her boughs unto the river. 12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedge: that all they that go by, pluck off her grapes? 13 The wild bore out of the wood doth root it up: and the wild beasts of the field devour it. 14 Turn thee again, thou God of hosts, look down from heaven: behold, and visit this vine. 15 And the place of the vineyard that thy right hand hath planted: and the branch that thou madest so strong for thyself. 16 It is burnt with fire, and cut down: and they shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self. 18 And so will not we go back from thee: O let us live, and we shall call upon thy name. 19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts: show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. The Prayer. O Thou shepherd of Israel, thou that sittest upon the Cherubims, stir up thy strength, and come and help thy people that prayeth unto thee for mercy and protection. Thou hast made affliction the portion of thy Children in this life, thou feedest them with bread of tears, and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink; yet be pleased to show the light of thy countenance upon us, to lighten our darknesses, to relieve our miseries, to heal our sicknesses, and let not thy Church become a strife unto her neighbours, but reunite her divisions, and make her not a prey to them that would devour her, and then laugh her to scorn. O Lord hedge her about with thy mercies, with the custody of Angels, with the patronage of Kings and Princes, with the hearts and hands of Nobles, and the defence of the whole secular arm, lest the wild beasts of the field pluck off her grapes, destroy the vintage, and root up the vine itself: but let her so flourish under the beams of thy favour and providence, that it may take root and spread and fill all lands, that the name of the man of thy right hand, the God and Man Christ jesus may be glorified, thy Church enlarged and defended, and we blessed with thy health and salvation. Grant this O Lord for jesus Christ his sake our only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen. PSALM 81. A festival song and a Prayer for the grace and blessings of obedience to God's Laws. SIng we merrily unto God our strength: make a cheerful noise unto the God of jacob. 2 Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret: the merry harp with the lute. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon: even in the time apppointed, and upon our solemn feast day. 4 For this was made a statute for Israel: and a law of the God of jacob. 5 This he ordained in joseph for a testimony: when he came out of the land of Egypt, and had heard a strange language. 6 I eased his shoulder from the burden: and his hands were delivered from making the pots. 7 Thou called'st upon me in troubles, and I delivered thee: and heard thee what time as the storm fell upon thee. 8 I proved thee also: at the waters of strife. 9 Hear, O my people, and I will assure thee, O Israel: if thou wilt hearken unto me. 10 There shall no strange god be in thee: neither shalt thou worship any other god. 11 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I shall fill it. 12 But my people would not hear my voice: and Israel would not obey me. 13 So I gave them up unto their own hearts lust: and let them follow their own imaginations. 14 O that my people would have harkened unto me: for if Israel had walked in my ways. 15 I should soon have put down their enemies: and turned my hand against their adversaries. 16 The haters of the Lord should have been found liars: but their time should have endured for ever. 17 He should have fed them also with the finest wheat-floure: and with honey out of the stonie-rock should I have satisfied thee. The Prayer. O Lord God our strength, whose mercies are infinite, whose Majesty is glorious, whose goodness is amiable above all the excellencies in the World, enlarge our hearts with joy and rejoicings in thy glories, open our mouths wide, and fill our lips with thy praises, that upon the solemn feast days we may commemorate thy excellencies and mercies, and the great mysteries of our redemption and Religion, adoring thee with thanks and joyfulness, who art mysterious in thy words, and marvellous & merciful in all thy works: and that we may in the best manner express our thankfulness to thee, give us thy grace that we may hear thy voice, that we may obey thee & walk in thy Laws, that we follow not our own imaginations, nor be given to our own hearts lusts, but that we resigning ourselves only to thy holy will & pleasure, thou mayest hear our prayers when ever any storm of trouble falls upon us, and turn thine hand against our adversaries, and that we being delivered from the burden of our sins, may be fed with the choicest of thy viands, and with food from the Rock Christ jesus, even his most precious body and blood, nourishing us up to life eternal, through the same jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 82. A Prayer for the Princes and Judges of the world, that they may do right judgement. EVENING PRAYER. GOd standeth in the congregation of Princes: he is a judge among gods. 2 How long will ye give wrong judgement: and accept the persons of the ungodly? 3 Defend the poor and fatherless: see that such as be in need and necessity, have right. 4 Deliver the outcast and poor: save them from the hand of the ungodly. 5 They will not be learned, nor understand, but walk on still in darkness: all the foundations of the earth be out of course. 6 I have said, ye are gods: and ye all are children of the most Highest. 7 But ye shall die like men: and fall like one of the Princes. 8 Arise, O God, and judge thou the earth: for thou shalt take all the heathen to thine inheritance. The Prayer. O Almighty judge of Men and Angels, thou God of Gods, and Prince of Princes, let thy Spirit of anointing rest upon the Princes and Rulers within the pale of the Universal Church, and let thy righteousness and judgements guide all those that sit in the seat of the judges, that they may minister justice and true judgement unto the people, defending and promoting the interests of true Religion, relieving the oppressed, encouraging virtue, and dishonouring vicious persons, delivering the poor, and saving them from the hand of the ungodly, that men may not walk on still in darkness, but their evil deeds may be discovered and brought to light, that we may all live before thee in righteousness, expecting the great day of righteous judgement, which we beg we may all behold with confidence, receiving thy mercies, and beholding thy face in glory through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM. 83. A Prayer against the Enemies of the Church, particularly, sacrilegious persons. HOld not thy tongue, O God, keep not still silence: refrain not thyself, O God. 2 For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring: and they that hate thee have lift up their head. 3 They have imagined craftily against thy people: and taken counsel against thy secret ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us root them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have cast their heads together with one consent: and are confederate against thee. 6 The tabernacles of the Edoinites, and the Ismaelites: the Moabites and H●garenes. 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tyre. 8 Assur also is joined unto them: and have holpen the children of Lot. 9 But do thou to them as unto the Madianites: unto Sisera, and unto jabin, at the brook of Rison. 10 Which perished at Endor: and became as the dung of the earth. 11 Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb: yea, make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana. 12 Which say, Let us take to ourselves: the houses of God in possession. 13 O my God, make them like unto a wheel: and as the stubble before the wind. 14 Like as the fire that burneth up the wood: and as the flame that consumeth the mountains. 15 Persecute them even so with thy tempest: and make them afraid with thy storm. 16 Make their faces ashamed, O Lord: that they may seek thy name. 17 Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more: let them be put to shame and perish. 18 And they shall know that thou (whose name is jehovah:) art only the most highest over all the earth. The Prayer. O Lord God who wert known to thy people Israel by thy name jehovah, thou art only the highest over all the earth, arise and defend thy people, and deliver thy secret ones from the murmurings, counsels, and crafty imaginations of thine enemies against them. Fix the foundations of the Church upon a Rock, and preserve thine inheritance in peace and safety. Infatuate the counsels, restrain the sacrilegious appetites of all such persons who would rob all thy houses and take them to their own possession, and make their faces so ashamed and their hearts afraid, that they may return from covetousness and impiety, and seek thy Name, repenting of all their sins, and living in justice and religion, that at last they may come into an everlasting possession of thy house, and of thy Temple where thine Honour dwelleth and reigneth eternally world without end. Amen. PSALM 84. A Prayer of desire and longings after the joys of Heaven. O How amiable are thy dwellings: thou Lord of hosts! 2 My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young: even thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be always praising thee. 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee: in whose heart are thy ways. 6 Which going through the vale of misery, use it for a well: and the pools are filled with water. 7 They will go from strength to strength: and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Zion. 8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: harken, O God of jacob. 9 Behold, O God, our defender: and look upon the face of thine Anointed. 10 For one day in thy courts: is better than a thousand. 11 I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God: than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness. 12 For the Lord God is a light and defence: the Lord will give grace and worship, and no good thing shall he withhold from them that live a godly life. 13 O Lord God of hosts: blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee. The Prayer. O Lord God of hosts, who dwellest in the heavens, seated in essential and eternal felicities; fill our hearts with desires and longings to enter into those Courts where thou sittest, attended with the beauteous orders of Angels, and millions of beautified spirits; and that our desires may receive infinite satisfactions, give us thy help, that we going through the vale of misery, the pools may be filled with water, our hearts and eyes may run over with tears of repentance and overflow with sorrow and contrition for our sins, that we living a godly life, going from strength to strength, from virtue to virtue, at last we may appear in Zion unto the God of Gods, beholding the face of thine anointed, thy Christ, and our jesus, and may dwell one day in thy Courts, even all the long day of eternity, through the same jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM. 85. A thanksgiving for God's free mercy in the pardon of our sins, and a prayer for the continuance and increase of his mercies to us. LOrd, thou art become gracious unto thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of jacob. 2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people: and covered all their sins. 3 Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure: and turned thyself from thy wrathful indignation. 4 Turn us then, O God our Saviour: and let thine anger cease from us. 5 Wilt thou be displeased at us for ever: and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another? 6 Wilt thou not turn again & quicken us: that thy people may rejoice in thee? 7 Show us thy mercy, O Lord: and grant us thy salvation. 8 I will hearken what the Lord God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace unto his people, and to his saints, that they turn not again. 9 For his salvation is nigh them that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land. 10 Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall flourish out of the earth: and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. 12 Yea, the Lord shall show loving kindness: and our land shall give her increase. 13 Righteousness shall go before him: and he shall direct his going in the way. The Prayer. O Most gracious God, who art reconciled unto us in our Saviour jesus, having for his sake forgiven the offences of thy people and covered all their sins with the robe of his most immaculate sanctity and righteousness, let thy grace convert and quicken us, that we may rejoice in thee and thy salvation, in faith of thy promises, in hope of the actual communication of thy mercies to us, and in love to thee for so great blessings and redemption; and when thou hast spoken peace unto our souls and reconciled us to thyself in the blood of thy Son, give us the grace of perseverance that we may never turn again to folly, but may follow mercy and truth all our days, and at last be satisfied with thy righteousness and peace eternal, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 86. A prayer for sanctity and preservation. MORNING PRAYER. BOw down thine ear, O Lord, and hear me: for I am poor and in misery. 2 Preserve thou my soul, for I am holy: my God save thy servant that putteth his trust in thee. 3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I will call daily upon thee. 4 Comfort the soul of thy servant: for unto thee (O Lord) do I lift up my soul. 5 For thou Lord art good and gracious: and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee. 6 Give ear, Lord, unto my prayer: and ponder the voice of my humble desires. 7 In the time of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou hearest me. 8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee (O Lord:) there is not one that can do as thou dost. 9 All nations whom thou hast made, shall come and worship thee, O Lord: and shall glorify thy Name. 10 For thou art great, and dost wondrous things: thou art God alone. 11 Teach me thy way (O Lord) and I will walk in thy truth: O knit my heart unto thee, that I may fear thy Name. 12 I will thank thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and will praise thy Name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell. 14 O God, the proud are risen against me: and the congregations of naughty men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes. 15 But thou (O Lord God) art full of compassion and mercy: long-suffering, plenteous in goodness and truth. 16 O turn thee then unto me, and have mercy upon me: give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the son of thine handmaid. 17 Show some good token upon me for good, that they which hate me, may see it, and be ashamed: because thou Lord hast holpen me, and comforted me. The Prayer. O Lord God, good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee, give ear unto our prayers, and ponder the voice of our desires when ever we call upon thee in our trouble. Let the souls of thy servants be refreshed with thy comforts, and defend us from the congregations of proud and naughty men. Turn thee unto us with mercy, give thy strength unto us, teach us thy laws, make us to walk in thy truth, give us the fear of thy Name, and knit our hearts to thee with the indissoluble bands of charity and obedience, that our souls being saved from the nethermost hell, we may worship thee, O Lord, & glorify thy name, who art full of compassion and mercy, long-suffering and plenteous in goodness and truth which thou hast manifested to us in our deliverance and redemption, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen, PSALM. 87. A contemplation of the excellencies of Zion, or the celestial jerusalem. HEr foundations are upon the holy hills: the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of jacob. 2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee: thou city of God. 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon: with them that know me. 4 Behold ye the Philistims also: and they of Tyre, with the Morions, lo, there was he borne. 5 And of Zion it shall be reported, that he was borne in her: and the most High shall establish her. 6 The Lord shall rehearse it, when he writeth up the people: that he was borne there. 7 The singers also and trumpeters also shall he rehearse: all my fresh springs shall be in thee. The Prayer. O Lord God who dwellest in Zion, and delightest to have thy habitation in the hearts of men, thou hast built the Church as a City upon a hill, and laid the foundation of it upon the Apostles and Prophets, jesus Christ being the chief Cornerstone, make us to be a spiritual building fit for thy habitation, and a residence for thy holy Spirit, grounding us in faith, building us up in hope, and perfecting us in charity, that we being joined in the communion of Saints, in the union of the holy Catholic Church militant on earth, may all partake of the blessings of thy Church triumphant in the City of thee our God, in the celestial jerusalem, where thou livest and reignest ever one God world without end. Amen. PSALM 88 A prayer in time of sickness and danger of death. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: O let my prayer enter into thy presence, incline thine ear unto my calling. 2 For my soul is full of trouble: and my life draweth nigh unto hell. 3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit: and I have been even as a man that hath no strength. 4 Free among the dead, like unto them that be wounded and lie in the grave: which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand. 5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit: in a place of darkness, and in the deep. 6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me: and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms. 7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me: and made me to be abhorred of them. 8 I am so fast in prison: that I cannot get forth. 9 My sight faileth for very trouble: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. 10 Dost thou show wonders among the dead: or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee? 11 Shall thy loving kindness be showed in the grave: or thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark: and thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten? 13 Unto thee ha●e I eried, O Lord: and early shall my prayer come before thee. 14 Lord, why abhorest thou my soul: and hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die: (even from my youth up) thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind. 16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me▪ and the fear of thee hath undone me. 17 They came round about me daily like water: and compassed me together on every side. 18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me: and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight. The Prayer. O Lord God of our salvation, who for our sakes wert wounded and didst die and lie in the grave, but yet alone of all that ever died wert free among the dead, and by thine own power didst arise again with victory and triumph; have mercy upon thy servant, for thine indignation lieth hard upon me, and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms: my soul is full of trouble by reason of my sins, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave; restore me unto thy favour, and let me not go down into the dark, nor my life into the place where all things are forgotten, but let me show forth thy loving kindness amongst thy redeemed ones in the land of the living: for the living, the living he shall praise thee and confess the holiness and the mercies of thy holy Name. O hide not thou thy face from me, but give me health of body and restore and preserve me in the life of righteousness, and so bless me with opportunities of doing thee service, that I may redeem the time past, and by thy grace may grow rich in good works, always abounding in the work of the Lord, that when thou shalt demand my soul to be rendered up into thy hands, my soul may not be abhorred of thee, nor suffer thy terrors, but may feel an eternity of blessings in the resurrection of the just through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 89. A Prayer for the King in time of Wars or any public calamity. EVENING PRAYER. MY song shall be always of the loving kindness of the Lord: with my mouth will I ever be showing thy truth from one generation to another. 2 For I have said, mercy shall be set up for ever: thy truth shalt thou establish in the heavens. 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen: I have sworn unto David my servant. 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever: and set up thy throne from one generation to another. 5 O Lord, the very heavens shall praise thy wondrous works: and thy truth in the congregation of the saints. 6 For who is he among the clouds: that shall be compared unto the Lord? 7 And what is he among the gods: that shall be like unto the Lord? 8 God is very greatly to be feared in the counsel of the saints: and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him. 9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee: thy truth (most mighty Lord) is on every side. 10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea: thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise. 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt, and destroyed it: thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy might arm. 12 The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, and all that therein is. 13 Thou hast made the North and the South: Tabor and Harmon shall rejoice in thy Name. 14 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. 15 Righteousness and equity is the habitation of thy feat: mercy▪ and truth shall go before thy face. 16 Blessed is the people (O Lord) that can rejoice in thee: they shall walk in the light of thy countenance. 17 Their delight shall be daily in thy Name: and in thy righteousness shall they make their boast. 18 For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy loving kindness thou shalt lift up our horns. 19 For the Lord is our defence: the holy one of Israel is our King. 20 Thou spakest sometimes in vision unto thy Saints, and saidst: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out of the people. 21 I have found David my servant: with my holy oil have I anointed him. 22 My hand shall hold him fast: and my arm shall strengthen him. 23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence: the son of wickedness shall not hurt him. 24 I shall smite down his foes before his face: and plague them that hate him. 25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him: and in my Name shall his horn be exalted. 26 I will set his dominion also in the sea: and his right hand in the floods. 27 He shall call me, thou art my father: my God, and my strong salvation. 28 And I will make him my firstborn: higher than the kings of the earth. 29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore: and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 30 His seed also will I make to endure for ever: and his throne as the days of heaven. 31 But if his children forsake my law: and walk not in my judgements. 32 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments: I will visit their offences with the rod, and their sin with scourges. 33 Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him: nor suffer my truth to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips: I have sworn once by my holiness, that I will not fail David. 35 His seed shall endure for ever: and his seat is like as the sun before me. 36 He shall stand fast for evermore as the moon: and as the faithful witness in Heaven. 37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine anointed: and art displeased at him. 38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant: and cast his crown to the ground. 39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges: and broken down his strong holds. 40 All they that go by spoil him: and he is become a rebuke to his neighbours. 41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies: and made all his adversaries to rejoice. 42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword: and givest him not victory in the battle. 43 Thou hast put out his glory: and cast his throne down to the ground. 44 The days of his youth hast thou shortened: and covered him with dishonour. 45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself, for ever: and shall thy wrath burn like fire? 46 Oh remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men for nought? 47 What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death: and shall he deliver his soul from the hand of hell? 48 Lord, where are thy old loving kindnesses: which thou swarest unto David in thy truth? 49 Remember (Lord) the rebuke that thy servants have: and how I do bear in my bosom the rebukes of many people. 50 Wherewith thine enemies have blasphemed thee, and slandered the footsteps of thine anointed: praised be the Lord for evermore. Amen, Amen. The Prayer. O Lord God of hosts, thou art greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all the world, let thy strong hand and thy mighty arm bless and preserve thine Anointed the King; as thou hast exalted thy chosen from among the People, so let the greatness of thy blessings and assistances distinguish him from all the world: make his throne as the days of heaven, smite down his enemies before his face, let thy hand hold him fast that the enemy may not be able to do him violence, and let thine arm strengthen him that the sons of wickedness may not hurt him. O do thou never put his glory out, nor cover him with dishonour, but give him victory in battles, honour and rejoicing in time of peace, confidence in thee, reverence amongst his people, & continual defence in thy salvation, that when thou hast finished his days in peace and honour, his seed may be established in his throne and endure for ever like as the sun before thee. Grant this, O king of kings, for his sake to whom thou hast given all power and dominion in heaven and earth, even our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 90. A meditation of death and a prayer preparatory to it. MORNING PRAYER. LOrd, thou hast been our refuge: from one generation to another. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlasting, and world without end. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction: again thousayest, Come again ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight, are but as yesterday: seeing that is passed as a watch in the night. 5 As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as a sleep: and fade away suddenly like the grass. 6 In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. 7 For we consume away in thy displeasure: and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. 8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee: and our secret sins in the sight of thy countenance. 9 For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. 10 The days of our age are threescore years and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow, so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. 11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure. 12 O teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 13 Turn thee again (O Lord) at the last: and be gracious unto thy servants. 14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon▪ so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. 15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us: and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity. 16 Show thy servants thy work: and their children thy glory. 17 And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us: prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our handy work. The Prayer. O Eternal God, whose being was before the mountains were brought forth, before the earth and the world were made, even from everlasting and world without end, have mercy upon us weak and impotent people, the children of men who fade away suddenly like the grass: remove our misdeeds from before thee, and our secret sins from the sight of thy countenance: be not angry with us, neither consume us in thy displeasure; teach us to number all the days of our life, and to reckon on still to the day of death, that when our days are gone, and our years are brought to an end like a tale that is told, thou mayest turn untous at the last, and be gracious unto us in the pardon of our sins, in the restraining the power and malice of all our ghostly enemies, in giving us opportunity of all spiritual assistances and advantages, that our lamps being trimmed and burning bright with charity and devotion, we may enter into the bride-chamber, there for ever to behold the glorious majesty of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. PSALM 91. A Prayer for protection in all dangers. Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High: shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope and my strong hold: my God, in him will I trust. 2 For he shall deliver thee from the suare of the hunter: and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall defend thee under his wings, and thou shalt be safe under his feathers: his faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day. 6 For the pestilence that walketh in darkness: nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon day. 7 A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee. 8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold: and ●ee the reward of the ungodly. 9 For thou Lord art my hope: thou hast set thine house of defence very high. 10 There shall no evil happen unto thee: neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. 11 For he shall give his Angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee in their hands: that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone. 13 Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon salt thou tread under thy feet. 14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore shall I deliver him: I shall set him up, because he hath known my name. 15 He shall call upon me, and I will hear him: yea, I am with him in trouble, I will deliver him, and bring him to honour. 16 With long life will I satisfy him: and show him my salvation. The Prayer. O Lord God our hope and our strong hold, have mercy upon us, and defend us under the shadow of thy wings, that we trusting under thy defence, may by thy faithfulness and truth be covered as with a shield and buekler. Give thy Angel's charge concerning us and our habitations, that we may be preserved and kept in all our ways▪ that no evil happen unto us, no plague come nigh our dwelling, no terrors of the night, no arrows of thy vengeance by day may disturb our peace or safety. Let thy ministering Spirits bear us in their hands, and keep us from precipice, from fracture of bones, from dislocations, noisome or sharp diseases, stupidities, and deformities, that we may tread under our feet all the snares of the roaring lion and the great dragon the Devil, who seeks our bodily and ghostly hurt. Do thou set thy love upon us, and deliver us from all our troubles, and at the end of our days show us thy salvation, and satisfy us with long life, even of a blessed eternity in thy Kingdom, through jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. PSALM. 92. A meditation of the great works of God in the destruction of the wicked, and the preservation of the godly. IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord: and to sing praises unto thy name, O most Highest. 2 To tell of thy loving kindness early in the morning: and of thy truth in the night season. 3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the lute: upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp. 4 For thou Lord hast made me glad through thy works: and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of thy hands. 5 O Lord, how glorious are thy works: and thy thoughts are very deep. 6 An unwise man doth not well consider this: and a fool doth not understand it. 7 When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourist: then shall they be destroyed for ever, but thou Lord art the most highest for evermore. 8 For lo, thine enemies (O Lord) lo thine enemies shall perish: and all the workers of wickedness shall be destroyed. 9 But mine horn shall be exalted like the horn of an unicorn: for I am anointed with fresh oil. 10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies: and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wlcked that rise up against me. 11 The righteous shall flourish like a palmtree: and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Lebanus. 12 Such as be planted in the house of the Lord: shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. 13 They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age: and shall be fat and well liking. 14 That they may show how true the Lord my strength is: and that there is no unrighteousness in him. The Prayer. O Lord God, thou art the most highest for evermore, thy works are glorious, and thy thoughts are very deep, make our hearts and tongues loud instruments of thy praises, that we may tell of thy mercy in the morning, of thy truth in the night, and that we may rejoice in giving thee thanks for the operations of thy hands all the days and nights of our life. Let thy merciful kindness descend evermore upon the righteous, that they may flourish like a palm tree being continually watered with the dew of temporal and spiritual blessings, and may bring forth fruits of a holy conversation; and grant that we thy servants, being planted in the house of God and firmly fixed in the blessed communion of Saints, may flourish in the Courts of thy house, thy celestial temple to all eternity. O let not our portion be amongst the ungodly and unrighteous: make us, not to communicate in their wickedness, so much as by consent or approbation, that we may never perish and be destroyed in the furiousness of thine anger, which thou treasurest up against the day of vengeance, & righteous judgement, even the day of the appearing of our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 93. A Prayer that God would preserve his Church against the storms and floods of persecution. EVENING PRAYER. THe Lord is King, and hath put on glorious apparel: the Lord hath put on his apparel, and girded himself with strength. 2 He hath made the round world so sure: that it cannot be moved. 3 Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared: thou art from everlasting. 4 The floods ●are risen (O Lord) the floods have lift up their voice: the floods lift up their waves. 5 The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly: but the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier. 6 Thy testimonies, O Lord, are very sure: holiness becometh thine house for ever. The Prayer. O Lord our King, who art girded with strength and hast prepared thy seat from everlasting, establish thy testimonies in our hearts, as a sure foundation of temporal & eternal happiness. Preserve thy house, the holy catholic Church in peace and holiness which is its defence and ornament, and although the floods of persecution and secular disadvantages have lift up their waves to overthrow it, yet because it is built upon a rock, the rock Christ jesus, make it to stand firm and sure against all the malice of hell and earth, and all the powers of them both; for thou, o Lord, art mightier than all the waves & storms of her enemies. To thee, O Lord, who dwellest on high, and art mightier, be all honour and glory now and for ever. Amen. PSALM. 94. A prayer for patience, comfort, and assistance to the godly, and that God would disappoint the designs of the wicked. O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth: thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself. 2 Arise thou judge of the world: and reward the proud after their deserving. 3 Lord, how long shall the ungodly: how long shall the ungodly triumph? 4 How long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully: and make such proud boasting? 5 They smite down thy people, O Lord and trouble thine heritage. 6 They murder the widow and the stranger: and put the fatherless to death. 7 And yet they say, Tush, the Lord shall not see: neither shall the God of jacob regard it. 8 Take heed ye unwise among the peoyle: O ye fools, when will ye understand? 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear: or he that made the eye, shall he not see? 10 Or he that nurtureth the heathen: it is he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he punish? 11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man: that they are but vain. 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest (O Lord:) and teachest him in thy law. 13 That thou mayest give him patience in time of adversity: until the pit be digged up for the ungodly. 14 For the Lord will not fail his people: neither will he forsake his inheritance. 15 Until righteousness turn again unto judgement: all such as be true in heart, shall follow it. 16 Who will rise up with me against the wicked: or who will take my part against the evil doers? 17 If the Lord had not helped me: it had not failed but my soul had been put to silence. 18 But when I said, My foot hath slipped: thy mercy (O Lord) held me up. 19 In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart: thy comforts have refreshed my soul. 20 Will't thou have any thing to do with the stool of wickedness: which imagineth mischief as a law? 21 They gather them together against the soul of the righteous: and condemn the innocent blood. 22 But the Lord is my refuge: and my God is the strength of my confidence. 23 He shall recompense them their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice: yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them. The Prayer. O Lord God, judge of the world, to whom vengeance belongeth and the execution of righteous judgements, have mercy upon us, chasten us with thy gentleness and fatherly correction when we sin against thee, teach u●lin thy law, be our refuge and our confidence in our troubles, and give us patience in times of adversity, that in the multitude of sorrows thy comforts may refresh us, thy mercies may relieve us, thy grace may pardon and confirm us, that our feet slip not, and our souls be not put to silence. Have pity upon all distressed and miserable people, do justice upon all that murder the widow, that put the fatherless to death, that grind the face of the poor. Fail not thy people, O Lord, and forsake not thine inheritance, but destroy the devices of all them that imagine mischief as a law, and are confederate against the righteous, to condemn the innocent, to discountenance Religion, to disadvantage thy worship and service, that in the day of eternal vengeance when thou shalt reward the proud after their deserving, and the pit be digged for the ungodly, we may have the lot of thine inheritance, and reign in the fellowship of Saints who give honour and praise to thee, O Lord God Almighty, world without end. Amen. PSALM 95. A Hymn invitatory to the worship of God, and a prayer for obedience to his will. MORNING PRAYER. O Come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving: and show ourselves glad in him with psalms. 3 For the Lord is a great God▪ and a great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the strength of the hills is his also. 5 The sea is his and he made it: and his hands prepared the dry land. 6 O come, let us worship and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our maker. 7 For he is (the Lord) our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hands. 8 To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness. 9 When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and saw my works. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said: It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways. 11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath: that they should not enter into my rest. The Prayer. O Great God the Lord our Maker, who art a King above all gods, give us the graces of humility and holy religion, that we may worthily praise and worship thy glories, and perfections infinite. We are the people of thy pasture, let thy mercies lead us, and feed and refresh our souls with the divine nutriment of thy Word and Sacraments: we are the sheep of thy hands, do thou guide us that we may never go astray; or if we do, bring us home into the sheepfold of our great shepherd, that we hearing his voice may not harden our hearts, neither tempting thy mercies, nor provoking thy wrath; that our hearts being preserved from error, and our ways from obliquity and crookedness, we may at last enter into thy eternal rest, through the merits and guidance of our great Shepherd jesus Christ our Mediator and Redeemer. Amen. PSALM 96. A hymn of adoration, and magnifying the glories of God. O Sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord all the whole earth. 1 Sing unto the Lord, and praise his name: be telling of his salvation from day to day. 3 Declare his honour unto the heathen: and his wonders unto all people. 4 For the Lord is great, and cannot worthily be praised: he is more to be feared then all Gods. 5 As for all the gods of the heathen, they be but idols: but it is the Lord that made the heavens. 6 Glory and worship are before him: power and honour are in his sanctuary. 7 Ascribe unto the Lord (O ye kindreds of the people:) ascribe unto the Lord worship and power. 8 Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his name: bring presents, and come into his courts. 9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: let the whole earth stand in awe of him. 10 C●ll it out among the heathen, that the Lord is King: and that it is he which hath made the round world so fast that it cannot be moved, and how that he shall judge the people righteously. 11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth he glad: let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is. 12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord. 13 For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: and with righteousness to judge the world, and the people with his truth. The Prayer. O Lord God in whose sanctuary is power and honour, before whose presence is glory and and worship, fill our lips and souls with great devotion and reverence towards thee our God: Make us to love thy goodness, to adore thy omnipotency, to reverence thy justice, to fear thy Majesty, to admire and tremble at thy omniscience and omnipresence, and to contemplate with the greatest zeal and affections all those glories which thou communicatest to the sons of men, in the revelations of thy gospel, of thy creatures, and of thy miracles, that we may tell of thy greatness, and declare thy salvation from day to day; and when thou comest with righteousness to judge the earth, and all people with thy truth, we may rejoice in thee everlastingly, and sing an Eternal Allelujah to thee in thy sanctuary: Grant this for jesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour. Amen. PSALM 97. A meditation upon the day of judgement, and a prayer for mercy and salvation. THe Lord is King, the earth may be glad thereof: yea, the multitude of the Isles may be glad thereof. 2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgement are the habitation of his seat. 3 There shall go a fire before him: and burn up his enemies on every side. 4 His lightnings gave shine unto the world: the earth saw it, and was afraid, 5 The hills melted like war at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. 6 The heavens have declared his righteousness: and all the people have seen his glory. 7 Confounded be all they that worship carved images, and that delight in vain gods: worship him all ye gods. 8 Zion heard of it, and rejoiced: and the daughters of judah were glad, because of thy judgements, O Lord, 9 For thou, Lord, art higher than all that are in the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. 10 O ye that love the Lord, see that ye hate the thing that is evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his Saints, he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly. 11 There is sprung up a light for the righteous: and joyful gladness for such as be true hearted. 12 Rejoice in the Lord ye righteous: and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness. The Prayer. O Lord our King, Lord of the whole earth, have mercy upon us, and sanctify us with thy grace, that we may hate every thing that is evil, that we may love thee, give thanks unto thy name, and rejoice in remembrance of thy holiness, that in the day of judgement and great terrors, when thou shalt sit in thy seat supported with righteousness and judgement, and a fire shall go forth from thy presence, to burn up thy enemies on every side, thou mayst preserve our souls in safety from the hand of our enemies, and a light may spring up unto us to preserve us from eternal darkness and the want of the light of thy countenance, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 98. A thanksgiving for the redemption of mankind by jesus Christ. EVENING PRAYER. O Sing unto the Lord a new song: for he hath done marvellous things. 2 With his own right hand, and with his holy arm: hath he gotten himself the victory. 3 The Lord declared his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly showed is the sight of the heathen. 4 He hath remembered his mercy and truth toward the house of Israel: and all the ends of the world have seen the salvation of our God. 5 Show yourselves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands: sing, rejoice, and give thanks. 6 Praise the Lord upon the harp: sing to the herpe with a psalm of thanksgiving. 7 With trumpets also and shaw●es: O show your sleves joyful before the Lord the King. 8 Let the sea make a noise, and all that therein is: the round world, and they that dwell therein. 9 Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful together before the Lord: for he is come to judge the earth. 10 With righteousness shall he judge the world: and the people with equity. The Prayer. O Most glorious and powerful jesus, who with thine own right hand, and with thy holy arm hast gotten to thyself on our behalf the victory over sin, hell, and the grave, remember this thy mercy and truth which thou hast promised to all that believe on thee, giveus pardon of our sins sealed unto us by the testimony of the holy Spirit, and of a good conscience, and grant that we by thy strength may fight against our ghostly enemies, and by thy power may overcome them, that we may rejoice in a holy peace, and sing, and give thee thanks for our victory and our crown. Extend this mercy and enlarge the effect of thy great victories to the heathen, that all the ends of the world may sing a new song unto thee, and see the salvation of God, that when thou comest to judge the earth we may all find mercy, and be joyful together before thee in the festivity of a blessed eternity, thorough thy mercies, O blessed Saviour and Redeemer jesus. Amen. PSALM 99 A prayer for the virtue of religion and devotion in holy places. THe Lord is King, be the people never so unpatient: he sitteth between the cherubims, be the earth never so unquiet. 2 The Lord is great in Zion: and high above all people. 3 They shall give thanks unto thy Name: which is great, wonderful, and holy. 4 The king's power loveth judgement, thou hast prepared equity: thou hast executed judgement and righteousness in jacob. 5 O magnify the Lord our God: and fall down before his footstool, for he is holy. 6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among such as call upon his Name: these called upon the Lord, and he heard them. 7 He spoke unto them out of the cloudy pillar: for they kept his testimonies, and the law that he gave them. 8 Thou heardest them (O Lord our God:) thou forgavest them, O God, and punishedst their own inventions. 9 O magnify the Lord our God, and worship him upon his holy hill: for the Lord our God is holy. The Prayer. O Great God, and King of Heaven and earth, thou that sittest between the Cherubims unmoved in the centre of thy own felicity and essential tranquillity, undisturbed in the great concussions and unquietness of the earth: give unto us thy servants venerable and dreadful apprehensions of the sanctity and perfections of thy Name and Nature, which is great, wonderful, and holy. Teach us in all the addresses of our devotion, and in all places appointed for thy service, by all reverence and holiness of soul and body, to express the greatness of thy power and our weakness, the majesty of thy glory and the unworthiness of our persons, the distance of God and man, of finite and infinite, of Lord and Servant, that the awfulness of thy dread majesty may check every unreverent gesture and thought in us, and teach us to make approaches of humility, and fear, that we calling upon thy Name according to our duties, and by the fear of thee being taught to keep thy testimonies, and never to forget the Law thou givest us, we may be delivered from thy wrath and punishment, and at last praise thee upon thy holy hill in thine everlasting habitation through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 100 A Psalm of praise to God for his mercy and truth. O Be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands: serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song. 2 Be ye sure that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves, we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 3 O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name. 4 For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting: and his truth endureth from generation to generation. The Prayer. O Lord our God who hast created us out of nothing, and hast redeemed us from misery and death when we were thine enemies, showing great expresses of thy loving kindness when we were vessels of wrath and inheritors of perdition, ●reveiling thy truth unto us in the Sermons of the Gospel: teach us to walk as thou hast commanded us, to believe as thou hast taught us, that we may inherit what thou hast promised us, for thou art the way, the truth, and the life: we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture, thou art our guide and our defence; let thy grace teach us to serve thee, and thy holy Spirit assist and promote our endeavours with the blessings of gladness and cheerfulness of Spirit, that we may love to speak good of thy Name, and at last may go into the courts of thy Temple with praise and a song in our mouths, to thy honour and eternal glory, whose mercy and truth is everlasting and revealed unto the Church in our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 101. A Prayer for a holy life. MY song shall be of mercy and judgement: unto thee, O Lord, will I sing. 2 O let me have understanding: in the way of godliness. 3 When wilt thou come unto me: I will walk in my house with a perfect heart. 4 I will take no wicked thing in hand, I hate the sins of unfaithfulness: there shall no such cleave unto me. 5 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. 6 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour: him will I destroy. 7 Whoso hath also a proud look, and high stomach: I will not suffer him. 8 Mine eyes look unto such as be faithful in the land: that they may dwell with me. 9 Whoso leadeth a godly life: he shall be my servant. 10 There shall no deceitful person dwell in my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. 11 I shall soon destroy all the ungodly that are in the land: that I may root out all wicked doers from the city of the Lord. The Prayer. O Lord God of eternal purity, who art of pure eyes and canst behold no unrighteousness or impurity: enlighten our understandings, that we may have knowledge in the way of godliness; make our paths strait, and our hearts perfect, take from us the sins of unfaithfulness, correct and mortify in us all froward and peevish dispositions, let us love the society of the saints, and hate the fellowship of the wicked, that we may not be destroyed with the ungodly, nor be rooted out from the City of the Lord, and banished from the sweetness of thy presence, for with thee is light, and health, and salvation, to thy Name be all honour, and glory, and praise ascribed, world without end. Amen. PSALM 102. A Prayer for comfort in sadness, anxiety of spirit, sickness, or any other affliction. MORNING PRAYER Hear my prayer, O Lord: and let my crying come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble ●encline thine ears unto me when I call, O hear me, and that right soon. 3 For my days are consumed away like smoke: and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand. 4 My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass: so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 For the voice of my groaning: my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh. 6 I am become like a pelican in the wilderness: and like an owl that is in the desert. 7 I have watched, and am even as it were a sparrow: that sitteth alone upon the house top. 8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long: and they that are mad upon me, are sworn together against me. 9 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread: and mingled my drink with weeping. 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath: for thou hast taken me up, and cast me down. 11 My days are gone like a shadow: and I am withered like grass. 12 But thou (O Lord) shalt endure for ever: and thy remembrance throughout all generations. 13 Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion: for it is time that thou have mercy upon her, yea, the time is come. 14 And why? thy servants think upon her stones: and it pitieth them to see her in the dust. 15 The heathen shall fear thy Name, O Lord: and all the kings of the earth thy majesty. 16 When the Lord shall build up Zion: and when his glory shall appear. 17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poor destitute: and despiseth not their desire. 18 This shall be written for those that come after: and the people which shall be borne, shall praise the Lord. 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuary: out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth. 20 That he might hear the mournings of such as be in captivity: and deliver the children appointed unto death. 21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Zion: and his worship at jerusalem. 22 When the people are gathered together: and the kingdoms also to serve the Lord. 23 He brought down my strength in my journey: and shortened my days. 24 But I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of mine age: as for thy years, they endure throughout all generations. 25 Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: they all shall wax old as doth a garment. 27 And as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. 28 The children of thy servants shall continue: and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight. The Prayer. O Eternal God, who endurest for ever, and thy remembrance throughout all generations, have pity upon us according to the infinite treasures of thy loving kindness, hear the voice of our groaning, for thy indignation and thy wrath lieth hard upon us, and our sins have put an edge upon thy sword, and a thorn into our wounded consciences. O build up the ruins of our souls, repair the breaches of our comforts and our hopes, and let thy glory now appear, for that shines brightest in the beams of thy mercy, and when thou turnest unto the prayer of poor wretched destitutes, it becomes an eternal monument and a record of thy honour, and all generations which shall be borne shall praise thee. Look down, O Lord, from thy Sanctuary, hear the mournings of us and of all distressed people; send us health and life so long as it may be a blessing, and do not shorten our days in wrath, but give us grace so to spend all our time in the works of repentance and holiness, that when our years fail, and our change is come, we may be translated to the new heavens which shall never perish and wax old, there to continue and stand fast in thy sight for ever, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 103. A thanksgiving to God for all his benefits and mercies. PRaise the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, praise his holy name. 2 Praise the Lord, O my soul: and forget not all his benefits. 3 Which forgiveth all thy sin: and healeth all thine infirmities. 4 Which saveth thy life from destruction: and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindness. 5 Which satisfieth thy mouth with good things: making thee young and lusty as an eagle. 6 The Lord executeth righteousness and judgement: for all them that are oppressed with wrong. 7 He showed his ways unto Moses: his works unto the children of Israel. 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercy: long-suffering, and of great goodness. 9 He will not always be chiding: neither keepeth he his anger for ever. 10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins: nor rewarded us according to our wickedness. 11 For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth: so great is his mercy also toward them that fear him. 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west: so far hath he set our sins from us. 13 Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children: even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. 14 For he knoweth whereof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust. 15 The days of man are but as grass: for he flourisheth as a flower of the field. 16 For assoon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone: and the place thereof shall know it no more. 17 But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever, upon them that fear him: and his righteousness upon children's children. 18 Even upon such as keep his covenant: and think upon his commandments to do them. 19 The Lord hath prepared his seat in heaven: and his kingdom ruleth over all. 20 O praise the Lord, ye angels of his, ye that excel in strength: ye that fulfil his commandment, and hearken unto the voice of his words. 21 O praise the Lord all ye his hosts: ye servants of his that do his pleasure. 22 O speak good of the Lord all ye works of his, in all places of his dominion: praise thou the Lord, O my soul. The Prayer. O most merciful God, whose mercy is as high as the heavens, as great and many as the moments of eternity, thou hast opened thy hand wide to fill us with blessings, and the sweet effects of thy loving kindness, thou art pitiful as a Father, tender as a Mother, careful as a guardian, & exceeding merciful to all them that fear thee: we pray thee to fill our souls with great apprehensions and impresses of thy unspeakable mercies, that our thankfulness may be as great as our needs of mercy are, and let thy merciful loving kindness endure for ever & ever upon us all. Keep no anger in store for us, chide us not in thy displeasure, satisfy our mouths with good things, remove all our sins from us as far as the east is from the west, heal all our infirmities and save our lives from destruction, for these are mercies thou delightest in: and because we cannot praise thee accordingly to thy excellencies, take our souls in thy due time, into the land of everlasting praises, that we may spend a whole eternity in ascribing to thy name, praise, & honour, and dominion. Grant this for jesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour. Amen. PSALM 104. A contemplation of the wisdom and goodness of God, manifested in his creatures. EVENING PRAYER. PRaise the Lord, O my soul: O Lord my God, thou art become exceeding glorious, thou art clothed with majesty and honour. 2 Thou deckest thyself with light as it were with a garment: and spreadest out the heavens like a curtain. 3 Which layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind. 4 He maketh his angel's spirits: and his ministers a flaming fi●e. 5 He laid the foundations of the earth: that it never should move at any time. 6 Thou covered'st it with the deep like as with a garment: the waters stand in the hills. 7 At thy rebuke they flee: at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid. 8 They go up as high as the hills, and down to the valleys beneath: even unto the place which thou hast appointed for them. 9 Thou hast set them their bounds which they shall not pass: neither turn again to cover the earth. 10 He sendeth the springs into the rivers: which run among the hills. 11 All beasts of the field drink thereof: and the wild asses quench their thirst. 12 Beside them shall the fowls of the air have their habitation: and sing among the branches. 13 He watereth the hills from above: the earth is filled with the fruit of thy works. 14 He bringeth forth grass for the cattle: and green herb for the service of men. 15 That he may bring food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the heart of man: and oil to make him a cheerful countenance, and bread to strengthen man's heart. 16 The trees of the Lord also are full of sap: even the cedars of Libanus which he hath planted. 17 Wherein the birds make their nests: and the firre-trees are a dwelling for the stork. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats: and so are the stony rocks for the confess. 19 He appointed the moon for certain seasons: and the sun knoweth his going down. 20 Thou makest darkness that it may be night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do move. 21 The lions roaring after their prey: do seek their meat at God. 21 The sun ariseth, and they get them away together: and lay them down in their dens. 23 Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour: until the evening. 24 O Lord, how manifold are thy works: in wisdom hast thou made them all, the earth is full of thy riches. 25 So is the great and wide sea also: wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the ships, and there is that Leviathan: whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein. 27 These wait all upon thee: that thou mayest give them meat in due season. 28 When thou givest it them, they gather it: and when thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good. 29 When thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: when thou takest away their breath, they die, and are turned again to their dust. 30 When thou lettest thy breath go forth, they shall be made: and thou shalt renew the face of the earth. 31 The glorious majesty of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works. 32 The earth shall tremble at the look of him: if he do but touch the hills, they shall smoke. 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will praise my God while I have my being. 34 And so shall my words please him: my joy shall be in the Lord. 35 As for sinners, they shall be consumed out of the earth, and the ungodly shall come to an end: praise thou the Lord, O my soul, praise the Lord. The Prayer. O Lord God who art exceeding glorious, who art clothed with majesty and honour, thou hast created all things with admirable wisdom, established them with excellent order, and hast provided for them with mercy and singular providence, be pleased to give us grace that we may remember thou hast created us all for thy glory, that thou hast planted thine image on us, and hast crowned all our years with thy mercies and loving kindness; let us never disobey thy will, forget thy mercies, or deface thine image in us, but when all thy creatures praise thee in their manner, let not us whom thou hast made in dignity next to Angels disturb the blessed order of Creation by our sins and irregular disobedience. Open thy hand, O Lord, and fill us with good things both spiritual and temporal, that when thou takest away our breath that we die, and turn again to our dust, thou mayest not hide thy face away from us, but communicate to us the light of thy countenance and the glories of thy Kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 105. A commemoration of God's care of his Church and blessings to his people. MORNING PRAYER. OBive thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his Name: tell the people what things he hath done. 2 O let your songs be of him, and praise him: and let your talking be of all his wondrous works. 3 Rejoice in his holy Name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. 4 Sèek the Lord and his strength: seek his face evermore. 5 Remember the marvellous works that he hath done: his wonders, and the judgements of his mouth. 6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant: ye children of jacob his chosen. 7 He is the Lord our God: his judgements are in all the world. 8 He hath been always mindful of his covenant and promise: that he made to a thousand generations. 9 Even the covenant that he made with Abraham: and the oath that he swore unto Isaac. 10 And appointed the fame unto jacob for a law: and to Israel for an everlasting testament. 11 Saying, unto thee will I give the land of Canaan: the lot of your inheritance. 12 When there were yet but a few of them: and they strangers in the land. 13 What time as they went from one nation to another: from one kingdom to another people. 14 He suffered no man to do them wrong: but reproved even Kings for their sakes. 15 Touch not mine Anointed: and do my Prophets no harm. 16 Moreover, he called for a dearth upon the land: and destroyed all the provision of bread. 17 But he had sent a man before them: even joseph which was sold to be a bond-servant. 18 Whose feet they hurt in the stocks: the iron entered into his soul. 19 Until the time came that his cause was known: the Word of the Lord tried him. 20 The King sent and delivered him: the prince of the people let him go free. 21 He made him Lord also of his house: and ruler of all his substance. 22 That he might inform his princes after his will: and teach his senators wisdom. 23 Israel also came into Egypt: and jacob was a stranger in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people exceedingly: and made them stronger than their enemies. 25 Whose heart turned so, that they hated his people: and dealt untruly with his servants. 26 Then sent he Moses his servant: and Aaron whom he had chosen. 27 And these showed his tokens among them: and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkness, and it was dark: and they were not obedient unto his Word. 29 He turned their waters into blood: and slew their fish. 30 Their land brought forth frogs: yea, even in their King's chambers. 31 He spoke the word, and there came all manner of flies: and louse in all their quarters. 32 He gave them hailstones for rain: and flames of fire in their land. 33 He smote their vines also and figtrees: and destroyed the trees that were in their coasts. 34 He spoke the word and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable: and did eat up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. 35 He smote all the firstborn in their land: even the chief of all their strength. 36 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among their Tribes. 37 Egypt was glad at their departing: for they were afraid of them. 38 He spread out a cloud to be a covering: and fire to give light in the night season. 39 At their desire he brought quails: and he filled them with the bread of heaven. 40 He opened the rock of stone, and the waters flowed out: so that the rivers ran in dry places. 41 For why? he remembered his holy promise: and Abraham his servant. 42 And he brought forth his people with joy: and his chosen with gladness. 43 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they took the labours of the people in possession. 44 That they might keep his statutes: and observe his laws. The Prayer. O Lord God▪ who art always mind full of thy covenant and promise to a thousand generations, and didst deliver the seed of Abraham the children of jacob thy chosen from the slavery of Egypt, from the waves of the sea▪ from the rage of Pharaoh, from the thirst and ●amine of the wilderness, continue the like mercies to all Christian people; deliver us from the bondage of our sins, preserve us in the A●ke of the Church, that we perish not in the waves of this troublesome world; save us from the ●●ry of all our temporal and ghostly enemies, ●eed us with food from heaven, and give us competency of good things on earth, that we may keep thy statutes, and observe thy Laws, and at last receive the promises of a blessed eternity; which in the covenant of thy Gospel thou hast made unto all that believe in thee, and are obedient to thy Word. Grant this, O blessed jesus, to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory, world without end, Amen. PSALM 106. A commemoration of God's frequent pardons and mercies to the penitent. EVENING PRAYER. Ogive thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Who can express the noble acts of the Lord: or show forth all his praise? 3 Blessed are they that always keep judgement: and do righteousness. 4 Remember me, O Lord, according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation. 5 That I may see the felicity of thy chosen: and rejoice in the gladness of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance. 6 We have sinned with our fathers: we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly. 7 Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance: but were disobedient at the sea▪ even at the Red sea. 8 Nevertheless, he helped them for his name's sake: that he might make his power to be known. 9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through▪ the deep, as through a wilderness. 10 And he saved them from the adversaries hand: and delivered them from the hand of the enemy. 11 As for those that troubled them, the waters overwhelmed them: there was not one of them left. 12 Then believed they his words: and sang praise unto him. 13 But within a while they forgot his works▪ and would not abide his counsel. 14 But lust came upon them in the wilderness: and they tempted God in the desert. 15 And he gave them their desire: and sent leanness withal into their soul. 16 They angered Moses also in the tents: and Aaron the saint of the Lord. 17 So the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan: and covered the congregation of Abiram. 18 And the fire was kindles in their company: the flame burned up the ungodly. 19 They made a calf in Horeb: and worshipped the molten image. 20 Thus they turned their glory: into the similitude of a calf that eateth hay. 21 And they forgot God their Saviour: which had done so great things in Egypt. 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham: and fearful things by the Red sea 23 So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the gap: to turn away his wrathful indignation lest he should destroy them. 24 Yea, they thought scorn of that pleasant land: and gave no crepance unto his word. 25 But murmured in their tents: and harkened not unto the voice of the Lord. 26 Then lift he up his hand against them: to overthrow them in the wilderness. 27 To cast out their seed among the nations: and to scatter them in the lands. 28 They joined themselves unto Baal-peor: and ate the offering of the dead. 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their own inventions: and the plague was great among them. 30 Then stood up Phinees, and prayed: and so the plague ceased. 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness: among all posterities for evermore. 32 They angered him also at the waters of strife: so that he punished Moses for their sakes. 33 Because they provoked his spirit also that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. 34 Neither destroyed they the heathen as the Lord commanded them. 35 But were mingled among the heathen: and learned their works. 36 Insomuch that they worshipped their idols, which turned to their own decay: yea they offered their sons and daughters unto devils. 37 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters: whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, and the land was defiled with blood. 38 Thus were they stained with their own works: and went a whoring with their own inventions. 39 Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people: insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. 40 And he gave them over into the hand of the heathen: and they that hated them, were lords over them. 41 Their enemies oppressed them: and had them in subjection. 42 Many a time did he deliver them: but they rebelled against him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness. 43 Nevertheless▪ when he saw their adversity: he heard their complaint. 44 He thought upon his covenant, and pitied them according unto the multitude of his mercies: yea, he made all those that had led them away captive, to pity them. 45 Deliver us (O Lord our God) and gather us from among the heathen: that we may give thanks unto thy holy Name, and make our boast of thy praise. 46 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and world without end: and let all the people say, Amen. The Prayer. O Lord God, full of mercy and pity, who didst many times deliver thy people from their adversity, when thou for their rebelling against thee with their inventions hadst given them into the hand of the heathen: Remember us O Lord, according unto the favour thou bearest unto thy people, and visit us with thy salvation, that though we have done amiss, and dealt wickedly against thee and against thy covenant, yet be pleased to help us for thy Name sake, and make▪ thy power to be known in the mighty deliverance and redemption of us from so great danger and misery. Give us grace to believe thy words, to abide thy counsels, to walk in thy Laws, to relinquish our own sinful and vain desires, to obey▪ our Governors▪ Ecclesiastical and Civil, that we may not have the lot of Dathan and Abiram, but at last may receive our port▪ on in the felicity of thy chosen, giving thee thanks with thine inheritance, for that thou hast turned from us thy wrathful indignation, pitying us, and saving us according to the multitude of thy mercies. Thy Name be blessed. O Lord God, everlastingly, and world without end, through jesus Christ our Lord, Amen▪ PSALM▪ 107. A thanksgiving for deliver●●●e from miseries and dangers MORNING PRAYER. O Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed: and delivered from the hand of the enemy. 3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the East, and from the West: from the North, and from the South. 4 They went astray in the wilderness out of the way: and found no city to dwell in. 5 Hungry and thirsty: their soul fainted in them. 6 So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble: and he delivered them from their distress. 7 He led them forth by the right way: that they might go to the city where they dwelled. 8 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness: and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men! 9 For he satisfieth the empty soul: and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. 10 Such as si● in darkness and in the shadow of death: being fast bound in misery and iron. 11 Because they rebelled against the word of the Lord: and lightly regarded the counsel of the most High. 12 He also brought down their heart through heaviness: they fell down, and there was none to help them up. 13 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble: he delivered them out of their distress. 14 For he brought them out of darkness, and out of the shadow of death: and broke their bonds in sunder. 15 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness: and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men. 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass: and ●ritten the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 in sunder. 17 Foolish men are plagued for their offence: and because of their wickedness. 18 Their soul abhorred all manner of meat: and they were even hard a● deaths door. 19 So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble: he delivered them out of their distress. 20 He sent his word and healed them: and they were saved from their destruction. 21 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness: and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men. 22 That they would 〈…〉 him the sacrifice of thanksgiving: and 〈◊〉 but his works with gladness. 23 They that go do●● to the sea in ships: and occupy their business in great waters. 24 These men see the works of the Lord: and his wonders in the deep. 25 For at 〈◊〉 wor● the stor● wind● ariseth: which lifteth up the waves thereof. 26 〈…〉 carried up to the heaven, and do●●● again to the deep their soul melteth away because of the trouble. 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man: and are at their wit● end. 28 So when they cry unto the Lord in their troubles he delivereth them out of their distress. 29 For ●● maketh the storm▪ to cease: so that the waves thereof ar● still. 30 Then are they glad, because they be at rest: and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. 31 O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness: and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men. 32 That they would ●●alt him also in the congregation of the people: and praise him in the seat of the elders. 33 Which ●urnath the floods into a wilderness: and drieth up the water springs. 34 A fruitful 〈◊〉 maketh ●e barren: for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. 35 Again he maketh the wilderness a standing water and water springs of a dry ground. 36 And there h●●se●●eth the hungry: that they may build them a city to dwell in. 37 That they 〈◊〉 sow their land, and plant vineyards: to yield them fruits of increase. 38 He blesseth them, so that they multiply exceedingly: and suffereth not their cattle to decrease. 39 And again, when they are minished and brought low: through oppression, through any plague or trouble. 40 Though he suffer them to be evil entreated through tyrants: and let them wander out of the way in the wilderness. 41 Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery: and maketh him households like a flock of sheep. 42 The righteous will consider this, and rejoice: and the mouth of all wickedness shall be stopped. 43 Whoso is wise will ponder these things: and they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. The Prayer. O Lord God, gracious and good, whose mercy endureth for ever, have mercy upon us when in our trouble we cry unto thee; for when our hearts are brought down through heaviness there is none to help us up, or to deliver us out of our distress, but only thou, O Lord. We have sinned, we have rebelled against thee, and lightly regarded thy counsels, we have walked and ●ate in darkness and in the shadows of death, being fast bound in the captivity and misery of sin. O bring us out of darkness and break our bonds a sunder, guide us through the desert of this world, in which grows nothing but sadness and discontent; still the tempests, and smooth the slond● of misery which are ready to overwhelms us, and in thy due time bring us to eternal rest, and to the haven where we would fain be, that in the congregation of thy holy people, we may praise thee for thy goodness, and declare, the wonders thou hast done for us in delivering us from sin, and misery, and death, and bringing us to a City to dwell in, where there is life, and light, and joy eternal in the beholding the face of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 108. A Prayer for victory against our Enemies. EVENING PRAYER. O God, my heart is ready (my heart is ready) I will sing and give praise with the best member I have. 2 Awake thou lute and harp: I myself will awake right early. 3 I will give thanks unto thee. O Lord, among the people: I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. 5 For thy mercy is greater than the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. 5 Set up thyself (O God) above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth. 6 That thy beloved may be delivered: let thy right hand save them, and hear thou me. 7 God hath spoken in his holiness: I will rejoice therefore, and divide Sithem, and meet out the valley of Succoth. 8 Gilead is mine, and Manasses is mine: Ephraim also is the strength of mine head. 9 juda is my lawgiver. Moab is my washpot: over Edom will I cast out my shoe, upon the Philistines will I triumph. 10 Who will lead me into the strong city: and who will bring me into Edom? 11 Hast not thou forsaken us, O God▪ and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts? 12 O help us against the enemy: for vain is the help of man. 13 Through God we shall do great acts: and it is he that shall tread down our enemies. The Prayer. O Lord God, whose mercy is greater than the Heavens, and thy glory is above all the earth, be thou exalted in thine own strength, and magnify thy power and thy mercy in defending us, and all thy holy Church, against all our enemies temporal and spiritual. Forsake us not O God our defence, for vain is the help of man, do thou strengthen us and go forth with our hosts to battle, that we being defended and armed by thee, may do acts great and good, fight thy battles, and putting our confidence in thy righteousness only, and salvation, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 109. A Prayer against God's enemies, and especially Traitors, prophetically intended against the person of judas. HOld not thy tongue, O God of my praise: for the mouth of the ungodly, yea, and the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me. 2 And they had spoken against me with false tongues: they compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause. 3 For the love that I had unto them, lo, they take now my contrary part: but I give myself unto prayer. 4 Thus have they rewarded me evil for good: and hatred for my good will. 5 Set thou an ungodly man to be ruler over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 6 When sentence is given upon him, let him be condemned: and let his prayer be turned into sin. 7 Let his days be few: and let another take his office. 8 Let his children be fatherless: and his wise a widow. 9 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread: let them seek it also out of desolate places. 10 Let the extortionet consume all that he hath: and let the stranger spoil his labour. 11 Let there be no man to pity him: nor to have compassion upon his fatherless children. 12 Let his posterity be destroyed: and in the next generation let his name be clean put out. 13 Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be done away. 14 Let them always be before the Lord: that he may root out the memorial of them from off the earth. 15 And that because his mind was not to do good: but persecuted the poor helpless man, that he might slay him that was vexed at the heart. 16. His delight was incursing, and it shall happen unto him: he loved not blessing, therefore shall it be far from him. 17 He clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment: and it shall come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 18 Let it be unto him as the cloak that he hath upon him: and as the girdle that he is always girded withal. 19 Let it thus happen from the Lord unto mine enemies: and to those that speak evil against my soul. 20 But deal thou with me (O Lord God) according unto thy name: for sweet is thy mercy. 21 O deliver me, for I am helpless and poor: and my heart is wounded within me. 22 I go hence like the shadow that departeh: & am driven away as the grasshopper. 23 My knees are weak through fasting: my flesh is dried up for want of fatness. 24 I became also a rebuke unto them: they that looked upon me shaked their heads. 25 Help me (O Lord my God:) Oh save me according to thy mercy. 26 And they shall know how that this is thy hand: and thou Lord hast done it. 27 Though they curse, yet bless thou: and let them be confounded that rise up against me, but let thy servant rejoice. 28 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame: and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a cloak. 29 As for me, I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth: and praise him among the multitude. 30 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor: to save his soul from unrighteous judges. The Prayer. O God of our praise, who wast contented that thy son jesus Christ should be betrayed into the hands of sinners by one of his own Apostles, the Traitor judas, and in punishment of so great impiety didst suffer Satan to stand at his right hand tempting him to despair, and to give sentence upon himself to condemn himself, and to execute his own judgement, and gavest his Bishopric to another: let thy righteous judgements find out all those that are Traitors to their Prince, enemies to the Church, Apostates from Religion, Hypocrites under specious pretences, and beauteous titles; that they may be clothed with shame, and may cover themselves with their own confusion as with a cloak; that by thy punishments in this life, they may be driven to a sharp and salutary repentance, and may be saved in the life to come. Deal thou with us, O Lord, according to thy mercy, take away thy curse, and let not thy blessing be far from us: let not our wickedness, nor the wickedness of our fathers be had in remembrance in thy sight, let our minds be always to do good, & our hearts and lips be given unto prayer, and our prayers so guided by thy assistances, that they be not turned into sin; that when we go hence like the shadow that departeth, and are driven away like the grasshopper, when the days of our vanity and rejoicing are passed, we may stand at thy right hand, and our souls be saved from the lot and portion of the unrighteous, through the righteousness and passion of our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM. 110. A Hymn in the honour of Christ's Kingdom, and Priesthood, and exaltation. MORNING PRAYER. THe Lord said unto my Lord: Sat thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 2 The Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Zion: be thou ruler even in the midst among thine enemies. 3 In the day of thy power shall the people offer thee free-will-offerings with an holy worship: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. 4 The Lord swore and will not repent: Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek. 5 The Lord upon thy right hand: shall wound even kings in the day of his wrath. 6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies: and smite in sunder the heads over divers countries. 7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up his head. The Prayer. O Eternal God, Father of our Lord jesus Christ, who when thy Son had drank of the brook in the way to the grave and to our redemption (beginning his passion by the brook Cedron, and tasting the waters of bitterness till he had drunk of the whole chalice of thy wrath upon the Cross) didst lift up his head, and set him at thy right hand till thou shalt make all his enemies his footstool: fill our hearts with his love and praises, that we may pay him the offerings of our souls & bodies in an holy worship, & joyful thanksgiving for all the parts and mysteries of our redemption, for his birth in the womb of his holy Mother, pure and virginal, like the morning dew, for his Death and Passion, and for his continual mediation and intercession by which he does officiate in his eternal Priesthood, which is after the order of Melchised●k. Remember us, blessed jesus, in the Day of thy power, when thou shalt come to judge the world, and the places filled with dead bodies shall give up their dead, that we may sit at thy right hand to magnify and behold the glories of thy Kingdom for ever and ever, Amen. PSALM 111. An Eucharistical Hymn for the benefits of the holy Gospel, particularly of the blessed Sacrament. I Will give thanks unto the Lord with my whole heart: secretly among the faithful, and in the congregation. 2 The works of the Lord are great: sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. 3 His work is worthy to be praised and had in honour: and his righteousness endureth for ever. 4 The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done his marvellous works: that they ought to be had in remembrance. 5 He hath given meat unto them that fear him: he shall ever be mindful of his covenant. 6 He hath showed his people the power of his works: that he may give them the heritage of the heathen. 7 The works of his hands are verity and judgement: all his commandments are true. 8 They stand fast for ever and ever: and are done in truth and equity. 9 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath commanded his covenant for ever, holy and reverend is his Name. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do thereafter, the praise of it endureth for ever. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus, whose righteousness endureth for ever, thy work is worthy to be praised and had in honour, for that thou hast been merciful and gracious to us, and hast given meat, even the food of the blessed Sacrament unto them that fear thee, that by participation of thy holy Communion we should have thee in remembrance, and ever be mindful of thy covenant: plant thy fear in our hearts, give us wisdom and good understanding, and make us to have pleasure in thee, and all thy works, that we obeying the precepts of thy holy Gospel, and performing the conditions of thy covenant, which thou hast established for ever in truth and equity, in verity and judgement, we may worthily praise and adore thy reverend and holy Name among the faithful in this life, and in the great congregation of Saints in the life to come, through thy mercies, O blessed jesus, to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory now and for ever. Amen. PSALM 112. A Prayer for the fear of the Lord, for charity, and the blessings of the righteous. BLessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he hath great delight in his commandments. 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the faithful shall be blessed. 3 Riches and plenteousness shall be in his house: and his righteousuesse endureth for ever. 4 Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darkness: he is merciful, loving, and righteous. 5 A good man is merciful, and dareth: and will guide his words with discretion. 6 For he shall never be moved: and the righteous shall be had in an everlasting remembrance. 7 He will not be afraid for any evil tidings: for his heart standeth fast, and believeth in the Lord. 8 His heart is established and will not shrink: until he see his desire upon his enemies. 9 He hath dispersed abroad and given to the poor: and his righteousness remaineth for ever, his horn shall be exalted with honour. 10 The ungodly shall see it▪ and it shall grieve him: he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away, the desire of the ungodly shall perish. The Prayer. O Lord God who art to be feared in the generations of the world, teach us the fear of thy Name, that we may fear to offend thee, and that delighting in thy Commandments, we may serve thee without fear of our enemies in holiness and righteousness all our days. Let thy light rise upon the darkness of our understandings; let thy mercies and gentleness cure all thoughts of unmercifulness in us, and make us charitable, of tender bowels, yearning with pity over the needs of the poor. Teach us to guide our words with discretion, make us never to be moved from our purposes of holy living, establish our hearts in thy love, that in the day of restitution of all things, thou mayest give us the portion of the charitable, the rewards of thy right hand, and when the wicked shall gnash with their teeth, and consume away in a sad eternity, we may be satisfied with the riches and plenteousness of thy house for ever, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 113. A thanksgiving to God for his acts of providence, and particular care over the poor and humble. PRaise the Lord (ye servants:) O praise the Name of the Lord. 2 Blessed be the name of the Lord: from this time forth for evermore. 3 The Lords name is praised: from the rising up of the sun, unto the going down of the same. 4 The Lord is high above all heathen: and his glory above the heavens. 5 Who is like unto the Lord our God, that hath his dwelling so high: and yet humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and earth? 6 He taketh up the simple out of the dust: and lifteth the poor out of the mire. 7 That he may set him with the princes: even with the princes of his people. 8 He maketh the barren woman to keep house: and to be a joyful mother of children. The Prayer. O Lord God whose dwelling is on high, and yet thou humblest thyself to behold the things that are in Heaven and earth, have mercy upon us thy humble servants, and lift us up from the gates of death, take us out of the mire that we sink not into the bottomless pit of misery and infelicity, and when for our sins thou humblest us as low as the dust, let thy mercy exalt us and restore us to the light of thy countenance, and the joy of thy salvation; that when thou shalt call all the world to judgement from the rising of the Sun to the going down thereof, we may be set with the Princes of thy people, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in thine eternal Kingdom, to sing praises to thy Name from this time forth for evermore. Amen. PSALM 114. A thanksgiving to God for the deliverance of his people from bondage and misery. EVENING PRAYER. WHen Israel came out of Egypt: and the house of jacob from among the strange people. 2 juda was his sanctuary: and Israel his dominion. 3 The sea saw that and fled: jordan was driven back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams: and the little hills like young sheep. 5 What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest: and thou jordan, that thou wast driven back? 6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams: and ye little hills like young sheep? 7 Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the God of jacob. 8 Which turned the hard rock into a standing water: and the flint stone into a springing well. The Prayer. O Lord God at whose presence the earth trembles, who workest salvation and deliverance for thy Church in all ages, and didst deliver thy people from the bondage of Egypt with a mighty hand, and an arm stretched out in miraculous effects, deliver us from the bondage of sin, from the tyranny of the devil, from the Empire and Dominion of the flesh, that our bodies and souls being mortified, our flesh brought under subjection of the spirit, our appetites made subordinate to reason, and our souls wholly conformable to thy will, our hard stony hearts may be converted into hearts of flesh, and into a springing well bringing forth the waters of repentance, and fruits springing up to life eternal, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 115. A Prayer against idolatry, and for confidence in the true God. NOt unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give the praise: for thy loving mercy, and for thy truth's sake. 2 Wherefore shall the heathen say: Where is now their God? 3 As for our God, he is in heaven: he hath done whatsoever pleased him. 4 Their idols are silver and gold: even the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths and speak not: eyes have they and see not. 6 They have ears and hear not: noses have they and smell not. 7 They have hands and handle not, feet have they and walk not: neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them, are like unto them: and so are all such as put their trust in them. 9 But thou house of Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is their succour and defence. 10 Ye house of Aaron, put your trust in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. 11 Ye that fear the Lord, put your trust in the Lord: he is their helper and defender. 12 The Lord hath been mindful of us, and he shall bless us: even he shall bless the house of Israel, he shall bless the house of Aaron. 13 He shall bless them that fear the Lord: both small and great. 14 The Lord shall increase you more and more: you and your children. 15 Ye are the blessed of the Lord: which made heaven and earth. 16 All the whole heavens are the Lords: the earth hath he given to the children of men. 17 The dead praise not thee, O Lord: neither all they that go down into the silence. 18 But we will praise the Lord: from this time forth for evermore. Praise the Lord. The Prayer. O Lord God omnipotent, whose seat is in Heaven, and thou hast done whatsoever pleased thee in Heaven and earth, give us thy grace, that in all our troubles we may make thee our Succour and Defence, and put our trust in thee only, that we receiving thy mercies and the satisfaction of all our hopes from thy plenteousness and loving kindness, we may give praise unto thy Name, never ascribing to ourselves any honour, or the glory and thanks of any good action or prosperous success, but to thee who art the Author and Giver of all good things. Preserve us from all dangers of idolatry, from worshipping or loving any vain imaginations, and making any thing to be our confidence besides thee our God, that so thou mayest be mindful of us, and bless us in all our ways, and when we die and go down into the silence, we may have our portion amongst the blessed of the Lord, in the inheritance of thy Kingdom, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 116. An act of love and thanksgiving to God, for deliverance from sin and death. MORNING PRAYER I Am well pleased: that the Lord hath heard the voice of my prayer. 2 That he hath inclined his ear unto me: therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The snares of death compassed me round about: and the pains of hell got hold upon me. 4 I shall find trouble and heaviness, and I shall call upon the name of the Lord: O Lord I beseech thee deliver my soul. 5 Bratious is the Lord and righteous: yea, our God is merciful. 6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was in misery, and he helped me. 7 Turn again then unto they rest, O my soul: for the Lord hath rewarded thee. 8 And why? thou hast delivered my soul from death: mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the Lord: in the land of the living. 10 I believed, and therefore will I speak, but I was sore troubled: I said in my haste, All men are liars. 11 What reward shall I give unto the Lord: for all the benefits that he hath done unto me? 12 I will receive the cup of salvation: and call upon the name of the Lord. 13 I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people: right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. 14 Behold (O Lord) how that I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid, thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. 15 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving: and will call upon the name of the Lord. 16 I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the sight of all his people: in the courts of the Lords house, even in the mids of thee, O jerusalem. Praise the Lord. The Prayer. O Lord God of eternal mercies, Gracious and Righteous, give unto us hearts filled with love and praises to thy holy name; for thou hearest our prayers, thou breakest asunder the bonds of our sins, thou deliverest our souls from trouble and heaviness, and snatchest us from the snares of death, and savest us from the pains of hell. O merciful God, let our soul's rest in thee, and be satisfied in the pleasures of thy mercy, that we may receive the cup of blessing and salvation, and celebrate the Eucharist in honour of thy name, and in remembrance of thy infinite benefits which thou hast done unto us, and at last may pay our great Allelujah to the Lord in the courts of the Lords house, in the midst of the celestial Jerusalem, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 117. An invitation to all people to praise God's mercy and truth. O Praise the Lord all ye heathen: praise him all ye nations. 2 For his merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise the Lord. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus who art not only the glory of thy people Israel, but the light of the Gentiles, let thy merciful kindness be ever more and more towards the sons of men, that the nations which have not known thee may hear thy truth, and feel thy mercies, and call upon thy name, and thy grace may be confirmed upon us, till we receive the fullness and perfection of thy graces in the full fruition of the glories of our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 118. A Psalm of thanksgiving for the mercies and salvation which are given us in jesus Chrst. O Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: because his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Let Israel now confess that he is gracious: and that his mercy endureth for ever. 3 Let the house of Aaron now confess: that his mercy endureth for ever. 4 Yea, let them now that fear the Lord, confess: that his mercy endureth for ever. 5 I called upon the Lord in trouble: and the Lord heard me at large. 6 The Lord is on my side: I will not fear what man doth unto me. 7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon mine enemies. 8 It is better to trust in the Lord: then to put any confidence in man. 9 It is better to trust in the Lord: then to put any confidence in princes. 10 All nations compassed me round about: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them. 11 They kept me in on every side, they kept me in (I say) on every side: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them. 12 They came about me like bees, and are extinct even as the fire among the thorns: for in the name of the Lord will I destroy them. 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me, that I might fall: but the Lord was my help. 14 The Lord is my strength and my song: and is become my salvation. 15 The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass. 16 The right hand of the Lord hath the preeminence: the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass. 17 I will not die, but live: and declare the works of the Lord. 18 The Lord hath chastened and corrected me: but he hath not given me over unto death. 19 Open me the gates of righteousness: that I may go into them, and give thanks unto the Lord, 20 This is the gate of the Lord: the righteous shall inter into it. 21 I will thank thee, for thou hast heard me: and art become my salvation. 22 The same stone which the builders refused: is become the head stone in the corner. 23 This is the Lords doing: and it is marvellous in our eyes. 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made: we will rejoice and be glad in it. 25 Help me now, O Lord: O Lord send us now prosperity. 26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord: we have wished you good luck, ye that be of the house of the Lord. 27 God is the Lord which hath showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, yea, even unto the horns of the altar. 28 Thou art my God, and I will thank thee: thou art my God, and I will praise thee. 29 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. The Prayer. O Most Gracious Lord, our strength & our song, thou art become our salvation, & thy mercy endureth for ever, be thou on our side, take part with them that help us, let the voice of joy and health be within our dwellings, and when thou chastenest and correctest us for our sins, give us not over unto death, but fix our faith and hopes upon the head stone in the corner, even our Lord jesus Christ, that in all the assaults made against us by our ghostly enemies, the right hand of the Lord may have the preeminence, and bring mighty things to pass, even victory and deliverance unto thy servants, that we putting no confidence in the best of men, may trust in thee, O Lord, till at last, when thou openest the everlasting gates of righteousness, we may enter in and give thee thanks and praise, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 119. A prayer for religion, zeal, love of the law of God, and meditation in it. EVENING PRAYER. BLessed are those that are undefiled in the way: and walk in the law of the Lord. 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies: and seek him with their whole heart. 3 For they which do no wickedness: walk in his ways. 4 Thou hast charged: that we shall diligently keep thy commandments. 5 O that my ways were made so direct: that I might keep thy statutes! 6 So shall I not be confounded: while I have respect unto all thy commandments. 7 I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart▪ when I shall have learned the judgements of thy righteousness. 8 I will keep thy ceremonies: O forsake me not utterly. The Prayer. O Blessed Lord God, whose words are light and life to the obedient and believing soul, let thy grace so purify our hearts and actions, that we may be undefiled in thy way, keeping thy testimonies and seeking thee with our whole heart; that our ways being made direct without wand'ring into by-paths, we may go into our country, the land of eternal & glorious promises, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. II. Where withal shall a young man cleanse his way: even by ruling himself after thy word. 2 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments. 3 Thy words have I hid within my heart: that I should not sin against thee. 4 Blessed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy statutes. 5 With my lips have I been telling: of all the judgements of thy mouth. 6 I have had as great delight in the way of thy testimonies: as in all manner of riches. 7 I will talk of thy commandments: and have respect unto thy ways. 8 My delight shall be in thy statutes: and I will not forget thy word. The Prayer. GRant, O Lord, that our affections and endeavours be not divided between thee and the world, but that we may seek thee with our whole heart, cleansing our ways from all impurity, giving to thy service our youth, and more perfect age, even all our days, and all our powers, taking more delight in the way of thy testimonies then in all manner of riches and fading pleasures; that we delighting in thee, and the ways that lead to thee, may be beloved of thee with an eternal love, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. III. O Do well unto thy servant: that I may live, and keep thy word. 2 Open thou mine eyes: that I may see the wondrous things of thy law. 3 I am a stranger upon earth: O hide not thy commandments from me. 4 My soul breaketh out for the very servant desire: that it hath always unto thy judgements. 5 Thou hast rebuked the proud: and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments. 6 O turn from me shame and rebuke: for I have kept thy testimonies. 7 Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes. 8 For thy testimonies are my delight: and my counsellors. The Prayer. O Lord God, our Father and our Guardian, we are strangers upon the earth, far removed from our country, and we are in darkness and walk in the shadow of death, let not this darkness seize upon our souls, hide not thy commandments from us, but open our eyes with the light of thy holy Spirit, that we may see the wondrous things of thy law, and admire thy glories, and adore thy might, and obey all thy righteous precepts: and although our hearts be already enkindled with the love of thy law, yet make our desires to serve thee more fervent, that our lukewarmness may arise up to the flames and ardours of a Cherubin, that while we are busied in thy statutes, making them our delight and our counsellors, shame and rebuke may always be turned from us, and we ever rejoice with hope and confidence in thee, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. IV. MY soul cleaveth to the dust: O quicken thou me according to thy word 2 I have knowledged my ways, and thou heardest me: O teach me thy statutes. 3 Make me to understand the way of thy commandments: and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. 4 My soul melteth away for very heaviness: comfort thou me according unto thy word. 5 Take from me the way of lying: and cause thou me to make much of thy law. 6 I have chosen the way of truth: and thy judgements have I laid before me. 7 I have sticken unto thy testimonies: O Lord confound me not. 8 I will run the way of thy commandments: when thou hast set my heart at liberty. The Prayer. WE have chosen the way of thy truth, O Lord, and laid thy judgements before us, and yet through our infirmities, and the disadvantages of the flesh, we are in heaviness, and drive on slowly like Pharao's chariots with the wheels off; our souls and our desires cleave unto the dust, and to things below, and we are not active in thy services: O quicken us according to thy word, refresh our weariness, comfort our sadness, take from us the way of lying and vanity, set our hearts at liberty from the bondage of sin, from the fetters of temptation, from the encumbrances of the world, and then we shall run the way of thy commandments, never ceasing to run till we arrive at the land of eternal rest and righteousness, where thou livest and raignest, world without end. Amen. V. MORNING PRAYER. TEach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes: and I shall keep it unto the end. 2 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy Law: yea, I shall keep it with my whole heart. 3 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments: for therein is my desire. 4 Incline my heart unto thy testimonies: and not to couteousnesse. 5 O turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity: and quicken thou me in thy way. 6 O establish thy word in thy servant: that I may fear thee. 7 Take away the rebuke that I am afraid of: for thy judgements are good. 8 Behold, my delight is in thy commandments: O quicken me in thy righteousness. The Prayer. O Lord God, who art of infinite Sanctity, and hast given us thy Law, that we walking in so divine a rule, may imitate the perfection of thy holiness, make us to go all our days in the path of thy Commandments: take from us all greedy and inordinate appetite of the creature, let not our hearts be inclined to covetousness, nor our eyes wander after vanity, but grant, that we being established in thy Law, and walking in thy fear, may persevere in the ways of righteousness, keeping the way of thy statutes even unto the end; that the rebuke which for our sins we may justly, fear, may by thy mercies and pardon be taken away from us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. VI LEt thy loving mercy also come unto me, O Lord: even thy salvation, according unto thy word. 2 So shall I make answer unto my blasphemers: for my trust is in thy word. 3 O take not the word of thy truth utterly out of my mouth: for my hope is in thy judgements. 4 So shall I always keep thy law: yea, for ever and ever. 5 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy commandments. 6 I will speak of thy testimonies also, even before kings: and will not be ashamed. 7 And my delight shall be in thy commandments: which I have loved. 8 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved: and my study shall be in thy statutes. The Prayer. LEt thy loving mercy come unto us, O Lord, and thy salvation, for thou always keepest promise, and never disappointest the hopes of them that trust in thee. Give us confidence and boldness in thee, that we may never fear or blush to confess thee before men, but may speak of thy testimonies even before Kings, and may never be ashamed of thy Word, which is the ground of our hope, but that our hands may be lift up to perform thy Law, and our study, our love, and our delight may be in it, even for ever and ever, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. VII. O Think upon thy servant, as concerning thy word: wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust. 2 The same is my comfort in my trouble: for thy word hath quickened me. 3 The proud have had me exceedingly in derision: yet have I not shrinked from thy law. 4 For I remembered thine everlasting judgements, O Lord: and received comfort. 5 I am horribly afraid: for the ungodly that forsake thy law. 6 Thy statutes have been my songs: in the house of my pilgrimage. 7 I have thought upon thy name, O Lord, in the night season: and have kept thy law. 8 This I had: because I kept thy commandments. The Prayer. Think upon us, O Lord, in all our desires, in all our fears, in all our troubles; let thy Law give us comfort, redress, and satisfaction; that in our trouble we may thence derive comfort, in our fears we may there fix our anchor of hope, and from thence we may get defence against the derisions and insolences of the proud; and grant that thy grace may reward thy grace in us, and a further degree of sanctity may crown the first beginnings; and when by thy assistances we think upon thy Name, and keep thy Law, we beg this only that our reward may be still to keep thy Commandments. Grant this for jesus Christ his sake, our Lord and only Saviour. Amen. VIII. THou art my portion, O Lord: I have promised to keep thy law. 2 I made my humble petition in thy presence with my whole heart: O be merciful unto me according to thy word. 3 I called mine own ways to remembrance▪ and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. 4 I made haste and prolonged not the time: to keep thy commandments. 5 The congregation of the ungodly have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. 6 At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee: because of thy righteous judgements. 7 I am a companion of all them that fear thee: and keep thy commandments. 8 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: O teach me thy statutes. The Prayer. O Bear God, be thou our portion and the lot of our inheritance, and be merciful unto us when ever we make our humble petition in thy presence, and above all the desires of our souls let us receive satisfaction in this request: give us repentance and thy holy Spirit, that we calling our own ways to remembrance, may be truly sorrowful for our past sins, and may make haste, prolonging not the time, but early and instantly turn our feet unto thy testimonies, that we being companions of all that fear thee, may be partakers of all the blessings in the communion of Saints, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. IX. O Lord, thou hast dealt graciously with thy servant: according unto thy word. 2 O learn me true understanding and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. 3 Before I was troubled, I went wrong: but now have I kept thy word. 4 Thou art good and gracious: O teach me thy statutes. 5 The proud have imagined a lie against me: but I will keep thy commandments with my whole heart. 6 Their heart is as fat as brawn: but my delight hath been in thy law. 7 It is good for me that I have been in trouble: that I may learn thy statutes. 8 The law of thy mouth is dearer unto me: then thousands of gold and silver. The Prayer. THou, O Lord, art gracious even in the execution of thy judgements and displeasure against sinners, and thou sendest chastisement and correction to us when we go wrong, that thou mayest chide us into obedience, and the blessings of eternity: let not idleness and sensuality make us remiss in our duty, nor our own vanity and the sense of thy favour make us proud, nor the want of holy discipline make us impudent and refractory, but let thy mercies and thy judgements learn us thy statutes, and make them dearer to us than thousands of gold and silver, that while we make thy statutes to be our treasure, our heart may be fixed on them in a continual meditation, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. X. EVENING PRAYER. THy hands have made me and fashioned me: O give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. 2 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me: because I have put my trust in thy word. 3 I know (O Lord) that thy judgements are right: and that thou of very faithfulness hast caused me to be troubled. 4 O let thy merciful kindness be my comfort: according to thy word unto thy servant. 5 O let thy loving mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. 6 Let the proud be confounded for they go wickedly about to destroy me: but I will be occupied in thy commandments. 7 Let such as fear thee, and have known thy testimonies: be turned unto me. 8 O let my heart be sound in thy statues: that I be not ashamed. The Prayer. O Lord our Maker, thy hands have made us and fashioned us, let thy holy Spirit regenerate us, and thy grace form us anew, that the old man being destroyed, the new man may be produced in righteousness and sanctity; that our hearts may be sound in thy statutes without hypocrisy, and inordinate ends, full of candour and ingenuity; that thy loving mercies coming unto us in a full stream we may live in them and be turned unto thee, never to be removed from thy Law and love. Grant this for the love of our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. XI. MY soul hath longed for thy salvation: and I have a good hope because of thy word. 2 Mine eyes long sore for thy word: saying, O when wilt thou comfort me? 3 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke: yet do I not forget thy statutes. 4 How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou be avenged of them that persecute me? 5 The proud have digged pits for me: which are not after thy law. 6 All thy commandments are true: they persecute me falsely, O be thou my help. 7 They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I forsook not thy commandments. 8 O quicken me after thy loving kindness: and so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth. The Prayer. O Lord our helper, teach us to remember our end, to consider our years that are past, that we in consideration how few the days of thy servants are which are yet to come, may quicken our industry and affections to thy Law, that by a double and more active endeavour in the ways of thy Commandments, we may redeem the time, and by thy mercy being delivered from all them that trouble and persecute us, we may be refreshed in thy eternal comforts, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. XII. O Lord thy word: endureth for ever in heaven. 2 Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another: thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth. 3 They continue this day according to thine ordinance: for all things serve thee. 4 If my delight had not been in thy law: I should have perished in my trouble. 5 I will never forget thy commandments: for with them thou hast quickened me. 6 I am thine, Oh save me: for I have sought thy commandments. 7 The ungodly laid wait for me, to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. 8 I see that all things come to an end: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. The Prayer. O Lord out Guide, thou hast laid the Foundation of the earth sure, and it abideth, but thy Word endureth for ever in Heaven, and though Heaven and Earth shall pass away, yet one tittle of thy Word shall never pass in vain and unaccomplished; teach us to obey thee with a regular obedience, that since all the creatures continue according to thine ordinance and serve thee, we only may not disobey thee and disturb the order of Creation by a rebellion of creatures against their Maker, lest thy wrath arise upon us, and we perish in our trouble. Have mercy upon us, and deliver us from thy wrath, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. XIII. LOrd, what love have I unto thy law: all the day long is my study in it. 2 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 3 I have more understanding than my teachers: for thy testimonies are my study. 4 I am wiser than the aged: because I keep thy commandments. 5 I have refrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy word. 6 I have not shrunk from thy judgements: for thou teachest me. 7 O how sweet are thy words unto my throat: yea sweeter than honey unto my mouth. 8 Through thy commandments I get understanding: therefore I hate all wicked ways. The Prayer. O Lord our Governor, who art the Fountain of all wisdom and understanding, and hast commanded that all that lack wisdom should ask it of thee who givest liberally; make us wise and understanding in the observation of thy Commandments, that we may refrain our feet from every evil way, and never shrink from thy judgements, but may delight and study in all the expresses of thy will which thou hast revealed to us by our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. XIIII. MORNING PRAYER. THy word is a lantern unto my feet: and a light unto my paths. 2 I have sworn, and am steadfastly purposed: to keep thy righteous judgements. 3 I am troubled above measure: quicken me (O Lord) according to thy word. 4 Let the freewill offerings of my mouth please thee, O Lord: and teach me thy judgements. 5 My soul is always in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. 6 The ungodly have laid a snare for me: but yet I swerved not from thy commandments. 7 Thy testimonies have I claimed as mine heritage for ever: and why? they are the very ●oy of my heart. 8 I have applied my heart to fulfil thy statutes always: even unto the end. The Prayer. O Son of righteousness, that camest to bring light unto the world by thy word, and example, and illumination of thy holy spirit; let thy spirit lead us, thy example guide us, thy word teach us, that we may not love darkness more than light, but may keep thy righteous judgements according to our many purposes and our vow of baptism: keep us from the snare of the ungodly, and from our own selves, the dangers of our own concupiscence, and the miseries of our infirmity; leave not our souls in our own hands, but keep them under thy protection and government, lest we swerve from thy commandments, but that applying our hearts always to fulfil thy statutes even unto the end, we may possess thy law as our portion and inheritance for ever, Grant this, O blessed jesus, for thy promise and for thy mercy's sake, that we may glorify thee in the unity of themost mysterious Trinity now and for evermore. Amen. XV. I Hate them that imagine evil things: but thy law do I love. 2 Thou art my defence and shield: and my trust is in thy word. 3 Away from me ye wicked: I will keep the commandments of my God. 4 O establish me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be disappointed of my hope. 5 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: yea, my delight shall be ever in thy statutes. 6 Thou hast trodden down all them that depart from thy statutes: for they imagine but deceit. 7 Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. 8 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee: and I am afraid of thy judgements. The Prayer. O God our defence and shield, thou that treadest down all them that depart from thy law, and puttest away the ungodly of the earth like dross, let thy mercies hold us up, that we may be safe from sin and death eternal: make us to hate all evil things, all evil imaginations, that we being established with a trust in thee, and building our expectations upon thy mercies and promises, we may not be disappointed of our hope, but may live with thee eternally, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. XVI. I Deal with the thing that is lawful and right: O give me not over unto mine oppressors. 2 Make thou thy servant to delight in that which is good: that the proud do me no wrong. 3 Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health: and for the word of thy righteousness. 4 O deal with thy servant according unto thy loving mercy: and teach me thy statutes. 5 I am thy servant, O grant me understanding: that I may know thy testimonies. 6 It is time for thee, Lord, to lay to thine hand: for they have destroyed thy law. 7 For I love thy commandments: above gold and precious stone. 8 Therefore hold I strait all thy commandments: and all false ways I utterly abhor. The Prayer. O Lord God, thou seest with what miseries and dangers we are encompassed, our ghostly enemies seek to do us wrong, and to oppress our souls; give us not over unto their malice, but arm us against their pride and insolency by faith in thy word, by hope of thy mercies, and looking for thy health, and by love unto thy commandments, that so in this world, and in the eternal retribution of the Saints, thou mayst deal with thy servants according to thy loving mercy. Grant this for jesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour. Amen. XVII. THy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them. 2 When thy word goeth forth: it giveth light and understanding unto the simple. 3 I opened my mouth and drew in my breath: for my delight was in thy commandments. 4 O look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me: as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. 5 Order my steps in thy word: and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me. 6 O deliver me from the wrongful dealings of men: and so shall I keep thy commandments. 7 Show the light of thy countenance upon thy servant: and teach me thy statutes. 8 Mine eyes gush out with water: because men keep not thy law. O Just and dear God, show the light of thy countenance upon thy servants, and let this light give unto us understanding in thy law, that our steps being ordered in thy word, thou mayst deliver us from the wrongful dealings of men, and from the malicious enmities of our Ghostly adversaries, that by their temptations, and our own weakness, we may never be brought under the dominion of sin and wickedness, that when thy word goeth forth to call to judgement all people, quick and dead, thou mayst be merciful unto us, and save us, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Grant this for the merits and mercies of our dearest Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. XVIII. RIghteous art thou, O Lord: and true is thy judgement. 2 The testimonies that thou hast commanded: are exceeding righteous and true. 3 My zeal hath even consumed me: because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. 4 Thy word is tried to the uttermost: and thy servant loveth it. 5 I am small, and of no reputation: yet do I not forget thy commandments. 6 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness: and thy law is the truth. 7 Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me: yet is my delight in thy commandments. 8 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: O grant me understanding, and I shall live. The Prayer. O Righteous Lord God, whose judgements are true, and thy testimonies exceeding righteous, enkindle our souls with zeal to thy Laws and service, that the continual remembrance of thy Commandments may so enable our souls, as to give a greatness and reputation to us in thy estimation, even the greatness of humility and obedience, which are more honourable in thy eyes than all the pomps and vanities of this world. Grant this for his sake, who for our sakes humbled himself to the form of a servant, and became obedient to the death of the Cross, even jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour and glory, now and for ever. Amen. XIX. EVENING PRAYER. I Call with my whole heart: hear me, O Lord, I will keep thy statutes. 2 Yea, even upon thee do I call: help me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. 3 Early in the morning do I cry unto thee: for in thy word is my trust. 4 Mine eyes prevent the night watches: that I might be occupied in thy words. 5 Hear my voice (O Lord) according unto thy loving kindness: quicken me according as thou art wont. 6 They draw nigh that of malice persecute me: and are far from thy law. 7 Be thou nigh at hand, O Lord: for all thy commandments are true. 8 As concerning thy testimonies, I have known long since: that thou hast grounded them for ever. The Prayer. O Lord God of eternal mercy and truth, give us hearts fixed upon thy divine beauties, and an actual intention in our prayers, that we may call upon thee with our whole hearts, and do thou hear in Heaven when we call upon thee: deliver us from all them that of malice draw nigh to persecute and afflict us, be thou also night at hand, and nothing can disturb our safety. Make us to seek to thee early in the morning; let our eyes and our prayers prevent the night watches, that we may be safe in our conversation with thee, and our daily approaches to thy mercy-seat, where thou sittest attended with Cherubims and Seraphims, glorious in thyself, incomprehensible in thy Attributes, and infinitely rejoicing in thy mercies which thou showest unto us in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. XX. O Consider mine adversity, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. 2 Avenge thou my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according unto thy word. 3 Health is far from the ungodly: for they regard not thy statutes. 4 Great is thy mercy, O Lord: quicken me as thou art wont. 5 Many there are that trouble me, and persecute me: yet do I not swerve from thy testimonies. 6 It grieveth me when I see the transgressors: because they keep not thy law. 7 Consider, O Lord, how I love thy commandments: O quicken me according to thy loving kindness. 8 Thy word is true from everlasting: all the judgements of thy righteousness endure for evermore. The Prayer. O Lord thy mercy is great, thy Word is true from everlasting, and in the truth of thy Word, and in the mercies of thy promises and loving kindness thou lovest to be known to the sons of men; O give us thy health and salvation, that our souls being delivered from the heavy pressure of sin, and quickened in thy Word, thou mayest avenge us of all our ghostly enemies, and deliver us in thy righteousness in the day of thy eternal vengeance upon the ungodly, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. XXI. PRinces have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy words. 2 I am as glad of thy word: as one that findeth great spoils. 3 As for lies, I hate and abhor them: but thy law do I love. 4 Seven times a day do I praise thee: because of thy righteous judgements. 5 Great is the peace that they have which love thy law: and they are not offended at it. 6 Lord, I have looked for thy saving health: and done after thy commandments. 7 My soul hath kept thy testimonies: and loved them exceedingly. 8 I have kept thy commandments and testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. The Prayer. ALL our ways (O God) are before thee; let all our ways be directed by thee, and teach us to walk as in thy presence. Make us to hate and abhor lies and vanity, and give us so much love, and so much zeal of thy Name and honour, that we may make it a business to give thee praises with a frequent and daily devotion, that we standing in awe of thy Word and holy Laws, and doing after thy Commandments, our expectations may be satisfied with thy saving health, and we may at last enjoy the peace which they have that love thy Law, even the peace of a good conscience here, and of a blessed eternity hereafter, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. XXII. LEt my complaint come before thee, O Lord: give me understanding according to thy word. 2 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word. 3 My lips shall speak of thy praise: when thou hast taught me thy statutes. 4 Yea, my tongue shall sing of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteous. 5 Let thine hand help me: for I have chosen thy commandments. 6 I have longed for thy saving health, O Lord: and in thy law is my delight. 7 O let my soul live, and it shall praise thee: and thy judgements shall help me. 8 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: Oh seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments. The Prayer. O Lord God, we have gone astray from thy Commandments, and been like lost sheep, thou art our Shepherd and our merciful Guide; O seek thy servants, let thy hand help us, let thy care and providence reduce us into the way of thy statutes; that we being delivered according to thy Word from thy wrath, and from our own corruptions and irregularities, may at last be satisfied with thy saving health, and our lips may speak of thy praise in the choir of Saints and Angels, singing glorious Anthems to all eternity, to the honour of thee, O Lord God eternal, who livest and reignest world without end. Amen. PSALM. 120. A Prayer to be delivered from false tongues, and cohabitation with wicked persons. MORNING PRAYER. WHen I was in trouble, I called upon the Lord: and he heard me. 2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips: and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue: even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals. 4 Woe is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech: and to have mine habitation among the tents of Cedar. 5 My soul hath long dwelled among them: that be enemies unto peace. 6 I labour for peace, but when I speak unto them thereof: they make them ready to battle. The Prayer. O Lord God, who hearest the prayers of them that call upon thee in their calamities and distresses, have mercy upon us thy servants, who live in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, whereof we ourselves make too great a part; we beseech thee so to order the circumstances and opportunities of our life, that we may live in the society of holy people, whose example and conversation may be a continual incentive to the ways of peace and righteousness; and deliver us from a necessity of conversing with turbulent spirits, angry, and unpeacefull dispositions, who upon all occasions make themselves ready to battle. Sanctify our hearts and lips with a burning coal from thy altar, that our words may be holy and profitable, and keep us from all slander and scandal, and the rewards of both, the sharp arrows of thy vengeance, the hot burning coals of thy wrath. Grant this for jesus Christ his sake, our Lord and only Saviour. Amen. PSALM 121. A Prayer for God's protection over us. I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills: from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh even from the Lord: which hath made heaven and earth. 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: and he that keepeth thee, will not sleep. 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel: shall neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord himself is thy keeper: the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand. 6 So that the sun shall not burn thee by day: neither the moon by night. 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul. 8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in: from this time forth for evermore. The Prayer. O Lord God our Keeper, who dwellest upon the eternal hills from whence cometh all our help, let thy mercies and thy providence watch over us by day and night, that neither the vanities of the one, nor the terrors of the other may disturb our peace or safety. Let not our feet be moved, but be fixed upon the Rock Christ jesus, and so order our goings, making us to walk in the way of thy Commandments, that thou mayest go in and out before us, till at last we come into thy presence to dwell with thee for evermore, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 122. A Prayer for the peace and prosperity of the Church. I Was glad when they said unto me: We will go into the house of the Lord. 2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates: O jerusalem. 3 jerusalem is builded as a city: that is a● unity in itself. 4 For thither the Tribes go up, even the Tribes of the Lord: to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord. 5 For there is the seat of judgement: even the seat of the house of David. 6 O pray for the peace of jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. 7 Peace be within thy walls: and plenteousness within thy palaces. 8 For my brethren and companions sakes: I will wish thee prosperity. 9 Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God: I will seek to do thee good. The Prayer. O Blessed jesus, who didst descend according to thy humane Nature from the House of thy servant David, and hast planted a church, and defended it with a mighty hand and great assistances, be pleased to preserve peace within her walls, and send plenteousness within her palaces, that all that love her peace may prosper, and receive the blessings which thou givest to thy faithful people in the communion of Saints. Take from her all schisms and divisions, that she may be like a city that is at unity within itself, strong in faith, abounding in hope, and rich in the treasures of charity, that at last she may be removed to a fellowship of all those joys and felicities which are laid up for the inhabitants of the heavenly jerusalem which is from above, and is the mother of us all. Grant this, O blessed jesus, our only Mediator and Redeemer. Amen. PSALM 123. An ejaculation, or a lifting up our souls to God for help in trouble. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes: O thou that dwellest in the heavens. 2 Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress: even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us. 3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are utterly despised. 4 Our soul is filled with the scornful reproof of the wealthy: and with the despitefulness of the proud. The Prayer. O Lord God, that dwellest in the Heavens, have mercy upon us in all our troubles, in contempt, in our poverty, and when ever we are oppressed by any injurious practices of the proud. Thou art our Lord and Master, we are thy servants, our eyes wait upon thee till thou have mercy upon us: let us not be ashamed of our hope, nor unfaithful in our services, nor distrustful of thy providence, but make us diligent labourers in our calling, good husbands of our talents, and faithful in all thy house, that we first serving thee may at last sit down at meat with thee at thy table in thy Kingdom, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 124. A thanksgiving for our deliverance from the power of all our enemies, and a confessing God to be the Author of it. IF the Lord himself had not been on our side (now may Israel say:) if the Lord himself had not been on our side when men rose up against us. 2 They had swallowed us up quick: when they were so wrathfully displeased at us. 3 Yea, the waters had drowned us: and the stream had gone over our soul. 4 The deep waters of the proud: had gone even over our soul. 5 But praised be the Lord: which hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth. 6 Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered. 7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord: which hath made heaven and earth. The Prayer. O Lord God, which hast made Heaven and Earth, in whose Name our help standeth, we praise and bless thy Name, that in our troubles and temptations thou hast stood on our side, and pleaded for us against them that rose against us. It was thy hand (O Lord) and the help of thy mercy that relieved us: the waters of affliction had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul, if the Spirit of the Lord had not moved upon the waters. Thou (O Lord) didst blast the designs of our enemies with the breath of thy displeasure, and to thee (O Lord) we ascribe the praise and honour of our redemption. Perpetuate thy mercies to us, let us never be given over as a prey to our ghostly enemies, but break their snares, discover and weaken all their temptations by which they would destroy our souls, that we being delivered from sin may be preserved from thy wrath, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 125. A Prayer for confidence in God, and for deliverance from the portion of the wicked. THey that put their trust in the Lord, shall be even as the mount Ston: which may not be removed, but standeth fast for ever. 2 The hills stand about jerusalem: even so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore. 3 For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous: lest the righteous put their hand unto wickedness. 4 Do well, O Lord: unto those that be good and true of heart. 5 As for such as turn back unto their own wickedness: the Lord shall lead them forth with the evil doers, but peace shall be upon Israel. The Prayer. O Lord God, our Trust and Confidence, in whom whosoever trusteth shall never be removed, but standeth fast for ever: let thy mercies and the guard of holy Angels stand round about us, and about all thy holy people, like the hills for our defence and safety, that we may be inaccessible by all the intendments of our enemies. O let us not put our hands to wickedness, neither let our portion be in the lot of the ungodly, whom thou leadest forth to destruction, but let us receive the blessing which our Lord jesus left unto his Church, even the peace of God the Father, of the Son, and of the holy Ghost; to whom be all honour and glory ascribed of men and Angels, now and for ever. Amen. PSALM 126. A contemplation of the joys and blessings of them that depart hence in the Lord. EVENING PRAYER. WHen the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion: then were we like unto them that dream. 2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter: and our tongue with joy. 3 Then said they among the heathen: The Lord hath done great things for them. 4 Yea, the Lord hath done great things for us already: whereof we rejoice. 5 Turn our captivity, O Lord: as the rivers in the south. 6 They that sow in tears: shall reap in joy. 7 He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed: shall doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him. The Prayer. O Lord God who hast promised salvation to thy people, and hast done great things for us already, deliver us from the captivity and bondage of sin and misery. Fill our hearts with holy sorrow and compunction when ever we trespass against thee, and teach us so to deny ourselves, to mortify our affections, to crucify our lusts and all the temptations of the flesh, that we going on our way with mourning and weeping, despising the pleasures of this life, may when thy great harvest shall come, and thy reapers the Angels shall separate the wheat from the tares, come before thee with joy, and bring our sheaves with us to be laid up in thy granary, that so we may escape the everlasting burning, through the mercies of jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 127. A Prayer for God's blessing to go along with the temporal good things he gives us. EXcept the Lord build the house: their labour is but lost that build it. 2 Except the Lord keep the city: the watchman waketh but in vain. 3 It is but lost labour that ye hast to rise up early, and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 4 Lo, children and the fruit of the womb: are an heritage and gift that cometh of the Lord. 5 Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant: even so are the young children. 6 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. The Prayer. O Lord God, without whose blessing all our labours are vain and unprofitable, and our possessions are but bitter and unpleasant: let thy blessing be upon our labours and our substance, our children, and our dwelling, that the good things of this life may be an heritage and gift from thee, issues of thy favour, and an earnest of a greater blessing: make our souls diligent in thy service, not importunate and greedy for the increase of riches: let our dwellings be safe and peaceable, and our families increase in thy blessings, that we feeling the comforts of thy favour here, may be stirted up to great desires after the blessings of eternity, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 128. A Prayer for the fear of God, and the blessings of the Godly. BLessed are all they that fear the Lord: and walk in his ways. 2 For thou shalt eat the labours of thine hands: O well is thee, and happy shalt thou be. 3 Thy wife shallbe as the fruitful vine: upon the walls of thine house. 4 Thy children like the olive-branches: round about thy table. 5 Lo, thus shall the man be blessed: that feareth the Lord. 6 The Lord from out of Zion shall so bless thee: that thou shalt see jerusalem in prosperity all thy life long. 7 Yea, that thou shalt see thy children's children: and peace upon Israel. The Prayer. O Lord God, who hast promised to multiply thy blessings upon them that fear thee; teach us the fear of the Lord, and let thy spirit so assist us, that we may walk in thy ways with great observation of all our actions, and much diligence to perform thy holy will, that we may receive the blessings of the righteous, blessings of the right hand, and of the left hand, and may rejoice in the blessing and peace of thy church, waiting for the consummation of all blessing and peace in thy eternal Kingdom, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 129. A Prayer against the enemies of the Church. MAny a time have they fought against me from my youth up: (may Israel now say.) 2 Yea, many a time have they vexed me from my youth up: but they have not prevailed against me. 3 The plowers ploughed upon my back: and made long furrows. 4 But the righteous Lord: hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces. 5 Let them be confounded and turned backward: as many as have evil will at Zion. 6 Let them be even as the grass growing upon the house tops: which withereth afore it be plucked up. 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand: neither he that bindeth up the sheaves, his bosom. 8 So that they which go by, say not so much as the Lord prosper you: we wish you good luck in the name of the Lord. The Prayer. O Most blessed Jesus, who for our sins didst suffer the plowers to plow upon thy back, and make long furrows, suffering shame and whipping for our sakes, and all the contradictions of sinners, and didst leave sorrows and afflictions entailed upon thy Church, that by suffering with thee, she might at last reign with thee in glory: Deliver us and all thy holy Church, from all that fight against us; hue the snares of the ungodly in pieces, let the designs of them that have evil will at thy Church, be like the grass growing upon the house tops, withered and blasted before it comes to maturity; and make us to prosper under thy mercies, and in the good wishes and devout prayers of holy people, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 130. A penitential Psalm, or a prayer for pardon and redemption from sins. OUt of the deep have I called unto thee (O Lord:) Lord hear my voice. 2 Oh let thine ears consider well: the voice of my complaint. 3 If thou Lord wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss: O Lord, who may abide it? 4 For there is mercy with thee: therefore shalt thou be feared. 5 I look for the Lord, my soul doth wait for him: in his word is my trust. 6 My soul fleeth unto the Lord: before the morning watch, I say, before the morning watch. 7 O Israel trust in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy: and with him is plenteous redemption. 8 And he shall redeem Israel: from all his sins. The Prayer. O Lord God, blessed jesus, with whom is mercy and plenteous redemption, who didst redeem thy people from all their sins, paying the ransom of thine own blood to purchase us freedom and salvation: let the height of thy mercy take us up from the deep abyss of sin and misery. O be not extreme to mark what we have done amiss, for it is impossible we should abide the extremity of thy severest judgements: and as thy mercy pardons what is past, so let the sweetness of it beget thy fear in our hearts, that we may not dare to offend so gracious, so merciful a God, but that trusting in thy Word, and flying unto thee for succour, we may wait for thee till our change cometh, looking for thee in holiness and righteousness all our days. Grant this for thy mercies and compassion sake, O blessed Jesus, our only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen. PSALM 131. A Prayer for the graces of humility and mortification. LOrd, I am not high minded: I have no proud looks. 2 I do not exercise myself in great matters: which are too high for me. 3 But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, like as a child that is weaned from his mother● yea, my soul is even as a weaned child. 4 O Israel trust in the Lord: from this time forth for evermore. The Prayer. O Lord God, before whom the humble Publican (who durst not lift up his eyes to Heaven, but with confusion of face begged pardon) was justified and acquitted: give unto us thy servants humilty of soul, and modesty in our behaviour, that our looks be not proud, nor our thoughts arrogant, nor our designs ambitious; but that our souls being refrained from all vanity and pride, our affections weaned from great opinions and love of ourselves, we may trust in thee, follow the example of our blessed Master, and receive thy promises which thou hast made unto us, in our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM 132. A Prayer for the Church, for the promotion of Religion, for the King, and for the Clergy. MORNING PRAYER. LOrd remember David: and all his trouble. 2 How he swore unto the Lord: and vowed a vow unto the Almighty God of jacob. 3 I will not come within the tabernacle of my house: nor climb up into my bed. 4 I will not suffer mine eyes to sleep, nor mine eye lids to slumber: neither the temples of my head to take any rest. 5 Until I find out a place for the temple of the Lord: an habitation for the mighty God of jacob. 6 Lo, we heard of the same at Ephrata: and found it in the wood. 7 We will go into his tabernacle: and fall low on our knees before his footstool. 8 Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark of thy strength. 9 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness: and let thy saints sing with joyfulness. 10 For thy servant David's sake: turn not away the presence of thine anointed. 11 The Lord hath made a faithful oath unto David: and he shall not shrink from it. 12 Of the fruit of thy body: shall I set upon thy seat. 13 If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall learn them: their children also shall sit upon thy seat for evermore. 14 For the Lord hath chosen Zion to bean habitation for himself: he hath longed for her. 15 This shall be my rest for ever: here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein. 16 I will bless her victuals with increase: and will satisfy her poor with bread. 17 I will deck her priests with health: and her saints shall rejoice and sing. 18 There shall I make the horn of David to flourish: I have ordained a lantern for mine anointed. 19 As for his enemies. I shall clothe them with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish. The Prayer. O Lord God, who dwellest not in Temples made with hands, and yet hast been pleased to manifest thy presence by special blessings and assistances, in places set apart for thy worship, be pleased to hear our prayers, & accept our services when ever we make our addresses to thee in the house of prayer, & fall down low on our knees before thy footstool▪ let thy Priests be clothed with righteousness, & let thy Saints sing with joyfulness, & let all those that make their approaches unto thee purify their hearts and hands, that they may offer to thee a pure sacrifice even the sacrifice of obedience and holiness, and the expresses of true Religion. Bless (O Lord) thy servant the King, whom thou hast made the Patron and Defender of the Church, make his horn to flourish and be exalted above all his enemies, and let thy Word be as a lantern for thine Anointed, to show him thy holy will and pleasure, that he seeking thy honour and glory, thy Church may flourish under the covert of his shield and patronage, her victuals may be blessed with increase, her poor satisfied with bread, her Priests decked with health, her Saints with joy, and himself with honour and great renown, and a flourishing Diadem, while his enemies sit clothed in shame and misery. Grant this, O blessed God, for jesus Christ his sake, our Lord and only Saviour. Amen. PSALM 133. A Prayer for unity in the Church, in a Kingdom, or family. BEhold how good and joyful a thing it is: brethren to dwell together in unity. 2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ●an down unto the beard: even unto Aaron's beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing. 3 Like as the dew of Hermon: which fell upon the hill of Zion. 4 For there the Lord promised his blessing: and life for evermore. The Prayer. O Blessed I●s●, in whose garment was variety but no rent or seam, have mercy upon thy holy Catholic Church, and all Christian Kingdoms and Families; and so unite all our hearts and affections by the union of Faith and Charity, that we be not torn into Factions and Schisms, but being anointed with the precious ointment, even the anointing of thy Spirit from above, we may keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace; and grant that this holy ointment may so knit together the Guides of thy Church, the Rulers of Kingdoms, the Princes of the Nations, that the blessings of it may descend to the skirts of the people, and that thou mayest bless us with thy graces here and hereafter, give us life for evermore in the participation of thy glorious Kingdom, where thou livest and reignest ever one God, world without end. Amen. PSALM 134. An invitation to the Clergy to be diligent in singing God's praises publicly. BEhold (now) praise the Lord: all ye servants of the Lord. 2 Ye that by night stand in the house of the Lord: even in the courts of the house of our God. 3 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary: and praise the Lord. 4 The Lord that made heaven and earth: give thee blessing out of Zion. The Prayer. O Lord, Creator and Governor of all the world, thou that madest Heaven and Earth, that all should celebrate thy praise and the glory of thy Name, give great Religion and devout affections to thy Ministers, that by frequent elevation of their hands and hearts in thy Sanctuary, in behalf of themselves and all the people, thy honour may be exalted among all thy servants, Religion may be advanced, and the love of thy Name increased, and thy blessings may descend upon us in a plentiful proportion, to supply all our necessities, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 135. A Prayer that God would avenge his People of their Enemies, and an invitation of them to praise his Name. O Praise the Lord, laud ye the name of the Lord● praise it, O ye servants of the Lord. 2 Ye that stand in the house of the Lord: in the courts of the house of our God. 3 O praise the Lord, for the Lord is gracious▪ O sing praises unto his name, for it is lovely. 4 For why? the Lord hath chosen jacob unto himself: and Israel for his own possession. 5 For I know that the Lord is great: and that our Lord is above all gods. 6 Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven and in earth: and in the sea, and in all deep places. 7 He bringeth forth the clouds from the ends of the world: and sendeth forth lightnings with the rain, bringing the winds out of his treasures. 8 He som●e the firstborn of Egypt: both of man and beast. 9 He hath sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O thou land of Egypt: upon Pharaoh and all his servants. 10 He smote divers nations: and slew mighty kings. 11 Sehon king of the Amorites, and Og the king of Basan: and all the kingdoms of Canaan. 12 And gave their land to be an heritage: even an heritage unto Israel his people. 13 Thy name▪ O Lord, endureth for ever: so doth thy memorial, O Lord, from one generation to another. 14 For the Lord will avenge his people: and be gracious unto his servants. 15 As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold: the work of men's hands. 16 They have mouths and speak not: eyes have they, but they see not. 17 They have ears, and yet they hear not▪ neither is there any breath in their mouths. 18 They that make them, are like unto them: and so are all they that put their trust in them. 19 Praise the Lord, ye house of Israel: praise the Lord, ye house of Aaron. 20 Praise the Lord, ye house of Levi: ye that fear the Lord, praise the Lord. 21 Praised be the Lord out of Zion: which dwelleth at jerusalem. The Prayer. O Lord God, in whose sight the death of all the Saints is precious, and to whom the souls of the Martyrs from under the Altar call to avenge their blood that is shed like water upon the earth; be gracious unto us thy servants, avenge all thy people of their enemies, that all that hate and persecute thy Church, being either brought to repentance or confusion, thy Name and thy memorial may be celebrated to all generations, thy Kingdom and thy coming may be hastened, that the Saints may receive the consummation of their glories, by resurrection of their bodies, and receiving the crown of righteousness which thou hast prepared for all that put their trust in thee, and that we all standing in the house of the Lord, even in the courts of the house of our God for ever, may praise thy Name which is gracious and lovely, even for ever and ever. Amen. PSALM 136. A Prayer of thanksgiving to God for his eternal mercies. EVENING PRAYER. O Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. 2 O give thanks unto the God of all gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. 3 O thank the Lord of all lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. 4 Which only doth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever. 5 Which by his excellent wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever. 6 Which laid out the earth about the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever. 7 Which hath made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever. 8 The sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth for ever. 9 The moon and the stars to govern the night: for his mercy endureth for ever. 10 Which smote Egypt with their firstborn: for his mercy endureth for ever. 11 And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever. 12 With a mighty hand and a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever. 13 Which divided the Red sea in two parts: for his mercy endureth for ever. 14 And made Israel to go through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever. 15 But as for Pharaoh and his host, he overthrew them in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. 16 Which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever. 17 Which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever. 18 Yea, and slew mighty kings: for his mercy endureth for ever. 19 Sehon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever. 20 And Og the king of Basan: for his mercy endureth for ever. 21 And gave away their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever. 22 Even for an heritage unto Israel his servant: for his mercy endureth for ever. 23 Which remembered us when we were in trouble: for his mercy endureth for ever. 24 And hath delivered us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever. 25 Which giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever. 26 O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever. 27 O give thanks unto the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever. The Prayer. O God of Heaven, and Lord of lords, who by thy excellent wisdom hast made the Heavens, and only dost great wonders in Heaven and Earth, making all thy creatures to be expresses of thy power, and of thy loving mercy, let thy mighty hand and stretched out arm lead us through the midst of this world and the throng of all our enemies, giving us food for the sustenance of our bodies, the light of the sun of righteousness to lead us in our goings, and great apprehensions of thy mercy to excite in us Devotion and true Religion, that we praising thy mercies, and being relieved and sustained by thy loving kindness, may at last come to the land of promise which thou givest for an heritage to thy people, and may receive the mercies of thy Kingdom, which endure for ever, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 137. A Prayer for redemption of the Church from captivity and persecution. BY the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept: when we remembered (thee) O Zion. 2 As for our harps, we hanged them up: upon the trees that are therein. 3 For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song and melody in our heaviness: sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the Lords song: in a strange land? 5 If I forget thee, O jerusalem: let my right hand forget her cunning. 6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth: yea, if I prefers not jerusalem in my mirth. 7 Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of jerusalem: how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground. 8 O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery: yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. 9 Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children: and throweth them against the stones. The Prayer. O Lord our God, thou hast placed us in this world like pilgrims and strangers far from our Country, far from rest; give us souls and desires so abstract, so religious and contemplative, that all our hopes, our joys, and longings may be to enjoy thee and thy glories in the celestial jerusalem: and let thy comforts refresh us in this our captivity and exile, that in our heaviness thou mayst be our joy, our songs and melody may be the songs of Zion, the prayers of thy Name, that when thou hast delivered us from the wrath and malice of our enemies, and dashed all their wickedness (which they have conceived and would bring forth to our destruction) against the Rock Christ jesus, we may be blessed amongst thy children, and be carried into our Country the Land of glorious promises, there to reign with thee, who livest and governest all things, world without end. Amen. PSALM 138. A Prayer and a thanksgiving for God's mercies. I Will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, with my whole heart: even before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name, because of thy loving kindness and truth: for thou hast magnified thy name and thy word above all things. 3 When I called upon thee, thou heardest me: and enduedst my soul with much strength. 4 All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord: for they have heard the words of thy mouth. 5 Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: that great is the glory of the Lord. 6 For though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: as for the proud, he beholdeth them afar off. 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, yet shalt thou refresh me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand upon the furiousness of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. 8 The Lord shall make good his loving kindness toward me: yea, thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever, despise not then the works of thine own hands. The Prayer. O Lord God, who hast magnified thy Name and Word above all things, make good thy loving kindnesses towards us, and endue our souls with much strength, that thine hand being stretched forth upon the furiousness of all our ghostly enemies, and we being saved by thy right hand, may praise thee, and all thy glories, serving thee here with a lowly mind, and a great industry, that at last we may worship thee in thy holy Temple, in the midst of all the Myriads of Angels, where thy glory is great and far exalted above all gods. Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour. Amen. PSALM 139. A meditation of the omnipresence of God, and a prayer that we may always walk as in his sight. MORNING PRAYER. O Lord, thou hast searched me out, and known me: thou knowest my down-sitting, and mine uprising, thou understandest my thoughts long before. 2 Thou art about my path, and about my bed: and spiest out all my ways. 3 For lo, there is not a word in my tongue: but thou, O Lord, knowest it altogether. 4 Thou hast fashioned me behind and before: and laid thine hand upon me. 5 Such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for me: I cannot attain unto it. 6 Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit: or whither shall I go then from thy presence? 7 If I climb up into heaven, thou art there: if I go down to hell, thou art there also. 8 If I take the wings of the morning: and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea. 9 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me. 10 If I say, Peradventure the darkness shall cover me: then shall my night be turned to day. 11 Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee, but the night is as clear as the day: the darkness and light (to thee) are both alike. 12 For my reins are thine: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. 13 I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. 14 My bones are not hid from thee: though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth. 15 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect: and in thy book were all my members written. 16 Which day by day were fashioned: when as yet there was none of them. 17 How dear are thy counsels unto me, O God: O how great is the sum of them! 18 If I tell them, they are more in number then the sand: when I wake up, I am present with thee. 19 Will't thou not slay the wicked, O God: depart from me ye bloodthirsty men. 20 For they speak unrighteously against thee: and thine enemies take thy name in vain. 21 Do not I hate them O Lord, that hate thee: and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 Yea, I hate them right sore: even as though they were mine enemies. 23 Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart: prove me and examine my thoughts. 24 Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me: and lead me in the way everlasting. The Prayer. O Lord God, who art infinite in wisdom, and present in all place, filling heaven and earth and hell with the effects of thy mighty power, and communications of thy glorious essence: let thy hand lead us, and thy right hand hold us in all our ways, always considering that thou art present, understanding our thoughts and words, even long before they are, & seeing our most secret ways as clearly as in the sight of the sun: print thy fear mightily upon our souls, that we may be as fearful of committing sins in secret, as in the eyes of all the world, that we hating all iniquity, and loving thy counsels as our dearest treasures and guide, may, by the paths of a holy life, be conducted into the way everlasting, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 140. A Prayer for deliverance from the mischief of all wicked persons. DEliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: and preserve me from the wicked man. 2 Which imagine mischief in their hearts: and stir up strife all the day long. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poison is under their lips. 4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the ungodly: preserve me from the wicked men, which are purposed to overthrow my goings. 5 The proud have laid a snare for me, and spread a net abroad with cords: yea, and set traps in my way. 6 I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my prayers, O Lord. 7 O Lord God, thou strength of my health: thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. 8 Let not the ungodly have his desire, O Lord: let not his mischievous imagination prosper, lest they be too proud. 9 Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them: that compass me about. 10 Let hot burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire and into the pit, that they never rise up again. 11 A man full of words shall not prosper upon the earth: evil shall hunt the wicked person to overthrow him. 12 Sure I am that the Lord will avenge the poor: and maintain the cause of the helpless. 13 The righteous also shall give thanks unto thy name: and the just shall continue in thy sight. The Prayer. O Lord God, thou strength of our health, thou that avengest the poor, and maintainest the cause of the helpless, deliver us, o Lord, & preserve us from the evil & wicked man, that neither hi● example may corrupt us, nor his counsels misled us, nor his prosperity scandalise us, nor his strife disquiet us, nor his mischief disturb our safety; but do thou cover our heads in the day of battle and contestation against all our bodily and ghostly enemies, that although they hunt us to overthrow us, yet we may prosper upon earth under thy favour and protection, and at last being removed from all fears, an sadness, and dangers, may continue in thy sight, amongst the Congregation of the just for ever, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 141. A Prayer for the virtue of religion, for holiness of life, and for deliverance for the snares of our enemies. LOrd, I call upon thee, hast thee unto me: and consider my voice, when I cry unto thee. 2 Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight, as the incense: and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice. 3 Set a watch (O Lord) before my mouth: and keep the door of my lips. 4 O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing: let me not be occupied in ungodly works, with the men that work wickedness, lest I eat of such things as please them. 5 Let the righteous rather smite me friendly▪ and reprove me. 6 But let not their precious balms break mine head: yea, I will pray yet against their wickedness. 7 Let their judges be overthrown in stony places: that they may hear my words, for they are sweet. 8 Our bones lie scattered before the pit: like as when one breaketh and heweth wood upon the earth. 9 But mine eyes look unto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust, O cast not out my soul. 10 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me: and from the traps of the wicked doers. 11 Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together: and let me ever escape them. The Prayer. O Lord, our trust and confidence, hast thee unto us, and consider our voice when we call upon thee in our trouble and necessity; let our prayers ascend up unto thee as incense, and ●e as the savour of the evening and the morning sacrifice. We beg of thee nothing but grace and power to fulfil thy will; let not our hearts be inclined to any evil: set a watch, O Lord, before our mouth and keep the door of our lips, let us not be busied in ungodly works, that we may never offend in our thoughts, or words, or actions: and when we do amiss, do thou smite us friendly and reprove us with the checks of a tender conscience, that thy fatherly correction may like precious balm cure all the wounds made by our own infirmities; that we escaping all the snares of wickedness, may for ever hear and obey thy sweet words, and our souls may never be cast out of thy presence, but for ever may rejoice in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. PSALM. 142. A Prayer in all sadness, and in the hour of death. EVENING PRAYER. I Cried unto the Lord with my voice: yea, even unto the Lord did I make my supplication. 2 I poured out my complaints before him: and showed him of my trouble. 3 When my spirit was in heaviness, thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. 4 I looked also upon my right hand: and saw there was no man that would know me. 5 I had no place to flee unto: and no man cared for my soul. 6 I cried unto thee, O Lord, and said: Thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the living. 7 Consider my complaint: for I am brought very low. 8 O deliver me from my persecutors: for they are too strong for me. 9 Bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks unto thy name: which thing if thou wilt grant me, then shall the righteous resort unto my company. The Prayer. O Lord God, thou art our hope, and our portion in the land of the living, consider our complaint and misery, thou art our place to flee unto, thou only art our sanctuary; O hide us under the covert of thy wings, keep us from all the dangers which multiply upon us when our spirits are in heaviness, and our bodies pressed with infirmities: be thou always at our right hand, and assist us so with the strength of thy grace, that out temptations, & our enemies not being above our strength derived from thee, our soul may with confidence go forth of prison, and give eternal thanks unto thy name, in the companies of the Righteous, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 143. A Prayer that God would pardon our sins, and direct us in the way of righteousness. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and consider my desire: harken unto me for thy truth and righteousness sake. 2 And enter not into judgement with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul, he hath smitten my life down to the ground: he hath laid me in the darkness, as the men that have been long dead. 4 Therefore is my spirit vexed within me: and my heart within me is desolate. 5 Yet do I remember the time past, I muse upon all thy works: yea, I exercise myself in the works of thy hands. 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land. 7 Hear me, O Lord, and that soon, for my spirit waxeth faint: hide not thy face from me, le●t I be like unto them that go down into the pit. 8 O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the morning, for in thee is my trust: show tho● me the way that I should walk in, for I lift up m● soul unto thee. 9 Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies▪ for I flee unto thee to hide me. 10 Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee, for thou art my God: let thy loving spirit lead me forth into the land of righteousness. 11 Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's sake: and for thy righteousness sake bring my soul out of trouble. 12 And of thy goodness slay mine enemies: and destroy all them that vex my soul, for I am thy servant. The Prayer. O Lord our judge, and our redeemer, harken unto us for thy truth and righteousness sake; deliver us from the guilt of all our sins, and those great punishments which are due to us for the same. Enter not into judgement with us, for in thy sight no man can be justified by any worthiness of his own. Due our souls with the righteousness of a holy faith, living and working by charity. Show us the way that we should walk in, teach us to do whatsoever pleaseth thee, quicken our souls in the paths of life, and so continue the conduct of thy spirit to us, that it may never leave us till we be brought forth of this world, into the land of righteousness to dwell with thee eternally, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 144. A thanksgiving for victory, and a prayer for the blessings of Peace. MORNING PRAYER. BLessed be the Lord my strength: which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. 2 My hope and my fortress, my castle and deliverer, my defender, in whom I trust: which subdueth my people that is under me. 3 Lord, what is man that thou hast such respect unto him: or the son of man that thou so regardest him? 4 Man is like a thing of nought: his time passeth away like a shadow. 5 Bow the heavens, O Lord and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth thy lightning, and tear them: shoot out thine arrows, and consume them. 7 Send down thy hand from above: deliver me and take me out of the great waters, from the hand of strange children. 8 Whose mouth talketh of vanity: and their right hand is a right hand of wickedness. 9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God▪ and sing praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed ●ute. 10 Thou hast given victory unto kings: and hast delivered David thy servant from the peril of the sword. 11 Save me and deliver me from the hand of strange children: whose mouth talketh of vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity. 12 That our sons may grow up as the young plants: and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple. 13 That our garners may be full and plenteous with all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands, and ten thousands in our streets. 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no decay: no ●eading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets. 15 Happy are the people that be in such a case: yea, blessed are the people which have the Lord for their God. The Prayer. O Lord our strength, our hope and fortress, our castle and deliverer, our defender in whom we trust; bow the heavens, O Lord, come down and save us, send down thine hand from above, deliver us, and take us from the great waters, from those miseries and afflictions which come upon us by reason of our sins, from the condition of mortality, and from the hand of strange children, whose right hand is a right hand of wickedness. Give us, O Lord, victory and peace, and all the blessings of thy peace, with which thou usest to adorn & beautify the dwellings of the righteous, that we may be happy in the continual descent of thy favours, but above all, our happiness may consist in being thy people, and thou being our God, that we may be blessed for ever in so blessed a relation, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 145. A Meditation of the glory and Majesty of God, and the mightiness of his kingdom. I Will magnify thee, O God, my King: and I will praise thy name for ever and ever▪ 2 Every day will I give thanks unto thee: and praise thy name for ever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord, and marvellous worthy to be praised: there is no end of his greatness. 4 One generation shall praise thy works unto another: and declare thy power. 5 As for me, I will be talking of thy worship: thy glory, thy praise, and wondrous works. 6 So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvellons' acts: and I will also tell of thy greatness. 7 The memorial of thine abundant kindness shall be showed: and men shall sing of thy righteousness. 8 The Lord is gracious and merciful: long-suffering, and of great goodness. 9 The Lord is loving unto every man: and his mercy is over all his works. 10 All thy works praise thee, O Lord: and thy saints give thanks unto thee. 11 They show the glory of thy Kingdom: and talk of thy power. 12 That thy power, thy glory, and mightiness of thy Kingdom: might be known unto men. 13 Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom: and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages. 14 The Lord upholdeth all such as fall: and lifteth up all those that be down. 15 The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord: and thou givest them their meat in due season. 16 Thou openest thine hand: and fillest all things living with plenteousness. 17 The Lord is righteous in all his ways: and holy in all his works. 18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: yea, all such as call upon him faithfully. 19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will help them. 20 The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but scattereth abroad all the ungodly. 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy name for ever and ever. The Prayer. O God our King, thou art marvellous worthy to be praised, and there is no end of thy greatness; give us enlarged and sanctified hearts, and lips that we may sing of thy righteousness, & magnify thy glory, thy worship, and wondrous works. All thy works praise thee, O Lord, and thy saints give thanks unto thee. Make us holy and righteous in thy sight, we are already the works of thine hands, and then, we have a double title to praise thee. Uphold us, O Lord, that we fall not, and lift us up when we are down; give us meat in due season for our souls, and for our bodies, that we being filled with the plenteousness of thy mercies here, may have our best, and all our desires fulfilled and satisfied hereafter, amongst such as fear thee, and give thanks unto thy holy name for ever. Grant this for jesus Christ his sake, to whom with thee, O Father, and the holy spirit, be all honour and glory now and for ever. Amen. PSALM 146. A Prayer that we may trust in God only and not in an arm of flesh. PRaise the Lord, O my soul, while I live will I praise the Lord: yea, as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my God. 2 O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man: for there is no help in them. 3 For when the breath of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth: and then all his thoughts perish. 4 Blessed is he that hath the God of jacob for his help: and whose hope is in the Lord his God. 5 Which made heaven and earth, the sea and all that therein is: which keepeth his promise for ever. 6 Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong: which feedeth the hungry. 7 The Lord looseth men out of prison: the Lord giveth sight to the blind. 8 The Lord helpeth them that are fallen: the Lord careth for the righteous. 9 The Lord careth for the strangers, he defendeth the fatherless and widow: as for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down. 10 The Lord thy God, O Zion, shall ●e King for evermore: and throughout all generations. The Prayer. O Lord God, who reignest a King for evermore, give us grace that we may make thee our help, and fix our hopes in thee, for thou only art able to give deliverance. Feed our souls, O Lord, and satisfy us with thy salvation when we hunger and thirst after righteousness; help us to right when we suffer wrong, heal our back slidings, raise us when we are fallen, enlighten the eyes of our souls that we walk not in darkness and the shadow of death, and do thou take care for us in all our ways, and in all our necessities, that when our breath goeth forth, and we turn again to our earth, we may reign with thee in Zion, thy celestial habitation, for evermore, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 147. A celebration of God's wisdom and providence in the ministration of the things of the world, and of his goodness towards them that fear him. EVENING PRAYER. O Praise the Lord, for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God: yea, a joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful. 2 The Lord doth build up jerusalem: and gather together the outcasts of Israel. 3 He healeth those that are broken in heart: and giveth medicine to heal their sickness. 4 He telleth the number of the stars: and calleth them all by their names. 5 Great is our Lord, and great is his power: yea, and his wisdom is infinite. 6 The Lord setteth up the meek: and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground. 7 O sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving: sing praises upon the harp unto our God. 8 Which covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth: and maketh th' grass to grow upon the mountains, and herb for the use of men. 9 Which giveth fodder unto the cattle: and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him. 10 He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse: neither delighteth he in any man's legs. 11 But the Lord's delight is in them that fear him: and put their trust in his mercy. 12 Praise the Lord, O jerusalem: praise thy God, O Zion. 13 For he hath made fast the bars of thy gates: and hath blessed thy children within thee. 14 He maketh peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the flower of wheat. 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: and his word runneth very swiftly. 16 He giveth snow like wool: and scattereth the hoar frost like ashes. 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who is able to abide his frost? 18 He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he bloweth with his wind, and the waters flow. 19 He showeth his word unto jacob: his statutes and ordinances unto Israel. 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws. The Prayer. O Lord God, whose power is great, and thy wisdom infinite, give us broken and contrite hearts, meek spirits, a fear of thy Name, and a trust in thy mercy, that thou mayst arise upon us with healing in thy wings, giving us medicine to heal all our ghostly sicknesses, and thy delight may be in us, delighting to do us good, to feed us when we call upon thee, to set us above our enemies, to give us knowledge of thy Laws, to build up jerusalem, and to repair the breaches of thy Church, that we may sing praises unto thee O God, and be thankful to all eternity, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 148. An invitation of all the creatures of the world to praise God. O Praise the Lord of heaven: praise him in the height. 2 Praise him all ye angels of his: praise him all his host. 3 Praise him sun and moon: praise him all ye stars and light. 4 Praise him all ye heavens: and ye waters that be above the heavens. 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he spoke the word, and they were made: he commanded, and they were created. 6 He hath made them fast for ever and ever: he hath given them a law which shall not be broken. 7 Praise the Lord upon earth: ye dragons and all deeps. 8 Fire and hail, snow and vapours: wind and storm, fulfilling his word. 9 Mountains and all hills: fruitful trees, and all cedars. 10 Beasts and all cattle: worms and feathered fowls. 11 Kings of the earth, and all people: princes and all judges of the world. 12 Young men and maidens, old men and children, praise the name of the Lord: for his name only is excellent, and his praise above heaven and earth. 13 He shall exalt the horn of his people, all his saints shall praise him: even the children of Israel, even the people that serveth him. The Prayer. O Lord God, whose Name only is excellent, and thy praise above Heaven and Earth, we adore and bless thy mercy and thy power for creating us after thine own Image: thou spakest the word, and we were made, thou commandedst and we were created, and as thou hast established thy Creation with a Law for ever, that all should minister to thy praises in their several proportions; so give us grace that the laws of sanctity, of Faith, and obedience, which thou hast given to us may never be broken, that we serving thee not only in the order of thy creatures, but in the capacity of thy children, may sing thy praises amongst the Angels and the numerous host of Saints reigning in thy Kingdom for ever and ever. Amen. PSALM 149. A meditation of the joys of Heaven prepared for the Saints. O Sing unto the Lord a new song: let the congregation of saints praise him. 2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. 3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with tabret and harp. 4 For the Lord hath pleasure in his people: and helpeth the meek hearted. 5 Let the saints be joyful with glory: let them rejoice in their beds. 6 Let the praises of God be in their mouth: and a twoedged sword in their hands. 7 To be avenged of the heathen: and to rebuke the people. 8 To bind their kings in chains: and their nobles with links of iron. 9 That they may be avenged of them, as it is written: Such honour have all his saints. The Prayer. O Lord our King, in whose honour and salvation all thy Saints rejoice, give unto thy holy Gospel a free passage in all the world, that Kings and Nobles may be bound with the chains of obedience, discipline, and subordination to all thy holy Laws, and grant to us thy servants that thy Laws may be so fixed in our hearts, and thy praises in our mouths, and righteousness in all our actions, that we may be written among the righteous, and have our portion with the Saints, who rejoice in their beds of eternal rest, and are joyful in the glories of thy Kingdom, through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PSALM 150. An invitation to praise God with all our faculties and powers. O Praise God in his holiness: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him in his noble acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him in the sound of the trumpet: praise him upon the lute and harp. 4 Praise him in the cymbals and dances: praise him upon the strings and pipe. 5 Praise him upon the well tuned cymbals: praise him upon the loud cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath: praise the Lord. The Prayer. O Eternal God, thy holiness and power and excellent greatness are far above all the praises of men and Angels, and yet thou art pleased in the harmony and consent of a thankful heart, and a thanksgiving tongue; touch our hearts with admirable apprehensions of thy Divine perfections, that our songs of thy honour may be devout and illuminate to the height of ecstasies, and the devotions of a Seraphim, for nothing is proportionable to thy glories but what is infinitely beyond our infirmities. Make us to sing Thee and thy Name while we have breath; and when we are breathless, let our hearts fill up the harmony, and think thy praises so cordially, till our souls being separated from the harsh sound of our bodily organs, we may praise thee when we are all spirit in the state of separation, and in the reunion when our bodies shall be made spiritual, singing to thee exalted praises for ever and ever. To thee O blessed and glorious God be praises and honour and glory ascribed now, and to all eternity. Amen. Amen. FINIS.