Private Forms OF Prayer, Fitted for the late Sad-Times. Particularly, A Form of Prayer for THE Thirtieth of January, Morning and Evening. With Additions, &c. London, Printed by Tho. Mabb, and to be sold by William Not, at the White Horse near the little North door in Saint Pauls Church-yard, 1660. Private Forms of Prayer Fit for Sad Times: Heretofore Printed at Oxford, and used( occasionally) upon Dayes of Solemn Humiliation and Fasting, In his late Majesties royal chapel of blessed and glorious Memory. ALSO A Form of Prayer for the 30th. of January, Morning and Evening. Likewise Prayers of Intercession for the Use of such as Mourn in Secret. Together with a Collection of several other Prayers. PUBLISHED, That the world may take notice of the powerful( though Private) aids, contributed by the joint hands and hearts of such as were Gods Remembrancers and Mourners in Sion, during the late distractions in Church and STATE. London, Printed by Tho. Mabb, and are to be sold by William Not, at the White Horse near the little North-door in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1660. St. James 5.13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. St. Math. 5.4. Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. Psal. 26.5.6. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his shelves with him. The Preface. OUr Saviour Compares the kingdom of Heaven, Mat. 13.45 to a Merchant Man: And Merchants when they sand out a Ship observe their returns We have been Long Adventurers to Heaven, and God hath been pleased at last to give us a gracious return; to answer our Prayers even beyond our expectation and hopes. When we were with the Disciples in the storm, Mat. 8 25. at Lord save us, We perish: Then did our saviour who before seemed to sleep( being awakened by the continued and faithful prayers of the seven thousands who had not bowed their knees to Baal) rebuk the winds and the waves, still the raging of the Sea, and the madness of the people. Verse 26. And We trust now( as then) there will follow a great happy calm. Hereupon As the very Heathen, When they had suffered shipwreck and got safe to land, were wont [ appendere votivam Tabulam] to consecrate a votive table, and hang it up to the honour of their preserver Neptune. As David after the slaughter of Goliath dedicated the Sword wherewith he had slain him, and had it kept behind the Ephod in the Tabernacle. As God Commanded that a Pot of Manna should be kept for the Generations to come; that their Posterity might see how he fed their Fathers in the wilderness. As even in the Land of Canaan, the bitter herbs were still reserved in the eating of the passeover, in memory of that bitter servitude, they underwent in the House of Bondage. So are these Prayers here, ●ike the bitter herbs, or a bundle of myrrh, collected, re●erved and consecrated▪ To him, to whom they were levoutly offered up, the Father ●f mercies, Scilicet ut fuso Tuarorum Sangune centum. and God of all Consolation. To him, who accepts a little Frankincense piously offered, no less then a hecatomb. Sic capitur minimo thuris honore Deus, Ovid. To him who heareth Prayers, and hath not rejected ours. To him, who hath turned our captivity, not his mercies from us. It is of thy Goodness O Lord that we were not utterly consumed, It is because thy Compassions fail not. Not unto Us, O Lord, no unto Us, but unto thy nam● give the Praise. And the same gracious God who hath so happily begun, 〈◇〉 wonderfully carried on, an● done so great things for us already, whereof we deservedly rejoice; He in his own time, perfect his own work, his own way and make us a happy church and Nation. May, O may those black dayes never return, which at first extorted these mournful Threnodies, which are here presented for thy Consolation, Quae fuit ●urum pati. Meminisse dulce est— Sen. ( in looking back upon that which is past;) not thy use with respect to the future, of which may there never be any more occasion. But for the time to come, may these Prayers be turned into Praises, this Euchologium into Doxologies, our Elegies into hosannas, and our Lamentations into hallelujahs. And let all the People say Amen. Private forms of Prayer fit for sad times. The Contents. SEntences of the Scripture. page. 1 A general Confession. page. 3 A Le●any page. 7 A prayer for forgiveness. page. 17 The Absolution. page. 19 The Lords Prayer. page. 19 A Psalm instead of venite exultemus. page. 21 Proper Psalms and Lessons. page. 25 A form Collected out of the Psalms. I. page. 26 II. page. 28 III. page. 30 Psal. 51. page. 33 With( part of) the Commination prayers. page. 37 Eight Prayers or Collects. I. page. 39 II. page. 40 III. IV. page. 42 V. VI. page. 43 VII. VIII. page. 44 Prayers for the afflicted Church of England. page. 45. 47. A Collect for Charity page. 50 The Conclusion. page. 1● A form of Prayer for the 30th of January. Preface. page. 55 A general Confession. page. 61 A litany. page. 65 A prayer for forgiveness. page. 75 The Lords Prayer. page. 77 Lamentations out of Je●emiah the Prophet. page. 78 Proper Psalms and first Lesson. page. 82 A form collected out of the psalms. I. p. 83 II. p. 85 III. p. 87 Second Lesson. IV. p. 90 V. p. 92 The Creed. p. 94 The Lords Prayer. p. 95 Thirteen other Prayers. I. p. 96 II. p. 102 III. p. 104 IV. p. 112 V. p. 113 VI. p. 117 VII. p. 119 VIII. p. 124 IX. p. 130 X. XI. p. 132 XII. p. 134 XIII. p. 135 A Proper prayer ●or the 30th. of January. p. 136 Evening prayer for the 30th. of January. The litany of the Church. p. 145 The Confession of sins. p. 157 The absolution. p. 158 The Lords Prayer. p. 158 Proper psalms and I. Lesson. p. 159 A form Collected out of the Psalms. p. 160 II. p. 162 III. p. 164 Second Lesson. IV. p. 167 V. p. 169 The Creed. p. 171 The Lords Prayer. p. 172 XIII. Prayers or Collects. I. p. 173 II. p. 175 III. p. 178 IV. p. 180 V. p. 183 VI. p. 186 VII. p. 195 VIII. p. 198 IX. X. p. 199 XI. p. 200 XII. XIII. p. 201 A proper prayer for the 30th. of January. p. 203 An Anniversary prayer for the 30th. of January. p. 212 Prayers of Intercession for the use of such as Mourn in secret. Proper Psalms and lessons. pag 218 A Preparatory prayer. pag 219 King Davids prayer for the Church and people. I. pag 222 II. pag 2●4 III. pag 225 IV. pag 227 King David's tears. pag 2●9 Jeremiah's Lamentations Prophetical of these times. I. pag 231 II. pag 233 Daniel's prayers and Confession. pag 235 Praeyers for the King, I. pag 247 II. pag 238 III. pag 280 A litany of Intercession. pag 244 A Prayer for the Church. pag 253 A Prayer for the Queen Mother and the royal Progeny. pag 254 A prayer for the afflicted. pag 255 An humble and submissive expostulation with God upon Oliver Cromwells Proclamation against the loyal Clergy. pag 258 A prayer for the Church of England. pag 268 A prayer for the Kings Birth-day May 29. pag 276 The Ministers prayer for the people. pag 279 The peoples prayer for the minister. pag 282 Another. pag 286 Proper psalms for several occasions. pag 288 Proper Lessons for several occasions. pag 289 A prayer for the King. pag 291 Another, with Prince Charles his litany pag 292 A prayer for the Church. pag 297 Five other prayers or Collects. I. pag 298 II. pag 300 III. IV. V. pag 301 A prayer for the Clergy. pag 332 A prayer to be said during these sad times of trouble pag 304 A prayer for preservation from the enemy. pag 312 A Confession of sins, and prayer for pardon. pag 314 A Prayer for the King. pag 318 A prayer for the preservation of the University and City of Oxford. pag 320 A prayer drawn by his Majesties special directions and dictates for a blessing on the treaty at Uxbridge. pag 323 A prayer for peace. pag 325 A prayer for the ending of the present troubles. pag 329 IX. Collects. I. pag 334 II. III. pag 335 IV. V. pag 336 VI. pag 337 VII, VIII. pag 338 IX. pag 339 Certain additional Prayers. In the time of war, pag 339 A Prayer for a soldier, pag 344 A Prayer upon the re-admission of the formerly Secluded Members, February 21. 1659. pag 348 A Prayer upon the Assembling of the present Parliament, April 25. 1660. pag 35● A Thanksgiving for his Majesties safe arrival and return to his kingdom, May 25. 1660. pag 354 Private Forms of Prayer, fit for these sad Times. Psalm 10. verse 1. WHy standest thou so far off( O Lord:) and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble. Psal 3 v. 1, 2, 3. Lord, how are they increased that trouble us? many are they that rise up against us. Many one there be, that say of our souls: there is no help for them in their God. But thou, O Lord, art our defender: thou art our worship, and the lifter up of our heads. Jer. 10.24. Correct us, O Lord, and yet in thy judgement, not in thy fury, least we should be consumed and brought to nothing. Psal. 130.3. If thou Lord wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who may abide it? O come let us worship, let us humble ourselves, let us fall low, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. Then this general Confession to be said, all kneeling. O Thou Judge eternal, we the sinfullest of all the sons of Men; that have abused thy Mercies, provoked thy judgments, unsheathed thy glittering sword, forced all the Arrows and Darts out of thy Quiver, and with our multiplied, abominable crying sins, brought down a desolation on a most pleasant land( that former delight of thine) the glory of all lands. We, that after thy wrath was poured out upon us, have yet further increased our sins, as thou hast increased the weight and number of thy Judgments upon us; walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy disciplines and visitations; suffered all thy precious methods of reducing us,( thine admonitions and thy stripes) to be utterly lost and frustrate among us, brought down a blast and mildew upon all that hath been undertaken to repair our breaches and reduce our Peace. We do now at length in the remorse and bitterness of our souls, desire to cast ourselves down upon the ground before thee; to confess and aclowledge thy patience and Long suffering, that we have not been under the sharpest of thy displeasure; and to adore thy goodness whatsoever becomes of us; though it be in the shane and confusion and Condemnation both of our bodies and our souls Lord, this is the mildest that we have reason to expect from thy Justice in retribution to our sins: and whatsoever is less then this, whatsoever the bitterness of our cup be in this life; though thou shouldst cast us into the place of Dragons; give us to drink of the wine of astonishment, the most stupefying deadly po●ion; number us all to the sword, poure out thy fire and brimstone upon us. Yet if by thus chastising of us here thou please to rescue us from that sadder doom of being condemned with the world, This is a most inestimable mercy of thine, beyond all that we have hitherto so unworthily en●oyed. Lord, we desire and profess to acquit thy justice in thy proceedings, to adore the bounty of thy goodness and patience towards us; that we have not long ago been as Admah and Zeboim, as Sodom and Gomorrah, that we have this day liberty to approach thee. Lord, that it may yet be thy good pleasure to come home to every one of our souls, to strike our hearts, to break up these fallow grounds of ours, that all thy precious seed be no longer so cast away among thorns. And by the power of thy mighty controlling, convincing spirit, that thou wouldest once subdue all the resistances of our spirits against this most holy, most reasonable motion of humiliation within us. Lord, this is the one earnest desire of our souls, that hath cast us low this day before thy footstool, with cries and tears and earnest groans, that thou wouldest have this mercy upon us, that thou wouldest thus powerfully reveal thyself unto us, who hast thus long smitten & importunately called unto us. That being returned unto thee in fasting, weeping and mourning and renting of our hearts; we might be capable of thy returns unto us, of the further impressions of thy grace; and never more contradict, or quench, or grieve that spirit of thine, which hath thus long contended and wrestled with us; that so it may be seasonable with thee to give us the comfort of thy help again, and the confidence to approach thy presence, to praise that Majesty, which hath not cast out our Prayer, nor turned his mercy from us. To whom be all honour and glory, power and praise, now and for ever, Amen. O Lord the great and dreadful God, keeping Covenant and Mercy to them that love thee, and to them that keep thy Commandments: We have sinned with our fore-fathers; We, our Kings and our Priests, our Nobles, and all the People of this Land, and have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts and thy udgements. By our impious and godless thoughts of thee, our confidences in the arm of flesh, by placing our affections too much upon earthly things, by neglecting to love a●d delight in thee, by presum●ng of thy mercies; and yet continuing in our sins, we have provoked and rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By our want of reverence to thy service, not considering the awfulness of thy presence, and that honour due to thee in thy House, by our formal and hypocritical worship, by open profanation and sacrilege; by shows and pretences of Piety, to cover our worldly and wicked designs; we have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By vain and rash Oaths, Blasphemies and Per●uries; especially our careless breaches of oaths made to our sovereigns, forgetting that such are the Oaths of God; and that thou thyself in a more especial manner, art a strict avenger of them; by our execrations of ourselves, our brethren, and our enemies; we have provoked and rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By our undervaluing thy public Service, and neglecting to bear a part in it, by misspending of that time, either there or elsewhere, in wanton or worldly thoughts and employments, and not keeping the spiritual sabath unto thee, in serving thee truly, all the dayes of our life[ By not duly observing the times of Festivity or fasting, appointed by just Authority, according to the example of thy people in all ages] we have provoked and rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By not duly acknowledging thine Ordinance and Authority in the Persons of our superiors, by speaking evil of Dignities, and reviling the Rulers of thy People, by groundless jealousies and suspicions, misjudging and censuring their Actions: [ And at last proceeding to that highest and most horrid pitch of violation of that Image of thine imprinted on them;] by being as a People that strive with their Priests; by our not obeying them that have the rule over us, and not submitting ourselves to them, who by thy appointment watch over our souls; by neglecting our care of those Committed to our Charge, not Correcting those sins which have cried loud for exemplary Punishment, we have provoked and rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By rash Anger, Malice, Hatred and Revenge, and the bloody effects thereof; by uncharitable Contentions and Divisions, Factions and Animosities, by Cruelty and unmercifulness, and communicating in the sins of Blood, we have provoked and rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By the manifold sins of uncleanness, by seeking or not avoiding the occasions thereof, by idleness, Intemperance and drunkenness, by imm●dest w●rds and gestures, by our shameless boasting, or not blushing at those sins, we have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By Thefts, Rapines and Oppressions, scandalising thereby the Honour and Justice of a good Cause; by vexatious suits so much practised and countenanced, by exactions, by un●u●● gains in bargaining, by defrauding the labourer of his hire, by want of due care in expending what we have, and a good Conscience in acquiring more, We have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By lying, detraction and contumely, by endeavouring to advantage a good Cause, by falsehood and unjust means; by censuring and rash judgments; by false witness and perverting the course of Justice; we have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By desire of change and uncontentednesse in our Estates; by giving ourselves over to lustful, covetous and inordinate affections; by desiring Peace not so much for thine honour or the public good, as the satisfaction of our own private lusts; by neglecting acts of Charity, and doing as we would be done to; and not doing our duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased thee to call us; we have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us, confusion of face, as at this day. By our want and neglect of those necessary Christian duties, of humiliation and godly sorrow for sins, of due indignation, and revenge upon ourselves for them; of confessing and forsaking, of restitution and satisfaction to others, and by not bringing forth fruits worthy of repentance; we have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By impatience under thy correcting hand, by not endeavouring our amendment by it, in reflecting upon our own sins as the causes of it, by despising thy chastisements, in not rejoicing in tribulations, and not glorifying thee, that hast counted us worthy to suffer for righteousness sake; we have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us, confusion of face, as at this day. By freting ourselves because of the ungodly, and being envious against the evil doers; by not loving our enemies, not blessing them that curse us, not doing good to them that hate us, nor praying for those that despitefully use us, and persecute us; we have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us, confusion of face, as at this day. By presuming to do evil that good may come thereon; by placing piety in opinions, by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels, in scrupling at indifferent things and making no conscience of known sins: we have provoked and rebelled against thee, O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us, confusion of face, as at this day. By running into open profaneness, under colour of avoiding superstition; by guiding our conscience by humours and fancies, and not by the certain rules of thy Law; by having itching ears, and heaping to ourselves teachers, and by having mens persons in admiration because of advantage: we have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us, confusion of face, as at this day. Who can tell how oft he offendeth; O cleanse thou us from these, and from our secret sins. Try us, O good God, and search the ground of our hearts, prove us, and examine our thoughts, and look well if there be any other way of wickedness in us, and led us in the way everlasting. A Prayer for forgiveness O Almighty and most merciful Father, who art the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, and forgiving iniquity, transgressions, and sins. Look down upon us with thy compassionate eyes, who are here before thee, in the bitterness of our souls, and do now with troubled spirits, with broken and with contrite hearts, most humbly beg pardon for these multitudes of our offences. Look, we humbly beseech thee, upon the blood of thy son, which speaks better things then that of Abel; for his sake spare us, Lord, spare thy people, that these sins rise not up against us: for his passions sake expose us not for a prey to their cruel hands, who would both devour and deride us. R. Spare us, O Lord, spare thy people for the glory of thy name: O deliver us, and be merciful to all these our sins, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. The Absolution to be pronounced by the Priest onely. ALmighty God, our heavenly Father, who of his great mercy hath promised forgiveness of sins to all them which with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him: Have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodnes●, and bring you to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. The Lords Prayer. OUr Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And led us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil, Amen. Priest. O Lord open thou our lips, Answer. And our mouth shall show forth thy praise. Priest. O God make speed to save us, Answ. O Lord make hast to help us. Priest. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; Answ. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end Amen. Priest. Praise ye the Lord: Answ. The Lord's name be praised. A Psalm instead of Venite exultemus. O COME, Psal. 95. let us humble ourselves, and fall down before the Lord with reverence and fear. 2. For he is the Lord our God, Psal. 100. and we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 3. If a man will not turn, Psal. 7. God will whet his sword, he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 4. Let us repent and turn from our wickedness, Acts 3. and our sins shall be forgiven us. 5. Let us turn, Jonah 3. and the Lord will turn from his heavy wrath, and will pardon us, and we shall not perish. 6. Psal. 51. For we aclowledge our faults, and our sins are ever before us. 7. We have provoked thine anger, O Lord, Lam. 4. and thy heavy displeasure is kindled against us. Psal. 130. 8. But there is mercy with thee, that thou mayst be feared, and thou art full of compassion Isaiah 65. 9 Thy hand is not shortened, that thou canst not help, neither is thy goodness abated, that thou wilt not hear. 10. Thou hast promised, O Lord, that before we cry thou wilt hear us, and whilst we yet speak, that thou wilt have mercy upon us. 11. They that trust in thee shall not be confounded, neither shall any that call upon thee be despised. tub. 3. Job 5. Osc. 6. 12. For thou art the only Lord, who woundest, and dost heal again, who killest and revivest, bringest even to hell and bringest back again. Psal. 22. 13. Our fathers hoped in thee, they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them. 14 They called upon thee, and were helped, they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded. 15. O Lord, rebuk not us in thine indignation, Psal. 6. neither chasten us in thy heavy displeasure. 16. O remember not the sins and offences of our youth, Psal. 25. but according to thy mercy think thou upon us, O Lord, for thy goodness. 17. Have mercy upon us, O Lord, for we are weak: O Lord, heal us for our bones are vexed. 18. And now in the vexation of our spirits, Baruch 3. Jonah 2. and the anguish of our souls, we remember thee, and we cry unto thee, Hear, Lord, and have mercy. 19. For thine own sake, Dan. 9. and for thy Holy Names sake, incline thine ear and hear, O merciful Lord. 20. For we do not pour out our prayers before thy face, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy great and manifold mercies. 21. Wash us thoroughly from our wickedness, Psal. 51. and cleanse us from our sins. 22. Turn thy face from our sins, and put out all our misdeeds. 23. Make us clean hearts, O God, and renew a right spirit within us. 24. 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 sake. 25. The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not despise. 26. O be favourable and gracious unto Sion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 27. So we that be thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, Psal. 79. shall give thee thanks for ever: and will always be showing forth thy praise from generation to generation. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. psalms for Morning Prayer. Psal. 6.31.38.39. For Evening Prayer. Psal. 90.91.102.130 149. For first Lesson red some one of these chapters. Ezra 9. Nehem. 9. Isai. 58. Joel 2 Ezek. 33. Or, Isai. 1. Jerem. 5. Jerem. 9. Ezek. 22. Micah 6. Or, Amos 4. Ezek. 14. I. HEar our voice, O Lord, out of thy holy Temple, let our complaint come before thee, let it enter even into thy ears Our heart is in heaviness, O let us make our Prayer unto thee in an acceptable time. Lord our iniquities are against us, our rebellions are many wherewith we have transgressed against thee: But we confess our wickednesses, and are sorry for our sins. Our confusion is daily before us, fearfulness and trembling are come upon us, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed us, and it is thy great mercy only that we are not consumed, for we have sinned, O Lord, we have transgressed and done wickedly, yea we have rebelled, and departed from thy precepts, and from thy Commandements. Innumerable troubles are come about us, our sins have taken hold upon us, that we are not able to look up, yea they are more in number then the hairs of our heads, and our hearts have failed us. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, because of all the offences we have committed against thee. Yet compassion and forgiveness is with thee, though we have rebelled against thee. O Lord, according to thy goodness we beseech thee, let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away from us, and cause thy face to shine upon thy servants. Incline thine ears and hear, open thine eyes and behold our afflictions, for we do not present our supplications before thee, in our own righteousness, but for thy manifold and great mercies. We have sinned against heaven and against thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy Sons. Yet, O Lord, hear, O Lord forgive, consider and do it, defer not for thine own sake, O our God. Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. II. HEar our prayers, O Lord, and hid not thyself from our Petitions, and harken unto the words of our mouth, for strangers are risen up against us, and Tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after our Souls. Cast us not away in the time of our weakness: forsake us not when our strength faileth us. O remember not our offences, but according to thy mercy think thou upon us for thy goodness. O turn thee unto us, and have mercy upon us: for we are desolate and in misery. The sorrows of our hearts are enlarged: O bring thou us out of all our troubles. Turn us, O God our Saviour, and let thine anger cease from us: sand down from on high and deliver us, take us out of these many waters. Why art thou absent from us so long? why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture? Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our misery and trouble? for our soul is brought low unto the dust, our belly cleaveth to the ground. Look upon our adversity and misery: and forgive us all our sins. Arise, O Lord, and help us, and deliver us for thy mercy sake: so shall it be known that it is thy hand, and that thou Lord hast done it. Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. III. WE will cry unto the Lord with our voice, yea even unto God will we cry with our voice, and he shall harken unto us. For the Lord is gracious and long-suffering, and of great mercy to them that call upon him. The Lord is nigh unto all them that be of a contrite heart, and will save such as are of an humble spirit. And now, Lord, what is our hope? truly our hope is even in thee; For our Fathers hoped in thee, they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them; they called upon thee and were holpen, they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded. The Lord will be a defence for the oppressed, even a refuge in due time of trouble: and they that know thy name will put their trust in thee, for thou Lord never failest them that seek thee. The merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever, upon them that fear him: and his righteousness upon Childrens Children; even upon such as keep his Covenant, and think upon his Commandments to do them. Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that trust in thee, thou that upholdest all such as are falling, and liftest up such as be down, thou that healest the broken in heart, and givest medicine to heal their sickness, thou that art the Father of mercy and God of all consolation, that art comfort to the sad, and strength to the weak, hear thy servants, we beseech thee, look down from Heaven, behold and visit us with thy salvation. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end Amen. After the Second Lesson, Psal. 51. All kneeling. 1. HAve mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences. 2. Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness, and cleanse me from my sin. 3. For I acknowledge my faults, and my sin is ever before me. 4. Against thee onely have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight; that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and 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 in the 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 renew 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 stablish me with thy free spirit. 13. Then shall I teach thy ways unto the wicked; and sinners shal be converted unto thee 14. Deliver me from bloodguiltinesse, 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 contrite heart, O God, shalt thou not despise. 18. O be favourable and gracious unto Sion; 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. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Our Father which art in heaven, &c. Minister, O Lord, save thy servants. Answer, Which put their trust in thee. Min. sand unto them help from above. Answ. And evermore mightily defend them. Min Help us, O God, our Saviour. Answ. And for the glory of thy names sake deliver us, be merciful unto us sinners, for thy names sake. Min. O Lord, hear our prayer. Ans. And let our cry come unto thee. Let us pray. O Lord, we beseech thee, mercifully hear our prayers, and spare all those which confess their sins unto thee; that they( whose consciences by sin are accused) by thy merciful pardon may be absolved, through Christ our Lord, Amen. O Most mighty God and merciful Father, which hast compassion of all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made; which wouldest not the death of a sinner, but that he should rather turn from sin and be saved: Mercifully forgive us our trespasses; receive and comfort us which be grieved and wearied with the burden of our sins. Thy property is to have mercy, to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins. Spare us therefore, O Lord, spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed; Enter not into judgement with thy Servants, which be vile earth, and miserable sinners; but so turn thine ire from us, which meekly knowledge our vileness, and truly repent us of our faults; so make hast to help us in this world, that we may ever live with thee in the world to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. Then shall the people say this that followeth, after the Minister. TUrn thou us, O good Lord, and so shall we be turned; be favourable, O Lord, be favourable to thy people, which turn to thee, in weeping, fasting and praying: For thou art a merciful God, full of compassion, long suffering, and of great pity. Thou sparest when we deserve punishment, and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy: Spare thy people, good Lord, spare them, and let not thine heritage be brought to confusion. Hear us, O Lord, for thy mercy is great, and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us. I. O Most merciful and gracious Lord, we wretched and miserable sinners, humbly beseech thee in mercy and compassion to behold our great afflictions; for thy wrath is gone out, and thine indignation is kindled against us: We confess, O Lord, that thy judgements are just, for we have multiplied our transgressions like the sand of the Sea; and the cry of them hath been so great, that it hath pierced the heavens, and called for vengeance against us: But we beseech thee, O Lord, forget not thou to be gracious, and shut not up thy loving kindness in displeasure; turn thee again and be merciful unto thy Servants. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; O deliver us, and be merciful unto our sins for thy names sake. Take thy[ sword] and all other judgements from us, that we be not consumed by the means of thy heavy hand upon our sins. O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon; so shall we that be thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, give thee thanks for ever, and will always be showing forth thy praise from generation to generation. Grant this, O merciful Father, we beseech thee, for Jesus Christ his sake, our onely Saviour and Redeemer, Amen. II. O Eternal God and most gracious Father, we confess that by our manifold transgressions, we have deserved whatsoever thy Law hath threatened against sinners: Our contempt of thy Divine Service is great, and we hear thy Word, but obey it not. Our charity to our Neighbour is could, and our disobedience abounds. Religion is with many of us, as in too many places besides, made but a pretence for other ends, then thy service; and there hath been little or no care among us, to keep Truth and Peace together, for the preserving of both Church and State. Forgive us, O Lord, forgive us these, and all other our grievous sins. sand us light in our understandings, readiness and obedience in our wils, discretion in our words and actions, true, serious, and loyal endeavours for the peace and prosperity of our Jerusalem, the unity and glory of this Church and State; that we may love it, and prosper in it, that we may be guided by thy grace in this life, and received to thy glory in the life to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. III. GRant we beseech thee. Almighty God, that we which for our evil deeds, and our great unthankfulness are worthily punished; by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved, through our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. IV. ALmighty and most merciful Father, who for our many and grievous sins( those especially which we have committed since our last solemn Humiliation before thee) mightest most justly have cut us off, but in the multitude of thy mercies hast hitherto spared us: Accept we most hearty beseech thee, our unfeigned sorrow for all our former transgressions; and grant we may never so presume of thy mercy, as to despise the riches of thy goodness: But that thy forbearance and long suffering may led us to repentance, and amendment of our sinful lives, to thy honour and glory, and our eternal salvation at the last day, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. V. ALmighty and everlasting God, which hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of them that be penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness, through Jesus Christ. VI. GRant Lord, we beseech thee, that the course of this world may be so ordered by thy governance, that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness, through Jesus Christ, Amen. VII. ALmighty and Everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmities and miseries, and in all our dangers and necessities, stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us, through Christ our Lord, Amen. VIII. O Lord, we beseech thee, favourably to hear the prayers of thy people, that we, which are justly punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness, for the glory of thy name, through Jesus Christ our Saviour, who liveth, &c. Let us pray for the whole state of Christs holy catholic Church, particularly of our distressed Mother, the afflicted Church of England. O Lord God of thine inheritance, who conveyest many blessings to the children of men, by the prayer 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 hath been meat for the beasts of the land; And still she wears the purple rob 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; hel us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; let not thine enemies devour the Church, and lay wast her dwelling places: Be merciful unto our sins, preserve all those that by malice of their enemies are appointed to death, or prison, or any other misery. Let us still enjoy the freedom of thy Gospel, the food of thy Word, the sweet refreshings of thy Sacraments, public Communions in thy Church, and all the benefits of the society of Saints; and let not our sins 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. 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 the 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, least 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 onely Saviour and Redeemer. Amen. O Saviour of the world, save us, which by thy across and precious blood hast redeemed us, Help us we beseech thee, help this bleeding Church, O thou God of our salvation. Though thou hast now a long time given Satan and his instruments power over all that she hath, yet, O Lord, spare her life: Let there be still a remnant left to praise thee, And when by these sharp trials thou hast vindicated her integrity, be pleased to bless her, as thou didst Job's latter end, by giving her a double portion of all real advantages And though thou hast now violently removed thy Tabernacle, yet, O Lord, let not one pin of it be lost: But erect it again amongst us in the wonted order and beauty, for thy goodness sake, for thy mercies sake, for thy Son Christ Jesus sake, our onely Lord and Saviour, Amen. O Lord, which dost teach us, that all our doings without charity are nothing worth; sand thy holy Ghost, & poure into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and all virtues; without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee. Grant this for thine onely Son Jesus Christ's sake. The Conclusion. THe Almighty Lord, which is a most strong tower to all them that put their trust in him; to whom all things in Heaven, in earth, and under the earth, do bow and obey, be now and evermore our defence. The defence of this afflicted Church: The defence of these distracted realms: The defence of all such who do, or suffer for the testimony of a good conscience: The defence of the blessed and holy offices of our Mother the Church: The defence of this and all other congregations that meet together in thy holy fear: The defence of our dear relations, both at home and abroad: The defence of our own persons: The defence of our souls, bodies and estates. And make us all to know and feel, that there is no other name under heaven given unto man, in whom, and through whom, we may receive re-establishment in our Religion, restauration of our Liberties, reconciliation with thee our God, together with peace and safety among men, felicity here, and salvation hereafter, but onely the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. To whom with thee, O Father, and the blessed spirit, be ascribed, as is most due, all Honour, and Glory, Praise, Might, Majesty, Dominion, and Adoration of all Angels, of all Men, and of all Creatures, now and for ever, Amen, Amen. A form OF Prayer FOR the Thirtieth of January. A form of Prayer for the 30th of January. Preface to be red standing. 1. RIghteous art thou O Lord, when I pled with thee, yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments; wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy, that deal very treacherously? 2. Thou hast planted them, yea, they grow and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their lips, and far from their reins, wherefore holdest thou thy tongue, while the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous then he? 3. They have condemned and killed the Just, and he doth not resist them: 4. They make a man an offender for a word, and lay snares for him, that reproveth them in the gate, and turn aside the Just for a thing of nought. 5. They say, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the Innocent blood, without cause; we shall find all precious substance; we shall 〈◇〉 our houses with spoil: 6. Wherefore they sacrifice ●o their Net, and burn Incense to their drag; because by it. their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. 7. Art not thou from everlasting, my Lord, my God, my holy one? O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgement: O mighty God, thou hast established them for Correction. 8. But though the righteous be prevented by death, yet shall he be at rest. 9. For his soul pleased the Lord; therefore he hath hasted to take him from among the wicked. 10. In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die, and their departure is taken for misery, and their going from us for utter destruction; but they are in peace. 11. For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their reward full of immortality 12. And after a little chastening they shall be greatly rewarded, for God hath proved them, and found them worthy for himself. 13. As Gold in the fire, hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering. 14. Blessed are the dead, which die in the Lord, for they rest from their labours, and their works follow them▪ 15. For if we have been planted with him in the likeness of his death we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection. 16. O our God, we are ashamed, and blushy to lift up our faces to thee; for our iniquities are increased over our heads, and our trespass is gone up to Heaven; since the dayes of our Fathers, have we been in a great trespass, unto this day; and for our Iniquities have we, our Kings, and our Priests, been delivered to the sword, to captivity, to a spoil; and to confusion of face, as it is this day. 17. What shall we say, or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the Iniquity of his Servants: We have transgressed, and rebelled; thou hast not pardonned. 18. Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us, thou hast slain, and not pitied. 19. The Lord hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. 20. For the sins of her Prophets, and her Priests, that have shed the blood of the Just, in the midst of her. 21. And now, O Lord, thou art most Just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly. 22. Behold we are before thee in our trespass, for we cannot stand before thee because of this. 23. O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, yet do thou it for thy names sake, for we have sinned against thee. 24. Be not wrath very sore, neither remember iniquity for ever. 25. Be merciful, O Lord, to thy people, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to the charge of thy people. 26. Deliver us from bloud-guiltiness thou God of our health, and our tongue shall sing of thy righteousness. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end: Amen. O come let us worship, let us humble ourselves, let us fall low, and kneel before the Lord our Maker. Then this General Confession to be said, All kneeling. O Thou Judge eternal, we the sinfullest of all the sons of men, that have abused thy Mercies, provoked thy Judgements, unsheathed thy glittering Sword, forced all the Arrows and Darts of thy Quiver, and with our multiplied abominable crying sins, brought down a desolation on a most pleasant Land( that former delight of thine) the glory of all Lands. We, that after thy wrath was poured out upon us, have yet further increased our sins, as thou hast increased the weight and number of thy Judgements upon us; walked most unprofitably and obdurately under all thy disciplines and visitations; suffered all thy precious methods of reducing us( thine admonitions and thy stripes) to be utterly lost and frustrate amongst us, brought down a blast & mildew upon all that has been undertaken to repair our breaches, & reduce our peace. We do now at length, in the remorse and bitterness of our souls, desire to cast ourselves down upon the ground before thee, to confess and acknowledge thy patience and long-suffering, that we have not been under the sharpest of thy displeasures; and to adore thy goodness, whatsoever becomes of us, though it be in the shane, and confusion, and condemnation, both of our bodies and souls. Lord! this is the mildest that we have reason to expect from thy Justice, in retribution to our sins: And whatever is less then this, whatsoever the bitterness of our cup be in this life, though thou shouldst cast us into the place of Dragons, give us to drink of the Wine of astonishment, the most stupefying deadly potion, number us all to the sword, pour out thy fire and brimstone upon us: Yet if by thus chastising of us here, thou please to rescue us from that sadder doom, of being condemned with the world, this is a most inestimable mercy of thine, beyond all that we have( hitherto) so unworthily enjoyed. Lord! we desire, and profess, to acquit thy Justice in thy proceedings, to adore the bounty of thy Goodness and patience towards us, that we have not, long ago, been as Admah and Zeboim, as Sodom and Gomorrah, that we have this day liberty to approach thee, Lord! that it may yet be thy good pleasure, to come home to every one of our souls, to strike our hearts, to break up these fallow grounds of ours, that all thy precious seed be no longer so cast away amongst thorns: And by the power of thy mighty, controlling, convincing Spirit, that thou wouldest once subdue all the resistances of our spirits against this most reasonable motion of humiliation within us. Lord, this is the one earnest desire of our souls, that hath cast us low( this day) before thy foot stool, with cries, and tears, & earnest groans, that thou wouldst have this mercy upon us, that thou wouldest thus powerfully reveal thyself unto us, who hast thus long smitten and importunately called unto us; that being at last returned unto thee, in weeping, fasting and mourning, and renting of our hearts; we might be capable of thy returns to us, of the further impressions of thy grace, and never more contradict or quench, or grieve that spirit of thine, which hath thus long contended and wrestled with us; that so it may be seasonable with thee, to give us the comfort of thy help again, and the confidence to approach thy presence, to praise that Majesty, which hath not cast out our prayer, nor turned his mercy from us; to whom be all honour, power, glory and praise, now and for ever, Amen. O LORD, the great and dreadful God, keeping Covenant and mercy to them that love thee, and to them that keep thy Commandments, we have sinned with our forefathers; We our Kings, our Priests, our Nobles, and all the People of this Land, and have Rebelled, even by departing from thy Precepts and thy judgements. BY our impious and godless thoughts of thee, our confidences in the Arm of Flesh, by placing our affections too much upon earthly things, by neglecting to love and delight in thee, by presuming of thy mercies, and yet continuing in our sins, we have provoked and Rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee▪ but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By our want of Reverence to thy Service, not considering the awfulness of thy presence, and that honour due to thee in thy house; by our formal and hypocritical worship; by open profanation and sacrilege, by shows and pretences of piety to cover our worldly and wicked designs, we have provoked and rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By vain and rash Oaths, blasphemies and perjuries, especially our careless breaches of Oaths made to our sovereign, forgetting that such are the Oaths of God, and that thou thyself in a more especial manner, art a strict avenger of them; by our execrations of ourselves, our Brethren, and our Enemies, we have provoked and rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By undervaluing thy public Service, and neglecting to bear a part in it; by misspending of that time, either there or elsewhere, in wanton or worldly thoughts and employments, and not keeping the spiritual sabbath unto thee, in serving thee truly all the dayes of our life; by not duly observing the times of Festivity, or Fasting, appointed by just Authority, according to the example of thy people in all ages, we have provoked and rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By not duly acknowledging thine Ordinance and Authority in the persons of our superiors, by speaking evil of Dignities, and reviling the Rulers of thy People, by groundless jealousies and suspicions, misjudging and censuring their actions; and at last proceeding▪ to that highest and horrid pitch of violation of that Image of thine imprinted on them: By being as a People that strive with their Priests; by not obeying them that have the rule over us, and not submitting ourselves to them, who by thy Appointment watch over our souls; by neglecting the care of those committed to our charge, not correcting those sins which have cried loud for exemplary punishment, We have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By rash anger, malice, hatred, and revenge, and the bloody effects thereof; by uncharitable contentions and divisions, factions and animosities; by cruelty and unmercifulness, and communicating in the sins of blood; We have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By the manifold sins of uncleanness, by seeking or not avoiding the occasions thereof, by idleness, intemperance and drunkenness, by immodest words and gestures, by our shameless boasting, or not blushing at those sins. We have provoked and rebelled against thee; O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By Thefts, Rapines, and Oppressions, scandalising thereby the Honour and Justice of a good Cause, by vexatious suits so much practised and countenanced, by exactions, by unjust gains in bargaining, by defrauding the labourer of his hire, by want of due care in expending what we have, and a good conscience in acquiring more, We have provoked and rebelled against thee; O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By lying, detraction and contumely, by endeavouring to advantage a good Cause by falsehood and unjust means; by censuring and rash judgments; by false witness and perverting the course of Justice, we have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By desire of change, and uncontentednesse in our Estates; by giving ourselves over to lustful, covetous and inordinate affections; by desiring Peace not so much for thine honour or the public good, as the satisfaction of our own private lusts; by neglecting acts of Charity, and doing as we would be done to; and not doing our duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased thee to call us, We have provoked and rebelled against thee. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By our want and neglect of those necessary Christian duties, of humiliation and godly sorrow for sins, of due indignation and revenge upon ourselves for them; of confessing and forsaking, of restitution and satisfaction to others, and by not bringing forth fruits worthy of repentance, we have provoked and rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By impatience under thy correcting hand, by not endeavouring our amendment by it, in reflecting upon our own sins as the Causes of it, by despising thy chastisements, in not rejoicing in tribulations, and not glorifying thee, that hast counted us worthy to suffer for righteousness sake, We h●ve provoked and rebelled against thee O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By freting ourselves, because of the ungodly, and being envious against the evil doers; by not loving our enemies, not blessing them that curse us, not doing good to them that hate us, nor praying for those that despitefully use us, and persecute us, We have provoked and rebelled against thee; O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By presuming to do evil that good may come thereon; by placing piety in opinions, by straining at Gnats and swallowing of Camels, in scrupling at things indifferent, and making no conscience of known sins, we have provoked and rebelled against thee; O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. By running into open profaneness, under colour of avoiding superstition; by guiding our conscience by humours and fancies, and not by the certain rules of thy Law; by having itching ears, and heaping to ourselves teachers, and by having mens persons in admiration, because of advantage; We have provoked and rebelled against thee: O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day. Who can tell, how oft he offendeth▪ O cleanse thou us from these, and from our secret sins. Try us, O good God, and search the ground of our hearts, prove us, and examine our thoughts, and look well if there be any other way of wickedness in us, and led us in the way everlasting. A Prayer for forgiveness. O Almighty and most merciful Father, who art the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, and forgiving iniquity, transgressions and sins. Look down upon us with thy compassionate eyes, who are here before thee, in the bitterness of our souls, and do now with troubled spirits, with broken and with contrite hearts, most humbly beg pardon for these multitudes of our offences. Look, we humbly beseech thee, upon the blood of thy son which speaks better things then that of Abell; for his sake spare us, Lord, spare thy people, that these sins rise not up against us: for his passions sake expose us not for a prey to their cruel hands, who would both devour and deride us. R. Spare us, Lord, spare thy people, for the glory of thy name; O deliver us, and be merciful to all these our sins, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. OUr Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily ly bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And led us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil. Amen. O Lord open thou our lips. And our mouth shall show forth thy praise. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end: Amen. LAMENTATIONS out of Jeremy the Prophet. LOok down, O LORD, in the Bowels of thy pitty, and lend a tender ear unto the voice of our Lamentations. Our Adversaries are the chief, our enemies prosper: For thou hast afflicted us for the multitude of our transgressions: The Crown is fallen from the head, wo unto us, that we have sinned. O Lord, behold our afflictions, for the Enemy hath magnified himself. The Adversary hath spread out his hand upon all our pleasant things; they have entred into, and have profaned thy sanctuaries: They have seen us low, and they have mocked at our Sabboaths, our solemn feasts are become their scorn, and our devotions their derision. O Lord, behold our afflictions, for the Enemy hath magnified himself. Thou art become our Enemy, thou hast increased among us Mourning and Lamentation, because thou hast despised in the indignation of thine anger both the King, and the Priest. See, O Lord, and consider, for we are become very vile. All our people sigh. The yoke of our transgressions is bound by thy hand, they are wreathed and come up upon our necks, thou hast made our strength to fail, thou hast delivered it into their hands, from whom we are not able to rise up. Thou hast trodden us as in a winepress; our enemies hear our trouble, and they are glad thou hast done it. Behold, O Lord, for we are in distress: Our bowels are troubled, our heart is turned within us; for we have grievously Rebelled, abroad the sword devoureth, at home there is as death. Our enemies have opened their mouth against us, they hiss and they gnash their Teeth, they say, We have swallowed them up; certainly, this is the day that we looked for, we have found, we have seen it. Thus are we in derision all the day long, Wee are become their Song, and their music. O Lord, behold our afflictions, for the enemy hath magnified himself. They have cried unto us, depart ye, ye are unclean, depart, depart; touch not; yea, these men have said, they shall no more sojourned here. O Lord, behold our afflictions, for the enemy hath magnified himself. The breath of our Nostrils, the Anointed of the Lord is taken in their pits, and slaughtered by their hands; of whom yet we said, under his shadow we shall live among the midst of these sad distractions. O Lord, behold this, and behold our afflictions, for the enemy hath very highly magnified himself. Thus do we call to mind our afflictions, and our miseries, the Wormwood and the gull, our souls have them in remembrace, and they are humbled in us, and therefore have we hope. It is of the Lords mercy that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning, great is his faithfulness. For the Lord will not cast off for ever; but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his Mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. The Psalms for the Day 7.10.22.37. First Lesson, 2 Chron. 35. from v. 20. ad fin. Lament. 5. Zach. 12. v. 10. ad finem. A Form Collected out of the Psalms. I. HEar our voice, O Lord, out of thy holy Temple, let our complaint come before thee, let it enter even into thy ears. Our heart is in heaviness, O let us make our Prayer unto thee in an acceptable time. Lord, our iniquities are against us, our rebellions are many wherewith we have transgressed against thee: But we confess our wickednesses, and are sorry for our sins. Our confusion is daily before us, fearfulness and trembling are come upon us, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed us, and it is thy great mercy onely that we are not consumed, for we have sinned, O Lord, we have transgressed and done wickedly, yea, we have rebelled, and departed from thy precepts, and from thy Commandements. Innumerable troubles are come about us, our sins have taken hold upon us, that we are not able to look up, yea, they are more in number then the hairs of our heads, and our hearts have failed us. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, because of all the offences we have committed against thee. Yet compassion and forgiveness is with thee, though we have rebelled against thee. O Lord, according to thy goodness, we beseech thee, let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away from us, and cause thy face to shine upon thy servants. Incline thine ears and hear, open thine eyes and behold our afflictions, for we do not present our supplications before thee, in our own righteousness, but for thy manifold and great mercies. We have sinned against heaven and against thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy Sons Yet, O Lord, hear O Lord, forgive, consider and do it, defer not for thine own sake, O our God. Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. II. HEar our prayers, O Lord, and hid not thyself from our Petitions, and harken unto the words of our mouth, for strangers are risen up against us, and Tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after our Souls. Cast us not away in the time of our weakness: forsake us not when our strength faileth us. O remember not our offences, but according to thy mercy think thou upon us for thy goodness. O turn thee unto us, and have mercy upon us: for we are desolate and in misery. The sorrows of our hearts are enlarged: O bring thou us out of all our troubles. Turn us, O God our Saviour, and let thine anger cease from us: sand down from on high and deliver us, take us out of these many waters. Why art thou absent from us so long? why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture? Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our misery and trouble? for our soul is brought low unto the dust, our belly cleaveth to the ground Look upon our adversity and misery: and forgive us all our sins. Arise, O Lord, and help us, and deliver us for thy mercy sake: so shall it be known that it is thy hand, and that thou Lord hast done it. Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. III. WE will cry unto the Lord with our voice; yea, even unto God will we cry with our voice, and he shall harken unto us. For the Lord is gracious and long-suffering, and of great mercy to them that call upon him. The Lord is nigh unto all them that be of a contrite heart, and will save such as are of an humble spirit. And now, Lord, what is our hope? truly our hope is even in thee; For our Fathers hoped in thee, they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them; they call●d upon thee and were holpen, they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded. The Lord will be a defence for the oppressed, even a refuge in due time of trouble: and they that know thy name will put their trust in thee, for thou Lord never failest them that seek thee. The merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever, upon them that fear him: and his righteousness upon Childrens Children; even upon such as keep his Covenant, and think upon his Commandments to do them. Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that trust in thee, thou that upholdest all such as are falling, and liftest up such as be down, thou that healest the broken in heart, and givest medicine to heal their sickness, thou that art the Father of mercy and God of all consolation, that art comfort to the sad, and strength to the weak, hear thy servants, we beseech thee, look down from Heaven, behold and visit us with thy salvation. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. The second Lesson, appointed by the Calendar of the Church, for the 30th. of January, throughout all time, is the 27. Chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. GIve the King thy judgements, O G●d. The Lord hear him in the day of trouble: the name of the God of Jacob defend him. sand him help from his Sanctuary: and strengthen him out of Sion. Let the King rejoice in thy strength, O Lord: let him be exceeding glad of thy salvation. Grant him his hearts desire, and deny him not the request of his lips. [ O Lord, gird him with strength unto the battle: throw down his Enemies under him Make them to turn their backs upon him: and disperse them that hate him.] Deliver him from the strivings of his people. Deliver him from his cruel Enemies, and set him up above his adversaries; thou shalt rid him from the wicked man: and why? because the King putteth his trust in the Lord, and in the mercy of the most high, he shall not miscarry. Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. Save Lord, and hear us, O King of Heaven, when we call upon thee. Be thou exalted in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. V. O Lord God, that dost build up jerusalem, and gather together the outcasts of Israel. Wherefore art thou absent so long? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture? O think upon thy Congregation: whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old. Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance: and mount Sion, where thou hast dwelled. Lift up thy Feet, and disperse all those our Enemies: which have done evil in thy sanctuary. For they have broken down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers: they have defiled the dwelling places of thy name, yea, they said in their hearts, let us make havoc of them altogether. O God, how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour? how long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy name, for ever? Why withdrawest thou thy hand, why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosom to scatter the enemy? Arise, O God, maintain thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man blasphemes thee daily. Forget not the voice of thine Enemies: the presumption of them that hate thee increaseth ever more and more. Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. The Creed. I Believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth: and in Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord, which was conceived by the holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Ponce Pilate, was crucified, dead and butted, he descended into Hell, the third day he rose again from the dead, he ascended into heaven, and fitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty: from thence he shall come, to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting, Amen. Let us Pray. The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. OUr Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And led us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil, Amen. O Thou most mighty Creator and wise Ruler of all things, who hast reserved the disposal of all events to thine own all-seeing wisdom, and never permittest any thing to be done by the malice of men, or Devils, but what thou discernest absolutely most useful and profitable for thy Servants. Thou who art good beyond all that we can judge or choose, even when thy judgements are most terrible and astonishing; We thy sinful creatures, do here prostrate our souls before thee, desiring to adore and tremble at thy presence, to admire the finger of thine own hand, in that great vengeance, which did( as upon this Day) befall us; Lord, it is the provocation of our sins that hath reached up to heaven, that hath brought down these amazing punishments upon earth: thou hast abounded to us in mercies, beyond all the Nations of the world, granted us all the advantages we could pray for, and we murmured against thy bounty, rebelled against thy most obliging methods of melting and overcoming an obdurate people: And then, what remained, but that thou shouldst withdraw those graces which we had so long abused and profaned? Deprive us of all our ornaments, leave us naked and bare, cast us out into the open field, to the loathing of our persons? Judge us, as women that break wedlock and shed blood, are judged; and give us blood in jealousy and fury? And thus hast thou in thy just displeasure proceeded with us: thou hast abased our glory, thou hast spit in our very faces, thou hast cast reproach upon all that is precious amongst us: Thou hast permitted an host, not onely against the daily sacrifice▪ to cast down the truth to the ground; but even against thine own Ordnance, thine own inscription, the Image of thine own power amongst us, and in all this to practise and prosper: Lord! thou hast called us to lamentation and bitter mourning, beyond the weeping of Rachel for her children, or the mourning of Hadadrimmon, in the valley of Megiddo: Lord, they are our rebellions against thee, which thou hast Visited upon our late sovereign, our beloved Josiah; and( to the aggravation of our sin and woe) they were our hands that executed this butchery upon him. In this thou hast more then delivered up this Nation unto satan, to the adversary, to buffet and thrash us; thou hast delivered us up to ourselves, to assassinate ourselves: Our greatest sin is our horridest punishment: The utmost of our provocations against thee, is the utmost of thy inflictions upon us: And yet( O Lord!) all these accursed effects of our sins have not served to alien us from them: none repenteth of his way, or saith, what have I done? But every one rusheth into his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. And since( O Lord!) we have not in this our day, heard the things that belong to our peace, what can we expect, but that they should for ever be hide from our eyes? That our measure being filled up, and thy righteous servant removed by our violence, from holding up our Pillars, we should all become one common ruin? That the earth should swallow us up for Corahs sins; or the destruction of thine own ancient people the Jews should be the reward of the obduration of thine own people; And then( O Lord!) tis thy great mercy to our late sovereign, that thou hast taken him away from the evil to come: And it is the joy of our hearts, in the midst of our lamentations, that having so fitted him for thyself, given him that wonderful measure of Patience, Constancy and Magnanimity, thou wert pleased to crown all these Graces with perseverance here, and in exchange of his crown of thorns( the sad encumbrances of a broken kingdom on earth) hast received him into a participation of thy crown of Glory. As for us( O Lord!) we are laid at thy feet, to hear what the Lord God will say, concerning us: whatsoever thy purposes are we desire to embrace them Christianly, though it be to cast us away, as straw to the dung-hill; but if yet there may be place of mercy, Lord, lift up the light of thy countenance and be gracious to the remnant of thine heritage; To this end, O Lord, convert us from the evil of our ways; and our enemies from the cruelty of theirs; thou God of purity and peace, grant that we be no longer a wicked, nor a self-destroying Nation; but that we may all at length, join together in a serious unfeigned humiliation for the shedding that precious innocent blood, and all those other sins that have brought down thy desertions on us; Grant this for Jesus Christ his sake. Amen. II. O Lord! this is a day of trouble, of rebuk and blasphemy, a day wherein a wonderful and horrible thing was committed in our land, most sacred Innocent blood, shed with more barbarous aggravations, then we know where to parallel on this side the murder of thy dear Son; And because sentence against this evil work hath not been executed speedily, the hearts of this people are wholly set in them to do evil; this respite, which thou hast given us to work our Repentance, hath served onely to complete our sin, by adding an obstinate impenitency to the former Guilt; and so fitting us, for that final excision which thou hast threatened to obdurate sinners. And now,( O Lord,) this fearful expectation of judgement, and fiery indignation is all that remains unto us, who have thus despised the riches of thy mercy: Yet( O Lord) out of these depths do we desire to call upon thee: Lord hear our voice; and( if that final sentence be not irreversibly gone out against us) be pleased yet to turn thy wrath away, and not to suffer thy whole displeasure to arise? To this end, thou O Lord, who breakest the gates of brass, and smitest the bars of Iron in sunder; be thou pleased to rend these unrelenting hearts of ours; to work in every one of us such a sense of our horrid abominations( especially, that of this day) as may cast us down in the lowest degree of Humiliation and Contrition before thee: that so we may be capable of that exaltation which thou hast promised to the humble, that Comfort which thou hast assigned to Mourners, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. III. O Lord God, that rulest over all the kingdoms of the earth, that hast threatened that for the sins of the Land, the Kings thereof should be many; and hast told us, that if we do wickedly, we should be consumed, both we and our King: We miserable and wretched sinners, do here in the bitterness of our souls prostrate ourselves before thy Throne of Grace, acknowledging against ourselves, that we have made thee to serve with our sins, and wearied thee with our iniquities; so that in the fierceness of thine anger, thou hast wounded us with the wound of an enemy, and chastised us with the chastisement of a cruel one: for in the indignation of thy fury, thou hast despised the King and the Priest: Wo unto us, that we have sinned, the Crown is fallen from our Head, and the beauty of our Israel is slain by the hands of wicked men. Thou hast suffered the Breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord, to be taken in their Pits, of whom we said, under his shadow we shall have Peace and Protection: The fire out of the Bramble hath devoured the lofty Cedars; the Base are risen up against the Honourable; the Sub●ects against their King, whom( after much contumelious usage) forgetting the Oath of God, their own Covenant, their own Protestation, and their often reiterated Vows, to preserve his Person, Crown and Dignity; and all this, with their hands lifted up to thee our God of Truth; have yet brought him as a Lamb to the slaughter, and with wicked hands have murdered thy Vice-gerent, as though he had not been anointed with oil: A wonderful and horrible sin is committed in the Land, over passing the deeds of the wicked; a sin that no Nation, no people ever committed, and such as the Sun never saw, since it withdrew its light at the Passion of thy dear Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ: Other Rebels have murdered Kings, but( as it was, in itself a dead of darkness, so) they acted their sin in darkness, shunning the light; But this parricide was committed with a high hand, presumptuously, in the sight of the Sun, and owned as an Act of Justice: The cry of this Innocent blood of a righteous King, of our own King, a King too good for so wicked a People, is entered into thy presence, and calls loud to thee for vengeance upon this whole Nation; so that we may justly expect that thou shouldst root us and our posterity out of this Land, which is made an abomination, stained & polluted with the blood of thine Anointed Servant and Martyr: But the Judge of all the earth will not destroy the Innocent with the Guilty; for though our sins are many and grievous, yet in our tears we will wash our hands from this sin, saying, our hands have not shed this blood; And therefore when thou shalt make inquisition for blood, lay not( we beseech thee) this blood to our Charge! Be merciful, O Lord, be merciful unto thy people, whom thou hast redeemed, and let not this Innocent blood be required, neither of us, nor of our Posterity: For, as( before this great wickedness was committed) we prayed against it, and in our Devotions entred our Protestation in Heaven, before thee, against so impious, so hellish Resolutions of the bloody Assassinates: So, since these sons of Belial have brought their mischievous imaginations to pass, for which our souls are wounded and humbled within us, we do from our hearts detest this Damnable Parricide; and do from our souls renounce this abhorred Murder of thine Anointed Servant, our late sovereign King charles: Saying with Jacob, O my soul, come not thou into their Secret, unto their Assembly mine honor be not thou united; for in their anger they have slain a man, the best of men, the Lords Anointed; Cursed be their Anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath for it was cruel! yea, we will yet pray against their wickedness, for now they go on to strengthen one wickedness with another: They Decree unrighteous Decrees, and writ grievous things which they have prescribed, thereby to establish wickedness by a Law, to remove the bounds of the People, and destroy the very Foundations. But O thou preserver of men, and God of all order, blast all their designs which tend to nothing but Anarchy and Confusion, and destruction and scandal of the Christian Religion, but let all their turning of things upside down be esteemed as the Potters day; Let it be in thy sight, as the Rebellion of Corah, Dathan and Abiram; and now( O Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh) let not the Congregation of the Lord be as sheep which have no shepherd; Though our breach be great like the sea, yet thou canst heal it: Be merciful( we beseech thee) to these three kingdoms united under one Crown by establishing the King in his Fathers Throne; pled thou his cause, and( that thou mayest give rest unto the Land) make his way prosperous; direct all his Counsels, and Crown all his designs with success; raise him up friends abroad, and at home turn the hearts of the People to their sovereign; upon whom, we beseech thee to double the Gifts and Graces of his Father, as thou didst the spirit of Elijah, on Elisha; Cloath him with Majesty & Power, that he may subdue the Rebellious, and appear terrible to thine and his Enemies: that so he may restore the daily Sacrifice, thy public Worship and Service, relieve the Oppressed, and bring the punishment of the Innocent blood of his Father, upon those Murderers that shed it, as water spilled upon the ground: Hasten, O Lord, by him to restore Peace and righteousness, Truth and Equity; Let them kiss each other under his government! O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but guide thou the just: Give O Lord, rest from our fears, and from our sorrows, and from the oppressions under which we groan; Let thine hand, O Lord, be known towards thy servants, and thine indignation towards thine and the Kings Enemies: Look down, O Lord, from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holinesse and of thy glory; restrain not( we beseech thee) thy zeal, nor thy strength, nor the soundings of thy Bowels, and of thy Mercies towards us: hear us, O Lord, thou King of Heaven, when we call upon thee, and grant our requests, and that for Jesus Christ sake, our onely Lord and Saviour, Amen. IV. BLessed Lord! in whose sight the death of thy Saints is most precious, we magnify thy name for those wonderful effusions of thy Grace on our late Martyred sovereign, which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant, Meek suffering of all barbarous indignities, and at last resisting even unto blood, and even then pursuing that glorious Pattern, and praying for his Murtherers: Let his Memory, O Lord, be ever blessed among us, and his example efficacious upon us, that we may follow him, as he followed Christ: And, O Lord, we beseech thee, let not his blood out-cry his Prayers; but let those that spilled the one, obtain benefit by the other: that by their Conviction and Repentance, his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation, our Religion be vindicated from the scandal of so horrid a fact, our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood, and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners; and all for Jesus Christ his sake, Amen. V. O Just and Righteous Judge, who didst once for the iniquity of thy People Israel, give up thy Ark into the hands of the Philistines. We thy sinful Creatures, that are now under as great a degree both of guilt and punishment, do here cast ourselves down before thee, acknowledging that we are not worthy any longer to retain the honour of Christian Profession, that have so long defamed it by enormous practices; and that we, who loved darkness more then light, deserve to have our Candlestick removed, and to be given up to that inundation of Atheism and profaneness, which now invades this gasping Church: yet, O Lord? deal not with us after our sins, but turn thee again thou Lord of Hosts, look down from heaven, behold and visit this Vine; do not abhor us, for thy namesake, do not disgrace the Throne of thy Glory: Behold, see( we beseech thee) we are all thy People; though a rebellious and stiff-necked generation, yet thy name is called upon us; leave us not, neither forsake us, O Lord God of our salvation; but, though thou feed us with bread of Adversity, and water of Affliction; yet let not our Teachers be removed into a corner; but let our eyes see our Teachers; let not Sion complain, that she hath none to led her by the hand among all the Sons that she hath brought up; but provide her such supports in this her declining Condition, that she may have a seed and Remnant left; And in what degree soever thou shalt permit this storm to increase upon this poor Church, be pleased proportionably to fortify and confirm all those that are Members of it, that no one may be shaken or moved with these Afflictions, nor pervert that glorious advantage of suffering for thee, into an occasion of apostatising from thee; But that we may all run with patience the race that is set before us, and cheerfully partake of the Afflictions of the Gospel; that in suffering for Christ here, we may reign with him for ever hereafter and all for Jesus Christ his sake our onely Lord and Saviour, Amen. O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King! Who putteth his trust in thee. sand him help from thy holy Place: And evermore mightily defend him. confounded the designs of all those that are risen up against him. And let not their rebellious wickedness approach near to hurt him. Let the Curse of Saul light upon the endeavours of those men, who contrive or Imagine mischief for him: And let the blessings of David remain upon his Head, and upon his Seed for evermore. O Lord, hear our Prayer. And let our Cry come unto thee. VI. O Lord God of Hosts, who didst deliver David, thy servant from the peril of the Sword! Hear us we beseech thee most miserable sinners; who do here poure out our souls before thee, entirely desiring the protection of thy hand upon thy Servant the King, let him find safety under the shadow of thy wings, and preserve his Person as the Apple of thine own Eye: Suffer not that Sword, which thou hast put into his Hands, to be wrested out by the hand of man; but bless his Counsels with success, and his enterprizes with Victory; that he may become a terror to all those that oppose him, and as the due of the latter rain, upon the hearts of all those that do still continue loyal to him: And O thou that takest no delight in the misery of one single sinner, spare merciful Lord; spare a great, though most sinful Nation; pitty a despised Church and a distracted State; heal those wounds which our sins have made so wide, that none but thine own hands can close them; and in the tenderness of thine unspeakable compassion, hasten to put so happy an end to these wasting Divisions, that thy service may be more duly celebrated, thine Anointed more conscientiously obeied; that the Church may be restored to a true Christian Unity, and the kingdom to its former Peace; And that for his sake, who is the Prince of peace, and that shed his precious blood to purchase our peace, even Jesus Christ the righteous, to whom, with thee O Father, and the blessed spirit, be all Honour and Glory, world without end, Amen. VI. O Thou most mighty Creator and wise governor of all, that hast for our sins and provocations given us to drink of a most bitter astonishing cup; and demonstrated by thy late proceedings with us, how inexorable thou art towards us; who have been so obstinate and obdurate toward thee, that would not hear in that our Day the things belonging to our peace; and now they are hide from our eyes: We, those wretched Creatures of thine, do yet desire to adore, and prostrate our souls before thee, to put our hands upon our mouths, and our mouths into the Dust, and aclowledge all Honour and Glory to be due unto thee, whatsoever becomes of us: Though to these amazing Calamities, thou shouldst yet super-add thy fire and Brimstone from Heaven, and all the horrors of astonished hearts, and the eternal Worm and Flames, the due portion of the damned in Hell: O Lord, thou art most just in all thy judgments; and infinitely merciful, that we live to call upon thee this day: O that these sharp last necessary methods of thine, may at length prove successful on these thy gasping forlorn patients, that thy great work of recovery and change, the cleansing of our polluted leprous souls may be effectually wrought upon us, by this hand of thine Lord, save us, from these sad effects, by a powerful removal of the Cause, or else we certainly perish: To this end, O Lord, we resign ourselves up to thy divine Methods; be they the sharpest that thou seest necessary to dispense to us; we desire to embrace them cheerfully, and not to interpose any thought of ours in contradiction to thy most safe, most medicinable prescriptions. It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good; not ours but thy sacred will be done! Be it unto us according to thy good pleasure: In the mean time, Lord permit us to intercede for others, that are not worthy to pray for ourselves: O let the sorrowful sighing of the poor, of the oppressed, and there is no Comforter; let the black gloomy Calamities that are fallen upon him, that is more worth then ten thousand of us, come before thee. Let thy Protection still continue unto him, if it be thy sacred Will, Thy Host of guardian Angels, that once appeared in the Mount, the Horses and chariots round about Elisha, environ and surround that sacred Head; and by thine own ways and means, and in thine own season, restore him( with out the effusion of any more blood) to his Fathers Crown & throne: And, Lord, that it might yet be an acceptable time, a season wherein thou mightest be accessible to our Prayers, which we offer up in great Humility, for thy poor, wasted, disconsolate Church amongst us, That thou wouldest repair her breaches, restore her dayes as of old, that thou wouldest arise, and have mercy upon Sion, and Compassionate to see her in the Dust: Lord, where is thy Pitty? And the sounding of the Bowels, thy zeal to the place where thy rest dwelleth? Will the Lord absent himself for ever? And will he be no more entreated? Are his mercies clean gone for ever? and his promises come utterly to an end for evermore? Lord, remember thy old loving kindnesses which thou sworest unto David in thy truth: Arise, O Lord, and come into thy Rest, thou, and the Ark of thy strength: But if these Calamities and Desolations must still go on, and advance to the height of an irremediable ruin; yet, O Lord, intermix thy sweet and Comfortable Allays with this bitter Cup; Take us into thine immediate hand of Protection and Guidance, sanctify all thy methods unto us, and by the same omnipotent work, whereby thou bringest a most glorious light out of the blackest darkness, be pleased to produce all thy Divinest good things, out of the saddest evils, and( if it may yet be thy blessed will) to work the same work by the return of thy Mercies, which the continuance of thy punishments is wont to be assigned for: And Lord, receive us all under the safe guard of thy Divine Presence, the pillar of fire and Cloud to cover and direct us: That in every turn of thy hand, we may see and admire thy glorious and gracious Disposals, and by the happy experience, that even this also is to us for good, we may be for ever engaged to ascribe unto thee all Honour, and Glory, and render unto thee the uniform obedience of our hearts, world without end, Amen, Amen. VIII. O Most gracious Lord God, the Creator of all things; but of men and all mankind a tender Compassionate Father in Jesus Christ: Thou that hast enlarged thy designs and purposes of Grace and mercy, as the Bowels and blood-shedding of thy Son, with an earnest desire, that every weak or sinful man should partake of that abyss, that infinite treasure of thy Bounty: Thou that hast bequeathed unto us that Legacy and Example of a sacred inviolable Peace, a large diffusive Charity; we meekly beseech thee, to overshadow with thy heavenly grace, the souls of all men, over all the world:( O Lord, thou lover of souls!) to bring home to the acknowledgement and embraces of thy Son, all that are yet strangers to that profession, and in whatsoever any of us, who have already received that mercy from thee, may be any way useful or instrumental to that so glorious an end, to direct and incline our hearts towards it; to work in us all an holy zeal to thy Name, and tender Bowels to all those whose eternity is concerned in it! O give us a true serious full comprehension, and value of that one great Interest of others as well as of ourselves! show us,( the meanest of us) some way to contribute towards it( if it be but our daily affectionate Prayers) for the enlarging of thy kingdom, and the care of approving all our Actions, so as may most effectually attract all others to this profession; And for all those that have already that glorious name of thy Son called upon them, blessed Lord! that they may at length( according to the many Engagements of their profession) depart from iniquity: That that holy City, that new Jerusalem may at length( according to thy promise) descend from Heaven, prepared as a Bride adorned for her Husband Christ: That, that Tabernacle of God with men, may be illustriously visible among us; that we may be a peculiar People, and thou inhabiting in power among us: That we which have so long professed thee, may no longer be content with that form of knowledge, which so often engenders strife, contentions, animosities, separating from and condemning one another, and that most unchristian detestable guilt of blood; but endeavour and earnestly contend for the uniform effectual practise of all the precepts of thy Son, the Fruit and Power of godliness: That all the People and Princes of Christendom, the Pastors and Sheep of thy fold, may at length( in some degree) walk worthy of that light and warmth, that knowledge of those graces, that the Sun of righteousness with healing on his wings, hath so long poured out upon us; Lord, purge and powerfully work out of all our hearts, that profaneness and Atheisticalnesse, those sacrilegious thirsts and enormous violations of all that is holy: those Unpeaceable, Rebellious, Mutinous, and( withall) Tyrannizing cruel spirits, those prides and haughtinesses, judging and condemning, defaming and despising of others; those unlimited ambitions and covetings joined with the Invasion & violation of others rights, those most reproachful excesses and abominable impurities, which( to the shane of our unreformed obdurate hearts) do still remain unmortified, unsubdued among us: but above all, those infamous Hypocrisies of suborning Religion to be the Engine of advancing our secular designs, or the disguise to conceal the foulest intentions, of bringing down that most sacred name, whereby we should be saved, to be the vilest instrument of all Carnalities; And by the power of thy controlling Spirit( Lord) humble and subdue all that exalts itself against the obedience of Christ: And when thou hast cast out so many evil spirits, be thou pleased thyself to possess and enrich our souls, to plant, and root, and confirm, and secure in us all those precious fruits of Piety, and Faith, and Obedience, and Zeal towards thee; of Purity and meekness, and Simplicity, and contentedness, and Sobriety in ourselves; of Justice, and Charity, and peaceableness, and Bowels of Mercy and Compassion towards all others: That having seriously and Industriously,( as our Holy Vocation engageth us) used all Diligence to add unto our Faith Virtue, and to Virtue patience and Perseverance in all Christian Practise, we may adorn that Profession which we have thus long depraved; and having had our Fruits unto holiness, we may attain our End, ever●asting Life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. IX. O Long suffering and eternal King,( that for the Condemnation that for sin came into the World) wert lifted up upon the across, and taken from this earth by that shameful death, and hast shewed forth thyself to all that choose to follow thy steps, a Pattern and Copy of long-sufferance and Patience: and offeredst up thy Intercession to thy Coeternal Father, for those Enemies of God which Crucified Thee! Do thou( O Lord!) Thou the same Lover of Mankind, afford thy Mercy and pardon to all those that are Enemies to us; which either by Treachery, or Reproach, or Contumely, or Envy, or by any other means,( through the subtlety of Calumny of the Devil, that lover of Hatred) have expressed their Madness or Malice against us; But especially those that have imbrued their hands in the blood of thine Anointed: Father forgive them, for they know not what they do; Lord! lay not this sin to their Charge, or to the Charge of a sinful, wretched People! Change thou their Counsels from that mischievous, to a sweet Christian temper of gentleness; infuse into their hearts sincere and unfeigned Love; bind them fast to us in the inviolable Bands of Spiritual friendship, and( by what means thou knowest most fit) make them Partakers of eternal Life: and( O thou Father of Compassions) pitty all those afflicted that trust in Thee; draw all to the divine love of thee; be thou presiden● in all things, and assistant to all, together with us thy sinful and unprofitable Servants; and make us all Heirs of thy Kingdom; for unto Thee it belongeth to show Mercy, and to save us( O our God) for thine is the Power for ever, Amen. X. O Lord, We beseech thee Mercifully Hear our Prayers, and spare all those which Confess their sins unto thee; that They, whose Consciences by sin are accused, by thy merciful Pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord, Amen. XI. O Most mighty God and merciful Father, which hast Compassion on all men, and hatest nothing that thou hast made: which wouldest not the Death of a sinner, but that he should rather turn from sin and be saved: Mercifully forgive us our Trespasses; receive and Comfort us which are grieved with the burden of our sins! Thy property is always to have Mercy; to thee only pertaineth to forgive sins: spare us therefore good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed; enter not into judgement with thy servants which are vile earth and Miserable sinners, but so turn thine ire from us which meekly aclowledge our vileness, and truly repent us of our Faults, so make hast to help us in this world, that we may ever live with thee in the world to come, through Jesus Christ our Lord! Amen. XII. TUrn thou us O good Lord! and so shall we be turned; be favourable, O Lord be favourable to thy People which turn to thee in weeping, fasting, and praying; for thou art a Merciful God, long-suffering, and of great pitty: Thou sparest when we deserve punishment, and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy: spare thy people, O Lord! spare them, and let not thine Heritage be brought to nought; Hear us O Lord! for thy Mercy is great, and after the Multitude of thy mercies look upon us through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. XIII. O Lord the only begotten Son Jesus Christ! O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have Mercy upon us; Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our Prayers; Thou that fittest at the Right hand of God the Father, have Mercy upon us! for thou only art holy, thou only art the Lord, thou only O Christ! with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the Glory of God the Father, Amen. The Peace of God which passeth all understanding, keep your Hearts and Minds in the Knowledge and Love of God, and his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. And the Blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost be amongst you and remain with you always, Amen. A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of january. O Blessed Lord God, who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most suitably to thy Justice, and performest thy pleasure, always in such manner, that thou canst also appeal to us, whether thy ways be not equal: We, thy poor afflicted People, fall down before thee, acknowledging the Justice of thy proceedings with us, and that the amazing Judgement, which as this day befell us( in thy permitting cruel men, sons of belial to execute the fury of their Rebellion upon Our late Gracious sovereign, and to embrew their hands in the Blood and Murder of the Lords Anointed) was drawn down by the great and long provocacions of this Nations sins against thee: For all which, and our own parts in which, we sinful wretches here met together, desire to humble ourselves before thee, and to tremble at thy presence in this dayes sore vengeance, the effect as well as desert of our impieties, the work of our own hands upon ourselves, thy heavy Judgement, but our most horrid sin, for which alone( did not multitude of other sins cry out against us) thou mightest justly descend down upon us all, as thou didst in Sodom, and leave us no other memorial then to be the frightful Monuments of thy Indignation and fury to all Posterity. Gracious is the Lord, and merfull, therefore it is, that We are not consumed! O let thy long-suffering and patience led us to repentance: And now Lord, looking on this particular signal Judgement, as thy last Trump warning us to fly from the wrath to come; We come forth to meet our God, mourning in our prayers before thee, and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure, and the removal of these plagues of long continuance from us; for the all-sufficient merits of the death and sufferings of our blessed Saviour. O forgive our great and manifold transgressions, and for his bloody Passions sake, deliver this Nation from blood-guiltiness, that of this day especially, O God of our Salvation. Let not our crying sins intercept our Prayers, or thy blessings; but hear the voice of our tears and hearing forgive and heal us: retire not quiter from us into thine own place, laugh not at our calamities, neither mock in this day of our visitation: Vindicate thine own Cause, and thine own Providence, that it may appear unto men, that thou bearest up the Pillars of the earth; and that by thee Kings do reign. And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of violence against our late King, even to kill and take possession of his Throne and revenues: Yet frustrate now at length their bold hopes and desires; let not their mischievous imaginations prosper, least they be too proud; let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have fancied; let them not say of his Family, God hath forsaken them, let us persecute them: show some good token on his seed for good, that their enemies may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast holpen and comforted them. Bow the hearts of the Subjects of this Land, as thou dist those of Israel to David, that they may aclowledge and receive joyfully the Heir of these Kingdoms; and fasten thou him as a nail in a sure place; behold his injuries, and have compassion on his Innocency; and let the desire of his enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite; but bring him, maugre all their oppositions, to a peaceable possession of that Throne, to which by his Birth-right thou hast designed him, and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family. O Lord, we wait on thee this day for this blessing; make no long tarrying, but according to the time thou hast plagued us, sand us deliverance. Snatch the prey out of the lions teeth, and pull us out of the burnings like a fire-brand: We beseech thee, that We may this day spread before thee the words of Rabshekah, the proud railings, and scornful reproaches of our enemies: Behold this day their exaltation, and our mourning: O Lord, our eyes are towards thee! for whom nothing is hard; let it not seem a small thing to thee, that we suffer, but concentre our Prayers with the many thousands that call on thee; That salvation may come to our King, and through him thy blessing of peace unto thy People. Think upon all those that are peaceable, and faithful in the Land, and deal thou with us according to thy Word, wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust; Let the world see that there is a God that judgeth the earth, and sand deliverance to his people in their needful time of trouble. But whatsoever thy purpose is, let not us behave ourselves, frowardly, but with all Christian humility, run the race that thou settest before us, and qatiently bear the indignation of the Lord, because we have sinned against him. And we meekly beseech thee, that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions, our prayers may return into our own bosoms; and that thou wilt make thy judgements temporal and not spiritual upon us; but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations; that we be not delivered to evil: but that in well-doing we may commit ourselves to thee our God, as unto a faithful Creator: And that both our King and we may say with all Christian submission and cheerfulness: It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good. And here O Lord we offer unto thee all possible praise and thanks for all the Glory of thy Grace that hath shined forth in thine Anointed, our late sovereign, and that thou wert pleased to own him( this Day especially) in the midst of his Enemies, and in the hour of death, and to due him with such eminent Patience, Meekness, Humility, Charity and all other Christian Virtues, according to the example of thine own Son, suffering the fury of his and thine Enemies, for the preservation of thy Church and People. We Praise thee also for the Courage and Comfort thou hast given unto us of his Party, by that owning and assisting him, or any that have suffered in that Righteous Cause. And we beseech thee give us all grace to Remember and provide for our latter end, by a Careful studious imitation of those blessed patterns of thy Saints and Martyrs that have gone before us, that we may be made worthy to Receive benefit by their prayers, which they, in Communion with thy Church catholic, offer up unto thee for that part of it here Militant and yet in sight with, and danger from the flesh, that following the Blessed steps of their Holy Lives and Deaths, we may also show forth the Light of a good example for the Glory of thy Name, the Conversion of Enemies, and the improvement of those Generations we shall shortly leave behind us, and then with all those that have born the Heat and burden of the day( thy Servant whose Sufferings and Labours we this day commemorate) receive the Reward of our Labours, the Harvest of our Hopes, even the Salvation of our own souls, and that for the merits and through the mediation of thy Son our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. Evening Prayer FOR the thirtieth of January. The litany. O God the Father of Heaven: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the Father of heaven: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the Son Redeemer of the world▪ have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the Son Redeemer, &c. O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O God the holy Ghost, &c. O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three Persons and one God: have mercy upon us miserable sinners. O holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, &c. Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers, neither take thou vengeance of our sins: spare us good Lord, spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever. Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief, from sin, from the crafts and assaults of the devil, from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation. Good Lord deliver us. From all blindness of heart, from pride, vain-glory, and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness. Good Lord deliver us. From fornication, and all other deadly sin, and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh and the devil. Good Lord deliver us. From lightning and tempest, from plague, pestilence, and famine, from battle, and murder, and from sudden death. Good Lord deliver us. From all sedition and privy conspiracy, from all false doctrine and heresy, from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and Commandment. Good Lord deliver us. By the mystery of thy holy incarnation, by thy holy nativity & circumcision, by thy baptism, fasting, and temptation. Good Lord deliver us. By thin●●●●●ny and bloody sweat, by t●y across and passion, by thy precious death and burial, by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension, and by the coming of the holy Ghost. Good Lord deliver us. In all time of our tribulation, in all time of our wealth, in the hour of death, and in the day of Judgement. Good Lord deliver us. We sinners do beseech thee to hear Us( O Lord God) and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universally in the right way. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of li●e thy servant, charles the second our most gracious King and Governours. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to rule his heart in thy faith, fe●r and love, and that he may evermore have affiance in thee, and ever seek thy honour and glory. We beseech thee to hear, as good Lord. That it m●y please thee to be his defender and keeper, giving him the victory over all his enemies. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve the Queen Mother, the Duke of York, the Duke of gloucester with all the rest of the royal Progeny. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Pastors and Ministers of the Church, with true knowledge & understanding of thy word, and that both by their preaching and living, they may set it forth, and show it accordingly. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord That it may please thee to due the Lords of the Council, and all the Nobility with grace, wisdom, and understanding. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates, giving them grace to execute justice, and to maintain truth. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations unity, peace, and concord. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee, and diligently to live after thy Commandments. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace, to hear meekly thy word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the spirit. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth, all such as have erred and are deceived. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand, and to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up them that fall, and finally to beat down Satan under our feet. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort all that be in danger, necessity, and tribulation. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by warer, all women labouring of child, all sick persons and young children, and to show thy pitty upon all prisoners and captives. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to provide for the fatherless children and widows, and all that be desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors and slanderers, and to turn their hearts. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our sins, negligences and ignorances, and to due us with the grace of thy holy Spirit, to amend our lives according to thy holy word▪ We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us. Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us. O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world. Grant us thy peace. O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world. Have mercy upon us. O Christ hear us. O Christ hear us. Lord have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Our Father which art in heaven, &c. And led us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen. The Versicle O Lord deal not with us after our sins. Answer. Neither reward us after our iniquities. Let us pray. O God merciful Father, that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as be sorrowful, mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us: and graciously hear us, that those evils, which the craft and subtlety of the Devil, or man worketh against us, be brought to nought, and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed, that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise, help us, and deliver us for thy Names sake. O God we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their dayes, and in the old time before them. O Lord arise, help us, and deliver us for thine honour. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, &c. As it was in the beginning, is now, &c. From our enemies defend us, O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions. Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people. Favourably with mercy hear our prayers. O Son of David have mercy upon us. Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us, O Christ. Graciously hear us, O Christ, graciously hear us, O Lord Christ. The versicle. O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answer. As we do put our trust in thee. ALmighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, maker of all things, Judge of all men, we aclowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and dead, against thy divine Majesty, provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us: we do earnestly repent, and be hearty sorry for these our misdoings, the remembrance of them is grievous unto us: the burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most merciful Father, for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christs sake, forgive us all that is past, and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life, to the honour and glory of thy Name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ALmighty God our Heavenly Father, who of thy Great mercy hast promised forgiveness of sins to All them, which with Hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto Thee; Have mercy upon Us, pardon and deliver us from all our sins, Confirm and strengthen us in all Goodness, and bring us to Everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. OUr Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And led us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil, Amen. O Lord open thou our Lips, And our Mouth shall show forth thy Praise. O God make speed to save us, O Lord make hast to help us. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. Psal. 42, 43, 55, 59, 64, 94. The First Lesson. 2 Sam. 1. After the Lesson. A Form Collected out of the Psams I. HEar our voice, O Lord, out of thy holy Temple, let our complaint come before thee, let it enter even into thy ears. Our heart is in heaviness, O let us make our Prayer unto thee in an acceptable time. Lord, our iniquities are against us, our rebellions are many wherewith we have transgressed against thee: But we confess our wickednesses, and are sorry for our sins. Our confusion is daily before us, fearfulness and trembling are come upon us, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed us, and it is thy great mercy onely that we are not consumed, for we have sinned, O Lord, we have transgressed and done wickedly, yea, we have rebelled, and departed from thy precepts, and from thy Commandments. Innumerable troubles are come about us, our sins have taken hold upon us, that we are not able to look up, yea, they are more in number then the hairs of our heads, and our hearts have failed us. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, because of all the offences we have committed against thee. Yet compassion and forgiveness is with thee, though we have rebelled against thee. O Lord, according to thy goodness, we beseech thee, let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away from us, and cause thy face to shine upon thy servants. Incline thine ears and hear, open thine eyes and behold our afflictions, for we do not present our supplications before thee, in our own righteousness, but for thy manifold and great mercies. We have sinned against heaven and against thee, and are no more worthy to be called thy Sons. Yet, O Lord, hear, O Lord, forgive, consider and do it, defer not for thine own sake, O our God. Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. II. HEar our prayers, O Lord, and hid not thyself from our Petitions, and harken unto the words of our mouth, for strangers are risen up against us, and Tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after our Souls. Cast us not away in the time of our weakness: forsake us not when our strength faileth us. O remember not our offences, but according to thy mercy think thou upon us for thy goodness. O turn thee unto us, and have mercy upon us: for we are desolate and in misery. The sorrows of our hearts are enlarged: O bring thou us out of all our troubles. Turn us, O God our Saviour, and let thine anger cease from us: sand down from on high and deliver us, take us out of these many waters. Why art thou absent from us so long? why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our misery and trouble? for our soul is brought low unto the dust, our belly cleaveth to the ground. Look upon our adversity and misery: & forgive us all our sins. Arise, O Lord, and help us, and deliver us for thy mercy sake: so shall it be known that it is thy hand, and that thou Lord hast done it. Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. III. WE will cry unto the Lord with our voice; yea, even unto God will we cry with our voice, and he shall harken unto us. For the Lord is gracious and long-suffering and of great mercy to them that call upon him. The Lord is nigh unto all them that be of a contrite heart, and will save such as are of an humble spirit. And now Lord, what is our hope? truly our hope is even in thee; For our Fathers hoped in thee, they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them: they called upon thee and were holpen, they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded. The Lord will be a defence for the oppressed, even a refuge in due time of trouble: and they that know thy name, will put their trust in thee, for thou Lord never failest them that seek thee. The merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever and ever, upon them that fear him: and his righteousness upon Childrens Children; even upon such as keep his Covenant, and think upon his Commandments to do them. Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that trust in thee, thou that upholdest all such as are falling, and liftest up such as be down, thou that healest the broken in heart, and givest medicine to heal their sickness, thou that art the Father of mercy, and God of all consolation, that art comfort to the sad, and strength to the weak, hear thy servants, we beseech thee, look down from Heaven, behold and visit us with thy salvation. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. The second Lesson, Heb. 12. or St James 5. IV. GIve the King thy judgements, O God. The Lord hear him in the day of trouble: the name of the God of Jacob defend him. sand him help from his Sanctuary: and strengthen him out of Sion. Let the King rejoice in thy strength, O Lord: let him be exceeding glad of thy salvation. Grant him his hearts desire, and deny him not the request of his lips. [ O Lord, gird him with strength unto the battle: throw down his Enemies under him. Make them to turn their backs upon him: and disperse them that hate him.] Deliver him from the strivings of his people. Deliver him from his cruel Enemies, and set him up above his adversaries; thou shalt rid him from the wicked man: and why? because the King putteth his trust in the Lord: and in the mercy of the most high, he shall not miscarry. Some put their trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. Save Lord, and hear us, O King of Heaven, when we call upon thee. Be thou exalted in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. V. O Lord God, that dost build up jerusalem, and gather together the outcasts of Israel. Wherefore art thou absent so long? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture? O think upon thy Congregation: whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old. Think upon the tribe of thine inheritance: and mount Sion, where thou hast dwelled. Lift up thy Feet, and disperse all those our Enemies: which have done evil in thy sanctuary. For they have broken down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers: they have defiled the dwelling places of thy name, yea, they said in their hearts, let us make havoc of them altogether. O God, how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour? how long shall the Enemy blaspheme thy name, for ever? Why withdrawest thou thy hand, why pluckest not thou thy right hand out of thy bosom to scatter the enemy? Arise O God, maintain thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man blasphemes thee daily. Forget not the voice of thine Enemies: the presumption of them that hate thee increaseth ever more and more. Glory be to the Father, and to the son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen. The Creed I Believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth: and in Jesus Christ his onely Son our Lord, which was conceived by the holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Ponce Pilate, was crucified, dead and butted, he descended into Hell, the third day he rose again from the dead, he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty: from thence he shall come, to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting, Amen. Let us Pray. The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. OUr Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And led us not into temptation: but deliver us from evil, Amen. I. O Lord! this is a day of trouble, of rebuk and blasphemy, a day wherein a wonderful and horrible thing was committed in our land, most sacred Innocent blood, shed with more barbarous aggravations, then we know where to parallel on this side the murder of thy dear Son; And because sentence against this evil work hath not been executed speedily, the hearts of this people are wholly set in them to do evil; this respite, which thou hast given us to work our Repentance, hath served onely to complete our sin, by adding an obstinate impenitency to the former Guilt; and so fitting us, for that final excision which thou hast threatened to obdurate sinners. And now,( O Lord,) this fearful expectation of judgement, and fiery indignation is all that remains unto us, who have thus despised the riches of thy mercy: Yet( O Lord) out of these depths do we desire to call upon thee: Lord hear our voice; and( if that final sentence be not irreversibly gone out against us) be pleased yet to turn thy wrath away, and not to suffer thy whole displeasure to arise? To this end, thou O Lord, who breakest the gates of brass, and smitest the bars of Iron in sunder; be thou pleased to rend these unrelenting hearts of ours; to work in every one of us such a sense of our horrid abominations( especially, that of this day) as may cast us down in the lowest degree of Humiliation and Contrition before thee: that so we may be capable of that exaltation which thou hast promised to the humble, that Comfort which thou hast assigned to Mourners, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. II. BLessed Lord! in whose sight the death of thy Saints is most precious, we magnify thy name for those wonderful effusions of thy grace on our late Martyred sovereign, which enabled him so happily to transcribe the Copy of his blessed Master in a Constant, Meek suffering of all barbarous indignities, and at lost resisting even unto blood, and even then pursuing that glorious Pattern, and praying for his Murtherers: Let his Memory, O Lord, be ever blessed among us, and his example efficacious upon us, that we may follow him, as he followed Christ: And, O Lord, we beseech thee, let not his blood out-cry his Prayers; but let those that spilled the one, obtain benefit by the other: that by their Conviction and Repentance, his Innocency may receive the happiest attestation, our Religion be vindicated from the scandal of so horrid a fact, our Nation secured from the vengeance of that blood, and thy mercy glorified in the Conversion of so great sinners; and all for Jesus Christ his sake, Amen. O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King! Who putteth his trust in thee. sand him help from thy holy Place: And evermore mightily defend him. confounded the designs of all those that are risen up against him. And let not their rebellious wickedness approach near to hurt him. Let the Curse of Saul light upon the endeavours of those men, who contrive or Imagine mischief for him: And let the blessings of David remain upon his head, and upon his Seed for evermore. O Lord, hear our Prayer. And let our cry come unto thee. III. O Lord God Infinite in Power, by whom the Thrones of Kings are established, and their persons made sacred; Take we beseech thee, into thine immediate and divine protection, thine anointed Servant the King; that no sacrilegious profane hand may come near to touch him: In all his ways let thy Spirit guide him; and thy holy Angels pitch their tents about him. O Lord! comfort him in his troubles, defend him in his dangers, support him in his cause, show some token on him for good; even now, O God, when the Sons of violence are in their pride, and triumph over him whom thou hast exalted; designing and rejoicing to root out that religion which thine own right hand hath planted. Defeat their purposes O thou preserver of men, and let not their mischievous imaginations any longer prosper, but blast all their Counsels, whither away all their Armies like grass, scorched by the Sun. Bow down at last their stiff necks, and obdurate hearts, to a desire of that peace which hath so long been an abomination to them: That this miserable Nation may no further pursue their own ruin, but being by so many bitter punishments made sensible of thine anger for this unnatural division may at last be reduced within their first obedience, to the glory of thy Name, the vindication of our defamed religion, the comfort of our afflicted King, and the happiness of this yet bleeding Kingdom. And confirm all this to Us, O Lord, by the merits and through the mediation of thine own dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. IV. O Eternal and supreme Majesty, we most humbly beseech thee to pour down the Richest of thy Mercies on thy servant the King, to take him into thine Immediate and especial protection, and proportion thine Assistances and Releifs to the Greatness of his Needs and Destitutions: O what great troubles and Adversities hast thou shewed him! Thou hast set up the Right hand of his Enemies, and made all his Adversaries to rejoice; thou hast taken away the Edge of his Sword, and givest him not Victory in the day of battle: thou hast put out his Glory, and Cast his Throne down to the ground Lord! how long wilt thou hid thyself, for ever? Behold, O God our Defender, and look upon the face of thine anointed: and though thou hast permitted our sins to reduce his Affairs to this hopeless Condition, yet from thence let thy sovereign Mercy raise him: O Lord! we know not what to do; only our Eyes are upon Thee: O magnify thy strength in this his greatest weakness, and by thine own power effect that, towards which he hath nothing of human Contribution: create peace for him, and Create the means for the obtaining it. Protect his sacred person, direct and prosper all his designs, fasten him as a Nail in a sure place, and hang upon him all the Glory of his Fathers House; that he may be the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Cities to dwell in; that he may be a Nursing Father to thy Church, and may Comfort the waste places of Sion: But if our sins have so far incensed thee, that as thou hast taken away one King in thy wrath, so thou wilt not give us another, except it be in thine Anger: if thou hast designed him to succeed his blessed Father, not in his Throne, but in his sufferings: grant him likewise to succeed him in his Virtues; Confirm to him that inward sovereignty over his own Passions, more valuable then a Thousand Kingdoms; choose him for thyself in the Furnace of afflictions, and make him so cheerfully to wear his Crown of Thorns, with his Saviour here, that he may receive a Crown of Glory from him hereafter; and that for the Mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour, Amen. V. O Thou blessed and only Potentate, most just in thy Judgements, and wonderful in thy mercies: we thy sinful Creatures cast ourselves down before thee, desiring in all humility to adore that Justice of thine, which hath suffered our iniquities to prevail against the cause and enterprises of our sovereign; and yet to praise and magnify that mercy which hath not suffered them to prevail against his person; but hath in the midst of the greatest and most amazing dangers, provided him a way of escape; plucked him as a brand out of the fire; and by thine own gracious protection, at once defeated both the fears of his friends, and and the hopes of his Enemies: Praised be the Lord, which hast not given him over for a prey unto their teeth: And since thou hast been pleased thus far to condescend to the prayers and groans of thy servants: O let not our Lord be angry, and we will speak, beseeching thee, who hast thus powerfully rescued him from Egypt, not to suffer him to perish in the Wilderness; but though his passage be through the read sea, yet at last to bring him to a Canaan: O thou whose ways are in the great deep, who madest Josephs imprisonment the way to his advancement, and the impoverishing of Job, the means of doubling his wealth; let the same over-ruling Providence dispose of all late adverse events, to those ends, which all loyal hearts gasp after: Lord! be thou pleased to breath upon these dry bones, and they shall yet live in thy sight. In the mean time, O Lord! let thy comforts refresh his soul in the midst of these sad calamities: sanctify them unto him, that he may come out of these tribulations, like gold out of the sire, purified, but not consumed; that so, whatsoever becomes of his transitory Crown here, he may by a constant enduring of temptations be secured of that Crown of life which fadeth not away; grant this for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord and only Saviour, Amen! VI. O Thou King of Nations, who dost according to thy will in all the Kingdoms of the Earth: who hast made us drink deep of the Cup of trembling, and yet seemest to have bitter dregs behind for us: We thy wretched Creatures, that have highly contributed to that common weight of sin, under which the Land sinks, humbly prostrate ourselves at thy feet, desiring with all sincere contrition, to confess that thou art Righteous in all that is hitherto come upon us: All that we have hitherto suffered, being but the sad arrears of the sins of our Peace, when we waxed fat and kicked against thee. And that thou shalt likewise be most just in the utmost of thy future inflictions, which( what ever they prove) cannot exceed the sins of our calamitous dayes, who, in the time of our distress have sinned yet more against the Lord; who have passed through the fire to Moloch with an undaunted obstinacy, suffered all the flamings of thy wrath, rather than we would renounce any of our detestable things: Nay( as if our old were too infirm) we have made new Leagues with death, new agreements with hell, proceeding from evil to worse, and making every new Calamity, thou sendst to reclaim us, the occasion of some fresh impiety. And now, O Lord, wilt thou not visit for these things? shal not thy soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? We are they, O Lord! that have perverted all thy dispensations toward us, grown wanton under thy mercies, and desperate under thy Judgements, and is there any third method left for those that have frustrated both these? Behold, O Lord! these desperate, these gasping Patients at thy feet, who have lost sense and motion to all things, but the resistance of their remedy: O give us not utterly over! but continue to administer to us whatsoever may remove this stupefaction, and bring us to a feeling of our own condition: And what sharpness and severity soever thou discernest necessary for that purpose, forbear not, O Lord! to give us those wounds of a friend: O say not concerning us, why should ye be smitten any more? but rather cast us into the place of Dragons, and cover us with the shadow of death, if by so doing we may be brought to remember the Name of the Lord our God: Lord! this is the one great necessary wherein we are principally concerned to solicit thee; that our Eyes may be opened, that we may see every one the plague of his own heart, that so( instead of those Atheistical disputes we make of thy providence) we may all join in an humble Adoration of thy Justice; and( confessing that our destruction is of ourselves) abhor ourselves and Repent in dust and ashes: And when by this greater deliverance thou hast put us in a Capacity of the less; then, be thou pleased to be jealous for thy Land, and pity thy people. Consider the troubles we suffer of them that hate us; and let not all the evils seem little before thee, that have come upon us, upon our Kings, upon our Priests, and upon all this people. Restore us our Judges as at the first, and our Councellors as at the beginning; and Comfort us again after the time wherein thou hast Plagued us; And for the years wherein we have suffered adversity: But if in recompense of having made thee serve with our sins, servants must Rule over us, though they have dominion over our Bodies and goods at their pleasure, yet O Lord! let them not have dominion over our souls: Let not all our oppressions make us act any thing contrary to our Christian profession, much less wholly renounce it; But what ever other judgements we must groan under, Lord deliver us not up to that Barbarism and irreligion which hath already made so great a breach upon us. We cannot but confess it most just in thee to permit Us; who have so long resisted the power of Godliness, to proceed now to Cast off the very form; and that we who would not receive the Love of the truth, should be given over to strong delusions to believe lies: And this saddest effect of thy wrath hath already overtaken many among us, and doth universally threaten the rest: for since thou hast laid waste the wall of thy Vineyard, what can we expect, but that it should be trodden down? Thou hast broken our two staves, Beauty and bands; all Order and Unity( the necessary supports of a Church at once perishing from amongst us: the solemn feasts are forgotten in Sion; her Elders sit upon the ground and keep silence, while they whom thou hast not sent, run; while they, to whom thou hast not spoken, prophesy; and from these is profaneness gone into all the Land. We, O Lord! which might once have gone with the multitude to the house of God, are now driven into secret Corners to celebrate the most solemn parts of thy service, whilst it is become more safe to blaspheme, then to adore thee publicly: This, this, O Lord, is the unsupportable part of our afflictions, the sting of all our miseries: If we had been only sold for Bondmen, and Bondwomen, we could have held our peace; but, thine abhorring thine Altar, and casting off thy Sanctuary, this is for a Lamentation, and must be for a Lamentation: Thy servants think upon the stones of Sion, and it pitieth them to see her in the dust; O Let not all those tears & prayers that are poured out for her, return empty: And because thou thyself hast recommended unto us the efficacy of importunity; be thou pleased to give us that grace, to excite and stir up all that make mention of the Lord, that they may give thee no rest, till thou establish our Jerusalem again a praise upon Earth: To that end, O Lord, give us Pastors after thine own heart, such Priests whose lips may preserve knowledge, and make us diligently to seek the Law at their mouths, and grant that we, being by this deprivation taught the value of such precious advantages, and the sin of our former contemning them, may unanimously contend for the regaining them; by a cordial universal forsaking of those sins which have turned away these good things from us: Extend the same mercy to those who have been the most actively instrumental to this sad devastation both of Church and State: Withdraw from them those treacherous prosperities which make them think, that thou art even such an one as themselves, and by dwelling that web of strange successses, wherewith they have hide their shane, discover them to themselves, and to all whom they have seduced: O let not the temporal ruins, which they have brought upon us, become the eternal Ruin of any one soul among them, but convince them of the horror of their guilt, and let that convincement work that godly sorrow, never to be repented of: That so thou mayst give them their portion, not with Hypocrites, but with Penitents; and that for his sake, whom thou hast set forth to be our Propitiation, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. VII. O merciful God, we thy wretched sinful Creatutes, who have no other qualification for thy mercy; but that one of extreme misery, do yet presume to approach thee, humbly beseeching thee, to look not on our merits, but our wants, and by removing all those obstacles, which our sins have interposed against our succours, to render us accessible to thy comforts and reliefs; and then dispense them to us, O Lord! in such order and measure, as thy wisdom shall see expedient, and when thou seest us fit to be again entrusted with our outward peace, be pleased to restore it to us: but in the mean time deny us not the inward, nor any of those means which are necessary to the procuring or maintaining of it: To this end, O Lord! continue to us the light of thy truth and let not all these unfruitful works of darkness, which we have hitherto committed in that light, provoke thee to extinguish it. Avert O Lord, all those sad portents that threaten destruction to this Church: And though thou hast given Satan and his instruments power over all that she hath, yet, O Lord, spare her life; Let there still be a remnant left to praise thee, and when by these sharp trials, thou hast vindicated her integrity, be pleased to bless her, as thou didst Jobs latter end, by giving her a double portion of all real advantages: And though thou hast now violently removed thy Tabernacle, yet O Lord, let not one pin of it be lost, but erect it again( amongst us) in the wonted order and beauty; and though she have lain among the pots, yet let her be as the wings of a Dove, which is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold; let her builders make hast, and her destroyers, and those that have laid her waste, go forth of her: Deliver her from those brutish Pastors which have made this thy pleasant portion a desolate wilderness, but give her such guides, as may by their doctrine build us up in our most holy faith, and by their example, shine as lights in this perverse generation; and make us so to obey them which watch for our souls, that they may give an account of them with Joy and not with grief; Grant this, merciful Lord, for his sake, who is the shepherd and Bishop of our souls, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. VIII. ALmighty and everlasting God, which hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that be penitent; create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins, and knowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission & forgiveness, through Jesus Christ, Amen. IX. GRant we beseech thee Almighty God, that we which for our evil deeds are worthily punished, by the Comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved, through our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. X. ALmighty God, we beseech thee graciously to behold this thy Family, for the which our Lord Jesus Christ was contented to betrayed, and given up into the hands of wicked men, and to suffer death upon the across, who liveth and reigneth, &c. Amen. XI. ALmighty and Everlasting God, by whose Spirit the whole Body of the Church is governed and sanctified, receive our supplications and prayers, which We offer up before thee for all estates of Men in thy holy congregation, that every member of the same in his vocation and ministry may truly and godly serve thee, through our Lord Jesus, Christ, who liveth and reigneth, &c. Amen. XII. Assist us mercifully, O Lord, in these our supplications and prayers, and dispose the way of thy servants toward the attaimment of everlasting salvation, that among all the changes and chances of this mortal life, they may ever be defended by thy most gracious and ready help, through Christ our Lord, Amen. XIII. ALmighty God, which hast promised to hear the Petitions of them that ask in thy Sons Name, We beseech thee mercifully to incline thine ears to Us, that have made now our prayers and supplications unto Thee, and grant that those things which We have faithfully asked according to thy will, may effectually be obtained to the relief of our necessity, and to the setting forth of thy glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the holy Ghost, be with us all evermore, Amen. A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of january. O Blessed Lord God, who by thy Wisdom guidest and orderest all things most suitably to thy Justi●e, and performest thy pleasure, always in such manner, that thou canst also appeal to us, whether thy ways be not equal. We, thy poor afflicted People, fall down before thee, acknowledging the Justice of thy proceedings with us, and that the amazing Judgement, which as this day befell us( in thy permitting cruel men, sons of belial to execute the fury of their Rebellion upon Our late Gracious sovereign, and to embrew their hands in the Blood and Murder of the Lords Anointed) was drawn down by the great and long provocations of this Nations sins against thee: For all which, and our own parts in which, we sinful wretches here met together, desire to humble ourselves before thee, and to tremble at thy presence in this dayes sore vengeance, the effect as well as desert of our impieties, the work of our own hands upon ourselves, thy heavy Judgement, but our most horrid sin, for which alone( did not multitudes of other sins cry out against us) thou mightest justly descend down upon us all, as thou didst in Sodom, and leave us no other memorial than to be the frightful Monuments of thy Indignation and fury to all Posterity. Gracious is the Lord, and merciful, therefore it is, that We are not consumed! O let thy long-suffering and patience led us to repentance: And now Lord, looking on this particular signal Judgement, as thy last Trump, warning us to fly from the wrath to come; We come forth to meet our God, mourning in our prayers before thee, and begging the aversion of thy further displeasure, and the removal of these plagues of long continuance from us, for the all-sufficient merits of the death and sufferings of our blessed Saviour. O forgive our great and manifold transgressions, and for his bloody Passions sake, deliver this Nation from blood-guiltiness, that of this day especially, O God of our Salvation. Let not our crying sins intercept our Prayers, or thy blessings; but hear the voice of our tears, and hearing forgive and heal us, retire not quiter from us into thine own place, laugh not at our calamities, neither mock in this day of our visitation: Vindicate thine own Cause, and thine own Providence, that it may appear unto men that thou bearest up the Pillars of the earth; and that by thee Kings do reign. And though thou hast suffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of violence against our late King, even to kill and take possession of his Throne and revenues: Yet frustrate now at length their bold hopes and desires; let not their mischievous imaginations prosper, least they be too proud; let them not be able to establish themselves in that prosperity and greatness they have fancied; let them not say of his Family, God hath forsaken them, let us persecute them: show some good token on his seed for good, that their enemies may see it, and be ashamed: because, thou Lord, hast holpen and comforted them. Bow the hearts of the Subjects of this Land, as thou didst those of Israel to David, that they may aclowledge and receive joyfully the heir of these Kingdoms; and fasten thou him as a nail in a sure place; behold his injuries, and have compassion on his Innocency; and let the desire of his enemies perish like that of the Hypocrite; but bring him, maugre all their oppositions, to a peaceable possession of that Throne, to which by his Birth-right thou hast designed him, and establish him in the Just Rights of his Family. O Lord, we wait on thee this day for this blessing; make no long tarrying, but according to the time thou hast plagued us, sand us deliverance. Snatch the prey out of the lions teeth, and pull us out of the burnings like a fire-brand: We beseech thee, that We may this day spread before thee the words of Rabshekah, the proud railings, and scornful reproaches of our enemies. Behold this day their exaltation, and our mourning: O Lord, our eyes are towards thee! for whom nothing is hard; let it not seem a small thing to thee, that we suffer, but concentre our Prayers with the many thousands that call on thee: That salvation may come to our King, and through him thy blessing of peace unto thy People. Think upon all those that are peaceable, and faithful in the Land, and deal thou with us according to thy Word, wherein thou hast caused us to put our trust; Let the world see that there is a God that judgeth the earth, and will sand deliverance to his people in their needful time of trouble. But whatsoever thy purpose is, let not us behave ourselves frowardly, but with all Christian humility, run the race that thou settest before us, and patiently bear the indignation of the Lord, because we have sinned against him. And we meekly beseech thee, that if the Divine Decree of thy Justice withstand our Petitions, our prayers may return into our own bosoms; and that thou wilt make thy judgements temporal and not spiritual upon us; but assist us with strength proportionable to our temptations; that we be not delivered to evil: but that in well-doing, we may commit ourselves to thee our God, as unto a faithful Creator: And that both our King and we, may say with all Christian submission and cheerfulness: It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good. And here, O Lord, we offer unto thee, all possible praise and thanks for all the Glory of thy Grace, that hath shined forth in thine Anointed, our late sovereign, and that thou wert pleased to own him( this Day especially) in the midst of his Enemies, and in the hour of death, and to due him with such eminent Patience, Meekness, Humility, Charity and all other Christian Virtues, according to the example of thine own Son, suffering the fury of his, and thine Enemies, for the preservation of thy Church and People. We Praise thee also for the Courage and Comfort thou hast given unto us of his Party, by that owning and assisting him, or any that have suffered in that Righteous Cause. And we beseech thee give us all grace to Remember and provide for our latter end, by a Careful, studious imitation of those blessed patterns of thy Saints and Martyrs, that have gone before us, that we may be made worthy to Receive benefit by their prayers, which they, in Communion with thy Church catholic, offer up unto thee for that part of it here Militant, and yet in sight with, and danger from the flesh, that following the blessed steps of their holy Lives and Deaths, we may also show forth the Light of a good example, for the Glory of thy Name, the Conversion of Enemies, and the improvement of those Generations we shall shortly leave behind us; and then with all those that have born the Heat and burden of the day( thy Servant whose Sufferings and Labours we this day commemorate) receive the Reward of our Labours, the Harvest of our Hopes, even the Salvation of our own souls, and that for the merits, and through the mediation of thy Son, our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. An Aninversary Prayer for the Thirtieth of January. O Most mighty God, terrible in thy judgements, and wonderful in thy doings towards the Children of Men, Who in thy heavy displeasure hast suffered this day, that execrable thing to be done among Us, which We cannot mention without horror, nor remember without astonishment. We thy poor afflicted Creatures, with dejected looks, and bleeding hearts, humbly confess in the behalf of all the people of this wretched land, that our crying sins have been the Cause that the Crown is thus fallen from our head, and an innocent King given up to the rage of cruel and bloody men. But O Gracious God, lay not the guilt of this blood( the shedding of which none but thy blood can expiate) lay it not on the whole Nation; for thou hast yet a remnant among Us, who having neither hands nor hearts defiled with it, do still mourn in secret, and bewail the committing of that fact, which heaven and earth abhors. But if thy justice must be satisfied, Let the thunder of it light upon their heads, and theirs alone, who not only contrived and acted so foul a murder, but are as yet so far from being touched with any remorse or repentance for it, that they justify their sin, and in an high blasphemy pretend thy Name, and glory, for all that they have done. Lord in thy good time consider this; Consider not only what they have done to that royal Martyr, who now reigns with thee in glory; But with what eagerness they have since pursued him, To whom Thou hast given the Crown, saying, with those wicked Husbandmen, This is the Heir, let us kill him that the Inheritance may be Ours. But, O merciful God, let not this wicked imagination of theirs ever take effect; but set thy watchful Providence as a continual fence about him. show some token on him for good even now; O Lord, when they have swallowed him up in the pride of their strength, and think they have made their hill so strong, that they can never be moved. This is thine hour, O Lord; this is thy time; Now show thyself: O Thou who art the Judge of the whole earth, judge equally between him and those sons of Belial. Thou seest thy Church is laid waste, thy People oppressed, thine Anointed cast out, as an unprofitable Branch; his Armies overthrown, his Friends ruined, his Enemies mighty, his Hopes vanished, and all human remedies consumed. But Thou art the same God that sittest between the Cherubims, be the Earth never so unquiet. Hear Us therefore in the midst of our confusions. Restore to Us the light of our eyes, the King whom thou hast given Us. Be from henceforth his Guide and his Counsel, and his mighty Deliverer, and never leave him till Thou hast made the ston, which those Builders have set at nought, the headstone of the Corner; That We may evermore rejoice in the felicity of thy Chosen, and falling down before thine Altars, give thanks to Thee in the great Congregation. Grant this, O God, for his sake that pleads for Us, even Jesus Christ the righteous, Amen. Prayers OF Intercession FOR The use of such as Mourn in Secret, for the public Calamities of these Nations. London, Printed by Tho. Mabb, 1660. Lessons appointed to be red on this Occasion. Psalm. 80.90.102. Nehem. 9. 2 Chron. 13. Judges 9. Ezra. 9. 2 Sam. 15.16.17.18.20. Ezek. 9.22. Numb. 16. Isaiah 22. Rom. 13. Amos 4. james 5. 1 Pet. 2. Joel 2. 1 Thes. 5. A Preparatory Prayer. O Lord, I find in that Book of thine, which cannot deceive me, That the oftener thy servant Abraham prayed, the more he got ground upon Thee; and came at last to that holy Confidence, as not only to Pray to Thee for Himself, but to be importunate, and press thee in the behalf of others. Lord, I confess my Case is different: For Abraham was the Father of the faithful; But I am not worthy to be reckoned among his Children▪ He had the Honour to be called thy Friend; but My sins have been such, that, unless Thy Mercy intercede, may make thee look upon me as thine Enemy. He prayed to Thee for a People of whose sins he was not Partaker; But my address is to Thee for them, in whose iniquities I am involved, & have some way or other deeply contributed to the hastening and bringing down those terrible Judgements of Thine, which now lye so heavy on us: So that alas! I am unworthy to appear before Thee for myself; and how shall I then dare to supplicate Thee for Others? O that there were a Moses to stand in the Gap to turn away thy wrathful Indignation from us! O that there were a David, a Daniel, a Jeremy to pour out their souls before Thee! Yet hear Me, O my God; For though these Holy Saints have now no being upon Earth; Yet their Prayers remain upon Record, for every soul that mourns in Secret, to make use of. O Holy and Blessed Spirit, kindle but the same Fervency in my Heart( while I repeat their Words) as was in Them; And I know I shall be Heard. I. King David's Prayer for the Church and People. O God, wherefore art thou absent from us so long? why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture? O think upon thine Inheritance, which thou hast purchased, and Redeemed of old. Lift up thy feet, that thou mayst utterly destroy every Enemy that hath done Evil in thy Sanctuary For behold, they break down all the carved Works thereof, with Axes and Hammers▪ Yea, they have said in their hearts, Let us make havoc of them altogether; And thus have they designed to ruin all the Houses of God in the Land. But O God, how long shall the Adversary do this dishonour? how long shall the Enemy Blaspheme thy Name, for ever? Arise, O God, maintain thine own Cause; Remember how the Foolish man blasphemeth thee daily. But, O deliver not the soul of thy Turtle Dove into their Hands: For the Presumption of them that hate Thee, increaseth more and more. O God make speed to save us. O Lord make hast to help us. II. O Lord God of Hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy People that Prayeth? How long wilt thou feed us with the Bread of Tears? and give us plenteousness of Tears to drink? O Turn us again, Thou God of Hosts; show us the Light of thy Countenance, and we shall be whole. Remember that Thou didst once plant a Vine amongst us: And when it had taken Root, it filled the Land. Our Hills were covered with the shadow of it: and the Boughs thereof were like the Goodly Cedar Trees. But now, thou hast broken down her Hedge, so that all they that go by, pluck off her Grapes. The wild Boar of the Wood doth root it up, and the Beasts of the Field devour it. Yet turn us again, O Lord God of Hosts; show us the Light of thy Countenance, and we shall be whole. For we will not go back from thee; O let us live, and we shall call upon thy Name. O God make speed to save us. O Lord make hast to help us. III. HOld not thy Tongue, O God, keep not still silence; Refrain not thyself, O God. For lo Thine Enemies make a murmuring, and they that hate Thee, have lift up their Head. They have imagined craftily against thy People, and have taken counsel against thy secret ones. Behold they have cast their heads together with one consent, and are Confederate against Thee. They have said, Come let us root them out that they may be no more a People, and that their Name may be no more in remembrance. They come daily round about us like Water, and compass us on every side. But, O my God, make them like unto a Wheel, and as the stubble before the Wind: Who say, Let us take unto ourselves the Houses of God in Possession O make their Faces ashamed, O Lord, that they may seek Thy Name. O God make speed to save us: O Lord make hast to help us. IV. O God thou hast cast us out, and scattered us abroad; Thou hast been displeased at us, O Turn thee unto us again. Thou hast moved the Land and divided it: O heal the sores thereof, for it shaketh. Thou hast shown Thy People heavy things, and given us a Drink of Deadly Wine. Thou hast made us to turn our backs upon our Enemies, so that they which hate Us spoil our Goods. Thou makest us to be rebuked of our Neighbours, to be laughed to scorn, and to be had in derision of them that are round about us. But though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget Thee, nor behave ourselves frowardly in Thy Covenant. Our heart is not turned back, nor our steps gone out of thy Way. No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of Dragons, and covered us with the shadow of Death. Up Lord, Why sleepest thou? Awake, and be not absent from Us for ever? But O why hidest Thou Thy Face; and forgettest our Misery and Trouble? For our soul is brought low, even unto the Dust, and our Belly cleaveth unto the ground. Arise, help us and deliver us for Thy Mercies sake. O God make speed to save us. O Lord make hast to help us. King David's Tears. O My God, why hast thou forsaken Thine Anointed, and art displeased with him? For Lo Thou hast broken the Covenant of thy servant; and cast his Crown to the Ground. Thou hast overthrown all his Hedges, and broken down his strong holds. So that all they that go by spoil him, and he is become a rebuk to his Neighbours. For thou hast set up the Right hand of his Enemies, and made all his Adversaries to rejoice. Thou hast put out his Glory, and hast cast his Throne down to the Ground. The Dayes of his Youth hast Thou seasoned with bitterness, and covered him with dishonour. But Lord, how long wilt thou hid thyself, for Ever? and shall thy Wrath still burn like Fire? Remember, O Lord, the rebuk that Thy Servant hath, and how he doth bear in his Bosom, the Rebukes of many People And let his Adversaries be clothed with shane; But upon his Head let his Crown flourish. O help him against his Enemies; for vain is the help of Man. O God make speed to save Him: O Lord make hast to help Him. Jeremiah's Lamentations prophetical of these Times. HOw hath the Lord covered us with a Cloud in his anger, and cast down from Heaven unto Earth the Beauty of Israel, and remembered not his Footstool in the Day of his Wrath? For Lo, he hath bent his Bow as an Enemy: He hath swallowed us up, and hath not pitied; He hath made desolate the Kingdom and the Princes thereof. He hath cast off his Altars, and abhorred his Sanctuary, and hath given into the Hands of the Enemies the Walls of his Palaces. He hath caused our solemn Feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten, and hath despised in his Indignation the King and the Priest. For the Lord hath now accomplished his Fury; He hath poured out his fierce Anger; He hath kindled such a Fire in Sion, as hath devoured the Palaces thereof. For the sins of the Prophets, and and the Iniquities of the Priests, who have shed the blood of the Just in the midst of her. For the Breath of our nostrils, the Anointed of the Lord hath been taken in their Pits; Of whom we said, under his shadow shall we live in Peace. But we have Transgressed and Rebelled, and Thou hast not pardonned. And therefore our eyes have as yet failed in our vain help; For in our Watching, we have watched for a Nation that could not save us. Behold, O Lord, and Consider to whom thou hast done this. O Lord, Thou hast seen his Wrong, Judge thou his Cause. Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against him. Thou hast heard all their Reproach, O Lord, and all their Imaginations against him. The lips of those that have risen up against him, and their Devices against him all the Day. O God make speed to save him. O Lord make hast to help him. II. REmember O Lord, what is come upon us; consider and behold our Reproach. For our Inheritance is turned to strangers; our Houses to Aliens; our Necks are under Persecution; we labour and have no rest. Our Fathers have sinned and are not, and we have born our Iniquities. Yea, servants rule over us, and there is none that delivers us out of their hands. Our Elders have ceased from the Gate, and our Young men from their music. The Joy of our Heart is ceased, our Dance is turned into mourning. For the Crown is fallen from our Head, and Wo unto us that We have sinned. For this our heart is faint, for these things our Eyes are dim. But wherefore dost thou forget us for Ever, and forsakest us so long time? O Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; Renew our dayes as of old; And do not utterly Reject us, be not for ever wrath against us. O God make speed to save us: O Lord make hast to help us. Daniel's Prayer and Confession in the Behalf of Himself and his People. O Lord, the Great and dreadful God, We have sinned, and done wickedly, and have Rebelled, even by departing from thy Precepts and from thy Judgements Neither have we hearkned to thy Servants the Prophets, which spake in thy Name, to our Kings, our Princes, and our Fathers, and all the People of this Land. O Lord, Righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us Confusion of Face, as at this Day; unto all that are near and far off through all the Countries, whither thou hast driven them, because of the trespass that they have trespassed against thee. For we have not obeied the Voice of the Lord our God, and therefore the Curse is poured out upon us. Even such a Curse, as that under the whole Heaven hath not been done, as hath been done unto Us. But now, O Lord our God, according to all thy Righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine Anger and thy Fury be turned away from us. Hear the Prayer of thy servant, and cause thy Face to shine upon thy Sanctuary which is now desolate. O my God, incline thine Ear and hear; Open thine Eyes and behold our Desolation. For I do not present these supplications before thee for our own righteousness, but for thy Great Mercies. O Lord hear, O Lord Forgive, O Lord do, delay not, for Thine own sake, O my God, and for thy Peoples sake, that are called by thy Name. O God make speed to save us. O Lord make hast to help us. Prayers for the King. LOrd Remember our distressed King, and all his Troubles, Amen. Let thine Hand hold him fast, and thine Arm strengthen him, Amen. Let not the Enemy be able to do him violence, or the Son of Wickedness hurt him, Amen. Let thy Truth and Mercy be ever with him; and in thy Name, let his Throne be exalted, Amen. O be thou his Father, his God, and his strong Salvation, Amen. And let him be as the First-born, and Glorious among the Kings of the Earth, Amen. O God make speed to save him: O Lord make hast to help him. II. O Most Powerful Lord God, the only disposer of all the Kings and kingdoms of the Earth, who for the Punishment of the Crying sins of this Nation hast extinguished our Glory, and cast the Throne down to the Ground, Give us not over utterly to ruin and Confusion; But bring back in thy good time the Heir of these kingdoms, like the Sun with Healing in his Wings, to repair the Breaches already made, and prevent the Desolations that threaten us. And however thou hast been pleased to cast a cloud upon him in the Morning of his Days, yet leave him not in this storm. Forsake him not, Thou that art the God of his salvation; But look upon his Wrongs, and have Compassion on his Innocency. O let it never be in the Power of men to bar him from the Throne, to which by his Birth thou hast designed him; But Guide him with those Counsels, and prosper him with that success, as may settle him in his Throne in Peace. Or, if the Guilt and Wickedness of his Opposers shall still continue to hinder this, Do it after thine own way, O God, with thy mighty hand, and stretched out Arm; That they may both know and feel, that thou art the Protector of Kings, and the Re●uge of all them, who have no other Trust but Thee. Grant this, O Lord, for the Glory of thy Name, and the Comfort of thy desolate Church and People, Amen. O Most merciful God, the only Sanctuary of sad and distressed souls, Look down I beseech Thee upon thy servant, who here with bended Knees and a wounded spirit prostrate myself before Thee. For Wo unto us, we have lived to see the Crown fall from our Heads, and the Glory departed from our Israel, even the anointed of the Lord, driven to fly before wicked men, and they, who have divided his Inheritance triumphing over him. But thou, O Lord, how long, how long shall Bloody Designs and Rebellious imaginations prosper? Shall not the Judge of the whole Earth do Right? Or hast thou forgotten to be Gracious, and shutest up thy tender Mercy in displeasure? O No: Thou art the same God, who in the midst of judgement remembrest Mercy. Thine Arm is not shortened that thou canst not save, nor thine Ear heavy, that thou canst not hear. Arise then, O Lord, Arise, Let the World see, that thou art the Father of the Fatherless, and the Helper of them to Right that suffer Wrong. show it, O Lord, especially at this time, in multiplying all thy comforts upon our distressed King. And, as thou hast strangely and Wonderfully delivered him from those who so eagerly hunted after his Life; So let it appear to the World that thou hast not done this to make him more miserable, or to continue him in the Condition of an Exile; But rather, that thou hast reserved him for faithful Hands, and fairer Opportunities and more prosperous successses. And though that was not the Time, nor those the Means, by which thou hast designed to restore the Kingdom to him, Yet that thou hast not forsaken him, but that He is still in thy Care, still under the shadow of thy Wings, who alone art able to do more for him, then we can pray for; and Gloriously to bring him back again, by ways we cannot think of. In the mean time, O Lord, whilst thou thinkest fit to keep him under the sharpness of this Discipline, Teach him to kiss the Hand that chastens him, and humbly to submit his Earthly Crown to thy Divine Will and Pleasure; knowing, that thou canst either Restore him That, when it seems good to thee, Or else give him ● Crown infinitely more Glorious, which no man can take ftom him. Lord, He is more Precious to thee, then he can possibly be to us. Dispose of Him therefore in the multitude of thy Mercies, And let thy Holy Spirit take so full Possession and Guidance of him, that among all the Difficulties of his most perplexed Affairs, he may constantly perform his Duty towards thee, and live and dy thy faithful Servant in Jesus Christ, Amen. A litany of Intercession. O That thou wouldst hear me O God! that thou wouldst so prepare my Heart, that thou mayst hear me! that thou wouldst hear me once more, though I am but Dust and Ashes! That thou wouldst hear me for all those, whom by the Bonds of Duty, and Charity, or Affection, I am bound to Pray for! O Lord hear my Prayers. And let my cry come unto thee. The litany. THat it may please thee to Bless the whole catholic Church of thy Son Christ, as it hath been planted in his Death, and watered in his Blood, so it may be still nourished by his Sacraments, and governed by his Word; That the uncharitableness of men may not make the Rents and Divisions of it wider, and that howsoever we may differ in the superstructions, the Foundations of Christian Faith may never be cast down. O hear us for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to look compassionately on this persecuted part of thy Church, now driven from the public Altars into Corners and secret closerts, that thy Protection may be over us where ever we shall be scatteted, and a Remnant preservcd among us by whom thy Name may be Glorified, thy Sacraments administered, and the souls of thy servants kept upright in the midst of a corrupting and of a corrupted Generation. O hear us for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to be Gracious to Him, who was once designed by Thee to be the Nursing Father of this thy Church; But for the sins of both Priests and People is now cast out as an unprofitable Branch; And that in thy due time thou wouldst deal with him, according to the Innocency of his Person & the Justice of his Cause. O hear us for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to comfort him in the sadness of his spirit, and Guide him in the Perplexities of his Mind, and support him in the straits and necessities of his Fortunes. To raise him Friends abroad, and to Convert or confounded the hearts of his Enemies at Home; To do some mighty thing for him, which I in particular know not how to Pray for, and by the secret Working of thy Providence, to make the ston which the foolish Builders among us have refused the Head-stone of the Corner. O hear us for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to preserve him with an unspotted soul, and an unshaken Faith and that no splendour of any Earthly Crown may so dazzle him, as to make him forget either himself or thee; or do any unworthy thing to lose that Heavenly Crown which thou hast prepared for him, and nothing but his own sins is able to keep from him. O hear us for thy Son Jesu o sake. That it may please thee to show Mercy to the Queen his Mother, the Dukes his Brethren in Exile with him, and the rest of that scattered and oppressed Family; to guide them thy Counsels, to defend with them with thy Power, to provide for them in thy Mercy, and to make them in their several ways, Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness. O hear us for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to deal Graciously with that Remnant left of the loyal Nobility, and all others of that ruined side, who have chosen rather to suffer in thy Cause, then to participate with the sins of a more successful Party. O hear us for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to spread the wings of thy Protection over all those whom thou hast made near and dear unto me; to preserve them safe in body and soul from the snares of their enemies, and the iniquity of the times, that no sin may lay waste their Consciences, nor no evil come near their dwellings. O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to recompense all those whom thou hast raised to be Instruments of any good unto me; such as have taken care of my soul, and instructed me in the way to heaven; such as have counseled me, when I have gone astray, supplied me in my wants, comforted me in my heaviness, and have had that high Charity for me, as to Reprove me when I have sinned. O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake That it may please thee to let the day-spring from on high, shine upon all those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death; who either do not know thy Name, or knowing it, are carried by strong delusions into the ways of Error and false persuasions. O hear us for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to confirm those, who as yet stand fast on the foundations of thy Holy Truth; that neither the persecution of the Church in which they were Baptized, nor the temptations of the times, nor the snares of cunning men, who watch all advantages, may make them fall from their first Faith, and miserable wander after their own imaginations. O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to comfort and raise up those weak and dejected spirits, which are ready to sink under the burden of a troubled or Afflicted Conscience, that as thou hast shewed them their sins, and the punishments due for them, so thou wouldst show them their Saviour; and, by directing them to lay hold on his across, keep them from a final and Everlasting shipwreck. O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to hear the groans and cries of all those that are Afflicted, either outwardly or inwardly, in body or soul; Especially such, who being oppressed for Conscience sake, have no place to fly unto, nor no man careth for their souls. O hear us for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to listen Compassionately to the deep sighing of the Prisoners, and by thy mighty Power to deliver such, who for obeying thee and a good Conscience, are or shall be designed to death or ruin O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to soften the hearts of all unrighteous Judges; who now have the Power over us, and to make them know with trembling that there is a Judge higher than they. O hear us for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to forgive all who more particularly are Enemies to me & mine, all that way have any traduced or slandered me, even to turn their hearts and to extend their Charity to them, in all those degrees of mercy which I desire may be shown to my own soul. O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake. That it may please thee to hear all those servants of thine, who either have the Charity to pray for me, or desire my Prayers for them: But above all, that it may please thee to hear the Prayers of thy Son Jesus Christ, who now sits gloriously on thy Right hand, to intercede both for me, and them. O hear me for thy Son Jesus sake. O Lord, hear my Prayers; and let my cry come unto thee. O Lord, pardon my prayers, and let not my sins and mine unworthiness interpose between thy Mercy-seat and me, Amen. A Prayer for the Church. ALmighty and Everlasting God, who only workest great marvells, show the express of thy Goodness to thy desolate and persecuted Church, that now sits mourning in her dust and ruins, torn by Schism, and stripped and spoiled by sacrilege. And thou which after a long Captivity didst bring back thy People to re-build their Temple, Look upon us with the same eyes of Mercy: restore to us once again the public Worship of thy Name, the Reverend Administration of thy Sacraments; Raise up the former Government of Church and State. That we may no longer be without King, without ●riest, without God in the World. But may once more enter thy Courts with Praise, and serve thee with that Reverence, that Unity and Order, as may be acceptable in thy sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. A Prayer for the Queen Mother, and the royal Progeny. ALmighty God, the Fountain of all goodness, we humbly beseech thee to be gracious to the Queen Mother, to comfort her in her Afflictions, and to direct her ways and counsels as may most conduce to the settling of her Posterity here in Peace. Enlarge thy Blessings upon all the royal Family, those that are driven to fly for Refuge into foreign Lands. Take them all into thy care, cover them under thy wings, and in thy due time make them so many Instruments of thy Glory and our Happiness, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. A Prayer for the Afflicted. O Lord God, merciful & gracious, the only Sanctuary and Refuge of all that are in Misery and Trouble; Hear I beseech thee the groans and cries of all that are Afflicted outwardly or Inwardly, either in body or Mind, Especially such who suffer in a Righteous Cause, whose Loyalty hath been more dear to them then their Fortunes, and a good Conscience more precious then their Lives: consider them, O God, in their several Extremities, whether at home or abroad: comfort them in their Distresses, supply them in their Wants. Let the sorrowful sighing of all that are oppressed, come before thee, and by the greatness of thy Power, preserve thou them that are appointed to die. Convert and soften the hard hearts of their implacable Enemies and assuage their thirst of blood, which still cries more and more. Or, if thou otherwise hast decreed to bring any more of us through this read Sea into the Land of Promise, prepare us for this passage, and guide us by thy blessed Spirit through the shadows of death. Continue our Christian courage and constancy to the uttermost; strengthen our Faith, confirm our Hope, and let our Charity overflow, even to the forgiving of them, by whose unjust Sentence we perish. That so dying in thy Peace, we may enter into the joys prepared for us, through the Mediation of our Saviour, who hath gone the same way before us, even Jesus Christ the Righteous, Amen. An humble and submissive Expostulation with God, when the Orthodox and loyal Clergy were so mercilessly silenced, by that bloody Usurper, who by Proclamation forbid them either to preach or pray publicly in Churches, or privately in Families, not suffering them so much as to teach School. O That thou wouldst hear me, O God, that thou wouldst hear me once more, who am but Dust and Ashes, while I presume, yet with all humble Reverence, to expostulate with thee the great and Glorious God, in behalf of this persecuted and afflicted Church! RIghteous art thou, O Lord, Jer. 12.1. when I pled with thee; yet let me talk with thee of thy Judgements: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? Thou hast planted them, yea they have taken root; they grow, 2. yea they bring forth fruit[ such as it is, the apple of Sodom and the Grapes of Gomorrah] Thou art near in the mouth, but far from their reins. But wherefore hath the Lord done this unto this Land? Deut. 29.24. what meaneth the heat of this great anger? O my Lord, if thou the Lord art with us, judge. 6.13. why then is all this befallen us? and where be all thy Mercies and deliverances, which our Fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us out of Egypt? did he not deliver us from superstition, ignorance and profaneness, from persecutions of the right hand, and separations on the left? Did he not save us from our open and professed enemies? and wilt thou now suffer us to be destroyed by our own selves? Say Lord, hast thou quiter forsaken us, and wilt thou deliver us over into the Midianitish hands of our own Mothers sons? Isa. 34.14. How long shall Jijm and Ziim, the beast of the iceland be let alone to leap upon thy Mercy-seat, which was wont to be fenced with Cherubims? Or art thou weary of our service, that thou thus goest about to disgrace the Throne of thy Glory, Jer. 14.21. and seemest to abhr both the cry of our Prayers, and the voice of weeping? Psal. 126.5. For behold Lord, we have sown in tears: when is it that we shall reap in Joy? 4. When wilt thou turn again the Captivity of Sion. Cant. 2.2. Is it not enough that she hath been so long, as a lily among the Thorns, but wilt thou now suffer the Thorns to overtop and to choke up this lily? Or shall the envious mans tares destroy the wheat, Mat. 13.25. which hath been sown in thy field. If there be a necessity that Heresies should be, yet, 1 Cor. 11.19. is there any cessity that they should bear sway? yea, there is no necessity but that thy Truth should prevail. O Lord God, terrible in thy judgements, but yet most fatherly in thy mercies; when shall we hear thee say to this Church of ours, as thou didst sometimes to thy afflicted Israel. Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord, Isa. 51.22. and thy God, that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand, the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again. But I will put it into the hands of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, bow down that we may go over? Psal. 102.13. Arise O Lord, and have mercy upon Sion: 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. It pitieth them to see, that there is none to guide her among all the sons that she hath brought up. Isa. 51.18. It pitieth them to see the Priests of the Lord silenced, Mal. 2.7. and those lips sealed up, which preserve knowledge. It pitieth them to have their Teachers removed into a corner, Isa. 30.20. and that their eyes cannot see their Teachers? It pitieth them; and yet doth it not pitty thee, O Lord, who art the God of pitty and compassion. Art thou not satisfied with the blood already spilled among us, but standest thou still with a sword upon thine Altar? Must Aarons rod be suffered to whither in thine own house, Numb. 17. in thine own sight, while Corah's and Dathan's do bud and blossom? Canst thou, O God, look on, and see the golden pot ravished from thine own Tabernacle? Heb. 9.24. Canst thou endure to be in the Temple, Mat. 5.14. and see those Lights of the Sanctuary put out, which thou thyself hast light up? Wilt thou suffer the Labourers to be driven out of thy own Vineyard, after their working so long there by thy Divine appointment? Shall thy House of Prayer become at length a den of thieves; Mat. 21.13. and thou thyself stand by as unconcernd? whilst they rob thee of thine Honour? Thou that saidst to the waves, Mat. 8.26. be ye still, wilt thou suffer the winds to arise, the contrary winds of false Doctrine, Eph: 4.14. and to blow against this Ship, which thyself hast so long been in? wilt thou sleep in the Ship, while thy Disciples are cast over board? Lord, carest thou not we perish? When shall thy Ministers take down their Harps from the Willows upon which they hang. Psal. 137.2. 3. When shall they be permitted openly to sing the Lords song, though in this strange Land? 1 Sam. 7. When, O when shall we see the Ark of God to return back from the House of Dagon, 2 Sam. 6.14. and David dancing before it? Luke 1. When wilt thou open the mouths of thine own Zacharias's, the Priests of the Lord, that were called to wait upon thee at thine Altar, but who are now struck dumb, from officiating before thee? When wilt thou extend mercy unto us in the sight of those that hate us, who are set over us, Ezra. 9.9. to give us a reviving, to set up the House of God, and to repair the Desolations thereof, and to give a Wall in Judah and in Jerusalem? When shall we accompany the Tribes, Psal. 122.4. even the Tribes of the Lord unto the Lords House, there to testify unto Israel, to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord, for the preservation of our Religion in the midst of so many fiery trials, and the restauration of our Liberties after so sharp a captivity? When Lord, shall we be allowed to eat bread again freely in thy House; yea, though it be but to gather the crumbs that fall from our Masters table? How long shall it be, ere thou bid us look with joy upon Zion, Isa. 33 20. the city of our Solemnities, as thou didst bid thy People the Jews. When wilt thou comfort us, and say, your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down, not one of the stakes thereof shall be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken? O how amiable are thy Dwellings, thou Lord of Hosts? Psal. 84.1. 2. My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into thy Courts, and to go unto thine Altars▪ But Lord, It is not for us to know the times and seasons, which the Father hath put in his own Power. Acts 1.7. And therefore I desire humbly to submit the success of all our Prayers and Supplications, of our actions and sufferings, together with the time of our deliverance, unto thy sole pleasure; earnestly beseeching thee, 2 Cor. 12.9. for thy Grace( which is alone sufficient for us) that we may cheerfully wait upon thee( without thinking thy stay too long) till thou have mercy upon us. The Lord our God is a God of recompenses, Jer. 51.56. and shall surely requit● our Enemies. But The Lord is our Judge, Isa. 53.22. the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King, he will save us. Thou art the Lord; 1 Sam. 3.18. and therefore, Lord, even when thou pleasest, and what thou pleasest. Not our time, but thy time: Not our way, but thy way: Not our Will, Mat. 26.30. but thy Will be done. Thy Will be done in Earth, Mat. 6.10. as it in Heaven, Amen. A Prayer for the Church of England. O Lord, look down in mercy and compassion upon our dear Mother, the afflicted Church of England, to whose breasts thou hast applied us: And grant, that we may draw from thence neither blood nor wind, 1 Pet. 2.2. but the sincere milk of thy word of an holy Conversation. Behold Lord, she is none of those Mothers, 1 King. 3.26. which are for the dividing of their children; O preserve thou her children, that they also may none of them be for the dividing of their Mother! Make her yet once more happy in a Moses and an Aaron: Isa. 49.23. in nursing Fathers to go in and out before this People, and holy Ministers to stand before thee our God: and suffer not the sins of this Nation to be stronger, to pull down the walls of our Sion and Jerusalem, then is thy goodness and mercy to build them up again. O that this Church of England may live in thy sight! Genes. 17.18. For which end, behold her Priests, how they keep silence, Psol. 39.2- even from good words, which is pain and grief unto them; and are denied even a place between the Porch and the Altar, though only to weep there for the sparing of the Temple. Joel. 2.17. Behold her Virgins, Prov. 29.18. how they mourn, least for want of a Vision, the People perish; and her Widdows, how they make Lamentation, to see Judgement begin so severely at the House of God. 1 Pet. 4.17. Behold, how she her self, Jer. 31.85. Mat. 2.11. like another Rachel, weeps for her children, because they are not; because they are not suffered to comfort their own Mother, and to defend her from all such who mock at her Sabbaths and solemn Feasts, and make her service and Devotions their derision and scorn. Lam. 1.9. O Lord, behold her Afflictions, for the Enemy hath magnified himself against her. See, O Lord, and consider, for she is become very vile: But we trust, by how much she is become vile in the eyes of man, 2 Sam. 16.12. she shall be the more precious in the sight of thee her God. And, though others set light by her blood, yet thou hast promised not to despise her tears: especially, when thou thyself hast washed them in the blood of thy Son. O therefore we beseech thee, put thou her Tears in thy bottle; Psal. 56.8. and let not her sighs and her groans seem little in thy sight. Accept of those Humiliations, and graciously answer the Prayers which are offered up in secret for her. Visit, O visit her in Mercy and Compassion, now after the time that thou hast afflicted her, Psal. 90.15. and for the many years wherein she hath suffered Adversity. Let that purple rob of mockery, wherewith first thyself wert clad, and now of late this Church of thine, be changed at length into garments of joy and gladness. Let that Crown of thorns, which was taken from thy Temples and plaited upon hers, be now taken from both: and crown her instead thereof, with Roses out of her own Sharon. Cant. 2.1. Let the Print of the nails in thy hands and feet, be as the Balm of Gilead to heal and close up the wounds which are made in hers. And let the hole in thy precious side, be a safe hiding-place and Sanctuary, till this Persecution be overpassed. Though this year be begun in bitterness, yet O suffer it not to end so. But cause it to be proclaimed the acceptable year of the Lord to all that mourn in Sion. Isa. 62.1. As thou hast given unto this Church an Head of gold, Dan. 2.13. so do not let her stand like Nebuchadnezars Image upon feet of day Though she be made to lye among the pots, yet thou canst cover her again with silver wings, Psal. 68.13. making her feathers like gold. Thou art Almighty, and canst do it: Psa. 86.17. yea thou art Almercifull and wilt do it: O then show her( now especially) some token for good, that they which hate her may see it, and be ashamed, because thou, O Lord, hast holpen her and comforted her. Give her instead of a Rent, a Girdle, instead of vain Repetitions, the Holy Spirit and Office of Prayer; for the bread of Adversity, the blessed Manna of thy Word and Sacraments; and for the cup of trembling and astonishment, the cup of salvation. Suffer not Pharaoh's thin and blasted Ears of corn to devour those full and good Ears, Gen. 41.24. which have sprung up here in Gods field. Neither do thou punish our former( slighted) plenty with a succeeding famine of thy Word. Give unto her beauty for ashes, Isa. 61.3. the oil of Joy for mourning, the garment of Prayer for the spirit of heaviness. Give her the custody of Angels, the Patronage of Kings and Princes, the hearts and hands of Nobles, the prayers and tears of Priests, and the defence of the whole secular Arm. O thou that hast the Key of David, Rev. 3.7. that openest and no man shutteth, open thou the mouths of thy Ministers, and suffer no more any man to shut them. Open thou the doors of thine own House for thy servants to enter in, and let no one dare upon the peril of their souls to keep us out. And since we have taken upon us to speak unto our Lord,( not for the sparing of a Sodom, but of this thine own Sion) let not our Lord be angry and we will speak unto him once more. Gen. 18.32. judge. 6.39. Preserve her, and all her sons and daughters in all storms, and against all temptations; in this present storm, and against the present and all future temptations, that we may do nothing to scandal our holy Calling, by sacrificing our Consciences to the purchase of our ease. Give us innocence mixed with prudence, the Doves eye in the Serpents head▪ And teach us to beware of the Dragons poison, Ne devoret Serpens Columbam. Mat. 10.16. even when we are made to feel the Dragons sting And when the winds shall blow fiercest against thine Ark, yet then we beseech thee to preserve the Vessel, though thou shalt change the Pilots; And however in thy secret wisdom thou mayst suffer many of the Lights to be blown out, yet we pray thee Lord, be not so severe upon our justly-deserving sins as to remove the Candlestick. All this, and whatsoever else thou knowest more needful for our bleeding Mother, or for any of her pers●cuted Children, we beg at thy merciful hands, for thy Sons sake who purchased this Church with his own blood, Jesus Christ our Saviour; To whom with thee, O Father, and the ever blessed Spirit▪ be all Honour and Glory, Submission and Adoration in all places, at all times, in all Estates and Conditions by all men and Angels, World without End, Amen, Amen. A Prayer for the Kings Birthday, May 29. O Lord God, the great disposer of Kings and kingdoms, and who in thy Mercy didst design thy servant our persecuted sovereign Lord King charles to be the Heir of these kingdoms, though in thy secret Judgements towards this sinful Nation thou hast suffered the sons of violence to keep him hitherto from inheriting his Fathers Throne. We thy unworthy servants are here met together, upon the Anniversary Day of his Nativity to offer unto thee a grateful commemoration & our humble thansgivings for thy great Blessing in bestowing upon us at first so hopeful a Prince; And withall, to bewail our unworthiness of having so good and gracious a Prince as yet to exercise his reign over us; we bewail those many sins of ours, whereby we have helped to cut off the royal Father, and whereby we still assist to the keeping out of his royal Son. However, we beseech thee, O Lord, to grant, that as thy hands did fashion him, and as he was fearfully and wonderfully made in his Mothers womb, so his heart may still be in those hands of thine, to preserve him from all danger, and to mould him to all Christian and Princely Graces. Give him years of Happiness and Joy, for those years of bitterness and sorrow wherewith thou hast afflicted his soul. Cause him to know, that the end for which he was born, was not so much to govern others, as to submit himself to thee; and to lay his Crown and sceptre at the Feet of the Lamb. And grant Holy Father, that that as now he has finished twenty nine years of his life, Anno 1659 and most of those years under the severity of thy Discipline; So he may spend the Remainder of his life,( and may have those years doubled and treble to him,) in the successses of thy favour. As thou dost add days to his years; so let it be thy good pleasure to add happiness to his days: exchanging his Banishment into restauration, and his Crown of thorns into a Crown of Majesty here, & of Glory hereafter. This day didst thou take him out of his Mothers womb, to live here a little time. O mayst thou at the last day take both him and us out of our Mothers womb again, even the grave, and the womb of the Earth, to live with thee for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen, Amen. The Ministers Prayer for the People. O Most merciful Lord God, and Lover of souls, who hast given Commandment to thy Priests to weep and to pray between the Porch and the Altar, and to cry, spare thy people, O Lord, spare them. O most blessed Jesu, who art an everlasting Priest, and the great shepherd and Bishop of our souls. O most holy Spirit, who dost sanctify and preserve us, building us up into an holy Temple, for thyself to dwell in. O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, three Persons, and one God, who delightest in the Conversion of sinners, and to see souls daily added unto thy Church. Bless this whole Congregation, and have mercy upon this Parish, who are committed to my charge to take care over their souls. Lord, I am unworthy of so great an honour, and too unfit for so great a burden, yet in obedience to thy Call, I have undertaken it; and I trust by thy Assistance, to be able to feed both thy sheep and thy Lambs. Keep them always within thy Fold, that they may never wander nor go astray; preserve them from Wolves, though they should be set in the very midst of them. Teach them to know thy voice, and to be obedient to thy Call. And when any of them shall straggle into the wilderness, yet then Lord, do not thou leave them to their own way; But be thou graciously pleased to look after them; and when thou hast found them, give them a ready willingness to accept of thy shoulders, and to be carried home. With thee there is Balm for their wounded consciences: and in thy side there is oil for for their broken hearts. Let thy staff, O Lord, be a support to the weak, and let thy rod instruct and correct the refractory. And so bless them all in their bodies, in their souls, in their Estates, both with thy temporal and spiritual mercies, that, here in this life, they may live in Love, Peace, Plenty, and all Godliness; that so in the Life eternal they may be made joint Partakers of Glory, and reign for ever with the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. To whom, be all honour and glory, power and praise from this time forth and for evermore, Amen. The Peoples Prayer for the Minister. O Lord God, who of thy mercy hast bestowed upon us Preachers of righteousness, and who for our benefit hast appointed the Priests lips to preserve knowledge. O Lord Jesu Christ, who hast sent labourers into thy Vineyard to dress and trim it, and there to reach us fruit from the three of life. O holy and blessed Spirit, who sattest in the likeness of fiery tongues upon the Apostles to inspire thy Church, and of whose gift it is, that a succession of Ministers is continued among us even to this day. O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, let me never but be thankful to thee for all these thy Gifts. Preserve me by thy Grace, that I may never be of the number of those who love to strive with the Priest. And that I may at no time deserve to be struck blind with the dust from a Disciples feet. Keep me from usurping upon the Ministers Office, from defrauding him of his right, from maligning his person, from calumniating his Doctrine, and from abhorring to be reproved by him. But grant, Lord, that I may readily hear and embrace the Message that thou art pleased to sand by him, be it of mercy or of judgement, always saying with old Eli, It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth best in his own eyes. And here among many other thy servants who wait upon thee at thine Altar, bless Lord, more particularly, that servant of thine to whom thou hast committed the charge of my soul. O never let him soothe and flatter it, but( as I give him occasion) let him discipline and correct it Give him Grace and Courage to speak boldly in the name of Jesu. And since thou art delighted with those that tremble at thy Word, Lord, make me one of their number that thou mayst delight in me. Let me never stop mine ears, nor withdraw myself from hearing thy servant, who speaks home to my conscience. But when he shall have wounded mine heart with the sword of thy Spirit, O give him power and wisdom to pour as well oil as vinegar into those happy wounds. Lastly, Grant Lord, I beseech thee; that he, by whose prayers and instructions, thou art graciously pleased to advance my spiritual good, may by thy grace and favour be protected by thy Providence, assisted by thy great mercies, comforted and relieved in all his necessities bodily and ghostly. And let me never but thus pray for him, who in discharge of his duty both preys and weeps for me. Lord, grant him deliverance from unreasonable and wicked men, who( with so much danger to himself) endeavours to preserve me from the power of the Devil. That so at last both Priest and People, the Minister and his Congregation, the shepherd and the whole Flock, may walk hand in hand to heaven, and be joyfully translated from the Church militant here, to the Church triumphant above, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, Amen. Another. O Most gracious Lord God, who hast promised to hear the Prayers of others for us, and our Prayers for others, but both theirs and ours, through the powerful intercession of thy Son. Grant I beseech thee, that I may reap benefit by the Prayers of all such who are charitably mindful of recommending me and my necessities to the Throne of Grace. Particularly, touch both the heart and tongue of thy Servant— with a coal from thine Altar. give him zeal and intention in all his Devotions. And since we are taught by thy holy Spirit, that the effectual fervent Prayer of a Righteous man availeth much, grant him Lord, to be Righteous in all his ways, faithful in his Calling, and a sincere Example of holy life and godly Conversation; That so, those Prayers which he offers up for myself and others, may be the more acceptable in thy sight, and be the sooner graciously answered with thy Benediction and Blessing both upon our bodies and souls: and all for the precious bloodsheddings sake of thy beloved Son, and our blessed Mediator Jesus Christ, Amen. Psalms for pardon of sins. Psalm. 6.25.32.38.51.102.130.143. For Protection from our Enemies, and from the punishment of sins. Psalm 3.7.9.10.11.13.17.27.31.35.54.56.57.141. For the Church and all faithful People. Psal. 53.74.79.80.94.137. For the King. Psalm 21.61.89.132. For Peace— 46.122.133. In time of Persecution and public Calamity. Psalm. 52.64.73.61.142.120, In time of War— 43.144. Lessons. IUdgments upon Rebellion. 2 Sam. 18. Saint Judes Epist. Numb. 16. Saint Judes Epist. Judgements upon Tyrants and false Prophets. Mic. 3. Mat. 7.23. Mar. 13. Mic. 3. 2 Pet. 2.3. Mar. 13. The Judgement of removing the Candlestick, and threats of it. 1 Sam. 4. Mat. 21. Rev. 2. Ezek. 3. Mat. 21. Rev. 2. Threats against Disobedience and Promises to the Obedient. Deut. 28. Luke 6. Joshua. 23. Luke 6. Isa. 59. Luke 6. Jer. 5. Luke 6. Lamentation for Judgement on a Land. Lam. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Mat. 20. Luke 13. Isa. 64. Mat. 20. Luke 13. Jerem. 4.9. Mat. 20. Luke 13. Baruch. 2.3. Mat. 20. Luke 13. 2 Esdras 3.4. Mat. 20. Luke 13. Exhortation to Repentance and Faith. Deut. 4, 6, 8, 11. Mat. 6. Isaiah 58. Mat. 6. Hosea 4, 6. Mat. 6. Exhortaion to Fasting and Obedience. Joel 2. Jonah 3. Jerem. 2, 3, 7, 6. Examples for patient sufferings, and Exhortations thereto. 2 Sam. 15. Heb. 12. 1 Pet. 2, 3, 4. Jam. 4, 5. 2 Mac. 6, 7. Heb. 12. 1 Pet. 2, 3, 4. Jam. 4, 5. Temporary Prosperity and eternal Punishment of the wicked. Job. 21. Jer. 12. Act. 12. Habbac. 1. Act. 12. Mal. 3. Act. 12. Wisdom 5. Act. 12. Persecution of the Church. Exod. 5. Revel. 12, 13. Comforts to the Penitent and Holy. Ezek. 9. Mat. 5. Revel. 7. Some Prayers for the King and Church, &c. heretofore printed. A Prayer for the King. O Lord God, who hast commanded us to pray for Kings, and all that be in Authority, that under them we may led a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty; bless thy Servant our King, that he may use that Sword thou hast put into his hands, for the protection and reward of the good, and the punishment of them that do evil, and give grace unto us, and all other his Subjects to fear, reverence, and obey him as thy Minister, not only for wrath, but for conscience sake, least contemning thine ordinance, we incur that damnation thou hast threatened to all those that resist the higher powers. Hear us, O Lord, for his sake, who is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, even Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. O Most gracious Lord God, the Ruler of Princes when they are in their thrones, and their Protector, when they are in peril, look down mercifully from Heaven, we most humbly pray thee, upon the low estate of thine anointed our King; comfort him in his troubles, defend him in his dangers, strengthen him in his good resolutions, and command thine Angels to pitch their tents round about him; that he may be defended from the hands of all those that desire his hurt, and may be re-established in the just rights of his throne, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. O God the Father of Heaven, have mercy upon him and deliver him. O God the Father, &c. O God the Son Redeemer of the world, have mercy upon him and deliver him. O God the Son, &c. O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son, have mercy upon him and deliver him. O God the holy Ghost, &c. O holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, three Persons and one God, have mercy upon him and deliver him. O holy, blessed and glorious, &c. Remember not Lord his offences, nor the offences of his fore-Fathers; neither take thou vengeance of his sins; spare him good Lord, spare thy servant whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood; and be not angry with him for ever. Spare him good Lord. From all evil and mischief, from the Insurrection of wicked doers, from the frowardness and madness of the People. Good Lord deliver him. From mouths full of cursing and bitterness, from all those that speak evil of dignities, and from those that slander the footsteps of thine Anointed. Good Lord deliver him. From them that are confederates, and speak so disdainfully against him, and from all those that hate him without a cause. Good Lord deliver him. We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God, and that it may please thee to look upon the face of thine Anointed, and to visit him with thy salvation. We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to pled his cause against them that strive with him, and to fight against those that fight against him. We beseech thee, &c. That it may please thee to hear him in these dayes of his trouble, and to sand him help from thy Sanctuary. We beseech thee, &c. That it may please thee to arise and maintain his cause, and to remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily. We beseech thee, &c. That it may please thee to give him patience in this time of adversity, until the pit be digged up for the ungodly. We beseech thee, &c. That it may please thee in the multitude of the sorrows that he hath in his heart, to let thy comforts refresh his soul. We beseech thee, &c. That it may please thee not to deliver him over to the will of his adversaries, nor to false witnesses risen up against him; or to such as speak wrong. We beseech thee, &c. That it may please thee, to defend him under thy wings, and that thy faithfulness and truth may be his Shield and Buckler. We beseech thee, &c. That it may please thee to satisfy him with thy mercy, and that soon, so that he and we may rejoice all the dayes of our life. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. A Prayer For the Church. LOrd, who hast promised to thine Apostles to be with them always unto the end of the world, and for a supply of their mortality, hast in thy gracious providence over thy Church, continued a perpetual succession of Bishops and Pastors to feed their several Flocks, whereof the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers: Inspire them by thy grace, that their lips may preserve knowledge, and the people seek thy Law at their mouth. Bless them, O Lord, with the blessings of Levi; bless their substance, and accept the work of their hands; smite through the loins of them that rise up against them, and of them that hate them, that they rise not again, that they may shine forth as lights before us, holding forth the word of life, till we all come in the unity of Faith, and the knowledge of Jesus Christ, unto that perfection and fullness of thine everlasting kingdom, Amen. ALmighty God, and gracious Father, we confess against ourselves, that we are most worthy of all the Judgements that thou hast threatened against us, these kingdoms, and this Church, which is now under the cross, and near to utter ruin and extirpation, unless thy mercy step in between thy fierce wrath and our heinous sins. And howsoever the voice of our crying sins hath ascended into thine ears, and stirred up destroyers to root us out, that we be no more a people, and that thy name be no more called upon, nor hallowed by us; yet we most humbly beseech thee to hear the prayers and supplications, with strong cryings and tears which once our blessed Saviour offered for us upon the cross, and in the garden, and which he daily represents unto thee. And for his all-sufficient merits, which speak better things than the blood of Abel, hear not the cry of our sins, but the cry of his blood, and therein wash all our sins. Let our great miseries and dangers suffice for that which is past, and let that orator in thy own bosom, even thine own fatherly goodness persuade and prevail for us, and purchase our deliverance and safety. Hear us for ourselves and others, Look upon us with the eyes of pitty and compassion, consider our enemies how many and how mighty they be, and they bear a tyrannous hate against us. Our goods, our lands, our lives will not suffice their boundless ambition: our religion, our souls, and if it were possible, our God, is that they strike at: curse thou their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. Divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel: As for us, deliver us out of their hands, and unite us together in the bond of peace, that being freed from our many and tyrannous enemies, we may ever bless thy sacred and holy name, and evermore serve thee without fear in all holiness and righteousness all the dayes of our life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. WE beseech thee, Almighty God, look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants, and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to our defence against all our enemies, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. GRant we beseech thee, Almighty God, that we which for our evil deeds are justly punished, by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved, through Christ our Lord, Amen. ALmighty and everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmities and miseries, and in all our dangers and necessities, stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us, through Christ our Lord, Amen. ALmighty God, which art more ready to hear, than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve: pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things, whereof we are afraid, and giving unto us that, that our prayers dare not presume to ask, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. A Prayer for the Clergy. O Most merciful Father, Lord God of all Order and Peace, who hast appointed Bishops and Pastors to be our spiritual guides, to oversee, and to feed us in their taking care for our Souls: We most humbly beseech thee, suffer not a Rebellious Novelty by violence to remove this most Ancient Christian Institution. Fight thou for them whose Arms are their Tears and Prayers; and let not the Patrimony which belongs to thee, be made a prey to the rapine of these wicked times. That so by the goodness of thy mighty strength this poor Church may continue till he come again, who is the Shep-heard of our Souls; even Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom &c. THe Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore, Amen. A Prayer to be said during these sad times of Trouble. O Lord our God, merciful and gracious, and abundant in goodness and truth, who dost according to thy wiil in the Armies of Heaven, and rulest over all the kingdoms of the Earth, in whose hand is power and might, and none is able to withstand thy Arm; we most vile sinners approach before thy Throne of grace, bewailing those manifold transgressions that have provoked thy wrath and indignation against us, We know, O Lord, that affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, but it is thou that with rebukes dost chasten man for sin. We confess that we were a wealthy and a careless Nation, and our Land was as the garden of Eden; our deliverances were great, and thy blessings were multiplied: we dwelled alone without fear of evil, and were become the envy of those that were round about us. Peace was within our Walls, and plenteousness within our palaces. But when we had eaten and were full, and had waxed fat, we kicked against thee our Maker, who hadst done so great things for us: our heart was lifted up and forgot thee our God, and lightly esteemed the rock of our salvation. We loathed the Manna that rained down upon us; our Peace became a weariness, and we snuffed at our happiness; we murmured against Moses in our Tents, and made light of thine Annoynted, whom thou hadst set over us. Therefore hast thou recompensed our ways upon our own heads, and suffered our destruction to proceed from ourselves: our wickedness doth correct us, our backsliding doth reprove us, and our iniquity is become our ruin. Thou hast broken us with a grievous breach: thy anger hath divided us, and thy fury hath dashed us one against another. Thou hast mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of us; and made us a Nation voided of counsel and understanding: instead of Peace thou hast sent bitterness, and hast sent a fire into our bowels; and it is kindled round about us. And now, O Lord, behold, the sword is drunk with our blood, and we are numbered to the slaughter: the highways are unoccupied, and the travellers go through by-paths: our fields are divided our inheritance is for a spoil, and our substance to the robbers. We are become a reproach to the foolish people, and servants bear rule over us. The mean man is risen against the Honourable, and the fire out of the Bramble devoureth the lofty Cedars; our Women are cast out of their pleasant places, and the rob is pulled from the Aged; there is no respect had to the Priests, nor favour to the Elders. Thy Sanctuaries, even the excellency of thy strength, are profaned, and they have defiled the places where thine honour dwelleth, and yet still the seat of wickedness frameth mischief by a Law; and it turneth judgement backward, and biddeth justice stand afar off; and deviseth deceitful matters against those that are quiet in the Land. Nay, there is a lying Spirit gone out into the mouth of the Prophets; they prophesy falsely, and the People delight to have it so, and they strengthen the hands of evil doers, that they turn not back from their wickedness. Thus are we covered with a cloud in thine anger, and our beauty is cast down to the ground. But, O Lord, shall thine Indignation be poured out for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? O pass by the transgressions of the remnant of thine heritage, and take away the rebuk of thy people! O remove from us reproach and contempt; and strengthen the spoyled against the destroyers! Bow down thine ear, and consider the oppression of the poor, the sighing of the needy, the groaning of the Prisoners, that are fast bound in misery and Iron. Lift up thyself, because of the rage of thine Adversaries; consider the desolation they have made in thy Courts, and all that the Enemy hath done wickedly in thy Sanctuary. And yet still they are compassed with pride, and cloath themselves with violence as with a garment. How long, O Lord, shall they boast themselves in mischief? how long shall they decree unrighteous decrees, and writ grievousness which they have prescribed? O make not a full end with us, but correct us in mercy, though thou leave us not altogether unpunished. Helps us, O Lord our God, for we rest on thee, and under the shadow of thy wings, shall be our refuge until this Tyranny be overpast. Disappoint therefore the devices of the crafty; let not the Rebellious exalt themselves any more, and suffer not the Tabernacles of the Robbers to prosper. And as thou hast begun to show thy Servants thy greatness, and thy mighty hand, so continue thy marvelous loving kindness to those who put their trust in thee. The battle is thine, O Lord, thou hast preserved us from the Arm of flesh; yea, it is thou that hast wrought all our works in us, even when there was no might against that great company that came against us. When we were few in number, and there was none to help us, then thine own Arm brought salvation, and thy righteousness sustained us. O perfect therefore thy handy work! Give salvation to our King, and deliver charles thy Servant from the peril of the Sword, bind up his soul in the bundle of life, gird him with strength to the battle, contend with those who contend with him, subdue thou the people under him, and suffer no weapon formed against him to prosper. O deliver him at length from the strivings of the People, and lift up his head above his Enemies round about him, give him the shield of thy salvation, and let thy gentleness make him great: put a stop at last to the madness of the people, say to the destroying Sword, it is now enough: sand us a seasonable and quiet calm: visit us with the joy of thy Countenance, and make us glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted us. O restore to us our solemn Assemblies: bring us back into thy Courts to praise thee, and let us once more worship thee in the beauty of thy holinesse! Save us, O Lord, from our Enemies, and from the hands of all that hate us. That so we may serve thee without fear, living a quiet and a peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty, looking for the blessed appearance of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ. To whom with thee and the holy Spirit, be all honour and praise, world without end, AMEN. A Prayer for preservation from the Enemy. O eternal God and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech thee to be merciful unto us, and in the Riches of thy unspeakable mercies, be near to help and succour us, in all those extremities which our sins threaten to bring upon us. The Rebellious are strengthened against us, by our multiplied Rebellions against thee: and we deserve to suffer what our Enemies threaten, even sudden surprisal and destruction to desolation. But there is mercy with thee, that thou mayst be feared: and there is mercy with thee that they may not be feared. show us therefore thy mercy, O Lord: and let us so fear thee, that we may be never forced to feel or fear them. And when thou wilt correct us for our sins, O Lord, in judgement remember mercy, and let us fall into thy hands, and not into the hands of men: let us fall into thy hands, and not into the hands of ungracious and ungodly men: into thy hands, and not into the hands of sacrilegious and seditious men: into thy merciful hands, and not into the cruel hands of thine and our enemies; even for Jesus Christs sake, our only Mediator and Redeemer, AMEN. A Confession of Sins, and Prayer for Pardon. O Lord of heaven and earth, God of the spirits of all flesh, we a most sinful, and therefore now a most miserable People, do in the bitterness of our afflicted Souls, humbly fall down at the foot-stool of thy grace, most sadly bewailing our many and most heinous sins. We have multiplied our iniquities into a violation of thy whole Law, having neither performed to thee our God, nor to man, the duties thou requirest of us, so that by our wicked works, we have denied that most holy faith, whereof our Mouths have for so long a time made profession. These things, O Lord, have we done, and because in goodness thou wert pleased to keep silence, how many of us have thought wickedly, that thou wert altogether such an one as ourselves; which either didst approve, or at least wouldst not punish the Crimes that we doted on. And now in thy just judgments thou hast set our sins in order before our eyes; in the continued scourge of this wasting Rebellion, we may well perceive, that the sins we have done, have not been barely infirmities, but Rebellions against thee. In the Rapines, acted upon the substance thou hast given us, we cannot but consider, that by Oaths and Blasphemies, we have robbed thee of thine Honour, and have oft-times stolen much of that precious time which should have been spent in thy service. Nay we have added sin to sin, so that one Crime hath brought forth another Transgression, and thou hast shewed us even this in thy Judgments we now feel, in that this present War hath brought forth an infectious disease, and doth now threaten famine to us. We confess, O Lord, with all thankfulness of heart, that thou hast been pleased to sweeten the bitterness of this Cup by many strange successses, by frequent and unexpected Victories, and yet thou hast so allayed each favour of thine hand, with the mixture of some sudden cross, that herein, thou hast set our Repentance too before the fight of our eyes, and lets us see 'tis mixed with so much coldness & hypocrisy, that there may be as much guilt in such a kind of Repentance as before there was in our sins, Yet return, O God, in great mercy, return unto the many thousands of thy people: do thou accept, and increase in our hearts detestation of all wickedness, that our sorrows for sin may be as completely perfect, as we desire thou shouldst make our Peace, and that for times hereafter, our hearty observance of thy whole Law may still run along with such sorrows. O let not thy scourge end in a desolation, nor thine anger go on unto the height of an everlasting ruin: But hear us, merciful Father, hasten the aversion of these thy sharp judgements from us, and let not the noise of this accursed Rebellion be any longer heard in our streets. Scatter thou the People that delight in War, and let the blessing of Peace be upon the Heads of all those who strive and pray for this blessing; and that for his sake, by whose hand thou givest every blessing, Jesus Christ our Lord Amen. A Prayer for the KING. O Lord God, infinite in power; by whom the thrones of Kings are established, and their Persons made sacred; Take, we beseech thee, into thy imemdiate and divine protection, thine Anointed Servant the ●ing, that no Sacrilegious profane hand come near to touch him: in all his ways, let thy Spirit guide him, and thy holy Angels pitch their Tents about him; Comfort him in his troubles, defend him in his dangers, support him in his Cause, bless him in the confusion of all those that rise up against him; show some token on him, even now, O God, when the Sons of Violence are in the highest of their Pride, when they have joined Nation to Nation, Covenant to Covenant, and Army to Army, to pull down him whom thou hast exalted, and to Root out that Religion which thine own right hand hath planted. Defeat their purposes, O thou preserver of men, and let not their mischievous imaginations any longer prosper; but blast all their counsels, whither away their Armies like grass scorched by the Sun, bow down at last, their stiff necks, and obdurate hearts to a desire of that Peace which hath so long been an abomination to them, That this miserable Nation may no further pursue their own ruin, and take pleasure in shedding their own blood; but being by so many bitter punishments made sensible of thy Anger for this unnatural division, may at last be reduced within their first obedience, to the glory of thy Name, the vindication of our defamed Religion, the joy of our afflicted King, and the happiness of this yet bleeding Kingdom. And confirm all this to us, O Lord, by the merits, and through the mediation of thine own dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. A Prayer for the preservation of the University and City of Oxford. O Almighty God, who art the only sure Refuge and strong Tower of defence to all them that put their trust in thee, receive our humble Petition; save this City, this Nursery of thy Church, and thy afflicted People, from the hand of their Enemies. We know that unless thou keep the City, the Watchman watcheth but in vain; unless thou defend us, our Foundations, which are laid in dust, cannot stand firm. We aclowledge our own weakness, and that which makes us weaker, our sinful demerit; But thou art both the Lord of Hosts & Prince of Peace, able to destroy the strongest Army with an Army of most despicable Creatures, with things of nothing, with sudden weakness and follies, with a rumour or imagination. Thou canst bring us to the brink of destruction, and call us back again; Look down therefore, most merciful Lord, upon this Place, and according to thy wonted goodness, resist the proud, and give grace to the humble, that run to the shadow of thy wings for succour: Thou that stillest the raging of the Sea, and the madness of the People, say to the one, as to the other, hither shall thy proud waves come and no further. Suffer not the purpose of our Oppressors to stand, nor their counsels to prosper, nor their Force to prevail; But set thy hook into their nostrils, to turn them back, or confounded them, according to thy good pleasure and secret wisdom, by which thou disposest all Events, beyond the means and reach of man; But arm thy lowly Servants with Faith and Patience, raise our Spirits, guide our Consultations, strengthen our hands, help our wants, bless our endeavours with success; That we being delivered like them that dream, may praise thee as men awaked out of dust; and having seen and escaped thy Rod, may serve thee ever hereafter, with true obedience, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, Amen. A Prayer drawn by his Majesties special direction and Dictates, for a blessing on the Treaty at Uxbridge. O Most merciful Father, Lord God of Peace and Truth, we a People sorely afflicted by the Scourge of an unnatural War, do here earnestly beseech thee, to command a blessing from Heaven upon this present Treaty, begun for the establishment of an happy Peace Soften the most obdurate Hearts with a true Christian desire of saving those mens blood, for whom Christ himself hath shed his. Or if the guilt of our great sins, cause this Treaty to break off in vain, Lord let the Truth clearly appear, who those men are, which under pretence of the public good, do pursue their own private ends; that this People may be no longer so blindly miserable, as not to see, at least in this their day, the things that belong unto their peace. Grant this gracious God, for his sake, who is our Peace itself, even Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. A Prayer for Peace. ALmighty God, terrible in thy Judgements, but more wonderful in thy Mercies, who turnest man to Destruction, and again, thou sayest, Come again ye children of Men; we miserable sinners, prostrate this day before thee, humbly confess, with Horror in our Hearts, and Confusion in our Faces, that every one of us hath, more or less, contributed to that vast heap of crying si●s, which hath now in so high a measure draw down thy vengeance on us; that we have abused thy Patience so long, till we have at last turned it into Fury, compelling thee, by our often provocations to visit us in blood, to make us tear out our own bowels, and by a strange unnatural War, raised we know not why,( thy Justice and our Sins excepted) to become executioners of ourselves, and so to sin afresh in the very punishments of sin. But alas! what profit is there in our Blood? or what Glory can come to thee by our ruin? Let it suffice, O God, that thou hast thus far rebuked us in thine Anger; but consume us not utterly, for we are all thy People. Say to the destroying Sword, It is enough, and let it be no longer drunk with the blood of thine, Inheritance; But look down upon our unfeigned Humiliation, hear the Prayer which in the bitterness of our Souls we pour out this day before thee, accept of our Repentance, and where it is defective, let thy Holy Spirit make it up with groans that cannot be expressed. Look upon thy Moses who standeth in the gap, beseeching thee to turn thine anger from thy People; remember what he hath suffered, and the heavy things that thou hast shown him; and in the day, when thou makest Inquisition for Blood, forget not his desires of Peace, the endeavours which he hath used, and the Prayers which he hath made to thee for it. Return all this, O Lord, with comfort into his bosom. And since thou hast already wrought so much for him, as to bring these unhappy entangled differences to a Treaty, take not off thine hand, till thou hast untied every knot, and cleared every difficulty. sand thy Spirit into their hearts, who are entrusted with this great work, give them Bowels of Compassion, toward their bleeding and expiring Country; strike a Sense into them of the blood already shed, and the Desolation to come, which threateneth all if they prevent it not. But above all, let thy fear run through all their consultations, that remembering the sad account, which in the last great day will be required of them, they may lay aside every Sin, and every Interest that may divert them from the ways of Peace; and by the guidance of thy Wisdom( for in this all human wisdom failes▪) find out those blessed expedients as may restore the voice of Joy and Peace into our Dwellings, in such a way, as may be most to the Glory of thy Great Name; the Settlement of the true Religion so long professed among us, the Honour and Safety of the Kings Sacred Person, and the Good of all his People. Hear these our Prayers, and perfect this great work, through the mediation of thine own dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. A Prayer for the ending of the present Troubles. O Most just and powerful Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, we cannot but aclowledge, that the manifold miseries which have befallen us, are the due reward of our deeds, and that we have deserved, that the things which belong to our Peace should still be hide from our eyes. For when of thy own free mercy thou wert pleased to grant us a long time of plenty and prosperity, more then thou gavest to any the Nations that are about us, we became weary of our happiness, and by our ingratitude pulled down upon us those judgements which now threaten desolation to this late flourishing kingdom. And since the time of our affliction, thou hast given us space to repent, and we repented not; Iniquity hath still more and more abounded. As heretofore thy mercies did not 'allure us, so now thy judgements have not humbled us to a serious consideration of our misdeservings. Now, O Lord, we find ourselves entangled, and wearied by our own counsels; The troubles of our heart are enlarged; Our iniquities and the punishments which attend upon them, are a burden too heavy for us to bear. And therefore in the anguish and bitterness of our souls, we return unto thee, humbly beseeching thee, in whom alone is our help, to have respect unto the Prayers of thy servants. O shut not up thy loving kindness in displeasure, let not thine anger burn against the sheep of thy pasture: But bind up the breach of this People Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee, Behold the tears of the distressed Orphans and Widdows, and of all such as are oppressed and have no comforter. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou forbear to command deliverances? Remember thy tender mercies which have been ever of old, and save us as thou hast done heretofore. Remember thy promise of deliverance to those who call upon thee in the day of trouble. And when the blood that hath been shed calls aloud for vengeance, O then harken unto the voice of thy Sons blood, which speaks better things; behold the Lamb of God, who was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. And to this end, regard the sincerity of thine Anointed, maintain thine own cause, and preserve unto him that power which thou hast given him: bind his soul in the bundle of life, let mercy and truth preserve him, and let his Throne be established for ever before thee. bless them that are peaceable and faithful in the Land: And as for those that have risen up against him, we beseech thee, melt and mollify their hearts to the entertainment of compassion and love; reclaim them to obedience, lay not their sin to their charge, but guide their feet into the way of Peace. Give to those that have done wrong, the grace to repent, and to those that have suffered wrong, minds ready to forgive. And if any shall be averse from Peace, O thou that art the wonderful counselor, turn their wisdom into foolishness, confounded their practices, and let their mischief return upon their own heads. And when thou hast vouchsafed to give us that tranquillity which we beg at thy hands, give us grace to embrace it with all thankfulness, to obey our Governours, to live at unity among ourselves, evermore blessing thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. Collects. I. LOrd raise up we pray thee, thy power and come amongst us, and with great might succour us, that where as through our sins, and wickedness we before let and hindered, thy bountiful grace and mercy through the satisfaction of thy Son our Lord, may speedily deliver us, to whom with thee and the holy Ghost be honour and glory, world without end, Amen. II. ALmighty and everlasting God, which dost govern all things, in heaven and earth; mercifully hear the supplications of thy people, and grant us thy peace all the dayes of our life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. III. ALmighty and everlasting God, mercifully look upon our afflictions; and in all our dangers, and necessities, stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us, through Christ our Lord, Amen. IV. GOd who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that for mans frailness; we cannot always stand uprightly. Grant to us the health of body and soul; that all those things which we suffer for sin, by thy help we may well pass and overcome, through Christ our Lord, Amen. V. O Lord, we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy People, that we which are justly punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness; for the Glory of thy name through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth world without end, Amen. VI. LOrd, We beseech thee to keep thy Church and household continually in the true Religion, that they which do lean only on thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. VII. WE beseech thee Almighty God, look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants, and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to be our defence against all our enemies, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. VIII. GOd the Protector of all that trust in thee, without whom, nothing is strong, nothing is holy; increase and multiply upon us thy mercy, that thou being our ruler and guide, we may so pass through things temporal, that we finally lose not things eternal. Grant this Heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake our Lord, Amen. XI. LOrd we beseech thee, let thy continual pitty cleanse and defend thy congregation, and because it cannot continue in safety without thy succour, preserve it evermore by thy help and goodness, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. Certain additional Prayers. In the time of War. O Almighty God, who art high above all Nations, and whose glory is above the Heavens, the comfortable success of all enterprises is from thee onely to be looked for; Thou art he which givest victory unto Kings, to thee it is all one to save by many or few, thou canst make one to chase a thousand, thou canst cause the hearts even of the most valiant to melt, their hands to be weak, their minds to faint, and their knees to fall away like water. If thou fight for us, we cannot miscarry. If thou favour us not, we must needs be discomfited. O be gracious unto us, and be on our side, now that men are risen up against us. They take crafty counsel against thy Church, and consult how to cut us off from being a Nation, and by what means to quench the light of thy Truth which hath shined in our streets. Their desire is to imbrue their hands in blood, and to advance their own ambition by our overthrow. O turn their Counsels into foolishness; Let not their mischievous imaginations prosper, lest they be too proud. O our God, make them like unto a wheel, and as the stubble before the wind, Scatter the People that delight in War. Go out, O Lord, with our Armies, give wisdom and courage, to our Captains, gird them with strength unto the battle, be with our Souldiers, teaching their hands to war, and their fingers to fight. Assist all the Consultations, prosper the Policies, crown those enterprises with good success which are undertaken for the common good and comfort of the Weal-publique. Doubtless O Lord, we have deserved thine anger, and our sins do cry loud in thine ears for vengeance, and it were but just with thee, if thou shouldst make us a prey and a spoil unto our Enemies; But O, Gracious God, let us now fall into thy hands, for thy mercies are great, and let us not fall into the hands of men, whose displeasure at us, is not for our sins, but for our Profession and Religions sake, and that they may fill their own enlarged and insatiable desire, with those blessings of wealth which thou hast given us; Put therefore thy hook into their nostrils, and bring them back by the same way they came. Let it appear that thou art in the midst of us, and that we shall not be moved: That thou wilt help us, and that very early. Let there be no invasion, no going out, nor no crying in our streets. But set thou Peace in our Borders. Make strong the bars of our gates, especially, let the Gospel of thy Son sound yet louder among us; that by it many Souls may be gathered unto thee. So we thy People and the sheep of thy Pasture shall praise thee for ever, and from Generation to Generation, we will set forth thy glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour, Amen. A Prayer for a soldier. O Lord, it is thy glory to be called, The Lord of Hosts: and it is thou alone, from whom, when men have made their most politic and puissant preparations, the victory must be looked for. Draw my heart, I beseech thee, from all relying upon my own valour, or upon the strength of the battle in which I stand: and teach me ●o look upward, and to wait and trust only upon thee. Thou givest conquest, and thou givest courage: thou deliverest from the peril of the Sword, or else makest death a means of happiness to thy servants. Forgive my sins, I pray thee, and assure me of pardon by the witness of thy Spirit, that the guilt thereof make not my heart to tremble within me, and to behold death as a messenger to convey me into hell. If thou( O Lord) bee on my side, peace being made betwixt thee and my soul through Christ, what can be against me, what hazard can befall my soul? Nothing shall be able to deprive me of thy love. Let not spoil, or blood, or mine own advancement, be the ends of mine attempts, but make me to aim only at thy glory in the defence of thy truth, and in the good and safety of the kingdom wherein I live. The issue of all things to thee( O Lord) is known, but to man it is hidden: Prepare me therefore indifferently to whatsoever shall befall me. If I die give me comfort in my last breathing, and take my soul into thy gracious hand: If I be taken captive, give me patience, give me wisdom and godly courage, to do nothing contrary to the honour of my Country, or prejudicial to the profession of a faithful Christian. If I return with life and victory, make me thankful: Keep me from taking from thee any part of thy glory. Preserve me from those riotous, lascivious, and blaspheming courses, which are the usual fruits of good success: let me not think devotion to be an enemy to resolution, or that a religious fear of thy Majesty, doth abate the spirit that should be in a soldier: but settle me in this, that the assurance of a lawful cause, the hope and confidence of a better life, by the merits of Christ, the care to please thee, and to depend upon thy power, are the only true grounds of valour, which can give a man boldness and life in the day of battle. Vouchsafe me these, and all other needful favours, in and for Christ Jesus sake, Amen. A Prayer upon the strange revolution on the twenty first of February, 1659. when the formerly secluded Members were readmitted into the House of Commons. O Most mighty God, who sittest upon the Cherubims, be the people never so impatient; and after thine own counsels governest all that is done among the children of Men. We most humbly confess, that it is for our sins, that thou hast so often changed thy rod, and brought such variety of confusions upon us; that all the world stands a gaze to see what will become of such a people, that will not see the things that belong unto their peace. But, O gracious God, though we forget ourselves, forget not thou thine own goodness; for there is yet time for mercy, and such an expedient left as may cure all our wounds, and close up all our divisions; by restoring him who was once designed by thee, to be the common Father of us all, though we like rebellious children have disdainfully cast him from us. And as thou hast begun already to show some glimmerings of our future happiness, by unexpectedly dissolving the Assembly of those ( Achitophels) who by their dark counsels, have so long obstructed it: so go on( we most earnestly beg of thee) and let not the sins of this wretched Nation hinder thee from completing, what thou hast for thine own glory so wonderfully begun. Work powerfully upon the minds of all that are any ways concerned in the redeeming of our peace; Give them but as much honest courage to do right, as they have formerly shown in acting all those mischiefs, that have been done among us. O pled the cause of an oppressed KING; strengthen the hands and hearts of all that appear for him; direct his counsels, prosper his enterprizes, make his very enemies to be at peace with him, and when thou shalt vouchsafe to us our former happiness both in Church and State, give us then thankful hearts to embrace it as a blessing from thy hands alone, who hast wrought these great wonders for us, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. A Prayer upon the Assembling of the present Parliament, April 25. 1660. O Most great, most wise, and most powerful Lord God, in whose hands are the hearts of all men, and turnest them as thou dost the rivers of waters. show thy power and come among us, and be present at this great meeting, when after so many years of confusion, there's once more a consultation had to settle this distracted Church and Nation; and as there is nothing hide from thee, who seest the very thoughts and ends, and divided interests of them that meet together; so there is nothing so impossible to thee, but that thou canst by the hidden workings of thy Providence unite what thou findest divided, and oversway every counsel and design, and every imagination that shall set itself against thee. Let there be no root of bitterness among them which are entrusted in this great work, no thoughts of revenge; No Ambition of making themselves great; no particular or separate interest of their own; but instead of these, give them bowels of compassion towards their bleeding and expiring Country; strike a sense into them of the blood already shed, and the desolation yet to come, if they prevent it not. And let thy fear run through all their consultations, that remembering the sad account, which in the last great day will be required of them, they may unanimously set themselves to find out those blessed expedients as may restore the voice of joy and peace into our dwellings, in such a way as may be most for the glory of thy great Name, the righting of those that are oppressed, and the settling of the happiness of this Church and Nation, upon the right basis of that former government, from which it hath stood so long, so unhappily divided. And this as being neither impossible to thy Power, nor unusual to thy Mercy, we most humbly beg for his sake, to whom thou canst deny nothing, even Jesus Christ the righteous, Amen. A thank●giving for his plaintiffs safe arrival and return to his kingdom. May 25. 1660. GLory be to God on high on earth, peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, wee worship thee, We glorify thee; and at this time, in a more especial manner, with the highest expressions of our devoutest hearts. We most humbly give thanks unto thee, For that thou hast been pleased out of thine infinite goodness, mercifully to look down upon the late low estate of our gracious sovereign. That thou hast brought him from so much scornful neglect, in so most unjust, so tedious a banishment, to appear now so terrible unto his enemies, both at home and abroad, that thou hast blessed him through the sole strength of thine own arm, by thine own way, and at thine own time, so much beyond the hopes and expect●tion of Man, with so signal, ●nd with so dry & bloodless a victory. O Lord God, heavenly King. God the father Almighty; O Lord the onely begotten Son Jesus Christ; As thou hast thus begun with thy wonderful providence to shower down thy blessings upon the head of the King, and upon the hearts of his subjects, so continue these thy favours to him and us; and perfect we beseech thee, that glorious work, which none but thine own strength can finish, the establishment of the throne in righteousness, the settlement of the Church in purity, and the uniting of these kingdoms in a well grounded and lasting peace. And to that end, thou that takest a way the sins of the world take away for ever, from this sinful land and Nation, the foul sin of rebellion, together with its monstrous offspring, the crying sins of sacrilege, of perjury and hypocrisy. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, smite through the l●ynes of those sons of Belial, who oppose the peace of Jerusalem, and that have evil will at●●ion. Lord m●ke the enemies of our gracious sovereign to fall down before h m like Dagon before the Ark. That they may neither have heads to plot, nor hands to put in practise any mischievous design against him. So shall we still bless and magnify thy Name, in the midst of the great Congregation; so shall we thy servants never cease to be still praising thee, and saying, Thou onely art holy, thou onely art the Lord, thou onely O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high, in the glory of God the Father. To thee be all praise, and honour, and glory, ascribed, world without end, Amen. 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