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<P>PRAYERS OF Interce&s;&s;ion FOR THEIR U&s;e who Mourn in Secret, FOR THE Publick Calamities OF THIS NATION.</P>
<P>WITH An Anniver&s;ary Prayer for the 30th of January.</P>
<P>Very Nece&s;&s;ary and U&s;eful in Private Fa|milies, as well as in Congregations. By <HI>Jo. Huit,</HI> D. D.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Year 1659.</P>
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<HEAD>Prayers of Interce&s;&s;ion for their U&s;e who Mourn in Secret for the Publick Cala|mities of this Nation.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>A Preparatory Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>_O Lord, I find in that Book of thine which can|not deceive me; that the oftner thy Servant <HI>Abraham</HI> prayed to thee, the more he got ground upon thee, and came at la&s;t to that holy Confidence, as not only to pray to thee for him&s;elf; but to be importunate, and pre&s;s thee in the behalf of others.</P>
<P>Lord, I confe&s;s my Ca&s;e is different; for <HI>Abraham</HI> 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 &s;uch, that (unle&s;s thy Mercy interveen) may make thee look upon me as thine Enemy. He prayed unto thee for a People, of who&s;e Sins he was no Partaker; But my Addre&s;s is to thee, for them, in who&s;e Iniquities I am involved, and have &s;ome way or other deeply contributed to the ha&s;t|ning and bringing down tho&s;e terrible Judgments of thine, which now lye &s;o heavy upon us: So that alas! I am unworthy to appear before thee, for my &s;elf; and how &s;hall I dare to &s;upplicate thee for others.</P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="3">O that there were a <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> to &s;tand in the Gap to turn away thy wrathful Indignation from us! O that there were a <HI>David!</HI> a <HI>Daniel!</HI> or a <HI>Jeremiah!</HI> to pour out their Souls before thee: yet hear me, O my God; for though the&s;e holy Saints of thine have now no being upon Earth; yet their Prayers remain upon Record, for every Soul that mourns in &s;ecret to make u&s;e of.</P>
<P><HI>O Holy and Ble&s;&s;ed Spirit! kindle but the &s;ame fervency in my Heart (while I repeat their Words) as was in them, and I know I &s;hall be heard.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>King <HI>David</HI>'s Prayers for the Church and People.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Fir&s;t Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O God! wherefore art thou ab&s;ent from us &s;o long? or, why is thy Wrath &s;o hot again&s;t the Sheep of thy Pa&s;ture?</P>
<P>O think upon thine Inheritance, whom thou ha&s;t purcha&s;ed, and redeemed of old!</P>
<P>Lift up thy Feet, that thou maye&s;t utterly de&s;troy every Enemy that hath done evil in thy Sanctuary.</P>
<P>For behold! they break down all the carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers.</P>
<P>Yea, they have &s;aid in their Hearts, let us make ha|vock of them altogether: and thus have they de&s;igned to ruine all the Hou&s;es of God in the Land.</P>
<P>But, O God! how long &s;hall the Adver&s;ary do this Di&s;honour? How long &s;hall the Enemy bla&s;pheme thy Name? for ever.</P>
<P>Ari&s;e, O God! maintain thine own Cau&s;e, remember how the fooli&s;h Man bla&s;phemeth thee daily.</P>
<P>But O deliver not the Soul of thy Turtle Dove into their hands; for the Pre&s;umption of them that hate thee, encrea&s;eth more and more.</P>
<Q><L>O God make &s;peed to &s;ave us.</L>
<L>O Lord make ha&s;te to help us.</L></Q>
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<HEAD>The Second Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord God of Ho&s;ts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy People that prayeth?</P>
<P>How long wilt thou feed us with the Bread of Tears, and give us Plenteou&s;ne&s;s of Tears to drink?</P>
<P>O turn us again; thou God of Ho&s;ts! &s;hew us the Light of thy Countenance, and we &s;hall be whole.</P>
<P>Remember that thou didde&s;t once plant a Vine among us, and when it had taken root, it filled the Land.</P>
<P>Our Hills were covered with the Shadow of it, and the Boughs were like the goodly Cedar Trees.</P>
<P>But now thou ha&s;t broken down her hedge, &s;o that all they that go by, pluck off her Grapes.</P>
<P>The wild Bore of the Wood doth root it up; and the Bea&s;ts of the Field devour it.</P>
<P>Yet turn us again, O Lord God of Ho&s;ts, &s;hew us the Light of thy Countenance, and we &s;hall be whole.</P>
<P>For we will not go back from thee: O let us live, and we &s;hall call upon thy Name.</P>
<Q><L>O God make &s;peed to &s;ave us.</L>
<L>O Lord make ha&s;t to help us.</L></Q>
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<HEAD>The Third Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>HOld not thy tongue, O God, keep not &s;till &s;ilence, refrain not thy &s;elf, O God.</P>
<P>For lo thine Enemies make a murmuring; and they that hate thee, have lifted up their Head.</P>
<P>They have imagined craftily again&s;t thy People, and have taken coun&s;el again&s;t thy &s;acred Ones.</P>
<P>Behold! they have ca&s;t their Heads together with one con&s;ent, and are confederate again&s;t thee.</P>
<P>They have &s;aid, come and let us root them out, that they may be no more a People, and that their Name may be no more in remembrance.</P>
<P>They come daily round about us like Water; and com|pa&s;s us together on every &s;ide.</P>
<P>But, O my God! make them like unto a Wheel; and as the &s;tubble before the Wind.</P>
<P><PB N="6" REF="4">Who &s;ay, let us take unto our &s;elves the Hou&s;es of God in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>O make their faces a&s;hamed! O Lord, that they may &s;eek thy Name.</P>
<Q><L>O God make &s;peed to &s;ave us.</L>
<L>O Lord make ha&s;te to help us.</L></Q>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>The Fourth Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O God thou ha&s;t ca&s;t us out, and &s;cattered us abroad; thou ha&s;t been di&s;plea&s;ed at us: O turn thee unto us again.</P>
<P>Thou ha&s;t moved the Land, and divided it, O heal the Sores thereof; for it &s;haketh.</P>
<P>Thou ha&s;t &s;hewn thy People heavy things, and given us a drink of deadly Wine.</P>
<P>Thou ha&s;t made us turn our backs upon our Enemies, &s;o that they which hate us, &s;poil our goods.</P>
<P>Thou make&s;t us to be rebuked of our Neighbours, to be laughed to &s;corn, and to be had in deri&s;ion of them that are round about us.</P>
<P>But though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor behave our &s;elves frowardly in thy Co|venant.</P>
<P>Our Heart is not turned back; nor our &s;teps gone out of thy way.</P>
<P>No not when thou ha&s;t &s;mitten us into the Place of Dragons; and covered us with the &s;hadow of death.</P>
<P>Up Lord! why &s;leepe&s;t thou? awake, and be not ab|&s;ent from us for ever.</P>
<P>But, O! wherefore hide&s;t thou thy face? and forget|te&s;t our mi&s;ery and trouble.</P>
<P>For our Soul is brought low, even unto the du&s;t; and our belly cleaveth to the grave.</P>
<P>Ari&s;e, help us and deliver us for thy mercy &s;ake.</P>
<Q><L>O God make &s;peed to &s;ave us.</L>
<L>O Lord make ha&s;t to help us.</L></Q>
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<HEAD>King <HI>David</HI>'s Tears.</HEAD>
<P>O My God why ha&s;t thou for&s;aken thine anointed and art di&s;plea&s;ed with him?</P>
<P>For lo! thou ha&s;t broken the Covenant of thy Servant, and ca&s;t his Crown to the ground.</P>
<P>Thou ha&s;t overthrown all his hedges, and broken down his &s;trong holds.</P>
<P>So that all they that go by &s;poil him; and he is be|come a Rebuke to his Neighbours.</P>
<P>For thou ha&s;t &s;et up the right hand of his Enemies, and made all his Adver&s;aries to rejoyce.</P>
<P>Thou ha&s;t put out his Glory, and ca&s;t his Throne down to the Ground.</P>
<P>The Days of his Youth ha&s;t thou &s;ea&s;oned with bitter|ne&s;s, and covered him with di&s;honour.</P>
<P>But Lord, how long wilt thou hide thy &s;elf for ever? And &s;hall thy Wrath &s;till burn like Fire.</P>
<P>Remember, O Lord, the rebuke that thy Servant hath; and how he doth bear in his Bo&s;om the rebukes of ma|ny People?</P>
<P>And let his Adver&s;aries be cloathed with &s;hame: But upon his Head let his Crown flouri&s;h.</P>
<P>O help him again&s;t his Enemies! for Vain is the help of Man.</P>
<Q><L>O God make &s;peed to &s;ave him.</L>
<L>O Lord make ha&s;t to help him.</L></Q>
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<HEAD><HI>Jeremiah</HI>'s Lamentations Prophetical of the&s;e times.</HEAD>
<P>HOW hath the Lord covered us with a Cloud in his Anger? And ca&s;t down from Heaven unto the Earth, the beauty of our I&s;rael; and remembered not his Foot-&s;tool in the Day of his Wrath?</P>
<P>For lo! he hath bent his Bow as an Enemy; he hath &s;wallowed us up, and hath not pitied; he hath made de|&s;olate the Kingdom, and the Princes thereof.</P>
<P>He hath ca&s;t off his Altars, and abhorred his Sanctu|ary; and hath given into the Hands of the Enemies, the Walls of his Pillars.</P>
<P><PB N="8" REF="5">He hath cau&s;ed our &s;olemn Fea&s;ts, and Sabbaths to be forgotten; and hath de&s;pi&s;ed in his Indignation the King and the Prie&s;t.</P>
<P>For the Lord hath now accompli&s;hed his fury, he hath poured out his fierce anger; he hath kindled &s;uch a fire in Sion, as hath devoured the Palaces thereof.</P>
<P>For the Sins of the Prophets, and the Iniquity of the Prie&s;ts who have &s;hed the Blood of the Ju&s;t in the mid&s;t of her.</P>
<P>For the Breath of our No&s;trils, the anointed of the Lord, hath been taken in their Pits; of whom we &s;aid, under his &s;hadow we &s;hall live in Peace.</P>
<P>But we have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed, and have rebelled, and thou ha&s;t not pardoned.</P>
<P>And therefore our Eyes have as yet failed us in our vain help: for in our watching we have watched for a Nation, that could not &s;ave us.</P>
<P>Behold, O Lord, and con&s;ider to whom thou ha&s;t done this?</P>
<P>O Lord, thou ha&s;t &s;een his wrong; judge thou his Cau&s;e.</P>
<P>Thou ha&s;t &s;een all their vengeance, and all their ima|ginations again&s;t him.</P>
<P>Thou ha&s;t heard their Reproach, O Lord! and all their imaginations again&s;t him.</P>
<P>The Lips of tho&s;e that are ri&s;en up again&s;t him, and their devices again&s;t him all the Day.</P>
<Q><L>O God make &s;peed to &s;ave him.</L>
<L>O Lord make ha&s;te to help him.</L></Q>
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<HEAD>The Second Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>REmember, O Lord, what is come upon us? con|&s;ider and behold our reproach.</P>
<P>For our Inheritance is turned unto Strangers; our Hou&s;es to Aliens; our Necks are under Per&s;ecution; we labour and have no re&s;t.</P>
<P>Our Fathers have &s;inned, and are not; we have born our Iniquities.</P>
<P>The Servants rule over us; and there is none to deli|ver us out of their hands.</P>
<P><PB N="9" REF="5">Our Elders have cea&s;ed from the gate; and our young Men from their Mu&s;ick.</P>
<P>The Joy of our heart is cea&s;ed, our dance is turned into mourning.</P>
<P>For the Crown is fallen from our Head; and wo unto us that we have &s;inned.</P>
<P>For this our Heart is faint, for the&s;e Things our eyes are dim.</P>
<P>But wherefore doe&s;t thou forget us for ever? and for|&s;ake&s;t us &s;o long time.</P>
<P>O turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we &s;hall be turned; renew our Days as of old.</P>
<P>And do not utterly reject us; be not for ever wrath again&s;t us.</P>
<Q><L>O God make &s;peed to &s;ave us.</L>
<L>O Lord make ha&s;te to help us.</L></Q>
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<HEAD><HI>Daniel</HI>'s Prayer and Confe&s;&s;ion, in the behalf of him&s;elf and his People.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord, the great and dreadful God! we have &s;inned and done wickedly; and have rebelled, even by de|parting from thy Precepts, and from thy Judgments.</P>
<P>Neither have we hearkned to thy Servants the Prophets, which &s;pake in thy name to our Kings, our Princes, and our Fathers, and all the People of this Land.</P>
<P>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs unto thee, but unto us Confu&s;ion of face as at this day; unto all that are near and far off through all the Countries, whether thou ha&s;t driven them, becau&s;e of the tre&s;pa&s;s that they have tre&s;|pa&s;&s;ed again&s;t thee.</P>
<P>For we have not obeyed the Voice of the Lord our God, and therefore the Cur&s;e is poured out upon us.</P>
<P>Even &s;uch a Cur&s;e, as that under the whole Heaven hath not been done to us.</P>
<P>But now, O Lord our God, according to all thy Righteou&s;ne&s;s; I be&s;eech thee, let thine anger, and thy fury be turned away from us.</P>
<P>Hear the Prayer of thy Servant, and cau&s;e thy face to &s;hine upon thy Sanctuary, which is now de&s;olate.</P>
<P>O my God, encline thine ear, and hear, open thine eyes, and behold our De&s;olation.</P>
<P><PB N="10" REF="6">For I do not pre&s;ent the&s;e Supplications before thee for mine own Righteou&s;ne&s;s, but for thy great Mercies.</P>
<P>O Lord hear, O Lord forgive, O Lord do, delay not, for thine own &s;ake, O my God, and for thy Peoples &s;ake that are called by thy Name.</P>
<Q><L>O God make &s;peed to &s;ave us.</L>
<L>O Lord make ha&s;te to help us.</L></Q>
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<HEAD>Prayers for the KING.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub"><HI>The Fir&s;t Prayer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>LOrd, remember our di&s;tre&s;&s;ed King and all his troubles. Let thy hand hold him fa&s;t, and thine arm &s;treng|then him.</P>
<P>Let not the Enemy be able to do him violence, or the Son of Wickedne&s;s hurt him.</P>
<P>Let thy Truth and Mercy be ever with him, and in thy Name let his Throne be exalted.</P>
<P>O be thou his Father, his God, and his &s;trong Salvation.</P>
<P>And let him be as thy fir&s;t born, and glorious among the Kings of the Earth.</P>
<Q><L>O God make &s;peed to &s;ave him.</L>
<L>O Lord make ha&s;te to help him.</L></Q>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>The Second Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t Powerful Lord God, the only Di&s;po&s;er of all the Kings and Kingdoms on the Earth, who for the Puni&s;hment of the crying Sins of this Nation, ha&s;t extingui&s;hed our Glory, and ca&s;t the Throne down to the ground: Give us not over utterly to Ruin and Con|fu&s;ion, but bring back yet in thy good time the Heir of the&s;e Kingdoms, like the Sun with healing in his Wings, to repair the Breaches already made, and prevent the De&s;olations that threaten us.</P>
<P>And however thou ha&s;t been plea&s;ed to ca&s;t a Cloud upon him in the morning of his Days, yet leave him not in this Storm; for&s;ake him not, thou that art the God of his Salvation, but look upon his Wrongs and have com|pa&s;&s;ion on his Innocency and Suffering.</P>
<P>O let it never be in the Power of Man to bar him from the Throne, to which by his Birth thou ha&s;t de&s;igned
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him; but guide him with tho&s;e Councils, and pro&s;per him with that Succe&s;s, as may &s;ettle him in his Throne in Peace.</P>
<P>Or if the Guilt and Wickedne&s;s of his Oppo&s;ers &s;hall &s;till continue to hinder this, do it after thine own way, O God with thy mighty Hand and &s;tretched out Arm, that they may both know and feel that Thou art the Protector of Kings, and the Refuge of them who have no other Tru&s;t but in Thee, grant this, O God, for the Glory of thy Name, and the Comfort of thy de&s;olate Church and People, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>The Third Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t Merciful God, the only Sanctuary of &s;ad and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Souls, look down, I be&s;eech thee upon thy Servant, who here with bended Knees and a wounded Spirit pro&s;trate my &s;elf before thee; for wo unto us, we have lived to &s;ee the Crown fallen from our Heads, and the Glory departed from our <HI>I&s;rael;</HI> even the anointed of the Lord driven to fly before wicked Men, and they who have divided his Inheritance, triumphing over him.</P>
<P>But thou, O Lord, how long &s;hall bloody De&s;igns and Rebellious Imaginations pro&s;per? Shall not the Judge of the whole Earth do right? Or ha&s;t thou forgot to be gracious? and &s;hut up thy tender Mercy in Di&s;plea&s;ure?</P>
<P>O no, thou art the &s;ame God, who in the mid&s;t of Judgment remembreth Mercy; Thine Arm is not &s;hort|ned, that thou can&s;t not &s;ave; nor thine Ears heavy that thou can&s;t not hear. Ari&s;e thou, O God, ari&s;e; let the World &s;ee that thou art the Father of the Fatherle&s;s, and Helper of them to right that &s;uffer wrong. Shew it, O Lord, e&s;pecially at this time in multiplying all thy Com|forts on our di&s;tre&s;&s;ed King. And as thou ha&s;t &s;trangely and wonderfully delivered him from tho&s;e, who &s;o eagerly hunted after his Life, &s;o let it appear to the World, that thou ha&s;t not done this to make him the more mi&s;erable, or to continue him in the condition of an Exile; but ra|ther, that thou ha&s;t re&s;erved him for faithfuller Hands and fairer Opportunities, and more pro&s;perous Succe&s;&s;es: And though this were not the time, nor this the means, by which thou had&s;t de&s;igned to re&s;tore the Kingdom to him; yet that thou ha&s;t not yet for&s;aken him, but that
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he is &s;till in thy Care, &s;till under the Shadow of thy Wings, who alone art able to do more for him than we can pray for; and gloriou&s;ly to bring him back again by ways we cannot think of. In the mean time, O Lord, whil&s;t thou thinke&s;t fit to keep him under the &s;harpne&s;s of this Di&s;cipline, teach him to ki&s;s the Hand that cha&s;tens him, and humbly to &s;ubmit his Earthly Crown to thy divine Will and Plea&s;ure; as knowing that thou can&s;t, either re&s;tore him that (when it &s;eems good to thee) or give a Crown infinitely more glorious, which no Man can take from him.</P>
<P>Lord, he is more precious to thee, than he can be po&s;|&s;ibly to us; di&s;po&s;e of him therefore, in the Multitude of thy Mercies; and let thy holy Spirit take &s;o full Po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion of him and Guidance, that among all the Diffi|culties of his mo&s;t perplexed Affairs, he may con&s;tantly continue his Duty towards thee, and live and dye thy faithful Servant in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="litany">
<HEAD><HI>A</HI> LITANY <HI>of Interce&s;&s;ion.</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD TYPE="sub">Preparatory Ejaculations to precede the <HI>LITANY.</HI></HEAD>
<P>O That thou woulde&s;t hear me, O God! that thou woulde&s;t &s;o prepare my Heart, that thou maye&s;t hear me!</P>
<P>That thou woulde&s;t hear me yet once more, though I am but Du&s;t and A&s;hes!</P>
<P>That thou woulde&s;t hear me for all tho&s;e, whom by the bonds of Duty, of Charity or Affection, I am bound to pray for.</P>
<Q><L>O Lord, hear my Prayers.</L>
<L>And let my Cry come unto thee</L></Q>
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<HEAD>The <HI>LITANY.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat it may plea&s;e thee, O God, to ble&s;s the whole Catholick-Church of thy Son Chri&s;t; and as it hath been planted in his Death, and watered with his Blood; &s;o it may be &s;till nouri&s;hed by his Sacraments,
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and governed by his Word; that the Uncharitablene&s;s of Men may not make the Rents and Divi&s;ions of it wider, and that how&s;oever we may differ in the Super&s;tructions, the Foundation of Chri&s;tian Faith may never be ca&s;t down.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee, to look compa&s;&s;ionately on this per&s;ecuted Part of thy Church, now driven from thy publick Altars, into Corners and &s;ecret Clo&s;ets; that thy Protection may be over us, where-ever we &s;hall be &s;cat|tered, and a Remnant pre&s;erved among&s;t us, by whom thy Name may be glorified, and thy Sacraments admini|&s;tred, and the Souls of thy Servants kept up upright, in the mid&s;t of a corrupting and of a corrupted Generation.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to be gracious to Him, who was once de&s;igned by thee to be the Nur&s;ing Father of this thy Church; but for the Sins both of Prie&s;ts and Peo|ple, is now ca&s;t out, as an unprofitable Branch; and that in thy due time, thou would&s;t deal with him according to the Innocency of his Per&s;on, and Ju&s;tice of his Cau&s;e.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to comfort him in the &s;adne&s;s of his Spirit, and guide him in the Perplexities of his Mind, and &s;upport him in &s;treights and nece&s;&s;ities of his Fortunes: To rai&s;e him Friends abroad, to convert or confound the Hearts of his Enemies at home; To do &s;ome mighty Thing for him, which I in particular know not how to pray for; and by the &s;ecret Windings and powerful workings of thy Providence, to make the Stone, which the&s;e fooli&s;h Builders have refu&s;ed, the head &s;tone of the corner.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to pre&s;erve him with an un|&s;potted Soul, and an un&s;haken Faith, and that no Splen|dor of any Earthly Crown may &s;o dazzle him, as to make him forget either him&s;elf or thee; or to do any unworthy thing to lo&s;e that Heavenly Crown, which thou ha&s;t prepared for him, and nothing but his Sins is able to keep from him.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P><PB N="14" REF="8">That it may plea&s;e thee to &s;hew mercy to the Queen, his Mother, the Dukes his Brethren in exile with him, and the re&s;t of that &s;cattered and oppre&s;&s;ed Family; to guide them with thy Coun&s;els, to defend them by thy Power, to provide for them in thy mercy; and to make them in their &s;everal ways In&s;truments of thy Glory, and our Happine&s;s.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to deal graciou&s;ly with that Remnant of the loyal Nobility, and all others of that rui|ned Side; who have cho&s;en rather to &s;uffer in thy Cau&s;e, than to participate with the Sins of a more &s;ucce&s;sful Party.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to &s;pread the wings of thy Protection over all tho&s;e, whom thou ha&s;t made near or dear unto me, to pre&s;erve them &s;afe in Body and Soul, from the Snares of their Enemies, and the Iniquities of the times, that no Sin may lay wa&s;te their Con&s;ciences, nor Evil come near their Dwellings.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to recompence all tho&s;e whom thou ha&s;t rai&s;ed to be In&s;truments of any good to me; &s;uch as have taken care of my Soul, and in&s;tructed me in the way to Heaven; &s;uch as have coun&s;elled me when I have gone a&s;tray; &s;upplyed me in my wants, comforted me in my heavine&s;s, and have had that high Charity for me, as to reprove me when I have &s;inned.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to let the Day &s;pring from on high &s;hine upon all tho&s;e that &s;it in Darkne&s;s, and in the &s;hadow of Death; who either do not know thy Name; or knowing it are carried by &s;trong Delu&s;ions into the ways of Error and fal&s;e Per&s;wa&s;ion.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to confirm tho&s;e, who as yet &s;tand fa&s;t on the Foundations of thy holy Truth; that neither the Per&s;ecution of the Church, in which they were baptized; nor the Tentations of the Times, nor the
<PB N="15" REF="8">
Snares of cunning Men, who watch all advantages, may make them fall from their fir&s;t Faith, and mi&s;erably wan|der after their own Imaginations.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to comfort and rai&s;e up tho&s;e weak and dejected Spirits, which are ready to &s;ink un|der the burden of a troubled or affrighted Con&s;cience; that as thou ha&s;t &s;hewed them their Sins, and the Pu|ni&s;hments due for them; &s;o thou woulde&s;t &s;hew them their Saviour, and by directing them, to lay hold upon his Cro&s;s; keep them from a final and everla&s;ting Ship|wrack.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to hear the Groans and Cries of all that are afflicted, either outwardly or inwardly; in Body or Soul; e&s;pecially &s;uch who being oppre&s;&s;ed for Con&s;cience &s;ake, have no Place to fly unto, nor no Man careth for their Souls.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to li&s;ten compa&s;&s;ionately to the deep &s;ighing of the Pri&s;oners, and by thy mighty Power, to deliver &s;uch, who for obeying thee and a good Con|&s;cience, are or &s;hall be de&s;igned to Death or Ruin.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to &s;often the Hearts of all un|righteous Judges, who now have the Power over us; and to make them know with trembling, that there is a Judge higher than they.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to forgive all who more par|ticularly are Enemies to me or mine; all that have any way traduced or &s;landered me; even to turn their hearts, and to extend thy Charity to them in all tho&s;e degrees of mercy, which I de&s;ire may be &s;hown to my own Soul.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>That it may plea&s;e thee to hear all tho&s;e Servants of thine, who either have the Charity to pray for me, or de&s;ire my Prayers for them; but above all, that it may
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plea&s;e thee to hear the Prayers of thy Son Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who now &s;its gloriou&s;ly on thy right hand, to intercede both for me and them.</P>
<Q>O hear me for thy Son Je&s;us &s;ake.</Q>
<P>O Lord, hear my Prayers, and let my Cry come unto thee.</P>
<P><HI>O Lord, Pardon my Prayer, and let not my Sins, and my Unworthine&s;s interpo&s;e between thy Mercy-&s;eat and me,</HI> Amen, Amen.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for the Church.</HEAD>
<P>ALmighty and Everla&s;ting God; who only worke&s;t great marvels, &s;hew the Riches of thy Goodne&s;s to thy de&s;olate and per&s;ecuted Church, that now &s;its mour|ning in her own Du&s;t and Ruins; torn by Schi&s;m, and &s;tripped and &s;poiled by Sacrilege. And thou, who after long Captivity did&s;t bring back thy People to rebuild their Temple, look upon us with the &s;ame Eyes of mercy.</P>
<P>Re&s;tore us once again the publick Wor&s;hip of thy Name, the reverent Admini&s;trations of thy Sacraments; rai&s;e up the former Government both in Church and State, that we may no longer be without King, without Prie&s;t, with|out God in the World; but may once more enter into thy Courts with Prai&s;e, and &s;erve thee with that Reve|rence, that Unity and Order, as may be acceptable in thy Sight, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for the Queen Mother, and the Royal Progeny.</HEAD>
<P>ALmighty God, the Fountain of all Goodne&s;s, we humbly be&s;eech thee to be gracious to the Queen Mother, to comfort her in her &s;ad Afflictions, and to direct her Ways and Coun&s;els, as may conduce to the &s;et|ling of her Po&s;terity here in Peace; enlarge thy Ble&s;&s;ings on all the Branches of the Royal Family: Tho&s;e that are driven to fly for Refuge into Foreign Parts, take them all into thy Care; cover them under thy Wings, and in thy due time make them &s;o many In&s;truments of thy Glory, and our Happine&s;s, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="17" REF="9">
<HEAD>A Prayer for the Afflicted.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord God, Merciful and Gracious, the only San|ctuary and Refuge for tho&s;e that are in Mi&s;ery and Trouble; hear, I be&s;eech thee, the Groans and Cries of all that are afflicted outwardly or inwardly; in Body or Mind; e&s;pecially &s;uch, who &s;uffer in a righteous Cau&s;e; who&s;e Loyalty hath been more dear unto them than their Fortunes; and a good Con&s;cience more than their Lives.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider them, O God, in their &s;everal Extremities, whether at home or abroad, comfort them in their Di|&s;tre&s;&s;es, &s;upply them in their Wants: Let the &s;orrow|ful &s;ighing of all that are oppre&s;&s;ed come before thee, and by the greatne&s;s of thy Power, pre&s;erve thou tho&s;e that are appointed to dye.</P>
<P>Convert and &s;often the hard Hearts of their impla|cable Enemies, and a&s;&s;wage their thir&s;t of Blood, which &s;till cries more and more; or if thou otherwi&s;e ha&s;t de|creed to bring any more of us thro' the red Sea, into the Land of Promi&s;e, prepare us for this Pa&s;&s;age, and guide us by thy Ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, thro' the Shadows of Death, continue our Chri&s;tian Courage and Con&s;tancy to the utmo&s;t; &s;trengthen our Faith, confirm our Hope, and let our Charity overflow even to the forgiving of them, by who&s;e unju&s;t Sentence we peri&s;h; that &s;o dy|ing in thy Peace, we may enter into the Joys prepa|red for us, thro' the Mediation of our Saviour, who hath gone the &s;ame way before us, even Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Righteous, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayers from Scripture">
<Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;alm</HI> 10. <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 1.</BIBL>
<P>Why &s;tande&s;t thou &s;o far off, O Lord; and hide&s;t thy Face in the needful Time of Trouble?</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;alm</HI> 8. <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 1, 2, 3.</BIBL>
<P>Lord, how are they increa&s;ed that trouble us, many are they that ri&s;e up again&s;t us, many there be that &s;ay of our Souls, there is no Help for them in their God.</P>
<P>But thou, O Lord, art our Defender, thou art our Wor&s;hip, and the Lifter up of our Head.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Jeremiah</HI> 10. <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 24.</BIBL>
<P>Correct us, O Lord, and yet in thy Judgment, not in thy Fury, le&s;t we &s;hould be con&s;umed and brought to nothing.</P></Q>
<PB N="18" REF="10">
<Q><BIBL><HI>P&s;alm</HI> 130. <HI>Ver&s;e</HI> 3.</BIBL>
<P>If thou wilt be extreme to mark what is done ami&s;s; O Lord! who may abide it?</P></Q>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O Thou mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed Judge Eternal! We the un|worthie&s;t and &s;infulle&s;t of all the Children of Men, that have &s;o long abu&s;ed and prophaned thy Mer|cies, provoked thy Judgments, un&s;heathed thy glitter|ing Sword, forced all the Arrows and Darts out of thy Quiver, and with our multiply'd, abominable crying Sins, brought down a De&s;olation on a mo&s;t plea&s;ant Land; that former delight of thine, the Glory of all Lands: We, that after thy Wrath was poured out up|on us, have yet further encrea&s;ed our Sins, as thou ha&s;t increa&s;ed the Weight and Number of thy Judgments on us, and walked mo&s;t unprofitably and obdurately under all thy Di&s;cipline and Vi&s;itations, &s;uffered all thy pre|cious Methods of reducing us, thy Admonitions and thy Stripes to be utterly lo&s;t and fru&s;tate among&s;t us: And now the Axe is laid to the Root of the Tree, and above all, the Sword of Violence died with the Blood of thine Anointed among us, and with that, all the bloody Pre&s;ages, that we cannot without Horror, but apprehend a final utter Va&s;tation threatned to a long flouri&s;hing Church and Monarchy; are yet &s;o far &s;till from bringing forth meet Fruits of Repentance, that we have not as yet attained to any degree of Sight, or Sen&s;e, or Acknowledgment of our E&s;tate; much le&s;s to a hearty Humiliation or Contrition before thee, for tho&s;e Sins that have fetch'd down this Vengeance up|on us: We do now at length, in the Bitterne&s;s of our Souls, mo&s;t heartily de&s;ire to ca&s;t down our &s;elves pro|&s;trate before thee, to put our Hands upon our Mouths, and our Mouths in the Du&s;t, and acknowledge all Ho|nour and Glory to be due to thee, what&s;oever becomes of us, tho' it be in the Shame, and Confu&s;ion, and Condemnation both of our Bodies and Souls.</P>
<P>This is our only Portion, O Lord; this is the mild|e&s;t that we have rea&s;on to expect to receive from thy
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Judgments, in Retribution to our Sins; and what&s;oe|ver is le&s;s than this, what&s;oever the Bitterne&s;s of our Cup in this Life, tho' thou &s;hould'&s;t ca&s;t us into the Place of Dragons, and give us to drink of the Wine of A&s;toni&s;hment, the mo&s;t &s;tupifying deadly Potion: If thou &s;hould'&s;t number us all to the Sword, or pour out thy Fire and Brim&s;tone upon us; yet if by this cha&s;t|ning of us here, thou plea&s;e to re&s;cue us from that &s;adder Doom of being condemned with the World; this is a mo&s;t ine&s;timable Mercy of thine, beyond all that we have hitherto &s;o unworthily enjoyed. O Lord, we de&s;ire and profe&s;s to acquit thy Ju&s;tice in thy Pro|ceedings, to admire thy Patience and Long-&s;uffering, to adore the infinite Bounty of thy Goodne&s;s towards us, that we have not been as <HI>Admah</HI> and <HI>Zeboim,</HI> as <HI>Sodom</HI> and <HI>Gomorrah!</HI> that we have had this Day the Liberty to approach unto thee: O Lord, if it may at length be thy good Plea&s;ure to come home to every of our Souls, to &s;trike our Hearts, to break up this fallow Ground of ours; that all thy precious Seed be no longer &s;o ca&s;t away among Thorns, and by the Power of thy mighty controuling Spirit, that thou wilt once &s;ubdue all the Re&s;i&s;tances of our Spirits, again&s;t this mo&s;t ju&s;t, mo&s;t holy, mo&s;t rea&s;onable Motion of Humiliation within us; O Lord, this is the one earne&s;t de&s;ire of our Souls, that hath ca&s;t us this Day low before thy Foot&s;tool, with Cries and Tears, and earne&s;t Groans; that thou wilt have mercy upon us, that thou wilt thus power|fully reveal thy &s;elf unto us, who ha&s;t thus long &s;mit|ten and importunately called unto us; that being at la&s;t returned unto thee, in Confe&s;&s;ion of our Sins and Confu&s;ion of Face, we may be capable of thy Return to us, of the further Impre&s;&s;ions of thy Grace; and never more contradict, quench, or grieve that Holy Spirit of thine, which hath &s;o long wre&s;tled and con|tended with us; That &s;o at length, it may be &s;ea|&s;onable with thee to give us the Comfort of thy Help again; and the Confidence to approach thy Pre|&s;ence, to prai&s;e that Maje&s;ty, that hath not ca&s;t out our Prayers, nor turned his Mercy from us: <HI>To whom we de&s;ire to a&s;cribe all Honour, and Glory, and Power, and Prai&s;e, now and for ever,</HI> Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="20" REF="11">
<HEAD>A Confe&s;&s;ion of Sins.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord, great and wonderful God, keeping Cove|nant and Mercy to them that love thee, and to them that keep thy Commandments: We have &s;inned with our Forefathers; We, our Kings, our Prie&s;ts, and our Nobles, and all the People of the Land, and have rebelled even by departing from thy Precepts and thy Judgments.</P>
<P>By our impious and godle&s;s Thoughts of thee, our Confidence in the Arm of Fle&s;h, by placing our Affe|ctions too much upon earthly things, by neglecting to love and delight in thee, by pre&s;uming of thy Mer|cies; and yet continuing in our Sins, we have provo|ked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By our want of Reverence to thy Service, not con|&s;idering the Awfulne&s;s of thy Pre&s;ence, and the Ho|nour due to thee in thy Hou&s;e, by our formal and hy|pocritical Wor&s;hip, by open Prophanation and Sacri|lege; by &s;hews and pretences of Piety, to cover our worldly and wicked De&s;igns; we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By vain and ra&s;h Oaths, Bla&s;phemies and Perjuries; e&s;pecially, our carele&s;s Breaches of Oaths, made to our Sovereign, forgetting that &s;uch are the Oaths of God; and that thou thy &s;elf in a more e&s;pecial man|ner, art a &s;trict Avenger of them by our Execrations of our Selves and Brethren, and our Enemies; we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By our undervaluing thy publick Service, and ne|glecting to bear a Part in it, by mi&s;pending of that time, either there or el&s;ewhere, in wanton or worldly
<PB N="21" REF="11">
Thoughts and Employments, and not keeping the Spi|ritual Sabbath unto thee, in &s;erving thee truly all the Days of our Life, [By not duly ob&s;erving the Times of Fe&s;tivity or Fa&s;ting, appointed by ju&s;t Authority, according to the Example of thy People in all Ages] we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By not duly acknowledging thine Ordinance and Au|thority, or the Per&s;ons of our Superiors, by &s;peaking evil of Dignities, and reviling the Rulers of thy Peo|ple, by groundle&s;s Jealou&s;ies and Su&s;picions, and mi&s;|judging and cen&s;uring their Actions, and at la&s;t pro|ceeding to that highe&s;t and mo&s;t horrible Pitch of Violation of that Image of thine imprinted on them, by being as a People that &s;trive with their Prie&s;t, by not obeying tho&s;e that have Rule over us, and not &s;ub|mitting our &s;elves to them, who by Appointment watch over our Souls, by neglecting the Care of tho&s;e com|mitted to our Charge, not correcting tho&s;e Sins, which cried loud for exemplary Puni&s;hment; we have pro|voked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By ra&s;h Anger and Malice, Hatred and Revenge, and the bloody Effects thereof; by uncharitable Con|tentions and Divi&s;ions, Factions and Animo&s;ities, by Cruelties, Unmercifulne&s;s, and communicating in the Sins of Blood; we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By the manifold Sins of Uncleanne&s;s, by &s;eeking or not avoiding the occa&s;ions thereof, by Idlene&s;s, Intem|perance and Drunkenne&s;s, by immode&s;t Words and Ge|&s;tures, by our &s;hamele&s;s boa&s;ting or not blu&s;hing at tho&s;e Sins, we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P><PB N="22" REF="12">By Theft, Rapines, and Oppre&s;&s;ion; by vexatious Suits &s;o much practi&s;ed and countenanced; by Exactions, by unju&s;t Gains in bargaining, by defrauding the La|bourer of his Hire, by want of due Care in expending what we have, and a good Con&s;cience in acquiring more, we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By Lying, Detraction, and contumely by cen&s;uring and ra&s;h Judgments, by fal&s;e Witne&s;s, and perverting the cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice, we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By De&s;ire of Change and Uncontentedne&s;s in our E|&s;tates, by giving our &s;elves over to lu&s;tful, covetous and inordinate Affections, by de&s;ire of Peace, not &s;o much for thine own Honour, or the publick Good, as the Sa|tisfaction of our own private Lu&s;ts, by neglecting Acts of Charity, and doing as we would be done unto, and not doing our Duty in that State of Life, unto the which it hath plea&s;ed thee to call us; we have pro|voked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By our want and neglect of tho&s;e nece&s;&s;ary Chri&s;tian Duties of Humiliation and godly Sorrow for Sins, of due Indignation and Revenge upon our &s;elves for them, of confe&s;&s;ing and for&s;aking of Re&s;titution and Satisfaction to others, and by not bringing forth Fruits worthy of Repentance; we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By Impatience under thy correcting Hand, by not en|deavouring our Amendment by it, in reflecting upon our Sins, as the Cau&s;es of it, by de&s;pi&s;ing thy Cha&s;ti&s;ements, in not rejoycing in Tribulations, and not glorifying thee
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that ha&s;t counted us worthy to &s;uffer for Righteou&s;ne&s;s &s;ake; we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By fretting our &s;elves becau&s;e of the ungodly, and being envious at the evil doers, by not loving our Enemies, not ble&s;&s;ing them that cur&s;e us, not doing good to them that hate us, not praying for tho&s;e that de&s;pite|fully u&s;e us, and per&s;ecute us; we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By pre&s;uming to do evil that good may come thereon, by placing Piety in Opinions, by &s;training at Gnats and &s;wallowing of Camels, by &s;crupling at Things indiffe|rent, and making no Con&s;cience of known Sins, we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By running into open Prophanene&s;s, under Colour of avoiding Super&s;tition; by guiding our Con&s;cience by Humours, Fancies, and not by the certain Rules of thy Law; by having itching Ears, and heaping to our &s;elves Teachers, and by having Mens Per&s;ons in Admiration becau&s;e of advantage; we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By our unreformed continuing in our former Sins, &s;ince thy heavie&s;t Judgments came out again&s;t us, our not melting, not turning to thee in Humiliation and Con|trition, and Change of Life, or not preparing to meet our God, when he is come out in Fury again&s;t us, we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee.</P>
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q>
<P>By tho&s;e open or &s;ecret, but &s;till unmortified crying Sins of a wretched People, which have &s;o enraged a long &s;uffering God, as to deliver up our Glory, the Joy
<PB N="24" REF="13">
of our Hearts, and the Breath of our No&s;trils, into the Power and Malice of bloody Men, to be a&s;&s;aulted with a Rage that reacheth up to Heaven, we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By our fatal Stupidity, under this Vengeance of thine, our Want of Zeal, of Courage, of a due Dete&s;tation of &s;o vile an Enterprize, our not confe&s;&s;ing of thee, when we have been mo&s;t &s;ignally called unto it; we have pro|voked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By bowing our Shoulders to bear, and crouching down with <HI>I&s;&s;achar</HI> under our Burthens, becau&s;e the Land is plea&s;ant, and Re&s;t &s;eemed good unto us, by not putting out our &s;elves, and re&s;toring our Soveraign; but ne|glecting that Prize, that thou wa&s;t plea&s;ed lately to put into our Hands, and for&s;aking our own Mercy; we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By our too much Formality and Coldne&s;s in our De|votion, by being wearied at the Return of our Days of Humiliation, and &s;ecretly repining at the length and frequency of our Prayers, by honouring thee with our Lips, while our Hearts have been far from thee; e&s;pe|cially, we of this Family have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>By preferring Sacrifice before Obedience, and by hold|ing fa&s;t our Iniquities, and yet thinking to be heard for our much &s;peaking; we have provoked and rebelled again&s;t thee:
<Q>O Lord, Righteou&s;ne&s;s belongs to thee, But unto us Confu&s;ion of Face, as at this Day.</Q></P>
<P>Who can tell, how oft he offendeth? O clean&s;e thou us from our &s;ecret Sins!</P>
<P><PB N="25" REF="13">Try us, O Lord God, and &s;earch the ground of our Hearts; prove and examine our Thoughts, and look well if there be any other way of Wickedne&s;s in us, and lead us in the way everla&s;ting.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O Almighty and mo&s;t Merciful Father, who art the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long &s;uffering, and abundant in Goodne&s;s and Truth, keeping Mercy for Thou&s;ands, and forgiving Iniquity, Tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ion and Sins. Look down upon us with thy com|pa&s;&s;ionate Eyes, who are here before thee in the Bitter|ne&s;s of our Souls, and do now with troubled Spirits, with broken and contrite Hearts, mo&s;t humbly beg Par|don for the&s;e Multitude of our Offences. Look, we humbly be&s;eech thee upon the Blood of thy Son, which &s;peaketh better Things than that of <HI>Abel;</HI> for his &s;ake, &s;pare us Lord, &s;pare thy People, that tho&s;e Sins ri&s;e not up again&s;t us; for his Pa&s;&s;ions &s;ake, expo&s;e us not for a Prey to their cruel Hands, who would both devour and deride us:
<Q>Spare us Lord, &s;pare thy People, for the Glory of thy Name; O deliver us, and be merciful to all the&s;e our Sins, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord, <HI>Amen.</HI></Q></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>The Ab&s;olution to be pronounced by the <HI>Prie&s;t</HI> only.</HEAD>
<P>ALmighty God, our Heavenly Father, who of his great Mercy hath promi&s;ed Forgivene&s;s of Sins to all them, that with hearty Repentance, and true Faith, turn unto him:
<Q>Have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your Sins, confirm and &s;trengthen you in all Goodne&s;s, and bring you to everla&s;ting Salvation, both of Body and Soul, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord, <HI>Amen.</HI></Q></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="26" REF="14">
<HEAD>The Lord's Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>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 tre&s;pa&s;&s;es as we forgive them that tre&s;pa&s;s again&s;t us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>O Lord, open thou our lips.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;wer.</SPEAKER>
<P>And our Mouth &s;hall &s;hew forth thy prai&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>O God make &s;peed to &s;ave us.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;wer.</SPEAKER>
<P>O Lord make ha&s;t to help us.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>An&s;wer.</SPEAKER>
<P>As it was in the beginning, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>LOok down, O Lord, in the Bowels of thy Pity, and lend a tender ear to the Voice of our Lamenta|tion, our Adver&s;aries are the chief, our Enemies pro&s;|per, for thou ha&s;t afflicted us, for the Multitude of our Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, the Crown is fallen from the Head, wo unto us, we have &s;inned!</P>
<Q>O Lord, behold our Afflictions: For the Enemy hath magnified him&s;elf.</Q>
<P><PB N="27" REF="14">The Adver&s;ary hath &s;pread out his Hand upon all our plea&s;ant things, they have entered into and prophaned thy Sanctuary, they have &s;een us low and have mocked at our Sabbaths; our &s;olemn Fea&s;ts are become their Scorn, and our Devotion their Deri&s;ion:
<Q>O Lord, behold our Afflictions; for the Enemy hath magnified him&s;elf.</Q></P>
<P>Thou art become our Enemy, thou ha&s;t de&s;troyed our &s;trong Holds, thou ha&s;t encrea&s;ed among us Mourning and Lamentation, becau&s;e thou ha&s;t de&s;pi&s;ed in the In|dignation of thine Anger, the King and the Prie&s;t.</P>
<Q>See, O Lord, and con&s;ider; for we are become very vile.</Q>
<P>The Yoak of our Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions is bound by thy hand, they are wreathed and come upon our Necks; thou ha&s;t made our Strength to fail, thou ha&s;t delivered us into their Hands, from whom we are not able to ri&s;e up: Thou ha&s;t trodden under Foot our mighty Men, in the mid&s;t of us: Thou ha&s;t called an A&s;&s;embly to cru&s;h our young Men: Thou ha&s;t trodden us as in a Wine-pre&s;s: Our Enemies hear of our Trouble, and they are glad that thou ha&s;t done it.</P>
<P>Behold, O Lord, for we are in Di&s;tre&s;s! Our Bowels are troubled, our Heart is turned within us; for we have grivou&s;ly rebelled; abroad the Sword devoureth, at home there is Death; our Enemies have opened their Mouths again&s;t us, they hi&s;s and gna&s;h their Teeth; they &s;ay we have &s;wallowed them up; certainly, this is the Day that we looked for, we have found it, we have &s;een it. Thus are we in Deri&s;ion all the Day long, we are become their Song, and their Mu&s;ick:
<Q>O Lord, behold our Afflictions; for the Enemy hath magnified him&s;elf.</Q></P>
<P>They have cried unto us, depart ye, ye are unclean; depart, depart, touch not; yea, the&s;e Men have &s;aid, they &s;hall no more &s;ojourn here:
<Q>O Lord, behold our Afflictions; for the Enemy hath magnified him&s;elf.</Q></P>
<P>The Breath of our No&s;trils, the Anointed of the Lord is fallen into their Pits, and &s;laughtered by their Hands;
<PB N="28" REF="15">
of whom yet we &s;aid under his Shadow we &s;hall live among the mid&s;t of the&s;e &s;ad Di&s;tractions:
<Q>O Lord, behold our Afflictions; for the Enemy hath magnified him&s;elf.</Q></P>
<P>Thus do we call to mind our Afflictions, and our Mi|&s;eries; the Wormwood and the Gall, our Souls have them in Remembrance, and they are humbled in us; and therefore have we hope, it is of the Lords mercy that we are not con&s;umed; becau&s;e his Compa&s;&s;ions fails not: They are new every Morning; great is his Faith|fulne&s;s; for the Lord will not ca&s;t us off for ever, but tho' he cau&s;e Grief, yet will he have Compa&s;&s;ion, ac|cording to the Multitude of his Mercies; for he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the Children of Men:
<Q><P>Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
<P>As it was in the beginning, is now and ever &s;hall be World without end, <HI>Amen.</HI></P></Q></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM III.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P>A PSALM of <HI>David,</HI> when he fled from <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> his Son: Or the Security of God's Protection.</P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>LORD, how are they increa&s;ed that trouble me? Many are they that ri&s;e up again&s;t me.</P>
<P N="2">2. Many <HI>there be</HI> which &s;ay of my Soul, <HI>There is</HI> no help for him in God. Selah.</P>
<P N="3">3. But thou, O Lord, <HI>art</HI> a Shield for me; my Glory, and the lifter up of my Head.</P>
<P N="4">4. I cryed unto the Lord with my Voice, and he heard me forth out of his holy Hill. Selah.</P>
<P N="5">5. I laid me down and &s;lept, I awaked, for the Lord &s;u&s;tained me.</P>
<P N="6">6. I will not be afraid of Ten Thou&s;ands of People, that have &s;et <HI>them&s;elves</HI> again&s;t me round about.</P>
<P N="7">7. Ari&s;e, O Lord, &s;ave me, O my God: For thou ha&s;t &s;mitten all mine Enemies <HI>upon</HI> the Cheek Bone: Thou ha&s;t broken the Teeth of the ungodly.</P>
<P N="8">8. Salvation <HI>belongeth</HI> unto the Lord: Thy Ble&s;&s;ing <HI>is</HI> upon thy People. Selah.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="Psalm">
<PB N="29" REF="15">
<HEAD>PSALM VII.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P><HI>David</HI> prayeth again&s;t the Malice of his Enemies, profe&s;&s;ing his Innocency, <HI>10.</HI> by Faith he &s;eeth his Defence, and the De&s;truction of his Enemies.</P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>O Lord my God, in thee do I put my tru&s;t; &s;ave me from all them that per&s;ecute me, and deliver me.</P>
<P N="2">2. Le&s;t he tear my Soul like a Lion, renting <HI>it</HI> in pieces, while <HI>there is</HI> none to deliver.</P>
<P N="3">3. O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be Iniquity in my Hands.</P>
<P N="4">4. If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at Peace with me: (yea, I have delivered him that without cau&s;e is mine Enemy)</P>
<P N="5">5. Let the Enemy per&s;ecute my Soul, and take <HI>it,</HI> yea let him tread down my Life upon the Earth, and lay mine Honour in the Du&s;t. Selah.</P>
<P N="6">6. Ari&s;e, O Lord, in thine Anger, lift up thy &s;elf be|cau&s;e of the Rage of mine Enemies; and awake for me to the Judgment <HI>that</HI> thou ha&s;t commanded.</P>
<P N="7">7. So &s;hall the Congregation of the People compa&s;s thee about: For their Sakes therefore return thou on high.</P>
<P N="8">8. The Lord &s;hall judge the People: Judge me, O Lord, according to my Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and according to mine Integrity <HI>that</HI> is in me.</P>
<P N="9">9. Oh let the Wickedne&s;s of the wicked come to an end, but e&s;tabli&s;h the ju&s;t: For the Righteous God tri|eth the Hearts and Reins.</P>
<P N="10">10. My Defence <HI>is</HI> of God, which &s;aveth the upright in Heart.</P>
<P N="11">11. God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry <HI>with the wicked</HI> every Day.</P>
<P N="12">12. If he turn he will whet his Sword: He hath bent his Bow and made it ready.</P>
<P N="13">13. He hath al&s;o prepared for him the In&s;truments of Death; he ordaineth his Arrows again&s;t the Per&s;ecutors.</P>
<P N="14">14. Behold, he travelleth with Iniquity, and hath conceived Mi&s;chief, and brought forth Fal&s;hood.</P>
<P N="15">15. He made a Pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the Ditch <HI>which</HI> he made.</P>
<P N="16"><PB N="30" REF="16">16. His Mi&s;chief &s;hall return upon his own Head, and his violent dealing &s;hall come down upon his own Pate.</P>
<P N="17">17. I will prai&s;e the Lord according to his Righteou&s;|ne&s;s, and will &s;ing <HI>Prai&s;e</HI> to the Name of the Lord mo&s;t high.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="27" TYPE="Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM XXVII.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P N="1"><HI>1. David</HI> &s;u&s;taineth his Faith by the Power of God. <HI>4.</HI> By his Love to the Service of God. <HI>9.</HI> By Prayer.</P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>THE Lord <HI>is</HI> my Light, and my Salvation, whom &s;hall I fear? The Lord <HI>is</HI> the Strength of my Life, of whom &s;hall I be afraid?</P>
<P N="2">2. When the Wicked, <HI>even</HI> mine Enemies and my Foes came upon me to eat up my Fle&s;h, they &s;tumbled and fell.</P>
<P N="3">3. Though an Ho&s;t &s;hould encamp again&s;t me, my Heart &s;hall not fear; though War &s;hould ri&s;e again&s;t me, in this will I be confident.</P>
<P N="4">4. One Thing have I de&s;ired of the Lord, that will I &s;eek after: That I may dwell in the Hou&s;e of the Lord, all the Days of my Life, to behold the Beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his Temple.</P>
<P N="5">5. For in the time of Trouble he &s;hall hide me in his Pavilion; in the &s;ecret of his Tabernacle &s;hall he hide me, he &s;hall &s;et me up upon a Rock.</P>
<P N="6">6. And now &s;hall mine Head be lifted up above mine Enemies round about me: Therefore will I offer in his Tabernacle Sacrifices of Joy, I will &s;ing, yea, I will &s;ing Prai&s;es unto the Lord.</P>
<P N="7">7. Hear, O Lord, <HI>when</HI> I cry with my Voice: Have mercy al&s;o upon me, and an&s;wer me.</P>
<P N="8">8. <HI>When thou &s;aid&s;t,</HI> Seek ye my Face, my Heart &s;aid unto thee, Thy Face Lord, will I &s;eek.</P>
<P N="9">9. Hide not thy Face far from me, put not thy &s;ervant away in anger: thou ha&s;t been my Help, leave me not, neither for&s;ake me, O God of my &s;alvation.</P>
<P N="10">10. When my Father and my Mother for&s;ake me, then the Lord will take me up.</P>
<P N="11">11. Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, becau&s;e of mine enemies.</P>
<P N="12"><PB N="31" REF="16">12. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine ene|mies: for fal&s;e witne&s;&s;es are ri&s;en up again&s;t me, and &s;uch as breath out Cruelty.</P>
<P N="13">13. <HI>I had fainted,</HI> unle&s;s I had believed to &s;ee the good|ne&s;s of the Lord in the land of the living.</P>
<P N="14">14. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he &s;hall &s;trengthen thine heart: wait, I &s;ay, on the Lord.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="46" TYPE="Psalm">
<HEAD>PSALM XLVI.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> The Confidence the Church hath in God. <HI>8.</HI> An ex|hortation to behold it.</P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>GOD is our refuge and &s;trength: a very pre&s;ent help in trouble.</P>
<P N="2">2. Therefore will not we fear, though the Earth be moved: and though the mountains be carried into the mid&s;t of the Sea.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Though</HI> the waters thereof roar, <HI>and</HI> be troubled, <HI>though</HI> the mountains &s;hake with the &s;welling thereof. <HI>Selah.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>There is</HI> a river, the &s;treams thereof &s;hall make glad the City of God: the holy Place of the Tabernacle of the mo&s;t high.</P>
<P N="5">5. God <HI>is</HI> in the mid&s;t of her: &s;he &s;hall not be moved; God &s;hall help her, <HI>and</HI> that right early.</P>
<P N="6">6. The Heathen raged, the Kingdoms were moved: he uttered his Voice, the Earth melted.</P>
<P N="7">7. The Lord of ho&s;ts is with us, the God of Jacob <HI>is</HI> our refuge. <HI>Selah.</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. Come, behold the works of the Lord, what de&s;o|lation he hath made in the Earth.</P>
<P N="9">9. He maketh Wars to cea&s;e unto the end of the Earth: he breaketh the Bow, and cutteth the Spear in &s;under, he burneth the Chariot in the Fire.</P>
<P N="10">10. Be &s;till, and know that I am God: I will be ex|alted among the Heathen, I will be exalted in the Earth.</P>
<P N="11">11. The Lord of ho&s;ts <HI>is</HI> with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="83" TYPE="Psalm">
<PB N="32" REF="17">
<HEAD>PSALM LXXXIII.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> A Complaint to God of the Enemies Con&s;piracies. <HI>9.</HI> A Prayer again&s;t them that oppre&s;s the Church.</P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>KEEP not thou &s;ilence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be &s;till, O God.</P>
<P N="2">2. For lo, thine Enemies make a Tumult: and they that hate thee, have lift up their Head.</P>
<P N="3">3. They have taken crafty coun&s;el again&s;t thy People, and con&s;ulted again&s;t thy hidden ones.</P>
<P N="4">4. They have &s;aid, Come, and let us cut them off from <HI>being</HI> a Nation: that the name of I&s;rael may be no more in remembrance.</P>
<P N="5">5. For they have con&s;ulted together with one con&s;ent; they are confederate again&s;t thee.</P>
<P N="6">6. The Tabernacles of Edom and the I&s;hmaelites of Moab, and the Hagarens.</P>
<P N="7">7. Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek, the Phili&s;tines with the Inhabitants of Tyre.</P>
<P N="8">8. A&s;&s;ur al&s;o is joyned with them: they have holpen the Children of Lot. <HI>Selah.</HI></P>
<P N="9">9. Do unto them as unto the Midianites, as to Si&s;era, as to Jabin, at the Brook of Ki&s;on:</P>
<P N="10">10. <HI>Which</HI> Peri&s;hed at Endor: they became <HI>as</HI> dung for the Earth.</P>
<P N="11">11. Make their Nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their Princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna.</P>
<P N="12">12. Who &s;aid, let us take to our &s;elves the Hou&s;es of God in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="13">13. O my God, make them like a wheel: as the &s;tub|ble before the Wind.</P>
<P N="14">14. As the fire burneth a Wood: and as the flame &s;et|teth the mountains on fire;</P>
<P N="15">15. So per&s;ecute them with thy tempe&s;t; and make them afraid with thy &s;torm.</P>
<P N="16">16. Fill their faces with &s;hame: that they may &s;eek thy Name, O Lord.</P>
<P N="17">17. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever: yea, let them be put to &s;hame and peri&s;h.</P>
<P N="18">18. That <HI>Men</HI> may know, that thou who&s;e Name a|lone is JEHOVAH <HI>art</HI> the mo&s;t high over all the Earth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="86" TYPE="Psalm">
<PB N="33" REF="18">
<HEAD>PSALM LXXXVI.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> David &s;trengthneth his Prayer by the con&s;cience of his Re|ligion. <HI>5.</HI> By the goodne&s;s and power of God. <HI>11.</HI> He de|&s;ireth the continuance of former Grace. <HI>14.</HI> Complaining of the proud, he craveth &s;ome token of God's Goodne&s;s.</P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>BOW down thine ear, O Lord hear me: For I <HI>am</HI> poor and needy.</P>
<P N="2">2. Pre&s;erve my Soul, for I <HI>am</HI> holy: O thou my God &s;ave thy Servant that tru&s;teth in thee.</P>
<P N="3">3. Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.</P>
<P N="4">4. Rejoyce the Soul of thy Servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my Soul.</P>
<P N="5">5. For, thou Lord, <HI>art</HI> good, and ready to forgive: and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee?</P>
<P N="6">6. Give ear, O Lord, unto my Prayer; and attend to the voice of my Supplications.</P>
<P N="7">7. In the Day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt an&s;wer me.</P>
<P N="8">8. Among the Gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord, neither <HI>are there any works</HI> like unto thy works.</P>
<P N="9">9. All Nations, whom thou ha&s;t made, &s;hall come and wor&s;hip before thee, O Lord: and &s;hall glorifie thy Name.</P>
<P N="10">10. For thou <HI>art</HI> great and doe&s;t wondrous things: thou <HI>art</HI> God alone.</P>
<P N="11">11. Teach me thy way, O Lord, I will walk in thy Truth: unite my heart to fear thy Name.</P>
<P N="12">12. I will prai&s;e thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorifie thy Name for evermore.</P>
<P N="13">13. For great <HI>is</HI> thy Mercy toward me: and thou ha&s;t delivered my Soul from the lowe&s;t Hell.</P>
<P N="14">14. O God, the Proud are ri&s;en again&s;t me, and the A&s;&s;emblies of violent Men have &s;ought after my Soul; and have not &s;et thee before them.</P>
<P N="15">15. But thou, O Lord <HI>art</HI> a God full of compa&s;&s;ion, and gracious, long-&s;uffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.</P>
<P N="16">16. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me, give
<PB N="34" REF="19">
thy Strength unto thy Servant, and &s;ave the Son of thine Handmaid.</P>
<P N="17">17. Shew me a Token for good, that they which hate me may &s;ee <HI>it,</HI> and be a&s;hamed: Becau&s;e thou, Lord, ha&s;t holpen me, and comforted me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="lesson">
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="reading">
<HEAD>The Fir&s;t Le&s;&s;on proper for this Occa&s;ion, the Second of Samuel XV Chapter.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> Ab&s;alom by fair Speeches and Courte&s;ies, &s;tealeth the Hearts of I&s;rael. <HI>7.</HI> Under Pretence of a Vow, he obtaineth leave to go to Hebron, <HI>10.</HI> He maketh there a great Con&s;piracy, <HI>13.</HI> David, upon the News flieth from Jeru&s;alem, <HI>19.</HI> Ittai would not leave him, <HI>24.</HI> Zadok and Abiathar are &s;ent back with the Ark, <HI>30.</HI> David and his Company go up Mount Olivet weeping, <HI>31.</HI> He cur&s;eth Ahitophels Coun&s;el, <HI>32.</HI> Hu&s;hai is &s;ent back with In&s;tructions.</P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>AND it came to pa&s;s after this, that Ab&s;alom pre|pared him Chariots and Hor&s;es, and Fifty Men to run before him.</P>
<P N="2">2. And Ab&s;alom ro&s;e up early and &s;tood be&s;ide the way of the Gate: And it was &s;o, that when any Man that had a Controver&s;y came to the King for Judgment, then Ab&s;alom called unto him, and &s;aid, of what City <HI>art</HI> thou? And he &s;aid, Thy Servant <HI>is</HI> of one of the Tribes of I&s;rael.</P>
<P N="3">3. And Ab&s;alom &s;aid unto him, See, thy matters <HI>are</HI> good and right, but <HI>there is</HI> no Man <HI>deputed</HI> of the King to hear thee.</P>
<P N="4">4. Ab&s;alom &s;aid moreover, oh that I were made Judge in the Land, that every Man which hath any Suit or Cau&s;e might come unto me, and I would do him Ju&s;tice.</P>
<P N="5">5. And it was &s;o, that when any Man came nigh to him, to do him obey&s;ance, he put forth his Hand, and took him and ki&s;&s;ed him.</P>
<P N="6">6. And on this manner did Ab&s;alom to all I&s;rael that came to the King for Judgment: So Ab&s;alom &s;tole the Hearts of the Men of I&s;rael.</P>
<P N="7">7. And it came to pa&s;s after forty years, that Ab&s;alom &s;aid to the King, I pray thee, let me go pay my Vow, which I have vowed unto the Lord in Hebron.</P>
<P N="8"><PB N="35" REF="19">8. For thy Servant vowed a Vow while I abode in Ge&s;hur in Syria, &s;aying, if the Lord &s;hall bring me again indeed to Jeru&s;alem, then I will &s;erve the Lord.</P>
<P N="9">9. And the King &s;aid unto him, Go in Peace. So he aro&s;e and went to Hebron.</P>
<P N="10">10. But Ab&s;alom &s;ent Spies throughout all the Tribes of I&s;rael, &s;aying, as &s;oon as ye hear the Sound of the Trumpet, then ye &s;hall &s;ay, Ab&s;alom reigneth in Hebron.</P>
<P N="11">11. And with Ab&s;alom went two hundred Men out of Jeru&s;alem, <HI>that were</HI> called, and they went in their Sim|plicity, and they knew not any thing.</P>
<P N="12">12. And Ab&s;alom &s;ent for Ahitophel the Gilonite, Da|vids Coun&s;ellor, from his City, <HI>even</HI> from Giloh, while he offered Sacrifices: And the Con&s;piracy was &s;trong; for the People increa&s;ed continually with Ab&s;alom.</P>
<P N="13">13. And there came a Me&s;&s;enger to David, &s;aying, the Hearts of the Men of I&s;rael are after Ab&s;alom.</P>
<P N="14">14. And David &s;aid unto all his Servants that <HI>were</HI> with him at Jeru&s;alem, ari&s;e, and let us flee; for we &s;hall not <HI>el&s;e</HI> e&s;cape from Ab&s;alom: Make &s;peed to de|part, le&s;t he overtake us &s;uddenly, and bring evil upon us, and &s;mite the City with the edge of the Sword.</P>
<P N="15">15. And the Kings Servants &s;aid unto the King, Be|hold thy Servants <HI>are ready to do</HI> what&s;oever my Lord the King &s;hall appoint.</P>
<P N="16">16. And the King went forth, and all his Hou&s;hold after him, and the King left Ten Women, <HI>which were</HI> Concubines, to keep the Hou&s;e.</P>
<P N="17">17. And the King went forth, and all the People after him, and tarried in a Place that was far off.</P>
<P N="18">18. And all his Servants pa&s;&s;ed on be&s;ide him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, Six Hundred Men which came after him from Gath, pa&s;&s;ed on before the King.</P>
<P N="19">19. Then &s;aid the King to Ittai the Gittite, where|fore goe&s;t thou al&s;o with us? Return to thy Place, and abide with the King: For thou <HI>art</HI> a Stranger, and al&s;o an Exile.</P>
<P N="20">20. Whereas thou came&s;t <HI>but</HI> ye&s;terday, &s;hould I this Day make thee go up and down with us; &s;eeing I go whether I may, return thou, and take back thy Bre|thren, Mercy and Truth be with thee.</P>
<P N="21"><PB N="36" REF="20">21. And Ittai an&s;wered the King, and &s;aid, <HI>as</HI> the Lord liveth, and <HI>as</HI> my Lord the King liveth, &s;urely in what Place my Lord the King &s;hall be, whether in Death or Life, even there al&s;o will thy Servant be.</P>
<P N="22">22. And David &s;aid to Ittai go and pa&s;s over. And Ittai the Gittite pa&s;&s;ed over, and all his Men, and all the little ones that were with him.</P>
<P N="23">23. And all the Country wept with a loud Voice, and all the People pa&s;&s;ed over: The King al&s;o him&s;elf pa&s;&s;ed over the Brook Kidion, and all the People pa&s;&s;ed over, towards the way of the Wilderne&s;s.</P>
<P N="24">24. And lo, Zadok al&s;o, and all the Levites <HI>were</HI> with him, bearing the Ark of the Covenant of God, and they &s;et down the Ark of God; and Abiathar went up until all the People had done pa&s;&s;ing out of the City.</P>
<P N="25">25. And the King &s;aid unto Zadok, carry back the Ark of God into the City: If I &s;hall find favour in the Eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again, and &s;hew me <HI>both</HI> it, and his Habitation.</P>
<P N="26">26. But if he thus &s;ay, I have no delight in thee: Be|hold, <HI>here am I,</HI> let him do to me as &s;eemeth good unto him.</P>
<P N="27">27. The King &s;aid al&s;o unto Zadok the Prie&s;t, <HI>Art not</HI> thou a Seer? Return into the City in Peace, and your Two Sons with you, Ahimaaz thy Son and Jona|than the Son of Abiathar.</P>
<P N="28">28. See, I will tarry in the Plain of the Wilderne&s;s, until there come Word from you to certify me.</P>
<P N="29">29. Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the Ark of God again to Jeru&s;alem; and they tarried there.</P>
<P N="30">30. And David went up by the A&s;cent of <HI>Mount</HI> Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his Head co|vered, and he went bare-foot: And all the People that <HI>was</HI> with him, covered every Man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.</P>
<P N="31">31. And <HI>one</HI> told David, &s;aying, Ahitophel <HI>is</HI> among the Con&s;pirators with Ab&s;alom. And David &s;aid, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the Coun&s;el of Ahitophel into Fooli&s;hne&s;s.</P>
<P N="32">32. And it came to pa&s;s, that <HI>when</HI> David was come to the top of <HI>the mount,</HI> where he wor&s;hipped God, be|hold, Hu&s;hai the Archite came to meet him, with his Coat rent, and Earth upon his Head.</P>
<P N="33"><PB N="37" REF="20">33. Unto whom David &s;aid, if thou pa&s;&s;e&s;t on with me, then thou &s;halt be a Burden unto me.</P>
<P N="34">34. But if thou return to the City, and &s;ay unto Ab|&s;alom, I will be thy Servant, O King; <HI>as I have been</HI> thy Fathers Servant hitherto, &s;o <HI>will</HI> I now al&s;o <HI>be</HI> thy Servant: Then maye&s;t thou for me defeat the Coun&s;el of Ahitophel.</P>
<P N="35">35. And <HI>ha&s;t thou</HI> not there with thee Zadok and Abi|athar the Prie&s;ts? Therefore it &s;hall be that what thing &s;oever thou &s;halt hear out of the Kings Hou&s;e, thou &s;halt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the Prie&s;ts.</P>
<P N="36">36. Behold, <HI>they have</HI> there with them their Two Sons, Ahimaaz Zadok<HI>'s Son,</HI> and Jonathan Abiathar<HI>'s Son:</HI> And by them ye &s;hall &s;end unto me every thing that ye can hear:</P>
<P N="37">37. So Hu&s;hai David<HI>'s</HI> Friend came into the City, and Ab&s;alom came into Jeru&s;alem.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="reading">
<HEAD><HI>The Fir&s;t Le&s;&s;on.</HI> Part of the II. of <HI>Chronicles</HI> CHAP. XIII.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P><HI>Abijah</HI> &s;ucceeding, maketh War again&s;t <HI>Jeroboam. 4.</HI> He declareth the Right of his Cau&s;e. <HI>13.</HI> Tru&s;ting in God, he overcometh <HI>Jeroboam.</HI></P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>NOW in the Eighteenth Year of King Jeroboam, began Abijah to reign over Judah.</P>
<P N="2">2. He reigned Three Years in Jeru&s;alem (his Mothers Name was Michaiah the Daughter of Uriel, of Gibea:) and there was War between Abijah and Jeroboam.</P>
<P N="3">3. And Abijah &s;et the Battel in array with an Army of valiant Men of War, even four hundred thou&s;and cho&s;en Men: Jeroboam al&s;o &s;et the Battel in array a|gain&s;t him, and with eight hundred thou&s;and cho&s;en Men, being mighty Men of Valour.</P>
<P N="4">4. And Abijah &s;tood up upon Zemaraim, which <HI>is</HI> in Mount Ephraim, and &s;aid, hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all I&s;rael:</P>
<P N="5">5. Ought ye not to know, that the Lord God of I&s;|rael gave the Kingdom over I&s;rael to David for ever, even to him and to his Sons by a Covenant of Salt?</P>
<P N="6"><PB N="38" REF="21">6. Yet Jeroboam the Son of Nebat, the Servant of So|lomon the Son of David is ri&s;en up, and hath rebelled again&s;t his Lord.</P>
<P N="7">7. And there are gathered unto him vain Men, the Children of Belial, and have &s;trengthned them&s;elves a|gain&s;t Rehoboam the Son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not with&s;tand them.</P>
<P N="8">8. And now ye think to with&s;tand the Kingdom of the Lord in the Hand of the Sons of David, and ye be a great Multitude, and there are with you golden Calves, which Jeroboam made you for Gods.</P>
<P N="9">9. Have ye not ca&s;t out the Prie&s;ts of the Lord, the Sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you Prie&s;ts after the manner of the Nations of other Lands? So that who&s;oever cometh to con&s;ecrate him&s;elf with a young Bullock, and &s;even Rams, the &s;ame may be a Prie&s;t of them that are no Gods.</P>
<P N="10">10. But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not for&s;aken him, and the Prie&s;ts which mini&s;ter unto the Lord, are the Sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their Bu&s;ine&s;s.</P>
<P N="11">11. And they burn unto the Lord every Morning, and every Evening, burnt Sacrifices, and &s;weet Incen&s;e: the Shew-bread al&s;o &s;et they in order upon the pure Ta|ble; and the Candle&s;tick of gold with the Lamps there|of, to burn every Evening; for we keep the charge of the Lord our God, but ye have for&s;aken him.</P>
<P N="12">12. And behold, God him&s;elf is with us for our Cap|tain, and his Prie&s;ts with &s;ounding Trumpets to cry alarm again&s;t you: O Children of I&s;rael, fight ye not again&s;t the Lord God of your Fathers, for you &s;hall not pro&s;per.</P>
<P N="13">13. But Jeroboam cau&s;ed an Ambu&s;hment to come about behind them, &s;o they were before Judah, and the Ambu&s;hment was behind them.</P>
<P N="14">14. And when Judah looked back, behold the Battel was before and behind; and they cryed unto the Lord, and the Prie&s;ts &s;ounded with the Trumpets.</P>
<P N="15">15. Then the Men of Judah gave a &s;hout; and as the Men of Judah &s;houted, it came to pa&s;s that God &s;mote Jeroboam and all I&s;rael, before Abijah and Judah.</P>
<P N="16">16. And the Children of I&s;rael fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their Hands.</P>
<P N="17"><PB N="39" REF="21">17. And Abijah and his People &s;lew them with a great &s;laughter; &s;o there fell down &s;lain of I&s;rael Five Hun|dred Thou&s;and cho&s;en Men.</P>
<P N="18">18. Thus the Children of I&s;rael were brought under at that time, and the Children of Judah prevailed, be|cau&s;e they relied upon the Lord God of their Fathers.</P>
<P N="19">19. And Abijah pur&s;ued after Jeroboam, and took Cities from him, Bethel with the Towns thereof, and Je&s;hanah with the Towns thereof, and Ephraim with the Towns thereof.</P>
<P N="20">20. Neither did Jeroboam recover &s;trength again in the Days of Abijah; and the Lord &s;truck him and he died.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="prayer">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>As it was in the beginning, is now and ever &s;hall be world without end. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</SP>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>We will cry unto the Lord with our voice, yea even unto God will we cry with our voice, and he &s;hall hear|ken unto us, for the Lord is gracious and long &s;uffering, and of great mercy, to them that call upon him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Lord is nigh to all that be of a contrite heart, and will &s;ave &s;uch as be of an humble Spirit.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>And now Lord what is our hope, truly our hope is even in thee.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>For our Fathers hoped in thee, they tru&s;ted in thee, and thou did&s;t deliver them, they called upon thee, and were holpen, they put their tru&s;t in thee, and were not confounded.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="40" REF="22">
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Lord be a Defence for the Oppre&s;&s;ed, even a Re|fuge in due time of trouble, and they that know thy Name will put their tru&s;t in thee, for thou Lord never faile&s;t them that &s;eek thee.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>The merciful Goodne&s;s of the Lord endureth for ever and ever, upon them that fear him, and his Righteou&s;|ne&s;s upon Childrens Children, even upon &s;uch as keep his Covenant, and think upon his Commandments to do them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou therefore that art a Saviour to all that tru&s;t in thee, thou that upholdeth all &s;uch as are falling, and lifte&s;t up &s;uch as be down, thou that heale&s;t the broken in heart, and give&s;t Medicine to heal their Sickne&s;s, thou that art the Father of Mercy, and God of all Con|&s;olation, thou that art comfort to the Sad, and &s;trength to the Weak, hear thy Servant, we be&s;eech thee, look down from Heaven, behold and vi&s;it us with thy Sal|vation.</P>
<Q>Glory be to, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<Q><L>The Lord be with you;</L>
<L>And with thy holy Spirit.</L></Q>
<P>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 dai|ly bread. And forgive us our tre&s;pa&s;&s;es, as we forgive them that tre&s;pa&s;s again&s;t us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord of Heaven and Earth, God of the Spirits of all Fle&s;h; we a mo&s;t &s;inful, and therefore now a mo&s;t mi&s;erable People, do in the bitterne&s;s of our affli|cted Souls humbly fall down at the Foot&s;tool of thy Grace, mo&s;t &s;adly bewailing our many and mo&s;t heinous
<PB N="41" REF="22">
Sins; we have multiplied our Iniquities into a viola|tion of thy whole Law; having neither performed to thee our God, nor to Man the Duties thou require&s;t of us; &s;o that by our wicked Works, we have denyed that mo&s;t holy Faith, whereof our Mouths have for &s;o long a time made Profe&s;&s;ion, and now in thy ju&s;t Judg|ment, thou ha&s;t &s;et our Sins in order before our Eyes; yet return, O God, in great Mercy unto the many thou|&s;ands of thy People, do thou accept and encrea&s;e in our Hearts a Dete&s;tation of all Wickedne&s;s. O let not thy Scourge end in a De&s;olation, or thine Anger go on unto the height of an everla&s;ting Ruin; but hear us, merciful Father, ha&s;ten the Aver&s;ion of the&s;e thy &s;harp Judgments from us; &s;catter thou the People that delight in War: And let the ble&s;&s;ing of Peace be upon the Heads of all tho&s;e that &s;trive and pray for this Ble&s;&s;ing, and that for his &s;ake, by whom thou give&s;t every ble&s;&s;ing, even Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hear our Voice, O Lord, out of thy holy Temple, let our Complaint come before thee, let it enter even into thy Ears.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Our Hearts are in heavine&s;s, O let us make our Prayers unto thee in an acceptable time.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>O Lord, our Iniquities are again&s;t us, our Rebellions are many, with which we have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed again&s;t thee, but we confe&s;s our Wickedne&s;s, and are &s;orry for our Sins.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Our Confu&s;ion is daily before us, Fearfulne&s;s and Trembling are come upon us, and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed us, and it is thy great Mercy only, that we are not con&s;umed, for we have &s;inned, O Lord, we have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed and done wickedly, yea, we have re|belled and departed from thy Precepts, and from thy Com|mandments.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="42" REF="23">
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Innumerable Troubles are come about us, and our Sins have taken hold upon us, that we are not able to look up; yea, they are more in number than the hairs of our Head, and our Hearts have failed us, O Lord, Righte|ou&s;ne&s;s belongs unto thee, but unto us Confu&s;ion of Face; becau&s;e of all the Offences we have committed again&s;t thee.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yet Compa&s;&s;ion and Forgivene&s;s is with thee, though we have rebelled again&s;t thee, O Lord, according to thy Goodne&s;s, we be&s;eech thee, let thine Anger and thy Wrath be turned away from us, and cau&s;e thy Face to &s;hine upon thy Servants: Incline thine Ears and hear, open thine Eyes and behold our Afflictions, for we do not pre&s;ent our Supplications before thee in our own Righteou&s;ne&s;s; but for thy manifold and great Mercies.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>We have &s;inned, we have &s;inned again&s;t thee, O Heavenly Father, and are no more worthy to be called thy Sons.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yet, O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive, con&s;ider, do it, and defer not for thine own &s;ake, O our God.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Gho&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>As it was in the beginning, is now and ever &s;hall be World without end. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hear our Prayer, O Lord, and hide not thy &s;elf from our Petitions, and hearken unto the Words of our Mouth, for Strangers are ri&s;en up again&s;t us, and Tyrants, which have not God before their Eyes, &s;eek after our Souls.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="43" REF="23">
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Ca&s;t us not away in the times of our Weakne&s;s, for|&s;ake us not when our Strength faileth us.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>O remember not our Offences, but according to thy Mercy think thou upon us, for thy Goodne&s;s &s;ake.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>O turn thee unto us, and have mercy upon us, for we are de&s;olate and in Mi&s;ery.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Sorrows of our Hearts are enlarged: O bring thou us out of all our Troubles!</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Turn us, O God, our Saviour, and let thine Anger cea&s;e from us; &s;end down from on high, and deliver us; take us out of tho&s;e many Waters.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why art thou ab&s;ent from us &s;o long? Why is thy Wrath &s;o hot again&s;t the Sheep of thy Pa&s;ture?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wherefore hide&s;t thou thy Face, and forgette&s;t our Mi&s;ery and Trouble? For our Soul is brought low unto the Du&s;t, and our Belly cleaveth unto the Ground.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Look upon our Adver&s;ity and Mi&s;ery, and forgive us all our Sins.</P>
<P>Ari&s;e, O Lord, and help us, and deliver us, for thy Mercies &s;ake, &s;o &s;hall it be known that it is thy hand, and that thou, Lord, ha&s;t done it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Gho&s;t.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>As it was in the beginning, is now and ever &s;hall be World without end,</HI> Amen.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="lesson">
<DIV3 TYPE="reading">
<PB N="44" REF="24">
<HEAD>The Second Le&s;&s;on proper for this Occa&s;ion is, XXIV. Chapter of St. <HI>Matthew.</HI></HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P><HI>1.</HI> Chri&s;t foretelleth the De&s;truction of the Temple: What and how great Calamities &s;hall be before it. <HI>29.</HI> The Signs of his coming to Judgment. <HI>36.</HI> And becau&s;e that Day and Hour is unknown. <HI>42.</HI> We ought to watch like good Servants, expecting every moment our Ma&s;ters coming.</P>
</ARGUMENT>
<P>AND Je&s;us went out, and departed from the Temple, and his Di&s;ciples came to <HI>him</HI> for to &s;hew him the Buildings of the Temple.</P>
<P N="2">2. And Je&s;us &s;aid unto them, &s;ee ye not all the&s;e Things? verily I &s;ay unto you, there &s;hall not be left here one Stone upon another, that &s;hall not be thrown down.</P>
<P N="3">3. And as he &s;ate upon the Mount of Olives, the Di&s;|ciples came unto him privately, &s;aying, tell us when &s;hall the&s;e Things be? and what <HI>&s;hall be</HI> the Sign of thy coming, and of the end of the World.</P>
<P N="4">4. And Je&s;us an&s;wered and &s;aid unto them, take heed that no Man deceive you.</P>
<P N="5">5. For many &s;hall come in my Name, &s;aying, I am Chri&s;t; and &s;hall deceive many.</P>
<P N="6">6. And ye &s;hall hear of Wars, and rumours of Wars: See that ye be not troubled: For all <HI>the&s;e things</HI> mu&s;t come to pa&s;s, but the End is not yet.</P>
<P N="7">7. For Nation &s;hall ri&s;e again&s;t Nation, and Kingdom again&s;t Kingdom, and there &s;hall be Famines, and Pe|&s;tilence, and Earthquakes in divers Places.</P>
<P N="8">8. All the&s;e are the beginning of Sorrows.</P>
<P N="9">9. Then &s;hall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and &s;hall kill you: And ye &s;hall be hated of all Nations for my Names &s;ake.</P>
<P N="10">10. And then &s;hall many be offended, and betray one another, and &s;hall hate one another.</P>
<P N="11">11. And many fal&s;e Prophets &s;hall ri&s;e, and &s;hall de|ceive many.</P>
<P N="12">12. And becau&s;e Iniquity &s;hall abound, the Love of many &s;hall wax cold.</P>
<P N="13">13. But he that &s;hall endure unto the end, the &s;ame &s;hall be &s;aved.</P>
<P N="14"><PB N="45" REF="24">14. And this Go&s;pel of the Kingdom &s;hall be preached in all the World, for a Witne&s;s unto all Nations, and then &s;hall the end come.</P>
<P N="15">15. When ye therefore &s;hall &s;ee the Abomination of De&s;olation, &s;poken of by Daniel the Prophet, &s;tand in the holy Place, (who&s;o readeth, let him under&s;tand)</P>
<P N="16">16. Then let them which be in Judea, flee into the Mountains.</P>
<P N="17">17. Let him, which is on the Hou&s;e top, not come down, to take any thing out of his Hou&s;e.</P>
<P N="18">18. Neither let him, which is in the Field, return back to take his Cloths.</P>
<P N="19">19. And wo unto them that are with Child, and to them that give &s;uck in tho&s;e Days.</P>
<P N="20">20. But pray ye that your Flight be not in the Win|ter, neither on the Sabbath Day.</P>
<P N="21">21. For then &s;hall be great Tribulation, &s;uch as was not &s;ince the beginning of the World to this time, no, nor ever &s;hall be.</P>
<P N="22">22. And except tho&s;e Days &s;hould be &s;hortned, there &s;hould no Fle&s;h be &s;aved: But for elects &s;ake tho&s;e Days &s;hall be &s;hortned.</P>
<P N="23">23. Then if any Man &s;hall &s;ay unto you, lo, here is Chri&s;t, or there; believe it not.</P>
<P N="24">24. For there &s;hall ari&s;e fal&s;e Chri&s;ts, and fal&s;e Pro|phets, and &s;hall &s;hew great Signs and Wonders, in&s;o|much, that (if it were po&s;&s;ible) they &s;hall deceive the very elect.</P>
<P N="25">25. Behold, I have told you before.</P>
<P N="26">26. Wherefore if they &s;hall &s;ay unto you, Behold, he is in the De&s;ert, go not forth: Behold, <HI>he is</HI> in the &s;e|cret Chambers, believe it not.</P>
<P N="27">27. For as the Lightning cometh out of the Ea&s;t, and &s;hineth even unto the We&s;t: So &s;hall al&s;o the coming of the Son of Man be.</P>
<P N="28">28. For where&s;oever the Carca&s;e is, there will the Eagles be gathered together.</P>
<P N="29">29. Immediately after the Tribulation of tho&s;e Days, &s;hall the Sun be darkned, and the Moon &s;hall not give her Light, and the Stars &s;hall fall from Heaven, and the Powers of the Heaven &s;hall be &s;haken.</P>
<P N="30">30. And then &s;hall appear the Sign of the Son of Man in Heaven: And then &s;hall all the Tribes of the Earth
<PB N="46" REF="25">
mourn, and they &s;hall &s;ee the Son of Man coming in the Clouds of Heaven, with Power and great Glory.</P>
<P N="31">31. And he &s;hall &s;end his Angels with a great Sound of a Trumpet, and they &s;hall gather together his Elect from the four Winds, from one end of Heaven to the other.</P>
<P N="32">32. Now learn a Parable of the Fig-tree: When his Branch is yet tender, and putteth forth Leaves, ye know that Summer <HI>is</HI> nigh.</P>
<P N="33">33. So likewi&s;e ye, when ye &s;hall &s;ee all the&s;e things, know that it is near, <HI>even</HI> at the Doors.</P>
<P N="34">34. Verily, I &s;ay unto you, this Generation &s;hall not pa&s;s, till all the&s;e Things be fulfilled.</P>
<P N="35">35. Heaven and Earth &s;hall pa&s;s away, but my Words &s;hall not pa&s;s away.</P>
<P N="36">36. But of that Day and Hour knoweth no Man, no, not the Angels of Heaven, but my Father only.</P>
<P N="37">37. But as the Days of Noe <HI>were,</HI> &s;o &s;hall al&s;o the coming of the Son of Man be.</P>
<P N="38">38. For as in the Days that were before the Flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the Day that Noe entred into the Ark.</P>
<P N="39">39. And knew not when the Flood came, and took them all away; &s;o &s;hall al&s;o the coming of the Son of Man be.</P>
<P N="40">40. Then &s;hall two be in the Field, the one &s;hall be taken, and the other left.</P>
<P N="41">41. Two Women &s;hall be grinding at the Mill, the one &s;hall be taken, and the other left.</P>
<P N="42">42. Watch therefore, for ye know not what Hour your Lord doth come.</P>
<P N="43">43. But know this, that if the good Man of the Hou&s;e had known in what watch the Thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have &s;uffered his Hou&s;e to be broken up.</P>
<P N="44">44. Therefore be ye al&s;o ready, for in &s;uch an Hour as you think not, the Son of Man cometh.</P>
<P N="45">45. Who then is a faithful and wi&s;e Servant, whom his Lord hath made Ruler over his Hou&s;hold, to give them Meat in due Sea&s;on.</P>
<P N="46">46. Ble&s;&s;ed <HI>is</HI> that Servant, whom his Lord, when he cometh, &s;hall find &s;o doing.</P>
<P N="47">47. Verily I &s;ay unto you, that he &s;hall make him Ruler over all his Goods.</P>
<P N="48"><PB N="47" REF="25">48. But and if that evil Servant &s;hall &s;ay in his Heart, <HI>My</HI> Lord delayeth his coming.</P>
<P N="49">49. And &s;hall begin to &s;mite <HI>his</HI> Fellow Servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken:</P>
<P N="50">50. The Lord of that Servant &s;hall come in a Day when he looketh not for him, and in an Hour that he is not aware of;</P>
<P N="51">51. And &s;hall cut him a&s;under, and appoint <HI>him</HI> his Portion with the Hypocrites: There &s;hall be weeping and gna&s;hing of Teeth.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Give thy Judgments O God; and thy Righteou&s;ne&s;s to the King.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Lord hear him in the Day of Trouble, the Name of the God of Jacob defend him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Send him Help from his Sanctuary, and &s;trengthen him out of Sion.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Let the King rejoice in thy Strength, O Lord, and let him be exceeding glad of thy Salvation.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Grant him his Hearts de&s;ire, and deny him not the Re+que&s;t of his lips.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>O Lord, gird him with Strength unto the Battle, throw down his Enemies under him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Make them to turn their Backs upon him, and di&s;|per&s;e tho&s;e that hate him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Deliver him from the &s;trivings of his People.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="48" REF="26">
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Deliver him from his cruel Enemies and &s;et him a|bove his Adver&s;aries, thou &s;halt rid him from the wic|ked Man, and why? becau&s;e the King puts his &s;trength in the Lord, and in the Mercy of the mo&s;t High he &s;hall not mi&s;carry.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Some put their tru&s;t in Chariots, and &s;ome in Hor&s;es, but we remember the Name of the Lord our God.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Save Lord and hear us, O King of Heaven, when we call upon thee.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P>Be thou exalted in thy own &s;trength, &s;o will we &s;ing and prai&s;e thy power.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Gho&s;t.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>As it was in the beginning is now and ever &s;hall be world without end.</HI> Amen.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<P>O Lord God, that do&s;t build up Jeru&s;alem, and ga|ther together the outca&s;ts of I&s;rael, wherefore art thou ab&s;ent &s;o long, and why is thy wrath &s;o hot again&s;t the &s;heep of thy Pa&s;ture?</P>
<P>O think upon thy Congregation, whom thou ha&s;t purcha&s;ed and redeemed of old, think upon the tribe of thine Inheritance, and mount Sion where thou ha&s;t dwelt.</P>
<P>Lift up thy Feet and di&s;per&s;e all tho&s;e our Enemies which have done ill in thy Sanctuary.</P>
<P>For they have broken down the carved Work thereof with Axes and Hammers: They have defiled the dwel|ling places of thy Name, yea, they &s;aid in their hearts, let us make havock of them altogether.</P>
<Q><PB N="49" REF="26">O God, how long &s;hall the adver&s;ary do this di&s;honour, how long &s;hall the enemy bla&s;pheme thy name for ever?</Q>
<P>Why withdrawe&s;t thou thy hand, why plucke&s;t not thou thy right hand out of thy bo&s;om to &s;catter the enemy?</P>
<P>Ari&s;e, O God, maintain thine own cau&s;e, remember how the fooli&s;h Man bla&s;phemeth thee daily.</P>
<P>Forget not the voice of thine Enemies, the pre&s;um|ption of tho&s;e that hate thee encrea&s;eth ever more and more.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Prie&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>People.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>As it was in the beginning, is now and ever &s;hall be world without end.</HI> Amen.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O Eternal God, and mo&s;t merciful Father, we hum|bly be&s;eech thee to be merciful unto us, and be near to help us, in all tho&s;e extremities which our Sins threaten to bring upon us, our Enemies are &s;trengthned again&s;t us, becau&s;e our rebellions are multiplied again&s;t thee, and we de&s;erve to &s;uffer what our Enemies threaten, and &s;udden de&s;truction and with de&s;olation, but there is mercy with thee, that thou may&s;t be feared; and there is mercy with thee, that they may not be feared; &s;hew us therefore thy mercy, O Lord, and let us &s;o fear thee, that we may never be brought to feel or fear them, and that for our Je&s;us, and thy Chri&s;t his &s;ake. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer for the Church.</HEAD>
<P>ALmighty God, and gracious Father, we confe&s;s a|gain&s;t our &s;elves that we are mo&s;t worthy of all the Judgments that thou ha&s;t threatned again&s;t us, the&s;e Kingdoms, this Church, which is now under the Cro&s;s, and near to utter ruin, and extirpation, unle&s;s thy mercy &s;tept in between thy fierce W<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ath and our heinous Sins, and how&s;oever the voice of our crying Sins, hath a&s;+cended into thine Ears, and &s;tirred up De&s;troyers to root
<PB N="50" REF="27">
us out, that we be no more a People, and that thy Name be no more called upon, nor hallowed by us, yet we mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech thee to hear the Prayers and Sup|plications, with &s;trong Cryings and Tears which once our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour offered for us upon the Cro&s;s, and in the Garden, and daily repre&s;ents unto thee; and for his all-&s;ufficient Merits, which &s;peak better things than the Blood of <HI>Abel,</HI> hear not the cry of our Sins, but hear the cry of his Blood, and therein wa&s;h away all our Sins, let our great Mi&s;eries and Dangers &s;uffice for that which is pa&s;t, and let that Orator in thy own bo&s;om that is, thine own fatherly goodne&s;s per&s;wade and prevail for us, and purcha&s;e our Deliverance and Safety; hear us for our &s;elves and others, look upon us with the Eyes of Pity and Compa&s;&s;ion, con&s;ider our Enemies how many and how mighty they be, and they bear a tyrannous hate again&s;t us. Our Goods, our Lands, our Lives will not &s;uffice their boundle&s;s Ambition: Our Religion our Souls, and if it were po&s;&s;ible, our God, is that they &s;trike at; cur&s;e thou their Angers, for it is fierce, and their Wrath, for it is cruel. Divide them in <HI>Jacob,</HI> and &s;catter them in <HI>I&s;rael:</HI> 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 ble&s;s thy &s;acred and holy Name, and evermore &s;erve thee without fear in Holine&s;s and Righteou&s;ne&s;s all the Days of our Life, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>WE be&s;eech thee, Almighty God, look upon the hearty de&s;ires of thy humble Servants, and &s;tretch forth the right Hand of thy Maje&s;ty to be our Defence again&s;t all our Enemies, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>GRant we be&s;eech thee, Almighty God, that we which for our evil deeds are ju&s;tly puni&s;hed, by the comfort of thy Grace may mercifully be relieved, through Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>ALmighty and everla&s;ting God, mercifully look up|on our Infirmities and Mi&s;eries, and in all our Dangers and Nece&s;&s;ities, &s;tretch forth thy right Hand to help and defend us, through Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<PB N="51" REF="27">
<P>ALmighty God, which art more ready to hear, than we to pray, and are wont to give more than either we de&s;ire or de&s;erve: pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us tho&s;e things, whereof we are afraid, and giving unto us that, that our Prayers dare not pre&s;ume to a&s;k, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
<BACK>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A proper Prayer for the Thirtieth of <HI>January,</HI> the Anniver|&s;ary of <HI>England</HI>'s Captivity, and Tyrants Liberty.</HEAD>
<P>O Ble&s;&s;ed Lord God, who by thy Wi&s;dom guide&s;t and ordere&s;t all things mo&s;t &s;uitable to thy Ju|&s;tice, and performe&s;t thy Plea&s;ure, always in &s;uch man|ner to us, that thou can&s;t al&s;o appeal to us, whether thy ways be not equal: we, thy poor afflicted People, fall down before thee, acknowledging the ju&s;tice of thy pro|ceedings with us, and that the amazing Judgment, which as this Day befel us, in thy permitting cruel Men, Sons of <HI>Belial</HI> to execute their fury of their Rebellions upon Our late Gracious Soveraign, and to imbrew their Hands in the Blood and Murder of the Lords Anointed, that was drawn down by the great and long Provocations of this Nation &s;ins again&s;t thee: For all which and our own parts, in which, we &s;inful wretches here met toge|ther, de&s;ire to humble our &s;elves before thee, and to tremble at thy pre&s;ence in this Days &s;ore Vengeance, the effect as well as the defect of our Impieties, the work of our own Hands upon our &s;elves, thy heavy Judgment, but our own mo&s;t horrible Sin; for which alone (did not multitude of other Sins cry out again&s;t us) thou mighte&s;t ju&s;tly de&s;cend down upon us all, as thou did&s;t in <HI>Sodom,</HI> and leave us no other memorial than to be the frightful Monuments of thine Indignation and Fury to all Po&s;terity. Gracious is the Lord, and merciful, there|fore
<PB N="52" REF="28">
it is that we are not con&s;umed! O let thy long-&s;uffering and patience lead us to Repentance: And now, O Lord, looking on this particular &s;ignal Judgment, and thy la&s;t Trump warning us to flie from the Wrath to come; We come forth to meet our God, mourning in our Prayers before thee, and begging the aver&s;ion of thy further di&s;plea&s;ure, and the removal of the&s;e Plagues of long continuance from us; for the all-&s;ufficient merits of the Death and Sufferings of our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour. O for|give our great and manifold Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, and for his bloody Pa&s;&s;ion &s;ake, deliver this Nation from Blood-guiltine&s;s, that of this Day e&s;pecially; O God of our Salvation. Let not our crying Sins intercept our Pray|ers, or thy Ble&s;&s;ings; but hear the Voice of our Tears; and hearing forgive and heal us: retire not quite from us into thine own Place, Laugh not at our Calamities, nei|ther Mock in this Day of our Vi&s;itation: Vindicate thy own Cau&s;e, and thine own Providence, that it may ap|pear unto Men, that thou beare&s;t up the Pillars of the Earth; and that by thee Kings do Reign. And though thou ha&s;t &s;uffered our Enemies to proceed to that high pitch of Violence again&s;t our late King, even to kill and take po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his Throne and Revenews: Yet fru&s;trate now at length their bold Hopes and De&s;ires; let not their mi&s;chievous imaginations Pro&s;per, lea&s;t they be too Proud; let them not be able to e&s;tabli&s;h them|&s;elves in that pro&s;perity and greatne&s;s they have Fancied; let them not &s;ay of his Family, God hath for&s;aken them, let us per&s;ecute them: Shew &s;ome Token on his &s;eed for Good, that their Enemies may &s;ee it, and be a&s;hamed; becau&s;e thou, Lord, ha&s;t Holpen and Comforted them. Bow the Hearts of the Subjects of this Land, as thou did&s;t tho&s;e of I&s;rael to <HI>David,</HI> that they acknowledge and receive joyfully the Heir of the&s;e three Kingdoms; and fa&s;ten thou him as a Nail in a &s;ure Place; behold his Injuries, and have compa&s;&s;ion on his Innocency; and let the de&s;ire of his Enemies peri&s;h like that of the Hypo|crite; but bring him, maugre all their Oppo&s;itions, to a peaceable po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of that Throne to which by Birth-light thou ha&s;t de&s;igned him, and e&s;tabli&s;h him in the Ju&s;t Rights of his Family. O Lord, we wait on thee this Day for this Ble&s;&s;ing; make no longer tarrying, but according to the time thou ha&s;t Plagued us &s;end us de|liverance. Snatch the prey out of the Lyons Teeth, and
<PB N="53" REF="28">
pull us out of the Burnings like a Fire-brand: We be|&s;eech thee, that this Day, we may &s;pread before thee the Words of <HI>Rab&s;hekah,</HI> the Proud railing, and Scornful reproach of our (Enemies) Behold this Day their Exal|tation, and our Mourning: O Lord, our Eyes are to|wards thee! For whom nothing is hard; let it not &s;eem a &s;mall thing to thee, that we &s;uffer, but concenter our Prayers with the many Thou&s;ands that call on thee; that Salvation may come to our King, and through him thy ble&s;&s;ing of Peace unto thy People. Think upon tho&s;e that are peaceable, and faithful in the Land, and deal thou with us according to thy Word, wherein thou ha&s;t cau&s;ed us to put our tru&s;t: Let the World &s;ee that there is a God that judgeth the Earth, and will &s;end deliverance to his People in their needful time of trou|ble. But what&s;oever is, let us not behave our &s;elves frowardly, but with all Chri&s;tian Humility, run the race thou &s;ette&s;t before us, and patiently bear the Indigna|tion of the Lord, becau&s;e we have &s;inned again&s;t him. And we meekly be&s;eech thee, that if the Divine De|cree of thy Ju&s;tice with&s;tand our Petitions, our Prayers may return unto our own Bo&s;oms; and that thou wilt make thy Judgments temporal and not &s;piritual upon us; but a&s;&s;i&s;t us with &s;trength proportionable to our temptations; that we be not delivered to evil: but that in well-doing we may commit our &s;elves unto thee our God, as unto a faithful Creator; and that both our King and we may &s;ay with a Chri&s;tian &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion and cheerfulne&s;s: It is the Lord, let him do what &s;eemeth him good; to whom we de&s;ire to a&s;cribe Honour, Prai&s;e, Dominion and Thank&s;giving, now and for ever|more. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="table of contents">
<PB REF="29">
<PB REF="29">
<HEAD>The Contents.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>A</HI> Preparatory Prayer. <HI>folio 3</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>King <HI>Davids</HI> prayer for the Church and People. <HI>4</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>King <HI>Davids</HI> &s;econd Prayer. <HI>5</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>King <HI>Davids</HI> third prayer. <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>King <HI>Davids</HI> fourth prayer. <HI>6</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>King <HI>Davids</HI> Tears. <HI>7</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jeremiahs</HI> Lamentations, prophetical of the&s;e times. <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Jeremiahs</HI> &s;econd prayer. <HI>8</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Daniels</HI> prayer and confe&s;&s;ion in the behalf of him&s;elf and his people. <HI>9</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t prayer for the King. <HI>10</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd prayer for the King. <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The third prayer for the King. <HI>11</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Preparatory ejaculations precede the Litany. <HI>12</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Litany of interce&s;&s;ion. <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A prayer for the Church. <HI>16</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A prayer for the Queen Mother and the Royal Progeny. <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A prayer for the Afflicted. <HI>17</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Certain Ver&s;es of &s;everal p&s;alms. <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A prayer. <HI>18</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Confe&s;&s;ion of &s;ins. <HI>20</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A prayer. <HI>25</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An Ab&s;olution to be pronounced by the prie&s;t only. <HI>ibid</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Lords prayer. <HI>26</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>More prayers. <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>P&s;alms proper upon this occa&s;ion to be read <HI>viz. III, folio. 53. VII, fol. 56. XXVII. fol. 57. XLVI. fol. 58 LXXXIII, fol. 75. LXXXVI, fol. 60. 28</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The fir&s;t Le&s;&s;on proper upon this occa&s;ion, is, out of the 2 Book of <HI>Samuel XV. Chapter. folio. 34</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Another Le&s;&s;on upon this occa&s;ion, is, in the <HI>2</HI> of <HI>Chroni|cles, XIII. Chapter, fol. 37</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>More Le&s;&s;ons fitting this occa&s;ion, <HI>viz. 2 Samuel 16, 17, 18,</HI> and <HI>20. Chapters. Numbers 16. Chap. I&s;ai. 22. Amos. 4. Joel 2</HI> and <HI>Ezekiel. 9. Chapters.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB REF="30">Then &s;hall prie&s;t and people repeat tho&s;e &s;ayings. <HI>39</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Another prayer. <HI>40</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Then &s;hall the prie&s;t and people repeat tho&s;e &s;ayings. <HI>41</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The &s;econd Le&s;&s;on proper for this occa&s;ion, is, the 24 <HI>Chap|ter</HI> of St. <HI>Matthew. 44</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Then &s;hall the prie&s;t and people repeat tho&s;e &s;ayings. <HI>47</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Another prayer. <HI>49</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A prayer for the Church. <HI>ibid.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>More prayers. <HI>50</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A proper prayer for the 30th of <HI>January,</HI> being the Anniver|&s;ary of <HI>Englands</HI> Captivity, and Tyrants Liberty. <HI>53</HI></ITEM>
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