profess thy name, and the true doctrine of the Gospel of thy Son our Saviour Christ, save us in thy mercy (O heavenly Father) from the cruelty of these conspirators: cast a fear and trembling into their hearts, take our cause into thine own hands, go before our host, fight our battles, and subdue them: So shall they have no cause to insult over thy true Church, and over us thy servants, nor to say with the old enemies, Where is now their God? And we thy penitent and most humble suppliants will from henceforth declare thy Name with cheerful heart unto our brethren: in the midst of the Congregation we will ever praise thee, and magnify thy salvation, world without end. Grant this, O merciful Father, not for our own sakes, but for thy dear Son's sake, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost, three persons and one God, be all honour, glory, power, and dominion now and for ever. Amen. A prayer for the Queen's Majesty. O LORD our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the only ruler of Princes, which dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth, most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth, and so replenish her with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that she may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: endue her plenteously with heavenly gifts, grant her in health and wealth long to live, strengthen her, that she may vanquish and overcome all her enemies, and finally after this life she may attain everlasting joy and felicity, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O ALMIGHTY God, King of all Kings, and governour of all things, whose power no creature is able to resist, to whom it belongeth justly to punish sinners, and to be merciful to them that truly repent: save and deliver us (we humbly beseech thee) from the hands of our enemies; abate their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices: that we, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore from all perils, to glorify thee which art the only giver of all victory, through the merits of thy only Son Jesus Christ our Lord. XXXII. A FORM OF PRAYER, necessary for the present time and state. Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, | 1590. A confession of sins, ALMIGHTY and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep, we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, we have offended against thy holy Laws, we have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and there is no health in us but thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders, spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults, restore thou them that be penitent, according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesu our Lord, and grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake, that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, and sober life, to the glory of thy holy name. Amen. ALMIGHTY God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. which desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live, and hath given power and commandment to his ministers to declare and pronounce to his people, being penitent, the absolution and remission of their sins he pardoneth and absolveth all them which truly repent, and unfeignedly believe his holy Gospel. Wherefore we beseech him to grant us true repentance and his Holy Spirit, that those things may please him which we do at this present, and that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy, so that at the last we may come to his eternal joy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. OUR Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in [1 This is almost entirely made up from the Forms for 1588 and 1589.] heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen. A prayer for the forgiveness of sins. O COME, let us humble ourselves: and fall down before Psal. 95. the Lord our maker, with reverence and fear. Let us repent and turn from our wickedness, and turn again unto our Osee 6. Lord and our sins shall be forgiven us. Acts 3 Osee 6. Let us turn, and the Lord will turn from his heavy Jonas 3. wrath he hath smitten us, and he will heal us, he will pardon us, and we shall not perish. We acknowledge our faults, O Lord: and our sins are ever before Psal. 51. our sight. We have sore provoked thine anger, O Lord thy wrath Lamen. 5. is waxed hot, and thy heavy displeasure is sore kindled against us. But rebuke us not, O Lord, in thine indignation: neither chasten us Psal. 6. in thy heavy displeasure. Job 11. In deed we acknowledge that all punishments are less Judith 8. than our deserving: but yet of thy mercy, Lord, correct us Sapi. 11. to amendment, and plague us not to our destruction. O remember not the sins and offences of our youth, and times past, Psal. 25. but according to thy mercy think upon us, O Lord, for thy goodness. Stand not so far off, O Lord: neither hide thy face in Psal. 10. the needful time of trouble. Turn thee unto us, and have mercy upon us: for we are desolate Psal. 25. and in great misery. Jonas 2. And now in the vexation of our spirits, and the anguish Baruc. 3. of our souls: we remember thee, and we cry unto thee; hear, Lord, and have mercy. For we do not pour out our prayers before thy face, trusting in our Dan. 9. own righteousness: but in thy great and manifold mercies. For thine own sake, and for thy holy name's sake, incline Psal. 25. thine ear and hear: and be merciful to our sins, for they are great. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: O Psal. 9. deliver us, and save us for thy name's sake. Psal. 79. Psal. 143. Psal. 3. Psal. 11. Psal. 104. Psal. 79. Psal. 79. Psal. 79. Psal. 74.& 79. Psal. 79. Psal. 79. Psal. 79. 74. 22. So we that be thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, shal give thee thanks for ever: and will be always shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation. Glory be to the Father, &c. As it was in the, &c. A prayer for deliverance from our enemies. HEAR our prayer, O Lord, consider our desire: hearken unto us for thy truth and mercy's sake. Lord, how are they increased that trouble us: many are they that rise against us. The ungodly bend their bows, and make ready their arrows within the quiver: that they may shoot at those that call upon the name of the Lord. They smite down thy people, O Lord: and trouble thine heritage. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the air: and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land. Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem: and there was no man to bury them. And we that live are become an open shame to our enemies a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us. : O Lord, why is thy wrath such against the sheep of thy pasture! how long wilt thou be angry? shall thy jealousy burn like fire for ever! Wherefore should the ungodly say, Where is now their God there is now no more help for them in their God? O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon for we are come to great misery. O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee, according to the greatness of thy power: preserve thou those that are appointed to die. O Lord, think upon the congregation of thy people, whom thou hast purchased and redeemed of old: O deliver us, and save us, for the glory of thy name. And our praises shall be of thee in the great congre gation our vows will we perform in the sight of them that fear thee. And all the ends of the world shall remember themselves, and be Psal. 22. turned unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him. Glory be to the Father, and to the, &c. As it was in the beginning, is now, &c. Psalms. WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have Psalm 44. told us what thou hast done in their time of old. How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and planted Psalm 44. them in how thou hast destroyed the Nations, and cast them out. For they gat not the land in possession through their Psalm 44. own sword: neither was it their own arm that helped them. But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance: Psalm 44. because thou hadst a favour unto them. Thou art my king, O God: send help unto Jacob. Psalm 44. Through thee will we overthrow our enemies: and in thy name will Psalm 44. we tread them under that rise up against us. For I will not trust [in] my bow: it is not my sword Psalm 44. that shall help me. But it is thou, that savest us from our enemies: and puttest them to Psalm 44. confusion that hate us. We make our boast of God all the day long and will Psalm 44. praise thy name for ever. Be not thou far off, O Lord: put us not to confusion, go forth with our Armies. Make our enemies to turn their backs upon us. Suffer us not to be rebuked of our Neighbours: to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them, that are round about us. Make us not a byword among the heathen: up, Lord, and sleep not, awake and be not absent from us. Hide not thy face from us: forget not our trouble. Arise and help us: and deliver us for thy mercy's sake. Another Psalm. Psalm 44. O HEARKEN to the voice of our prayer, our King, and Psalm 5. our God for unto thee do we make our complaint. O Lord, the Counsel of the wicked conspireth against us: and our Psalm 22. enemies are daily in hand to swallow us up. |