with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever. Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief, from sin, from the crafts and assaults of the devil, from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation : Good Lord deliver us. From all blindness of heart: from pride, vain glory, and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness: Good Lord deliver us. From fornication, and all other deadly sin, and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil: Good Lord deliver us. From lightning and tempest, from plage, pestilence, and famine, from battle, and murther, and from sudden death: Good Lord deliver us. From all sedition and privy conspiracy, from all false doctrine and heresy, from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word and commandment: Good Lord deliver us. By the mystery of thy holy incarnation, by thy holy nativity and circumcision, by thy baptism, fasting, and temp tation: Good Lord deliver us. By thine agony and bloody sweat, by thy cross and passion, by thy precious death and burial, by thy glorious resurrection and ascension, and by the coming of the Holy Ghost: Good Lord deliver us. In all time of our tribulation, in all time of our wealth, in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment: Good Lord deliver us. We sinners do beseech thee to hear us (O Lord God), and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universally in the right way. We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee, in righteousness, and holiness, of life, thy servant Elizabeth, our most gracious Queen and go vernour: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule her heart in thy faith, fear, and love, that she may always have affiance in thee, and ever seek thy honour and glory: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to be her defender and keeper, giving her the victory over all her enemies : We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all bishops, pastors, and Ministers of the Church, with true knowledge and understanding of thy word, and that both by their preaching and living they may set it forth, and shew it accordingly: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That' it may please thee to endue the lords of the council, and all the Nobility, with grace, wisdom, and understanding: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep the Magistrates, giving them grace to execute justice, and to maintain truth: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all nations unity, peace, and concord: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and dread thee, and diligently to live after thy commandments: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give all thy people increase of grace, to hear meekly thy word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. [This petition is printed twice, the one for the Candidates, which precedes it in both the Ordinals of king Edward, being omitted.]. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand, and to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise them up that fall, and finally to beat down Sathan under our feet: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour, help, and comfort all that be in danger, necessity, and tribulation: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to preserve all that travel by land or by water, all women labouring of child, all sick persons and young children, and to shew thy pity upon all prisoners and captives: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to defend and provide for the fatherless children and widows, and all that be desolate and oppressed: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men : That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors and slanderers, and to turn their hearts: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our sins, negligences and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit, to amend our lives according to thy holy word: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. Son of God, we beseech thee to hear us. Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us. O Lamb of GOD, that takest away the sins of the world. Grant us thy peace. O Lamb of GOD, that takest away the sins of the world. O Christ hear us. O Christ hear us. Lord have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Our Father, which art in heaven. &c. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. The Versicle. O Lord deal not with us after our sins. Let us pray. O GOD, merciful Father, that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as be sorrowful, mercifully assist our prayers, that we make before thee, in all our troubles and adversities, whensoever they oppress us; and graciously hear us, that those evils, which the craft and subtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, be brought to nought, and by the providence of thy goodness they may be dispersed, that we thy servants, being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy church: through Jesu Christ our Lord. O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thy name's sake. O GOD, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them. O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us, for thine honour. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. From our enemies defend us, O Christ. Graciously look upon our afflictions. Pitifully behold the sorrows of our heart. Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people. Favourably with mercy hear our prayers. Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us, O Christ. The Versicle. The Answer. O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us. As we do put our trust in thee. Let us pray. WE humbly beseech thee, O Father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities, and for the glory of thy name's sake turn from us all those evils, that we most righteously have deserved: And grant that in all our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore serve thee in holiness and pureness of living, to thy honour and glory through our only mediator and advocate Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ALMIGHTY God, which hast given us grace at this time with one accord, to make our common supplications unto thee, and dost promise that when two or three be gathered in thy name, thou wilt grant their requests: fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them, granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Amen. Then shall be said also this that followeth. ALMIGHTY God, which by the divine providence hast appointed diverse orders of ministers in the church: and didst inspire thine holy Apostles to choose unto this order of Deacons the first martyr S. Stephin, with other: mercifully behold these thy servants, now called to the like office and administration: replenish them so with the truth of thy doctrine, and innocency of life, that both by word and good example they may faithfully serve thee in this office, to the glory of thy name, and profit of the congregation, through the merits of our Saviour Jesu Christ: who liveth and reigneth with thee, and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen. Then shall be sung or said the Communion of the day, saving the Epistle shall be read out of Timothe, as followeth : LIKEWISE must the Ministers be honest, pot double tongued, not given unto much wine, neither greedy of filthy lucre, but holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. And let them first be proved, and then let them minister, so that no man be able to reprove them. Even so must their wives be honest, not evil speakers, but sober and faithful in [Misprint for, thy.] |