should serve thee in holiness and righteousness, being delivered from fear of all their adversaries;-forget not the congregation of thy poor people for ever; maintain thine own cause; deliver thy turtle-dove from the multitude of her enemies. Preserve with thy right hand all the places appointed for thy public service; let a guard of flaming cherubims (as at the gate of Paradise) stand sentinel, and keep from the invasions of sacrilegious persons, and the pollutions of all impure church-robbers, all thy dwellingplaces, that thou mayest for ever dwell among us, defending the poor, bringing help to all thy people, and particular blessings and assistances to the tribe of thine own inheritance, which thou hast sanctified to thy worship and service; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

THE FIFTEENTH DAY..

Morning Prayer.

PSALM LXXV.

A Prayer against the Terrors of the Day of Judgment. O LORD GOD, the judge of all the world, from whom cometh all promotion and all punishment, have mercy upon us now, at the hour of death, and in the day of judgment, when thou shalt judge all the congregations of men and angels according unto right. O give us grace to expect thy coming in humility and charity, that we be not stiff-necked and exalted in our own opinion and conceptions, but may submit to thy yoke with meekness and obedience; that when thou shalt pour forth the cup of vengeance upon the ungodly, we may not drink or taste of the dregs of it, but may sit down at thy table in the supper of the Lamb, and be satisfied with the blessings of eternity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

PSALM LXXVI.

A Prayer that we may fear God's Judgments, and be freed from the Terrors of Men.

O Lord God, whose dwelling is in heaven, and thy name is great in all the world, plant the dread and reverence of thee and thy power in our hearts: let thy threatenings and

thy judgments which are heard from heaven, and executed upon disobedient and gainsaying people, make us to tremble at the remembrance of our sins, and in the consideration of our weaknesses and demerits: and let thy mercies and the remembrance of thy infinite loving-kindnesses make our hearts still, full of evenness and tranquillity, that we may not fear the fierceness of man, or the wrath of those whose spirits thou canst refrain, lest we be disturbed in our duties towards thee; but let us so fear thee, that we may never offend against thee, but may pass from fear to love, from apprehensions of thy wrath to the sense and comforts of thy mercies, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

PSALM LXXVII.

A Prayer that the Experience of God's Goodness may produce Hope in us, and remove from us all Fearfulness and Doubting.

O God, who dost wonders, and hast declared thy power amongst all people, let the observation of thy mercies and loving-kindnesses make such deep impression in our hearts and memories, that, when we are in heaviness, we may remember the years of thy right hand, and call to mind the wonders of old time: that although thou sometimes withdrawest the brightness of thy countenance from us, and shuttest up thy loving-kindness in a short displeasure,—yet the experience of thy old mercies, which never fail, may sustain our infirmities, and the expectation of thy lovingkindnesses may cure all our impatience, till, in thy due time, the sense of thy favours may actually relieve all our distresses, and thy right hand lead us like sheep into the folds of eternal rest and security; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Evening Prayer.

PSALM LXXVIII.

A Commemoration of God's Blessings to his Church of old, of
his Judgments upon Sinners, and his Mercies to the Penitent.
O LORD GOD of our fathers, God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, thou that leddest thy people through the wilderness

with a light and with a cloud, and with thy bright angel; for their sakes turning rocks into a springing well, and making the sea and the river become dry land, so making demonstration of the greatness of thy mercy by the greatness of thy miracles, and didst still go on to make all thy creatures leave their natures to serve them, even then when they tempted and provoked thee ten times in the desert: O be pleased to do unto us as thou didst to them; lead us through the desert of this world with the light of thy Holy Spirit; and from the rock, which for our sakes thou didst smitę with the heavy rod, the rock Christ Jesus,-let water and blood stream forth, to cleanse, and to refresh us. Give us of the bread that came down from heaven, the flesh of thy dear Son, to eat; that we being purified by his blood, and nourished by that celestial manna, our hearts may be set aright, and our spirits may cleave stedfastly unto thee, O God; that we may remember thy works, and trust in thy mercies, and may keep thy commandments. O never let the fire of thy wrath be kindled towards us, nor thy heavy displeasure come up against us. Let us not consume our days in folly and vanity, lest our years be spent in trouble; but when through infirmity we fall, let thy gentle correction call us home, that we may turn us early, and seek after thee, our God, who art our strength and our merciful Redeemer; that we may never feel the furiousness of thy eternal wrath, nor have our portion amongst the evil angels, but may be conducted by thy mercies and providence to the border of thy sanctuary, and to the mountain where thou reignest over all the creatures, one God, world without end. Amen.

THE SIXTEENTH DAY.

Morning Prayer.

PSALM LXXIX.

A Prayer that God would deliver his Church from the Cruelty of all her Persecutors.

O LORD GOD of thine inheritance, who conveyest many blessings to the children of men by the prayer and ministry

of thy church, let our prayers obtain of thee mercies and deliverances for her. O Lord, thou hast planted thy church in the humility and poverty and death of thy Son; thou hast watered it with the blood of thy apostles and martyrs; thou hast made it flourish and spread forth its branches, by the warmth and heat and graces of thy Holy Spirit, and hast, according to thy promise, still preserved it in the midst of all enmities and disadvantages. Thy laws and righteous commandments have been a scorn and derision to Jews and Gentiles: the flesh of thy servants hath been meat for the beasts of the land and still she wears the purple robe of mockery, and the crown of thorns which at first she took from the head and side of her dearest Lord. At last, O Lord, be gracious unto thine inheritance: help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: let not thine enemies devour the church, and lay waste her dwelling-places; be merciful unto our sins: preserve all those, that by malice of their enemies are appointed to death, or prison, or any other misery let us still enjoy the freedom of thy Gospel, the food of thy word, the sweet refreshings of thy sacraments, public communion in thy church, and all the benefits of the society of saints; and let not our sins cause thee to remove the candlestick from us, but make thy people and the sheep of thy pasture secure and glad in thy salvation, that we may show forth thy praise in this world and in the world to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

PSALM LXXX.

A Prayer for the Church.

O thou Shepherd of Israel, thou that sittest upon the cherubims, stir up thy strength, and come and help thy people, that prayeth unto thee for mercy and protection. Thou hast made affliction the portion of thy children in this life; thou feedest them with bread of tears, and givest them plenteousness of tears to drink: yet be pleased to show the light of thy countenance upon us, to lighten our darknesses, to relieve our miseries, to heal our sicknesses; and let not thy church become a strife unto her neighbours, but reunite her divisions, and make her not a prey to them that would devour her, and then laugh her to scorn. O Lord, hedge

her about with thy mercies, with the custody of angels, with the patronage of kings and princes, with the hearts and hands of nobles, and the defence of the whole secular arm; lest the wild beasts of the field pluck off her grapes, destroy the vintage, and root up the vine itself: but let her so flourish under the beams of thy favour and providence, that it may take root, and spread, and fill all lands; that the name of the man of thy right hand, the God and man Christ Jesus, may be glorified, thy church enlarged and defended, and we blessed with thy health and salvation. Grant this, O Lord, for Jesus Christ's sake, our only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

PSALM LXXXI.

A Festival Song, and a Prayer for the Grace and Blessings of Obedience to God's Laws.

O Lord God our strength, whose mercies are infinite, whose majesty is glorious, whose goodness is amiable above all the excellencies in the world; enlarge our hearts with joy and rejoicings in thy glories, open our mouths wide, and fill our lips with thy praises, that upon the solemn feast-days we may commemorate thy excellencies and mercies, and the great mysteries of our redemption and religion, adoring thee with thanks and joyfulness, who art mysterious in thy words, and marvellous and merciful in all thy works. And that we may, in the best manner, express our thankfulness to thee, give us thy grace that we may hear thy voice, that we may obey thee and walk in thy laws, that we follow not our own imaginations, nor be given to our own hearts' lusts, but that we resigning ourselves only to thy holy will and pleasure, thou mayest hear our prayers whenever any storm of trouble falls upon us, and turn thine hand against our adversaries; and that we, being delivered from the burden of our sins, may be fed with the choicest of thy viands, and with food from the rock Christ Jesus, even his most precious body and blood, nourishing us up to life eternal, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.