The booke of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England.

Inclina Domine. Psal. 86.

BOwe downe thine eare, O Lord, and heare mee: for I am poore, and in miserie.

Preserue thou my soule, for I am holy: my God saue thy seruant that putteth his trust in thee.

Be mercifull vnto me, O Lord: for I will call dayly vpon thee.

Comfort the soule of thy seruant: for vnto thee, O Lord, doe I list vp my soule.

For thou Lord art good and gracious: and of great mer∣cie vnto all them that call vpon thee.

Giue eare Lord vnto my prayer: and ponder the voyce of mine humble desires.

In the time of my trouble I will call vpon thee: for thou hearest me.

Among the good there is none like vnto thou, O Lorde: there is not one that can doe as thou doest.

All nations whom thou hast made, shall come and wor∣ship thee, O Lord: and shall glorisie thy name.

For thou art great, and doest wonderous things: thou art God alone.

Teach mee thy may, O Lord, and I will walke in thy trueth: O knit my heart vnto thee, y^t I may feare thy name:

I will thanke thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and will praise thy Name for euermore.

For great is thy mercie toward me: and thou hast deliue∣red my soule from the nethermost hell.

O God, the proud are risen as against me: and the Congre∣gations

of naughty men haue sought after my soule, and haue not set thee before their eyes.

But thou (O Lord God) art full of compassion and) mer∣tie: long suffering, plenteous in goodnesse and trueth.

O turne thee then vnto mee, and haue mercie vpon mee: giue thy strength vnto thy seruant, and helpe the sonne of thine handmaid.

Shew some good token vpon me for good, that they which hate me, may see it, and be ashamed: because thou Lord hast holpen me, and comforten me.

Fundamentaeius. Psal. 87.

HEr foundations are vpon the holy hils: the Lord loueth the gates of Sion, more then all the dwellings of Iacob.

Very excellēt thigs are spokē of thee: thou city of God.

I will thinke vpou Rahab and Babylon: With them that know me.

Behold ye the Philistims also: and they of Tyre, with the Morians, loe, there was he borne.

And of Sion it shalbe reported, that he was borne in her: and the most High shall stablish her.

The Lord shall rehearse it when he writeth vp the people: that he was borne there.

The fingers also and trumpetters shall hee rehearse: all my fresh sprmgs shall be in thee.

Domine Deus. Psal.88.

O Lord God of my saluation, I haue cryed day and night before thee: O let my prayer enter into thy presence, en∣cline thine eare vnto my calling.

For my soule is full of trouble: and my life draweth nigh vnto hell.

I am counted as one of them that goe downe into the pit: and I haue beene euen as a man that hath no strength.

Free among the dead, like vnto them that be wounded and lie in the graue: which be out of remembrance, and are cut a∣way from thy hand.

Thou hast layde me in the lowest pitte: in a place of darke∣nesse, and in the deepe.

Thine indignation lyeth hard vpon mee: and thou hast

bexed me with all thy stormes.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from mee: and made me to be abhorred of them.

I am so fast in prison: that I cannot get foorth.

My sight faileth for very trouble: Lord, I haue called dai∣ly vpon thee, I haue stretched out mine hands vnto thee.

Doest thou shewe wonders among the dead: or shall the dead rise vp againe and praise thee?

Shall thy louing kindnesse be shewed in the graue: or thy faithfulnesse in destruction?

Shall thy wonderous works be knowen in the darke: and thy righteousnes in the land where all things are forgotten?

Vnto thee haue I cried, O Lord: and earely shall my prayer come before thee.

Lorde, why abhorrest thou my soule: and hidest thou thy face from me?

I am in miserie, and like vnto him that is at the point to die: (euen from my youth vp) thy terrours haue I suffered with a troubled mind.

Thy wrathfull displeasure goeth ouer mee: and the feare of thee hath vndone me.

They came round about mee dayly like water: and com∣passed me together on euery side.

My louers and friends hast thou put away from me: and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.

Misericordias Domini. Psal. 89.

MY song shal be alway of the louing kindnesse of the Lorde: with my mouth wil I euer be shewing thy trueth, from one generation to an∣other.

For I haue said, Mercie shalbe set vp for euer: thy trueth shall thou stablish in the heauens.

I haue made a couenant with my chosen: I haue sworne vnto Dauid my seruant.

Thy seede will I stablish for euer: and set vp thy throne

from one generation to another.

O Lorde, the very heauens shall praise thy wonderous workes: and thy trueth in the Congregation of the Saints.

For who is hee among the clouds: that shall be compared vnto the Lord?

And what is hee among the gods: that shall bee like vnto the Lord?

God is very greatly to be feared in the counsel of the saints: and to be had in reuerence of all them that are about him.

O Lord God of hostes, who is like vnto thee: thy trueth (most mightie Lord) is on euery side.

Thou rulest the raging of the sea thou stillest the waues there of when they arise.

Thou hast subdued Egypt, and destroyed it: thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy mightie arme.

The heauens are thine the earth also is thine: thou hast laid the foundation of the round world, and all that therin is.

Thou hast made the North and the South: Tabor and Hermon shall reioyce in thy Name.

Thou hast a mightie arme: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

Righteteousnesse and equitie is the habitation of the ••eate: mercie and trueth shall goe before thy face.

Blessed is the people (O Lorde) that can reioyce in thee: they shall walke in the light of thy countenance.

Their delight shall dayly in thy Name: and in thy righteousnesse shall they make their boast.

For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy louing kindnesse thou shall lift vp our hornes.

For the Lorde is our defence: the holy one of Israel is our King.

Thou spakest sometime in visions vnto thy Saints, and saydest: I haue laid helpe vpon one that is mightie, I haue ixalted one chosen out of the people.

I haue found Dauid my seruant: with my holy oyle haue I anoynted him.

My hand shall holde him fast: and my arme shall streng∣then him.

The enemie shall not be able to doe him violence: the sonne of wickednesse shall not hurt him.

I shall smite downe his foes before his face: and plague them that hate him.

My trueth also and my mercie shallbe with him: and in my Name shall his horne be exalted.

I will set his dominion also in the sea: and his right hand in the floods.

Hee shall call me, Thou art my father: my God, and my strong saluation.

And I will make him my first borne: higher then the kings of the earth.

My mercie will I keepe for him for euermore: and my co∣uenant shall stand fast with him.

His seede also will I make to endure for euer: & his throne as the dayes of heauen.

But if his children forsake my Law: and walke not in my iudgements.

If they breake my statutes, and keepe not my commande∣ments: I will visit their offences with the rod, and their sinne with scourges.

Neuerthelesse, my louing kindnesse will I not vtterly take from him: nor suffer my trueth to faile.

My couenant will I not breake, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lippes: I haue sworne once by my Holinesse, that I will not faile Dauid.

His seede shall endure for euer: and his seate is like as the sunne before me.

He shall stand fast for euermore as the moone: and as the faithfull witnesse in heauen.

But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine anoynted: and art displeased at him.

Thou hast broken the couenant of thy seruant: and cast his crowne to the ground.

Thou hast ouerthrowen all his hedges: and broken down his strong holds.

All they that goe by, spo••••e him: and he is become a rebuke to his neighbours.

Thou hast set vp the right hand of his enemies: and made all his aduersaries to reioyce.

Thou hast taken away the edge of his sworde: and giuest him not victorie in the battell.

Thou hast put out his glory: and cast his throne downe to the ground.

The dayes of his youth hast thou shortened: and couered him with dishonour.

Lord, how long wil thou hide thy selfe, for euer: and shall thy wrath burne like fire?

Oh remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men, for nought?

What man is hee that liueth, and shall not see death: and shall he deliuer his soule from the hand of hell?

Lorde, where are thy olde louing kindnesses: which thou swarest vnto Dauid in thy trueth?

Remember, Lord, the rebuke that thy seruants haue: and how I doe beare in my bosome the rebukes of many people.

Wherewith thine enemies haue blasphemed thee, and slan∣dered the footesteps of thine anoynted: prased be the Lorde for euermore. Amen Amen.

Notes

• Morning prayer.
• Euening prayer.