works: yea, I exercife myfelf in the works of thy hands. 61 ftretch forth my hands unto thee: my foul gafpeth unto thee as a thirty land. 7 Hear me, O Lord, and that foon, for my fpirit waxeth faint: hide not thy face from me, left 1 be like unto them that go down into the pit. 8 O let me hear thy lovingkindness betimes in the morn ing, for in thee is my trust: fhew thou me the way that I fhould walk in, for I lift up my foul unto thee. 9 Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies for I flee unto thee to hide me. 10 Teach me to do the thing that pleafeth thee, for thou art my God let thy loving fpirit lead me forth into the land of righteousness. 11 Quicken me, O Lord, for thy Name's fake and for thy righteoufnefs' fake bring my foul out of trouble; 12 And of thy goodness flay mine enemies and deftroy all them that vex my foul, for I am thy fervant. MORNING PRAYER. PSAL. 144. BenediJus Dominus. LESSED be the Lord my hand of ftrange children; 8 Whofe mouth talketh of vanity and their right hand is a right hand of wickedness. 9 I will fing a new fong unto thee, O God and fing praifes unto thee upon a ten ftringed lute. 10 Thou haft given victory unto kings and haft delivered David thy fervant from the peril of the (word. 11 Save me and deliver me from the hand of ftrange children whofe mouth talketh of vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity. 12 That our fons may grow up as the young plants; and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple. 13 That our garners may be full and plenteous with all man. ner of ftore: that our theep may bring forth thoufands, and ten thoufands in our ftreets. 14 That our oxen may be ftrong to labour, that there be no decay: no leading into capti vity, and no complaining in our ftreets. 15 Happy are the people that are in fuch a cafe: yea, bleffed are the people who have the Lord for their God. PSAL. 145. Exaltabo te, Deus. WILL magnify thee, O God, Bftrength: who teacheth my my King: and I will praife thy hands to war, and my fingers to night; 2 My hope and my fortress: my caftle and deliverer, my defender in whom I truft: who fubdueth my people that is un. der me. 3 Lord, what is man, that thou haft fuch refpect unto him: or the fon of man, that thou fo regardeft him! 4 Man is like a thing of nought his time paffeth away like a fhadow. 5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Caft forth thy lightning, and tear them: fhoot out thine arrows, and confume :hem. 7 Send down thine hand from above deliver me, and take me out of the great waters, from the Name for ever and ever. 2 Every day will I give thanks unto thee: and praife thy Name for ever and ever. 3 Great is the Lord, and marvellous, worthy to be praised : there is no end of his greatnefs. 4 One generation hall praise thy works unto another and declare thy power. 5 As for me, I will be talking of thy worthip: thy glory, thy praife, and wondrous works; 6 So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvellous acts and I will also tell of thy greatness. 7 The memorial of thine abundant kindness thall be fhewed: and men fhall fing of thy righteousness. 8 The Lord is gracious and merciful longfuffering, and of whofe hope is in the Lord his great goodnefs. God; 9 The Lord is loving unto every man and his mercy is over all his works. 10 All thy works praife thee, O Lord and thy faints give thanks unto thee. 11 They thew the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power; 12 That thy power, thy glery, and mightiness of thy kingdom: might be known unto men. 13 Thy kingdom is an everlafting kingdom and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages. 14 The Lord upholdeth all fuch as fall and lifteth up all those that are down. 15 The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord and thou giveft them their meat in due feafon. 16 Thou openeft thine hand: and filleft all things living with lenteone 17. The Lord is righteous In all his ways and holy in all his works. 18 The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him: yea, all fuch as call upon him faith fully. 19 He will fulfil the defire of them that fear him : he alfo wih hear their cry, and will help them. 20 The Lord preferveth all them that love him but scatter. eth abroad all the ungodly. 21 My mouth fhall fpeak the praife of the Lord and let all Aeth give thanks unto his holy Name for ever and ever. PSAL. 146. Lauda, anima mea. RAIS ISE the Lord, O my foul; while I live wil I praife the Lord yea, as long as I have any being, I will fing praifes unto my God. 2 O put not your truft in princes, nor in any child of man': for there is no help in them. 3 For when the breath of man goeth forth, he thall turn again to his earth and then all his thoughts perish. 4 Bleiled is he that hath the God of Jacob for bis help: and 5 Who made heaven and earth, the fea and all that theren is who keepeth his promife for ever; 6 Who helpeth them to right that fiffer wrong: who feedeth the hungry. 7 The Lord loofeth men out of prison: the Lord giveth fight to the blind. 8 The Lord helpeth them that are fallen the Lord careth for the righteous. 9 The Lord careth for the Rrangers; he defendeth the fa therlefs and widow as for the way of the ungodly, he turneth It upfide down." 10 The Lord thy God, O Sion, fhall be King for evermore: and throughout all generations. EVENING PRAYER. PSA L. 147. Laudate Dominum. thing to find praifes PRAISE the Lord, for it a unto our God: yea, a joyful and pleafant thing it is to be thankful. 2 The Lord doth build up Jerufalem and gather together the outcafts of lfrael. 3 He healeth thofe that are broken in heart and giveth medicine to heal their fickness. 4 He telleth the number of the ftars and calleth them all by their names. 5 Great is our Lord, and great is his power: yea, and his wif dom is infinite. 6 The Lord fetteth up the meek: and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground. 70 fing unto the Lord with thankfeiving: fing_praises upan the harp unto our God; 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds and prepareth rain for the carth: and maketh the grafs to grow upon the mountains, and herb for the use of 11 But the Lord's delight is in them that fear him and put their truft in his mercy. 12 Praife the Lord, O Jerufalem praife thy God, O Sion. 13 For he hath made faft the bars of thy gates: and hath bleffed thy children within thee. 14 He maketh peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the flour of wheat. 15 He fendeth forth his commandment upon earth: and his word runneth very fwiftly. 16 He givesh fnow like wool: and fcattereth the hoar froft like athes. 17 He cafteth forth his ice like moriels: who is able to abide his froft? 18 Hefendeth out his word, and melteth them he blowe h with his wind, and the warers flow. 19 He theweth his word unto Jacob: his itatutesand ordinances unto ifrael. 20 He hath not dealt fo with any nation: neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws. PSAL. 148. Laudate Dominum. Phim in the heaven: praife him in the height. 2 Praife him, all ye angels of his praife him, all his hot. 3 Praife him, fun and moon praife him, all ye ftars and light. 4 Praise him, all ye heavens : and ye waters that are above the heavens. 5 Let them praife the Name of the Lord: for he spake the word and they were made; he commanded, and they were created. 6 He hath made them fait for ever and ever: he hath given them a law which thall not be brofen. 7 Praife the Lord upon earth: ye dragons and all deeps, 8 Fire and hail, fnow and va pours: wind and torm, fulfilling his word, 9 Mountains and all hills: fruitful trees and all cedars: 10 Beats, and all cattle w.ras and feathered fowls; 11 Kings of the carth, and all people: princes, and all judges of the world; 12 Young men and maidens, old men and children, praife the Name of the Lord : for his Name only is excellent, and his praise above heaven and earth. 13 He thall exalt the horn of his people; all his faints thall praife him': even the children of lfrael, even the people that ferveth him. PSAL. 149. Cantate Domino. fong: let the congregation SNG unto the Lord a new of faints praife him. 2 Let ifrael rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their King. 3 Let them praife his Name in the dance: let them fing praifes unto him with tabret and harp. 4 For the Lord hath pleafüre in his people and helpeth the meekhearted. 5 Let the faints be joyful with glory: let them rejoice in their Beds. 6 Let the praifes of God be in their mouth: and a two edged word in their hand To be avenged of the heathen: and to rebuke the people; 8 To bind their kings in chains and their nobles with links of iron. 9 That they may be avenged of them, as it is written: Such honour have all his faints. PSAL. 150. Laudate Dominum. PRAISE God in his holiness: praife him in the firmament of his power. a Praife him in his noble acts: praife him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praite him in the found of the trumpet: praife him upon the lute and harp. 4 Praife him in the cymbals and dances: praise him upon the ftrings and pipe. 5 Praife him upon the welltuned cymbals: praise him upon the loud cymbals, 6 Let every thing that hath breath: praise the Lord. The End of the Pfalm. FORMS The Morning and Evening Service to be ufed daily at Sea, hat! be the fame which is appointed in the Book of Common Prayer. Thefe two following Prayers are to be alfo ufed in his Majely's Navy every Day. ETERNAL Lord God, who alone fpreadeft out the heavens, and ruleft the raging of the fea; who haft compaffed the waters with bounds until day and night come to an end; Be pleafed to receive into thy Almighty and met gracious protection the perfons of us thy fervants, and the Fleet in which we serve. Preferve us from the dangers of the fea, and from the violence of the enemy, that we may be a fafeguard unto our moft gracious Sovereign Lord King GEORGE, and his kingdoms, and a fecurity for fuch as pafs on the feas upon their lawful occafions; that the inhabitants of our island may in peace and quietnefs ferve thee our God: to enjoy the bleffings of the land, and that we may return in fafety with the fruits of our labours; and with a thankful remem brance of thy mercies to praife and glorify thy holy Name, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. about us, we have forgot thee our God, and refufed to hearken to the ftil voice of thy word, and to obey thy commandments: But now we fee how terrible thou art in all thy works of wen der; the great God to be feared above all: And therefore we adore thy divine Majefty, acknowledging thy power, and imploring thy goodness. Help, Lord, and fave us, for thy mer cies' fake in Jefus Chrift thy Son our Lord. Amen. Or this. MOST glorious and graci ous Lord God, who dwelleft in heaven, but beho deft all things below; Look down, we befeech thee, and hear us, calling out of the depth of mifery, and out of the jaws of this death, which is ready now to fwallow us up: Save, Lord, or elfe we word of command to rebuke the perith. The living, the living thall praife thee. O fend thy raging winds, and the roaring lea; that we being delivered from this diftrefs, may live to ferve thee, and to glorify thy Name all the days of our life. Hear, Lord, and fave us, for the infinite merits of our bleffed Saviour thy Son, our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen. The Prayer to be faid before a Fight at Sea against any enemy. ous Lord God, the Lord of hofts, that ruleft and commandeft all things; thou fitteft in the throne judging right, and therefore we make our address to thy Divine Majefty in this our neceffity, that thou wouldeft take the caufe into thine own hand, and judge between us and our ene mies. Stir up thy ftrength, O Lord, and come and help us for thon giveft not alway the bat tle to the ftrong, but canft fave by many or by few. O let not our fins now cry againft us for vengeance, but licar us thy poor fervants begging mercy, and inploring thy help, and that thou MOST powerful and glori しみ wouldeft THO Enemy. HOU, O Lord, art juft and poweriul: O defend our caufe againft the face of the enemy. O God, thou art a ftrong tower of defence to all that flee unto thee: O fave us from the violence of the enemy. O Lord of hofts, fight for us, that we may glorify thee. O fuffer us not to fink under the weight of our fins, or the violence of the enemy. O Lord, arte, help us, and deliver us for thy Name's sake. Short Prayers inicjped of a storm. HOU, O Lord, that it lies the raging of the fea, hear, hear us, and fave us, that we perith not. O blefled Saviour, that didit have thy difciples ready to perith in a storm, hear us, and fave us, we feech thee. Lord, have mercy upon us.. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghoft, have mercy upon us, fave us now and ever more. Amen. give us our trefpaffes, as we for give them that trefpafs againft us; And lead us not into temp. ta ion, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. When there fhall be imminent Danger, as many as can be pared from neceffary fervice in the Ship, fhall be called together, and make an humble Confeffion of their fins to God: in which every one ought ferionly to reflect upon thofe particular fins, of which his Confcience hall accufe him; faying as followeth: A1 The Confefon. Lmighty God, Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, Maker of all things, Judge of all inen; We acknowledge and bewail our manifold fins and wickedness, Which we from time to time moft grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed, against thy Divine Majefty, Provoking moft juftly thy wrath and indignation againft us. We do earnetily repent, and are heartily forry for thefe our mifdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, mult merciful Father; Forthy Son our Lord Jefus Chrife's fake, forgive us all t⚫at is paft; And grant that we may ever hereafter ferve and pleate thee in newnets of life, To the bonour and glory of thy Name, Through Jefus Chriit our Lord. Amen. Then fhall the Prief, if there be any in the Ship, pronounce this A folution. LMIGHTY God our heaven. A ly Father, who of his great mercy hith promifed forgivenefs f fins to all them, which with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him; Have Father which art in you all your and heaven; Hallowed be thy deliver you from all your fins, Name: Thy kingdom come; confirm and ftrengthen you in Thy will be done in earth, as all goodnefs, and bring you to it is in heaven: Give us this everlasting life, through Jelus day our daily bread; Ard for Chrift our Lord, Amen. น Thanks. |