life, thy servant Elizabeth, our most gracious Queen and governour: We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule her heart in thy faith, fear and love, and that she may evermore 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 : 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 encrease 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. That it may please thee to strengthen such as do stand, and comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up them 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 that in due time we may enjoy them : We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give to us true repentance, to forgive us all our sins, negligences and ignorances, 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. 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: Have mercy upon us. O Christ hear us. O Christ hear us. Lord have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us. Our Father, which art. &c. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. 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 subtlety 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 persecution, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy church through Jesu Christ our Lord. Amen. 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 diddest 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. &c. As it hath been from the beginning, is now and ever shall be world. &c. Amen. From our enemies defend us O Christ. Graciously look upon our afflictions. Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us, O Christ. Graciously hear us, O Christ. Graciously hear us, O Lord Christ. The Versicle. O Lord, let thy mercy be shewed upon us. The Answer. 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. : A prayer for the Queen's Majesty. O LORD our heavenly Father, high and &1 mighty, King of kings, Lord of Lords, the only ruler of Princes, which doest 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. Indue her plentifully with heavenly gifts: Grant her in health and wealth long to live, strength 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. ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, which only workest great marvels, send down upon our Bishops and Curates, and all congregations committed to their charge, the healthful spirit of thy grace, and that they may truly please thee. Pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing: Grant this, O Lord, for the honour of our advocate and mediator Jesus Christ. Amen. [1 Misprint for, and.] A Prayer of Chrysostome. 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 together 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. ii. Corinth. xiii. THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. Here endeth the Litany used in the Queen's Chapel. For rain, if the time require. O GOD, heavenly Father, which by thy Son Jesus Christ hast promised to all them that seek thy kingdom, and the righteousness thereof, all things necessary to their bodily sustenance: Send us, we beseech thee, in this our necessity, such moderate rain and showers, that we may receive the fruits of the earth, to our comfort, and to thy honour, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. For fair weather. O LORD God, which for the sin of man didst once drown all the world except eight persons, and afterward of thy great mercy didst promise never to destroy it so again: we humbly beseech thee, that although we for our iniquities have worthily deserved this plague of rain and waters; yet upon our true repentance thou wilt send us such weather, whereby we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season, and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives, and for thy clemency to give thee praise and glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. In the time of dearth or famine. O GOD, heavenly Father, whose gift it is that the rain doth fall, the earth is fruitful, beasts increase, and fishes do 2 [LITURG. QU. ELIZ.] |