appear. Thou would't have spared fo many Thousands of moft wicked Men, if in the City of Sodom had been found but Ten good Men. Now here be fo many Thousands of Men which love the Glory of thy Name, which figh for the Beauty of thy Houfe; and wilt thou not, at these Mens Prayers, let go thine Anger, and remember thine accuftomed and old Mercies? Shalt thou not, with thy Hea venly Policy, turn our Folly into thy Glory? Shalt thou not turn the wicked Mens Evils into thy Church's Good? For thy Mercy is wont then moft of all to fuccour, when the thing is with us paft Remedy, and neither the Might nor Wisdom of Men can help it. Thou alone bringeft Things that be never fo out of Order into Order again, which art the only Author and Maintainer of Peace. Thou framedft that old Confufion, wherein, with out Order, without Fashion, confufedly lay the difcordant Seeds of Things; and with a wonderful Order, the Things of that Nature that fought together, thou didst allay and knit in a perpetual Band. But how much greater Confufion is this, where is no Charity, no Fidelity, no Bonds of Love, no Reverence neither of Laws, nor yet of Rulers; no Agree ment of Opinions, but, as it were, in a mifor dered Choir, every Man fingeth a contrary Note. Among the Heavenly Planets is no Dif fention; the Elements keep their Place, every one do the Office whereunto they be appoin Kk 2

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ed: And wilt thou fuffer thy Spouse, for whose fake all Things were made, thus by continual Difcords to perifh? Shalt thou fuffer the wicked Spirits, which be the Authors and Workers of Difcord, to bear fuch a swing in thy Kingdom uncheck'd? Shalt thou fuffer the ftrong Captain of Mifchief, whom thou once overtherweft, again to invade the Tents, and to spoil thy Soldiers? When thou wer't here, a Man converfant among Men, at thy Voice fled the Devils. Send forth, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy Spirit, which may drive away out of the Breafts of all them that profefs thy Name, the wicked Spirits, Masters of Riot, of Covetousness, of Vain-glory, of Carnal Luft, of Mischief and Difcord. Create in us, O our God and King, a clean Heart, and renew thy Holy Spirit in our Breafts: Pluck not from us thy Holy Ghost Render unto us the Joy of thy Saving Health, and with thy principal Spirit ftrengthen thy Spoufe, and the Herdsmen thereof. By this Spirit thou reconcileft the Earthly to the Heavenly By this thou didst frame and reduce fo many Tongues, fo many Nations, fo many fundry forts of Men, into one Body of a Church; which Body, by the fame Spirit, is knit to thee their Head. This Spirit if thou wilt vouchsafe to renew in all Mens Hearts, then fhall all the foreign Miferies ceafe; or if they ceafe not, they fhall turn to the Profit and Avail of them which love thee. Stay this Confusion, set in Order this horrible Chaos, sd (O Lord,

(O Lord Jefus) let thy Spirit ftretch out itself upon these Waters of evil, wavering Opinions. And because thy Spirit, which according to thy Prophet's Saying, containeth all Things, hath alfo the Science of Speaking; make, that like as unto all them which be of thy House is one Light, one Baptifm, one God, one Hope, one Spirit, fo they may also have one Voice, one Note, one Song, profeffing one Catholick Truth. When thou didst mount up to Heaven Triumphantly, thou threweft out from Above thy precious Things, thou gavest Gifts amongft Men, thou dealeft fundry Rewards of thy Spirit. Renew again from Above thy old Bountifulness, give that Thing to thy Church now fainting and growing downward, that thou gaveft unto her fhooting up at her first beginning. Give unto Princes and Rulers the Grace fo to ftand in Awe of thee, that they may fo guide the Common weal, as they fhould fhortly render account unto thee that art the KING of Kings. Give Wisdom to be always affiftant unto them, that whatfoever is beft to be done, they may efpy it in their Minds, and pursue the fame in their Doings. Give to the Bishops the Gift of Prophecy, that they may declare and interpret Holy Scripture; not of their own Brain, but of thine Infpiring. Give them the Threefold Charity which thou once demandedft of Peter, what Time thou didft betake unto him the Charge of thy Sheep. Give to the Prieft Kk3

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the Love of Sober nefs and of Chastity. Give to thy People a good Will to follow thy Commandments, and a Readiness to obey fuch Perfons as thou haft appointed over them. So fhall it come to pafs, if through thy Gift thy Princes fhall command that thou requireft, if thy Paftors and Herdsmen hall teach the fame, and thy People obey them both, that the old Dignity and Tranquillity of the Church fhall return again, with a goodly Order, unto the Glory of thy Name. Thou fparedit the Ninevites appointed to be deftroyed, as foon as they converted to Repentance; and wilt thou defpife thy Houfe falling down at thy Feet, which inftead of Sackcloth, hath Sighs, and inftead of Afhes, Tears? Thou promisest Forgiveness to fuch as turn unto thee; but this felf thing is thy Gift, a Man to turn with his whole Heart unto thee, to the intent all our Goodnefs fhould redound unto thy Glory. Thou art the Maker, repair the Work that thou haft fashioned. Thou art the Redeemer, fave that thou haft bought. Thou art the Saviour, fuffer them not to perifh which do hang on thee. Thou art the Lord and Owner, challenge thy Poffeffion. Thou art the Head, help thy Members. Thou art the King, give us a Reverence of thy Laws. Thou art the Prince of Peace, breathe upon us brotherly Love. Thou art the God, have pity on thy humble Befeechers, be thou according to Paul's Saying, all Things in all Men, to the

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A PRAYER for the KING'S MAJESTY, out of the Liber Regalis.

DD, the unspeakable Author of the World, Creator of

Men, Gobernoz of Empires, and Establisher of all Kingdoms, who, out of the Loins of our father Abraham, pidit chule a King that became the Saviour of all Kings and Rations of the Earth; lefs, we beseech thee, the faithful Servant, and our Dead Sovereign Lozd, King GEORGE, with the richeßt Bleflings of thy Grace. "Eftas blich him in the Chzone of his Kingdom by thy mighty Vid and Protection; Mifit him as thou didst Mofes in the Bush, Joshua in the Battle, Gideon in the Field, and Samuel in the Temple. Let the Dew of thine abundant Mercies fall upon his head, and give him the Bleffing of David and Solomon. Be unto him an Helmer of Salvation against the Face of his Enemies, and a trong Tower of Defence in the Time of Adversity. Let his Beign be profperous, and his Days many. Let Peace, and Love, and Holiness; let Justice, and Truth, and all Christian Wertues flourish in his Time, Let his People ferve him with Honour and Dbedience: And let him so duly ferve thee here on Earth, that he may hereafter everlastingly Beign with thee in Heaven, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.