Thanksgiving after a form. Jubilate Deo. Pfal. 66. O be joyful in God, &c. Glory be to the Father. c. As it was in the beginning, &c. Confitemini Domino. Pfal. 107. Ogive thanks unto the Lord, &c. Glory be to the Father, & As it was in the beginning, &c. Colleds of Thanksgiving MOST blefled and glorious Lord God, who art of infinite goodness and mercy; We thy poor creatures, whom thou haft made and preferved, holding our fouls in life, and now refcuing us out of the jaws of death, humbly prefent ourselves again before thy Divine Majelty, to offer a facrifice of praife and thanksgiving, for that thou heardeit us when we called in our trouble, and didit net caft out our prayer, which we made before thee in our great diftrefs; even when we gave all for loft, our thip, our goods, our lives, then didft thou mercifully look upon us, and wonderfully command a deliverance; for which we now being in fafety, do give all praife and glory to thy holy Name, through Jefus Chriit our Lord, Amen. Or this: MOST mighty and gracious good God, thy mercy is over all thy works, but in fpecial manner hath been extended towards us, whom thou haft fo powerfully and wonderfully defended. Thou haft thewed us ter riple things, and wonders in the deep, that we might fee how powerful and gracious a God thou art; how able and ready to help them that truft in thee. Thou haft fhewed us how both winds and feas obey thy command; that we may learn even from them hereafter to obey thy voice, and to do thy will. We therefore blefs and glorify thy Name for this thy mercy in fav ing us, when we were ready to perith. And we beseech thee, inake us as truly fenfible now of thy mercy, as we were then of the danger; and give us hearts always ready to exprefs our thankfulness, not only by words, but alfo by our lives, in being more obedient to thy holy commandments. Continue, we befeech thee, this thy goodness to us; that we, whom thou haft faved, may ferve thee in holiness and righteoufhefs, all the days of our life, through Jefus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen. An Hyman of Praife and Thanks giving after a dangerous Tempe. unto the Lord, for he is COME, let us give thanks gracious and his mercy en dureth for ever. to be praifed; let the redeemed Great is the Lord, and greatly of the Lord fay fo whom he hath delivered from the merciles rage of the fea. of compaffion flow to anger, The Lord is gracious and full and of great mercy. cording to our fins: neither reHe hath not dealt with us aewarded us according to our ini quities. the earth: fo great hath been his But as the heaven is high above mercy towards us. nefs: we were even at death's We found trouble and heavidoor. The waters of the fea had well nigh covered us the proud waters had well nigh gone over our fou!. The fea roared: and the ftormy wind lifted up the waves thereof. We were carried up as it were to heaven, and then down again into the deep our foul melted within us, becaufe of trouble. Then cried we unto thee, O Lord: and thou didit deliver us out of our distress. Bleffed be thy Name, who didft not defpife the prayer of thy fervants: but didft hear our cry, and haft faved us. Thou didit fend forth thy com. mandment: and the windy ftorm ceafed, and was turned into a calm. O let us therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he hath L3 done, done and still doeth for the children of men! Praifed be the Lord daily: even the Lord that helpeth us, and foureth his benefits upon us. He is our God, even the God ef whom cometh falvation: God. is the Lord, by whom we have efcaped death. Thou, Lord, haft made us glad through the operation of thy hands and we will triumph in thy praife. Bleffed be the Lord God, even the Lord God, who only doeth wondrous things; And bleffed be the Name of his Majefty for ever: and let every one of us fay, Amen, Amen. Glory be to the Father, &c. an Enemy. A Pfalm or Hymn of Praife and Thanksgiving after Victory. F the Lord had not been on our fide, now may we fay if the Lord himfelt had not been on our fide, when men rofe up against us; They had fwallowed us up quick when they were fo wrath fully difpleafed at us. Yea, the waters had drowned us, and the ftream had gone over our ful: the deep waters of the proud had gone over our foul. But praifd be the Lord who hath not given us over as a prey unto them. heads, and made us to ftand in the day of battle, The Lord hath appeared for us: the Lord hath overthrown our enemies, and dathed in pieces thofe that role up against us. Therefore not unto us, O Lord, not unto us: but unto thy Name be given the glory. The Lord hath done great things for us: the Lord hath done great things for us, for which we rejoice. Our help ftandeth in the Name of the Lord who hath made heaven and earth. Belled be the Name of the Lord from this time forth for evermore. c. Glory be to the Father, Te Deum. Then this Collea. ALMIGHTY God, the Sovereign Commander of all the world, in whofe hand is power and might, which none is able to withstand; We blefs and magnify thy great and glorious Name for this happy victory, the whole glory whereof we do afcribe to thee, who art the only giver of victory. And we beseech thee, give us grace to improve this great mercy to thy glory, the advancement of thy Gospel, the honour of our Sovereign, and, as much as in us lieth, to the good of all mankind. And we befeech thee, give us fuch a fenfe of this great mercy, as may engage us to a true thankfulrefs, fuch as may appear in our lives by an humble, holy, and obe dient walking before thee all our days, through Jefus Chrift our Lord; to whom with thee and the Holy Spirit, as for all thy mercies, fo in particular for this victory and deliverance, be alglory, and honour, world without end. Amen. At the Burial of their Dead at Sea. The Office in the Common Prayer book may be used; only instead of these words (We therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, &c.] fay, W E therefore commit his turned into corruption, looking for the refurrection of the body dead,) and the life of the world (when the Sea thall give up her to come, through our Lord Jefus Christ; who at his coming thall change our vile body, that it may be like his glorious body, ac cording to the mighty working things to himself. AFORM of PRAYER with THANKSGIVING, to be ufed Yearly upon the Fifth Day of November; for the happy Deliverance of King JAMES I. and the three Eftates of England, from the moft traiterous and bloody intended Maffacre by Gunpowder: And alfo for the happy Arrival of his Majesty King WILLIAM on this Day, for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation. The Minister of every Parifh fhall give warning to his Parishioners publickly in the Church at Morning Prayer the Sunday before, for the due Obfervation of the faid Day. And after Morning Prayer, or Preaching, upon the faid Fifth Day of November, fhall read publickly, diftindly, and plainly, the Act of Parliament made in the third year of King James the Firi, for the Obfervation of it. The Service fhall be the fame with the ufual Office for Holy-days in all Things; except where it is hereafter otherwife appointed, If this day hall happen to be Sunday, only the Colled proper for that Sunday shall be added to this Office in its place. Morning Prayer shall begin with thefe Sentences: THE Lord is full of compaffion, and mercy long. fuffering, and of great goodnefs. Pfal. 103. 8. He will not alway be chiding: neither keepeth he his anger for ever. ver. 9. He hath not dealt with us after ourfins: nor rewarded us according to our wickednefies. ver. 10. Inflead of Venite exultemus, Shallthis Hymn following be used; one Verfe by the Priest, another by the Clerk and People. GIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. Pfal. 107. I. Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed: and deliver ed from the hand of the enemy. ver. 2. Many a time have they fought againft me from my youth up: may Ifrael now fay. Pfal. 129. 1. Yea, many a time have they vexed me from my youth up: but they have not prevailed against me. ver. 2. They have privily laid their net to deftroy me without a caufe yea, even without caufe have they made a pit for my foul. Pfal. 35. 7. 2 They have laid a net for my feet and preffed down my foul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it them felves. Pfal. 57. 7. Great is our Lord, and great is his power: yea, and his wifdom is infinite. Pfal. 147. 5. The Lord fetteth up the meek: and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground. ver. 6. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the fon of man, whom tho madeft fo ftrong for thine own felt. Pfal. 80. 17. And fo will not we go back from thee: O let us live, and we shall call upon thy Name. ver. 18. Glory be to the Father, &c. Proper Pfalms. 64, 124, 125. again with joy and gladness, Proper Lefons. The Firft. 2 Sam. 22. Te Deum. In the Suffrages after the Creed, thefe fhall be inferted and ufed for the King. Priet. O Lord, fave the King; in thee.. Prieft. Send him help from thy holy place; People. And evermore mightily defend him. Priet. Let his enemies have no advantage againit him; People. Let not the wicked approach to hurt him. Inftead of the firft Collect at Morning Prayer, fhall thefe two be fed. A in all ages fhewed thy power LMIGHTY God, who haft and mercy, in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church, and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States, profefling thy holy and eternal truth, from the wicked confpiracies, and malicious prac tices of all the enemies thereof We yield thee our unteigned thanks and praife, for the won derful and mighty deliverance of our gracious Sovereign King mes the Firit, the Queen, the Prince, and all the Royal Branche, with the Nobility, Clergy, and Commons of England, thenaffemblcd in Parliament, by Popith treachery appointed as theep to tle flaughter, in a mon barbarous and favage manner, beyond the amples of former ages. From is unnatural Confpiracy, not our incric, but thy mercy; not our forefight, burthy providence delivered us: And therefore not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name be afcribed all honour and glory, in all Churches of the faints, from generation to generation, through jclusChrift our Lord. Amen. ACCEPT alfo, molt reigned after the time that thou had fong into our mouths, by bring. afflicted us, and putting a new ing his Majefty King William, ance of our Church and Naupon this Day, for the delivertion from Popish Tyranny and arbitrary Power. We adore the wisdom and juftice of thy Providence, which fo timely interpofed in our extreme danger, and difappointed all the defigns of our enemies. We befeech thee, give us fuch a lively and lafting fenfe of what thou didst then, and haft fince that time. done for us, that we may not grow fecure ard careless in our obedience, by prefuming upon thy great and undeferved goodneis; but that it may lead us to repentance, and move us to be which thou haft in a marvellous the more diligent and zealous in all the duties of our Religion, which thou haft in a marvellous manner preferved to us. Let kindnefs and charity, devotion truth and justice, brotherly and piety, concord and unity. with all other virtues, fo flourb ftability of our times, and make among us, that they may be the this Church a praife in the earth. All which we humbly be for the fake of our blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen. In the end of the Litany (which hall always this day be ujed) after the Colled [We humbly befeech thee, fhall this be faid which follorein. Aly Father, who of thy graci ALMIGHTY God and heavenous providence and tender mercy towards us, didit prevent the malice and imaginations or our enemies, by difcovering and contounding their horrible and wicked enterprize, plotted and intended this day to have been executed against the King, and the whole itate of England, for the fubverfion of the Govern ment and Religion etablithed among us; and didit likewife God, our unfeigned due thy fervant King William, thanks, for filling our hears and bring him fately into g Eng land, land, to preferve us from the attempts of our enemies to bereave us of our Religion and Laws: We most humbly praife and magnify thy mott glorious Name for thy unspeakable goodnefs towards us, expreffed in both these acts of thy mercy. We confefs it has been of thy mercy alone, that we are not confumed for our fins have I cried to heaven against us, and our iniquities juffly called for vengeance upon us. But thou But thou haft no dealt with us after our fins, nor rewarded us after our iniquities: nor given us over, as we deferved, to be a prey to our enemies; but haft in mercy delivered us from their malice, and preferved us from death and deftruction. Let the confideration of this thy repeated goodness, O Lord, work in us true repentance, that iniquity may not be our ruin: And in creafe in us more and more a lively faith and love, fruitful in all holy obcdierce; that thou mayeft ftill continue thy favour with the light of thy Gofpel, to us and our pofterity for ever more; and that for thy dear Son's fake, Jefus Chrift our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen. Inflead of the Prayer [In time of War and Tumults) fhall be ufed this Prayer following. difcover the Inares of death difcover the fnares of death LORD, who didft this day that were laid for us, and didft wonderfully deliver us from the fame: Be thou fill our mighty Protector, and fcatter our enemies that delight in blood. Infatuate and defeat their counfels, abate their pride, afwage their malice, and confound their devices. Strengthen the hands of our gracious Sovereign King GEORGE, and all that are put in authority under him, with judgement and juftice to cut off all fuch workers of iniquity, as turn Religion into Rebellion, and Faith into Faction that they may never prevail againft us, or triumph in the ruin of thy Church among us: But that our gracious Sovereign and h Realms being preserved in thy true Religion, and by thy mer citul goodness protected in the " fame; we may all duly ferve thee, and give thee thanks in thy holy congregation, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. In the Communion Service, inHead of the Collet for the Day, Jhall this which followeth be ufed. TERNAL God, and our moft mighty protector, we thy unworthy fervants do humbly prefent ourselves before thy Majefly, acknowledging thy power, wifdom, and goodness, in preferving the King and the Three Eftates of the Realm of England affembled in Parliament, trom the deftruction this day intende ed against them. Make us, we befeech thee, truly thankful for this, and for all other thy great mercies towards us; particularly. for making this Day again me morable, by a freth inftance of thy lovingkindnefs towards us.. We blefs thee for giving His late Majefty, King William a faf arrival here, and for making al Oppofition fall before him, till he became our King and Governor. We befeech thee to protect and t defend our Sovereign Sovereign King GEORGE, and all the Royal Fa mily, from all treafens and confaith, fear, and love; profper his piracies; preferve him in thy reign with long happined here on earth and crown him, through Je fus Chrik our only with everlasting glory hereafter, Saviour and Redezomer. Amen. The Epille. Rom. 13 1. L to the Ligher powers, Fo there is no power buc of Go the powers that be are ordain ed of God. Whofoever there fore refifteth the power, renteth the ordinance of God; and they that refift thall receive to themfelves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good words, but to the evil, Wil: thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good and |