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A form of prayer and thanksgiving for the safe delivery of the Queen and happy birth of the young Prince to be used ... in all churches and chappels ...
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Church of England.
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1686
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Wing C4168; ESTC R35992
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A FORM OF PRAYER WITH THANKSGIVING FOR THE Safe Delivery of the QUEEN And happy BIRTH of the Young Prince TO BE Used on Sunday next being the Seventeeth Day of this Instant June in all Churches and Chappels within the Cities of London and westminster and Ten Miles distance And upon the First Day of July next in all other Places throughout this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed By His Majesties special Command LONDON Printed by Charles Bill Henry Hills and Thomas Newcomb Printers to the King 's most Excellent Majesty 1688. A FORM of PRAYER WITH THANKSGIVING For the safe Delivery of the QUEEN and happy Birth of the Young PRINCE To be Used on Sunday next being the 17th Day of this instant June in all Churches and Chappels within the Cities of London and VVestminster and Ten Miles distance and upon the First Day of July next in all other Places throughout this Kingdom of England Dominion of VVales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed ¶ This Service shall be the same with the usual Office for the Days above named except where it is hereafter otherwise appointed ¶ At the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minister shall read these Sentences following OFfer unto the Lord Thanksgiving Psal l. 14. and pay thy Vows unto the most High. An Offering of a free heart will I give thee Psal liv 6. and praise thy Name O Lord. ¶ In the place of Venite exultemus shall be used this following Hymn O Give thanks unto the Lord Psal cv ver 1. and call upon his Name tell the people what things he hath done O let your songs be of him 2. and praise him let your talking be of all his wondrous works Give the Lord the honour due unto his Name xxlx 2. worship the Lord with holy worship One generation shall praise thy works unto another cxlv 4. and declare thy power For thou xcii 4. Lord hast made me glad through thy works I will rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of thy hands I will sing of the Lord because he hath dealt so lovingly with me xili 6. yea I will praise the Name of the Lord most High. The Lord is my strength xxviii 9. he is the wholsome defence of his Anointed Great prosperity giveth he unto his King xviii 51. and sheweth loving kindness to David his Anointed and to his seed for evermore O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness cvii. 21. and declare the wonders he doth for the children of men That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving 22. and tell out his works with gladness That they would eralt him also in the congregation of the People 32. and praise him in the seat of the Elders For his merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us cxvii 2. and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Proper Psalms 72.89 ¶ Proper Lessons Isaiah 12. St. Matth. 22. from v. 15. to the end ¶ To be added in the Versicles after the Creed O Lord save the King. And let his seed be mighty upon earth Let him evermore rejoyce in thy strength And be exceeding glad in thy salvation O Lord save the Queen And make her as a fruitful Vine Endue thy Ministers with righteousness c. ¶ The first Collect instead of that for the day O Almighty and everlasting Lord God of heaven and earth who madest the World and all that is therein and givest to all men life and breath and all things We devoutly offer our most hearty thanks to thy Divine Majesty that thou hast given our Dread Sovereign his hearts desire and hast not denied us the request of our lips in blessing him and our Gracious Queen with a Son and all his Subjects with a Prince Stablisly the thing O God that thou hast wrought among us Grant the Princely Infant health strength and long life that he may grow up to live in thy fear and to thy glory and to excell in all virtues becoming his high Birth and the Royal Dignity to which thou hast ordained him O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness that they may ever preserve him for the honour of thy Name and the establishment of the pence security and happiness of these Nations from generation to generation and this we beg for Iesus Christ his sake our only Mediatour and Redeemer Amen ¶ At the end of the Litany immediately after We humbly beseech thee this following Prayer is to be used O Most powerful and glorious God who art wonderful in all the mysterious acts of thy Providence and adorable in the various distributions of thy justice and mercy to the children of men We meekly humble our selves and fall low before the footstool of thy grace rendring thee all worship and thanks that although for our manifold sins most justly provoking thee thou in thy wrath hast heretofore taken from us so many of the Royal Progeny yet in the midst of judgment thou hast remembred mercy and according to thy continual goodness hast revived our hopes and begun to repair our former losses by renewing fruitfulness to the Queen and giving birth to a Royal Prince We beseech thee O Lord give the King and all his People such a due sense of this thy mercy that our devout and thankful acceptance and right use of it may divert thy judgments for the future and incline thee to bestow more such publick blessings upon us So we who are thy people will reioyce evermore in every thing giving thanks unto thee through our only Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the Communion-Service next after the Commandments the first Collect shall be the same as in the Morning Prayer O Almighty and Everlasting Lord God of heaven and earth c. ¶ Then shall follow one of the two Collects for the King. ¶ The Epistle Colos III. from vers 12. to v. 18. ¶ The Gospel S. Luke I. from vers 57. to v. 67. ¶ After the Prayer for the Church Militant shall follow this Prayer O Lord our Governour whose Name is excellent in all the World and who art king for ever and ever We praise and bless thy Divine Goodness for all the marvellous Protections and signal Favours thou hast vouchsafed thy Servant our Gracious King JAMES particularly that after thou hadst preserved him from the dangers of War from the rage of the Sea and from the madness of the People thou didst in thy due time bring him to great honour by settling him on the Throne of his Ancestors and hast now enlarged thy Blessings towards him by this happy increase of the Royal Issue We most humbly beseech Thee to continue and multiply these thy mercies to Him and Vs That thou would'st give him Sons to grow up as the young plants and that his daughters may be as the polish'd Corners of the Temple Bless O Lord the whole Royal Family with the blessings of the Heavens above with the blessings of the Deep beneath with the blessings of the Breasts and of the Womb That when the King's days shall be fulfilled and he shall sleep with his Fathers in Peace and Glory his Seed may be set up after him and his House and Kingdom may be establish'd for ever before Thee Grant this O Lord for Iesus Christ his sake our only Saviour Amen FINIS