thy mighty power and grant that this day we fail into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance to do always that is righteous in thy sight through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Here followeth the Litany O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Father of heaven have mercy upon us miser able sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O God the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious Trinity three persons and one God have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou vengeance of our sins Spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Spare us good Lord. From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the devil from thy wrath and from everlasting damnation Good Lord deliver us From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitableness Good Lord deliver us From fornication and all other deadly sin and from all the deceits of the world the flesh and the devil Good Lord deliver us From lightning and tempest from plague pestilence and famine from battel and murder and from sudden death Good Lord deliver us From all sedition privy conspiracy and rebellion from all false doctrine heresie and schism from hardness of heart and contempt of thy Word and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity and Circumcision by thy Baptism Fasting and Temptation Good Lord deliver us By thine Agony and bloudy Sweat by thy Cross and Passion by thy precious Death and Burial by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension and by the comming of the holy Ghost Good Lord deliver us In all time of our tribulation in all time of our wealth in the hour of death and in the day of Iudgment Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thee to hear us O Lord God and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universal in the right way We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy servants William and Mary our most gracious king and Queen We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule their hearts in thy faith fear and love and that they 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 their defender and keeper giving them the victory over all their enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve Catherine the Queen Dowager her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and all the Royal Family We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops Priests and Deacons 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 Iustice and to maintain Truth We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and keep all thy people We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. 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 increase 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 to comfort and help the weak-hearted and to raise up them that fall and finally to beat down Satan under our feet We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to succour help and comfort all that are 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 are desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to have mercy upon all men We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies persecutors and standerers 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 as in due time we may enjoy them We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our sins negligences and ignorances and 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 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 Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done in earth As it is Heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our
Trespasses As we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Priest O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answ Neither reward us after our iniquities ¶ 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 subtilty 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 persecutions may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Lord arise help us and deliver us for thy names sake O God we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst 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 and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Answer As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen From our enemies defend us O Christ Graciously look upon our afflictions Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people Favourably with mercy hear our prayers O Son of David have mercy upon us Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us O Christ Graciously hear us O Christ graciously hear us O Lord Christ Priest O Lord let thy mercy be shewed upon us Answ 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 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 Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ In the end of the Litany after the collect We humbly beseech thee O Father c. shall be said this which followeth ALmighty and most gracious God who hast been our Deliverer in the Day of our Distress and hast raised up thy Servant King WILLIAM to be the happy Instrument of our Deliverance We praise thy holy Name that hast so wonderfully preserved him from those great Dangers to which he hath been so often exposed particularly in this last Summers Expedition We humbly beseech thee still to continue him under the merciful care and protection of thy good Providence and to bless him with all good success And likewise to give us grace in a thankful sense of thy great goodness to live in obedience to thee and in subjection to Their Majesties whom thou hast set ever us and whom we beseech thee long to preserve and continue to us for thy mercies sake in Iesus Chirst our blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ Immediately before the Prayer for the High Court of Parliament use the collect of Thanksgiving for Peace and Deliverance from our Enemies ALmighty God who act a strong Towre of Defence unto thy Servants against the face of their Enemies We yield thee praise and Thanksgiving giving for our Deliverance from those great and apparent Dangers wherewith we were compassed We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a Prey unto them beseeching thee still to continue such thy Mercies towards us that all the World may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the High Court of Parliament to be read during their Session MOst gracious God we humbly beseech thee as for this Kingdom in general so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most religious and gracious King and Queen at this time assembled That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their Consultations to the advancement of thy Glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of Their Majesties and Their Kingdoms that all things may be so ordered and settled by their Endeavours upon the best and surest foundations that peace and happiness truth and justice religion and piety may be established among us for all generations These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Iesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ A Prayer of S. Chrysostom ALmighty God who 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 are 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 2 Cor. 13. 14. THe grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen ¶ In the Communion-Service between the Commandments and the Epistle shall this Collect be used instead of the Collect for the King and Queen and of the Collect for the day O Most gracious God who of thy infinite goodness hast preserved our Sovereign Lord King WILLIAM from the Dangers to which his Royal Person hath been exposed for the Publick Good during his late Expedition and hast brought him back to us in safety We beseech thee to fill our hearts with unfeigned thankfulness to thee for so great Blessings and still to continue Their Majesties under the watchful care of thy Providence to protect Their Sacred Persons from all secret Attempts and open Violence that no Weapon no Design formed against them may prosper And to make them the happy Instruments of establishing that great Deliverance which thy Providence by them hath wrought for us in so wonderful a manner that all the world may see that it is thy hand and that thou Lord hast done it Which we humbly beg for thy mercies sake in Iesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen ¶ Then shall follow for the Epistle Rev. VI. verse 9 10. ANd when he had opened the fifth Seal I saw under the altar the Souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held And they cried with a loud voice saying How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth ¶ The Gospel S. Mitth V. verse 43. to the end YE have heard that it hath been said Thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy But I say unto you Love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that
hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust For if ye love them which love you what reward have ye do not even the publicans the same And if ye salute your brethren only what do you more then others do not even the publicans so be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect ¶ Then the Nicene Creed After that the Sermon ¶ After the Prayer For the whole State of Christs Church c. this Collect shall be used MOst glorious Lord God whose Throne is in the Heavens and whose Kingdom ruleth over all Who dost whatever pleaseth thee in Heaven and in Earth Thou Lord hast been our Refuge from one Generation to another Our Fathers trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them they called upon thee and were not confounded We bless thy Name that thou hast also heard the voice of our humble petitions which we did put up to thee in the day of our trouble and hast not only kept us in peace at home but hast also graciously preserved the Person of His Sacred Majesty abroad and so blest His Forces both at Sea and Land as to defeat the Designs of the Common Enemy What shall we render unto the Lord for all His Benefits We will love the Lord who hath inclined his ear unto us and call upon him as long as we live Vnto thee O God will we pay our vows unto thee will we give thanks And we humbly beseech thee that thou who hast hitherto been our Helper and Deliverer wouldst be pleased in thy due appointed Time to manifest thy righteous Iudgment in punishing that Ambition and Cruelty which hath been the Cause of so many and so great Calamities to this Part of the World to scatter the People that delight in War and to establish Truth and Peace in the Earth To the glory of thy great Name the comfort and support of the Reformed Churches the propagation of the Gospel and the enlargement of the Kingdom of thy dear Son Which we beseech thee to hasten that all Nations may fall down and worship before thee saying Blessing and Glory and Wisdom and Honour and Power be unto our God for ever and ever Amen ¶ A Prayer for all Mankind especially for the Reformed Churches MOst gracious and merciful God who art the Saviour of all men especially of those that believe and hast commanded us to make prayers and intercessions for all men desiring that all may be saved and come to the knowledge at the Truth We humbly beseech thee to extend thy mercy and compassion to all Mankind more particularly to the Reformed Churches and especially to those who are still under Persecution for Truth and Righteousness sake Relieve them according to their several necessities be a shelter and defence to them from the fury of the Oppressour Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee and according to the greatness of thy power preserve them that are appointed to die Let not the poor always be forgotten let not the patient abiding of the meek perish for ever Visit in mercy them that are banished for the Testimony of thy Truth Gather thy dispersed together and restore the outcasts of thy People and in thy good time bring them home to worship thee in their own Land And whatsoever they have lost for thy sake return it to them according to thy gracious Promise in the manifold Blessings of this and a better Life Deliver Israel O God out of all his Troubles And we beseech thee to enlighten all those who are in Darkness and Errour and to give them Repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth That all the ends of the Earth may remember themselves and be turned unto the Lord And we may all become one Flock under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls Iesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen FINIS Psal 34.1 Vers 2 Psal 34.1 Vers 2 â—sal 21 7. Vers 3 Psal 12.5 Vers 6 Psal 13.2 Vers 27. Vers 30. Psal 20.6 Vers 7 Psal 21.13
A FORM OF PRAYER AND Thanksgiving To Almighty GOD To be Used throughout the Cities of London and Westminster and else where within the Weekly Bills of Mortality on Sunday the Second Day of December next ensuing And in all other Places throughout the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed on Sunday the Sixteenth Day of the same Month For the Preservation of His Majesty from the Dangers to which His Royal Person was exposed during His late Expedition And for His safe Return to His People And for the Success of His Forces by Sea and Land By Their Majesties Special Command LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Nawcomb deceas'd Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties M DC XCIV November 16 th 1694 LET this Form of PRAYER and THANKSGIVING be Printed and Published Jo. Cant. A FORM of PRAYER and THANKSGIVING to Almighty God to be Used throughout the Cities of London and Westminster and elsewhere within the Weekly Bills of Mortality on Sunday the Second Day of December next ensuing And in all other Places throughout this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed on Sunday the Sixteenth Day of the same Month. ¶ The Service for that Day upon which the Thanksgiving shall be Observed must be used except where it is here otherwise ordered ¶ The Prayers shall begin with these Sentences I Will always give thanks unto the Lord his praise shall ever be in my mouth O Praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his Name together ¶ Instead of the Venite this Hymn shall be used The King shall rejoyce in thy strength O Lord exceeding glad shall he be thy salvation Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not denied him the request of his lips And why because the King putteth his trust in the Lord and in the mercy of the most Highest he shall not miscarry All thine Enemies shall feel thy hand thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee Now for the comfortless sake of the needy and for the deep sighing of the poor I will up faith the Lord and will help every one from him that swelleth against him and will set him at rest I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be safe from mine Enemies For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity and bring down the high looks of the proud Thou hast given me the defence of thy salvation thy right hand also shall hold me up and thy loving correction shall make me great Now know I that the Lord helpeth his Anointed and will hear him from his holy Heaven with the wholesome strength of his right hand Some put their trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the Name of the Lord our God Be thou exalted Lord in thine own strength so will we sing and praise thy power Glory b◠to the Father 〈◊〉 As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Proper Psalms IX LXV XCVII ¶ Proper Lessons The first Deut. 32. ver 26. to v. 41. Te Deum ¶ Proper Lessons The second Luke 18. the 8 first verses Jubilate Deo ¶ After the Apostles Creed and the Lords Prayer the suffrages shall be as followeth Priest O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answ And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King and Queen Answ Who put their trust in thee Priest Send them help from thy holy place Answ And evermore mightily defend them Priest Let their enemies have no advantage against them Answ Let not the wicked approach to hurt them Priest Endue thy Ministers with righteousness Answ And make thy chosen people joyful Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answ Because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God ¶ Instead of the first Collect the following Prayers shall be used ALmighty God the Sovereign Lord of all the World in whose hand is power and might which nothing is able to resist To thee alone we owe all our Deliverances from those great and apparent Dangers wherewith we have been of late years so often encompassed It is of thy mercies O Lord that we are not consumed and because thy compassions fail not It is of thy great goodness that we have not been delivered up to the will of our Enemies Blessed be God who hath heard our Prayer and not turned his Mercy from us But hath been graciously pleased to preserve His Majesties Person during His late Expedition and to bring Him back in Safety and to grant such Success to His Forces by Sea and Land and to the Arms of His Allies as thereby to put a stop to the Rage and Fury of the Enemy Let this we beseech thee be the blessed fruit of all thy wonderful Mercies that we may turn every one from the evil of his way and may live as a People that have been in so many remarkable Instances the peculiar and visible care of thy Providence That thou mayest yet delight to do us good and that His Majesties Counsels and Arms may be successful to the Establishing of Peace and the true Religion in these and the neighbouring Nations to the Honour and Praise of thy great Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen GReat and glorious Lord God the just and wise Governour of the World who lovest righteousness and hatest iniquity We adore that merciful and wonderful Providence which hath been our Defence and Refuge in the Day of our Distress Thou hast shown us wonderful things in thy righteousness O God of our Salvation To thee alone we ascribe the Glory of all our Deliverances For it is thou who hast wrought all our works for us Stablish O God that which thou hast wrought And give us such a dutiful and deep sense of thy goodness to us that we may live as becomes a People saved by the Lord. Banish we pray thee from among us all Infidelity and Profaneness purge us from all our abominations take away all Hatred and Dissensions And endue us with a Spirit of true Piety and Holiness of Love and Goodness of Vnity and Concord That the Blessings of Peace together with the Purity of Religion may be secured to us and continued to our Posterity for the Merits of Iesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ The Collect for Peace O God who art the author of Peace and lover of Concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life whose Service is perfect freedom Defend us thy humble servants in all Assaults of our enemies that we surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries through the might of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ The Collect for Grace O Lord our heavenly Father Almighty and everlasting God who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day defend us in the same with