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A form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God for the preservation of Their Majesties, the success of their forces in the reducing of Ireland ... to be used on Thursday the six and twentieth of November ...
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Church of England.
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Wing C4126; ESTC R23706
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October 31. 1691 LET this Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the 26th of November next ensuing be Printed and Publish'd Jo. Cant. A FORM OF PRAYER AND Thanksgiving To Almighty GOD For the Preservation of Their Majesties the Success of Their Forces in the Reducing of Ireland and for His Majesties Safe Return To be Used on Thursday the Six and twentieth of November next throughout the whole Kingdom By Their Majesties Special Command LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb deceas'd Printers to the King and Queens most Excellent Majesties 1691. A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to be used on the 26th of November next throughout the whole Kingdom ¶ The Service for that Day upon which the Thanksgiving shall be observed must in all other respects be used but where it is here ordered otherwise ¶ The Prayers shall begin with these Sentences OFfer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most High Psal 50.14 And call upon me in the day of trouble so will I hear thee and thou shalt praise me ver 15. ¶ Instead of the Venite this Hymn shall be said or sung I will alway give thanks unto the Lord his praise shall ever be in my mouth Psal 34. ver 1. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord the humble shall hear thereof and be glad ver 2. O praise the Lord with me and let us magnifie his name together ver 3. I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me out of all my fear ver 4. The Lord hath done great things for us already whereof we rejoyce Ps 126.4 The Lord liveth and blessed be my strong helper and praised be the God of my salvation Ps 18.47 I will magnifie thee O Lord for thou hast set me up and not made my foes to triumph over me Ps 30.1 Great prosperity giveth he to his King and sheweth loving kindness unto David his anointed Ps 18 51. Praised be the Lord for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions Ps 28.7 The Lord is my strength he is the wholsome defence of his anointed ver 9. O love the Lord all ye his saints for the Lord preserveth them that are faithful and plenteously rewardeth the proud doer Ps 31.26 Be strong and he shall establish your heart all ye that put your trust in the Lord. ver 27. Blessed be the Lord God even the God of Israel who only doth wondrous things Ps 72.18 And blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever and all the earth shall be filled with his Majesty ver 19. Amen Amen Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Proper Psalms LXXXV CXLIV CXLV ¶ Proper Lessons The first Isa 26. the 12 first verses Te Deum 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 Indue 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 Priest Be unto us O Lord a strong tower Answ From the face of our enemies Priest O Lord hear our prayer Answ And let our cry come unto thee ¶ Instead of the first Collect the following Prayer shall be used ALmighty and most gracious God we bless and magnifie thy great and glorious Name for thy late Mercies to us of these Kingdoms in raising up thy Servant King WILLIAM to be a Deliverer to us in the day of our Distress and to rescue us from Popish Tyranny and Superstition and all those Miseries and Calamities which were ready to break in upon us We also acknowledge with all thankfulness the wonderful Success which thou hast been pleased to give to their Majesties Forces in Ireland even to the entire Reducing of that Kingdom More especially we bless thee for thy merciful preservation of the King from the great and manifold Dangers to which his Royal Person was exposed during his late Expedition and that of thy great goodness thou hast been pleased to restore him to us in safety to the great Comfort and Ioy of thy People Humbly beseeching thee still to continue their Majesties under the watchful Care of thy Providence and to protect their Sacred Persons from all secret Practices and open Violence that no Weapon no Design formed against them may prosper And to make them at last the happy Instruments of Establishing that great Deliverance which thy Providence by them hath wrought for us in so visible a manner that all the World may see that Thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer Which we humbly beg for thy Mercies sake in Iesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen ¶ In the end of the Litany after the Collect We humbly beseech thee O Father c. shall be said this which followeth ALmighty God the just and wise Governour of the World who lovest righteousness and hatest iniquity We Adore that merciful and wonderful Providence which hath given so remarkable a Check to the Pride and Power of our Enemies by the great Success of their Majesties Arms in Ireland and hath brought that Kingdom wholly under their Obedience Blessed be thy holy Name O Lord for it is thou that givest Victory to Kings and subduest those that rise up against them Vnto thee therefore O God do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks who hast wrought this mighty Salvation for us Give us we beseech thee such a dutiful sense of thy goodness to us that we may live as becomes a People saved by the Lord. Banish from amongst us all Infidelity and Profaneness Purge us from all filthiness of Flesh and Spirit Take away all Hatred and Dissention And endue us with a Spirit of true Religion and Piety of Purity and Holiness of Love and Goodness of Vnity and Concord that the Blessing of Peace and the Gospel of Peace may be secured to us and to our Posterity for the Merits of Iesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ Immediately before the Prayer of St. Chrysostom use the Collect of Thanksgiving for peace and deliverance from our Enemies ALmighty God who art a strong Towre of Defence unto thy Servants against the face of their Enemies We yield thee Praise and Thanksgiving 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