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A33061 A form of thanksgiving, to be used the seventh of September throvvout the diocese of Lincoln, and in the jurisdiction of VVestminster Williams, John, 1582-1650. 1641 (1641) Wing C4181A; ESTC R9557 2,140 7

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❧ A Form of Thanksgiving to be used the seventh of September thorowout the Diocese of Lincoln and in the Jurisdiction of VVestminster Read after O Lord open thou our lips c. these Psalmes Psal. 95. Psal. 96. Psal. 122. 126. 133. 136. Being all short Psalmes Then 1. Lesson Jerem. 31. 2. Lesson Matth. 24. Adde to the Collects this Prayer WE humbly acknowledge before thee O most mercifull father that all the punishments which are threatned in thy Law might justly have fallen upon us by reason of our great transgressions and hardnesse of heart It was most just O Lord that thou didst lately threaten us with a pulling back and withdrawing of all those Spirituall Graces and Temporall Blessings wherewith this Island did flow and abound above all the nations of the earth It was most just and our sins did well deserve it that thou by withdrawing the Cooperation of thy holy Spirit shouldest suffer our Faith to grow weak and feeble our Charity cold our hope wavering and without foundation our hearing of thy holy word our partaking of thy blessed Sacraments our Praying and Invocating of thy sacred Name to become in both Priest and People for want of true Devotion and the inward guidance of thy Spirit but as it were so many outward Fashions Forms and Complements And especially most agreeable it was unto all the Rules of thy Divine Justice that from those in whom these Spirituall could not be found thy Temporall blessings should be withdrawn That our Plentie should be turned into Want and Famine our Health into Sicknesses Plagues and Pestilences and our long Peace the Crown of all these blessings and the Envie of all the Nations round about us into the worst and most miserable of all Wars a Civil War a War of Christian against Christian Neighbours against Neighbours Brethren against Brethren a War of Ephraim against Manasseh of Manasseh against Ephraim and of both these against thy Judah But the more justly O Lord thou mightest have visited us in this thy fury and anger the more are we dust and ashes worms no men most wretched and miserable sinners bound to praise and blesse thy holy Name for thy unspeakable goodnesse and mercies shewed unto us at this time That it hath pleased thee upon our weak and unworthy humiliation to begin some small measure and degree of Reformation in us to plant in our hearts some more sense and feeling of thy spirituall Graces some more steadinesse of Faith fervencie of Love assurance of Hope Zeal in Prayer Devotion in the Hearing of thy holy Word and in the receiving and administring of those heavenly Seals and Pledges of the same And by and by after as delighted with these green and raw fruits which thine own hand had planted to reward and crown them unripned as they be with great abundance of temporall blessings with Corn and Wine and Oyl with good times and seasons with a shew rather then any showre of Diseases which serve only to keep us awake that we fall not into that former drowsinesse and forgetfulnes of our selves and thee But especially as a strong fence and hedge to compasse in and preserve all these outward Blessings thou hast given us a speedy and a happy Union and Peace with all our Neighbours and Brethren of this Island making us a multitude of one Heart and of one Soul as thou hadst before made us a multitude of one Lord one Faith and one Baptisme The which thy great work of Union thou hast thus atchieved and effected not as thou mightest have done by putting a sword into the hand of the stronger to devour the weaker but by sending down thy holy Spirit the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding the Spirit of Counsell and Providence into the Hearts of our Gracious King and the Peers and Commons now assembled in Parliament thus by a wise and timely disposing of a few drops of our trash and worldly ●elf to prevent the unnaturall spilling of whole Cha●els and Rivers of Christian blood to the great danger and hazard of so many bodies and souls For these thy great and unspeakable mercies O Lord we p●aise thee ●e blesse thee we worship thee we glorifie thee we give thanks unto thee for thy great glory O Lord God heavenly King God the Father Almighty the onely begotten Son Jesus Christ to whom with the Holy Ghost be all praise honour and glory this day particularly and withall for evermore Lastly that we may be the better disposed to take thy prayses into our mouths plant in our hearts a true desire to be reformed Convert us O Lord that we may be converted Perfect this work of sanctification which thou hast begun in us Encrease our Faith enflame our Charity strengthen our Hope kindle our Devotion in the hearing our rare in the practising of thy holy Word Seal up all these graces in our Souls by the reverent and awfull receiving of thy holy Sacraments make us to run the wayes of thy Commandments now that thou hast set our hearts at liberty And let these spirituall O heavenly Father be unto thee a further occasion to pour upon us more and more of thy temporall Blessings by preserving our King Queen and the Royall Issue in all health and prosperity by increasing more and more the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding upon the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament by a stronger knitting and uniting of the Hearts of all these Nations one with another which thou hast thus united under one Crown and Scepter and by increasing our thankfulnesse and acknowledgement unto thee in some measure and proportion of this increase of thy favours and mercies towards us That so we may as much as flesh and blood is permitted to do begin the Church Triumphant in this Church Militant and practice those Praises here on earth which we shall more perfectly sing out in the kingdom of Heaven by the Grace and Merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost thee Persons and one Eternall Everliving God be all honour glory praise and dominion this day especially and withall for evermore Amen FINIS