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A84579 An Act for a day of publique thanksgiving to be observed throughout England and Wales, on Thursday on the first of November, 1649. Together with a declaration of the grounds thereof. England and Wales. Parliament. 1649 (1649) Wing E993; Thomason 669.f.14[80]; ESTC R211279; ESTC R211282 1,296 1

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An Act for a Day of Publique Thanksgiving to be observed throughout England and Wales on Thursday the First of November 1649. Together with a DECLARATION of the Grounds thereof THe great and wonderful Providences wherein the Lord hath eminently gone forth in mercy towards this Nation have been such that howsoever many do shut their eyes or murmure against them or at least refuse to joyn in Publique Acknowledgements and Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the same Nevertheless the Lord hath been pleased to publish to all the world That it is the work of his own hand Nor hath his infinite goodness and favor been restrained to England onely but extended to Ireland which he hath been pleased to remember in its low estate and when his People there were as dry bones He hath not onely revived them in a way almost as miraculous as a Resurrection from the Dead but been pleased to raise both them and us to a high pitch of hope That the Lord will go on to perfect his work in that Land and make it likewise at last a quiet Habitation for his People and establish the power and purity of the Gospel there The consideration whereof and of the Goodness and Power of God in the late wonderful Victory which he hath been pleased to give unto the Parliaments Forces there before Dublin never to be forgotten And the further progress God hath made in giving in Drogheda a place of great Strength and Consequence defended by a considerable number of their prime Officers and Soldiers the particulars whereof are expressed in the Lord Lieutenants and other Letters lately Printed and since that by striking Terror into the hearts of the Enemy so as they have yielded up or deserted many other considerable Castles and Garisons as Trym Dundalk Carlingford the Newry and other Places and some other additional Victories which God hath cast in since cannot but make a deep impression on the hearts of all that fear the Lord and provoke them to exceeding Thankfulness and Rejoycing UPon consideration of all which the Parliament out of their deep sense of so great and continued Mercies Have thought fit as in duty to God to set apart a day for publique and solemn Thanksgiving to the Lord the Author of these Mercies And they do therefore Enact and Ordain That Thursday the First of November next be kept as a day of publique Thanksgiving to the Lord in all the Churches and Chappels and places of Divine Worship within this Commonwealth of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed And that the Ministers of the respective Parishes and places aforesaid be and hereby they are required and enjoyned to give publique notice on the Lords-day next preceding the said First of November of the day so to be observed to the end the People of their several Congregations may the more generally and diligently attend the publique Exercise of Gods Worship and Service there to be dispensed upon this occasion At which time that the People may be more particularly and fully informed of this great Victory and Successes the said Ministers are hereby required to publish and read this present Act. And for the better observation of the day the Parliament doth hereby inhibit and forbid the holding or use of all Fairs Markets and servile works of mens ordinary Callings upon that day And all Majors Sheriffs Iustices of the Peace Constables and other Officers be and are hereby enjoyned to take especial care of the due observance of the said day of Thanksgiving accordingly Die Jovis 11 Octobr. 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric ' Parliamenti London Printed by John Field for Edward Husband Printer to the Parliament of England 1649.