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A form of common prayer, with thanksgiving, for the late victory by His Majesties naval forces appointed to be used in and about London on Tuesday the 14th of August, and through all England, on Thursday the 23d of August.
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to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said the Creed by the Minister and the people standing I Believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth And in Iesus Christ his onely Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting Amen ¶ And after that these prayers following all devoutly kneeling the Minister first pronouncing with a loud voice The Lord be with you Answer And with thy spirit Minister ¶ Let us pray Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us ¶ Then the Minister Clerks and people shall say the Lords prayer with a loud voice OUr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in 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 ¶ Then the Priest standing up shall say O Lord shew thy mercy upon us Answer And grant us thy salvation Priest O Lord save the King Answer And mercifully hear us when we call upon thée Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answer And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answer And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us but onely thou O God Priest O God make clean our hearts within us Answer And take not thy holy Spirit from us ¶ In stead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two be used O Almighty God the soveraign Commander of all the world in whose hand is power and might which none is able to withstand We bless and magnifie thy great and glorious Name for this happy victory the whole glory whereof we do ascribe to thee who art the only giver of victory And we beseech thée give us grace to improve this great mercy to thy glory the advancement of thy Gospel the honour of our Soveraign and as much as in us lieth to the good of all mankind And we beséech thée give us such a sense of this great mercy as may engage us to a true thankfulness such as may appear in our lives by an humble Ioy and obedient walking before thée all our days through Iesus Christ our Lord. To whom with thée and the holy Spirit as for all thy mercies so in particular for this victory and deliverance be all glory and honour world without end Amen O Almighty God who art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies We yield thée praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers where with we were compassed We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them beséeching thée 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 ¶ The second Collect for Peace O God who art the authour of peace and lover of concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life whose service is perfect fréedom 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 third 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 thy mighty power and grant that this day we fall 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 miserable sinners O God the Sun Redéemer 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 thrée 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 redéemed 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 Qativity 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 coming 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 Iudgement Good Lord deliver us We sinners do beseech thée 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 thée to kéep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thée in righteousness and holiness
of life thy servant Charles our most gracious King and Governour We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée to rule his heart in thy faith fear and love and that he 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 his defender and keeper giving him the victory over all his enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve our gracious Quéen Catherine Mary the Queen Mother James Duke of York 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 Vnity 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 thée to give to 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 thée to forgive our enemies persecutors and slanderers and to turn their hearts We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thée 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 thée 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 beséech thée 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 c. Priest O Lord deal not with us after our sins Answer 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 thée 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 Answer As we do put our trust in thée Let us pray WE humbly beséech thée 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 thée in holiness and pureness of living to thy honour and glory through our onely Mediatour and Advocate Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen O Most gracious and glorious Lord God who by thy great power hast made and by thine infinite wisdom dost dispose and order all things the Protectour of those that trust in thée and their Deliverer in time of their distress Our Enemies compassed us about on every side but thou hast delivered us by thy mercy They were many and did rage horribly but thou O Lord who dwellest on high art mightier They intended that mischief which through thy goodness to us they were not able to perform And when they had marked us out for ruine thou didst then bring upon them swift destruction Out of the déep of the Sea we cried unto thée O Lord and thou didst hear us We acknowledge and confess O our God that it is not our own strength that hath helped us not the number of our Ships nor the courage of our Souldiers nor yet the