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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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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
art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer through Iesus Christ our Lord. 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 the Collect for the day O Most gracious God who of thy infinite goodness hast preserved our Sovereign Lord King WILLIAM from the manifold Dangers to which he hath exposed himself for the Publick Good and hast brought him back to us in safety We beseech thee to fill our hearts with unfeigned thankfulness to thee for so great a Blessing and be pleased still to preserve their Majesties by thy good Providence to guide them by thy Counsel and to prosper them in all their Vndertakings for thy Glory and the good of thy Church through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall follow the Epistle Heb. XI Verse 23. to ver 34. BY faith Moses when he was born was hid three months of his parents because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the kings commandment By faith Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproch of Christ greater riches then the treasures in Egypt for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward By faith he forsook Egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as seeing him who is invisible Through faith he kept the passover and the sprinkling of bloud lest he that destroyed the first-born should touch them By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned By faith the walls of Iericho fell down after they were compassed about seven days By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not when she had received the spies with peace And what shall I more say for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon and of Barak and of Samson and of Iephthae of David also and Samuel and of the prophets Who through faith subdued kingdoms wrought righteousness obtained promises stopped the mouths of lions quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword out of weakness were made strong waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliens ¶ The Gospel St. Matth. 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Verse 43. to the end YE have heard that if 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 publicanes the same And if ye salute your brethren only what do you more then others do not even the publicanes so be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect ¶ After the Prayer for the whole state of Christs Church c this Collect shall be used O Most merciful Father who art nigh to all those who call upon thee in truth We bless thy Name that thou hast hearkned to the voice of our Supplications and hast not cast out our Prayer nor turned away thy mercy from us but hast kept us in Peace at home and graciously preserved our Sovereign abroad from Perils both by Sea and Land and brought him back to his People in Health and Safety and given him the full and quiet possession of his Three Kingdoms What shall we render to thee O Lord for all these benefits We will love the Lord who hath inclined his ear unto us and will call upon him as long as we live Grant we beseech thee that being delivered from the hands of our Enemies we may serve thee without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before thee all the days of our lives That thou who hast hitherto been our Helper and Deliverer mayest be pleased at last to Establish Truth and Peace in the midst of us to the glory of thy great Name the comfort and support of the Reformed Churches abroad 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 and especially for the Reformed Churches O Lord our God abundant in Goodness and Truth whose tender Mercies are over all thy Works We beseech thee to extend thy Mercy and Compassion to all Mankind more particularly to the Reformed Churches abroad 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 Visit them in Mercy that are Banish'd for the Testimony of thy Truth Gather thy Dispersed together and Restore the Out-casts 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 Blessings of this and a better Life And we humbly beseech thee to Enlighten all those who are in Darkness and Errour and to give them Repentance to the acknowledgment of the Truth That we may all become one Flock under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls Iesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer To wham with thee O Father and the Holy Spirit be all honour and glory for evermore Amen FINIS