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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79650	A collection of prayers and thanksgivings, used in His Majesties chappel, and in his armies. Vpon occasion of the late victories against the rebells, and for the future successe of the forces. Published by His Maiesties command, to be duly read in all other churches and chappels within this his kingdome, and dominion of Wales.	Duppa, Brian, 1588-1662, attributed name.	1643 (1643)	Wing C4094C; Thomason E69_6; ESTC R21029	5,968	16

A COLLECTION OF PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS VSED IN HJS MAJESTIES Chappel and in His ARMIES Vpon occasion of the late Victories against the Rebells and for the future successe of the Forces PVBLISHED By His MAIESTIES Command to be duly read in all other Churches and Chappels within this his Kingdome and Dominion of WALES Printed at OXFORD By LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the University 1643. A PRAYER FOR THE PRESERVATION Of His MAJESTIES Person and for the Peace of the Kingdome O Lord guard the Person of thy Servant the King Who putteth His trust in Thee Send to Him and to His Armies help from thy holy Place And evermore mightily defend them Confound the designes of all those that are risen up against Him And let not their rebellious wickednesse approach neere to hurt Him O Lord heare our Prayer And let our cry come unto Thee O Lord God of Hosts who givest victory unto Kings and didst deliver David thy Servant from the pecill of the Sword heare us we beseech thee most miserable sinners who doe here powre out our soules before thee entirely desiring the protection of thine hand upon thy Servant the King let Him finde safety under the shadow of thy wings and preserve his Person as the apple of thine owne eye Suffer not that sword which thou hast put into his hands to be wrested out by the hand of man but blesse his Counsels with successe and his enterprises with victory that he may goe on to be a terror to all those that oppose him and to be as the dew of the latter raine upon the hearts of all those who doe still remain Loyall to him And O thou who takest no delight in the misery of one single sinner spare mercifull Lord spare a great though most sinfull Nation pitty a despised Church and a distracted State heale up those wounds which our sinnes have made so wide that none but thine owne hands can close them And in the tendernesse of thine unspeakable compassion hasten to put so happy an end unto these wasting divisions that thy service may be the more duly celebrated thine Annoynted more conscientiously obayed that the Church may be restored to a true Christian unity and the Kingdom to our former Peace and that for his sake who is the Prince of Peace and that shed his pretious bloud to purchase our Peace even Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with thee O Father the blessed Spirit be c. A PRAYER OF THANKSgiving for His MAJESTIES Victory over the Rebells at Edge-hill O Thou God of Hosts who goest forth with our Armies and pleadest the cause of thine Anoynted against them that ●trive with him We acknowledge with all lowlinesse of mind that it is not our sword nor the multitude or Our Host that hath saved us but it is thy hand alone that hath disposed of Victory to thy servant the King that hath covered His head in the day of Battaile and hath kept His Crowne from being thrown down to the ground Not unto us therefore not unto us but unto thee O God do We give the praise beseeching thee to accomplish the great work thou hast begunne for us to continue the blessings of good successe on the head of our Soveraigne and on His Army that the happinesse thereof may flow from thence to the very skirts of His People to continue the fear and consternation which thou hast already cast upon the Hearts of those who have Rebelliously risen up against Him to enfeeble their strength to infatuate their Counsels to undeceive and disabuse the seduced part of them that they may know and feele that to take up Armes against thy Vicegerent is to fight against heaven that so by a timely and conscientious submission to the just Authority of him whom thou hast set over them the effusion of more blood may be prevented the Peace of this distracted Kingdom setled Faction may be cast out of the State and Schisme out of the Church to the advancement of thy glory the Kings honour and the Peoples good Grant this O God for thy old mercies sake which thou wert wont to show unto this Nation that both Prince and People may joyne in giving praise to thee who livest and raignest world without end AMEN A thanksgiving for His Majesties late great Victory over the Rebels in the NORTH O MOST Mighty God whose dwelling is above the heavens yet humblest thy self to dispose of all things done either in heaven or earth who in thy unsearchable judgements hast suffered the Sheba's of these times to blow the Trumpet of Rebellion in every corner of this Land but withall hast justly turned this sufferance of thine into their Ruine We praise and magnify thy great and glorious Name that having given of late to thine Anoynted so many pledges of thy Favour thou hast yet added to that heap of blessings a New and Notable Victory over the Rebels in the North Goe on O thou God of our Salvation goe on as thou hast begun leave us not we beseech thee till thou hast accomplished the great work thou hast so apparently taken into thine own hands Passe by our personall sins O Lord though they cry loud hear them not but look to the Righteousnesse of our Cause See the seamlesse Coat of thy Sonne torne the Throne of thine Anointed trampled on thy Church invaded by Sacriledge and thy people miserably deceived with Lies See it O God as see it thou dost and vindicate what thou seest upon the heads of those who lead these wretches to destruction till by their frequent overthrows if nothing else can possibly reduce them thou hast scourged them into obedience tamed these Enemies of thine and ours into a desire of peace that so having at last subdued their hearts which is the best of Victories thy David may return to his Ierusalem in peace and thy people once more joy under his Government blessing thy goodnes which hath wrought this for us through the Mediation of thy Son Jesus Christ to whom with thee and thy blessed Spirit be all praise and glory world without end AMEN A Thanksgiving for His Majesties late great Victory over the Rebels in the VVest O Most Glorious and Powerfull Lord God without whose aid and influence all our strength is weaknesse and our counsell folly we thy unworthy Servants in a gratefull commemoration of thy frequent and often repeated blessings with humble and unfained hearts offer up to thee the sacrifice of prayse calling Heaven and Earth to witnesse with us that it is thy Power alone by which we stand thy Strength by which we prosper Particularly we magnifie thy holy Name O God for that late great Victory wherewith thou hast graciously bl●st our Sove●aignes Forces in the West where thou gavest not the day to the strong nor measuredst out successe according to the numbers but madest the weak chase the mighty and ●n handfull overthrow an hoast shewing by a● evident testimony or thy presence that