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A Form of prayer to be used on Wednesday the fifth day of June next ensuing within the cities of London and Westminster, and ten miles distance of the same : and on Wednesday the nineteenth of the same June through the rest of the whole kingdom, being the fast-day appointed by the King and Queen's proclamation to implore the blessing of Almighty God upon Their Majesties Forces by sea and land, success in the war now declared against the French king ...
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strength with his arm he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath eralted the humble and meek He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away He remembring his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel as he promised to our forefathers Abraham and his seed for ever Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen ¶ The second Lesson 1 Cor. X. to v. 15. ¶ Deus Misereatur Psal 67. GOd be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance and be merciful unto us That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee O let the nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folk righteously and govern the nations upon earth Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee Then shall the earth bring forth her increase and God even our own God shall give us his blessing God shall bless us and all the ends of the world shall fear him Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Then shall be said the Apostles 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 only 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 and Queen Answ And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee Priest Indue thy Ministers with righteousness Answ And make thy chosen people joyful Priest O Lord save thy people Answ And bless thine inheritance Priest Give peace in our time O Lord. Answ Because there is none other that fighteth for us but only thou O God. Priest O Lord save thy servants Answ Who do put their trust in thee Priest Send us help from thy holy place Answ And evermore mightily defend us Priest Let the enemy have no advantage against us Answ Nor the wicked approach to hurt us 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 Collect for the day shall be used these which follow O God our refuge and strength whose power no Creature is able to resist who teachest our hands to War and our fingers to fight and without whom the Horse and Chariot is in vain prepared against the day of Battel defend us we beseech thee with thy mighty power and save us with thy out-stretched arm that our Forces may be preserved and become Victorious by Sea and Land evermore serving under his glorious Banner who is the Lord of Hosts God blessed for ever Amen O most glorious and gracious God whose Iudgments against obstinate offenders are most severe and terrible But whose Mercies are infinite to all them that with hearty Repentance and true Faith turn unto thee We the sinful People of this Land do acknowledge before thee to thy glory and our own shame that never any Nation had greater experience of thy goodness nor ever did any more unthankfully abuse it When thou gavest us great and long Prosperity we like Jesurun waxed fat and kicked against thee when thou didst thrust us into those Confusions out of which we saw little hopes of arising even in the time of that distress did we trespass yet more against thee When by miracles of mercy thou hadst turn'd our Captivity we soon forgot thee our Saviour and return'd again to our folly And even while thou hast of late appeared for us by delivering us out of the hands of our implacable Enemies of the Romish Faction we have by our sins been fighting against heaven and against thee And now we are no more worthy to be called thy Sons or thy Servants whom neither thy Fear hath driven to repentance nor thy Goodness led to it In mercy O God awaken us all beget in us a holy dread of thy Iudgments and a deep sense of our manifold and repeated provocations pardon the great offences of us thy servants and the crying sins of the whole Nation remove the evils we still lie under avert those we have just cause to fear and howsoever thou mayest think fit to Correct us for our sins yet never deliver us up into the hands of those men whose mercies are cruel Pour out thy abundant Blessings upon our Gracious King and Queen and their great Council now Assembled in Parliament keep them as the apple of thy eye hide them under the shadow of thy wings direct and bless them in all their Consultations And more particularly we now prostrate our selves before thee to implore thy blessing upon this their great undertaking for the necessary defence of thy people Go forth with their Fleets and Armies compass them with thy Favour as with a Shield let it appear that thou the Lord our God art with us to help us and to fight our Batels bless us with Victory and Success and in thy own good time with such a Peace as may tend to the glory of thy great Name and the Preservation of thy Church and true Religion among us the Honour and Safety of their Majesties and the Security Peace and Prosperity of these Kingdoms All which we humbly beg in the Name and through the Medâ—ation of thy Son Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen O God from whom all holy desires all good counsels and all just works do proceed Give unto
thy servants that peace which the world cannot give that both our hearts may be set to obey thy Commandments and also that by thee we being defended from the fear of our enemies may pass our time in rest and quietness through the merits of Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen LIghten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thy only Son our Saviour Iesus Christ Amen O Lord we beseech thee mercifully hear our prayers and spare all those who confess their sins unto thee that they whose consciences by sin are accused by thy merciful pardon may be absolved through Christ our Lord. Amen O Most mighty God and merciful Father who hast compassion upon all men and hatest nothing that thou hast made who wouldest not the death of a sinner but that he should rather turn from his sin and be saved Mercifully forgive us our trespasses receive and comfort us who are grieved and wearied with the burden of our sins Thy property is always to have mercy to thee only it appertaineth to forgive sins Spare us therefore good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed enter not into Iudgment with thy servants who are vile earth and miserable sinners but so turn thine anger from us who meekly acknowledge our vileness and truly repent us of our faults and so make haste to help us in this world that we may ever live with thee in the world to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ Then shall the people say this that followeth after the Minister TVrn thou us O good Lord and so shall we be turned Be favourable O Lord be favourable to thy people who turn to thee in weeping fasting and praying For thou art a merciful God full of compassion long suffering and of great pity Thou sparest when we deferve punishment and in thy wrath thinkest upon mercy Spare thy people good Lord spare them and let not thine heritage be brought to confusion Hear us O Lord for thy mercy is great and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us through the merits and mediation of thy blessed Son Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Kings Majesty O Lord our heavenly father high and mighty King of kings Lord of lords the only Ruler of Princes who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary and so replenish them with the grace of thy Holy Spirit that they may alway incline to thy will and walk in thy way endue them plenteously with heavenly gifts grant them in health and wealth long to live strengthen them that they may vanquish and overcome all their enemies and finally after this life they may attain everlasting joy and felicity through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Royal Family ALmighty God the fountain of all goodness we humbly beseech thee to bless Catherine the Queen Dowager her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark and all the Royal Family Endue them with thy holy Spirit enrich them with thy heavenly grace prosper them with all happiness and bring them to thine everlasting Kingdom through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Clergy and People ALmighty and everlasting God who alone workest great marvels Send down upon our Bishops and Curates and all Congregations committed to their charge the healthful Spirit of thy grace and that they may truly please thee pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing Grant this O Lord for the honour of our Advocate and Mediatour Iesus Christ Amen ¶ A Prayer for the High Court of Parliament MOst gracious God we humbly beseech thee as for this kingdom in general so especially for the High Court of Parliament under our most religious and gracious King and Queen at this time assembled That thou wouldest be pleased to direct and prosper all their consultations to the advancement of thy glory the good of thy Church the safety honour and welfare of their Majesties and their Kingdoms that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest foundations that peace and happiness truth and justice religion and piety may be established among us for all genetations These and all other necessaries for them for us and thy whole Church we humbly beg in the Name and Mediation of Iesus Christ our most blessed Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ A Prayer for all the Reformed Churches O God the Father of mercies who of thy great goodness hast united us into the mystical body of Christ that is his Church We as living members thereof mourning with them that mourn and rejoycing with them that rejoyce do now present our Supplications and Prayers at the Throne of Grace in behalf of all the Reformed Churches beseeching thee to look down with an eye of Mercy and Pity upon the sad and mournful estate of such of them whom thou hast delivered over to the hands of superstitious and merciless men who have compell'd so many of them to defile themselves with their Idolatrous Worship stretch out thy Arm against those deceitful and bloody men suffer them not still to triumph over thy Heritage How long Lord shall thy anger burn for ever How long wilt thou forget thy People that prayeth Oh let the cry of the Blood of thy Saints and the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee Deliver thou those that are as Sheep appointed for the slaughter Hear us O God for thy mercies sake and for the honour of thy great Name Plead thy Cause with them that blaspheme thy Truth and prosecute thy People that so all men may say Verily there is a God that judgeth in the Earth Purge all thy Churches from their dregs and make them meet for a glorious Deliverance that so all the world may see the Salvation of our God and that though he hides his face from his People for a season yet he will not cast them off utterly Grant that thy true Religion may so shine as to become the Ioy of the whole earth and that all Antichristian Idolatry Superstition and Cruelty being cast out of thy House all that name the Name of Christ may depart from iniquity and walk worthy of their holy profession that the Kingdom of thy dear Son may come quickly and that all his enemies being made his foot-stool he who is the Lord of lords and King of kings may reign to all the ends of the Earth To whom with thee O Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory for evermore Amen O God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ our only Saviour the Prince of Peace look down in much Pity and Compassion upon this Church and Nation now seeking unto thee in Fasting and Prayer Stir up we beseech thee every Soul among us to cast forth the Accursed Thing to Root out of our hearts all Pride and all Wrath and Bitterness all unjust Prejudice and causeless Iealousie all Hatred and Malice and desire of Revenge and whatsoever may hinder us from discerning the things that belong unto our Peace And by the power of thy Holy Spirit do thou dispose all our hearts to such meekness of Wisdom lowliness of Mind Patience Gentleness and Long-suffering and forbearance of one another in love and such honour and reverence of those whom thou hast set over us as becomes the sons of Peace that so the God of Peace may be with us Give us grace O Lord seriously to lay to heart the great Dangers we are in by our unhappy Divisions and the great Obligations which lie upon us to godly Vnion and Concord that as there is but one Body and one Spirit and one hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all so we may henceforth be all of one heart and of one Soul Vnited in one holy Bond of Truth and Peace of Faith and Charity and may with one Mind and one Mouth glorifie thee O Lord who with thy Father and Holy Spirit livest and reignest one God world without end Amen ¶ A Prayer of S. Chrysostom ALmighty God who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now O Lord the desires and petitions of thy servants as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth and in the world to come life ever lasting Amen 2 Cor. 13.14 THe grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen FINIS