thee therefore O God do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks who hast wrought this mighty salvation for us Stablish O God that which thou hast wrought for us And give us we beseech thee such a dutiful and deep sence of thy goodness to us that we may live as becomes a People saved by the Lord. Banish we pray thee from among us all Infidelity and Profaneness purge us from all our abominations take away all Hatred and Dissentions And endue us with a Spirit of true Piety and Holiness of Love and Goodness of Vnity and Concord that the Blessings of Peace together with the Purity of Religion may he secured to us and continued to our Posterity for the Merits of Iesus Christ our Lord and Saviour Amen ¶ The Collect for Peace O God who art the author of Peace and lover of Concord in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life whose Service is perfect freedom 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 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 Son Redeemer of the VVorld 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 three 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 redeemed 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 VVord and Commandment Good Lord deliver us By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation by thy holy Nativity 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 Iudgment Good Lord deliver us VVe sinners do beseech thee 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 thee to keep and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee in righteousness and holiness of life thy servants William and Mary our most gracious King and Queen We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to rule their hearts in thy faith fear and love and that they 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 their defender and keeper giving them the victory over all their enemies We beseech thee to hear us good Lord. That it may please thee to bless and preserve Catherine the Queen Dowager her Royal Highness the Princess Anne of Denmark 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 VVord 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 thee to give to all thy people increase of grace to hear meekly thy VVord 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 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
A FORM OF PRAYER AND Thanksgiving To Almighty GOD To be Used throughout the Cities of London and Westminster and elsewhere within the Weekly Bills of Mortality on Thursday the 27 th day of this instant October And in all other Places throughout this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed on Thursday the 10 th day of November next ensuing For the Signal Victory vouchsafed to Their Majesties Fleet For the Preservation of His Majesties Sacred Person from all the Dangers of War and from the Secret and Malicious Designs and Practices of His Enemies And for His Safe Return to His People By her 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 M DC XCII October the 22 th 1692 LEt this Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving be Printed and Published Jo. Cant. A FORM of PRAYER and THANKSGIVING to Almighty God to be Used throughout the Cities of London and Westminster and elsewhere within the Weekly Bills of Mortality on Thursday the 27 th day of this instant October And in all other Places throughout this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed on Thursday the 10 th day of November next ensuing ¶ The Service for that Day upon which the Thanksgiving shall be Observed must be used except where it is here otherwise ordered ¶ The Prayers shall begin wilh these Sentences I VVill bless the Lord at all times his praise shall be continually in my mouth O magnifie the Lord with me and let us exalt his Name together Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed and delivered from the hand of the enemy I will offer unto thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the Name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the sight of all his people in the courts of the Lords House in the midst of thee O Ierusalem Praise the Lord. ¶ Instead of the Venite this Hymn shall be used THe Lord is my strength and my song and he is become my salvation Thy right hand O Lord is become glorious in power thy right hand O Lord hath dashed in pieces the enemy Now we know that the Lord is greater then all Gods for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he is above them For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity and bring down the high looks of the proud Break their the arm of the evil and wicked man judge the fatherless and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no more oppress For the oppression of the poor for the sighing of the needy now will I arise faith the Lord and set him in safety from him that passeth at him VVhen the wicked even my enemies came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell They are brought down and fallen but we are risen and stand upright VVe will rejoyce in thy salvation and in the nan of the Lord will we set up our banners The Lord liveth and blessed be my Rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted Lord who is like unto thee who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him yea the poor and him that is in misery from him that spoileth him All men that foe it shall say This hath God done for they shall perceive that it is his work The Lord shall give strength unto his people the Lord shall give his people the blessing of peace So we that are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture shall give thee thanks for 〈◊〉 and will always be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation Glory be to the Father c. As it was in the beginning c. ¶ Proper Psalms XXI CXXIV CXLIV CXLV ¶ Proper Lessons The first Deuter. 32. V. 26. to V. 44. Te Deum ¶ Proper Lessons The second Luker 8. 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 VVho 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 approch 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 ¶ Instead of the first Collect the following Prayers shall be used ALmighty God the Sovereign Commander of all the VVorld in whose hand is power and might which nothing is able to withstand To thee alone we owe our Deliverance from those many and great Dangers wherewith we were so Iately Encompassed It is thou alone that commandest the VVinds and the Seas and they obey thee Thou takest the crafty in their own Counsels and turnest the wisdom of the wise into foolishness And as if this were a small thing with thee thou didst not only save us from our Enemies but deliver them into our hands and give Their Majesties Fleet a most Signal and Glorious Victory over them Blessed be God who hath not turned away our Prayer nor his Mercy from us notwithstanding our many and great Provocations Therefore not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be the Glory And let this be the blessed fruit of all thy wonderful Mercies that we may turn every one from the evil of his way and may live as a People that have been in so many remarkable Instances the peculiar and visible care of thy Providence That thou mayest still delight to do us good and our Arms by Sea and Land may be successful to the Establishing of Truth and Pence in these and the Neighbouring Nations to the Glory of thy great Name through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen GReat and glorious Lord God the just and wise Governour of the VVorld who lovest righteousness and hatest iniquity VVe Adore that merciful and wonderful Providence which hath given so remarkable a Check to the Pride and Power of the Enemy by the great Success of Their Majesties Fleet in this last Summers Expedition It is thou O Lord that hast been our Defence and Refuge in the Day of our Trouble Thou hast shewn us wonderful things in thy righteousness O God of our salvation thou that art the hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them that remain in the wide Sea To thee alone we ascribe the Glory of all our Deliverances For it was not our own arm that saved us but thy right Hand and thine Arm and the light of thy Countenance because thou hadst a favour unto us Vnto
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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 left 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 fall me to tell of Gedeon and of Barak and of Samson and of Iephthae of David also and Samuel and of the prophets VVho 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 wared valiant in sight turned to flight the armies of the aliens ¶ The Gospel St. Matth. V. verse 43. to the end YE have heard that it hath been said Thou shall 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 publicans the same And if ye salute your brethren only what do you more then others do not even the publicans so he ye therefore person even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect ¶ Then the Nicene Creen After that the Sermon ¶ After the Prayer For the whole State of Christs Church c. this Collect shall be used MOst Glorious Lord God whose Throne is in the Heavens and whose Kingdom ruleth over all VVho dost whatsoever pleaseth thee in Heaven and in Earth and in the Sea Thou Lord hast been our Refuge from one Generation to another Our father 's trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them they called upon thee and were not confounded VVe bless thy Name that thou hast also heard the voice of our humble petitions which we did put up to thee in the day of our Distress and hast not only kept us in peace at home and graciously preserved us from the malicious Designs of our Enemies abroad and from that Destruction which they bad prepared for us but hast likewise been pleased to bless their Majesties Fleet with a most-wonderful Success and hast triumphed gloriously over the powerful Enemy VVhat shall we render unto thee O Lord for all these benefits VVe will love the Lord who hath inclined his ear unto us and call upon him as long as we live Vnto thee O God will we pay our vows unto thee will we give thanks And 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 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 Sou VVhich we beseech thee to hasten that all Nations may fall down and worship before thee saying Blessing and Glory and VVisdom and Honour and Power be unto our God for ever and ever Amen ¶ A Prayer for all Mankind especially for the Reformed Churches MOst gracious and merciful God who art the Saviour of all Men especially of those that believe and hast commanded us to make prayers and intercessions for all men desiring that all may be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth VVe humbly 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 Let not the poor always be forgotten let not the patient abiding of the meek perish for ever Visit in Mercy them that are vanished for the Testimony of thy Truth Gather thy dispersed together and restore the outcasts 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 manifold Blessings of this and a better Life Deliver Israel O God out of all his Troubl es And we beseech thee to enlighten all those who are in Darkness and Ertour and to give them Repentance to the acknowledgement of the Truth That all the ends of the Earth may remember themselves and be turned unto the Lord And we may all become one Flock under the great Shepherd and Bishop of our souls Iesus Christ our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen FINIS Psal 34.1 Verse 3. Psal 107.2 Psal 116.15 Verse 16. Exod. 15. 2. Verse 6. Ex. 18.11 Ps 18.27 Ps 10.15.18 Psal 12.5 Psal 27.2 Verse 8. Psal 20.5 Ps â—2 45 Ps 35.10 Ps 64.10 Ps 29.10 Ps 79.14