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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87303	An act for keeping and celebrating the twenty third of October as an anniversary thanksgiving in the kingdom of Ireland. Together with a form of divine service, to be used there on the same day. : These are to give notice, that the Protestants of Ireland, at present in and about the city of London, intend to meet (at the Church of St. Mary le Bow) upon Wednesday the twenty third day of this instant October, at ten of the clock in the morning, in pursuance of an act of Parliament in that kingdom, to give thanks to almighty God for the deliverance from the bloody massacre and rebellion begun by the Irish Papists the twenty third day of October, 1641.; Laws, etc.	Ireland.; Ireland. Parliament.	1689 (1689)	Wing I307aA; ESTC R171961	4,806	8

of the Common-Prayer Then Proper Psalms as 3 9 12 46 144. Proper Lessons for the first 2 Chron. 13. or Jer. 30. For the second Lesson Mat. 9. or Acts 5. or Acts 23. And after the Collect for the Sunday this following Collect. ALmighty God and heavenly Father who out of thy most wise and watchful Providence and tender Mercies towards us thine unworthy Servants hast béen pleased as at all other times so on this day to prevent the extreme malice mischievous imagination and bloody intention of our Enemies dy revealing so wonderfully and opportunely their Rebellion and cruel Enterprises plotted against our dread Sovereign Lord the King and the whole State of this Realm for the Subversion of this Government and the utter Extirpation of the Truth of thy Gospel and pure Religion professed amongst us We most humbly praise and magnifie thy glorious Name for thine infinite Goodness in this our marvellous Deliverance We confess it was thy mercy thy mercy alone most merciful Father that we were not consumed And therefore not unto us not unto us O Lord but unto thy Name be ascribed all honour and glory in all Churches of the Saints throughaut all Generations For thou Lord didest discover unto thy Servants the snares of Death thou didst break them and we were delivered Be thou still our mighty Protector and scatter our Enemies that delight in Blood infatuate their Counsels enféeble their Strength put Fear in their Hearts and accomplish this thy Mercy in our safety and future deliverance And to that end strengthen the Hands of our gracious King the Lord Lieutenant the Nobility and Magistrates of the Land with Iudgment Iustice and Power to restrain such workers of Iniquity who pretend Religion and practise Rebellion and devour thine Inheritance This Lord we crave at thy merciful hands together with the continuance of thy powerful Protection over our dread Sovereign the whole Church and these Realms and the spéedy Conversion of all our Enemies and that for thy dear Son's sake Iesus Christ our only Mediator and Advecate Amen After the Litany this Prayer for the Second Collect. O Eternal God in whom we live move and have our Being and by whom alone we are protected in all our Dangers and Distresses we thy People and Shéep of thy Pasture do acknowledge our selves above all others infinitely bounden unto thy heaven●● Majesty for thy many unspeakable Benefits daily conferred and heapen upon us especially for the enlightning us with thy heavenly Truth and planting thy Gospel amongst us for placing over us a most gracious King a faithful Professor and Defender of the same a wise and vigilant Lieutenant And as at this time especially we praise thée for the discovery and prevention of the bloody and treacherous Designs of the Enemies of thy Truth and People We laud and magnifie thy glorious Name for these thy Mercies and will ever shew forth thy Praise from Generation to Generation For it was thy Goodness alone that we were not delivered over for a Prey unto their Téeth Thy Prudence not our Foresight thy Love not our Merit that we appear this day before thée that the Enemy did not triumph in our utter Destruction nor root up the Vine which thy Right hand had planted O Lord God of Hosts look down from Heaven and behold and visit this thy Vine water it with thy Blessing and make it to fill the Land to the astonishment of our Enemies but unto the joy of all that wish well unto our Sion So will we not go back from thée but will serve thée in fear and holiness all the days of our lives through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Third Collect after the Litany O Most gracious Lord God we of this Nation whom thou didst snatch as a Brand out of the Fire of the late horrid Massacre we this day assembled before thée do with shame and sorrow acknowledge and confess That our Sins had most justly provoked thée to wrath when thou didst suffer those Men of Blood to make their Sword fat with the Slaughter of so many thousand Innocents And we may as justly fear that our not being made better by thy former Iudgments thou mayest be compelled to make thy Sword sharper and return upon us in greater fury because our Sins are greater more bold more provoking in particular our neglect and contempt of thy sacred Ordinances our vain and false swearing for which the Land mourns our unchristian Vncharitableness and shameful Intemperance our Sacrilege and Covetousness Hypocrisie Slandering and déep Security in the midst of all our Sins and Dangers These together with a glorying in our Impieties might in justice have brought upon us a sudden and horrible Destruction But contrary to the method of thy Procéedings against others thou hast spared us thereby woing us to return unto thée by unfeigned Repentance Thou hast magnified thy Mercy towards us that we may magnifie thée as we do this day this memorable day O Lord for thy Patience and Long-suffering notwithstanding all our Provocations We repent O pardon we return O vouchsafe to receive us and enable us to walk worthy of thy great past Deliverance by a more strict and holy future Obedience for the Merits of Iesus Christ our only Saviour and Redéemer Amen At the Second Service this Fourth Collect to be said after the Collect for the King. MOst merciful and bountiful Lord God séeing thou hast béen graciously pleased to preserve thy most unworthy People from total Desolation and daily to follow us with the Blessng of Peace and good Government make us therefore O Lord in all thankfulness to be obedient to thy Will in all things to be faithful and constant in our Duty to the King and to all that are in Authority under him to be sincere in thy Worship zealous of Good works of one Faith and one Mind studying to be quiet forbearing one another and forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven us so that when every one in his several place shall labour to advance the good both of Church and State and by a through Reformation of our Lives shall become a People whom thou mayest take delight to bless then thy Iudgments which we have deserved and therefore fear may be averted and our sinful Souls saved in the day of the Lord Iesus Then with one heart and voice we may all praise thée in thy Church and always sing joyfully that thy Loving-kindness is ever more and more towards us and the Truth of the Lord endures for ever These Mercies we most unworthy to ask humbly beséech thée to grant for the benefit of this Church and Nation and glory of thy Name through Iesus Christ our only Saviour and Redéemer Amen For the Epistle Mehem 4. from ver 7. to ver 16. or 2 Cor. 1. from ver 3. to ver 11. For the Gospel Mat. 14. from ver 23. to ver 34. or Mat. 15. from ver 1. to ver 13. or Mat. 5. from ver 1. to ver 14. And then proceed as in the Book of Common-Prayer FINIS