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People.

Just and true are all thy ways, O thou

King of Saints.

Minifter.

Thou art good; thou doeft good continually; the earth is full of thy goodness. Every good and perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from thee, the Father of all.

People.

O Lord! thy goodness is above all praise ; univerfal as thy works, and endless as eternity. Minifter.

All glory and honour, bleffing and praise, might, majefty, and dominion, be unto God for ever. Amen.

Then let the firft Leffon be read, taken out of the Old Teftament; the Minifter is afterwards to proceed as follows: the People standing.

Minifter.

LET us now offer up unto God our fincere and humble thankfgivings, for his great goodness to us and to all mankind.

O give thanks unto the Lord, ye his people! give thanks at the remembrance of his goodness.

Let us meditate upon his mercies with delight; and let the words of our mouths and the actions of our lives fhew forth his praise.

People.

We will give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, and bis mercy endureth for ever.

The General Thanksgiving.

WE thank thee, O Father! Lord of

heaven and earth, for the innumerable favours thou haft bestowed upon us. We acknowledge, with all gratitude and joy, the gift of life: thy almighty voice hath called us into being, and thy hand hath placed us in this part of thy glorious works. We thank thee for the wife and useful frame of our bodies, and for the nobler powers of our minds; by which we are enabled to contemplate the beauty of thy

works,

works, and the wonderful order of thy providence; and to attain to the knowledge and love of thee, the Creator of the world, and the Author of all good.

People.

We praife thee, O Lord! for thy goodness, and for thy wonderful works to the children of

men.

Minifter.

We thank thee, O ever bountiful and gracious God! for the continual prefervation of our lives; in thy hand is the life of

every creature, and the breath of all mankind; our food and raiment are the daily gifts of thy bounty; the bleffings of society and friendship are thy wife and benevolent appointment; and to thy fatherly goodness we are indebted for all our perfonal and relative enjoyments.

People.

Blefs the Lord, O our fouls! and all that is within us blefs his holy name.

Minifter.

Minifter.

We bless thee, O heavenly Father, that thy goodness is not confined to this prefent world, but that thou haft awakened in us the pleafing hope of immortality; and that, by the various means of thy providence and grace, thou art training us up for a heavenly and everlasting life.

We thank thee for the inftructions and

examples of wife and good men in every age, and for every opportunity of attaining that measure of knowledge and virtue which is neceffary to our happiness.

But above all, we praife and magnify thee for the rich difplay of thy goodness manifested in the gospel of thy most beloved Son, Jefus Christ our Lord; whom thou didst raise up to bless mankind, by turning them from darkness to light, and from the power of fin to the worship and obedience of thee, the true God. We rejoice that by him thou haft given us thy heavenly truth, to enlighten our minds, to fanctify our hearts, and guide our feet into

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the way of peace; and that in his life thou haft fet before us an example of the most exalted goodness.

We thank thee for the promises of thy mercy and forgiveness, upon repentance and newness of life; for the affurance of thy gracious influence to help our infirmities, and for the bleffed hope of immortality confirmed to us in the gofpel.

People.

Bleffed be the God and Father of our Lord Fefus Chrift, for his goodness, and for his abundant loving kindness to the children of

men.

¶ Here the Thanksgivings on any particular occafions may be introduced.

Then let the Minifter read the Second Leffon, taken out of the New Teftament; after which a Pfalm ar Hymn may be fung, and then the Service to proceed as follows:

Minifter.

THUS faith the high and lofty One, who inhabiteth eternity, I dwell with him

who

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