Page images
PDF
EPUB

that is before us, in faith and patience, humility and meeknefs, mortification and felf-denial, charity and conftant perfeverance unto the end; and all this for thy Son our Lord Jefus Chrift his fake: To whom with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end.

Amen.

A FORM of PRAYER with THANKSGIVING to Almighty God, for having put an End to the Great Rebellion, by the Reftitution of the King and Royal Family, and the Restoration of the Goverment, after many Years Interruption : Which unspeakable Mercies were wonderfully compleated upon the Twenty-ninth of May, in the Year 1660. And in memory thereof, that Day in every Year is by Act of Parliament appointed to be for ever kept Holy.

The At of Parliament made in the Twelfth, and confirmed in the Thirteenth Year of King Charles the Second, for the Obfervation of the Twenty-ninth Day of May yearly, as a Day of publick Thanksgiving, is to be read publickly in all Churches at Morning Prayer, immediately after the Nicene Creed, on the Lord's Day next before every juch Twenty ninth of May, and Notice to be given for the due Obfervation of the faid Day.

The Service fhall be the fame with the ufual Office for Holy-Days, except where it is in this Office otherwife appointed

If this Day ball happen to be Afcenfion-day, or Whitfunday, the Collects of this Office are to be added to the Offices of thofe Feftivals in their proper Places: If it be Monday or Tuefday in Whitfun-week, or Trinity-" Sunday, the proper Pfalms appointed for this Day, inftead of thofe of ordinary Courfe, fhall be alfo ufed, and the Collects added as before: And in all thefe Cafes, the reft of this Office shall be omitted: But if it shall happen to be any other Sunday, this whole Office fhall be used, as it followeth, entirely. And what Festival foever shall happen to fall upon this folemn Day of Thanksgiving, the following Hymn appointed inftead of venite, exultemus, fall be conftantly used.

T

Morning Prayer ball begin with thefe Sentences:

the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveneffes, though we have rebelled against him: neither have

we

we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in laws, which he fet before us. Dan. ix. 9, 10.

It is of the Lords mercies that we were not confumed: beLam. iii. 22. caufe his compaffions fail not.

I

nftead of Venite, exultemus, shall be faid or fung this Hymn following ; one Verfe by the Prieft, and another by the Clerk and People:

M

h

Y fong fhall be always of the loving-kindness of the Lord: with my mouth will I ever be shewing forth his truth from one generation to another. Pfal. lxxxix. 1. The merciful and gracious Lord bath fo done bis marvellous works: that they ought to be bad in remembrance. Pfal. cxi. 4. Who can exprefs the noble acts of the Lord or fhew forth all his praife? Pfal. cvi. 2.

The works of the Lord are great: fought out of all them that bave pleasure therein. Pfal. cxi. 2.

The Lord fetteth up the meek: and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground. Pfal. cxlvii. 6.

The Lord executeth righteoufness and judgment: for all them that are oppreffed with wrong. Pfal. cili. 6.

For he will not always be chiding: neither keepeth he his anger for ever. Ver. 9.

He hath not dealt with us after our fins: nor rewarded us according to our wickedness. Ver. 10.

For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth fo great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

Ver. 11.

Yea, like as a father pitieth bis own children: even fo is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. Ver. 13.

Thou, O God, haft proved us; thou alfo haft tried us, even as filver is tried. Pfal. lxvi. 9.

Thou fufferedft men to ride over our beads, we went through fire and water: but thou hast brought us out into a wealthy place. Ver. 11.

Oh, how great troubles and adverfities haft thou fhewed us! and yet didft thou turn and refresh us: yea, and broughteft us from the deep of the earth again. Pfalm Ixxi. 18.

Toon

Thou didst remember us in our low eftate, and redeem us from our enemies for thy mercy endureth for ever. Pfal. cxxxvi. 23, 24.

Lord, thou art become gracious unto thy land: thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob. Pfal. lxxxv. 1.

God bath fhewed us bis goodness plenteously: and God bath let us fee our defire upon our enemies. Pfal. lix. 10.

They are brought down, and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright. Pfal. xx. 8.

There are they fallen, all that work wickedness; they are caft down, and fhall not be able to ftand. Pfal. xxxvi. 12.

The Lord hath been mindful of us, and he shall bless us; even he shall blefs the house of Ifrael, he shall bless the houfe of Aaron. Pfal. cxv. 12.

He fhall bless them that fear the Lord: both fmall and great.

Ver. 13.

O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnefs and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children

of men! Pfal. cvii. 21.

That they would offer unto him the facrifice of thanksgiving: and tell out his works with gladness. Ver. 22.

And not hide them from the children of the generations to come: but fhew the honour of the Lord, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done. Pfal, lxxviii. 4.

That our pofterity may also know them, and the children that are yet unborn: and not be as their fore-fathers, a faithless and stubborn generation. Ver. 6. 9.

Give thanks, O Ifrael, unto God the Lord in the congregations from the ground of the heart. Pfal. Ixviii. 26. Praised be the Lord daily even the God who helpeth us, and poureth bis benefits upon us.

Ver. 19.

O let the wickednefs of the wicked come to an end: but establish thou the righteous. Pfal. vii. 9.

Let all thofe that feek thee, be joyful and glad in thee: and let all fuch as love thy falvation, fay always, the Lord be praised, Pfal. xl. 19.

Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.

Proper

Proper Pfalms.

cxxiv, cxxvi, cxxix, cxviii.

Proper Lefons.

The First. 2 Sam. xix. Ver. 9. or Numb. xvi. Te Deum, The Second. The Epiftle of S. Jude Jubilate Deo.

The Suffrages next after the Creed shall ftand thus:

Prieft. O Lord, fhew thy mercy upon us;
Antwer. And grant us thy falvation.

Priest. O Lord, fave the King;

Aniwer, Who putteth his truft in thee.

Prieft. Send him help from thy holy place;

Answer. And evermore mightily defend him.

Prieft. Let his enemies have no advantage against him
Anfwer. Let not the wicked approach to hurt him.
Prieft. Endue thy Minifters with righteousness;

Anfwer. And make thy chofen people joyful.

Prieft. Give peace in our time, O Lord;

Answer Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but

only thou, O God.

Prieft. Be unto us, O Lord, a strong tower

Answer. From the face of our enemies.

Prieft. O Lord, hear our prayer ;

Answer. And let our cry come unto thee.

Inftead of the firft Collect at Morning prayer, shall these two which feller be used:

Almighty God, who art a strong tower of defence unto thy fervants, against the face of their enemies; We yield thee praife and thanksgiving for the wonderful Deliverance of thefe Kingdoms from THE GREAT REBELLION, and all the Miferies and Oppreffions confequent thereupon, under which they had fo long groaned. We acknowledge it thy goodnefs, that we were not utterly delivered over as a prey unto them; Befeeching thee ftill to continue fuch thy Mercies towards us; that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour, and mighty Deliverer, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O Lord

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

Lord God of our falvation, who haft been exceedingly gracious unto this land, and by thy miraculous providence aidft deliver us out of our miferable confufions, by restoring to us, and to his own juft and undoubted Rights, our then moft gracious Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second (notwithstanding all the power and malice of his enemies) and by placing him on the Throne of these Kingdoms, didft restore alfo unto us the publick and free Profeffion of thy true Religion and Worship, together with our former peace and profperity, to the great comfort and joy of our hearts: We are here now before thee, with all due thankfulness, to acknowledge thine unfpeakable goodnefs herein, as upon this day, fhewed unto us, and to offer unto thee our facrifice of praife for the fame; humbly befeeching thee to accept this our unfeigned, though unworthy oblation of ourselves: vowing all holy obedience in thought, word, and work unto thy Divine Majefty; and promifing all loyal and dutiful allegiance to thine anointed Servant now fet over us, and to his Heirs after him: Whom we befeech thee to blefs with all increase of grace, honour, and happiness in this world, and to crown him with immortality and glory in the world to come, for Jefus Christ his fake, our only Lord and Saviour. Amen.

In the end of the Litany (which shall always this day be used after the Colle [We humbly befeech thee, O Father, &c.] fhall this be faid which next followeth:

A

Lighty God, who haft in all ages fhewed forth thy power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious Deliverances of thy Church, and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States, profeffing thy holy and eternal truth, from the malicious confpiracies and wicked practices of all their Enemies: We yield unto thee our unfeigned thanks and praife, as for thy many other great and publick mercies, fo efpecially for that fignal and wonderful deliverance by thy wife and good providence (as upon this day) completed and vouchfafed to our then moft gracious Sovereign King Charles the Second, and all the Royal Family: And in them to this whole Church and State, and all

orders

« PreviousContinue »