therefore bless and glorify thy Name for this thy mercy in faving us when we were ready to perith. And we beseech thee, make us as truly fenfible now of thy mercy, as we were then of the danger: And give us hearts always ready to exprefs our thankfulness, not only by words, but alfo by our lives, in being more obedient to thy holy commandments. Continue, we beseech thee, this thy goodness to us, that we, whom thou haft faved, may ferve thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life, through Jefus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen. An Hymn of Praife and Thanksgiv ing after a dangerous Tempeft. The Lord is gracious and full of compaffion : flow to anger, and of great mercy, He hath not dealt with us according to our fins: neither rewarded us according to our iniquities. But as the heaven is high above the earth fo great hath been his mercy towards us. : We found trouble and heavinefs we were even at deaths door; The waters of the fea had well nigh covered us: the proud waters to heaven, and then down again into the deep: our foul melted within us, because of trouble; Then cried we unto thee, O Lord and thou didft deliver us out of our diftrefs. Bleffed be thy Name, who didft not defpife the prayer of thy fervants: but didft hear our cry, and haft faved us. Thou didst fend forth thy commandment and the windy storm ceafed, and was turned into a calm. O let us therefore praise the Lord for his goodness and declare the wonders that he hath done, and still doeth for the children of men ! Praised be the Lord daily : even the Lord that helpeth us, and poureth his benefits upon us. He is our God, even the God of whom cometh falvation: God is the Lord, by whom we have efcaped death. Thou, Lord, haft made us glad through the operation of thy hands: and we will triumph in thy praise. Bleffed be the Lord God: even the Lord God, who only doeth wonderous things; And bleffed be the Name of his Majefty for ever and let every one of us fay, Amen, A men. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghoft; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. 2 Cor. 13. 14. had well nigh gone over our foulfus Chrift, and the love of HE grace of our Lord Je • The fea roared and the ftormy wind lifted up the waves thereof; We were carried up as it were T God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghoft, be with us all, now and for evermore. Amen. After After Victory or Deliverance from an Enemy. A Plaim or Hymn of Praife and F the Lord had not been on IF Lord: from this time forth for evermore. 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. our fide, now may we fay if¶ After this Hymn may be fung the the Lord himself had not been on our fide, when men rose up against us; They had fwallowed us up quick when they were so wrathfully difpleafed at us. Yea, the waters had drowned us, and the ftream had gone over our foul the deep waters of the proud had gone over our foul. But praifed be the Lord: who hath not given us over as a prey unto them. The Lord hath wrought: a mighty falvation for us. We gat not this by our own fword, neither was it our own arm that faved us but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadít a favour unto us. The Lord hath appeared for us the Lord hath covered our heads, and made us to ftand in the day of battel. The Lord hath appeared for us: the Lord hath overthrown our enemies, and dafhed in pieces thofe that rofe up against us; Therefore not unto us, O Lord, not unto us but unto thy Name be given the glory. The Lord hath done great things for us the Lord hath done great things for us, for Te Deum. Then this Collect. Almighty God, the Sovereign Commander of all the world, in whofe hand is power and might, which none is able to withstand; We blefs and magnify thy great and glorious Name, for this happy victory, the whole glory whereof we do afcribe to thee, who art the only giver of victory. And, we beseech thee, give us grace to improve this great mercy to thy glory, the advancement of thy Gofpel, the honour of our Sovereign, and, as much as in us lieth, to the good of all mankind. And, we beseech thee, give us such a sense of this great mercy, as may engage us to a true thankfulness, fuch as may appear in our lives, by an humble, holy, and obedient walking before thee all our days, through Jefus Chrift our Lord: To whom with thee, and the Holy Spirit, as for all thy mercies, fo in particular for this Victory and Deliverance, be all glory and honour world without end. Amen. 2 Cor. 13. 14. Our help ftandeth of the Lord: who hath made heaven and earth. Bleffed be the Name of the God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghoft, be with us all evermorc. Amen. ed into Corruption, looking for At the Burial of their Dead the refurrection of the Body at SEA. (when the Sea fhall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jefus Chrift; who at his coming fhall change our vile Body, that it may be like his glorious Body, according to the mighty working, Bo-whereby he is able to fubdue all things to himself. The Office in the Common Prayer- WE dy to the Deep, to be turn GEORGE R. UR Will and Pleafure is, that these three Forms of Prayer and Service made for the Fifth of November, the Thirtieth of January, and the Twenty ninth of May, be forthwith Printed and Publifhed, and for the future annexed to the Book of Common Prayer and Liturgy of the Church of England, to be used Yearly on the faid Days, in all Cathedral, and Collegiate Churches and Chapels, in all Chapels of Colleges and Halls, within both Our Univerfities, and of Our Colleges of Eaton and Winchester, and in all Parish-Churches and Chapels within that Part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed. Given at our Castle of Windfor, the Twelfth Day of September, 1728. In the Second Year of Our Reign. By His Majesty's Command, Townshend. A FORM to be used Yearly upon the Fifth Day of November; for the happy Deliverance of King JAMES I. and the three Eftates of England, from the most Traiterous and bloody intended Maffacre by Gunpowder: And alfo for the happy Arrival of his Majefty King William on this, Day, for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation. The Minifter of every Parish fhall give warning to his Parishioners publickly in the Church at Morning Prayer the Sunday before, for the due Obfervation of the faid Day. And after Morning Prayer, or Preaching, upon the faid Fifth Day of November, fhall read publickly, diftinctly, and plainly, the Act of Parliament made in the third Year of King James the First, for the Obfervation of it. The Service fhall be the fame with the ufual Office for Holy-days in all things: except where it is hereafter otherwife appointed. If this day fall happen to be Sunday, only the Collect proper for that Sunday shall be added to this Office in its place. to deftroy me without a caufe: yea, even without a caufe have they made a pit for my foul. Pfal. 35-7. They have laid a net for my feet, and preffed down my foul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Pfal. 57.7. Great is our Lord, and great is his power: yea, and his wifdom is infinite. Pfal. 147. 5. The Lord fetteth up the meek: and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground. Ver. 6. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the fon of man whom thou madeft fo ftrong for thine own felf. Pfal. Prieft. Send him help from thy holy place. People. And evermore mightily defend him. Prieft. Let his enemies have no advantage against him. People. Let not the wicked approach to hurt him. thanks for filling our hearts again with joy and gladnefs, after the time that thou hadft afflicted us, and putting a new fong into our mouths, by bringing his Majesty King William upon this Day, for the deliverance of our Church and Nation from Popish Tyranny and arbitrary power. We adore the wisdom and juftice of thy Providence, which fo timely interpofed in our extreme danger, and difappointed all the defigns of our ene Inftead of the first Collect at Morn-mies. We befeech thee, give us fuch a lively and lafting lenfe of ince that time, done for us, that what thou didst then, and haft, we may not grow fecure and carelefs in our obedience, by prefuming upon thy great and undeferved goodnefs; but that it may lead us to repentance, and move us to be the more diligent and zealous ing Prayer hall these two be used: haft in Almighty God, why power all ages thewed and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church, and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States, profefling thy holy and eternal truth, from the wicked Confpiracies, and malicious prac-in all the duties of our Religion, tices of all the enemies thereof: We yield thee our unfeigned thanks and praife, for the wonderful and mighty Deliverance of gracious Sovereign King James the First, the Queen, the Prince, and all the Royal Branches, with the Nobility, Clergy, and Commons of England, then affembled in Parliament, by Popifh Treachery appointed as fheep to the flaughter, in a moft barbarous and favage manner, beyond the examples of former ages. From this unnatural Confpiracy, not our merit, but thy mercy; not our forefight, but thy providence delivered us: And therefore, not unto us, O Lord, not unto us; but unto thy name be afcribed all honour and glory, in all Churches of the faints, from generation to generation, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.. Ccept also, moft gracious A God, of our unfeigned our unfeigned which thou haft in a marvellous Father, who of thy gracious Lmighty God and heavenly Providence, and tender mercy towards us, didit prevent the malice and imaginations of our enemies, by difcovering and confounding their horrible and wicked Enterprize, plotted and intended this day to have been executed againit the King, and the whole State of England |