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That they would offer unto water-springs of a dry ground. him the facrifice of thanksgi- And there he fetteth the ving: and tell out his works hungry: that they may build with gladness! them a city to dwell in;

They that go down to the fea in ships: and occupy their business in great waters;

These men see the works of the Lord: and his wonders in the deep.

That they may fow their land, and plant vineyards : to yield them fruits of increase.

He blesseth them, so that they multiply exceedingly: and fuffereth not their cattle to de

For at his word the stormy crease. wind arifeth: which lifteth up the waves thereof.

And again, when they are minished and brought low :

They are carried up to the through oppreffion, through aheaven, and down again to the ny plague or trouble;

deep: their foul melteth away because of the trouble.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man: and are at their wits end.

So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble: he delivereth them out of their distress.

For he maketh the ftorm to cease so that the waves thereof are still.

Then are they glad, because they are at rest: and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.

That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people: and praise him in the feat of the elders!

Though he fuffer them to be evil-intreated through tyrants: and let them wander out of the way in the wilderness;

Yet helpeth he the poor out of misery: and maketh him housholds like a flock of sheep.

The righteous will confider this, and rejoyce and the mouth of all wickedness shall be stopped.

Whoso is wife will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord.

Glory be to the Father, and

Ghost;

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O that men would therefore to the Son: and to the Holy praise the Lord for his goodnefs and declare the wonders As it was in thebeginning, is that he doth for the children now, and ever shall be: world of men! without end. Amen. Collects of Thanksgiving. Moft bleffed and glorious Lord God, who art of infinite goodness and mercy; We thy poor creatures whom thou hast made and preferved, holding our fouls in life, and now rescuing us out of the jaws of selves again before thy divine

Who turneth the floods into a wilderness: and drieth up the water-springs.

A fruitful land maketh he

barren: for the wickedness of death, humbly ly present our them that dwell therein. Again, he maketh the wil- Majesty, to offer a facrifi derness a standing water : and praise and thanksgiving, for

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An Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving after a dangerous Tempest.

that thou heardst us when we may serve thee in holiness and called in our trouble, and didft righteousness, all the days of not cast out our prayer, which our life, through Jesus Chrift we made before thee in our our Lord and Saviour. Amen. great distress; even when we gave all for loft, our ship, our goods, our lives, then didst thou mercifully look upon us, and wonderfully command a deliverance; for which, we now being in safety, do give all paise and glory to thy holy Name, through Jesus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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us give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever.

Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; let the redeemed of the Lord say so: whom he hath delivered from the merciless rage of the fea

over all thy works, but in fpe- The Lord is gracious and cial manner hath been extend- full of compaffion: flow to aned toward us, whom thou hast ger, and of great mercy. so powerfully and wonderfully He hath not dealt with us acdefended. Thou hast shewed cording to our fins: neither reus terrible things, and wonders warded us according to our iniin the deep, that we might fee quities.

how powerful and gracious a But as the heaven is high aGod thou art; how able and bove the earth: so great hath ready to help them that truft been his mercy towards us. in thee. Thou hast shewed us We found trouble and heavihow both winds and feas obey ness: we were even at deaths thy command, that we may door;

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learn even from them, hereaf- The waters of the sea had ter to obey thy voice, and to do well nigh covered us: the thy will. We therefore bless proud waters had well nigh and glorifie thy Name for this gone over our foul; thy mercy in saving us, when The fea rored: and the storwe were ready to perish. And my wind lifted up the waves we besecch thee, make us as thereof;

truly fenfible now of thy mer- We were carried up as it cy, as we were then of the dan- were to heaven, and then down ger: and give us hearts always again into the deep: our foul ready to express our thankful- melted within us, because of nefs, not only by words, but al- trouble;

fo by our lives, in being more Then cried we unto thee, O obedient to thy holy command- Lord: and thou didst deliver ments. Continue, we beseech us out of our distress. thee, this thy goodness to us, Bleffed be thy Name, who that we whom thou hast faved, didft not despise the prayer of

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thy servants: but didft hear our thy hands cry, and haft faved us.

Thou didst send 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 doth 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 salvation: God is the Lord, by whom we have escaped death.

and we will tri

umph in thy praise.

Blessed be the Lord God: even the Lord God, who only doth wondrous things;

And blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever: and let every one of us say, Amen, Amen.

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.

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2. Cor. 13. 14.

He grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the

Thou, Lord, haft made us Holy Ghost, be with us all. glad through the operation of Amen.

After Victory or Deliverance from an Enemy. A Pfalm or Hymn of Praise right hand, and thine arm, and and Thanksgiving after vi- the light of thy countenance, Etory. because thou hadst a favour un

F the Lord had not been on

our fide, now may we fay: L if the Lord himself had not been on our fide, when men rose up against us;

They had swallowed us up quick when they were so wrathfully difpleased at us.

Yea, the waters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our foul: the deep waters of the proud had gone over our foul.

But praised be the Lord: who hath not given us over as a prey unto them.

The Lord hath wrought: a mighty salvation for us.

We gat not this by our own sword, neither was it our own arm that faved us: but thy

to us.

The Lord hath appeared for us: the Lord hath covered our heads, and made us to ftand in the day of battle.

The Lord hath appeared for us: the Lord hath overthrown our enemies, and dashed in pieces those that rose 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 which we rejoусе.

Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord: who hath made heaven and earth.

Blessed be the Name o the

Lord: from this time forth for Glory

evermore.

Glory be to the Father, and vancement of thy Gospel, the to the Son: and to the Holy honour of our Sovereign, and

Ghoft;

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.

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 thank

After this Hymn may be fung fulness, such as may appear in the Te Deum.

Then this Collect.

our lives, by an humble, holy, and obedient walking before thee all our days, through Jesus Almighty God, the So- Christ our Lord: T Towhom with vereign commander of all thee, and the Holy Spirit, as the world, in whose hand is for all thy mercies, so in partipower and might, which none cular for this victory and deliis able to withstand; We bless verance, be all glory and hoand magnifie thy great and glo- nour world without end. Amen. rious Name for this happy viEtory, the whole glory where

2 Cor. 13. 14.

of we do ascribe to thee, who The grace of our Lord Je art the only giver of victory. fus Christ, and the love And, we beseech thee, give of God, and the fellowship of us grace to improve this great the Holy Ghost, be with us all mercy to thy glory, the ad- evermore. Amen.

At the Burial of their Dead at SEA.

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He Office in the Common body, (when the fea shall give Prayer Book may be used; up her dead,) and the life of Only instead of these words the world to come, through [We therefore cominit his our Lord Jesus Chrift; who at body to the ground, Earth to his coming shall change our Earth, &c.] Say, #vile body, that it may be like

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7E therefore commit his his glorious body, according to body to the Deep, to the mighty working whereby be turned into corruption, look- he is able to fubdue all things ing for the refurrection of the to himself.

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A Form A Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving, 3, to be used yearly upon the Fifth Day of November 3 For the happy Deliverance

of

King F. AMES I. and the Three Estates of England, from the most Traiterous and Bloody intended Massacre by Gun-powder: And alfo for the Happy Arrival of His late Majesty on this Day, for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation.

The Service Shall be the same with the usual Office for Holy-days in all things; Except where it is hereafter otherwise appointed.

If this day sball happen to be Sunday, only the Collect proper for that Sunday Sball be added to this Office in its place.

Morning Prayer shall begin with his power: yea, and his wisdom is these Sentences.

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infinite. Pfal. 147.5.
bringeth the ungodly down
ground. ver. 6.

to the

HE Lord is full of com- The Lord Setteth up the meek: and paffion and mercy: longfuffering, and of great goodness. Pfal. 103. 8. He will not alway be chiding: neither keepeth he his anger for ever. ver. 9.

He hath not dealt with us after our fins: nor rewarded as according to our wickednesses. ver. 10.

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Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand and upon the fon of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self. Pfal. 80. 17.

And so will not we go back from thee: O let us live, and we foall call upon thy Name. ver. 18. Glory be to the Father, As it

c. was in the beginning, &c.

Instead of Venite, exultemus, Soall this Hymn Hym following used, one Verse be Pr Prieft, and another by the Clerk and People. Give thanks unto the Lord, I Proper Plalms. Lxiv, Cxxivi for he is gracious: and his

Cxxv.

mercy endureth for ever. Pfal. 107.1. Let them give thanks whom the Lord hath redeemed: and delivered from the hand of the enemy. ver. 2. Many a time have they fought againft me from my youth up: may Ifrael now say. Pfal. 129. 1.

Proper Leffons.

The first, 2 Sam. XXII.
Te Deum.

Yea, many a time have they vexed me from my youth up: but they have not prevailed against me. ver. 2. They have privily laid their net to deftroy me without a cause: yea, even without a cause have they made a pit for my foul. Pfal. 35. They have laid a net for and preffed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Plal. 57.7.

35.7.

my feet,

Great is our Lord, and great is

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