XXXVIII. For reftoring Publick Peace at Home. ETERNAL God, our heavenly Father, who alone makest men to be of one mind in a house, and stilleft the outrage of violent and unruly people; We bless thy holy Name, that it hath pleased thee to appease the feditious tumults which have been lately raised up amongst us; most humbly befeeching thee to grant to all of us grace, that we may henceforth obediently walk in thy holy commandments; and, leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, may continually offer unto thee our facrifice of praise and thanksgiving for these thy mercies towards us; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. XXXIX. For Deliverance from the Plague, or other Sickness. LORD God, we humbly acknowledge before thee, our unworthiness. We know how frail and weak we are, and that by our own neglect we have often brought great fufferings upon ourselves. Yet seeing it hath pleased thee of thy tender mercy, to affwage the contagious fickness wherewith we lately have been fore afflicted, and to restore the voice of joy and health into our dwellings; We offer unto thy Divine Majefty the facrifice of praise and thankfgiving, lauding and magnifying thy glorious Name for fuch thy prefervation and providence over us. Let the late vifitation remind us of the uncertainty of life; and lead us to the obfervance of thy wife laws, by which under thy providence, we may be guarded against the return of a like calamity, or the evil may be diminished should it come again. In the midst of judgement thou remembereft mercy. Thou haft faved our life from deftruction. We offer unto thy fatherly goodness ourselves, our fouls and bodies which thou haft delivered, to be a living facrifice unto thee, always praifing and magnifying thy mercies in the midft of thy Church; through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. XL. For a Woman after Childbirth. ALMIGHTY God, we give thee humble thanks for that thou haft vouchfafed to preserve this woman thy fervant through the sufferings and perils of childbirth. [*Grant her *If the child a mother's joys amidst her parental be alive. cares; Let her offspring live before thee, and as it grows up, be a bleffing by its difpofitions and conduct to its parents.] [† Make her refigned to thy will, that thou hast taken + Or, if the child be dead. away her child, and suffer her not to be ungrateful for the prefervation of her own life in the time of danger.] And we beseech thee, moft merciful Father, that fhe, through thy help, may both faithfully live, and walk according to thy will, in this life prefent; and also may be partaker of everlasting glory in the life to come; through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ To be used at Sea. XLI. Collect of Thanksgiving. MOST bleffed and glorious Lord God, who art of infinite goodnefs and mercy; We thy poor creatures, whom thou haft made and preserved, holding our fouls in life, and now rescuing us out of the jaws of death, humbly prefent ourselves again before thy Divine Majesty, to offer a facrifice of praife and thanksgiving, for that thou heardeft us when we called in our trouble, and didst not reject our prayer, which we made before thee in our great diftrefs: Even when we gave all for loft, our fhip, our goods, our lives, then didft thou mercifully look upon us, and wonderfully command a deliverance; for which we, now being in fafety, do give all praise and glory to thy holy Name; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. XLII. Or this: MOST mighty and gracious good God, thy mercy is over all thy works, but in special manner hath been extended toward us, whom thou haft fo powerfully and wonderfully defended. Thou haft fhewed us terrible things, and wonders in the deep, that we might fee how powerful and gracious a God thou art; how able and ready to help them that truft in thee. Thou haft fhewed us how both winds and feas obey thy command; that we may learn, even from them, hereafter to obey thy voice, and to do thy will. We therefore bless and glorify thy Name, for this thy mercy in faving us, when we were ready to perish. 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 express our thankfulness, not only by words, but also by our lives, in being more obedient to thy holy commandments. Continue, we beseech thee, this thy goodness to us; that we, whom thou hast saved, may ferve thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life; through Jefus Chrift our Lord and Saviour Amen. 53 THE COLLECTS, EPISTLES, AND GOSPELS. TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. SECTION THE FIRST:-The Expectation, the Birth, and early Life of Jefus. The First Sunday in Advent. The Collect. LMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may caft away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to vifit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious Majesty to judge both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal, and reign with him in thy presence for ever. The Epiftle. Rom. xiii. 8 to the end. The Gospel. St. Matt. xxi. 1 to 14. Amen. Or for the Gospel. Deuteronomy xviii. 9 to 20. B The Second Sunday in Advent. The Collect. LESSED Lord, who haft caused all holy Scrip tures to be written for our learning; Grant that we may in fuch wife hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digeft them, that by patience, and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the bleffed hope of everlasting life, which thou haft given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. The Epiftle. Rom. xv. 4 to 14. The Gospel. St. Luke xxi. 25 to 34; or, St. Matt. xiii. 47 to 58. The Third Sunday in Advent. The Collect. LORD who at the first coming of our Saviour Jefus, didft fend thy meffenger to prepare his way before him; grant that the minifters of his gospel, may likewise so prepare his way by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wifdom of the juft, that at his fecond coming to judge the world we may be found an acceptable people in thy fight, and may through thy mercy enter into the joy of our Lord. Amen. The Epiftle. 1 Cor. iv. 1 to 6. The Fourth Sunday in Advent. The Collect. LORD God, to whom power belongeth, who giveft power to the faint, and to them that have no might increasest strength; we pray thee to be to us a prefent help in time of trouble, that whereas through manifold temptations, we are fore let and hindered in running the race that is set before us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may speedily help and deliver us; through him whom thou haft exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance and forgiveness of fins. Amen. |