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A Thanksgiving for every Sabbath day, commonly called Saturday; to be used next before the Bleffing. Almighty Lord, who didft create all the World, and didft appoint the Sabbath in memory thereof; because on that day thou didst reft from thy work of Creation; and that we might be put in mind of thee the Almighty Creator, and obliged to praife and celebrate thy divine Majefty for those thy wonderful Works. Thou, O Eternal God, didft bring all things into being by thy only begotten Son; thou madeft them all by him, and by him thou

vouchsafeft a fuitable providence over them all. Thou art he who didft frame the Heaven as an Arch, and ftretch it out as the covering of a Tent, and didft found the Earth upon nothing; the day is thine, the night alfo is thine, thou prepared ft the Light and the Sun; thou didft alfo adorn the Heavens with the Choir of Stars, to praise thy glorious Majefty; Thou didst feparate the Sea from the dry land, and replenish them both with thy Creatures. Thou didst also make Man, as a Citizen

of the World, and gaveft him dominion over the reft of the works of thy hands: and didft juftly expect that, for all thy wonderful Mercies to him, he should offer up continual Praifes to thee, The innumerable hoftsof Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, Powers, Cherubim and Seraphim, thine everlasting Armies, do adore thee. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord of Hofts. Heaven and Earth are full of thy Glory: Glory be to thee OLord, our greatCreator and Governor, thro' Jefus Chrift our Saviour. Amen. Amen.

A general Thanksgiving. ALmighty God, Father of

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all mercies, we thine unworthy fervants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for allthy goodness and loving kindness to us and to all men; [* particularly to thofe who defire now to offer up their praifes and thanksgivings for thy late merciesvouchfafed unto them.] We bless thee for our creation, and protection; for our preservation, [ that of this day, or, of this night paft in particular; ] and for all the bleffings of thisLife: but E

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above all for thine ineftima- thy late plague of immode

ble love in the redemption of the World by our Lord Jefus Chrift; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And we beseech thee give us that due fenfe of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful; and that we may fhew forth thy praife, not only with our lips, but in our lives, by giving up our felves to thy fervice, and by walking before thee in holinefs and righteoufnefs all our days, through Jefus Christ our Lord; to whom with thee, in the Holy Ghoft, beall honour andglory, world without end. Amen. For Rain.

God, our heavenly Father, who by thy gracious providence doft caufe the former and the latter rain to defcend upon the earth, that it may bring forth fruit for the use of man; We give the humble thanks that it hath pleased thee in our great neceffity to fend at the laft a joyful rain upon thine inheritance, and to refresh it when it was dry; to the great comfort of us thy unworthy fervants, and to the glory of thy holy Name, through thy mercies in Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Fair Weather. Lord God, who haft juftly humbled us by

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Moft merciful Father, who by thy gracious goodness haft heard the devout prayers of thy Church, and turned our dearth and fcarcity into cheapness and plenty; We give thee humble thanks for this thy fpecial bounty: befeeching thee to continue thy loving kindness unto us, that our land may yield us her fruits of increase, to thy glory, and our comfort, thro' Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Peace and Deliverance

from our Enemies. Almighty God, who art a ftrong tower of defence unto thy fervants again ft the face of their enemies; We yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from thofe great and apparent dangers wherewith wewere compaffed. We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them, Befeeching thee ftill to con

tinue fuch thy mercies to wards us; that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. For reftoring publick Peace

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at Home. Eternal God, our heavenly Father, who alone makeft men to be of

one mind in a house, and ftilleft the outrage of a violent and unruly people; We blefs thy holy Name, that it hath pleased thee to appeafe the feditious tumults which have been lately raifed up amongst us; moft 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 and all other thy mercies towards us, thro' Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. For Deliverance from the Plague or other common Sickness.

offer unto thy fatherly goodnefs our felves, our fouls and bodies, which thou hast delivered, to be a living facrifice unto thee; always praifing and magnifying thy mercies in the midft of thy Church, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

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WE humbly acknowledge before thee, O moft merciful Father, that the fevere punishments which are threatned in thy law, might juftly have fallen upon us by reason of our manifold tranfgreffions, and hardness of heart. Yet feeing it hath pleafed thee of thy tender mercy, upon our weak and unworthy humiliation, 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 Praife and Thanksgiving, lauding and magnifying thy glorious Name for fuch thy preservation and providence over us, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. At the Return of one of the

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Lord God, who haft wounded us for our fins, and confumed us for our tranfgreffions by thy late heavy and dreadful vifitation, and now in the midst of judgment remembring mer-Almighty God, we give cy, haft redeemed our fouls from the jaws of death; We

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deliver this woman thy fervant from the great pain and peril of Chid-birth; Grant, we beseech thee, moft merciful Father, that the thro' thy help may both faithfully live; and walk according to thy will in this life prefent; and also may be partaker of everlafting glory in the life to come, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. A Thanksgiving Prayer, after the great Storm, Nov. 27, 1703: To be used after any the like Storms or Earthquakes, with proper altera

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Reat and glorious Lord God, juft and terrible in thy Judgments, and unsearchable in all thy ways: At whose rebuke the Earth trembles, and the very foundations of the hills fhake; who also commandeft the Winds and the Sea, and they obey. We vile Duft, and miferable Sinners, in a moft awful fenfe of thy amazing judgments, our own great and manifold Provocations, and thy tender mercy to the penitent, do with all humility of foul, caft our felves down before thy Footstool; bewailing our unworthiness, and imploring thy pity, and the bowels of thy compaffion. We beseech thee, O Lord, to awaken our confciences,

that we may fee and duly confider thy hand, which in fo aftonishing a manner has been lifted up against us. Pardon our own crying fins, and thofe of the whole nation; which have drawn down this thy heavy difpleasure upon us; and g grant us fuch a measure of thy Grace, that we may no more difobey thy laws, abufe thy goodness and forbearance; or defpife this and other thy chastisements, left a worse thing come unto us. It is of thy goodness, O Lord, that we were not all confumed by the late winds and ftorms, which fulfill'd thy commandment; and that in the midst of Judgment thou did'ft remember Mercy; fhewing forth the care of thy providence, in fo many wonderful prefervations of thy people. Let the Remembrance of them work in us fuch a thankfulness of heart, and fuch a seriousness and watchfulnefs of Spirit, that no calamity may ever be a furprize to us, nor death itself come upon us unawares. That fo we may at length arrive fafely at that bleffed Kingdom, which cannot be fhaken, for the Sake of Jefus Chrift, our only Mediator and Advocate.

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The Collects, Epiftles, and Gofpels to be used throughout the Year.

The firft Sunday in Advent. learning; grant that we

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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 Jefus Chrift came to vifit us in great humility ;) that in the laft day, when he fhall come again in his glorious Majefty, to judge both the quick and dead, we may rife to the life immortal, thro' him who liveth and reigneth with thee, now and ever. Amen.

This Collect is to be repeated with the other Collects in Advent, until the feaft of the Nativity.

The Epiftle.

Owe no man any thing.
Rom. 13. ver. 8. to the end.
The Gospel.
When they drew. S. Matt.

21.ver. I. to 14.

may in fuch wife hear them,
read, mark, learn, and in-
wardly digeft them, that by
patience and comfort of thy
holy Word, we may em-
brace, and ever hold fast the
bleffed hope of everlafting
life, which thou haft given
us in our Saviour Jefus
Chrift. Amén.

The Epiftle.
Whatfoever things were.
Rom. I5. ver. 4. to v. 14.
The Gospel.

And there fhall be. S. Luke

2. ver. 25. to v. 34. The third Sunday in Advent.

The Collect.

Lord Jefus Chrift, who at thy firft coming didft fend thy meffenger to prepare thy way before thee; Grant that the minifters and stewards of thy myfteries, may likewife fo prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the difobedient to the wisdom of the juft, that at thy fecond

The fecond Sunday in Advent. coming to judge the world,

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we may be found an accept-
able people in thy fight,
who liveft and reigneft with
the Father, world without
end. Amen.

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