PRAYER WITH THANKSGIVING, To be used yearly upon the Fifth Day of November, For the happy Deliverance of King JAMES I. and the three Estates 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 Minister of every Parish shall give warning to his Parishioners publickly in the Church at Morning Prayer, the Sunday before, for the due Observation of the said Day. And after Morning Prayer, or Preaching, upon the said Fifth Day of November, shall read publickly, distinctly, and plainly, the Act of Parliament, made in the third Year of King James the First, for the Observation of it. ¶ 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 shall happen to be Sunday, only the Collect proper for that Sunday shall be added to this Office in its place. ¶ Morning Prayer shall begin with these Sentences. THE HE Lord is full of compaffion, and mercy: long-suffering, and of great goodnefs. Pfal. ciii. 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 us according to our wickednefs. Ver. 10. ¶ Instead of Venite exultemus shall this Hymn fol lowing be used; one Verse by the Priest, and another by the Clerk and people. Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever. Pfal. cvii. 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 against me from my youth up: may Ifrael now fay. Pfal. cxxix. 1. 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 destroy me without a cause : yea, even without a caufe have they made a pit for my foul. PS. xxxv.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 themfelves. Pfal. lvii. 7. Great is our Lord, and great is his power: yea, and his wifdom is infinite. Pfal. cxlvii. 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. lxxx. 17. Y | mies thereof: We yield thee our unfeigned thanks and praise, for the wonderful and mighty Deliverance of our 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 Popish treachery appointed as fheep to the flaughter, in a most 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. A CCEPT alfo, moft gracious God, of our unfeigned 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 Majefty King William, upon this Day, for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation from Popish Tyranny and arbitrary Power. We adore the wifdom and juftice of thy Providence, which fo timely interpofed in our extreme danger, and difappointed all the defigns of our enemies. We be feech thee, give us fuch a lively and lasting sense of what thou didft then, and haft fince that time done for us, that we may not grow fecure and careless in our obedience, by prefuming upon thy great and undeferved goodness; but that it may lead us to repentance, and move us to be the more diligent and zealous in all the duties of our Religion, which thou haft in a marvellous manner preferved to us. Let truth and juftice, brotherly kindness and charity, devotion and piety, concord and unity, with all other virtues, fo flourish among us, that they may be the ftability of our times, and make this Church a praise in the earth. All which we humbly beg for the fake of our bleffed Lord and Saviour. Amen. In the end of the Litany (which shall always this Day be used) after the Collect [We humbly beseech thee, O Father, &c.] shall this be said which followeth. A LMIGHTY God and heaven ly Father, who of thy gracious Providence, and tender mercy towards us, didft prevent the malice and imaginations of our enemies, by discovering and confounding their horrible and wicked Enterprize, plotted and intended this day to have been executed against the King, and the whole State of England, for the fubverfion of the Government and Religion established among us; and didft likewife upon this day wonderfully conduct thy Servant King William, and bring him fafely into England, to preferve us from the attempts of our enemies to bereave us of our Religion and Laws: We moft humbly praife and magnify thy most glorious Name for thy unspeakable goodness towards us, expreffed in both these acts of thy mercy. We confefs it has been of thy mercy alone, that we are not confumed: For our fins have cried to heaven against us; and our iniquities juftly called for vengeance upon us. But thou haft not dealt with us after our fins, nor rewarded us after our iniquities; nor given us over, as we deferved, to be a prey to our enemies; but haft in mercy delivered us from their malice, and preferved us from death and deftruction. Let the confideration of this thy repeated goodnefs, O Lord, work in us true repentance, that iniquity may not be our ruin. And increase in us more and more a lively faith and love, fruitful in all holy obedience; that thou mayeft ftill continue thy favour, with the light of thy Gospel, to us and our pofterity for evermore; and that for thy dear Son's fake, Jesus Christ our only Mediator and Advocate, Amen. ¶ Instead of the Prayer [In time of War and Tumults] shall be used this Prayer following. Lord, who didft this Day difcover the fnares of death that were laid for us, and didft wonder- | thankful for this, and for all other thy great mercies towards us; particularly for making this day again memorable, by a fresh inftance of thy loving-kindness towards us. We blefs thee for giving his late Majefty King William a fafe arrival here, and for making all oppofition fall before him, till he became our King and Governour. We befeech thee to protect and defend our Sovereign King GEORGE, and all the Royal Family, from all treafons and confpiracies; Preserve him in thy faith, fear, and love; Profper his Reign with long happiness here on earth; and crown him with everlasting glory hereafter; through Jefus Chrift our only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen. fully deliver us from the fame; Be thou still our mighty Protector, and fcatter our enemies that delight in blood: Infatuate and defeat their counfels, abate their pride, affwage their malice, and confound their devices. Strengthen the hands of our gracious Sovereign King GEORGE, and all that are put in authority under him, with judgement and justice to cut off all fuch workers of iniquity, as turn Religion into Rebellion, and Faith into Faction; that they may never prevail against us, or triumph in the ruin of thy Church among us: but that our gracious Sovereign, and his Realms, being preferved in thy true Religion, and by thy merciful goodness protected in the fame, we may all duly ferve thee, and give thee thanks in thy holy congregation; through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. ¶ In the Communion Service, instead of the Collect for the Day, shall this which followeth be used. L is The Epifle. Rom. xiii. 1. ET every foul be fubject unto the higher powers; for there no power, but of God: the pow ers that be are ordained of God. Whofoever therefore refifteth the power refifteth the ordinance of God; and they that refift shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou fhalt have praise of the fame: for he is the minifter of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the fword in vain: for he is the minifter of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye muft needs be muft needs be fubject, not only for wrath, but alfo for confcience fake. For for this caufe pay ye tribute alfo; for WH ¶ This Sentence is to be read at the Offertory. HATSOEVER ye would that men should do to you, do ye even fo to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets. St. Matth. vii. 12. ¶ After the Prayer for the Church militant this following Prayer is to be used. God, whofe Name is excellent they are God's Minifters, attending in all the earth, and thy glory continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due, cuftom to whom cuftom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom ho nour. A The Gospel. St. Luke ix. 51. ND it came to pafs, when the time was come that he should be received up, he ftedfaftly fet his face to go to Jerufalem, and fent meffengers before his face; and they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him: And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerufalem. And when his difciples James and John faw this, they faid, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and confume them, even as Elias did? But he turned and rebuked them, and faid, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of: For the Son of man is not come to deftroy men's lives, but to fave them. And they went to another village. ¶ After the Creed, if there be no Sermon, shall be read one of the Six Homilies against Rebellion. above the heavens; who on this day didft miraculously preferve our Church and State from the fecret contrivance and hellish malice of Popifh confpirators; and on this day alfo didft begin to give us a mighty deliverance from the open tyranny and oppreffion of the fame cruel and blood-thirsty enemies: We blefs and adore thy glorious Majefty, as for the former, fo for this thy late marvellous lovingkindness to our Church and Nation, in the prefervation of our Religion and Liberties. And we humbly pray, that the devout fenfe of this thy repeated mercy may renew and increase in us a fpirit of love and thankfulness to thee its only Author; a fpirit of peaceable fubmiffion and obedience to our gracious Sovereign Lord, King GEORGE; and a spirit of fervent zeal for our holy Religion which thou haft fo wonderfully rescued, and established, a bleffing to us and our pofterity. And this we beg for Jefus Chrift his fake. Amen. |