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 Massacre by Gunpowder: And also for the happy Arrival of his Majesty 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. they have not prevailed against me. Ver. 2. They have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause : yea, even without a cause have they made a pit for my soul. Psalm xxxv. 7. They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Psalm lvii. 7. Great is our Lord, and great is his power yea, and his wisdom is infinite. Psalm cxlvii. 5. The Lord setteth 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 son of man whom thou madest so strong for thine own self. Psalm 1xxx. 17. And so will not we go back from thee: O let us live, and we shall call upon thy Name. Ver. 18. 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. Proper Psalms. lxiv, cxxiv, cxxv. Proper Lessons. The First. 2 Sam. xxii. Te Deum. The Second. Acts xxiii. Jubilate. In the Suffrages after the Creed these shall be inserted and used for the Queen. Priest. O Lord, save the Queen; People. Who putteth her trust in thee. Priest. Send her help from thy holy place. People. And evermore mightily defend her. Priest. Let her enemies have no advantage against her. ACCEPT also, most gracious God, of our unfeigned thanks for filling our hearts again with joy and gladness, after the time that thou hadst afflicted us, and putting a new song 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 justice of thy Providence, which so timely interposed in our extreme danger, and disappointed all the designs of our enemies. We beseech thee, give us such a lively and lasting sense of what thou didst then, and hast since that time done for us, that we may not grow secure and careless in our obedience, by pre People. Let not the wicked ap- suming upon thy great and undeproach to hurt her. Instead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall these two be used. ALMIGHTY God, who hast in all ages shewed thy Power and Mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church, and in the protection of righteous and religious Kings and States professing thy holy and eternal truth, from the wicked conspiracies, and malicious practices of all the enemies 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 assembled in Parliament, by Popish treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter, in a most barbarous and savage manner, beyond the examples of former ages. From this unnatural Conspiracy, not our merit, but thy mercy; not our foresight, but thy providence delivered us: And therefore not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy Name be ascribed all honour and glory, in all Churches of the saints, from generation to generation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. served 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 hast in a marvellous manner preserved to us. Let truth and justice, brotherly kindness and charity, devotion and piety, concord and unity, with all other virtues, so flourish among us, that they may be the stability of our times, and make this Church a praise in the earth. All which we humbly beg for the sake of our blessed 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. LMIGHTY God and heaᎪᏞ venly Father, who of thy gracious Providence, and tender mercy towards us, didst 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 subversion of the Government and Religion established among us; and didst likewise upon this day wonderfully conduct thy Servant King William, and bring him safely into England, to preserve us from the attempts of our enemies to bereave us of our Religion and Laws: We most humbly praise and magnify thy most glorious Name for thy unspeakable goodness towards us, expressed in both these acts of thy mercy. We confess it has been of thy mercy alone, that we are not consumed: For our sins have cried to heaven against us; and our iniquities justly called for vengeance upon us. But thou hast not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us after our iniquities; nor given us over, as we deserved, to be a prey to our enemies; but hast in mercy delivered us from their malice, and preserved us from death and destruction. Let the consideration of this thy repeated goodness, 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 mayest still continue thy favour, with the light of thy Gospel, to us and our posterity for evermore; and that for thy dear Son's sake, 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 didst this day discover the snares of death that were laid for us, and didst wonderfully deliver us from the same; Be thou still our mighty Protector, and scatter our enemies that delight in blood: Infatuate and defeat their counsels, abate their pride, asswage, their malice, and confound their devices. Strengthen the hands of our gracious Sovereign Queen VICTORIA, and all that are put in authority under her, with judgement and justice to cut off all such 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 her Realms, being preserved in thy true Religion, and by thy merciful goodness protected in the same, we may all duly serve thee, and give thee thanks in thy holy congregation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. In the Communion Service, instead of the Collect for the Day, shall this which followeth be used. ET TERNAL God, and our most mighty Protector, we thy unworthy servants do humbly present ourselves before thy Majesty, acknowledging thy power, wisdom, and goodness, in preserving the King, and the Three Estates of the Realm of England assembled in Parliament, from the destruction this day intended against them. Make us, we beseech thee, truly thankful for this, and for all other thy great mercies towards us; particularly for making this day again memorable, by a fresh instance of thy loving-kindness towards us. We bless thee for giving his late Majesty King Wil liam a safe arrival here, and for making all opposition fall before him, till he became our King and Governour. We beseech thee to protect and defend our Sovereign Queen VICTORIA, and all the Royal Family, from all treasons and conspiracies; Preserve her in thy faith, fear, and love; Prosper her Reign with long happiness here on earth; and crown her with everlasting glory hereafter; through Jesus Christ our only Saviour and Redeemer. Amen. The Epistle. Rom. xiii. 1. IET every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power, but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist 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 shalt have praise of the same: for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also; for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom bute is due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour. The Gospel. St. Luke ix. 51. AN This Sentence is to be read at the Offertory. WHATSOEVER ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so 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. tri-fent in all the earth, and thy GOD, whose Name is excel ND it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem, and sent messengers 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 Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of: For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save 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. glory above the heavens; who on this day didst miraculously preserve our Church and State from the secret contrivance and hellish malice of Popish conspirators; and on this day also didst begin to give us a mighty deliverance from the open tyranny and oppression of the same cruel and blood-thirsty enemies: We bless and adore thy glorious Majesty, as for the former, so for this thy late marvellous loving-kindness to our Church and Nation, in the preservation of our Religion and Liberties. And we humbly pray, that the devout sense of this thy repeated mercy may renew and increase in us a spirit of love and thankfulness to thee its only Author; a spirit of peaceable submission and obedience to our gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen VICTORIA; and a spirit of fervent zeal for our holy Religion which thou hast so wonderfully rescued, and established, a blessing to us and our posterity. And this we beg for Jesus Christ his sake. Amen. PRAYER WITH FASTING, To be used yearly on the Thirtieth of January, Being the Day of the Martyrdom of the Blessed King CHARLES the First; to implore the mercy of God, that neither the Guilt of that sacred and innocent Blood, nor those other sins, by which God was provoked to deliver up both us and our King into the hands of cruel and unreasonable men, may at any time hereafter be visited upon us or our posterity. If this Day shall happen to be Sunday, this Form of Prayer shall be used and the Fast kept the next Day following. And upon the Lord's Day next before the Day to be kept, at Morning Prayer, immediately after the Nicene Creed, notice shall be given for the due observation of the said Day. The Service of the Day shall be the same with the usual Office for Holy-days in all things; except where it is in this Office otherwise appointed. THE ORDER FOR He that ministereth, shall begin with one or more of these Sentences. Tmercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against Correct us, O Lord, but with judgement not in thine anger, lest thou bring us to nothing. Jer. x. 24. Enter not into judgement with thy servants, O Lord: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. Psalm cxliii. 2. Instead of Venite exultemus the Hymn following shall be said or sung; one Verse by the Priest, another by the Clerk and people. RIGHTEOUS art thou, O Lord and just are thy judgements! Psalm cxix. 137. Thou art just, O Lord, in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Neh. ix. 33. Nevertheless, our feet were almost gone our treadings had wellnigh slipped. Psalm lxxiii. 2. For why? we were grieved at the wicked: we did also see the ungodly in such prosperity. Ver. 3. MORNING PRAYER. The people stood up, and the rulers took counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed. Psalm ii. 2. They cast their heads together with one consent: and were confederate against him. Psalm lxxxiii. 5. He heard the blasphemy of the multitude, and fear was on every side while they conspired together against him, to take away his life. Psalm xxxi. 15. They spoke against him with false tongues, and compassed him about with words of hatred and fought against him without a cause. Psalm cix. 2. Yea, his own familiar friends, whom he trusted they that eat of his bread laid great wait for him. Psalm xli. 9. They rewarded him evil for good: to the great discomfort of his soul. Psalm xxxv. 12. They took their counsel together, saying, God hath forsaken him persecute him, and take him, for there is none to deliver him. Psalm 1xxi. 9. The breath of our nostrils, the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall be safe. Lam. iv. 20. |