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tion; and call upon the name of Ans. Who putteth her trust in

the Lord.

thee.

Min. Be thou to her a strong

tower,

Ans. From the face of her ene

I will pay my vows now in the presence of all his people; in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. my. Praise the Lord.

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.

Min. Lord, hear our Prayer;
Ans. And let our cry come unto

thee.

Min. Let us pray.

ALMIGHTY God, we give thee humble thanks for that

T Then shall the Minister say the Lord's Prayer, with what follows: But the Lord's Prayer may thou hast been graciously pleased to preserve, through the great pain UR Father, who art in Hea- and peril of child-birth, this wo

be omitted, if this be used with the Morning or Evening Prayer.

Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will to offer her praises and thanksgivbe done on Earth, as it is in ings unto thee. Grant, we beseech Heaven; Give us this day our dai- thee, most merciful Father, that she, ly bread; And forgive us our tres- through thy help, may both faithpasses, as we forgive those who fully live, and walk according to trespass against us; And lead us thy will in this life present, and not into temptation; but deliver also may be partaker of everlastus from evil. Amen. ing glory in the life to come, Min. O Lord, save this woman through Jesus Christ our Lord. thy servant: Amen.

The Woman that cometh to give her thanks, must offer accustomed offerings, which shall be applied by the Minister and the Church Wardens to the relief of distressed Women in Child-bed: And if there be a Communion, it is convenient that she receive the Holy Communion.

FORMS OF PRAYER

TO BE USED AT SEA.

¶ The Morning and Evening Service to be used daily at Sea, shall be the same which is appointed in the Book of Common Prayer.

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¶ These two following Prayers may be also used in the enemy; that we may be à safeShips of War. guard unto the United States of ETERNAL Lord God, who America, and a security for such alone spreadest out the hea- as pass on the seas upon their lawvens, and rulest the raging of the ful occasions; that the inhabitants sea; who hast compassed the wa- of our land may in peace and ters with bounds, until day and quietness serve thee our God; and night come to an end; be pleased that we may return in safety to ento receive into thy Almighty and joy the blessings of the land, with most gracious protection, the per- the fruits of our labour; and, with sons of us thy servants, and the a thankful remembrance of thy fleet [or ship] in which we serve. mercies, to praise and glorify thy Preserve us from the dangers of holy name, through Jesus Christ the sea, and from the violence of our Lord. Amen.

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The Collect. life. Hear, Lord, and save us, for IRECT us, O Lord, in all the infinite merits of our blessed our doings, with thy most Saviour, thy Son our Lord Jesus gracious favour, and further us Christ. Amen.

The Prayer to be said before a Fight at Sea

against any Enemy.

with thy continual help; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy MOST powerful and gloholy name; and finally by thy mer- rious Lord God, the Lord cy obtain everlasting life, through of hosts, that rulest and commandJesus Christ our Lord. Amen. est all things; thou sittest in the Prayers to be used in Storms at Sea. throne judging right: And there0 MOST powerful and glori-fore we make our address to thy ous Lord God, at whose Divine Majesty, in this our necescommand the winds blow, and lift sity, that thou wouldest take the up the waves of the sea, and who cause into thine own hand, and stillest the rage thereof; we, thy judge between us and our enemies. creatures, but miserable sinners, Stir up thy strength, O Lord, and do in this our great distress cry come and help us; for thou givest unto thee for help; Save, Lord, or not alway the battle to the strong, else we perish. We confess when but canst save by many or by few. we have been safe, and seen all O let not our sins now cry against things quiet about us, we have for- us for vengeance; but hear us thy gotten thee our God, and refused poor servants begging mercy, and to hearken to the still voice of thy imploring thy help, and that thou word, and to obey thy command-wouldest be a defence unto us ments: But now we see how ter- against the face of the enemy: rible thou art in all thy works of Make it appear that thou art our wonder; the great God to be fear-Saviour and mighty Deliverer, ed above all; and therefore we through Jesus Christ our Lord. adore thy Divine Majesty, acknow- Amen. ledging thy power, and imploring Short Prayers for Single Persons, who cannot thy goodness. Help, Lord, and save us for thy mercies' sake, in Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord.ners, and save us for thy mer

Amen.

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meet to join in Prayer with others, by reason of the Fight or Storm.

¶ General Prayers. ORD be merciful to us sin

cies' sake.

MOST glorious and gracious Thou art the great God, who Lord God, who dwellest in hast made and rulest all things: heaven, but beholdest all things O deliver us for thy name's sake. below; look down, we beseech Thou art the great God to be thee, and hear us, calling out of feared above all: O save us, that the depth of misery, and out of we may praise thee. the jaws of this death, which is now ready to swallow us up: Save, Lord, or else we perish. The living, the living shall praise against the face of the enemy. thee. O send thy word of com- O God, thou art a strong tower mand to rebuke the raging Winds, of defence to all who fly unto thee: and the roaring Sea; that we, be- O save us from the violence of the ing delivered from this distress, enemy.

¶ Special Prayers with respect to the Enemy. HOU, O Lord, art just and powerful: O defend our cause

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may live to serve thee, and to glo- O Lord of Hosts, fight for us; rify thy name all the days of our that we may glorify thee.

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snare; and laidest trouble upon For he maketh the storm to our loins. cease, so that the waves thereof

I will go into thine house with are still. burnt-offerings; and will pay thee Then are they glad, because my vows which I promised with they are at rest; and so he bringmy lips, and spake with my mouth, eth them unto the haven where when I was in trouble. they would be.

O come hither, and hearken, all O that men would therefore ye that fear God; and I will tell praise the Lord for his goodness; you what he hath done for my soul. and declare the wonders that he I called unto him with my doeth for the children of men! mouth; and gave him praises with That they would exalt him also my tongue. in the congregation of the people; If I incline unto wickedness and praise him in the seat of the with mine heart, the Lord will not elders!

hear me. Glory be to the Father, and to But God hath heard me; and the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; considered the voice of my prayer. As it was in the beginning, is Praised be God, who hath not now, and ever shall be, world withcast out my prayer, nor turned his out end. Amen. mercy from me.

¶ Collects of Thanksgiving.

Glory be to the Father, and to Lord God, who art of infiMOST blessed and glorious

the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

As it was in the beginning, is nite goodness and mercy; we, thy now, and ever shall be, world with-poor creatures, whom thou hast out end. Amen. made and preserved, holding our Psalm 107. Confitemini Domino. souls in life, and now rescuing THAT men would praise us out of the jaws of death, humthe Lord for his goodness; bly present ourselves again before and declare the wonders that he thy Divine Majesty, to offer a sadoeth for the children of men! crifice of praise and thanksgiving,

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That they would offer unto him for that thou heardest us when we the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and called in our trouble, and didst not tell out his works with gladness! cast out our prayer, which we They that go down to the sea in made before thee in our great disships; and occupy their business tress; even when we gave all for in great waters; lost, our Ship, our Goods, our These men see the works of the Lives, then didst thou mercifully Lord, and his wonders in the deep. look upon us, and wonderfully For at his word, the stormy command a deliverance; for which wind ariseth; which lifteth up the we now, being in safety, do give waves thereof. all praise and glory to thy holy They are carried up to the hea- name, through Jesus Christ our ven, and down again to the deep; Lord. Amen. their soul melteth away because

of the trouble.

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¶ Or this.

MOST mighty and gracious good God, thy mercy is over

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man; and are all thy works, but in special manat their wit's end. ner hath been extended towards

So when they cry unto the Lord us, whom thou hast so powerfully in their trouble, he delivereth them and wonderfully defended. Thou qut of their distress. hast showed us terrible things, and

wonders in the deep, that we night covered us; the proud waters might see how powerful and gra- had well nigh gone over our soul. cious a God thou art; how able The sea roared; and the stormy and ready to help those who trust wind lifted up the waves thereof. in thee. Thou hast showed us We were carried up as it were how both winds and seas obey thy to heaven, and then down again command; that we may learn into the deep; our soul melted even from them hereafter to obey within us, because of trouble. thy voice, and to do thy will. We Then cried we unto thee, O therefore bless and glorify thy Lord; and thou didst deliver us name, for this thy mercy, in saving out of our distress.

us when we were ready to perish. Blessed be thy name, who didst And, we beseech thee, make us not despise the prayer of thy seras truly sensible now of thy mer-vants; but didst hear our cry, and cy, as we were then of the danger; hast saved us.

and give us hearts always ready Thou didst send forth thy comto express our thankfulness not mandment; and the windy storm only by words, but also by our ceased, and was turned into a calm. lives, in being more obedient to O let us therefore praise the thy holy commandments. Con- Lord for his goodness; and detinue, we beseech thee, this thy clare the wonders that he hath goodness to us; that we, whom done, and still doeth, for the chilthou hast saved, may serve thee dren of men!

in holiness and righteousness all Praised be the Lord daily; even the days of our life, through Je- the Lord that helpeth us, and sus Christ our Lord and Saviour. poureth his benefits upon us.

Amen.

A Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving after a dangerous Tempest.

He is our God, even the God of whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord, by whom we have esCOME, let us give thanks caped death. unto the Lord, for he is gra- Thou, Lord, hast made us glad cious; and his mercy endureth for through the operation of thy hands; and we will triumph in

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ever.

Great is the Lord, and greatly thy praise.

to be praised: Let the redeemed Blessed be the Lord God; even of the Lord say so, whom he hath the Lord God, who only doeth delivered from the merciless rage wondrous things.

of the sea.

And blessed be the name of his The Lord is gracious, and full Majesty for ever; and let every of compassion; slow to anger, and one of us say, Amen, Amen. of great mercy. Glory be to the Father, and to He hath not dealt with us ac- the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; cording to our sins; neither re- As it was in the beginning, is warded us according to our ini-now, and ever shall be, world quities. without end. Amen.

But as the heaven is high above the earth; so great hath been his mercy towards us.

A Psalm or Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving

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after Victory.

We found trouble and heavi- the Lord had not been on our

ness; we were even at death's door.

The waters of the sea had well

side, now may we say; if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us; They had swallowed us up

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