TA General Thanksgiving. with thee and the Holy Ghoft, Almighty God, Father of be all honour and glory, world all mercies, we, thine unworthy fervants, do give thee moft humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us, and to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the bleffings of this life; but, above all, for thine ineftimable 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 befeech thee, give us that due fense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful, and that we may show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy fervice, and by walking before thee in holinefs and righteoufnefs all our days, through Jefus Christ, our Lord; to whom, without end. Amen. A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom. A mighty God, who haft given us grace at this time, with one accord to make our common fupplications unto thee; and doft promife that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name, thou wilt grant their requests; fulfil now, O Lord, the defires and petitions of thy fervants, as may be most expedient for them; granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlafting. Amen. 402432 Cor. xiii. 14.0134 THE LITANY. The LITANY or GENERAL SUPPLICATION, to be used after Morning Service, on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. God, the Father of hea- us miferable finners. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world; have mercy upon us miferable finners. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world; have mercy upon us miferable finners. O God the Holy Ghoft, proceeding from the Father and the Son; have mercy upon us miferable finners. O God the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the Father and the Son; have mercy upon us miferable finners. O holy, bleffed, and glorious Trinity, three perfons and one God; have mercy upon us miferable finners. O boly, bleffed, and glorious Trinity, three perfons and one God; have mercy upon us miferable finners. Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our fore-fathers; neither take thou vengeance of our fins fpare us, good Lord, fpare thy people, whom thou haft re deemed with thy moft precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever: Spare us, good Lord. From all evil and mischief; from fin; from the crafts and affaults of the devil; from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation ; Good Lord, deliver us. From all blindness of heart; from pride, vain glory, and hypocrify; from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness; Good Lord, deliver us. From all inordinate and finful affections; and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil; Good Lord, deliver us. From lightning and tempeft; from plague, peftilence, and famine; from battle, and murder, and from fudden death; Good Lord, deliver us. From all fedition, privy confpiracy, and rebellion ; from all falfe doctrine, herefy, and fchifm; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment; Good Lord, deliver us. By By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation; by thy holy Nativity and Circumcifion; by thy Baptifm, Fafting, and Temptation; Good Lord, deliver us. By thine agony and bloody Sweat; by thy Cross and Paffion; by thy precious Death and Burial; by thy glorious Refurrection and Afcenfion; and by the coming of the Holy Ghoft; Good Lord, deliver us. In all time of our tribulation; in all time of our profperity; in the hour of death, and in the day of judgment; Good Lord, deliver us. We finners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God; and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church univerfal in the right way; We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to blefs and preserve all Chriftian Rulers and Magiftrates; giving them grace to execute juftice, and to maintain truth; We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to illuminate all Bishops, Priefts, and Deacons, with true knowledge and understanding of thy Word; and that both by their preaching and living they may fet it forth, and fhow it accordingly; We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to blefs and keep all thy people; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give to all Nations, unity, peace, and concord; We befeech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give us an heart to love and fear thee, and diligently to live after thy Commandments; We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord. T That it may please thee to give to all thy people increase of grace, to hear meekly thy Word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth, all fuch as have erred, and are deceived; We befeech thee to hear us, 1 That it may please thee to ftrengthen fuch as do ftand, and to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those who fall, and finally to beat down Satan under our feet; We and We beseech thee to bear us, That it may please thee to fuccour, help, and comfort all who are in danger, necessi ptty, and tribulation; We beseech thee to bear us, That it may please thee to preserve all who travel by land or by water, all women in the perils of child-birth, all fick perfons, and young children, and to show thy pity upon all prifoners and captives; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to defend, and provide for, the fatherless children, and widows, and all who are defolate and oppreffed; We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord. That it may please have mercy upon all men; We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, perfecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts; thee to We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, fo that in due time we may enjoy them; We beseech thee to bear us, That it may please thee to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our fins, negligences, and ignorances, and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, to amend our lives according to thy holy Word; We beseech thee to bear us, Son of God, we beseech thee to hear us. Son of God, we beseech thee to bear us. O Lamb of God, who takeft away the sins of the world; Grant us thy peace. O Lamb of God, who takest away the fins of the world; Have mercy upon us. The Minister may, at his difcretion, omit all that follows, to the Prayer, "We humbly beseech thee, O Father," &c. [O Christ, hear us. O Chrift, bear us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Chrift, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us. Then shall the Minifter, and the People with him, fay the Lord's Prayer. UR Father, who art in thy thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Heaven; Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasies, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen. Minifter. O Lord, deal not with us according to our fins. Answer. Neither reward us according to our iniquities. Let us pray. God, merciful Father, who despisest not the fighing of a contrite heart, nor the defire of such as are forrowful; mercifully assistour prayers which we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities. whenfoever they oppress us; and graciously hear us, that those evils which the craft and fubtilty of the devil or man worketh against us, may, by thy good providence, be brought to nought; that we, thy fervants, being hurt by no perfecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Whee E humbly beseech O Father, mercifully to look upon our infir mities; and, for the glory of thy Name, turn from us all thofe |