quillity, Safety, and Peace, we enjoy; that we are not disturbed by Civil Commotions, but poffefs in Safety, the many good Things thou bestowest upon us; and that we have a Course of Common Juftice open to us; and for the whole fome Air and Health of thefe Countries.

I thank thee for the great Plenty and Fruitfulness of them; and the many good Things we, by thy good Providence, obtain from other Places; as well for Health and Pleasure, as for Food and Nourish

ment.

I thank thee, who art the God of all Order, and the Sovereign Good, Happiness and Defence of all Societies and States, for the excellent Frame and Constitution of our Civil Government and Laws, and the wife and prudent Administration of them, for the Liberty and Freedom of our Perfons and Eftates; whilft fome People live under Slavery, Tyranny, and Oppreffion; and others are forced to ftrange Countries for Liberty and Relief.

Bleffed be thy Name, O most merciful Lord God, that though for our Sins thou haft frequently visited this (City and) Country with thy Judgments, fometimes by taking great Numbers of us away by Plague

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and Peftilence; fometimes by Fire, which confumed our Goods and wafted our Eftates; and fometimes by Storms and Tempefts; which deftroyed our Substance, and many of us, and weakened our Publick Defence against our Enemies; yet thou haft always in thy Judgments remembered Mercy; and haft not punished us according to our Deferts, nor left us without some special Marks of thy good Providence. More particularly, O Lord, I blefs and praife thy holy Name for the Mercies. which we this Day commemorate.

But above all thy Bleffings and Mercies, I render moft humble and unfeigned Thanks to thee, moft gracious and merciful Lord God, for thy diftinguishing Favours to thefe Kingdoms, in that thou haft long fince brought us out of Heathenish Darkness and Error, to the clear Light and true Knowledge of thee, and of thy Son Jefus Chrift, and to a free Profeffion of thy true Religion and Worship.

For the free Ufe of thy Holy Word in our Mother-Tongue, which alfo is preached unto us in Simplicity and Purity by the Paftors and Minifters of thy Church, whom thou haft preserved in a conftant Succeffion to teach and explain to us, in these latter

Days,

Days, thy holy Will, and to ftir us up to an Obedience thereof.

I thank thee for the free Use of thy holy Sacraments, and for all other the Means of Grace which we enjoy.

And for that thou haft delivered us from Popish Superftition and Error; and from fundry Attempts that have been made to bereave us of thy true Religion and Worship established among us.

For thefe and all other Bleffings thou art pleased to give and continue to us, bleffed and praised be thy holy Name, our Lord and Governor, who art excellent in all the Earth.

And, O Lord, I befeech thee to hear the Prayers and accept the Praises which have been this Day offered up unto thee, by the People of this Land; and give us all fuch a sense of thy great Goodness, as may engage us to a true and fuitable Thankfulness; fuch as may appear in our Lives by a holy and obedient Walking before thee all our Days.

Suffer us not to wax wanton or proud, careless and secure, and to forget thee the Lord our God, who haft wrought fuch mighty Works for us; and let this be the bleffed Fruit of all thy gracious Dealings towards

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towards us, that we may turn from the Evil of our Ways, and live as a People whom thou haft chofen, in fo many remarkable Inftances, to be the peculiar Care of thy Providence.

Make us truly fenfible, O Lord, that it is thou, and thou only, that hast done thefe great Things for us; aud O let us never affume any Thing to ourselves; but from the Confideration of thy great Goodness towards us, walk humbly before thee, and fo behave ourselves in our feveral Places and Stations, with that Love to thee, and Charity to one another, with that dutiful Subjection to his Majefty, with that Zeal for thy Honour and Glory, and with fuch a ftedfaft Perfeverance in thy pure and undefiled Religion, that thou mayeft rejoice over us to do us Good, and mayeft continue to us, and our Pofterity, the Bleffings we now enjoy, and add to them fuch other Mercies as thou in thy great Wisdom and Goodness feeft needful for us, through the Merits, and for the Sake of thy Son, and our alone Saviour Jefus Chrift. Amen.

A Prayer

A Prayer for a Perfon under Affliction.

O MOST Gracious God! who doft not afflict willingly, nor grieve the Children of Men, I flee 'unto thee for Comfort and Support under the Troubles thou haft laid upon me: I know, affuredly, that this is thy Hand, and that thou, Lord, haft done it. I acknowledge thy Judgments are right, that thou of very Faithfulness haft caufed me to be troubled, and that my Sins have deserved more grievous Punishments than I now fuffer. I am fully convinced, that the Events of this Life are not left to Chance or Uncertainty, but are all under the steady and wife Difpofal of thy good Providence.

To thee, therefore, O my God, do I direct my Supplications; befeeching thee, O gracious God, who haft a tender Love for all thy Creatures, and more efpecially for thy faithful Servants, who repofe all their Hope and Confidence in thy Mercy, to have Pity upon me, and to deal with me not according to my Sins, but after thine own great. Mercy. Pardon, O Lord, all my paft Sins; reftore me to Peace and Favour with thee; confider my Weakness,