9 That they may be avenged of them, as it is written : Such honour have all his faints. O Pfalm cl. Laudate Dominum. Praise God in his holiness: praife him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him in his noble acts: praise him according to his excellent greatnefs. 3 Praise him in the found of the trumpet: praise him upon the lute and harp. 4 Praise him in the cymbals and dances: praise him upon the ftrings and pipe. 5 Praife him upon the well-tuned cymbals: praife him upon the loud cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath: praise the Lord. END OF THE Psalms. THE Compiler of the preceding Notes thinks it neceffary to inform the pious reader in this place to whom he has been chiefly indebted for the inftruction which he has received. He will be pleafed to find, that he has feldom been without the guidance of fuch men as Hammond, Merrick, Horne, and Harmer; men whofe lives and conduct well fitted them to understand and to explain the excellence of the Divine law, the comforts of holy obedience, and the effects of unfhaken faith; and whofe learning qualified them to illuftrate what is obfcure in the language of oriental poetry, or in the allufions to oriental manners and customs. The tranflation of the pfalms, which is to be found in our bible, has been compared in almoft every inftance with this, and its variations have often explained what was difficult, and illumined what was dark. If the reader fhould have felt (as it is very probable that he has) fome reluctance in following the interpreter in certain parts of thefe delightful hymns, it will be known by this criterion, that it is here that the compiler himself has prefumed to point out a new track by the feeble ray of his own torch. If he should be difpofed to complain, that more has not been done, it fhould be remembered, that the most learned do not yet understand every portion of every pfalm, and that the whole collection forms here but a part of a large work. A Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving, TO BE USED YEARLY UPON THE FIFTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, For the happy Deliverance of King JAMES I. and the Three Eftates of ENGLAND, from the most traitorous and bloody-intended Maffacre by Gunpowder: And alfo for the happy Arrival of his Majesty King WILLIAM, on this Day, for the Deliverance of our Church and Nation. The Minifter of every Parish fhall give warning to his Parishioners publickly in the Church, at Morning Prayer the Sunday before, for the due obfervation of the faid Day; and after Morning Prayer, or Preaching, upon the faid Fifth Day of November, shall read publickly, diftinctly, and plainly, the Act of Parliament made in the third Year of King James I. for the obfervation of it. The Service fhall be the fame with the ufual office for Holy-days in all things; except where it is hereafter otherwife appointed. If this Day fhall happen to be Sunday, only the Collect pro per for that Sunday fhall be added to this office in its place. A Form of Prayer, &c.] The difcovery of the Popifh or Gunpowder Plot, as it commonly called, on November 5th, 1605, gave occafion to the appointment of an annual thankfgiving on that day, and the drawing up of a fervice to be used on that occafion. Confiderable alterations, however, were made in it in the fecond year of William and Mary, and all that part added which refers to the glorious revolution. "The difcovery of this murderous confpiracy was afcribed to the royal penetration; but Ofborne and others with great probability fay, that the firft notice of it came from Henry IVth, king of France, who heard of it from the Jefuits; and that the letter to Monteagle was an artifice of Cecil's, who was ac quainted beforehand with the proceedings of the confpirators, and fuffered them to go to their full length. Even Heylin fays, that the King and his council mined with them, and by fo doing, blew up their whole invention.” --Neale. The detection of the plot is memorable on another account, as it occafioned an Act of Parliament enjoining the oath of allegiance, or of fubmiffion and obedience to the King, as a temporal fovereign independent her power on earth. Morning Prayer shall begin with thefe Sentences: HE Lord is full of compaffion and mercy: long-fuffering, and of great goodness. Pf. 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 wickedneffes. Ver. 10. Inftead of Venite exultemus, hall this Hymn following be used; one verfe 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 Ifracl now fay. Pfal. cxxix. 1. Tea, 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 deftroy me without a caufe: yea, even without a cause have they made a pit for my foul. Pfal. xxxv. 7. They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my foul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Pfal. Ivii. 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 son of man whom thou madeft fo ftrong for thine own felf. Pfal. lxxx. 17. And fo 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, &c. As it was in the beginning, &c. The Lord] These fentences were introduced at the revolution, (in the fecond year of William and Mary) in lieu of the 9th ver. of pfalm li, the 24th verfe of Ifa. x. and the 18th and 19th verfes of Luke xx. This hymn, &c.] The whole of this was added in the fecond year of William and Mary. Proper Pfalms, lxiv. cxxiv. cxxv. The fecond, Acts xxiii. In the fuffrages after the Creed, thefe fhall be inferted and used for the King. Prieft. O Lord, fave the King; People. Who putteth his truft in thee. Prieft. Send him help from thy holy place; People. And evermore mightily defend him; Pricft. Let his enemies have no advantage against him. People. Let not the wicked approach to hurt him. ¶ Instead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer fhall thefe two be used. ALMIGHTY God, who haft in all ages fhewed thy power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious deliverances of thy Church, and in the protection of rightcous and religious Kings and States, profeffing thy holy and eternal truth, from the wicked confpiracies, and malicious practices of all the enemies thereof: We yield thee our unfeigned thanks and praife, 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 theep 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, ŎLord, 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. Pfalm cxxv. Till the fecond year of William and Mary, the cxxixth pfalm was used inftead of this; and the cxxxyth was used firit of all, which was then discontinued. ACCEPT of our CCEPT alfo, moft gracious God, of our unfeigned thanks for filling our hearts again with joy and gladnefs, after the time that thou hadit afflicted us, and putting a new long into our mouths, by bringing his Majesty King William upon this day, for the deliverance of our Church and Nation from Popifh tyranny and arbitrary power. We adore the wisdom and juftice of thy providence, which fo timely interpofed in our extreme danger, and disappointed all the defigns of our enemies. We beseech thee, give us fuch a lively and lafting fenfe of what thou didst then, and haft fince that time done for us, that me may not grow fecure and carelefs in our obedience, by prefuming upon thy great and undeferved goodnefs; 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 justice, brotherly kindness and charity, devotion and piety, concord and unity, with all other virtues, fo 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 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 befeech thee, Ó Father, &c.] ball this be faid which followeth. ALMIGHTY God, and heavenly 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 eftablished among us; and didst likewife upon this day wonderfully conduct thy fervant 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 most humbly praise and magnify thy moft glorious Name for thy unfpeakable goodnefs towards us, expressed in both thefe acts of thy mercy. We confefs it has been os |