A General Thanksgiving. with thee and the Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. A of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee A Prayer of St. Chryfoftom. most humbleand 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 inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. And, we beseech thee, give us that due sense 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 service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteoufness all our days, through Jesus Chrift, our Lord; to whom, Lmighty God, who hast given us grace at this time, with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee; and dost promise that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name, thou wilt grant their requests; fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and petitions of thy servants, 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. Here endeth the Order of EVENING PRAYER. WHIC The THE LITAN Y. The LITANY or GENERAL SUPPLICATION, to be used after Morning Service, on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. 0 God, the Father of hea- deemed with thy most precihave mercy upon ous blood, and be not angry with us for ever : ven us miferable finners. O God, the Father of beaven; have mercy upon 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 Ghost, 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, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons and one God; have mercy upon us miferable finners. O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons 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: spare us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou haft re 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, pestilence, and famine; from battle, and murder, and from fudden death; Good Lord, deliver us. From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; 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 Pafsion; by thy precious Death and Burial; by thy glorious Refurrection and Afcenfion; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost; 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 universal in the right way; We beseech thee to bear us, That it may please thee to blefs and preferve all Chriftian Rulers and Magistrates; giving them grace to execute justice, and to maintain truth; We befeech thee to bear 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 set it forth, and show it accordingly; We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to bless 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 beseech thee to bear 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, We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord. We beseech thee to bear us, That it may please thee to fuccour, help, and comfort all who are in danger, necessi 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 ty, and tribulation; We beseech thee to bear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to preferve all who travel by land or by water, all women in the perils of child-birth, all fick persons, and young children, and to show thy pity upon all prifoners and captives; We beseech thee to bear 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 thee to have mercy upon all men; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord. That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, perfecutors, and flanderers, and to turn their hearts; 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; 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 takest away the sins of the world; Grant us thy peace. O Lamb of God, who tak- 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 trefpafies, as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation; But deliver us from evil. Amen. Minister. 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 affiftour prayers which we make before thee in all our troubles and adversities. whensoever 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 servants, being hurt by no perfecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Lord, arife, help us, and deliver us, for thy Name's fake. God, we have heard with our ears, and our fathers have declared unto us, the Both now and ever, vouchsafe to hear us, O Chrift. Graciously bear us, O Chrift; graciously bear us, O Lord Chrift. Minister. O Lord, let thy mercy be showed upon us; Anfw. As we do put our trust in thee.] |