most justly thy wrath and indig-lever; his eyes behold the people; nation against us. We do earnest- and such as will not believe, ly repent, and are heartily sorry shall not be able to exalt themfor these our misdoings; the re-selves. membrance of them is grievous O praise our God, ye people; unto us; the burden of them is and make the voice of his praise intolerable. Have mercy upon to be heard; us, have mercy upon us, most Who holdeth our soul in life; merciful Father: For thy San our and suffereth not our feet to slip. Lord Jesus Christ's sake, forgive For thou, O God, hast proved us all that is past; and grant, that us: thou also hast tried us, like we may ever hereafter serve and as silver is tried. please thee in newness of life, to Thou broughtest us into the the honour and glory of thy name, snare; and laidest trouble upon through Jesus Christ our Lord. our loins. Amen. I will go into thine house with ¶ Then shall_the_Minister, if there be burnt-offerings; and will pay thee any in the ship, say, ALMIGHTY God, our hea my vows which I promised with venly Father, who, of his my lips, and spake with my mouth, great mercy, hath promised for when I was in trouble. O come hither, and hearken, giveness of sins to all those who all ye that fear God; and I will with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him; have tell you what he hath done for mercy upon you; pardon and de-my soul. liver you from all your sins; confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and bring you to everfasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Thanksgiving after a Storm. Be joyful in God, all ye lands; sing praises unto the honour of his name; make his praise to be glorious. Say unto God. O how wonderful art thou in thy works; through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies be found liars unto thee. For all the world shall worship thee, sing of thee, and praise thy name. I called unto him with my mouth; and gave him praises with my tongue. If I incline unto wickedness with mine heart,, the Lord will not hear me. But God hath beard me; and considered the voice of my prayer. Praised be God, who hath not cast out my prayer, nor turned his mercy from me. 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. Psalm 107. Confitemini Domino. That men would praise the Lord for his goodness; and declare the wonders that he do O come hither, and behold the works of God; how wonderful eth for the children of men! he is in his doings towards the children of men! That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and He ruleth with his power for tell out his works with gladness! They that go down to the sealthy Divine Majesty, to offer a in ships; and occupy their busi-sacrifice of praise and thanksgivness in great waters; ing, for that thou heardest us These men see the works of when we called in our trouble, the Lord, and his wonders in the and didst not cast out our prayer, deep. which we made before thee in For at his word, the stormy our great distress; even when we wind ariseth; which lifteth up gave all for lost, our Ship, our the waves thereof. Goods, our Lives, then didst thou They are carried up to the mercifully look upon us, and wonheaven, and down again to the derfully command a deliverance; deep; their soul melteth away for which we now, being in safety, because of the trouble. do give all praise and glory to thy holy name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man; and are at their wit's end. T Or this. So when they cry unto the Most mighty and gracious Lord in their trouble, he deliver- good God, thy mercy is over eth them out of their distress. all thy works, but in special manFor he maketh the storm to ner hath been extended towards cease, so that the waves thereof us, whom thou hast so powerfulare still. ly and wonderfully defended. Then are they glad, because Thou hast showed us terrible they are at rest; and so he bring-things, and wonders in the deep, eth them unto the haven where that we might see how powerful they would be. and gracious a God thou art; O that men would therefore how able and ready to help praise the Lord for his goodness; those that trust in thee. Thou hast and declare the wonders that he showed us how both winds and doeth for the children of men! seas obey thy command; that we That they would exalt him also may learn even from them herein the congregation of the peo-after to obey thy voice, and to ple; and praise him in the seat do thy will. We therefore bless of the elders! and glorify thy name, for this thy Glory be to the Father, and to mercy, in saving us when we the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; were ready to perish. And we beAs it was in the beginning, is seech thee, make us as truly sensinow, and ever shall be, world ble now of thy mercy, as we were without end. Amen. then of the danger; and give us Collects of Thanksgiving. hearts always ready to express Most blessed and glorious our thankfulness not only by Lord God, who art of infinite words, but also by our lives, in goodness and mercy; we, thy being more obedient to thy holy poor creatures, whom thou hast commandments. Continue, we made and preserved, holding our beseech thee, this thy goodness souls in life, and now rescuing us to us; that we, whom thou hast out of the jaws of death, humbly saved, may serve thee in holiness present ourselves again before and righteousness all the days of our life, through Jesus Christ our still doeth, for the children of men! Lord and Saviour. Amen. Praised be the Lord daily; even A Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving the Lord that helpeth us, and after a dangerous Tempest. poureth his benefits upon us. Come, let us give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious; of whom cometh salvation : God He is our God, even the God and his mercy endureth for ever. is the Lord, by whom we have Great is the Lord, and greatly escaped death. to be praised: Let the redeemed Thou, Lord, hast made us glad of the Lord say so, whom he hath delivered from the merciless hands; and we will triumph in through the operation of thy rage of the sea. thy praise. The Lord is gracious, and full Blessed be the Lord God; even of compassion; slow to anger, the Lord God, who only doeth and of great mercy. wondrous things; He hath not dealt with us ac- And blessed be the name of his cording to our sins; neither rewarded us according to our ini-Majesty for ever; and let every one of us say, Amen, Amen. quities. Glory be to the Father, and to But as the heaven is high above the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; the earth; so great hath been his mercy towards us. As it was in the beginning, is We found trouble and heavi-now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. ness; we were even at death's door. The waters of the sea had well nigh covered us; the proud waters had well nigh gone over our soul. A Psalm or Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving after Victory. side, now may we say; if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us, The sea roared; and the stormy They had swallowed us up wind lifted up the waves thereof. quick, when they were so wrathWe were carried up as it were fully displeased at us. to heaven, and then down again Yea, the waters had drowned into the deep; our soul melted us, and the stream had gone over within us, because of trouble. Then cried we unto thee, O Lord; and thou didst deliver us out of our distress. Blessed be thy name, who didst not despise the prayer of thy servants; but didst hear our cry, and hast saved us. our soul; the deep waters of the proud had gone over our soul. But praised be the Lord, who bath not given us over as a prey unto them. The Lord hath wrought a mighty salvation for us. We got not this by our own Thou didst send forth thy sword, neither was it our own arm commandment; and the windy that saved us; but thy right hand, storm ceased, and was turned in-and thine arm, and the light of to a calm. thy countenance, because thou O let us therefore praise the hadst a favour unto us. Lord for his goodness; and declare The Lord hath appeared for the wonders that he hath done,and us; the Lord hath covered our heads, and made us to stand in might, which none is able to with the day of battle. stand; we bless and magnify thy The Lord hath appeared for us; great and glorious name for this the Lord hath overthrown our happy victory, the whole glory enemies, and dashed in pieces whereof we do ascribe to thee, who those that rose up against us. art the only giver of victory. And Therefore not unto us, O Lord, we beseech thee, give us grace to not unto us; but unto thy name improve this great mercy to thy be given the glory. glory, the advancement of thy The Lord hath done great Gospel, the honour of our counthings for us; the Lord hath done try, and, as much as in us lieth, to great things for us, for which we the good of all mankind. And rejoice. we beseech thee, give us such a Our help standeth in the name sense of this great mercy, as may of the Lord, who hath made hea-engage us to a true thankfulness, ven and earth. such as may appear in our lives, Blessed be the name of the by an humble, holy, and obedient Lord, from this time forth for walking before thee all our days, through Jesus Christ our Lord evermore. Glory be to the Father, and to to whom, with thee, and the Holy the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; Spirit, as for all thy mercies, so in As it was in the beginning, is particular for this victory and now, and ever shall be, world deliverance, be all glory and ho without end. Amen. nour, world without end. Amen. After this Hymn may be said the Te Deum. Then this Collect. 2 Cor. xiii. 14. be THE grace of our Lord Jesus. Almighty God, the Sovereign Christ, and the love of God, and Commander of all the world, the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, in whose hand is power and be with us all evermore. Amen.. At the Burial of the Dead at Sea, the Office in the Common Prayer Book may used; only instead of these words, We therefore commit his Body to the ground earth to earth, 4c. say, We therefore commit his Body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the Resurrection of the Body when the Sea shall give up her dead, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; who at his coming, shall change our vile Body, that it may be like his glorious Body, according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdu❤ all things to himself. A FORM OF PRAYER FOR THE VISITATION OF PRISONERS When Morning or Evening Prayer shall be read in any Prison, instead of the Psalm, O come let us sing, &c. shall be read the 130th Psalm; and the Minister shall insert, after the Collect for the Day, the Collect in the following service, O God, who sparest, &c. and at such time, as the Litany is not read, he shall add the Prayer, O God, merciful Father, who despisest not, &c. And when Notice is given to the Minis-REMEMBER not, Lord, our ter, that a Prisoner is confined for some iniquities, nor the iniquities great or capital crime, he shall visit of our forefathers; neither take him; and when he cometh into the thou vengeance of our sins: Spare place where the Prisoner is, he shull say, kneeling down, us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with innocent, and awaken the guilty : thy most precious blood, and be and forasmuch as thou alone bring not angry with us for ever. Ans. Spare us, good Lord. Let us pray. Lord, have mercy upon us. est light out of darkness, and good out of evil, grant that the pains and punishments which these thy servants endure, through their bodily confinement, may tend to setting free their souls from the OUR Father, who art in Hea-chains of sin; through Jesus ven, &c. Min. O Lord, show thy mercy upon us; Ans. And grant us thy salvation. Min. Turn thy face from our sins; Ans: And blot out all our iniquities. Min. Send us help from thy holy place; Ans. For thine indignation lieth hard upon us. Christ our Lord. Amen. Here the Minister, as he shall see con- DEARLY beloved, know this, that Almighty God, whose never-failing providence governMin. O Lord, hear our prayer; eth all things both in heaven and Ans. And let the sighing of the earth, hath so wisely and merciPrisoners come before thee. fully ordered the course of this world, that his judgments are of The Collect. GRANT, we beseech thee, Al-ten sent as fatherly corrections to mighty God, that we, who for us; and if, with due submission our evil deeds do worthily deserve and resignation to his holy will to be punished, by the comfort of we receive the same, they will thy grace may mercifully be re-work together for our good. lieved; through our Lord and It is your part and duty, thereSaviour Jesus Christ. Amen. fore, to humble yourself under O God, who sparest when we the mighty hand of God, to ac deserve punishment, and in knowledge the righteousness of thy wrath rememberest mercy ;his judgments, and to endeavour, we humbly beseech thee, of thy that, by his grace, this present goodness to comfort and succour visitation may lead you to a sinall those who are under reproach cere and hearty repentance. and misery in the house of bond- The way and means thereto is, age; correct them not in thine to examine your life and converanger, neither chasten them in sation by the rule of God's comthy sore displeasure. Give them mandments; and whereinsoever a right understanding of them-you shall perceive yourself to have selves, and of thy threats and pro-offended either by will, word, or mises; that they may neither cast deed, there to bewail your own away their confidence in thee, nor sinfulness, and to confess yourself place it any where but in thee. to Almighty God, with full purRelieve the distressed, protect the pose of amendment of life. And |