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and thou shalt have praife of the fame: for he is the minifter of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be atraid: for he beareth not the fword in vain: for he is the mi. nilter of God, a revenger to exe cute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye muft needs be fubject, not only for wrath, but alfo for confcience fake. For, for this caufe pay ye tribute allo: for they are God's aninifters attending continually upon this very thing. Render 'therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom cuftom; fear to whom fear, honour to whom bonour.

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The Gofpel. S. Luke 9. 51. ND it came to pafs, when the time was come that he thould be received up, he ftedtattly fet his face to go to Jerufalem, and fent meffengers before his face, and they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him: And they did not receive him becaufe his face was as though he would go to Jerufalem. And when his difciples James and John faw this, they faid, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and confume them, even as Elias did? But he turned and rebuked them, and faid, Ye know not what manner of 1pirit ye are of: For the Son of an is not cometo destroy men's es, but to fave them. And zy went to another village.

After the Creed, if there be no Sermon, fhall be read one of the fix Homilies against Rebellion. This Sentence is to be read at the Offertory.

What foever ye would that men fhould do to you, do ye even fo to them; for this is the law and the prophets. S. Matth. 7. 12.

After the Prayer for the Church militant, this following Prayer is to be used.

fent in all the earth, and GOD, whofe Name is excel. thy glory above the heavens; who on this day didft miraculouf ly preferve our Church and State from the fecret contrivance and hellish malice of Popith Confpirators and on this day alfo didft begin to give us a mighty deliverance from the open ty ranny and oppreflion of the fame cruel and bloodthirty enemies: We blefs and adore thy glorious Majefty, as for the former, fo for this thy late marvellous lovingkindness to our Church and Nation, in the prefervation of our Religion and Li. berties. And we humbly pray, that the devout fenfe of this thy repeated mercy may renew and increase in us a fpirit of love and thankfulnefe to thee its only Author; a fpirit of peaceable fubmiffion and obedience to our gracious Sovereign Lord King GEORGE; and a Ipirit of fervent zeal for our holy religion, which thou haft fo wonderfully refcued, and established a blefling to us and our pofterity. And this we beg for Jefus Chrift his fake.

Amen.

A FORM of PRAYER with FASTING, to be ufed yearly upon the Thirtieth Day of January, being the Day of the Martyrdom of the Bieffed King Charles I. to implore the mercy of God, that neither the Guilt of that facred and innocent Blood, nor those other Sins, by which God was provoked to deliver up both us and our King into the hands of cruel and unreafonable Men, may at any time hereafter be vifited upon us, or our pofterity.

this Day Jhall happen to be Sunday, this Form of Prayer fhail be used, and the Fat kept the next Day following. And upon the Lord's Day next before the Day to be kept, at Morning Prayer, immediately

immediately after the Nicene Creed, notice fhall be given for the due Obfervation of the faid Day.

The Service of the Day fhall be the fame with the ufual Office for Holy-days in all things; except where it is in this Office otherwife appointed.

The ORDER for MORNING PRAYER. He that miniftereth, fhall begin with one or more of thefe

Sentences.

O the Lord our God belong Tmercies and forgiveneiles, though we have rebelled againft him neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he fet before us. Dan. 9. 9, 10.

Correct us, O Lord, but with judgement: not in thine anger, left thou bring us to nothing. Jer. 10. 24.

Enter not into judgement with thy fervants, O Lord for in thy fight thall no man living be juftified. Pfal. 143. 2.

Inftead of Venite exultemus, the Hymn following shall be Jaid or Jung; one verfe by the Priel, another by the Clerk and People.

Rand are IGHTEOUS art thou, O Lord: and juft are thy judge ments! Pfal. 119. 137.

Thou art juft, O Lord, in all that is brought upon us for thou haft done right, but we have done wickedly. Neh. 9. 33.

Neverthelefs our feet were alwere moft gone our treadings had well nigh flipped. Pfal.73. 2.

For why? we were grieved at the wicked: we did alfo fee the ungedly in fuch profperity. ver. 3. The people ftood up, and the rulers took counfel together against the Lord, and againft his Anointed. Pfal. 2. 2.

They caft their heads together with one confent: and were con federate against him. Píal. 83. 5. He heard the blafphemy of the multitude, and fear was on every tide while they confpired together against him to take away his life. Pfal. 31. 15.

They pake against him with falje tongues, and compaled him about with words of hatred and fought against him without a caufe. Pial 109, 2

Yea, his own familiar friends, whom he trusted: they that eat of his bread, laid great wait for: him. Pfal. 41. 9.

They rewarded him evit for good to the great difcomfort of his foul. Pfal. 35. 12.

They took their counfel toge ther, faying, God hath forfaken: him perfecute him, and take him, for there is none to deliver him. Pfal. 71.9.

The breath of our roftrils, the Anointed of the Lord, was taken in? their pits of whom we faid, Under his fhadow we shall be fafe. Lam. 4. 20.

The adverfary and the enemy entered into the gates of Jerufalem: faying, When thall he die,. and his name perish? ver, 12. Pfal. 41. 5..

Let the fentence of guilliness procced against him: and nose that he lieth, let him rife up no more.

ver. 8.

Falfe witnefes alfo did rife up against him they laid to his charge things that he knew not. Pfal. 35. 11

For the fins of the people; and! the iniquities of the priests: they fhed the blood of the juft in the midst of Jerufalem. Lam. 4. 13.

O my foul, come not thou into their fecret; unto their affembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they flew a man; Gen. 49. 6.

Even the man of the right hand: the Son of man, whom tho had made fo firong for thin orun felf. Pfal. 8o. 17.

In the fight of the unwife he feamed to die and his depar ture was taken tore mifery.. wifd. 3. 2.

The fools counted his life madness, and his end to be with-out honour but he is in peace. Wifd. 5. 4. & 3. 3.

For though he was punithed in the fight of men: yet was L66

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his hope full of immortality. life of our gracious Sovereign

wild. 3.4.

Horo is he numbered with the children of God: and his lot is among the faints! Wild. 5. 5.

But, O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, thou God, to whom vengeance belongeth he favourable and gracious unto Sion. Pfal. 94. 1. & 51. 18.

Be merciful, O Lord, unto thy people, whom thou haft redeemed and lay not innocent blood to our charge. Deut. 21. 8.

O shut not up our fouls with Enners nor our lives with the bloodthirfly. Pfal. 26. 9.

Deliver us from bloodguiltinefs, O God, thou that art the God of our faivation and our tongues hall fing of thy righteousness. Pfal. 51. 14.

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For thou art the God that hat no pleasure in wickedness: neither thall any evil dwell with thee. Pjal 5. 4.

Thou wilt defroy them that peak leafing the Lord abhors both the bloodthirsty and deceitful

man. ver. 6.

O how fuddenly do they confre perth, and come to a feartul end! Pfal. 73. 18.

ns, even like as a dream, Tuhan one awaketh: fo did mau make their image to vanijh out of the city. ver. 19.

Great and marvellous are thy Corks, O Lord God Almighty at and true are thy ways, O ing of faints! Rev. 15. 3. Righteous art thou, O Lord and jul are thy judgements!

PL 119. 137.

Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.

Proper Pfalms. 9, 10, 11.
Proper Lefons.

The Firf. 2. Sam. 1.
The Second. S. Matth. 27.
Inhead of the frit Colled at
Morning Prayer, hati thefe trup,
which next jullore, be used.

MOST nighty God, terri ble in thy judgements, and wend. rul in thy doings toward the churn of men; who in thy heavy displeature didit fuder the

King Charles the Firft, to be (as on this day) taken away by the hands of cruel and bloody men We thy finful creatures here affembled before thee, do, in the behalf of all the people of this land, humbly confefs, that they were the crying fins of this Nation, which brought down this heavy judgement upon us. But, O gracious God, when thou makeft inquifition for blood, lay not the guilt of this innocent blood, (the thedding whereof nothing but the blood of thy Son can expiate,) lay it not to the charge of the people of this land; nor let it ever be required of us, or our pofterity. Be merciful, O Lord, be merciful unto thy people, whom thou haft redeeined; and be not angry with us for ever: But pardon us for thy mercies' fake, through the merits of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

DLESSED Lord, in whofe fight Bthe death of thy faints is precious; We magnify thy Name for thine abundant grace' ocftowby which he was enabled fo ed upon our martyred Sovereign; cheerfully to follow the fteps of his bleifed Maiter and Saviour, all barbarous indignities, and in a conftant meek fuffering of at laft refifting unto blood, and even then, according to the murderers. Let his memory, O fame pattern, praying for his Lord, be ever bleffed among us; that we may follow the example of his courage and conftancy, his meeknefs and patience, and great charity. And grant that this our land may be freed from the vengeance of his righteous blood, and thy mercy glorified in the forgive nefs of our fins and all for Jefus Chrift his fake, our only

Mediator and Advocate. Amen T In the end of the Litany, (which fhall always on this day be used) immediately af ter the Colled [We humbly beseech thee, O Father, &c.]

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the three Colles next following .are to be read.

LORD, we beseech thee,

Omercifully hear our prayers,

and fpare all thofe who confefs their fins unto thee; that they whofe confciences by fin are accufed, by thy merciful pardon may be abfolved, through Chrift our Lord. Amen.

MOST mighty God, and

merciful Father, who hat conpalion upon all men, and haten nothing that thou haft made; who wouldeft not the death of a finner, but that he fhould rather turn from his fin, and be faved; Mercifully forgive us our trefpaffes; receive and comfort us, who are grieved, and wearied with the burden of our fins. Thy property, is always to have mercy; to thee Only it appertaineth to forgive fins. Spare us therefore, good Lord, Ipare thy people, whom thou hait redeemed; enter not into judgement with thy ferv. ants, who are vile earth and milerable finners; but fo turn thine anger from us, who meekly acanowledge our valenefs, and truly repent us of our faults; and fo make hafte to help us in this world, that we may ever live with thee in the world to come, through Jefus Chrift our Lord.

Amen.

To all we URN thou us, O good turned. Be favourable, O Lord, be favourable to thy people, Who turn to thee in weeping, faiting, and praying. For thou art a merciful God, full of compation, longfuffering, and of great pity. Thou fpareft when we deferve punishment, And in thy wrath thinkeft upon mercy. Spare thy people, good Lord, fpare them, And let not thine heritage be brought to confufion. Hear us, O Lord, for thy mercy is great, and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us, through the merits and mediation of thy bleffed Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

In the Communion Service, af. ter the Prayer for the King (Almighty God, whofe King dom is everlafting, &c.) inftead of the Colled for the day, Jhall thefe two be used: O moft mighty God, &c. Bleff d Lord, in whofe, &'c.

As in the Morning Prayer.
The Epifle. 1 S. Pet. 2. 13.

SMIT yourfelves to every Lord's fake: whether it be to the King as fupreme or unto governors as unto them that are fent by rin for the punith. ment of evildoers, and for the praife of them that do well. For fo is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to filence the ignorance of foolith men: as free, and not ufing your liberty for a cloke of malicioufnef, but as the fervants. of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the King. Servants, be fubject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but al'o to the froward For this is thankworthy, if a man for confcience toward God endure grief, fuffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye thal take it patiently but if when ye do well and fuffer for it, ye able wi h God. For even here take it patiently, this is acceptunto were ye called; becaufe Christ alio fuffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye fhould follow his fteos: who did no fin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

ordinance of man for the

The Gofpel. S. Matth. 21. 33. Tholder which planted a HERE was a certain houfTHE vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a wineprefs in it, and built a tower, and let it out to hufbandmen, and went in:o a far country. And when the time of the fruit drew near, he fent his fervants to the huf bandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husband

his hope full of immortality. life of our gracious Sovereign

wifd. 3.4.

Horo is he numbered with the children of God: and his lot is among the faints! Wild. 5. 5.

But, O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, thou God, to whom vengeance belongeth be favourable and gracious unto Sion. Pfal. 94. 1. & 51. 18.

Be merciful, O Lord, unto thy people, whom thou haft redeemed and lay not innocent blood to our charge. Deut. 21. 8.

O thut nor up our fouls with Anners nor our lives with the bloodthirty. Pfal. 26. 0.

Deliver us from bloodguiltinefs, O God, thou that art the God of our falvation and our tongues hall fing of thy righteousness. Pfal. 51. 44.

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For thou art the God that haft no pleasure in wickedness: neither thall any evil dwell with thre. Pfal. 5. 4.

Thou wilt defroy them that theak leafing the Lord abhors

both the bloodthirsty and deceitful

man.. ver. 6.

O how fuddenly do they confone perith, and come to a feartul end! P/al. 73. 18.

rea, even like as a dream, Tuhen one awaketh: fo did mou make their image to vanijh out of the city. ver. 19.

Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God Almighty uit and true are thy ways, O King of faints! Rev. 15. 3.

Righteous art thou, O Lord: and jul are thy judgements!

Pfil 119. 137.

Glory be to the Father, &'c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.

Proper Pfalms. 9, 10, 11.
Proper Lefons.

The Fir. 2. Sam. 1.
The Second. S. Matth. 27.
Intead of the hrt Colled at
Morning Prayer, hall thefe trup,
which next jullore, be used.

MOST mighty God, terri

ble in thy judgements, and wend. rul in thy doings toward the churen of men; who in thy heavy dipicature didit fuder the

King Charles the Firft, to be (as on this day) taken away by the hands of cruel and bloody men We thy finful creatures here affembled before thee, do, in the behalf of all the people of this land, humbly confefs, that they were the crying fins of this Nation, which brought down this heavy judgement upon us. But, O gracious God, when thou makeft inquifition for blood, lay not the guilt of this innocent blood, (the thedding whereof nothing but the blood of thy Son can expiate,) lay it not to the charge of the people of this land; nor let it ever be required of us, or our pofterity. Be merciful, O Lord, be merciful unto thy people, whom thou haft redeeined; and be not angry with us for ever: But pardon us for thy mercies fake, through the merits of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

the death of thy faints is precious; We magnify thy Name for thine abundant grace' ocftowed upon our martyred Sovereign; by which he was enabled fo cheerfully to follow the fteps of his bleifed Matter and Saviour, in a constant meek fuffering of all barbarous indignities, and at laft refifting unto blood, and even then, according to the fame pattern, praying for his murderers. Let his memory, O Lord, be ever bleffed among us; that we may follow the example of his courage and conftancy, his meeknefs and patience, and great charity. And grant that this our land may be freed from the vengeance of his righteous blood, and thy mercy glorified in the forgivenefs of our fins and all for Jefus Chrift his fake, our only

LESSED Lord, in whofe fight

Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

In the end of the Litany, (which shall always on this day be ufed) immediately af ter the Collea [We humbly beseech thee, O Father, &c.]

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