to Almighty God, to be used in all Churches and Chapels within this Realm, every Year, upon the Twenty-fifth Day of October; being the Day on which his Majesty began his happy Reign. I The Service Shall be the fame with the ufual Office for Holy-days in all things; except where it is in this Office other wife appointed. If this Day fhall happen to be Sunday, this whole Office fhall be fed as it followeth entirely. Morning Prayer shall begin with thefe Sentences. EXHORT that firft of all, fupplications, prayers, interceffions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men: for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, in all godlines and honefty: for this is good and acceptable unto God our Saviour. I Tim. 2. 1, 2, 3. If we fay that we have no fin, we deceive ourfelves, and the truth is not in us: But if we confefs our fins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our fins, and to cleanfe us from all unrighteoufnefs. 1 S. John 1. 8, 9. Infiead of Venite exultemus, the Hymn following fhall be faid or fung; one verje by the Prief, another by the Clerk and People. LORD our Governor how excellent is thy Name in all the world! Pfal. 8. 1. Lord, what is man, that thou haft fuch respect unto him: or the fon of man, that thou fo regardeft him! Pfal. 144 3. The merciful and gracious Lord hath fo done his marvellous works that they ought to be had in remembrance. Pfal. 111. 4. O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness: and declare the wonders that he deth for the children of men! Pfal. 107. 21. Behold, O God, our defender: and look upon the face of thine Anointed. Pfal. 84. 9. O hold thou up his goings in thy paths that his footfieps flip not. Plat. 17. 5. Grant the king a long life: and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance. Pfal. 61. 6. & 21.6. Let him drvell before thee for ever: O prepare thy louing mercy and faithfulness, that they may preferve him. Pfal. 61. 7. In his time let the righteous flourish and let peace be in all our borders. Pfal.72. 7. & 147. 14. As for his enemies, clothe them with fhame: but upon himself let his crown flourish. Pfal. 132. 19. Bleiled be the Lord God, even the God of Ifrael: which only doeth wondrous things. Pfal. 72. 18. And bleed be the Name of his Glory be to the Father, &'c. Pfal. 20, 21. 101. Anf. And grant us thy falvation. Prieft. Send him help from thy holy place; Anfw. And evermore mightily defend him. Prieft. Let his enemies have no advantage against him; Anfw. Let not the wicked approach to hurt him. Pr. Endue thy minifters with righteousness; Aniw. And make thy chafen people joyful. Pr. O Lord, fave thy people; Anfw. And bless thine inheri tance. Prief. LMIGHTY God, who ruleft over all the kingdoms of the world, and difpofeit of them according to thy good pleafure; We yield thee unfeigned thanks for that thou waft pleafed, as on this day, to place thy fervant our Sovereign Lord King GEORGE upon the throne of thefe realms. Let thy wifdom be his guide, and let thine arm ftrengthen him; let juftice, ceive our humble prayers, with our hearty thanksgivings for our Sovereign Lord GEORGE, as on this day fet over us by thy grace and providence to be our King; and fo together with him blefs our gracious Queen Charlotte, his Royal Highnes George Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family; that they all ever trusting in thy goodness, protected by thy power, and crowned with thy gracious and endless favour, may continue before thee in health, peace, joy, and honour, and may live long and happy lives upon earth, and after death obtain everlafting life and glory in the kingdom of heaven, by the merits and me diation of Chrift Jefus our Savi our, who, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, liveth and reigneth ever one God, world without end. Amen. truth, and holiness, let peace and love, and all thofe virtues that adorn the Chriftian profeffion, flourish in his days; direct all his counfels and endeavours to thy glory, and the welfare of his people, and give us grace to obey him cheerfully and willingly for confcience fake; that neither our finful paffions, nor our private interents may dif appoint his cares for the publick good; let him always poflefs the hearts of his people, that they may never be waiting in honour to his perfon, and dutiful fubmiffion to his authority; let his reign be 'ong and profperous, and crewn him with inmortality in the 1 fe to come, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then fhall follow this Colle for God's protection of the King against all his Enemies. M fet thy fervant GEORGE OST gracious God, who haft our King upon the throne of his Anceftors, we moft humbly be feech thee to protect him on the fame from all the dangers to which he may be expofed. Hide him from the gathering together of the froward, and from the infurrection of wicked doers; Do thou weaken the hands, blaft the defigns, and defeat the enterprizes of all his enemies, that no fecret confpiracies, nor open violences, may difquiet his reign; but that being fafely kept under the thadow of thy wing. and fupported by thy power, he may triumph over all oppofition, that fo the world may acknow ledge thee to be his defender and mighty deliverer in all difficul ties and adverfities, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. In the end of the Litany (which fhall airways be fed upon this day, after the Coilet [We humbly befeech thee, O Fa-Then the Prayer for the High ther, &c.] all the following Prayer for the King and Royal Family, be used. LORD our God, who upholdet and goveruett all this in heaven and earth, re Court of Parliament, if fitting. Praja B Prayer for the King, as fupreme Governor of this Church. LESSED Lord, who haft called Chriftian Princes to the defence of thy faith, and haft made it their duty to promote the fpiritual welfare, together with the temporal intereft of their people; We acknowledge with humble and thankful hearts thy great goodness to us, in fetting thy fervant our moft gracious King over this Church and Nation: Give him, we beseech thee, all thofe heavenly graces that are requifite for fo high a truft; Let fake, whether it be to the King, as fupreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are fent by him for the punishment of evil doers, 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 toolith 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. The Gospel, 8. Matth. 22. 16. ND they fent out unto him the work of thee his God profper A their difciples with the in his hand; Let his eyes behold the fuccefs of his defigns for the fervice of thy true Religion eftablithed amongft us; and make him a bleffed inftrument of protecting and advancing thy truth, wherever it is perfecuted and opprefled; Let Hypocrify and Profaneness, Superitition and Idolatry fly before his face; Let not Herefies and falfe Doctrines difturb the peace of the Church, nor Schifms and caufelefs Divifions weaken it; But grant us to be of one heart, and one mind in ferving thee our God, and obey. ing him according to thy will: And that thefe bleffings may be continued to after ages, let there never be one wanting in his Houfe to fucceed him in the go vernment of thefe Kingdoms, that our pofterity may fee his children's children, and peace upon Ifrael. So we that are thy people, and fheep of thy pafture, fhall give thee thanks for ever, and will always be fhewing forth thy praife from generation to generation. Amen. The Epile. 1 S. Pet. 2. 11. EARLY beloved, I befeech Dyou, ax frangers and pilgrims, abflain from flethly lufts, which war against the fouls having your converfation honeft among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak againft you as evil works, which they fall behold, glorify God in the day of vifita tion. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's Herodians, faying, Mafter, we know that thou art true, and teacheft the way of God in truth, neither careft thou for any man: for thou regardeft not the perfon of men. Tell us therefore, What thinkeft thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cefar or not? But Jefus perceived their wickedness, and faid, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? fhew rue the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. And he faith unto them, Whofe is this image and fuper fcription? They fay unto him, Cefar's. Then faith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cefar, the things which are Cefar's; and unto God, the things that are God's. When they had heard thefe words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way. After the Nicene Creed fhall tence be read: Let your light fo thine before men, that they may fee your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Matth. 5. 16. S. After the Prayer [For the whole ftate of Chri's Church, &c.] thefe Colles following shall be used. A Prayer for Unity. Jefus fit, cur only Sa Jefus Chrift, our Saviour, the Prince of Peace; Give us grace feriously to lay to heart the great dangers we are in by Our A Form of Prayer, &c. for the Twenty-fifth Day of October. our unhappy divifions. Take inwardly in our hearts, that away all hatred and prejudice, and whatfoever elfe may hinder us from godly Union and Concord: That as there is but one Body, and one Spirit, and one one Faith, one Baptifin, one God Hope of our Calling, one Lord, and Father of us all; fo we may henceforth be all of one heart, and of one foul, united in one holy bond of Truth and Peace, of Faith and Charity, and may with one mind and one mouth glorify thee, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. RANT, O Lord, we befeech thee, that the course of this world may be fo peaceably ordered by thy governance, that thy Church may joyfully ferve thee in all godly quietness, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. GAlmighty they may bring forth in us the fruit of good living, to the honour and praife of thy Name, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen. Atain of all wifdom, who LMIGHTY God, the foun knoweft our neceflities before we aik, and our ignorance in afking; We befeech thee to have compaffion upon our infir mities; and thofe things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot afk, vouchfafe to give us, for the worthiness of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. HE Peace of God, which paffeth all understanding. keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God, and of his Son Jefus Chrift our Lord; and the blefling of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghoft, be amongst you, and remain with you al ways. Amen. GEORGE R. OUR will and Pleafure is, That thefe Four Forms of Prayer and Service, made for the Fifth of November, the Thirtieth of January, the Twenty-ninth of May, and the Twenty fifth of Odaber be forthwith printed and publifhed, and annexed to the Book of Commun Prayer and Liturgy of the Church of England, to be used yearly on the faid days, in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chapels, in all Chapels of Colleges and Halls within both our Univer fities, and of our Colleges of Eaton and Winchester, and in all Parish Churches and Chapels within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed. Given at our Court at St. James's, the Seventh Day of By His Majefty's Command. BUTE. |