A
Form of Prayer with Thanksgiving;
to be used annually on the fifth of November for the happy deliverance
of King James the
First, and the Three Estates of England, from the most traitorous
and bloody-intended massacre by gunpowder.
Thanksgiving is also given today for the happy arrival of His majesty
King William on this day, and for the deliverance of our church
and nation.
The minister of every parish shall give warning to his
Parishioners publicly in the church at Morning Prayer, the Sunday before, for
the due observation of this day. After Morning Prayer, or preaching, upon fifth day of November, the minister shall read publicly,
distinctly, and plainly, the Act of Parliament, made in the third Year of King James the First, for the Observation of it.
The Service shall be the same with the usual Office for
Holy Days in all things; except where it is hereafter otherwise appointed.
If this Day shall happen to be a Sunday, only the Collect
proper for that Sunday shall be added to this Office in its place.
Morning Prayer shall begin with these
Sentences from Psalm 103.8-10
The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in faithful love.
He will not always accuse us
or be angry forever.
He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve
or repaid us according to our iniquites
Instead of Venite, exultemus, this
Hymn shall be used:
Give thanks to the Lord, for he
is good;
his faithful love endures forever.
Let the redeemed of the Lord proclaim
that he has redeemed them from the power of the foe
Since my youth they have often attacked me—
let Israel say—
Since my youth
they have often attacked me,
but they have not prevailed against me.
They hid their net for me without cause;
they dug a pit for me without cause.
My heart is
confident, God, my heart is confident.
I will sing; I will sing praises.
Our Lord
is great, vast in power;
his understanding is infinite.
The Lord helps the oppressed
but brings the wicked to the ground.
Let your hand be with the man at your right hand,
with the son of man you have made strong for yourself.
Then we will not turn
away from you;
revive us, and we will call on your name.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit, world without end.
Amen.
Proper Psalms.
44,
124, 123.
Proper Lessons.
The First Lesson
2
Samuel 22.
The Second Lesson
Acts 23.
In the Suffrages after the Creed, these
shall be inserted, and used for the Queen.
Priest. O Lord, save
the Queen
People. Who puts her trust
in you
Priest. Send her help
from your holy place
People. And evermore mightily
defend her
Priest. Let her enemies
have no advantage against her
People. Let not the wicked
approach to hurt her
Instead of the First Collect for Morning
Prayer, these two shall be used:
ALMIGHTY God,
who has in all ages showed your power and mercy in the miraculous and gracious
deliverance of your Church, and in the protection of righteous and religious monarchs
and nations—professing your holy and eternal truth—from the wicked conspiracies
and malicious practices of all their enemies; We give to you our sincere thanks
and praise for the wonderful and mighty deliverance of our gracious Sovereign
King James the
First, the Queen, the Prince, and all the Royal family, along with the
Nobility, Clergy and Commons of England, who
were in 1605 assembled in Parliament.
You delivered them from Popish treachery which appointed them as sheep
to the slaughter, in a most barbarous and savage manner, beyond the examples of
former ages. From this unnatural conspiracy, not by our merit, but by your
mercy; not by our foresight, but by your providence, you delivered us. Therefore not unto us, O Lord, not unto us,
but unto your Name we give all honour and all glory, in all churches of the saints,
from generation to generation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
ACCEPT also, most
gracious God, of our sincere thanks, for filling our hearts again with joy and
gladness—after the time in which you had afflicted us—and putting a new song
into our mouths, by bringing his Majesty King William to us
upon this day, for the deliverance of our church and nation from Popish yyranny
and arbitrary Power. We adore the wisdom and justice of your providence, which
so timely intervened in our extreme danger, and disappointed all the designs of
our enemies. We beseech you, give us such a living and lasting sense of what you
did back then, and have since that time done for us, that we may not grow
secure and careless in our obedience—by presuming upon your great and undeserved
goodness—but instead be led to repentance.
Move us to be more diligent and
zealous in all the duties of our religion, which you have in a marvellous
manner preserved for us. Let truth and justice, brotherly kindness and charity,
devotion and piety, concord and unity, along with all other virtues, so
flourish among us, that they may be the stability of our times, and make this church
a praise in all the earth. All of this we humbly beg for the sake of our
blessed Lord and Saviour. Amen.
At the end of the Litany, this shall be
said:
ALMIGHTY God
and heavenly Father, who of your gracious providence, and tender mercy towards
us, prevented the malice and imaginations of our enemies, by discovering and
confounding their horrible and wicked enterprise, which they plotted and
intended this day in 1605 to execute against the King—and the whole nation
of England—for
the subversion of the government and religion established among us. Likewise,
upon this day, you wonderfully conducted your servant King William and
brought him safely into England, to
preserve us from the attempts of our enemies to bereave us of our religion and
laws. We most humbly praise and magnify
your most glorious name for your unspeakable goodness towards us, expressed in
both these acts of your mercy. We confess it has been of your mercy alone that
we are not consumed; for our sins have cried to heaven against us, and our
iniquities justly called for vengeance upon us. But you have not dealt with us according
to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities; nor given us over, as
we deserved, to be a prey to our enemies; but instead you have in your mercy
delivered us from their malice, and preserved us from death and destruction.
Let the consideration of this—your repeated goodness—O Lord, work in us true
repentance, that iniquity may not be our ruin: And increase in us more and more
a lively faith and love, fruitful in all holy obedience, that you may still
continue your favour towards us and our children, with the light of your
Gospel, for ever more. We ask all this
for your dear Son's sake, Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen
Instead of the Prayer [In time of War and
Tumults] shall be used this Prayer:
O
LORD, who this day discovered the snares of death that were laid for us, and
wonderfully delivered us from the same; Be still our mighty Protector, and
scatter our enemies that delight in blood. Frustrate and defeat their counsels, abate
their pride, assuage their malice, and confound their devices. Strengthen the
hands of our gracious Sovereign Queen Elizabeth,
and all that are put in authority under her, with judgment and
justice, to cut off all such workers of iniquity which would turn religion into
rebellion, and faith into faction.
Ensure that they may never prevail against us, or triumph in the ruin of
your church among us: but that our gracious Sovereign and her Realms,
being preserved in your true Religion, and by your merciful goodness protected
in the same, we may all duly serve you, and give you thanks in your holy congregation,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
In the Communion Service, instead of the
Collect for the Day this prayer shall be used:
ETERNAL God,
our most mighty Protector, we your unworthy servants humbly present ourselves
before your Majesty, acknowledging your power, wisdom and goodness, in
preserving the King, and of the Three Estates of the Realm of England assembled
in Parliament, from the destruction this day in 1605 intended against them.
Make us, we beseech you, truly thankful for this, and for all your other great
mercies towards us; particularly for your making this day even more memorable,
by a fresh instance of your loving-kindness towards us: for we bless you for
giving his late Majesty King William a
safe arrival here, and for making all opposition fall before him, till he
became our King and Governor. We beseech you to protect and defend our
Sovereign Queen Elizabeth, and all the Royal
Family, from all treasons and conspiracies: Preserve her in
all your faith, fear and love; prosper her reign with long
happiness here on earth; and crown her with everlasting
glory in the life to come, through Jesus Christ our only Saviour and
Redeemer. Amen.
The Epistle.
Romans 13
The Gospel.
St Luke 9: 51-62
After the Creed, if there is no Sermon,
shall be read one of the six homilies against rebellion
This Sentence is to be read at the
Offertory.
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to
you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matthew
7.12
After the Prayer for the Church militant
this following Prayer is to be used.
O GOD,
whose Name is excellent in all the earth, and your glory above the heavens;
who, on this day, miraculously preserved our Church and State from the secret
contrivance and hellish malice of Popish conspirators; and on this day also did
began to give us a mighty deliverance from the open tyranny and oppression of
the same cruel and blood-thirsty enemies. We bless and adore your glorious majesty, not
just for the former, but also for this later marvellous loving-kindness to our
church and Nation, namely the preservation of our religion and liberties. And
we humbly pray that the devout sense of this, your repeated mercy, may renew
and increase in us a spirit of love and thankfulness to you its only author; a
spirit of peaceable submission and obedience to our gracious Sovereign Queen
Elizabeth; and a spirit of fervent zeal for
our holy religion, which you hast so wonderfully rescued, and established as a
blessing to us and our children. All this we beg for Jesus Christ his
sake. Amen.
