disciples ready to perish in a storm; [mercy upon you; pardon and deliver hear us, and save us, we beseech thee. O Christ, hear us. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, have mercy upon us, save us now and evermore. Amen. you from all your sins; confirm and strengthen you in all goodness, and bring you to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Thanksgiving after a Storm. OUR Father who art in Heaven, Say unto God, O how wonderful art thou in thy works; through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies When there shall be imminent danger, as many as can be spared from necessary service in the ship shail be called together, and make an humble Confession of their sins to God in which every one ought seriously to reflect upon those particular sins, of which his conscience shall accuse him; saying as followeth : The Confession. ALMIGHTY God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things; Judge of all men; we acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy Divine Majesty, provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings, the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burthen of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; For thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, forgive us all that is past; and grant, that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life, to the honour and glory of thy name,through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Then shall the Priest, if there be amy in the ship, say, ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Father, who, of his great mercy, hath promised forgiveness of sins to all those who with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him; have For all the world shall worship thee, sing of thee, and praise thy name. O come hither, and behold the works of God; how wonderful he is in his doings towards the children of men! He ruleth with his power for ever; his eyes behold the people; and such aa will not believe, shall not be able to exalt themselves. O praise our God, ye people; and make the voice of his praise to be heard; Who holdeth our soul in life; and suffereth not our feet to slip. For thou, O God, hast proved us; thou also hast tried us, like as silver is tried. Thou broughtest us into the snare; and laidest trouble upon our loins. I will go into thine house with burnt offerings; and will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips, and spake with my mouth, when I was in trouble. O come hither, and hearken, all ye Glory be to the Father, and to the Psalm 107. Confitemini Domino. O That men would praise the Lord for his goodness; and declare the wonders that he doeth for the chil-Iname, though Jesus Christ our Lord. dren of men ! That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and tell out his works with gladness! They that go down to the sea in ships; and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. Amen. Or this, Most mighty and gracious good God, thy aercy is over all thy works, but in special manner hath been extended towards us, whom thou hast so powerfully and wonderfully defended. Thou hast showed us terrible things, and wonders in the deep, that we might see how powerful and gracious a God thou art; how able and ready to help those who trust They are carried up to the heaven, in thee. Thou hast showed us how and down again to the deep; their soul both winds and seas obey thy coinmelteth away because of the trouble.mand; that we may learn even from They reel to and fro, and stagger them hereafter to obey thy voice, and like a drunken man; and are at their to do thy will. We therefore bless and wit's end. For at his word, the stormy wind ariseth; which lifteth up the waves thereof. So when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, he delivereth them out of their distress. For he maketh the storm to cease, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad, because they are at rest; and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be. O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness; and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men! That they would exalt him also in the congregation of the people; and praise him in the seat of the elders! Glory be 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. Amer. glorify thy name, for this thy mercy, in saving us when we were ready to perish. And we beseech thee, make us as truly sensible now of thy mercy as we were then of the danger; and give us hearts always ready to express out thankfulness not only by words, but also by our lives, in being more obedient to thy holy commandments. Continue, we beseech thee, this thy goodness to us; that we, whom thou hast saved, may serve thee in holiness and righteousness ali the days of our life, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. Amen. A Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving after a dangerous Tempest. Come, let us give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious; and his mercy endureth for ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be Collects of Thanksgiving. praised: Let the redeemed of the Most blessed and glorious Lord Lord say so, whom he hath delivered God, who art of infinite goodness from the merciless rage of the sea. and mercy; we, thy poor creatures, The Lord is gracious, and full of whom thou hast made and preserved, compassion; slow to anger, and of holding our souls in life, and now res-great mercy. cuing us out of the jaws of death, He hath not dealt with us according humbly present ourselves again before to our sins; neither rewarded us ac thy Divine Majesty, to offer a sacri-cording to our iniquities. fice of praise and thanksgiving, for But as the heaven is high above the that thou heardest us when we called earth; so great hath been his mercy in our trouble, and didst not cast out towards us. our prayer, which we made before thee in our great distress; even when we gave all for lost, our Ship, our Goods, our Lives, then didst thou mercifully look upon us, and wonderfully command a deliverance; for which we now, being in safety, do give all praise and glory to thy holy We found trouble and heaviness; 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. The sea roared; and the stormy wind lifted up the waves thereof. We were carried up as it were to neaven, and then down again into the farm, and the light of thy counterdeep; our soul melted within us, be-ance, because thou hadst a favour Bause of trouble. Then cried we unto thee, O Lord; and thou didst deliver us out of our distress. unto us. The Lord hath appeared for us; the Lord hath covered our heads, and made us to stand in the day of battle. The Lord hath appeared for us; the Lord hath overthrown our enemies, Blessed be thy name, who didst not despise the prayer of thy servants; but didst hear our cry, and hast sav-and dashed in pieces those that rose ed us. Thou didst send forth thy commandment; and the windy storm ceased, and was turned into a calm. up against us. Therefore not unto us, O Lord, not unto us; but unto thy name be given the glory. O let us therefore praise the Lord for The Lord hath done great things for his goodness; and declare the won-us; the Lord hath done great things ders that he hath done, and still doeth, for us, for which we rejoice. for the children of men! Praised be the Lord daily; even the Lord that helpeth as, and poureth his benefits upon us. He is our God, even the God of whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord, by whom we have escaped death. Thou, Lord, hast made us glad through the operation of thy hands; and we will triumph in thy praise. Blessed be the Lord God; even the Lord God, who only doeth wondrous things; And blessed be the name of his MaJesty for ever; and let every one of us say, Amen, Amen. 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. A Paalm or Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving after Victory. IF the Lord had not been on our side, now may we say; if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us; They had swallowed us up quick, when they were so wrathfully dis pleased at us. Yea, the waters had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul; the deep waters of the proud had gone over our soul. But praised be the Lord, who hath not given us over as a prey unto them. The Lord hath wrought a mighty, salvation for us. Our help standeth in the name of the Lord, who hath made heaven and earth. Blessed be the name of the Lord, from this time forth for evermore. 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. After this Hymn may be said the Te Deum. Then this Collect. O Almighty God, the Sovereign Commander of all the world, in whose hand is power and might, which none is able to withstand; we bless and magnify thy great and glori ous name for this happy victory, the whole glory whereof we do ascribe to thee, who art the only giver of victory. And we beseech thee, give us grace to improve this great mercy to thy glory, the advancement of thy Gospel, the honour of our country and, as much as in us lieth, to the good of all mankind. And, we beseech thee, give us such a sense of this great mercy, as may engage us to a true thankfulness, such as may appear in our lives, by an humble, holy, and obedient walking before thee all our days, through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom, with thee, and the Holy Spirit, as for all thy mercies, so in particular for this victory and deli verance, be all glory and honour world without end. Amen. 2 Cor. xiii. 14. THE grace of our Lord Jesus Christ We got not this by our own sword, and the love of God, and the fel. neither was it our own arm that sav-lowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us ed us; but thy right hand, and thine all evermore. Amen. At the Burial of the Dead, at Sea, the Office of the Common Prayer Book may be used; only instead of these words, We therefore commit his Body to the ground, earth to earth, &c. 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 subdue all things to himself. A FORM OF PRAYER FOR THE VISITATION OF PRISONERS. When Morning or Evening Prayer shall be read in any Prison, in stead 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 times as the Litany is not read, he shall add the Prayer, O God, merciful Father, who despasest not, &c. And when Notice is given to the Minister, that a Prisoner is confined for some great or capital crime, he shall visit him; and when he cometh into the place where the Prisoner is, he shall say, kneeling down. through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. God, who sparest when we de serve punishment, and in thy wrath rememberest mercy; we humbly beseech thee of thy goodness to comfort and succour all those who are REMEMBER not, Lord, our ini- under reproach and misery in the quities, nor the iniquities of our house of bondage; correct them not forefathers; neither take thou venge-in thine anger, neither chasten them ance of our sins: Spare us, good Lord, in thy sore displeasure. Give them a spare thy people, whom thou hast re-right understanding of themselves, deemed with thy most precious blood; and be not angry with us forever. Ans. Spare us, good Lord. GRANT, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that we, who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished, by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved; and of thy threats and promises; that they may neither cast away their confidence in thee, nor place it any where but in thee. Relieve the distressed, protect the innocent, and awaken the guilty: and forasmuch as thou alone bringest light out of darkness, and good out of evil, grant that the pains and punislunents which these thy servants endure, through their bodily confinement, may tend to setting free their souls from the chains. of sin; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Here the Minister, as he shall see convenient, may read the Prayer for All conditions of Men, the Colleet for Ash-Wednesday, and the Collect beginning Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, &c. or any other Prayer of the Liturgy, which he shall judge proper. Then shall the Minister exhort fearful a thing it will be to fall into the hands of the living God, when you can neither fly to his mercy to protect you, nor to the merits of Christ to cover you in that terrible day. Here the Minister shall examine him concerning his Faith, and rehearse the Articles of the Creed, Dost thon believe in God, &c. And the prisoner shall answer, AH this I steadfastly believe. ing providence governeth all things [lieve in the light, and walk as chi both in heaven and earth, hath so dren of the light, that you be not cast wisely and mercifully ordered the into outer darkness; that you may course of this world, that his judg-not knock, when the door shall be ments are often sent as fatherly cor-shut; and cry for mercy, when it is rections to us; and if with due sub- the time of justice. Now you are the mission and resignation to his holy object of God's mercy, if by repentwill we receive the same, they will ance and true faith you turn unto work together for our good. him: but if you neglect these things, It is your part and duty, therefore, to you will be the object of his justice and humble yourself under the mighty vengeance: Now you may claim the hand of God, to acknowledge the merits of Christ: but if you die in righteousness of his judgments, and to your sins, his sufferings will tend to endeavour, that, by his grace, this your greater condemnation. O belov present visitation may lead you to afed, consider in this your day, how sincere and hearty repentance. The way and means thereto is, to examine your life and conversation by the rule of God's commandment: and whereinsoever you shall perceive yourself to have offended either by will, word, or deed, there to bewail your own sinfulness, and to confess yourself to Almighty God, with full purpose of amendinent of life. And if you shall perceive your offences to be such as are not only against God, but T also against your neighbours; then to reconcile yourself to thein, being ready to make restitution and satisfaction, according to the uttermost of your power, for all injuries and wrongs done by you to any other: and being likewise ready to forgive others who have offended you, as you would have forgiveness of your of fences at God's hand. And to this true repentance and change of mind you must add a lively and steadfast faith, und dependence upon the merits of the death of Christ, with an entire resignation of yourself to the will ofHAVE mercy upon me, O God, Gol. Except you repent, and believe, after thy great goodness; accord. we can give you no hope of salvation; ing to the multitude of thy mercies, do But if you do sincerely repent and away mine offences. believe, God hath declared, though your sins be as red as scarlet, they shall be made white as snow; though your wickednesses have gone over your head, yet shall they not be your destruction. Then shall the Minister examine whether he repent him truly of his sins, and be in charity with all the world, and further admonish him particularly concerning the crimes wherewith he is charged: and exhort him, if he have any scruples, that he would declare the same, and prepare himself for the Holy Com munion, against the time that it may be proper to administer it to him. Then, all kneeling, the Minister shall say as follows, from the 51st Psalm: Wash me thoroughly from my wick. edness; and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my faults; and my sin is ever before me. Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight; that thou mightest be justified in thy saying, and clear when thou art judged. Behold, I was shapen in wickedness; and in sin hath my mother conceived me. We exhort you therefore in the name of God, and of his dear Son Jesus Christ our Saviour, and as you tender your own salvation, to take good heed of these things in time, while the day of salvation lasteth; for But lo, thou requirest truth in the the night cometh, when no man can inward parts; and shalt make me to work. While you have the light, be-lunderstand wisdom secretly. |