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thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Short Prayers for single Persons, that cannot meet to join in Prayer with others, by reason of the Fight or Storm.

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General Prayers.

OblessedSaviour, who didst save thy disciples ready to perish in a storm; hear us, and save us, we beseech thee.

Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
O Lord, hear us.

O Christ, hear us.

God the Father, God the

ORD be merciful to us Son, God the Holy Ghost, sinners, and save us for have mercy upon us, save us now and evermore. Amen. thy mercies' sake.

Thou art the great God, OUR Father who art

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who hast made and rulest all Heaven; Hallowed be thy things: O deliver us for thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Name's sake. Thy Will be done on Earth,

Thou art the great God to as it is in Heaven; Give us be feared above all: O save this day our daily bread; And us, that we may praise thee. forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass Special Prayers with reagainst us; And lead us not spect to the Enemy. into temptation; But deliver HOU, O Lord, art just us from evil. Amen.

Tand powerful: O defend

our cause against the face of the enemy.

O God, thou art a strong tower of defence to all who fly unto thee: O save us from the violence of the enemy.

O Lord of Hosts, fight for us; that we may glorify thee.

O suffer us not to sink under the weight of our sins, or the violence of the enemy.

O Lord arise, help us, and deliver us, for thy Name's sake.

When there shall be imminent danger, as many as can be spared from necessary service in the ship shall 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,

Short Prayers in respect of Maker of all things, Judge of

a Storm.

all men ; we acknowledge and

THOU, O Lord, who stil-bewail our manifold sins and lest the raging of the sea, wickedness, which we from hear, hear us, and save us, time to time most greviously that we perish not. have committed, by thought,

word, and deed, against thy ship thee, sing of thee, and Divine Majesty, provoking praise thy Name. most justly thy wrath and in- O come hither, and behold dignation against us. We do the works of God; how wonearnestly repent, and are derful he is in his doings toheartily sorry for these our wards the children of men! misdoings; the remembrance He ruleth with his power of them is grievous unto us: for ever; his eyes behold the the burthen of them is into-people; and such as will not lerable. Have mercy upon us, believe, shall not be able to have mercy upon us, most exalt themselves.

merciful Father: For thy Son O praise our God, ye peoour Lord Jesus Christ's sake, ple; and make the voice of forgive us all that is past; and his praise to be heard;

grant, that we may ever here- Who holdeth our souls in after serve and please thee in life: and suffereth not our feet newness of life, to the honour to slip.

and glory ofthyName,through For thou, O God, hast proJesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ved us: thou also hast tried us, Then shall the Minister, if like as silver is tried.

there be any in the shifi, say: Thou broughtest us into the ALMIGHTY God, our hea- snare; and laidest trouble upvenly Father, who of his on our loins.

great mercy, hath promised, I will go into thy house with forgiveness of sins to all those burnt offerings; and will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips, and spake with my mouth when I was

who with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him; have mercy upon you; pardon in trouble. and deliver you from all your O come hither and hearken, sins; confirm and strengthen all ye that fear God; and I will you in all goodness, and bring you to everlasting life, through tell you what he hath done Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. for my soul.

I called unto him with my Thanksgiving after a Storm. mouth; and gave him praises

Psalm 1xvi. Jubilate Deo.

OBE joyful in God, all ye

with my tongue.

If I incline unto wickedness

lands; sing praises unto with mine heart, the Lord will

the honour of his Name; make not hear me.

his praise to be glorious.

But God hath heard me;

Say unto God, O how won-and considered the voice of derful art thou in thy works; my Prayer. through the greatness of thy power, shall thine enemies be found liars unto thee.

For all the world shall wor

Praised be God; who hath not cast out my prayer; nor turned his mercy from me. Glory be to the Father, and

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That they would exalt him

to the Son, and to the Holy ders that he doeth for the chil Ghost; dren of men! As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, also in the congregation of world without end. Amen. the people; and praise him in the seat of the elders! Psalm cvii. Confitemini Domino.

THAT men would praise the Lord for his goodness; and declare thewonders that he doeth for the children of men

That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and tell out his works with gladness!

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.

Collects of Thanksgiving.

MOST blessed and glorious Lord God, who art infinite goodness and mer

They that go down to the of sea in ships; and occupy their cy; we, thy poor creatures, business in great waters; whom thou hast made and These men see the works preserved,holding our souls in of the Lord, and his wonders life, and now rescuing us out of in the deep. the jaws of death, humbly preFor at his word, the stormy sent ourselves again before thy wind ariseth; which lifteth up Divine Majesty, to offer a sathe waves thereof. crifice of praise and thanksgiv

They are carried up to the ing, for that thou heardest us heaven, and down again to the when we called in our trouble, deep; their soul melteth away and didst not cast out our praybecause of the trouble. er, which we made before thee They reel to and fro, and in our great distress; even stagger like a drunken man ; when we gave all for lost, our and are at their wits' end. Ship,ourGoods,ourLives,then

So when they cry unto the didst thou mercifully look Lord in their trouble, he de-jupon us and wonderfully comlivereth them out of their mand a deliverance; for which we now, being in safety,do give

distress. For he maketh the storm all praise and glory to thy holy to cease, so that the waves Name, through Jesus Christ thereof are still. our Lord. Amen.

Then are they glad because they are at rest; and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.

¶ Or this.

MOST mighty and gracious good God, thy merO that men would therefore cy is over all thy works, but praise the Lord for his good-in special manner hath been ness; and declare the won-extended towards us, whom

thou hast so powerfully and full of compassion; slow to wonderfully defended. Thoulanger, and of great mercy. hast showed us terrible things, He hath not dealt with us and wonders in the deep, that according to our sins; neither we might see how powerful rewarded us according to our and gracious a God thou art; iniquities.

how able and ready to help But as the heaven is high them that trust in thee. Thou above the earth; so great hath hast showed us how both been his mercy towards us. Winds and Seas obey thy com- We found trouble and heamand: that we may learn even viness; we from them hereafter to obey death's door.

were even at

thy voice, and to do thy will. The waters of the sea had We therefore bless and glori-well nigh covered us; the fy thy Name, for this thy mer proud waters had well nigh cy, in saving us when we were gone over our soul. ready to perish. And we be- The sea roared; and the seech thee, make us as truly stormy wind lifted up the sensible now of thy mercy, as waves thereof.

we were then of the danger; We were carried up as it and give us hearts always rea-were to heaven,and then down dy to express our thankfulness again into the deep; our soul not only by words, but also by melted within us, because of our lives, in being more obe-trouble.

dient to thy holy command- Then cried we unto thee, O ments. Continue, we beseech Lord; and thou didst deliver thee, this thy goodness to us; us out of our distress. that we, whom thou hast sav- Blessed be thy Name, who ed, may serve thee in holiness didst not despise the prayer of and righteousness all the days thy servants; but didst hear of our life, through Jesus our cry, and hast saved us. Christ our Lord, and Saviour. Thou didst send forth thy Amen. commandments; and the An Hymn of Praise and windy storm ceased, and was Thanksgiving after a dan-turned into a calm. gerous Tempest. O let us therefore praise the COME,let us give thanks Lord for his goodness; and unto the Lord, for he is declare the wonders that he gracious; and his mercy en-hath done, and still doeth, for dureth for ever. the children of men!

Great is the Lord,and great- Praised be the Lord daily; ly to be praised: Let the re-even the Lord that helpeth us, deemed of the Lord say so, and poureth his benefits upon whom he hath delivered from us.

the merciless rage of the sea. He is our God,even the God The Lord is gracious, and of whom cometh salvation:

God is the Lord, by whom nance, because thou hadst a we have escaped death. favour unto us.

Thou, Lord, hast made us The Lord hath appeared for glad through the operation of us; the Lord hath covered thy hands; and we will tri-our heads, and made us to umph in thy praise. stand in the day of battle. The Lord hath appeared for

Blessed be the Lord God;| even the Lord God, who only us; the Lord hath overthrown doth wondrous things; our enemies, and dashed in

And blessed be the Name pieces those that rose up of his Majesty for ever; and against us. let every one of us say, Amen,

Amen.

Therefore not unto us, O Lord, not unto us; but unto

Glory be to the Father, and thy Name be given the glory. to the Son, and to the Holy

Ghost;

The Lord hath done great things for us; the Lord hath As it was in the beginning done great things for us, for is now, and ever shall be, which we rejoice. world without end. Amen.

¶ A Psalm or Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving after Victory.

F the Lord had not been on

Iour side, now may we say

if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against 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;

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As it was in the beginning, now, and ever shall be,

They had swallowed us up quick, when they were so world without end. Amen.

wrathfully displeased 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.

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Then this Collect.

ALMIGHTY God, the
Sovereign Commander

But praised be the Lord; of all the world, in whose hand who hath not given us over as is power and might, which a prey unto them. none is able to withstand; we

The Lord hath wrought a bless and magnify thy great mighty salvation for us. and glorious Name for this

We got not this by our own happy victory, the whole glory sword, neither was it our own whereof we do ascribe to thee, arm that saved us; but thy who art the only giver of vicright hand, and thine arm, tory. And we beseech thee, and the light of thy counte-'give us grace to improve this

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