thy glory and all my innocent and lawful purposes. Protect and deliver me from the assaults of temptation and the snares of sin, that I may return to my home in peace and holiness with thy favour and blessing; and grant that I may serve thee in thankfulness and obedience all the days of my pilgrimage on earth, and bring me at last to that better country, the heavenly Jerusalem, where I may dwell with thee in perpetual rest and felicity, through my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

A Thanksgiving for a Safe Return from Sea.

OST gracious Lord, whose mercy is over all

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thy works, and who hast been pleased to conduct in safety thy unworthy servant through the perils of the great deep; accept I beseech thee, for this manifestation of thy love, the unfeigned offering of my gratitude and praise. May I be duly sensible of thy merciful providence towards me, and ever express my thankfulness by a holy trust in thee, and obedience to thy laws, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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After a Journey or Voyage.

LMIGHTY God, who savest my life from destruction and crownest me with mercy and loving kindness, blessed be thy holy name that thou hast brought me in safety to the end of my

journey, (voyage) and preserved me from the innumerable accidents and dangers to which I was exposed. It is of thy mercy that I have been kept in life and health, notwithstanding the pestilence that walketh in darkness and the arrow that flieth by noonday. It is of thy watchful providence that I have been defended from the assaults and violence of wicked men, and of thy free and unmerited grace that I have been delivered from the snares and temptations of the devil and the flesh. Lord enable me to rejoice and triumph in thy praise, and not only to express my thanks with my lips but to show forth my grateful sense of thy mercies in my life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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An Office of Prayer to be used at Sea.

UR Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil; for thine is the kingdom,.and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

O God make speed to save us.
O Lord make haste to help us.

Blessed is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, and whose hope is in the Lord his God:

Who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that therein is.

The Lord is great, and cannot worthily be praised:

His dominion is from one sea to the other, and from the flood unto the world's end.

Whither shall I go then from thy Spirit, or whither shall I go from thy presence?

If I climb up into heaven thou art there, If I go down to hell thou art there also.

If I take the wings of the morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea:

Even there also shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee; thy truth most mighty Lord is on every side.

Thou rulest the raging of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise.

Thou shalt show us wonderful things in thy righteousness O God of our salvation, thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea.

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.

O Almighty God and heavenly Father, who rulest the raging of the sea and settest bounds to