A FORM OF PRAYER WITH THANKSGIVING FOR THE Safe Delivery of the QUEEN, And happy BIRTH of the Young Prince. TO BE Used on Sunday next, being the Seventeeths Day of this Instant June, in all Churches and Chapels, within the Cities of London and westminster, and Ten Miles distance; And upon the First Day of July next, in all other Places throughout this Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed. By His Majesty's special Command. LONDON, Printed by Charles Bill, Henry Hills, and Thomas Newcomb, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 1688. A FORM of PRAYER WITH THANKSGIVING For the safe Delivery of the QUEEN, and happy Birth of the Young PRINCE. To be Used on Sunday next, being the 17th Day of this instant June, in all Churches and Chapels within the Cities of London and Westminster, and Ten Miles distance; and upon the First Day of July next, in all other Places throughout this Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed. ¶ This Service shall be the same with the usual Office for the Days above named, except where it is hereafter otherwise appointed. ¶ At the beginning of Morning Prayer the Minister shall read these Sentences following. OFfer unto the Lord Thanksgiving: Psal. l. 14. and pay thy Vows unto the most High. An Offering of a free heart will I give thee: Psal. liv. 6. and praise thy Name, O Lord. ¶ In the place of [Venite exultemus] shall be used this following Hymn. O Give thanks unto the Lord, Psal. cv. ver. 1. and call upon his Name: tell the people what things he hath done. O let your songs be of him, 2. and praise him: let your talking be of all his wondrous works. Give the Lord the honour due unto his Name: xxlx. 2. worship the Lord with holy worship. One generation shall praise thy works unto another: cxlv. 4. and declare thy power. For thou, xcii. 4. Lord, hast made me glad through thy works: I will rejoice in giving praise, for the operations of thy hands. I will sing of the Lord because he hath dealt so lovingly with me: xili. 6. yea, I will praise the Name of the Lord most High. The Lord is my strength: xxviii. 9 he is the wholesome defence of his Anointed. Great prosperity giveth he unto his King: xviii. 51. and showeth loving kindness to David his Anointed, and to his seed for evermore. O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodness: cvii 21. and declare the wonders he doth for the children of men. That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving: 22. and tell out his works with gladness. That they would eralt him also in the congregation of the People: 32. and praise him in the seat of the Elders. For his merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us: cxvii. 2. and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Glory be to the Father, etc. As it was in the beginning, etc. ¶ Proper Psalms 72.89. ¶ Proper Lessons Isaiah 12. St. Matth. 22. from v. 15. to the end. ¶ To be added in the Versicles after the Creed. O Lord, save the King. And let his seed be mighty upon earth, Let him evermore rejoice in thy strength. And be exceeding glad in thy salvation. O Lord, save the Queen. And make her as a fruitful Vine. Due thy Ministers with righteousness, etc. ¶ The first Collect instead of that for the day. O Almighty and everlasting Lord God of heaven and earth, who madest the World and all that is therein, and givest to all men life and breath and all things; We devoutly offer our most hearty thanks to thy Divine Majesty, that thou hast given our Dread Sovereign his hearts desire, and hast not denied us the request of our lips, in blessing him and our Gracious Queen with a Son, and all his Subjects with a Prince: Stablisly the thing; O God, that thou hast wrought among us. Grant the Princely Infant health, strength, and long life, that he may grow up to live in thy fear, and to thy glory, and to excel in all virtues becoming his high Birth, and the Royal Dignity to which thou hast ordained him. O prepare thy loving mercy and faithfulness, that they may ever preserve him, for the honour of thy Name, and the establishment of the pence, security and happiness of these Nations from generation to generation, and this we beg for jesus Christ his sake our only Mediator and Redeemer. Amen. ¶ At the end of the Litany, immediately after [We humbly beseech thee] this following Prayer is to be used. O Most powerful and glorious God, who art wonderful in all the mysterious acts of thy Providence, and adorable in the various distributions of thy justice and mercy to the children of men; We meekly humble ourselves, and fall low before the footstool of thy grace, rendering thee all worship and thanks, that, although for our manifold sins most justly provoking thee, thou in thy wrath hast heretofore taken from us so many of the Royal Progeny, yet in the midst of judgement thou hast remembered mercy, and according to thy continual goodness hast revived our hopes, and begun to repair our former losses, by renewing fruitfulness to the Queen, and giving birth to a Royal Prince. We beseech thee, O Lord, give the King and all his People, such a due sense of this thy mercy, that our devout and thankful acceptance, and right use of it, may divert thy judgements for the future, and incline thee to bestow more such public blessings upon us. So we who are thy people will rejoice evermore, in every thing giving thanks unto thee, through our only Mediator and Advocate jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ In the Communion-Service next after the Commandments, the first Collect shall be the same as in the Morning Prayer, [O Almighty and Everlasting Lord God of heaven and earth, etc.] ¶ Then shall follow one of the two Collects for the King. ¶ The Epistle, Colos. III. from vers. 12. to v. 18. ¶ The Gospel, S. Luke I. from vers. 57 to v. 67. ¶ After the Prayer for the Church Militant, shall follow this Prayer. O Lord our Governor, whose Name is excellent in all the World, and who art king for ever and ever: We praise and bless thy Divine Goodness, for all the marvellous Protections, and signal Favours, thou hast vouchsafed thy Servant our Gracious King JAMES: particularly that after thou hadst preserved him from the dangers of War, from the rage of the Sea, and from the madness of the People, thou didst in thy due time bring him to great honour, by settling him on the Throne of his Ancestors, and hast now enlarged thy Blessings towards him, by this happy increase of the Royal Issue: We most humbly beseech Thee, to continue and multiply these thy mercies to Him and Us: That thou wouldst give him Sons to grow up as the young plants, and that his daughters may be as the polished Corners of the Temple. Bless, O Lord, the whole Royal Family, with the blessings of the Heavens above, with the blessings of the Deep beneath, with the blessings of the Breasts and of the Womb: That when the King's days shall be fulfilled, and he shall sleep with his Fathers in Peace and Glory, his Seed may be set up after him, and his House and Kingdom may be established for ever before Thee. Grant this, O Lord, for jesus Christ his sake our only Saviour. Amen. FINIS.