A Prayer of Thanksgiving for His majesty's late Victory over the Rebels. O Thou God of Hosts, who goest forth with our Armies, and pleadest the cause of thine anointed against them that strive with Him, we acknowledge with all lowliness of mind, that it is not our sword, nor the multitude of our Host that hath saved us, but it is thy Hand alone that hath disposed of Victory to thy Servant the King, that hath covered his head in the day of battle, and hath kept His Crown from being thrown down to the ground. Not unto us therefore, not unto us, but unto thee, O God, do we give the praise, beseeching thee to accomplish the great work thou hast begun for us, to continue the blessings of Good success on the head of our sovereign, and on His Army, that the happiness thereof may flow from thence to the very skirts of His People, to continue the fear, and consternation which thou hast already cast upon the hearts of those who have rebelliously risen up against Him, to enfeeble their strengths, to infatuate their Counsels, undeceive and disabuse the seduced part of them, that they may know, and feel, that to take up Arms against thy vicegerent, is to fight against Heaven, that so by a timely and conscientious submission to the just authority of him whom thou hast set over them, the effusion of more blood may be prevented, the peace of this distracted Kingdom settled, Faction may be cast out of the State, and schism out of the Church, to the advancement of thy Glory, the King's Honour, and the people's good. Grant this, O God. for thy old mercy's sake, which thou wert wont to show unto this Nation, that both Prince and People may join in giving praise to thee, who livest and raignest world without end. Amen.