A Form of Thanksgiving for the great Mercy that GOD hath bestowed upon these three Nations of England, Scotland and Ireland by the Hand of the Lord General monk and the Two Houses of Parliament, in Restoring the King unto his Right and Government; and in the opening a door thereby to Establishment, of the true Religion, and to the Settlement of these Distracted and Oppressed Nations in Peace and righteousness, by the Proclamation of KING CHARLES the 11. May this 8▪ 1660.  
OH Most Glorious, most Mighty, most merciful and Gracious Lord God, who art wonderful in council, and Excellent in working: We thy poor unworthy Creatures, desire in all humility of soul to fall down before thee, in the Acknowledgement and Admiration of thy Greatness and thy Goodness, which thou hast so gloriously manifested unto thy People in the great and marvelous things thou hast done for these poor Distressed, and Oppressed Nations. Oh what great trouble and adversity hast thou shewed us; and yet didst thou turn and refresh us, and hast brought us up from the deep of the Earth again. Oh Lord God, we have been, and are still a wicked and Rebellious People against thee; and by the greatness of our sins we provoked thee to give us up to the greatness of our miseries: And yet now O God, to our shane be it spoken, and to the honour of thy Mercy, before we have returned from our sins unto thee, thou hast returned unto pitty and compassion toward us. And the swelling bowels of thy heavenly Goodness which travailed with Mercy toward thy wretched people, have broken forth in a flood and deluge of thy divine Blessing upon us, and hath overwhelmed both our sins and miseries, with thy loving kindnesses; not only to the redress of our Calamities, but to the amazing of our souls.  
Oh Lord! Thy great tenderness towards us, hath contended with our great stubbornness against thee; as if thou hadst said unto us, ye are a people that have no mercy on yourselves; but I will be merciful unto you: you are bent desperately upon the procurement of your own ruin and destruction; but you shall not prevail. I will make you happy whether you will or no: you have stood out against my Judgments; but yet I will overcome you with the power of my Goodness, and loving kindnesses toward you. We have done miracles of monstrous wickednesses against thee; and thou madest those very monsters of our sins, to bring forth the wonders of thy judgements upon us: And although we have not relented toward thee, but have been as monstrous in our lewdness, as we were in our wickedness; yet thou hast now changed the tenor of thy providence, and hast made us a workhouse of the wonders of thy mercies. So that thou mayst sand us to ask of the days that are past which were before us, since the day that God created man upon the earth; and to ask from the one side of the heaven to the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard 
Deut. 4. 30.  like it. Did ever people see the Arm of God stretched out from heaven, as we have seen, in those things that thou hast done, and art still doing for us. Or hath God assayed to go and take an afflicted Prince and his Family out of the depth of affliction and misery, and out of the midst of a strange Nation, and to advance him unto the height of Excellency and Glory? Did ever God make such a sudden turn in the tide and current of hearts? Did ever God make the enemies of the peace and happiness of a distressed Prince and Nation, that were in possession of the Throne and Government, and that had the Sword in their hands, and rage in their hearts, so strongly engaged in Interest, and so disciplined and accustomend to activity and industry, so to destroy and pull down themselves, so to vanish away like smoke before the wind, so to melt away like wax before the fire, with the price of so little blood? Did ever God so wonderfully shake in pieces an oppressing Power? Did ever God carry a work of so great and public a mercy, under such a cloud of Secrecy and safety, to bring it unto such an issue of Mercy and Deliverance, in so merciful away? Did ever the Lord led a man whom he had fetched back from other enterprizes, through such a maze of difficulties, through such a multitude of rocks and shelves, in such a stormy season, and in such a broken Vessel, in such a direct and even course, without any faltering or aberration, or set such an exact frame of providence in the carrying on of a-work so great and hazardous in his hands, so as to make every operation, and every motion to fall out in its proper place, and its right season? Did ever God make men work so above their own thoughts or imaginations, or so scrue and contrive a people into their own felicity, ere they were a ware? Or did the Lord ever do such a work of mercy so speedily, so secretly, so graciously, for a people so drowned in misery and sin, and yet much more in sin than misery? Oh our God! what answer can be given unto these things, other than of a silent astonishment of spirit? whilst we cannot yet tell at which we should most wonder, that thou shouldst be so strangely merciful unto so sinful and so miserable a people; or that we should yet be so sinful towards so good, and so glorious, towards so powerful and so gracious a God.  
Oh Blessed God, when we Consider what we have done, and what we have lately been, what we have done against thee, and what thou hast done for us, and how thou hast pursued us with thy mercies, when we have run away from thee by Our sins.  
When we Consider what we lately were, and how it was both with Prince and people, both with Church and State, and what we now are already, and what thou art now about to make Us to be. What can we say or do unto the Lord our God! Must we not needs be like them that dream! or as if we saw a Vision! for is it possible it should be so with such a people? and that so soon, and that such a malady should be so suddenly healed by such Gentle means?  
That the Sea should fly, and Jordan be driven back? that mountains should skip like Rams, and little hills like young sheep? That so many and so great difficulties that stood like seas and rivers, and invincible mountains that stood between us and this blessed change, should all vanish and fade away in a moment? But now in Egypt, and presently in Canaan! But now an Exile, and presently upon a Throne! But now a Contemned Cast-away trampled upon at home, and miserable abroad, and presently the most admired and Glorious Prince in the world; reigning in the hearts of his people, before they see him with their eyes; and a King of love as well as of honour! But now dry bones lying scattered in the valley; And presently shaken together and joined together by the ligaments of Unity, and overlaid with sinews of strength, and covered with skin and flesh of beauty 
Ezek. 37. 1, &c.  and security: and now upon the sudden, the breath also breathed into them, and by the Embracing, and so joyful acknowledgement of him who is the breath of our nostrils, the means under God to give life unto this Nation! O Lord our God, other Lords besides thee have had dominion over us: In trouble have we visited thee, we poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon us; like as a woman with child that draweth near the time 
Is●▪ 26. 13, &c. 16, &c.  of her delivery is in pain and crieth out in her pangs: So have we been in thy sight O Lord we have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind: The Case was with Us, as once with thy people of Israel: The children were Come to the birth, and there was not strength to bring forth: A people ready to dy and give up the Ghost in the throws and plunges of our Sorrows and distresses, and of our vain attempts for obtaining 
2 ●in. 19. 3.  of deliverance, Discouraged and lost by the several disappointments of our hopes and Expectations: Our eyes as yet failed for our vain help, in our watching we watched, for a people that could not save us. We looked for peace, and no good came; for a time of health, and behold trouble; 
L●m. 4. 17.  we waited for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness; we looked for judgement, but there was none; for salvation 
Jer. 8. 15. Isa. 59. 9, 11. Ezek. 37. 11. Deu. 32. 36  but is was far off from Us. We were O Lord, as a people dead, and in the grave, whose hope was lost and cut off. But Thou art the Lord that judgest thy people, and repentest thyself concerning thy Servants, when thou seest that their power is gone, and that there is none shut up or left. Thou hast O Lord of thy great mercy given a Comfortable issue unto the sore and hard labour and travail of thy people. Thou hast wrought a wonderful deliverance for us. Thine own arm hath brought Salvation unto us. O Lord, thou art become exceeding glorious: Thou hast magnified thy power, and glorified thy mercy: Thou hast scattered the cloud of thy wrath and indignation, by the Victorious beams of thy Mercy and Compassion: Thou hast raised up instruments of Blessing, and hast by them brought to pass the wonders of thy goodness for us: Thou hast out-done hopes and our expectations, O Lord: Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand: Thou hast scattered thine Enemies with a mighty arm. Thou hast provided a deliverer for us, and hast guided him by thine own wisdom, and hast Carried him on by thine own power, and hast kept him safe under the shadow of thy wings. Thou hast restored our Judges as at the first, and our Counsellors as at the beginning, that Sion may 
Isa 1. 26.  be redeemed with judgement, and her Converts with righteousness. Thou hast made mercy and truth to meet together, and righteousness and peace to kiss each other: Thou hast caused truth to spring out of the earth, and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. Thou hast maintained the Cause of thine anointed: Thou hast given great deliverance unto our King, and to his afflicted Family, and to his distressed people: and in the thing wherein thine Enemies dealt proudly, thou wert above them. Thou hast said unto the fools, deal not so madly, and to the ungodly, 
Isa. 1●. 50. Exod. 18. 11. Psalm 75. 4, &c. 1 Sam. 2. 1, &c.  lift not up your horn. Lift not up your horn on high, and speak not with a stiff neck, for promotion cometh neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South: But God is the Judge, he setteth up one, and pulleth down another. Our heart rejoiceth in the Lord: our horn is exalted in the Lord: our mouths are enlarged over our enemies, because we rejoice in thy Salvation.  
There is none holy as the Lord; for there is none beside thee, neither is there any rock like our God.  
Talk no more so exceeding proudly, let not arrogancy come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled, are gird with strength. For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity, and bring down the high looks of the proud. Thou hast also lighted our Candle: The Lord our God hath made our darkness to be light. When the enemy 
Psam 18. 27, 28.  came in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord hath lifted up a standard against him. Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power; thy right-hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the Enemy. And in the greatness of thine excellency, thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee. The 
Isa. 59. 19. Exod. 15. 6, &c.  Enemy said, I will pursue, I will over take, I will divide the spoil: My lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Thou didst blow with thy wind, and they are scattered and gone: And thou blastedst them with the breath of thy displeasure. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, amongst the Gods? who is like thee, glorious in holinesse, fearful in praises, doing wonders. The Lord is known by the judgement which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. So let all thine enemies perish O Lord, But let them that love thee, 
Psal. 9. 16.  be as the Sun when he goeth forth in his might, and let them flourish as the Cedar in Lebanon. Oh Lord we praise thee; O Lord we bless thee; O Lord we adore thee and admire thee in the wonders of thy mercy. Oh Lord, we confess we are less then the least of all the loving▪ kindnesses, thou hast shewed unto us. Oh Lord sanctify them unto us, that they may be humbling mercies, and convincing mercies, and heart-engaging mercies: help us to walk worthy of thy great goodness: let us never forget the loving kindness of the Lord. Help us to entertain thy great love that thou hast shewed unto us, with great love unto thee in our souls: with sobriety of mind and all thankfulness of heart. And bless all those that have been instruments of thy mercy: The two Houses of Parliament, The General and his Armies: glorify thyself in all thy goodness upon them, and upon thy people by them: help them to perfect that Glorious work that thou hast put into their hands: That they may be yet more and more the repairers of our breaches, and the restorers of the ruins of many generations.  
Bring home our Gracious sovereign Speedily and Comfortably, and establish his Throne in peace and righteousness. Let his enemies be clothed with shane, but upon himself let his Crown flourish: Shine forth more and more in truth and mercy upon these Nations: forgive and reform our sins; make up our breaches, heal our miseries; make us a holy people unto thee, that we may be happy in thee, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.   

London, Printed by T. Mabb, for William Shears at the blue Bible in Bedford▪ street, 1660.