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For Fair Weather.

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A thanksgiving for Fair Weather. LORD God, who hast justly humbled us by 'thy late plague of immoderate rain and waters, and in thy mercy hast relieved and comforted our souls by this seasonable and blessed change of weather; We praise and glorify thy holy Name for this thy mercy, and will always declare thy loving kindness from generation to generation, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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For Plenty.

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A thanksgiving for plenty. MOST merciful Father, who of thy gracious goodness hast heard the devout prayers of thy Church, and turned our dearth and scarcity into cheapness and plenty; We give thee humble thanks for this thy special bounty; beseeching thee to continue thy loving-kindness unto us, that our land may yield us her fruits of increase, to thy glory and our comfort, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For Peace and deliverance from our

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A thanksgiving for peace and victory. ALMIGHTY God, who art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies; We yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compassed: We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them; beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies towards us, that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour and mighty deliverer, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For restoring Public Peace at home.

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ETERNAL God, our heavenly Father, who alone makest men to be of one mind in a house, and stillest the outrage of a violent and unruly people; We bless thy holy Name, that it hath pleased thee to appease the seditious tumults which have been lately raised up amongst us; most humbly beseeching thee to grant to all of us grace, that we may henceforth obediently walk in thy holy commandments; and leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, may continually offer unto thee our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for these thy mercies towards us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

For deliverance from the Plague, or other A thanksgiving for deliverance from the common Sickness.

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Plague.

LORD God, 2 who hast wounded us for our sins, and consumed us for our transgressions, by thy late heavy and dreadful visitation; and

thy punishment of, &c. [S. L.]

3 this thy loving-kindness, &c. [1604] [S. L.]

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now in the midst of judgment remembering mercy, hast redeemed our souls from the jaws of death; We offer unto thy fatherly goodness ourselves, our souls and bodies, which thou hast delivered, to be a living sacrifice unto thee, always praising and magnifying thy mercies in the midst of 1thy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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E humbly acknowledge before thee, O most merciful Father, that all the punishments which are threatened in thy law might justly have fallen upon us, by reason of our manifold transgressions and hardness of heart: Yet seeing it hath pleased thee of thy tender mercy, upon our weak and unworthy humiliation, to assuage the contagious sickness wherewith we lately have been sore afflicted: and to restore the voice of joy and health into our dwellings; We offer unto thy divine Majesty the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, lauding and magnifying thy glorious Name for such thy preservation and providence over us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, to be used throughout the Year.

to be used at the celebration of the Lord's Supper, and holy Communion, 3 through the Year.

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Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, Entroits, Collects,Epistles, and

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The Collect.

LMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the armour of light; now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the quick and dead, we may rise to the life immortal, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, now and ever. Amen,

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When the Presbyter or Minister readeth
the Gospel, the people shall stand up.
And the Presbyter before he beginneth
to read the Gospel shall say thus: "The
Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, written in such a chapter of
such an Evangelist, beginning at such
a verse.' And the people shall answer,
"Glory be to God." [S. L.]

The Gospel. Mat. 21. 1.
ND when they drew nigh to
......... But

A Hierusalem, &c.

ye have made it a den of thieves.

The subsequent Introits will not be printed at full length.

(in the which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility) [1604]

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[S. L.]

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