Private Forms of Prayer, Prayers 4
Some Prayers for the King and Church, &c. heretofore printed.
A Prayer for the King.
O Lord God, who hast commanded us to pray for Kings, and all that be in Authority, that under them we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty; blesse thy Servant our King, that he may use that Sword thou hast put into his hands, for the protection and reward of the good, and the punishment of them that do evill, and give grace unto us, and all other his Subjects to fear, reverence, and obey him as thy Minister, not only for wrath, but for conscience sake, least contemning thine ordinance, we incur that damnation thou hast threatned to all those that resist the higher powers. Hear us, O Lord, for his sake, who is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, even Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
O Most gracious Lord God, the Ruler of Princes when they are in their thrones, and their Protector, when they are in perill, look down mercifully from Heaven, we most humbly pray thee, upon the low estate of thine anointed our King; comfort him in his troubles, defend him in his dangers, strengthen him in his good resolutions, and command thine Angels to pitch their tents round about him; that he may be defended from the hands of all those that desire his hurt, and may be reestablished in the just rights of his throne, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
O God the Father of Heaven, have mercy upon him and deliver him.
O God the Father, &c.
O God the Son Redeemer of the world, have mercy upon him and deliver him.
O God the Son, &c.
O God the holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son, have mercy upon him and deliver him.
O God the holy Ghost, &c.
O holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, three Persons and one God, have mercy upon him and deliver him.
O holy, blessed and glorious, &c.
Remember not Lord his offences, nor the offences of his fore-Fathers; neither take thou vengeance of his sins; spare him good Lord, spare thy servant whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood; and be not angry with him for ever.
Spare him good Lord.
From all evill and mischief, from the Insurrection of wicked doers, from the frowardnesse and madnesse of the People.
Good Lord deliver him.
From mouths full of cursing and bitternesse, from all those that speak evill of dignities, and from those that slander the footsteps of thine Anointed.
Good Lord deliver him.
From them that are confederates, and speak so disdainfully against him, and from all those that hate him without a cause.
Good Lord deliver him.
We sinners do beseech thee to hear us, O Lord God, and that it may please thee to look upon the face of thine Anointed, and to visit him with thy salvation.
We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
That it may please thee to plead his cause against them that strive with him, and to fight against those that fight against him.
We beseech thee, &c.
That it may please thee to hear him in these dayes of his trouble, and to send him help from thy Sanctuary.
We beseech thee, &c.
That it may please thee to arise and maintain his cause, and to remember how the foolish man blasphemeth thee daily.
We beseech thee, &c.
That it may please thee to give him patience in this time of adversity, untill the pit be digged up for the ungodly.
We beseech thee, &c.
That it may please thee in the multitude of the sorrows that he hath in his heart, to let thy comforts refresh his soul.
We beseech thee, &c.
That it may please thee not to deliver him over to the will of his adversaries, nor to false witnesses risen up against him; or to such as speak wrong.
We beseech thee, &c.
That it may please thee, to defend him under thy wings, and that thy faithfulnesse and truth may be his Shield and Buckler.
We beseech thee, &c.
That it may please thee to satisfie him with thy mercy, and that soon, so that he and we may rejoyce all the dayes of our life.
We beseech thee to hear us good Lord.
A Prayer For the Church.
LOrd, who hast promised to thine Apostles to be with them alwayes unto the end of the world, and for a supply of their mortality, hast in thy gracious providence over thy Church, continued a perpetuall succession of Bishops and Pastors to feed their severall Flocks, whereof the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers: Inspire them by thy grace, that their lips may preserve knowledge, and the people seek thy Law at their mouth. Bless them, O Lord, with the blessings of Levi; blesse their substance, and accept the work of their hands; smite through the loyns of them that rise up against them, and of them that hate them, that they rise not again, that they may shine forth as lights before us, holding forth the word of life, till we all come in the unity of Faith, and the knowledge of Jesus Christ, unto that perfection and fulnesse of thine everlasting Kingdome, Amen.
ALmighty God, and gracious Father, we confess against our selves, that we are most worthy of all the Judgements that thou hast threatned against us, these Kingdomes, and this Church, which is now under the Crosse, and neer to utter ruin and extirpation, unless thy mercy step in between thy fierce wrath and our hainous sins. And howsoever the voice of our crying sins hath ascended into thine ears, and stirred up destroyers to root us out, that we be no more a people, and that thy name be no more called upon, nor hallowed by us; yet we most humbly beseech thee to hear the prayers and supplications, with strong cryings and tears which once our blessed Saviour offered for us upon the Crosse, and in the garden, and which he daily represents unto thee. And for his all-sufficient merits, which speak better things than the blood of Abel, hear not the cry of our sins, but the cry of his blood, and therein wash all our sins. Let our great miseries and dangers suffice for that which is past, and let that Oratour in thy own bosome, even thine own fatherly goodness perswade and prevail for us, and purchase our deliverance and safety. Hear us for our selves and others, Look upon us with the eyes of pitty and compassion, consider our enemies how many and how mighty they be, and they bear a tyrannous hate against us. Our goods, our lands, our lives will not suffice their boundlesse ambition: our religion, our souls, and if it were possible, our God, is that they strike at: curse thou their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. Divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel: As for us, deliver us out of their hands, and unite us together in the bond of peace, that being freed from our many and tyrannous enemies, we may ever bless thy sacred and holy name, and evermore serve thee without fear in all holiness and righteousness all the dayes of our life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
WE beseech thee, Almighty God, look upon the hearty desires of thy humble servants, and stretch forth the right hand of thy Majesty to our defence against all our enemies, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
GRant we beseech thee, Almighty God, that we which for our evill deeds are justly punished, by the comfort of thy grace may mercifully be relieved, through Christ our Lord, Amen.
ALmighty and everlasting God, mercifully look upon our infirmities and miseries, and in all our dangers and necessities, stretch forth thy right hand to help and defend us, through Christ our Lord, Amen.
ALmighty God, which art more ready to hear, than we to pray, and art wont to give more than either we desire or deserve: pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy, forgiving us those things, whereof we are afraid, and giving unto us that, that our prayers dare not presume to aske, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
A Prayer for the Clergy.
O Most mercifull Father, Lord God of all Order and Peace, who hast appointed Bishops and Pastors to be our spirituall guides, to oversee, and to feed us in their taking care for our Souls: We most humbly beseech thee, suffer not a Rebellious Novelty by violence to remove this most Ancient Christian Institution. Fight thou for them whose Arms are their Tears and Prayers; and let not the Patrimony which belongs to thee, be made a prey to the rapine of these wicked times. That so by the goodnesse of thy mighty strength this poor Church may continue till he come again, who is the Shep-heard of our Souls; even Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom &c.
THe Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore, Amen.
A Prayer to be said during these sad times of Trouble.
O Lord our God, mercifull and gracious, and abundant in goodnesse and truth, who dost according to thy wiil in the Armies of Heaven, and rulest over all the Kingdomes of the Earth, in whose hand is power and might, and none is able to withstand thy Arm; we most vile sinners approach before thy Throne of grace, bewayling those manifold transgressions that have provoked thy wrath and indignation against us, We know, O Lord, that affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground, but it is thou that with rebukes dost chasten man for sin. We confess that we were a wealthy and a carelesse Nation, and our Land was as the garden of Eden; our deliverances were great, and thy blessings were multiplied: we dwelt alone without fear of evill, and were become the envy of those that were round about us. Peace was within our Walls, and plenteousnesse within our Pallaces. But when we had eaten and were full, and had waxen fat, we kicked against thee our Maker, who hadst done so great things for us: our heart was lifted up and forgot thee our God, and lightly esteemed the rock of our salvation. We loathed the Manna that rained down upon us; our Peace became a wearinesse, and we snuffed at our happinesse; we murmured against Moses in our Tents, and made light of thine Annoynted, whom thou hadst set over us. Therefore hast thou recompenced our wayes upon our own heads, and suffered our destruction to proceed from our selves: our wickednesse doth correct us, our backsliding doth reprove us, and our iniquity is become our ruine. Thou hast broken us with a grievous breach: thy anger hath divided us, and thy fury hath dashed us one against another. Thou hast mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of us; and made us a Nation void of Counsell and understanding: instead of Peace thou hast sent bitternesse, and hast sent a fire into our bowells; and it is kindled round about us. And now, O Lord, behold, the sword is drunk with our blood, and we are numbred to the slaughter: the high-wayes are unoccupied, and the Travailers go through by-paths: our fields are divided our inheritance is for a spoil, and our substance to the robbers. We are become a reproach to the foolish people, and servants bear rule over us. The mean man is risen against the Honourable, and the fire out of the Bramble devoureth the lofty Cedars; our Women are cast out of their pleasant places, and the robe is pulled from the Aged; there is no respect had to the Priests, nor favour to the Elders. Thy Sanctuaries, even the excellency of thy strength, are prophaned, and they have defiled the places where thine honour dwelleth, and yet still the seat of wickednesse frameth mischief by a Law; and it turneth judgement backward, and biddeth justice stand afar off; and deviseth deceitful matters against those that are quiet in the Land. Nay, there is a lying Spirit gone out into the mouth of the Prophets; they prophecy falsely, and the People delight to have it so, and they strengthen the hands of evill doers, that they turn not back from their wickednesse. Thus are we covered with a cloud in thine anger, and our beauty is cast down to the ground. But, O Lord, shall thine Indignation be poured out for ever? shall thy jealousie burn like fire? O passe by the transgressions of the remnant of thine heritage, and take away the rebuke of thy people! O remove from us reproach and contempt; and strengthen the spoyled against the destroyers! Bow down thine ear, and consider the oppression of the poor, the sighing of the needy, the groaning of the Prisoners, that are fast bound in misery and Iron. Lift up thy self, because of the rage of thine Adversaries; consider the desolation they have made in thy Courts, and all that the Enemy hath done wickedly in thy Sanctuary. And yet still they are compassed with pride, and cloath themselves with violence as with a garment. How long, O Lord, shall they boast themselves in mischief? how long shall they decree unrighteous decrees, and write grievousnesse which they have prescribed? O make not a full end with us, but correct us in mercy, though thou leave us not altogether unpunished. Helps us, O Lord our God, for we rest on thee, and under the shadow of thy wings, shall be our refuge untill this Tyranny be overpast. Disappoint therefore the devices of the crafty; let not the Rebellious exalt themselves any more, and suffer not the Tabernacles of the Robbers to prosper. And as thou hast begun to shew thy Servants thy greatnesse, and thy mighty hand, so continue thy marvellous loving kindnesse to those who put their trust in thee. The Battail is thine, O Lord, thou hast preserved us from the Arm of flesh; yea, it is thou that hast wrought all our works in us, even when there was no might against that great company that came against us. When we were few in number, and there was none to help us, then thine own Arm brought salvation, and thy righteousnesse sustained us. O perfect therefore thy handy work! Give salvation to our King, and deliver CHARLS thy Servant from the perill of the Sword, bind up his soul in the bundle of life, gird him with strength to the Battail, contend with those who contend with him, subdue thou the people under him, and suffer no weapon formed against him to prosper. O deliver him at length from the strivings of the People, and lift up his head above his Enemies round about him, give him the shield of thy salvation, and let thy gentlenesse make him great: put a stop at last to the madnesse of the people, say to the destroying Sword, it is now enough: send us a seasonable and quiet calm: visit us with the joy of thy Countenance, and make us glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted us. O restore to us our solemn Assemblies: bring us back into thy Courts to praise thee, and let us once more worship thee in the beauty of thy holinesse! Save us, O Lord, from our Enemies, and from the hands of all that hate us. That so we may serve thee without fear, living a quiet and a peaceable life, in all godlinesse and honesty, looking for the blessed appearance of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ. To whom with thee and the holy Spirit, be all honour and praise, world without end, AMEN.
A Prayer for preservation from the Enemy.
O Eternall God and most mercifull Father, we humbly beseech thee to be mercifull unto us, and in the Riches of thy unspeakable mercies, be near to help and succour us, in all those extremities which our sins threaten to bring upon us. The Rebellious are strengthned against us, by our multiplied Rebellions against thee: and we deserve to suffer what our Enemies threaten, even suddain surprizall and destruction to desolation. But there is mercy with thee, that thou mayst be feared: and there is mercy with thee that they may not be feared. Shew us therefore thy mercy, O Lord: and let us so fear thee, that we may be never forced to feel or fear them. And when thou wilt correct us for our sins, O Lord, in judgement remember mercy, and let us fall into thy hands, and not into the hands of men: let us fall into thy hands, and not into the hands of ungracious and ungodly men: into thy hands, and not into the hands of sacrilegious and seditious men: into thy mercifull hands, and not into the cruell hands of thine and our enemies; even for Jesus Christs sake, our only Mediator and Redeemer, AMEN.
A Confession of Sins, and Prayer for Pardon.
O Lord of heaven and earth, God of the spirits of all flesh, we a most sinfull, and therefore now a most miserable People, do in the bitternesse of our afflicted Souls, humbly fall down at the foot-stool of thy grace, most sadly bewailing our many and most hainous sins. We have multiplied our iniquities into a violation of thy whole Law, having neither performed to thee our God, nor to man, the duties thou requirest of us, so that by our wicked works, we have denied that most holy faith, whereof our Mouths have for so long a time made profession. These things, O Lord, have we done, and because in goodnesse thou wert pleased to keep silence, how many of us have thought wickedly, that thou wert altogether such an one as our selves; which either didst approve, or at least wouldst not punish the Crimes that we doted on. And now in thy just judgments thou hast set our sins in order before our eyes; in the continued scourge of this wasting Rebellion, we may well perceive, that the sins we have done, have not been barely infirmities, but Rebellions against thee. In the Rapines, acted upon the substance thou hast given us, we cannot but consider, that by Oaths and Blasphemies, we have robbed thee of thine Honour, and have oft-times stollen much of that precious time which should have been spent in thy service. Nay we have added sin to sin, so that one Crime hath brought forth another Transgression, and thou hast shewed us even this in thy Judgments we now feel, in that this present War hath brought forth an infectious disease, and doth now threaten famine to us. We confesse, O Lord, with all thankfulnesse of heart, that thou hast been pleased to sweeten the bitterness of this Cup by many strange successes, by frequent and unexpected Victories, and yet thou hast so allayed each favour of thine hand, with the mixture of some sudden crosse, that herein, thou hast set our Repentance too before the fight of our eyes, and lets us see 'tis mixt with so much coldnesse & Hypocrisie, that there may be as much guilt in such a kind of Repentance as before there was in our sins, Yet return, O God, in great mercy, return unto the many thousands of thy people: do thou accept, and increase in our hearts detestatiō of all wickedness, that our sorrows for sin may be as compleatly perfect, as we desire thou shouldst make our Peace, and that for times hereafter, our hearty observance of thy whole Law may still run along with such sorrows. O let not thy scourge end in a desolation, nor thine anger go on unto the height of an everlasting ruine: But hear us, mercifull Father, hasten the aversion of these thy sharp judgements from us, and let not the noise of this accursed Rebellion be any longer heard in our streets. Scatter thou the People that delight in War, and let the blessing of Peace be upon the Heads of all those who strive and pray for this blessing; and that for his sake, by whose hand thou givest every blessing, Jesus Christ our Lord Amen.
A Prayer for the KING.
O Lord God, infinite in power; by whom the thrones of Kings are established, and their Persons made sacred; Take, we beseech thee, into thy imemdiate and divine protection, thine Anointed Servant the …ing, that no Sacrilegious prophane hand come near to touch him: in all his wayes, let thy Spirit guide him, and thy holy Angels pitch their Tents about him; Comfort him in his troubles, defend him in his dangers, support him in his Cause, blesse him in the confusion of all those that rise up against him; shew some token on him, even now, O God, when the Sons of Violence are in the highest of their Pride, when they have joyned Nation to Nation, Covenant to Covenant, and Army to Army, to pull down him whom thou hast exalted, and to Root out that Religion which thine own right hand hath planted. Defeat their purposes, O thou preserver of men, and let not their mischievous imaginations any longer prosper; but blast all their Counsells, wither away their Armies like grasse scorched by the Sun, bow down at last, their stiff necks, and obdurate hearts to a desire of that Peace which hath so long been an abomination to them, That this miserable Nation may no further pursue their own Ruine, and take pleasure in shedding their own blood; but being by so many bitter punishments made sensible of thy Anger for this unnaturall division, may at last be reduced within their first obedience, to the glory of thy Name, the vindication of our defamed Religion, the joy of our afflicted King, and the happinesse of this yet bleeding Kingdom. And confirm all this to us, O Lord, by the merits, and through the mediation of thine own dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
A Prayer for the preservation of the Ʋniversity and City of Oxford.
O Almighty God, who art the only sure Refuge and strong Tower of defence to all them that put their trust in thee, receive our humble Petition; save this City, this Nursery of thy Church, and thy afflicted People, from the hand of their Enemies. We know that unlesse thou keep the City, the Watchman watcheth but in vain; unlesse thou defend us, our Foundations, which are laid in dust, cannot stand firm. We acknowledge our own weaknesse, and that which makes us weaker, our sinfull demerit; But thou art both the Lord of Hosts & Prince of Peace, able to destroy the strongest Army with an Army of most despicable Creatures, with things of nothing, with sudden weaknesse and follies, with a rumour or imagination. Thou canst bring us to the brink of destruction, and call us back again; Look down therefore, most mercifull Lord, upon this Place, and according to thy wonted goodness, resist the proud, and give grace to the humble, that run to the shadow of thy wings for succour: Thou that stillest the raging of the Sea, and the madnesse of the People, say to the one, as to the other, hither shall thy proud waves come and no further. Suffer not the purpose of our Oppressors to stand, nor their Counsells to prosper, nor their Force to prevail; But set thy hook into their nostrils, to turn them back, or confound them, according to thy good pleasure and secret wisdome, by which thou disposest all Events, beyond the means and reach of man; But arme thy lowly Servants with Faith and Patience, raise our Spirits, guide our Consultations, strengthen our hands, help our wants, bless our endeavours with success; That we being delivered like them that dream, may praise thee as men awaked out of dust; and having seen and escaped thy Rod, may serve thee ever hereafter, with true obedience, through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, Amen.
A Prayer drawn by his Majesties speciall direction and Dictates, for a blessing on the Treaty at Uxbridge.
O Most Mercifull Father, Lord God of Peace and Truth, we a People sorely afflicted by the Scourge of an unnatural War, do here earnestly beseech thee, to command a blessing from Heaven upon this present Treaty, begun for the establishment of an happy Peace Soften the most obdurate Hearts with a true Christian desire of saving those mens blood, for whom Christ himself hath shed his. Or if the guilt of our great sins, cause this Treaty to break off in vain, Lord let the Truth clearly appear, who those men are, which under pretence of the Publick good, do pursue their own private ends; that this People may be no longer so blindely miserable, as not to see, at least in this their day, the things that belong unto their peace. Grant this gracious God, for his sake, who is our Peace it self, even Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
A Prayer for Peace.
ALmighty God, terrible in thy Judgements, but more wonderfull in thy Mercies, who turnest man to Destruction, and again, thou sayst, Come again ye children of Men; we miserable sinners, prostrate this day before thee, humbly confesse, with Horror in our Hearts, and Confusion in our Faces, that every one of us hath, more or lesse, contributed to that vast heap of crying si…s, which hath now in so high a measure draw down thy vengeance on us; that we have abused thy Patience so long, till we have at last turn'd it into Fury, compelling thee, by our often provocations to visit us in blood, to make us tear out our own bowells, and by a strange unnaturall War, raised we know not why, (thy Justice and our Sins excepted) to become executioners of our selves, and so to sin afresh in the very punishments of sin. But alas! what profit is there in our Blood? or what Glory can come to thee by our Ruine? Let it suffice, O God, that thou hast thus far rebuked us in thine Anger; but consume us not utterly, for we are all thy People. Say to the destroying Sword, It is enough, and let it be no longer drunk with the blood of thine, Inheritance; But look down upon our unfained Humiliation, hear the Prayer which in the bitternesse of our Souls we pour out this day before thee, accept of our Repentance, and where it is defective, let thy Holy Spirit make it up with Groanes that cannot be expressed. Look upon thy Moses who standeth in the gap, beseeching thee to turn thine anger from thy People; remember what he hath suffer'd, and the heavy things that thou hast shewn him; and in the day, when thou makest Inquisition for Blood, forget not his desires of Peace, the endeavours which he hath used, and the Prayers which he hath made to thee for it. Return all this, O Lord, with comfort into his Bosome. And since thou hast already wrought so much for him, as to bring these unhappy entangled differences to a Treaty, take not off thine hand, till thou hast untied every knot, and cleared every difficulty. Send thy Spirit into their hearts, who are entrusted with this great work, give them Bowels of Compassion, toward their bleeding and expiring Country; strike a Sense into them of the blood already shed, and the Desolation to come, which threatneth all if they prevent it not. But above all, let thy feare run through all their consultations, that remembring the sad account, which in the last great day will be required of them, they may lay aside every Sin, and every Interest that may divert them from the wayes of Peace; and by the guidance of thy Wisdom (for in this all humane wisdom failes▪) find out those blessed expedients as may restore the voice of Joy and Peace into our Dwellings, in such a way, as may be most to the Glory of thy Great Name; the Settlement of the true Religion so long professed among us, the Honour and Safety of the Kings Sacred Person, and the Good of all his People. Hear these our Prayers, and perfect this great work, through the mediation of thine own dear Son Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.
A Prayer for the ending of the present Troubles.
O Most just and powerfull Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, we cannot but acknowledge, that the manifold miseries which have befallen us, are the due reward of our deeds, and that we have deserved, that the things which belong to our Peace should still be hid from our eyes. For when of thy own free mercy thou wert pleased to grant us a long time of plenty and prosperity, more then thou gavest to any the Nations that are about us, we became weary of our happinesse, and by our ingratitude pulled down upon us those judgements which now threaten desolation to this late flourishing kingdom. And since the time of our affliction, thou hast given us space to repent, and we repented not; Iniquity hath still more and more abounded. As heretofore thy mercies did not allure us, so now thy judgements have not humbled us to a serious consideration of our misdeservings. Now, O Lord, we finde our selves intangled, and wearied by our own Counsells; The troubles of our heart are inlarged; Our iniquities and the punishments which attend upon them, are a burden too heavy for us to bear. And therefore in the anguish and bitternesse of our souls, we return unto thee, humbly beseeching thee, in whom alone is our help, to have respect unto the Prayers of thy servants. O shut not up thy loving kindnesse in displeasure, let not thine anger burn against the sheep of thy pasture: But bind up the breach of this People Let the sighing of the Prisoners come before thee, Behold the tears of the distressed Orphans and Widdows, and of all such as are oppressed and have no comforter. How long, O Lord, holy and true, doest thou forbear to command deliverances? Remember thy tender mercies which have been ever of old, and save us as thou hast done heretofore. Remember thy promise of deliverance to those who call upon thee in the day of trouble. And when the blood that hath been shed calls aloud for vengeance, O then hearken unto the voice of thy Sons blood, which speaks better things; behold the Lamb of God, who was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. And to this end, regard the sincerity of thine Anointed, maintain thine own cause, and preserve unto him that power which thou hast given him: bind his soul in the bundle of life, let mercy and truth preserve him, and let his Throne be established for ever before thee. Blesse them that are peaceable and faithfull in the Land: And as for those that have risen up against him, we beseech thee, melt and mollifie their hearts to the entertainment of compassion and love; reclaim them to obedience, lay not their sin to their charge, but guide their feet into the way of Peace. Give to those that have done wrong, the grace to repent, and to those that have suffered wrong, minds ready to forgive. And if any shall be averse from Peace, O thou that art the wonderfull Counsellor, turn their wisdome into foolishness, confound their practises, and let their mischief return upon their own heads. And when thou hast vouchsafed to give us that tranquillity which we beg at thy hands, give us grace to embrace it with all thankfulnesse, to obey our Governours, to live at unity among our selves, evermore blessing thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.