O suffer us not to sink under the ble. Have mercy upon us, have weight of our sins, or the violence mercy upon us, most merciful Fa of the enemy. O Lord, arise, help us, and liver us, for thy name's sake. Short Prayers in respect of a Storm. ther: For thy Son our Lord Jesus de-Christ's sake, forgive us all that is past; and grant, that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life, to the honour and glory of thy name, through Jesus THOU, O Lord, who stillest the in a storm; hear us, and save us, we beseech thee. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ our Lord. Amen. ALMIGHTY God, our hea venly Father, who, of his great mercy, hath promised forgiveness of sins to all those who with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him; have mercy upon you; pardon and deliver you God the Father, God the Son, from all your sins; confirm and God the Holy Ghost, have mercy strengthen you in all goodness, and upon us, save us now and ever-bring you to everlasting life, more. Amen. through Jesus Christ our Lord. O Christ, hear us. Thanksgiving after a Storm. UR Father, who art in Hea-Amen. ven, Hallowed be thy Name; Psalm 66. Jubilate Deo. Thy Kingdom come; Thy Will be done on Earth, as it is in Hea-BE joyful in God, all ye lands; sing praises unto the ven; Give us this day our daily honour of his name; make his bread; And forgive us our trespass-praise to be glorious. es, as we forgive those who tres- Say unto God, O how wonderful pass against us; And lead us not art thou in thy works; through the into temptation; But deliver us greatness of thy power shall thine from evil. Amen. enemies be found liars unto thee. When there shall be imminent danger, as many as can be spared from necessary service in the ship shall be called together, and make an humble Con fession of their sins to God: in which every one ought seriously to reflect upon those particular sins, of which his conscience shall accuse him; saying as followeth: The Confession. For all the world shall worship thee, sing of thee, and praise thy name. O come hither, and behold the works of God; how wonderful ALMIGHTY God, Father of he is in his doings towards the our Lord Jesus Christ, Ma- children of men! ker of all things, Judge of all men ; He ruleth with his power for we acknowledge and bewail our ever; his eyes behold the people; manifold sins and wickedness, and such as will not believe, shall which we from time to time most not be able to exalt themselves. grievously have committed, by O praise our God, ye people; thought, word, and deed, against and make the voice of his praise thy Divine Majesty, provoking to be heard; most justly thy wrath and indigna- Who holdeth our soul in life; tion against us. We do earnestly and suffereth not our feet to slip. repent, and are heartily sorry for For thou, O God, hast proved these our misdoings; the remem-us; thou also hast tried us, like brance of them is grievous unto as silver is tried. us; the burden of them is intolera- Thou broughtest us into the snare; and laidest trouble upon For he maketh the storm to our loins. cease, so that the waves thereof I will go into thine house with are still. burnt-offerings; and will pay thee Then are they glad, because my vows which I promised with they are at rest; and so he bringmy lips, and spake with my mouth, eth them unto the haven where when I was in trouble. they would be. O come hither, and hearken, all O that men would therefore ye that fear God; and I will tell praise the Lord for his goodness; you what he hath done for my soul. and declare the wonders that he I called unto him with my doeth for the children of men! mouth; and gave him praises with That they would exalt him also my tongue. in the congregation of the people; If I incline unto wickedness and praise him in the seat of the with mine heart, the Lord will not elders! hear me. Glory be to the Father, and to But God hath heard me; and the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; considered the voice of my prayer. As it was in the beginning, is Praised be God, who hath not now, and ever shall be, world withcast out my prayer, nor turned his out end. Amen. mercy from me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; ¶ Collects of Thanksgiving. MOST blessed and glorious Lord God, who art of infi As it was in the beginning, is nite goodness and mercy; we, thy now, and ever shall be, world with-poor creatures, whom thou hast out end. Amen. made and preserved, holding our Psalm 107. Confitemini Domino. souls in life, and now rescuing THAT men would praise us out of the jaws of death, humthe Lord for his goodness; bly present ourselves again before and declare the wonders that he thy Divine Majesty, to offer a sadoeth for the children of men! crifice of praise and thanksgiving, That they would offer unto him for that thou heardest us when we the sacrifice of thanksgiving; and called in our trouble, and didst not tell out his works with gladness! cast out our prayer, which we They that go down to the sea made before thee in our great disin ships; and occupy their busi-tress; even when we gave all for ness in great waters; lost, our Ship, our Goods, our These men see the works of the Lives, then didst thou mercifully Lord, and his wonders in the deep. look upon us, and wonderfully For at his word, the stormy command a deliverance; for which wind ariseth; which lifteth up the we now, being in safety, do give waves thereof. all praise and glory to thy holy They are carried up to the hea- name, through Jesus Christ our ven, and down again to the deep; Lord. Amen. their soul melteth away because of the trouble. Or this. MOST mighty and gracious good God, thy mercy is over They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man; and are all thy works, but in special manat their wit's end. ner hath been extended towards So when they cry unto the Lord us, whom thou hast so powerfully in their trouble, be delivereth them and wonderfully defended. Thou out of their distress. hast showed us terrible things, and wonders in the deep, that we nigh covered us; the proud waters might see how powerful and gra- had well nigh gone over our soul. cious a God thou art; how able The sea roared; and the stormy and ready to help those who trust wind lifted up the waves thereof. in thee. Thou hast showed us We were carried up as it were how both winds and seas obey thy to heaven, and then down again command; that we may learn into the deep; our soul melted even from them hereafter to obey within us, because of trouble. thy voice, and to do thy will. We Then cried we unto thee, O therefore bless and glorify thy Lord; and thou didst deliver us name, for this thy mercy, in saving out of our distress. us when we were ready to perish. Blessed be thy name, who didst And, we beseech thee, make us not despise the prayer of thy seras truly sensible now of thy mer-vants; but didst hear our cry, and cy, as we were then of the danger; hast saved us. and give us hearts always ready Thou didst send forth thy comto express our thankfulness not mandment; and the windy storm only by words, but also by our ceased, and was turned into a calm. lives, in being more obedient to O let us therefore praise the thy holy commandments. Con- Lord for his goodness; and detinue, we beseech thee, this thy clare the wonders that he hath goodness to us; that we, whom done, and still doeth, for the chilthou hast saved, may serve thee dren of men! in holiness and righteousness all Praised be the Lord daily; even the days of our life, through Je- the Lord that helpeth us, and sus Christ our Lord and Saviour. poureth his benefits upon us. Amen. He is our God, even the God ¶ A Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving after a of whom cometh salvation: God dangerous Tempest. is the Lord, by whom we have COME, let us give thanks escaped death. Thou, Lord, hast made us glad cious; and his mercy endureth for through the operation of thy hands; and we will triumph in ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly thy praise. to be praised: let the redeemed of Blessed be the Lord God; even the Lord say so, whom he hath the Lord God, who only doeth delivered from the merciless rage wondrous things; of the sea. The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. And blessed be the name of his Majesty for ever; and let every one of us say, Amen, Amen. Glory be to the Father, and to He hath not dealt with us ac- the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; cording to our sins; neither re- As it was in the beginning, is warded us according to our in- now, and ever shall be, world iquities. without end. Amen. But as the heaven is high above ¶ A Psalm or Hymn of Praise and Thanksgiving the earth; so great hath been his after Victory. mercy towards us. We found trouble and heavi-F the Lord had not been on our ness; we were even at death's door. The waters of the sea had well side, now may we say; if the Lord himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us; They had swallowed us up quick, when they were so wrath-the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; fully displeased at us. As it was in the beginning, is Yea, the waters had drowned now, and ever shall be, world us, and the stream had gone over without end. Amen. our soul; the deep waters of the After this Hymn may be said the Te Deum. Then this Collect. ALMIGHTY God, the Sovereign Commander of all hath not given us over as a prey the world, in whose hand is powunto them. er and might, which none is able The Lord hath wrought a migh-to withstand; we bless and magty salvation for us. nify thy great and glorious name a favour unto us. We got not this by our own for this happy victory, the whole sword, neither was it our own arm glory whereof we do ascribe to that saved us; but thy right hand, thee, who art the only giver of and thine arm, and the light of thy victory. And we beseech thee, countenance, because thou hadst give us grace to improve this great The Lord hath appeared for us; ment of thy Gospel, the honour of mercy to thy glory, the advancethe Lord hath covered our heads, our country, and, as much as in and made us to stand in the day us lieth, to the good of all manof battle. kind. And, we beseech thee, give The Lord hath appeared for us; us such a sense of this great merthe Lord hath overthrown our cy, as may engage us to a true enemies, and dashed in pieces thankfulness, such as may appear those that rose up against us. Therefore not unto us, O Lord, and obedient walking before thee in our lives, by an humble, holy, not unto us; but unto thy name all our days, through Jesus Christ be given the glory. The Lord hath done great things and the Holy Spirit, as for all thy our Lord; to whom, with thee, for us; the Lord hath done great mercies, so in particular for this things for us, for which we re- victory and deliverance, be all glojoice. Our help standeth in the name ry and honour, world without end. of the Lord, who hath made heaven and earth. Blessed be the name of the Lord, from this time forth for Amen. 2 Cor. xiii. 14. grace of our Lord Jesus THE and the fellowship of the Holy Christ, and the love of God, Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. At the Burial of the Dead at Sea, the Office in the Common Prayer Book may be used; only instead of these words, We therefore commit his Body to the ground, earth to earth, &c. say, We therefore commit his Body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the Resurrection of the Body when the Sea shall give up her dead, and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; who at his coming shall change our vile Body, that it may be like his glorious Body, according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself. A FORM OF PRAYER FOR THE VISITATION OF PRISONERS. When Morning or Evening Prayer shall be read in any Prison, instead of the Psalm, O come let us sing, &c. shall be read the 130th Psalm; and the Minister shall insert, after the Collect for the Day, the Collect in the following service, O God, who sparest, &c. and at such times as the Litany is not read, he shall add the Prayer, O God, merciful Father, who despisest not, &c. kneeling down, ¶ And when Notice is given to the Minister, that a that they may neither cast away Prisoner is confined for some great or capital crime, he shall visit him; and when he cometh their confidence in thee, nor place into the place where the Prisoner is, he shall say, it any where but in thee. Relieve EMEMBER not, Lord, our cent, and awaken the guilty and the distressed, protect the innoiniquities, nor the iniquities forasmuch as thou alone bringest of our forefathers; neither take light out of darkness, and good thou vengeance of our sins: Spare out of evil, grant that the pains us, good Lord, spare thy people, and punishments which these thy whom thou hast redeemed with servants endure, through their thy most precious blood, and be bodily confinement, may tend to not angry with us for ever. Ans. Spare us, good Lord. 1 Let us pray. Oven, &c. Min. O Lord, show thy mercy upon us; setting free their souls from the chains of sin; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Here the Minister, as he shall see convenient, Then shall the Minister exhort the Prisoner or Ans. And grant us thy salvation. DEARLY beloved, know this, Min. Turn thy face from our sins; never-failing providence governeth that Almighty God, whose Ans. And blot out all our in- all things both in heaven and earth, iquities. hath so wisely and mercifully orMin. Send us help from thy dered the course of this world, holy place; Ans. For thine indignation lieth as fatherly corrections to us; and that his judgments are often sent hard upon us. if with due submission and resigMin. O Lord, hear our prayer; nation to his holy will we receive Ans. And let the sighing of the the same, they will work together Prisoners come before thee. for our good. The Collect. It is your part and duty, thereRANT, we beseech thee, fore, to humble yourself under the for our evil deeds do worthily de-ledge the righteousness of his judgserve to be punished, by the com-ments, and to endeavour, that, by fort of thy grace may mercifully his grace, this present visitation be relieved; through our Lord and may lead you to a sincere and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. hearty repentance. GOD, who sparest when we The way and means thereto is, deserve punishment, and in to examine your life and conversathy wrath rememberest mercy;tion by the rule of God's commandwe humbly beseech thee, of thy ments; and whereinsoever you goodness to comfort and succour shall perceive yourself to have all those who are under reproach offended either by will, word, or and misery in the house of bond-deed, there to bewail your own age; correct them not in thine an-sinfulness, and to confess yourself ger, neither chasten them in thy to Almighty God, with full pursore displeasure. Give them a pose of amendment of life. And right understanding of themselves, if you shall perceive your offences and of thy threats and promises; to be such as are not only against L |