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charity. And grant that this our land may be freed from the vengeance of his righteous blood, and thy mercy glorified in the forgiveness of our fins; and all for Jefus Chrift his fake, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.

In the End of the Litany (which ball always on this Day be used) immediately after the Collect [We humbly befcech thee O Father, e] the three Cellets next following are to be read:

Lord, we beseech thee, mercifully hear our prayers;

and fpare all those who confefs their fins unto thee; that they whose confciences by fin are accufed, by thy merciful pardon may be abfolved, through Chrift our Lord. Amen

Moft mighty God, and merciful Father, who haft

O compaffion upon all men, and hateft nothing that thou

haft made; who wouldett not the death of a finner, but that he fhould rather turn from his fin and be faved: mercifully forgive us our trefpaffes; receive and comfort us. who are grieved and wearied with the burden of our fins. Thy property is always to have mercy; to thee only it appertaineth to forgive fins: Spare us therefore, good Lord, fpare thy people, whom thou haft redeemed; enter not into judgment with thy fervants, who are vile earth, and miferable finners; but fo turn thine anger from us, who meekly acknowledge our vileness, and truly repent us of our faults; and fo make hafte to help us in this world, that we may ever live with thee in the world to come, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

urn thou us, O good Lord, and fo fhall we be turned. Be favourable, O Lord, be favourable to thy people, Who turn to thee in weeping, fafting, and praying. For thou art a merciful God, Full of Compaffion, Long-fuffering, and of great pity. Thou fpareft when we deferve puLithment, And in thy wrath thinkeft upon mercy. Spare thy people, good Lord, fpare them, And let not thine heritage be brought to confufion. Hear us, O Lord, for thy mercy is great and after the multitude of thy mercies look upon us, through the merits and mediation of thy bleffed Son Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

In the Communion Service after the Prayer for the King [Almighty God, whofe Kingdom is everlasting, &c.] inftead of the Collect for the Day, fall these two be used:

O moft mighty God, &c.

Bleffed Lord, in whofe fight, &c.

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The Epiftle. 1 S. Pet. ii. 13.

Prayer.

Ubmit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lords fake whether it be to the King, as fupreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are fent by him, for the : punishment of evil-doers, and for the praife of them that do well. For fo is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to filence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of malicioufnels, but as the fervants of God. Honour all men. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the King. Servants be fubject to your mafters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thank-worthy, if a man for confcience towards God endure grief, fuffering wrongfully. For what Glory is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye fhall take it patiently? but if when ye do well, and fuffer for it, ye take it patiently; this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called: becaufe Christ also fuffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye fhould follow his fteps: who did no fin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

The Gofgel. S. Matt. xxi. 33. to ver. 42.

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prets in it, and built a tower, and let it out to hufbandmen, and went into a far country. And when the time of the fruit drew near, he fent his fervants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. And the husbandmen took his fervants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he feat other fervants, more than the first and they did unto them likewife. But laft of all he fent unto them his fon, faying, They will reverence my fon. But when the hufbandmen faw the fon, they faid among themfelves, This is the heir, come, let us kill him, and let us feize on his inheritance. And they caught

him, and caft him out of the vineyard, and flew him. When the Lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They fay unto him, He will miferably destroy thofe wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which fhall render him the fruits in their seasons.

After the Nicene Creed, fhall be read, inftead of the Sermon for that Day, the first and fecond Parts of the Homily against Disobedience and wilful rebellion, fet forth by Authority; or the Minifter who officiates, shall preach a Sermon of bis own compofing upon the jame Argument.

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In the Offertory shall this Sentence be read:

hatfoever ye would that men fhould do unto you, even fo do unto them: for this is the law and the prophets. S. Matth. vii. 12.

After the Prayer [For the whole State of Chrifts Church, &c.] these two Collects following shall be used:

Lord, our heavenly Father, who didft not punish us as our fins have deferved, but haft in the midst of judgment remembered mercy; We acknowledge it thine efpecial favour, that though for our many and great provocations, thou didft fuffer thine Anointed, blessed King Charles the First, as on this Day, to fall into the hands of violent and blood-thirfty men, and barbarously to be murdered by them; yet thou didst not leave us for ever, as fheep without a fhepherd; but by thy gracious providence didft miraculously preferve the undoubted Heir of his Crowns, our then gracious Sovereign King Charles the Second, from his bloody enemies, hiding him under the shadow of thy wings, until their Tyranny was over-past; and didft bring him back in thy good appointed time, to fit upon the throne of his father; and, together with the Royal Family, didft reftore to us our ancient Government in Church and State. For thefe thy great and unspeakable mercies, we render to thee our most humble and unfeigned thanks; befeeching thee ftill to continue thy gracious protection over the whole Royal Family; and to grant to our graious Sovereign King GEORGE, a long and a happy reign over us: So we, that are thy people, will give thee

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thanks for ever, and will alway be fhewing forth thy praise from generation to generation, through Jefus Chrift our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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ND grant, O Lord, we beseech thee, that the courfe of this world may be fo peaceably ordered by thy Governance, that thy Church may joyfully ferve thee in all godly quietnefs, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

The Order for EVENING PRAYER. The Hymn appointed to be used at Marning Prayer, inftead of Venite, exultemus, ball here also be used before the proper Pfalms. Righteous art thou, O Lord, &'c.

Proper Pfalms. lxxix, xciv, lxxxv.

Proper Leffons.

The First. Jer. xii. or Dan. ix. to ver. 22.
The Second. Hebr. xi. ver. 32. and xii. to ver 7.

Inftead of the firft Collect at Evening Prayer, shall these two, which next follow, be used:

Almighty Lord God, who by thy wifdom not only guideft, and ordereft all things moft fuitably to thine own juftice; but also performeft thy pleasure in fuch a manner, that we cannot but acknowledge thee to be righteous. in all thy ways, and holy in all thy works; We thy finful people do here fall down before thee, confeffing that thy judgments were right, in permitting cruel men, fons of Belial, as on this Day, to imbrue their hands in the Blood of thine Anointed; we having drawn down the fame upon ourselves, by the great and long provocations of our fins against thee. For which we do therefore here humble ourfelves before thee; befeeching thee to deliver this Nation. from blood-guiltinefs, that of this Day efpecially, and to turn from us and our pofterity all thofe judgments, which we by our fins have worthily deferved: Grant this, for the all-fufficient merits of thy Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift.. Amen.

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Leffed God, juft and powerful, who didft permit thy dear Servant, our dread Sovereign King Charles the First, to be, as upon this Day, given up to the violent outrages of wicked men, to be defpitefully ufed, and at the last murdered by them: Though we cannot reflect upon fo foul an act, but with horror and aftonifhment, yet do we most gratefully commemorate the glories of thy grace, which then Thined forth in thine Anointed; whom thou wast pleased, even at the hour of death, to endue with an eminent meafure of exemplary patience, meeknefs, and charity, before the face of his cruel enemies.

And albeit thou didst fuffer them to proceed to fuch an height of violence, as to kill him, and to take poffeffion of his throne; yet didft thou in great mercy preferve his fon, whofe right it was, and at length by a wonderful providence/bring him back, and set him thereon, to restore thy true Religion, and to fettle peace amongst us for thefe thy great Mercies we glorify thy Name, through Jefus Chrift our bleffed Saviour. Amen.

Immediately after the Collect [Lighten our darkness, &c.] fball these three next following be used:

O Lord, we beseech thee, &c.

O moft mighty God, &c.

Turn thou us, O good Lord, &c..

As before at Morning
Prayer.

Immediately before the Prayer of St. Chryfoftom, all this Collect, which next followeth, be used:

Almighty and everlafting God, whofe righteousness is

like the trong mountains, and thy judgments like the great deep; and who by that barbarous murder, as on this Day, committed upon the facred Person of thine Anointed, haft taught us, that neither the greateft of Kings, nor the best of men, are more fecure from violence than from natural death: Teach us alfo hereby fo to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wifdom: And grant, that neither the fplendor of any thing that is great, nor the conceit of any thing that is good in us, may withdraw our eyes from looking upon ourfelves as finful duft and afhes; but that, according to the example of this thy bleffed Martyr, we may prefs forward to the prize of the high calling

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