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London, England, 1849-11-10 00:00:00

DAY OF GENERAL THANKSGIVING.

FORM OF PRAYER.
A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God,
to be tried in all Churches and Chapels in England
and Wales, and in the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
on Thursday, the 15th day of November, 1849, being
the day appointed for a General Thanksgiving to
Almighto God, to acknowledge His great goodness
and mercy in removing from us that grievous disease
with which many parts of this liingdom have been
lasely visited.
BY HER MAJESTY'S SPBCIAL COMMAND.
The service of the day !shall be the same la ith the
tskffice, except where it is in this office otherwise
?pointed.

THE ORDER FOR MORNING PRAYER•
..et him that ministereth read with a loud voice these
sentences of Scripture ; and after them the Exhorta-
tion, "neatly beloved Brethren," &c.
Rejoice in the Lord, 0 ye righteous ; for it becometh
well the just to be thankful.
0 let us magnify the Lord our God, and fell down
before His footstool, for He is holy.
The Lord bath done great things for u. 3, whereof we
rejoice.

Instead of the Venite erultemus.
0 give thanks unto the Lord, and cad upon His name;
tell the people what things He bath done.
0 let your songs be of Him, and praiie Him; and let
your talking be of all His wondrous works.
Rejoice in His holy name; let the heart of them re-
joice that seek the Lord.
For His mercy is greater than the Heavens; and His
truth reacheth unto the clouds.
In the time of oar trouble, we called upon the Lord;
and He beard us.

rbe Lord heard our petition; the Lord received our
prayer.
When fearfulness and trembling came upon us, and a
horrible dread overwhelmed us,
He delivered our souls from death, and our feet from
falling; that we might walk before the Lord in the land
of the living.
Therefore will we give thanks unto Thee, 0 Lord,
among the peopie; we will sing unto Thee among the

nati .ns.
Unto Thee, our strength, will we sing: for Thou, 0
God, art our refuge and our merciful God.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.
Proper Psalms, xci. ciii.
First Lesson, Jon,th,
Te Deem laudamus.
Second Lesson, Sc. John, v. to ver. 15.
Benedictuc.
The Creed. &e., to the end of the Lord's Prayer.

Instead of the Collect for the Day, the following

be uiel.

Accept, we beseech Thee, 0 merciful God. the praises
and thanksgivings of Thy people, whom Thou has gra-
ci,,usly relieved from the sore judgment of grievous sick-
ness and mortality which has lately affi cted our land.
Incline us to devote to Thy service the lives which Thou
hast spared; and so enlighten our understandings and
purify our affections by Thy Holy Spirit, that we may
learn from Thy judgments to fear Thy wrath above all
things, and may be led by Thy goodness to love Thee
with our whole heart, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
A men.
Then shall follow the Second and Third Collects for
Morning Prayer, and the Litany.
After the Prayer " We humbly beseech Thee, 0 Father,"

shall the following be added.
Almighty God, our Father and Judge, whose power
no creature is able to resist; who hest in Thy displea•
sure brought us down to the gates of death, and in Thy
mercy halt stayed the course of that pestilence, for which
there we.: no help in man; to Thee alone we ascribe our
deliverance; in Thee only do we trust, to preserve us
both in body and soul. And now, 0 Lord, we entreat
Thee to make the chastisement which Thou has sent
effectual to produce in us a more lively faith in Thy
%•rd, and a more entire obedience to Thy command-
ments. Make us so duly sensible of Thy mercies to thi,
nation, in maintaining our domestic tranquillity, and in
granting a plentiful return to the labours of our hes-
handinen, that we may show our thankfulness by an
earnest endeavour to conform to Thy will, and to ad-
vance Thy glory. And may the frequent instances of
mortality which we have beheld rewind us all of the
nearness of death, and dispose us so to number our days,
t'-e,t we may apply our hearts unto wisdom ; that, whe.
th-r living or d)ing, we may be found faithful disciples
of Ilia) who has taken away the sting of death, and
opened the gate of everlasting lif- to all believers.
Hear us U L Ord, for Tby goodness is great; and ac-
cordine, to the multitude of Thy mercies receive these our
pe:itiuns, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Then the general Thanksgiving, to the end of Morn-
ing Prayer.