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

DAY OF GENERAL THANKSGIVING.

FORM OF PRAYER.
A. Form of Prayer and Th!--nk9giving to Almighty God,
to be used in-all Churches and Chapels; in England
and Wines, and in the town of Berwick-upon-Toecd,
on Thursday, the 15:h day of November, 1849, being
the day appointed for a General Thanksgiving to
Almig;hto God, to acknowledge His great goodness
and mercy in removing from us that grievous disease
with which many parts of this Kingdom have been
lately visited.
BY 11E11 MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND.

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ffice, except where it is in this of he otherwise
ppointed.

THE ORDER FOR MORNING PRAYER.
him that ministereth read wilt a loud voice these
sentences of Scripture ; and after them the Exhcrtu-
tion, "D*atly beloved Brethren,"
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 full down
before His footstool, for He is holy.
The Lord hath done great things for u!=, whereof we
rejoice.
Instead of the Venite exultenius.

O give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon His name:
tell the people what things He hath done.
0 let your songs be of Him, and praise Him; and let
your talking be of all His wondrous work.
Rejoice in His holy name; let the heart of them re-
joice that seek the Lord.
For His mercy is greater than tho Heavens; and His
truth reacheth unto the clouds.

In the time of our trouble, we called upon the Lord;
and He heard us.

The Lord heard our petition; th 3 Lord received our
pra3er.

When fearfulness and trembling came upon us, awl
horrible dread overwhelmed us,
Ho delivered our souls from death, and our feet from
filling; that we might walk before the Lord in the land
of the living.
Therefore will we give thanks unto Thee, 0 Lora,
among the people; we will tins. unto Thee among the
nati 0)5.

Unto Thee, our strength, will we sing : for Thou, 0
God, art our refuge and our merciful God.
Glory bo to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.
Proper Psalms, sci. ciii.
First Lesson, Jonah, iii.
Te Deum laudamus.
Second Lesson, St. John, v. to ver. 15.
Benedict us.
The Creed, &c., to the end of the Lord's Prayer.

Inst cad of the Collect for the Day, the following shal

be mei

Accept, we beseech Theo, 0 merciful God, the praises
and thanksgivings of Thy people, whom Thou has gra-
ciously relieved from the sore judgment of grievous sick-
ness and mortality which has lately afflicted 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.
Amen.

'F hen 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 too added.

Almighty God, our Father and Judge, whose power
no creature is able to resist; who hest in Thy dispket •
sure brought us down to tho gates of death, and in Thy
mercy halt stayed the course of that pestilence, for which
there was 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 1,-)rd, we entreat
Thee to make the chastisement which Thou has &Jilt
effectual to produce in us a more lively faith in Thy
word, and a more entire obedience to Thy command-
ments. ➢lake 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 hus-
uandinen, that v.•o may show our thankfulness by an
,nruest endeavour to conform to Thy will, and to ad-
vance Thy glory. And may tho frequent instances of
mortality which we have beheld remind us all of the
nearness of death, and dispose us co to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom ; that, who-
th,r living or dying, we may be found faithful disciples
of Him who has talon away the sting of death, and
opened the gate of everlasting life to all believers.
Hear us, 0 Lord, for Thy goodness is great; and ac-
cording to the multitude of Thy mercies receive these our
petitions, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Then the general Thanksgiving, to the end of Morn.
log Prayer.