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the still voice of thy Word, and to obey thy Commandmen's: But now we fee how terrible thou art in all thy works of wonder: the great God to be feared above all; and therefore we adore thy Divine Majefty, acknowledging thy power, and imploring thy goodnefs. Help, Lord, and fave us, for thy mercies fake in Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord. Amen.

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Moft glorious and gracious Lord God, who dwelleft in heaven, but beholdeft all things below: Look down, we beseech thee, and hear us, calling out of the depth of mifery, and out of the jaws of this death, which is ready now to fwallow us up: Save, Lord, or elfe we perish. The living, the living fhall praise thee. O fend thy word of com'mand to rebuke the raging Winds, and the roaring Sea; that we being delivered from this diftrefs, may live to ferve thee, and to glorify thy Name all the days of our life. Hear, Lord, and fave us for the infinite merits of our bleffea Saviour, thy Son our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.

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The prayer to be faid before a Fight at Sea against any Enemy, Moft powerful and glorious Lord God, the Lord of hofts, that ruleft and commandeft all things; Thou fitteft in the throne judging right; and therefore we make our address to thy Divine Majefty in this our neceflity, that thou wouldest take the caufe into thine own hand, and judge between us and our enemies. Stir up thy ftrength O Lord, and come and help us; for thou gaveft not alway the battle to the strong, but canft fave by many or by few. O let not our fins now cry againft us for vengeance; but hear us thy poor fervants, begging mercy, and imploring thy help, and that thou wouldeft be a defence unto us against the face of the enemy. Make it appear that thou art our Saviour and mighty Deliverer, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. Short Prayers for fingle Perfons, that cannot meet to join in Prayer with others, by reafon of the Fight, or Storm.

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General Prayers.

ORD, be merciful to us finners, and fave us for thy mercies fake. Thou

Thou art the great God, that haft made, and rulest all things: O deliver us for thy names fake.

Thou art the great God to be feared above all: O fave us, that we may praise thee..

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Special Prayers with respect to the enemy.

HOU, O Lord, art juft and powerful: O defend our caufe against the face of the enemy.

O God thou art a ftrong tower of defence to all that flee unto thee: O fave us from the violence of the enemy.

O Lord of hofts, fight for us, that we may glorify thee. O fuffer us not to fink under the weight of our fins, or the violence of the enemy

O Lord, arife, help us, and deliver us for thy names fake. Short Prayers in respect of a Storm.

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HOU, O Lord, that ftillet the raging of the Sea, hear, hear us, and fave us, that we perifh not.

O bleffed Saviour, that didft fave thy difciples ready to perish in a storm, hear us, and fave us, we befeech thee.

Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
O Lord, hear us.

O Christ, hear us,

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, have mercy upon us; fave us now and evermore.

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Amen.

UR Father, which art in Heaven; Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. When there fhall be imminent danger, as many as can be spared from necessary Service in the Ship, fhall be called together, and make an humble Confeffion of their fins to God in which every one ought feriously to reflect upon those particular fins of which bis confcience shall accuse him: faying as followeth. The Confeffion.

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Lmighty God, Father of our Lord J. fus Chrift,
Maker of all things, Judge or all men; We acknow-

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·ledge and bewail our manifold fins and wickedness, Which we from time to time moft grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed, Against thy divine Majefty, Provoking moft juftly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, And be heartily forry for these our mifdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, moft merciful Father; For thy Son our Lord Jefus Chrifts fake, forgive us all that is paft, And grant that we may ever hereafter ferve and please thee in newness of life, To the honour and glory of thy Name, Through Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Then ball the Pricft, if there be any in the Ship, pronounce this Abfolution.

Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who of his great

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mercy hath promised forgiveness of fins to all them which with hearty repentance, and true faith turn unto him Have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your fins; confirm and strengthen you in all goodnefs, and bring you to everlasting life, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Thanksgiving after a Storm.
Jubilate Deo. Pfalm lxvi.

Be joyful in God, all ye lands: fing praises unto the honour of his name, make his praife to be glorious. Say unto God, O how wonderful art thou in thy works: through the greatnefs of thy power fhall thine enemies "be found liars unto thee.

For all the world fhall worship thee: fing of thee, and praise thy Name.

O come hither, and behold the works of God: how wonderful he is in his doing towards the children of men!

He turned the fea into dry land: fo that they went through the water on foot; there did we rejoice thereof.

He ruleth with his power for ever; his eyes behold the people and fuch as will not believe, fhall not be able to exalt themselves.

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O praise our God, ye people: and make the voice of his praise to be heard;

Who holdeth our foul in life: and fuffereth not our feet to flip.

For thou, O God, haft proved us: thou also haft tried us, like as filver is tried.

Thou broughteft us into the fnare: and laidft trouble upon our loins.

Thou fuffered ft men to ride over our heads: we went through fire and water, and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

I will go into thy houfe with burnt-offerings: and will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips, and spake with my mouth, when I was in trouble.

I will offer unto thee fat burnt-facrifices, with the incenfe of rams: I will offer bullocks and goats.

O come hither, and hearken, all ye that fear God: and I will tell you what he hath done for my foul.

I called unto him with my mouth and gave him praises with my tongue.

If I incline unto wickednefs with mine heart: the Lord will not hear me,

But God hath heard me and confidered the voice of my prayer.

Praised be God who hath not caft out my prayer: nor turned his mercy from me.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost:

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.

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Confitemini Domino. Pfalm cvii.

Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever.

Let them give thanks, whom the Lord hath redeemed: and delivered from the hand of the enemy;

And gathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the weft: from the north and from the fouth.

They went aftray in the wilderness out of the way and found no city to dwell in ;

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Hungry and thirfty: their foul fainted in them.

So they cried unto the Lord in their trouble: and he delivered them from their diftrefs.

He led them forth by the right way that they might go to the city where they dwelt.

O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnefs and declare the wonders that he doth for the children of men !

For he fatisfierh the empty foul: and filleth the hungry foul with goodness;

Such as fit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: being faft bound in mifery and iron;

Because they rebelled against the words of the Lord: and lightly regarded the couniel of the moft High;

He alfo brought down their heart through heaviness: they fell down, and there was none to help them up.

So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble: he delivered them out of their diftrefs.

For he brought them out of darknefs, and out of the fhadow of death and brake their bonds in funder

O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnefs and declare the wonders that he doeth for the children of men!

For he hath broken the gates of brafs and fmitten the bars of iron in funder.

Foolish men are plagued for their offence and because of their wickedness.

Their foul abhorred all manner of meat; and they were even hard at deaths door.

So when they cried unto the Lord in their trouble: he delivered them out of their diftrefs.

He fent his word, and healed them; aud they were faved from their deftruction.

O that men would therefore praife the Lord for his good. nefs and declare the wonders that he doth for the children

of men!

That they would offer unto him the facrifice of thankf giving and tell out his works with gladnels!

They that go down to the fea in fhips: and occupy their bufinefs in great waters;

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