For Victory over our Enemies.

O Almighty Lord, the most High God, who rulest in the kingdoms of men, and dost whatsoever thou pleasest in heaven and in earth! in thy hand is power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee. It is thou that givest salvation unto kings, that deliverest thy servants from the hurtful sword. Thou hast saved us from our enemies, and put them to shame that hated us. It was not by our own power or conduct that we have been so prosperous; nor did our own sword or arm save us but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hast a favour unto us. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory. The Lord is our strength, and our song, and is become our salvation. Now, therefore, our God, we thank thee and praise thy glorious name. And O what cause hast thou given us to rejoice in thy goodness, that thou hast not given our enemies cause to rejoice in our ruin! Great is thy mercy, O blessed Lord, and to thee alone be the whole praise and glory. O make us more sensible of this thy help at hand, in time of our need: and give us grace still to keep the memory of it in our grateful minds. O thou great Lord of Hosts, who givest such safety and good success, wilt thou teach us also rightly to use thy sweet and marvellous kindness and love; that being delivered from the hands of our enemies, we may serve thee, in holiness and righteousness before thee, all the days of our lives; and not fly out into licentious carriage, as if we were delivered to commit abominations ; so throwing ourselves into the hands of our spiritual foes, after we have escaped the other, but demeaning ourselves, as the redeemed and obliged of

the Lord. O let us love and trust, and bless and praise the Reliever of our misery, the only Giver of all victory, and the God of all our mercies.

For Peace.

GOD of Peace, that makest wars to cease to the ends of the earth: that breakest the bow, and cuttest the spear asunder, and burnest the chariot in the fire! thou hast in mercy put a stop to the effusion of blood, and made peace in our borders; thou hast rebuked strong nations, to make them beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; that nation may not rise against nation, but every man sit under his vine, and under his fig tree, and none make them afraid. O how sweet is thy mercy, and reviving, as life from the dead! and thou, O Lord, that hast given us peace, O give us also grace, to use it to thy glory, and to serve thee still the more freely and cheerfully. That we may not only have peace with men, but also with our God: even the peace of God that passeth all understanding, to keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

O that we may be sensible of the kindness and love of God our Saviour, as we ought, and ever give thee thanks with all our souls! dear Father of mercies! rather take all our good things from us, than leave us speechless and heartless to thy praise. O that our hearts may be enlarged in thy love, and lifted up in the celebration of thy praises! To thy name, O Lord, be the glory of all thy mercy and bounty. And may all thy works and all thy ser. vants bless thee, and praise thee, and magnify thee for ever. And may we have grace to express the thankfulness of our hearts, in the whole conduct of

our lives: devoting ourselves to be thine in faithfulness, as long as we are in being. Amen, Amen.

Thanksgiving after a safe and good Journey.

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LL thanks and praise that I am able to render, is a debt that I owe unto thee, O Lord my God and I desire with all my soul to pay it; for that goodness of thine, which I have experienced all along now in my journey: where thou hast not only been nigh to me, and watchful over me, to secure me from perils of the way, and from every sad accident that might have befallen me, but hast given me success, and surrounded me with blessings and comforts on every side. When at every turn, and every step, I was exposed to the evils that might have hurt or spoiled me; and I might now have been groaning under broken bones, or bruised limbs, or other harms; yea, might have been cut off and perished in the way; and lost not only health and strength, but life itself; thou, Lord, hast in mercy preserved and kept me in safety, and brought me to see my habitation in peace, and all things here, even according to my heart's desire.

A horse is a vain thing for safety; and nothing upon earth can we confide in to defend us, if the blessed Keeper of Israel do not cover us under the shadow of his wings; and give his angels charge over us, to keep us in all our ways. But such invisible guards I have had; and such favour from the Lord of love I have found. Mercy and goodness of the Lord that has followed me all the days of my life, has been renewed afresh, and further manifested to me in these my travels. And O how inexhaustible is the kindness and bounty of my Lord, never weary to do me good! to thee, O God of my

life, and safety, and comfort, be all the glory. O fill me with a most grateful sense of such thy rich grace and continual mercy; and give me a heart abounding with thankfulness and with thy love and praises yea, give me also grace to express the unfeigned thanks of my heart, in all the ways pleasing to thy holy will; through the beloved of my soul, my blessed Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving for Preservation and Deliverance from Dangers and Troubles.

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ANY, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done; and thy thoughts which are to us-ward, for good, they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: If I should declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. According to thy name so is thy praise, to the ends of the earth. The dead praise thee not, nor any that go down into silence: the living, the living, they shall praise thee, as I desire with all my soul to do this day. My heart is fixed : O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. I will be glad and rejoice in thee, and sing praise to thy name, O thou Most High. I will praise thee, O Lord, for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. I found trouble and sorrow, then I called upon thee; and thou wast attentive to my cry, and nigh to my help. And though thou mightest have made an example of thy judgments to others, as others have been made so to me, thou didst not consult my deserts but my distress; doing great things, and working strange deliverance for me, not because I was worthy, but because thou aboundest in mercy.

O, I was in woful perplexity: fear was on every

side all my hope was ready to expire; and I thought there was no help for me, but I must sink and perish. Then didst thou, O Lord, interpose between me and the threatening mischief; and reveal thy glorious arm, to pluck me out of the very jaws of destruction; and set me at liberty from any amazing fears, and in safety from the dreadful dangers and hast kept me alive, and restored my comforts: not taken me away in the midst of my days, nor cutting me off untimely from the land of the liv. ing but sparing me in mercy, and giving me, as it were, a new life from the dead. Thou hast chastened me, but not given me over to death. When my foot slipped, thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. Thou art the God that dost wonders: wonders of power, and wonders of mercy. As nothing is too hard for thee to effect, so nothing is too good for thee to bestow. Yea, thy kindness and thy help at hand, in the woful time of need, is so sweet and surprising, that nothing can so affect and transport our souls.

Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. I will sing of thy power: Yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy, for thou hast been my defence and my refuge in the day of my trouble. Unto thee, O my Strength, will I sing, for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy. O Lord God, merciful and gracious! I am now sensible of such mercy from thee. I will extol thee, who hath exalted me: and not suffered the trouble and danger to overwhelm and ruin me. In my distress I cried to thee, and thou hast enlarged me. O blessed be God, who hast not cast away my prayer, nor turned his mercy from me. But, dearest Lord! thou hast kept me in safety, and caused the destruction so to pass over me,