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A FORM
P R AY E R
AND

For the fignal Vi&ory obtained through the Blefllng
of Almighty God by His Majefty's Ships of
War, under the Command of Admiral Duncan,
over the Dutch Fleet, on Wednefday, the Eleventh
of OSlober i"jgj.
TO BE USED
At Morning and Evening Service,
After the General Thanksgiving,--
Throughout the Cities of London and Wejlminjler,
and elfewhere within the Bills of Mortality, on
Sunday the Twenty-ninth oiOBober 1797, and in
all Churches and Chapels throughout England and
Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, on
the Firft Sunday after the Minifters thereof receive
the fame, and on the Two Sundays following,
"Bg $10 9@ajeGg'jS Special OLomraanD.
LONDON:
Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan,
Printers to the King's mod Excellent Majefty. 1797.

FORM OF
_MtA^EiL and THANKSGIVING.

OGDD, our Defence and Strength, the Helper of
all who put their Truft in Thee, who alone giveft
Victory unto Kings, and faveft Thy Servants from the
Peril of the Sword j We acknowledge it to have been of
Thy unfpeakable Goodnefs, not"of our merit, that, in
numberlefs inftances, many of which our Eyes have
witneffed, Thy Arm, itretchfd out in times of Danger,
hath wrought Deliverance for this Land. ,But more
efpecially at this Time are we bound to praife Thee for
the late fignal inftance of Thy Mercy, in that- Thou haft
vouchfafed to blefs the Arms of our Sovereign with
Succefs, in the difcomfiture of a numerous Hoft of a
great and mighty Foe.
Continue, we befeech Thee, O Lord, to go forth withj
our Fleets and Armies. Infpire, as hitherto Thou haft
done, the Leaders with Wifdom and Courage, and the
Men with Intrepidity. Support them in the hour of
Danger with the Recollection, that the Battle is for more
than Gain or Glory — for Religion and for Public Liberty,
for the Independence of their Country, for the Rights of
Civil Society, for the Maintenance of every Ordinance,
Divine and Human, eflential to the well-being of Man. And

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And for thofer whom in this Righteous Caufe Thy Provi-
*!?!£ pe»ri"itS tQ fal1' Rrceive» we Pray Thee, their Souls
u T^J to*1"? i and be Thou, O Lord, the Friend and
the Father of their Widows and their Orphans.
Fill the hearts/ of us, who live to tafte Thy Goodnefs
liere, with the devoutefl Gratitude to Thee. Unite us
m Zeal for Thy^EtH»tt»,-^u l»juUj w i>m Tsrag, numii-mc'
Bonds of brotherly Love and Charity one towards
another. . Efpecially give us Grace not t6 be elated
with Profperity, but in the Seafon of Triumph, no leis
than in Adverfity, to look up to Thee, and to walk
humbly with our God. And, if it be Thy gracious
Will, graat that the heart of the Enemy may bd foftened
by Defeat, touchej|^n?&xRemorfe and Penitence^ and
brought back to/pc i^agK^wledgement of Thy Divine
Providence, thatnfb,^{ra^^Bjr' henceforth defift from the
purfuits of unjuft^t^^io^y and all nations in meeknefs
iubmitting to the gmd*atTCe%f Thy holy Law, the World
may be delivered by Thy Mercy from the Scourge of
War and of civil Infurreclion j that we of this Land,
and all Thy People, may, as we are moft bounden, give
Thee Thanks and Praife for ever, through Jefas Chrift:.
Thine only Son, our Lord, Amen.

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