which thou haft delivered, to be a living facrifice unto thee, Rom. 12. 1. always praifing and magnifying thy mercies in the midft of thy Church, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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E humbly acknowledge before thee, O molt merciful Father, that all the punishments which are threatned in thy Law, might juftly have fallen upon us, by reafon of our manifold tranf greffions and hardness of heart. Yet feeing it hath pleafed thee of thy tender mercy upon our weak and unworthy hu miliation, to affwage the contagious ficknefs, wherewith we lately have been fore afflicted, and to restore the voice of joy and health into our dwellings; we offer unto thy divine Majefty the facrifice of praife and thanksgiving, lauding and magnifying thy glorious Name for fuch thy preservation and providence over us, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Note, Thefe Thankfgivings extraordi nary, Answers most of them, to the Prayers extraordinary [foregoing we Praife God in the latter, for what we Prayed for in the former. They need not be Scri

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Scriptured out exactly, for they are the very Scriptures them felves, both for ground of Matter, and form of Words. They are of a very rational Contrivance, for great Deliverances ought to have perpetual Remembrances, and the gracious Favours of God bestowed upon us, are to be remembred and acknowledged with Gratitude. The very Heathens in their Stories fhow it to be ufeful, and God in Scripture by his Injunction makes it neceffary, Deut. 4.. 9, 10. That we should dutifully repay to God our Tribute of Praife, for the great and undeferved Be nefits which we have received from him, "Pfal. III. 4. 4. Thus have I for the good of the Church, (I hope) and for the Glory of God, and for the Satisfaction of fome who may have prejudices against our publick Divine Service, and upon that Account may abfent themfelves from it, or not joyn in it with that Devotion as they ought to do; I am fure without making any unhandfome and uncharitable Reflexions (which is a very great Errour of the Pen) upon any Perfons whatsoever, who do but own Chrift and God as they are revealed in Scripture, and profefs Chriftianity, contribute my poor Endeavours to invite fo many in, as can be rationally mo

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ved and perfwaded, to joyn. with us in our Christian Affemblies, that we may with Heart, Mind and Mouth, Glorify God, and ferve him without Diftraction, who is I am fure the God of Order, and not of Confufion.

We are yet happy, if we know our Condition, for we have not Prayers lockt up from us in an unknown Tongue, nor are we lockt up from them, by being denyed a daily and publick Access to them: there is no Church in the World hath all the Offices and Sacraments fo adminiftred conformably, to the best Precedents in Words understood, without any mixture of dangerous or fuperftitious Encroachments, and with that Gravity, Decency, and Solemnity, that befits the Service of God.

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