THE TWENTIETH OF JUNE.

dence to be our Queen; and so ritual welfare, together with the together with her bless Albert Ed- temporal interest of their people; ward Prince of Wales, the Princess We acknowledge with humble and of Wales, and all the Royal Family; thankful hearts thy great goodness, that they all, ever trusting in thy to us, in setting thy Servant our goodness, protected by thy power, most gracious Queen over this and crowned with thy gracious and Church and Nation; Give her, we endless favour, may continue before beseech thee, all those heavenly thee in health, peace, joy, and graces that are requisite for so high honour, and may live long and a trust; Let the work of thee her happy lives upon earth, and after God prosper in her hands; Let her death obtain everlasting life and eyes behold the success of her glory in the kingdom of heaven, by designs for the service of thy true the Merits and Mediation of Christ Religion established amongst us; Jesus our Saviour, who with the And make her a blessed instrument Father and the Holy Spirit, liveth of protecting and advancing thy and reigneth ever one God, world Truth, wherever it is persecuted without end. Amen. and oppressed; Let Hypocrisy and Profaneness, Superstition and Ido­latry, fly before her face; Let not Heresies and false Doctrines dis­turb the peace of the Church, nor Schisms and causeless Divisions it; grant us to be

one heart and one mind in serving thee our God, and obeying her ac­cording to thy will: And that these blessings may be continued to after- ages, let there never be one wanting in her house to succeed her in the government of this United Kingdom, that our posterity may see her children's children, and peace upon Israel. So we that are thy people, and sheep of thy pas­ture, shall give thee thanks for ever, and will always be shewing forth thy praise from generation to generation. Amen.

T Then shall follow this Collect, for God's protection of the Queen against all her

enemies.

OST gracious God, who hast

our Queen upon the Throne of her Ancestors, we most humbly beseech thee to protect her on the same from all the dangers to which she may be exposed; Hide her from the gathering together of the fro­ward, and from the insurrection of wicked doers; Do thou weaken the hands, blast the designs, and defeat the enterprizes of all her enemies, that no secret conspiracies, nor open violences, may disquiet her Reign; but that, being safely kept under the shadow of thy wing, and supported by thy power, she may triumph over all opposition; that thee

to be her defender and mighty de- Das strangers and pilgrims, ab­

The Epistle. 1 St. Pet. ii. 11. I beseech

liverer in all difficulties and adver­sities; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

stain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; having your con­versation honest among the Gen­tiles that, whereas they speak against you as evil- doers, they may, by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake; whether it be to the King, as supreme; or unto gover­

hast as sent

by him for the punishment of evil­doers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of

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Then the Prayer for the High Court of

Parliament( if sitting.)

I In the Communion Service, immediately before the reading of the Epistle, instead of the Collect for the Queen, and that of the Day, shall be used this Prayer for the Queen, as Supreme Governour of this

Church.

Christian Princes to the de­fence of thy Faith, and hast made it their duty to promote the spi­

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