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Ans. Because there is none other that fighteth for us, but only thou, O God.

A FORM OF PRAYER

Priest. Be unto us, O Lord, a strong tower;

Ans. From the face of our enemies. Priest. O Lord, hear our prayer; Ans. And let our cry come unto thee. Instead of the first Collect at Morning Prayer shall be used this following Col­

leet of Thanksgiving for Her Majesty's Mo

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LMIGHTY God, who rulest over all the kingdoms of the World, and disposest of them accord­ing to thy good pleasure; We yield thee unfeigned thanks, for that thou wast pleased, as on this day, to place thy Servant our Sovereign Lady, Queen VICTORIA upon the Throne of this Realm. Let thy wisdom be her guide, and let thine arm strength­en her; let justice, truth, and holi­ness, let peace and love, and all those virtues that adorn the Christian Pro­fession, flourish in her days; direct all her counsels and endeavours to thy glory, and the welfare of her people; and give us grace to obey her cheer­fully and willingly for conscience sake; that neither our sinful pas­sions, nor our private interests, may disappoint her cares for the publick good; let her always possess the hearts of her people, that they may never be wanting in honour to her Person, and dutiful submission to her Authority; let her Reign be long and prosperous, and crown her with im­mortality in the life to come; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

death obtain everlasting life and glory in the kingdom of heaven, by the Merits and Mediation of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who with the Father and the Holy Spirit, liveth and reigneth ever one God, world

without end. Amen.

In the end of the Litany( which shall always be used upon this Day) after the Collect[ We humbly beseech thee, O Fa­ther,& c.] shall the following Prayer, for the Queen and Royal Family, be used.

0 LORD our God, who upholdest

and governest all things in hea­ven and earth; receive our humble prayers, with our hearty thanksgiv­ings, for our Sovereign Lady VICTO­RIA, as on this day, set over us by thy grace and providence to be our Queen; and so together with her bless Albert Edward Prince of Wales, the Princess of Wales, and all the Royal Family; that they all, ever trusting in thy goodness, protected by thy power, and crowned with thy gra­cious and endless favour, may con­tinue before thee in health, peace, joy, and honour, and may live long and happy lives upon earth, and after

Then shall follow this Collect, for God's protection of the Queen against all her enemies.

thee

TOST gracious God, who hast set thy servant VICTORIA our Queen upon the Throne of her An­cestors, we most humbly beseech 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 so the world may acknowledge thee to be her defender and mighty deliverer in all difficulties and ad­versities; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Then the Prayer for the High Court of

Parliament( if sitting.)

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.

LESSED Lord, who hast called

of thy Faith, and hast made it their duty to promote the spiritual welfare, together with the temporal interest of their people; We acknowledge with humble and thankful hearts thy great goodness to us, in setting thy Servant our most gracious Queen over this Church and Nation; Give her, we beseech thee, all those hea­venly graces that are requisite for so high a trust; Let the work of thee her God prosper in her hands; Let her eyes behold the success of her designs for the service of thy true Religion established amongst us; And make her a blessed instrument of protecting and advancing thy Truth, wherever it is persecuted and oppressed; Let Hypocrisy and Pro­faneness, Superstition and Idolatry, fly before her face; Let not Heresies