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<P>AN ACT For Keeping and Celebrating the Twenty third of October AS AN ANNIVERSARY THANKSGIVING IN THE KINGDOM OF <HI>IRELAND.</HI></P>
<P>Together with A FORM OF DIVINE SERVICE, To be u&s;ed there on the &s;ame Day.</P>
<P><HI>THe&s;e are to give notice, That the Prote&s;tants of</HI> Ireland, <HI>at pre&s;ent in and about the City of</HI> London, <HI>intend to meet (at the Church of</HI> St. Mary le Bow) <HI>upon</HI> Wedne&s;day <HI>the Twenty third day of this In&s;tant</HI> October, <HI>at Ten of the Clock in the Morning, in pur&s;uance of an Act of Parliament in that Kingdom, to give Thanks to Almighty God for the Deliverance from the Bloody Ma&s;&s;acre and Rebellion begun by the</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>Papi&s;ts the Twenty third day of</HI> October, 1641.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Robert Clavell</HI> at the <HI>Peacock</HI> in St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Church-yard. 1689.</P>
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<HEAD>An ACT for Keeping and Celebrating the Twenty third of <HI>October,</HI> as an Anniver&s;ary THANKSGIVING in this Kingdom.</HEAD>
<P>WHereas many malignant and rebellious Papi&s;ts and Je&s;uits, Friars, Seminary Prie&s;ts, and other Super&s;titious Orders of the Popi&s;h pretended Clergy, mo&s;t di&s;loyally, treacherou&s;ly, and wickedly con&s;pired to &s;urpri&s;e His Maje&s;ty's Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin,</HI> His Maje&s;ty's Principal Fort of this Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> the City of <HI>Dublin,</HI> and all other Cities and Fortifi|cations of this Realm, and that all the <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> and <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> throughout the whole Kingdom, that would not join with them, &s;hould be cut off; and finally, by a general Rebellion to de|prive our late Sovereign Lord of ever Ble&s;&s;ed Memory, King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, of this His Ancient and Rightful Crown and Sovereignty of this Kingdom, and to po&s;&s;e&s;s them&s;elves thereof: All which was by the &s;aid Con&s;pirators plotted and intended to be acted on the Twenty third of <HI>October,</HI> in the Year of our Lord God 1641. A Con&s;piracy &s;o generally inhumane, barba|rous, and cruel, as the like was never before heard of in any Age or Kingdom; and if it had taken effect in that fulne&s;s which was intended by the Con&s;pirators, it had occa&s;ioned the utter Ruine of this whole Kingdom, and the Government there|of: And however it plea&s;ed Almighty God, in his un&s;earchable Wi&s;dom and Ju&s;tice, as a ju&s;t Puni&s;hment, and de&s;erved Corre|ction unto his People for their Sins, and the Sins of this King|dom, to permit then and afterwards the effecting of a great part of that De&s;truction complotted by tho&s;e wicked Con&s;pira|tors, whereby many thou&s;and <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> and <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> have been ma&s;&s;acred, many thou&s;ands of others of them have been affli|cted and tormented with the mo&s;t exqui&s;ite Torments that
<PB N="2" REF="3">Malice could &s;ugge&s;t; and all Mens E&s;tates, as well tho&s;e whom they barbarou&s;ly murdered, as all other Good Subjects, were wa&s;ted, ruined, and de&s;troyed: Yet as his Divine Maje&s;ty hath in all Ages &s;hewn his Power and Mercy, in the miraculous and gracious deliverance of his Church, and in the Protection of Re|ligious Kings and States; &s;o even in the mid&s;t of his Ju&s;tice, he was graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to extend Mercy to His Maje&s;ty and to this His Kingdom, and good Subjects therein, not only in mer|cifully di&s;covering to the then Lords Ju&s;tices, by one <HI>Owen O Connelly,</HI> a meer <HI>Iri&s;h-man,</HI> but trained up in the Prote&s;tant Re|ligion, who out of a &s;en&s;e of his Duty and Loyalty to His Ma|je&s;ty, and for the pre&s;ervation of his good People, and as an Effect of that Religion he was trained up in, revealed that hi|deous and bloody Trea&s;on, not many Hours before the appoint|ed time for the execution thereof; but al&s;o in pre&s;erving the &s;aid Ca&s;tle and City of <HI>Dublin,</HI> and &s;ome other Cities, Towns, and Ca&s;tles in the Kingdom, from the bloody Hands of the bar|barous Con&s;pirators, as al&s;o in thereby rendring deliverance of the Lives of the &s;aid Lords Ju&s;tices and Council, and of all the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> and <HI>Prote&s;tants</HI> in <HI>Dublin,</HI> and in the &s;aid other Cities, Towns, and Ca&s;tles pre&s;erved, and of &s;undry other <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> and <HI>Prote&s;tants,</HI> fallen into the Hands of tho&s;e rebellious Con&s;pira|tors, and likewi&s;e in &s;ending us Succours out of <HI>England</HI> hither, by the Piety, Care, and Wi&s;dom of our late Sovereign Lord King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, whereby, with God's Ble&s;&s;ing, the good Subjects of this Kingdom have hitherto continued &s;afe under His mighty Protection, notwith&s;tanding the unexampled Rage and implacable Malice of tho&s;e mercile&s;s Rebels. Wherefore as we do mo&s;t humbly and ju&s;tly acknowledge God's Ju&s;tice in our de&s;erved Puni&s;hments in tho&s;e Calamities, which from the Coun&s;els and Actions of tho&s;e Con&s;pirators, and their Adherents have fallen upon us in this Kingdom in general; &s;o we do in like manner acknowledge, that even in exerci&s;ing of that his Ju&s;tice, he remembred Mercy al&s;o, and magnified his Mercies to us, in tho&s;e great Ble&s;&s;ings which we humbly confe&s;s to have proceeded meerly from his infinite Goodne&s;s and Mercy; and
<PB N="3" REF="3">therefore to his mo&s;t holy Name we do a&s;cribe all Honour, Glo|ry, and Prai&s;e; and to the end this unfeigned Thankfulne&s;s may never be forgotten, but may be had in a perpetual re|membrance, that all Ages to come may yield Prai&s;es to his Di|vine Maje&s;ty for the &s;ame, and have in Memory that joyful Day of Deliverance; Be it therefore Enacted by the King's mo&s;t Ex|cellent Maje&s;ty, with the A&s;&s;ent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem|poral, and Commons in this pre&s;ent Parliament a&s;&s;embled, and by Authority of the &s;ame, That the Twenty third day of <HI>Octo|ber</HI> &s;hall be kept and celebrated as an Anniver&s;ary Holiday in this Kingdom for ever; and that all Per&s;ons do at that Day for|bear all Bodily Labour, and the Exerci&s;e of their Trades; and that all and &s;ingular Mini&s;ters in every Cathedral and Pari&s;h-Church, or other u&s;ual Place for Common-Prayer within this Realm of <HI>Ireland,</HI> &s;hall always upon the Twenty third Day of <HI>October</HI> &s;ay Morning-Prayer, and give Thanks to Almighty God for that mo&s;t happy and miraculous Deliverance and Pre&s;erva|tion, far above the Expectations of tho&s;e wretched Con&s;pira|tors; and that all and every Per&s;on and Per&s;ons inhabiting within this Realm of <HI>Ireland,</HI> &s;hall yearly upon the Twenty third of <HI>October</HI> diligently and faithfully re&s;ort to the Pari&s;h-Church or Chappel accu&s;tomed, or to &s;ome u&s;ual Church or Chappel where the &s;aid Morning-Prayer, Preaching, or other Service of God &s;hall be u&s;ed, and then and there abide orderly and &s;ober|ly during the time of the &s;aid Prayers, Preaching, or other Ser|vice of God there to be u&s;ed and mini&s;tred. And becau&s;e all and every Per&s;on may be put in mind of his Duty, and be then the better prepared to the &s;aid Holy Service, Be it enacted by the Authority afore&s;aid, That every Mini&s;ter &s;hall give warning to his Pari&s;hioners publickly in the Church, at Morning-Prayer, the Lords-day next before every &s;uch Twenty third of <HI>October,</HI> for the due Ob&s;ervation of the &s;aid Day; and that af|ter Morning-Prayer or Preaching upon every &s;uch Twenty third of <HI>October,</HI> they read publickly, di&s;tinctly, and plainly this pre&s;ent Act.</P>
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<HEAD>A Form of Divine Service to be u&s;ed <HI>October 23.</HI> appointed by Act of Parliament <HI>Anno Regni Car. 2.14. die 27 Sept. 1662.</HI> to be Kept and Celebrated as an Anniver&s;ary Thanksgiving in this Kingdom of <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>THe heginning of the Service to be according to the Form of the Com|mon-Prayer:</HI>
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<ITEM><HI>Then Proper <HI>P&s;alms,</HI> as 3, 9, 12, 46, 144.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Proper Le&s;&s;ons; for the fir&s;t, 2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 13. or <HI>Jer.</HI> 30.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>For the &s;econd Le&s;&s;on, <HI>Mat.</HI> 9. or <HI>Acts</HI> 5. or <HI>Acts</HI> 23.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>And after the Collect for the <HI>Sunday,</HI> this following Collect.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>ALmighty God and heavenly Father, who out of thy mo&s;t wi&s;e and watchful Providence, and tender Mercies towards us thine unworthy Servants, ha&s;t b&eacute;en plea&s;ed, as at all other times, &s;o on this day, to pre|vent the extreme malice, mi&s;chievous imagination, and bloody intention of our Enemies, dy revealing &s;o wonderfully and opportunely their Rebel|lion, and cruel Enterpri&s;es, plotted again&s;t our dread Sovereign Lord the King, and the whole State of this Realm, for the Subver&s;ion of this Go|vernment, and the utter Extirpation of the Truth of thy Go&s;pel; and pure Religion profe&s;&s;ed among&s;t us. We mo&s;t humbly prai&s;e and magnifie thy glorious Name for thine infinite Goodne&s;s in this our marvellous Delive|rance. We confe&s;s it was thy mercy, thy mercy alone (mo&s;t merciful Father) that we were not con&s;umed. And therefore not unto us, not un|to us, O Lord, but unto thy Name be a&s;cribed all honour and glory, in all Churches of the Saints, throughaut all Generations. For thou, Lord, dide&s;t di&s;cover unto thy Servants the &s;nares of Death; thou did&s;t break them, and we were delivered. Be thou &s;till our mighty Protector, and &s;catter our Enemies that delight in Blood; infatuate their Coun&s;els, en|f&eacute;eble their Strength, put Fear in their Hearts, and accompli&s;h this thy Mercy in our &s;afety and future deliverance. And to that end, &s;trengthen the Hands of our gracious King, the Lord Lieutenant, the Nobility, and Magi&s;trates of the Land, with Iudgment, Iu&s;tice, and Power to re&s;train &s;uch workers of Iniquity, who pretend Religion and practi&s;e Rebellion, and devour thine Inheritance. This, Lord, we crave at thy merciful hands, together with the continuance of thy powerful Protection over our dread Sovereign, the whole Church, and the&s;e Realms, and the &s;p&eacute;edy Conver&s;ion of all our Enemies, and that for thy dear Son's &s;ake, Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, our only Mediator and Advecate. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>After the Litany, this Prayer for the Second Collect.</HEAD>
<P>O Eternal God, in whom we live, move, and have our Being, and by whom alone we are protected in all our Dangers and Di&s;tre&s;&s;es; we thy People, and Sh&eacute;ep of thy Pa&s;ture, do acknowledge our &s;elves above all others infinitely bounden unto thy heaven<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> Maje&s;ty, for thy many un|&s;peakable Benefits daily conferred and heapen upon us; e&s;pecially for the enlightning us with thy heavenly Truth, and planting thy Go&s;pel among&s;t us; for placing over us a mo&s;t gracious King, a faithful Profe&s;|&s;or and Defender of the &s;ame, a wi&s;e and vigilant Lieutenant. And as at this time e&s;pecially we prai&s;e th&eacute;e for the di&s;covery and prevention of the bloody and treacherous De&s;igns of the Enemies of thy Truth and Peo|ple: We laud and magnifie thy glorious Name for the&s;e thy Mercies, and will ever &s;hew forth thy Prai&s;e from Generation to Generation: For it was thy Goodne&s;s alone that we were not delivered over for a Prey unto their T&eacute;eth. Thy Prudence, not our Fore&s;ight; thy Love, not our Me|rit, that we appear this day before th&eacute;e, that the Enemy did not triumph in our utter De&s;truction, nor root up the Vine which thy Right hand had planted. O Lord God of Ho&s;ts, look down from Heaven, and behold, and vi&s;it this thy Vine; water it with thy Ble&s;&s;ing, and make it to fill the Land, to the a&s;toni&s;hment of our Enemies, but unto the joy of all that wi&s;h well unto our <HI>Sion:</HI> So will we not go back from th&eacute;e, but will &s;erve th&eacute;e in fear and holine&s;s all the days of our lives, through Ie&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Third Collect after the Litany.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t gracious Lord God, we of this Nation, whom thou did&s;t &s;natch as a Brand out of the Fire of the late horrid Ma&s;&s;acre, we this day a&s;&s;embled before th&eacute;e, do with &s;hame and &s;orrow acknowledge and confe&s;s, That our Sins had mo&s;t ju&s;tly provoked th&eacute;e to wrath, when thou did&s;t &s;uffer tho&s;e Men of Blood to make their Sword fat with the Slaugh|ter of &s;o many thou&s;and Innocents. And we may as ju&s;tly fear, that our not being made better by thy former Iudgments, thou maye&s;t be compel|led to make thy Sword &s;harper, and return upon us in greater fury, be|cau&s;e our Sins are greater, more bold, more provoking: in particular, our neglect and contempt of thy &s;acred Ordinances, our vain and fal&s;e &s;wearing (for which the Land mourns) our unchri&s;tian Vncharitablene&s;s, and &s;hameful Intemperance, our Sacrilege, and Covetou&s;ne&s;s, Hypocri&s;ie, Slandering, and d&eacute;ep Security in the mid&s;t of all our Sins and Dangers.
<PB N="6" REF="5">The&s;e, together with a glorying in our Impieties, might in ju&s;tice have brought upon us a &s;udden and horrible De&s;truction. But, contrary to the method of thy Proc&eacute;edings again&s;t others, thou ha&s;t &s;pared us, thereby woing us to return unto th&eacute;e by unfeigned Repentance. Thou ha&s;t mag|nified thy Mercy towards us, that we may magnifie th&eacute;e, as we do this day, this memorable day, O Lord, for thy Patience and Long-&s;uffering, notwith&s;tanding all our Provocations: We repent, O pardon; we return, O vouch&s;afe to receive us, and enable us to walk worthy of thy great pa&s;t Deliverance, by a more &s;trict and holy future Obedience, for the Me|rits of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, our only Saviour and Red&eacute;emer. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>At the Second Service, this Fourth Collect to be &s;aid after the Collect for the King.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t merciful and bountiful Lord God, &s;&eacute;eing thou ha&s;t b&eacute;en graciou&s;|ly plea&s;ed to pre&s;erve thy mo&s;t unworthy People from total De&s;o|lation, and daily to follow us with the Ble&s;&s;ng of Peace and good Go|vernment: make us therefore, O Lord, in all thankfulne&s;s to be obedient to thy Will in all things; to be faithful and con&s;tant in our Duty to the King, and to all that are in Authority under him; to be &s;incere in thy Wor&s;hip, zealous of Good works, of one Faith, and one Mind, &s;tudying to be quiet, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, even as God for Chri&s;ts &s;ake hath forgiven us: &s;o that when every one in his &s;everal place &s;hall labour to advance the good both of Church and State, and by a through Reformation of our Lives, &s;hall become a People whom thou maye&s;t take delight to ble&s;s; then thy Iudgments which we have de&s;er|ved, and therefore fear, may be averted, and our &s;inful Souls &s;aved in the day of the Lord Ie&s;us: Then with one heart and voice we may all prai&s;e th&eacute;e in thy Church, and always &s;ing joyfully, that thy Loving-kindne&s;s is ever more and more towards us, and the Truth of the Lord endures for ever. The&s;e Mercies we mo&s;t unworthy to ask, humbly be&s;&eacute;ech th&eacute;e to grant, for the benefit of this Church and Nation, and glory of thy Name, through Ie&s;us Chri&s;t our only Saviour and Red&eacute;emer. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P><HI>For the Epi&s;tle, <HI>Mehem.</HI> 4. from ver. 7. to ver. 16. or 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 1. from ver. 3. to ver. 11.</HI></P>
<P><HI>For the Go&s;pel, <HI>Mat.</HI> 14. from ver. 23. to ver. 34. or <HI>Mat.</HI> 15. from ver. 1. to ver. 13. or <HI>Mat.</HI> 5. from ver. 1. to ver. 14.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And then proceed as in the Book of Common-Prayer.</HI></P>
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