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A Thanksgiving for God's wonderful Deliverance of the King's Majesty, and the State of Parliament, from the Gun Powder Treason, An. 1605.
O Almighty God, great in Mercy, and wonderful in Judg∣ment, who by the instinct of Nature, and charge on holy Scripture, hast taught us, that great Del verances ought to have perpetual remembrances: We miserable Sinners, whose corrupt Nature and vile Actions have deserved by evtraordinary Punish∣ments to be made a spectacle to the World, and to Angels, and to Men, do humbly acknowledge thy Love and long Sufferance, in de∣livering us from many heavy Judgments which might justly have been brought upon us and our chiefest Delights.
O Lord, we tremble to think upon it, how unjustly they intended to take us away before our time, by secret conveying of fearful Gun-Powder covered with Iron, Wood and Coals. ready to put Fire un∣der a dark Vault under the House of Parliament, a place of state against a present sitting.
O Lord, if this had not been, we had been blown up, we had been smothered, we had been dismembred, we had been persecuted: We had been undone, all and some, fearing thy Name, the poor Com∣monalty, the worthy Gentry, the judicious Lawyer, the reverend Judge, the true Nobility, the Learned Clergy, and the sacred Council of our King; yea, our King and his Queen, and all the Royal Progency, the most honourable Assembly of Christendom sit∣ting in their State, for the continuance of they Truth and good of the Realm.