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¶ A thanksgiving unto God for their deliverance.

¶ A thankesgeuynge vnto God for theyr delyueraunce.

Among other thy benefits, yea and those innumerable, which thou daily bestowest upon us thy needy & pore creatures, this is not the least, o most merciful father, that thou of thy tender goodness doest vouchsafe for the conservation of mankind to preserve the women that are with child, and to give them safe deliverance of their burden, by this means making them glad and wyfull mothers. For this thy benefit and good will toward us, we so heartily thank thee, as heart can think, beseeching the to work such thankfulness in the harte• of all mothers by thy holy spirit, that they being not unmindful of this high benefit of their safe deliverance, wrought only by the the saviour of all man kind, may show them selves thankful unto thee for this thy ⟨image 56⟩goodness▪ and never forget that thy present help and most sweet comfort which thou mercifully showedst upon them in their great travails,^{1 2}labours and pains when they fled unto thy holy name for succour, as unto a strong bulwark and holy defence. Go forth, o Lord,³ to make them the joyful mothers of many children. Endue them with long life,⁴ that they may see then children's children. And the children that thou givest unto them,