¶ A thanks giving for the suppression of the last rebellion.¶ A thankes geuing for the suppression of the last rebellion.

¶ A thanks giving for the suppression of the last rebellion.

¶ A thankes geuing for the suppression of the last rebellion.

O heavenly and most merciful father, the defender of those that put their trust in thee, the sure fortress of all them that flee to thee for succour: who of thy most just judgements for our disobedience and rebellion against thy holy word, and for our sinful & wicked living nothing answering to our holy profession, whereby we have given an occasion that thy holy name hath ben blasphemed amongst the ignorant, hast of late both sore abashed the whole Realm, and people of England with the terror & danger of rebellion, thereby to awake us out of our dead sleep of careless security: and haste yet by the miseries following the same rebellion more sharply punished part of our countrymen, and Christian brethren, who have more nearly felt the same: and most dreadfully hast scourged some of the seditious persons with terrible executions, justly inflicted for their disobedience to thee, and to thy servant their Sovereign, to the example of us all, and to the warning, correction and amendment of thy servants, of thine accustomed goodness, turning always the wickedness of evil men to the profit of them that fear thee: who in thy judgements remembering thy mercy, hast by thy assistance given the victory to thy servant our Queen, her true Nobility, an faithful subjects, with so little, or rather no effusion of Christian blood, as ⟨image 309⟩also might justly have ensued, to the exceeding comfort of all sorrowful Christian hearts, and that of thy fatherly pity, and merciful goodness only, and even for thine own names sake, without any our desert at all. Wherefore we render unto thee most humble & hearty thanks for these thy great mercies showed unto us, who had deserved sharper punishment, most humbly beseeching thee to grant unto all us that confess thy holy name, & profess the true and perfect religion of thy holy Gospel, thy heavenly grace to show our selves in our living according to our profession: that we truly knowing thee in thy blessed word, may obediently walk in thy holy commandments, & that we being warned by this thy fatherly correction, do provoke thy just wrath against us no more: