In your days may mercy and truth meet together, and righteousness
and peace kiss each other; may wisdom and knowledge be the
stability of your times, and the fear of the Lord your treasure.
Amen.
The Lord make your days many, and your reign prosperous; your fleets
and armies victorious: and may you be reverenced and beloved by all
your subjects, and ever increase in favour with God and man. Amen.
The glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon you: may he bless
you with all temporal and spiritual happiness in this world, and
crown you with glory and immortality in the world to come. Amen.
The Lord give you a religious and victorious posterity to rule these
kingdoms in all ages. Amen.
Then the archbishop turned to the people, and said:--
And the same Lord God Almighty grant, that the clergy and nobles
assembled here for this great and solemn service, and together with
them all the people of the land, fearing God, and honouring the
King, may by the merciful superintendency of the Divine Providence,
and the vigilant care of our gracious Sovereign, continually enjoy
peace, plenty, and prosperity, through Jesus Christ our Lord; to
whom, with the Eternal Father, and God the Holy Ghost, be glory in
the church world without end. Amen.
The blessing being thus given, the King sat down in his chair,
vouchsafed to kiss the archbishop and bishops assisting at his
coronation, they kneeling before him one after another.
Then the choir began to sing the Te Deum, and the King went up to the
theatre on which the throne is placed, all the bishops, great officers,
and other peers, attending him, and then he sat down and reposed himself
in his chair, below the throne.
ANTHEM V.
_Te Deum._
We praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.
All the earth doth worship thee: the Father everlasting.
To thee all angels cry aloud: the heavens, and all the powers
therein.
To thee Cherubin and Seraphin: continually do cry,
Holy, holy, holy: Lord God of Sabaoth.
Heaven and earth are full of the majesty of thy glory.
The glorious company of the Apostles: praise thee.
The goodly fellowship of the Prophets: praise thee.
The noble army of Martyrs: praise thee.
The holy Church throughout all the world: doth acknowledge thee;
The Father: of an infinite Majesty;
Thine honourable, true, and only Son;
Also the Holy Ghost: the Comforter.
Thou art the King of glory: O Christ.
Thou art the everlasting Son: of the Father.
When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man: thou didst not abhor the
virgin's womb.
When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death: thou didst open the
kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Thou sittest at the right hand of God: in the glory of the Father.
We believe that thou shalt come: to be our judge.
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