[REVOLUTIONARY WAR] &
CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
A Form of Prayer, to be used In all Churches and Chapels ... imploring His Blessing and Assistance on the Arms of His Majesty by Sea and Land, and for restoring and perpetuating Peace, Safety, and Prosperity to Himself and to His Kingdom.
BY HIS MAJESTY'S SPECIAL COMMAND
Published during the heart of the Revolutionary War, these prayers opens asking for “to strengthen [British forces] with thy powerful arm, and to crown with success their necessary endeavours by defeating the unjust attempts of their rebellious fellow-subjects against the rights of our Sovereign …” and, more specifically includes “A Prayer for our Enemies”, which addresses “our unhappy fellow-subjects in America, that seeing and confessing the error of their ways … they may again return to their duty and make themselves worthy of Thy pardon and forgiveness.” Furthermore, in the Evening Prayer, the “unhappy deluded subjects in American, now, in defiance of all subordination and legal government, in open rebellion against His crown.”
Adams, 78-20a.
