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B00341 A short forme of thankesgiving to God, for staying the contagious sickenes of the plague: to be used in common prayer, on Sundayes, Wednesdayes and Fridayes / Set forth by authoritie. 1604 (1604) STC 16533; ESTC S93951 4,023 15

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the bottome of our hearts this thine exceeding gracious goodnesse and vndeserued mercie euermore praysing thy great glorious name for so wonderfull grace and clemencie towards vs most vile and wretched sinners so freely and mercifully extended most humbly beseeching thee of thy fatherly goodnesse not onely to continue this gracious course of thy louing fauour in mitigating and lessening more and more this noysome Pestilence till it be cleane remoued from vs But also to powre thy heauenly Grace into our hearts that we neuer forgetting how grieuously and iustly wee haue bene chastened for our sinnes and yet in Mercy not consumed but raised vp againe and comforted may learne thereby both to feare thy dreadful iudgements against sinne and so by true Repentance to turne vnto thee from our wicked wayes least a worse Plague fall vpon vs And also to put our whole trust in thy Mercy and approch with confidence vnto thy Throne of Grace for help and succour in all our troubles and aduersities Euermore thanking praysing thy glorious Maiestie for this thy most mercifull and marueilous deliuerance through Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour O God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the God of all Mercie and Comfort which art Lord of life and death and rulest all things in heauen and earth by the word of thy Power Looke downe mercifully from thy Holy place vpon the people of this Land yet grieuously afflicted in many places with great sicknesse and mortalitie And as by thy great Mercy the Plague which lately raged in our chiefe City threatning vtter consumption and desolation to the same is now slaked and asswaged to our great comfort for which we praise and magnifie thy glorious Name So likewise we most humbly beseech thee in the tender bowels of thy endlesse Compassion to be gratious and mercifull to the other parts of this land now fearefully affrighted and afflicted with this grieuous Plague pestilence Send them good Lord speedy help and succour from thy Holy habitation And as thou diddest sometimes turne away thy fierce wrath from the Niniuites being iustly threatened out against them and euen hanging ouer their heads by giuing them Repentance through thy Grace So now visite the hearts of thy people in this Land with thine heauenly Grace and holy Spirit that they may speedily and soundly returne vnto thee from all their wicked wayes in true Repentance and a liuing Faith in Iesus Christ That so wee may bee deliuered from this heauy wrath Plague which our sinnes haue pulled downe and scattered amongst vs And learne by thy fearefull Iudgements to walke hereafter before thee in continuall reuerence and obedience And for thy gratious mercie to giue thee Euerlasting praise and glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Almightie God which art the Resurrection of the dead and the Life of them which liue who in thy displeasure cariest vs downe in a moment to the gates of death and in thy mercie recallest our Soules backe to dwell in the land of the liuing Wee giue thee humble thankes that it hath pleased thee to restore vs when wee were almost past hope to strengthen vs in the extremitie of our weakenesse to deliuer vs thy people of this Citie from the Contagion when in the eye of mans reason it was most likely to haue encreased This we acknowledge to be thy doing O Lord and it is wonderful in our eyes which haue seene these thy great mercies surpassing the strength of our hope and wee beseech thee to continue thy gracious goodnesse towards vs still whereby all the world may see and knowe that thou art our mercifull Father and wonderfull Deliuerer to the glory of thy holy Name and to the comfort of vs thy children through Iesus Christ our Lord. O Heauenly Father which art the Fountaine of Life and the GOD of our health in whome alone wee liue and mooue and haue our being we beseech thee that as thou hast beene gracious vnto this Citie and the parts about it in remoouing from hence that fearefull Plague which for our sins thou haddest most iustly sent among vs So it would please thee to heare these our intercessions for our brethren which in other places of this Realme do yet grone vnder thy punishing hand O Lord be gracious also vnto them and command thine Angel to sheath his Sword that a remnant may be saued So shall wee all ioyntly magnifie thy Mercies and compasse about thine Altars with songs of deliuerance to our vnspeakeable comfort and to thy euerlasting Glory through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen