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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00667	A perfume against the noysome pestilence prescribed by Moses vnto Aaron. Num. 16. 46. Written by Roger Fenton, preacher of Grayes Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.	1603 (1603)	STC 10800; ESTC S105577	18,874	94

excellent benefite but of all power to be dulye thankefull for the same Wee haue blemished thine honour defaced thine Image brought a cursse vpon our selues and miserable thraldome vpon the rest of thy good creatures Wee haue left our selues nothing but miserie and wretchednesse shame and nakednesse nothing but mortalitie terrours of death fearefull expectation of iudgements and euerlasting confusion And albeit there be left vnto vs some reliques of vnderstanding as the candle-light of nature for direction by which we are able to discerne some few things vnder heauen yet when wee consider how some of our brethren made of the same mould are borne into the worlde naturall fooles and starke ideods who by due might challenge as much as the best of vs wee are thereby driuen to confesse that this small remnant of thine image is deriued vnto vs not by any right of inheritance but onelye by the indulgence of such a faithfull creatour who in the middest of thy iudgementes doest remember mercie Yet cursed creatures that wee are no sooner doe wee receiue a good guift of nature from thee but wee arme our selues thereby the more to worke mischiefe turning sweetenesse into poyson and imploying all the naturall powers and faculties of soule and bodye as instrumentes and weapons of vnrighteousnesse vnto wickednesse Insomuch as if thou shouldest not by thy prouident power binde in that bagge of poyson and restraine the roote of bitternesse within vs but shouldest suffer it to sproute out into the seuerall branches wee should too too soone bewraye what monsters we are Thus are we by nature plunged into the depth of woe and exposed vnto all miserie so that if all the plagues vnder heauen should zease vpon our bodies and send our soules headlong into those hellish torments we doe vnfainedly acknowledge that thou in thy iudgements might thereby reape honour and we our most iust deseruings Yet notwithstanding for all this we are encouraged to approach to thy throne of mercie as to a most gracious God and our louing Father in Iesus Christ O blessed be that sonne who hath taught vs to call thee Father in whose onely name and mediation we come vnto thee beseeching thee vpon our vnseigned repentance to be reconciled vnto vs. Wee repent O Lorde helpe our impenitencie wee are out of loue with our selues we detest our selues for offending such a gratious God we are sorrie for our sinnes and hartilie sorrie that wee cannot bee more sorrie yet accept our endeuours O Lorde and pardon our infirmities Teach vs more and more by thy holye spirite to make the true vse and application of the merites of thy sonne to our soules and consciences Let his humanitie encourage vs with confidēce to come vnto thee in the name of our elder brother Let his holy conception dayly purifie our originall corruption wherein wee were conceaued and borne that it neuer bring forth more of this corrupt and bitter fruite as it hath done in the course of our liues We haue multiplyed manye actuall transgressions and foule offences against thy diuine maiestie but yet thy sonne did neuer transgresse in all his life he was obedient to euery iote and tittle of thy lawe for our sakes looke vppon his righteousnesse We were slaues vnto Sathan but his passion hath redeemed vs bound with the chaine of sinnes but his condemnation before Pilate hath absolued vs borne to eternall death but quickned by his death to euerlasting life cursed creatures we were but his crosse hath blessed vs polluted and vncleane but his bloud hath washed vs. Let all the lusts and affections therefore of our olde man be buried with him that wee may be renewed in spirit by vertue of his resurrection and so shall wee haue the lotte of our heauenly inheritance daylye more and more confirmed vnto vs by his ascention and we secured of all blessings meete and conuenient for the militant estate of thy kingdome by his session at the right hand of the Maiestie Yea these woundes of our consciences which do now seeme to bleed afresh vnder thy heauie hand of visitation shall be suppled and healed vp by the soueraigne vnction of thy gracious spirit descending vpon thy Church and distilling from the head to euery liuely member of the same And seeing thou hast yeelded thus farre vnto vs most gracious Lorde we hope further that thou wilt not denie vs any temporall blessings which may stand with thy glorie and our comfort Then let this great death mortalitie which nowe reigneth bee swallowed vp in the death and passion of our blessed Sauiour Let his sweete Incense make a speedie attonement for vs Let it appease thy wrath which is gone out against vs and stay this plague that is begun amongst vs. O Lorde we haue deserued a thousand plagues wee confesse but wee are sorrie for it Holde thy hand therefore good father and we will doe no more so Lesse of thy iudgement sweete Iesus lesse of thy iudgment and more of thy grace that wee may make the true vse of thy iudgements so shall our happie deliuerance minister matter of praise and thankesgiuing in thy holy congregation to the eternall glorye of thy blessed name and comforte of thine elect children These thinges and whatsoeuer our vnperfect prayers are not able to expresse which thou in wisdome knowest to be needfull for vs and expedient for thy whole Church we humbly begge at thy hands for Iesus Christ his sake thy beloued Sonne and our only Sauiour and redeemer Amen ¶ Another directed by the line of the Lords Prayer to the same purpose O LORD our GOD most Our Father gracious and mercifull we giue thee hūble thankes for that thou hast vouchsafed to giue vs leaue to come so neere thy Maiestie as in the name of children to call thee Father Wee are astonished O Lorde at this great mercie that thou wilt acknowledge vs for thine owne children who are so vnlike the father vglie and deformed as Mephibosheth disobedient and profligate runagates who like the Prodigall sonne haue spent our time and wasted all thy good gifts and blessings in the vanities of this wretched worlde disloyall vnnaturall rebellious as Absolon who by our obstinacie and vnkinde actes by our most cruell and wicked attempts against so tender and louing a Father haue deserued a thousande vntimelye deaths Yet notwithstanding Dauid could bee no more tender in affection and loue towards Absolon then thou art ouer vs thy vngracious and wicked children Hee desired to haue dyed for his Sonne but thou haste giuen thine onely Sonne a thousand times more pretious in thy sight then Absolon could be in Dauids to dye for vs. How shouldst thou not then with him giue vs all things since by him thou hast made vs sonnes wee hope that in him thou wilt denie vs nothing And albeit wee doe nowe feele to our great griefe that we haue greeuouslie offended thee and that thou art highlye displeased with vs yet wee hope this thy correction will

deliuered from all euill Deliuer vs from euill both spirituall and temporall that wee may serue thee not as seruants but with that freedome of spirite which becommeth thy adopted children But especiallie deliuer vs from that great euill the Deuill the archeenimie to thee and thy Church in whose kingdome and power all euill is included These thinges graunt vnto vs O gracious Sauiour not for ought in vs but for thy owne For thine is thy kingdom c. names sake for hereby thy kingdome shall be enlarged thy power manifested and thy name gloryfied wherevnto with hart and voyce we most willinglie subscribe saying Amen A Prayer to be said by those whose houses be infected GRATIous God whoe in Christ Iesus art the Father of mercies and God of all consolation Wee thy poore creatures nowe humbled vnder thy mightie hand in soule and bodie entirelye desire thy Fatherlye goodnesse to pardon and forgiue vs all our sinnes which haue so poysoned and infected our soules as the contagion thereof hath euen zeased vpon the outward man Cleanse and washe vs wee beseech thee in the blood of the Lambe that the sting of death neuer haue power ouer vs vnto a second death Confirme and strengthen vs in the faith of thy sonne against all the temptations of Sathan comfort vs in thy promises against the force of death perfect our repentance in the due examination of our selues and assure our consciences by the testimonie of thy spirite that whether wee liue or dye wee shall bee thine As it is thy propertie alwayes to haue mercie so haue thy mercies euer-more then shined moste gloriouslye when wee stand in greatest need of them which thing of all others hath been the greatest comfort to thy children in their greatest distresse that though they haue walked through the vallyes of the shadowe of death yet they haue feared no euill because thou hast euer beene with them yea thy rodde and thy staffe hath then beene moste readye for to comforte them Deare Father now is the time yea the time is come wherein wee long for mercie death is at the doore in the house it compasseth vs round wee walke in the vallie of the shaddowe of death Giue vs grace that wee feare no euill for death is but a shaddowe the strength and substance of it is taken awaye in the death of thy Sonne the sting is lost in the wounds of our blessed Sauiour it may scare vs a little but cannot hurt vs. And though wee bee compassed in that wee come not foorth though wee bee shutte vp from our neighbours and depriued of all earthly comforte yet bee thou present with vs by thy blessed spirite and wee shall not be desolate for thou Lorde alone shall make vs dwell in safetie Open therefore our eyes of faith that we may discerne a greater force of spirituall souldiers with vs then against vs. Let thine Angels guarde vs in this miserable life from all euill vntill they carrie our soules into thy fatherlye bosome Heauenly Father who hast made vs preserue vs for thou art a faithfull Creatour who delightest not in destroying the worke of thine owne hands Sweete IESVS thou sonne of the Father who hast redeemed vs keepe vs for thou hast deerely bought vs. Holye spirite of comforte that hast taken such paines with vs dwell in vs vnto the end and in the end Blessed Trinitie Father Sonne and Holy-ghost who haue created redeemed and preserued vs thus farre leaue vs not at the laste gaspe but heare our cryes receiue our prayers eyther to the restoring of vs in this life to the glorifying of thy name amongst men or if it bee thy pleasure to the receiuing of vs into thy euerlasting habitations These things and what-so-euer else may stande with thy good pleasure and our comforte wee begge them at thy hands O eternall Deitie not onelye in the name and mediation of IESVS CHRIST because wee are vnworthye to offer anye thing in our owne names but also because our prayers are vnperfect and earthlie wee come in his very wordes and prescript forme of Prayer who is best acquainted with the stile of heauen and with whose name and prayer and wordes thou must needes be well pleased Our Father which art in heauen Hallowed be thy name c. FINIS