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A72738	Certaine praiers collected out of a fourme of godly meditations, set foorth by her Maiesties authoritie in the great mortalitie, in the fift yeere of her Highnesse raigne, and most necessarie to be vsed at this time in the like present visitation of Gods heauie hand for our manifold sinnes, and commended vnto the ministers and people of London, by the Reuerend Father in God, Iohn Bishop of London, &c. Iuly. 1593..	Church of England.; Dyson, Humphrey, d. 1633, former owner.	1593 (1593)	STC 16524; ESTC S123415	7,959	17

vs for our bones are vexed Baruc. 3. Iona. 2. And now in the vexation of our spirites and the anguish of our soules we remember thee and we crie vnto thee heare Lord and haue mercie Dan. 9. For thine owne sake and for thy holie name sake incline thine eare and heare O mercifull Lord. For we do not powre out our praiers before thy face trusting in our owne righteousnesse but in thy great and manifolde mercies Wash vs throughly from our wickednes and clense vs from our sinnes Turne thy face from our sinnes put out all our misdeedes Make vs cleane hearts O God and renew a right spirit within vs. Help vs O God of our saluation for the glory of thy name O deliuer vs and be mercifull vnto our sins for thy names sake Psal 79. So we that be thy people and sheepe of thy Pasture shal giue thee thankes for euer and will alwayes be shewing foorth thy praise from generation to generation Glory be to the Father c. ¶ After this Psalme shal be saide by the Curate or Minister openly and with an high voyce one of these three prayers following At which time the people shall deuoutly giue eare and shall both with minde and speach to themselues assent to the same prayers humbly vpon their knees ❧ A Prayer conteining also a Confession of sinnes Which is to be said after the Letany aswell vpon Sundayes as Wednesdaies and Fridaies O Almightie most iust and mercifull God we here acknowledge our selues most vnwoorthy to lift vp our eies vnto heauen for our conscience doth accuse vs our sins do reprooue vs. Wee knowe also that thou Lord being a iust iudge must needes punish the sinnes of them which transgresse thy Lawe And when wee consider and examine all our whole life wee finde nothing in our selues that deserueth anie other thing but eternall damnation But because thou O Lorde of thy vnspeakable mercie hast commaunded vs in all our necessities to call onelie vpon thee and hast also promised that thou wilt heare our Prayers not for anie our desert which is none but for the merits of thy Sonne our onely Sauiour Iesus Christ whome thou hast ordeined to be our onlie Mediatour and Intercessour We lay away all confidence in man and doe flee to the throne of thy onelie mercie by the intercession of thy only Sonne our Sauiour Iesu Christ And first of all wee doe most lament and bewayle from the bottome of our hearts our vnkindnesse and vnthankefulnesse towardes thee our Lorde considering that besides those thy benefites which wee enioy as thy creatures common with all mankinde thou hast bestowed many and singular speciall benefites vpon vs which wee are not able in heart to conceyue much lesse in wordes worthily to expresse Thou hast called vs to the knowledge of thy Gospell Thou hast released vs from the harde seruitude of Sathan Thou hast deliuered vs from all horrible and execrable Idolatry wherein wee were vtterly drowned and hast brought vs into the most cleare and comfortable light of thy blessed worde by the which wee are taught how to serue and honour thee and howe to liue orderly with our neighbours in trueth and veritie But wee most vnmindefull in times of prosperitie of these thy great benefites haue neglected thy commandements haue abused the knowledge of thy Gospell and haue followed our carnall libertie and serued our owne lustes and through our sinnefull life haue not worshipped and honoured thee as we ought to haue done And nowe O Lorde being euen compelled with thy correction wee doe most humbly confesse that wee haue sinned and haue most grieuously offended thee by many and sundry wayes And if thou O Lorde wouldest now being prouoked with our disobedience so deale with vs as thou might and as we haue deserued there remayneth nothing els to be looked for but vniuersall and continual plagues in this world and hereafter eternall death and damnation both of our bodies and of our soules For if we shoulde excuse our selues our owne consciences would accuse vs before thee and our owne disobedience and wickednesse woulde beare witnesse against vs. Yea euen thy plagues and punishmentes which thou doest nowe lay vpon vs in sundry places doe teach vs to acknowledge our sinnes For seeing O Lord that thou art iust yea euen iustice it selfe thou punishest no people without desert Yea euen at this present O Lorde wee see thy hand terribly stretched out to plague vs and punish vs. But although thou shouldest punish vs more grieuously then thou hast done and for one plague send an hundreth if thou shouldest powre vpon vs all those thy testimonies of thy most iust wrath which in times passed thou powredst on thy owne chosen people of Israel yet shouldest thou doe vs no wrong neyther could wee deny but wee had iustly deserued the same But yet O mercifull Lord thou art our God and wee nothing but dust and ashes Thou art our creatour and we the worke of thy handes Thou art our pastor we are thy flocke Thou art our redeemer and we thy people redeemed Thou art our heauenly father we are thy children wherefore punish vs not O Lorde in thine anger but chasten vs in thy mercy Regard not the horror of our sinnes but the repentaunce thereof Perfite that worke which thou hast begunne in vs that the whole worlde may know that thou art our God and mercifull deliuerer Thy people of Israel often times offended thee and thou most iustly afflicted them but as oft as they returned to thee thou diddest receiue them to mercie And though their sinnes were neuer so great yet thou alwayes turnedst away thy wrath from them and the punishment prepared for them and that for thy couenant sake which thou madest with thy seruantes Abraham Isaac and Iacob Thou hast made the same couenant with vs O heauenly Father or rather a couenant of more excellencie and efficacie and that namely through the mediation of thy deare Sonne Iesus Christ our Sauiour with whose most precious blood it pleased thee that this couenant should be as it were written sealed and confirmed Wherfore O heauenly Father we nowe casting away all confidence in our selues or any other creature doe flee to this most holy couenant Testament wherein our Lord Sauiour Iesus Christ once offered himselfe a sacrifice for vs on the crosse hath reconciled vs to thee foreuer Looke therefore O mercifull God not vpon the sinnes which wee continually commit but vpō our mediatour peace maker Iesus Christ that by his intercession thy wrath may be pacified we again by thy fatherly countenance relieued and comforted Receaue vs also into thy heauenly defence and gouerne vs by thy holy spirite to frame in vs a newenesse of life therein to laude and magnifie thy blessed name for euer and to liue euery of vs according to the seuerall state of life whereunto thou Lorde hast ordeyned vs in godly feare trembling before thee And although

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE FIDES HVMILITAS CERTAINE Praiers collected out of a fourme of godly Meditations set foorth by her Maiesties authoritie in the great Mortalitie in the fift yeere of her Highnesse raigne and most necessarie to be vsed at this time in the like present visitation of Gods heauie hand for our manifold sinnes and commended vnto the Ministers and people of London by the Reuerend Father in God Iohn Bishop of London c. Iuly 1593. Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie ❧ The Preface WE bee taught by many and sundry examples of holy Scriptures that vpon occasion of particular punishments afflictions and perils which God of his most iust iudgement hath sometimes sent among his people to shew his wrath against sinne and to call his people to repentance and to the redresse of their liues the godly haue bene prouoked and stirred vp to more feruencie diligence in prayer fasting and almes deedes to a more deepe consideration of their consciences to ponder their vnthankefulnesse and forgetfulnesse of Gods mercifull benefites towards them with crauing of pardon for the time past and to aske his assistance for the time to come to liue more godly and so to be defended and deliuered from all further perils and dangers 2. Sam. 24 So king Dauid in the time of plague and pestilence which ensued vpon his vaine numbring of the people prayed vnto God with wonderfull feruencie confessing his fault desiring God to spare the people and rather to turne his ire to himward who had chiefly offended in that transgression 2. Chro. 2 2. Reg. 19 The like was done by the vertuous kings Iosaphat and Ezechias in their distresse of warres and foreine inuasions So did Iudith and Hester fall to humble prayers in like perils of their people So did Daniel in his captiuitie Iudith 9.2 Ester 14.1 Dan. 9 4. and many other moe in their troubles Nowe therefore calling to minde that God hath bene prouoked by vs to visite vs at this present with the plague and other grieuous diseases and partly also with trouble of warres It hath bene thought meete to excite and stirre vp all godly people within this Realme to pray earnestly and heartily to God to turne away his deserued wrath from vs and to restore vs as well to the health of our bodies by the wholesomnesse of the aire as also to godly and profitable peace and quietnesse And although it is euery Christian mans duetie of his owne deuotion to pray at all times yet for that the corrupt nature of man is so slouthfull and negligent in this his dutie hee hath need by often and sundry meanes to bee stirred vp and put in remembrance of his duetie For the effectuall accomplishment whereof it is ordered and appointed as followeth First that all Curates and Pastours shall exhort their Parishioners to endeuour themselues to come vnto the Church with so many of their families as may be spared from their necessarie businesse hauing yet a prudent respect in such assemblies to keepe the sicke from the whole in places where the plague reigneth and they to resort not onely on Sundayes and holy dayes but also on Wednesdayes and Fridayes during the time of these present afflictions exhorting them there reuerently and godly to behaue themselues and with penitent hearts to pray vnto God to turne these plagues from vs which wee through our vnthankefulnesse and sinfull life haue deserued Secondly that the sayde Curates shall then distinctly and playnely reade the generall Confession appoynted in the booke of Seruice and the Absolution following Then shall beginne the Lordes prayer Our Father c. Then likewise shall followe O Lord open thou our lips c. Then shall be sayde this Psalme following Psal 95. O come let vs sing vnto the Lorde c. Afterwardes some three of these Psalmes Psal 6.39.51.90 91.94.130 Then for the first Lesson one of these Chapters 2. Samuel 24. 2. Reg. 24. Then Te Deum shall followe Then for the second Lesson one of these Chapters Matth. 6.24 Then Benedictus with the other accustomed prayers Then the Letanie And after the ende of these Collectes O God mercifull Father c. Wee humbly beseech thee c. O Lord our heauenly Father almightie euerlasting God c. O almightie God King of all Kings c. Almightie God which in thy wrath c. shall follow this Psalme one verse sayde by the Minister and an other by the people ¶ The Psalme to be saide in the Letanie Whereof one verse to be saide of the Minister and another by the people Clarke or Clarks Psal 95. O Come let vs humble our selues and fall downe before the Lord with reuerence and feare For he is the Lord our God and we are the people of his pasture and the sheepe of his hands Ose 6.2 Come therefore let vs turne againe vnto our Lord for hee hath smitten vs and he shall heale vs. Actes 3. Let vs repent and turne from our wickednes and our sinnes shal be forgiuen vs. Iona. 3. Let vs turne and the Lorde will turne from his heauie wrath and will pardon vs and we shall not perish Psal 51. For we knowledge our faults and our sins be euer before vs. Lament 3. We haue sore prouoked thine anger O Lord thy wrath is waxed hote and thy heauy displeasure is sore kindled against vs. Thou hast made vs heare of the noise of wars and hast troubled vs by the vexation of enemies Esa 64. Thou hast in thine indignation striken vs with greeuous sickenes and by and by we haue fallen as leaues beaten downe with a vehement winde Iudith 8. Iob 11. Sap. 11. Indeed we acknowledge that all punishments are lesse then our deseruings but yet of thy mercy Lorde correct vs to amendment and plague vs not to our destruction For thy hand is not shortened that thou canst not helpe neither is thy goodnes abated that thou wilt not heare Esa 65. Thou hast promised O Lorde that afore wee crie thou wilt heare vs whilest wee yet speake thou wilt haue mercy vpon vs. For none that trust in thee shal be confounded neither any that cal vpon thee shal be despised Tob. 3. Iob 5. Ose 6. For thou art the only Lord who woundest and doest heale againe who killest and reuiuest bringest euen to hell and bringest backe againe ●●●l 22. Our father 's hoped in thee they trusted in thee and thou diddest deliuer them They called vpon thee and were helped they put their trust in thee and were not confounded Psal 6. O Lord rebuke not vs in thine indignation neither chasten vs in thy heauie displeasure Psal 25. O remember not the sinnes and offences of our youth but according to thy mercie thinke thou vpon vs O Lorde for thy goodnes Haue mercie vpon vs O Lord for we are weake O Lorde heale