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A06079	A prayer to be sayd in the end of the mornyng prayer daily (through the dioeces of Norwich) during the tyme of this hard and sharp wether of frost and snow to craue mercye for our synnes and release of this sore punishment at the mercifull handes of our good and gracious God	Church of England.	1571 (1571)	STC 16510.5; ESTC S4764	3,713	2

A Prayer to be sayd in the end of the mornyng prayer daily through the dioeces of Norwich during the tyme of this hard and sharp wether of frost and snow to craue mercye for our synnes and release of this sore ponishment at the mercifull handes of our good and graciouse God. O Thou most great most mightie and terrible God the God of Hostes Lord of all power at whose mightie presence the Angells do trimble all powers dominations do drede feare at whose becke all creature in Heauen Earth do bow ●…cy at whose terrible contenaunce the elementes do ●…e shrinke awaye thou touchest the Earth makest 〈◊〉 shake thou touchest the mounteyns makest them ●…oke thy voyce is a mightie and valeaunt voyce thy 〈◊〉 deuideth the waters in sonder brakethe the Cedar 〈◊〉 in pieces at thy pleasure thou gyuest snow like woll ●…rest the hoare frost like asshes thou castest forthe thy ●…e morselles who can abyde the cold therof thou sen●… forthe thy word meltest them agayne thou doest ●…inges as it pleaseth the in Heauen in Earth in the 〈◊〉 in all depe places ●ent with true repentaunce we ●…hethe our hard stonye harts make vs soft fleshy 〈◊〉 wryte in them thy holy lawes graue them depe 〈◊〉 a chesell of stele that they may so sinke settle in our ●…s that we neuar depart from them agayne in dede ●…aue sinned we haue committed iniquitie we haue 〈◊〉 wickedly before thy Maiestie we haue gone a waie 〈◊〉 y O Lord haue not harkned to thy voyce which 〈◊〉 hast vttered vnto vs by thy Seruants the Prophets ●…stles Ministers we haue contēned to do thy word ●…r rebelled against thy most holy will. And therfore ●…dinge to the truth of thy promise thou hast iustly pow●… upon vs the tokenes of thy displeasure as thou hast 〈◊〉 by thy seruant Moses Yf ye will not obey me but 〈◊〉 on stuvvornely against me I will ponish you yet ●…times more according to your synnes I will breake ●…ride of your pour and I will make your Heauen as 〈◊〉 your Earth as brasse I will smyte you with fa●… with sicknes with heate with cold I will destroy ●…bours of your handes the fruytes of the Earth your ●…s cattell According to thy threates thou hast sent 〈◊〉 impenitent sumers from tyme to time thy greate ●…rable plages as water fyre sworde pestilence fa●… wild beastes cruell enemies froggs fliese locustes ●…oppers caterpillers meldewes blastinges hayle ●…es frost snowe thunder lightninges draught ●…es heat and cold which all be iust rewards for sin ●…h thinges O Lorde we fele now in part to our 〈◊〉 grefe to be full true We haue hardned our hartes ●…ust thy word and therfore hast thou hardned the earth ●…st vs We haue bene colde in loue to the and to our ●…rne therfore the aer is now frosen vnto vs we haue ●…en our eyes from beholdinge thy truth therfore the ●…h hydeth her face from vs we haue turned our ●…s toward thee therfore thou turnest thy face from We haue not brought forth the good fruytes of true re●…nce therfor the fruytes of the earth are taken from ●…e haue not obeyd thee our Lord and creatour ther●…he creatures which thou madest for our vse refuse to 〈◊〉 vs For we haue abused them vainly proudly rio●…y wantonly excessiuely vnmercyfully and vnchari●y Wherfore they be both weried ashamed to maintaine our lewde life any more Our sinnes haue separated thee and thuse of thy creatures from vs We haue deceyued our selues in the wayes of our onne vanities thinkinge our selues to be wyse we are proued starke fooles in our welth iolitie we wold not acknowleg thee Wher fore throughe necessitie we are dryuen to seke thee We haue bene both vmnindfull and vnthankfull for thy manifold and wonderfull benefites continuallye powred vpon vs therfore be vnworthy to receyue any more We hyde not our sinnes from the O Lord our mercifull Father but confesse with sorowfull hartes sighing soules that the offence heauy displeasure of thy mightie Maiestie a thousand tymes more greueth vs then all the plages and ponishmentes in the worlde yea though we suffred the tormentes of hell we do not defend our sinnes but vtterly defye them we do not excuse our selues befor thee which knowest the secrete of all hartes but accuse our sinnes to be the cause of all our euelles wo to our wickednes that hath offended thee it is we that haue offended we do acknowlege it we do sele it we do earnestlye repent it As we haue sowne so do we reape as we haue layde vp so do we find as we haue deserued so do we receyue euen the bitter cup of thy descrued wrath Loke done O Lorde from heauen with thy pitefull eyes behold our lamentable estate the deepe snow hath ouerwhelmed the Earth the nipping frost hath consinned the fruytes therof thou that bringest forthe herbes and grasse for the vse of man beast behold all is consumed and spent almost thou that preseruest man beast make som prouision for both the cattell do groue make pitiouse complaynt the heards do low the flockes do bleet the byrdes do crie to the for succour and relese Lorde if they sterue our bodyly foode doth perish for thou hast gyuen them vnto vs for meat they haue not sinned but we haue transgressed they nede not to repent but we which haue offended we do confesse we are vnworthy of thy fauour mercie yet thou dealest not so hardly with vs as thou hast done with many forlike offences whereas thou mightest worthyly plage vs as thou hast done them in thy sodeyne wrath but thou warnest vs with lesser stourges then we deserue that we should tourne to thee with our hole harte which of our selues we are not hable to do without thee wherfore cōuert vs O Lorde and we shal be conuerted vnto thee Renue thou a right sprite within vs then shall we walke in thy waies who can make clene that which is conceyued in vncleuenes but thou alone no man can come vnto thee excepte thou drowest him vnto the thou art good and we be euill thou art holy and we prophayne thou art pure and we polluted thou art iust we vniust thou art life we in death thou art the physition and we thy patientes thou art ioy and gladnes and we be sorowfull sadd thou art veritie and we be vanitie thou art mercy and we in myserye to whom should we flye in our distres but vnto thee if thou refuse vs who will receyue vs O Lorde impert these rich and plentifull graces of thine vnto vs that be poore nedie and beggerly full of all noughtyues and voyde of all goodnes thou art our creator we thy creatures dispise not O Lorde the worke of thine owne handes thou arte our God cast vs not from thee which be thy people thou art our King defend vs thy subiectes thou art our Pastore seke vp and saue vs thy lost shepe thou art our Father gyue vs thy Children our dayly breade remembre thy dere Soue Iesus Christ in whon thou art pleased pacified who is with the our aduocate and patrone whose intercession for vs can not be vaine he is our head preserue vs his membres he is our bridgrome by thy graciouse consent cast vs not of his dearly bought sponse Thou hast promised O deare Father to heare vs in his name yf we had not sinned we are thine if we sin yet through him we are thyne though we be vnworthy through our offences yet is our Christ worthye for whose cause thou shouldest graunt our petious and greater is thy glory more large thy liberalitie to gyue to those that be vnworthy it is a worthie thing for thee to make the vnworthy to be worthy wherin thy grace doth most abound thou hast promised by thy say thfull Seruantes the Prophetes aud Apostles that if we repent thou wilt no more remembre our offences Lord thou knowest our seble nature how we be but dust and asshes frayle stoble corruption and wormes of the earth more vaine then nanitie it self what praise can be to the O mightye Lorde to stryue with dust and ashes what strength is that to fight agaynst vayne shadowes what power can that appeare to beat downe rotten stoble what greate renowne is that to thee to tread downe sely crawling wormes and dryue them into dust yt is Enough for thee O Lion most victoriouse of the tribe of Inda that we fall downe before thy face and yeld our selues to thee then thyne angre hath an end We are heare O Lorde before thy Maiestie falling to the ground confessinge our sinnes with sorowfull hartes and sobing sighes in fasting weping and turning wholely vnto thee cranyng Perdon for all our misdedes proinising amendment and reforming of our synfull life accordinge to thy holy worde beseching thee most hartely to indue vs with thy principall sprite euer to guyde direct vs in the waies of thy lawes and workes of thy commaundementes and vpon this our most humble submission to take awaye if it be thy fatherly will and most for thy glory and our commoditie this hard sharpe wether melt this snow miligate this frost make bare the face of the Earth bring forth fruytes and grasse for the vse of man beast gyue seasonable wether preserue the kindes of beast and foule which thou hast made for the seruice of man that both in these benefites all other thy creatures we may acknowlege thee our mightie Lorde graciouse God in knowlege we may truly worship the in worshipyng may loue thee in loue may euer cleaue fast to thee without all separation to glorifye thee in thy euerlastinge kingdom through the merits of thy dearly beloued Sone our onely Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ in whose name we are commaunded to aske and what so euer is nedefull according to thy will we shall obtaine wherfore through him we are bold to come vnto the throne of thy grace saiyng as he hath taught vs. Our Father which art in Heauen c. ¶ God Saue the Queene ❀ ¶ Seane and allowyd ❀ ¶ Imprinted at Norw ch in the parish of St. Andrewe by Antho de Solempne 16●● ❀