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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19244	An approved medicine against the deserued plague	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1593 (1593)	STC 566; ESTC S108496	7,273	18

Iesus we call vnto thée And Lord it is high time for our head Citie is sicke hir Sister Cities grone vnder this burden their neighbor people are turned to their earth and no part is frée from the noysome pestilence It flyeth by day it walketh in the darke it destroyeth at noone tide none can resist it but onely thou O Lord which sent it euen thou onely if thou wilt canst vtterly restrayne it O déere father forgiue vs wretched sinners relieue vs miserable wretches remember that we are but earth and ashes yet in thy mercie thy déere children deliuer vs from death and worke life in vs. Let this thy louing rodde ridde vs of our carnal rust and quicken vs with thy sanctifying spirit open our harts to thy holy word purge our cōsciences from all dead works and rebuild vs fit for thy holy seruice giue vs patience in euerie aduersitie an humble and regardant eye in all prosperitie feruent spirits to pray to thée and now to giue thée no rest till thou vouchsafe to haue mercy vppon vs. Our Prince thine holy Anoynted prayeth for vs hir potētates thy preaching ministers and sanctified people mourne and lament Thy wydows and desolate Orphanes yea thy smal and tender Infants cry lifting vp pure hands swéete Lord say they haue mercy And now O Lord both one and all powring out the teares of our hearts vnto thée most humbly besech thée relieue vs release vs heare vs forgiue vs reuiue vs preserue vs protect vs deliuer vs from euill and receaue vs into thy euerlasting fauor through Iesus Christ our Lord To whome with thée and the holy Ghost thrée distinct persons and one onely our good God be all honour and glory for euer and euer Amen An earnest prayer for the Queenes most excellent Maiestie O Lord God holy Father infinitly wise omnipotent and aboundant in mercie mightie in worke iust in reuenge which for the common conuerse of all men hast planted them plats put them vnder soueraigne auctoritie through which good gouernmēt they might most firmely liue and loue one another most wisely ordaining each one to haue mutuall need and occasioned entercourse one with another Sondry which Royall staues of bewtie and bands eftsoones thou hast broken into shieuers when by ouermuch prouocation contempt thy awonted long suffering hath bene abused as therby vnder a sparing chastisement to reduce them or by a deadly blow vtterly to subuert them O Lord magnificent by thee it is that Kingdomes are and Kings doe raigne Puttest downe one setteth vp another as where when it pleaseth thee in all euery place vnder the Coape of heauen Wee thy chosen children and people of England magnifie thy mercies and prayse thy power for giueing preseruing vnto vs a most rare and pearelesse Queene our Soueraigne Ladie ELIZABETH by whose sacred scepter thy holy Church this common weale and many other Nations and people haue found both celestiall blessings and terrestrial comforts The faithful Protestant from whersoeuer findeth heere a secure fertile norcery The wilfull papist sitteth vnder his Vyne the malcontent carnall hath long lasting fauour but euery of which by hir haue from thee O Lord thy gospell to reclayme them hir Scepter to protect them with a sweet rod in sparing hand to refine them Hir disloyall subiects at home hir professed enimies abroad of all sorts thou hast miraculously brought vnder or to vtter confusion For the which wee render vnto thee continuall praise And inasmuch O Lord as our life the light of the land thy golden Candlestick is deadly darckned in the want of hir Lord still giue vs thy bountifull mercie and therein preserue hir Highnesse long to raigne ouer vs. Encrease thy graces in hir hir goodnesse to vs to thaduaunce of vertue suppression of vice Keepe thyne anoynted our Soueraigne from the trechery of dissembling subiects and mallice of the forren foe Hide hir vnder the shadow of thy wings from the noysome pestilence and defend hir against the hurtfull sword that our selues and families may liue in peace our land may yeld hir encrease that no inuasion Psal 144.10 may empeach vs or going out may daunt vs nor any crying be in our streetes Deare Father graunt hir our Soueraigne a swift eye and speedie rescue from the subtill snare of euery wily hunter Giue hir Lord fast and not faylling confederats Wise and faithfull Councellors loyall and louing subiects and so in thy mercie keepe vs from euill that wee prouoke not thy iudgements to depriue vs of our chiefest comfort Graunt this O Father through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen The Preface MY Father hauing speciall care of Stepny his great charge Hath made sweet prayers for their cōfort their harts to God enlarge And I desirous of your health my bretheren Sisters all Haue sent you these to traine you vp rather on God to call For th' health and wealth of our parents our selues and neighbours eke Pray we to God with one accord for so it is most meete And so my bretheren fare you well with all my sisters deere God graunt that we may giue vnto gods word attentiue eare Antony Anderson Iunior A prayer for the infection of the plague 1593. O Lord our God omnipotent of mercy wee thee craue Poure downe thy truth most excellent that we the same may haue And cease O Lord thy iry rod which doth opresse vs sore And giue vs true repentance Lord that wee may sinne no more Cease now O Lord thy heauie hand the Father wee entreate And let vs in our harts thy woord full often times repeate From thee O Lord wee cannot fly Thy power doth so excell But keepe from vs we thee beseech thy rod which is most fell But giue to vs O Lord of might the pardon of our sinne And take thy plague from vs O Lord that heere of long hath bin Giue vs O Lord thy holy word which alwaies is most true And giue vs grace to praise thy name for praise to thee is due Remember blessed Lord thy flock which else is like to pyne And take from vs that heauie clogge which loads vs at this tyme. Thy will be done O Lord of might as seemeth best to thee For thou wilt strike where thou thinkst best no man a lette can bee When it shall please thy maiestie to take this life away Receaue our soules vnto thy Throne to liue with thee for aye O Lord preserue our noble Queene our realme and people both And keep vs from the deadly feare of thyne eternall wroth Graunt our request O Lord of might for Christ his sake thy sonne And take away thy cruell plague that now is vs among Finis qd Anthony Anderson iunior