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 contenned 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 stuwornely 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 conuert 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 faythfull Seruantes the Prophetes and 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 .