Continue we beseeche thee , ( O most gracious Father and eternall God ) this thine inestimable loue , and vndeserued fauour vnto vs although we haue iustly by the meanes of our greeuous contempt of thy graces , our innumerable wickednesses and immeasurable ingratitude deserued the contrary : yet for thy sonne Christ his sake , moste gracious God and louing Father , lay not the multitude of our sinnes to our charge , but be mercifull vnto vs , that with bitter teares sue vnto thee for thy mercie , loue , and fatherly fauoure .

Vpholde we beseeche thee amongst vs , as graciously thou hast doone hetherto , the sincere preaching of thy Gospell , ( O most mighty Iehoua ) and giue vs grace without wauering , to hold fast the staffe of thy blessed promises , and to beleeue without faining the sacred testimonies contained in thy holy Lawe . Keepe vs good Lorde vnder the winges of thy defence from the sedicious and damnable doctrine of Antichrist , that man of sinne , which exalteth himselfe aboue God , robbing him of his glorye and honour , in making our Sauiour Christ Iesus , insufficient by his painefull death and bloody passion , to purchase vs the price of our redemption , and thereby to raunsome vs from the infernall lake of hell and damnation .

Plucke the seales of ignoraunce we most hartely beseeche thee ( O most louing God and heauenly father ) from the eyes of all Christian Princes , and at thy good pleasure giue vnto them the good feeling of thy grace , that by the diuine w●rking of the same , they may perfectly vnderstand , and faithfully beleeue thy holy Gospell . Make them of persecuting Saules , to become conuerted Paules , that they with vs , and we with them , may glory and triumphe in the fall of Babilon , and studie in all theyr and our actions , as it becommeth redeemed Christians to aduaunce and set foorth the glory of thy holy name .

And cheefely and especially , ( O gracious God and louing father ) we commende vnto thee in these our prayers and supplications at this present , according to our bounden dueties , the estate of thy chosen seruaunt , our soueraigne Lady , Queene Elizabeth . Be thou vnto her as thou hast from the beginning to her last ending . O most heauenly father , a Bulwarke of defence against all her and our enemies . Weaken and make feeble for thy sonne Christ his sake we beseeche thee the perrilous practi●es , and dangerous deuises of all peruerse and sedicious Papists , which indeuour to withstand and resist thy trueth , to persecute thee afresh in thy members , and to ouerthrow thine annointed . Stretch foorth thy hand O heauenly Father , and euer defend thy handmayd from those deuouring Bulles of Basan , which haue bent their hornes against her , hardning their hartes in their vngodlines , to worke the confusion of so vertuous and godly a Princesse . Keepe thou ( O good Lorde ) her highnes from the murmuring of Dathan , Coran , and Abiram , which enuie the godly estate of her gouernment , and let theyr reward bee shame and confusion , which imagine to worke her highnes any harme .

Defende thou ( O heauenly Father ) by the powre of thy prouidence , our happie Heaster , from the conspiracy of all hatefull Hamons , that thirst after the blood of the righteous , intendinge by treachery to worke the spoyle of thine inheritaunce , yea let their deuillish deuises be brought to naught , and let them perish in their vngodlines , that heaue vp their hands against thyne annointed . Keepe her farre off good Lord we beseeche thee , from all such ambitious minded Absolons , as haue determined to alter the estate of her most gracious gouernment , and let their hire be shame and confusion that haue conspired against her and thy people . Gyue her highnes power and strength from aboue , with victorious Iudith , to draw the sword , and to cutte of the heades of all such drunken Holoferneses , as are become drunken with the deuillish dregges of Antichrist , supersticious popery and treasonne : yea , let them be taken in theyr owne snares , and fall into the pytte which they haue digged for the destruction of the innocent . thus we thy poore people shall reioyce in thy wonderous workes and make our continuall boastes of thy prayses . Establishe wee beseeche thee ( O good Lord ) the throne of her highnes , make her an olde and aged mother in the house of Israell , to aduaunce the trueth of thy testament to reedify Ierusalem , and to plucke vp by the rootes all such wicked weedes and pestilent plants , as are not grafted by Iesus Christ , in the precious vineyard of his eternall trueth . Endue her with wisedome from aboue , garnish her with the health of body and minde : and plant about her as thou hast doone from the beginning , euen to her last ending , wise and godly Counsaylers , that by theyr foresight and her gracious gouernment , sinne may be suppressed , vertue aduaunced , trueth maintained , Idolatry defaced , and the horne of thine honour for euer bee continually exalted . Increase the number of godly Subiects , and giue vs grace we beseeche thee O eternall God , truely to serue and worshippe thee , to hate sinne , to flye farre from the fellowship of the vngodly , and to abound in all obedience , loue and duety towardes thee and her maiesty . And then thou like a louing father and most gracious God , wilt mercifully stretch foorth vnto vs the assured Scepter of thy euerlasting fauour : double the dayes of our soueraigne , to our exceeding ioy and comfort . Multiply our peace , confounde and ouerthrowe all her and our enemies , as well forraine as domesticall , powre vppon vs plenti●lly inthis life , the euerlasting dewes of thy mercy and grace , and in the world to come , make vs partakers of those celestiall ioyes which Christ Iesus hath prepared for the number of his elect in his heauenly kingdome : the which God for his sonne Christe his sake graunt vs . Amen .