First , A Confession of sinnes .

O Eternall , Almighty , and iust God , mercifull , louing , and holy Father , wee thy humble seruants humbly confesse and acknowledge here in thy presence , that all the imaginations of the thoughts of our hearts are onely euill continually , yea euery man in his best estate is altogether vanitie . And we ( dust and ashes ) haue grieuously sinned , wee haue transgressed thine holy lawes and ordinances , we haue exceeded in measure , number and weight , the iniquities of our forefathers , and haue thereby iustly deserued that thou shouldest in thy iust iudgement haue drawne forth the sword of thy iustice , and executed vengeance , euen in the highest degree against vs , according to the measure , number and weight of our manifold sinnes and haynous iniquities , we are not worthy of the least of all thy mercies . Wee humbly also confesse and acknowledge ( euen against our selues ) that neither thousands of Rammes , nor tenne thousand riuers of oyle ( if we were able and willing to yeeld them vnto thee ) are sufficient to satisfie thy iustice for the least of the iniquities which we haue committed against thee , if thou shouldest turne thine eye of mercy and compassion away from vs ; and these things heretofore we confessed ( O Lord ) but our liues we amended not . And yet notwithstanding ( O mercifull Lord , holy and louing Father ) so great is thy louing kindnesse towards vs , and so manifold are thy mercies , that thou ( of thy fauour ) hast beene pleased ( euen in pittie and compassion for thine owne sake , without any desert of ours ) to pacifie thine owne wrath , by a few light and easie strokes with thy rod of correction , and so for a time to cease thine anger , to trie vs if we would seeke after thee , not suffering thy punishing Angel to passe through Ierusalem and Iudea , London , and other these dominions , with a swift course and heauy hand , as in the dayes of King Dauid . And ( finding vs a rebellious and stiff-necked people ) hast sent out thine Angel to threaten and execute vengeance in greater weight , and in greater measure against vs , if we will not amend . And yet in fauour stayest from executing thy fierce wrath . What shall we then offer vnto thee ( O Lord our God ) for all the blessings which we haue reciued from thee ? Thou hast no neede to receiue of vs , all beasts , all cattell , all sheepe on mountaines ; yea the earth is thine , and all that therein is , the world , and they that dwel therein , we our selues , and all that we haue are thine , what haue we that we haue not receiued of thee ? We confesse ( O Lord ) euen against our selues , that we haue nothing to offer but the calues of polluted lippes , proceeding from vncleane & vncircumcised hearts , that is , praise , thankes , and prayer , and the same ( if thou shouldest consider them as they are ours ) very ful of vanities and corruptions .

Secondly , A thanksgiuing for deliuerances .

SVch as we haue ( yet ) O mercifull father , we ( more humbly and more freely , and hartily , then heretofore ) offer vnto thy Maiestie . Wee praise thy holy , great and glorious name , and we yeeld vnto thee humble and hearty thankes for thy great & wonderfull deliuerances ; deliuerances from pestilence , famine , & sword , heretofore worthily threatned against vs , & for other thy manifold fauors & blessings bountifully bestowed vpon this Citty , and vpon this Land , & ( now especially Lord ) for thy great mercie , in that thou art pleased , euen now at this present , once againe to touch the people of this Land for their triall , with thy louing rodde of fatherly correction , rather then in iustice to powre out the violls of thy wrath , vtterly to consume vs for our vnthankefulnesse and disobedience .

Thirdly , A Prayer for continuance of Gods mercies .

ANd we humbly and hartily pray thee ( O Lord ) euen for thine owne names sake , and for thy Sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christes sake , lay not to our charge our offences past , forgiue vs our iniquities , couer our sinnes , and impute them not vnto vs , and then wee shall be blessed . Purge , frame , and forme our hearts anew ; soften them , and make them repentant and obedient , willing freely without backe-sliding or halting to yeelde obedience vnto that spirite which saith : Giue me the hart ; deliuer vs also ( holy Father ) not onely from perishing by waters , according to thy mercifull and gratious promise made of olde , but also from that aboundance of waters , which may kill , hurt and hinder , the seede or fruits of the earth , and giue vs holy Father ( as gratiously in great mercie thou hast giuen vs ) onely that former and that latter raine , commended in thy holy word , and other seasonable and temperate weather , which may yeeld vnto the good seede of the ground , as now , so hereafter , ( by thy blessing ) in times conuenient life , growth and increase , so as we may by thy gracious fauour , as this yeare , so others also , at length reape the fruites of plentifull haruests : And because so it is ( Lord ) that thou makest a land barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein , change thou our hearts ( we humbly beseech thee ) roote out the wickednesse from the hearts of the inhabitants of the land , and then we shall be sure that the land shall yeeld her increase . Giue vs O Lord thy grace and holy spirit , to guide and gouerne vs , and to hold vs within the lists and limites of thy holy precepts and ordinances , in such sort , as that we may for euer hereafter , vse thy word as the onely wise , and al-sufficient rule to square our lines by , knowing that all vnwritten verities , and all traditions , and inuentions of men , yea all the imaginations of the thoughts of our hearts are onely euill continually ; let thy word be a lanthorne to our feete , and a light vnto our pathes , knowing that therein is the true Kings high-way to be found , that leadeth to euerlasting life and saluation , and that all other wayes which haue not warrant from thence ( if thou shalt in iudgement looke into them ) will be found to be but by-paths , leading to eternall death and destruction . Giue vs ( O Lord ) a holy and earnest desire , often to heare thy holy and heauenly word : giue vs wise , vnderstanding , faithfull and obedient hearts , that we may truely vnderstand , & faithfully belieue ; & may ( not for feare , or fashion , or for any other worldly respect whatsoeuer , but in a true obedience for conscience sake ) fruitfully practise in our liues and conuersations thine holy statutes & ordinances . Continue thy grace , mercy , and accustomed louing kindnesse ( O Lord we beseech thee for thine owne names sake , and for thy Sonne our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christes sake ) vnto King Iames our blessed Dauid , and vnto the Queene , and the Prince his sonne , and to all his royall progeny . And grant ( if it be thy good pleasure ) that he may attaine to the yeares of the eldest of his Fathers , in the dayes of their Pilgrimage , set vp his seede after him ( Lord we beseech thee ) and stablish the throne of his Kingdome in his posteritie in all ages , so as there may not want a man of his seede to sit vpon his throne , to feede people in Iacob , and thine inheritance in Israel , so long as the heauen and the earth indure . Be mercifull also vnto all Israel , Ierusalem , and Iudea , London , and all the Kings Dominions ; and to the Magistrates and Ministers of thy holy word and sacraments . In their seuerall degrees , dignities , and callings , giue them ( O Lord we beseech thee ) a true loue and zeale of the execution of thy holy lawes , that they may ( according to thine owne appointments ) faithfully , dilligently , and with a religious care and conscience , of the aduancement of the glorious gospel of thy Sonne our Lord and Sauior Iesus Christ , discharge that great charge and weightie burthen which thou hast laide vpon them : and stop the entry and passage ( O Lord ) both to Magistracie and Ministery , so as neither rauening wolues deuourers , nor wily foxes deceiuers of thy stocke , nor any others , but such onely as thou knowest to be furnished with gifts fit for the discharge of those great and weighty callings , be suffered to enter or passe thereunto . We vse meanes ( O Lord ) to preserue health , and to auoide and expulse infection : But we depend not vpon them , we trust not in them , wee humbly confesse , that no good successe , no blessing , can come but from thee , and by thee alone : and therefore we humbly and hartily pray thee to giue successe , and to yeeld thy blessing thereunto , and to say once againe to thine Angel , Hold now thy hand . More particularly ( O holy Father ) continue also ( we beseech thee ) thy mercy and louing kindenesse to the little flocke within this house , and to thy humble and vnworthy seruant whom thou ( of thy fauor ) hast appointed to be ouerseer thereof , and giue vnto them thy grace in such measure that they may so walke euery of them in their seuerall places and callings , as may be agreeable to thy holy and blessed wil , through Iesus Christ our Lord and onely Sauiour . In whose name wee humbly further pray vnto thee for these and all other things which thou in thy wisdome knowest to be most meete for vs , and for thy whole Church , in that forme of prayer which he himselfe hath taught vs . Our Father which art in heauen , &c.