O Lord GOD almighty and Father moste merciful , who thoughe thou be dayly prouoked to wrathe and vengeaunce by the grieuous offenses and sinnes of vs thy most disobedient children , yet neuerthelesse art so pacient and of such long sufferaunce , that thou holdeste thy rod , tyll by our outrageous contemptes and most wilfull breakinges of th● commaundementes thou art for our correccion constreigned to strike : remember good Lord thine accustomed goodnesse towardes thy people , whome of thine owne fatherly thendernesse thou hadest euer more lieffer to saue than to spill , to emend them , to destroy , to forgeue then to punyshe . What soeuer scourge or affliecions thou diddest in old time eyther threaten or laye vpon the stubberne & vnrepentaunce people of Israell , yet dyddest thou neuer shutte vp thy mercies from them whan soeuer they woulde wyth all their herte returne vnto the. Gene. 18. Whan the crye of Zodome & Gomorre came vnto thyne eare for their most grieuous abominacions : yet such is thy readines to shew mercy , that at the prayer of thy seruaunt Abraham thou madeste promisse to saue the cityes and not to destroy them . Firste if fifty , secondely if fourtye fiue , than yf fortye , afterwarde if thirty , Ioan. 3. at last if twenty , yea finally if tenne righteous persones could haue bene found in them . Whan thy Prophete Ionas had proclaimed the destruccion of Niniue for their great and manifolde sinnes : yet for their repentaunce sake , thou diddest most gladly and readily call backe thy sore sentence afore pronounced against them . 4. Re. 20 Whan thy Prophete Isay had at thy commaundemente declared to Kynge Ezechias that he shoulde not scape death , yet for his herty prayers sake thou diddest reuoke that sentence agayne , & diddest adde , fyfteen yeares vnto his dayes . And we also now O Lorde acknowledge our manifold sinnes and most grieuous transgressions . We confesse that we haue moste iustely deserued this sodayn plague & mortall disease and a greate deale wurse . We graunt that we haue by oure wickednesse , moste worthely enkendled thy wrathe and indignacion against vs . But o Lord what is man that thou wouldest matche thy selfe to trye in battaill agaynst him : What glory should it be , to the o Lorde , if thou shouldeste destroy all fleash beyng but chaf and duste . Remember good Lord that yf thou wilt stand in triall with vs , we haue nothynge to lay for our selfes , nor can be hable to stande in iudgemente before the. We therfore appeale from thy iustice vnto thy mercy , whyche for thy names sake & for thine owne glory , thou hast in thine eternall woorde and trueth promysed vnto all suche as will earnestly emend and conuert vnto the. Spar vs therefore good Lorde , and like as thou hast at this presente sent vnto vs this sodayn plague both as a warning of thy greate indignacion for oure most grieuous sinnes , and also for a token that except we will now emende , we cannot escape thy handes to be beaten with a sharper rodde : so graunte O Lorde that thys maye be vnto vs an holsome medicyne for oure emendement of lyfe , and that it may all together redounde vnto thy glorye , so that whether we lyue or dye we maye styll bee thy people , and thou still our God and most tendre louing Father . And forasmuch as euerye good gyfte of true fayth & repentaunce cometh from the geue vs thy grate that we may by this thy most tendre and fatherly correccion , returne from our did iniquities whych haue now prouoked thy wrathe , and also that from hensforth we may serue the in all holinesse and purenesse of lyfe , wherby thy glorye may encrease , and thy name may be magnified . Yea euen emong them that other wise are blasphemers of thy most holy Ghospell , and doe impute vnto the knowledge of thy most holy woorde sent vnto the world in these later times , al the plagues . Which haue bene prouoked by oure stubbernesse and hardenesse of herte . But heare thou O Lorde the hertye prayers of the faithfull litell flocke trustyng in thy only mercy : and graunte thys oure petycyon for thy Sonne IESVS Christes sake , to whom with the , and thee Holye Ghooste bee all prayse , honoure and glorye for euer and euer . Soo bee it .