A
Prayer
fit
be
used
in
this
time
of
sicknesse
or
mortality
.
O
Lord
most
just
,
and
Father
most
mercifull
,
thou
it
is
that
renewest
thy
Plagues
against
Man
when
he
offendeth
thee
:
thy
vengeance
from
heaven
is
both
sudden
and
fearefull
toward
the
rebellious
and
disobedient
children
:
thou
for
one
sin
in
King
David
,
destroyedst
with
the
loathsome
disease
of
the
Pestilence
many
thousands
of
his
people
:
cast
thine
eyes
of
mercy
upon
us
,
O
thou
preserver
of
men
,
which
languish
now
in
this
land
,
and
in
this
house
with
the
like
disease
and
sicknesse
.
Now
,
deare
God
,
hath
not
David
onely
offended
thee
,
in
trusting
to
his
strength
,
and
numbring
of
his
people
:
but
even
each
congregation
;
and
every
houshold
hath
one
way
or
other
provoked
thee
to
plague
thy
disobedient
people
:
and
now
that
we
see
thy
plagues
appearing
,
to
the
piercing
and
parting
of
our
bodies
and
soules
asunder
:
Lord
,
we
stand
amazed
in
our
mindes
,
heartily
sighing
with
groanes
at
sight
of
our
sins
.
Now
we
consider
,
we
have
sinned
grievously
,
we
have
done
amisse
,
we
have
dealt
wickedly
,
we
have
lived
ungodly
,
wee
have
swerved
from
the
way
of
truth
,
without
any
godly
feare
or
remorse
of
conscience
:
thy
great
benefit
of
Peace
,
and
rare
blessing
of
long
prosperity
,
under
so
good
and
gracious
a
Governor
,
have
brought
too
too
many
of
us
,
to
such
security
and
contempt
of
Religion
,
that
altogether
forgetting
to
be
thankfull
,
we
have
abused
thy
benefits
as
fast
as
they
came
,
and
that
with
a
churlish
kinde
of
impiety
:
the
thoughts
of
our
hearts
,
the
words
of
our
mouthes
,
and
the
works
of
our
hands
are
vain
,
carnall
,
and
devillish
:
yea
,
our
service
to
thee
oftentimes
but
meere
abomination
:
so
farre
(
alas
)
have
we
erred
from
the
path
of
thy
commandements
.
As
thou
didst
finde
with
the
Israelites
wickednes
in
Gilgal
,
sin
in
Bethel
,
and
iniquity
in
Bershyha
:
so
in
every
Church
,
in
every
Court
,
nay
,
in
every
concourse
or
assembly
amongst
us
,
thou
beholdest
how
the
flesh
hath
overgrown
the
Spirit
,
and
how
reason
is
over-ruled
with
affections
:
so
many
labour
in
these
our
dayes
under
the
displayed
ensigne
of
satan
,
that
very
few
(
deare
Father
)
are
found
setled
in
the
dutifull
form
of
upright
and
spirituall
obedience
,
which
thou
requirest
.
We
confesse
,
thou
mightest
justly
therefore
forsake
us
,
as
we
have
forsaken
thee
:
and
not
onely
proceed
to
sting
the
head-Cities
,
and
whole
body
of
this
land
,
with
sundry
plagues
and
grievous
diseases
;
but
for
our
manifold
sins
and
iniquities
,
which
we
daily
commit
,
thou
mightst
justly
and
worthily
condemne
us
,
man
after
man
,
to
eternall
death
,
all
consciences
being
so
guilty
;
that
they
already
condemne
themselves
.
Yet
who
is
he
(
O
mercifull
Lord
)
that
can
measure
thy
goodnesse
,
who
by
thy
word
doest
oftentimes
being
sinners
to
beliefe
,
repentance
,
and
salvation
?
though
it
be
not
thy
pleasure
(
good
Lord
)
to
make
the
wicked
innocent
,
but
rather
to
visit
their
iniquities
,
yet
have
we
this
comfort
,
that
thy
mercy
to
the
humble
ever
rests
unmeasurable
and
unmoveable
:
though
thou
speakest
to
the
Prophet
against
thine
own
people
,
being
disobedient
to
thee
,
saying
,
Though
Moses
and
Samuel
stood
before
me
,
yet
have
I
no
heart
to
this
people
:
Drive
them
away
that
they
may
go
out
of
my
sight
,
some
unto
death
,
some
to
the
sword
,
and
some
to
captivity
:
yet
we
know
(
O
our
good
God
)
that
when
as
Ephraim
was
heard
lamenting
and
praying
heartily
in
this
distresse
,
thou
thoughtest
then
upon
mercy
,
as
a
Father
pittying
his
own
children
.
This
thy
clemency
to
others
incourageth
us
to
cry
for
thy
mercies
,
in
this
our
misery
,
upon
our
repentance
,
both
for
us
,
ours
,
and
the
whole
land
.
Be
intreated
therefore
to
pitty
this
land
,
and
the
infected
people
thereof
,
that
we
may
all
say
,
The
Lord
liveth
for
ever
,
worthy
of
praise
;
because
he
hath
been
mercifull
unto
sinners
.
Amen
.