Chap. 2. the. 15. Diuision.
And so haue I (*) 1.1 aunswered vnto those thinges, whiche are conteyned in the. 202. 203. pages, sauing that I must admonishe the reader, that whereas you will proue that we oughte to haue an ordinary prayer, to be deliuered from daunger of Thunder, Lightninges. &c. bicause there are ex∣amples of certayne that haue bene kylled thereby, you might as well bryng in a prayer, that men maye not haue failes from their horses, maye not fall into the handes of robbers, maye not fall into waters, and a number such more sodayne deathes, wherewith a greater number are taken awaye, than by thunderinges or lighteninges, and such lyke, and so there should be neuer any ende of beg∣ging these earthly commodities, which is contrary to the forme of prayer, appoynted by our Sa∣uiour Christe.
The punishement of God by thundering and lightening, is more notorious and terrible, not by any helpe of man to be repelled: where as the other thinges that you speake of, come oftentymes and moste commonly through negligence, wylfulnes, vnrulines, to much boldnes, vndiscretenes of the parties themselues: besydes this there are ordinary meanes to auoyde them, and yet I thinke it moste conuenient, that we should praye against those euilles, and so doth the Church daylye in the laste collect, vsed in the morning prayer: which thing also is most consonant to the Lords prayer, petitions to the lyke ende and purpose, being there expressed.