Certain approved Medicines for the Plague, both to prevent that contagion, and to expell it after it be taken, as have been approved in Anno. 1652. as also in this present Visitation 1636.
A cheape Medicine to keepe from infection.
TAke a pinte of new milke, and cut two cloves of Gar∣licke very small, put it in the milke, and drinke it mornings fasting, and it preserveth from infection.
A Prayer fit to be used in this time of sicknesse and mortality.
O Lord God, strong and mighty, great and fearefull, which dwellest in the heavens, and workest great wonders; we thy miserable children here on earth, doe most humbly beseech thee to be mercifull unto us, to pardon our of∣fences, and forgive us all our sinnes: O Lord enter not into judgement with thy servants, for if thou doe, there shall no flesh be saved in thy sight: we confesse and acknowledge O Lord, that it is our sinnes which have moved thee to wrath, and to shew such fearefull tokens of thy displeasure towards us in these our dayes; first by locking up the hea∣vens that no raine should fall to succour the earth, neverthelesse upon our repentance and humility, it hath pleased thee of thy fatherly goodnesse to send downe some sweet comfortable showers of thy mercy upon the earth. O Lord in∣crease our thankfulnesse, and give us grace to amend our lives, that thou maist turne from us all those judgements which we most righteously have deserved; thou hast sent thy messengers of mercy, thy Ministers of thy holy Word to allure us by faire meanes to repentance, thou hast sent Monsters from the Sea, and cast them up upon our English shore, fearefull and strange to behold, to cry out against us; nay, thou hast suffered the tempter, that old enemy of mans salvation, to worke upon the weakenesse of some of our poore brethren, to assume unto themselves the names of Prophets, to prophecie evill against this nation; but thou hast disclosed the subtilty of the Serpent unto us, that as he was a lyer from the beginning, so thou hast proved his Prophets to be false Prophets, by sending downe these sweet and comfortable showers of raine upon the earth, giving us to understand, that Prophecying is ceast, and that no man is worthy to know the secrets of thy will. Neverthelesse though we are not Prophets, nor Prophets children, yet wee cannot but expect utter desolation and destruction without speedy repentance: Give us, O give us repentant hearts, that we may be truely humbled at the sight of our sinnes, and walke in newnesse of life all the dayes of our life: wee bese••ch thee good Father to turne in mercy to us, and remove from us this Sicknesse lately begun among us: LORD command the destroying Angell to hold his hand, that our brethren which are fled from us for the preservation of their lives, may returne againe with ioy, that we with them may praise and glorifie thy name, now and for ever∣more, Amen.