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O Eternall and most gracious God, who though thou haue suf∣fred vs to destroy our selues, & hast not giuen vs the power of repara∣tion in our s••lues, hast yet afforded vs such meanes of reparation, as may easily, and fami∣liarly be compassed by vs, prosper I humbly beseech thee this means of bodily assistance in this thy ordinary crea∣ture, and prosper thy
meanes of spirituall as∣sistance in thy holy or∣dinances. And as thou hast caried this thy crea∣ture the Doue, through all thy wayes, through Nature, and made it na∣turally proper to con∣duce medicinally to our bodily health, Through the law, and made it a sacrifice for sinne there, and through the Gospel, and made it, & thy spi∣rit in it, a witnes of thy sonnes baptisme there, so carry it, and the quali∣ties of it home to my
soule, and imprint there that simplici••y, that mild∣nesse, that harmelesnesse, which thou hast im∣printed by Nature in this Creature. That so all vapours of all diso∣bedience to thee, be∣ing subdued vnder my feete, I may in the pow∣er, and triumphe of thy sonne, treade victori∣ously vpon my graue, and trample vpon the Lyon, and Dragon,* 1.1 that lye vnder it, to deuoure me. Thou O Lord by the Prophet callest the
Doue,* 1.2 the Doue of the Valleys, but promisest that the Doue of the Val∣leyes shall bee vpon the Mountaine: As thou hast layed mee low, in this Valley of sickenesse, so low, as that I am made fit for that question, asked in the field of bones,* 1.3 Sonne of Man, can these bones liue, so, in thy good time, carry me vp to these Mountaynes, of which, euen in this Val∣ley, thou affordest mee a prospect, the Moun∣tain where thou dwel∣lest,
the holy Hill, vnto which none can ascend but hee that hath cleane hands, which none can haue, but by that one and that strong way, of making them cleane, in the blood of thy Sonne Christ Iesus. Amen.
Psa. 91.13.
Eze. 7.16
37.3.