Devotions vpon emergent occasions and seuerall steps in my sicknes digested into I. Meditations vpon our humane condition, 2. Expostulations, and debatements with God, 3. Prayers, vpon the seuerall occasions, to Him / by Iohn Donne ...

13. PRAYER.

O Eternall, and most g••atious God, who

as thou giuest all for no∣thing, if we consider a∣ny precedent Merit in vs, so giu'st Nothing, for Nothing, if we consider the acknowledgement, & thankefullnesse, which thou lookest for, after, accept my humble thankes, both for thy Mercy, and for this par∣ticular Mercie, that in thy Iudgement I can dis∣cerne thy Mercie, and find comfort in thy cor∣rections. I know, O Lord, the ordinary dis∣comfort that accompa∣nies

that phrase, That the house is visited, And that, that thy markes, and thy tokens are vpon the patient; But what a wretched, and discon∣solate Hermitage is that House, which is not vi∣sited by thee, and what a Wayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him? These hea••es, O Lord, which thou hast broght vpon this body, are but thy chafing of the wax, that thou mightest seale me to thee; These spots

are but the letters; in which thou hast writ∣ten thine owne Name, and conueyed thy selfe to mee; whether for a present possession, by ta∣king me now, or for a future renersion, by glo∣rifying thy selfe in my stay here, I limit not, •• condi••ion not, I choose not, I wish not, no more then the house, or land that passeth by any Ci∣uill conueyance. Onely be thou euer present to me, O my God, and this bed-chamber, & thy bed-chamber

shal be all one roome, and the closing of these bodily Eyes here, and the opening of the Eyes of my Soule, there, all one Act.