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 ...

5. PRAYER.

O Eternall, and mo•••• gracious God, wh•••• calledst down fire from Heauen vpon the sinfu•••• Cities, but once, and op••••nedst

the Earth to swal∣low the Murmurers, but once•• and threwst down the Tower of Siloe vpon sinners, but once, but for thy workes of mercie repeatest them often, & still workest by thine owne paternes, as thou broghtest Man into this world, by giuing him a helper fit for him here, ••o whether it bee thy will to continue mee ••ong thus, or to dismisse me by death, be pleased to afford me the helpes fit for both conditions,

either for my weak sta•• here, or my finall tran••••migration from hence•• And if thou mayest r••••ceiue glory by that wa•••• (and, by all wayes tho•••• maist receiue glory) gl••••rifie thy selfe in preser••uing this body from suc•• infections, as migh•• withhold those, wh•• would come, or in da••••ger thē who doe come•• and preserue this soule 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the faculties thereof, fr•••• all such distempers, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 might shake the assu••rance which my selfe &

others haue had, that be∣cause thou hast loued me, thou wouldst loue me to my end, and at my end. Open none of my dores, not of my hart, not of mine eares, not of my house, to any supplanter that would enter to vn∣dermine me in my Reli∣gion to thee, in the time of my weaknesse, or to defame me, & magnifie himselfe, with false ru∣mors of such a victory, & surprisall of me, after I am dead; Be my salua∣tion, and plead my salua∣tion;

work it, and decla•••• it; and as thy triumpha•••• shall be, so let the M••••tant Church bee assure•• that thou wast my 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and I thy seruant, to, an•• in my consummatio•• Blesse thou the learning and the labours of th•••• Man, whō thou sende•••• to assist me; and sinc•• thou takest mee by th•• hand, & puttest me int•• his hands (for I come t•• him in thy name, who in thy name comes t•• me) since I clog not m•• hopes in him, no nor my

••••ayers to thee, with any ••••mited conditions, but ••wrap all in those two ••etitions, Thy kingdome ••••me, thy will be done, pro¦••er him, and relieue ••••e, in thy way, in thy ••••me, and in thy mea∣••••re. Amen.