The Prayer.
O Lord God, who beholdest all the actions of men, and seest all the ungodlinesse of sin∣ners and the wrong they doe unto thy servants, we flye unto thee for succour and defence in this our needfull time of trouble. Behold, ô Lord, how the Enemies of thy Church have set their eyes against her, and use all violences and arts that thy poore servants may fall under the hands of their Captaines. Thou seest their malice and their con∣fidences, they feare thee not, neither art thou, O God, in all their thoughts. But thou art our King for ever and ever, and the helper of the friend∣lesse. We commit our selves wholly to thy mer∣cy & providence, take the matter into thine own hand, let them perish out of the land that are ex∣alted against thee, and against thy Church, that we being delivered from feare of our enemies, may serve thee with constant and regular devotions