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The Prayer.
O Lord our strength, our hope and ••ortresse, our castle and deliverer, our defender in whom we trust; bowe the heavens, O Lord, come down and save us, send down thine hand from a∣bove, deliver us, and take us from the great wa∣ters, from those miseries and afflictions which come upon us by reason of our sinnes, from the condition of mortality, and from the hand of strange children, whose right hand is a right hand of wickednesse. Give us, O Lord, victory and peace, and all the blessings of thy peace, with which thou usest to adorne & beautifie the dwel∣lings of the righteous, that we may be happy in the continuall descent of thy favours, but above all, our happinesse may consist in being thy peo∣ple, and thou being our God, that we may be blessed for ever in so blessed a relation, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.