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The Prayer.
O Lord God, thou that hearest the voyce of our prayers, and considerest the cryes of them that flye unto thee for succour, deliver us and all thy whole Church from the gathering to∣gether of the froward, and from the insurrection of wicked doers. Disappoint their snares, infatu∣ate their Counsells, distract their consultations, and blast all their Designes; let the swords and arrowes of their tongues be shot in vaine, that they may never hit any of thy servants, nor wound him that is perfect. Make them to fall (O God) in their hopes whereby they courage themselves in mischiefe and feare not, and doe thou laugh them to scorne, that we who have put our trust in thee, may rejoyce in thee, and confesse, that it is thy worke, to give salvation and deliverance to thy people whom thou lovest in our Lord and Sa∣viour Iesus Christ. Amen.