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OMnipotent Lord, thou sin re∣venging God, who for diso∣bedience, didst threaten thine own people Israel, to smite them in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch, that could not be healed; be pleased, O thou great offended Lord, in the bowels of thy compas∣sion, to let thine anger cease, and
to bow down thine ear to thy sor∣rowful servants; we turn unto thee our weeping eyes, our deject∣ed countenances, our wringing hands, our bended Knees, our mournful voices, and our groaning hearts; O Merciful God, behold our tears, and view our countenan∣ces, and look upon our hands, and strengthen our Knees, and hearken to our voices, and comfort our hearts; Give us a fight of our sins, O Lord which have thus provoked thee▪ to enter into Judgment with thy Servants; and make us more to loath, and tremble, at our wick∣edness, then at these Messengers of death; wean us from the love of sin, from the consideration both of thy displeasure, and our own mortality; and speak peace and health, unto our souls, which do every moment expect our dissolu∣tion to come; O Lord, thou art a God, who canst not abide to be∣hold unrighteousness; look not
therefore with thy wrathful eye upon us, who are full of sin, and pollution; but look upon thy Son, and his righteousness; or, if thou wilt look upon us, first cloth us with the righteousness of that immaculate Lamb, and so shalt thou see us, with love and delight, and we shall behold thee with un∣speakable joy: Seal unto our souls the remission of our offences, and then make us willing to resigne our bodies to thy disposing, yet we know, O Lord, if thou dost but Speak the word, we shall be made whole; & if thou say'st, the Plague shall not come near our habitati∣ons, we then know we shall be safe; if it be thy blessed will, O Lord, let us praise thee in the land of the living; cleanse us from our sin, and take away our iniquities, and then we need not question, but thou wilt take away thy hand from off us. Hear us, O Lord, for our selves, and also for thy distressed people;
and hear them for us, and hear thy Christ for us all; that to him and thee, and thy blessed Spirit, we may render, as is most due, all praise and glory, and Thanksgiv∣ing, and obedience, for evermore. Amen.