The rule and exercises of holy living. In which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every vertue, and the remedies against every vice, and considerations serving to the resisting all temptations. Together with prayers containing the whole duty of a Christian, and the parts of devotion fitted to all occasions, and furnish'd for all necessities.

7. For all that lye under the rod of war, famine, pestilence: to be said in the time of plague, or war, &c.

O Lord God Almighty, thou art our Father, we

are thy children, thou art our Redeemer, we thy people purchased with the price of thy most pre∣cious blood, be pleased to moderate thy anger to∣wards thy servants, let not thy whole displeasure arise, lest we be consumed and brought to no∣thing. Let health and peace be within our dwel∣lings, let righteousness and holyness dwell for ever in our hearts, & be express'd in all our actions, and the light of thy countenance be upon us in all our sufferings, that we may delight in the service and in the mercies of God for ever. Amen.

O gracious Father and merciful God, if it be thy wil, say unto the destroying Angel, it is enough, and though we are not better then our brethren who are smitten with the rod of God, but much worse, yet may it please thee, even because thou art good, and because we are timerous and sinful, not yet fitted for our appearance, to set thy mark upon our foreheads, that the Angel thy Minister of thy justice may passe over us, and hurt us not: let thy hand cover thy servants and hide us in the clefts of the rock, in the wounds of the holy Jesus, from the present anger that is gone out against us: that though we walk thorough the valley of the shadow of death we may fear no evil, and suf••er none: and those whom thou hast smitten with thy rod, support with thy staff, and visit them with thy mercies and salvation, through Jesus Christ. Amen.