II.
WE confesse dear God, that we have de∣served to be totally extinct and sepa∣rate from the Communion of Saints, and the comforts of Religion, to be made servants to ignorant, unjust and inferiour persons, or to suffer any other calamity which thou shalt allot us as the instrument of thy anger, whom we have so often provoked to wrath and jealousie. Lord we humbly lie down under the burden of thy rod, begging of thee to re∣member our infirmities, and no more to re∣member our sins, to support us with thy staff, to lift us up with thy hand, to refresh us with thy gracious eye; and if a sad cloud of tem∣poral infelicities must still encircle us, open unto us the window of Heaven, that with an eye of faith and hope we may see beyond the cloud, looking upon those mercies which in thy secret providence and admirable wisdom thou designest to all thy servants, from such unlikely and sad beginnings. Teach us dili∣gently to doe all our duty, and cheerfully to submit to all thy will; and at last be gracious to thy people that call upon thee, that put their trust in thee, that have laid up all their hopes in the bosome of God, that besides thee have no helper. Amen.