Holy living in which are described the means and instruments of obtaining every virute, 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 occasians [sic], and furnished for all necessities / by Jer. Taylor.

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

O Lord God almighty, thou art our Fa∣ther, we are thy children, thou art our Re∣deemer, we thy people purchased with the price of thy most precious blood, be pleased to moderate thy anger towards thy servants, let not thy whole displeasure arise, lest we be consumed and brought to nothing. Let health and peace be within our dwellings, let righteousness and holiness dwell for ever in our hearts and be express'd in all our acti∣ons, and the light of thy countenance be up∣on us in all sufferings, that we may de∣light in the service and in the mercies of God for ever. Amen.

O gracious Father and mercifull God, if it be thy will, 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 sinfull, not yet fitted for our appearance, to set thy mark upon our foreheads, that thy Angel the Mi∣nister of thy justice may pass over us & 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 evill, and suffer none: and those whom thou hast smitten with thy rod, support with thy staff, and visit them with thy mercies and salvation, through Je∣sus Christ. Amen.