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MY God, my refuge, my mercy, how dare I re∣member thy greatnesse, when the billowes of my crying sinnes haue raisd the wrath of thy Omnipotent person; who out of meere diuine loue to pious cha∣ritie, createdst me after thine owne image, redeemed mee being lost, and in a word gaue mee all I euer had; yet haue I so much dishonou∣red the Deitie of thy glory, that I made the pleasures of this life, my
Gods on earth, and now they are turn'de my tormenting accusers of Death; O Sacred Father, bequeath the plagues of Egypt for my ta∣lent, rather then this deceitfull world to my portion, which hath not onely bred me disobedient to∣wards thee that made mee, a trai∣tour to thy Sonne that dyed for me; but sacrific'de my owne soule to be the fuell of hell fire. O dead∣ly life of immortall death, what shall I tearme thee? the shape of a Christian, which without thy Sacred intercession for thy neuer dying mercies, I shall remaine quickened with the fiend of hell, to future ages for euer. O do not thou sweet Sauiour forget the pit∣tie of thy goodnes, though I haue
lost the dutie of my obedience; but grant the same fauour to me, thou gauest the thiefe vpon the Crosse, looke vpon the teares of my mise∣ries with the passions of thy mer∣cies, and if neither griefes, groanes, sighes, nor sorrowes can appease thy iust wrath: why didst thou make mee? wherefore was thy death? whom wilt thou saue? or art thou another God now, then when thou wert mercifull to the oppressed, a Father of the godlie, and an aduocate for the damned if they repented. O then enrich my soule with a diuine sorrow for my ioy, the agony of death for my comfort, that I may neither pre∣sume of thy fauour, nor despaire of thy mercie; but haue thy great
Name glorified, thy Sacred death satisfied, and thy poore forlorne sinner saued, Lord I beseech thee, say Amen.