A cordiall of comfort To preserue the heart, from fainting with griefe or feare: for our friends, or our owne visitation, by the plague. Also a thankes-giuing to almightie God, for staying the visitation in London, and the suburbs thereof. Both which may be of vse to Christians in other places, that are cleere, visited, or recouered. By William Chibald.
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A cordiall of comfort To preserue the heart, from fainting with griefe or feare: for our friends, or our owne visitation, by the plague. Also a thankes-giuing to almightie God, for staying the visitation in London, and the suburbs thereof. Both which may be of vse to Christians in other places, that are cleere, visited, or recouered. By William Chibald.
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Chibald, William, 1575-1641.
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"A cordiall of comfort To preserue the heart, from fainting with griefe or feare: for our friends, or our owne visitation, by the plague. Also a thankes-giuing to almightie God, for staying the visitation in London, and the suburbs thereof. Both which may be of vse to Christians in other places, that are cleere, visited, or recouered. By William Chibald." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18603.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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A THANKES∣GIVING TO GOD, FOR STAYING the Plague.
O LORD GOD of Heauen and earth, by whose patience & pro∣uidence it is, that yet vvee liue, and moue,* 1.1and haue our being in this world: for our life drew nigh vnto the graue,* 1.2and wee were counted with them that goe downe in∣to the pit. Through thy
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goodnesse (O Lord) wee are a remnant escaped,* 1.3as ap∣peareth this day, reserued (as wee trust) to glorifie thy Name. But who are wee, dast and ashes, miserable sin∣ners, that should be bold to glorifie thy goodnesse, that dese••••e not to confesse our owne vildenesse: being vn∣worthy, as of the Deliue∣••ance it selfe, so to giue thee thankes for it.
* 1.4Our vildenesse and vn∣worthinesse appears by our great and many sinnes, and the haynousnes of our sins, by thy late dealing with vs in heauy displeasure. Our soule hauing in remembrance our affliction and misery,* 1.5the wormewood and the gaull is humbled in vs: For thou
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hast sent the plague among vs after the manner of Egypt,* 1.6 in most grieuous manner, the like was neuer before a∣mong vs. Thou hast not on∣ly visited vs with Agues and Feuers,* 1.7but with one of thy foure sore iudgements; The Plague or Pestilence, a consuming sicknesse,* 1.8 by which thou hast powred out thy fury in blood vpon vs.* 1.9 With it bane been infected all the Parishes of our Citie and Suburbs saue one) and of it haue dyed and fallen thousands at our sides,* 1.10and ten thousands at our right hand: rich and poore, young and old, profane and sincere, professours and preachers. The chiefe and Princes of the Cities of our Nation, is
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solitary & sits as a widdow: She that was full of People, is emptie of Inhabitants; the streets thereof mourne, and the high wayes to it la∣ment; the publike markets are not frequented, and the solemne Assemblies of thy worship are much desola∣ted & darkned, by the put∣ting out of many worthy Lights, his faithfull Mini∣sters. At home, ô Lord, som haue perished for want of keeping, and abroad some haue fallen downe dead in the feilds and streets. One of some houses (O Lord God) haue dyed all and e∣very one, Parents and chil∣dren, Masters and seruants, and in other, all haue bin sicke at once, not one a∣ble
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to help another. In som familyes might bee heard, the out-cry of the tender mother, for her onely child and in other, the lamenta∣tion of the carefull father, for the death of his sonne and heire, or the child, that was the picture of his like∣nes. Yea, such and so great was our greife and feare (O Lord) that when wee went to bed well, wee looked to bee smitten ere morning, and could take little rest for the noise of bells, towling & ringing out in our eares. And when wee arose in health in the morning, we expected to be cast downe ere night, and could not follow our callings chere∣fully for the sight of our
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eyes, multituds of our dead brethren and sisters, caried vp and downe the streets to buriall. Wee doe not (O Lord God) repeate these our calamityes to informe thee, as if thou, who didst bring them vpon vs, didst not know of them, or hadst forgotten them: but that we might not forget them, nor thy heauy displeasure against our sinnes in them, that wee might bee made more sensible of our great deliuerance, by calling to minde our former danger and distresse, and thereby also the better prepared to a more free, and humble confession of our sins,* 1.11 that haue brought these cala∣mities vpon vs.
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For wee must needs con∣fesse (O Lord our God) to thy glory and our owne shame,* 1.12 that we haue practi∣sed those sinnes, against which, in thy Word, this plague is threatned, and vp∣on the committers where∣of, it hath beene executed, in former Ages of the Church. For in all duties, concerning thy sacred Ma∣iestie, our brethren, and our owne selues,* 1.13Wee haue sinned by trespassing grieuously, and therefore hast thou sent the plague,* 1.14 & with the pestilence pleaded against vs, in blood.
Wee haue not (O Lord our GOD) sacrificed vnto thee,* 1.15 nor worshipped thee so frequently, nor so de∣uoutly as wee should, there∣fore
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hast thou fallen vpon vs by the pestilence, and many of vs haue defiled thy sanctu∣ary,* 1.16 the place of thy wor∣ship, when wee haue resor∣ted thereunto with our de∣testable things, our abomi∣nable sinnes, impenitencie, and hypocrisie, and therfore a great part of vs haue dyed by the pestilence in this visitati∣on. Vnto our brethren we haue beene cruell, and haue not proclaimed libertie to them that were in our dan∣ger;* 1.17 therefore the Lord hath proclaimed libertie to the pestilence for many of vs.* 1.18 And we our selues haue de∣lighted to wander in our own wayes,* 1.19 and to take pleasure in sin for a season, and haue not refrained our feet from e∣uill
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paths: Therfore the Lord hath not accepted vs, hee hath remembred our iniquity, hath visited our sinnes, and consu∣med vs by the pestilence. With Pharaoh wee haue hardned our hearts against thy mercies & iudgements,* 1.20 and haue not beene reclai∣med from our sinnes there∣by, we haue not let our lusts goe that we might serue thee; nor let our brethren goe, that they might serue thee. But haue discouraged & cooled their Zeale in thy seruice, therefore hast thou smitten vs by the pestilence,* 1.21and cut off many from off the earth. Wee haue with Israel murmured against Moses & Aaron,* 1.22 our Magistrates and Ministers, for their zeale in correcting
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and reprouing our vnrigh∣teous dealing, & inordinate walking, and there haue dy∣ed many thousands of the plague,* 1.23besides those that ••y of other diseases. With the Spies of the Land of Cana∣an,* 1.24 wee haue brought vp an euill report vpon thy holy Maiesty, thy Church, and holy Ordinances,* 1.25 as if thou wert like the wicked, as if thy Church were a compa∣ny of none but Hypocrites and Rebels, and as if thy sa∣cred Ordinances were vn∣holy things, & taught pro∣fanenesse, and therefore by bringing vp this slander vp∣on thy Name, through our loosenesse and vnconscio∣nable life many are dead of the plague before the Lord.* 1.26
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As Magistrates, and Mini∣sters, Husbands and Wiues, Parents and Children, Ma∣sters and Seruants, rich and poore, high and low, young and old, one with another. We haue not obeyed thy voyce,* 1.27nor walked in thy Law. Wee haue done nothing at all, that thou hast commaunded vs to doe: and therfore what thou hast spoken in thy Word of the pestilence, it is come to passe, and thou seest it, and wee haue felt it.* 1.28 Yea wee would not obserue to doe all thy commandements and sta∣tutes, which thou comman∣dest vs to do, but haue bro∣ken them all in one kinde and measure or other. And therefore hast thou made the pestilence cleaue vnto vs till* 1.29
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it hath consumed vs. We haue not harkened vnto thy words,* 1.30which thou hast sent unto vs, by thy seruants the Prophets or Pastors & teachers,* 1.31 when they haue called vs vnto re∣pentance, nor haue we been reformed by lesser correcti∣ons but walked contrary unto thee,* 1.32 therefore hast thou persecuted us with the pesti∣lence,* 1.33 and sent it vnto our Cities, where we haue ben ga∣thered together. We doe not (O Lord our God) thus confesse our sins vnto thee, as if thou knewest them not who art greater then our con∣sciences & knowest althings.* 1.34 but that by the repetition and remembrance of them, we might be drawne, more soundly to repent of them,
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and to haue our eyes open∣ed, more cleerely to dis∣cerne thy iustice, in punish∣ing of vs with this thy visi∣tation, and thy righteous∣nes in afflicting vs with ma∣ny miseries thereby,* 1.35 that thou mayest bee cleare when thou art iudged.* 1.36
For Righteousnes belong∣eth vnto thee (O Lord) but vnto us open shame as at this day. All this is come vpon us,* 1.37for our euill deedes, and for our great trespasses, and thou hast punished vs lesse then our iniquities deserue,* 1.38 therefore will wee be dumbe and not o∣pen our mouthes.* 1.39 Thou hast not done without cause,* 1.40all that thou hast done vnto vs,* 1.41 and therefore will wee accept the punishment of our iniquitie.
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Though thou hast not pu∣nished vs according to the greatnesse of our sinnes as they deserue in measure, (which is thy mercy,) yet hast thou punished vs ac∣cording to the kind & man∣ner of our sinnes (which is thy iustice) for we haue pro∣faned thy house and san∣ctuarie, with our formall and hypocriticall seruing of thee, without the in∣ward partes both of our selues, and of thy worship, and therefore hast thou shut the dores of thy house vpon vs, when we were vi∣sited, and hast (by lawfull authoritie and good order) shut vs vp in our owne hou∣ses.* 1.42 In our owne houses wee haue not walked before thee,
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with a perfect heart, for false weights and measures, false lights and bad wares, haue been in many of our shops and ware-houses, and therefore it is iust with thee to shutt vp our shopps for want of trading, and to in∣fect other of our roomes, and chambers, with a feare∣full contagion. Many of vs that were wont, proudly to let and strutt it out in the streetes, in the vanitie and varietie of strange apparell, and new fangled habits and attyres, hast thou now clad with mourning weeds and giuen vs cause to put sack∣cloth on our backs, and a∣shes on our heads, fo•• we are baased even to the dung∣hill. The members of our
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bodyes, we haue abused as weapons of vnrighteous∣nesse vnto sinne, and there∣fore hast thou (O Lord) weakened and deformed the bodies of some with blanes and sores, boyles and carbuncles, and filled the bodies of others with the Tokens of thy displea∣sure. We haue corrupted one another wirh the euill example of our workes, and made them sinne; and there∣fore it is iust (with thee) that we should be a meanes to infect one another to sicknesse and death. Many of our Ministers, thy faith∣full seruants, wee regarded not while they liued, and therefore hast thou depri∣ued vs of them: yea, many
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of vs haue defrauded them of their double honour,* 1.43 reue∣rend respect, and plentifull maintenance; and therfore hast thou taken from vs the means of our maintenance, by commerce and traffique. Wee haue been hard-hear∣ted, and close-fisted to the necessities of our poore neighbours liuing amongst vs; and therefore it is iust, (in respect of thee) that our neighbour countries round about vs, did deny to bring vs (that abode in the Citie) food and victualls, and to bury those of vs that did go out of it, with comely buri∣all. Wee haue by our bad liuing and vniust dealing, caused thy Gospel, thy truth (so plentifully prea∣ched* 1.44
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in this Citie) to bee euill spoken of abroad, and therfore it is iust with thee, that wee should bee a moc∣king and hissing, a by∣word and a reproach vnto our neighbour countries a∣bout vs. Wee doe not (O Lord God) thus iustifie thy proceeding against vs, as if it needed our cleering: but to testifie our desire (as much as possible wee can) to glorifie thy iustice by shaming our selues, to the end wee may bee the better prepared to glorifie thy mercy also (which is aboue all thy workes) in our won∣derfull deliuerance.* 1.45
* 1.46For (O Lord our God) In that when the sicknesse was so hot, and so many
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had dyed thereof, thou shouldest then stay it: It was not because the sword of thine Angel was blunted with so many strokes; or be∣cause there were no more people to dye, or no more graues in London: or because there was in vs no more desert of punishment,* 1.47 or in thee no more power to pu∣nish: But because thou wert pleased in iudgement to remember mercy,* 1.48 and that thou delightest in mercy ra∣ther then iudgement.* 1.49 That wee are aliue when others are dead, that wee were in health when others were sicke. It was not because wee were not within the compasse of thy stroke, or could defend our selues, or
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were able to heale the wound: But because thou wouldst haue mercy on whom thou wouldst: no goodnesse or power in vs, but meere∣ly greatnesse and goodnesse in thee, hath made the dif∣rence. And therefore, as thou art worthy to receiue glory,* 1.50honour, and power: so saluation, and glory, and ho∣nour and power, (euen glory and honour for manifest∣ing thy power in our salva∣tion and preseruation,* 1.51) bee vnto thee, for euer. For in this our deliuerance (O Lord our God) we see, and therefore desire to glorifie thy wisedome, in putting it into the minde of our Go∣uernours to appoint thine owne means of healing our
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Citie by humiliation with Fasting and Prayer, and enabling thy Ministers and people vnderstandingly & feelingly, faithfully and fer∣uently to vse those meanes, and also in taking oppor∣tunitie in our greatest ex∣tremitie to worke this our deliuerance, to the end the worke might the more cleerely appeare to be thine owne. In this thy deliue∣rance we discerne thy pow∣er, and therfore according∣ly wee desire to praise thee, in that thou art able to countermand all thy crea∣tures, euen the very An∣gels, those principalities and powers: for thou didst on a sodaine, and in a short time worke a great deliuerance,
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notwithstanding the won∣derfull increase of the con∣tagion in so many places, the heate of the weather, the multitude of the peo∣ple, and heynousnesse of our sins, all which wrought toward a contrary end. In this thy deliuerance, wee behold thy truth and faith∣fulnesse (O Lord our God) in making good thy pro∣mises of healing thy people,* 1.52 when they shall seeke thy face with prayers, teares, hu∣miliation, and turning vnto thee, in not keeping thine an∣ger for euer, in not letting the rod of the wicked rest for euer vpon vs all,* 1.53* 1.54 nor suffe∣ring thy people to bee tempted aboue their strength, but gi∣uing a good issue of their try∣all.
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In this our deliuerance we glorifie thy patience, in that thou hast not dealt with vs according to our sins,* 1.55nor rewarded vs after our iniquities; but hast borne with vs all this while, and giuen vs yet a longer time to repent, sparing vs, as a father spareth his owne sonne that serueth him.* 1.56 In this thy deliuerance (O heauenly Father) wee see also thy pittie, in that, when our great sinnes had deserued the greatest and forest of thy foure plagues, euen the sword; that yet notwith∣standing thou didst send but the smallest of them: for hereby wee are not fallen into the hands of men,* 1.57whose mercies are Cruelties; but,
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into thy hands, whose mercies are great:* 1.58 hast already wonderfully lessened this thy hand, and hast also gi∣uen vs good hope (through grace) of quite remouing the same. But aboue all, (O Lord our God) In this our deliuerance felt and ex∣pected, we cleerely behold thy free grace, and rich fa∣vour, with thy infinite mer∣cie and vnspeakable loue, (and accordingly we desire to bee plentious in thanks∣giving) for when there was no goodnes in vs to moue thee to it, nor power to pro∣cure it to our selues; Yea when iustice on thy part, and wickednesse on ours, did withstand it, then thou wast pleased to thinke
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thoughts of peace towards vs, and to stay thy hand, to say to vs,* 1.59when we were pol∣luted in our bloud, Liue. When the fornace of thy displeasure was heated,* 1.60 much hotter, then euer it was before, and the flame thereof, had consumed ma∣ny of our neighbours hou∣ses, yet on some of our houses the fire had no power at all, nor was a hayre of the heads of many of vs synged; wee ayled nothing all the while,* 1.61 and therfore not vn∣to vs (O Lord) not vnto vs, but vnto thy Name bee gi∣uen all the praise. Not vn∣to Physicians or Surgeons: Not vnto Magistrates or Ministers; Not to Watch∣men or Keepers, not to an∣tidotes
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or preseruatiues, not to house or ayre, not to Signes or Planets, not to Saints or Angels, not to our selues or others. Not thy workes in vs of nature or grace; no, not to our fa∣sting and prayers, to our humiliation & teares: But to thy wisedome and pow∣er, to thy faithfulnesse and truth, to thy patience and pittie, to thy free grace and rich mercy, be giuen by vs all, and by all meanes in all times, and in all places, ho∣nor and glory, with thanks∣giuing and obedience, in Iesus Christ, from this time forth and for euer.
* 1.62And now (heauenly Fa∣the••) seeing wee that are but dust and Ashes, haue taken
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vpon us to speake vnto thee in thanksgiuing,* 1.63bee not an∣gry with vs, if we speake once more in prayer and suppli∣cation also, we rather hope thou wilt bee pleased with vs,* 1.64 if hauing taken the cup of saluation in thankefulnesse for staying the plague so soone, and so much already wee also call vpon the Name of the Lord for the quite re∣moueall thereof.* 1.65 The rod of the wicked hath long lyen vpon vs; Oh let it not rest vpon vs that are the lot of thine inheritance: for thou hast said,* 1.66 Thou wilt not af∣flict the seed of Dauid for e∣uer. Thy hand is stretched out still, Oh wee pray thee pull it in, and put it into thy bosome, for we haue beene
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consumed by the heauinesse of it. Thou hast formerly gi∣uen vs many great deliue∣rances, to this Citie in this kind, & to the whole Land in other kindes, namely, from forraine inuasion and priuy conspiracie;* 1.67 and wee confesse to thy glory, and and our owne shame, that most of vs haue almost for∣gotten to celebrate the memoriall of them; & none of vs haue euer since led our liues (which thou didst preserue from the crueltie of those intendments and attempts) in righteousnesse and holinesse before thee. And in this respect wee are vnworthy thou shouldst proceed in mercy, as thou hast begun; & end in mer∣cy,
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as thou hast proceeded: But though wee be vnwor∣thy of more deliuerance, yet art thou worthy of more honor, which accordingly thou shalt receiue. For by how much the more we are vnworthy, by so much the more doth the freenesse & greatnesse of thy grace and mercy appeare; and by how much the more thy grace & mercy appeares free and great, by so much the more doth the glory thereof ap∣peare for thine honor. And therfore (O Lord our God) though our iniquities testifie against vs:* 1.68yet do it for thine owne Names sake, forsake not thy people for thy great names sake, because it hath pleased thee to make vs thy people.
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Thou art an exquisite worke-man, leaue not thy worke halfe done as if thou couldst not finish it, but end it in perfection. Thou art an absolute Physician, leaue not thy Patients crazy & sickly, till thou hast made a perfect Cure. And that thou maist perfect the work of deliuerance, which thou hast begun amongst vs, wee beseech thee perfect the works of grace and amend∣ment, which thou hast be∣gun within vs. Thou hast already said to thine Angel, Stay thy hand: for this wee praise thee, bee pleased also to goe on and to say, It is e∣nough, for this we pray thee command thine Angel also to put vp his sword into the* 1.69* 1.70
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sheath thereof and to draw it out no more. Returne, O Lord, how long? let it repent thee concerning thy seruants,* 1.71 make vs glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflic∣ted vs, and the months and weekes wherin we haue seen euill.* 1.72Renew our dayes as of old, Helpe vs,* 1.73O God of our sal∣uation, for the glory of thy Name. Wherefore should Papists say, It is for our re∣ligion that wee are thus plagued: wherefore should Atheist say, Thou wast not able to saue vs, &c. where∣fore should carnall Gospel∣lers say, What profit is it that thy people haue pray∣ed vnto thee, and walked mournefully before thee,* 1.74 and It is in vaine to serue thee.
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And to the end thou maist continue the worke of our deliuerance, giue vs grace also to continue the worke of our humiliation before thee, vntill thou haue repai∣red our Ierusalem, the praise of our Nation; neuer letting thee go vntil thou hast blessed vs, nor giuing thee rest till thou hast healed our Ci∣tie. Neither are we mind∣full of it onely, but we re∣member other parts of our Land, beseeching thee (good Lord) to stay thy hand from spreading the sicknes in other Towns and Cities, and to withdraw it where it is disperst, giuing them all grace (according to their seueral conditions) by seasonable amendment to
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preuēt or remoue the same; and in the mean time to cō∣fort al those that any where are visited with this or any other sicknes, by recouering thē vnto health, to liue bet∣ter to thy glory, or by fitting them for death, to depart in peace to their saluation. Make an end of the tryall, (wee pray thee) of other Churches by the sword, fa∣mine, or any other iudgmēt, and continue to ours the peace of the Gospel, & the Gospel of peace; preseruing all Estates and degrees a∣mongst vs, in Church and Common-wealth from this & other plagues (if it be thy blessed will) to execute iu∣stice and to shew mercy, for the taking away of this,
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and the turning away of o∣ther heauy iudgements. Be thou exalted (Lord) in thine owne strength, so will we sing and praise thy power.* 1.75
* 1.76For we doe not desire (O Lord our God) to haue the plague of our sicknes taken away from amongst vs, that the plague of our sinnes may remaine within vs, nor that thou shouldest turne thy heauie hand from vs, that wee might returne to our former wickednes, for the time past of our life is suf∣ficient (and to much) to haue liued therein.* 1.77 If thus againe we should breake thy comman¦dements,* 1.78wouldst thou not be angrie with vs till thou hadst consumed vs: but wee beg this further favour of thee,
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not to die,* 1.79but to liue to declare thy works and to praise thy name.* 1.80 For this end with mourning and weeping for our former many and grei∣uous sinnes, wee come vnto thee and seeke thee, and will ioyne our selues vnto thee in a perpetuall couenant neuer to be forgotten. Wee will make a couenant bef••••e thee our God, to walke after thee, & to keepe thy cōmandements, thy statutes and thy testimonies with all our hearts, and with all our soules, nnd to performe the words of the couenant,* 1.81and to stand vnto it, wee will make a sure couenant & write it and seale vnto it,* 1.82 yea wee will enter into a curse and in∣to an oath to walee in Gods lawe,* 1.83and to obserue and to do
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all the commandemnts of the Lord our God that we may ty our loose harts to the obedi∣ence of thy holy wil for euer And let our houses which thou hast visited or kept cleare from this contagi∣on, and let our bodies, which thou hast healed or preserued from infection, and let our soules which thou hast humbled & com∣forted in any measure by and vnder this visitation, beare witnes to our sinceri∣ty in making this holy vow and couenant with thee. Let them bee a continuall remembrance to put vs in minde of often renewing it before thee: and let them bee as a threefold cord not ea∣sily broken faster to binde
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vs to the keeping of this oath & couenant with thee for euer. And now (O Lord our God) since thou hast by thy Spirit put into our hearts this desire to giue thee thanks, & direct∣ed vs to this means of mani∣festing our thankfulnes we humbly beseech thee keepe it for euer in the thoughts and imaginations of the hearts of thy people,* 1.84and set our hearts vnto thee, And giue vs such a heart that wee may feare thee, & keepe thy commandements alwayes,* 1.85that it may bee well with vs and with our children for euer, so wee thy people and sheepe of thy pasture will giue thee praise for euer, & will al∣wayes bee setting forth thy praise from generation to ge∣neration, Amen.
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Now vnto the King immor∣tall, inuisible and onely true God, most mighty & wise, faithfull and true, patient and pittifull, gracious & mercifull, infinite in all perfection; The Father of mercy, in The Sonne of peace, through The Holy Spirit of cō∣fort, be yeelded and giuen for all our former and later deli∣uerances in this or any other kind; and namely, for the pre∣sent staying of the Plague, (happily in great measure al∣ready begun and continued, and hopefully in the end to be perfected & accomplished) From our beliefe & trust; our loue and feare; our hope and ioy; our patience & obedience with our bodies and soule, by our thoughts, words, & works in our liues and deaths: all ho∣nour and glory, and all praise & thanks, from this time forth and for euer.* 1.86 And let all the peo∣ple say, AMEN