children for love of thy mercies, and not to dread thee like slaves, for fear of punishment. Amen.

O dear Father, reclaim us thy lost children; O merciful Saviour, pity us thy putrified members; O Holy Ghost, repair us, thy decayed Temples; O holy, blessed and glorious Trinity, have mercy upon us miserable sinners. Amen.

Grant us, O Lord, such true repentance, as may through the blood of our Saviour blot out the stains of our heinous iniquities. Forgive us our sins, O Lord, forgive us our sins, for thine infinite mercy's sake. Amen.

Forgive us our blasphemies, Idolatries, and perjuries, forget our vain and outrageous oaths. As thou hast by thy rigor and plagues forced us to acknowledge thee to be our just and righteous Lord, so let us through thy mercy and forgiveness feel thee to be our mild and loving Father: and give us grace for ever hereafter to reverence this thy glorious name. Amen.

Take from us, O God, the care of worldly vanities, make us contented with necessaries: Pluck away our hearts from delighting in honours, treasures, and pleasures of this life; and engender in us a desire to be with thee in thy eternal kingdom. Give us, O Lord, such taste and feeling of thy unspeakable joys in heaven, that we may alway long therefore, saying with thine elect: Hasten thy kingdom, O Lord, take us to thee. Amen.

Make us, O Lord, obedient to thy will revealed in thy holy word; make us diligent to walk in thy commandments; forgive us our contempt and 'murmuring against the Magistrates and Ministers which thou hast in thy mercies appointed; make us obedient unto their godly laws and doctrine. Save and preserve, O Lord, thine anointed, our Queen Elizabeth, that she in thy grace and fear may long reign among us.

Give peace to all Christian nations: Move us by thy Spirit to love one another, as the members of one body, that we may all do thy will here in earth, as it is in heaven. Amen.

Dig out of us, O Lord, the venomous roots of covetousness and concupiscence or else so repress them with thy grace, that we may be contented with thy provision of necessaries, and not to labour as we do with all toil, sleight, guile, wrong, and oppression, to pamper ourselves with vain superfluities. Feed our souls, O Lord, daily with the true Manna of thy heavenly word, and with the grace of thy holy sacraments. Give us grace continually to read, hear, and meditate thy purposes, judgments, promises, and precepts, not to the end we may curiously argue thereof, or arrogantly presume thereupon, but to frame our lives according to thy will: that by keeping the covenants we may be sure of the promises; and so make our election and vocation certain through our constant faith, and virtuous and godly living. Amen.

Conform us, O Lord, to the image of our Saviour; so burn our hearts with the flames of love, that no envy, rancour, hatred, or malice, do remain in us, but that we may gladly forgive whatsoever wrong is or shall be either maliciously or ignorantly done or said against us. And here,

Lord, in thy presence (thy Majesty is every where) we forgive whatsoever hath been by any man practised against us, beseeching thee of thy goodness likewise to forgive it. And further, for thy mercies' sake, and for our Saviour Jesus Christ's sake, we beseech thee, O dear Father, to forgive us those horrible and damnable sins, which we have committed against thy Majesty; for which thou hast now justly brought this Pestilence and plague upon us: let the ceasing thereof, we beseech thee, certify us of thy mercy and remission. Amen.

We know, O Lord, the weakness of ourselves, and how ready we are to fall from thee: suffer not therefore Satan to shew his power and malice upon us, for we are not able to withstand his assaults. Arm us, O Lord, alway with thy grace, and assist us with thy holy Spirit, in all kinds of temptation. Amen.

Deliver us, O dear Father, from all evils both bodily and ghostly: Deliver, O Lord, from trouble of conscience all that are snarled1 in their sins: Deliver, O Lord, from all fear of persecution and tyranny our brethren that are under the Cross for profession of thy word: Deliver, O merciful Father, those that for our sins and offences are already tormented with the rage of Pestilence: Recover those, O Lord, that are already stricken, and save the rest (of this my household) from this grievous infection. Amen. Grant this, O dear Father, for our Saviour Jesus Christ's sake, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

End with the Lord's prayer.

A prayer to God to cease the Plague.

O LORD God, which for our innumerable sins dost here fatherly correct us, to the end we should not feel the rigour of thy severe judg ment in eternal condemnation: We humbly submit ourselves unto thy grace and pity, beseeching thee for our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, that although we have justly deserved this plague now laid upon us, yet it may please thee in the multitude of thy mercies to withdraw thy rod from us. Grant us, O Lord, true repentance of our sins, which (as it did in that good king Ezechias) may deliver us from the plague laid upon us, and cause those that be sick to recover. Or if thou have determined to take a number of us out of the miseries of this present world, give us the comfort of thy holy Spirit, that may make us glad and willing to come unto thee. Give us grace, O Lord, so to prepare ourselves, that we may be ready, with the wise Virgins, to enter into life with our Saviour Christ, whensoever it shall please thee to call us. Grant us this, O dear Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our only mediator and advocate. To whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen.

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FINIS.

VI. THANKSGIVING TO GOD for withdrawing and ceasing the plague.

Psal. 147.

Psal. 105.

Psal. 92.

Psal. 13.

Psal. 30.

Psal. 92.

Psal. 30.

Psal. 86.

Psal. 68.

The Psalm.

1. O praise the Lord, for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God: yea, a joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful.

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112.

Psal. ciii.

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O give thanks unto the Lord, and call upon his name, and tell the people what he hath done.

For it is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most Highest:

To tell of thy loving kindness early in the morning, and of thy truth in the night season.

We will sing of the Lord, because he hath dealt so lovingly with us yea, we will praise the name of the Lord most Highest.

We will magnify thee, O Lord: for thou hast set us up, and not made our foes to triumph over us.

For thou, Lord, hast made us glad through thy works: and we will rejoice in giving praise for the operation of thy hands.

For, O Lord our God, we cried unto thee, and thou hast healed us. Thou hast brought our souls out of hell: thou hast kept our life from them, that go down to the pit.

For great is thy mercy towards us, and thou hast delivered our souls from the nethermost hell.

Praised be the Lord daily, even the God which helpeth us, and poureth his benefits upon us.

The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, and of great goodness.

[The present title is similarly circumstanced with that prefixed to the first of Sir John Mason's prayers, composed in 1568. See p. 516, The terms employed are not to be taken absolutely, but must be limited and explained in each by the obvious purport of the composition, to which they refer.]

[In Strype this is numbered 12, which makes the last verse the 28th. Perhaps it is a mere typographical error.]

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous: yea, our God is 13. merciful.

Psal. 116.

For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and in his plea- 14. sure is life: heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the Psal. 30. morning.

He will not alway be chiding, neither keepeth he his 15. anger for ever.

Psal. ciii.

He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according 16. to our wickedness.

For look, how wide the east is from the west, so far hath 17. he set our sins from us.

For like as a father pitieth his children, even so is the Lord merciful 18. to them that fear him.

For he knoweth whereof we be made: he remembereth 19. that we are but dust.

For thou, Lord, art good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all 20. them that call upon thee.

Psal. 86.

Thou hast forgotten the offence of thy people, and covered 21. all their sins.

Psal. 85.

Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure, and turned thyself from 22. thy wrathful indignation.

Thou hast turned our heaviness to joy: thou hast put off 23. our sackcloth, and girded us with gladness.

Psal. 30.

Turn thee, again, O Lord, at the last, and be gracious unto thy 24.

servants.

Psal. 90.

O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon: so shall we 25. rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

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Comfort us again, after the time that thou hast plagued us: and for 26. year wherein we have suffered adversity.

Shew thy servants thy work, and their children thy 27. glory and the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us. Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper thou our handy work.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:

As it was in the beginning. &c.

[A Psalm1 compiled out of the Book of Psalms, and appointed by the Bishop to be used in public, upon the abatement of the Plague.

UNTO thee, O Lord, lift we up our eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Even as the eyes of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hands of her mistress: even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God until he have mercy upon us.

In our trouble we have called upon the Lord: with our voice we complained unto our God, and our prayers entered into his ears, and he heard us out of his holy temple.

Many there were that did say of our souls, There is no help for them in their God.

But salvation belongeth unto thee, O Lord, and thy blessing is upon thy people.

We will tarry the Lord's leisure with patience, and put our trust in him, and he will comfort our hearts.

They that know thy name, O Lord, will put their trust in thee, for thou hast never failed them that seek thee.

Thou healest those that are broken in heart, and givest medicine to heal their sickness.

Finish, therefore, O Lord, the work of thy mercy, that thou hast begun in us: save the residue that are appointed to death.

Shew thy marvellous loving kindness to us, thou that art the saviour of them that put their trust in thee.

Quicken us, O Lord, for thy name's sake: for thy mercy's sake bring our souls out of trouble.

The glorious majesty of our God be upon us: prosper thou the work of thy hands upon us, O prosper thou the work of thy hands.

God is a righteous Judge, strong and patient, and God is provoked every day.

If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready, and ordaineth his arrows against the wicked and ungodly.

[This Psalm, if Strype is correct, does not belong to the Service here given still, he clearly refers it to Grindal, and to the present period. See his Life, p. 82; and the Appendix, p. 6. Can it have constituted part of some similar Form, put forth on the same occasion by another bishop for his own diocese ?]