O Thou most great / most mightie and ter­rible God / the God of Hostes & Lord of all power / at whose mightie presence the Angells do trimble / all powers & domi­nations do drede & feare / at whose becke all creature in Heauen & Earth do bow [...]cy / at whose terrible contenaunce the elementes do [...]e & shrinke awaye / thou touchest the Earth & makest [...] shake / thou touchest y^e mounteyns & makest them [...]oke / thy voyce is a mightie and valeaunt voyce / thy [...] deuideth the waters in sonder & brakethe y^e Cedar [...] in pieces / at thy pleasure y^u gyuest snow like woll / & [...]rest y^e hoare frost like asshes / thou castest forthe thy [...]e morselles / who can abyde y^e cold therof / thou sen­ [...] forthe thy word & meltest them agayne / thou doest [...]inges as it pleaseth the / in Heauen & in Earth / in the [...] & in all depe places. [...]ent with true repentaunce we [...]hethe our hard & stonye harts / make vs soft & fleshy [...] / wryte in them thy holy lawes / graue them depe [...] a chesell of stele / that they may so sinke & settle in our [...]s that we neuar depart from them agayne / in dede [...]aue sinned / we haue committed iniquitie / we haue [...] wickedly before thy Maiestie / we haue gone a waie [...] y^• / O Lord / & haue not harkned to thy voyce / which [...] hast vttered vnto vs by thy Seruants y^e Prophets [...]stles & Ministers / we haue contēned to do thy word [...]r rebelled against thy most holy will. And therfore [...]dinge to the truth of thy promise / y^u hast iustly pow­ [...] upon vs the tokenes of thy displeasure / as thou hast [...] by thy seruant Moses: Yf ye will not obey me / but [...] on stuvvornely against me / I will ponish you yet [...]times more according to your synnes / I will breake [...]ride of your pour and I will make your Heauen as [...] / & your Earth as brasse / I will smyte you with fa­ [...] / with sicknes / with heate & with cold / I will destroy [...]bours of your handes / the fruytes of y^e Earth / your [...]s & cattell. According to thy threates thou hast sent [...] impenitent sumers from tyme to time thy greate & [...]rable plages / as water / fyre / sworde / pestilence / fa­ [...] / wild beastes / cruell enemies / froggs fliese / locustes [...]oppers / caterpillers / meldewes / blastinges / hayle / [...]es / frost / snowe / thunder / lightninges / draught / [...]es / heat / and cold / which all be iust rewards for sin. [...]h thinges O Lorde / we fele now (in part) to our [...] grefe to be full true. We haue hardned our hartes [...]ust thy word / and therfore hast thou hardned y^e earth [...]st vs. We haue bene colde in loue to the / and to our [...]rne / therfore y^e aer is now frosen vnto vs / we haue [...]en our eyes from beholdinge thy truth / therfore the [...]h hydeth her face from vs / we haue turned our [...]s toward thee / therfore thou turnest thy face from We haue not brought forth y^e good fruytes of true re­ [...]nce / therfor the fruytes of the earth are taken from [...]e haue not obeyd thee / our Lord and creatour / ther­ [...]he creatures / which thou madest for our vse refuse to [...] vs. For we haue abused them vainly / proudly / rio­ [...]y / wantonly / excessiuely / vnmercyfully / and vnchari­ [...]y. Wherfore they be both weried & ashamed to main­taine our lewde life any more. Our sinnes haue separated thee / and thuse of thy creatures from vs. We haue decey­ued our selues in the wayes of our onne vanities / thin­kinge our selues to be wyse we are proued starke fooles / in our welth & iolitie we wold not acknowleg thee. Wher fore throughe necessitie we are dryuen to seke thee. We haue bene both vmnindfull and vnthankfull for thy ma­nifold and wonderfull benefites continuallye powred vp­on vs / & therfore be vnworthy to receyue any more. We hyde not our sinnes from the / O Lord / our mercifull Fa­ther / but confesse with sorowfull hartes & sighing soules / that the offence & heauy displeasure of thy mightie Ma­iestie a thousand tymes more greueth vs / then all the plages and ponishmentes in the worlde / yea though we suffred the tormentes of hell / we do not defend our sinnes but vtterly defye them / we do not excuse our selues befor thee / which knowest the secrete of all hartes / but accuse our sinnes to be y^e cause of all our euelles / wo to our wic­kednes that hath offended thee / it is we that haue offen­ded / we do acknowlege it / we do sele it / we do earnestlye repent it. As we haue sowne so do we reape / as we haue layde vp so do we find / as we haue deserued so do we re­ceyue / euen y^e bitter cup of thy descrued wrath. Loke done O Lorde from heauen / with thy pitefull eyes / behold our lamentable estate / the deepe snow hath ouerwhelmed the Earth / the nipping frost hath consinned the fruytes ther­of / thou that bringest forthe herbes and grasse for the vse of man & beast / behold all is consumed and spent almost / y^u y^t preseruest man & beast / make som prouision for both / the cattell do groue & make pitiouse complaynt / y^e heards do low / the flockes do bleet / the byrdes do crie to the for succour and relese. Lorde if they sterue / our bodyly foode doth perish / for thou hast gyuen them vnto vs for meat: they haue not sinned but we haue transgressed / they nede not to repent / but we which haue offended / we do con­fesse we are vnworthy of thy fauour & mercie / & yet thou dealest not so hardly with vs / as y^u hast done / w^t many forlike offences / whereas y^u mightest worthyly plage vs as thou hast done them in thy sodeyne wrath / but thou warnest vs with lesser stourges / then we deserue / that we should tourne to thee with our hole harte / which of our selues we are not hable to do w^tout thee / wherfore cōuert vs O Lorde / and we shalbe conuerted vnto thee. Renue y^u a right sprite within vs / then shall we walke in thy waies who can make clene y^t which is conceyued in vncleuenes but thou alone / no man can come vnto thee / excepte thou drowest him vnto the / thou art good and we be euill / y^u art holy / and we prophayne / thou art pure / and we pollu­ted / thou art iust & we vniust / thou art life & we in death / thou art the physition / and we thy patientes / thou art ioy and gladnes / and we be sorowfull & sadd / thou art veritie and we be vanitie / thou art mercy and we in myserye / to whom should we flye in our distres / but vnto thee / if thou refuse vs / who will receyue vs / O Lorde impert these rich and plentifull graces of thine vnto vs / that be poore / ne­die and beggerly / full of all noughtyues / and voyde of all goodnes / thou art our creator & we thy creatures / dispise not O Lorde the worke of thine owne handes / thou arte our God cast vs not from thee / which be thy people / thou art our King / defend vs thy subiectes / thou art our Pas­tore seke vp and saue vs thy lost shepe / thou art our Fa­ther gyue vs thy Children our dayly breade / remembre thy dere Soue Iesus Christ in whon y^u art pleased & paci­fied, who is with the our aduocate and patrone / whose in­tercession for vs can not be vaine / he is our head preserue vs his membres / he is our bridgrome by thy graciouse consent / cast vs not of his dearly bought sponse. Thou hast promised O deare Father to heare vs in his name / yf we had not sinned we are thine / & if we sin yet through him we are thyne / though we be vnworthy / through our offences / yet is our Christ worthye for whose cause thou shouldest graunt our petious / and greater is thy glory & more large thy liberalitie / to gyue to those that be vnwor­thy / it is a worthie thing for thee / to make y^e vnworthy to be worthy / wherin thy grace doth most abound / y^u hast promised by thy say thfull Seruantes the Prophetes aud Apostles / that if we repent thou wilt no more remembre our offences / Lord thou knowest our seble nature / & how we be but dust and asshes / frayle stoble corruption and wormes of the earth more vaine then nanitie it self / what praise can be to the O mightye Lorde to stryue with dust and ashes / what strength is that to fight agaynst vayne shadowes / what power can that appeare to beat downe rotten stoble / what greate renowne is y^t to thee to tread downe sely crawling wormes and dryue them into dust / yt is Enough for thee O Lion most victoriouse of y^e tribe of Inda that we fall downe before thy face / and yeld our selues to thee / & then thyne angre hath an end. We are heare O Lorde before thy Maiestie falling to the ground / confessinge our sinnes with sorowfull hartes and sobing sighes in fasting / weping / and turning wholely vnto thee / cranyng Perdon for all our misdedes / proinising amend­ment and reforming of our synfull life / accordinge to thy holy worde / beseching thee most hartely to indue vs with thy principall sprite euer to guyde & direct vs in the waies of thy lawes and workes of thy commaundementes / and vpon this our most humble submission / to take awaye (if it be thy fatherly will and most for thy glory and our commoditie) this hard & sharpe wether / melt this snow / miligate this frost / make bare the face of the Earth / bring forth fruytes and grasse for the vse of man & beast / gyue seasonable wether / preserue the kindes / of beast and foule / which thou hast made for the seruice of man / that both in these benefites & all other / thy creatures we may acknow­lege thee / our mightie Lorde & graciouse God in know­lege we may truly worship the / in worshipyng may loue thee / in loue may euer cleaue fast to thee / without all sepa­ration to glorifye thee / in thy euerlastinge kingdom / through the merits of thy dearly beloued Sone our one­ly Lorde and Sauiour Iesus Christ / in whose name / we are commaunded to aske / and what so euer is nedefull according to thy will we shall obtaine / wherfore through him we are bold to come vnto the throne of thy grace sai­yng as he hath taught vs.

¶ God Saue the Queene. ❀