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smite them in the knees,
and in the legs with a sore Botch that could not be healed, from the sole of the foot unto the top of the head: to smite them with the botch of Egypt,
whereof they could not be healed: Thou who by the mouth of thine onely Son diddest fore-tell to the Jews that Nation should rise against Nation, Kingdome against Kingdom, and that there should be Famines and Pestilences in diverse places:
let thine anger cease,
Had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory: but we alas, both have known, and doe know him; & yet we crucifie to our selves the son of thee our God afresh;
and daily put him to an open shame. For these our offences thou hast besicknesse indeath approacheth: yea such a sicknesse, and such a death, as maketh us feare both our selves, and our neighbours; because we have not feared thee the Lord of hosts. Thou seest, ô Lord, our afflictions; even that our houses are made our prisons, & our sores our companions. Our streets are turpastures, our towns into wildernesses and for our backwardness in our devotions, our very doores instruct us to addresse our selves unto thee, and to beseech thee Lord to have mercy upon us. Our days are consumed in sorrows, and languishing; and our nights in weeping, and mourning. Thou wounplag
uGolgothaes are surfeited with the dead, and our habitainfected with the living. We fly from place to place, from Country to Country; and yet wee fly not from thy presence, wee avoid not thy judgments. What shall wee do,Is there no balm, O Lord, in Gilead? Is there no Physitian there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of thy people recovered? Thy Son, thy mersent to binde up the broken hearted, and to open the prisons to them that were bound,
comfort them that mourn: and he was not backhealed all manner of sicknesse,
and all manner of diseases among the people. At thy feet therefore, ô Jesus thou best Physitian, wee cast our selves down. A multitude we are that ly at thy feet: Cure us, ô Christ, heal us, ô Jesus, as thou diddest the multitude. A whole multitude once did seek to touch thee; for there went virtue out of thee; and thou healedst them all.
moved with compassion, and didst heal their sick. Maplagues. Behold thy hand is not shortned that it cannot save;
neither is thine ear heavy that thou canst not hear. The number of petitiohealed many:
touch thee; for thou hast virtue in thee; thou hast power to heal. O Lord hear, ô Lord forgive, ô Lord heal us of our griewounds. In the depth of thy fury when thou didst resolve to be revenged of a Releave a few from the Sword,
and from the Famine, and from the Pestilence, that they might declare all their abominations among the people where they should come; that they might know that thou art the Lord. Us thou hast Plagued, us thou hast punished, so sorely, so grievously, that but few of us are left: yet ô Lord, now at last look in mercy upon us: ô Lord let this remnant finde thy compassion. O cure us, ô heal us, ô help us for thy mercy's sake. When thou wert angry with Egypt, thou didst threaten to smite it:
heal it; and that they should return unto thee their Lord, and that thou wouldest be intreated of them.
Judah that thou wouldst bring it health, and cure; and wouldest cure them, and reveale unto them aboundance of peace & truth. Thou didst promise unto Zion, that thou wouldest restore health unto her,
and heal her of her wounds, because she was called an out-cast by the people, saying;
These were thy promises even in the midst of thy threatEgypt, or Judah, or Zion? True it is that thou expectest our converturn unto thee with all our hearts, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. To thee thereEyes, and our dejected Countenances, and our wringing Hands, and our bended Knees, and our mourning voyces, and our groaning hearts. Merciful God, beTears, and view our countenances, and look upon our hands, strengthen our knees, and hearken to our voyces, and comThe Priests, ô Lord,Ministers doe weep between the Porch and the Altar, and they say, Spare thy people, ô Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach. Our Ezra's pray,
and confesse and weep, and cast themselves down before thine house; and the people assemble themselves unto them, both our men and our women, and our children; for we all weep very sore. We weep as the Israelites did before the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation,
Pestilence. Thus we mourn; thus we weep: our Eys, our Hearts, our very souls do weep: ô let us tast of thy love; let us feel thy comDavid did; when he cryed unto thee, and thou didst heal him.
for their coveteousnesse;
smitten us: thou hast hid thy self, and hast been angry; yet we have gone on frowardly in the wayes of our hearts. But O our God, do thou make us as penitent as those Jews; and then say unto us as thou didst unto thy Judah, I have seen thy wayes, and I will heale thee:
I will lead thee also, and restore comforts unto thee and to thy mourners. Alas, we mourn, and yet we are punished: we grieve, and yet we are Plagued;
our iniquities do testifie against us: But for thy name's sake, O Lord, be pleased to spare us.O the hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stra
as a mighty man that cannot save? Thou, O Lord, art still in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; therefore, we pray thee, leave us not. O here is a Pestilence in our land;
make our prayers and supplications, and stretch forth our
in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive; that we may fear thee, and walk in thy wayes all the dayes of our lives. Or if the sins of us thy people cause thee to stop thine ears at our prayers, O hear thou our Hezekiah's praying for us,
who have not cleansed our selves. Stay the Plague from us thine Israel, as thou didst from thy people, when thy serPhinehas executed judgment.
take their Censers, and to put fire in them from off the Altar, and to put on incense: O let them come quickly to our congregations, and make an attonement for us.stand between the dead and the living, and let the Plague be stayed. Thine Angel stretcheth forth his hand upon our Jerusalem to destroy it:
Repent thee of the evill and say unto the destroying Angel, It is enough; stay now thy hand. Hear us, O Lord, for the distressed People in this City and Nation; and hear them for us, and hear thy Christ for us all: That to Him, and Thee, and thy blessed Spirit, we may render (as is most due) all Praise, and Glory, and Thanksgiving, and Obedience, from this time forth for ever more, Amen. Saying as Christ himOur Father, &c.
London,
T. Mabb, for R. Burton, anR. Gilberson.