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power, and admire, and adore thy mercy and bounty and in the strength and refreshment of our comforts restored, joyfully devote ourselves to thy holy service all the days of our lives. Amen.

Devout Applications to the Lord in Time of great Thunder, or some terrible Tempest.

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LORD God, most High and Almighty! who lookest upon the earth, and it trembles, and touchest the mountains, and they smoke. How wonderful art thou, and terrible in thy doings! to make us fear and tremble before thee, who hast all the creatures at thy beck to employ them, when thou wilt, as the executioners of thy wrath; and even the devouring fire, and stormy winds, so outrageous in themselves, yet they fulfil thy word. In these astonishing flames, the roaring noises, and dreadful commotions, thou shewest the power of thy hand which no creature is able to resist. When the God of glory thunders, and causes his voice in an amazing manner to be heard from heaven, thou makest us to know the terrors of the Lord, and how fearful a thing it is to fall into the hand of the living God.. The dangers that startle and come so nigh us, thou mightest make the messengers of thy heavy judgments upon us. And we must own it, Lord, to be only of thy mercies that we are not consumed, because thy compassions fail not. O let these thy compassions now be extended to us, and shewed upon us, and in tender mercy cause the threatening destruction to pass over us.

Great God! there is no abiding of thy wrath: though we deserve it, we are not able to stand before it but fall down, and humble, and submit ourselves to thy omnipotent glorious Majesty, beseeching thee to spare us from the mischief and ruin which thou mightest justly commission and empower to destroy us. And from the peril and hurt of lightening and tempest, sweeping judgments and sudden death, good Lord deliver us.

O despise not the prayers of thy poor creatures, crying to thee in our distress and extremity: but now and evermore vouchsafe to hear, O Christ, graciously hear us, and let us find mercy from thee now, and in that great day of the Lord, wherein the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; and the earth with all its works, be burnt up. O if these sights, and noises, and shakings be so terrible to us now, how unspeakably astonishing will it be, when the whole mighty frame of nature shall crack, and sink, and tumble down! O Lord of all mercy, save us now from our sins, that would then utterly consume us with terrors. For they are now sins that make us afraid; and fearfulness surprises us, because we have been false in thy covenant, and rebellious against thy word, and provoked the Lord our God to be angry with us. O forgive us all the guilt and transgressions which do fill us with fearful expectations of thy wrath and fiery indignation." And let the all-sufficient merits of our Lord Redeemer's bloody passion, that bassion which

made the earth to quake, and the rocks to rend, atone for every wickedness whereby we have offended the holy Majesty of heaven.

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And O that we may not only be stunned and ftruck down for the present, when thou doft so dreadfully discover thyself to us, and shake thy rod over us; but of thy mercy, Lord, awake us out of carnal security and hardness of heart, and forgetfulness of our God, who is a consuming fire. As the thunder storm, though frightful, use to be fruitful, so may dread of thy judgments produce some good fruit of thy spirit in us. Blessed God, let thy terrors soften our hearts, and leave such deep and lasting impressions on our minds, that we may never disregard the words of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands; but with all awfulness revere and adore the supreme eternal Ruler of all the world: and in thy holy fear keep back from every evil provoking thing, and carry ourselves toward the Lord our God, in a humble, godly, circumspect manner, as long as we have a day to live; even from this time forth, and for ever. Amen.

In Time of any sore and grievous Calamity.

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preme Commander of the whole world! holy and reverend is thy name; just and terrible are thy judgments; yet O how unsearchable! and thy ways past our finding out! thy path is in the great deep, and thy footsteps are not known. Clouds and darkness are round about thee, yet righteousness and judgment still

are the habitation of thy throne; and thou canst never do injury to any, but art righteous in all thy ways, and holy in all thy works. Who would not stand in everlasting awe of thy heavenly glorious Majesty, O Lord, in whose hands we all of us are to be used as thou wilt! who canst touch and consume us by thy own immediate stroke, or arm any of thy creatures in heaven or in earth against us, or make the vilest of them the executioners of thy just indig nation; or turn the very things wherein we have offended into the instruments of our punishment; yea, and plague us even in our comforts; making the choicest blessings of our lives become the saddest of our of our crosses, and the keenest torments; either to take away life from us, or make it less desirable than death to

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We fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker, in humble submission to thy correction, acknowledging the heavy desert of our sins, and the perfect justice of thy judgments Humble us, O good Lord, under thy hand; and forgive us the heinous guilt that provokes thee so to stretch it out against us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us, and turn us from our sins, and deliver us from evil, and turn away thy wrath, and all such plagues from us. O let thy boundless compassion cover all the multitude of our trans gressions! and remember thy poor miserable creatures in mercy; even such mercy' as may help us in our need and distress; and save us, and free us from our fears and dangers, and

from our griefs and pressures: that we may comfortably spend our days, and glorify thy holy name for evermore. Amen.

Under any great Difficulties and arduous af

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LORD, thou art a God of knowledge, whose understanding is infinite; and thou art never at a loss to effect what we would have, though the Lord knows the the thoughts of man, that they are vanity; and our wisdom is so often at a stand, that we know not what to do for ourselves; as at this time, our affairs are so entangled, and such a labyrinth now involves, that we are perplexed in our counsels, and even the heads of the wise are puzzled, in contriving how to extricate and help us out. There are many devices in a man's heart, but the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand. Yea, man's goings are of the Lord: how can man then understand his own way? his heart may advise his way, but the Lord directs his steps. If we lean not to our own understandings, but in all our ways acknowledge thee, O Lord, thou hast promised to direct our paths: and when we commit our way to thee, and trust in thee, we have thy word that thou wilt bring it to pass. But thou hast pronounced woe to them that take counsel, but not of thee: that cover with a covering, but not of thy spirit, and have not asked at thy mouth.

Our eyes therefore are upon our God: and to thee we seek now for wisdom from above: that

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