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O Almighty and everlasting Lord god the deer father of our saviour Jesus Christ, which haste made heaven, & earth, the sea and all that therein is, which art the only ruler, governor, conseruor, & keeper of all things, together with thy dearly beloved Son Christ Jesus our lord, and with thy holy ghost the comforter. O holy, Righteous and wise. O strong, terrible, mighty and fearful Lord god, judge of all men, and governor of all the whole world O exorable, patient, and most gracious father, whose eyes are upon the ways of all men, and are so clean, they cannot a bide impiety, thou searchest the hearts and triest the very thoughts, and reins of all men, thou hatest sin and abhorrest iniquity: for since sake thou haste grievously punished ⟨image 3⟩mankind thy most dear creature as thou haste declared by the penalty of death laid upon all the children of Adam, by the casting out of Adam & his of spring forth of Paradise, by the cursing of the earth, by the drowning of the world, by the burning up of Sodom and gomor, by the hardening the heart of Pharaoh, so that no miracle could convert him, by the drowning of him, and his people with him in the red sea, by the overthrowing of the Israelites in the wilderness, so that of six hundred thousand, all only but two did enter into the land of promise, by rejecting king Saul, by the great punishments upon thy servant david, not withstanding his hearty repentance by grievously affecting Solomon in him self, and in his posterity: by the captivity ⟨image 3⟩of the ten tribes, and by the thraldom of the Jews, wherein until this present day they continue a notable spectacle, of they wrath to the world against and for sin, but of all spectacles of thy anger against sin, the greatest and most notable, is the death & bloody passion of thy dearly beloved son Jesus Christ. Great is thine anger against sin when in heaven and earth nothing could be found which might appease thy wrath, save the bloudsheading of thine only & most dearly beloved son, in whom was and is all thy delight, great is the sore of sin that needed such a salve, mighty was the malady, that needed such a medicine.