A Prayer to be used of all Householders, with their whole Family, every evening before they go to bed, that it would please God to turn his Wrath from us threatened in the last terrible Earthquake.
Set forth by Authority.
—WE most heartily and humbly beseech thy fatherly Goodness to look down from the Throne of the Mercy Seat upon us most miserable and sinful Slaves of Satan, which with fearful and trembling hearts do quake and shake at the strange and terrible token of thy Wrath and Indignation, appearing most evidently to us, by thy shaking and moving ⟨p. 135⟩of the Earth, which is thy Footstool, whereby (if we be not utterly destitute of Grace) we be warned, that thy coming down amongst us, to visit our sins in most terrible manner, cannot be far off, seeing thou treadest so hard upon this thy Footstool the Earth, which we most shamefully have polluted and defiled with our most wicked, sinful, and rebellious Lives, notwithstanding thy continual crying and calling upon us by thy Servants, the Prophets and Preachers, by whom we have learned to know thy will, but have not followed it: We have heard much, and done little▪ yea nothing at all; but like most perverse and unthankful Children, have made a mock of thy Word, derided thy Ministers, and accounted thy Threatenings trifles, and thy Warnings of no weight or moment: Wherefore we have justly deserved to taste most deeply of the bitter Cup of thy Anger and Vengeance by Wars, Famine, Pestilence, yea, and Eternal Death if thou shouldst not temper the rigour of thy Justice with the mildness of thy Mercy.—Turn this Earthquake, O Lord, to the benefit of ⟨p. 136⟩thine Elect, as thou didst when thou shoo•• edst the Prison, loosedst the Locks, Fetters and Chains of thy Servants, Paul and S• las, and broughtest them out of Prison▪ and convertedst their Keeper; so gracious Lord, strike the hearts of Tyrants with the terror of this thy Work, that they may know that they are but Men▪ and that tho• art that Sampson that for their mocking and spiting of thee, and thy Word, canst shake the Pillars of their Palaces, and throw them upon the furious Philistines heads. Turn thy Wrath, O Lord, fro• thy Children that call upon thy Name, to the Conversion or Confusion of thine▪ Enemies that defy and abhor thy Name, and deface thy Glory. Thou hast knocked long at their Doors, but they will not open to let thee in:
A Prayer to be used of all Householders, with their whole Family, every evening before they go to bed, that it would please God to turn his Wrath from us threatued in the last terrible Earthquake.
Set forth by Authority.
—WE most heartily and humbly beseech thy fatherly Goodness to look down from the Throne of the Mercy Seat upon us most miserable and sinful Slaves of Satan, which with fearful and trembling hearts do quake and shake at the strange and terrible token of thy Wrath and Indignation, appearing most evidently to us, by thy shaking and moving ⟨p. 135⟩of the Earth, which is thy Footstool, whereby (if we be not utterly destitute of Grace) we be warned, that thy coming down amongst us, to visit our sins in most terrible manner, cannot be far off, seeing thou treadest so hard upon this thy Footstool the Earth, which we most shamefully have polluted and defiled with our most wicked, sinful, and rebellious Lives, notwithstanding thy continual crying and calling upon us by thy Servants, the Prophets and Preachers, by whom we have learned to know thy will, but have not followed it: We have heard much, and done little▪ yea nothing at all; but like most perverse and unthankful Children, have made a mock of thy Word, derided thy Ministers, and accounted thy Threatnings trifles, and thy Warnings of no weight or moment: Wherefore we have justly deserved to taste most deeply of the bitter Cup of thy Anger and Vengeance by Wars, Famine, Pestilence, yea, and Eternal Death if thou shouldst not temper the rigour of thy Justice with the mildness of thy Mercy.—Turn this Earthquake, O Lord, to the benefit of ⟨p. 136⟩thine Elect, as thou didst when thou shoo•• edst the Prison, loosedst the Locks, Fetters and Chains of thy Servants, Paul and S• las, and broughtest them out of Prison▪ and convertedst their Keeper; so gracious Lord, strike the hearts of Tyrants with the terrour of this thy Work, that they may know that they are but Men▪ and that tho• art that Sampson that for their mocking and spighting of thee, and thy Word, canst shake the Pillars of their Palaces, and throw them upon the furious Philistines heads. Turn thy Wrath, O Lord, fro• thy Children that call upon thy Name, to the Conversion or Confusion of thine▪ Enemies that defie and ab•or thy Name, and deface thy Glory. Thou hast knocked long at their Doors, but they will not open to let thee in:
