A Prayer to be said in the end of the morning prayer daily (through the dioeces of Norwich) during the time of this hard and sharp wether/ of frost and snow/ to crave mercy for our sins/ and release of this sore punishment at the merciful hands of our good and gracious God.  
O Thou most great/ most mighty and terrible God/ the God of Hosts & Lord of all power/ at whose mighty presence the Angels do trimble/ all powers & dominations do dread & fear/ at whose beck all creature in Heaven & Earth do bow ●…cy/ at whose terrible countenance the elements do ●…e & shrink away/ thou touchest the Earth & makest 〈◊〉 shake/ thou touchest the mounteyns & makest them ●…oke/ thy voice is a mighty and valiant voice/ thy 〈◊〉 divideth the waters in sunder & brakethe the Cedar 〈◊〉 in pieces/ at thy pleasure thou givest snow like will/ & ●…rest the hoar frost like ashes/ thou castest forth thy ●…e morsels/ who can abide the cold thereof/ thou sen●… forth thy word & meltest them again/ thou dost ●…inges as it pleaseth thee/ in Heaven & in Earth/ in the 〈◊〉 & in all deep places. ●ent with true repentance we ●…hethe our hard & stony hearts/ make us soft & fleshy 〈◊〉/ write in them thy holy laws/ grave them deep 〈◊〉 a chesell of steel/ that they may so sink & settle in our ●…s that we never departed from them again/ in deed ●…aue sinned/ we have committed iniquity/ we have 〈◊〉 wickedly before thy Majesty/ we have gone a way 〈◊〉 y/ O Lord/ & have not hearkened to thy voice/ which 〈◊〉 hast uttered unto us by thy servants the Prophets ●…stles & Ministers/ we have contemned to do thy word ●…r rebelled against thy most holy william. And therefore ●…dinge to the truth of thy promise'/ thou hast justly pow●… upon us the tokens of thy displeasure/ as thou hast 〈◊〉 by thy servant Moses: If ye will not obey me/ but 〈◊〉 on stuwornely against me/ I will punish you yet ●…times more according to your sins/ I will break ●…ride of your pour and I will make your Heaven as 〈◊〉/ & your Earth as brass/ I will smite you with fa●…/ with sickness/ with heat & with cold/ I will destroy ●…bours of your hands/ the fruits of the Earth/ your ●…s & cattle. According to thy threats thou hast sent 〈◊〉 impenitent summers from time to time thy great & ●…rable plagues/ as water/ fire/ sword/ pestilence/ fa●…/ wild beasts/ cruel enemy's/ frogs flies/ locusts ●…oppers/ caterpillars/ meldewes/ blastings/ hail/ ●…es/ frost/ snow/ thunder/ lightnings/ draft/ ●…es/ heat/ and cold/ which all be just rewards for sin. ●…h things O Lord/ we feel now (in part) to our 〈◊〉 grief to be full true. We have hardened our hearts ●…ust thy word/ and therefore hast thou hardened the earth ●…st us. We have been cold in love to thee/ and to our ●…rne/ therefore the aer is now frozen unto us/ we have ●…en our eyes from beholding thy truth/ therefore the ●…h hideth her face from us/ we have turned our ●…s toward thee/ therefore thou turnest thy face from We have not brought forth the good fruits of true re●…nce/ therefore the fruits of the earth are taken from ●…e have not obeyed thee/ our Lord and creator/ ther●…he creatures/ which thou madest for our use refuse to 〈◊〉 us. For we have abused them vainly/ proudly/ rio●…y/ wanton/ excessively/ unmercifully/ and uncharity. Wherefore they be both wearied & ashamed to maintain our lewd life any more. Our sins have separated thee/ and those of thy creatures from us. We have deceived ourselves in the ways of our onne vanities/ thinking ourselves to be wise we are proved stark fools/ in our wealth & jollity we would not acknowledge thee. Where fore through necessity we are driven to seek thee. We have been both umnindfull and unthankful for thy manifold and wonderful benefits continually powered upon us/ & therefore be unworthy to receive any more. We hide not our sins from thee/ O Lord/ our merciful Father/ but confess with sorrowful hearts & sighing souls/ that the offence & heavy displeasure of thy mighty Majesty a thousand times more grieveth us/ then all the plagues and ponishmentes in the world/ yea though we suffered the torments of hell/ we do not defend our sins but utterly defy them/ we do not excuse ourselves before thee/ which knowest the secret of all hearts/ but accuse our sins to be the cause of all our evelles/ woe to our wickedness that hath offended thee/ it is we that have offended/ we do acknowledge it/ we do sele it/ we do earnestly repent it. As we have sown so do we reap/ as we have laid up so do we found/ as we have deserved so do we receive/ even the bitter cup of thy describe wrath. Look done O Lord from heaven/ with thy pitiful eyes/ behold our lamentable estate/ the deep snow hath overwhelmed the Earth/ the nipping frost hath consinned the fruits thereof/ thou that bringest forth herbs and grass for the use of man & beast/ behold all is consumed and spent almost/ thou that preservest man & beast/ make some provision for both/ the cattle do grove & make pitiouse complaint/ the herds do low/ the flocks do bleet/ the birds do cry to the for secure and release. Lord if they starve/ our bodily food doth perish/ for thou hast given them unto us for meat: they have not sinned but we have transgressed/ they need not to repent/ but we which have offended/ we do confess we are unworthy of thy favour & mercy/ & yet thou dealest not so hardly with us/ as thou hast done/ with many forlike offences/ whereas thou mightest worthily plague us as thou hast done them in thy sudden wrath/ but thou warnest us with lesser stourges/ then we deserve/ that we should turn to thee with our hole heart/ which of ourselves we are not able to do without thee/ wherefore convert us O Lord/ and we shallbe converted unto thee. Renew thou a right spirit within us/ then shall we walk in thy ways who can make clean that which is conceived in unclevenes but thou alone/ no man can come unto thee/ except thou drowest him unto thee/ thou art good and we be evil/ thou art holy/ and we prophayne/ thou art pure/ and we polluted/ thou art just & we unjust/ thou art life & we in death/ thou art the physician/ and we thy patientes/ thou art joy and gladness/ and we be sorrowful & sad/ thou art verity and we be vanity/ thou art mercy and we in misery/ to whom should we fly in our distress/ but unto thee/ if thou refuse us/ who will receive us/ O Lord impert these rich and plentiful graces of thine unto us/ that be poor/ needy and beggarly/ full of all noughtyves/ and void of all goodness/ thou art our creator & we thy creatures/ despise not O Lord the work of thine own hands/ thou art our God cast us not from thee/ which be thy people/ thou art our King/ defend us thy subjects/ thou art our Pastore seek up and save us thy lost sheep/ thou art our Father give us thy Children our daily bread/ remember thy deer Sove jesus Christ in whon thou art pleased & pacified, who is with the our advocate and patron/ whose intercession for us can not be vain/ he is our head preserve us his members/ he is our bridegroom by thy gracious consent/ cast us not of his dearly bought sponse. Thou hast promised O dear Father to hear us in his name/ if we had not sinned we are thine/ & if we sin yet through him we are thine/ though we be unworthy/ through our offences/ yet is our Christ worthy for whose cause thou shouldest grant our petious/ and greater is thy glory & more large thy liberality/ to give to those that be unworthy/ it is a worthy thing for thee/ to make the unworthy to be worthy/ wherein thy grace doth most abound/ thou hast promised by thy faithful Servants the Prophets and Apostles/ that if we repent thou wilt no more remember our offences/ Lord thou knowest our seble nature/ & how we be but dust and ashes/ frail stubble corruption and worms of the earth more vain than nanitie itself/ what praise can be to the O mighty Lord to strive with dust and ashes/ what strength is that to fight against vain shadows/ what power can that appear to beaten down rotten stubble/ what great renown is that to thee to tread down silly crawling worms and drive them into dust/ it is Enough for thee O Lion most victorious of the tribe of Inda that we fall down before thy face/ and yield ourselves to thee/ & than thine anger hath an end. We are hear O Lord before thy Majesty falling to the ground/ confessing our sins with sorrowful hearts and sobing sighs in fasting/ weeping/ and turning wholly unto thee/ craning pardon for all our misdeeds/ proinising amendment and reforming of our sinful life/ according to thy holy word/ beseeching thee most heartily to endue us with thy principal spirit ever to guide & direct us in the ways of thy laws and works of thy commandments/ and upon this our most humble submission/ to take away (if it be thy fatherly will and most for thy glory and our commodity) this hard & sharp wether/ melt this snow/ miligate this frost/ make bore the face of the Earth/ bring forth fruits and grass for the use of man & beast/ give seasonable weather/ preserve the kinds/ of beast and foul/ which thou hast made for the service of man/ that both in these benefits & all other/ thy creatures we may acknowledge thee/ our mighty Lord & gracious God in knowledge we may truly worship thee/ in worshipping may love thee/ in love may ever cleave fast to thee/ without all separation to glorify thee/ in thy everlasting kingdom/ through the merits of thy dearly beloved Sun our only Lord and Saviour jesus Christ/ in whose name/ we are commanded to ask/ and what so ever is needful according to thy will we shall obtain/ wherefore through him we are bold to come unto the throne of thy grace saying as he hath taught us.  Our Father which art in Heaven. etc. 
¶ God Save the Queen. ❀   

¶ Seane and allowyd. ❀   

¶ Imprinted at Norw ch. in the parish of St. Andrew by Antho: de Solemn. 16●●. ❀