In the time of God's visitation by Sickness, or Mortality especially, may be used by Governors of Families  

First, A Confession of sins.  
O Eternal, Almighty, and just God, merciful, loving, and holy Father, we thy humble servants humbly confess and acknowledge here in thy presence, that all the imaginations of the thoughts of our hearts are only evil continually, yea every man in his best estate is altogether vanity. And we (dust and ashes) have grievously sinned, we have transgressed thine holy laws and ordinances, we have exceeded in measure, number and weight, the iniquities of our forefathers, and have thereby justly deserved that thou shouldest in thy just judgement have drawn forth the sword of thy justice, and executed vengeance, even in the highest degree against us, according to the measure, number and weight of our manifold sins and heinous iniquities, we are not worthy of the least of all thy mercies. We humbly also confess and acknowledge (even against ourselves) that neither thousands of Rams, nor ten thousand rivers of oil (if we were able and willing to yield them unto thee) are sufficient to satisfy thy justice for the least of the iniquities which we have committed against thee, if thou shouldest turn thine eye of mercy and compassion away from us; and these things heretofore we confessed (O Lord) but our lives we amended not. And yet notwithstanding (O merciful Lord, holy and loving Father) so great is thy loving kindness towards us, and so manifold are thy mercies, that thou (of thy favour) hast been pleased (even in pity and compassion for thine own sake, without any desert of ours) to pacify thine own wrath, by a few light and easy strokes with thy rod of correction, and so for a time to cease thine anger, to try us if we would seek after thee, not suffering thy punishing Angel to pass through jerusalem and judea, London, and other these dominions, with a swift course and heavy hand, as in the days of King David. And (finding us a rebellious and stiffnecked people) hast sent out thine Angel to threaten and execute vengeance in greater weight, and in greater measure against us, if we will not amend. And yet in favour stayest from executing thy fierce wrath. What shall we then offer unto thee (O Lord our God) for all the blessings which we have received from thee? Thou hast no need to receive of us, all beasts, all cattle, all sheep on mountains; yea the earth is thine, and all that therein is, the world, and they that dwell therein, we ourselves, and all that we have are thine, what have we that we have not received of thee? We confess (O Lord) even against ourselves, that we have nothing to offer but the calves of polluted lips, proceeding from unclean & uncircumcised hearts, that is, praise, thanks, and prayer, and the same (if thou shouldest consider them as they are ours) very full of vanities and corruptions.   

Secondly, A thanksgiving for deliverances.  
Such as we have (yet) O merciful father, we (more humbly and more freely, and heartily, then heretofore) offer unto thy Majesty. We praise thy holy, great and glorious name, and we yield unto thee humble and hearty thanks for thy great & wonderful deliverances; deliverances from pestilence, famine, & sword, heretofore worthily threatened against us, & for other thy manifold favours & blessings bountifully bestowed upon this City, and upon this Land, & (now especially Lord) for thy great mercy, in that thou art pleased, even now at this present, once again to touch the people of this Land for their trial, with thy loving rod of fatherly correction, rather than in justice to power out the viols of thy wrath, utterly to consume us for our unthankfulness and disobedience.   

Thirdly, A Prayer for continuance of God's mercies.  
ANd we humbly and heartily pray thee (O Lord) even for thine own names sake, and for thy Son our Saviour jesus Christ's sake, lay not to our charge our offences past, forgive us our iniquities, cover our sins, and impute them not unto us, and then we shall be blessed. Purge, frame, and form our hearts anew; soften them, and make them repentant and obedient, willing freely without backsliding or halting to yield obedience unto that spirit which saith: Give me the heart; deliver us also (holy Father) not only from perishing by waters, according to thy merciful and gracious promise made of old, but also from that abundance of waters, which may kill, hurt and hinder, the seed or fruits of the earth, and give us holy Father (as graciously in great mercy thou hast given us) only that former and that latter rain, commended in thy holy word, and other seasonable and temperate weather, which may yield unto the good seed of the ground, as now, so hereafter, (by thy blessing) in times convenient life, growth and increase, so as we may by thy gracious favour, as this year, so others also, at length reap the fruits of plentiful harvests: And because so it is (Lord) that thou makest a land barren for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, change thou our hearts (we humbly beseech thee) root out the wickedness from the hearts of the inhabitants of the land, and then we shall be sure that the land shall yield her increase. Give us O Lord thy grace and holy spirit, to guide and govern us, and to hold us within the lists and limits of thy holy precepts and ordinances, in such sort, as that we may for ever hereafter, use thy word as the only wise, and all-sufficient rule to square our lines by, knowing that all unwritten verities, and all traditions, and inventions of men, yea all the imaginations of the thoughts of our hearts are only evil continually; let thy word be a lantern to our feet, and a light unto our paths, knowing that therein is the true King's highway to be found, that leadeth to everlasting life and salvation, and that all other ways which have not warrant from thence (if thou shalt in judgement look into them) will be found to be but bypaths, leading to eternal death and destruction. Give us (O Lord) a holy and earnest desire, often to hear thy holy and heavenly word: give us wise, understanding, faithful and obedient hearts, that we may truly understand, & faithfully believe; & may (not for fear, or fashion, or for any other worldly respect whatsoever, but in a true obedience for conscience sake) fruitfully practise in our lives and conversations thine holy statutes & ordinances. Continue thy grace, mercy, and accustomed loving kindness (O Lord we beseech thee for thine own names sake, and for thy Son our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ's sake) unto King james our blessed David, and unto the Queen, and the Prince his son, and to all his royal progeny. And grant (if it be thy good pleasure) that he may attain to the years of the eldest of his Fathers, in the days of their Pilgrimage, set up his seed after him (Lord we beseech thee) and establish the throne of his Kingdom in his posterity in all ages, so as there may not want a man of his seed to sit upon his throne, to feed people in jacob, and thine inheritance in Israel, so long as the heaven and the earth endure. Be merciful also unto all Israel, jerusalem, and judea, London, and all the King's Dominions; and to the Magistrates and Ministers of thy holy word and sacraments. In their several degrees, dignities, and callings, give them (O Lord we beseech thee) a true love and zeal of the execution of thy holy laws, that they may (according to thine own appointments) faithfully, diligently, and with a religious care and conscience, of the advancement of the glorious gospel of thy Son our Lord and Saviour jesus Christ, discharge that great charge and weighty burden which thou hast laid upon them: and stop the entry and passage (O Lord) both to Magistracy and Ministry, so as neither ravening wolves devourers, nor wily foxes deceivers of thy stock, nor any others, but such only as thou knowest to be furnished with gifts fit for the discharge of those great and weighty callings, be suffered to enter or pass thereunto. We use means (O Lord) to preserve health, and to avoid and expulse infection: But we depend not upon them, we trust not in them, we humbly confess, that no good success, no blessing, can come but from thee, and by thee alone: and therefore we humbly and heartily pray thee to give success, and to yield thy blessing thereunto, and to say once again to thine Angel, Hold now thy hand. More particularly (O holy Father) continue also (we beseech thee) thy mercy and loving kindness to the little flock within this house, and to thy humble and unworthy servant whom thou (of thy favour) hast appointed to be overseer thereof, and give unto them thy grace in such measure that they may so walk every of them in their several places and callings, as may be agreeable to thy holy and blessed will, through jesus Christ our Lord and only Saviour. In whose name we humbly further pray unto thee for these and all other things which thou in thy wisdom knowest to be most meet for us, and for thy whole Church, in that form of prayer which he himself hath taught us. Our Father which art in heaven, etc.    

Printed at London by Valentine Simmes, dwelling on Adling hill at the sign of the white Swan.