¶ A Christian meditation or prayer to be said at all times whensoever GOD shall visit us with any mortal plague or sicnesse.  
¶ Imprinted at London By William Awen 1.5.5.1.   

A Christian meditation or prayer to meditation or prayer to be said at all times when soever God shall viset us with any mortal plague or sickness.  
O Lord GOD almighty and Father most merciful, who though thou be daily provoked to wrath and vengeance by the grievous offences and sins of us thy most disobedient children, yet nevertheless art so patient and of such long sufferance, that thou holdest thy rod, till by our outrageous contempts and most wilful breakinges of th● commandments thou art for our correction constrained to strike: remember good Lord thine accustomed goodness towards thy people, whom of thine own fatherly thendernesse thou haddest ever more liefer to save than to spill, to emend them, to destroy, to forgive then to punish. What soever scourge or afflietions thou didst in old time either threaten or lay upon the stubborn & unrepentance people of Israel, yet didst thou never shut up thy mercies from them when soever they would with all their heart return unto the. 
Gene. 18.  When the cry of Zodome & Gomorre came unto thine ear for their most grievous abominations: yet such is thy readiness to show mercy, that at the prayer of thy servant Abraham thou madest promiss to save the cities and not to destroy them. first if fifty, secondly if forty five, than if forty, afterward if thirty, 
joan. 3.  at last if twenty, yea finally if ten righteous persons could have been found in them. When thy Prophet jonas had proclaimed the destruction of Ninive for their great and manifold sins: yet for their repentance sake, thou didst most gladly and readily call back thy sore sentence afore pronounced against them. 
4. Re. 20  When thy Prophet isaiah had at thy commandment declared to King Ezechias that he should not scape death, yet for his hearty prayers sake thou didst revoke that sentence again, & didst add, fifteen years unto his days. And we also now O Lord acknowledge our manifold sins and most grievous transgressions. We confess that we have most justly deserved this sudden plague & mortal disease and a great deal worse. We grant that we have by our wickedness, most worthily enkendled thy wrath and indignation against us. But o Lord what is man that thou wouldst match thyself to try in battle against him: What glory should it be, to the o Lord, if thou shouldst destroy all flesh being but chaff and dust. Remember good Lord that if thou wilt stand in trial with us, we have nothing to lay for ourselves, nor can be able to stand in judgement before the. We therefore appeal from thy justice unto thy mercy, which for thy name's sake & for thine own glory, thou hast in thine eternal word and truth promised unto all such as will earnestly emend and convert unto the. Spar us therefore good Lord, and like as thou hast at this present sent unto us this sudden plague both as a warning of thy great indignation for our most grievous sins, and also for a token that except we will now emend, we cannot escape thy hands to be beaten with a sharper rod: so grant O Lord that this may be unto us an wholesome medicine for our emendement of life, and that it may all together redound unto thy glory, so that whether we live or die we may still be thy people, and thou still our God and most tender loving Father. And forasmuch as every good gift of true faith & repentance cometh from the give us thy grate that we may by this thy most tender and fatherly correction, return from our did iniquities which have now provoked thy wrath, and also that from henceforth we may serve the in all holiness and pureness of life, whereby thy glory may increase, and thy name may be magnified. Yea even among them that other wise are blasphemers of thy most holy Gospel, and do impute unto the knowledge of thy most holy word sent unto the world in these later times, all the plagues. Which have been provoked by our stubbornness and hardness of heart. But hear thou O Lord the hearty prayers of the faithful little flock trusting in thy only mercy: and grant this our petition for thy Son JESUS Christ's sake, to whom with thee, and thee Holy ghost be all praise, honour and glory for ever and ever. So be it.