illustrated border framing title page  Matthew the evangelist, represented by a winged man or an angel  royal blazon or coat of arms  John the evangelist, represented by an eagle  emblematic representation of Faith with sword and shield 
FIDES   emblematic representation of Humility with a lamb 
HUMILITAS   Mark the evangelist, represented by a lion  Luke the evangelist, represented by an ox 
A FORM of Prayer to be publicly used in Churches, during this unseasonable Wether, and abundance of Rain.  
¶ Set forth by Authority.  HOSEA 5.15. 
In their affliction they will seek me early.  
¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1613.    

¶ A form of Prayer to be publicly used in Churches, during this unseasonable weather, and abundance of Rain.  

At Morning Prayer after the 95. Psalm, O come let us sing unto the Lord, etc. Read the 105. Psalm, and the 10. Psalm.  
For the first Lesson, the 6. and 7. of Genesis.  
For the second Lesson, the 17. of Luke, or the 24. of Matthew.  
After the Collect, O Lord our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, etc. Say this Prayer.  
MOst gracious God, and merciful Father, forasmuch as we are taught by thy holy Word, 
Levit. 26.  that thou wilt break the pride of our power, bring upon us burning Agues to consume us, make our hearts heavy; And that thou wilt suffer us to sow our Seed in vain, and break the staff of our Bread, when we despise thy sacred Ordinances, and walk stubbornly against thee: in that thou hast partly visited, partly threatened us with thy dreadful punishments, thou dost thereby graciously admonish us of our manifold sins, and wilful transgressions against thy most sacred Majesty. We have a long time securely stumbred in the senselessness of our iniquities, and it hath pleased thy Gracious goodness by these thy chastisements mercifully to awaken us. Wherefore we see the grievousness of our impiety, and beholding it, our hearts are filled with sorrow, and our eyes are watered with penitent tears. We do humbly acknowledge and confess our great unthankfulness for the continual multiplying of thy blessings upon us. For the more thou hast heaped on us thy Mercies, the more have we, wretched sinners, by our transgressions provoked thy justice: and therefore most justly hast thou laid thy heavy hand upon us, in smiting some of us with a linger sickness, & by unseasonable wether menacing dearth, and further scarcity. These extraordinary afflictions, are infallible signs of thy wrath & anger kindled against us, yet because we know thee not only to be a just, and righteous, but likewise a merciful God in thy dear Son jesus Christ; through his mediation, we presume to prostrate ourselves before thy Throne of grace, most humbly beseeching thy Fatherly goodness to wash away the unclean pollutions of our sins with his precious blood, and to cast them into the bottom of the Sea, that their loud cry may no longer pierce the Heavens, and thence pluck down thine ireful indignation upon us: but we being received into thy favour, and henceforth walking in piety, obedience, temperance, sobriety, and bringing forth fruits worthy of amendment of life, may to our comfort enjoy thy temporal blessings in this life, and in that which is to come eternal glory, for Christ his sake our only Advocate and Mediator. Amen.  

¶ Then read the Litany, where, after the Prayer, Almighty and everlasting God, which only workest great marvels, etc. say this Prayer.  
O Most Omnipotent Creator, who by thine infinite power hast framed the whole world, and all things therein contained, of nothing, and out of thine unspeakable love towards man hast placed glorious lights in the firmament to shine upon the earth, and to be signs for Seasons, for Days, and for Years, & hast appointed the Heavens to shed down fruitful showers, and the earth to bring forth every green and living thing in due season: for this thine inestimable goodness we are incessantly bound to dedicate ourselves, our souls and bodies, yea, all our thoughts, and endeavours to be perpetual sacrifices of thankfulness unto thy holy Name, and evermore to praise and magnify the riches of thy mercy towards us. But we, like a disobedient, and sinful people, have been altogether unmindful of thy great clemency, and made thy gracious blessings instruments of horrible ingratitude against thy divine Majesty: abusing them to pride, wantonness, surfeiting, drunkenness, and all kind of riot and excess; wherewith we most justly have provoked thy fearful wrath, and indignation against us. And as we by the multitude of our sins have frequently violated thy divine ordinances, and Statutes, so hast thou of late commanded the heavens, the earth, and the times and seasons depending on them, to break and alter their course, so to punish us for these sins, with an unusual disease, and with fear of future famine, if out of thy bottomless mercy thou stretchest not out thy saving hand to stop the stream of thy fury, like to be powered down upon us. We have sinned, we have sinned, O Lord, and in the immoderate showers, unnatural seasons of the year, and long lingering sickness continuing yet amongst us, We have felt the weight of thy heavy displeasure. But now from the ground of our hearts, We grieve and are sorry, We mourn, and lament for these our transgressions: Lord then let thy heavy displeasure cease, and be no longer angry with us. We do unfeignedly repent us of all our iniquities, and through the gracious assistance of thy holy spirit do most seriously purpose to turn unto thee: Lord then turn unto us, and let the light of thy countenance shine upon us, in vouchsafing unto us moderate showers, healthful seasons, and the fruitful increase of the earth. Bless us O Lord, that we may bless thee; give unto us strength, and health, that we may praise thy saving health: grant unto us seasonable weather, and with it, thy plenty and abundance, that so we may be taught to magnify the abundance of thy mercies through all generations, to our everlasting salvation, and thy endless honour and glory, through jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour. Amen.    

At Evening prayer, Read the 78. Psalm, in stead of the Psalms appointed for the day.  
For the first Lesson, read Deut. 28.  
For the second Lesson, read the Epistle of S. Jude, or, 1. Cor. 10. unto the end of the thirteenth verse.  
Before the Collect, Lighten our darkness, etc. read this Prayer.  
Eternal God, whose perfect holiness being every where present, cannot suffer the wilful increase of wickedness and sin: and therefore by thy manifest and visible judgements thou declarest unto grievous sinners, both the greatness of thine indignation, and the weightiness of their offences: we miserable & wretched sinners, being admonished by the apparent signs of thy displeasure now upon us, into what danger we have brought ourselves by sin, do here humbly confess our multiplied transgressions against thy divine Majesty, earnestly desiring thy singular goodness, to respect us with the eye of mercy, and to grant unto us unfeigned repentance, that so the course of thy deserved anger may be stayed against us. O Lord, we behold and acknowledge thy hand pouring upon us this chastisement of immoderate rain and waters: and the long continuance of this unseasonable weather, hath wrought upon our consciences (which are not so sensible as they should be) at length to be affrighted, and to call upon thee. Save us therefore, O God, that we perish not: deliver us out of the mire, that we sink not: preserve us, O Lord, for the waters are come in, even unto the souls of many of us. Let not the water flood drown us, neither let the deep swallow us up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon us. We confess, O God, that iniquity doth abound, that our sundry pollutions have cried even to the heavens for all thy storms and tempests to fall upon us: but we beseech thee rather of thy infinite mercy to wash us in the merits of thy Son jesus Christ our Saviour: for his sake accept our tears, our sighs, and hearty sorrow for our sins, and by the assistance of thy gracious spirit, make good our true purposes of amendment of life: Let thy blessed Name rather be glorified in our salvation. Father of mercies, and God of all consolation, look upon the sign of thy Covenant in the clouds, and as thou savedst thy people in the red sea; so we beseech thee to restrain thy showers, and to deliver us from this plague of waters. Furthermore, O heavenly Father, we do feel that wrath is already gone out from thee, that thou dost threaten us with scarcity, and dearth: by these intemperate overflowings to make our fruitful land barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein: we earnestly desire thee to forgive the ignorances of the people, that the multitude of poor may not perish whom thou hast created. Our manifold sins, O Lord, do deserve, that thou shouldest visit us with all thy rods: As thou hast scourged us heretofore with pestilence, & dost now weaken us with a new disease: so thou mayest more deservedly consume us with scarcity, and waste us with death: but we fly unto the Sanctuary of thy loving kindness, and the multitude of thy mercies towards us, which exceed the variety of our sins. Remember thy wont favours to this land, how long thou hast given us moderate rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with joy and gladness. Which blessings although we have abused like prodigal sons, by riot, and intemperance, by forgetfulness and unthankfulness, yet for thy goodness receive us when we turn unto thee by the intercession of thy only obedient Son, and grant us the continuance of these temporal benefits, where of we have necessity in this life, until we have passed to immortality, and things eternal in the life to come, by the grace and mercy of our Saviour jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth, etc.  
Or this. 
 Almighty, and most merciful Father, which usest to be provoked by offences, and yet pacified again by repentance: which by thy punishments desirest the destruction of the sins, and not of the souls of thy servants: We miserable and grievous sinners do beseech thee, to incline thine ears unto our prayers, and to deliver us from the future calamities and afflictions, which (we have just cause to fear) do now hang over our heads. Thou hast changed already the ordinary custom of the season, and by the overflowing of rain and waters dost threaten to wash away the strength and fatness of the earth; to send scarcity and want amongst us: We humbly beseech thee to turn away this thy deserved displeasure from us, to consider our infirmities, and upon our sorrow and repentance to alter the sentence of severity, if any be gone out against us, and that for thy tender mercy in Christ jesus, who liveth and reigneth, etc.