Prayers of the Puritans 6

Prayers from Spurgeon, Oliver Heywood - 1682, William Jay - 1832, and most remarkable prayer from Robert Bolton - 1638, a prayer during the time of the plague. It is a heavy judg­ment, and horrible sickness, which devours now and eats up thy people in our chief Ci­ty: And is fearfully scattered in many places abroad: It is called thine hand, thy sword, the stroke of thine Angel, the snare of the Fowler, the noisome Pestilence, the terror by night, the arrow that flieth by day, the destruction that wa­steth by noon-day, and walketh in the darkness. O Lord our God, let us be humbled propor­tionably to the extraor­dinary terror of thy heavy hand.
Thou Lord art ac­quainted with the an­guish of all hearts, with the griefs, and groans, the necessities, and wants of all distressed ones.