Ember weeke

THou dost from eu'ry season, LORD,
To profit vs, aduantage take,
And at their fittest Times afford
Thy Blessings for thy mercy sake:
At Winter, Summer, Fall, or Spring,
We furnish'd are of eu'ry thing.

A part therefore from each of these,
With one consent reseru'd haue we,
In Prayer and Fasting to appease
That wrath our sinnes haue moou'd in thee,
And that thou mayst not for our crimes,
Destroy the blessings of the Times.

Oh grant, that our Deuotions may
With true sincerenesse be perform'd,
And that our liues, not for a day,
But may for euer be reform'd:
Lest we remaine as fast in sinne,
As if we neu'r had fasting byn.

Our Constitutions temper so,
Those Humors, which this season raine,
May not haue powre to ouerthrowe
That health, which yet we doe retaine:
Else, through that weaknesse which it brings,
LORD, make vs strong in better things.

And, since thy holy Church appoints
These times, thy Workemen forth to send,
And those for Pastors now anoynts,
Who on thy folde are to attend;
Blesse thou, where they who (should ordaine)
With Prayre and Fasting hands haue laine.

Oh, blesse them, euer-blessed LORD,
Whom for thy worke the Church doth chuse;
Instruct them by thy sacred Word,
And with thy spirit them infuse,
That liue, and teach aright they may,
And we their teaching well obay,