For Peace

SO cause vs, LORD, to thinke vpon
Those blessings we possesse,
That what is for our safety done,
We truely may confesse:
For we, whose Fields, in time forepast,
Most bloody warre did staine,
(Whil'st Fire and Sword doth others wast)
In safety now remaine.

No armed troupes the Ploughman feares;
No shot our Wals o'returne.
No Temple shakes about our eares;
No Village here doth burne;
No Father heares his pretty Child
In vaine for succour cry;
Nor Husband sees his Wife defil'd,
Whil'st he halfe dead doth lye.

Deare GOD, vouchsafe to pitty those,
In this distresse that be,
They, to protect them from their Foes,
May haue a Friend of Thee:
For, by thy Friendship we obtaine
These gladsome peacefull dayes,
And (somewhat to returne againe)
We thus doe sing thy praise.

We praise thee for that inward Peace,
And for that outward Rest,
Wherewith vnto our Ioyes encrease,
This Kingdome thou hast blest:
Oh, neuer take the same away,
But let it still endure;
And grant (oh LORD) it make vs may
More thankefull, not Secure.