Prepare them for thy mercy by due convictions of their sin, and let them not at once deceive and damne their own souls by fallacious pretensions of Justice in destroying me, while the conscience of their unjust usurpation of power against me, chiefly tempts them to use all extremities against me.
O Lord, thou knowest I have found their mercies to me as very false, so very cruell, who pretending to preserve me, have meditated nothing but my ruine.
O deal not with them as bloud thirsty and deceitfull men; but overcome their cruelty with thy compassion and my charitie.
And when thou makest inquisition for my blood, O sprinkle their polluted, yet penitent Souls with the bloud of thy Son, that thy destroying Angel may passe over them.
Though they think my Kingdoms on earth too little to entertain at once both them and me; yet let the capacious Kingdom of thy infinite mercy at last receive both me and my enemies.
When being reconciled to thee in the bloud of the same Redeemer, wee shall live far above these ambitious desires, which beget such mortall enmities.
When their hands shall be heaviest and cruellest upon me, O let me fall into the arms of thy tender and eternall mercies.
That what is cut off of my life in this miserable moment, may be repaied in thy ever blessed Eternity.
Lord, let thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.