That wee may change to evennesse This intermitting aguish Pietie; That snatching cramps of wickednesse 210 And Apoplexies of fast sin, may die; That musique of thy promises, Not threats in Thunder may Awaken us to our just offices; What in thy booke, thou dost, or creatures say, 215 That we may heare, Lord heare us, when wee pray. XXV. That our eares sicknesse wee may cure, And rectifie those Labyrinths aright, That wee, by harkning, not procure Our praise, nor others dispraise so invite, 220 That wee get not a slipperinesse And senslesly decline, From hearing bold wits jeast at Kings excesse, To'admit the like of majestie divine, That we may locke our eares, Lord open thine. 225 XXVI. That living law, the Magistrate, Which to give us, and make us physicke, doth Our vices often aggravate, That Preachers taxing sinne, before her growth, That Satan, and invenom'd men 230 Which well, if we starve, dine, When they doe most accuse us, may see then Us, to amendment, heare them; thee decline: That we may open our eares, Lord lock thine. XXVII. That learning, thine Ambassador, 235 From thine allegeance wee never tempt, That beauty, paradises flower For physicke made, from poyson be exempt, That wit, borne apt high good to doe, By dwelling lazily 240 On Natures nothing, be not nothing too, That our affections kill us not, nor dye, Heare us, weake ecchoes, O thou eare, and cry. XXVIII. Sonne of God heare us, and since thou By taking our blood, owest it us againe, 245 Gaine to thy self, or us allow; And let not both us and thy selfe be slaine; O Lambe of God, which took'st our sinne Which could not stick to thee, O let it not returne to us againe, 250 But Patient and Physition being free, As sinne is nothing, let it no where be. [The Litanie. _1633-69:_ A Letanie. _A18_, _B_, _D_, _H49_, _JC_, _Lec_, _N_, _O'F_, _S_, _S96_, _TCC_, _TCD_] [17 be, _D:_ be _1633-69_] [30 serpents, _Ed:_ serpents _1633-69_] [34 a such _1633:_ such _1635-69_, _JC:_ such a _A18_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_, _S_, _TC_ instinct _1633:_ instinct, _1635-69_] [35 these; _Ed:_ these, _D_, _H49_, _Lec:_ these _1633-69:_ thee _A18_, _N_, _TC_] [48 Native] Natives _B_, _JC_, _S_ in heavens faire Palaces, _D:_ in heavens faire Palaces _1633-39:_ in heavens Palaces, _1650-69_] [52 which _1633:_ what _1635-69_] [56 Grandfathers] Grandfathers, _1633_] [58 then] that _1635-39_] [58 Grace and Law, _D:_ grace and law, _1633-69_]