The vveeping lady: or, London like Niniuie in sack-cloth Describing the mappe of her owne miserie, in this time of her heauy visitation; with her hearty prayers, admonition, and pious meditations, as the occasions of them offer themselues in her passion. Written by T.B. T. B. (Thomas Brewer) 1625 Approx. 32 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 13 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A16822 STC 3722 ESTC S104667 99840400 99840400 4901 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Describing the Mappe of her owne miserie , in this time of Her heauy Visitation ; with her hearty Prayers , Admonition , and Pious Meditations , as the occasions of them offer themselues in Her PASSION . Written by T. B. Lord , haue mercy on vs. Weepe , Fast , and Pray . Printed at London by B. A. and T. F. for MATHEVV RHODES , and are to be sold by Nath : Browne , in the Long Walke , neere Christ Church . 1625. THE EPISTLE TO the READER . COurteous Reader , Briefly thus : If looking in my Booke , you see Men imprison'd in their owne Houses , and abroad none ; if heere you see a multitude of Crosses , and abroad none ; if heere their equall number of Bils , with LORD HAVE MERCIE VPON VS , and abroad none ; and shall say , Thus they haue beene , but are not . I answere , That they Haue , is enough , why they are not , I know not ; that they yet might be , we all know , in the losse of Husbands , Wiues , Children , Seruants , Kindred , our Neighbours , and common Acquaintance . A wound smarts no lesse couer'd , then discouer'd : For some decrease in the number , let vs praise God , and pray to God , for the continuance of this mercy begun , till this sad Visitation be ended . My intent in erecting this poore Monument of Misery , was , to make this Ladies Teares out-liue Her Teares : That , when ( by the infinite Mercies of God they shall bee wip'd off , and all Her Sores made whole ; we may ▪ in the view of this , and other ( more worthy ) Remembrances of Her , re-view them ; in them , those infinite Mercies ; and in both , be made mindfull of them , end eternally thankfull for them : Which God grant . Thine ; THO : BREVVER . Lord , haue mercy on vs. Weepe , Fast , and Pray . TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL , GENErous , and euer-worthy Louer of Goodnesse , and Pious Endeauours , WALTER LEIGH , Esquire , SWORD-BEARER to the Honourable LORD-MAIORS of this Famous Citie of LONDON . Right Worthy Sir : A Sad Sharer of the common miseries of these sad times , prompted by his owne Sorrowes , ha's , ( though too weak a Pencil-Man for such a Piece ) vndertaken to draw that Sorrow to the Life , that ha's drawne many thousands to Death ; my Title speaks my meaning ; The Wounds of this VVEEPING LADY . To haue drawne Her in her Health , the Idea or Conceptions of the most pure and pregnant VVits might haue been deficient , such was Her Beauty , Her Splendor , such were her change of Colours , Glorious within , and without in Embroydered Garments . But now , ( such is her Change Shee ha's no Change , wearing only one Suit , and that the sad habit of Mourning . In thus presenting Her , I present you with nothing but grones , Sighs , tears , shreaks , folding of armes , bearing of brests , wringing of hands , pale looks , deiected eies , bleeding hearts , & most heauy & bitter condolements . How vnpleasing this might be to many , I am not ignorant ; but imboldned by that of the Preacher , The Heart of the Wise is in the House of Mourning , &c. my hopes are faire of her fauorable and gracious receiuing . To whom better to present this Lady of so many Honourable Lords , then to your worthy Selfe , I know not ; your Worship hauing been to many , & now to This , Her Last , ( equall in fame with any from Her First ) a prime and much respected Officer , beating the Sword that most impartially guards Her , and wounds Her Enemies . Shee is now on the mending hand , and our hope ( in Him , that what he wil doe can doe ) is strong for the dayly decrease of her sorrowes ; the speedy returne to Her solace , and fulnesse of Beauty and lustre . For which among many Thousands of Her afflicted Sons and Daughters , incessantly praying ; I rest , Euer Bound to your VVorshi●● pleasure : T. B. THE WEEPING LADY : OR LONDON LIKE NINIVIE in SACK-CLOTH . IERIM . 9.21 . Death is come vp into our windowes , and entered into our Houses . LIke tender Plants , beate , with too great a showre , Or like a Tree that 's blasted ; or a Flowre Pluckt from the Roote ; Decembers gloomy shade , The Sunne ecclips'd ; Youth to disease betraid : Or like to any thing , that Chance , or Time Or Heauens iust Anger , scourges in the Prime , Disroabing it of Ornament , of Grace , And seating what 's opponent in their place Sits now the Mistresse , Lady of her kinde ; That Queene , whose Beauty did attract the minde Of All , to see it ; to admire , to loue , And ( in their Functions serue it ) to approue Her worth , and their owne duties : ó like these , Or sadder Figures , of Her sad disease Lies London now ; beate , blasted , wither'd , shooke , Of strangers pittied , of Her owne forsooke . But , to diuide Her sorrowes , and to bring , The wounds , sighes , teares , and each particular sting Of Her afflicted Bosome , to your Eye , Liues not in my Intention . Nor if I Had such a Will , had I the power to speake My Griefe ; for Hers ( too strong ) makes me too weake . Her selfe doe that , for what 's in Sorrowes breast , The Bearer of it , can decipher best : I onely drawe the Curtaine , and thus show , This Queene of Cities , now , the Queene of woe . London , the Anatomizer , of Her owne miseries , as out of a broken slumber thus speakes . HOw saine would Sorrow sleepe ? But as my Head Would touch the Pillow , of that downy Bed The mournfull sound of sighings , of deepe groues , Vision of Teares , and vniuersall mones That doe present themselues before me , keepe That Comfort from me , and command me weepe . Her Bells , continually Towling . O Heare the Instruments , my soule did loue , My Bells , that summon to the Spouse , the Doue , The Oracle of Heau'n , Now sadly sound Nothing but frightfull summons to the ground : Nothing but calls to Death ; nothing but Knells ; All notes of Griefe , for All are passing Bells . Nay more to adde , to my Affrights , affright Death , will haue all Times , minutes ; and by Night Command this dolefull Towling , as by Day : We know who sends him , and we must obey . What change there is in all things vnder Fate ? How sadly now they found ? And but of late , When their shrill voyces , did proclaime the Gaine Of Englands Heart , out of the Hate of Spaine , What Dulcet sounds they had ? — And while they plaid To th'mounting flame of Bonfires , that were made Ioying His safe Arriuing ? Since that Time What musicke made they , when the pride and prime Of all her Sex ( MARIA ) in our Land Made Her most wisht Arriuall ; Hand in Hand Ioyning two royall Sisters , to Aduance The Glories of them both : Great Britaine , France . But I too farre , in this Digression goe , My joy ( almost ) made me forget my woe : The woes of my disease ; — The Sore , that treads My Beauty vnder foot ; — The Sore that spreads O're all my Happinesse ; — The Sore that makes Me , to be loath'd and left ; — The sore that takes My Sonnes and Daughters from me ; And the Sore That makes this mournfull musick sound , all o're My spatious Circuit , round about my Walls ; For round about them , are the dreadfull Calls Of Death , in their sad language . — Had we heard Their Calls vnto the Temple , and prepar'd Zeale , and Diuine affection , that the word Sowne in our soules , might ( as it ought ) afford A fruitfull Haruest of good workes , no doubt , We had not heard these clangors flye about Thus to affright , to wound vs. — But 't is Iust Those sounds , we would not heare , these sounds we must ; Till Heau'n be pleas'd to still'em . — That He may Le ts flye to meet him ; Weepe , and Fast , and Pray . The Graues still greedily gaping . O See , ( like wounds digg'd in my tender side ) My multitude of Graues , that gaping wide Are hourely fed , with Carcasses of Men ; Those hardly swallowed , they 'le be fed agen , Gorg'd with my Sonnes and Daughters : as if Hee All things were made for , were but made , to be A prey to wormes : — As if the end of Birth , Were 〈◊〉 to cry , to labour , and in Earth Haue his eternall period : — As if Breath Were a Childes bubble , and the sport of Death : For so Hee triumphs now ; so now He kills , So empties Houses ; so the Graue he fills , Those Tenements of his . — Where many lye , ( Too many manyes ) not like things that dye Assur'd in their Redeemer , that they shall Rise to a Beeing , whence they ne're can fall ; But — I ha' done ; — Passion , thy power is strong The rest in weeping ; teares are sorrowes Tongue . Sleepe , sleepe in peace my Children , in your dust Wee see what t' is , to brittle life to trust , And Her still fayling Adjuncts : For thus fades The Pompe of flesh : And — enter'd those darke shades From Court , or from the Village , All are one , Degrees in Life there are , in Death there 's none . Her Houses , their Masters Prison . O See my Sonnes and Daughters , that suruiue Their Houshold massacr'e , ( halfe dead ) aliue , In their owne Houses buried ; or as bad , Enjayl'd , imprison'd ; — In that passion clad , That to behold them , makes Affection wring My Heart to Blood , mine Eyes into a spring ; ( Maternall loues Companions ) — See the Wife Sadly bemone , the losse of halfe Her life , I' th' losse of her poore Husband . — See her sit , ( While sighes , doe sighes , and teares , doe teares beget ) Ready to follow him , from this sad vale To His eternall Mansion . — See the pale And gastly seate of death , vpon the face Of Husbands for their Wiues : — Behold the Race Of griefe in Parents , for the sad depart Of Sonnes and Daughters ; Sonnes and Daughters smart , To see the stroake , this strange Disease doth giue Vpon those Liues by which they Be , and Liue. See them debard all meetings of delight , See them debard society , and sight Of Kindred , and Familiars ; — See them there Bard the best pleasure , that doth Passion cheare , Their Recreatiue walkes , losing their share Of what all taste , the sweet and wholsome Ayre , A poore mans only physicke . — See them loose The benefits of those poore Trades they vse : To summe vp all their miseries in one , See them i' th' Dongeon , of laments and mone . Yet thus it must be , by the Lawes , and Loue Of me , their Citie , and of that Aboue , For 't is by Heau'n commanded . — — Thou great God That more delightst in Mercy , then thy Rod. ( Ioyning them both together ) — be to these In their need plenty , in their Languor ease . And in the midst of this infectious flame , Let thy good Angell come , and be the same To them , and me their Mother , that He was To those i' th' midst of burning Flames did passe Vntouch'd , or vnoffended . — In thy Hand , Is Life and Death ; All power in thy Command . Her Multitude of Crosses . O See me full of Crosses ; see , and weepe To see the Crosse thus like a Gangrene creepe From part to part vpon me . — Nor i st strange Wee weare these Crosses ; they are Heau'ns exchange Of Crosses with 's . — Wee Crosses had before . The Rich-mans Crosse vpon the hungry Poore , In griping and ingrossing : which to quit , Need ha's agen ( with a dexterious Wit ) Crost them in Cheats and Theeuing . — Woe is me The many Crosses of a Terme to see ; Strange Crosses in strange Cases : — Then a sleight ; The Crosse of Measure , and the Crosse of Weight ; The Crosse of honest-seeming , to deceiue ; The Crosse of Swearing , to make men beleeue What Truth is rackt to looke on . — And for these Crosses of Sinne , the Crosses of Disease Sticke like a brand vpon 's ; vpon vs fall The First , on many ; but the Last , on All. But to the Crosse agen , which doth present In all , ( but in my Sorrowes ) all Content . Saint George his Crosse , Englands , the Badge of Ioy , Is heere the Badge of Him that doth destroy , No Champion euer like Him : — For His power , In thousand Places , Thousands in one Hower Turnes to the Pit before Him. — Gainst this losse O lets petition Heau'n ; and that this Crosse , This Viol full of Anger may bee staid ; Which , till it be ( by the Almighty laid ) Wee patiently must beare it ; 'T is decreed : For Hee for Vs vpon a Crosse did bleed , Has told vs plainly we His Crosse must beare , Or nere ascend His Dwelling . — Where no care , No Chance , no Change , Time or Defection dwels ; But All so full of Glory , it excels The Compasse of Mans thought . — Toth' Crosse we then Add — Lord haue Mercy vpon vs All. — AMEN . O See my Termes cut off , in them the Law , ( That eeuen Line , Iustice her selle doth draw , Guiding to pious dealing ) Like a Mute ; Nor hinder wrong , nor help a rightfull Suite , While my Infection spreads . Woes , woe succeed , Of all Demurres , heere 's a Demurre indeed . ¶ See how the City ha's disturbd the Court , How my Disease ha's troubled the Import And weighty Businesses of that High Seat , Where Royall Charles and his graue Synod treat The grounds of all our safety . — And at last Dissolu'd that Royall meeting heere , and plac'd Mine , and my Sisters Dignity and Grace Vpon a Handmaid to vs. — Ore which Place , Thou God of Mercy all thy Mercies spread , And there , and heere , and euery where strike dead This All-deuouring Monster . Let thy loue , Make this an Act , in thy great Court aboue . ¶ O See how my Disease , has seem'd to checke The loue , and dutie , is prepar'd to decke My streetes with stately Pageants . Things should weare Much Cost , much Art , and in their structures beare The fulnesse of Inuention : where the Eye , May feast it selfe , on the varity Of specious Formes , and Figures , and the Eare , The soule , of all those rich Inuentions heare Deliuer'd , in Choyce language . — I presume That thus they shall be , when they shall assume Their costly Robes preparing . — But ( alas ) They yet stand bare and naked ; and men passe By them , as by my selfe : for that Disease That dyms my lustre , has denyed it these , And all those Beauties my large Bounds embrace . Repaire sweet Mercy , what sad frownes deface . O see how thicke , these shafts of vengeance flye , How thicke they fall , how thicke Men fall and dye , Which way so e're we turne vs ! If your eyes Can see for Teares , see how this Tyrant plyes The cruell part Hee 's acting . How He sweepes Whole Familyes before him , and then keepes ( In dismall emptinesse ) Possession there , Where life againe would enter , but that Feare Do's for a time deterre him . For this Foe , ( Inuisible , Inuincible ) a Blow Giues aboue all resist . — O see my Streets To many , Death-beds ; for this Monster meets Men boldly there and strikes 'em : — heere Men tread , To sight , in safety ; there o' th' sodaine dead . See , see , O see , how thicke from all my parts Gallants in Coaches , and their Goods in Carts Flye my poore wounded Body : — where before ( That their rich splendor might in mine be more ) They would embrace me , hugge me . — But the Flight Of these moue little ; That would kill me quite , Is , that my Sonnes , ( They that vpon my Brest Haue had repose , ( a long and tender rest ) And from it suck'd the Substance made them grow Great in the Worlds Opinion ) In my woe , Want and distresse forsake me . These , that Hee That was a Bond-man , and by me made Free ; That tooke his Oath to loue me , and submit His best Endeuours to mee , to beget , Guard and maintaine mine Honors . — But no more . Thus Swallowes Winter flye ; the Rich , the Poore . Vpon Relation of the many Miseries , that many of those that flye the City , doe fall into in the Countrey . Her Teares , Sighes , and Passion augmented . O My full Tyde of Anguish ! Yet myne Eye Drops not so fast , so much to see them flye ; As , in that Flight , to see them headlong runne To greater dangers , then they flye to shun : In multitudes we finde it ; and still thus Deplore their Sorrowes , though they mind not vs. Heere Bils and Halberts meete 'em ; — where , ( as one Had dar'd the Law in some great mischiefe done ) They must be staid , examin'd , and there show What place they came from , to what place they goe ; Th' occasions of their trauaile ; and before Some Constable , can hardly tell three score , Must shew their Passes . And from place to place , ( Passing through Villages ) through this disgrace Passe till they end their Iourney . And what then ? What comfort find they ( poore distressed Men ) When ( through these scornes and loathings ) they haue got The place to which they trauaile ? Are they not With great suspition , much amaze and feare , ( As if each part about them seem'd to bearo Plagues and infections in them ) entertain'd At Halberds point , at distance ? and constrain'd ( In their least pitty ) to a priuate Roome ? Though nere so sound they are ; and in the Doome Of that Imprisonment , some part o' th' load Of what they shun at home , they meet abroad . But this is but disgrace : See some poore soules Vnder necessities more harsh controules Made strangers to acquaintance ; nay , the Sonne A stranger to his Father ; Brothers shun The Partners of their Blood ; and Mothers 〈◊〉 , Those they haue hugg'd and dandled , ( as they me . ) O let me weepe , ( weepe blood ) and through that glasse Looke yet a little further ; where ( alas ) Wee may behold some of my Sonnes that here Had soft and easie lodging , lodging there In Stables , Barnes , out-Houses ; nay be glad To sleepe in Houils ; thinke no roome too bad That had a couering o're it : some be faine To lodge , where neither ' gainst the Wind , the raine , Nor the Suns fury , they could shelter haue ; Heau'n only couering them , and they their Graue . Then , as a sad Companion to their woe , ( For miseries doe seldome single goe ) Behold them in these Lodgings , faint and weake , Their Purses many may some comfort speake , But purchase none or little ; and that too , But dealt among them , as a man should doe Such duties to a Lyon , to a Beare , Or some such sauage Creature , in great feare , Fling some poore pittance to them , and then flye : Heere 's all their tendance , let them liue or dye . See some o're taken with so faint a breath , Ere halfe their Iourneyes done they Inne with Death , I' th' common way they tread on ; as they goe Fall to the ground and dye : great numbers so In Rodes , in Ditches , in the open Field , The debt of Breath , thus to their Maker yeeld ; And wher● they dye , are buried . Some agen ( So bold we are to sinne to adde more sinne ) On Sledges , Barrowes , Dung-carts , any thing ( The wisedome of those places please to bring ) Are borne to places more remote ; and some ( Like Dogges ) are hal'd with Cart-ropes to a Tombe Fit , but for Dogges and Caryon : into which , As they are found , th' are tumbled ; Poore , and Rich : Their rich Apparell , their rich Pockets ; All : Nay , Gold it selfe they bury ; that must fall To'th' place it came from : so that by this Rod , That seemes a Diuell now , seem'd once . God. Oh , I could weepe my selfe into a Stone , Or my , as senslesse Image , in the mone Of my poore Sonnes and Daughters ; that with me Had had farre better vsage : But , in vaine I weepe for them : Now to my selfe againe . So , ( as preparing to a Bridall Bed ) In what a Path of Hearbs and Flowers men tread , Which way so ere they wander : For , each Street Seemes now a Garden ; All as greene , as sweet . But Oh , my sad my sicke , my bleeding Heart ! These are no Nuptiall strewings ; heere no part Of such a Ioye 's appearing : For ( O , see ! ) These Paths are for the Dead , and such as be The halfe , dead traine attends them . Euery where Nothing but Graues , but Coffins , but the Beere , And bearing breathlesse Bodies to the Ground ; Delight 's an Exile now , pale Mourning Cround . ¶ See how my Streets are emptied , how my Trade , ( Io which there is another Sicknesse made ) Lyes as 't were dead and Buried . See , ( O , see ) The Shops of those are Dead and those that Flee , So euery where shut vp , a man may say ; What 's all this Time ; but Grim DEATHS HOLIDAY ? ¶ Yet see my emptinesse too 〈…〉 mone , For not a Friend , a Friend without a groue , Sighes and sad Language meet . — See Death destroy All our expected pleasure , all our ioy , Till Heau'n shall stop his Progresse . Vnawares Our Feasting's turnd to FASTING ; Play , to PRAYERS . Most fit it should bee , and most fit , wee praise That Holy KING , that made these Holy DAIES . That has commanded , what his God commands , That Second God to vs , that vnderstands That the best Buckler , to defend the stroake , Heau'n layes on Sinners , which their sinnes prouoke ; I●●eeping Niniuies . That Prayers and Teares , When Hezekiah , was beset with feares , Procur'd an Angell , in his cause to fight , Whose vnresisted power , in one night , A hundred , fourescore , and fiue thousand men Laid dead before him ; Hee who knowes agen , When God had purpos'd this good King to death , By Prayer , He chang'd that purpose , and got breath For fifteene Summers longer . He that knowes How ; when the fiery Serpents , wounded those Murmur'd at Moses , when good Moses prayed , Those Serpents lost their stings , that Plague was staied . So Lord stay this , this Serpent , whose sharpe sting Has pierc'd to many ; and let Mercy spring , In thy good pleasure to vs. — From the Deepe 〈◊〉 anguish Lord we call , we pray , we weepe , ●nd doe as they did : By this Serpent strooke , Wee on a second ; on our Sauiour looke , Expecting cure . — To which be pleas'd to Bow , And what their prayers did then , let ours doe now . With this Exhortation to her Sonnes , in the briefe Enumeration , or Repetition of some things formerly spoken by way of Allusion , Shee Concludes . HEare then my Bells , call to the Church , and Death ; Reuiew my Graues : There the full point of Breath ; Know thy proud flesh , a Prison to thy Soule ; The Crosse a Badge , did Death and Hell controuse . 〈…〉 thou the Lawe of Heau'ns eternall Loue , The Acts and Statutes of that Court Aboue ; Loue thou the sights , the blessed Angels see ; Serue thou the God , with whom All pleasures be ; Obey his Royall Substitute , thy King ; Let loue among you , haue an endlesse Spring : Leuell your words , and Actions to the will Of Him , has power to pardon , or to spill , And I shall soone be well ; and you in Me , And I in you , All our best wishes see . The Authors comfortable Conclusion and thankfull Remembrance of Gods great mercies , in the happy surcease of this dangerous Contagion , and preseruation of those , who are yet liuing . THus much for this Cloude of miserie , now to that gloriou● Sunne of Gods mercy , which most graciously rising vpon vs , hath begun to dissolue , dissipate , and dispell it , in the decrease of those that dye of this heauily bewayled Contagion : Vpon which looking , let vs say with Dauid , What shall I returne to the Lord , &c. Withall , make this promise , and zealously striue to performe it ; That that God , that in his Anger , remembers Mercy ; That desires not the death of a Sinner , but rather , than he returne and liue , may continue this mercy to vs ; and speedily ( if it be his blessed will and pleasure ) say as he said , to that destroying Angell , in the time of his Kingly Prophet , It is sufficient ; hold now thy hand . That so , we heere at home , and those abroad , that ( as if they could slye from God ) slew from vs , may againe meete ; he decently merry ; Liue louingly , assist one another willingly , and finally that All together , to him that of ●othing , hath made vs ; that lost , hath Redeemed vs ; that erring , reduced vs ; that Ignorant , hath taught vs ; that sinning hath gently chastised vs ; that dispayring hath comforted vs ; that falling hath raised vs ; that standing hath held vs ; that going hath lead vs , that Comming hath receiued vs ; And , that from this and many other dangers hath deliuered vs. Wee may shew our selues euermore thankfull : still pray , still praise him , that so this span of Life ended , we may , ( falling in death ) rise againe to that Life that shall neuer end . Foure things euer to bee Remembred . Thinke on thy Sinne , That thou maist grieue : On DEATH , That thou thy sin maist leaue : The Last great Iudge , That thou maist feare : On MERCIE , that thou not dispaire . FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A16822-e520 Towling night and day . Digression . The King his returne from Spaine The Queenes arriuall . The neglect of our duties remembred . Her Counsell to flye to him , from him we cannot . All things made for man , man for God. Deaths Triumph . A great helpe to liue , is , to remember we must die . The Wife . The Husband . Parents . Children . The summ of their misery Yes Prayer . Our Crosse dealing one with another . Our sinnes the cause of our fichnesse . These Crosses the Badge of Death . Her incitement to Prayer and ●oly duties . The necesty of them ¶ Her Termes . Her Parament . LONDON , Westminst . Oxenford . Her Petition . ¶ Her Pageants . What they should be . What they shall be . What they are . Her briefe Petitions Of this Massacre in generall Whole Families taken away . The Flight of Citizens Her Sons , ●ith her ●ender Hearts an●uish for it . 1. Her gree● for them that mind not Hers. 2. Met and stayed like Fel●ons . 3. Shew their Passes like Rogues Their en●tainmēt . Marke 〈◊〉 mise●● . Hardly welcome Hard ●odging . ● . Their miseries in their sicknesse . 9. The tendance . 10. Many there , as with vs , dye in the common way , 〈◊〉 & Ditche The s 〈◊〉 God , a D●uell . Her Apostrophe in Groues & sighing . His Proclamation is Falling an Prayer Niniu . buckler . Hezekiahs Prayer . His life prolonged by Prayer 〈…〉