Section 4

IV.

Make us to detest Popery the poison of authority, Jesuits the bellows of sedition, Papists the plotters of rebellion, and to esteem better, this not new but most ancient religion of ours, by which we are taught piety to God, loyalty to governors, peace to the Church, reverence of superiority, charity to our inferiors, amity to our equals, love to our enemies, patience in tribulation, thankfulness in prosperity, faithfulness in our calling, and honesty to all, and seeing of late you have delivered our backs from whipping, our liberty from serving, our souls from dying, our country from consuming, and our King and State from a sudden blowing up; Lord we pray you that the meditation of this mercy may never depart out of our minds, but that we may be thankful to you for mercies received, and fearful of you for judgments escaped.