Hooker on the Litany

Responding to Cartwright's criticism of frequent, regular praying of the Litany, Hooker offered these moving words, words which have particular resonance at this time:

What dangers at any time are imminent, what evils hang over our heads God doth know and not we.  We find by daily experience that those calamities may be nearest at hand, readiest to break in suddenly upon us which we in regard of times or circumstances may imagine to be farthest off LEP V.41.4.