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A35267
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Certain prayers and graces newly added, to be used of scholars, both before and after noon / compiled by R.C.
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Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.
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Wing C7370; ESTC R20737
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Certain Prayers and Graces newly added to be used of Scholars both before and after noon Compiled by R. C. NOw that the day star doth appear to God devoutly let us call That in the déeds of day-light clear he kéeps us from misfortunes all Let him temper our tatling tongues by bridling them after his will Lest horrour vile break us among with words of strife that sound full ill Let him cover our sight also féeding it as he knows best Lest we delight in vain things tho and so draw them into our breast Let all the secrets of our hearts be pure and clean from filthiness Let slothful sluggishness depart from us that study do profess Let mean dyet of drink and meat beat down pride of filthy flesh Lest raging in that filthy heat we lose of youth the flowers fresh These things we crave that when the day by course of kind away shall pass And night shall come then sing we may in praise of him to our solace And that we may still bear in mind in what works we the day shall spend Let us record what words we find in Books that were made to that end In Exodus and other moe that written were by God's Elect We find Gods Precepts written so as after follows in effect When Jacob's Séed in Wilderness could not abide Gods voice to hear Then Moses did himself address for them before God to appear And at the Lords Commandement he took to him his Servant true Vp to Mount Horeb then they went to learn this Law which doth ensue Which Law God writ in Tables twain of stone so hard which might last long And would the same should still remain among his folks both old and young And first to make their mind attend he said O Israel give ear I am the Lord omnipotent whom thou must serve obey and fear For I thée brought from careful thrall wherein thou wast in Egypt long And there could find no ease at all but wert inforc'd to suffer wrong Thou shalt have therefore in my sight none other Gods but only me For I alone have power and might And all the rest vain Idols be Thou shalt not cast out paint or draw for thée the Form of any thing In heaven or earth or stand in awe of ought that is of mans making For why I am a jealous God and will my honour to no one give I beat the Children with sharp Rod that like their wicked Parents live And that to thrée or four discents in such of them as do hate me And kéep not my Commandements but in their doings wicked be But such as love even as they should me and my Laws and them observe I shew mercy a thousand fold and them from evil I preserve Take not in vain Gods holy Name but use it with all reverence For why the Lord doth all such blame as herein doth commit offence Remember that thou holy keep the day of rest as God doth will. Six days thou shalt apply thy work and do all things that be not ill But the seventh day is the Lords rest wherein no vile work may be done By thee thy Child thy slave or beast or stranger that with thee doth woon For in six days the Lord did frame the heaven the earth the creatures all The seventh he ceast and blest the same as time for his on him to call All these Precepts the Lord did write on the first Table made of stone And would they should in him delight that for his love serve him alone The second Table follows then wherein the Lord instructeth us How to behave us towards all men and in the same is written thus Vnto thy Parents honour give as Gods Commandements will thée That thou long days and good maist live on earth where thine abode shall be Murder no man by word or déed with tongue or sword or other thing Do nought from whence hate may procéed for Murder out of hate doth spring Avoid all foul Adultery and all things that thereto belong All filthy thoughts and lusts of eye and all unchaste talk of the tongue Take not by fraud nor by rapine the things that others do possess For so to take what is not thine before God is great wickedness Against no man false witness be but testifie the truth alway For God thy secret thoughts doth sée and will thée judg at the last day Thou shalt not in thy heart desire thy Neighbours Wife at will to have His house nor field don 't thou require no nor his servant nor his slave Be not desirous to receive his Ox or Ass or any Beast That he is not willing to leave nor ought that by him is possest These be the Laws that God did give to Jacobs séed in Wilderness And would that they therein should live that will an endless life possess But such that will this Law neglect and walk after fleshly desire The Lord at last will them reject to dwell in everlasting fire The Lord God for his mercies sake guide us in his most perfect way That we may scape the fiery Lake and live with him in Bliss for aye That these things may be granted us at this time henceforth alway In the name of our Lord Iesus to God the Father let us pray OVR Father which in Heaven art and dost raign over all Thy holy Name be sanctified amongst both great and small Thy Kingdom come wherein we may no wicked thing abide Nor ought that doth set up it self or is puft up with pride Thy will be done upon the carth like as in Heaven above Where all the Creatures work thy will because they do thée love Give us this day our daily Bread which néed doth make us crave For why our souls and bodies both of thée their food must have To ask forgiveness of our sins dear Father we are bold As we forgive wrongs as are done among us manifold Do thou not us to tryal bring for we are weak indéed But when that sin shall us assault deliver us with spéed For why the Kingdom and the power and glory every whit Is thine and shall be evermore all Souls say So be it †O Lord preserve our King and Quéen with all his Royal Train But chiefly such as zealous be the Gospel to maintain Which grant O God till day of Doom in Brittain may remain Prayers for Mid-day NOw that we have the morning spent in Learning honest exercise Lest Natures Bow being over bent our bodies let us not despise Let us therefore take at God's hand such nourishment as he doth give To féed his folk by Sea and Land without the which we cannot live And that we may avoid excess to him for grace now let us call For surfeit doth the wit oppress and drowneth good things natural And more besides the gift of God if we abuse unto our shame We worthy are to féel the Rod for such dishonour to his Name That we therefore may hold the