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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16579	A godlye medytacyon composed by the faithfull ... I.B. latlye burnte in Smytfelde ...	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540. Excitationes in animi Deum. aut; Pownall, Robert, 1520-1571. Most fruitful prayer for the dispersed church of Christ. aut	1559 (1559)	STC 3483; ESTC S109638	19,168	75

holesom worde of thy son our sauiour Yet consider the horrible blasphemies of thyne and our enemies They name a cake ther god there Christ and altogether they know nothing of thy powre they say in ther hartes ther is no god whych eyther can or wyl deliuer vs wherfore O heauenly father the gouerner of all thinges the Auenger of the causes of the poore the fatherles the widow of the oppress●d loke downe from heauen with the face of thy fatherly mercies and forgeue vs al former offences and for thy sonne Christes sake haue mercye vpon vs whych by the force and crueltie of wicked and blasphemous Idolaters without causes aproued are haled pulled from our owne houses are slaūdered slaine and murthered as rebelles and traytours like persons pernicious pestiferous sedicious pestilent and full of mortall poyson to al men contagious where we do medell no farther but against the helly powres of darkenes against the spirituall craftines in heauenlye thinges whyche wold deny the will of our god and the powre of oure Christ vnto vs we doe contend no farther but onely for our Christe crucified and the only saluation by his blessed passiō knowledging none other god none other Christ or sauiour but onely the the euerliuing lord and our most merciful father and thy deare sonne our sauiour who is in the same glory with the in the high heauens Therfore O Lord for thy glorious name sake for Iesus Christes sake by whome thou haste promysed to graunt al righteous requestes make the wicked Idolaters to wonder and stand amased at thy almightye powre vse thy wonted strength to the cōfusion of thyne enemies and to the healpe deliueraunce of thy persecuted people all thy saintes doe besech the therfore the yonge infantes which haue somdeale tasted of thy sweete worde by whose mouthes thou hast promised to make perfect thy praises whose Aungels doth alwaye behold thy face who beside the losse of vs ther parentes Are in daunger to be compellid and dryuen wythout thy greate mercies to serue domme insensible Idols doe cry and call to thee ther pitefull mothers with lamentable teares lye prostrate before the throne of thy grace Thou father of the fatherles Iudge of the widdowes and auenger of all the oppressid let it apere O Lord omnipotent that thou doest heare iudge aueng ponish all wronges offered to all thy little ones that doe beleue in the Doe this O Lorde for thy names sake Arise vp O Lord and thy enemies shal be scatered confoūded So be yt O Lord most mercyfull at thy tyme apointed ¶ An other godly prayer to be sayde at al tymes HOnor and prayse be geuen to the o Lorde god almighty most dere father of heauen for all thy marsys and louinge kindnesse showyd vnto vs in that it hath pleysyd thy gracius goodnes frely and of thine own accord to electe and chose vs to saluaciō before the beginning of the world and euen lyke contenewall thankes be geuē to the for creatynge of vs after thyne owne ymage for redeminge vs with the precius bludde of thy dersonne when we ware vtterly lost for sanctefieng vs with thy holy sprit in the reuelaciō and knowlege of thy holy worde for helping and Suckering vs in all our needes and nescesites for sauinge vs frome all daungers of bodie and sowle for conforting vs so fatherly in al our tribulaciō and persecucions for sparing vs so long and geuinge vs so large a time of repentans thes benifites O most mercyfull father lyke as we knowlege to haue receuid thē of thy only goodnes euen so we beseche the that for thy dere sonne Iesus Christes sake to graunt vs alwayse thy holy sprit wherby we maye contenewally growe in thākefulnes towardes the to be ledde into all truthe and confortyd in all oure aduersetes O lord strenthen oure faithe kindell it more in faruentnes and loue towardes the our neyghbors for thy sake Suffer vs not dereste father to receiue thy worde any more in vayne but graunt vs alwayse the assystans of thy grace and holye sprit that in hart word and deede we maye santefye and doe worshype to thy holy name Helpe to amplefye encresse thy kyngdome and what soeuer thou sendeste we maye be hartely well content wyth thy good pleasure and wyll lette vs not lacke the thynge Oh father wyth oute the whyche we cannot serue the but blesse thou so al the works of our handes that we maye haue sufficient and not to be chargeabell but rather helpfull vnto others be mercyfull O Lorde to our offences and seyng our det yt gret whych thou haste forgeuen vs in Iesus christ make vs to loue the and our neyghbors so muche the more Be thou oure father our captayne and defender in all tēptacions holde thou vs by thy mercyfull hande that we maye be deliuered from all inconueniences end our lyues in the santefyeng and honor of thy holye name thorough Iesu Christ our lorde and only sauiour Amen Let thy mighty hande and out strechyd arme O Lorde be styll oure defence thy mercy louinge kindnes in Iesu Christ thy dere sonne our saluacion thy trew and holye worde our instruction thy grace and holye sprite our comfort and cōsolacion vnto the end and in the end Amen ¶ O Lord increse our fayth Bradfords beades that he prayed on being in Prison for the testimoni of Iesus Christ leauīg them as necessary to be vsid of the faythfull ¶ Blesyd ar the dead that dye in the lord euen so saith the Spiret that they rest from theyr labores but they re workes folow them Apo. xiiii Imprinted at London in Saint Martins parishe in the vinetre vpon the three Crane warfe by wyllyam Coplande Anno. Do. M.D.LIX. the xv daye of Marche

your bed and to dispose your selfe to slepe so be not a fraide to dye but rather prepare your selfe to yt thinke that nowe you are nerer your ende by one days iorney then you wer in the morning ¶ When you feele slepe to be cōmynge praye O Lorde Iesus Christe my watchman and keper take me to thy care graunte that my body slepynge my mynde maye watche in the and be made mery by sum sight of that celestiall heauenlye life whearin thou arte the kyng prynce together with the father the holy ghoste Thy Angelles holye soules be moste hapie citesens O purify my soul kepe cleane my body that in both I may please the slepinge and wakinge for euer Amen ¶ A mooste frutfull Prayer for the dispersed Church of Christ very necessary to be vsed of the godly in these dayes of affliction compiled by R. P. O Moste omnipotent magnificēt and glorious god and father of al consolation we here assembled do not presume to present and prostrate our selfes before thy mercy seate in the respect of our owne worthines and rightousnes whych is all together poluted and defyled but in the merites rightousnes and worthines of thy onlye sonne Iesus Christe whome thou hast gyuen vnto vs as a moste pure and precious garment to couer oure polution and fylthynes wyth all to th end we myghte appere holye and Iustified in thy sighte throughe hym Wherefore in the obedience of thy commandementes and in the confidence of thy promyses contayned in thy holy worde that thow shalte accepte and graunte oure prayers presented vnto the in the fauoure of thy only sonne our sauiour Iesu Christe Eyther for oure selfes or for the necessitie of thy saynctes and congregation We here congregated together do wyth one mouth and mynde most humblye beseche the not onlye to pardon and forgyue vs all oure synnes necligences Ignorances and iniquites whych we frō time to time incessantlye do commytte agaynste thy diuine maiestye in worde dede and thought such is the infirmitie of oure corrupted nature But also that it wolde please thee O benyng father to be fauorable and mercyfull vnto thy poore afflicted churche congregation dispersed throughe out the whole worlde whiche in these dayes of iniquitie are oppressed in iuried dispiced persecuted afflicted for the testimonye of thy worde and for the obediēce of thy lawes And namely O Lorde and father we humbly beseche the to extende thy mercye and fauourable countynance vpon all those that are imprisoned or condemned for the cause of thy Gospell whome thou hast chosen forthe and made worthi to glorify thy name That eyther it maye please the to gyue them suche constancye as thou hast gyuen to thy sainctes matters in tyme paste willinglye to shede theyr bloud for the testimonie of thy worde Or els mightlye deliuer them from the tyranny of theyr enimies as thou delyuerest the condemned Daniell from the Lions and the persecuted Peter oute prison to thexeaultation of thy glory and the reioysing of thy churche Further more moste beneficiall father we humbly beseche the to stretch forthe the myghty arme into the protection and defence of all those that are exiled for the testimonye of thy veryte that bycause they wolde not bende theyr backes and incline they re neckes vnder the youcke of Anthechrist and be poluted wyth the execrable Idolatries and blasphemus superstitions of the vngodly That it would please the not onlye to fede them in strange cōtreys but also to prepare a resting place for thē as thou haste done from tyme to tyme for thyne electe in all age is whereas they maye vnyte them selfes together in the syncere mynistration of thy holye worde and Sacramentes to theyr synguler edificatiō And in deu time restore them home agayne into their lād to celebrate thy prayses promote thy gospell edefye thy desolate congregation Consequently O lord thou that hast sayd that thou wilt not breke the brused reide nor quenche the smokynge flaxe Be mercyfull we beseche thee vnto all those that through feare and wecknes haue denied the by dissimulation and ypocresie That it may please the to strenghten theyr wecke knees thou that art the strenght of thē that standethe and lyfte vp theyr feible handes that theire lytell smoke maye increase into a great flame and their brused reid into a myghtye oke able to abyde al the bolstringe blastes stormye tempestes of aduersyte to th end that the vngodly do no longer triūphe ouer they re faight which as they thincke they haue vtterly quenched subdewed Stirre vp thy strenght in them O lorde and behold them with that merciful eye where with thou beheldes Peter that they risynge by repentaunce maye become the constant confessors of thy worde and the sanctified members of thy churche To the end that when as by thy prouidence thou purposeste to lay thy crosse vpon them they do no more seke vnlawful meanes to auoyde the same but most willingly to be contented with patience to take it vp follow the in what sort so euer it shall please the to laye the same vpō their shoulders Eyther by death imprisonment or exile And that it wil please thee not to tempte thē aboute their powers but gyue them grace vtterlye to dispayer of theyr owne strenght and wholye to depende vpon thy mercye On the other syde O lord god thou ryghtouse Iudge Lette not the vngodlye the enimies of thy truth continually triumphe ouer vs as they do at this daye Let not thyne heritage become a reproche comon lawghing stocke vnto the impudente and wycked Papistes who by all possyble meanes seke the vtter distruction of thy lytell stocke in shedynge the bloude of thy saynctes for the testimonye of thy worde sekynge by moste deuelysh and damnable practices to subuert thy truth Cōfound them O God and all theyr wicked counselles in the same pyt they haue digged for other let them be taken that it maye be vniuersally knowen that there is no counsel nor force that can preuayle agaynst the lorde our god Breke O lord the hornes of those blouddy bulles of basan Pull down those high moūtaynes that eleuate them selfes agaynst thee And rote vp the rotten race of the vngodly to th ēde that they being consumed in the fyre of thyne indignation thyne exyled Churche may in there own land find place of habitation O Lorde delyuer oure lande whiche thou haste geuen vs for a porciō to poscesse in this lyfe from the inuasion and subdewynge of strangers Truthe it is we cannot denye but that our synnes hathe iustlye deserued this greate plage now emynent and approchynge euē to be gyuē ouer into the hands and subiection of that proud and beastly nation that neither know the nor fere the and to serue them in a bodyly captyuyte that haue refused to serue the in a spirituall libertye Yet lorde for as much as we are assuredlye perswaded by thy holye worde that thyne anger dothe not laste for