⧠A Notable collection of diuers and sōdry places of the sacred scriptures / which make to the declaratyon of the Lordes prayer / Comenly called the Pater noster Gathered by the famous Clerke Master Peter viret / Frenchman And translated oute of Frenche into Inglysh / by Anthony Scoloker The .viij. Daye of Iune Anno. 1548. IMPRINTED at London / by Anthony Scoloker Dwelling wythout Aldersgate And Wyllyā Seres Dwellyng In the Elye tentes in holborne ¶ Cum Gratia et priuilegio ad Imprintum solum / Per Septennium The Places Of Holye Scripture / whyche make for the declaracion of the Lordes Prayer / Comunely called the Pater noster Of the Prayer Axe / and it shal be geuen you Seke / and ye shal fynd Knocke / and it shal be opened vnto you For who soeuer asketh receueth and he that seketh / fyndeth / and to hym that knocketh / it shal be opened Mathew vij b Ieremi .xxix. c. Iohn .xvi. c. And when thou prayest / thou shalt not be as the ypocrites are For they loue to stande and praye in the Sinagoges / in the corners of the streates / to be sene of men Verely I saye vnto you / they haue theyr rewarde But when thou prayest / entre into thy Chambre / and shut thy doore to the / and pray to thy father which is in secret and thy father whiche seeth in secret / shall rewarde thy openly And when ye praye / bable not moche / as the heathē do for they thynke that they shal be heard for theyr moche bablynges sake Be not ye lyke them therfore For your father knoweth wherof ye haue nede / before ye aske of hym After thys maner therfore shall ye praye Oure father which art c Mathew vi b. Lykewyse the spirite also helpeth our weakenes For we knowe not what we shuld desire as we ought nevertheles the spirit it self maketh intercession mightlye for vs wyth vnoutspekeable groninges Howe be it he that sercheth the hart knoweth what the minde of the spyryt is for he maketh intercession for the sayntes / according to the pleasure of God Romanorum .viij. d. Beleue me the tyme cōmeth that ye shal neyther vppon this montein nor at Ierusalem worshyp the father The time commeth and is nowe alreadye / that the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spiryt and in trueth For the father wil haue such to worship hym God is a spiryt / and they that worship him / must worship in spiryte and trueth Iohn .iiij. c. For we are the circumcysyon / euen we that serue God in the spirite Phil .iij. a. Also I shall praye wyth voyce / but I shal pray wyth vnderstādīg Yet had I lever in the cōgregacion to speake five wordes with my vnderstādīg / that I maye enforme other also / rather thē tēne thousand wordes with tōge i. Cor .xiiij. c. I wyl therfore the men pray in al places / lyftīg vp pure hāds wtout wrath or strife i. Timoth .ij. b. Watch therfore at all tymes and pray Luke .xxi. g. Pray alwaies with al maner of prayer supplycacion in the spyrite Ephes .vi. c. I will always prayse the everlastīg / his praise shal be alwaies in my mouth Psal .xxxiiij. a. We reioyce before God of you / we pray excedīgly day and night .i. Thess .iij. b. Men ought alwaies to pray ād not to leaue of Luke .xviii. a. Pray without ceasing .i. Tess .v. d. Verely / Verely I saye vnto you what soeuer ye do aske my Father in my name / he shal gyue it you Iohn .xvi. e. The two cōdicions whych are chefely required in prayer Marc .xi. c. Whatsoeuer ye desyre in your prayer / beleue that ye shall receyue it / and ye shal have it And whā ye stand and pray / forgyue yf ye haue ought against anye man / that your father also in heauen / maye forgyue you your trespaces Our father We haue but one God / even the father of whome are all thīgs we in hī .i. Cor .viii. I am the father of Israell Ierem .xxxi. I wyl be your father ye shal be my sōs doughters / saith the almighty lorde ij Cor .vi. d. Shuld not a sonne honour his father / and a seruaunt his master if I be nowe a father / where is my honour if I be the lord where am I feared Malach .i. b. Is ther any man among you which if his sōne asked hym bread / wold offer him a stone Or if he asked fysh / wold he proffer him a serpent If ye then with are evell / can gyue your children good giftes howe moche more shall your father which is in heauen / gyue good thynges to them that aske him Mat .vij. a. Thou lord arte our father and Redemer and thy name is everlasting / Esay .xliij. c. I prayse the / o father and lord of heauen and earth / that thou hast hyd these things from the wyse and prudent / opened thē vnto Babes Euen so Father / for so it pleased the. All thinges are geuen over vnto me of my father / and no man knoweth the sōne but the father neyther knoweth any man the father saue the sonne / and he to whome the sonne wyll open it Mathe xi e. Mathew .xxviij. c. Luc .x. c. Iohn .iij. e .vij. c .viij. b .x. b. Behold what loue the father hath shewed on vs / that we shulde be called the chyldren of God .i. Iohn .iij. a. For so much then as ye are childeren / God hath sent the spirit of his sonne into your hartes / which crieth Abba that is father Wherfore nowe thou art not a seruaunte / but a sonne If thou be a sonne then arte thou the heyre of God / thorowe Christ Gal .iiij. a Roma .viij. b. For who soever are led by the spirite of God / are Gods Children for ye haue not receiued the spyryte of / bondage to feare any more / but ye haue receiued the spyryte of adopcion / wherby we cry Abba that is to saye father The same spirite certifieth our spirite that we are the chyldren of God If we be childrē / then are we heyres also / namely the heyres of God / and heyres annexed with Christ Roma .viij. b. Haue we not all one father Hath not one God made vs Why doth every one of vs then despyse his owne brother / and so breake the Couenaunt of our Father Malach .ij. b. Is not he thy father and thy Lorde Hath not he made the and Prepared the Deut .xxxij. a. Which arte in Heauen And cal no man father vppō aerth / for one is your father which is in heauē And ye shall not suffer your selues to be called masters / for one is your master / namely / Christ and all ye are brethern Mathew .xxiij. a. Vnto the / lyft I vp mine eyes / thou the dwellest in the heauens Psal ciij. a. ij Paralyp .vi. d. Esay lxvi a. The lorde hath prepared hys seate
in heauen / and his kingdom ruleth over all Psal cij c. / Our God is in heauen / he doth what soeuer pleaseth him Psal cxv a. All the heauens are the lordes / and the earth hath he geuen vnto men Psalmes cxv d. Heauē is my seat aerth is my fotestole where shal now the house stād that ye wyl buylde vnto me wher shall be the place that I wil dwel in as for these thīgs / my hand hath made thē all / ād they are al created / sayth the lord / Esay lxvi a. Do not I fulfyl heauē aerth saith the lorde Ierem .xxiij. d. For heauen the heauē of all heauens may not cōprehēd hī Who am I thē that I shuld buyld hī an house i. Reg .viij. d .ii Chron .ij. b. But salomon buylt him an house / howbeit the hyghest of all dwelleth not in temples that are made with handes / as the Prophet sayth c. Act .vij. f. God which made the worlde / and all that therin is / for so moch as he is lord of heauen and earth / dwelleth not in Temples made of hands / neyther is he worshipped with mens handes / as though he had nede of any man / seyng he hym selfe geueth lyfe and breath vnto al men euery where hath made of one bloude all the generatyon of men to dwell vppon all the face of the Earth and hath assygned borders appoynted before / howe long and farre they shuld dwel / that they myght fele and find him And truly he is not farre from euery one of vs / for in him we lyue / move and haue our beyng / as certeyne of your owne poetes also haue sayd we are his generatyon c. Act .xvij. d. and e Halowed be thy name I wyll make the name of my holynes to be knowen among my people of Israell / and I will not let my holy name to be euell spoken of any more but the very heathen also shal knowe that I am the Lord the holy one of Israell Gzech .xxxix. b. At that tyme shall there be one Lorde onely / and his name shal be but one 1. Zacha .xiiij. b. I do not this for your sakes O house of Israell but for my holy names sake Ezech .xxxvi. d. Bring me my sonnes from farre / my doughters from the endes of the worlde Namelye all those that call on my name For them haue I created / fasshyoned and made for myne honoure Ezay .xliij. a. And the tyme shall come / that whosoeuer calleth on the name of the lorde / shal be saued Ioel .ij. f. O Lord our gouuernour / howe wonderful is the name in al the world Psa .viij. a From the rysing vp of the sōne / vnto the going down of the same / my name is great amōg the gētyles / yea in al places Mal .i. c The lord is hye aboue all heathē / his glory aboue the heauēs Who is lyke vnto the lorde our God / that hath his dwellinge so hygh / whych humbleth him selfe to beholde that is in heauen and aerth whyche taketh vp the symple oute of the dust and lyfteth the poore out of the myre The Lordes name is worthy to be praysed frō the risyng vp of the sonne vnto the goyng downe of the same Psalm cxij. a. Synge vnto the Lord and prayse hys Name / be telling of his Saluation from day to day Declare hys honoure amonge the heathen / and his wonders among all people Psalm .xcv. a. The name of the Lorde is a strong castell / the ryghtuous flieth vnto it / shall be saued Prouerb .xviij. b. Not vnto vs O Lorde not vnto vs but vnto thy name geue the praise / for thy louynge mercy and faithfulnes Psalme Cxv. a. Helpe vs O God our Sauyour for the glory of thy name O deliuer vs / and forgiue vs our sinnes for thy names sake Psalm lxxviij b. Leade my in thy way O lord that I walke in thy trueth O let my harte delyte in fearing thy name I thanke the / o Lord my God / and wyll prayse thy name for euer Psa lxxxv b. clxv a. Chro .xxix. c A frewyll offring will I geue the / and prayse thy law / o lord / because it is so cōfortable Psalm liij a. I will declare the name vnto my bretheren / in the middest of the cōgregacion wil I prayse the. Psal .xxi. c .xxiij. a. Ebr .ij. c. The Lord gaue and the Lord hath taken awaye Now blessed be the name of the Lord. Iob .i. d. Let vs therfore by hym offer alwayes vnto God the sacryfice of prayse that is to say the frute of those lyppes which cōfesse his name Ebre .xiij. c. Psal .xci. a. Thy Kingdom come Seke ye fyrst the kingdome of heauen and the ryghtuousnesse therof / so shall all these things be ministred vnto you Mat vi d. Luke .xij. d .iij Reg .iij. b. The kyngdom of God is not meate drinke but ryghtuousnesse / peace and ioye in the holy goost Roma .xiiij. c. The kingdome of God is not in wordes but in power .i. Corin .iiij. c. The kyngdom of God cōmeth not wyth outwarde apperaunce / neyther shall it be sayde Lo / here or there is it For beholde the Kyngdome of God is inward in you Luke .xvij. c. Except a man be borne a newe / he can not see the kingdom of God Ihon .iij. a. Except a mā be borne of water and of the spirite / he can not come into the kingdom of God Ihon .iij. a. Who soeuer receaueth not the kingdome of God / as a chyld / shall not entre ther in Luke .xviij. b. Fleshe and bloude can not inheret the Kingdom of God .i. Cor .xv. e. The kingdom of heauen suffreth violence / and the violent plucke it vnto them Math .xi. b. Which hath deliuered vs frō the powr of Darkenes / and translated vs into the Kyngdome of hys deare Sonne / in whome we haue Redemption thorrowe hys Bloud / namely / the forgeuenes of synnes Collos .i. b. Thē shal be the ende / whē he shall delyuer vp the Kingdome vnto God the father Whē he shall put down al rule superiore / powr For he must reigne til he haue all hys ennemies vnder fete The last ennemye that shall be destroyed / is death / i. Cor .xv. c. Similitudes of the kingdom of God Mathe .xxiij. a. e. Mar .iiij. a. b. Luke the viij a. b. Math .xiij. e. Mark iiij d. Luke .xiij. d e. Math .xiij. f. g .xviij / c .xx. .xxij. a Lu .xiiij. d. Mat .xxv. a. b. Luk .xix. b .xv. Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heauen What wylt thou that I shall do Act .ix. a Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth the / for thou art my God Let thy louyng spyryt leade me forth vnto the Lande of rightuousnes Psal cxlij b. This is the will of him which hath sēt me / that who soeuer seeth the sonne /
aÌ„d beleueth on him / haue everlastinge life / aÌ„d I shall rayse hym vp at the last daye Iohn .vi. e. Thou shalt do that which is ryght aÌ„d good in the sight of the lord / to the intent that thou mayest prosper Deut .vi. b. Ye shall not do these thiÌ„ges which seme good in your owne eyes Deut .xij. a. A man thinketh all hys ways to be cleane / but it is the Lorde that fashyoneth the mindes Pro .xvi. a. My councell shall stande and I shall do what soever pleaseth me Esay / xlvi He handeleth according to hys wyll among the powers of heauen and among the inhabytours of the earth / and there is none that maye resyst his hande / or saye what doest thou Dani / iiij e. So lieth it not theÌ„ iÌ„ any maÌ„s wil or ruÌ„niÌ„g / but in the mercy of God Rom .x. b. For it is God with worketh in you both the wyll and the dede Phil .ij. b. He worketh all thinges after the couÌ„cell of his owne will / that we might be to the praise of his glory Ephe .i. b. Such trust haue we thorow Christ to Godwarde / not that we are sufficient of our selves / to think any thing as of our selves but our ablenes coÌ„meth of god ij cor .iii. a. I do not that I wil / but what I hate that do I. Yf I do now that which I wil not / theÌ„ grauÌ„t I that the law is good Item thou good that I will do I not / but the evel which I wyl not / that do I. IteÌ„ I fiÌ„d by the law / that whaÌ„ I wil do good / evel is preseÌ„t with me For I delite in the law of god after the iÌ„ward maÌ„ but I se aÌ„ other lawe in my meÌ„bres / which striueth agaiÌ„st the law of my minde / taketh me prisoner in the law of sinne / which is in my membres O wretched man that I am / who shall deliver me froÌ„ the body of this death I thaÌ„k God thorow Iesus Christ our lord Roman .vij. c. He that doth the wil of God / abideth for ever Iohn .v. O prayse the lorde / ye angels of hys / ye that be mightie in strength / fulfilling hys commaÌ„dment that men may heare the voice of his words O prayse the lord al ye his hostes / ye seruauntes of hys / that do hys pleasure Psal ciij. a. Glory be vnto God an hye / and peace vppon earth and vnto men a good wyll Luke .ij. b. Who said to Cirus thou art mine hirdman / so that he shal fulfyll all thiÌ„gs after my wyll Esay xliiij e. I am come downe froÌ„ heauen / not to do mine owne wyll / but the wyll of hiÌ„ that hath sent me Iohn vi d. Sacrifice offering thou woldest not haue / but thou hast opened mine eares burnt offrings sacrifice for siÌ„ne thou hast not allowed TheÌ„ sayd I Lo / I come in the beginning of the boke it is writteÌ„ of me that I shuld fulfyll thy will o my God that aÌ„ I content to do yea the law is within my hart Psal .xxxix. b. Ebr .x. b. I seke not mine owne will / but the wil of my father which hath seÌ„t me Iohn v. c. Not my will / but thy wyll be fulfylled Luk .xxij. e. Forasmoch theÌ„ / as Christ hath suffred for vs in the flesh / arme your selves lykewyse with the same mind For he whiche suffreth in the flesh / ceaseth from sinne / the henceforth as moche time as yet remayneth in the flesh he shuld not lyue after thou lustes of men / but after the wyll of God .i. Pet .iiij. a. Not as I will but as thou wilt Mat xxvi d. Mat c .xiiij. d. And fashyon not your selues lyke vnto his world but be chauÌ„ged thorow the renewing of your mind / that ye may prove what things that good that acceptable ad parâ—eâ—t wyll of God is Rom .xij. a. For this is the will of God / even your sanctifienge / that ye shulde absteyne from whoredome / t at every one of you shulde knowe howe to kepe his vessell in holines and honour / and not in the lust of concupiscence / as the heathen / whiche knowe not Goâ— .i. Tess .iiij. a. Wherfore be not ye vnwise / but vnderstande what the wyll of the lorde is Eph .v. b. Alwaies fervently laboring for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect ful in all that is the wyl of God Col .iiij. b. And this is the free boldnes which we have toward him that if we aske any thiÌ„g accordinge to hys wyll / he heareth vs .i. Iohn v. b. The God of peace that brought again froÌ„ the dead our lorde Iesus the great shepard of the shepe / thorow the bloud of the euerlasting testament make you perfect in all good workes to do hys wyll / working to you that whych is pleasaunt in hys 〈◊〉 thorow Iesus Chryst to whome be prayse for euer and euer Amen Ebre .xiij. d. Gyue vs this day our dayly breade The blessing of the Lord maketh ryâ—h men / as for carefull and trauayle it doth nothing thervnto Prouer .x. c. He geueth foode vnto all flesh / and his mercy endureth for euer Psal cxxxv For vnto whome soeuer God geueth riches / goodes and powr / he geueth it him to enioye it / to take it for hys portion / and to be refresshed of his labour this is now the gifte of God Eccle .v. d. The lorde wyll not let the soule of the ryghtuous suffer hunger / but he putteth the vngodly from hys desyre Proue .x. a. I haue bene yong now am olde yet sawe I neuer the ryghtuous forsake / nor his seed to seke theyr Breade Psalme .xxxvi. d. Who prouideth meate for the Rauen / when hys yong ones crye vnto God / and flye about for want of meat Iob .xxxviij d. Whych geueth foder vnto the catell / fedeth the yong Rauens that call vppon hym Psalm cxlvi b Yea and the yong lyons / whych roare after the praye / and seke their meate at God Psalm ciij. c They wayte all vppon the / that thou mayest geue theÌ„ meate in due seasoÌ„ / wheÌ„ thou geuest it theÌ„ / they gather it wheÌ„ thou openest thine haÌ„d / they are filled which good Psa cii O cast thy burthen or care vpon the lord / and he shall norish the. Psal liiij c. Cast all your care on hiÌ„ / for he careth for you .i. Petr .v. a. Be not careful but in al things let your peticions in prayer and supplycacion / with geuiÌ„g of thankes / be knowne before God Philip .iiij. Therfore I saye vnto you be not ye carefull for your life / what ye shall eate or what ye shall Dryncke nor yet for youre body what ye shall put on / is not the lyfe more worth theÌ„ the meate the body more of value then raymeÌ„t Beholde the foules of the ayer for they sow not / neither repe nor yet cary into the
tayne on the iuste and vniuste Math .v. e. Iesus Christ sayd Father forgiue thē for they wote not what they doo Luke / xxiij c. Saint Stephen sayde / Laye not thys synne to theyr charge Acte .vij. g. And leade vs not into temptatyon Of two kindes of temptaciōs wherof the fyrst followynge / is Approbacion of fayth My brethern / coūte it exceding ioy whē ye fall into diuers temptacions / for asmoche as ye knowe / howe that the tryeng of your fayth bringeth pacience Iacob .i. a. Roma .v. a. Happy is the man that indureth in tēptacion / for whē he is tryed / he shal receiue the croune of lyfe / which the lord hath promised to thē that love him Iames .i. b. My sonne / dispise not the chastening of the lorde / neyther faynt when thou art rebuked of hī For whome the lord loueth / hī he chasteneth / and yet he delyteth in hī euen as a father in his owne sonne Pro iij. b. The ouē proveth the potters vessell / so doth temptaciō of trouble trye rightuous men Eccle .xxvij. b. Examen me o lord and proue me / trye out my reynes and my hart Psal .xxv. a. My grace is sufficient for the. For strength is made perfect thorow weakenes .ij. Cor .xij. a. God is faithfull which shall not suffre you to be tempted aboue youre strengthe but shall in the middest of the temptacion make away to come out / that ye may bear it .i. Cor .x. b. The lorde knoweth how to deliuer the Godly out of tēptacion .ij. Pet .ij. b. As for you / ye are they that haue biddē with me in temptacions Luk .xxij. b. Of the other temptacion which we require to avoyde Watch and praye / that ye fall not into tēptacyon the spiryt is willyng but the flesh is weake Math .xxvi. d. Marc .xiiij. d Let no man saye / when he is tempted / that he is tempted of God For God temteth not vnto euell Neyther tempteth he any man / but euery mā is tempted drawē away and entised of his owne concupiscēce Then when luste hath conceaued / she bringeth forth sinne / and sinne when it is finisshed bringeth forth death Iacob .i. b They that will be rich / fall into the tētacion and snare and into many folysh / noisome lustes .i. Timo .vi. b. Consyder thyne owne selfe / that thou also be not tempted Galla .vi. a. But delyuer vs from the Euell Be sober / ād watch / for your aduersary the deuell walketh aboue as a roaring lyō seking whome he may deuoure Whome resyst stedefast in the faith / and knowe / that your Bretheren in the woorld / haue euen the same afflictions .i. Ptri .v. b. Psalm Liiij d. Sathan hath desired after you / that he myght sifte you euen as wheate but I haue prayed for the / that thy fayth fayle not And when thou arte conuerted / strength thy brethern Luke .xxij. c. I sent that I might haue knowledge of your Faith / least haplye the tempter had tempted you / least oure labour had bene in vaine .i. Tess .iij. a We knowe that who soeuer is borne of God / sinneth not but he that is begottē of God / he kepeth hī selfe / and the wicked toucheth him not .i. Iohn .v. c. For all that is borne of God ouercōmeth the world / evē our faith .i. Iohn .v. a. For thyne is the kyngdome ād the power / ād the glory for euer Amen O lord God of Israel our father / praysed be thou now and euermore O Lorde thine is the might / power / glory / victorye and the prayse For all that which is in heauen and aerth / is thyne O lord thyne is the kyngdome / thou art Prince of all thinges Thyne are the rychesses / treasures / honour and dominion ouer all And in thy handes is the vertue / might / power excellencye Empyre and rule vppon and aboue all thinges Wherfore nowe oure God / we giue laud praise and glory to thy most noble name .i. Chroni .xxix. c. Read the whole Psalm cxliiij O the depenes of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God How in comprehensible are his iudgementes / and his waies vnsearcheable For who hath known the mynd of the lord or who hath bene his councell gever Or who hath geuen him ought aforehand that he myght be recompensed againe For of him / and thorowe him / and in him are all thinges To him be praise for euer Rom .xi. d. To God only wise / our Sauiour / be glory magnificence / Empire and powr / now and euermore Amen Iudic .i. g. Rom .xi. d .ij. Tim .vi. d .i. Petr .v. d. Apo .v. d .vij. c. Thou art worthy o lord to receiue glory and honour / and power For thou hast created all thynges / and for thy wylles sake they are and were created Apo .iiij. b ¶ The somme of the Prayer Our Father whych arte in heauen Hallowed be thy name O Lord God our father in heauen / we thy myserable children vppon aerth / beseche the / that thou wylt mercyfully Looke on vs / and lende vs thy grace / that thy name may be sanctyfyed amonge vs / and in al the world / thorow the pure and sincere teachyng of thy word / and thorow aernest charite in our daily lyuing and conuersacyon Seclude thou gratyouslye all false doctrine euell lyuing / wherby thy worthy name / might be blasphemed and slaūdred Thy kyngdome Come O let thy kyngdom come and be graet All synfull / blynd people and suche as are holden captyue of the deuell in hys kyngdome / those brynge thou to the knowleadge of the true faith / in Iesus Chryst thy sōne Thy wyll be done in earth as it is in Heauen Strength vs Lorde wyth thy spirite / to do to suffer thy wyll both in lyfe and death in wel and woo / that our will may alway be broken / offred vp mortified Gyue vs thys Daye our Daylye Breade And geue vs our dayly bread Preserue vs from couetous desyre / and carefulnes of the belly that of the / we maye be assured to haue Aboundaunce of all good thynges And forgeue vs our trespaces / as we forgyue them that trespas against vs. Forgyue vs our trespace / as we forgiue them whych offend vs that our harte maye haue a sure and glad cōscience / and that we neuer feare nor be afrayde for any Sinne. And let vs not be led into temptacion Lead vs not into temptacion / but help vs thorow thy spirite / to subdue the flesh / to despise the world with his vanities / ād to ouercome the deuel wyth all his crafty assaultes But Delyuer vs from euell And fynally deliuer thou vs frō al euell both bodely and gostly / temporall ād aeternall Amen All they that aernestlye desyre thys / let thē saye Amen Beleuing wythout any doubte that it is heard in heauē / accordīge as Christ promised vs sayīg / whā ye pray beleue assuredly that ye shall haue it / ād it shall come to passe The somme of the prayer Seke ye fyrst the kingdome of God / al these things shal be ministred vnto you Luke .xiiij. d. Finis VERBVM DEI Proue the spyrites / whether they be of God Ihon the .iiij .i. Reg .viij. d. Mat .vij.
barnes yet your heauenly father fedeth them Are ye not moche better thē they Which of you though he toke thought therfor could put one cubit vnto his stature why care ye then for raiment Consider the Lilies of the Feld howe they grow They laboure not / neither Spinne And yet for all that I saye vnto you / that even Salomon in all his royaltie was not arayed like vnto one of these Wherfore if GOD so Cloth the Grasse / whyche is to Daye in the Felde / and to morrow shal be cast into the furnace / shall he not moch more do the same vnto you / o ye of lytle faith Therfore take no thought / sayīg what shal we eat / or what shall we drink or wherw t shall we be clohed After al such do the heathen seke / For your heuenly father knoweth / that ye haue nede of all the se thinges Seke ye fyrst the kingdom of heauē the righteousnesse therof / and al these thynges shall be ministred vnto you Math .vi. d. Care not then for to morrowe / for the morrow shall care for it selfe Euery daye hath ynough of his own trauayle Ibidē A praier of Salomon for a cōpetēt lyuing Two things will I require of the / that thou wylt not deny me before I dye Remoue from me vanyce and lyes geue me neyther beggery nor ryches / onely graūt me a necessary lyuing Least if I be to ful I denye the / and saye what felowe is the Lord And least I being constrayned thorow pouerte / fall vnto stealing / for sweare the name of my God Prouerb .xxx. a If ryches encrease / set not your harte vppon them Psal lxi b. And forgyue vs our trespasses It is I / It is I onely / that for myne owne self sake do away thyne offences / forget thy Sinnes so that I wyll neuer thynke vppon them Esay .xliij. d. As for thyne offēces / I dryue them away lyke the Cloudes / and thy sinnes as the myst Turne the againe vnto me / and I wyll delyuer the. Esay .xliiij. d The lord is full of compassion ād mercy / long sufferinge and of great goodnes He will not alwaye be chydinge / neyther wyll he kepe his angre for euer He hath not delt with vs after our synnes / nor rewarded vs according to oure wickednes For loke how hye the heauē is / in cōparyson of the earth / so great is his mercy also towards them that feare him Loke how wyde the East is from the West / so farre hath he set our sinnes from vs. Yea lyke as a father pitieth hys owne children / euē so is the Lorde mercifull vnto them that feare him For he knoweth wherof we be made He Remembreth that we are but dust Psalm cij a. Shame not to confesse thine errour / submit not thy self vnto every man / because of sinne Eccle .iiij. d. If we say that we have no sinne / we deceaue our selues / and the trueth is not in vs. But if we knowledg our sinnes / God is faithfull and lust to forgiue vs our sinnes / and to clense vs from all vnryghtuousnes If we say we haue not sinned / we make him a lyer / and hys worde is not in vs .i. Iohn .i. Who can say my hart is cleane / I am innocent from sinne Ther is not one rightuous man in al thou aerth / that doth good and sinneth not Ecc vij c .i. Reg .viij. e. Psal liij a. Rom .iij. b. The rightuous falleth .vij. times Pro xxiiij c. What is man / that he shuld be vncleane / what hath he which is born of a womā / wherby he might be knowne to be rightuous Beholde / he hath found vnfaithfulnes among his owne saintes yea the very heauens are vncleane in his sight How moche more thē an abhominable vyle man whiche drinketh wickednes lyke water Iob .iiij. b .xv. b .xxv. b. Who can tell how oft he offēdeth Oh clence thou me frō my secret fautes Psal .xviij. b. I turned me vnto God the lorde for to pray make mine ītercessiō / with fastīg / sakcloth asshes I prayed before the lord my God knowledge / saying O lorde / thou great fearefull God / thou that kepest couenaunt and mercy with thē which loue the ād do thy cōmaūdementes Dan .ix. a. Therfore I confessed my sīne vnto the / hyd not mine vnrightuousnes I sayd / I will knowledge myne offēce / accuse my selfe vnto the Lord / and so thou forgeuest me the wyckednes of my synne Psalme .xviij. d .xxxi. a. Haue mercy vppon me O God after thy goodnes / and according vnto the great mercyes do awaye myne offences Wash me well from my wyckednes and clense me from my synne For I knowledge my fautes / and my synne is euer before me Against the onely / against the haue I sinned / and done euell in thy syght Psalme L. a Conuert thou me / and I shall be converted for thou art my Lord God Iere .xxxi. c. Psalm lxxx a. O reconcile me wyth Isope / I shall be clene wash thou me / and I shal be whiter then snowe Psalm l. a. As we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. Yf you forgyue other men theyr trespaces / your heauenly father shall also forgyue you But and ye wyll not forgyue men theyr trespaces no more shall your father forgiue you your trespaces Math .vi. b. Luk xi d. Forgiue it shal be forgeuen vnto you Luk .vi. f. Whan thou offrest thy gift at the alter / there remembrest that thy brother hath ought agaynst the. Leave there thyne offring before the allie / ād go thy way fyrst and reconcile thy selfe to thy brother / and then come and offer thy gyft Agree with thyne aduersary quickly whyle thou art in the waye wyth him / least that aduersary delyuer the to the iudge / and the iudge deliuer the to the mynister / and then thou be cast into prison I saye vnto the verelye / thou shalt not come oute thence / tyll thou have payde the vtter must farthinge Mathew v. c. Yf thy brother trespace against the / god and tell him his faut betwene the and him alone Item so shall my heauenly Father do also vnto you / yf ye everye one of you from your hartes / forgeue not hys Brother his trespaces Mat .xviij. c. d. Luke .xvij. a. Knowledge your fautes one to ā other and pray one for an other Iacob .v. c. Forbearing one an other / and forgeuīg one an other / if any man haue a quarell against an other Lyke as Chryst hath forgeuen you euen so ye also Colloss .iij. b. Blesse thē that curse you praye for thē that wrongfully trouble you Luke .vi. c. Praye for them whych do you wrong persecute you / that ye maye be the childrē of your Father whiche is in heauen For he maketh hys sonne to aryse on the euell and on the good and sendeth hys