GRACES To be said at the Table before and after MEAT Very necessary for Young People and Children With Morning and Evening PRAYER 1 COR. 10.13 Whether ye eat or drinke or whatsoever ye do do all to the praise and glory of God LONDON Printed by J. BELL and are to be sold at the East-end of Christ-Church 1655. In the Morning when you arise Say I rise in the name of the father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen OVr Father which are in heaven hallowed be thy name Thy Kingdome come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evill For thine is the Kingdome the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen ALmighty and everlasting God vouchsafe hee beséech thée to grant us perfect continance in thy lively Faith augmenting the same in us daily till we grow to the full â—â—â—esure of our perfection in Christ whereof he make our conession saying I Beleeve in GOD the Father Almightie Maker of Heaven and Earth and in â—esus Christ his onely Son our Lord Which was conceived by the Holie Ghost Borne of the Virgin Marie suffered under Ponâ—iâ—us Piâ—â—te was Crucified dead and buried He descended into Hell The thâ—â—d day 〈…〉 againe from the dead He ascended in to Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty From thence he shall come to judge the quicke and the dead I beleeve in the holy Ghost The holy Câ—hrliâ—â—e Church The Communion of Saints The forgivenesse of sins The resurrection of body And life everlsting Amen The tenne Commandements of Almighty GOD. I Am the Lord thy God which hath brought thee out of the Land of Egypt out of the house of bondage i. Thou shalt have no other Gods but me ij Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likenesse of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or in the water under the Earth Thou shalt not â—ow downe to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a Iealous god and visit the sinnes of rhe Fathers upon the Children unto the third and forth generation of them that hate me and shew mercie unto thousands in them that love me and keepe my Commandements iij. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine for the Lord wil not hoâ—d him guilsses that take his name in vaine iiij Remember thou kéepe holy the Sabbath day six daies thou shalt laher and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is thf Sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy Son and thy Daughter thy Man-servant and thy Maid-servand thy Cattell and the Stanger that is within thy gates for in six daies the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hollowed it v. Honour thy Father and Moâ—her that thy daies may be long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thée vi Thov shalt do no Murther vij Thou shalt not commit Adultry viij Thâ—u shalt not steale ix Thou shalt not bare false witnesse against thy Neighbour x Thou shalt not couit thy Neighbours house thou shalt not covit thy neighbours wife nor his servant nor his maid nor his oxe nor his Asse nor any thing that is his The Law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ John 1.17 The Law was ordained by the Angels in the hand of a Mediatour Gal. 3.19 Act. 17.53 LEt thy mighty hand and out stretched arm O Lord be still our defence the mercy and loving kindnesse in Iesus Christ thy dear Son our salvation thy true and holy Word our instruction thy grace and holy spirit our comfort and consolation unto the end and in the end So be it THe Lord blesse us and save us the Lord make his face to shine upon us and be mercifull unto us and grant us his peace Aman. THe grace of our Lord Iesus Christ and the love of God and the most comfortable fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all Amen Sundry Graces to be used before Meates Grace before meat ALmighty GOD Father of our Lord Iesus Christ we beséech thée to have mercy upon us blesse O Lord these thy good Creatures which thou hast provided for our sustinance and give us grace to be thankfull unto thée for the same and all other thy blessings bestowed upon us through Iesus Christ our Saviour Amen Grace before Meat BLessed God which by thy word hast fram'd the world and all things contained therein we humbly beséech thée to have mercy upon us make us thankefull unto thée for these thy good gifts which we are about to receive at thy bountifull hands through the merits of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen Graces before Meat GOod Lord blesse us and these thy gracious gifts which thou hast provided for us to strengthen and nurish our weake bodies whereby we may he refreshed and comforted grant that as we grow in strenth by them so likewise we may increase in grace that after this life ended we may be partakers of thy heavenly Table through the mediation of thine onlie Son one blessed Lord and Saviour Amen Grace before meat GLorie hoâ—uar and praise be given to thée O Lord which hast fed us from our tender age and givest sustenance to evere living thing replenish our hearts with joy and gladnesse that we alwaies having sufficient may be rich and plentifull in all good works through our Lord Iesus Christ Amen Grace before Meat GReat God which be thy power in the holie â—rophet didst increase and multiplie the â—â—â—re of the poore Widow bless we beseech thee these our meats and drinkes and increase in us the knowledge of thy truth in love obediede that we having a lively Faith in thee we may ever serve and honour thee in all our thoughts and actions through Iesus Christ our onelie Lord and blessed Saviour Amen Grace beford Meat IMmortall and everlasting God which for us most wretched and sinfull men hast cleansed thy Creatures and made them fit for our use and sustenance grant we humbly beseech thée that with moderation and temperance we may so taste of these thy benefits here present before us that we may ever hereafter be made more willing and able to do thée service through Iesus Christ our onely Lord and Saviour Amen Grace before Meat LEt us with loving obedient hearts prepare our selves to give all humble thanks unto our heavenlie Father who of his most bountiful goodnesse hath heare prepared Meat and Drink for our necessity in hungrin to give us an example of like kindnesse for his love to our poore nighbours redemed by Christ
Iesus who ever blesse us and these his gifts that both our eating and drinking and speakin may redound to the glory of God through the merit of Iesus Christ our Lord and onelie Saviour Amen Grace before Meat O Almighty and everlasting God which by thy â—oreknowledg doest see the beginning middest and end of all the works of thy holy hand and didest make Man according to thine owne Image and brethedst into him an immortall foule and gavest him understanding to know thee to be his God and Creator of all things in heaven and earth and didest ordaine Man to be Lord over the workes of thy hands and to receive all things necessary for the sustentation of his mortal bodâ— of thy goodnes with thanks giving we moâ—t humbly beséech thee of thy mercifull goodnesse to blesse and satisfie us with thy holy presence that we may be the more moved to be thankfull unto thee for all the good gifts which we recâ—ived at thy mercifull hand through Iesus Christ our onely Saviour To whom with thée O Father and the holy Ghost be all honour praise and glory for ever and ever Amen Grace before Meat O Father of mercy and God of all consolation which hast created us for thy glory and these â—â—y good Creatures for our use blesse and sanctifie them we beseech thée that by the moderate recâ—ived thereof our bodies may be nurished and thy name ever more and more praised through Iesus Christ our onely Lord and blessed Saviour Amen Grace before Meat O Iesus Christ the Sonne of God that for our sakes didst die and sheddest thy most precious blood for the forgivennesse of our sins blesse thou our Meat and Drink which we purpose to receive in thy name and assist us O Lord with the grace of thy holy spirit to amend our lives that according to thy holy and pure Gospell we may live to thy glorie and profit of our Brethren And when the dayes of this our Pilgrimage shall be ended grant us to rest in thy peace that we may at the day of Iudgment hâ—ve joyfull resurrection unto everlasting life through thy most precious death which art the onelie Sonne of God and our everlasting Saviour To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour glory and praise for ever and ever Amen Grace before Meat O Mercifull Lord Iesus Christ which didst â—ake five Loaves and two Fishes and lifting up thine eies unto heaven didst distribute them unto the people and they all did eat and were satisfied being aboue five thousand men beside women and children we beseech thée how to blesse these gifts which we are about to receive at the hands and us allso that they may be to the comfort and health of our bodies and we may for them and all other thy benefits bée evermore thankfull unto thee To whom with the Faâ—er and the holie Ghost be all honour and glorie for ever Amen Grace before Meat THe eies of all things dâ— look up and trust in thée O Lord thou givest them meat in drie season thou oâ—enest thy hand and filles with thy blessing everie living thing good Lord blesse us and all these thy gifts which we are about to receive of thy bounteous liberalitie through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grace before Meat THe God of all â—ower who hath caled from death the great Pastor of the Sheep the Lord Iesus comfort and defend the Flock which he hath redeemed by the blood of his eternall Testament Increase the number of true Preachers represse the rage of obstinant and cruell â—iraâ—â—s mitigate and lighten the hearts of the ignorant release the paines of such as be afflicted but especially those that suffer for the testimonie of a good Conscience And finally confound Satan by the power of our Lord Iesus Christ Amen Grace before Meat THy Name O Lord be praised for all the benifits that thou most graciously dost bestow upon us for féeding our feble bodies when they are hungry with plenty of thy good Creaturs and strengthening the imperfections of our members by vertue of thy mighcy power so that all and everie part of us are hereby made apt and fit to follow our callings And like continuall thanks be given unto thee O Lord for all thy merciefull blessings thou vouchsafe to bestow upon us in preserving us both bodie and soule even from the beginning of the world to this present and from all these casualities and temtations which we are incident unto through the frailtâ— of flesh and imperfection of nature which graciâ—us gifts we acknowledge to have received of thy mercifull goodnes and for the merit of our Lord and Saviour In whose name we render â—hée all â—oâ—er praise and thanks from this time forth for ever more Amen Grace before Meat WHether ye eat or drink or whatsoeveâ— ye do else let all be done to the praisâ— of God whom we beséech to blesse us with oâ—â— meat and drink through Christ our Lord Amen Grace before Meat CHrist which at his lest Supper gave him selfe unto us promising his body to be crucified and his blood to be shed for our sinnes blesse us and our meat Amen This prayer may be annexed to the end oâ— every Grace especially those which be the shortest GOd preserve his Church God blesse thâ— Nobility and the Commons God defenâ— the favourers of the Gospell and make us alâ— faithfull in the same God send the Gospell 〈◊〉 joyfull and frée passage throughtout the world thaâ— euery one may live uprightly in their calling tâ— the glory of God through the meâ—its of our Lorâ— and Saviour Iesus Christ Amen Godly GRACES to be said after Meales Grace after Meat ALL Glory honour and immortall praise be given unto thee O eternall God the which hast fed us wretched sinners even from our Creation in our Mothers womb We be begotten conceived and borne in sin O Lord have mercy upon us we beseech thée forgive us our sins illuminate our hearts and assist us with thy holy spirit to consider that we receive all things needfull both for our soules and bodies even at thy hand and to give thée most heartie thanks and continuall praise for ever world without end Amen Grace after Meat FAther of bounty and God of our strength from whose liberall hand we have received this nourishment of our earthly bodies grant that the fulnesse thereof may not breed in us a dulnesse of spirit or neglect of thankfulnesse but that we may be more and more inflamed to serve thée and bring forâ—h the fruits of a lively Faith by our thanksgiving through Iesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour Amen Grace after Meat GRant O most mercifull Father that our hunger thurst being satisfied with the muderate use of these thy good gifts and Creatures sanctified with thy holy word we may both in body and mind be apt and able to doe good works to the glory of thy most holy name Amen Grace after Meat HOnour and praise be
given to our heavenly Father by whose liberality our bodies here are not onely refreshed but also most mercifully hath given us his onely Son our Saviour Iesus Christ to feed our wounded soules with his precious bodie and blood shed on the Crosse which is the lively bread meat and drinke to every true faithfull penitent soule wherefore let us continually praie for grace that wiâ—h his heavenly food we may spiritually be made strong in all good and godly workes as lively members of Iesus Christ to whom be all power honour and glory now and ever world without end Amen Grace after Meat O Lord God Almighty and most dear Father thou hast not onelie given unto us meat and drinke to sustaine these our mortal bodies but thou hast likewise given unto us thy blessed word which is the onely food of our immortall soules through our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ to whom therefore with thée and the Holy Ghost be all honour praise and thanks for ever and ever Amen Grace after Meat O Lord which art the Creator of all creatures and hast prepared food for them according to the nature of their Creation we most heartily thanke thee for these thy creatures which at this time we haue received in thy name beséeching the O Father that as our bodies are now by these gifts refreshed our soules may be also nourished with the food of everlasting life in thy most holy Testament confirmed with the blood and death of Iesus Christ thy sone our Saviour To whom with thée and the holy Ghost be al honour glory and praise for ever and ever Amen Grace after Meat O Most gracious God and louing Father in Christ Iesus who by thy mightie power and marcifull goodnesse hath created â—s of no thing and given us a perfect beaing and having lost all happinesse hast restored us to grace through thy mercy and now at this time hy thy mighty providence presently fed us for which thy name bee blessed and praised both now and for evermore Amen Grace after Meat THanks bee unto the O Lord God Almighty most dear Father of Heaven for giving us our food in due season for opening thy mercifull hand and stlling us with thy blessing And we beseech thee for thy Sonnes sake Iesus Christ not onely to preserve us alway from abusing the same but also to send us thy grace that we may ever be thankfull unto thée therefor Amen Grace after Meat THanks be unto thee O Lord God Almighty most dear Father of Heaven for certifying us by thy blessed word that all kinde of meat is cleane And we beseech thee send us thy grace that we may alway thankfully receive the same not onely without superstition or serupulosity of conscience but also without grieving or offending our brethren and so to walke in the way of Godly live and charity that with our meat we never destroy him for whom thy Sonne Iesus Chrih died as well as for us Grace after Supper THanks bee unto thée O Lord God Almighty most dear Father of Heaven for ordaining thy creaturs to be the food and sustenance unto our bodies and hast sanctified them by thy blessed Word We beseech thee make us to increase in stedfastnesse of thy Faith in perfect knowledge of thy Truth and in continuance of Prayer unto thee that to us also they may be sanctifiod and holy and that we may ever thankfully receive them to the glory of thy holy Name Amen Grace after Meat THe God of peace and love vouchsafe alwaies to dwell with us thou Lord have mercie upon us who having satisfied our hungry appetites with corporall food the nourishment of our weak bodies wilt be pleased also to féed our soules with the blessed tast comfort of thine eternal word that we being made members of that body of which Christ Iesus thy son is head may â—earve thee in all truth faithfulnesse both to the end and in the end Amen Grace after meat THe God of peace and love vouchsafe alway to dwell with us and thou Lord have marcy upon us glory honovr praise be given to thee O Lord which hast fed us from our tender age and givest sustâ—nance to every living thing replenish our hearts with joy gladnesse that we alwaies having sufficient may be rich and plentifull in all good works through our Lord Iesus Christ So be it Grace after Meat WE thank thee O most mercifull Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ for the gifts wherewith we have refreshed our hungry bodies and like as thou hast now given us meat needfull to the comfort and heaith of our bodies so we beseech thée al waies to give us thy word that it may ever be to the comfort and health of our soules which livest and rainest with the Father and the holie Ghost world without end Amen Grace after Meat WHatsoever you de in word or deod do all in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ giving thanks unto God the Father by him to whom all blessing glory wisedome thanks honour power and might be rendred forevermore Amen Grace after Meat WE thank thée O heavenly Father that of thy abundant goodnesse hast this day sent us food in due season to nourish these our more all bodies with beséeching thée also of thine infinite mercy to pardon and forgive all our offences which we have commited against thy divine Maiestie that we may this night rest in thée with quiet Conscience abiding thy holy hand in the morning to raise us to do the thing which shall be pleasant in thy sight to thy glory and our soules health Grant this O Father for thy dearely beloved Sonnos sake Iesus Christ our ever lasting Saviour To whom with thée and the holy Ghost be all honour glory and praise for ever and ever Amen Grace after Meat WEe render thee all laud and praise most loving Father for thy gracious favour in feeding our bodys at this present with sufficent nurishment and for all other thy gracious comforts communicated unto us whereby wee are refreshed and cherished so that through thy mercie we are enabled the better to serve thee and glorifie thy name and made more apt to follow our callings which thou hast appointed us for which we returne thee all praise and thanks now at this time and for evermore Amen This Prayer may be joyned to any Grace whatsoever GOd save his universal Church God comfort all that are comfortless and continue his Gospel amongst us and send us Peace and Truth in Christ Iesus our Lord and only blessed Saviour and God forgive us all our sinnes Amen Here follow divers Fruit-Full GRACES in Meeter Grace before Meat ALmighty Lord and eternal King Which made the Heavens and every thing Grant unto us that perfect be To tast the food that here we sée As things â—repar'd for natures need For thou O Lord hast so decreed And to be thankfull for the same Praising for aie thy holy name Preserve the universall Church
God save his Church unto the end God grant we may our lives amend Amen Grace before Meat THe Lord that did all things create for Man to serve him at his néed Blesse all that which we drinke or eate and give it strength our flesh to féed For whatsoever shall nourish in déed Whether it be good for man or beast must by his mighty power be blest And sith we have an inward Man Which by no meanes obtaine we can but by him that is heauenly bread And eke of spirituall things the head Let us still féed on him in mind that gave his flesh to féed man-kind Thus doing we shal runne our race with out the want of any foode And at the last come to that place that promised was to Abrahams brood And by faith wash in Christ his blood where evermore we shall him sée That is one God in persons thrée O Lord preserve in health and peaee the Nobility of this Land Thy holy Spirit in them increase that they may be a true guide unto this Land A Sword to cut off Popery cleane that they and we may hold that truth Which they have loved from there youth Grace before meat TO eate and drinke doth small availe the World is all but vaine Except the Lord our hearts do guiâ—â— our pleasures are but pain Grant us therefore O Christ that we may all with one accord Not live to eate but eate to live and live to praise the Lord. Short Graces for young Children when they first begin to speak Grace before Meat O Lord our God to thee we pray to blesse our food which thou dost send And make us loue thy Lawes alway so that we may our lives amend Grace before Meat THe Lord of love and God of peace Of all good things that gives increasâ— So blesse us all and all our food As that we eat may to us good Amen Grace before Meat HE that is King of Glorie and Lord over all Bring us to the Super of life eternall Amen Grace before Meat THough diet be thin and Table but small Yet ere you begin be thankfull for all Sundry GRACES in Meeter to be said after Meales Grace after Meat ALl flesh is grasse Mans life is vaine his pomp is but a flower He féeds his corps and thinks to live yet dead within an houre It is not flesh of beasts nor fowle that can mans life maintaine For food of bodie oft we sée nought else to be but vaine Then feed our souls sweet Saviour Christ with bread of life so pure That thought our flesh be earth yet make our soules aie to indure Yea kéep thy Church in Christian love and peace And let thy Kingdome come with spéed to all joyes increase Grace before Meat ALl laud and praise be to the Lord for these good gifts of thine Whereby we now refreshed be and for thy word divine Which teacheth those that able be whom thou hast blest with store To ease them that have need of help when they doe aske therefore Now as the bread our bodies need our soules so need thy word Which thou doest give that we may live thanks be to thée O Lord. Amen Grace after Meat AS thou hast fed our bodies Lord so feed our soules likewise And make us mindfull of the poore as riches doe arise Increase thy flock preserve our Church thy grace and peace us send That we may lead a godly life and make a faithfull end Amen Geace after meat FOr food and health and all the rest the Lord be thanked and alwaies bleâ—â— Who with his grace so store us still that we swerve no way from his will Our Nobility God kéep the Nation God 〈◊〉 and grant us long true friends to have Amâ—â— Grace after Meat LIke as thou hast Almighty Lord refreshed us unworthy here With meats made holy by thy Word so let thy grace O Lord appeare To make us mindfull of the poore Which lives in woe and great distresse And to be thankfull evermore for these thy guifts and all goodnesse Which â—â—e confesse procéed from thée to whom be praised eternally Amen Grace after Meat NOw let us pray unto the Lord And yeld him thanks with one accord Fâ—r that which we received have Though nature no such plenty crave Much bound we are to God above Who hath vouchsafed us to love That from amonge the rest that went We take repast where is no scant Lord grant us mindfull for to be Of such that live in poverty For we confesse it pleased God We might with them tast of his rod. God save the Church and Commons of this Land God send us peace in Christ Amen Grace after Meat O Lord we thanke thée for this food we have receiv'd of thée Lord grant us grâ—ce our lives to lead more thankfull for to be Amen God save his Church the Poore defeed God send us peace in Christ Amen Grace after Supper OVr daies do passe as this day now is come unto an end But Gods good grace shall never faile his Children to defend As thus our Supper Christ hath blest in joy to end the same Mo we beséech our Father dear in Iesus Christ his name That we may be participates whom he hath bought so dear Of his great Supper where his face shall shine on us most clear When as the Lamb shall make his feast in Heaven where is such store Of which who tasted once no doubt shall never hunger more To thée be praise oh God and Christ thy little flock defend Preserve our Land and come with spéed our troubls to amend Amen Grace before Meat THanks be to God in Heaven above for he hath fed us well God grant us grace from heaven above to féed our selves as well Repentance with the fruit thereof that we never forgot Tender O Lord thy holy Church and Rules in it set And ever more upon England thy grace and truth down send That it may be the Word and Grace all sinfull soules amend And finaly all such as be afflicted for thy Wordr Comfort them by thy holy Ghost Through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grace after Meat O Blessed God through Iesus Christ that féedst us euer more Give us thy grace that we alwaies may give thée thanks therefore Amen Grace after Meat O Lord God the benefits whereof we have had store We knowledge all to be thy guifts to thée be thanks therefore Amen Grace after Meat LEt us give thanks to God our Lord that féedeth us alway Beséeching him that with his Word like wise be fed we may Grace after meat FOr Meat Drink and t is thanks be given to our Lord Iesus Amen Who useth not often before meat to pray Nor thanks to God after but so goes his way He sitting or rising so letting Grace passe Doth eat like a swine and departs like an Asse Here ends the Book of Graces Evening PRAYER O GOD of Angels and Men the founder of all Creatures both visible and invisible in
our Common-wealth defend Grant that thy people may enjoy thy peace unto the end Amen Grace before Meat AL you that heare present be and do in tend to eat Marke well what gods word saith to ye of this your feed and meat Meat doth not as Saint Paul doth say to God the near us bring Or if we eat nothing it may us hinder any thing But take you head your liberty be not offence to other Nor ye yet do you that willingly whereby to hurt your brother Therefore pray we to God on high that he will give vs might To do doe all things to edifie and keep his Lawes aright And qlesse us and our meats also and make us all accord That we may love both friend and foe and braise our God the Lord. Grace before Meat ALL yée that now here present be Lift up your heâ—rts to God with me Praise ye his name with heart and mind For those his gifts which we here find To feed our bodies he hath them sent Our wicked lives let us repent Destring him our soules to feed With heavenly food whith we doe néed Amen Grace before Meat ALl things thâ—t now be in this world are nothing else but vanity And very great the number is that are oprest with misery Be louing unto them therefore and mercy to them show For when that death approacheth you your head shall be full low Then will it be too late for you mercie to aske and have If that you turne your eares away when that the poore doe crave Cease not therefore to doe them good while that yee here remaine For they are bought with Christ his blood and that shall be our gaine Good Lord blesse us and all that we shall receive of thy goodnesse Grace before meat AS to the sick all pleasant things have still unsavery tast So shall Gods gifts be unto us if vainelie we them waste Take heed therefore saith Christ our Lord that surfetting you shun Let not your hearts with banquiting be drownd'd and overcome Receive Gods gifts with given thanks and natuers weaknesse feed When you have done remember those which want and stand in need So God shall blesse and eke increase your basket and your store And give you life in Christ our Lord which lives forevermore Grace before Meat AS Man is made a Soveraigne Lord and Prince alone to raigne To whom as subiects Fish and Fowle are made to him as gaine Both land and beasts both hearb and tree both gold and silver pure The wind the aire both Sun and Moon for ever to endure And as they serve him at his need as Subjects in their kind For wealth for ease and for food to cheere his weary mind And none of them deny his will as Gods appointment is So now that man doth them excell we may discerne by this He hath a soule which must have raigne in life when flesh is dead Which must with spirituall food of life continually be fed Nor yet with bread materiall compas'd with corne and graine But with the word and flesh of Christ it must be fed certaine For which as for the rest men ought most chefly to give praise To God and Christ which succour is to us at all assaies Therefore to God for food and strength and wealth abundant store And for the hope of lossing life be praise forevermore Amen Grace before Meat GIve thanks to God with one accord for that shall be set one this boord And ve not carefull what to eat to each thing living the Lord sends meat For food he will not see you perish but will you feed foster and cherish Take well in worth what he hath send and at this time be therewith content prasing God Amen Grace before meat MAns life preserved is by food as God hath well decreed But on Gods grace and holy word our soules must daily féed Through want of food materiall the body soone doth pine So will the soule if long it lack her spirituall food divine To the be praise then Father deare which at this time hath sent Both for the soule and bodie food thy Children to content And we beseech thée Christ thy Church our Nobility and Stale to save That by there life in pâ—ace long time the Gospel we may have Amen Grace before Supper MAn liveth not onelie Christ doth say by his materiall bread But sure by every word of God 't is wherewith he is fed From earth springs food mans bodie to féed but Christ came from one high Which is the bred of life that can our soules aye nutrifie He gave his flesh and shed his blood at his last Supper sure And who so feed on him by Fath shall lastingly endure Christ Iesus blesse our supper now and worke in us thy grace And save thy Church our State defend and soon thy foes deface Amen Grace before Meat OF Dives and Lazarus the Scripture telleth plaine How Dives lived in wealth and ease and Lazarus in great paine The rich man he was clothed well and fared of the best But Lazarus with hunger great could have but little rest But full of soreslay crying still but some man to releive him With crums that fell from Dives Table whereof no man did give him Thus perished poare Lazarus and that for lack of food And also that rich glutton died for all his worldly good Therefore all ye that present be remember this thing well That how this man unmercifull is buried now in hell From the which fiery torments great the Lord us all deliver And grant we may be mercifull while we live heare together Then shal we rainge with Lazarus with joyes that be indurable Even by the blood of Iesus Christ for health most profitable Now therefore Lord we thée beseech to make us all consent To pitty those that have most need and eke our sins repent Amen Grace before Meat O GOD that art our righteousnesse Lord heare us when we call Of thy goodnesse we pray thée blesse both us and our meats all So that we do not use the same but only to our néed Wherefore we praise thy holy name in thought in word and déed Amen DVst Earth and Ashes is our strength our glorie fraile and vaine From Earth we come to earth at length we shall returne againe To day we feed on flesh of beasts of fouls and divers fish To morrow for the crawling wormes our selves become a dish Loe thus we may behold and see our frailty what it is Let Faith and Prayer be the way to bring us unto blisse Amen The whole estate of Christ his Church our Nobility of this Land alse God mightily preserve and kéepe from force of mortall foe Grace before Meat REceive your Meat without grudging Take heed ye never abuse the same Give thanks to God for every thing And alwaies praise his holy Name Who doth not so is sore to blame No evill example see that you give Thus doth Gods Word teach us to live