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B08552 A paraphrase upon the Lords prayer, and the Creed Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673. 1641 (1641) Wing B4274; ESTC R223967 1,934 1

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❧ A Paraphrase upon the Lords Prayer and the Creed IF any be distrest and faine would gather Some comfort let him hasten to OVr Father For we of helpe and hope are all bereaven Unlesse thou succour us which art in Heaven Thou shewest mercy there and for the same We praise thee singing hallowed be thy Name Of our distresses Lord cast up the summe Shew us thy joyes and let thy kingdome come We mortall are and alter from our birth Thou constant art thy will be done on earth Thou mad'st the Earth Skies Stars and Planets seven Thy Name be blessed here as t is in heaven Nothing we have wherewith our debts to pay Unlesse thou give to us give us this day Wherewith to cloath us wherewith to be fed For without thee we want our daily bread We want but want no sinne for no day passes But we doe sin forgive us our trespasses No man from sinne that ever free did live Forgive us Lord our sinnes as we forgive If we repent our sinnes thou ne're disdain'st us We pardon them their trespasses against us Forgive us that is past and new path tread us Direct us alwayes in thy truth and lead us As thine owne people and thy chosen Nation Into all truth but not into temptation Thou that of all good graces art the giver Permit us not to wander but deliver Us from th' assaults of World of Flesh of Devill So shall thy mercies free us from all evill To these Petitions let both Church and Lay-men With one consent of voyce and heart say Amen SInce it be fit that I account should give What way unto Salvation I Beleeve Of my profession here the sum I gather First I confesse a faith in God the Father In God who without helper or partaker Was of himselfe the Worlds Almighty maker And first gave time his being who gave breath To all the creatures both of heaven and earth Our everlasting welfare doth consist In his great mercies and in Iesus Christ The second person of that three in one The Fathers elect and his onely Sonne That ever blessed and incarnate Word Which our Redeemer is our life our Lord For why by Satans guile we were deceiv'd Christ was that meanes of helpe which was conceived Yea when we were in danger to be lost Conceived for us by the Holy Ghost And that we might not ever be forlorne For our eternall safety he was borne Borne as a man that man might not miscarry Even of the substance of the Virgin Mary And loe a greater mercy and a wonder He that can make all suffer suffered under The Jewish spite which all the world revil'd at 〈◊〉 Romish tyrannies of Pontius Pilate 〈◊〉 him I doe beleeve who was envied Who with extreamest hate was crucified Who being life it selfe to make assured Our soules of safety was both dead and buried And that no servile feare in us might dwell To conquer he descended into hell Where no infernall power had power to lay Command upon him but on the third day The force of death and hell he did constraine And so in Triumph he arose againe Yea the Almighty power advanc't his head As well above all things as from the dead Then that from thence gifts might to men be given With glory he ascended into heaven Where that supreame and everlasting Throne Which was prepar'd he climb'd and sitteth on That blessed seat where he shall make abode To pleade for us at the right hand of God And no where should he be enthroned rather Then there for he is God as is the Father And therefore with an equall love delight I To praise and serve them both as one Almighty Yet in their office there 's a difference And I beleeve that Jesus Christ from thence Shall in that great and universall doome Returne and that with Angels he shall come To question such as at his Empire grudge Even those that have presumed him to judge And that black day shall be so Catholique As I beleeve not only that the quicke Shall to that grand Assize be summoned But he will both adjudge them ●d the dead Moreover in the Godhead I conceive Another Person in whom I doe beleeve For all my hope and blessednsse were lost If I beeleeve not in the Holy Ghost Although vaine Schismaticks through pride and folly Contemne her power I doe beleeve the holy Chaste Spouse of Christ for whom so many search By marks uncertaine the true Catholick Church I doe beleeve God keepe us in this Union That there shall be for ever the Communion Of Gods elect and that he still acquaints His children in the fellowship of Saints Though damned be mens naturall condition By grace in Christ I looke for the remission Of all my foule misdeeds for there begins Deaths end which is the punishment of sinnes Moreover I the Sadducees infection Abhor and doe beleeve the resurrection Yea though I turne to dust yet through God I Expect a glorious rising of the body And that exempted from the cares here rife I shall enjoy perfection and the life That is not subject unto change or wasting But ever blessed and for everlasting This is my joy which that it faile not when It most should speed me let God say Amen To whom that he so much vouchsafe me may Thus as a member of the Church I pray FINIS R. B. LONDON Printed in the yeare 1641.