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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03862	Seuen sobs of a sorrowfull soule for sinne comprehending those seuen Psalmes of the princelie prophet David, commonlie called Pœnitential / framed into a forme of familiar praiers, and reduced into meeter by William Hunnis ... ; wherevnto are also annexed his Handfull of honisuckles, The poore widowes mite, a dialog betweene Christ and a sinner, diuers godlie and pithie ditties, with a Christian confession of and to the Trinitie.	Hunnis, William, d. 1597.	1583 (1583)	STC 13975; ESTC S4710	56,081	186

O Lord my God I humblie aske of thee Make haste sweet Christ and safe deliuer mee Although by sinne deseru'd I haue right well Such paine as this yea more than toong can tell Yet ah my God turne not awaie thy face Nor me forsake in this so sharpe a case This wombe and fruit that springeth in the same Hast thou create to glorie of thy name Opprest with paine ô Lord when I shall bee Make lesse the same so much as pleaseth thee And grant good God thy creature may proceed Safelie on liue with mercie at my need In Christes name I will my trauell show Now holie Ghost come comfort me in wo. Come father deare and let thy power descend O Iesu Christ thy mercies great extend Ah God! behold my dolour and my smart Sweet holie Ghost my comforter thou art Take part with me and heare my wofull crie Exaudi me miserere mei Amen A meditation to be deliuered from Sinne. O Lord my God I humblie beseech thee And Iesus Christ thine equall in Deitie With holie Ghost of like power in maiestie And three in one and likewise one in three Which is to saie one blessed Trinitie Grant that the power of thy Diuinitie May in this life alwaies deliuer me From fornication and adulterie From wicked sort of vncleane companie From sudden death and cursed blasphemie From vaineglorie and hypocrisie From malice hatred and crueltie From the detestable and great enormitie Of sedition and priure conspiracie From all false doctrine and heresie From pride in hart and vanitie From pestilence famine and bloudthirstie From iust desert of slander and infamie From filtie sinne and vile iniquitie And when as I vpon thy name shall crie Heare my request and grant me thy mercie Amen A praier for the Queenes most excellent Maiestie O King of heauen of earth of sea and all things else beside Vnder whose power and in whose hands the harts of Kings abide Vouchsafe to guid our gratious Queene Elizabeth aright That she in peace with helth may reigne and gouerne through thy might And when thy godlie will shall be to end hir liuing daies Hir soule may then with angels thine sound forth thine endles praise Amen A thankesgiuing before meate FOR fo●● such as we find Let vs giue thanks therefore And not forget the poore to feed with some part of our store Let all our talke be such whereby no grudge may growe Ourselues well easd God best pleasd Christ grant it may be so God long preserue in peace and helth Our gratious Queene Elizabeth Amen A thankesgiuing after meate THou God be praised for the food we haue receiu'd from thee And giue vs grace a life to lead More thankfull for to bee Lord long preserue in peace and helth Our gratious Queene Elizabeth Amen FINIS The poore Widowes Mite Gathered by VVilliam Hunnis one of the Gentlemen of hir Highnesse Chapell and Maister to the Children of the same Who knocks with hope and craues in faith shall haue their iust request By loue who seeks the way shall find to port of quiet rest Newlie printed by Henrie Denham 1583. To the Queenes Maiesties Highnesse E Except your Highnes well allow this gift of humble mind L Lacke shall my hope the gladsome fruit it sought thereby to find I If gift with giuers loiall hart your Maiestie will trie Z Zeale more than gift shall triumph then before your Princelie eie A A Persian prince in gratious part tooke water of the well B Bicause he sawe the giuers zeale the giuers gift excell E Euen so my zeale renowmed Queene equiualent is with his Th. Though I offense commit to giue so slender gift as this R Remembring yet your Princelie woont of clemencie withall E Example such hath boldned me vpon my knee to fall G Great gifts of gold and gems of price poore Hunnis would present I If he them had in stead whereof hee praies this may content N New yeere and manie God you send in health with peace to raigne A And after when your spirit departs with Christ it may remaine Your Highnes loiall subiect and humble obedient seruant W. H. The Authour W WHo seekes with works alone to win the life that shall remaine I Is farre deceiu'd for i ft be so then Christ hath dide in vaine LL Let our good woorks our faith declare by faith we are made free I It coms from God that goodnesse is no good at all in mee A As man himselfe vnable is in thought to please the Lord M Much lesse to woorke or doo the deed that might his health accord H Here I professe one God to serue from secret search of hart V Vnto his sacred word to cleaue and neuer to depart N No time my Prince nor Magistrate by will for to offend N Ne wish I woorse vnto my fo than to my verie frend I In Christ by faith by no meanes else my righteousnesse dooth flowe S Such was his loue such is my faith and euer shall be so The Poore widowes Mite The first Meditation Ah helples wretch what shall I doo or which way shall I ronne The earth bewrais heuen records the sins that I haue donne The gates of hell wide open stand for to receiue me in And fearefull feends all readie be to torment me for sin Alas where shall I succour find the earth dooth me denie And to the sacred heauens aboue I dare not lift mine eie If heauen and earth shall witnesse be against my soule for sin Vntimelie birth alas for me much better then had bin And now despaire approcheth fast with bloodie murdering knife And willeth me to end my greefes by shortning of my life Shall I despaire Thou God forbid for mercie more is thine Than if the sinnes of all the world were linked now with mine Despise not then most louing Lord the image of thy face Which thou hast wrought and dearelie bought with goodnesse of thy grace And since thy bloudie price is paid and bitter paines all past Receiue my plaints accept my spirit and mercie grant at last So shall my soule reioice reioice and still for mercie crie Peccaui Pecca╌ui Miserere mei The .2 Meditation THou God that rulst rainst in light that flesh cannot attaine Thou God that knowst the thoughts of men are altogither vaine Thou God whom neither toong of man nor angell can expresse Thou God it is that I doo seeke thou pitie my distresse Thy seat ô God is euerie-where thy power all powers extend Thy wisdome cannot measur'd be for that it hath no end Thou art the power and wisdome too and sole felicitie But I a lumpe of sinfull flesh nurse of iniquitie Thou art by nature mercifull and Mercie is thy name And I by nature miserable the thrall of sin and shame Then let thy nature ô good God now worke his force in me And clense the nature of my sinne and heale my miserie One depth good Lord and other craues my depth of sinfull

beleeue confesse and acknowledge thee to be of the father and of the sonne neither made nor created nor begotten but from God the father and from God the sonne proceeding equall with the father and the sonne without beginning of time and without end in like power might glorie maiestie and deitie as is the father and the sonne all three in one and one in three one verie GOD euerlasting not three Gods euerlasting of one essence or being euer perdurable or during without measure not changeable almightie one substance and in one nature simple I Doo beleeue confesse and acknowledge ech one of your persons to be equall to the other in all maner of perfection and ech one person to be omnipotent or almightie and to be one beginning of all things and that togither you made created all creatures visibles inuisibles spirituals and corporals and that by almightie vertue from the beginning of time you three togither did create and that of nothing the creature angelike and the worldlie nature and then you made man common to the first two natures for man is of bodie corporall and of soule spirituall ALso I doo beleeue confesse and acknowledge that thou the father art one other and thou the sonne art one other and thou the holie Ghost art one other For thou ô father maiest not be the sonne nor the holie Ghost nor thou ô sonne maiest not be the father nor the holie Ghost nor thou ô holie Ghost maiest not be the father nor the sonne but to you three persons is one being and one nature common the which is the beginning of all things and out of this beginning there is no beginning ANd I beleeue confesse and acknowledge that thou ô father art no greater nor of greater power than is the sonne nor than is the holie Ghost For the vnitie of your diuine being is equall or alike togither for such as thou art ô father such art thou ô sonne and such art thou ô holie Ghost And thus thou holie and blessed Trinitie art one God the first beginning without beginning fountaine of all mercie grace goodnesse and vertue which by thy knowledge dooest knowe all things present and to be hereafter ANd further I doo confesse acknowledge and stedfastlie beleeue that thou ô sonne of God art without beginning coëternall with GOD the father and with God the holie Ghost And by the whole consent of you three in one and one in three and by the ouershadowing of the holie Ghost thou ô holie and most blessed sonne of God didst enter into the wombe of the most vnspotted amongst women the blessed virgine Marie in whom was no blemish of sinne after the salutation of the angell Gabriel when she had by the working of the holie Ghost answered these words of meeknesse Behold and see I am the handmaid of the Lord be it vnto me according to thy word THus thou blessed sonne of God diddest not forsake or leaue thy Godhead but didst take flesh or manhead of the blessed virgine vnto thy Godhead being still perfect God with the father in Godhead and perfect man also In which manhead thou wert lesse than the father but yet equall with the father touching thy deitie or Godhead as after thy most blessed natiuitie thou didst prooue in thy humanitie to bee perfect God FOR without anie teacher or schoolemaister thou hadst all perfect knowledge of sciences learning Thou changedst water into wine Thou gauest sight to the man borne blind Thou openlie saidst to the Iewes and Pharisies I which speake to you am the beginning Thou feddest manie thousands of people with a few loaues of bread and with a few fishes The wind and sea obeied at thy commandement Thou raisedst Lazarus from death vnto life which was foure daies dead and stinking in his graue In this ô God and in manie more excellent miracles thou didst shew thy selfe to be perfect God ANd also thou didst shew thy selfe to be perfect man for thou didst eate drinke and sleepe and so tookest increase of nature as man dooth Thou weptst thou fastedst thou sufferedst all the miseries of man sin onelie excepted IT also well pleased thee to fulfill to performe and to accomplish all the words and saiengs of the holie patriarchs and prophets which they had vttered and spoken of thee long time before thou tookest our humane nature vpon thee And so to fulfill the prophesies thou sufferedst that thine humane nature should be betraied and taken by the kissing of thine vnkind disciple Iudas THou also suffredst cruell persecutions of the Iewes after maine punishments they blasphemed thee and cried vpon Pilate to haue thee crucified and so vnder Ponce Pilate thou didst suffer to be crucified and vpon the crosse didst die touching thy humanitie and after wast thou taken downe buried and by the power and might of thy deitie descendedst into hell according to the scripture ANd I beleeue notwithstanding that thy sepulchre was made fast and sealed also watched and kept by certeine soldiers therevnto appointed that the third daie by thy Godhead or diuine power thou didst arise in thy humanitie And fortie daies after thou didst ascend into heauen in the sight of men of Galile and in faith vnto vs that be where thou doost remaine perfect GOD and perfect man sitting on the right hand of the father from whence thou shalt come and iudge both the liuing and the dead By the dead I vnderstand the bodie which is mortall and by the liuing I vnderstand the soule which is spirituall and immortall ANd also I acknowledge confesse and stedfastlie beleeue that I shall among all thy reasonable creatures arise from death to life and with them shall stand and behold thy diuine maiestie face to face thou sitting in the throne of thine eternall iudgement And thine elect and those whom thou hast shewed mercie vpon shall be seuered from the wicked reprobates as lambes from woolues the saued sort vpon thy right hand and the other vpon thy left where we shall all receiue our last and finall iudgement The which iudgment ô Lord I doo most humblie beseech thee may be vnto me not after my sinnes and wickednesse but according vnto thy great and vnspeakable mercies Grant this ô thou most holie and blessed father of heauen which art with the sonne and with the holie Ghost the worlds creator and haue mercie vpon me haue mercie vpon me Grant this ô thou most holie and blessed Iesu the onelie sonne of God the worlds Sauiour and redeemer and haue mercie vpon me haue mercie vpon me Grant this ô thou most blessed and holie Ghost which art togither with the father the sonne the worlds comforter and haue mercie vpon me haue mercie vpon me Grant this ô thou most holie most blessed most glorious and euerlasting Trinitie and haue mercie vpon me haue mercie vpon me haue mercie vpon me Amen A praier for the Queenes most excellent Maiestie O Almightie and mercifull GOD creator gouernour

the same in mee So worke thy will that in my life thy name may hallowed bee Thy kingdome come THy kingdome euerlasting is in truth and equitie In fauour loue and righteousnesse to all in miserie Bow downe thy heauens ô mightie king whereby thy grace may fall That this thy kingdome might descend into the harts of all So shall our sinnes be driuen away our flesh made tame also And we found righteous in thy sight a perfect life to showe Vouchsafe to grant ô heauenlie king this blessed worke may bee Thy kingdome still to dwell in vs and we to dwell in thee Thy will be done in earth as it is in heauen THy will is good our will is nought thy will be therefore donne Such was thy will that Iesus Christ thy deare and onelie sonne Should teach thy will to sinfull flesh our wicked lusts to kill And he thy will vpon the crosse the same did there fulfill O heauenlie father let thy will in earth fulfilled bee Among vs men as with thy Saints in heauenlie Hierarchie And grant thy will so worke in vs that we thy will confesse In word in life in faith in loue and perfect holinesse Giue vs this daie our dailie bread THy word thy truth Christ thy son is bread that we should haue Vouchsafe our soules may feed thereon most humblie we doo craue For man dooth not by bread alone passe foorth his vitall daies But by ech word thy mouth proceeds vnto thy endlesse praise Sink in our harts thy sweet sonnes death and such impression make As we thereby may cheerefull be to suffer for his sake Such crosse as pleaseth thee to laie vpon our backes to beare With shield of faith to bide the brunt against all worldlie feare And forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. WE knowe forgiuenes is at hand when we for mercie call If we ech other doo forgiue thou wilt forgiue vs all Such promise hast thou made ô God from which thou wilt not swerue And yet it lie not in our power the same for to deserue So weake is man so feeble too not able once to mind The thought that 's good or do the deed that might thy mercie find This will thy grace must worke in vs our brethren to forgiue Which grant ô God that we therewith in rest with thee may liue And lead vs not into temptation ANd though temptations needfull be thy seruants strength to trie And that our sinnes and wickednesse by faith awaie doo fsie Yet Lord thy grace the same doth worke whereby we stiflie stand Against the world the flesh the diuell winning the vpper hand Thus of our selues alas too weake temptations aie too strong Thy grace it is must vs defend else are we throwne along Grant when by sin through want of grace great falles we doo sustaine That then thy grace might visit vs and reare vs vp againe But deliuer vs from euill FRom euill that we by sin deserue most mightie God defend And rid vs free from filthie fall of miserable end Withhold thy seuere punishment and let thine eie of grace Take vew vpon th' afflicted sort and helpe our wretched ca●e From surging Seas of worldlie waues wherewith we be opprest Discharge and set our soules on shore in port of quiet rest So shall we then our praiers make with conscience safe and sound And by thy grace shall able be our en'mie to confound Amen The Christian faith ONe God in persons three and three in Godhead one I doo beleeue my sauing health dooth rest in him alone The first the Father high Creator of vs all The second is his onelie Sonne the Word whom scriptures call The third the holie Ghost of both who dooth remaine In mightie power and Deitie coequall with the twaine The word of loue to vs flesh void of sin became Of virgins wombe by power diuine most pure he tooke the same And then for sinfull flesh his flesh was sacrifis'd By bitter sharpe and shamefull death as cruell Iewes deuis'd His flesh with whips was rent his head becrown'd with thorne His bodie naild on crosse of tree his hart with speare was torne Thus all his bloud he shed to death his life made thrall To pacifie his fathers wrath procur'd by Adams fall He died and was buried descended downe to hell From death to life he rose againe he loued vs so well When fortie daies were come to heauen ascended hee In sight from men of Galilie in faith to vs that bee From whence I doo beleeue he shall againe descend To iudge all flesh and of the world to make a finall end The dead from graue shall rise the quicke shall changed bee And eu'rie eie shall face to face behold his Maiestie By grace who hath done well with him in heauen shall raigne By sinne who hath done wickedlie in euerlasting paine FINIS COMFORTABLE Dialogs betweene CHRIST and a SINNER touching the soules health Humble sutes of a sinner for mercie in miserie A Lamentation touching the follies and vanities of our youth A Psalme of reioising for our spirituall redemption A Christian confession to the blessed Trinitie Praiers for the good estate of the Queenes Highnesse c. Gathered by W. Hunnis one of the Gentlemen of hir Highnesse Chapell and maister to the children of the same 1583. A Dialog betweene Christ and a Sinner CHRIST Arise from sin thou wicked man before the trump dooth sound Least thou among the guiltie sort a damned soule be found My sheepe why doost thou persecute my lambs why dost thou kill My selfe why dost thou cru╌ci╌fie and guiltles blood thus spill Arise I saie arise arise SINNER What fearefull thundering voice is this that soundeth in mine eare Which bids me rise and brings my soule and all hir powers in feare CHRIST It is the voice of him thy iudge that shall thy iudger bee Which bids thee rise while sunne dooth shine that thou thy selfe maist see For after sunne be set in shade and darksome clouds appeere Too late is then for to a╌rise if thou arise not heere Arise I saie arise arise SINNER O Lord by grace I now behold wherein I did offend CHRIST What made thee thus against my saints such crueltie extend SINNER It was my fault through ignorance by which I might not chuse CHRIST And yet I saie thine ignorance shall not thy baults excuse SINNER By grace I am re╌pen╌tant made Wil t thou not mercie haue CHRIST If thou by grace re╌pen╌tant bee yet must thou mercie craue SINNER O Lord blot out my fyl╌thie deeds and clense mee from my sinne CHRIST Aryse and walke thou art made cleane as thou beleeu'st therein Another dialog betweene Christ and a Sinner to be soong as the former CHRIST AWake from sleepe and watch awhile prepare your selues to praie For I mine angell will send foorth to sound the iudgement daie That mine elect and chosen sort might find my saieng true How that the time I shorten will for