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mercy_n	miserable_a	offence_n	sinner_n	4,012	5	10.4369	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02879	A chrystian exhortation verye profitable gathered out of the holye scriptures, vnto the great comfort, and vtilitye, of euery faythfull soule, being in agony of death, vnto whom, it oughte to be rehersed, with lowd voyce, diuers and sundry times, if nede so require vnto the which is added, towarde the latter end a godly praier for the sick drawing to an ende of this life, with a catechisme, not onely to instruct the sicke, but also to refreshe his memorye, wyth the great mistery of our redemption. Translated out of Frenthe [sic] into Englyshe by Robart Heasse minister at Algate.	Heasse, Robert, d. 1594.	1566 (1566)	STC 13017; ESTC S112577	12,008	45

thys sure faith to fight tryumphantlye against the aduersary haue no other shielde to defende you withall thē the precious bloud of Iesus Chryste who by the power and might of his death and passion Rom v hath recōciled you vnto GOD his Father vnto whom frō the bottome of your hart in great humilitie and reuerēce say this prayer with me O Almighty and euerlastinge Lord God Rom iii Ihon. xiiii Math xxvi Psal xxx be merciful vnto me poore miserable sinner for thy Sonne Iesus Christe his sake and by the merit and worthines of his death and passiō vouchesafe to receiue my soule whiche I commmend into thy handes B.S.N. Take sure hold thorow hope in this faith Iohn x that our good god ful of all mercy will shall receiue youre soule as his own into his hands for Iesus Christes sake for there is no other name vnder heauen giuen vnto men Actes 4. throughe the whiche we can or may be saued or loke for saluatiō but in Iesus christ arme then your self well with this our good Lord master Iesus Christ Rom viii for he hath done all things for you Rom ● he hath accōplisshed the law for you he hath ouer cōd al things for you go to thē B.S.N. Reioyce in God Hebre. xi be euermore stedfast in this liuely faith follow the trace of the holy Patriarches Prophets and Apostles which are all saued in this faith the whiche do all assure you that the enemy youre aduersary cannot annoy you at all for your sute is wonne thorough Iesus Christe whiche is your iudge and aduocate also Ihon 5 Ihon 2 Psal 23 Wherfore say euermore in this firme beleefe yea althoughe I walke through the valey of the shadow of death yet wil I fere none euil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe comforte me B.S.N. Do neuer wery youre selfe to saye from the botome of your hart in this wise O Almighty God and heauēly father Rom iii Iohn xiiii Math 2. be merciful vnto me pore miserable siner for Iesus Christs sake my lord sauiour and by the merite and worthinesse of his death and passion vouchesafe to receiue my soule the whiche I do moste humbly commend into thy holy hands Amen A singuler Prayer for a bodye greatly afflicted with sicknes whiche semeth to drawe or approche more neere to Death then to life with a litle Cathechisme expressely made to instruct the sicke person and to make him behold the great mistery of our redemption Ecclesiasticus .xviii. GEt thee righteousnesse before thou come to Iudgement learne be fore thou speake vse Phisicke or euer thou be sicke i. Cor. v examine thy self before thou be iudged and in the day of visitacion thou shalt finde mercye The Lord dooth admonishe vs euermore to praye speciallye Mathe 2● when we are touched with hys rods wherefore all Parentes and faithfull freendes whiche shall or do visite the sick person ought not onely to visite and solicitate the bodye but also to seeke and demaund the spirituall medecine for the soule which ought to be done by good prayers confession of sinnes Mathe 9. and Christē exhortation according vnto the word of God without the which no man can liue Math 4 and to th end that all things may be doone in good order and with good zeale it shal be conuenient and necessary to prostrate oure selues before the maiestie of God and say vnto him our help and succoure be in the name of God the Father the Sonne and of the holy ghoste so be it and then say this prayer folowinge confessing generally all your sins from the botome of youre hart Prayer Math xviii O Almighty god and moste merciful Father we beinge assembled in the name of thy welbeloued Son our Lord sauiour Iesus Christ we haue vnder the selfe same Iesus Christ Iohn xiiii presumed to present oure selues before thee to call on thy holy name hauīg oure onely refuge in thy soueraine bownty the which we do not onely desire to feele taste in oure selues Iames v but also in this the necessitie of thy poore creature being now afflicted with bodely sicknes and troubled in spirite 1. Cor. xi we know O Lorde that iustlye thou doost punishe it in chastesing it with thy rods for to make him vnderstand thy fatherly affection Psal 78 but thy greate mercies whiche thou vsedst toward oure Fathers are not vanished nor consumed away for thou art the great and eternall God full of all mercye Math 26 who neuer doost chaūge thy holy word instructeth vs full amply that al the earth is replenished with thy mercies whiche do surmoūt far thy iustice wherefore we beseche thee O most mercifull father cease thy wrath and indignation towards this thy pore wretched creature haue mercye compassion of him for Iesus Christes sake looke not vnto his sinnes and offences but rather in the face of thy deare son Iesus Christe who hath sufficientlye satysfied thee for the same in offeringe vnto thee the greate Sacrifice of hys bodye on the crosse for vs miserable sinners we therefore beseeche the O God that art full of mercye to let him feele thy mercy grace whiche thou neuer didst refuse vnto thy beloued ones and because that thou arte oure heauenly father Math vi which knowst all things necessary for our saluation we beseeche thee not to prolong his life neither to shorten it for we repose oure selues on thy holy will vnto the whiche desire onely to accomplishe and fulfill Rom xi thou arte wise without counsaile to dispose with this thy creature accordinge to thy good will and pleasure considering that if it be thy wil O lord to call him what is he that mai resist it againe if thou wilt resstore him to health Rom viii who is hee that dare reprooue thee for all things are in thy hands Ihon i and nothing is done without thy good will and prouidence yet neuertheles O Lorde if by thy grace thou doost prolonge his dayes Psal 2● this thy rod shal be vnto him a chastisinge to amēd his former life and so bee conuerted vnto thee and we all with him will yeeld thee thankes for euer but if thy will bee stayed to make him passe vnto a better life we pray thee in the fauoure of thy sonne Iesus Christe to forget do away all his faults sinnes the whiche thou haste vouchsafed to be washed in the sheding of his precious bloud Apoca 1 Math 26 vouchsafe O Lord by the merite and worthines of the death and passion of thy dere sonne to receiue his soule in to thy holy hands Psal 30 Psal 137 whē it shall please thee to call it out of this world despise not O lord the worke of thy handes for beholde thy poore creature almost ouerwhelmed yet callinge on thy name euen in the midst of all his troubles and

Minister Is all that you haue confessed of Iesus Christe presentlye sufficient for to saue you Sick Esay 53 Math xxvi No but that it was requisite that the holy scriptures mighte in all thinges be accomplished for what had it profited me for Iesus Christ to haue ben born crucified dead buried and descended into hell for me onely with out the resurrection wherefore I beleue and confesse that Iesus Christ is risen from the dead for to make me rise with him as one of his little members into euerlasting life Minister It is consequently writtē that he is assended in Heauen and their presently set on the right hande of God his Father but what auayleth this assencion vnto you Sicke My cheef and sauiour Iesus Christe is assended into heauē for to make me ascēd after him for where the head is there the members be also and I beleue that he beinge set on the right hande of God his Father 2. Iohn 2 is my aduocate intercessors ond onely mediatour towardes him Rom viii assuring me that none can hinder me sith that Iesꝰ Christ is my mediatour Ihon 5 and my iudge all together wherefore I neede not to feare the day of his coming vnto iudgement when hee shall come to iudge the quick and the dead Math 2● for I beleue and also confesse with stedfast faithe that there is neither iudgement nor condemnation towardes or for those which be his faythful mēbers in Iesus Christ Ministre Who hath geuen you grace to knowe and vnderstand al these thinges Sick It is throughe the grace of the holy ghoste one onely God with the Father and the sonne by whose meanes we receiue al good gifts which are offred vnto vs through Iesus Christ Minister Seing that you haue already confessed that you be the mēber of Iesus Christ it also followeth that you bee incorporated vnto his Churche the whiche you must beleue to be holye catholike and vniuersall Sick I beleue stedfastly the holy vniuersall churche washed and purified in the precious blud of Iesus Christe for the whiche most humbly I thank him that he hath vouchsafed me to be as one of the litle members of his churche and being baptised in his name hath vouchsafed me to liue in the communion Math 4. vnitie and charitie of the same instructing me with his holy worde and fed with his perfect body quenched with his precioꝰ blud in hope of euerlasting life Minister Now seinge you be grounded on the liuely roke i. Cor. x whiche is Iesus Christe in knowinge youre selfe you muste acknowledge confesse the principall benefit that you haue receiued of oure Lord and Christ Sicke It is reason and very necessary for I wil not be vnthankful to acknowledge the gifts and benefites that I haue receaued of God Psal li wherefore I confesse acknowledg that I pore and miserable sinner haue offended diuers and sundry wayes the goodnes of God in transgressinge his commaundementes in the whiche so doing I haue deserued deth dānatiō euerlasting yet notwtstāding flying vnto the mercy of God I craue and aske mercy beleuing and confessing vndoubtedly that ful remission of sinnes is graunted me by the onely death and passion of my Lorde and sauioure Iesus Christe and in the sheading of his precious bloode Hebre. i in whome and throughe whome I assure my selfe to be wholye washed purged whiche is the greatest gifte and contentation Math x that euer coulde haue hapened vnto me and suche is my faith in the which I will liue and dye meaning the grace of the holy ghost Minister Seing you haue receyued so great gifts of God by the meanes of his sonne Iesus Christe it is also conuenient and necessary that you follow the commaundemenet for euen as hee hathe forgeuen you and made satisfaction for all your sinnes so likewise you muste forgeeue from the botome of youre hart vnto all those that haue offended you els you walke not according to gods lawes Sick In this I haue knowen the lawe of Iesus Christe to be the only holy and perfect doctrine commaunding vs to loue oure neighbours frendes Math. xix and enemies as our selues wherfore I pray vnto al those that I haue offended by thought worde or deede to forgeue me with as free a will and good hart as I forgeue all those that haue offēded or trespassed against me being desirous to doe thē good as vnto my louers and frendes Minister Seing that God hath ordayned that all men shall dye Gene. 3 wee cannot resist his ordinaunce therefore we ought to be obedient vnto his will wherefore dere brother you may not think it straunge though I annouce vnto you the wordes of Esay the Prophet te that hee declared and spake vnto king Esechias Esay 38. saying in the behalfe of God Thus saith the Lorde set thy house in an order for thou must dye and shalt not liue this good counsell ought to occasion you to dispose your selfe spiritually in youre conscience and first to perswade your self to godwarde and wepe and lament your sinnes Esay 55 as this good Kinge did craue his mercy in asking him forgeuenes and euermore saying in your harte O Lorde God thou mercifull and heauēly father be mercifull vnto me pore and miserable sinner for Iesus Christes sake my Lorde and sauioure and then you may not forgette your house familye that whiche

you at libertye Math 27 Iesus Christe hath bene crucifyed and accursed vpon the tre of the crosse to deliuer you from the malediction perpetuall Iesus Christ Esay 53 is deade in sheading his precious bloude for to washe you Apo i For to redeeme you i Peter 1. for to deliuer you wholy from death and hell fyre and from the myghte and power of Sathan Rom. vi Iesus Christ hath bene buryed in the Sepulchre for to bury all your synnes the whiche he hath borne on his shoulders and hath wyped them out Actes i Iesus Christe is descended into hell suffring an extreame agonye for to deliuer you from al paines and griefes of death Iesus Christ is rysen from death i Cori rv Actes i. Colio iii. for to make you rise in your proper bodye to a glorious immortality Iesus Christ is ascended into the Heauens for to make you ascende after him i. Ihon ii Iesus Christ is set on the right hande of God his father almighty Hebre vii being your aduocate and intercessor towardes hym and the atonement for all your synnes Math. xv Pa ●i We looke that he shall come to Iudge the quicke and the dead Rom viii for to render to euery one according to his deds But to his electe whiche beleue in him their Synnes shal not be imputed for he wil iustify them throughe his grace Math xxv and make them to raigne with him in the heauenly throne worlde withoute ende B.S.N. Suche is the great mestery of our redemption the whiche throughe the power of the holye Ghoste you oughte fermelye to beleue it to be done for your saluacion And doubt not Ephe i but that by the merite of Iesus christ chiefe of his church you be a member incorporated vnto the same thankinge hym with gret humilite that he hath vouchsafed to geeue you grace to haue beene associated in the felowship and company of hys faithfull Math iiii feeding you with hys holye worde of his bodye i Cor xi and of his precious bloude acknowledginge as fully perswaded of the great mercye and compassion of God by the remission of all your synnes Rom v the which is done vnto you i Cor xv by Iesus Christ who will make you rise again in the laste daye and their to raigne with hym in the life eternall Marke 16 which he hath promysed to all those that beleue in him beyng baptised in his name B.S.N. Nowe seynge you haue such a faith doubte not to receiue the promesse of faythe For God is true Rom iii he is not a lier as man is Heauen and Earthe shall passe Math 24 but the worde of god shall last euermore God is your father and maker Esay 40 you are hys creature worke of his hands he made you not to leese you Gene i For he is the sauiour of all men and willeth not the deathe of a sinner 1 Timo 2 but rather that he should tourne from his sinne by faith full repentance and so be saued Wherefore I heare pronounce vnto you Ieremy in the name of God that by and throughe his great goodnes and mercye Titus iii. you haue full forgeeuenes and remission of all your sinnes 1 Timo 1 by the onely merite of his dere sonne Iesus Christ our Lord in the sheding of his precious bloud Actes 4. For he is the propiciation Apoca 1 1 Ihon. 2. not onelye of all youre synnes but of all the sinnes of the world B.S.N. Iesus Christ saithe that all thinges are possible to those that beleue Math 17 Beleue then withoute doubtinge that Iesus Christ puttinge on our fleeshe hathe made him selfe perfecte man dying for you bearing all your sinnes on his bodie to abolishe and wype them oute 〈…〉 Offer to god the precious death of his sonne Iesus Christ and by the merite of the same death and passion demannde of him mercye and forgeuenes in sayinge from the botome of youre harte in and with greate humilitie and repentaunce A Prayer ALmightie God and heauenly father shew mercie vnto mee poore and miserable Synner Rom iii for the loue of thy Sonne Iesus Christe my Lorde and sauiour Ihon xiiii And by the mirite of his death and passiō vouchsafe to receiue my soule whom I commend in to thy handes Math 26 Psal 30 Haue your full confidence in God Rom viii for seing that God is with you nothinge shall be against you For Iesus Christ which is the inmaculate lambe hath vanquished all thinges for you Esay 6. he hath offered him selfe once for you and by the same onelye oblation hathe wholye ouercome all your synnes he hathe ouerc●…d all your infirmities Heb. 7 9 vnrighteousnes abhomynation and obligaciō With this good Lord Iesus Christ God the father hath geuen you all thyngs strengthen you in Iesus Christ who hathe called you Rom viii by his Prophetes Apostles Esay 55 and Euangelists to come frely vnto him saying All that are thursty come vnto the great fountaine Math xi Come vnto mee all ye that trauayle and are laden and I will ease you B.S.N. Beleue steadfastlye that Iesus Christ hath deliuered you of all your sinnes i Ihon v and hathe reconciled you vnto God his Father vnto whome with great reuerence and harty repentaunce say from the botome of your heart A Prayer O Almighty and eternall Lorde God Rom. iii Ihon xiiii be mercyfull to me pore and miserable sinner for thy sonne Iesus Christes sake my Lorde and sauiour And by the merite and worthynes of his death and passion Mathe 26 vouchsafe to receiue my soule into thy handes Psal 3●… Amen B.S.N. Haue hope for truth it is that he will receiue your soule as his owne for the loue of his Sonne Iesus Christ which is the sauiour and redemer of all those that beleue in him Marke 16 Deute 18 Psal 11 Esay 53 Ge 3 22 Moyses and all the prophetes haue witnessed that al nations shall receiue saluation and benedictiō onely by and through Iesus Christ the Apostles and Euangelists doe testifye that Iesus Christe came not to call the righteous Mathe 9 but sinners to repentaunce Ihon x And to geeue his soule for the redemption of manye Luke 21 For he hath shed his precyous bloude for the remission of sinnes Beleue then and doute not at all Hebre. i for Iesus Christ hath made the Purgatyon for all youre sinnes promising that all those that shall beleeue in him and in the Father Ihon 5 who hath sent him life euerlasting and shall not come to iudgemēt but shall passe from a short deth to a long life B.S.N. Take then a good courage in Iesus Christ for he hath loued you and washed you from all your sinnes in his precious bloud Esay 53 Apo i take holde in