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A09974
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Maister Bezaes houshold prayers translated out of French into English.
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Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605.
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to bee dissolued and to be with Christ howbeit if notwithstanding in the infirmitie of my flesh the fearefull Image of death trouble me in the straites of my departure If the world that doth alwayes too much bewitch vs maketh my thoughts then bowe to his will If Sathan pitcheth his assaults and snares and vpon the remembrance of my sinnes setteth hell before my face moreouer if my owne perturbations keepe me from apprehending thy eternall consolations in such most necessarie extremities vouchsafe my good God and father in these anguishes to approach vnto me to saue me from the running and swift streame of such brookes that they may not carrie meaway to perdition illuminate my thoughts with thy spirite waken my soule out of the sleep of death renew my hart by the vertue of thy spirit and put into my hands the staffe of thy assured conduct to bring mee out from the laborinth of this sorrowful passage causing me with the eyes of my faith to behold my righteousnes vpon the crosse of my Sauiour the discharge of my debts in his sacrifice my victorie in his combats my life in his death my glorie and ioy in his resurrection that so replenished with peace I may cheerfully resigne my bodie to the earth as assured that it shall rise againe and my soule to heauen with these last words of Christ Into thy hands O Father I commit my spirit So be it The nineteenth Prayer For heauenly life Hee that heareth my worde and beleeueth in him that sent me hath life euerlasting and I wil raise him again at the latter day Father concerning those whome thou hast giuen me my desire is that they may be where I am that they may be with me to beholde my glory Iohn 5. 6. 17. O Soueraign Father of al thinges by a singular priuiledge Father of the children whome it hath pleased thee to adopt in our Lord Iesus Christ to be coheires with him in the celestiall life I learne in thy word that this inheritance blessed estate is acontemplation of the glory of this great Sauiour of the elect in an vnspeakeable beatitude onely worthy to be loued and to bee sought incessantly night and day with the lamp of thy trueth Which is to see him as he is true God and true Man and perfectlie to enioie his presence with communicating of all his goodnesse to be in the ioy of his Lord as a loyall seruant and to beholde him face to face in his diuine essence one with the father and with the holy ghost one onelie God in soueraigne Maiestie which is to be vnited and conioyned with him and by him vnto thee O eternall GOD who art all light and life of the soule at her departure out of her earthly habitation afterward reuested with it flesh in that great day of the glorious comming of the same Christ when hee shall wholy render vppe vnto thee the kingdome of thy grace that thou maist be all in all To be briefe which is both in body and soule to be in him and to liue of his glory And this also is the eternall life a life accomplished in knowledge in loue in righteousnesse in rest in honour in beautie in constancie in ioy felicitie and peace a life wherin the Angels and Saintes incessantly do sound out and celebrate O Lord thy great name in perfect and rauishing melodie replenished both with a desire and a fulnesse of the celestiall bread Iesus Christ God man without this desire breeding any griefe or this fulnesse any molestation In summe a life which by the full view that wee shall haue of thy eternall deitie O almightie GOD shall make vs knowe thee as thou hast knowne vs and as thou art in Trinitie of persons Father Word Spirit and in vnitie of essence likewise to loue thee according to the excellency of thy nature with our whole heartes and thoughts and our whole strength and might and in this loue to obtaine our perfect full contentment To this heauenlie life O Lord my soule directeth her flight this is the marke that shee aymeth at the end whereto shee tendeth and the reward that she by thy grace promiseth her selfe for seeking after thy welbeloued Sonne in whome it pleaseth thee to be my God and my Father Oh! I shall indeede goe and liue in this holy and sacred place of the habitation of thy glorie and there shall contemplate that which neuer eye sawe vnder the heauen neyther eare hath heard nor heart comprehended of the solide Riches whiche thou doost keepe from all eternitie for thy children I shall see I say these diuine wonders in thy sanctuary in thy light inaccessible for all flesh knowing in the brightnesse of thy countenance thy infinite power O Father thy incomprehensible wisedome O Sonne and thy incomparable vertue O Holy-ghost one onely true God A knowledge so singular and pretious that therein resteth all the felicitie of the Angels and saints their only plentiful reward their scepter the diademe of their glory and the full and perpetuall ioy that couereth their heads as with a crowne of victory in a peace durable for euer I beseech thee therfore O Lord to giue mee grace that withdrawing my affection more and more from the darke cloysters of the earth sprinckled with teares I may lift vp my desires to the lightsome habitation of thy deitie where the treasures and incomparable ioyes of thy paradise do remaine in an eternall life So that I may finishe my course in an earnest and perpetuall meditation of this angelical and diuine being and comforting my self incessantly night and day in that the promise is made vnto mee through my sauiour Iesus Christ to the end that in my last hower come out of my misery and entered into my felicitie I may with a happy flight goe take my rest aboue in thy peace O my God which surmounteth all vnderstanding and for to sing Psalmes of thanksgiuing vnto thee without end So be it The twentieth Praier Vpon eternall death Of those that sleepe in the dust of the earth some shall awake to euerlasting life others to rebuke and shame without end Their worme shall not die and their fire shall not be quenched there shal be weeping gnashing of teethe Dan. 12. Esay 66. Mat. 15. ALmighty god for whose glorie all nations are created Thou which art the mightie and the faithfull God keeping thy couenant and free mercy with a thousand generations of those that loue thee and obey thy commandements which giuest againe the very same vnto those that hate thee and rebell against thee with euery of them euen to their face whose will is the iust and soueraigne cause of all that is done in heauen and in earth whose counsailes are vnsearchable and iudgements most profound and admirable O Father and gouernor of all things thou hast euen from the beginning of thy vnspeakable good nesse framed man and reclothed him with such an excellency as did
giue vnto vs for the sustenance of our life that we may vse the same soberly and with thanksgiuing as thou hast commanded But aboue all things giue vs grace to desire and especially to seeke the spirituall bread of thy word wherewith our soules may be fed eternally in the name to the glory of the Father Sonne and Holy-ghost one only and true God who liueth and raigneth world without end Amen The foure and twenieth Prayer After meales among the Family Whether wee eate or drinke or whatsoeuer wee doe we must doe all to the glory of God 1. Cor. 10. O Eternall God our Father we yeeld thee thanks for that it hath pleased thee to nourish and feede vs ministring vnto vs all that is needefull for this life and making vs to enioy so many temporall benefites as thou doest largely poure vppon vs thy creatures wee beseech thee of thy goodnesse vouchsafe to continue them the rest of our dayes But aboue al wee praise thee for the spiritual foode that by thy word thou giuest to our soules to the ende they may for euer liue in blisse through Iesus Christ our redeemer to whome with the Father and the Holi-ghost one onely and true God be all honour and glory for euer Amen The fiue and twentieth Prayer Euening Prayer for the Houshold It is a good thing to giue thanks vnto the Lord and to sing praises vnto thy name O most high to tell of thy trueth in the night season I will lay me downe in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord onelie that makest mee dwell in safetie Psal 92. 4. O Lord our god and Father as thy people of Israel offered vnto thee their euening sacrifice so doe we offer vnto thee the oblation of our humble and contrite heartes that wee may glorifie thy name and obtaine remission of our sinnes We praise thee therefore and yeeld thee thanks for thy benefites namely for that it hath pleased thee to let vs passe this day vnder thy protection and safegard without the which wee might haue incurred manie miseries and dangers But because by our corruption and frailetie we haue diuersly offended thee in thought worde and deed and that thy mercie is vppon all those to whom thou vouchsafest to be a Father in our Lord Iesus Christ and that call vpon thy name wee beseech thee to forgiue vs our sinnes and to accept of his righteousnesse in the merit of his death in discharge of our debts so that as euery thing is nowe hidden from our eies by the night which thou giuest vs for the rest of our bodies so our offences may be buried out of thy sight in the sepulchre of the same Christ whereby our soules may haue in him their spirituall rest Alas we know that Sathan the Prince of darkenesse lieth alwaies in waite to hurt vs seeking principally to make a breach into our hearts when we stand least vpon our guarde but O Almightie God in thy presence also are the thousands of Angels to watch on those whome thou hast called to the inheritance of thy saluation of which number wee doe beleeue our selues to be through the mercie which it hath pleased thee to shewe vs. Giue vs grace therefore to be deliuered from the temptations of the diuel from vncleanenesse and troublesome dreames whereinto our infirmity doth leade vs and also from all other dangers to the ende our bodies receiuing through thy blessing a peaceable and quiet sleep for their ease our mindes may watch more freely vnto thee who art their rest and their life and in the meditation of thy loue that to morrowe wee may arise so much the readier to glorifie serue thee euery one in his vocation Thus running our race in the path of thy elect we may with ioy expect the desired hower for our flesh to rest in the earth that our soules may be lodged in heauen and at the last day be raised againe in glory with al the Saints to enioy the accomplishment of our felicitie Howbeit in the meane time whilst we comfort our selues in this hope O heauenlie Father we doe recommend vnto thee the peace preseruation of thy church the estate of this Kingdome and all such as be afflicted with sicknes or anie other tribulation beseeching thee to giue to thy children and seruants whereof to take comfort and alwayes to reioyce in thy goodnes This is it that we doe beleeue in thy worde Yea this is it that wee doe craue of thee in the name of our mediator Iesus Christ by that Prayer which hee hath taught vs. Our father which art in heauen c. Thy blessing therefore O our God and Father the peace of our Lorde Iesus with the comfort of the holy Ghost be giuen to vs by thy grace and remaine with vs for euer Amen The sixe and twentieth Prayer Of him which suffered much by sicknesse When you shal be sicke be not slowe to pray to God and he will heale thee Hee healeth those that are broken in heart and cureth their greefes If they touched the gates of death and crie vnto the Lord in their distresse hee will deliuer them from their troubles Eccles 18. Psal 147. 107. O Lord my GOD and father now it is that in these griefs and paines that oppresse me I doe better then heretofore I haue acknowledge the corruption and frailtie of my nature and the iustice and goodnesse of thy hand that visiteth mee The originall of all flesh is in infection his temporall habitation is in dust continually tossed to and fro with stormes her end is a prey to the wormes and all hir glory is buried with her in the earth Yet is man so blinde and depraued that for a shorte time wherein he enioyeth any prosperity health hee looseth the knowledge of his fraile condition he swells and strayeth from the principall end of his being and slideth away into the follies and vanities of the world Thus might I many times haue made ship wracke among these lamentable rockes haddest not thou my GOD stretched forth thy rod of tribulation vpon mee in my most happy prosperities to preuent my ruine It is as euen to this day thou doest admonish me of thy discipline which maketh me to humble my selfe in thy sight and to feele my misery that with heart and voyce I may confesse that thou art iust O soueraigne iudge and good O gentle Father who wilt thus with one medecine castize and cure the vlcer of my sins Come therefore thou vapor of the earth thou shadow of life thou corruptible flesh sith God for thy instruction and amendment giueth thee trauaile put off thy selfe and submitte thee to his spirite and thy spirite to the Father of spirits and thy affections to his will Thus with all thy strength and minde lift vppe thy selfe towards this Fatherly hand from whence the stripe commeth that grieueth thee towards this arme of the almightie that hath cast the stone that bruseth