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spirit_n	divine_a	father_n	holy_a	8,117	5	5.1431	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00361	A deuoute treatise vpon the Pater noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster Erasmus Roterodamus, and tourned in to englisshe by a yong vertuous and well lerned gentylwoman of. xix. yere of age	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Roper, Margaret, 1505-1544.; Hyrde, Richard.	1526 (1526)	STC 10477; ESTC S109306	22,951	48

take vs although farre vnworthy into so great an honour of thy name let it please the also of thy gentylnesse to gyue vs a redy and stedfast wyll that in nothyng we ouerhippe or be agaynst that whiche thy godly and diuine wyll hath apoynted vs but that we kyll and mortifye our flesshly and carnall lustes and by thy spirite be ledde to y e doyng of all good workes and al thyng that is pleasaūt vnder thy sight Wherby y u father mayst aknowledge vs as thy children naturall and nat out of kynde and thy sonne as kynde good bretherne that is to saye that bothe twayne maye aknowledge in vs his owne propre benefyte to whome with the holy goost equall and indifferent glorie is due for euer Amen ¶ The fourthe peticion PAnem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie O father in heuē whiche of thy excedyng goodnesse moost plentuously fedest all thynges y t thou hast so wondersly created prouide for vs thy children whiche are chosen to dwelle in thy celestiall and heuēly house and that hang holly and onely of thy son̄e some spirituall and goostly fode that we obeyng thy wyll and preceptes may dayly encrease and waxe bigger in vertue vntyl after the course of nature we haue optayned and gathered a full and ꝑfyte strength in our lorde Iesu Christ. The children of this worlde so longe as they are nat banysshed ne out of theyr frendes fauour all that tyme they take lytell care of their meate and drynke sithe their fathers of their tendre loue towarde them make sufficient prouision for them Than moche lesse ought we to be carefull or studious whom thy sonne Iesus taught shulde caste away all care of the morowe meale perswadyng and assuring vs that so riche a father so gentyll so louynge and that had so great mynde of vs whiche sente meat to the lytell byrdes and so nobly clotheth y e lyles in the medowe wolde nat suffre his childrē whiche he hath endued with so honourable a name to lacke meate and bodily apparayle but all thyng sette asyde that belongeth to the body We shulde specially and aboue all seke and labour about those thynges whiche pertayneth and belongeth to thy realme and the iustice therof For as touching the iustes of the pharises that sauereth all carnally thou vtterly dispysest and settest nought by For the spirituall iustes of thy realme stādeth by pure faythe and vnfayned charyte And it were no great mater or shewe of thy plentye to fede with breed made of corne the body whiche althoughe it perisshed nat for hunger yet it must nedes dye perysshe within short space eyther by syckenesse age or other chaūce but we thy spirituall and goostly children desyre and craue of our spirituall father that spirituall celestiall breed Wherby we are verily relyued whiche be verily and truely called thy children y ● breed is thy worde full of all power bothe the gyuer and norissher of lyfe Whiche breed y u vouchesauest to sende vs downe from heuen what tyme we were lyke to haue perisshed for hūgre For verily the breed and teachynge of the proude philosophers and pharises coude nat suffice and content our mynde But that breed of thyne whiche thou sendest vs restored deed men to lyfe of whiche who soeuer dothe eate shall neuer dye This breed relyued vs by this breed we are norysshed and fatted and by this we come vp to the perfite and full strength of y e spirite This breed though day by day it be eaten and distributed to euery bowell of the soule yet but if thou father doest gyue it it is nat holsome nor any thyng auayleth The blessed body of thy dere sonne is the breed wherof we be all parttakers y t dwell within thy large house of the churche It is one breed that indifferently belōgeth to vs all lykewyse as we are but one body made of sondrye and diuers membres but yet quickened with one spirite and though al take of this breed yet to many it hath ben dethe and distruction for it can nat be relefe but to suche as thou reachest it vnto mynglynge it with thy heuenly grace by the reason wherof it maye be holsome to the receyuours Thy son̄e is verite and trouth trouth also is the breed and teachyng of the gospell Whiche he lefte behynde hym for our spirituall fode and this breed likewise to many hath ben vnsauery which haue had y e mouth of theyr soule out of taste by the feuer of corrupte affectiōs But and it wyll please the good father to gyue forthe this breed than it must of necessite be swete pleasaūt to the eaters thā it shal cōfort those that be in tribulation and plucke vp those that be slydden fallen downe and make stronge those that be sicke and weake and finally brynge vs to euerlasting lyfe And for asmoche as the imbecilite and weakenesse of manes nature is euer redy apt to declyne into the worse the soule of man so cōtynually assauted layde at with so many subtile ingyns it is expedient and necessary that thou dayly make stronge he●● thy children with thy breed whiche elles are farre vnable to resyst so many and so stronge ennemyes so many assautes and so many fearefull terrible dartes For who father might abyde to be had in derision of the worlde to be outlawed and banisshed to be putte in prison to be fettred and manacled to be spoyled of all his goodes and by stronge hande be depriued of the cōpany of his moost dere wyfe and welbeloued children but if nowe and thā he were hertened with thy heuēly and gostly breed He that teacheth the lernyng of the gospell he is he y e gyueth vs forthe this breed whiche yet he gyueth all in vayne except it be also gyuen by ye. Many there are whiche receyue the body of thy son̄e and that here the worde and doctryne of the gospell But they departe fro thence no stronger than they came bycause they haue nat deserued that thou good father shuldest priuely and inuisibly reache it forthe vnto them This breed O most benigne father gyue thy childrē euery day vntyll that tyme come in whiche they shall eate of it at thy heuenly and celestiall table Wherby the children of thy realme shal be fulfylled with y e plentuous abundancye of euerlastynge trouthe And to take fruiciō therof it were a marueylous felicite and pleasure whiche hath nede of none other thyng at all neyther in heuen nor erthe For in the O father alone is all thynge out of whom is right nought to be desyred whiche toguyther with thy sonne and the holy gooste raygnest for euer Amen ¶ The fyfte peticion EL dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris This is thy wyll and mynde O father in heuen whiche art the maker of peace and fauourer of concorde that thy chyldren whom it hath pleased thy goodnes to couple and ioyne

and parttakers of thy sōne hast apoynted to thy royalme Graunt father of all myght that they whom thy goodnesse ones hath delyuered frō the tyrāny of synne and assygned to dwell in thy royalme maye by the benifitte of the same benygne goodnesse contynue and stedfastly abyde in theyr liberte and fredome and that none leauynge and fayling from the and thy sonne retourne agayne in the tyrannous seruice of the deuyll so bothe we by thy sonne shall raigne in the to our welthe and thou in vs to thy glorie for thou art glorified in our blysse and our blysse is of thy goodnesse Thy son̄e Iesus taught vs we shulde dispice the realme of this worlde whiche standeth all by rychesse and is holde vp by garrisōs of men by hostes and armour which also what soeuer it doth dothe by pryde and violence and is both gotten kept defended by fierse cruelnesse he with the holy goost ouercame y e wycked spirite that ruled as chefe and heed in the worlde afore he by innocency and purenesse of lyuyng had the victorie of synne by mekenesse venquesshed cruelnesse by suffraūce of many dispitefull rebukes recouered euerlastyng glory by his owne deth restored life and by his crosse had triumphe vpon the wycked spirites Thus wōderfully hast thou father warred and ouercome after this maner thou both triumphest reignest in thy sonne Iesus by whom it hath pleased the of thy goodnesse to take vs in to the cōgregaciō of the dwellers in thy royalme Thus also thou tryūphest and reignest in thy holy martyrs in thy chast virgins and pure confessours whiche yet neyther by theyr owne strēgth nor power dyde ouercome the fiersenesse and displeasure of tyrantes ne the raging or the wantōnesse of the flesshe ne the maliciousnesse of this worlde But it was thy spirite father Whiche it pleased the to gyue them to y e glorie of thy name and the helthe of mankynde that was bothe the begȳner and ender of all this in them And we father hertely desire the that thy realme may florisshe also in vs whiche all though we do no myracles for asmoche as neyther tyme nor mater requireth albe it we be nat imprysoned nor turmented though we be nat woūded nor brent althogh we be nat crucified nor drowned thoughe we be nat beheeded yet natwithstandyng the strength and clerenesse of thy realme may shine and be noble in vs if the worlde perceyue that we by the helpe of thy spirite stande stedfast sure agaynst all assautes of the deuyll and agaynst the flesshe whiche alwaye stereth and prouoketh vs to those thynges that be contrary to the spirite agaȳst the worlde whiche by all the wayes it can moueth vs to forsake and leaue the trust that we haue ones put in the As often so euer as for thy loue we despice and sette nought by the realme of this worlde and with full trust hange vpon the heuēly kyngdome that thou hast promysed vs as often also as we forsake and leaue honourynge of erthely richesse and onely worshyp and enbrace y e precious and gostly lernyng of the gospell as often as we refuse those thȳges that for the season seme swete and pleasaunt to the flesshely carnal appetite and in hope and trust of eternall felicite we suffre paciently and valiantly all thynge be it neuer so harde as often also as we can be content to forsake our naturall affections and that whiche we haue moost dere as our fathers and mothers wyues chyldren and kynsefolke for the loue of the Likewise as often as we oppresse and refrayne y e furious and fiersely braydes of angre and gyue mylde meke wordes to those y ● chyde and ●raule with vs and do good to them whiche do vs iniury and wronge and all for thy sake So often father thou warrest in vs and ouercomest the realme of the deuyll openyst y ● myght and power of thy realme Thus it hath pleased and lyked thy wysdome father by continuall and greuous batayle to exercise confyrme and make stedfaste the vertue and strengthe of thy people Encrease suche strengthe in thy childrē that they maye euer retourne stronger from their batayle● and that whan by lytell and lytell their enemies and aduersaries myght is minysshed and broken thou mayest euery day more and more raygne in vs But the tyme is nat yet come good father in whiche all the worlde haue subdued them selfe to thy yoke For as yet that tyrannous fende hath a do with many and diuers naciōs There is nat yet one herde and one herde mayster whiche we hope shal be whan the iewes also shall bryng and submyt them selfe to the spirituall and gostely lernyng of y e gospell for yet many knowe nat howe great a liberte it is and what a dignite and how great a felicite to be subiectes to the heuenly realme and that is the cause why they had rather be the seruaūtes of the deuyll than thy children inheritours with Iesu and parttakers of y e kȳgdome of heuen and amongest those two father that walke within the cloyster of thy churche seme as chefe in thy realme there are nat a fewe alas which holde on their aduersaries side and as moche as lyeth in them abate shame dishonest the glory of thy realme Werfore we specially desyre and wisshe for that tyme whiche thou woldest none to knowe but thy selfe alone in whiche acordyng to the promyse of thy sonne thy angels shall come and make clene the floore of thy churche and gader to guether into thy barne the pure corne deuyded and seuered fro the cockle plucke out of thy realme all maner occasyon of sclaundre What tyme there shall neyther be hunger nor pouerte no necessite of clothīg no disease no dethe no pursuer no hurt or yuell at all ne any feare or suspicion of hurte but than all the body of thy dere sosie heaped togyder in theyr heed shall take f●uicion and pleasure of thy blessed company of heuen they whiche in the meane tyme had rather serue the tyrannous fende shall togyther with their maister be banysshed and sente awaye to euerlastyng punisshement And trewely this is the realme of Israell whiche whan Iesus Christ forsoke the erthe retourned agayne to his disciples desyred myght shortely be restored Than thou madest heuen free and rydde frō all rebellion what tyme Lucifer● with his company was caste out So one 's in the day of dome and iugement whan the bodyes shall aryse thou shalte departe the sheepe from the gottes than who so euer hath here with all d●●●gēce embrased the spirytuall and goollely realme of the gospell shal be desyred and brought to the to the inherytaūce of the euerlastynge kyngdome to y e whiche thy goodnesse had apoynted theym or the worlde was made This fortunate and happy day whiche thy sonne Iesus promysed shulde come we thy children good father greatlye desyre whiche dwelle here in erthe as outlawes in exyle sore