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A07390 An excellent and a right learned meditacion, compiled in two prayers most frutefull and necessary to be vsed and said of al ttue [sic] English men, in these daungerous daies of affliction, for the comfort and better stay of the christen co[n]science, bewailing the deserued plages of England. Bale, John, 1495-1563, attributed name. 1554 (1554) STC 17773; ESTC S112491 8,672 27

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thy mercyes sake O lord to withstād the truth to kepe her grace backe from the knowledge of thy gospel which is the onli rote wherof true faith sprīgeth no more than thou suffredest their aūciēt grandfather Elimas the Sorcerer to preuaile against Paule preaching to the prudent grouernor Sergius Paulus whom the said Elimas sought to turne away from the faith O lord open y e eies of the nobiliti of Englād strēgthē their harts with thy spirite of strength magnanimiti that thei become no more subiects to the proud popish prelates shameles shauelings the Angels of satā not be made their slaughtermen and sheadders of gyltles bloud as in times past in murtherīg thy prophets ministers so prouoke thy wrath vengeance to the vtter cōfusion of this English realm naciō ▪ whō thou hast adourned mercifulli blessed with so mani boū teous gyftes But as thou dyddest moue the harts of the princes nobiliti of Hierusalem to help deliuer Ieremithi prophet frō the handes of the prests which cried out vp ō him sought his death because he earnestlie sincerelie preached thi word euen so lord stir vp the har tes of our nobiliti magistrats that thei maie be vnfained fauourers of thy truth of the teachers therof and so to kepe their hands cleane frō innocent bloud Geue grace O Lord to the counsail of England that thei may faithfully fauour thi blessed Bible endue them with the spirit of thy counsail to occupie them selues in the studie therof according to the coūsaile of the most noble kyng Dauid Be ye learned you that iudge the earth so as they being our guydes gouernours mai serue the in feare trembling and apply their endeuours to gouerne according to thi rule and ordinaūce Put thi spirit of strength vertue boldnes ▪ sobrietie and loue O gracious Lord into the harts of the states of this realme aswel the nobilitie gentilmen as the cōmōs of the same that they al together agreeing in thi truth repenting them of theyr horrible sinnes wher with thei haue most greuously offended thi hie maiestie linking their hartes together in a vniforme concord peace christian loue of minde faithfully one to another hauing the alwaies before theireies beigaided with the most mighty protectiō of thi stretched out arme suffer not thi holi sacred word nor thi blessed most cōfortable sacraments after this lamentable sorte to be blasphemed banished awaye from vs by these bloudy Edomites shauen swarme of Sodomites the chaplaines of Baal our popish pestiferous prelates nor thy realme heritage of England Calise with the dominions and mēbers of the same to be deuoured ouertūned betraied nor brought to slauery or confusion through domestical or foraine cruell warre or by ambicious coulourable meanes of craftie confederacie subtil fetches rauenous desires or forceable power of vnnaturall forainers straunge nacions deuised or brought in by the sleighti enticements or traiterous conspiracie of popish prestes and their adherentes the enemies of thi glorious gospel vnder pretēce of honour frendshyp cōmon weale safegarde of the realme which haue the befor their eies ▪ but secretli mind or not regarde the daūger of subuersiō ruine of thi realme people of Englād for the aduaūcing settyng vp of their god Moasim in their abhominable idolatrous masses and other supersticious wykednes to the entent to restore Antichrist of Rome the deuils vicare vpon earth into hys pristine tirānous power estate here in England again to sit in the consciences of thi people his woūd whiche the stroke of thi mighti spirituall sword gaue him here among vs being healed again to make hauocke of thi chosen flocke whō thou boughtest with the price of thi deare sonne our onli sauiour Iesus Christes most precious heart bloude And although O Lord our froward necligēce our impenitent behaucour carnal disobediēce towards thi holy law haue caused the iustly to take the libertie fre vse therof awai from vs leaue vs ▪ to our selues in the sluttish swine tubbes and dirtie dregges of idolatrie supersticion and barborous ignoraunce Although our stubburnes wilful repyning against the gospel like gouernement and prudent procedings of our most learned merciful wife louing natural English christian soueraygne liege lord thi seruaūt Edward the .vi. late king gouernour of this realme deserueth an insolēt mocker an enemie of thi truth testament an vnnatural forainer a merciles oppressor to haue rule gouernment ouer vs al beit our couetous cloining beastlishe bribing extreme extorcioning deuylish deceiuing spightful spoyling rauenous robbing of our natural brethren coūtrimen iustly demerite the inuasion of bloudi tiraūts and proud straungers to spoile and strip vs of al that is our own house land goodes substaūce liberti although the adultrie fornication filthy whoremonging rude ribawdrye and lycencious life of vs Englishmē in abusing other mēs wiues defiling virginity might occasion the rauishing defilyng of our wiues daughters and maidens bi pocky papists forain fraikes lecherous epicures that cōtemne chast mariage puritye of life although our proude lokes our parcial parttaking and contempt of our poore brethren nedy neighbours albeit I say our petuerse persecutīg merciles murthering shameful sheading of innocēt bloud prouoke iust recōpence of tirānie murther bloudshed vpon vs by the hands of stout straūgers and braue souldiours generally although our manifold sinnes infidelitie wikednes haue vndoutedly earned deserued O Lord thi terrible curse vengeaunce ▪ for breaking of thy most sacred holi law and blessed cōmaundements to be poured vpon vs in town and in fielde vpon our bodies children vpon the frutes of our grounde our cataile and al that we haue yea though we deserue to be dryuen out of our natural countri and to be beaten downe slame of our enemies to be plaged withal the curses mencioned in the blessed boke of thi seuere law iustice as we euen from the bocome of our hartes confesse we haue don in dede yet O most gracious lord whose mercy is aboue al thy works hast promised by thi prophet that in what hour soeuer a sinner groneth repenteth him of his sinnes thou wilt gracioussi heare him remember his sinnes no more we thi miserable crea tures most humbly be sech thi fatherly goodnes mercy ▪ bi the merites of thi deare sōne our Lord Iesus Christ forgeue vs our wickednes forsake vs not leaue vs not as Orphanes cōfortles helples The holy ghost by thy seruant Dauid cōmaundeth vs to cal vpon the in the dai of our trouble assuring vs of remedi And is not this a time of trouble Are not these dayes daungerous daies Is not this a world wherin thi wrath doth plainly apear wherfore O lord be merciful vnto vs. Holde thy hand of blessing ouer thy real me