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spirit_n	father_n	ghost_n	holy_a	47,258	5	6.0438	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05393	A meditacion vpo[n] the the [sic] lordes praier, made by Thomas Leuer, at sainct Mary Woll churche in London; Meditacion upon the Lordes prayer.	Lever, Thomas, 1521-1577.	1551 (1551)	STC 15545; ESTC S105461	2,331	16

¶ A meditacion vpō the the lordes praier made by Thomas Leuer at sainct MAry Woll churche in London Anno. 1551. To the christian reader PRopter laborem inopū et gemitum pauperum nunc exurgā dicit dominus Surely euen now in greate scarsitee lacke and dearth of meate drynke clothyng and all other necessaries the sorowfull sighes of the poore and needy muste either sinke into the riche mennes hartes and from theim procure releue and comforte vnto the needy members of Christes body or els directly ascende vnto the throne of Goddes Iustice and from thence bryng doune indignacion and vengeaunce to destroye wicked worldlynges whiche beeyng thē selfes in welth and aboundance fele no griefe of their brothers distresse and miserie But if any man euery weke will be content to spare one meale of hym self bestowe the price of that meale in Charitable Almose to releue the poore and the tyme of thesame in godly meditacion and Praier to dispose his awne mynde deuoutly then shall all suche feele and tast bothe of poore mennes honger and of Godly comfort in abstinence and praier yea and many poore be muche releued and no riche man any thyng charged and so thereby Goddes vengaunce auoyded and Goddes grace procured when as fastyng and praier dooeth plucke out of mennes hartes coueteousnes whiche is the roote of all euil and the cause of all calamities that now dooe trouble greue and daunger all men This meditacion therfore of the Lordes praier shall be good comfortable spirituall fode in that tyme of bodily abstinence A meditacion vpon the Lordes praier OUR father whiche art in heauen We gloriously formed vnto the Image of thy diuine Maiestie created by thy gracious goodnes vnto highest honor howbeit by our awne sinfulnes disfigured with vilenes deseruyng dampnaciō and yet by Christes death restored vnto grace to be citezens with sainctes of the family of God now all together in Christen vnitee as membres of one body with this one voyce for the manyfolde miseries of euery member and worthy merites of Christ our hedde praie desire and truste to obtain of thee our heauenly father accordyng vnto thy gracious goodnes mightie power and faithefull promes vnto vs that aske aboundaunce of thy grace That thy name maie bee halowed That thy diuine power and glorious Maiestie may be certainly knowen reuerently honored That the hartes of vs men by thy worde and praier maie bee sanctified frō worldly vanities and fleshly lustes so that wee with all that wee haue seruyng thee in holines and righteousnes may shine so afore menne vpon the yearth that thei thereby maie bee occasioned to honour and glorifie the our father in heauē Thy kyngdom come Thy woorde bee so fruictfully Preached vnto vs thy people that we maie bee throughly instructed and taught to bridle our sensuall appetite by natural reason and submit our wittie reason vnto a Godly spirite and try our spirites by the true Scriptures so that within vs maie reigne the Kyngdome of God whiche is neither meate nor drynke but righteousnesse peace and comforte in the holy Ghoste by the whiche wee now tastyng of thy heauenly ioyes maie be made from hencefurth wery of all worldly vanities continually wishyng and lookyng for the spedy apperaunce and commyng of thy eternall and euerlastyng kyngdome Thy will be doen in yearth as it is in heauē In heauen the Angelles of reuerent loue dooe thy will and commaundement with comfortable courage and ioyful pleasure in hell the wicked spirites through malice and enuie repinyng and grudgyng do torment and vexe themselfes what soeuer thei be doyng and vpon yearth we men beeyng subiecte vnto synne do thinke it a labor and pain to be occupied in any thyng that is good and godly Wherefore wee praie that the grace of thy heauenly Spirite maie so worke in our yearthly bodies that our myndes maye bee deliuered from synne and vanitie frely to delite and take pleasure in Godlines and vertue so that we with a comfortable courage maie finde delite and pleasure to dooe thy commaundement and will beeyng men vpon yearth as the glorious company of Angelles doo whiche be in heauen Geue vs this day our daily bread We beeyng in greate nede and not able of our selfes to deserue any thyng beseche thy Fatherly goodnesse of thy bounteous liberalitee to geue frely vnto vs all in generally so that none bee hurte or hyndered seuerally this daye when as we crie constrained by present neede not craftely crauyng for vain care against to morowe our daily breade our daily and necessarie foode and releue bothe bodily and ghostly and especially the Spirituall fode of Christes fleshe and his bloude by daily Preachyng of the Gospell and ministracion of the Sacramentes to replenishe refreshe and renue oure hartes mindes with the comfortable remēbraunce of Christes death and his passion daily to bee vsed for necessary and spirituall consolacion Forgeue vs our trespasses as wee forgeue theim that trespasse against vs. Geue vnto vs that felyng and knowyng our awne synfulnes doo neede and desire thy mercifull forgeuenes of oure trespaces and fautes whiche we haue committed against thy diuine Maiestie so that we freely forgeuyng other that haue offended vs in any thyng what soeuer it bee maie bee sure that mercie spryngyng in thee hath proceded vnto vs beyng graciously offred of thee hath been thankfully receiued of vs and beyng charitably vsed of vs towardes other shall mooste certainly bee confirmed and enlarged of thee towardes vs and so finally by gracious mercie spryngyng and procedyng from thee all fautes and trespasses shalbee freely forgeuen euen as those whiche other haue committed against vs so likewise those that wee haue doen against thee And leade vs not into temptacion And suffre not the deuill by thabuse of thy benefites to leade vs captiue into deceiptfull and dampnable temptacion drawyng vs by deinteth meates vnto greedy glottony by money and riches vnto vnsaciable coueteousnes and by wealth and prosperitie vnto pride and vain glory and by all thy godly gracious giftes vnto euery Deuelishe abhominable synne But deliuer vs from all eiuill Deliuer our gooddes from abuse our bodies frō corrupcion our Soules from dampnacion yea deliuer vs by Christe from the bondage of synne vnto the libertie of the Gospell so that without daunger of Deuelishe temptacion driuyng vnto euerlastyng dāpnacion wee maie serue thee in holines and righteousnesse all the daies of oure liues with moste certain and comfortable hope of euerlastyng life and saluacion through Christ Iesu in whom our hope and thy promes is moste certain that is to saie Amen So be it FINIS Thomas Leuer Imprinted at London by Ihon Kyngston Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum ¶ And are to be sold at the West doore of Poules by Anthony Kyngston Psal. xij