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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

thy sonne Iesus Christ of his glory If thē this be a synne to stycke to the our God father to stycke to thy Christ our Lord alone sauiour perfect preest prophet bishop sacrifice propitiatiō propiciatorie and Medyatour thy holi spirit our doctour comfortour viuificatour expositour of thy word and thy written word gospel our only square rule and line to serue the by If it be a syn to preach this beleue this and after our callinges euery one of vs to confesse protest this then Lorde thou art a synner which commaundest and requirest this of vs. VVherfore awake O Lord our God sanctifie thy holye name whiche they blaspheme Stablishe and strengthen thy kyngdome which they disturbe in vs worke parfectly thy wyl which thei go about to hinder in vs and suffer not thy selfe to be troden vnder fote of them because of the greuousnes of our synnes for they O Lord do not punish in vs our synnes but they seke to suppresse and wholi to take away thy holye worde ▪ which doth worke in vs that thou shouldest not be trulye worshipped that thou myghtest haue no people to preach the beleue in the and confesse the. Oh vouchesafe therefore to heare mercifully and to graunt graciousli this our poore complaint deare father of mercy which hast bydden vs in our nede to cal vpon the and dost promise that thou wylt heare and helpe vs so that we shal praise thy name For Christes sake therfore in whome thou art well pleased although in vs for our manifold syns thou hast iust cause to be displeased but great is thy mercie for his sake I saye in this our neede helpe vs in such sorte as most may be to thy glorye our consolation conuercion of suche as are to be conuerted and subuertion confusion and eternall shame of such as seeke thy dishonour and ar not to be cōuerted For thine is the kingdom the power the glory for euer euer Amen Another Praier O Almightite eternal and euerliuing Lord the eternal father of our Lorde Iesus Christ thou great moost fearful God thou that kepest couenaunt merci with theim that loue the and seke to do thy commaundmentes yea thou that as the Prophet saith euē in thy wrath thinkest vpon mercy cast doune thy louinge countenaunce vpon thy pore flocke that doth professe the here in England and regarde the mischief that is imagined against vs. Consider Lord howe thei counsail and cōuent against the doctrin and pore members of thi deare sōne Iesus Christ. We are certaine that it was thou which diddest confound the crueltie of the tiraunt Haman the enemy of thy people ouerthrowīg him in the mischief that he him self had imagined And we sureli be leue Lord that thi hād as the prophet saith is not shortned but that thou art alwaies hable to healpe al though our ambicious pride our vn saciable couetousnes our carnal life our careles securitie other vnspekeable most greuous offences haue separated vs frō thee our sinfull infidelitie hath caused the to turne thy face frō vs not to heare vs. we confesse Lord that we haue sinned excedingli we haue bene disobedient gon backe frō thi preceptes iudgementes we wold neuer faithfully folow thy seruantes the Preachers whyche spake vnto vs in thy name truly as thou cōmaundest thē but rather we gaue eare to the enchaūtings of the popish charmers folowed the vaine enticements of the wicked world liuing waloing in the lustes delites appetites of our fraile flesh and carnal securitye flattering our selues in such faults naughtines wherein we put our pastime feliciti wherfore this crosse yea rather this cursse is iustlye for our vnthankfulnes poured vpon vs. Vnto vs O Lorde our God belongeth open shame confusion but yet vnto the pertaineth mercye and forgeuenes we haue sinned o lord and done wickedlye agaynst all thy righteousnes yet let thy wrathfull displeasure be turned away we beseche thee from vs thy feable flock and poore miserable afflicted congregacion And in thys O LORD shal thi goodnes be declared magnified and pray sed if thou be mercifull vnto vs myserable wretches which are not rich in good workes Be not alwayes wroth at vs O lord but spare thi people and haue mercye vpon thyne owne congregacion O be mercyfull vnto vs. Beholde Lorde howe thyne enemies haue entred thine enheritaūce and daylye defyle thy holy temple Se how thy word is shut vp with holden frō thy congregaciō so that thi flocke is like to famish for lacke of foode Lo we are become an opē shame to our neighbours yea a veri scorne laughing stocke to al that dwel about vs. O remember not our old sinnes offences but haue mer cie vpon vs and that quickly for cls we are come to great miserie ▪ Helpe vs O Lord our sauiour for the glori of thine own name Let not the enemies triūphe ouer vs lest they saye that we haue no God O regarde the sorowfull sighyng of the prisoners that lye in bandes for thy glorious gospel and wordes sake let their teares ascend vp into thy presence according to the greatnes of thy power preserue strengthen those that ar appointed to the slaughter for professyng of thy holy worde name Suffer not the dūme dogges to turne againe with their teethe to teare in pieces the true teachers of thy holy word Suffer them not to sucke the bloud of such as haue purely preached thi truth Suffer not the swynish sorte of Sodomites to treade in the myre that precious pearle the gospell of thy glory the only schole and learning of our saluation O Lord suffer not these proude Philistines to stoppe vp thy swete springes of lyuīg water instede therof to make vs drink perforce of their stincking puddles of abhominable popyshe masses mens imagined traditiōs Suffer not the stout sturdie rammes with their filthie fete to tread doun trouble the pure pasture faire fountaine of thy holy word prepared to fede refresh thi flock withal Suffer not the sede of Antichrist the sonnes of perdicion to sette vp them selues their owne vaine inuencions to be embraced honoured instede of the. Suffer not them O Lord to bring this thy churche of England backe agayne in to the blinde bondage of that bloudy Babilon the bawdye beast of Rome And for as much as the harts of Prin ces magistrats gouernors ar in thi hand suffer not lord these subtil sor cerers so to be witch enueagle the quenes highnes whō thou hauing for our vnworthines hainous offences taken thy blessed seruaunt confess our Edward the .vi. our late most christen king Gouernour frō vs hast of thy wōderful power placed in the roial seate of this realme from the hearing readyng of thy blessed woorde whereat she bothe might ought to learne her duetie Suffer them not for

¶ AN EXCELLENT AND A right learned meditacion compiled in two Prayers most frutefull and necessary to be vsed and said of al true English men in these daungerous daies of affliction for the comfort and better stay of the christen cōscience bewailing the deserued plages of England Psalme I. Call vpon me saith the Lorde in the day of trouble and I shall deliuer the and thou shalt honor me Prynted at Roane by an Englysh Scolers copie by Michael VVodde the third daye of Ianuarye Anno Do. M. D. LIIII A Praier OH almightie euer liuing most merciful Lorde God the dere father of our lord and sauiour Iesus Christe and through him our most gratious good father whose prouidence is ouer al whose wisdom and righteousnes is sene ouet al as thi mercy euen in the middest of most miseries is tasted of all In dede we haue deserued most horrible plages by re ason of our vnthankfulnes cōtempt and slaundrous abusing of thy most holy gospel which most plēteously putely thou diddest geue vs with such a Prince to propagate and set furth the same as neuer sith Englād was Christened was known the like VVe I say haue deserued not onely the taking awaye of this our deare Prince and the benefite of the mistery of thy pure gospel but also all other most terrible plages that can be deuised for great and hainous are our offences therfor iust thou art righteous are thy iudgements if as thou hast begunne thou shalt continue to poure out vppon vsthy searful plagues and indignations But gratious Lorde in thine anger bicause thou art accustomed to remember merci and ful wel knowest wherof we are made what we at able to beare we besech the which art rich in mercy and plentiful to all thē that cal vpō the that for thi names sake through Christ thou woldest correct vs acordīg to thy swete mercye and not in thy soure fury indignation Much better it is for vs deare father and more tollerable that we should yeld our selues into thy handes to be chastened of the then to fall into the hands of thy enemies as Dauid praied For great is thy mercy against the against the only haue we sinned and broken thi holy commaundements But louing Lord and almightie God father wel thou knowest we haue not sinned against the deuil the world the pope his prelates neither against the quenes highnes and politik maiestrates of the Realme so that iustly haue thei no right or power to punish vs. How be it thou mayest iustly vse them as thi fearse rodde against vs. But good God and heauenly father against them haue we not be haued oure selues that rightly and iustly thei can be thought to punish vs Yea rather thei wishe that with them horribly we would displease and sinne against thee for nothing shuld it greue thē if we were horrible rebels against the blasphemers of thi name idolaters worshippers of stockes and stones false seruers of the adulterers theues dronkerds murtherers glottons oppressours and altogether ouerwhelmed in mischief But this is our sinne and offence against thē bicause we prech beleue and confesse the God the fa ther to be the true and only God Iesus Christ thi dere sonne to be the only Lord Sauiour Bishop Prist mediatour and the holy spirit to be the only comfortor viuificator coū celour and master of all truth thy written worde to be the lantern of our feet the sufficiēt doctrine of our saluation This dere Lord is a sinne against thē bicause we wil not serue the after the tradicions of men But as in thy worde by thy sonne and Apostles thou hast taught vs there fore are thei angry wroth and persecute vs. If we wold worship bread instead of Christ cast of our care and Crede of the satisfactori and propiciatory sacrifice whiche thy sonne our Lorde did make once for all in his owne body himselfe to the perfect sanctifying foreuer of all that shalbe saued and come and bi their propiciatory sacrifices in that abho minable idoll the masse Yf we wold cast of thy commaundements to folow good intentes to serue the in a tong we know not to prai vnto sain tes to bie pardons to runne a pilgrimage gate going to offer candels tapers to images to bie trentals dirigies to say as they say and do as thei do submitting our selues to the faith of the Antichristian popysh diuelish church cleane contrary frō the faith of thy catholicke and true church which is groūded and builded vpō thi dear child Iesus Christ who as he is the foūdation so is he the fulnesse of al whereof we al receyue the very glew which coupleth knitteth together euery one of vs to grow go forwardes into a perfect man being made of thee vnto vs wisdome righteousnes sancti fying and redemption that our reioysing might be in him which also is our head from whom cōmeth our life by the woorkyng of his spirite which is kept alwaies aliue in vs so long as we sucke of the bloud natural ioyse which descendeth from our head into the mēbers that is to say so long as we stycke and abyde by his written word Gospell not suffering the same to putrifie corrupt by admitting false gloses and expositions of mens own braynes deuises not contained in thy booke of the Byble I sai deare Lord if we would do thus leauing the water in the wel of life drink of their dyrtie dygged pittes and cestorns then shoulde we haue peace with them then would not the diuel rage then would the world wrestle no more against vs then wold the Pope his prelates promote vs then wold the quene be mercifull the Magistrats our good masters euen as thy deare child saith If you wer of the world the worlde woulde loue his owne Here therfore looke downe O merciful father towards vs and a fearce iudge towards al such our enemies as are not to be conuerted for they are no lesse thine enemies then ours ▪ so that in perse cuting vs they persecute the and punish the. For this word which we preach beleue and confesse is not our worde but thy word not our expositions or cōstruinges but the expositions and construinges of thy holye Spirite This geare the deuyll can not abyde but would haue this place and be to vs a god The Pope his prelats wold raigne in mens consciences and for gods word they woulde haue vs to beleue theyr stynckyng tradicions councels decrees lies The quene and Magistrates in place of thy son Iesus Christ woulde place their abhominable idol of bread in place of our prest after the order of Melchisedecke they would place preestes after the order of Baal Antichrist In steede of Christes sacrifyce they wold thrust out vnto vs an horrible sacriledge and spoylyng

people of Englād wyth the dominions of the same and be their buckler shield towre of refuge frō the face of the enemi Let not the vncircumcised papists carnal epicures triumphe ouer vs. Let them not giest vpon vs with mockes tauntes in rimes and balades for their pastime say wher is now their God where is their christ wher is their gospel wher it their safegarde Their natural king is gon a straunger is their ruler theyr enemi of Rome hath the vpperhand prestes and women bear the bel their diuiniti is turned to idolatri their chri stianitie to poperi their policie to foleri their nobiliti to ignominie theyr chiualrie to slauerie their manhoode to miserie their libertie to captiuitie their yomanrye to drudgerye theyr weale into wo their mirth into mour ning their cōmons cōfounded theyr wiues rauished their maidēs defiled their men murthered their widowes pined their substaunce spoiled they● land cōquered English chaunged to Spainish Calise into ●lemishe Lordanes made lordes ▪ Englād become a grange O lord which art the helth help of al that faithfulli trust in the deliuer vs in the multitude of thi mercies frō the multitude of our sinnes from these deserued plages O Lord infatuate confound the counsails deuises of thine and our enemies ▪ as thou diddest at the earnest sute of thi seruaunt Dauid to that subtil traiterous Sire Ahitophel Let them be turned back come to shame that wold euil to Englād or to ani member therof O mercifull father whō thi sonne calleth a husbandm●̄ defend thi vineyard of England which he with the instruments of his gospel hath planted here among vs frō the violent raging furies of these rauenous wylde Boares for hys sake that is the true vine And seing we be braūches that can do nothīg without him nourish vs with the sappe of thi holy spirit dewe of thi grace that we may fruitfully abide in the vine vnto thend not to whither through the stormes of tēptatiō peril to be cut of fal before our enemies we most hartely besech the O lord take not thy holi word spirit frō vs. O merciful lord our God heare the praiers peticiōs of thy sorowful seruauntes O let thy face bright countenaunce at least once againe shine ouer thi Englishe congregation which now is in woful case Deliuer vs not O heauenlye father into the handes of the wicked least their handle vs after their owne lust O incline thine eare hearken open thine eies for the glorie of thyne own names sake behold our trouble For we do not cast our praiers before the trusting in our owne righteousnes but only in thy great mercies declared vnto vs in Iesu christ O lord heare vs. O forgeue vs Lord. O Lord consider and tarie not ouer long but for thine own sake send vs help and defend vs for we are thi people and do cōfes thi name To the O heauenly father with thi deare sonne Iesus Christ our onli redemer thi holi spi rit the cōfortour beal honour glory praise and dominion for euer and euer Amen FINIS Psa cxix Psal. ciii Roma x. Psal. vi ●● Samu. xxiiii Psalm li. Iohn xvii i. Cor. viii Math. i. Heb. vii i. Tim. iiii Iohn xiiii xv xvi Psal. cxix ▪ i. Tim. iii Heb. vii ix x. 1. Cor. iii. Ephe. i Collos. i. Iohn i. Ephe. iiii i. Cor. i. Ephe. i. Phil. ii Iohn xvi Psal. l. Abac. iii. Hest. vii Esaye lv ▪ Dani. ix iiii Esd●● viii Psa ▪ lxix Math. vii Gen xxvi Ezechiel xxxiiii Acte xiii Iere. xxvi De. xxviii Eze. xviii Psalm ● Romo ii Psal. lxi Psa. xxvii ▪ Psalm l● ▪ ii Re. xvii Iohn xv Esai v. Mat. xxi Psa. lxxx Psalm li. Psa. lxvii