holiness proclaim 〈◊〉 thankful eke with heart and voice and mindful of the same Cantate Domino Psal xcviii J. H. 〈◊〉 Sing ye now unto the Lord a new and pleasant long 〈◊〉 he hath wrought throughout the world his wonders great and strong With his right hand full worthily he doth his foes devour â—â—d get himself the victory with his own arm and power The Lord doth make the people know his saving health and might â—e Lord doth eke his justice show in all the heathens sight His grace and truth to Israel in minde he doth record â—at all the earth hath seen right well the goodness of the Lord. â—e glad in him with joyful voice all people of the earth â—ethanks to God sing and rejoyce to him with joy and mirth Upon the harp unto him sing give thanks to him with psalms Rejoyce before the Lord our King with trumpets and with shalms verse 7 Yea let the sea with all therein for joy both roar and swell The earth likewise let it begin with all that therein dwell verse 8 And let the flouds rejoyce their fills and clap their hands apace And eke the mountains and the hills before the Lord his face verse 9 For he shall come to judge and try the world and every wight And rule the people mightily with justice and with right Dominus regnavit Psal xcix J. H. THe Lord doth reign although at it the people rage full sore Yea he on cherubims doth sit though all the world do roar verse 2 The Lord that doth in Sion dwell is high and wondrous great Above all folk he doth excell and he aloft is set verse 3 Let all men praise thy mighty Name for it is fearful sure And let them magnifie the same that holy is and pure verse 4 The princely power of our King doth love judgement and right Thou rightly rulest everything in Jacob through thy might verse 5 To praise the Lord our God devise all honour to him do Before his footstool worship him for he is holy too verse 6 Moses Aaron and Samuel as priests on him did call When they did pray he heard them well and gave them answer all verse 7 Within the cloud to them he spake then did they labour still To keep such saws as he did make and pointed them untill verse 8 O Lord our God thou didst them hear and answeredst them again Thy mercy did on them appear their deeds didst not maintain verse 9 O laud and praise our God and Lord within his holy hill For why our God throughout the world is holy ever still Jubilate Deo Psal c. J. H. ALl people that on earth do dwell sing to the Lord with chearful voice verse 2 Him serve with fear his praise forth tell come ye before him and rejoyce verse 3 The Lord ye know is God indeed without our aid he did us make We are his flock he doth us feed and for his sheep he doth us take verse 4 O enter then his gates with praise approach with joy his courts unto Praise laud and bless his Name always for it is seemly so to do verse 5 For why the Lord our God is good his mercy is for ever sure His truth at all times firmly stood and shall from age to age endure Another of the same by J. H. IN God the Lord be glad and light praise him throughout the earth verse 2 Serve him and come before his sight with singing and with mirth verse 3 Know that the Lord our God he is he did us make and keep Not we our selves for we are his own flock and pasture-sheep verse 4 O go into his gates always give thanks within the same Within his courts set forth his praise and laud his holy Name verse 5 For why the goodness of the Lord for evermore doth reign From age to age throughout the world his truth doth still remain Misericordiam Psal ci N. I Mercy will and judgement sing O Lord God unto thee verse 2 And wisely do in perfect way until thou come to me And in the midst of my house walk in pureness of my sprite verse 3 And I no kinde of wicked thing will set before my sight I hate their works that fall away it shall not cleave to me verse 4 From me shall part the froward heart none evil will I see verse 5 Him will I stroy that slandereth his neighbour privily The lofty heart I cannot hear nor him that looketh high verse 6 Mine eyes shall be on them within the land that faithful be In perfect way who walketh shall be servant unto me verse 7 I will no guileful person have within my house to dwell And in my presence he shall not remain that lies doth tell verse 8 Betimes I will destroy even all the wicked of the land That I may from Gods city cut the wicked workers hand Domine exaudi Psal cii N. O Hear my prayer Lord and let my cry come unto thee verse 2 In time of trouble do not hide thy face away from me verse 3 Incline thine ear to me make haste to hear me when I call For as the smoke doth fade so do my days consume and fall verse 4 And as an hearth my bones are burnt my heart is smitten dead And withers like the grass that I forget to eat my bread verse 5 By reason of my groaning voice my bones cleave to my skin verse 6 As pelicane in wilderness such case now am I in And as an owl in desert is so I am such an one verse 7 I watch and as a sparrow on the house-top am alone verse 8 Lo daily in reproachful wise mine enemies do me scorn And they that do against me rage against me they have sworn verse 9 Surely with ashes as with bread my hunger I have fill'd And mingled have my drink with tears that from mine eyes have still'd verse 10 Because of thy displeasure Lord thy wrath and thy disdain For thou hast listed me aloft and cast me down again verse 11 The days wherein I pass my life are like the fleeting shade And I am with'red like the grass that soon away doth fade verse 12 But thou O Lord for ever dost remain in steady place And thy remembrance ever doth abide from race to race The second part verse 13 Thou wilt arise and mercy thou to Sion wilt extend The time of mercy now the time foreset is come to end verse 14 For even in the stones thereof thy servants do delight And on the dust thereof they have compassion in their sprite verse 15 Then shall the heathen people fear the Lords most holy Name And all the kings on earth shall dread thy glory and thy fame verse 16 Then when the Lord the mighty God again shall Sion rear And then when he most nobly in his glory shall appear verse 17 To prayer of the desolate when he himself shall bend When he shall not disdain unto their prayers to attend verse 18
10 Unfeignedly I have thee sought and thus seeking abide O never suffer me O Lord from thy precepts to slide verse 11 Within my heart and secret thoughts thy words I have hid still That I might not at any time offend thy godly will verse 12 We magnify thy Name O Lord and praise thee evermore Thy statutes of most worthy fame O Lord teach me therefore verse 13 My lips have never ceast to preach and publish day and night The judgements all which did proceed from thy mouth full of might verse 14 Thy testimonies and thy ways please me no less indeed Then all the treasures of the earth which worldlings make their meed verse 15 Of thy precepts I will still muse and thereto frame my talk As at a mark so will I aim thy ways how I may walk verse 16 My onely joy shall be so fixt and on thy laws so set That nothing can me so far blinde that I thy words forget GIMEL The third part verse 17 Grant to thy servant now such grace as may my life prolong Thy holy word them will I keep both in my heart and tongue verse 18 Mine eyes which were dim and shut up so open and make bright That of thy law and marvellous works I may have the clear sight verse 19 I am a stranger in this earth wandring now here now there Thy word to me therefore disclose my footsteps for to clear verse 20 My soul is ravisht with desire and never is at rest But seeks to know thy judgements high and what may please thee best verse 21 The proud men and malicious thou hast destroy'd each one And cursed are such as do not thy hests attend upon verse 22 Lord turn from me rebuke and shame which wicked men conspire For I have kept thy covenants with zeal as hot as fire verse 23 The princes great in counsel sat and did against me speak But then thy servant thought how he thy statutes might not break verse 24 For why thy covenants are my joy and my hearts great solace They serve in stead of counsellours my matters for to pass DALETH The fourth part verse 25 I am alas as brought to grave and almost turn'd to dust Restore therefore my life again as thy promise is just verse 26 My ways when I acknowledged with mercy thou didst hear Hear now eftsoon and me instruct thy laws to love and fear verse 27 Teach me once throughly for to know thy precepts and thy lore Thy works then will I meditate and lay them up in store verse 28 My soul I feel so sore opprest that it melteth for grief According to thy word therefore haste Lord to send relief verse 29 From lying and deceitful lips let thy grace me defend And that I may learn thee to love thy holy law me send verse 30 The way of truth both straight and sure I have chosen and found I set thy judgements me before which keep me safe and sound verse 31 Since then O Lord I forc'd my self thy covenants to embrace Let me therefore have no rebuke nor check in any case verse 32 Then will I run with joyful cheet where thy word doth me call When thou hast set my heart at large and rid me out of thrall HE. The fifth part verse 33 Instruct me Lord in the right trade of thy statutes divine And it to keep even to the end my heart will I incline verse 34 Grant me the knowledge of thy law and I shall it obey With heart and minde and all my might I will it keep I say verse 35 In the right paths of thy precepts guide me Lord I require None other pleasure do I wish nor greater thing desire verse 36 Incline my heart thy laws to keep and covenants to embrace And from all filthy avarice Lord shield me with thy grace verse 37 from vain desires and worldly lusts turn back mine eyes and sight Give me the spirit of life and power to walk thy ways aright verse 38 confirm thy gracious promise Lord which thou hast made to me Which am thy servant and do love and fear nothing but thee verse 39 Reproach and shame which I so fear from me O Lord expel For thou dost judge with equity and therein dost excel verse 40 Behold my hearts desire is bent thy laws to keep for ay Lord strengthen me so with thy grace that it perform I may VAV. The sixth part verse 41 Thy mercies great and manifold let me obtain O Lord Thy saving health let me enjoy according to thy word verse 42 So shall I stop the slandrous mouths of lewd men and unjust For in thy faithful promises stands my comfort and trust verse 43 The word of truth within my mouth let ever still be prest For in thy judgements wonderful my hope doth stand and rest verse 44 And whil'st that breath within my breast doth natural life preserve Yea till this world shall be dissolv'd thy law will I observe verse 45 So walk will I as set at large and made free from all dread Because I sought how for to keep thy precepts and thy read verse 46 Thy noble acts I will describe as things of most great fame Even before kings I will them blaze and shrink no whit for shame verse 47 I will rejoyce then to obey thy worthy hests and will Which evermore I have lov'd best and so will love them still verse 48 My hands I will lift to thy laws which I have dearly sought And practise thy commandments in will in deed in thought ZAIN The seventh part verse 49 Thy promise which thou mad'st to me thy servant Lord remember For therein have I put my trust and confidence for ever verse 50 It is my comfort and my joy when troubles me assail For were my life not by thy word my life would soon me fail verse 51 The proud and such as God contemn still made of me a scorn Yet would I not thy law forsake as he that were forlorn verse 52 But call'd to minde Lord thy great works shew'd to our fathers old Whereby I felt the joy surmount my grief an hundred-fold verse 53 But yet alas for fear I quake seeing how wicked men Thy law forsook and did procure thy judgements who knows when verse 54 And as for me I fram'd my songs thy statutes to exalt When I among the strangers dwelt and thoughts 'gan me assault verse 55 I thought upon thy Name O Lord by night when others sleep As for thy law also I kept and ever will it keep verse 56 This grace I did obtain because thy covenants sweet and dear I did embrace and also keep with reverence and with tear HETH The eighth part verse 57 O God which art my part and lot my comfort and my stay I have decreed and promised thy laws to keep alway verse 58 Mine earnest heart did humbly sue in presence of thy face As thou therefore hast promised Lord grant me of thy grace verse 59 My
we thine inheritance Correct us not therefore in thine anger O Lord neither according to our deserts punish us but mercifully chastise us with a fatherly affection that all the world may know that at what time so ever a sinner doth repent him of his sins from the bottom of his heart thou wilt put away all his wickedness out of thy remembrance as thou hast promised by thy holy prophet Finally forasmuch as it hath pleased thee to make the night for man to rest in as thou hast ordained him the day to travail in grant O dear Father that we may so take our bodily rest that our souls may continually watch for the time that our Lord Jesus Christ shall appear for our deliverance out of this mortal life and in the mean season that we not overcome by any fantasies dreams or other temptations may fully set our minds upon thee love thee fear thee and rest in thee furthermore that our sleep be not excessive or overmuch after the insatiable desires of the flesh but onely sufficient to content our weak nature that we may be the better disposed to live in all godly conversation to the glory of thy most holy name and the profit of our brethren So be it A godly prayer to be said at all times HOnour and praise be given to thee O Lord God almighty most dear Father of heaven for all thy mercies and loving kindness shewed unto us in that it hath pleased thy gracious goodness freely and of thine own accord to elect and choose us to salvation before the beginning of the world and even like continual thanks be given to thee for creating us after thine own image for redeeming us with the precious bloud of thy dear Son when we were utterly lost for sanctifying us with thy holy Spirit in the revelation and knowledge of thy holy word for helping and succouring us in all our needs and necessities for saving us from all dangers of body and soul for comforting us so fatherly in all our tribulations and persecutions for sparing us so long and giving us so large a time of repentance These benefits O most merciful Father like as we acknowledge to have received them of thy onely goodness even so we beseech thee for thy dear Son Jesus Christs sake grant us always thy holy Spirit that we may continually grow in thankfulness towards thee to be led in all truth and comforted in all our adversities O Lord strengthen our faith kindle it more in ferventness and love towards thee and our neighbours for thy sake Suffer us not most dear Father to receive thy word any more in vain but grant us always the assistance of thy grace and holy Spirit that in heart word and deed we may sanctify and do worship to thy name help to amplify and increase thy kingdom and whatsoever thou sendest we may be heartily well content with thy good pleasure and will Let us not lack the thing O Father without the which we cannot serve thee but bless thou so all the works of our hands that we may have sufficient and not be chargeable but rather helpful to others Be merciful O Lord to our offences and seeing our debt is great which thou hast forgiven us in Jesus Christ make us to love thee and our neighbours so much the more Be thou our Father our captain and defender in all temptations hold thou us by thy merciful hand that we may be delivered from all inconveniences and end our lives in the sanctifying and honouring of thy holy name through Jesus Christ our Lord and onely Saviour So be it Let thy mighty hand and out-stretched arm O Lord be still our defence thy mercy and loving kindness in Jesus Christ thy dear Son our salvation thy true and holy word our instruction thy grace and holy Spirit our comfort and consolation unto the end and in the end So be it O Lord increase our faith A confession for all estates and times O Eternal God and most merciful Father we confess and acknowledge here before thy divine Majesty that we are miserable sinners conceived and born in sin and iniquity so that in us there is no goodness For the flesh evermore rebelleth against the spirit whereby we continually transgress thy holy precepts and commandments and so purchase to our selves through thy just judgement death and damnation Notwithstanding O heavenly Father forasmuch as we are displeased with our selves for the sins the we have committed against thee and do unfeignedly repent us of the same we most humbly beseech thee for Jesus Christs sake to shew thy mercy upon us to forgive us all our sins and increase thy holy Spirit in us that we acknowledging from the bottom of our hearts our own unrighteousness may from henceforth not onely mortifie our sinful lusts and affections but also bring forth such fruits as may be agreeable to thy most blessed will not for the worthiness thereof but for the merits of thy dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ our onely Saviour whom thou hast already given an oblation and offering for our sins and for whose sake we are certainly perswaded that thou wilt deny us nothing that we shall ask in his name according to thy will for thy Spirit doth assure our consciences that thou art our merciful Father and so lovest us thy children through him that nothing is able to remove thy heavenly grace and favour from us To thee therefore O Father with thy Son and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory world without end Amen A prayer to be said before a man begin his work O Lord God most merciful Father and Saviour seeing it hath pleased thee to command us to travail that we may relieve our need we beseech thee of thy grace so to bless our labours that thy blessing may extend unto us without the which we are not able to continue and that this great favour may be a witness unto us of thy bountifulness and assistance so that thereby we may know the fatherly care that thou hast over us Moreover O Lord we beseech thee that thou wouldst strengthen us with thy holy Spirit that we may faithfully travail in our estate and vocation without fraud or deceit and that we may endeavour our selves to follow thy holy ordinance rather then to seek to satisfie our greedy affections or desire to gain And if it please thee O Lord to prosper our labour give us a minde also to help them that have need according to that ability that thou of thy mercy shalt give us And knowing that all good things come of thee grant that we may humble our selves to our neighbours and not by any means lift up our selves above them which have not received so liberal a portion as thou of thy mercy hast given unto us And if it please thee to try and exercise us by greater poverty and need then our flesh would desire that thou wouldst yet O Lord grant us grace to know that
down sin as it were with a sword Depart not from thy pastours pure but aid them at their need Which break to us the bread of life whereon our souls do feed O blessed Spirit of truth keep us in peace and unity Keep us from sects and errours all and from all papistry Convert all those that are our foes and bring them to thy light That they and we may well agree and praise thee day and night O Lord increase our saith in us and love so to abound That man and wife be void of strife and neighbours about us round In our time give thy peace O Lord to nations far and nigh And teach them all thy holy word that we may sing to thee All glory to the Trinity that is of mighties most The living Father and the Son and eke the holy Ghost As it hath been in all the time that hath been heretofore As it is now and so shall be henceforth for evermore Da pacem Domine GIve peace in these our days O Lord Great dangers are now at hand Thine enemies with one accord Christs Name in every land Seek to deface Root out and rase Thy true right worship indeed Be thou the stay Lord we thee pray Thou help'st alone in all need Give us that peace that we do lack Through misbelief and ill life Thy word to offer thou dost not slack Which we unkindly gain-strive With fire and sword This healthful word Some persecute and oppress Some with the mouth Confess the truth Without sincere godliness Give peace and us thy Spirit down send With grief and repentance true Do pierce our hearts our lives to amend And by faith in Christ renew That fear and dread War and bloudshed Through thy sweet mercy and grace May from us slide Thy truth may bide And shine in every place The Lamentation O Lord in thee is all my trust give ear unto my woful cry Refuse me not that am unjust but bowing down thy heavenly eye Behold how I do still lament my â—ins wherein I do offend O Lord for them shall I be shent sith thee to please I do intend No no not so thy will is bent to deal with sinners in thine ire But when in heart they shall repent thou grant'st with speed their just desire To thee therefore still shall I cry to wash away my sinful crime Thy bloud O Lord is not yet dry but that it may help me in time Haste thee O Lord haste thee I say to pour on me thy gifts of grace That when this life shall flit away in heaven with thee I may have place Where thou dost reign eternally with God which once did down thee send Where angels sing continually to thee be praise world without end A Thanksgiving after the receiving of the Lords Supper THe Lord be thanked for his gifts and mercies evermore That he doth shew unto his saints to him be laud therefore Our tongues cannot so praise the Lord as he doth right deserve Our hearts cannot of him so think as he doth us preserve His benefits they be so great to us that be but sin That at our hands for recompence there is no hope to win O sinful flesh that thou shouldst have such mercies of the Lord Thou dost deserve most worthily of him to be abhorr'd Nought else but sin and wretchedness doth rest within our â—earts And stubbornly against the Lord we daily play our parts The sun above in firmament that is to us a light Doth shew it self more clear and pure then we be in his sight The heavens above and all therein more holy are then we They serve the Lord in their estate each one in his degree They do not strive for mastership nor slack their office set But serve the Lord and do his will hate is to them no let Also the earth and all therein of God it is in aw It doth observe the formers will by skilful natures law The sea and all that is therein doth bend when God doth beck The spirits beneath do tremble all and fear his wrathful check But we alas â—oâ— whom all these were made them for to rule Do not so know or love the Lord as doth the ox or mule A law he gave for us to know what was his holy will He would us good but we would not avoid the thing is ill Not one of us that seeketh out the Lord of life to please Nor doth the thing that might us lead to Christ and quiet ease Thus are we all his enemies we can it not deny And he again of his good will would not that we should dy Therefore when remedy was none to bring us unto life The Son of God our flesh he took to end our mortal strife And all the law of God the Lord he did it full obey And for our sins upon the cross his bloud our debts did pay And that we should not yet forget what good he to us wrought A signe he left our eyes to tell that he our bodies bought In bread and wine here visible unto thine eyes and taste His mercies great thou mayst record if that his Spirit thou hast As once the corn did live and grow and was cut down with lithe And threshed out with many stripes out from his husk to drive And as the mill with violence did tear it out so small And made it like to earthly dust not sparing it at all And as the oven with fire hot did close it up with heat And all this done that I have said that it should be our meat So was the Lord in his ripe age cut down by cruel death His soul he gave in torments great and yeelded up his breath Because that he to us might be an everlasting bread With much reproach and troubles great on earth his life he led And as the grapes in pleasant time are pressed very sore And plucked down when they be ripe and let to grow no more Because the juyce that in them is as comfortable drink We might receive and joyful be when sorrows make us shrink So Christ his bloud out pressed was with nails and eke with spear The juyce thereof doth save all those that rightly do him fear And as the corns by unity into one loaf are knit So is the Lord and his whole Church though he in heaven sit As many grapes make but one wine so should we be but one In faith and love in Christ above and unto Christ alone Leading a life without all strife in quiet rest and peace From envy and from malice both our hearts and tongues to cease Which if we do then shall we shew that we his chosen be By faith in him to lead a life as always willed he And that we may so do indeed God send us all his grace Then after death we shall be sure with him to have a place R. W. PReserve us Lord by thy dear word From Turk and Pope defend us Lord Which both would thrust
thou wilt nourish us continually through thy bountiful liberality that we be not so tempted that we fall into distrust but that we may patiently wait till thou fill us not onely with corporal graces and benefits but chiefly with thy heavenly and spiritual treasures to the intent that we may always have more ample occasion to give thee thanks and so wholly to rest upon thy mercies Hear â—s O Lord of mercy through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord and Saviour Amen A prayer for the whole estate of Christs Church ALmighty God and most merciful Father we humbly submit our selves and fall down before thy divine Majesty beseeching thee from the bottom of our hearts that the seed of thy word now sown amongst us may take such deep root that neither the burning heat of persecution cause it to wither neither the thorny cares of this life choke it but that as seed sown in good ground it may bring forth thirty sixty and an hundreâ—-fold as thy heavenly wisdom hath appointed And because we have need continually to crave many things at thy hands we humbly beseech thee O heavenly Father to grant us thy holy Spirit to direct our petitions that they may proceed from such a fervent minde as may be agreeable to thy most blessed will And seeing that our infirmity is able to do nothing without thy help and that thou art not ignorant with how many and great temptations we poor wretches are on every side inclosed and compassed let thy strength O Lord sustain our weakness that we being defended with the force of thy grace may be safely preserved against all assaults of Satan who goeth about continually like a roaring lion seeking to devour us Increase our faith O merciful Father that we do not swerve at any time from thy heavenly word but augment in us hope and love with a careful keeping of all thy commandments that no hardness of heart no hypocrisie no concupiscence of the eyes nor inticements of the world do draw us away from thy obedience And seeing we live now in these most perilous times let thy fatherly providence defend us against the violence of our enemies which do seek by all means to oppress thy truth Furthermore forasmuch as by thy holy Apostle we be taught to make our prayers and supplications for all men we pray not onely for our selves here present but beseech thee also to reduce all such as be yet ignorant from the miserable captivity of blindness and errour to the pure understanding and knowledge of thy heavenly truth that we all with one consent and unity of minde may worship thee our onely God and Saviour and that all pastours shepherds and ministers to whom thou hast committed the dispensation of thy holy word and charge of thy chosen people may both in their life and doctrine be found faithful setting onely before their eyes thy glory and that by them all poor sheep which wander and go astray may be gathered and brought home to thy fold Moreover because the hearts of all rulers are in thy hands we beseech thee to direct and govern the hearts of all kings princes and magistrates to whom thou hast committed the sword Especially O Lord according to our bounden duty we beseech thee to maintain and increase the honourable estate of the Kings majesty and all his most noble counsellers and magistrates with all the spiritual pastours and ministers and all the whole body of this common-weal Let thy fatherly favour so preserve them and thy holy Spirit so govern their hearts that they may in such sort execute their office that thy religion may be purely maintained manners reformed and sin punished according to the precise rule of thy holy word And for that we be all members of the mystical body of Jesus Christ we make our requests unto thee O heavenly Father for all such as are afflicted with any kinde of cross or tribulation as war plague famine sickness poverty imprisonment persecution banishment or any other kinde of thy rods whether it be calamity of body or vexation of minde that it would please thee to give them patience and constancy till thou send them full deliverance out of all their troubles Root out from hence O Lord all ravening wolves which to fill their bellies seek to destroy thy flock And shew thy great mercies upon those our brethren in other countreys which are persecuted cast into prison and daily condemned for the testimony of thy truth and although they be utterly destitute of all mans aid yet let thy sweet comfort never depart from them but so inflame their hearts with thy holy Spirit that they may boldly and cheerfully abide such trial as thy good wisdom shall appoint so that at length as well by their death as by their life the kingdom of thy dear Son Jesus Christ may increase and shine through all the world In whose name we make our humble petitions unto thee as he hath taught us Our Father which art c. The confession of the Christian Faith I Beleeve and confess my Lord God eternal infinite unmeasurable incomprehensible and invisible one in substance and three in person Father Son and holy Ghost who by his almighty power and wisdom hath not onely of nothing created heaven and earth and all things therein contained and man after his own image that he might in him be glorified but also by his fatherly providence governeth maintaineth and preserveth the same according to the purpose of his will I beleeve also and confess Jesus Christ the onely Saviour and Messias who being equal with God made himself of no reputation but took on him the shape of a servant and became man in all things like unto us except sin to assure us of mercy and forgiveness For when through our father Adams transgression we were become children of perdition there was no means to bring us from the yoke of sin and damnation but onely Jesus Christ our Lord who giving us that by grace which was his by nature made us through faith the children of God Who when the fulness of time was come was conceived by the power of the holy Ghost born of the virgin Mary according to the flesh and preached in earth the Gospel of salvation till at length by tyranny of the priests he was guiltless condemned under Pontius Pilate then President of Jewry and most slanderously hanged on the cross between two theeves as a notorious trespasser where taking upon him the punishment of our sins he delivered us from the curse of the law And forasmuch as he being onely God could not feel death neither being onely man could overcome death he joyned both together and suffered his humanity to be punished with most cruel death feeling in himself the anger and severe judgement of God even as he had been in extreme torments of hell and therefore cried with a loud voice My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Thus of his mercy without compulsion he