deliuer me to thy sonne Can a mother forget the child she bare of her wōb and sureli although she sōtimes be forgetful yet thou O father hast promised not to forget vs. Behold I cry and thou dost not heare me ▪ I am vexed with sorow and thou confortest me not What shall I say or what shall I doo most wretched caitife that I am I beīg desolate of so great comforte am cast out from the sight of thine eyes Wo be vnto me from how great goodnes into how great a mischefe am I fallen whether purposed I to go and whether am I comen Where am I and where am I not whom did I study to attein ▪ vnto and what euils haue I obteyned I sought for good thīgs and beholde I haue found trouble care Behold now I am in the state of deathe and Iesus is not with me And surely it were better for me to haue nothing at all yea no beyng at all thē to be without Iesu. It is better not to liue then to liue without life And thou O Lorde Iesu where be thine olde mercies wilt thou be angry towardes me for euer Be pacified I beseche thee and haue mercy vpon me and turne not thy face away frō me which to thintēt thou mightest redeme me didst not turne a way thy face from thē that rebuked thee and spitted vpon thee I confes and acknowledge that I haue sinned and my conscience deserueth damnacion and the penaunce that I am able to doo is not sufficient to make amēds for mine iniquities But sure certain I am that thy mercy exceadeth all offences that a man can doo Oh doo not I beseche thee most pitifull Lorde write my heynous sinnes against me y t thou shuldest entre into iudgement with thy seruaunt But ac cording to the multitude of thy mercies cros blot out mine in iquities Wo be vnto me wretch that I am when the day of iudg ment commeth and the bookes of consciences shalbe layd wide open when it shalbe said of me Lo looke vpon this felow his wurkes What shall I doo then O Lorde my God when the hea uens shall reuele and shew forth mine iniquitie the earth shall arise vp and testifie mine iniquitie against me Beholde I shalbe able to geue neuer one wurd to answer but to stande in thy presence trimbling quaking vtterly confounded and holding downe my head for shame Alas wretch that I am what shall I say I will cry vnto thee o lorde my God Why am I consumed fretted with holdīg my peace But if I should speak my greef would not cease And if I hold my peace I shalbe most bitterly vexed within me Mourne o my soule lament as a widow for her first husbande that she had in her yong age Houle wretche cry out with weping because thy spouse Christ hathe forsaken thee O God almightie let not thine angre fall vpō me because that if thou lay somuche to my charge as is dew for my sinnes it is so muche that I can not receiue it Sureli my power is not able for to suffre or beare it Haue merci vpon me least I dispeire But in despeiring I will take hart to me and be sōwhat cōforted For all though I haue committed so muche that thou mayst condemne me wurthely yet thou hast not lost that wherwith thou wast wont to saue sin ners nether dost thou reioise at the destructiō los of them that dye yea to thintente that dead men might liue thou thy felf didst die and thy deathe did kill the deathe of sinnes And if they were reuiued again and did liue by thy deathe I besech thee let not me die now y tthou liuest Send downe thy hand power from hie and deliuer me out of the hands of mine enemies that they reioyse not ouer me and say let vs deuoure him Who euer O good Ie su needed to mistrust of thimerci which whē we were thine enemies didstredeme vs with thy blud and reconciled vs vnto God Beholde I being hid vnder the shadow of thy mer cy doo come vnto the throne of thy glory requiring I doo rū crying and knocking vntil thou take pitie vppon me For if thou didst call vs to pardon forgeuenes before we laboured for pardon how soone shall we obtein forgeuenes when we aske it Doo not remembre omost boūtefull Iesu thy iustice toward a sinner but think vpon thy liberalitie gentlenes towarde thy creature Doo not remēbre thine angre toward the giltie but remembre thy pity and mercy toward a wretche Forget me in y t I proudly did prouoke moue thee to wrath and look vppon a wretche that calleth vpon thee For what is Iesus but a sauior Therfore good Iesu for thine owne sake arise and helpe me and say vnto my soule I am thy health and thy safegarde I presume muche and am very bolde of thy goodnes O Lord because thou doost teache vs to aske to seek and to knocke wherfore I being admonished by thy wurd doo aske seek and knock And thou O Lorde that commaundest vs to aske make me able to receiue Thou that geuest councell to seeke graunte that I may finde Thou that teachest vs to knock opē to me when I knock and confirme me whiche am vnstable and wauering restore me that am lost raise me y t am dead and vouchsafe to direct gouern in thy fauoure all my sences my thoughts and dooings that frō hensfoorth I may serue thee I may liue toward thee and that I may commit my self vnto thee I knowe O my Lord that thorow this that thou hast made me I owe and am in det vnto thee euen mine owne selfe because thou hast redemed me and wast made man for my sake for this I say I owe vnto thee more thē my selfe Lo I haue no more nether can I geue that whiche I haue vnto thee without thee But doo thou take me and draw me vnto thee y t I may be thine in folowing louing thee like as I am thine in condicion creation whiche liuest and reignest world without ende Amen FINIS O God the Father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the father of heauen c O God the sonne redemer of the world haue mercy vpon vs myserable sinners O God the sonne redemer of c. O God y e holy Ghost proceding frō the Father the sōne haue mercy vpō vs miserable sinners O God the holi Ghost proceding c O holy blessed glorious Trinitie thre persōs one god haue merci vpō vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious c. Remember not Lorde our offēces nor the offēces of oure forefathers nether take thou vengeaunce of oure sinnes Spare vs good lord spare thy people whō thou hast redemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lorde From all euill mischief from sinne from the crafts
THE POMAVNDER of Prayer Newly made by Thomas Becon ECCLE 24. ¶ Pleasauntly do I smell euē as it wer Cynamome and svvete Balme THOMAS BECONVS SACROSĀCTAE THEOLOGIAE PROFESSOR AETATIS SVAE .41 AN o DN̄I .1553 Ora expressa vides viuos imitantia vultus Quod potuit calamo pictor arte videt Mentis quā nullus potuit tibi reddere pict◠Effigiem scriptis praebuit ipse suis. To the moste honorable and vertuous Lady Anne of Cleue her grace syster to the hye and myghtye Prynce Wylliam Duke of Cleue c. Thomas Becon wysheth the fauor of God long lyfe and continuall health AMong many other godly and noble vertues whiche God by his holy spirit hath graffed in your graces breast most honorable Lady the feruent affection and continuall desyre of prayinge vnto the Lord our God hath neither the last nor the lest place in you And as God hath wrought in you by y e holy Ghost thys godly mind to call vpon his holy name with diligent prayer so lykewise doth your grace stur vp and confyrme that spirituall mocion w t the exercise of daily praier least that godly affecciō shuld be quēched which the holy Ghost hath kindled in your heart For your grace doth rightwell consider y t God deliteth in nothynge more then in y e inuocacion of his blessed name and in the sacrifice of thankes geuing for his benefits Where the name of God is diligently called vpon most humble and harty thāks geuen vnto him for his fatherly and frendly giftes there is hys blessing grace and fauoure plenteous there is the holy Ghost present there is a mery conscience ther al thīgs prosper there wanteth no good thing Contynue therfore most honorable Lady as ye haue godly begun both you and all your faithful family to call on the glorious name of the Lord our God with feruent prayer and forget not to be thankfull vnto hym for hys benefites wherwith aboue many other he hath richly endued your grace So shal he be your louing Lord gracious God your fauorable father and strōg shilde So shall he make your grace to prosper in al your doings blesse you both with longlyfe and much honor And that your grace may haue at hand conuement prayers to pray vnto the Lord our God I thought it good consyderyng your graces manifold vertues to geue vnto you this my Pommaunder of prayer wherein are breeflye contayned suche godlye prayers as are most mete in this our age to be vsed of all degrees and estates most humbly beseching your grace to take in good part this my rude and bolde enterprise according to your accustomed gentlenesse God whose glory you hartely loue whose word you ioifulli embrace whose name you earnestly call vppon mought vouchesafe to preserue your grace in continuall health and encrease of honoure Amen Your Graces most humble and faithfull Oratoure Thomas Becon ¶ The Pomaūder of Prayer ¶ A Prayer for the morning I Render vnto thee O heauenly father most hartye thankes by thy deare sonne Iesus Christ that this night past thou hast vouchedsafe of thy fatherlye goodnes to preserue me from all euill to geue my bodye rest and slepe I now most entierly beseche thee y t as thou hast raised vp this my body frō slepe so likewise thou wylt delyuer my mynde from the slepe of synne and from the darknesse of this world that I walking in the lyght of thy blessed worde maye onely doo that is pleasaunt in thy sight profitable to my neighbour and healthfull to my soule Amen ¶ A prayer for y e Euening I Most humbly thanke the O mercifull Father for preseruinge me this day frō all misfortunes and for thy other benefites wherewyth thou hast plēteously blessed me I beseche y e forgeue me al my sinnes wherwyth I haue offended thy fatherlye goodnes from the very beginnīg of my lyfe vnto this present houre and take me this night into thy tuicion y tmyne enemies maye haue no power ouer me but that my body enioyinge a sweet slepe my minde may continually watch vnto thee and through fayth beholde thy blessed maiesty with a perfect hope after this frayle transitory lyfe to possesse y timmortal and heauenly lyfe where thou gloriously lyuest and reignest with thy onlye begotten sonne and y e holye Ghost one true and euerlastyng God worldes without ende Amen A prayer for the forgeuenes of synne O My Lord and onely sauior Iesu Christ which camest into thys worlde to take away the heuy burdēs of them that were loden to seke that was lost to call synners vnto repentaunce to geue euerlastynge lyfe to the faithfull and to be a mediator betwene God the father and vs I poore wretched sinner from the verye hart lament and inwardly bewayle my synnefull and wretched lyfe desiryng the for thy promyse sake according to thy mercyfull wont to be my mediatour and aduocate vnto God the father that he maye forgeue me all mine olde sinnes so wholy possesse my hart by his blessed spirite that he mai defēde me against al perils to come which the diuel the world or the flesh imagineth against me and so chaunge me into a new man that mine olde sinnes being wyped awaye in thi precious bloud I may walke frō vertue to vertue vnto the glory and praise of his blessed name Amen A prayer vnto God the father THy dearly beloued sōne O most louing father taught vs in hys holy Gospel that to know the to be y e alone true God is euerlasting lyfe Graunt therfore we beseche thee y t we may truly knowe thee euen as we are taught by thy holye word beleue with the hart and cōfesse with the mouth that thou alone art the true liuing and immortall God our heauēly father our maker our preseruer and our defender that we thus beleuing and confessing maye through thy sonne Christ be come heires of euerlastyng lyfe And as we thus beleue and confesse of thee ▪ so geue vs grace to shew forth thys our faith by godly conuersacion and vertuous liuing y tmē seeing our good workes may glorify thee our heuēly father to whom be prayse for euer Amen ¶ A prayer vnto God the sonne O Lord Iesu christ y e sōne of y e liuing God yea very God himself begottē of god y e father frō euerlasting continuing true immortal God worlds w tout end by thee al thīgs wer made both inheauen and in earth by thee also they be cōserued kept in a order thou art the bryghtnesse of thy fathers glorye thou art the verye image of hys substāce in thee are hid al y e treasures of wysedome and knowledge in y e dwelleth al fulnes by thee ar we reconcyled to God y e father by thee ar we sette at peace with him through y e bloud of the crosse bi thee haue we free accesse vnto y e glorious throne of Gods maiestye by thee are we brought in
mine vngracious frowardnes and his meeknes against my ferse crueltie Let his humilitie recompence my pride his pacience mine impacience his gentlenes mine vnkinde churlishnes his obedience my disobedience his quyetnes mine vnquietnes his plesaūt towardnes my bitter frowardnes his sweet facilitie and gentlenes mine anger and freating fumes to cōclude let his charitie make amendes for my hemous and dedetestable crueltie Amen ¶ A deuout Prayer to the holy Ghost NOw O almighty and holy Ghost whiche art the loue of the deuine power the holy participator partner with the almighty father and his moste blessed sōne the moste mercifull comforter of the sorowful I beseeche thee to slide by thy mighty power into thinward partes of mine hart that thou dwelling there maist make glad and as it were lighten euery dark corner of the neglect and forletten cōtage w t the bright shining of thy lyght that in visiting y e same y u wouldest ornate deck with y e plenteousnes of thy dew y e lothsome places therof whiche be corrupted with filthines Kin del the preuy wounded partes of the inner man with thy holsom flames and with pearcing the in ward partes of my soul entrails with the dart of thy loue Feed all the inner partes bo the of my minde body by the illuminating and lightening with y e fire of thy holy feruent loue Geue me to drink of thy most pleasaūt riuer to thintent I may haue no lust to taste any worldly things whiche be mixed with poyson Geue sentēce with me o lorde and defend my cause against the vngodly nation Teache me to doo thy wil because thou art my God For I beleue that in whō so euer thou doost dwell thou buildest an hous in him for the Father also the Sonne Blessed is that man that getteth such a gest because that by thee y e father and the sōne also will dwel and abide with him Come now O moste louing cōforter of my sorowful soule whiche art a pro tector in all necessities and an help in troubles and aduersities Como purger of sinnes healer and curer of woūdes Come the strength of the fraill and feeble the releeuer and raiser vp of thē that slide Come the instructer reacher of the humble and meek the destroyer and plucker down of the proud and stubbern Com the good and kinde father of the fatherles the gētle iudge of widowes Come thou whiche art a gide vnto them that ar tossed in the waues of this tempestuous world like as a bright and notable star is to them that sail on the sea an hauen vnto thē that are afraid of shipwrak Com the wurship honor of all them that liue the only health of the dead Come most holi ghost come and haue mercy on me make me meete for thee and mercifully graunt vnto me according to y e multitud of thy great mercies y tmy basenes may please thy maiestie and my weaknes thy allmighty power for Iesu Christe my sauioures sake which with the fathers and thine vnitie liueth and reigneth worlde without end Amen ☞ A prayer to the holi Trinitie WIth all my hart and mouthe doo I confesse praise blesse thee O God the father vnbegot ten and thee O God the sonne only begotten also thee O holy ghost and comfortour to thee be glory in the world of worldes Amen An acknowledging of almighty God and his Maiesty O Most high Trinitie one only power and vndeuided Ma iesty our God God almighty I the abiect and hin moste of al thy seruaunts confes and acknowledge thee and beeing the least mēbre of thy church I wurship thee w t a due sacrifice of praise for as much as I am able can according to that whiche thou hast vouchsafed to endue me w tal And for as muche as I am destitute of outward gifts to offer vnto the. Those vowes of praise whiche I haue of the gift of thy mercy behold willingly gladly I offer them to thee which be an vnfained faith and a pure cōsciece I beleue therfore with all my hart O king of heauen and Lorde of the earth and with my mouthe doo I confes thee the father the sonne and holy ghost to bee three in persons and one in substaunce the true and very God almighty of one simple in corporal and inuinsible nature incomprehensible and of suche a nature as is not in a place as other natures bee and that thou hast nothing superiour or aboue thy selfe or lower or any thing bigger then thy self But in all maner of meanes perfect with out all spot of deformitie that thou art great without quantitie good without qualitie euer lasting without time life without death strong without infirmity or wekenes true without lying presēt in euery place with out any situatiō or being placed in any place to be al eueri where w tout place fulfilling all things without stretchīg forth thy hād going euery where without any contradiction or gaine saying passing ouer al thinges without mouing abiding win all things without ani kinde of proportiō making al thinges hauing need of nothing gouerning al things without labor geuing all thinges their beginning hauing no beginning thy selfe Making all thinges mutable and variable thy self being without all kinde of mutabilitie in greatnes with oute measure in power almighty in goodnes the cheef best in wisdome inestimable in counsels intentes purposes terrible and fearfull In iudgmentes most vpright iust in cogitations thoughtes most secret in wurdes true in wurkes holy in mercies abundant plentiful toward offenders most patiēt to ward the penitēt and those that be sory for their sinnes most gen tle louing Alwayes the same euerlasting and continually cōtinuing immortall and in commutable impossible to be chaūged or altered whom nether the amplitude or largenes of places doth make bigger nor the short nes or littlenes of places lesser nor any places or corners can cō teine or pres together neyther dooth thy will or intent vary or alter nor familiaritie or acquaītance corrupte thee nor sorowful things trouble or amase the nor glad thinges make thee plesaunt or frolike as a man wold say from thee can forgetfulnes take nothing nor mindfulnes or remembraunce geue any thing nether are things passed vnto vs passed also vnto thee nor things whiche to vs are to come come toward thee for nether beeginning dooth geue any beginning to thee nor time any increase nor yet chaunce geueth thee any end But before all worldes and in worldes and by worldes into euerlasting thou doost liue and thou hast continual praise perpetuall glory moste hie power singuler honor euerlasting king dom and rule and imperie without end thorow the infinit and vnwery and immortall world of worlds ¶ After what sorte God the father vouchedsafe to helpe mankind and of the incarnation of the wurd whiche is Christe and of the geuing of thanks HItherto O almighty God the beholder and sercher
thorow thy sōne to deserue and with due honor allway to wurship this great mistery of thy pitie whiche is manifest in our fleshe Iustified in the spirit did appeere vnto Angels was preched vnto nations was bele ued to be in the world was takē vp into heauen Amen ¶ Of the thankes whiche man ought to geue vnto God for the benefite of his redemption LOok how muche O Lorde our God we are in det vnto thee euē for so great a price wer we redeemed with suche a great gift were we saued and with so great abenefit helped How muche ought we wretches to loue dread bles praise honoure and glorify thee whiche hast so loued vs after suche facion saued vs after suche a sorte sanctified vs so set vs on high To the truly doo we owe are bound in as muche as we are able euē our life and all our study or endeuour But who hath ani thing that is not thine But doo thou O Lorde our God from whom all goodnes procedeth euen for thy holy names sake geue vs of thy goodnes that we may serue thee of thine owne goods and gifts that we may please thee in truthe repay vnto the daily due praises for so great benefites of thy mercy For by none other meanes can we serue or please thee but by thine owne gifts y tthou hast lent vs while we be in this world For euery good gift and euery perfect gift is from aboue commeth down from the father of light with whō there is none alteration or variablenes neither yet is he changed vn to darknes O Lorde our God a pitifull God a good God and almighty God an vnspekeable God and incomprehensible of suche a nature that can not be cō teined as in a place o god which art the beginner of all things the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe whiche diddest send the same thy beloued sōne our lorde foorth of thy bosome to oure cōmon profite to take vpon him our life to thintent he might geue vs his life that he might be perfect and very God of thee his father and very and perfect man of his mother a whole and a perfect God and a whole and perfect man and yet but one on ly Christe bothe euerlasting enduring but for a space bothe immortall and mortall bothe a creator and a creature strong weke an ouercommer and one ouercomed a nurs and one that was nurced him self a shepherd and a sheep dead for a time and liuing with the euerlasting pro mising to them that loued him the fredom of life Who said to his disciples what thing so euer ye ask the father in my name he will geue it vnto you For that hie Priestes sake whiche was al so a bishop in deed a god shepherd that offred him self in a sacrifice to thee putting his life in ieoperdi for his flock for his sake I say I beseche thee whiche sitteth on thy right hand maketh intercession for vs being our redemer our aduocate that thou woldest graunt vnto me that to gether with thy sonne the holy ghost I may in al things bles and glorify thee with muche cōtriciō of hart and a fountain of teares with muche reuerence fear For the gift of them that be all of one substaunce is all one But because abody that is corrupted doth aggrauate burden the soule stir vp and awake I be seche thee my sluggishnes with thy pricks and prouokings and make me boldly to perseuer and continue in thy commaundements and lawes day and night Graunt me that my hart may waxe warme within me and that in my meditation and praier I may be feruent And for as muche as thy only sonne said No man can come to me except my Father that sent me shall draw him again no man cometh to the father but by me I re quire and humbly beseche thee draw me alwaies vnto him that he at the lēgth may bring me to thee thether I mean wheras he is sitting on thyrighthand wher as is euerlastīg life and continu al blessednes whereas is perfect loue without all kinde of fear where as is one day euerlasting and one spirit of all men where as is moste sure securitie safty secure quietnes and quiet plesantnes pleasaunt felicitie and happines happy eternitie continuall and eternall seeing and praising of thee without ende where as thou with him and he with thee in the communiō and vnitie of the holy ghost euerlastingly and continually liuest reignest thorow out all worldes of worldes Amen ¶ A deuout prayer vnto Christe O Christe and God whiche art my hope and the true gentle louer of mankinde the light the way the life the health the honor and wurship of them that be thine I beseche thee call to thy remembraunce all things that thou willingly didst suffre for thē bothe bōds cros woūds death and sepulchre whiche after thre dayes death being ouer comed didst rise wast seen of thi Disciples reforming their harts and establishing them that were almoste enclining from thee the forty day after didst ascend vp to heauen which liuest euerlasting ly now and raignest thorow out worldes thou art my God bothe liuing and true my father my God bothe holy and pitifull my mighty king my good shepherd mine only Master my best helper one whō I am moste bound to loue my liuing bread mine euerlasting preest my guide vnto my conntrey my true light my holy sweetnes my right streight way Mine excellent wisdō my pure and vnfained simplicitie my peasible cōcorde my safe garrison my good portiō mine euerlasting helth my great mercy my strōgest patiēce mine vnspotted sacrifice my holy redēption my sure stedfast hope my perfit charitie my very and true resurrection mine euerlasting life my ioy and moste blessed vision continuall without ende I humbly beseche thee I desire and pray thee that I may walk by thee that I may come to the that I may rest in thee whiche art the way the truthe the life without the whiche no man can come vnto the father Thee doo I desire couet O good Lorde whiche art the brightnes of thy fathers glori which sittest aboue the Angell called Cherubin and doost beholde the lowe and deep places whiche art the true light the light y e lightneth all things the light that neuer faileth nor goeth out whiche the Angels haue desire to beholde Loe my hart is before thee in thy sight put away the darknes from it that it may fully be replenished with the clearnes of thy loue Geue vnto me Lorde thy self beholde I doo loue thee if that be but a thing of small valure make me to loue the more strōgly and earnestly I can not mesure to know how muche I lack of thy loue nether cā I tell how muche shoulde be sufficient for me that my life may fulfill his course in thy loue and not turn back vntil
very good pitifull shepherd brought him home vpō his shulders vnto the foldes of the flock Oh charitie oh pitie who hathe heard any suche things who is not astonied to cōsider the bowels of so great mercy who wold not meruail who would not ho nor wurship thee for thy great charitie wherwith thou louedst vs Thou didst send thy sōne into the similitude of fleshe subiect to sin that he might condemn sin for sin that we might be made thy righteousnes in him For he was the very lamb with out spot whiche took away the sinnes of the world whiche destroyed our death by diyng him self But what may we render vnto thee our God for so great benefites of thy mercy What praises or what thancks Uerily if we should haue that same knowledg and power that blessed Angels haue yet should we not be able to requite thy so great pitie and goodnes with any thing of valure No if all our mēbres were turned into tungs to repay vnto thee due praises yet were not our slendernes sufficient There is one thing that excedeth all knowledge euen thine inestimable charitie whiche thou didst shew vnto vs vnwurthi persons for thy goodnes pities sake Thy sonne O our God did take vpō him to be the seed of Abraham not of Angels yea and he was made like vnto vs in all things sin onli excepted He therfore taking mand nature not angels and glorifying it with the stole of holi resur rection and immortalitie caried it aboue the he auens and aboue all the melodious companies of Angels aboue Cherubin Seraphin placing it vpō thy right hand This humain nature doo Angels praise all the powers of heauen doo tremble to see a mā to be God ouer thē This truly is all my hope all my trust And this same humain nature is in Iesu Christe our Lorde who is the porcion of euery one of vs y e flesh bloud Therfore whereas my portion reigneth there doo I beleue to reign Wheras my fleshe is glorified there doo I beleue to be glorified Where my bloude ruleth there do I per ceiueme to beare rule Although I be a sinner yet I doo not mistrust nor dispair of the communion and partaking of fauour Although my sinnes doo hinder me in a maner forbid me neuertheles my substaunce requireth it And al be it that mine offences doo exclude me yet the cō manion of our nature dothe not expell me For God is not so vngentle as to forget man and not to remembre that thing whiche him self beareth that whiche for my sake he took vpon him that which for my sake he requireth But truely the Lorde our God is lowly and meek wunderfull gentle and loueth his fleshe his membres and his bow els In the very same God our lord Iesus Christe who is moste gentle louing and mercifull in whom we are risen from death that is to say from the state of perdition and eternall damnation euen now by him we ascend into the heauens now sit in the heauēs in him I say our flesh loueth vs. For we haue in him by him a prerogatiue and as it were a preferment of our bloud For we are his mēbres his flesh And he is oure head of the whiche dependeth the whole body as it is written a bone of my bones flesh of my flesh thei shalbe two in one flesh no mā at ani time hateth his owne flesh but rather cherisheth and loueth it This is a great mistery I speak in Christe in the churche saith the apostle Of the double nature of Christ whiche hath mercy vpon vs and maketh intercession for vs. WHerfore with my lips hart and with all the might that I may I rendre thankes vnto thine infinit mercy o Lorde our god for all thy mercy wherwith merueilously thou vouchsafed to help succour vs that were lost by the same thy sonne our sauior and recouerer whiche died for our sinnes rose again for our iustification and liuing without end sitteth on thy right hand and entreateth for vs and together with thee taketh pitie and mercy vpō vs because he is God thorow thee O father euerlasting and of one substance with thee in all things Wherby alway he may saue vs but for as muche as he is man in whichething he is les and inferiour vnto thee all power bothe in heauen and in earth was geuen vnto him that in the name of Iesu euery knee should bow bothe of celestiall earthly creatures and also of infernall that all tūgs may confes that our lorde Iesus Christe is in thy glory O father almightie He verily was constituted of thee and ordeined to be aiudge of the quick and dead for thou truly iudgest no man but all thy iudgement hast geuen to thy sonne in whose brest all trea sures of wisedom knowledge are hid He truly is bothe a witnes and a iudge a iudge a wit nes whom no sinfull conscience can flee or auoid for al things be thei neuer so secret are open and euen naked and vncouered vnto him He verely whiche was vnrighteously iudged himself shall iudge the whole world in equitie and the people in rightousnes and according to iustice Therfore doo I bles thy name e uerlasting and glorify the same with all my hart O almighty mercifull Lorde for y tvnspeakable and merueilous coniuntiō of godhed and manhod together in the vnitie of a person not after this sort y t thone should be God and thother man but one and the same was bothe God man man and God Neuertheles although by thy merueilous will the wurd was made fleshe yet nether of bothe the natures was chaunged into others substaunce In the mistery of y e Trinitie there is not afourth persō added For the substaunce of the wurd of god and of man was vnited and knit together but not cōfused mixed that that thing whiche was taken of vs should be turned into god that which neuer had ben before that time that is his flesh manhod shuld be the same that had ben euer without any beginning that is his godhed Oh meruellous mistery Oh vnspeakeable felowship Oh merueilous meeknes of the heauenli mercifulnes which is euer wurthy merueiling and euer to be loued We were but vile seruants beholde we are made the sōnes of god Yea and heires of god together w t christe From whence came this goodnes and who broughte vs vnto this state But I require the O moste mercifull father by thine inestimable pitie goodnes charitie to make vs wurthy of these many and great promisses of the same thy Sonne our Lord Iesu Christe Send forth thy strength O God and establish the thing that thou hast wrought in vs. Make perfect that whiche thou hast begun that we may be able to come vnto the fulnes and per fectnes of thy pity Make vs tho row the holy ghost to vnderstād and