A godly letter sent too the faithful in London, Newcastle, Berwick, and to all…A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all…

That this be most reverently done should provoke us the consideration / in whose presence we stand / to whom we speak / and what we desire / standing in the presence of the omnipotent creator of heaven & earth / and of all the contents thereof / to whom assist & serve a thousand thousand of angels / ¹giving obedience to his eternal majesty / & speaking unto him / who knoweth the secretes off our hearts / dissimulation & lies are always odious / & hated. And asking that thing / which without we receive of all other creators we are most miserable / diligently should we attend that such things as may offend his godly presence to the uttermost of our power be removed. And first that worldly carens / & fleshly cogitations / such as draw us from contemplation of God be expelled from them / that it may freely without interruption call upon God.² But how diffysed & hard is this one thing in prayer to perform / knoweth no man better / then such as in their prayers / not content to remain within the bands of their own vanity / but as it were ravished / do intend to a pure word of God / asking not such things as the blind & foolish reason of man desireth / but what may be pleasant & acceptable in Gods presence.³ Our adversary satan / at all times compassing us about / is never more busy then when we address & bend us to prayer / for ⟨p. iij⟩