An answer to a letter of a Jesuit named Tyrie, be John KnoxAn answer to a letter of a Iesuit named Tyrie, be Iohne Knox

THE PRAYER.

¶Lord Jesus receive my spirit, and put an end at thy good pleasure, to this my miserable life: for Justi•e and truth are not to be found amongst the sons of men.

¶Lord Iesus receaue my spirite, and put an end at thy gude pleasure, to this my miserable lyfe: for Iusti•e and treuth ar not to be found amo•ges the sonnes of men.

John Knox with deliberate mind to his God.

Iohne Knox with deliberat mynd to his God.

BE merciful unto me. ô Lord, and call not into Judgement my manifold finis: and chiefly those, whereof the world is not able to accuse me. In youth, ••yd age, & now after many battles, I find nothing into me, but vanity and corruption. For in quietness I am negligent, in trouble impatient, tending to desperation, and in the mean state, I am so carried away with vane fantasies, y• (alas) o Lord, they withdraw me from the presence of thy Majesty. Pride and ambition assault me on the an part, covetousness and malice trouble me on the oher: briefly, o Lord, the affctionis of the flesh do almost suppress the operation of thy spirte. I take thee, o Lord (who only knows the secrets of hearts) to record, that in none of the foresaid I do delight: but that with them I am troubled, and that for against the desire of my in ward man, which sobs for my corruption and would repose in thy mercy alone. To the which I claim: and that in the promise that thou hes maid to all