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CHRI. That is best

PHIL. Hear now. ¶ The prayer. O Good God & merciful father the author & giver of all wisdom,¹ which at the intercession of thy well-beloved son Jesus Christ our LORD and saviour diddest send down according to thy promise thy holy spirit ⟨image 17⟩to lighten the hearts & senses of the apostles before they could sincerely understand the high mysteries of thy divine will:² We most humbly beseech thee, that all clouds of ignorance & darkness dispelled & put away, we being here gathered together in thy name, may through that same thy spirit enjoy the light of thy eternal verity, & so reverently read & talk of thy most blessed word at this present, that we understanding y• same being inflamed with the love & reading thereof, may in all points fashion our life according unto thy holy word, & seriously provide, that the light of all our acts & manners may so shine before men,³ that they seeing our good works, may glorify the our father which art in heaven, to whom with thy well-beloved son Jesus Christ & the holy ghost three distinct persons in deity, and yet one very true & perfect God in essence, be all ⟨image 17⟩honour, praise, & glory for evermore

PHIL. Heare nowe. ¶ The prayer. O Good God & mercyefull father the •uthor & gyuer of all wisdome,¹ whych at the intercession of thy welbeloued sonne Iesus Christe our LORDE and sauioure dyddest sende downe accordynge to thy promyse thy holye spyryte