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[The flour of godly prayers] [most worthy to be used in these our days…[The flour of godly praiers] [most worthy to be vsed in these our daies…
[The flour of godly prayers] [most worthy to be used in these our days for the safeguard, health, and comfort of all degrees, and estates / newly made by Thomas Becon].[The flour of godly praiers] [most worthy to be vsed in these our daies for the sauegard, health, and comforte of all degrees, and estates / newlie made by Thomas Becon].
London: printed by John Day, 1550London: printed by Ihon Day, 1550
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A prayer for Fathers and Mothers.
FOR as much O heavenly father,1 as thou haste dealt with the children of men ⟨p. xli⟩more nobly then with brute beasts and with other thy creatures by giving them not only, an amiable body▪ but also a mind, which is immortal and never shall die,2 and for the garnishing of the same, that it may be made like unto the similitude, likeness and Image of thee, hast in thy holy law commanded all fathers and mothers,3 whom thou haste blessed with the gift of children to take diligent care for the virtuous bringing up of their sons & daughters, that they may learn even from their very cradles to know the their Lord God, to believe in thee, to fear and love thee, to call upon thy blessed name, to be thankful unto thee, and to walk in thy holy commandments all the days of their life: We knowing how froward evil disposed▪ and untoward the heart,4 wit and disposition ⟨image 57⟩of man is even from his very youth, if it be not restrained with the bit of thy most blessed law, heartily pray the to give all fathers and mothers grace after the example of Abraham,5