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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 thanksgiving unto God for all his benefits.
A thankesgeuinge vnto God for al his benefites.
VE most heartily thank the (O LORD God our heavenly father) for thy manifold ⟨image 163⟩and inestimable benefits, which thou haste given unto us both for our body and soul, yea and freely even of thine own goodness without our desert. We thank the that it hath pleased thee of thy great mercy first to create & make us according to thine own image and likeness,1 & to place us in joyful paradise,2 where we should continually have remained in a blessed & quiet state, if through the subtle and deceitful suggestions of of Satan our old enemy,3 we had not transgressed thy holy commandment. We thank the also (O most gentle father) for thy loving kindness, which thou showedst unto us, when we all were perished & lost through the sin of our first father Adam. For when thou mightest justly have condemned us and cast us into perpetual dā nation, ⟨p. cxlviii⟩thou like a father of singular great love haddest pity on us, and savedst us by the death and passion of thy well-beloved son our Lord & saviour Jesus Christ,4 which gave him self a ransom for all our since, and payed a sufficient price by his precious blood, for all the wickedness that we at any time heretofore have committed,5 or hereafter shall commit through our frailty & weakness, so that we repent, believe & amend. Neither wast thou thus contented, that he only should dye for our sins, but thou also didst raise him up again for our justification,