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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 the sick to be said of the congregation▪
¶ A prayer for the sycke to be sayde of the congregacyon▪
O Jesus the alone saviour of the world, and the only true Physician both of body and soul, we are come together at this present before the thorn of thy godly Majesty to offer our humble prayers unto thee for our sick and weak brother whom thou haste visited with thy loving rod of correction, whereby thou offerest ⟨image 165⟩thyself unto him as a most gentle father to his dear son, and by temporal punishment •uttest away eternal pains, which both he and all we through our sinful living have most righteously deserved and by making the outward man weak, thou comfortest and makest strong the inward man, which is made like to thy glorious image. We most entirely beseech thee, mercifully to behold this our weak brother, and as that pitiful Samaritan to pour wine and oil into his wounds & to bind them up, that is, to relieve him, & to comfort him, and to cherish him with thy holy spirit, to make him strong in his inward man that in the midst of his sickness, he may not only •ere the cross, that thou haste laid on him patiently, and so show him self conformable to thy blessed will, but also ⟨p. cl⟩thankfully praise thy holy name for thy fatherly correction, & with unfeigned and strong faith, say: The lord gave me my health, the Lord hath taken it away again. As it hath pleased the lord, so it is come to pass, now blessed be the the name of the Lord. Oh it is for my great profit, that the lord hath thus visited me, even that I should learn to forsake mine own will, and to walk in his holy ordinances. I am his creature, & a sheep of his pasture, let him deal with me, as seemeth good in his godly sight. For whither I live or dye, I am the Lords. His will therefore be done and not mine. Give him grace (O sweet Jesus) thus to be persuaded of thy good will toward him even in the midst of his most bitter agonies, that he faint not under the cross, but patiently and thankfully