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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.
If they break my ordinances, & keep not my commandments I will •iser their offences •i•h the rod, and their sins with scourges. Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer ⟨image 11⟩my truth to f•il. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy▪ long su••erynge and of great e goodness▪ •e will not •e•le with is after our sins,1 nor reward •s according to our wickedness. For look how high the hea•en is in comparison o• the earth so great is his mercy also to wa••e them that fear him. Look how wy•e the […] is from the we•t, so far wy• he set ou• sy•nes •rom us. yea, like as father p••teth his own children even •o is the Lord merciful to them that fear him. For he knoweth whereof we be made▪ he remembereth that we are but •ust▪ that a man in his time is out as grass▪ and flourisheth as a ••oure o the field: For as soon as the wind goeth over it it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more. But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth or ever and ever upon them that feae him and his righteousness upon their children, such as keep his covenant, and think upon the commandments to do them.