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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.
❧ The Litany and Suffrages. › For fair wether.❧ The Letanye and Suffra••s. › For fayre wether.
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.
For fair weather.
For fayre wether.
O Lord god, which for the sin of man diddest ones drown all the world, except .viii. persons, and afterward of thy great mercy diddest promise never to destroy it so again: we humbly beseech thee, that although we for our iniquities have worthily d• served this plague of rain and waters: yet upon our true repentance thou wilt send us such weather, whereby we may receive the fruits of the earth in due season, and learn both by thy punishment to amend our lives, and for th• clemency to give the praise and glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
O Lord god, which for the syn of man dyddest ones drown al the world, except .viii. persons, and afterward of thy great mercie diddeste promise neuer to destroye it so agayne: we humbly besech the, that althoughe we for our iniquityes haue worthely d• serued thys plague of rayne and waters: yet vpon our true repentance thou wilt send vs such wether, wherby we maie receiue the frutes of the earth in due season, and learne both by thy punyshement to amend our liues, and for th• ••emencye to geue the prayse and glory, throughe Iesu Christe our Lorde. Amen.