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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.
In the time of dearth and famine.
In the tyme of dearth and famyne.
O God heavenly father, whose gift it is that rain doth fall, the earth is fruitful, beasts increase, and fishes do multiply: behold, we beseech y•, the afflictions ⟨image 178⟩of thy people▪ & grant that the scarcity & dearth (which we do now most justly suffer for our iniquity) may through thy goodness be mercifully turned into cheapness and plenty, for the love of Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the holy ghost. &c. Amen.
O God heauenly father, whose gift it is that rayne doth fal, the earth is frutfull, beastes encrease, and fishes do multiply: behold, we besech y•, the afflicciōs ⟨image 178⟩of thi people▪ & grant that the scarcetie & dearth (whych we do now most iustlye suffer for our iniquitye) maye throughe thy goodnes be mercifullye turned into cheapnes and plenti, for the loue of Iesu Christ our Lord, to whō wyth the and the holy ghost. &c. Amen.