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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 confession of our since unto the Lord Jesus Christ.
A confessiō of our synnes vnto the Lord Iesu Christe.
The tyranny of satan mine old enemy,1 which ceaseth not daily to assail me with his subtle temptations, and to wound me with his cruel darts compelleth me at this present (O blessed redeemer & mine alone saviour Jesus Christ, the son of the ⟨p. viii⟩true and living god) to f•e for succour unto the pitiful bowels of thy tender mercy, lest I be for ever swallowed up as a pray of that dreadful Dragon.2 O Lord I am feeble and weak, but Satan is strong and mighty, the Prince of darkness & God of this world, having at his commandment an infinite multitude both of wicked spirits, and of ungodly men, which both daily and diligently, travail to satisfy his cruel tyranny, and to work my destruction, whom to resist I am not able.3 Notwithstanding lord, thou art more valiant then he, stronger then all his army, more able to save than he to condemn.4 Yea he is thy bond slave. Thou rulest him as thy good pleasure is▪ He can rage against thine elect no further▪ than thy most godly will is to suffer him. Thou therefore (o lord ⟨image 24⟩my God) art able to deliver me from his ravening teethe, and to keep me safe from his blood thirsty ministers.5