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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 sins unto the holy ghost.
A Confession of oure sinnes vnto the holye ghooste.
O Most blessed And holy spirit, Equal God with God the Father,1 and God the Son, I miserable sinner confounded in my conscience, & almost fallen through ⟨p. xii⟩the multitude of my since, into the hell-like pit of desperation, am come at this present before thy divine majesty, most humbly to confess, and from the bottom of my heart to lament all those my sins, and wickednesses which from my youth hitherto I have unjustly committed, in word, dead, or thought against thy goodness: most entirely beseeching the mercifully to forgive me all those mine offences,2 and abominations, and to make in me a clean heart, endued with a new and right spirit, which may from henceforth through thy godly governance so direct me in all my doings, that I may only attempt such enterprises, as be agreeable to thy blessed will, profitable to my neighbour,3 and pleasant to my soul, O lord my God where thou art, there is liberty. ⟨image 28⟩But I through the crafts of Satan the lusts of the flesh, and the pleasures of the world, am in most miserable captivity, slavery, bondage and thraldom, whereby I evidently perceive that thou dwellest not in me, neither ye I am thy temple, nor yet have that ghostly freedom wherewith all be endued that have the dwelling in them. O Lord have mercy on me, and take away from me that heavy bondage of the flesh, wherewith I am most grievously enclosed, & give me that sweet & free liberty of the spirit, which bight is wrought in the hearts of the faithful, that I being delivered from the power of mine enemies may serve thee in holiness and righteousness all the dais of my life: