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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 prayer for Gentlemen.
¶A prayer for Gentlemenne.
AL be it what soever is borne of flesh is flesh,1 and all that we receive of our natural parents is earth, dust, ashes & corruption,2 ⟨image 44⟩so that no child of Adam hath any cause to boast him self of his birth and blood,3 seeing we have all one flesh & one blood, begotten in sin,4 conceived in uncleanness, & borne by nature the children of wrath,5 yet forasmuch as some for their wisdom, godliness, virtue, valiance, strength, eloquence, learning and policy be advanced above the common sort of people unto dignities and temporal promotions, as men worthy to have superiority in a christen common weal, & by this means have obtained among the people a more noble & worthy name:6 We most entirely beseech thee, from whom alone cometh the true nobility to so many as are born of the,7 & made thy sons through faith, whether they be rich or poor, noble or unnoble, to give a good spirit to our superiors, that as they be called