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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 Landlords.
A prayer for Landelordes.
The earth is thine, o lord, & all that is contained therein,1 notwithstanding thou haste given the possession thereof unto the ⟨image 45⟩children of men, to pass over the time of their short pilgrimage in this vale of misery: We heartily pray y• to send thy holy spirit into the harts of them that posses the grounds▪ pastures & dwelling places of the earth, that they remembering themselves to be thy tenants, may not rack and stretch out the rents of their houses and lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines & incomes after the manner of covetous worldlings, but so let them out to other that the inhabitants thereof may both be able truly to pay the rents, & also honestly to live, to nourish their family, & to relief the pore. Give them grace also to consider that they are but strangers and pilgrims in this world,2 having here no dwelling place, but seeking one to come, that they remembering the short continuance of their life, may be content, with that is sufficient, & not join house to house, nor couple land to land to the impoverishment ⟨p. xxx⟩of other, but so behave them selves in letting out their tenements, lands and pastures, that after this life they may be received in everlasting dwelling places through Jesus Christ our Lord.