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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 women with child.
A prayer for women with childe.
Thou, O Lord, art wonderful in all thy works, and whatsoever ever thy good pleasure is that doest thou easily bring to pas,1 nether is any thing impossible with thee, that thou wilt have done.2 3And albeit this thine almighty-power showeth it self abundantly ⟨image 54⟩in all thy works,4 yet in the con ce•nyng forming and bringing forth of m•n, it shineth no•te evidently. At the beginning o heavenly father, when thou m• didst man and woman, thou commandest them to increase, multiply and replenish the earth. If through the subtle enticements of Satan,5 they had not transgressed thy commandment by eating the forbidden fruit, the woman, whom thou haste appointed the organ,6 instrument, & vessel to conceive, nourish & bring forth man through thy wonderful workman ship, had without any la•oure, pain or travail brought forth her fruit. But that which thy goodness made easy, sin & disobedience hath made hard, painful, dangerous, & if thy help were not, impossible to be brought to pass: