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An acknowledging of almighty God and his Majesty.

An acknowledging of almighty God and his Maiesty.

O Most high Trinity one only power and undivided Majesty, our God; God almighty I the abject and hin most of all thy servants, confess and acknowledge thee, and being the least member of thy church, I worship thee with a due sacrifice of praise, for as much as I am able & can, according to that which thou hast vouchsafed to endue me with all. And for as much as I am destitute of outward gifts to offer unto thee. Those vows of praise which I have of the gift of thy mercy: behold, willingly & gladly ⟨p. 70⟩I offer them to thee, which be an unfeigned faith and a pure con sciece. I believe therefore with all my hart (O king of heaven) and Lord of the earth, and with my mouth do I confess thee, the father, the Son and holy ghost, to be three in persons, and one in substance, the true and very God almighty, of one simple, in corporal and invisible nature, incomprehensible and of such a nature as is not in a place, as other natures be, and that thou hast nothing superior or above thy self. or lower, or any thing bigger then thy self. But in all manner of means perfect with ⟨image 72⟩out all spot of deformity, & that thou art great without quantity, good without quality, ever lasting without time, life without death, strong without infirmity or weakness, true without lying, present in every place with out any situation or being placed in any place, to be all every where without place, fulfilling all things without stretching forth thy hand: going every where without any contradiction or gain saying, passing over all things without moving, abiding win all things without any kind of proportion, making all things, having need of nothing, governing all things without ⟨p. 71⟩labour, giving all things their beginning, having no beginning thy self. Making all things mutable and variable, thy self being without all kind of mutability, in greatness with out measure in power almighty, in goodness the chief & best, in wisdom inestimable, in counsels, intents & purposes: terrible and fearful. In judgments most upright & just, in cogitations & thoughts most secret, in words true, in works holy, in mercies abundant & plentiful, toward offenders most patient, to ward the penitent and those that