The pomander of prayer, newly madeThe pomaunder of prayer, newly made

Look how much (O Lord our God) we are in debt unto thee even for so great a price were we redeemed, with such a great gift were we saved, and with so great a benefit helped. How much ought we wretches to love, dread, bless, praise, honour and glorify thee which hast so loved us, after such fashion saved us, after such a sort sanctified us, so set us on high. To the truly do we owe, & are bound, in as much as we are able, even our life and all our study or endeavour. ⟨p. 85⟩But who hath any thing that is not thine? But do thou (O Lord our God) from whom all goodness proceedeth, even for thy holy names sake) give us of thy goodness, that we may serve thee of thine own goods and gifts & that we may please thee in truth, & repay unto the daily due praises for so great benefits of thy mercy. For by none other means can we serve or please thee, but by thine own gifts, that thou hast lent us, while we be in this world. For every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, & cometh down from the father of light, with whom there ⟨image 87⟩is none alteration or variableness neither yet is he changed unto darkness. O Lord our God, & a pitiful God, a good God, and almighty God, an unspeakable God, and incomprehensible, of such a nature that can not be contained as in a place, o god which art the beginner of all things & the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which diddest send the same thy beloved Son our lord, forth of thy bosom to our common profit, to take upon him our life, to the intent he might give us his life, & that he might be perfect and very God of thee his father, and very and perfect