Certain prayers and godly meditations very needful for every ChristenCerteine prayers and godly meditacyons very nedefull for euery Christen

¶The first petition.

¶The first peticion.

Thy name be hallowed.

Thy name be halowed.

O God almighty / our most dear heaven ye father / thy godly name / even now in this time / in this vale of misery (Alas for shame) so many ways is slandered / with checks / and injuries miserably rebuked / applied to many things wherein standeth not thy honour and glory yea and many abuse it / to their great confusion / which thing is so common & often used ⟨image 38⟩/ that this filthy life may well be called a slander and dishonesting of thy most glorious name. Therefore endow us with thy godly grace / that we may avoid such things as are against the honour & praise of thy most holy name. Make thou all wither aftes and false charms shortly to decay. Cause all conjurings by the which satan or other creatures / are enchanted to cease by thy blessed name, Make that all false faith by the which other we distrust thee / or put more confidence in other then is needful / may quickly be destroyed Make that all heresies and false doctrine which pretend a colour of thy name / may suddenly vanish a weigh. Make that all hypocrisy or feigning of truth righteousness or holiness deceive no man. Make that no man swear by thy name / lye / or deceive. Keep us from all false hope / which under colour of thy name offereth it self unto us. Keep us from spiritual pride / from the vain honour of worldly glory and name. Grant us that in all perils and hurt we may call upon this thy holy name. Grant that in the straitness of conscience / and jeopardy of death we never