Master Bezaes household prayers translated out of French into EnglishMaister Bezaes houshold prayers translated out of French into English

The eighteenth Prayer, Upon temporal death.

The eighteenth Prayer, Vpon temporall death.

Our life is but a vapour which appeareth but for a while, and then vanisheth away. For the reward of sin is death, and the sting thereof is sin. But thanks be to God, who hath given us victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom. 6 1. Cor. 15.

Our life is but a vapour which appeareth but for a while, and then vanisheth away. For the reward of sinne is death, and the sting thereof is sinne. But thanks be to God, who hath giuen vs victory, through our Lord Iesus Christ. Rom. 6 1. Cor. 15.

O eternal god, with whom a thousand years are as one day, & one day as a thousand ⟨image 123⟩years, and whose judgements so diverse, are holy, just, and incomprehensible. Where is the man so gallant or proud, who thinking upon the vanity and shortness of his life, doeth not easily assuage his pride and presumption, even to the end that he extend not his temporal cogitations too far, but keep them bounded within the limits of thy law, and refer the event to the good pleasure of thy will?