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Master Bezaes household prayers translated out of French into EnglishMaister Bezaes houshold prayers translated out of French into English
Master Bezaes household prayers translated out of French into English.Maister Bezaes houshold prayers translated out of French into English.
London: printed by V.S. for John Barnes, 1603London: printed by V.S. for Iohn Barnes, 1603
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.
He that heareth my word, and believeth in him that sent me, hath life everlasting, and I will raise him again at the latter day. Father, concerning those whom thou hast given me my desire is, that they may be where I am, that they may be with me to behold my glory. John. 5. &. 6. &. 17.
Hee that heareth my worde, and beleeueth in him that sent me, hath life euerlasting, and I wil raise him again at the latter day. Father, concerning those whome thou hast giuen me my desire is, that they may be where I am, that they may be with me to beholde my glory. Iohn. 5. &. 6. &. 17.
O Sovereign Father of all things, & by a singular privilege, Father of the children whom it hath pleased thee to adopt in our Lord Jesus Christ, to be coheirs with him in the celestial life, I learn in thy word, that this inheritance & blessed estate is a contemplation of the glory of this great Saviour of the elect, in an unspeakable ⟨image 131⟩beatitude, only worthy to be loved, and to be sought incessantly night and day, with the lamp of thy trueth. Which is to see him as he is (true God, and true Man) and perfectly to enjoy his presence with communicating of all his goodness, to be in the joy of his Lord, as a loyal servant, and to behold him face to face in his divine essence, one with the father, and with the holy ghost, one only God in sovereign Majesty ⟨image 132⟩which is to be united and conjoined with him, and by him; unto thee, O eternal GOD, who art all light and life, of the soul at her departure out of her earthly habitation, afterward revested with it flesh in that great day of the glorious coming of the same Christ, when he shall wholly render up unto thee the kingdom of thy grace, that thou mayest be all in all: To be brief, (which is both in body and soul) to be ⟨image 132⟩