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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.
Of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, some shall awake to everlasting life, others to rebuke and shame without end. Their worm shall not die; and their fire shall not be quenched: there shall be weeping & gnashing of teethe. Dan. 12. Isaiah. 66. Mat. 15.
Of those that sleepe in the dust of the earth, some shall awake to euerlasting life, others to rebuke and shame without end. Their worme shall not die; and their fire shall not be quenched: there shalbe weeping & gnashing of teethe. Dan. 12. Esay. 66. Mat. 15.
Almighty god, for whose glory all nations are created. Thou which art the mighty and the faithful God, keeping thy covenant, and free mercy with a thousand generations of those that love thee, and obey thy commandments, & which givest again the very same unto those that hate thee, and rebel against thee with every of them even to their face, whose ⟨image 137⟩will is the just and sovereign cause of all that is done in heaven, and in earth, whose counsels are unsearchable, and judgements most profound and admirable. O Father and governor of all things, thou hast even from the beginning of thy unspeakable goodness framed man, and reclothed him with such an excellency, as did sufficiently preach forth the infinite power of thy hand, which had created him such a one. I will ⟨image 137⟩not, neither can I ascend higher then thy word teacheth me, to enquire wherefore thou wouldest not so establish the blessed being of this the greatest and chiefest of thy visible works, that he might not fall, I have matter enough to occupy the strength of my soul, to meditate upon, to have in detestation, yea even before thy Majesty to accuse the pride of our nature, which thought not it self in honour sufficient, unless