A09974:13
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.
Therefore we must (praying carefully) lift up our hearts with a true zeal to GOD, banishing out all other thoughts, abandoning Satan with all his baits, opening our harts, that our Heavenly Father may thereinto infuse and pour down his blessings. Neither ought our prayer to be bare or naked, but conjoined with reading, and meditation of Gods holy word, as also fruitful in all goodness.
Therefore wee must (praying carefully) lift vppe our heartes with a true zeale to GOD, banishing out all other thoughts, abandoning Sathan with all his baites, opening our harts, that our Heauenly Father may thereinto infuse and powre downe his blessings. Neyther ought our prayer to bee bare or naked, but conioyned with reading, and meditation of Gods holy worde, as also fruitfull in all goodnesse.
But alas, if it be most true, that in all our exercises of piety we be never able to separate our selves from our ⟨image 11⟩selves, but that our corruption will still evidently appear, it is sure, the same will especially befall us, when we prepare our selves to pray unto God, and frame our petitions, according to his will: for besides that the devil doth at all times lie in wait, to seduce us, so doeth he, especially, at such times, seek to creep into our minds, to divert our thoughts elsewhere, that they may be polluted with many blemishes: notwithstanding, that they of themselves, sufficiently go astray: yea our vanity, imperfection, and coldness, doeth many ways bewray it self, that we may well say, in one ⟨image 11⟩word: no man prayeth rightly, but he, whose mouth and mind Christ doth direct with his spirit. And therefore hath he delivered unto us, a sacred form, for all holy prayers, in that prayer which is usually termed, The Lords Prayer, wherein, he hath set down, the perfect rule, whereby, we may rightly form our petitions, and keep them within their bounds: that is, the glory of God, & our salvation. And this are we diligently to note, as being assured, that so we shall be heard, albeit our frailty do hinder us, from praying with that zeal, feeling, and fervency of faith, which