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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.
O Lord my God eternal and almighty, to whom I owe ⟨image 144⟩all glory and obedience, I do humbly prostrate my self before thy face, and lift up my heart and voice to thee my Father which art in heaven, to sanctify thy name, to crave thy mercy, and to give thee thanks for thy benefits. I acknowledge of thy providence and benignity, that having passed this night under thy guard and protection, I may yet see the light of the day, & in the works of thy hands, contemplate the greatness of ⟨image 144⟩thy power, and here below enjoy those temporal benefits that thou pourest plentifully or largely upon thy creatures.
O Lord my God eternal and almightie, to whom I owe ⟨image 144⟩all glory and obedience, I doe humbly prostrate my selfe before thy face, and lift vp my heart and voice to thee my Father which art in heauen, to sanctifie thy name, to craue thy mercy, and to giue thee thankes for thy benefits. I acknowledge of thy prouidence and benignitie, that hauing passed this night vnder thy gard and protection, I may yet see the light of the day, & in the workes of thy hands, contemplate the greatnesse of ⟨image 144⟩thy power, and here below enioy those temporall benefites that thou powrest plentifully or largely vppon thy creatures.
But because of thy unmeasurable bounty, thou makest earthly things common to all men, and that the effects of the Sun do stand us no stead but for the life of the body, I beseech thee (merciful Father) more and more to raise upon my heart thy eternal light (our Lord ⟨image 145⟩Jesus Christ) and by the virtue of thy spirit, so to scatter the darkness of my understanding, and to break the hardness of my heart, that so far as it may suffice for my salvation, I may apprehend the glory of thy Kingdom, and the mysteries of christian faith, together with the duty of my calling, that I may constantly walk in the same, in a good conscience and as before thee, the searcher of our harts with all my thoughts