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

O LORD our GOD, who art all righteousness & goodness, we know, that among thy corrections wherewith thou wakenest us to our duties, it pleaseth thee many times to tame our flesh with sundry diseases: for thou dost, by the pains that we suffer, advertise us of the cause of our evils, which is sin, and of the punishment due to the same, ⟨image 175⟩namely death, whereof the infirmities of the body are the ordinary means: And also thou doest withal put us in mind of the great day of thy Judgement, which after death doeth ensue to life everlasting, full of glory and beatitude to the elect, and of reproach and torments to the reprobate.

O LORD our GOD, who art all righteousnes & goodnesse, we knowe, that among thy corrections wherewith thou wakenest vs to our duties, it pleaseth thee many times to tame our flesh with sundry diseases: for thou dost, by the pains that we suffer, aduertize vs of the cause of our euills, which is sinne, and of the punishment due to the same, ⟨image 175⟩namely death, whereof the infirmities of the body are the ordinary meanes: And also thou doest withall put vs in minde of the great day of thy Iudgement, which after death doeth ensue to life euerlasting, full of glory and beatitude to the elect, and of reproach and torments to the rebrobate.

But of these things, the flesh, so long as it feeleth it self at ease, hath least care to hear: Sith therefore it hath pleased ⟨image 175⟩thee, (O just and merciful Father) with thy rod to visit this poor sick person here present, afflicting him for his offences, as himself doth with us confess, we beseech thee that in pardoning him for the love of thy well beloved Son Jesus Christ, thou wilt make this chastisement to profit him to his correction: so that he may with quiet obedience bear thy visitation, submitting himself voluntary with all his heart to ⟨image 176⟩