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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.
The eight and twentieth Prayer, For him that feeleth his death at hand.
We know, that if this earthly tabernacle be destroyed, ⟨image 180⟩we have a building given of God: that is, a house not made with hands but eternal in the heavens. The body is sown in corruption, it shall rise again in incorruption. 2. Cor. 5. 1. Cor. 15.
Wee knowe, that if this earthly tabernacle be destroyed, ⟨image 180⟩we haue a building giuen of God: that is, a house not made with hands but eternall in the heauens. The body is sowen in corruption, it shall rise againe in incorruption. 2. Cor. 5. 1. Cor. 15.
O GOD my God and FATHER, justly was man, thy creature, when by sin he had turned from thee (who art the life) cast headlong into the curse ⟨image 181⟩both of temporal and eternal death: for thy Majesty being infinitely offended, ought also in justice to require a punishment without end, which beginneth even in this life in many miseries, and is perpetuated hell, whereto death is as it were the gate. O Lord! The cause of so lamentable a mishap is in our nature: But in thee is pity and compassion, O merciful Father, who after thy unspeakable goodness, makest the