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

O Lord God almighty, the knowledge of whom is life, whom to serve, is to reign, and unto whom to pray, is the joy and peace of the soul, we cannot know thee, but in thine own image Jesus ⟨image 16⟩Christ, and that by the operation of thy spirit: neither serve thee, except we follow thy word: neither call upon thee, but in the name of the same Christ, and according to that form, which himself hath prescribed us. Thus every faithful creature sayeth unto thee. Our Father, give unto us, forgive us. For thus hath thy son, the head of that union, which is among all christians, commanded, that our prayers should be ⟨image 17⟩common for all thy people; as being all one body, which thou governest by one only spirit: and forasmuch as our being dependeth upon thee only, and being in our birth corrupted by sin, thou makest us to be renewed unto righteousness, through the same eternal word, where by thou hast created us, we do rightly call thee, even by a double right, Our Father. A happy, and loving beginning of prayer, wherein the new ⟨image 17⟩man, reconciled unto thee, in Jesus Christ, thus speaketh to thee his father: I do believe that I am of the number of thy children, through thy mercy, which it hath pleased thee to vouchsafe me; and therefore (O my God) I cannot see doubt hereof, but that thou dost lovingly hear me, and art inclined to help me, and to relieve me in all my necessities, considering thou art in heaven, even according as being in all places, thou