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

1. Cor. 15. Before all things I have delivered unto you, that which I have received, namely that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, & that he rose again the third day.

1. Cor. 15. Before all things I haue deliuered vnto you, that which I haue receyued, namely that Christ died for our sinnes, according to the scriptures, and that hee was buried, & that he rose againe the third day.

O Lord God governor of the whole world, immortal, invisible, ⟨image 27⟩and only wise, for whose glory all things are. It hath pleased thee, according to the decree of thy unsearchable counsel, that man, formed after thy image, & falling through mistrust and curiosity, should, by faith, be restored to the excellency of his nature; & as he sought knowledge above thy commandment, and so strayed from thee, and wandered out of thy kingdom, so he should be reunited, and reduced into the ⟨image 27⟩path of salvation, by believing thy only word in the promised Messiah, bending the power of his soul, to the knowledge of thee, in embracing the preaching of the cross, which the world would account folly. But because we all are borne blind, & corrupt in our understanding and will, it therefore followeth, that all the imaginations and thoughts of our hearts are at all times nothing but evil, our knowledge ⟨image 28⟩but vanity, our learning but ignorance, our judgment but error, our virtue but pride, our wisdom but folly, the vivacity of our spirit but the instrument of ruin, our delight but filthiness, our faith but incredulity; our hope but fancy, our charity but coldness, to be brief, our piety but hypocrisy or superstition; and our righteousness but covetousness or ambition. So (O Lord) we of our selves are not capable, so much