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¶ Or Pray thus.

Merciful father thou art wont to send to thy servants & men of simple hearts, thine angels to be their keepers, & as it were guides as elder brethren to watch upon thy weak children, so diddest thou to young Tobias, to Jacob, to Abraham's servant, to Joshua. &c. O good god though we be much unlike unto them (so many are our sins) yet for thine own goodness sake send thin holy angels, to pitch their tents about us, from satan & ⟨image 17⟩his slaves to hide and defend to carry us in there hands that we come not into further danger than thou through out wilt deliver us, for thine own sake. His Angels or ministers for them that be heirs of salvation, satan sleepeth not, but seeketh always to destroy us. Hebr. i. Think something how we are strangers from our country from our home, from our original, I mean from god. Again think upon your madness that do linger & loiter so gladly in this our Journey, and pilgrimage. Also how foolish we are to fantasy things which we cannot carry with us, and to contemn conscience which will always be a companion to us, to our joy if it be good, but to our shame, and sorrow if it be evil and corrupt, finally how unnatural we are that ⟨image 18⟩so little desire to be at our home, to be with our only father, master, fellows and friends. &c.

MErcyfull father yu art wont to send to thy seruāts & mē of simple hartes, thyn angells to be their kepers, & as it were guides as elder bretherne to watch vpō thi weake childrē, so diddest thou to yoūg Tobias, to Iacob, to Abrahās seruāt, to Iosua. &c. O good god thogh we be much vnlike vnto thē (so many ar our sins) yet for thyn owne goodnes sake sēd thin holi angels, to pitch thir tentes about vs, frō sathā &