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And namely O Lord and father we humbly beseech the to extend thy mercy and favourable countenance upon all those that are imprisoned or condemned for the cause of thy Gospel: whom thou hast chosen forth and made worthy to glorify thy name. That either it may please the to give them such constancy as thou hast given to thy saints & matters in time paste, willingly to shed their blood for the testimony of thy word: Or else mightily deliver them from the tyranny of their enemies as thou deliverest ⟨image 27⟩the condemned Daniel from the Lions, and the persecuted Peter out prison, to the exaltation of thy glory and the rejoicing of thy church.

And namely O Lorde and father we humbly beseche the to extende thy mercye and fauourable countynance vpon all those that are imprisoned or condemned for the cause of thy Gospell: whome thou hast chosen forthe and made worthi to glorify thy name. That eyther it maye please the to gyue them suche constancye as thou hast gyuen to thy sainctes & matters in tyme paste, willinglye to shede theyr bloud for the testimonie of thy worde: Or els mightlye deliuer them from the tyranny of theyr enimies as thou delyuerest ⟨image 27⟩the condemned Daniell from the Lions, and the persecuted Peter oute prison, to thexeaultation of thy glory and the reioysing of thy churche.

Further more most beneficial father we humbly beseech the to stretch forth the mighty arm into the protection and defence of all those that are exiled for the testimony of thy verity: & that because they would not bend their backs and incline their necks under the yoke of Antichrist, and be polluted with the execrable Idolatries, and blasphemous superstitions of the ungodly. That it would please thee not only to feed them in strange countries, but also to prepare a resting place for them, as thou haste done from time to time for thine elect in all age is whereas they may unite them ⟨image 27⟩