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Godly meditations upon the Lords prayer, the belief, and ten commandments with other comfortable…Godlie meditations vpon the Lordes prayer, the beleefe, and ten commaundementes with other comfortable…
Godly meditations upon the Lords prayer, the belief, and ten commandments with other comfortable meditations, prayers and exercises. Whereunto is annexed a defence of the doctrine of gods eternal election and predestination, gathered by the constant martyr of God John Bradford in the time of his imprisonment. The contents whereof appear in the page next following.Godlie meditations vpon the Lordes prayer, the beleefe, and ten commaundementes with other comfortable meditations, praiers and exercises. Whereunto is annexed a defence of the doctrine of gods eternall election and predestination, gathered by the constant martyr of God Iohn Bradford in the tyme of his imprisonment. The contentes wherof appeare in the page nexte folovvyng.
London : Now first printed by Rouland Hall, dwelling in gutter lane at the sign of the half Eagle and key, the .12. of October 1562London : Nowe fyrst prynted by Rouland Hall, dwellyng in gutter lane at the signe of the halfe Egle and key, the .12. of October 1562
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.
¶ I am the lord thy god which brought thee out of the land of Egypt. &c.
¶ I am the lord thy god which brought thee oute of the land of Egipt. &c.
O Good lord and dear father, here y• wouldest I should know that thou, which broughtest thy people of Israel out of Egypt with a mighty hand and a stretched out power, which gavest thy law upon mount Sinai in great thundering, lighting, fire, which spakest by the prophets, and diddest send thy dearly beloved son Jesus Christ coequal and consubstantial with thee in power, majesty, & glory, to take upon him our nature by the operation of the holy ghost in the womb of y• virgin Mary, of whose substance he was made and borne man, but pure without sin, that we by birth children of wrath, by him might be made thy children, children of grace, communicating ⟨image 42⟩with him righteousness, bolines, & immortality by the working of the spirit, as he communicated with us flesh and blood (but not infected with sin, as is ours) by the working of the same holy spirit: which spirit after his bitter death, resurrection, and ascension into the heavens, he sent plentifully and by a visible sign unto his Apostles and Disciples: by whom he published, the gospel through out the whole world, and so continually hath done from age to age, doth, and will do unto the end of the world by the ministry of preaching: Thou wouldest I say that we should know and believe, that thou this Almighty lord and god, which on this sort hast revealed and opened thy self, art the one alone, very true and eternal almighty god which madest and rulest heaven and earth, and all things visible and invisible, together with this thy dearly beloved son Jesus Christ, and with the holy spirit, consubstantial and coeternal with thee dear father: Not only this, but also thou