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…

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 ⟨image 43⟩wouldest that I should know and believe, that by the same thy dearly beloved son, thou hast brought me from the tyranny and captivity of Satan, & this sinful world (whereof the captivity of Egypt under pharaoh, was a figure) and in his blonde shed upon the cross, y• hast made a covenant with me, which thou wilt never forget, that thou art and wilt be my lord and my god, that is, thou wilt forgive me my sins and be wholly mine with all thy power, wisdom, righteousness, truth, glory & mercy.

O Good lord and deare father, here y• woldest I should knowe that thou, which broughtest thy people of Israell out of Egypt with a mightie hand and a stretched out power, whiche gauest thy lawe vpon mounte Sinai in great thundering, lighting, fier, which spakest by the prophetes, and diddest sende thy dearelye beloued sonne Iesus Christ coequall and consubstantiall with thee in power, maiestie, & glory, to take vpon him our nature by the operatiō of the holy ghost in the wombe of y virgin Marie, of whose substaunce he was made and borne man, but pure without synne, that we by byrth children of wrath, by hym myghte be made thy chyldren, children of grace, communicatinge