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…

After thou hast told me how in the external service of thee (gracious lord) thou wilt have my tongue used, so doest thou now teach me, how thou wilt have mine ears & all my whole body occupied, namely in sanctification and holiness: that is, in those things which thou peculiarly hast appointed to be means immediately to help to that end: As in hearing thy word preached, & using the ceremonies of thee appointed even as y• hast commanded. For the which things to be exercised of thy people thou at the first diddest appoint a certain day, namely the seventh day, which therefore thou calledst thy Sabbath, that thereby they with their children and family, resting from all exterior labour, which ⟨image 53⟩hindereth the meditation of the mind, might not only be more able to go on through with their travel and labour (for without some rest nothing can endure, in respect whereof thou wouldest the very beasts which in labour were exercised, should have the privilege of this Sabbath) but also and much rather, that thy people might with their family and children, be instructed and taught: first by the ministry of thy word in preaching and catechising: secondly by the using of thy sacraments appointed after thy commandment and institution, they might be assured of thy promises: thirdly by praying they might be augmented in all godliness: and last of all by their meting together & exercising all these thy works of sanctification, they might increase in love and charity: one towards another, as members of one body and fellows of one inheritance, and thus by meeting together, praying and using thy sacraments, they might be instructed in thy law and of that Sabbath, whereinto ⟨image 53⟩thou thy self diddest enter after thou hadst made the world, ceasing from thy works, not of conservation but of creation, into the which as after this life and the works of this time, they should enter: so now they begin spiritually to enter in resting from their own works which the old man moveth them unto: not that (good lord) thou wouldest these works appointed for the Sabbath day, should not be exercised at any other time but only on the seventh day:

AFter thou hast told me howe in the external seruice of thee (graciouse lord) thou wilte haue my tonge vsed, so doest thou now teach me, how thou wilt haue min eares & all my whole body occupied, namly in sanctificacion and holines: that is, in those thinges which thou pecularly hast appointed to be meanes immeditately to helpe to that ende: As in hearing thy word preached, & vsing the ceremonies of thee appointed euē as y hast commaunded. For the which thinges to be exercised of thy people thou at the firste dyddest appoint a certaine daye, namely the seuenth daye, whiche therefore thou calledst thy Sabboth, that thereby they with their childrē and family, resting frō all exerior labour, which