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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
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A MEDITATION of the coming of Christ to Judgement and of the reward both of the faithful and unfaithful.
A MEDITATION of the comming of Christ to Iudgement and of the rewarde bothe of the faythefull and vnfaithfull.
OH lord Jesus Christ the son of the everliving god, by whom all things were made, are ruled and governed, as of thy love for our redemption thou diddest not disdain to be our mediator and to take upon thee our nature in the womb of a virgin purely and with out sin by the operation of the holy spirit, that both thou mightest in thine own person wonderfully beautify and exalt our nature and work the same in us also, first abolishing the guiltiness of sin by remission, then sin it self by death, and last of all death by raising up again these our bodies, that they may be like unto thine own glorious & immortal body, according to the power wherewith thou art able to subject all things unto thee: As I ⟨image 84⟩say of thy love for our redemption thou becamest man, and that most poor and afflicted upon earth by the space of xxxiii. years at the least, in most humility, and paidest the price of our ransom by thy most bitter death & passion, for the which I most heartily give thanks to thee: So of the same thy love towards us in thy good time, thou wilt come again in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, with flaming fire, with thousands of Saints, with 1Angels of thy power, with a mighty cry, shout of an Archangel, & blast of a tromp, suddenly as the lightning which shineth from the east &c when men think least, even as a these in y• night, when men be a sleep, y• wilt so come (I say) thus suddenly in the twinkling of an eye, all men that ever have been, be and shall be, with women & children, appearing before thy tribunal Judgement seat, to render an account of all things which they have thought spoken […] done against thy law, openly and before all Angels, saints, and devils,