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The Protestant school, or, A method, containing several forms of prayer, psalms, lessons, thanksgivings,…
The Protestant school, or, A method, containing several forms of prayer, psalms, lessons, thanksgivings, and graces for the bringing up and well grounding children and elder persons in the Protestant religion by the Bishop Usher. Also a catalogue of all the English words beginning with one syllable, and proceeding by degrees to eight ... : to which is added an historical account of several plots and remarkable passages from Queen Elizabeth to this present time ... by Moses Lane.
London: printed for Langly Curtiss, 1681
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.
Almighty Lord God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in him our most gracious and merciful Father, many are thy mercies towards us, and that our Souls know right well, and as we cannot be ignorant of them, unless we be senseless, so we cannot be forgetful unless we be thankless: by thee our Lot is fallen into a good ground, yea we have a goodly Heritage, by thee are our Bodies delivered from sickness, and by thee our Souls are delivered from Sin, by thee our Names are not a reproach unto our Enemies, and by thee our Estates are not a prey unto the Idolatrous.
Almighty Lord God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in him our most gracious and merciful Father, many are thy mercies towards us, and that our Souls know right well, and as we cannot be ignorant of them, unless we be senceless, so we cannot be forgetful unless we be thankless: by thee our Lot is faln into a good ground, yea we have a goodly Heritage, by thee are our Bodies delivered from sickness, and by thee our Souls are delivered from Sin, by thee our Names are not a reproach unto our Enemies, and by thee our Estates are not a prey unto the Idolatrous.
II.
Thou hast done great things in our Land, and thy right hand hath brought mighty things to pass; O Lord thou hast done great things unto this Vine of thy English Israel, and what couldest thou have done more for it than thou hast? thou hast planted it by thy hand, placed it in thy Vineyard, hedged it by thy Providence, guarded it by thine Angels, watered it by thy Spirit, pruned it by thy Rods, supported it by thy Power, committed it to thy Husbandmen, beautified it by thy mercies, and fructified it by thine abundance, not of sower but sweet Grapes, the wild Boar of the Wood can never root it up, the Beasts of the Forrest shall never devour it.