The first Blossome conteining A praier to God, at our vprising in the morning.
O Bountifull GOD, which among all o∣ther thine aboundant blessings, hast giuen vs the bright daie and Sunne shine, to be the guide
The diamond of deuotion cut and squared into sixe seuerall points: namelie, 1 The footpath to felicitie. 1 2 A guide to godlines. 81 3 The schoole of skill. 181 4 A swarme of bees. 209 5 A plant of pleasure. 245 6 A groue of graces. 283 Full of manie fruitfull lessons, auaileable to the leading of a godlie and reformed life: by Abraham Fleming.
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- The diamond of deuotion cut and squared into sixe seuerall points: namelie, 1 The footpath to felicitie. 1 2 A guide to godlines. 81 3 The schoole of skill. 181 4 A swarme of bees. 209 5 A plant of pleasure. 245 6 A groue of graces. 283 Full of manie fruitfull lessons, auaileable to the leading of a godlie and reformed life: by Abraham Fleming.
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- Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.
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- [London] :: Printed by Henrie Denham dwelling in Pater Noster Rowe, being the assigne of William Seres,
- 1581.
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"The diamond of deuotion cut and squared into sixe seuerall points: namelie, 1 The footpath to felicitie. 1 2 A guide to godlines. 81 3 The schoole of skill. 181 4 A swarme of bees. 209 5 A plant of pleasure. 245 6 A groue of graces. 283 Full of manie fruitfull lessons, auaileable to the leading of a godlie and reformed life: by Abraham Fleming." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00935.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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and gouernour of all our doings, we beseéch theé, that as thou art the father of light, and hast sent light among vs, not onlie the light of the cleére daie, but also the light of thy glorious Gospell, so thou wouldest direct all that we go a∣bout in light, that we may shew our selues children of light, in ap∣plieng our labour, and occupieng both our minds and bodies in the workes of light, that when the daie of retribution shall come, when thou wilt reward euerie one accor∣ding to the measure of their me∣rits, we maie enter into that light, whose brightnes shall neuer be darkened, there to liue with him, who is the light of the world, Ie∣sus Christ the righteous, to whome, with theé, and the holie Ghost, be all laud, praise, honour, and glorie for euer∣more,
Amen.