[The flour of godly praiers] [most worthy to be vsed in these our daies for the sauegard, health, and comforte of all degrees, and estates / newlie made by Thomas Becon].
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[The flour of godly praiers] [most worthy to be vsed in these our daies for the sauegard, health, and comforte of all degrees, and estates / newlie made by Thomas Becon].
Author
Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567.
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Imprinted at London :: By Ihon Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, a lytle beneth S. Martins, these bokes are to be solde at hys shop by the lytle cunduite in Chepesyde,
[ca. 1550]
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Prayers.
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"[The flour of godly praiers] [most worthy to be vsed in these our daies for the sauegard, health, and comforte of all degrees, and estates / newlie made by Thomas Becon]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06743.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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A Prayer for poore people.
AS riches, so likewise pouer∣ty is thy gifte, o Lorde.* 1.1 And as thou hast made some rich to dispose the worldly goodes: so haste thou appointed some to bee poore that they might receiue thi benefites at the rich mens hāds. And as the godly rich are welbe∣loued of the,* 1.2••o in like maner ar y• pore, if they beare the crosse of po∣uerty pacyently and thankfully.* 1.3 For good and euil, life and death, pouertye and ryches are of the, O Lord. We therfore most humblye pray the, to geue a good spirite, to al such as it hath pleased y• to bur∣den wyth the yock•• of pouertye, that they may with apacie nt and thankful hert walk in their state
lyke vnto that poore Lazare, of whō we reade in the gospel of thi welbeloued son, which chosed ra∣ther paciētly, and godly to die, thē vniustly or by force to gette anye mans goodes, and bi no meanes enui, murmur, or grudge against such as it hath pleased the to en∣due wyth more aboundaunce of worldly substaūs, but knowynge their state, although neuer so hū∣ble and base to be of the their lord God, and that thou wilte not for∣sake them in this their nede, but send them thinges necessary for theyr pore lyfe, may contynuallye praise the, and hope for better thī∣ges in the world to come, thorow thy sonne Iesu Christ our lorde. AMEN.