[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].

A thankesgeuinge after the receiuynge of the Communion.

IE thanck the (O heauēly father) for the blessed pas¦sion and gloryous death of thy derelye beloued sonne our Lorde and sauiour Iesu Christ,* 1.1 by whō & by whose holy woūdes we faythfully beleue and are as∣suredly perswaded, y^t thy wrathe is not onlye pacified toward vs, but that thou also art now becōe oure moost mercyful father, and haste frelye forgeuen vs all oure synnes, restored vs to thy heuēly grace, and made vs sonnes & hei¦ers of thyne eternall glorye. And because we shuld not dout of thi fatherly goodnes toward vs set forthe in the deathe of thi sonne, the same thy sonne Christ Iesu our Lorde hathe leafte vnto vs not onlye his holy word,* 1.2 but also a blessed memoryal of hys death,

and passyon, set forth in the holy breade and holy wine, whych we at this presēt haue receiued both for a remembraūce of y^e brekyng of hys blessed body, and the shed∣ding of his most precious bloud, and also for the quietnes of oure conscience, and for the assurance of the remission of our syns tho∣row fayth. We besech the (O hea¦uēli father) that we be neuer vn∣myndeful of this thy exceadinge greate kindenes, nor vnthanck∣ful, for thy manyfold & vnspeke∣able mercys declared vnto vs in the gloryous death of thy welbe∣loued sōne, but so worcke y^• in vs thorowe thy holy spirite, that we maybe made worthye members of that bodye, whereof thy sōne and oure sauyoure Christe Iesu is the heade,* 1.3 and that we may so faythfullye beleue in the, and so feruentlye loue one another, al∣waye

liuinge in thy feare, and in the obediēce of thy holy law and blessed wyl, that we being frute∣ful in al godly and chryst••n wor∣kes, may traine our life accordig to thy good pleasure in this tran∣sitory world, and after this fraile and shorte lyfe obtaine that true and immortall lyfe, wher thou w^t thy derely beloued sōne our lord and sauiour Iesu Christ, and the holy gost that most sweete cōfor∣tour, liuest and reignest one true God in all honor & glory worldes without ende. Amen.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ephe. ii. ••olloss. ii.
• * 1.2

  Ma••. x••vi. Mat. xiiii. Luke xxii. ••. Cor. xi.
• * 1.3

  Eph. i.iiii. Colloss. i.