A good companion for a Christian directing him in the way to God, being meditiations and prayers for euery day in the weeke; and graces before and after meate.

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A good companion for a Christian directing him in the way to God, being meditiations and prayers for euery day in the weeke; and graces before and after meate.
Author
Norden, John, 1548-1625?
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London :: Printed by G. P[urslowe] for Richard Collins, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Three Kings,
1632.
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Christian life -- Protestant authors -- Early works to 1800.
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"A good companion for a Christian directing him in the way to God, being meditiations and prayers for euery day in the weeke; and graces before and after meate." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08275.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2025.

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We must remember that we must dye and come to iudgement.

LOoke before thee, to the place whither thou goest, and forget it not, let not thy glory, & greatnes cause thee to forget, that thou shalt dye and come to iudgment. And al∣though thou camest into the world with the breath of life; thou shalt returne without it, yet not actiuely, for thou shalt become, as a meere lumpe of earth without power or vigor in thy selfe to moue; but be moued at the pleasure of others. And here must thou cast off thy

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glorious garments, not as the Eagle casts his bill, or the Serpent his skin, to be reuested with them, but in stead of them, thou must be con∣tent, and be beholden to thy friends to afford thee a silly sheet, to put thy naked carkasse in.

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