A poore mans rest founded vpon motiues, meditations, and prayers. Expressing to the inward man, true consolation. In all kindes and times of afflication. By Io. Norden.

A Thankesgiuing of a Woman after her Deliuery.

Oeternall God, and most louing Father, thou art great, and wor∣thy to be feared, thou art graci∣ous, and worthy to be praised, for thy mercy excéedeth all thy workes: thou woundest, & thou healest, thou throwest downe, and helpest vp againe: I most humbly thanke thée, my most louing and gentle Father, that it hath pleased thée in thy goodnes, now, at the length, to deliuer me from the great extremi∣ty of childe-birth, and to giue vnto me the swéete taste and féeling of thy com∣fort, not only in ioy that a man is born into the world, which maketh mee to forget my sorrowes, but much more in the assurance of thy blessed proui∣dence and care ouer mee, whose holy hand hath strengthened and vpholden mée, who hath brought fa••te weather after stormes, and ioy after teares: let thy sweete comfort alwayes rest with mée, and giue mée grace, since it

hath pleased thée to make mée a glad mother, that I may also become a good mother, in shewing my selfe obedient vnto thée, and to be carefull for the in∣struction and bringing vp of my childe in thy ••eare, that wee may shew forth thy glory in this life, and be made par∣takers of thy glory in the life to come, through Jesus Christ our onely Lord and Sauiour: to whom, with thée, and the sweete Comforter, the holy Ghost, thrée persons and one glorious God, be all ho∣nor, and praise for euer and euer.

Amen.

O Lord increase my Faith.