A praier vnto God the holie Ghost.
O Holie Ghost, O blessed and holie spirit, comfor∣ter of them that be afflicted: thou proceeding from the Father and the Sonne, art the true
The monument of matrones conteining seuen seuerall lamps of virginitie, or distinct treatises; whereof the first fiue concerne praier and meditation: the other two last, precepts and examples, as the woorthie works partlie of men, partlie of women; compiled for the necessarie vse of both sexes out of the sacred Scriptures, and other approoued authors, by Thomas Bentley of Graies Inne student.
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- The monument of matrones conteining seuen seuerall lamps of virginitie, or distinct treatises; whereof the first fiue concerne praier and meditation: the other two last, precepts and examples, as the woorthie works partlie of men, partlie of women; compiled for the necessarie vse of both sexes out of the sacred Scriptures, and other approoued authors, by Thomas Bentley of Graies Inne student.
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"The monument of matrones conteining seuen seuerall lamps of virginitie, or distinct treatises; whereof the first fiue concerne praier and meditation: the other two last, precepts and examples, as the woorthie works partlie of men, partlie of women; compiled for the necessarie vse of both sexes out of the sacred Scriptures, and other approoued authors, by Thomas Bentley of Graies Inne student." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08610.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 21, 2025.
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instructor and teacher of the diuine and heauenlie ve∣ritie. Wherefore, I with all humilitie praie thee to renew and make in me a cleane hart, to graffe a right spirit in me, to guide and gouerne me, that I may thinke nothing, speake nothing, doo nothing, but that onlie which shall please thee.
And whereas I haue not ceased to offend my Lord God and maker, and most greeuouslie to transgresse a∣gainst Iesus my redeemer and sauiour; I praie thee that I may haue inward sorowe, repentance, and shame thereof; and that euer hereafter I may per∣forme my dutie, as I ought to doo, and so bring foorth the fruits of repentance, that the passion of Iesus Christ may defend me from all sinne and wickednesse, and bring me to the ioies of paradise: So be it.