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.

14. On Saint Peters daie. Their spéech is gone out into all lands, and their words into the ends of the world.

O Lord Iesu Christ, Sonne of God, which art the word of the eternall Father, and the Embassador sent frō the beginning vnto thy Church, speake thou inwardlie to our harts thine heauenlie wisedome: lighten our nature & vnderstanding with thy newe light, that being deman∣ded in euerie anguish, we may trulie acknowledge and confesse that thou art the Sonne of the liuing God our King and Sauiour. And for asmuch as great is the rage, and mightie the power of thine enimies, which fight against the truth, mercifullie defend thy Church, sounding foorth this thy wisedome, defend the same we beseech thee against the verie gates of hell.

And as thou hast giuen to the Apostle Saint Peter manie excellent gifts, and commandedst him earnest∣lie to feed the flocke, wherby at the infancie as it were of thy Church, he was a glorious light of the Gospell, and publisher of the truth: so keepe among vs thy mi∣nisterie, and send godlie preachers, which may godlie and rightlie vse the keies in comforting and correc∣ting. Make, we beseech thee, all Bishops and pastors diligentlie to preach thy holie word, and the people o∣bedientlie to followe the same, that in this life we may be, and abide citizens of the blessed fellowship,

which thou dooest protect, and receiue the crowne of e∣uerlasting glorie, as heires of thine eternall king∣dome,

Amen.