Auspicante Iehoua Maries exercise.

A prayer vpon the request that the mother of Iames & Iohn, made vn∣to Chrïst: Math: Chap: 20▪ The fruict thereof: Knowledge what to aske of God.

BLessed LORD, and Lord of all blessing, bountiful GOD, and GOD of all bounty, King of heauen and earth, to whom all the worlde are but beggers; emong the infinit number of thy incessaunt sutors, y^• neuer leaue to importunate thy mercy, vouchsafe sweet IESV I be∣seech thee, to heere an humble pe∣tition of thy poore wretched and vnworthy creature; The Mother of Iames, and Iohn, made a suite vnto thee for hir two sonnes, that the one might sit at thy right hand, and the other at thy left: little was

hir discretiō to moue so presump∣tuous a petition, little I say shee considered thy greatnesse, or lookt into hir owne smalnesse, that, de∣seruing nothing but thy Wrath, woulde craue such a blessing of thy Grace: who beeing aunswe∣red with deniall, escaped wel with∣out thy further displeasure: oh my GOD, I come not to thee with a spirit of such boldnesse; but in the humility of fayth, with the teares of sorrow, my wounded hart, bee∣commeth a sutor to thy mercy; an humble sutor I am oh heauenly King to thy holy Maiesty, not for my two sonnes, but the two parts of my selfe, my soule, & my body, y^• it will please thy gratious good∣nesse, so farre to take them to thy mercy, as not to set them either at thy right hand, or thy left, but in one looke of thy comfort, to make thē but cushins for thy feet: where

more ioyfull shall bee my teares, to wash, the feete of thy fauoure, then all the plesures of the world, to bee away from thy mercy: this, oh LORD, is all my sute, which in thy gratious pitty I beeseech thee to graunt me, that from this vale of misery, thou wilt take mee to thy mercy, that in the ioye of thy loue, I may euer sing or thy glory:

Amen.