A booke of Christian prayers, collected out of the auncie[n]t writers, and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with an earnest mynde of all Christians, in these daungerous and troublesome dayes, that God for Christes sake will yet still be mercyfull vnto vs

* A Prayer to be sayd at our returning home.

O How excellent, and ioyfull shall our returning home be into the euerlasting, quyet, and blessed house of heauen, where there is no troble, nor incumberance at al. All the mirth, and gladnes of this world, is but a shadow in comparysō of the pleasures that are there. Nothing O Lord, is liker to thy holy nature, then the minde that is set∣led in quietnesse. Thou hast called vs into that quietnes, and peace of thine, frō out of the turmoiles of this world, as it were from out of stormes into a hauen: Which is such a peace as the world cannot geue, and as passeth all capacitie of man.

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Behold, thy brother E∣sau is cōforted agaynst ther, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27.

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Michaell spake vnto Dauid: If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow, &c. 1. Sa. 19·

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••rise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him. So he arose & toke the babe & his mother, &c Math. 2

Houses are builded for vs to repair into from the anoyance of the wether, from the cruelty of beastes, and from the waues and turmoiles of this trou∣blous world.

Graunt now, O most mercifull Fa∣ther, that through thy singular good∣nes, our bodies may so resort into thē, from our outwarde doinges, as our mindes may yeald them selues obedy∣ent vnto theé, without striuing: & that they may the better, and more quyetly exalt them selues into that souerayne rest of thine aboue. Graunt that no∣thing may disturb, and disquyet them here beneath: but that all things may be quyet and calme through that peace of thine. The peace of Christ be to this house, and to all that dwell therin. Amen.