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❧ The Preface, or pre∣paration to prayer.
O Lord, my good God, and Father, blessed be thy name for euer: dispose my hart, open my lips, and guide me by thy holy spirite, to a true acknowledge∣ment of all my sinnes, that my prayer may be heard of theé, in the name of thy Sonne Iesus Christ, So be it.
¶ A prayer to be sayd at our first waking.
O God, and father of our Lord Iesus Christ, whom no man knoweth but by thy specyall gift: graunt, that vnto the rest of thine exceéding great benefites towards me, this, which is the grea∣test that can be bestowed vpon man∣kind,
There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Iesse, and a graffe, &c. Esay. 11.
There shall come a star of Iacob, and a scepter shall rise of Israell, &c. Num. 24.
The birth of blessed M••∣ry the virgine the mother of Christ, &c.