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Title:  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
Author: Day, Richard, b. 1552.
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theé to be so good and gracious to our soueraigne Lady, and to doe her the ho¦nor, that wheras other Realmes are in greéuous trobles, thou hast geuen her rest in this her land, and sent hither the bowels of thy sonne Iesus Christ, to haue refuge here in their oppressions. Graunt her the grace to be a true nou∣risher and nurce of all such as are thine according to the saying of thy prophet Esay: so as she may haue a true com∣passion both of them that are here, and of all others: that at the accomplish∣ment of thy promises, when it shall be sayd, come ye blessed of my father, pos∣sesse ye the kingdome which was pre∣pared for you from the foundations of the world, thou maist vouchsafe ô hea∣uenly father, to receiue her among the number of thy children, for the loue of thy sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ, to whom with theé and the holy Ghost, be all honor and glory, So be it.God spake to Iacob, get thee out of this countrey. Ia∣cob toke all his gooddes and cattell, &c. Gen. 1.Dauid asked counsel of the Lord, saying: Shall I go vp into any cities of Iudah, &c. 2. Sam. 2.The Angel sayd to Ioseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of rael, for they are dead which sought the babes life. Then he arose and toke the babe &c. Mat. 0