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O Almighty and moste mercifull Father, who of thine vnspeake∣able loue, and pitie, toward the disobediente, and loste children of Adam (when wee were caried awaye thorough sinne, and igno∣raunce to damnation, fo∣lowing Sathan, after the blind, and vnbrideled lusts of the fleshe) diddest recon∣cile
vs to thee by grace, and adopcion in Christ Iesus, the righteous and immacu¦late Lambe, by faith and sure confidence, grounded on the merites of his death whereby we are redeemed from the eternall prison of death and damnation, haue mercy vpon vs, mos••e mer¦cifull & louing Father, & so quicken our dul and heauy mindes, by the inspiration of thy holy spirite, that we
maye shake of this dead sleepe, & continualy watch in thee, abandoning the worckes of darcknes, and walking in the worckes of light, whereby we may be worthy to walk in this ho∣ly vocation (where vnto thou haste called vs (and with thine elected sainctes, to sing prayses vnto thee, and at all seasons & times, to glorify thy holy name. And among all other be∣nefites
which thou of thy free mercy, doste dayly and hourely, most aboundantly bestow vpon vs, we yeeld thée mortall thankes, for yt thou haste vouchsa••ed to pres••rue vs both this night and all the time and dayes of our life, vnder the sha∣dowe and protection of thy winges, keeping our eyes waking in thée, without a∣ny idle dreames, or phan∣tasies, that might disturbe
our mindes from the me∣ditation of thy grace, and haste safely brought me to the beginning of this daye, from the drousy graue of my bed, which manifestly, resembleth in lying downe my death, and in rysing vp a manifest tipe and figure of my resurrection. Ther∣fore sith thou of thy mercy haste raysed me vp from this earthly reast, wherein my mortall body, and cor∣rupt
nature hath ben part∣ly recreated from the la∣boures & trauayles, which I dayly sustayne in this te∣restrial pilgrimage, vouch∣••a••e also I beséech thee, to direct me with thy holy spi¦rite, both this day and euer that all my doinges maye tend to thy glory and to the commoditie of my neigh∣bou••.
And graunt most, merciful Father, that the residue of
my whole life, frō hēceforth may he gided happly vnder thy tuition, whereby all ma¦ner of darkenes, misbeliefe infidelitie, & carnall lustes, and affections, may be vt∣terly chased, & driuen out of my hart, and that I may be iustified & saued, both body and soule, through a right and perfect fayth, in Christ Iesu, and so walke in the light of thy most holy word & cōmaundements, all the
dayes of this my fraile and transitory being. Arme vs with thy grace, most mer∣cifull father, and strengthē vs, by thine assistaunce, to vanquishe the power of the sinfull flesh, and Sathan, yt hauing victory in the end, we may ioyfully triumphe in thy saluation, that art ye God of our strength and might. Endue our blynde hartes with thy heauenly spirite, that being strong
in fayth, although ••éeble in ye flesh, we may so rule the bridle of our course, both now and euer from hence∣forth, that we sleepe not in sinne (as ye vnbeleuers doo) which haue no hope of re∣surrection in Christ Iesu, but folowing the motion of their owne common sence, are so linked and tyed to ye ground, that their grosse ca∣pacitie is not of force to loke vp, and to be holde the
brightnes of thy diuinitie, which art God from the be¦ginning, & for euerlasting, world without ende. To whome with the sonne, & the holy Ghost be al honor and glory for euer, & euer, Amen.