The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.
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The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.
Author
Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
Publication
London :: Printed for Iohn Williams ...,
1655.
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Subject terms
University of Cambridge -- History.
Great Britain -- Church history.
Waltham Abbey (England) -- History.
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"The church-history of Britain from the birth of Jesus Christ until the year M.DC.XLVIII endeavoured by Thomas Fuller." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40655.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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A Prayer.
O GOD! who in the creating of the lower World didst first make
light, (confusedly diffused [as yet] through the imperfect
Universe) and afterwards didst collect the same into two great
Lights, to illuminate all creatures therein. O Lord, who art a God
of knowledge, and doestlighten every man that commeth into the
world.
O Lord! who in our Nation hast moved the hearts of Founders and
Benefactors to erect and indow two famous Luminaries of Learning and
Religion, blesse them with the assistance of thy holy Spirit. Let neither
of them contest, (as once thy Disciples on earth)which should be the grea∣test,
but both contend which shall approve themselves the best in thy
presence.
Oh though for their sinnes thou permittest them to be eclipsed, for thy
mercy doe not suffer them to be extinguished.
And as thou didst appoint those two great Lights in the Firmament
to lasttill thy Servants shall have no need of the Sun, nor of the Moone to
shine therein, for thy Glory doth lighten them: So grant these Old Lights
may continue till all acquired and infused knowledge be swallowed up
with the vision and fruition of thy blessed-making Majestie, Amen.