vpon me miserable, vile, and wretched sinner, which now drawe neare the gates of death, deserued both in soule and body eter∣nally, by reason of manifold, horrible, olde and new transgressi∣ons, which to thyne eyes (O Lorde) are open and knowne: Oh be mercifull vnto me, for the bitter death and bloudshedding of thine owne onely sonne Iesus Christ. And though thy iustice do require (in respecte of my sinnes) that nowe thou shouldest not heare me, measuring me with the same measure I haue measured thy Maiesty contemning thy dayly calles: yet let thy mercy whi∣che is aboue all thy works, and wherewith the earth is filled, let thy mercy (I say) preuaile towardes me, through and for the me∣diation of Christ our sauiour. And for whose sake in that it hathe pleased thee to bring me forth now as one of his witnesses, and a record bearer of thy veritye and trueth taught by him, to geue my life therefore (to which dignitie I do acknowledge dear God that ther was neuer any so vnworthy and so vnmeet, no not the theef that hāged with him on the Crosse): I most hūbly therfore pray thee that thou wouldest, accordingly, ayde, helpe, & assiste me with thy strength and heauenly grace, that with Christe thy sonne I may finde comfort, with Stephen I may see thy presence, and gracious power, with Paule and all others whiche for thy names sake haue suffered affliction and death, I may finde so pre∣sent with me thy gracious consolations, that I may by my deathe glorifie thy holy name, propagate, and ratifie thy veritie, comfort the hartes of the heauy, confirme thy Church in thy veritie, con∣uert some that are to be conuerted, and so depart foorth of thys miserable world, where I do nothing but daily heape sinne vpon sinne, and so enter into the fruition of thy blessed mercy: wherof now geue and encrease in me a liuely truste, sense, and feelinge, wherethrough the terrours of death, the tormentes of fire, the panges of sinne, the dartes of Sathan, and the dolours of hel may neuer depresse me, but may be driuen away thorough the wor∣king of that most gracious spirite: which now plenteously endue me withall, that through the same spirite I may offer (as I nowe desire to do in Christ by him) my selfe wholy soule and body, to be a liuely sacrifice, holy and acceptable in thy sight. Deare Fa∣ther, whose I am, and alwayes haue bene, euen from my mothers wombe, yea euen before the world was made, to whome I com∣mend my selfe, soule and body, family, and frendes, countrey and all the whole Churche, yea euen my very enemies, accordynge to thy good pleasure, beseeching thee intirely to geue once more to this Realme of England, the blessing of thy word agayn, with godly peace, to the teaching & setting forth of the same. Oh dear father, now geue me grace to come vnto thee. Purge and so pu∣rifie me by this fire in Christes death and Passion through thy spirite, that I may be a burnt offering of sweete smell in thy sight which liuest and raignest with the sonne and the holy God, nowe and euermore world without end. Amen.