A simple, and religious consultation of vs Herman by the grace of God Archebishop of Colone, and prince Electour. [et] c. by what meanes a Christian reformation, and founded in Gods worde, of doctrine, administration of the deuine sacramentes, of ceremonies, and the hole cure of soules, and other ecclesiastical ministeries may be begon among men committed to our pastorall charge, vntil the Lorde graunt a better to be appoynted either by a free, and Christian cou[n]sayle, general, or national, or elles by the states of the empire of the natio[n] of Germanie, gathered together in the holye Gost

❧ The Collecte.

Almightie, and merciful God, heauēly fa¦ther, whiche onely workest in vs to wil and to performe the thynges that please the, and be good in dede, we besech the for these chil∣drē, whō thou hast gyuen to thy church, and

hast begottē againe to thy selfe by holy bap¦tisme, and in whom thou haste powred that light, that they acknowledge and cōfesse be∣fore the cōgregatiō thy grace, and benifittes towardes them selues, and their redemption in Christ Iesu, and wil wholy giue ouer thē selues to the, and thy congregation, to be obedient to thy cōmaundementes, confirme this thy worke, which thou hast wrought in them, encrease in them the gift of thy spirite that euer going forwarde in the knowledge and obedience of thy Gospell, in thy cōgre∣gation, they may cōtinue to thende, and that they go no where aside from that fayth, and obedience of the Gospell, whiche they haue now confessed and professed, beinge seduced thorowe some peruerse doctrine, or dryuen forth by the lustes of the fleshe. Graūt them that they luckely springinge vp in thy sonne our Lorde Iesu Christe, the heade of vs all, may grow into him tyl they come to mānes age fully, and perfectly in al wysedome, ho∣lines and rightuousnes, that they may more fully know, and more feruently loue the, the father, and thy sōne our Lorde Iesus Christ and that they may confesse, exhalt, and mag∣nifie the same more earnestly, and effectuous¦ly before their neyghbours, both in wordes and deedes. And as thou haste promised vs,

that thou wilt giue vs, what so euer we shal aske of the in the name of thy deare sonne, & as thy sonne promised vs, that thou woul∣dest gyue vs requirynge the, a good spirite much more prōptly, then any father gyueth his children good thinges, when they praye him: so giue these chyldrē the thinge, that we pray the for, thorowe thy sonne Christ, that when we shal now say our hādes vpō them in thy name and shall certifie them by thys signe, that thy fatherly hande shall be euer stretched forth vpon thē, and that they shall neuer wante thy holy spirite to keepe, leade, and gouerne thē in the way of health, and in a very christian life, graunt thou, I say, vn∣to them, that they maye acknowledge these thinges wyth true fayth, and that they may certeynly beleue, that thou wilte defende thē with thy almightie ryghte hande, and keepe them frō al euil, and deliuer them, and leade them to al good workes. Finally that thou wylt neuer take thy holy spirite from them thorowe our Lorde Iesus Christ.