A prayer to be vsed of all men and at all times.
WIth the eye of mercy, O God, see into my sorrowfull soule, and gratiously behold my inward cogitations: and as thou hast of∣tentimes shewed thy selfe a most
A Beautifull baybush to shrowd us from the sharp shovvers of sinne containing many notable prayers and meditations, being very profitable for all true Christians that delight to laud the Lord.
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- A Beautifull baybush to shrowd us from the sharp shovvers of sinne containing many notable prayers and meditations, being very profitable for all true Christians that delight to laud the Lord.
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- Lodon [sic] :: Printed for Ed. White,
- 1610.
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- Church of England -- Prayer-books and devotions.
- Prayers -- Early works to 1800.
- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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"A Beautifull baybush to shrowd us from the sharp shovvers of sinne containing many notable prayers and meditations, being very profitable for all true Christians that delight to laud the Lord." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05792.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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louing and mercifull Lord vnto thy seruants, euen so with hum∣ble heart I earnestly beseech thee O God, satisfie my mind with good things, and couer my sins in the multitude of thy mercies, change the frowardnes of my cor∣rupt nature, & release thine anger pretēded towards me, that I may worth••ly praise thee, shew me thy mercy, O deare father, and grant me thy saluation: instruct me con∣tinually by thy holy spirit in the reuelation of thy lawes, that I may thereby perceiue thy will in all things, and so lead a life ac∣ceptable in thy sight, and vouch∣safe, O Lord, euermore to graunt me thy heauenly wisdome, that
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I may not be enclined to follie, but knowing whereunto thou hast created me. I may diligent∣ly ••roceed in that necessarie vo∣cation that thy diuine prouidence hath called me vnto, seruing thee in righteousnesse and holinesse of conuersation all the dayes of my life. Graunt also, O Lord, that I may altogether imbrace thy true and a heauenly doctrine & eschew all such things as are contrarie to thy will, that so leading a life agreeable to my calling, I may in the end attaine to the ioyes euer∣lasting.