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.
- Publication
- 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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GIue eare o Lord I beséech thee, vnto the crie and la∣mentable voyce of my sor∣rowfull heart, for I haue called vpon thee with my whole heart day and night, graunt that I may dilligently obserue thy sta∣tutes, and in all my dangers vouchsafe to send mee thy aide and assistance whereby I may continually be stirred vp to me∣ditate on thy testimonies, let my praiers preuent the early light of the morning, and in the night-watches O Lord quicken my minde with the commemoration of thy goodnes, and hearken vn∣to my earnest petitions, acording to thy louing kindenes extended
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vnto thy children, and as thou hast promised, restore me to the inioying of thy fauour, that am without life: thou seest how neere they assault me which are conti∣nually giuen to iniquitie, and earnestly bent to destroy thy te∣stimonies, praising thee with their lippes, but in hart, are farre from thee. But my trust is onely in thee, O Lord, that thou wilt cleaue vnto thy seruant, and in∣crease my zeale more and more. Teach mee I beseech thee most mercifull God, the assured way of thy commaundements, for I know certainely, that by the ob∣seruation of thy testimonies I shal neuer be in error, neither ye••
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frustrate of my hope which I haue in thy mercy. For thou hast established the same for euer and euer. Heare me, O Lord God I most humbly beseech thee, and as∣sist me euermore with thy grace and holy spirit, that I may rest with thee eternally.