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A prayer to Iesus Christ, for peace and vnitie in the Church,
O Soueraigne Lorde, who beyng the eternall worde and true GOD with God thy father, didst take our nature to visite in forme of man the poore children of Adam, lost by their infidelitie, distruste, and peruerse opinion against their Crea∣tor. And also by thy meane and remedie, hast eftesones restablissed the confederati∣on betwene GOD and vs, approuing the same most painfully in the mortall mar∣tyrdome of thy most innocent body bléeding on the crosse for the expiacion of our sinnes: we beseche thée (oh Sauiour of the world) that euen as thou arte come to consūmate and confirme our recōciliation, thou woul∣dest also reconcile our hartes, knitte oure wils, and sende thy spirit of truth amongst vs, to the ende, that we all concurring in one iudgement and opinion, may remem∣ber that we are called to bée members of one body, whereof Lord, we acknowledge thée to be the chiefe and supreame head, and so detesting inciuill partialities, we may