The forme of prayers and ministration of the sacraments, &c. vsed in the Englishe Congregation at Geneua and approued, by the famous and godly learned man, Iohn Caluyn.
About this Item
Title
The forme of prayers and ministration of the sacraments, &c. vsed in the Englishe Congregation at Geneua and approued, by the famous and godly learned man, Iohn Caluyn.
Author
English Church (Geneva, Switzerland)
Publication
Imprinted at Geneua :: By Iohn Crespin,
M.D.LVI. [1556]
Rights/Permissions
This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
Subject terms
Prayers -- Early works to 1800.
Catechisms, English -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item
"The forme of prayers and ministration of the sacraments, &c. vsed in the Englishe Congregation at Geneua and approued, by the famous and godly learned man, Iohn Caluyn." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68393.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
Pages
A CONFESSION OF OVR SYNNES, FRA∣med to our tyme, out of the 9. chap. of Daniel.
O lord God which arte1 mightie, and dreadeful, thou that kepest couenant, and shewest2 mercie to theym that loue thee, and do thy commaundementes:3 we haue synned, we haue offended, we haue wickedly, and stubburnely gone backe, frome thy lawes, and preceptes. We wolde neuer4 obey thy seruantes the Prophetes that spake in thy name, to our kinges, and princes, to our forfathers, and to all the people of our lande. O lord5 rightuousnes belongeth vnto thee, vnto vs, perteyneth nothing but open shame, as it ys come to passe this day, vnto our miserable con∣try of Englande, yea vnto all our nation whether they be farre, or nere, through all landes, wherein they are scattered for
descriptionPage 53
the 6 offences that they and we haue com∣mitted against thee: so that the77 curses and ponishmentes which are wryten in thy lawe, are nowe powred vpon vs, and thou hast perfourmed those wordes wher with thou didest menace vs and our rulers, that gouerned vs, in bringinge the same plagues vpon vs which before were threatened. And yet notwithstandinge bothe they, and we procede in our ini∣quitie and sease not to heape synne vpon synne. For they which once were well in∣structed in the doctrine of thy gospel, are nowe8 gone backe frome the obedience of thy trueth, and are turned agayne to that moste abhominable Idolatrie, from the which they were once called by the lyuely preachinge of thy worde. And we alas, to this day do not earnestly repent vs of our former wickednes, neither do we rightly9 consider, the heauynes of thy displeasure. Suche is thy iuste iudge∣mentes (ò lord) that thou10 ponishes synne by synne, and man by his owne inuen∣tions, so that there can be no ende of ini∣quitie, except thou11 preuent vs with thy12 vndeserued grace. Therfore13 conuert vs (ò lord) and we shalbe conuerted: for we do not offer vp our prayers trustinge in our14 owne rightuousnes, but in thy
descriptionPage 54
manifolde mercies. And althoghe thou ha∣ste once of thy especial grace deliuered vs from the miserable thraldome of error and blindnes, and called vs many tymes, to the swet15 libertie of thy gospell which we not∣withstādīge haue moste shamefully abu∣sed, in obeinge rather our owne16 lustes, and affections, then the admonitions of thy17 prophetes: yet we beseche thee once agayne for thy18 nams sake, to powre some comfortable droppe of thy accustomed mercies vpon vs:19 incline thyne eares, and open thyne eyes, to beholde the greuous plagues of our contrie, the continuall sor∣rowes of our afflicted bretherne, and our wofull banishment. And let our afflictions and iuste ponishemente be an admonition and warninge to other nations, emongest whome we are skattered that with all re∣uerence they may obey thy holy gospell: lost for like contempte, in the ende, like, or wourse20 plagues fall vpon theym. Wher∣fore ò lord heare vs, ò lord forgiue vs, ò lord consider and tary not ouer longe, but for thy deare sonne21 Iesus Christe sake, be mercifull vnto vs, and delyuer vs So shall it be knowen to all the worlde, that thou onely arte the selfe same God, that euer sheweth22 mercie, to all suche, as call vpon