A manual of prayers nevvly gathered out of many and diuers famous authours aswell auncient as of the tyme present. Reduced into. 13. chap. very commodious and profitable for a deuout christian.
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- A manual of prayers nevvly gathered out of many and diuers famous authours aswell auncient as of the tyme present. Reduced into. 13. chap. very commodious and profitable for a deuout christian.
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- [Rouen :: Fr. Parsons' Press],
- Cvm Privilegio 1583.
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- Catholic Church -- Prayer-books and devotions -- English -- Early works to 1800.
- Perfection -- Early works to 1800.
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"A manual of prayers nevvly gathered out of many and diuers famous authours aswell auncient as of the tyme present. Reduced into. 13. chap. very commodious and profitable for a deuout christian." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68438.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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I Beseeche thee moste inercyfull God, vouchsafe to preserue me, from excessiue cares of this lyfe, that I be not to much encombred with many thinges concerning the necessitie of my body, and that I be not ouertaken with any volup∣tuousnes of these thinges.
O my God, my ineffable sweete∣nes, chaunge and turne into bitter∣nesse all my carnall consolations, which withdraw me from the loue of celestiall thinges. Suffer me not (my God) to be conquered, not to be ouercome of fleshe and of blood. Suffer me not to be decey∣ued of the worlde, and of the tran∣sitorie glory thereof, nor that the deuill through his subtiltie ouer∣throw me to the grounde. Gyue me strengthe to resist: pacience to endure: and cōstancie to perseuer: for, meate drincke, clothes, and all
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necessayrie things to vpholde the bodie, are painfull & troublesome for that person, that hathe a de∣uout spirite. Therefore graunt me Lorde to vse these thinges mode∣ratly, and that my harte be not to much encombred with the desyre of them. The holy law forbiddeth vs to require superfluous thinges, and suche as are more delectable than profitable: for otherwyse the fleshe should be ouer burdenouse to the spirit. And alwayes I request that thy holy hande may gouuerne & instruct me, that I doe nothinge excessyuelie. Amen.
The ende of the fifth Chapter.