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MOst mercifull God, the louer and author of truth, and the auenger of all falshood and lies, I confesse my selfe (as all other men bee) to bee a lier, apt to bee deceiued, hauing no truth in me, but what I haue receiued by the enlightning of thy spirit. I beseech thee pardon mine igno∣rances,
and more and more enlighten my blindnes: encrease my little knowledge, settle my weake iudgement, giue me power to discerne of things that differ, make me able to descry an errour, and to detest it; worke in me a loue of thy truth, and cause me to abhorre all false waies. Bow mine heart to the obedience of the known truth, and blesse me with an humble and lowlie spirit, that thou maist teach me thy waies, and direct me in thy iudgements: Finally, for euer preserue me vpright, both in opi∣nion and in action: and gratiously deliuer out of errours, such of thine as Satan holds in his snares, euen for thy name, and for thy Christs sake: Amen.
13 If any be already possessed with an hereticall spirit, to earnest praier must bee ioined religious fasting, by such as will conceiue any hope to cast out this spirit: for it is a detestable, proud, and obstinate spi∣rit, which will not out but by praier and fasting.
A Praier.