To th' end he might be glorifi'd, out of all grief and pain. high,

Afcending to the heavens to fit in glorie still On Gods right hand his Father deare,

according to his will; Untill the day of judgement

come,

when he shall come again, VVith angels power (yet of that day we all be uncertain) To judge all people righteoufly, whom he hath dearly bought: The living and the dead alfo which he hath made of nought.

And in the holy Spirit of God
my faith to fatisfie,
The third person in Trinitis
beleeve I stedfastly:
The holy and catholick Church

that Gods word doth maintain,

And holy scripture doth allow,
which Satan doth disdain.

And also I do trust to have
by Jesus Christ his death
Release and pardon of my finnes,
and that onely by faith:
VVhat time all flesh shall rise again
before the Lord of might;
And see him with their bodily eyes,
which now do give them light.
And then shall Christ our Saviour
the sheep and goats divide,

And give life everlastingly
to those whom he hath tri'd:

V Vithin his realm celestiall.
in glorie for to reft,
Vith all his holy company
of faints and angels blest;
VVhich serve the Lord omnipotent.
obediently each houre:
To whom be all dominion
and praise for evermore..

A prayer to the holy Ghost, to be fang before the fermon.

Sing this as the 119 Pfalme.

Come holy Spirit the God of might all.. Teach us to know thy word aright, that we do never fall. holy Ghost, visit our coaft, defend us with thy shield: Against all finne and wickednesse. Lord help us winne the field. Lord keep our king and his counsel, and give them will and might

Dapacem. Lamentation.

To perfevere in thy gospel,

which can put finne to flight. O Lord that giv'st thy holy word, fend preachers plenteoufly: That in the fame we may accord, and therein live and die.

O holy Spirit, direct aright

the preachers of thy word, That thou by them mayst cut down finne as it were with a sword. Depart not from thy pastours pure, but aid them at their need: Which break to us the bread of life, whereon our fouls do feed.

O blessed Spirit of truth keep us
in peace and unitie,
Keep us from fects and errours all,
and from all papistrie.
Convert all those that are our foes,
and bring them to thy light :
That they and we may well agree,
and praise thee day and night.

O Lord increase our faith in us,
and love so to abound;
That man and wife be void ofstrife,
and nieghbours about us round,
In our time give thy peace, O Lord,
to nations farre and nigh:
And teach them all thy holy word,
that we may fing to thee.

All glory to the Trinitie

that is of mighties most: The living Father, and the Sonne, and eke the holy Ghoft.. As it hath been in all the time that hath been heretofore: As it is now, and so shall be henceforth for evermore:

Da pacem, Domine..

Ive peace in these our dayes, O
Lord, Great dangers are now at hand:

Thine enemies with one accord Chrifts. name in every land Seek to deface, root

out and race Thy true right worship

indeed. Be thou the stay, Lord, we

thee pray, Thou help'stalone in all need.

Give us that peace that we do lack Through misbelief and ill life :

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Thy word to offer thou dost not slack,
VVhich we unkindly gain-strive.
V Vith fire and fword
This healthfull word

Some perfecute and oppreffe:
Some with the mouth
Confefse the truth

V Vithout fincere godlinesse.

Give peace and us thy Spirit down send,
V Vith grief and repentance true
Do pierce our hearts, our lives to amend
And by faith in Christ renew :
That fear and dread,
V Varre and bloudshed,

Through thy sweet mercie and grace,
May from us flide:
Thy truth may bide,
And shine in every place.

The Lamentation.

Lord, in thee is all my truft, give

care unto my wofull cry: Refuse

me not that am unjust, but bowing

down thy heavenly eye, Behold how

I do still lament my finnes wherein I do offend: O Lord for them shall

I be slient, sith thee to please I do

intend.s

No, no, not so thy will is bent

To

to deal with finners in thine ire:

But when in heart they shall repent, thou grantst, with speed their just thee therefore still fhall I cry (defire.. to wash away my finfull crime: Thy bloud, O Lord, is not yet drie but that it may help me in time.

Haste thee, O Lord, haste thee, I say, to poure on me thy gifts of grace, That when this life shall flit away in heaven with thee I may have places Where thou dost reigne eternally (fend, with God which once did down thee: Where

as he dorh right deserve: Our hearts cannot of him so think

as he doth us preserve.

His benefits they be so great
to us that be but finne,
That at our hands for recompense
there is no hope to winne.
O finfull flesh, that thou shouldst have
fuch mercies of the Lord!
Thou dost deserve more worthily
of him to be abhorr'd.

Nought else but finne and wretchednesse

doth rest within our hearts: And stubbornly against the Lord we daily play our parts. The funne above in firmament that is to us a light.

Doth shew it felfe more clear and pure then we be in his fight.

The heavens above and all therein

more holy are then we : They serve the Lord in their estate, each one in his degree.

They

do not strive for for mastership,

nor flack their office set :

But ferve the Lord and do his will, hate is to them no let.

Also the earth and all therein

of God it is in aw,

It doth observe the formers will,
by skilfull natures law.
The sea and all that is therein

doth bend when God doth beck:

The fpirits beneath do tremble all,
and fear his wrathfull check.

But we (alas!) for whom all these
were made them for to rule,
Do not fo know or love the Lord
as doth the ox or mule.
law he gave for us to know,
what was his holy will:

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to bring us unto life, The Sonne of God our flesh he took

to end our mortall strife. And all the law of God the Lord he did it full obey; And for our finnes upon the crosse his bloud our debts did pay. And that we should not yet forget what good he to us wrought,

A figne he left our eyes to tell that he our bodies bought. In bread and wine here visible unto thine eyes and taste, His mei cies great thou mayeft record if that his Spirit thou hast.

As once the corn did live and grow, and was cut down with fithe, And threshed out with many stripes, out from his husk to drive:

And as the inill with violence

did tear it out so small, And made it like to earthly duft, not sparing it at all.: And as the oven with fire hot did close it up with heat, And all this done that I have faid, that it should be our meat: So was the Lord in his ripe age

cut down by cruel death : His foul he gave in torments great, and yeelded up his breath.

Because that he to us might be an everlasting bread, With much reproch and troubles great on earth his life he led. And as the grapes in pleasant time are pressed very fore, And plucked down when they be ripe, and let to grow no more: Because the juyce that in them is as comfortable drink

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We might receive and joyfull be when forrows make us shrink: So Chrift his bloud out pressed was with nails and eke with spear: The juyce thereof doth fave all those that rightly do him fear.

And as the corns by unitie into one loaf are knit:

So is the Lord and his whole church, though he in heaven fit. As many grapes make but one wine, so should we be but one In faith and love in Christ above, and unto Christ alone:

Leading a life without all strife in quiet rest and peace: From envic and froin malice both our hearts and tongues to cease. Which if we do, then shall we shew

thar we his chofen be: By faith in him to lead a life as alwayes willed hc.

And that we may so do indeed,
God fend us all his grace:
Then after death we shall be fure
with him to have a place.