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A00361	A deuoute treatise vpon the Pater noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster Erasmus Roterodamus, and tourned in to englisshe by a yong vertuous and well lerned gentylwoman of. xix. yere of age	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Roper, Margaret, 1505-1544.; Hyrde, Richard.	1526 (1526)	STC 10477; ESTC S109306	22,951	48

and parttakers of thy sōne hast apoynted to thy royalme Graunt father of all myght that they whom thy goodnesse ones hath delyuered frō the tyrāny of synne and assygned to dwell in thy royalme maye by the benifitte of the same benygne goodnesse contynue and stedfastly abyde in theyr liberte and fredome and that none leauynge and fayling from the and thy sonne retourne agayne in the tyrannous seruice of the deuyll so bothe we by thy sonne shall raigne in the to our welthe and thou in vs to thy glorie for thou art glorified in our blysse and our blysse is of thy goodnesse Thy son̄e Iesus taught vs we shulde dispice the realme of this worlde whiche standeth all by rychesse and is holde vp by garrisōs of men by hostes and armour which also what soeuer it doth dothe by pryde and violence and is both gotten kept defended by fierse cruelnesse he with the holy goost ouercame y e wycked spirite that ruled as chefe and heed in the worlde afore he by innocency and purenesse of lyuyng had the victorie of synne by mekenesse venquesshed cruelnesse by suffraūce of many dispitefull rebukes recouered euerlastyng glory by his owne deth restored life and by his crosse had triumphe vpon the wycked spirites Thus wōderfully hast thou father warred and ouercome after this maner thou both triumphest reignest in thy sonne Iesus by whom it hath pleased the of thy goodnesse to take vs in to the cōgregaciō of the dwellers in thy royalme Thus also thou tryūphest and reignest in thy holy martyrs in thy chast virgins and pure confessours whiche yet neyther by theyr owne strēgth nor power dyde ouercome the fiersenesse and displeasure of tyrantes ne the raging or the wantōnesse of the flesshe ne the maliciousnesse of this worlde But it was thy spirite father Whiche it pleased the to gyue them to y e glorie of thy name and the helthe of mankynde that was bothe the begȳner and ender of all this in them And we father hertely desire the that thy realme may florisshe also in vs whiche all though we do no myracles for asmoche as neyther tyme nor mater requireth albe it we be nat imprysoned nor turmented though we be nat woūded nor brent althogh we be nat crucified nor drowned thoughe we be nat beheeded yet natwithstandyng the strength and clerenesse of thy realme may shine and be noble in vs if the worlde perceyue that we by the helpe of thy spirite stande stedfast sure agaynst all assautes of the deuyll and agaynst the flesshe whiche alwaye stereth and prouoketh vs to those thynges that be contrary to the spirite agaȳst the worlde whiche by all the wayes it can moueth vs to forsake and leaue the trust that we haue ones put in the As often so euer as for thy loue we despice and sette nought by the realme of this worlde and with full trust hange vpon the heuēly kyngdome that thou hast promysed vs as often also as we forsake and leaue honourynge of erthely richesse and onely worshyp and enbrace y e precious and gostly lernyng of the gospell as often as we refuse those thȳges that for the season seme swete and pleasaunt to the flesshely carnal appetite and in hope and trust of eternall felicite we suffre paciently and valiantly all thynge be it neuer so harde as often also as we can be content to forsake our naturall affections and that whiche we haue moost dere as our fathers and mothers wyues chyldren and kynsefolke for the loue of the Likewise as often as we oppresse and refrayne y e furious and fiersely braydes of angre and gyue mylde meke wordes to those y ● chyde and ●raule with vs and do good to them whiche do vs iniury and wronge and all for thy sake So often father thou warrest in vs and ouercomest the realme of the deuyll openyst y ● myght and power of thy realme Thus it hath pleased and lyked thy wysdome father by continuall and greuous batayle to exercise confyrme and make stedfaste the vertue and strengthe of thy people Encrease suche strengthe in thy childrē that they maye euer retourne stronger from their batayle● and that whan by lytell and lytell their enemies and aduersaries myght is minysshed and broken thou mayest euery day more and more raygne in vs But the tyme is nat yet come good father in whiche all the worlde haue subdued them selfe to thy yoke For as yet that tyrannous fende hath a do with many and diuers naciōs There is nat yet one herde and one herde mayster whiche we hope shal be whan the iewes also shall bryng and submyt them selfe to the spirituall and gostely lernyng of y e gospell for yet many knowe nat howe great a liberte it is and what a dignite and how great a felicite to be subiectes to the heuenly realme and that is the cause why they had rather be the seruaūtes of the deuyll than thy children inheritours with Iesu and parttakers of y e kȳgdome of heuen and amongest those two father that walke within the cloyster of thy churche seme as chefe in thy realme there are nat a fewe alas which holde on their aduersaries side and as moche as lyeth in them abate shame dishonest the glory of thy realme Werfore we specially desyre and wisshe for that tyme whiche thou woldest none to knowe but thy selfe alone in whiche acordyng to the promyse of thy sonne thy angels shall come and make clene the floore of thy churche and gader to guether into thy barne the pure corne deuyded and seuered fro the cockle plucke out of thy realme all maner occasyon of sclaundre What tyme there shall neyther be hunger nor pouerte no necessite of clothīg no disease no dethe no pursuer no hurt or yuell at all ne any feare or suspicion of hurte but than all the body of thy dere sosie heaped togyder in theyr heed shall take f●uicion and pleasure of thy blessed company of heuen they whiche in the meane tyme had rather serue the tyrannous fende shall togyther with their maister be banysshed and sente awaye to euerlastyng punisshement And trewely this is the realme of Israell whiche whan Iesus Christ forsoke the erthe retourned agayne to his disciples desyred myght shortely be restored Than thou madest heuen free and rydde frō all rebellion what tyme Lucifer● with his company was caste out So one 's in the day of dome and iugement whan the bodyes shall aryse thou shalte departe the sheepe from the gottes than who so euer hath here with all d●●●gēce embrased the spirytuall and goollely realme of the gospell shal be desyred and brought to the to the inherytaūce of the euerlastynge kyngdome to y e whiche thy goodnesse had apoynted theym or the worlde was made This fortunate and happy day whiche thy sonne Iesus promysed shulde come we thy children good father greatlye desyre whiche dwelle here in erthe as outlawes in exyle sore

as our weakenesse wyll suffre thou mayst be glorified also in vs but the wayes howe thou mayst be glorified in vs is if the worlde perceyue that we lyue after y e teaching and doctrine of thy son̄e that is to say if they se that we loue the aboue all thyng and our neighbour brother no lesse than our owne selfes that we euer beare good mȳde and loue to our ennemy and aduersary also well doing and profyting those whiche do vs iniury wrong For these thynges thy sonne badde vs we shulde do whan he prouoked vs to the folowyng and likenesse of our father in heuen whiche commaundeth his sone to shyne vpon good and yuell And howe great a shame and dyshoneste are they to thy glorie whiche whan they haue professed taken vpon them thy name natwithstandynge do robbery and thefte commyt aduoutrie chyde and braule study to reuēge go about to disceyue forswere theym selfe by thy moost holy name amonge also sclaundre and backebyte haue their belly as their god dispyce the and do seruice and homage to worldely richesse And truely the commen sorte of people for the moost ꝑte esteme god after the lyueng and cōdicions of his seruaūtes For if they may parceyue that they whiche haue professed thy name lyue viciouslye thanne they crye out and saye What a god is he that hath suche maner of worshippers Fye on suche a mayster that hath so vnrewly seruauntes Out vpon suche a father whose children be so leude Banisshed be suche a kyng y t hath suche maner of people and subiectes Thy sonne therfore consydring this taught vs that lykewise as he bothe lyueeng and dyeng euer glorified thy name so we also all that we might shulde endeuer by chast and blamelesse condicions to auaunce and preyse the clerenesse of thy glorie sayeng vnto us Let your light shine in the sight of men that they maye se your good workes in those glorify your father in heuen But in vs O good father there is no lyght at all excepte it wyll please the to sende vs any whiche arte the contynuall and euerlastyng spring of all lyght nor we of our selfes can bring forthe no good workes Therfore good lorde we praye the lette thy goodnesse worke in vs thy clere lyght shine in vs as in all thynge that thou hast created dothe shine thy eternall and endlesse power thy wysdome vnable to be expressed thy wonderfull goodnesse whiche moost specially yet thou vouchsafest to shewe to mankynde Nowe than whyder soeuer we loke all thynges glorifye thy name the erthely spirites bothe day nyght neuer lynne prayeng their lorde and kyng y ● wōderfull also heuenly ingen that we beholde the disagreyng concorde moreouer of the elamentes the flowing and ebbyng of the see y e bublisshyng of ryuers the enduring courses of waters so many dyuers kȳdes of thynges so many kyndes of trees and of herbes so many of creatures and to euery thyng the proper apoynted and sette nature As in y ● Adamant stone to drawe yron y e herbes to cure and heale diseases and sickenesse All these thynges I saye what other thyng do they shewe to vs than the glorie of thy name that thou arte onely very god onely immortall onely of all power and might onely wyse onely good onely mercyfull onely Iuste onely trewe onely marueylous onely to be loued had in reuerēce Than father we may well se that he doth wrong to thy glorious name who soeuer take vpon him self to be called by any of these names for though there be in vs any of these rehersed vertues yet all that cometh to vs from thy liberall goodnesse Graunt nowe therfore father that thy name on euery side be glorified and that the light and glory of thy name maye no lesse appere and shyne in our maners and lyuenge than it shyneth in thy Angels and in all thynge that thou hast created and made that in lykewise as they whiche beholde and loke vpon this worlde of the wōderfull and marueylous workemanshippe do guesse the excellēcy of the maker therof so they that knowe the nat moued and stered by our example maye bothe cōfesse their owne misery and wretchednes and marueile thy liberall goodnesse and by these meanes turned and cōuerted may togyder with vs glorify the most holy name of the of thy son̄e and of the holy gost to whom indifferently all honour and glorie is due for euer Amen ¶ The seconde peticion ADueniat regnum tuum O father in heuen whiche arte the onely causer maker sauiour restorer gouernour of all bothe ī heuen and in erthe out of whom cometh procedeth all authorite power kyngdome and rule aswell to thynges vncreated as created aswell to thinges inuisible as visible whose trone and seate of maiestie is the heuen the erthe as fotestole whose kyngly septre mace is thyne eternall and most establisshed wyll whom no power is able to withstāde Ones thou promisest thy people by y e mouthes of thy prophetes for the helth of makynde a certayne spirituall realme whiche shulde brȳg into liberte those that were thyne borne anewe in the and shulde delyuer them out of the tyrannous hādelyng of the fende whiche in tyme past raigned as prince in the worlde sore entangled combred with synne And to the gettyng optaynynge of this realme thou vouchsauest to sende from heuen downe into the erthe thy onely son̄e whiche with the losse of his owne lyfe redemynge vs where we were afore seruauntes of the deuyll shulde make vs the children of god and verily thy sonne while he lyued here in erthe was wont to call his gospell the heuenly kyngdome a the realme of god whose knowlege yet he sayde to be hydde and kepte secrete from vs but nat wtstandyng thy children humbly require and with feruente desyre beseke the that this realme whiche our lorde Iesus chal●ged for the myght daylye more and more be disclosed and opyned here in erth vntyll that tyme come in whiche that same thy sonne shall restore and rendre it vp to the full and hole whan all those haue subdued themselfe whom thy goodnesse or the begȳnyng of y e worlde hath apoynted to dwell in this realme And whā all obstinate and rebelleous spirites and all malycious and yuell desyres be fully quenched wyped away whiche hiderto and at this day make warre and insurrection agaynst thy maieste whiche vexe and vnquiete thy cōmunalte what time thy royalme shal be in sure peace and trāquillite For verily as yet the worlde by all the meanes subtilties it can oppresseth thy childrē wādryng here bodily in erth as yet also corrupt vnclene affections and olde original synue rebell striue ayenst the spirite as yet noyous and wycked spirites whiche thou banyssheddest and put out of the heuēly cite do assaut with fyrely dartes from aboue those whom thou of thy mere goodnesse hast deuyded frō this worlde and as chosen folke

lodened with the hugenesse of the erthely body suffryng in the mean tyme many greuous displeasures and sorowyng that we be withdrawen frō thy company wherof than we shall haue perfite pleasure and fruycion Whan face to face we shall se and beholde our kyng and father raignyng in his great glorie And yet we haue nat this hope truste of our owne merites and desertes whiche we knowe verily as non but onely of thy liberall goodnesse Wherby it lyked the to bestowe thyne owne sonne holly for vs and to sende vs the holy goost as pledge and token of this inheritaunce if it wyll please the also to graunt that we maye stedfastly and without any waueryng contynue in thy sonne Iesus than thou canst nat departe vs from the company of thy realme To whome with that same thy son̄e and the holy goost all renome honour and glorie is due worlde without ende Amen ¶ The thyrde peticion EIat voluntas tua sicut in ceso et in terra O father whiche art the noryssher and ordrer of all whom it pleaseth thy sonne to aknowlege as his bretherne and he so aknowlegeth all those y t in pure faythe professeth his name in baptysme Thy children here in erthe call and crye to y e dwellyng in heuen a place farre out of all chaūgeable mutabilite of thynges created desyryng in dede to come to thy heuenly and celestiall cōpany whiche is defouled with no maner spotte of yuell sauyng they knowe well that non can be taken and receyued in to so great a tranquillite quietnesse but onely they whiche with busye studye whyle they lyue here labour to be such as ther must be Therfore it is all one realme bothe of heuen and erthe sauyng this difference that here we haue sore greuous conflicte w t the flesshe the worlde and the deuyll and there all though there is nothyng that might minysshe or defoyle the welthe of blessed soules Yet as touchynge the full perfection of felicite there is some maner mysse whiche is that all the membres and partes of thy sonne be gathered together and that the hole body of thy sonne safe and sounde be ioyned to his heed Wherby neyther Christe shall lacke any of his partes and mēbres nor good mennes soules theyr bodyes whiche lykewise as they were euer here in erthe parttakers of theyr punīsshementes and afflictiōs so their desyre is to haue them companiōs of their ioye in heuen And they finally in this worlde go about to folowe the vnite and concorde of the heuenly kyngedome whiche all the tyme they lyue bodily in erthe as it becometh naturall and obedient children studye with all diligence to fulfyll those thȳges whiche they knowe shall cōtent thy mynde pleasure and nat what their owne sensuall appetite gyueth them ne iugyng or disputyng why thou woldest this or that to be done but thynkyng it sufficient that thus thou woldest it whom they knowe surely to wyll nothing but that that is best And what thy will is we lerned sufficiently of thy onely begotton moost dere sonne He was obeydient to thy wyll euyn to his owne dethe and thus he sayd for our lernyng and instruction Father if it may conuenyently be suffre this drynke of my passyon to be withdrawen from me howe be it yet thy wyll be fulfylled and nat myne So that thā nedes must man be a shamed to preferre set forth his owne wyll if Christ our maister was cōtent to cast his owne wyll awaye and subdue it to thyne The flesshe hath his propre wyll and delyte whiche man naturally desyreth to kepe and folowe The worlde also hath a wyll by it selfe and the deuyll his wyll farre contrarye to thyne For the flesshe coueteth agaynst the spirite whiche we haue receyued of the and the worlde entyseth vs to sette our loue on frayle and vanysshyng thynges and the deuyll laboureth about that that might bring mā to euerlasting distruction Nor it is nat inough y t in baptyme we haue ꝓfessed y t we wyll be obedient to thy preceptes and there to haue renounced the deuyls seruice excepte we labour all our lyfe to perfourme stedfastly that whiche we haue professed But that we can nat perfourme but if thou gyue vs strengthe to helpe forthe our purpose so that our wyll haue no place in vs but let thy wyll father worke in vs that whiche thy wysdome iudgeth and thynketh best for vs. Who so euer lyueth after the flesshly carnall appetite they are deed to the and than nat as thy childrē Ye and we thy children also as longe as we are here bodily in erthe haue among nat a litell businesse and a do in venquesshyng the flesshly delite whiche laboreth to preuent thy wyll but graunt good father that thyne euer ouercome haue y ● better whether it lyke the we lyue or dye or to be punisshed for our correction or be in prosperite to the entent we shulde gyue the thankes for thy liberall goodnesse And they folowe and obeye the wyl of the deuyl whiche do sacrifice and homage to idols whiche sclaūderously backebite thy most honorable sonne and for enuy and yuell wyll go about to brynge theyr neyghbour in to perill and distruction and so they may shortly waxe ryche care nat whether they do ryght or wrong and are al fulfylled with corrupt and vnclene thoughtes But this is thy wyll father that we shulde kepe both our body and mynde chast and pure from al vnclenesse of the worlde and that we shulde preferre and set more by thyne honour thy sonnes thā all other thynges besyde And that we shulde be angry with no man ne enuye or reuenge any man but alway be redy to do good for yuell ye to be content rather with turmentes hūger imprisonement banysshement and dethe than in any thynge to be contrarye to thy pleasure And that we may be able euery day more and more to perfourme all this helpe vs O father in heuen that y e flesshe may euer more and more be subiect to the spirite and our spirite of one assent and one mynde with thy spirite And likewyse as nowe in dyuerse places thy children whiche are obedient to the gospell obey and do after thy wyll so graūt they may do in all the worlde besyde that euery man may know and vnderstāde that thou alone art the onely heed and ruler of al thyng and that in lyke wyse as there are none in heuen Whiche mutter and rebell agaynst thy wyll so let euery man here in erthe with good mynde and gladde chere obey thy wyll and godly preceptes Nor we can nat effectually and fully mynde what y ● good lorde wyllest excepte it wyll please the to plucke drawe vs therto Thou cōmaundest vs to be obedyent to thy wyll and pleasure and in dede they are nat worthy to be called children but if in all poyntes they folowe and obey theyr fathers byddyng but sithe it hath liked thy goodnesse to