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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

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in the bōdes of one assent whom thou quickenest with one spirite with one baptysme purgest and makest clene and in one house of the churche acōpanyest and with the cōmen sacramentes of the churche doest norisshe whom thou hast indifferently called to the inheritaunce of the kyngedome of heuen bycause they shulde be of more strength and shulde lyue toguyder in thy house of one mynde and that there shulde be no stryfe or contencion amongest the partes and membres of one body but eche to lyue in charite with other Yet in so moche as they are fayne to kepe styll theyr mortall body it can nat be chose but by reason of the weakenesse and frailte of nature amonge displeasure offences shall chaūce wherby though the clerenesse of brotherly loue concorde be nat vtterly extinct and quenched yet it is made all faynt and colde and lyke in conclusion to be quenched Except y u father of thy great gentylnesse mercy shuldest dayly forgyue those that euery day offended the for as often as we offende our brother so often also we offende and displease y e father whiche cōmaūdeddest we shulde loue our brother as our owne selfe but thy sonne knowyng well inough the imbecilite and weakenesse of this membre shewed vs a remedy therfore gyuyng vs sure hope y t thy goodnesse wolde remytte and forgyue vs all our offences if we on the other side with all our hert wolde forgyue our brother what so euer he trespaceth agaynste vs and this is a very equall and indifferent waye to optayne ꝑdon and forgyuenesse whiche thy son̄e Iesus hath assigned For howe can any mā be so bolde to desyre his father to withdrawe his reuēgynge hande from hym if he hym selfe go about to reuenge a lytell offence in his brother or who is of so shamelesse boldenesse that wolde nat be afrayde to saye to the Slake thy angre whan he contynueth in rancoure and malyce styll towarde his brother And howe can he surely boost and auaunce hym selfe as a membre of thy sonne whiche beyng fre from all synne hym selfe prayde the to forgyue the theues on the crosse if he all entangled with synne and a synner coulde nat fynde in his hert to forgyue his brother agaynst whome nowe and than he offendeth so that amōgest vs it maye be called rather as mutuall chaūge of ꝑdone than very forgyuenesse that sacrifice is impleasaunt in thy sight whiche is offred in remēbraunce of displeasure or neglygence of reconcylyng his brothers good wyll Therfore thy sonne gaue vs this in cōmaundement that we shulde leaue our offring euyn at y e auter hye vs a pace to our brother and labour to be in peace with hȳ and than returne agayne offre vp our rewarde Lawe nowe we folowe y t thy sonne hath taught vs we endeuer to performe that he hath done if thou aknowlege the couenant bargayne made of thy son̄e as we dout nat but thou doest graūt vs we beseke the that thyng wherof we had full hope trust by thy sonne Thus he bad vs praye whan he answered nat a fewe tymes y t we shulde optayne what soeuer we desyred of y ● in his name he made vs bolde to pray to the vouchesafe thou by him to forgyue those that call vpon the we aknowlege our owne imbecilite feblenesse wherby we well perceyue in to howe shamfull and abhomynable offences we were lyke to fall into except we were preserued by thy goodnesse frō gretter synnes and the same mekenesse thou leftest in vs as a remedy against y e pride which we shulde haue ben in ieopardy to haue fallen in dayly We offende and fall to the entent that euery daye we might glorify thy gētylnesse Graunt father that we may hertely forgyue our bretherne that whā we be in peace and vnite amongest our selfes we may haue the alway mercyfull vnto vs and if in any thyng we offende the amēde vs with thy fatherly correction so that thou vtterly forsake vs nat nor disinherite vs ne cast vs in to hell ones in baptyme thou hast remytted vs all our sȳnes but that was nat inoughe for thy tendre loue towarde vs but thou hast also shewed a sure redy remedy for the dayly offences of thy children for the whiche we thanke thy great gētylnesse whiche vouche sauest by thy sonne and the holy gost to endewe vs with so great benifytes to the euer lastyng glorie of thy moost holy name Amen ¶ The sixte peticion EL ne nos in ducas in tentationem O good father in heuen albeit there is nothing that we greatly feare hauyng the mercyfull vnto vs and whyle mutuall loue and charyte eche with other maketh vs thy children of more strength agaynst euery yuell assaut yet whan we consydre howe weake and fraile the nature of man is and howe ignorant also we be whome thy goodnesse wyll iudge and thynke worthy the contynuaunce in thy loue to the ende of this lyfe in whiche as long as we are a thousande maner of wayes we be stered to fall and ruyne therfore we can nat be vtterly seker and carelesse all this lyfe is rounde about be sette with the dyuelles snares he neuer cesseth temptynge vs whiche was nat a frayde with craftie subtylteis to sette vpon thy sonne Iesus We call to mynde howe greuously the fende assauted thy seruaunt Iob We remembre howe Saull was fyrst thy electe and chosen seruaunt within a while after cast out of they light We can nat forget howe Dauyd whom y u calleddest a mā euyn after thyne owne appetyte was drawen to that great villany of synne that he mengled aduoutre with māslaughter We cōsydre howe Solomon whom in the begynnyng of his rule thou gauest wysedome aboue all men was brought to that madnesse and folly that he dyde sacrifyce to strange vtter goddes We remembre also what befell the chefe and heed of thyne apostles whiche after that he had so valyantly professed that he wolde dye with his mayster natwithstādyng thrise forsware his maister These and suche many other whan we cōsydre we can nat but feare and aborre the ieopardy of temptacion and thy fatherly loue wolde vs alway to be in this feare bycause we shulde nat sluggisshely slouthfully begyn to trust in our owne helpe but defēde and arme our selfe agaynst euery saute of temptacion with sobre temperaūce watche prayer wherby we shulde neyther prouoke our ennemy remēbring our owne feblenesse nor be ouerthrone in y e storme of temptacion trustyng to thy ayde with out whiche we are able to do right nought y u suffrest among tēptacion to fall eyther to proue and make stedfast the suffraūce pacience of thy children as Iob and Abraham were tempted or els by suche scourges to correcte and chasten our offēces but howe often soeuer thou suffrest this we praye the thou wylt bring that same temptacion to good and lucky ende gyue vs strength egall to the moūtenaunce weight of the yuels y t come vpon vs it is no lytell ieopardy whan soeuer we be thretned with losse of our goodes w t banysshement rebukes imprisonment with bandes and bodily turmentyng horrible and fearfull dethe But we are in no lesse peryll at all whan ꝓsperite to moche laugheth on vs than whan we be ouer moche feared with trouble and aduersyte They are an īnumerable sorte whiche fall on euery side some for feare of punysshment do sacrifyce to wicked deuyls some ouerthrone and astonyed with yuels and vexaciōs do blaspheme thy most holy name agayne some drowned with ouermoche worldely welthe sette at nought and dyspice thy gyftes of grace and retourne agayne in to their olde and former fylthynesse as the sonne that the scripture speketh of whiche after tyme he hadde spent and reuelled out all his fathers substaunce by vnthrifty and vngracious rule was brought to that misery and wretchednesse that he enuyed the swyne their chaffe We knowe well good father that our aduersary hath no power ouer vs at all but by thy suffraunce Wherfore we be cōtent to be put to what soeuer ieopardy it pleaseth the so it wyll lyke thy gentylnesse to measure our ennemys assaute and our strength for so though we be somtyme in the fyrst metyng to weake yet thy wysedome in the conclusyon wyll tourne it to our welthe So thy most dere and honorable son was euer wonte to ouercome the deuyll thus the flesshe and thus the worlde that whan he semed moost to be oppressed he than moost specially triumphed and he fought for vs he ouercame for vs and triumphed for vs Let vs also ouercome by his ensample with thy helpe and by the holy goost procedyng frō bothe for euer Amen ¶ The seuenth peticion SEd libera nos a malo O almyghty father it hath pleased thy mere and liberall goodnesse ones whan we were rydde from sȳne to delyuer vs by thy son̄e Iesus Christ out of the hādes of our moost foule and vnclene father the deuyll to electe take vs in to the honour bothe of thy name and thyne inherytaūce but yet of this condycion that all the while we lyue here in erthe we shulde be in cōtynuall batell with our enemy nothyng mystrust but that thou wylte performe that whiche we desyre of the. Amen ¶ Thus endeth thexposicion of the Pater noster Imprinted at London in Fletestrete in the house of Thomas Berthelet nere to the Cundite at the signe of Lucrece Cum priuilegio a rege in du●●o ¶ The Rote or myrroure of consolacyon and conforte
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
a father thanne a lorde or maister Thou woldest we shulde rather loue the as thy children than feare the as thy seruaūtes and bonde men Thou fyrst louedest vs and of thy goodnesse also it cometh and thy rewarde that we do loue the agayne Gyue eare O father of spyrites to thy chyldren spyrituall whiche in spyrite praye to the For thy sonne tolde vs that in those that so prayed thy delyte was whom therfore y u sēdest in to the worlde that he shulde teache vs all veryte and trouthe Here nowe the desyres of vnyte and concorde for it is nat sytting ne agreable that bretherne whō thy goodnes●e hath put in equall honoure shulde disagre or varry among themselfe by ambicious desyre of worldely promocion by contencious debate hatered or enuy all we hang of one father we all one thyng praye for and desyre no man asketh ought for hym selfe specially or a parte but as membres of one body quyckened and releued with one soule We requyre and praye in cōmen for that whiche indyfferētly shal be expedient and necessary for vs all And in dede we dare none other thyng desyre of the than what thy sonne cōmaūded vs ne otherwise aske than as he apoynted vs for in so askyng his goodnesse promysed we shulde optayne what soeuer we prayed for in his name And for as moche as whan thy sonne was here in erthe he nothyng more feruently desyred than that thy moost holy name shulde appere and shyne nat onely in Iudea but also thorowe all the worlde besyde we also bothe by his encoragyng and ensample this one thing aboue all desyre that the glorie of thy most holy name maye replenisshe and fulfyll bothe heuen erthe so that no creature be whiche dredeth nat thy hye power and maieste whiche do nat worshippe and reuerēde also thy wysdome eternall and marueylous goodnesse for thy glorie as it is great so neyther hauyng begynnyng nor endyng but euer in it selfe florisshynge can neyther encreace nor decreace but it skylleth yet mākynde nat a lytell y t euery man it knowe and magnifye for to knowe and cōfesse the onely very god And Iesus Christ whom thou fendest in to y e worlde is as moche to vs as lyfe eternall Let the clere shynyng of thy name shadowe quenche in vs all worldly glory Suffre no man to presume to take vpō hym selfe any ꝑte of glory for glory out of y t is non but very sclaūdre rebuke The course of nature also in carnall children this thyng causeth that they greatlye desyre the good fame and honest reputacion of their father for we maye se howe glad they be howe they reioyce howe happy also they thynke them selfe if happen their fathers any great honoure as goodly tryumphe or their ymage and picture to be brought in to y e court or cōmen place with an honourable preface or any other goodly royalte what soeuer it be And agayne we se how they wayle and howe agast astonyed they be if chaunce their fathers sclaundre or infamy So depely hath this thyng naturall affection routed in mannes hert that the fathers reioyse in their childrens glory and their children in the glorie of their fathers But for asmoche as y e gostly loue affection of god farre passeth and excedeth y e carnall affecion of m● therfore we thy spirituall children moche more feruently thurst and desyre the glory and honour of thy most holy name greatly are vexed and troubled in hert if he to whom alone all glorye is due chaunce rebuked or sclaundred to be nat that any sclaundre or rebuke can mynisshe or defoule the clerenesse of thy glory but that we as moche as lyeth in vs in a maner do wronge and iniury to thy name whan soeuer the gentyls eyther nat knowyng or elles dispisynge the maker and originall of all do worshippe homage to creatures most vyle as made of tymbre or stone or other peynted images some also to oxē some to bulles and suche other lyke And moreouer in all these foule and wycked deuylles in honour of thē they sing hymnes to these they do sacrifyce before these they burne ensence and other swete sauours than we thy spirytu●ll chyldren seyng all this doubly are agreued bothe y t thou hast nat that honour whiche is due to the that these wretches perisshe by their owne madnesse follye The iewes also neuer cesse in their sinagoges and resorte of people from dispitefull and abominable bacbytinge of thy onely sonne wherby in the meane tyme they sclaundre the sithe it can nat be chosen whan thy sonne is misfamed whiche is y e very clerenesse of thy glorie but that infamy also must redounde in the. They cast eke in our tethe as a thyng of great dishonestie y e most glorious name of thy chyldren sayeng y t it were better to be called theues or manquellers than̄e christen men and folowers of Christ. They ley agaynst vs also that thy sonne was crucified whiche is to vs great glorie and renoume We maye thāke thy mercy father of all this thyng that we haue and aknowledge the as originall and causer of all oure helthe that we worshyppe also thy sonne in egall authorite with the that we haue receyued in to our hertes the spirite of you bothe But yet good father in heuen we pray y t to shewe thy mercy to those also that bothe the gētyls leauyng and forsakyng the worshippyng homage of counterfaite ymages maye do all honour and reuerence to thy maiestie alone and the iewes releued with thy spyrite renounsing their supersticious vsyng of the lawe maye confesse god from whom all thyng so abundantly cometh may confesse the fonne of god by whome we receyue all maye confesse the holygost parttaker and felowe of the diuyne nature Let them worshippe in thre persons one and egall maiestie and aknowledge thre persons as one proper persone so that euery nacyon euery tonge euery secte euery age as well olde as yong maye with one assent auaunce and praise thy moost holy name And I wolde to god that we also whiche beare the name of thy children were nat dishonestie to thy glorie amongest those y t knowe the nat for lyke as a good and wise sonne is the glorie and honour of his father so a folisshe vnthrifty childe getteth his father dishonestie and shame he is nat a naturall and ꝓper chylde whosoeuer do nat labour all that he can to folowe and be like his father in wytte condicions But thy son̄e Iesus is a very kynde and naturall childe for he is a very full and perfite ymage similitude of the whom holly he is lyke representeth We whiche are become thy children by adopcion and nat by nature confermyng our selfes after his ensample endeauer as moche as lyeth in vs to come to some maner lykenesse of y ● that lykewise as thou waste moost parfitely exalted and glorified in thy son̄e Iesus so as farforth