in it selfe most holy be so taken vsed honoured halowed of vs of all others as well heathen as christened like as on the contrary part this name is sayd to be polluted and defyled whan we do either in worde or deede contumeliously and contemptuously or otherwise disshonour the same We desire therfore in this petition that al false faythe by the whiche men eyther mistruste god or put theyr confidence in any other thynge more than in hym maye be destroyed And that all witchecraftes and false charmes and coniuratiōs by the whiche Sathan and other creatures be inchanted may ceasse and gyue place to goddes holye name and so likewise that all heresies and false doctrines maye vanishe awaye so that goddis holy worde maye be truely interpreted and purely taught and set forth vnto all the worlde and that all infidels may receyue the same and be conuerted to the right catholyke faith wherby all disceite hypocrysie and coūterfaiting of truthe of rightuousnes or of holines myght clerely be extincte Furthermore we beseche and praye god here that his name may be halowed so that no mā shuld sweare in vayne by it or otherwyse abuse the same to lye or to disceyue his neyghbour And generally the none shulde fall into pride or ambition in to desire of worldly glory and fame into enuy malice couetousnes adultery glutteny slouth backebytynge Coll. i. slaundering of his neighbours ne into any other euyll or wicked thoughtes and dedes wherby the name of god may be dishonoured and blasphemed In this prayer also we require god to graunt vs that in all perilles and daungers we runne vnto hym as vnto our onely refuge and cal vpon his holy name and that in our good wordes and workes we may please and magnifie him be by him preserued from the most damnable sinne of vnkindnes towardes him And also that we whiche do alredy professe the right faith maye stil continue therin and may do and expresse the same as well in our outwarde conuersation as in confessynge it with our mouthe so that by our good lyfe and our good workes all other maye be moued to good and that by our euyll workes and sinnes no man maye take occasion to slaunder the name or dimynysshe the laude and prayse of god Phili. iii. but that all our workes doynges myght returne to the honour and prayse of goddes name Thy kyngdome come THis seconde petition is very necessary for no doubte our auncient ennemie the deuyll goeth aboute contynually by all craftye meanes to deceyue vs and bringe vs vnder his power and dominion And surely so longe as pryde and dysobedyence reigneth in vs so longe as yre enuye wrothe or couetousnes reigneth in vs so longe as glotteny lechery or any kynde of synne reygneth in vs so longe we be vnder the dominion and kingedome of the deuyll For the deuyll vndoubtedly is kyng ouer all the chyldren of pryde that is to saye ouer all them that be synners rebelles and disobedient vnto god And for as moche as it is not in our power to deliuer our selues from vnder this tyranny of the deuyll but onely by goddes helpe for our perdition and vndoing is of our selues but our helpe and saluation is of god Osc xiiii as saith the prophete Osee therfore it is very necessary for al tru christen people to make this petition incessantly vnto our heauenly father and to beseche hym accordynge to this doctrine of Christe that by his grace and helpe we may escape the dominion and power of the deuyll and that we may be made subiect vnto his heauenly kingdome therfore in this petition we desire god to gyue vs afore all thinges true and constant faith in him and in his sonne Iesu Christ and in the holy gost with pure loue and charity towardes him and al men to kepe vs also from infidelitie desperation and malice whiche mighte be the cause of our destruction to delyuer vs from dissentions couetousnes lechery and euyll desyres and lustes of sinne and so the vertue of his kingdom to come and to reigne with in vs that all our hart minde and wittes with al our strength inwarde and outwarde maye be ordered and directed to serue god to obserue his commandementes and his will not to serue our selfe the fleshe the worlde or the deuyll We desire also that this kingdome ones in vs begunne may be dayly encreased and go forwarde more and more so that all subtyll and secrete hate or slouth whiche we haue to goodnes be not suffered to rule so in vs that it shall cause vs to loke backe again and to fall into sinne but that we may haue a stable purpose and strength not onely to beginne the life of innocency but also to procede ernestly further in it and to perfourme it accordinge to the saieng of saint Paule where he praieth Coll. i. that we may walke worthely pleasynge god in all thinges being fruitfull in all good workes and growing and encreasing in the knowlege of god Also in an other place he sayth worke and do the truth in Charitie and encrease and go forward in Christe Ephe. iiii i Therfore in this prayer desiring the kingedome of god to come we require also that we being alredy receiued and entred in to the kyngedome of grace and mercy of god may so continue and perseuere therin that after this lyfe we may come to the kyngdome of glory whiche endureth for euer And this is that great and feruēt desire wherwith good men being mortified from worldly affections haue lyen and be alwaies kyndled enflamed as appereth by saint Paule Phili. i. whā he said I wold be losed frō this body and be with Christ And in an other place he saith Rom. viii we that haue receyued the first fruites of the spirite wayle and mourne in our selues wisshinge lokinge to be deliuered from the mortalitie and miseries of this body into the glory of the children of god The thirde petition Thy wyll be done in earth as it is in heauen FOr the better vnderstāding of this thyrde petition we muste know that by disobedience synne of our firste father Adam we be as of our nature onely without the grace of god vnable to fulfyll the will preceptes of god and so enclined to loue our selues and our own willes that we can not hartely loue neither god nor man as we ought to do And therfore we beinge ones christen men it is requisite for vs to pray that lyke as the holy aungelles and saintes in heauen in whom god reigneth perfectly and hooly do neuer ceasse ne shall ceasse to glorifie hym to prayse him and to fulfill his wil and pleasure in all thinges and that most readyly gladly without any maner of grudging or resisting therūto knowing certainly and clerely that his wyll is alway the best euen so that we the children of god in earth may dayly and continually prayse god by our
vs and therfore be of vs also auaylably prayed vnto that is to say desyred to pray for vs accordynge wherevnto all common prayers of the churche oughte to be alwayes fynyshed and ended with a remembrance of our sauiour Iesu Christe In whom by whome and for whome all is accepted of god and without whom nothyng can be effectually done or granted And therfore it is moche to our comfort to remembre the exaltation of mans nature in our head our sauiour and redemer IESV CHRISTE whiche inseparably and indissolubly conioyned and vnited to the deitie in the person of hym sytteth on the right hande of god the father almighty by cōmunion of preeminence and power as before is expressed wherby we be certified how our sauiour Iesus Christ is god equall to god the father in godhead therin not inferyour vnto hym and therfore to be honored worshypped loued and dread feared and trusted on beleued hoped on as on very god almighty to whome nothyng is impossible and yet he is man also whiche hath experience of our infirmities and can and wyll mercyfully haue compassion on the same who ascended vnto heuen Ephe. iiii to sende giftes vnto men wherby we myght be able strong to passe ouer this transitorye lyfe to the pleasure of god and the atteynyng of euerlasting lyfe The seuenth article From thens he shall come to iudge the quicke and the deade IN this article it is declared / howe our sauiour and redemer IESV CHRIST shal come from thens that is to saye frome heauen to the whiche he ascended and commyng in his maiesty and glory shal than in the very visible fourme of his naturall body appere vnto the bodily eyes of all the people of the worlde in his perfecte manhode and in the selfe same bodye wherin he ascended to the inestimable comfort and reioyce of the good and to the extreme terrour and confusion of the wycked Where beinge accompanyed with his holy aungels his ministers wayting vppon hym he shall sytte openly in the cloudes of the ayre and shal iudge all quicke and dead according to truthe and iustyce and accordynge to his holy worde expressed in scripture that is to saye according to euery mans owne workes and dedes done by him in his lyfe tyme whiche workes and deedes shal be than examyned discussed and tried not after mens owne fantasy and inuention without authoritie and ground of scripture but accordyng to the commandement of god and the teachyng of Christ and his apostles for at that day of iudgement all the people of the worlde quycke and deade that is to say as well all those whyche shall be founde on lyue in the worlde at that day as also al those whiche euer sithe the creatiō of Adam liued here in this worlde and dyed before that day shal come and appere afore the presence of Christe in their very bodies and soules And whan they shall be so gathered and assembled togyther our sauiour IESVS CHRIST shall pronounce the fynall sentence and iudgement of euerlastynge saluation vppon all those persones whyche in theyr lyfe tyme obeyed and conformed themselues vnto the wyl of god and exercised the workes of right beliefe and charitie Rom. ii and so perseueryng in well doinge sought in theyr hartes and deedes honour glorye and lyfe immortall And contrary vpon all those whiche in their lyfe tyme were contentious and dydde repugne agaynst the wyll of god and folowed iniustyce and iniquitie rather than truthe and vertue our sauiour Christ shall than and there pronounce the sentence of euer lastyng punyshement and damnation Mat. xxvi In whiche sentence there shall be made a perfect separation or dyuision betwene these two sortes of people that is to say betwene the shepe and the gotes the corne and the chaffe the good and the badde the blessed and the cursed the membres of his bodye and the membres of the deuyl and so the good and the blessed beyng vppon his ryght hande he shall clerely and perfectly delyuer theym for euer from the power and malice of the wicked and from all the paines and euyll and so take them all vp with hym into heauen there to be crowned and rewarded in body and soule with honour and glorye and euerlastynge ioye and peace whyche was prepared for them from the begynnynge of the worlde And all the other whiche shall be iudged to euerlastynge payne and deathe beinge vpon his lefte hande he shall sende them downe into hell there to be punyshed in body and soule eternally with fyer that neuer shall haue ende whiche was prepared from the begynning of the worlde vnto the deuyll and his aungelles And here it is especially to be remembred howe this article was for great consideratiōs added immediately and conioyned vnto the former articles and chiefly to the intent that no man shulde in his life time presume vpon the said benefites of Christ or take occasion of carnall libertie or securitie and so lyue without feare to transgresse or without regarde to obserue the commaundementes of god but rather that euery good christen man shulde in euery parte of his lyfe haue a continuall remembrance and respect vnto the last day of iugement and so be in continual feare to committe any thing contrary to the wyll of god for the which he might deserue to haue the sentence of euerlasting damnation pronounced vpon him For this is certainely true that at that day euery man shall be called to an accompte of his lyfe and shall be than fynally iudged according to his workes good or bad done in his lyfe tyme Rom. ◠that is as saynte Paule saythe to theym that perseuere in well doinge and labour to atteyne glory honour and immortalitie shall be gyuen lyfe euerlastyng and to theym that be contentions and obey not the truthe but folowe and do iniustice shall come indignation yre affliction trouble and peines euerlastyng In this article it is further to be noted that lyke as there is nothinge more certeyne vnto vs than that we be all mortall and shall ones dye and yet noo man lyuynge knoweth the tyme whan he shall dye euen so there is nothyng more certayne than that this daye of iugement shall ones come and yet the houre and tyme whan it shal be is hidden and kepte secrete from the knowlege of all men and aungelles and is reserued to the onely knowledge of god whiche thynge procedeth of his onely goodnes towardes vs and is done to the intent we shulde alwayes here in our lyfe tyme flee frome synne and imploy all our hole study and endeuor to walke in the wayes of god that is to say in such fayth hope and charitie as God requireth of vs so prepare our selues and ordre our lyuyng towardes god that we may be in a redynesse at all tymes whan so euer it shall please god to calle and summon vs to appere before hym in the sayd generall iudgement there by his mercy and goodnes to receyue
praier superfluous neyther there wanteth any petition suite or request for suche thinges as be necessarie for oure iourney and passage in this worlde or for oure furtherance to that â—eming of the lyfe and glorye euerlastinge Secondly that euery good christen man may be assured to atteine the requestes made in this praier if he shall enforce hym selfe and apply his hole harte and wyll to the wyll and grace of hym vnto whom this prayer is made and also if he shal vtter and offer the said petitions inwardly with his hart and with suche faith confidence and truste in god as he requireth For surely no prayer is thankfull vnto god Ps cxviii Exod. xiiii but that whiche is made with the hart And therfore the prophet Dauid crieth to our lorde with all his hart And Moyses is noted to crye out aloude whan he spake no word with his mouth but he spake aloude with his hart And our lord by his prophete noteth Psal xxix that some pray with theyr lyppes and in their hartes minde nothinge lesse than that which they praye for And therfore who so euer intendeth by saying his Pater noster to atteyne his desyre he must haue with faith a good and ernest deuotion and his hart as nigh as he can voyde of vayne thoughtes and applyed to god so that the entente and desyre of his harte maye be ioyned alwaies with the prayer of his mouth And for this purpose it is mete moch requisite that the vnlearned people shulde vse to make theyr prayers in their mother tounge which they best vnderstand wherby they may be the more moued and stirred vnto deuotion and the more ernestly minde the thinge that they pray for Our father which art in heauen halowed be thy name OF these wordes Our father placed in the beginning of this petition all true christen meÌ„ ought to conceiue a great comfort and ioy in that they be taught and commaunded in this prayer to take almighty god for their father and so to call him as for example If oure soueraine lorde the kynge wolde saye to any of vs take me for your father and so call me what ioye in harte what comforte what confidence wolde we coÌ„ceyue of so fauourable graciouse wordes Than moch more incoÌ„parably haue we cause to reioyse that the king prynce of al princes shewith vnto vs this grace goodnes to make vs his children And surely as the naturall sonne may assuredly trust that his father wyll do for him all thinges that may be for his settyng forth and aduancemeÌ„t euen so we may vndoubtedly assure our selues that hauyng almighty god to our father vsinge our selfe as obedient children we shall lacke nothynge whiche may be profitable for vs toward the euerlastinge inheritaunce prepared for vs. And here is to be noted a lesson that as this word Father declareth the great beneuolence mercy and loue of god towardes vs as well in the creation as also in the redemption of man so it admonisheth vs againe of our duetie towardes him and howe we be bounde to shewe againe vnto hym our hole harte loue and our obedience and redynes to fulfyll all his preceptes and commaundementes with all gladnes and humilitie And therfore who so euer presumeth to come to god with this prayer and to call hym father and yet hath not full entente and purpose to vse hym selfe in all thinges lyke a kinde and an obedient sonne he coÌ„meth to hym as Iudas came to Christe with a kisse 〈◊〉 xx.i. pretending to be his frende and his seruant in callyng hym mayster and yet he was in dede a traytour to hym and a deadly ennemy And for this consideration euery christen man that intendeth to make this prayer ought inwardly and thoroughly to inserche and examine him selfe and yf he finde in him selfe any notable crime for the whiche he ought to be ashamed to call god his father Let him accuse him selfe therof to god and recognise his vnworthynes sayeng as the prodigall sonne sayde Father I haue offended the Luc. xv I am not worthy to be called thy sonne And with due repentaunce and firme purpose intente to amende his naughty lyfe let him lyfte vppe his harte to god and callinge for his grace of reconciltation humbly say Our father c. Moreouer by these wordes Our father is signified that we ought to beleue that almighty god is the common father of al true christen people and fatherly regardeth all throughe and by the meane of our sauiour Iesu Christe vnto whom all faitheful and obedient christen men be brethern by grace and adoption and called to inherite with him the kingdome of heauen And they be also brethern eche one to other hauing al one father which is god almighty And therfore we ought not onely to be of one spirite towardes our said father and to employ and endeuour our selues to the vttermost to please him and to kepe his lawes and commandementes but we ought also eche to consent with other in perfite loue charitie eche to helpe further other towardes the saide inheritaunce of heauen And fynally in al our praiers to god eche to coÌ„prise other and to praye for other lyke as in this prayer we be taught to say Our father gyue vs our breade forgiue vs our synnes suffer vs not to fal into temptation and delyuer vs from euyll By these wordes whiche art in heauen we be taught that we ought to haue an inwarde desyre and a great care study to come to the place where our heauenly father is and moche couet his sighte and presence For lyke as a louynge chylde is euen desirous to be where his father is euen so oughte we euer desyre to be with our heauenly father and to endeuour our selues that our conuersation be al withdrawen from the worlde the fleshe and the deuyll and be sette in heauen and heauenly thinges Phili. iii. as saint Paule teacheth and we shulde continualy wayle and lament bycause we be not with oure heauenly father sayenge with the prophete Ps cxix wofull am I that my dwellynge apon the earthe is so moche prolonged In these wordes Halowed be thy name it is to be noted that by the name of god is vnderstande god him selfe the power of god the myght the maiestie the glory the wysedome the prouidence the mercy and goodnes of god and al suche other good thynges as in scripture be attributed vnto god And this name is halowed whan it is praised glorified sette forthe honoured and magnified of vs both in worde and deede And where in this petition we praye that his name myghte be halowed it is not to be taken or thought that this name of god whiche in it selfe is euermore moste holy most gloriouse most marueylous and full of maiestie can be eyther aduanced or diminished by vs or any thyng that we can do but we desyre here that this most holy name may accordinge as it is