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A16579	A godlye medytacyon composed by the faithfull ... I.B. latlye burnte in Smytfelde ...	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540. Excitationes in animi Deum. aut; Pownall, Robert, 1520-1571. Most fruitful prayer for the dispersed church of Christ. aut	1559 (1559)	STC 3483; ESTC S109638	19,168	75

❧ A Godlye Medytacyon composed by the faithfull and constant seruant of God I. B. 〈…〉 lastlye was burnte in 〈…〉 for the testimonie of Iesus Christe by the tyrannye of Antechriste in his fyl●●● members ¶ Psalme lxxix O Lorde let the vengeaunce of thy seruauntes bloude that is shedde be openlye showed vpon the vngodlye in oure sight O let the sorowful lighting of the prisoners come before thee ▪ and accordinge to the greatnes of thy power preserue thou those that are appoynted to dye O Almightye and euerlasting Lord god the deer father of our sauiour Iesus Christ which haste made heauē earth the sea and al that therin is whiche art the onely ruler gouernor conseruor keper of all thinges together with thy deerly beloued sonne Christ Iesus our lord and with thy holy ghoste the cōforter O holy Righteous and wyse O strōg terrible mighty and ferfull Lorde god iudge of all men and gouernour of al the whole world O exorable paciēt and most gracious father whose eyes ar vppō the wayes of all men and are so cleane they cannot a byede impitye thou searchest the hartes and tryest the verye thaughtes and raynes of all men thou hatest sin and abhorrest iniquitie for syns sake thou haste greuously punisshed mankind thy most dere creature as thou haste declared by the penalty of death layed vpō al the children of Adam by the castyng out of Adam his of spring forth of Paradice by the cursing of the earthe by the drowninge of the world by the burning vp of Sodom and gomor by the hardning the harte of Pharao so that no miracle could cōuert him by the drowning of hym and his people with him in the red sea by the ouerthrowing of the Israhelytes in the wildernes so that of syx hundreth thousand all onely but two did enter into the land of promis by reiecting kinge Saule by the greate ponishmentes vppon thy seruaūt dauid not withstanding his harty repētance by greuously aff●cting Salamon in him selfe and in his posteritie by the captiuitie of the ten tribes and by the thraldom of the Iewes wherein vntill this present daye they continue a notable spectacle of they wrath to the worlde agaynst and for sinne but of all spectacles of thy angre agaynst sin the greatest and moste notable is the death bloudy passion of thy deerly beloued son Ihesus Christ Greate is thine angre agaynst syn when in heauen and earth nothing could befoūd which might appease thy wrath saue the bloudsheading of thyne onely moste deerly beloued son in whome was and is al thy delight great is the sore of sin that needed suche a salue myghty was the mallady that needed suche a medicine Yf in Christe in whome was no synne thy wrath was so ferce for our sinne that he was constreyned to crye my god my god why haste thou forsaken me howe greate and importable then is thyne angre agaynste vs whiche are nothinge but sinfull They that ar thy childrē through the contemplation of thyne angre against sinne set forthe most euidently in the death of Christ Do tremble ar affraide lamenting them selues vppon him and hartely cryeng for mercy Where as the wicked ar altogether careles contemptuous nothing lamenting their iniquities or crying to the hartely for mercy and pardō amongst whome we ar rather to be placed then amongst thy children for that we ar so shamelesse for our syn and carelesse for thy wrathe which we may wel say to be most greuous against vs and euidently set forthe in the taking awaye of our good King and thy true religion in thexiel of thy seruaūtes prysonmēt of thy people mysery of thy children and death of thy sainctes Also by the placinge ouer vs in Aucthoritie thy enemies by the successe thou geuest them in all they take in hande by the returninge agayne in to our countrey of Antechrist the pope All these as they do preache vnto all the worlde but specially vnto vs thy greuous wrath so do they set before our eyes our iniquities and sinnes which haue deserued the same for thou arte Iuste and holy in all thy workes thy iudgementes ar righteous altogether it is we it is we that haue sinned procured these plages we haue ben vnthankfull wretches and moste carnall gosspelers therfore to vs parteyneth shame and nothinge else is due but confusion For we haue don very wickedly we haue heaped sinne vpō sinne so that the measure hath ouer flowed and Ascend●d vp to heauen and brought these plages which are but earnest for greater to ensue yet alas we are altogether caerlesse in maner what shall we doe What shall we say Who can geue vs pen●ēt hartes Who can open our lips that our mouthes might make acceptable cōfession vnto thee Alas of our selues we cannot thinke any good muche lesse wishe it and leaste of all do it as for Angelles or anye other creatures they haue nothing but that which they haue receaued they ar made to minister vnto vs so that where it passeth the powre of the master she minister muste nedes want Alas then what shal we doe Thou arte holy we vnholye thou arte good and we nothynge but euill thou arte pure we all together impure thou arte light and we moste darke darkenes how then can ther be any conueniency or agremēt betwixt vs O what nowe may we doe Dispayre no for thou art god therfore good thou art mercyfull and therfore thou forgeuest sinnes with thee is mercye and propiciation and therefore thou arte worshipped when Adam had sinned thou gauest him mercy before he desyred it wilt thou denye vs mercye whiche nowe desyer the same Adam excused his faulte and accused that but we accuse our selues and excuse thee shall we be sent emptye awaye Noye founde fauor when thy fury a boūdyd and shal we seking grace be frustrate Abraham was pulled oute of ydolatrye when the worlde was drowned therin and art thou his god onelye Israell in captiuitie in Egipt was gratiouslye visited and deliuered and deer God the same good lord shall we alwaies be forgotten Howe often in the wildernes diddest thou defer and spar thy plages at the request of Moyses when the people them selues made no petition to thee And seynge we not onelye nowe make our petitiōs vnto the throughe thy goodnesse but also haue a mediator for vs now far aboue Moyses euen Ihesus Christe should we I saye deere lorde departe ashamed So soone as Dauid said I haue sinned thou diddest forthe wyth answer to hym that he should not dye thou haddest taken away his sinnes And gracious god euen the selfe same god shal not we which now with Dauid gladlye confesse that we haue sinned shall we I saye not heare by thy good sprite that our synnes be pardoned O graunte that with Manasses we maye finde fauor and mercye remember that thou hast not spared thyne owne onely deresone Iesus Christ but geuen hym for vs all to dye for our sinnes to

holesom worde of thy son our sauiour Yet consider the horrible blasphemies of thyne and our enemies They name a cake ther god there Christ and altogether they know nothing of thy powre they say in ther hartes ther is no god whych eyther can or wyl deliuer vs wherfore O heauenly father the gouerner of all thinges the Auenger of the causes of the poore the fatherles the widow of the oppress●d loke downe from heauen with the face of thy fatherly mercies and forgeue vs al former offences and for thy sonne Christes sake haue mercye vpon vs whych by the force and crueltie of wicked and blasphemous Idolaters without causes aproued are haled pulled from our owne houses are slaūdered slaine and murthered as rebelles and traytours like persons pernicious pestiferous sedicious pestilent and full of mortall poyson to al men contagious where we do medell no farther but against the helly powres of darkenes against the spirituall craftines in heauenlye thinges whyche wold deny the will of our god and the powre of oure Christ vnto vs we doe contend no farther but onely for our Christe crucified and the only saluation by his blessed passiō knowledging none other god none other Christ or sauiour but onely the the euerliuing lord and our most merciful father and thy deare sonne our sauiour who is in the same glory with the in the high heauens Therfore O Lord for thy glorious name sake for Iesus Christes sake by whome thou haste promysed to graunt al righteous requestes make the wicked Idolaters to wonder and stand amased at thy almightye powre vse thy wonted strength to the cōfusion of thyne enemies and to the healpe deliueraunce of thy persecuted people all thy saintes doe besech the therfore the yonge infantes which haue somdeale tasted of thy sweete worde by whose mouthes thou hast promised to make perfect thy praises whose Aungels doth alwaye behold thy face who beside the losse of vs ther parentes Are in daunger to be compellid and dryuen wythout thy greate mercies to serue domme insensible Idols doe cry and call to thee ther pitefull mothers with lamentable teares lye prostrate before the throne of thy grace Thou father of the fatherles Iudge of the widdowes and auenger of all the oppressid let it apere O Lord omnipotent that thou doest heare iudge aueng ponish all wronges offered to all thy little ones that doe beleue in the Doe this O Lorde for thy names sake Arise vp O Lord and thy enemies shal be scatered confoūded So be yt O Lord most mercyfull at thy tyme apointed ¶ An other godly prayer to be sayde at al tymes HOnor and prayse be geuen to the o Lorde god almighty most dere father of heauen for all thy marsys and louinge kindnesse showyd vnto vs in that it hath pleysyd thy gracius goodnes frely and of thine own accord to electe and chose vs to saluaciō before the beginning of the world and euen lyke contenewall thankes be geuē to the for creatynge of vs after thyne owne ymage for redeminge vs with the precius bludde of thy dersonne when we ware vtterly lost for sanctefieng vs with thy holy sprit in the reuelaciō and knowlege of thy holy worde for helping and Suckering vs in all our needes and nescesites for sauinge vs frome all daungers of bodie and sowle for conforting vs so fatherly in al our tribulaciō and persecucions for sparing vs so long and geuinge vs so large a time of repentans thes benifites O most mercyfull father lyke as we knowlege to haue receuid thē of thy only goodnes euen so we beseche the that for thy dere sonne Iesus Christes sake to graunt vs alwayse thy holy sprit wherby we maye contenewally growe in thākefulnes towardes the to be ledde into all truthe and confortyd in all oure aduersetes O lord strenthen oure faithe kindell it more in faruentnes and loue towardes the our neyghbors for thy sake Suffer vs not dereste father to receiue thy worde any more in vayne but graunt vs alwayse the assystans of thy grace and holye sprit that in hart word and deede we maye santefye and doe worshype to thy holy name Helpe to amplefye encresse thy kyngdome and what soeuer thou sendeste we maye be hartely well content wyth thy good pleasure and wyll lette vs not lacke the thynge Oh father wyth oute the whyche we cannot serue the but blesse thou so al the works of our handes that we maye haue sufficient and not to be chargeabell but rather helpfull vnto others be mercyfull O Lorde to our offences and seyng our det yt gret whych thou haste forgeuen vs in Iesus christ make vs to loue the and our neyghbors so muche the more Be thou oure father our captayne and defender in all tēptacions holde thou vs by thy mercyfull hande that we maye be deliuered from all inconueniences end our lyues in the santefyeng and honor of thy holye name thorough Iesu Christ our lorde and only sauiour Amen Let thy mighty hande and out strechyd arme O Lorde be styll oure defence thy mercy louinge kindnes in Iesu Christ thy dere sonne our saluacion thy trew and holye worde our instruction thy grace and holye sprite our comfort and cōsolacion vnto the end and in the end Amen ¶ O Lord increse our fayth Bradfords beades that he prayed on being in Prison for the testimoni of Iesus Christ leauīg them as necessary to be vsid of the faythfull ¶ Blesyd ar the dead that dye in the lord euen so saith the Spiret that they rest from theyr labores but they re workes folow them Apo. xiiii Imprinted at London in Saint Martins parishe in the vinetre vpon the three Crane warfe by wyllyam Coplande Anno. Do. M.D.LIX. the xv daye of Marche