The first Prayer.
Eph. 1. 16.
1
I cease not to giue thankes to thee
O god my god most iust
For all thy gifts of grace, & loue
To vs that liue in dust
2
And lord I craue a glympse of light
In Christ my lord thy sonne
That so my faith may see that sight,
And to it still may runne.
3
That I may knovve thy becke thy call
My hope, my helpe, my all.
That I may haue thy povver, & strength
To helpe me vvhen I fall.
4
For thou o god hast made vs see
What thou hast vvrought in loue
For thy svveete spouse thy church thy vvife
Thy ioy, thy simle, thy doue.
5
For thou hast set our Christ, o god
At thy right hand to shine
And thou to that place vvilt vs bring
For that deare loue of thine.
6
O god thou laidst my Christ full lovve
With in the earth so darke
But thou didst raise him vp on high
And settst him as a marke.
7
On vvhich vve fixe our eies of faith
Our harts, our minds, our loue
O bring vs all to him svveete god
That is our deere, our doue.
O god my hart is fixt on thee, and
my tongue shall sing, & giue praise to thy
name for aye.
Psal. 108. 1.