Seuen Sobs of a Sorrowful Soule for Sinne Comprehending those seuen Psalmes of the Princelie Prophet David, commonlie called Poenitentiall; framed into a forme of familiar praiers, and reduced into meeter by William Hunnis ... Whereunto are also annexed his Handful of Honisuckles; the Poore Widowes Mite; a Dialog between Christ and a sinner; diuers godlie and pithie ditties, with a Christian confession of and to the Trinitie; newly printed and augmented |
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Verses vpon the Lords Praier.
Our father which art in heauen.
A thing thou art frō which all things
beginning tooke their name,
And thou without beginning art,
that gaue all things the same.
We call thee God, some Iehouah,
some Tetragrammaton:
By all thy names thou art the thing,
wee all depend vpon.
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And thou without beginning art,
that gaue all things the same.
We call thee God, some Iehouah,
some Tetragrammaton:
By all thy names thou art the thing,
wee all depend vpon.
We be thy sonnes, thy children deare,
and heires of kingdome thine,
By which we do presume and saie,
Our father most diuine,
Which art in heauen, deuoid of shape
that reason can deuise.
Ne yet art thou there to be felt,
or scene of humane eies.
and heires of kingdome thine,
By which we do presume and saie,
Our father most diuine,
Which art in heauen, deuoid of shape
that reason can deuise.
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or scene of humane eies.
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy name, O God, is woonderfull,though we the same abuse,
And by thy name such things are doone,
as make the mind to muse.
The heauens aboue, the earth below,
and waters vnder them,
Thy name hath wrought miraculouslie,
all for the vse of men.
O maruellous God what is thy name?
or what shall I thee call;
Thou art in power omnipotent,
the mightiest power of all.
Then mightie powers of powers that is,
vouchsafe the same in me;
So worke thy will, that in my life
thy name may hallowed be.
Thy kingdome come.
Thy kingdome euerlasting is,in truth and equitie,
In fauor, loue and righteousnesse,
to all in miserie.
Bow down the heauens, O mightie king
whereby thy grace may fall,
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into the harts of all.
So shal our sins be driuen awaie,
our flesh made tame also,
And we found righteous in thy sight,
a perfect life to sho.
Vouchsafe to grant, O heauenly king,
this blessed worke may be,
Thy kingdome stil to dwel in vs,
and we to dwell in thee.
Thy will be doone in earth, as it is in heauen.
Thy will is good, our will is nought,thy will be therefore done,
Such was thy will, that Iesus Christ,
thy deere and onlie sonne,
Should teach thy will to sinfull flesh,
our wicked lusts to kill;
And he thy will vpon the crosse,
the same did there fulfill.
O heauenly father let thy will
in earth fulfilled be,
Among vs men as with thy saints,
in heauenlie hierarchie.
And grant thy will so worke in vs,
that we thy will confesse,
In word, in life, in faith, in loue,
and perfect holinesse.
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Giue vs this daie our dailie bread.
Thy word thy truth, & Christ thy son,is bread that we should haue;
Vouchsafe our soules may feed thereon,
most humblie we do craue.
For man dooth not by bread alone
passe foorth his vital daies,
But by ech word thy mouth proceeds
vnto thy endlesse praise.
Fix in our hearts thy sweet sonnes death,
and such impression make,
As we thereby may cheerefull be,
to suffer for his sake
Such crosse as pleaseth thee to laie
vpon our backs to beare;
With shield of faith to bide the brunt.
against all worldly feare.
And forgiue vs our trespasses, as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs
We know, forgiuenes is at hand,when we for mercie call:
If we ech other do forgiue,
thou wilt forgiue vs all.
Such promise hast thou made, O God.
from which thou wilt not swerue,
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the same for to deserue,
So weake is man, so feeble too,
not able once to mind
The thought that's good, or doo the deed
that might thy mercie find.
This will thy grace must worke in vs,
our brethren to forgiue,
Which grant, O God, that we therewith,
in rest with thee may liue.
And lead vs not into temptation.
And though temptation needfull bethy seruants strength to trie,
And that our sinnes and wickednes,
by faith away doo flie.
Yet Lord thy grace the same doth worke
whereby we stiflie stand
Against the world, the flesh, the diuell,
winning the vpper hand.
Thus of our selues, alas, too weake,
temptations aie too strong,
Thy grace it is must vs defend,
else are we throwne along.
Grant when by sin thrugh want of grace
Great fals we doo sustaine,
That then thy grace might visit vs
and reare vs vp againe.
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But deliuer vs from euill.
From ill that we by sin deserue,most mightie God defend,
And rid vs free from filthie fall,
of miserable end.
Withhold thy seuere punishment,
and let thine eie of grace,
Take view vpon th'afflicted sort,
and helpe our wretched case.
From surging seas of worldly waues,
wherewith we be opprest,
Discharge and set our soules on shore,
in port of quiet rest.
So shall we then our praiers make,
with conscience safe and sound,
And by thy grace shall able be,
our enemy to confound,
Amen.
The Christian faith.
One God in persons three,and three in Godhead one,
I doo beleeue my sauing health
doth rest in him alone.
The first, the Father high,
Creator of vs all,
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the word whom scriptures cal.
The third the Holie ghost,
of both who doth remaine,
O might, power and Deitie,
coequall with the twaine.
The word of loue to vs,
flesh void of sinne became,
Of virgins wombe by power diuine,
most pure he tooke the same.
And then for sinful flesh,
his flesh was sacrifisde,
His bitter, sharpe, and shameful death,
as cruel Iewes deuisde,
His flesh with whips was rent,
his head be crownd with thorne,
His bodie naild on crosse of tree,
his hart with speare was torne.
Thus al his bloud was shed,
to death his life made thral,
To pacifie his fathers wrath,
procurde by Adams fall.
He died and was buried,
descended down to hell,
From death to life he rose againe,
he loued vs so well.
When fortie daies were come,
to heauen ascended he,
Right from men of Galile,
in faith to vs that be.
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he shal againe descend,
To iudge all flesh, and of the world
to make a final end.
The dead from graue shal rise,
the quicke shal chnnged bee,
And euerie eie shall face to face
behold his maiestie.
By grace who hath doone wel,
with him in heauen shal raine:
By sinne who hath doone wickedlie,
in euerlasting paine.
FINIS.
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