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Christ is the only sonne of god.

Christ is the only sonne of God
the father eternall
we haue in Iesse foūde this rod
god & man naturall
he is the mornynge starre

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his beames sendeth he out farre
beyonde other starres all.

Lu. 2. a

He was for vs a man borne

In the last parte of tyme
yet kepte she maydenheade vnforlorne
his mother that bare hym
He hath hell gates broken
And heauen hath he made open
Bryngynge vs lyfe agayne.
Thou onely maker of all thynge
Thou euerlastynge lyght
From ende to ende all rulynge
By thyne owne godly myght.
Turne thou oure hartes vnto the
And lyghten them with the verite
That they erre not from the ryght

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Let vs increace in loue of the
And in knowlege also
That we beleuynge stedfastly

Ioh. 4. c.

Maye in spirite serue the so

That we in oure hartes maye sauoure
Thy mercy and thy fauoure
And to thyrst after no mo.
Awake vs lorde we praye tho
Thy holy spirite vs geue
which maye oure olde man mortifie
That oure new man maye lyue
So wyll we alwaye thanke the
That she west vs so great mercye
And oure synnes dost forgeue.