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Alls Pauls Prayers.

Metphrased into words of one syllable of great Brittains language, & are to be vsed by a devout Christian soule in his priuate soliloquies, & holy solaces vvith his god.

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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.

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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.

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The second Prayer.

Eph. 3. 14.

1

I day by, day doe bovve to thee
And cease not in the night
To seeke thee lord in all my thoughts
And muse of all thy might

2

For of our Christ is nāde the church
Of vs that liue in clay,
And eke thy gaurd, & saincts on high
That praise thee day, by day.

3

Graūt vs o lord that vve may knovve
Thy grace, our good, our end
And that vve may feele povver, & strength
And Christ may be our frend

4

Let him dvvell in our harts o lord
And then vve shall thee see,
With all thy saincts in breadth, & length
In depth, in height, in glee.

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5

Then shall vve knovve the loue of Christ
That else is past our skill
Thē shalt thou fill vs vvith thy grace
In him to doe thy vvill.

6

O lord for vs this thou canst doe
And more then all that is
Of thy good grace to vvorke in vs
In Christ hovve should vve misse.

7

Praise be to thee in all the vvorld,
Thy church doe sing the same,
And age to age shall eke sett forth
For aye, to ours, thy name.

O god thou art my god ere it be day vvill I seeke thee my soule, & flesh doe thirst, & long for thee as drie land vvhich vvants raine. Psal. 63. 1.

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The third Prayer.

Phil. 1. 9.

1

Graunt to vs lord that loue may dvvell
In these poore tents of ours
For vve must hence vve knovve full
And fade as doe the flovvers

2

And graūt good lord that in thy loue
It may grovve more, & more
That vve may knovve vvhat things are ill
And lead not to thy lore.

3

So may vve in the day of doome
In Christ be void of shame
And fild vvith his faire fruits of loue
May scape the rod of blame

4

Then shall vve sing the praise to thee
In midst of all thy Saincts,
Then shall our soules be glad, & ioy,
That novve is vveake, & faints.

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5

I cease not lord to pray for those
That seeke, & sue to thee
That they may knovve hovve safe, & sure
In Christ their soules may be

6

And that vve all may vvalke, and vvorke
In vvord, in vvorth, in all
As he that hath vs cald to this
And rid vs of our thrall.

7

Who hath vs fred from povver of death
Frō foggs, & doggs of hell
And set vs by his chaire of state
With Christ for aye to dwell.

Saue vs o lord our god, & bring vs from those that doe not call on thee that vve may call on thee, & laud, & praise thy name for aye. Psal. 106. 47.

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The fourth Prayer.

The. 3. 11.

1

The lord our god our strength & stay
Make vs to loue each one;
And make vs knovve hovve that vve are
Made all of flesh, & bone.

2

That soe vve may grovve vp in grace
And firme in hart, & minde
That soe to all vve may set forth
Our loue both sure, & kind.

3

Yea not to cease till that our lord
Doe come in clouds full bright
To iudge this earth, & all the folke
Yea all the vvorld in sight.

4

For is it not the loue of Christ
Who did loue vs soe deare
That vve through hope of grace in him
Should liue voyd of base feare

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5

Lord be thou ioy to all our harts
Our vvords, our vvorkes good make,
That vve may loue, & liue in thee
For thy sonne Christ his sake.

6

O god of peace, of loue, of life
Grant vs to serue thee still
In spright, in soule, in hart, in mind
And this of thy good vvill.

7

Yea keepe vs lord frō blame, & blott
Till Christ doth come in skey.
So shall vve sure be of thy loue
To liue, vvhen vve shall die.

Heare me o lord, & that soone for my soule doth vvaxe faint hide not thy face from me: Least I be like them that goe dovvne to the graue. Psal. 148. 7.

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The fift Prayer.

Rom. 7. 25.

1

I thanke thee lord that hast sett novve
In me a fight, a iarre;
My mind, my flesh, doe day by day
In-strife sett forth a vvarre.

2

My mind to thy svveete lavve giues vvay,
My flesh in thrall is brought,
My mind vvould keepe thy lavve, thy lore.
And hath thy vvill still sought

3

But my base flesh is prompt, & seekes
Thy lavve to cast me fro.
O god vvhat shall I doe in this?
With me the case is so.

4

My mind vvould doe the god full faine
That thy lawes shevve to me
But still my flesh doth frett, & fume
Gainst this thy lavve to me

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5

For I doe not that vvhich I loue,
But I doe that I hate,
And all for that my mind is vext
With this my flesh my mate.

6

What shall I doe o lord my god
Ah vvretch vvho setts thee free?
Frō this fell death of sinne, & shame
That I thy grace may see.

7

I thanke my god vvho haue me fred
For his sonne Christ his sake;
To him for aye both night, & day
My hymnes, my songs I make.

O god that thou vvouldst beat dovvne the strong, & ill man that rules, & raigns in my vveake flesh that I may say to him goe farre from me. Psal. 139. 19.

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The sixt Prayer.

Ro. 16. 24.

1

The grace of god be all my giude
His povver be all my staye
His strength eke be to me a staffe
By night, & eke by day,

2

For he it is that hath me taught
That vvhich the vvorld nere knevve
Till Christ our lord vvas made to vs
Our lord, our god in vevve.

3

To god in hymnes still vvill I sing
His praise is all my mirth
The vvorld shall sett him forth in praise.
In all parts of the earth.

4

If there be vvight that liues in life
And doth not loue our god
Let him tast of the lord of hosts
His curse, his vvrath, his rod

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5

But let the loue of god, & grace
Of Christ, be vvith you all
That loue, & looke, & long for him
To rid vs of our thrall.

6

And let our god that brought from death
Our Christ, our grace, our blisse
Set vs vvith saincts in ioy, in light
Where as our Christ novve is.

7

So shall vve tūe in that svveete quire
Midst of those saincts in rest,
And see his saincts in light of light
And so for aye be blest.

O god let them that hate thee flie from thy sight as the mist doth from the sunne, but let them that loue thee be glad, & ioy in thee. Psal. 68. 1.

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The seuenth Prayer

[illeg.]e. 13. 20.

1

O God vve are poore sheepe that stray
In vvods, in vvaies of sinne
Bovve dovvne thine eare to vs, & heare
And rid vs of this dinne.

2

That vve may knovve thy grace in Christ
That keepes vs as his flocke.
That leads vs forth to streames of ioy
And setts vs on a rocke.

3

That soe vve may ore see this vvorld
And all the things in it
And then doe place vs vp on high
With him in ioy to sit.

4

Graūt vs good lord that vve may see
The good that doth thee please
So shall vve liue in hart in mind
In ioy, in rest, in ease.

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Graunt lord vvhat thou dost bid [illeg.] doe
That vve may doe the same
Bid vvhat thou vvilt, & graūt vs grace
And vve vvill praise thy name

6

To Christ our lord the lambe of god
That shed his bloud for sinnes,
To rid vs from the feends of hell
And all their crafts, & ginns.

7

Be praisd of vs all tymes, & tyds
In vvoe, & eke in vvealth
And let the folke on all the earth
Giue laud to him for health.