The pater noster spoken of the Sinner: God answering him at every petition.   

The pr̄ noster spoken of the sinner.  ¶ The sinner. 
O Our father which art in heaven/ what a great space is between the and us? How therefore shall we thy children here on earth/ banished and exiled from the in this vale of misery and wretchedness/ come home to the into our natural country?  ¶ God. 
☞ The child honoureth his father/ & the servant his master. If I be your father/ where is mine honour? If I be your lord/ where is my fear? Malachias i For my name thorough you and by your means is blaspemed/ railed upon/ and evil spoken of. Esaias lii  ¶ The sinner. 
☞ Helas o father that is truth/ we knowledge our sin and trespass/ nevertheless/ yet be thou a merciful father/ and deal not with us accordige to our deservings/ neither judge us by the rygorousnesse of thy law/ but give us grace that we may so live/ that thy holy name may be hallowed & sancttfyed in us.  
And keep our hearts that we neither do nor speak/ no/ that we not once think our purpose any thing/ but that which is to thine honour and praise/ and above all things make thy name and honour to be sought of us/ and not our own name & vain glory. and of thy mighty power bring to pass in us/ that we may love and fear thee/ as a son his father.  ¶ God. 
☞ How can mine honour and name be hallowed among you/ when your hearts and thoughts are always inclined to evil/ and ye in bondage and captivity under sin: moreover saying that no man can sing my laud and praise in a strange country. Psal. cxxxvi.  ¶ The sinner. 
☞ O father that is truth/ we feel our membres/ ye/ and also the very hearts of us prone and ready to sin/ and that the world/ the flesh/ and the devil/ rule in us/ and expel the dew honour of thine holy name. Wherefore we beseech the most merciful father/ for the love that thou hast unto thy son Christ help us out of this miserable bondage/ and let thy kingdom come to drive out the sin/ to lose the bonds of Satan/ to tame the flesh/ to make us righteous and parfeyte/ and to cleave unto thee/ that thou only mayst reign in us/ and that we may be thy kingdom and possession/ and the obey with all our power and strength/ both within and without.  ¶ God. 
☞ Whom I help/ them I destroy. And whom I make living/ safe/ rich/ and good/ them I kill/ condemn/ and cast them away/ make them beggars/ and bring them to nought. But so to be cured of me ye will not suffer. Psalmo. lxxvii. How than shall I hele you/ ye/ and what can I do more? Esaias .v.  ¶ The sinner. 
☞ That is to us great sorrow and grief/ that we can neither understand nor suffer thy wholesome hand/ wherefore help dear father/ open our eyes/ and work patience in us/ that we may understand thy wholesome hand and also patiently suffer thy godly will to be fulfilled in us.  
Furthermore/ though thy most wholesome cure be never so painful unto us/ yet go forward therewith/ punish/ bete/ cut/ burn/ destroy/ bring to nought damn/ cast down unto hell/ and do what so ever thou wilt that thy will only may be fulfilled and not ours. forbid dear father/ and in no wise suffer us to follow our own good thoughts and imagynations/ neither to prosecute our own will/ meaning/ and purpose. For thy will and ours are clean contrary one to the other/ thine only good/ though it otherwise appear unto our blind reason and our evil/ though our blindness see it not.  ¶ God. 
☞ I am well served and dealt with all/ that men love me with their lips/ and their hearts are far fro me/ and when I take them in hand to make them better and to amend them/ than run they backward/ and in the mids of their cure/ while their health is a working/ they withdraw themselves fro me: as thou readest. Psal. lxxvii.  
conversi sunt in die belli. They are turned back in the day of battle. That is to say/ they which began well/ and committed themselves unto me/ that I should take them in hand/ and cure them/ be gone back fro me in time of temptation/ and killing of the flesh/ and are returned to sin and unto dishonouring of me again.  ¶ The sinner. 
☞ O father it is true/ no man can be strong in his own strength/ in the second chapter of the first of the Kings. ye/ and who is able to suffer and a bide before thine hand/ if thou thyself strength & comfort us not: wherefore most merciful father take us unto thy cure/ fulfil thy will in us/ that we may be thy kingdom and inheritance unto thy laud and praising. Also dear father/ strength and comfort us in such business with thy holy word. give us our daily bred/ grave & print thy dear son jesus in our hearts/ that we strengthened thorough him may cheerfully and gladly suffer and endure the distroyenge and killing of our will/ and the fulfilling of thy will/ ye/ and shed out thy grace upon all christente/ and send learned priests and preachers to tech us thy son jesus purely/ and to feed us with the word of thy holy gospel/ and not with the dregs and chaff of fables & men's doctrine.  ¶ God. 
☞ It is not good to cast pearls before swine/ neither to give holy things/ and the children's bred unto the dogs and hounds. ye sin continually with out ceasing/ and though I let my word be preached among you never so much/ yet ye follow not neither obey/ but despise it.  ¶ The sinner. 
☞ O father have mercy on us/ and deny us not that breed of love/ it grieveth us fore/ even at the very heart roots of us/ that we can not satisfy thy word and follow it. we desire the there to have patience with us thy poor and wretched children and to forgive us our trespass and guile/ and judge us not after thy law/ for no man is righteous in thy presence. Look on thy promises/ we forgive our trespassers/ and that with all our hearts/ and unto such haste thou promised forgiveness/ not that we thorough such forgiveness are worthy of thy forgiveness/ but that thou art true/ and of thy grace and mercy hast promised forgiveness unto all them that forgive their neighbours/ in this thy promise therefore is all our hope and trust.  ¶ God 
☞ I forgive you oft/ & lose you oft/ & ye never abide steadfast / children of little faith are ye/ ye can not watch and endure with me a little while/ but atones fall again into temptation. Mathe. in the xxvi chapter.  ¶ The sinner. 
☞ Weak are we o father/ and feeble/ and the temptation great and manifold in the flesh and in the world. Keep us father with thy mighty power/ and let us not fall in to temptation and sin again: but give us grace that we may abide standing/ and fight manfully unto the end/ for without thy grace we can do nothing.  ¶ God. 
☞ I am righteous/ and right is my judgement/ and therefore sin may not be unpunished/ ye/ and ye must suffer evil and affliction/ and as touching that ye have temptation thereby/ that is your sins fault only/ which compelleth me thereunto/ to kill it & to heal you. For sin can with none other medicine be drawn out of you/ but thorough adversity and suffering of evil.  ¶ The sinner. 
☞ For as much than as adversity/ tribulation/ affliction/ and evil/ which fight against sin give us temptation/ deliver us out of them/ finish thy cure/ and make us thorough hole/ that we loosed from sin and evil/ may be unto the a kingdom/ to laud/ to praise/ and to sanctify the. Amen  
And saying thou hast taught us thus to pray/ and hast promised also to hear us/ we hope and are sure that thou wilt graciously and mercifully grant us our petitions for thy verities sake/ and to the honouring of thy truth. Amen,  
Finally some man will say happily: what and if I can not believe that my prayer is herd. I answer. Than do as the father of the possessed did in the ix of Mark/ when Christ said unto him. If thou couldst believe/ all things are possible unto him that believeth. The father answered: I believe lord help mine unbelief. That is to say: Helena mine unbelief/ and give me perfit belief/ and strength the weakness of my faith/ & increase it.  
AMEN   

¶ Printed at London by Thomas Godfray.   

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