A good and a Godly Prayer to be said at all times, of every Christian, both man and woman, with a prayer upon the Pater noster or Paraphrase upon the same.  
¶ Imprinted at London by John Alde, for Mychell Lodley.  
Anno. 1563.   

¶ The prayer Of our Lord.  
O Lord God our Father in heaven we thy miserable children upon earth, beseech thee mercifully to look upon us, & lend us thy grace, that thy name may be sanctified among us and in all the world, through the pure preaching of thy word, and true knowledge and understanding of the same, and thorough earnest charity in our daily conversation and living, seclude thou graciously from us all false doctrine and evil living, whereby thy worthy name might be blasphemed and slandered. Oh let thy kingdom come, and be great to all sinful and blind people, and such as be holden captive of the devil and his kingdom, bring thou Lord us to true repentance & to the knowledge of the true say thee, in jesus Christ thy son. Strengthen us Lord with thy grace, to do thy will in all godly wurkes, and to suffer the same in life and in death, in well and in woe, that our will may be always broken, offered up and mortified. give us our daily bread, preserve us from all covetousness and immoderate carefulness of the belly, that of thee we may be assured to have abundance of all good things necessary for us, forgive us our trespasses, that we may have a glad and a quiet conscience in thee, in that we receive forgiveness of our sins, as we be willing to forgive all them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But strengthen us Lord with thy spirit, to subdue the flesh to despise the world with the vanities thereof, & to overcome the devil with all his crafty assaults, and finally deliver us from all evil, both bodily and ghostly, temporal and eternal, for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever. So be it.  
O Almighty and everlasting God, Father, son and holy Ghost. Thou that hast made heaven, earth and all things in them contained, have mercy upon me poor wretched sinner, daily assaulted with all kind of misery and wretchedness, I beseech thee o Father, for the love of thy son jesus Christ, consider my imperfection and have mercy upon me, increase thy grace in me, my saviour, my redeemer, my justifier, for I come unto thee O Lord, according unto thy word, for thou hast said, come unto me all ye that labour, & are laden & I will refresh you, O my most merciful Lord & saviour, ease me of my burden of sin, which I have unrighteously committed in deed, word and thought, and refresh my soul with thy mercy, O reconcile me with Isope and I shallbe clean, and open my lips (O Lord) that my mouth may show thy praise, consider my imperfection and have mercy upon me, and help it with thy great mercies, remember thine old wont mercies, faithful promises made to our forefathers, Abraham. Isaac and jacob, and all other thy saints in our saviour jesus Christ, who being compassed with infirmities and weakness of the flesh come unto thee (O LORD) the well of life and everlasting fountain of their health and salvation, and thou mercifully sustained them keepest them & defendest them in all their temptations and tribulations, if their feet any time slipped or went out of the way, and committed sin against thee, yet thy mercy was alway ready, so that thou by thy holy spirit hadst procured them again by repentance, so that they turned again unto thee, which conversion or turning again thou mercifully acceptest at their hands, for because they were desirous to live perfectly in thy sight, thou preseruedest them, so that they be found faithful before thee, O Lord thou art the same, and thy years endure for ever. I beseech thee O father bear my infirmities and imperfection, & help it likewise with thy mercy, if at any time I happen to fall and commytie sin against thee, yet as thou saidst by thine Apostle Paul, let thy grace at all times be sufficient for me, so that I may immediately turn again betime to repentance unto thee, which conversion and turning again, accept always at my hands for jesus Christ's sake. So shall I be found perfect before thee, for although the spirit be willing, yet is the flesh untoward and weak. Therefore do I not lay mine own righteousness before thee, for I know and confess me, that is to say, in my flesh me, that is to say, in my flesh is nothing but plain misery, wretchedness and sin. Therefore do I come unto thee, & beseech thee for Christ's sake to ere tend thy merciful hand toward me, do away mine offences, for I know (O Lord) that all grace and goodness cometh of thee, and therefore art thou praised (O Lord) & feared in the congregation among thy sainets, for thou only art he that giveth victory. O Lord God of hosts, and that as thou saidest by thy Prophet Zacharie, neither through an host of men nor through strength, but through thy spirit. Therefore I beseech thee give me not only strength & knowledge of thee, but also a ready earnest purpose & will to subdue mine affections, and grant me grace at all times too live as thou in thy holy word hast prescribed unto me moreover I beseech thee make me perfect in thy sight, that I may render continual thanks by jesus Christ unto thee, & where as I have not hitherto endeavoured myself, according to the power which thou haste genen me to live after thy will, I pray thee of forgiveness for Christ's sake thine only son our Lord, and now I protest before thee through the help of thy holy spirit, to order my life from henceforth according to thy word, and to walk perfectly before thee. Nevertheless I beseech thee for Christ's sake at all times to bear the imperfection that any time is found in me and deliver me by thy power and mercy, increase my faith O my redeemer, increase my faith O my saviour increase my faith O my justifier, increase faith hope, love, charity and all other virtues consonant, & agreeable to a godly life, for I come unto thee (O Lord) the Well and everlasting Fountain of all health & salvation. O my heavenly father, let me and all other which seek thy word to th'intent to forsake sin & to amend their lives, live in thy sight, I thank thee (O Lord) with all my heart, soul and mind, that it hath pleased thee of thy great mercy and goodness to create and form me of the mould of the earth, & give me members needful to my body, and that it hath pleased thee to preserve alwhich (thou hast created in me) sithence the time of thy creation until now, & that it hath pleased thee to deliver me from the hour of temptation, and in my tribulation, aswell slepig as wakig when I was forgetful of thee as when I remembered to call upon thee & that it hath pleased thee to minister to my necessities, meat, drink and clothing and as inward rejoicing, quietness of mind, health of body and such like, and that it hath pleased thee to give me this woman to be my wife as a remedy consolatie and comfort in all my necessities. Grant us grace (O Lord) truly together to honour love and serve thee, for I know that whatsoever I do, either good or evil, it shallbe re warded of thee. Lighten us therefore daily, I beseech thee with thy grace that we may govern ourselves, our household and children, which thou hast given us in the true faith, fear and knowledge of thee, so the it may be an acceptable sacrifice unto thee, by jesus Christ our lord. And seeing it hath pleased the O father to lighten the inward eyes of my mind with thy grace, & to call me from the great blindness of ignorance and sin, wherein all men are born, to the knowledge of thee, let it now much more (as saint Paul saith) please thee to preserve me & all other whom thou hast called, which be daily oppressed by sin, & desire to turn and come unto thee (of what tongue or nation whatsoever they be) through the whole world, and seeing it hath pleased thee to call me by grace to the knowledge of thy word, & give me a will to seek it to love & believe in it, let it be thy will to direct my ways that I err not, stay my feet with thy holy hand, & preserve me with thine arm, for I am else far to weak, for without thee I can do nothing. O let me live in thy sight O Lord, and put me not out from thy presence, but give me a new heart and a new spirit, that I may always call upon thee in time of my trouble, and offer thee an acceptable sacrifice by jesus Christ before thee, even the fruit of those lips, which confess thy name, give me grace (O lord) patiently to receive the Cup of health & salvation at thy hand, & call upon thy name in the time of mine adversity, O hear my prayer I beseech thee let my power and pleasure be always in the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God, O accept these volentary sacrifices at my hands as the sweet smell of incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evenig sacrifice, pleasant and acceptable unto thee through jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be everlasting praise honour and glory, now & ever. Amen.