Lord omnipotent and most merciful father, give us remission of our sin, and grant us deliverance from all our iniquity. give us thy most holy spirit, with thy blessed and merciful favour, that he may lead us to everlasting life through thine only son jesus Christ our saviour and only satisfaction. For whom gracious father & almighty God, we most humbly thank thee, for all thine haboundaunre benefits, with the which thou haste hither unto haboundantlye endued us. And that it hath pleased thee, the year now past, to preserve us: And brought us to the beginning of this year: thou haste nourished us, taught us, and defended us, both in body and soul. We wholly beseech thine ineffable pity, and clemency, to pardon us, whatsoever hither unto we have offended against thee, and that thou wilt replenyshe us with thine most holy spirit, which may this year and for ever teach and govern us, that whatsoever be done by us, it may redound to the glory of thy name, and to the edifying of thy church. Oh pitiful father, and God full of compassion, behold thy congregation or churches, and deliver them from wolves, and hyryd servants, & give them true shepherds, that may study to gather together thy flock, so miserably dispersed abroad unto thy dear beloved son, our only shepherd: & give grace that they may pasture under him in the pastures that leadeth to eternal life. Unto our most noble King, Edward the vi. his most honourable Sisters, his gracious, and honourable counsellors, to all the Magistrates and governors of this realm and others, send the fear of thy holy name. And grant most benign and merciful God that they may study and take pains to govern thy people and their subjects after thy holy law and good will, so that they thus being delivered from all idolatry and wickedness may have force and strength to defend theirs from the enemies of thy holy name. To all those that be ignorant and not yet come to the understanding of thine only truth: make the gospel to shine unto them, and draw them unto the right knowledge of thy dear son: that they also with us in him, may obtain eternal salvation. To all troubled, afflicted, and miserable persons, send succour good Lord and cousolation from heaven, and give them all grace, unfarnedly, holly to turn themselves unto thee, that justly strikest them. So that in case any in their trouble depart, yet let not thy mercy suffer them to doubt, but that they do in Christ pass from death to life. Unto all other Lord grant we pray the that this present castigation and punishment may be to the amendment of their lives. Unto thine one, and universal church, into the which thy so●e mercy and grace hath called and appointed us, unto all virtues and godly Scoles, which inyndethe to promote, and advance thy glory, unto this most noble City of London, and unto all other, as well within this realm as without: in the which thy miserable and persecuted servants hath entreteynement, lodging, and consolation, unto all such as by office and duty peculiarly are commended unto us: which prayeth unto the for us, and for whom also we be bound to pray. Unto these good Lord and unto us all thy miserable creatures, and subjects of this realm give grace, that we may farther entre into a knowledge of ourselves, and more deeply understand our sins, and infirmities, and more diligently study to amend them. Grant good Lord that the mercy thou haste promised us in Christ, we may with an unfeigned heart seek for, and with a sured and steadfast faith undoubtedly apply it unto us. So that from day to day ever mordyinge to ourselves we may more live unto the. And thus putting of, the old man, we may by thee, put on the new man which is created unto thy likeness through our Lord jesus Christ, thy only son. For whose sake good Lord defend and keep us this year and for ever. So be it. ¶ Imprinted at London by richard jug, dwelling in Paul's church yard at the sign of the Bible.