The Flower of Godly Prayers, Prayer
¶The Prayer Of oure Lorde.
O LORD God our father in heauē, we thi miserable chyldrene vppon earth, besech thee mercyfully to loke vppon vsus, and sende vsus thy grace, that thy name maye …e sanctifyed amonge vsus, and in all the worlde throughe the pure preachynge of thy woorde▪ and trewe knoweledge and vnderstandinge of thee same, and thoroughe earneste charytye in oure dayelye conuersacyon and lyuynge. Seclude thou gracyously frome vsus all false doctryne and euyll lyuynge, whereby thy worthy name myghte be blasphemed and slaūdered. Oh let thy kyngedome come and bee greate to all synfull and blynde people, and such as be houlden captyue of the deuyll and his kingdome, brynge thou Lorde to repentaunce and to the knowledge of the trewe faith in Iesus Christ thy sonne. Strengthen vsus Lord with thy grace, to do thy wyl in life and deathe, in well and in woo, that our wil may be alwaies broken offered vp, and mortified. Geue vsus our daily bread preserue vsus from all couetousnes▪ and immoderate carefulnes of the belly, that of the we maye be assured to hauehave aboundaunce of all good thinges necessary for vsus. Forgeue vsus oure trespasses▪ that we maye hauehave a glad and a quiet… conscyence in the, in that we receiue forgeuenes of our synnes, as we be wyllyng to forgeue all them that trespasse againste vsus. And leade vsus not into tēptacion, but strēgth then vsus Lord wyth thy spirite, to subdue ye flesh to dispise ye worlde wyth the vanities thereof, & to ouercome the deuell wyth all hys crafty assaultes, And finally deliuer vsus from al euil, both bodely and ghostlye temporall and eternal, for thine is the kingdome the power and the glorye for euer. So be it.