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Godly Meditations Upon the Lords Prayer

Published: 1562
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Godlie meditations vpon the Lordes prayer, the beleefe, and ten commaundementes with other comfortable meditations, praiers and exercises. Whereunto is annexed a defence of the doctrine of gods eternall election and predestination, gathered by the constant martyr of God Iohn Bradford in the tyme of his imprisonment. The contentes wherof appeare in the page nexte folovvyng.

[London] Nowe fyrst prynted by Rouland Hall, dwellyng in gutter lane at the signe of the halfe Egle and key the .12. of October 1562.

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Front matter
Title pagePOST TENEBRAS LVX
Table of contentsA TABLE OF THE CONTENTS of this boke.
To the reader
Text
PartInſtructions to be obſerued concernynge Prayer.
SubpartThere be nyne thynges that pertayne to the knowledge of trew prayer.
SubpartWhat prayer is.

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Subpart¶ To whom we ought to praie.
SubpartBy whom we ſhoulde praye
SubpartWhere to pray and what to pray.
SubpartOf the excellencie of prayer.
SubpartWhat to doe that we may be heard
PartA meditation of the lordes praier.
SubpartOur father.
SubpartWhich art in heauen.
SubpartHalowed be thy name.
SubpartLet thy kingdome come.
SubpartThy will be done.
SubpartGeue vs this day our daily Bread.
Subpart¶ Forgeue vs oure debtes, as we forgeue them that are debtours vnto vs.
SubpartLeade vs not into tentacion.
SubpartFor thine is the kingdome, thine is the power, thine is the glory for euer.
PartA meditation vpon the twelue articles of the Chriſtian faith.
SubpartI beleue in god the father. &c.
SubpartI beleue in Ieſus Chriſte hys onelye ſonne &c.
SubpartI beleue in the holy ghoſt. &c.
PartA meditation vpon the ten commaundementes.
Subpart¶ I am the lord thy god which brought thee oute of the land of Egipt. &c.
Subpart¶ Thou ſhalte not make to thy ſelfe any grauen &c.
SubpartThou ſhalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vaine.
SubpartRemember that thou kepe holye the Saboth day &c.
SubpartHonour thy father and mother that thou mayſt lyue longe &c.
SubpartThou ſhalte doe no murder &c.
Subpart¶ Thou ſhalte not commytte adulterye.
SubpartThou ſhalt not ſteale.
SubpartThou ſhalte not beare falſe witnes againſt thy neighbour.
PartA meditation concerninge praier, with a breife paraphraſe vpon the petitions of the lords prayer.
PartAN OTHER paraphraſe or meditation vpon the lords praſer.
PartA MEDITATION of the comming of Chriſt to Iudgement and of the rewarde bothe of the faythefull and vnfaithfull.
PartA MEDITATION CONCERning the ſober vſage both of the bodye and pleaſures in this life.
PartAN OTHER mediation to the ſame effecte
PartA MEDITATION FOR THE exercyſe of true mortification.
PartA GODLYE MEDITATION and inſtruction of the prouidence of god towards mankind.
PartA MEDITATION of the preſence of god.
PartA MEDITATION OF GODES power, beutie, goodnes &c.
PartA MEDITATION OF DEATH and the commodities it bringeth
PartA GODLYE MEDITATION vpon the paſſion of our ſauour Ieſus Chriſt.
PartA CONFESSION OF SINNES, and praier for the mitigation of goddes wrath and puniſhment for the ſame.
PartAN OTHER CONFESSION of ſinnes.
PartA PRAIER FOR THE REMISſion of finnes
PartAN OTHER PRAIER FOR remiſſion of ſinnes.
PartA PRAIER FOR DELIVERANCE from ſinne and to be reſtored to goddes grace and fauour againé.
PartA PRAIER FOR THE OBTAIning of faith.
PartA PRAIER FOR REPENTANCE
PartA DIALOGE OR COMMVNIcation betvvene Sathan and our conſcience.
PartA ſhort and pithie defence of the doctrine of the holy election and predeſtination of God, gathered out of…
PartAn other treatiſe of election and freewill by 1. bradford.
PartA BREIFE SVMME OF THE doctrine of electon and predeſtination.
Back matter
Colophon
ErrataFaultes eſcaped in the printing.
PrayerA PRAIER FOR THE faithfull afflicted in Fraunce for the goſpell.

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