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  Speaker 1: Meditations and Prayers by John Bradford Meditation on the Lord's
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  Speaker 1: Supper Jesus Emmanuel This heavenly banquet wherewith thou dost witness thyself,
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  Speaker 1: O sweet Saviour, to be the bread of life, wherewith
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  Speaker 1: our souls are fed unto true and eternal life and immortality.
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  Speaker 1: Grant me grace so now to receive, as may be
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  Speaker 1: to my singular joy and comfort. The signs and symbols
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  Speaker 1: be bread and wine. which are sanctified in thy body
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  Speaker 1: and blood to represent the invisible communion and fellowship of
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  Speaker 1: the same. For as in baptism, thou, O God, dost
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  Speaker 1: regenerate us, and, as it were, engraft us into the
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  Speaker 1: fellowship of thy church, and by adoption make us thy children. So,
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  Speaker 1: as a good householder and father, thou dost afterwards minister
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  Speaker 1: meat to nourish and continue us in that life whereunto
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  Speaker 1: thou by thy word hast begotten us. And truly, O Christ,
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  Speaker 1: Thou art the food of the soul, and therefore our
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  Speaker 1: Heavenly Father giveth thee unto us, that we, being refreshed
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  Speaker 1: in communicating of thee, might be received into immortality. Now,
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  Speaker 1: because this mystery is of itself incomprehensible, thou dost exhibit
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  Speaker 1: and give unto us a figure and image hereof in
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  Speaker 1: visible signs. Yea, as though thou paidest down present earnest,
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  Speaker 1: thou makest us so certain hereof, as if with our
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  Speaker 1: eyes we saw it. And this is the end, wherefore
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  Speaker 1: thou didst institute this thy supper and banquet, namely, that
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  Speaker 1: it might confirm us, as of thy body once so
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  Speaker 1: offered for us, that we may feed on it, and
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  Speaker 1: in feeding feel in us the efficacy and strength of
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  Speaker 1: thy one alone sacrifice, so of thy blood once so
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  Speaker 1: shed for us, that it is unto us a continual
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  Speaker 1: potion and drink, according to the words of thy promise
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  Speaker 1: added there, Take, eat, this is my body which is
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  Speaker 1: given for you. so that the body which was once
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  Speaker 1: offered for our salvation we are commanded to take and eat, that,
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  Speaker 1: whilst we are partakers thereof, we might be most assured
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  Speaker 1: the virtue of thy lively death is of force in us,
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  Speaker 1: whereof it cometh that thou callest the cup, the testament
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  Speaker 1: or covenant in thy blood, for the covenant which thou
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  Speaker 1: once hast stricken with us in thy blood, thou dost,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, renew the same as concerning the confirmation
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  Speaker 1: of our faith, so often as thou reach unto us
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  Speaker 1: this holy cup to drink of, O wonderful consolation which
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  Speaker 1: cometh to the godly hearts by reason of this sacrament!
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  Speaker 1: For here we have assured witness that thou, Christ, art
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  Speaker 1: so coupled unto us, and we so engrafted in thee,
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  Speaker 1: that we are one body with thee, and whatsoever thou
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  Speaker 1: hast we may call it our own. Boldly, therefore, we
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  Speaker 1: may boast that everlasting life, thine inheritance is ours, that
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of heaven, wherein too thou art entered, can
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  Speaker 1: no more be taken away from us or we from it,
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  Speaker 1: than from thee or we from it, than from thee
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  Speaker 1: or thou from it. Again our sins can no more
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  Speaker 1: condemn us than thee, for thou would they should be
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  Speaker 1: laid to thy charge as though they were thine. This
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  Speaker 1: is a wonderful change which thou makest with us of
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  Speaker 1: thy unspeakable mercy. Thou wast made the Son of Man
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  Speaker 1: with us, that we with thee might be made the
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  Speaker 1: sons of God. Thou camest down from heaven unto earth
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  Speaker 1: to bring us from the earth into heaven. Thou tookest
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  Speaker 1: upon thee our mortality, that thou mightest give us thy immortality.
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  Speaker 1: Thou tookest upon thee our weakness, that thou mightest make
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  Speaker 1: us strong with thy strength. Thou tookest on thee our poverty,
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  Speaker 1: to pour upon us thy plenty. Thou tookest upon thee
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  Speaker 1: our unrighteousness, that thou mightest cloak us with thy righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: O comfort of comforts! Of all these things we have
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  Speaker 1: so assured a witness in this sacrament. that we ought,
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  Speaker 1: without all wavering, to be so sure that they are
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  Speaker 1: exhibited and given unto us, as if with our corporal
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  Speaker 1: eyes we did see thee, O sweet Christ, present in
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  Speaker 1: visible form, and with our very hands touched and handled thee.
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  Speaker 1: For this word cannot lure or beguile us. Take, eat, drink,
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  Speaker 1: this is my body which is given for you, this
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  Speaker 1: is my blood which is shed for the forgiveness of
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  Speaker 1: your sins. In that thou biddest us take, thou wouldst
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  Speaker 1: signify unto us that it is ours, In that thou
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  Speaker 1: biddest us eat, thou wouldst we should know that it
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  Speaker 1: is made one flesh with us. In that thou sayest
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  Speaker 1: it is thy body given for us, thy blood shed
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  Speaker 1: for us, thou wouldst that we should learn both to
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  Speaker 1: be not only thine now, but also ours. For thou
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  Speaker 1: tookest and gavest both, not for thy commodity, but for ours.
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  Speaker 1: Grant therefore, good Lord, that we may as be thankful
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  Speaker 1: to thee for ever so diligently always to mark that
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  Speaker 1: the chiefest and almost the whole pith of the sacrament
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  Speaker 1: consisteth in these words, which is given for you, which
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  Speaker 1: is shed for you. For else it would little help
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  Speaker 1: us to have thy body and blood distributed now, except
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  Speaker 1: they had been given for our redemption and salvation. By
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  Speaker 1: the bread and wine, therefore, they are represented. that we
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  Speaker 1: might learn that they are not only ours, but also
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  Speaker 1: that they are destined and appointed unto us for the
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  Speaker 1: seal of spiritual life. Thus, good Lord, grant us thy
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  Speaker 1: grace to consider this sacrament, that we stick not in
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  Speaker 1: the corporal things, and things which are object to our eyes, hands, taste,
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  Speaker 1: and feeling, as the papists teach the people, whose eyes
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  Speaker 1: open and turn their hearts according to thy good will,
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  Speaker 1: but that we may arise to the consideration of spiritual
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  Speaker 1: things hereby accordingly, That is, grant that we may deeply consider,
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  Speaker 1: as bread nourisheth, sustaineth, and conserveth the life of this
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  Speaker 1: our body, so thy body, O Christ, is the only
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  Speaker 1: and alone food to quicken and make strong the soul,
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  Speaker 1: as wine nourisheth, refresheth, confirmeth, and cheereth the heart, so
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  Speaker 1: doth thy blood shed for us on the cross to
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  Speaker 1: the souls of all faithful receivers and users of this
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  Speaker 1: most holy sacrament. Grant, good Lord, therefore, that I may
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  Speaker 1: truly consider and know the principal parts of the sacrament,
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  Speaker 1: not to exhibit and give the body simply and without
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  Speaker 1: further consideration, but rather to obsign and confirm that promise, wherein,
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  Speaker 1: as thou dost witness thy flesh to be food indeed
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  Speaker 1: and thy blood to be drink indeed, by which we
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  Speaker 1: are fed unto everlasting life, so thou affirmest thyself to
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  Speaker 1: be the bread of life, whereof whoso eateth shall live
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  Speaker 1: for ever. and that this thing might be brought to pass,
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  Speaker 1: thy sacrament doth send us to thy cross, O Christ,
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  Speaker 1: where this promise indeed was performed, and most fully on
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  Speaker 1: all sides accomplished. For we cannot to salvation feed on
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  Speaker 1: thee or eat thee, O Christ, except thou hast been crucified.
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  Speaker 1: And this we do, when with lively sense we apprehend
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  Speaker 1: and catch hold on the efficacy of thy death. For
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  Speaker 1: though thou call thyself the bread of life, yet dost
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  Speaker 1: thou it not by reason of the sacrament, but because
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  Speaker 1: there was such a one given to us from the Father,
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  Speaker 1: and because thou didst give thyself to such a one
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  Speaker 1: by taking part with us in our mortal nature, to
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  Speaker 1: make us partakers of thy divine immortality, by offering thyself
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  Speaker 1: a sacrifice for us, to take thyself our malediction, and
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  Speaker 1: pitifully to pour on us thy blessing. by swallowing up
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  Speaker 1: death by thy death, and by raising up to glory
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  Speaker 1: and incorruption, this our corruptible flesh, which thou tookest on
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  Speaker 1: thee through thy resurrection. So then it remaineth that we
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  Speaker 1: should apply all this unto us, and this we do
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  Speaker 1: as by thy gospel, so no less but rather more
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  Speaker 1: clearly by thy holy supper, where as thou offerest thyself
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  Speaker 1: unto us with all thy benefits, so we by faith
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  Speaker 1: receive the same. Grant me therefore to mark well that
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  Speaker 1: this sacrament is not the thing that maketh thee to
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  Speaker 1: begin to be the bread of life, but that this
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  Speaker 1: maketh thee so to us, by making us to call
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  Speaker 1: to mind that thou wast made the bread of life,
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  Speaker 1: for us continually to feed on, and by giving to
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  Speaker 1: us a taste and savour of that bread, that we
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  Speaker 1: might feel the virtue of the same bread. A brief
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  Speaker 1: admonition written by Master Bradford in a New Testament of
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  Speaker 1: a friend of his. This book is called Sermocrucis. the
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  Speaker 1: word of the cross, because the cross doth always accompany it,
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  Speaker 1: so that, if you will be a student hereof, you
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  Speaker 1: must needs prepare yourself to the cross, which you began
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  Speaker 1: to learn before you learned your alphabet. Footnote, the figure
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  Speaker 1: of a cross was then and afterward prefixed to the
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  Speaker 1: alphabet for young persons. See, for instance, the primer in
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  Speaker 1: English most necessary for the education of children, Weyland, no date,
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  Speaker 1: approximately 1539, signature A8. And Christ requireth it of every
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  Speaker 1: one that will be his disciple, therein not swerving from
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  Speaker 1: the common trade of callings or vocations, for no profession
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  Speaker 1: or kind of life wanteth his cross, so that they
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  Speaker 1: are far overseen, which think that the profession of the gospel,
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  Speaker 1: which the devil most envieth, the world most hateth, and
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  Speaker 1: the flesh most repineth at, can be without a cross.
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  Speaker 1: Let us therefore pray that God would enable us to
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  Speaker 1: take up our cross by denying ourselves. E. Casere, from prison,
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  Speaker 1: 18th February 1555, John Bradford. Prayer for the presence of God.
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  Speaker 1: With white garments of innocency and righteousness and palms of
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  Speaker 1: victory in their hands. O happy is he that may
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  Speaker 1: have but a sight of the immortal and incorruptible inheritance,
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  Speaker 1: which these thy people shall enjoy for ever. O that
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  Speaker 1: it please thee, O Father, as at thy mercy thou
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  Speaker 1: hast called me into thy company and communion of thy saints,
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  Speaker 1: so of the same thy goodness thou wouldst give me
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  Speaker 1: to become likewise affected, that in my heart I might
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  Speaker 1: cry as they do, and desire to be with thee,
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  Speaker 1: not simply because of this prison and exile that I
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  Speaker 1: am in presently, but rather only because of thee, and
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  Speaker 1: of love to thee, which love I humbly pray thee,
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  Speaker 1: that art love itself, that thou wouldst write in my
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  Speaker 1: heart and graciously open thine eyes to the words of
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  Speaker 1: my mouth at this present, which I have borrowed out
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  Speaker 1: of thy mouth by thy servants, saying, Remember me, O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: according to the favour that thou bearest unto thy people.
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  Speaker 1: O visit me with thy salvation, that I may see
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  Speaker 1: the felicity of thy chosen, and rejoice in the gladness
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  Speaker 1: of thy people, and give thanks with thine inheritance. O
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  Speaker 1: give me the spirit of wisdom and revelation by the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of thyself. O lighten the eyes of my mind,
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  Speaker 1: that I may know what the hope is whereunto thou
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  Speaker 1: hast called me, and how rich the glory is of
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  Speaker 1: thine inheritance upon thy saints, and what is the exceeding
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  Speaker 1: greatness of thy power to thy people would which believe.
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  Speaker 1: O make me able to comprehend with thy saints what
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  Speaker 1: is the breadth and length and depth and height of
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  Speaker 1: thy sweet mercy, that is, that I may know the
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  Speaker 1: excellent love of the knowledge of Christ, that I may
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  Speaker 1: be fulfilled with all fullness that cometh of thee. O
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  Speaker 1: lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not into death, but
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  Speaker 1: send thy light unto me, to lead and bring me
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  Speaker 1: into thy tabernacle, that I may believe to see the
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  Speaker 1: goodness of thee in the land of the living. O
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  Speaker 1: give me the spirit not of the world, but which
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  Speaker 1: is of thee, that I may know the things which
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  Speaker 1: are given to us of God, which are such as
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  Speaker 1: the eye hath not seen, nor the ear hath heard.
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  Speaker 1: nor the heart is able to conceive, for the light
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  Speaker 1: of the moon shall be as the light of the sun,
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  Speaker 1: and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, even
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  Speaker 1: as the light of seven days, in thy blessed kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: and when thou wilt bind up the wounds of thy
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  Speaker 1: people and heal their plagues, O that I might have
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  Speaker 1: some lively sight hereof. When shall I rejoice of an
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  Speaker 1: exchange for the immortal, the undefiled, and the inaccessible inheritance
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  Speaker 1: whereto thou hast called me, and dost keep for me
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  Speaker 1: in heaven? When shall I hear the sweet songs of
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  Speaker 1: thy saved people, crying, Salvation be to him that sitteth
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  Speaker 1: in the throne of our God and to the Lamb?
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  Speaker 1: When shall I with the elders and the angels sing
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  Speaker 1: and say, Lords and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and
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  Speaker 1: honour and power and might be to thee, our God,
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  Speaker 1: for ever and ever? When shall I be covered with
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  Speaker 1: a white stole and have a palm in my hand
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  Speaker 1: to stand before the throne day and night, to serve
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  Speaker 1: thee in the temple and to have thee to dwell
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  Speaker 1: in me, WHEN SHALL I HEAR THY GREAT VOICE SAYING
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  Speaker 1: FROM HEAVEN, BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN,
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  Speaker 1: AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE
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  Speaker 1: HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM, THEIR GOD.
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  Speaker 1: O HAPPY WERE THEY THAT NOW MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE
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  Speaker 1: SHOW OF THINE HOLY CITY IN NEW JERUSALEM, DESCENDING FROM HEAVEN,
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  Speaker 1: PREPARED OF THE GRACIOUS GOD AS A BRIDE DECKED FOR
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  Speaker 1: HER HUSBAND, WHICH THOU SHOWED US THY SERVANT SON JOHN.
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  Speaker 1: THIS SHOULD I SEE IF I WERE WITH HIM IN
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  Speaker 1: THE SPIRIT, but this cannot be so long as I
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  Speaker 1: am in the flesh. Or that the time will come
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  Speaker 1: that I might then put off this tabernacle in thy mercy,
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  Speaker 1: that I might see this great sight which is felicity itself,
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  Speaker 1: but herein I must do and will tarry thy good pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: as I came not hither into this world when I would,
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  Speaker 1: but when thou wouldst, even so, not when I will,
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  Speaker 1: but when thou wilt, take me hence in thy mercy.
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  Speaker 1: In the mean season, as thy child, conserve and keep me,
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  Speaker 1: And further grant to me that being in this body,
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  Speaker 1: yet I may live not in the flesh but in
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, now and then to have some little true
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  Speaker 1: taste of the pleasant dainties of thy house and sanctuary,
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  Speaker 1: that all worldly pleasures may be unpleasant and unsavoury to
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  Speaker 1: my eternal comfort through Christ our Lord. Amen. A SWEET
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  Speaker 1: CONTEMPLATION OF HEAVEN AND HEAVENLY THINGS O my soul, lift
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  Speaker 1: up thyself above thyself, fly away in the contemplation of
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  Speaker 1: heaven and heavenly things. Make not thy further abode in
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  Speaker 1: this inferior region, where is nothing but travail and trials
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  Speaker 1: and sorrow and woe and wretchedness and sin and trouble
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  Speaker 1: and fear and all deceiving and destroying vanities. Bend all
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  Speaker 1: thine affections upward unto the superior places where thy Redeemer
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  Speaker 1: liveth and reigneth. and where thy joys are laid up
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  Speaker 1: in the treasury of his merits, which shall be made
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  Speaker 1: thy merits, his perfection thy perfection, and his death thy
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  Speaker 1: life eternal, and his resurrection thy salvation. Esteem not the
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  Speaker 1: trifling pleasures of this life to be the way to
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  Speaker 1: this wealth, nor thy ignominious estate here to be any
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  Speaker 1: bar to prevent thee from the full use and joyful
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  Speaker 1: fruition of the glory there prepared for thee. I am
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  Speaker 1: assured that though I want here I have riches there.
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  Speaker 1: Though I hunger here, I have fullness there. Though I
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  Speaker 1: faint here, I shall be refreshed there. And though I
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  Speaker 1: be accounted here as a dead man, I shall there
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  Speaker 1: live in perpetual glory. That is the city promised to
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  Speaker 1: the captives whom Christ shall make free. That is the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom assured to them whom Christ shall crown. There are
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  Speaker 1: the joys prepared for them that mourn. There is the
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  Speaker 1: light that shall never go out. There is the health
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  Speaker 1: that shall never be impaired. There is the glory that
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  Speaker 1: shall never be defaced, there is the life that shall
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  Speaker 1: taste no death, and there is the portion that passeth
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  Speaker 1: all the world's fulfillment. There is the world that never
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  Speaker 1: shall wax worse, there is every want supplied freely without money,
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  Speaker 1: there is no danger, but happiness and honor and singing
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  Speaker 1: and praise and thanksgiving unto the heavenly Jehovah, to him
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  Speaker 1: that sitteth on the throne, to the Lamb, that here
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  Speaker 1: was led to the slaughter, that now reigneth, with whom
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  Speaker 1: I shall reign, after I have run this comfortless race
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  Speaker 1: through this miserable earthly veil. The honour in this earth
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  Speaker 1: is baseness, the riches of this world is poverty, the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of this life is want, the joys of this
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  Speaker 1: world's kingdom are sorrow and woe and misery and sadness
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  Speaker 1: and grief. And yet the fool saith in his heart,
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  Speaker 1: there is no other heaven but this harmful deceiving world's happiness,
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  Speaker 1: no other hell but this world's bitterness, no better comfort
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  Speaker 1: than this world's cares, no further help than this world's wealth.
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  Speaker 1: Thus is man's wisdom made foolishness, and man's glory turned
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  Speaker 1: into shame, and man's power made of no force, and
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  Speaker 1: the faithful poor that are here despised, they are advanced,
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  Speaker 1: the sorrowful are comforted, and the castaways in this world
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  Speaker 1: are received to this blessed being, that cannot be expressed
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  Speaker 1: with the tongues of man, nor conceived with the heart
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  Speaker 1: of man. O that I had wings, saith heavenly-hearted David,
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  Speaker 1: that I might fly away from this world's vanities, and
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  Speaker 1: possess heaven's happiness. O that I were dissolved, saith blessed Paul,
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  Speaker 1: that I might be with Christ. O that I were
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  Speaker 1: in this place of such wished happiness, where I might
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  Speaker 1: rest from these worldly labours and earthly miseries and transitory vanities.
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  Speaker 1: But be not heavy, O my soul, though thou must
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  Speaker 1: yet wade under the burden of these earthly troubles. For
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  Speaker 1: these heavenly mysteries are not seen of carnal eyes, nor
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  Speaker 1: can be obtained by carnal means, but through troubles and
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  Speaker 1: afflictions and dangers and persecutions they must be achieved and
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  Speaker 1: none that are God's elected shall be free from this
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  Speaker 1: world's hatred. For such difference is there between earth and heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and between earthly and heavenly things, that whoso delighteth in
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  Speaker 1: the first shall be deprived of the latter. For we
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  Speaker 1: cannot have this world's heaven, and the heaven of heavens,
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  Speaker 1: the heaven of saints and angels and cherubim and seraphim,
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  Speaker 1: where are all unspotted and all glorious, and all in
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  Speaker 1: white robes of sanctity, and where Christ the sacrificed Lamb
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  Speaker 1: is unto them all in all, O blessed are all
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  Speaker 1: they that are thus assured, blessed are the poor that
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  Speaker 1: shall have this heaven's riches, blessed are the base that
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  Speaker 1: shall be thus advanced, blessed are the low that shall
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  Speaker 1: be thus raised, and blessed are the worlds despised that
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  Speaker 1: shall have this heaven's happiness. Yea, happy is this wretched
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  Speaker 1: world's unhappy man, for he shall be happy. I will
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  Speaker 1: daily meditate of the greatness and majesty of this high
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  Speaker 1: heaven's blessed estate, where I shall one day bless my
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  Speaker 1: God with the company of his saints, and where I
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  Speaker 1: shall one day sit secure and free from the dangers
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  Speaker 1: and perils and crosses and afflictions that now do assail
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  Speaker 1: me on the right hand and on the left, within
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  Speaker 1: me and without me, and am never free from one
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  Speaker 1: calamity or another. But it is good for me to
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  Speaker 1: be here humbled, that I may be there advanced where
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  Speaker 1: I wish speedily to come. It is good that I
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  Speaker 1: were in want here, that I might seek heavenly necessaries.
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  Speaker 1: It is good that the world did discourage me, that
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  Speaker 1: I might fly to God that comforteth me, It is
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  Speaker 1: good that I am daily killed here, that I might
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  Speaker 1: live continually. Now therefore, O my soul, stand up, fear not,
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  Speaker 1: faint not at this world's crosses, but give glory to
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  Speaker 1: this great God. Praise this high and helping God. Seek
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  Speaker 1: him while it is day. Drive not off to pray
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  Speaker 1: to this God. Notwithstanding any hope thou hast in mortal men,
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  Speaker 1: but reject not his gracious means, who, in favour infinite
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  Speaker 1: and mercy endless, moveth the hearts of men in this
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  Speaker 1: life to do good unto such as he seeth distressed.
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  Speaker 1: He can find out and afford infinite means to succour
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  Speaker 1: them that are his, and will not leave them forsaken
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  Speaker 1: in danger. For he even here giveth me his blessings
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  Speaker 1: as pledges of his never-failing love, that, being visited in
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  Speaker 1: his great mercy with timely comforts here, I may assure
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  Speaker 1: me of greater blessings in heaven, where they are prepared
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  Speaker 1: beyond all that I can ask or think. O Lord
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  Speaker 1: God of hosts, who is like unto thee, who hast
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  Speaker 1: established thy kingdom with truth and equity, with mercy and judgment?
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  Speaker 1: Thou hast a mighty arm, strong is thine hand. O
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  Speaker 1: blessed art thou, O my soul, if thou canst rejoice
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord. He is thy Father, he is thy Helper. Walk, therefore,
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  Speaker 1: in the light of his countenance, and be patient. Wait
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  Speaker 1: in hope till these storms be passed, and then shalt
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  Speaker 1: thou have that quiet rest that he hath prepared in heaven. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: increase my faith. Our conversation is in heaven, from whence
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  Speaker 1: also we look for the Saviour, even the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: If he be risen with Christ, seek the things which
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  Speaker 1: are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.
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  Speaker 1: Set your affections on things which are above, and not
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  Speaker 1: on things which are on the earth. a meditation of
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  Speaker 1: the life everlasting, the place where it is and the
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  Speaker 1: incomparable joys thereof. That there is an everlasting life, none
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  Speaker 1: will deny but such as will deny God, for if
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  Speaker 1: he be true and just, which he must needs be
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  Speaker 1: or else he is not God, then can there not
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  Speaker 1: be but an eternal life? That he hath both spoken
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  Speaker 1: it and promised it, in Matthew 25, 1 Corinthians 15,
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews 4, 11 and 12, 1 Peter 1, it plainly appeareth,
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  Speaker 1: and elsewhere in very many places. So that to deny
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  Speaker 1: an everlasting life is to deny God, to deny Christ
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  Speaker 1: and all that ever he did, also to deny all
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  Speaker 1: piety and religion, to condemn of foolishness all good men, martyrs, confessors, evangelists, prophets, patriarchs. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: the denial of eternal life is nothing else but a
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  Speaker 1: denial of the immortality of this soul, and so a
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  Speaker 1: plain making of man nothing better than beasts. If it
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  Speaker 1: be so, let us then eat and drink, for tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: we shall die. Lord, preserve us from this sadduceal and
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  Speaker 1: epicureal impiety, and grant us for thy mercy's sake, dear God,
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  Speaker 1: that we may be assuredly persuaded that there is indeed
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  Speaker 1: an eternal life and bliss with thee for them that
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  Speaker 1: put their trust in thee, amongst whom account me for
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  Speaker 1: thy mercy's sake. Again, this eternal life and the place
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  Speaker 1: appointed for them that be thy servants All men do
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  Speaker 1: grant to be with thee, albeit they do not think that,
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  Speaker 1: because thou art everywhere, therefore eternal life is everywhere, for
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  Speaker 1: they by thy word do know that inasmuch as no
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  Speaker 1: man can see thee and live, this eternal life and
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  Speaker 1: thy blessed presence is most pleasant and had in fruition
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  Speaker 1: after in another world, whereunto by corporal death they do
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  Speaker 1: depart and are translated to a place above them, where
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  Speaker 1: thou dwellest in a light whereunto no man can approach.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham's bosom, they read, was above, as the place for
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  Speaker 1: the wicked was alone beneath. Elias was caught up into heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and thy son, our dear Saviour, prayed, that where he
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  Speaker 1: is those also might be, which thou hast given him,
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  Speaker 1: and might see his glory. Now he, dear father, we
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  Speaker 1: learn by thy spirit was ascended and taken up in
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  Speaker 1: his very body into heaven, with a Stephen looked up
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  Speaker 1: and saw thy Christ standing on thy right hand, to
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  Speaker 1: whom he prayed, O Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Grant,
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  Speaker 1: I beseech thee, gracious God and Father, that I may
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  Speaker 1: have a clean heart more and more to see thee,
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  Speaker 1: and so in spirit to see and look often upon
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  Speaker 1: this place. Whither bring me at the length in body also,
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  Speaker 1: I humbly pray thee. Now, what a thing this everlasting
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  Speaker 1: life is, no man is able to conceive, much less
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  Speaker 1: able to utter, for the peace of God, which is
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  Speaker 1: eternal life, passeth all understanding. The eye hath not seen,
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  Speaker 1: the ear hath not heard, neither can man's heart conceive
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  Speaker 1: those things which thou, dear God, hast prepared for them
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  Speaker 1: that love thee. Whatsoever, therefore, can be spoken or imagined
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  Speaker 1: of thy kingdom, of the clearness, joy, and felicity of
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  Speaker 1: the same, is nothing in comparison, as we may see
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  Speaker 1: by thy prophets, which, because they could not otherwise, under
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  Speaker 1: corporal things have shadowed the same, so that the confidence
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  Speaker 1: of eternal life, what a thing it is, can in
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  Speaker 1: no wise be told. Howbeit, Somewhat we may be brought
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  Speaker 1: into some sight of it by earthly things to think
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  Speaker 1: on this sort. If God hath given here so many
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  Speaker 1: things in a strange place, how many are the great
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  Speaker 1: good things that be at home? If in a prison
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  Speaker 1: are so many mercies, how many are they in the palace?
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  Speaker 1: If the wicked have so many benefits, what is the
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  Speaker 1: store prepared for thy servants, O Lord? If thy children
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  Speaker 1: find such comforts in the day of tears and mourning,
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  Speaker 1: what shall they find in the day of the marriage?
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  Speaker 1: If with beasts men being have the use of so
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  Speaker 1: innumerable blessings, O how many other blessings which they shall
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  Speaker 1: enjoy with thy angels and with thyself, O dear God,
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  Speaker 1: when they shall see thee and have the fruition of thee,
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  Speaker 1: in whom is fullness without loathing of all good and
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  Speaker 1: fair things, so that nothing can be more desired, and
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  Speaker 1: that for evermore. This thy children do not so see
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  Speaker 1: as they now believe it. I say that even in
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  Speaker 1: their bodies they shall see it for ever, as Job said,
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  Speaker 1: They believe that they shall see thee, and their own
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  Speaker 1: eyes behold thee, when these our corporal eyes, our bodies
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  Speaker 1: being raised, shall do their duties. Such a knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: thee they believe to have, as shall not be only
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  Speaker 1: intellectual and by faith, as now it is, but even
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  Speaker 1: a full sight and fruition, yea, a conjunction and fellowship
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  Speaker 1: with thee. Now they see but as in a glass,
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  Speaker 1: even in a dark speaking, but then they shall see
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  Speaker 1: thee face to face. For faith... though it be the
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  Speaker 1: substance of things hoped for, and a certain dark sight
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  Speaker 1: of thee, yet may not be compared to the reward
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  Speaker 1: of faith and glorious sight which we shall see in
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  Speaker 1: the life to come, when faith and hope shall cease.
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  Speaker 1: Now thy children know that they be thy sons, though
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  Speaker 1: it yet appear not what they shall be. We know,
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  Speaker 1: say they, that when our Christ, God and man, shall appear,
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  Speaker 1: then shall we be like unto him, for we shall
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  Speaker 1: see him, even as he is. O great prerogative to
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  Speaker 1: see Christ as he is, which is not to be
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  Speaker 1: considered so much for the manhood as for the Godhead itself.
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  Speaker 1: As Paul doth also write that when all things are
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  Speaker 1: subject unto the Son, then shall he be subject unto thee,
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  Speaker 1: dear Father, also that God may be all in all.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore Christ our Saviour prayed for us that we
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  Speaker 1: might know thee the only true God, not that our
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  Speaker 1: Christ thy Son is not with thee, the true, co-equal,
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  Speaker 1: and substantial God, but that we might now know how that,
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  Speaker 1: after the judgment, such a mystery of his mediatorship shall
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  Speaker 1: not be in heaven as is now on earth, then thou,
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  Speaker 1: blessed Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost, shalt be all in all. Thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: be the end of our desires, thou shalt be looked
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  Speaker 1: upon without end, thou shalt be loved without loathing, thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt be praised without weariness. Although loathsomeness be wont to
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  Speaker 1: follow fullness, yet our fullness in the contemplation of thy
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  Speaker 1: pleasures shall bring with it no kind at all of loathsomeness.
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  Speaker 1: Society of joys shall be in the beholding of thee.
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  Speaker 1: Pleasures are on thy right hand for ever. We shall
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  Speaker 1: be satisfied when we arise after thine image, I mean
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  Speaker 1: in the resurrection. O dear Father, show thyself unto us,
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  Speaker 1: and we ask no more. O grant us, with thy
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  Speaker 1: saints in everlasting life, to praise with perpetual praises thy
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  Speaker 1: holy name. Happy then and happy again were we, if
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  Speaker 1: that day were come, that we might sing with thy angels, elders,
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  Speaker 1: and innumerable thousands a new song, and say, Thou Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: which was slain, art worthy to receive power, and riches,
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  Speaker 1: and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
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  Speaker 1: In this blessed life all kinds of maladies, griefs, sorrows,
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  Speaker 1: and evils be far away, and all full of all
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  Speaker 1: kind of mirth, joy, and pleasure. O that we might
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  Speaker 1: see now a little with St. John, that holy city,
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  Speaker 1: New Jerusalem, descending from heaven, prepared of God as a
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  Speaker 1: bride trimmed for her husband. O that we might now
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  Speaker 1: something hear the great voice speaking out of the throne. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will
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  Speaker 1: dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and
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  Speaker 1: he shall be unto them their God. He will wipe
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  Speaker 1: away all tears from their eyes, and death shall be
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  Speaker 1: no more, nor weeping, nor crying, nor sorrow, for the
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  Speaker 1: former things are gone. John Bradford Meditation of the blessed
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  Speaker 1: state and felicity of the life to come. This body
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  Speaker 1: is but a prison wherein the soul is kept, and
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  Speaker 1: that verily, not beautiful nor bright, but most foul and dark, disquiet, frail,
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  Speaker 1: and filled up with much vermin and venomous vipers, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it concerning our affections, standing in an air most
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  Speaker 1: unwholesome and prospect most loathsome, if a man consider the
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  Speaker 1: excrements of it by the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hands, feet,
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  Speaker 1: and all other parts, so that no bocado, no little ease,
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  Speaker 1: no dungeon, no bishop's prison, no gatehouse, no sink, no pit,
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  Speaker 1: may be compared in any point to be so evil
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  Speaker 1: a prison for the body, as the body is for
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  Speaker 1: and of the soul, wherethrough the children of God have
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  Speaker 1: been occasioned to cry and lament their long being in it.
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  Speaker 1: O saith David, how long shall I lie in this prison?
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  Speaker 1: O wretch that I am, saith Paul, who shall deliver
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  Speaker 1: me out of this body of sin, which is an
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  Speaker 1: heavy burden to the soul, as the wise man saith,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore the godly cry, Now let thy servant depart
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  Speaker 1: in peace. O that I were dissolved, and had put
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  Speaker 1: off this earthly and frail tabernacle! Take me unto thee,
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  Speaker 1: and bring my soul out of this prison, that it
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  Speaker 1: may give thanks unto thee, O Lord. For so long
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  Speaker 1: as we be in this body, we cannot see the Lord, yea,
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  Speaker 1: it is as an heavy handkerchief and depresseth down sore
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  Speaker 1: the spirit from the familiarity which it else should have
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  Speaker 1: with God. The world and life is an exile, a
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  Speaker 1: veil of misery, a wilderness, of itself being void of
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  Speaker 1: all virtues and necessaries for eternal life, full of enemies, sorrows, sighings, sobbings, groanings, miseries, etc.,
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  Speaker 1: in danger to hunger, cold, heat, thirst, sores, sickness, temptations, trouble, death,
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  Speaker 1: and innumerable calamities, being momentary, short, unstable, and nothing but vain,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore is compared to a warfare, a woman's travail,
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  Speaker 1: a shadow, a smoke, a vapour, a word, a storm,
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  Speaker 1: a tempest, in the which God's people feel great molestations, griefs,
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  Speaker 1: and troubles, now of Satan himself, now of the world,
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  Speaker 1: now of their own flesh, and that so wonderfully, diversely, dangerously,
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  Speaker 1: and contrarily, that they are enforced to cry, O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: when shall we come and appear before thee? When shall
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  Speaker 1: this misery end? When shall we be delivered out of
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  Speaker 1: this veil of misery, out of these continual afflictions and
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  Speaker 1: most perilous seas? But where thou art, Lord, and dear
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  Speaker 1: Father of mercy, There is not only no prison, no dollars,
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  Speaker 1: no sorrow, no sighings, no tears, no sickness, no hunger,
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  Speaker 1: no heat, no cold, no pain, no temptations, no displeasure,
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  Speaker 1: no malice, no pride, no uncleanness, no contention, no torments,
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  Speaker 1: no horror, no sin, no filth, no stench, no dearth,
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  Speaker 1: no death, no weeping, no tears, no misery, no mischiefs.
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  Speaker 1: There is, I say, not only no such thing, or
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  Speaker 1: any evil, noisome, or displeasant thing, but all liberty, all light,
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  Speaker 1: all pleasantness, all joy, rejoicing, mirth, pleasure, health, wealth, riches, glory, power, treasure, honour, triumph, comfort, solace, love, unity, peace, concord, wisdom, virtue, melody, meekness, felicity, beatitude,
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  Speaker 1: and all that ever can be wished or desired, in
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  Speaker 1: most security, eternity, and perpetuity. that may be thought not
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  Speaker 1: only of man, but of angels and archangels, yea, above
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  Speaker 1: all thoughts. The eye hath not seen the like, the
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  Speaker 1: ear hath not heard, nor no heart is able to
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  Speaker 1: conceive in any point any part of the blissful beatitude
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  Speaker 1: which is with thee, most dear Lord and Saviour, most
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  Speaker 1: gracious God and Comforter. Where thou art, O blessed God,
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  Speaker 1: The archangels, angels, thrones, powers, dominations, cherubim, seraphim, patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, virgins, confessors,
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  Speaker 1: and righteous spirits, cease not to sing, night and day, Holy, Holy, Holy,
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  Speaker 1: Lord God of hosts. Honor, majesty, glory, power, empire, and
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  Speaker 1: dominion be unto thee, O God the Creator, O Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus the Redeemer, O Holy Spirit the Comforter. In recordation
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  Speaker 1: of this, O how thy children rejoice! How contemn they
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  Speaker 1: the pleasures of this world! How little esteem they any
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  Speaker 1: corporal grief or shame! How desire they to be with thee!
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  Speaker 1: How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord God of hosts,
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  Speaker 1: say they. My soul hath a desire to enter into
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  Speaker 1: the courts of the Lord. My heart and my soul
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  Speaker 1: rejoiceth in the living God. Blessed are they that dwell
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  Speaker 1: in thy house, that they may be always praising thee.
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  Speaker 1: For one day in thy courts is better than a
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  Speaker 1: thousand elsewhere I had rather be a doorkeeper in the
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  Speaker 1: house of my God than to dwell in the tents
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  Speaker 1: of ungodliness, for the Lord God is a light and defence.
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  Speaker 1: And again, Like as the heart desireth the water brooks,
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  Speaker 1: so longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul
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  Speaker 1: is a thirst for God, yea, even for the living God.
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  Speaker 1: When shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
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  Speaker 1: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee,
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  Speaker 1: in a barren and dry land where no water is. They,
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  Speaker 1: Thy children, I mean, O Lord, desire the day of that,
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  Speaker 1: thy redemption. Still they cry, Let thy kingdom come. They cry, Come,
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus. They lift up their heads, looking for thy appearing,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord, which will make their vile body like to
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  Speaker 1: thine own glorious and immortal body. For when thou shalt appear,
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  Speaker 1: they shall be like unto thee. Thy angels will gather
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  Speaker 1: them together, and they shall meet thee in the clouds
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  Speaker 1: and be always with thee. They shall hear this joyful voice, Come,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: ye blessed of my Father, possess the kingdom prepared for
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  Speaker 1: you from the beginning. Then shall they be like to
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  Speaker 1: thy angels. Then shall they be like unto the Son
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  Speaker 1: in thy kingdom. Then shall they have crowns of glory,
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  Speaker 1: and be endued with white garments of innocency and righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: having palms of victory in their hands. O happy is
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  Speaker 1: he that may but see that immortal and incorruptible inheritance,
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  Speaker 1: which they shall enjoy for evermore. Amen. J. Bradford prayer
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  Speaker 1: for deliverance from trouble, being a godly prayer made by
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: John Bradford. O eternal, almighty, and most merciful God, which
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  Speaker 1: hast revealed thyself unto mankind, not only by the handiwork
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  Speaker 1: of this world and deliverance out of Egypt, but also,
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  Speaker 1: which is the greatest of all, by the sending of
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  Speaker 1: thy only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, into this
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  Speaker 1: veil of misery, and by the gifts of thy Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: wherewith thou hast adorned thy church, we humbly beseech thee
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  Speaker 1: by thy dear Son, Jesus Christ, that thou wouldst meekly
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  Speaker 1: open thy gracious ears to our complaints, and send down
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  Speaker 1: thy help and aid, not so much for our sakes
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  Speaker 1: as for the glory of thy holy name. For whereas
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  Speaker 1: man did lie, as thou knowest, altogether so overwhelmed in sin,
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  Speaker 1: that not only he was destitute of that righteousness he
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  Speaker 1: had of thy creation, but also in no wise could
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  Speaker 1: by any of his powers or merits rise up to
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  Speaker 1: recover the same righteousness, and therefore of necessity the inheritor
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  Speaker 1: of eternal punishment. Yet thou, most merciful God, hadst mercy
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  Speaker 1: upon that our marvellous great misery, and therefore didst promise,
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  Speaker 1: and at length send unto us thine only begotten Son,
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  Speaker 1: that he might pay the ransom for our sins, and
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  Speaker 1: obtain by his obedience unto thee his dear Father, that
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  Speaker 1: so many as believed in him might be endued with
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  Speaker 1: his righteousness, to be reputed as just for his sake
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  Speaker 1: before thy tribunal seat, that, although they want righteousness of
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: their own, yet they might have the fruition of the
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  Speaker 1: righteousness of another, namely, of the Lord Jesus Christ, whereby,
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  Speaker 1: as they might be made able to stand in thy judgment,
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  Speaker 1: so to be kindled in thy Holy Spirit to the
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  Speaker 1: rendering of obedience to thee truly and from the very heart.
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  Speaker 1: This is the doctrine of thy gospel, which thou at
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  Speaker 1: the first showedst to the fathers, which thy prophets taught,
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  Speaker 1: which thy Son Jesus Christ declared unto us, WHICH THY
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: HOLY SPIRIT BY THE APOSTLES HATH PUBLISHED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD,
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  Speaker 1: WHICH DOCTRINE IN THESE OUR DAYS THOU HAST NOTABLY SET
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  Speaker 1: FORTH BY THY SERVANT, KING EDWARD, IN THE BOOK OF
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  Speaker 1: HOMILIES APPOINTED IN HIS REIGN TO BE READ IN THE CHURCHES.
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  Speaker 1: BY THIS DOCTRINE THOU KEEPEST THY CHURCH, NOT ONLY IN
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  Speaker 1: AFFLICTIONS OF THIS LIFE, BUT ALSO IN THE TORMENTS OF
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  Speaker 1: DEATH ITSELF. NOW, DEAR AND MOST MEAK FATHER, WE HUMBLY
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  Speaker 1: BESEACH THEE TO CONSIDER WITH THYSELF WHAT WICKED AND CRUEL
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  Speaker 1: MEN THINK OF THIS THY GREAT BENEFIT, Behold, we open
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  Speaker 1: before thy majesty the articles of our bishops in their visitations,
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  Speaker 1: the statutes, laws, and ordinances, and injunctions of our parliaments
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  Speaker 1: and magistrates, and working of sophisters, wherewith the doctrine of
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  Speaker 1: thy son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, concerning the righteousness of faith,
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  Speaker 1: is so condemned that it is plainly accused of devilishness. Yea, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: so far forth do thy enemies now proceed, that, as
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  Speaker 1: to fall by slaughter, they made havoc of thy sheep
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  Speaker 1: and church. Even so now, by all kinds of violence, cruelty,
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  Speaker 1: and injustice, they go about their impiety. Therefore arise, O
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  Speaker 1: Lord our God, defend thou thine own cause. Forget not
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  Speaker 1: the blasphemies wherewith the wicked blaspheme thee. Deliver thy Christ
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  Speaker 1: from their presumption, which they by all means, and especially
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  Speaker 1: this Parliament, seek utterly to condemn. Keep thy church, which
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  Speaker 1: thine enemies desire to oppress and utterly to destroy. Defend
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  Speaker 1: thy prisoned servants, which, at this present, are in bonds
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  Speaker 1: for the defence of thy verity. Indeed, we confess frankly
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  Speaker 1: that we are grievous sinners, and in no point have
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  Speaker 1: been thankful unto thee for thy wonderful great benefits, which
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  Speaker 1: hitherto thou hast plentifully poured out upon us. But now,
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  Speaker 1: good Lord, we desire to repent, and something lament our
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  Speaker 1: miserable and sinful life. We desire to embrace and heartily
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  Speaker 1: to believe the gospel of thy Son, that, because we
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  Speaker 1: are sinners, and cannot make amends for our sins in
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  Speaker 1: any point, by any means or merits of our own,
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  Speaker 1: we may obtain free remission of our sins for and
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  Speaker 1: through Christ thy Son. And we pray thee further, that
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  Speaker 1: henceforth thou wilt govern our whole life by thy Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: wherethrough the remnants of our flesh may be mortified, and
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  Speaker 1: we may serve and sanctify thy holy name for ever.
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  Speaker 1: As concerning thy adversaries, Lord, thou knowest that, although they
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  Speaker 1: would seem nothing less than persecutors of thy name and church,
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  Speaker 1: yet the thing itself declareth that they do persecute the
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  Speaker 1: true doctrine of the gospel of thy Son, and not
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  Speaker 1: only do not acknowledge their impiety, but also do defend it,
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  Speaker 1: and undertake so to do by all means they can.
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  Speaker 1: This is not their mind that they might promote the
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  Speaker 1: glory of thy holy name, but that they might without
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  Speaker 1: blame live lordlike after their lusts and beastly pleasures, satisfying
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  Speaker 1: their cruel and covetous desires and concupiscences. And wilt thou,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord our God, approve this their purpose? Will thou
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  Speaker 1: help this their hope? No, no, thou wilt never do it,
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  Speaker 1: for thou art not God that will iniquity. The wicked
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  Speaker 1: shall not dwell with thee. Thou hatest all workers of wickedness.
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  Speaker 1: Thou wilt destroy all that speak lies. We indeed are
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  Speaker 1: unworthy to see thy glory. but yet thou art worthy
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  Speaker 1: that thy glory might be showed to all the whole world.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore we pray and earnestly beseech thee in Christ's name
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  Speaker 1: that thou wouldst witness publicly in these our days how
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  Speaker 1: that thy will is such as hateth iniquity and abhorreth
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  Speaker 1: these crafty and bloodthirsty men. For if thou shalt leave us,
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  Speaker 1: dear Father, will not the world say, where is their gospel,
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  Speaker 1: where is their Christ? Could Christ keep them in prison,
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  Speaker 1: preserve them in death? These blasphemies even now, dear Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we hear to walter out their hearts and lips. This
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  Speaker 1: thou knowest, O Lord, the etria of the heart and reins.
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  Speaker 1: Let therefore, O good God, thy strength be magnified, and
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  Speaker 1: as thou hast said, call upon me in the day
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  Speaker 1: of thy trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt honour me. Even so, now hear us calling upon
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  Speaker 1: thy name through thy only begotten Son, our Saviour and Lord,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer in the time of persecution. Jesus Emmanuel.
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  Speaker 1: O Almighty, Everlasting and Most Merciful Lord God, the dear
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  Speaker 1: Father of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. and through
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  Speaker 1: him our most gracious good father, whose providence is over us,
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  Speaker 1: whose wisdom and righteousness is seen over all, as thy mercy,
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  Speaker 1: even in the midst of most miseries, is tasted of all.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed we have deserved most horrible plagues by reason of
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  Speaker 1: our unthankfulness, contempt and slanderous abusing thy most holy gospel,
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  Speaker 1: which most plentifully and purely thou didst give us with
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  Speaker 1: such a prince to propagate the same, as never since
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  Speaker 1: England was christened was known the like. We, I say,
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  Speaker 1: have deserved not only the taking away of this, our
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  Speaker 1: dear Prince, and the benefit of the ministry of thy
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  Speaker 1: pure gospel, but also all other most terrible plagues that
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  Speaker 1: can be devised, for great and heinous are our offences,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore just thou art and righteous are thy judgments, if,
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  Speaker 1: as thou hast begun, thou shalt continue to pour out
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  Speaker 1: upon us thy fearful plagues and indignation. But, gracious Lord,
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  Speaker 1: remit thine anger, because thou art accustomed to remember mercy,
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  Speaker 1: and full well knowest whereof we are made, and what
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  Speaker 1: we are able to bear. We beseech thee, which art
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  Speaker 1: rich in mercy and plentiful to all them that call
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  Speaker 1: upon thee, that, for thy name's sake, through Christ, thou
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  Speaker 1: wouldst correct us according to thy sweet mercy, and not
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  Speaker 1: in thy sour favour and indignation. Much better it is
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  Speaker 1: for us, dear Father, and more tolerable, that we should
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  Speaker 1: yield ourselves into thy hands to be chastised of thee,
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  Speaker 1: than to fall into the hands of thy enemies, as
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  Speaker 1: David prayed, for great is thy mercy. Against thee, against
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  Speaker 1: thee only have we sinned and broken thy holy commandments. But,
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  Speaker 1: loving God and Almighty God and Father, well thou knowest
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  Speaker 1: we have not sinned against the devil, the world, the
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  Speaker 1: Pope and his prelates, neither against the Queen's Highness and
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  Speaker 1: politic magistrates of the realm, so that justly have they
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  Speaker 1: no right or power to punish us. howbeit thou mayest
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  Speaker 1: justly use them as thy fierce rod against us. But,
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  Speaker 1: good God and heavenly dear Father, against them have we
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  Speaker 1: not so behaved ourselves, that rightly and justly they can
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  Speaker 1: be thought to punish us. Yea, rather they wish that
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  Speaker 1: with them horribly we would displease and sin against thee,
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  Speaker 1: for nothing should it grieve them if we were horrible
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  Speaker 1: rebels against thee, blasphemers of thy name, idolaters, worshippers of
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  Speaker 1: stocks and stones, false servers of thee, adulterers, thieves, drunkards, murderers, gluttons, oppressors,
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  Speaker 1: and altogether overwhelmed in mischief. But this is our sin
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  Speaker 1: and offence against them, because we preach, believe, and confess thee,
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  Speaker 1: God the Father, to be the true and only God,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus Christ, thy dear Son, to be the only Lord, Saviour, Bishop, Priest,
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  Speaker 1: and Mediator, and the Holy Spirit to be the only Comforter, Vivificator, Counselor,
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  Speaker 1: and Master of all truth, and thy written word to
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  Speaker 1: be the lantern to our feet, the sufficient doctrine to
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  Speaker 1: our salvation. This, dear Lord, is a sin against them,
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  Speaker 1: because we will not serve thee after the traditions of men, but,
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  Speaker 1: as in thy word, by thy Son and apostles thou
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  Speaker 1: hast taught us. Therefore are they much wrath and persecute us.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: If we would worship bread instead of Christ... Cast off
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  Speaker 1: our hope and creed of the satisfactory and propitiatory sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: which thy Son, our Lord, did make in his own
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  Speaker 1: body himself once for all to the perfect sanctifying forever
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  Speaker 1: of all that shall be saved and come and by
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  Speaker 1: their propitiatory sacrifices in that abominable idol, the Mass. If
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  Speaker 1: we would cast off thy commandments to follow good intents,
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  Speaker 1: to serve thee in a tongue we know not, to
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  Speaker 1: pray unto saints, to buy pardons, to run a pilgrimage gate-going,
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  Speaker 1: to offer candles and tapers to images— to buy trentles, dirigers,
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  Speaker 1: to say as they say and do as they do,
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  Speaker 1: submitting ourselves to the faith of the anti-Christian, popish and
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  Speaker 1: devilish church, clean contrary from the faith of thy Catholic
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  Speaker 1: and true church, which is grounded and builded upon thy
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: dear child, Jesus Christ, whom, as he is the foundation,
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  Speaker 1: so is he the fullness of all, whereof we all receive,
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  Speaker 1: and the very sinew which coupleth and knitteth together, every
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  Speaker 1: one of us to grow and go forwards into a
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  Speaker 1: perfect man, being made of thee unto wisdom and righteousness
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  Speaker 1: and sanctifying and redemption, that our rejoicing might be in
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  Speaker 1: him which also is our head, from whom cometh our
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  Speaker 1: life by the working of his Spirit, which is kept
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  Speaker 1: always alive in us, so long as we suck of
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  Speaker 1: the blood and natural juice which descendeth from our head
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  Speaker 1: into the members. that is to say, so long as
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  Speaker 1: we stick and abide by his written word and gospel,
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  Speaker 1: not suffering the same to putrefy and corrupt by admitting
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  Speaker 1: false glosses and expositions of men's own brains and devices,
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  Speaker 1: not contained in thy book of the Bible. If, I say,
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  Speaker 1: dear Lord, we would do thus, leaving the water in
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  Speaker 1: the well of life, and drink of their dirty digged
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  Speaker 1: pits and cisterns, then should we have peace with them,
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  Speaker 1: then would not the devil rage, then would the world
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  Speaker 1: wrestle no more against us, then would the Pope and
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  Speaker 1: his prelates promote us, then would the Queen be merciful
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  Speaker 1: and the magistrates our good masters, even as thy dear
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  Speaker 1: child saith, If you are of the world, the world
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  Speaker 1: would love his own. Here, therefore, look down a merciful
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  Speaker 1: father towards us, and a fierce judge towards all such
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  Speaker 1: our enemies, as are not to be converted, for they
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  Speaker 1: are no less thine enemies than ours, so that in
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  Speaker 1: persecuting us and punishing us they persecute thee and punish thee.
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  Speaker 1: FOR THIS WORD WHICH WE PREACH, BELIEVE, AND CONFESS IS
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  Speaker 1: NOT OUR WORD, BUT THY WORD, AND NOT OUR EXPOSITIONS
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  Speaker 1: OR CONSTRUINGS, BUT THE EXPOSITIONS AND CONSTRUINGS OF THY HOLY SPIRIT.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: THIS GEAR THE DEVIL CANNOT ABIDE, BUT WOULD HAVE THY PLACE,
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  Speaker 1: AND BE TO US A GOD. THE POPE AND HIS
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  Speaker 1: PRELATES WOULD REIGN IN MEN'S CONSCIENCES, AND FOR GOD'S WORD
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  Speaker 1: THEY WOULD HAVE US TO BELIEVE THEIR STINKING TRADITIONS, COUNSELS, DECREES,
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  Speaker 1: AND LIES. The queen and the magistrates, in place of
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  Speaker 1: thy son Jesus Christ, would place their abominable idol of bread.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: In place of our priest after the order of Melchizedek,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: they would place priests after the order of Baal and Antichrist.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Instead of Christ's sacrifice, they would thrust out unto us
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: an horrible sacrilege. Paraphrase of Psalm 79 Jesus Emmanuel O God,
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  Speaker 1: the Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, which
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  Speaker 1: of thine own mere goodness hast vouchsafed to make an
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  Speaker 1: everlasting covenant with us, namely, that thou wilt be our God,
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  Speaker 1: and we shall be thy people and inheritance. Behold, as
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: in times past, the heathen came into thine inheritance of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: and polluted thy holy temple at Jerusalem, and also made
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  Speaker 1: the goodly city of Jerusalem itself a heap of stones,
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  Speaker 1: devastating it. Even so now very many heathen and limbs
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  Speaker 1: of Antichrist, though outwardly they profess Christ, are come into
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  Speaker 1: thine inheritance and church, which thou hast with us in
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  Speaker 1: this realm of England, and have defiled thy holy temple,
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  Speaker 1: that is, the souls and bodies of many which have
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  Speaker 1: professed thee, in whom, as in thy temple, thou shouldst dwell.
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  Speaker 1: They have, I say, defiled them by enforcing them, through
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: tyrannical precepts and threats, to resort to idolatrical and anti-Christian
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: service which thou by thy word didst never allow, but
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: rather and utterly forbid. As is Latin service to them
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: that understand not Latin, invocation to saints, adoration with godly
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  Speaker 1: honour of thy creatures of bread and wine, as though
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: they were God, being but the sacraments of the body
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: and blood of thy Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, which
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: they utterly corrupt and horribly profane, by presuming to offer
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  Speaker 1: up the same unto thy majesty, without any calling of
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: them to that office by thee. in which doing they
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  Speaker 1: do as much as in them is to crucify Christ again,
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  Speaker 1: utterly denying his one and alone sacrifice, offered up by
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  Speaker 1: himself to be omnisufficient, contrary to all thy holy scriptures.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: That thy people should allow this kind of religion, dear Father,
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: thou seest how these wicked heathen have prevailed and have
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: defiled thy temple, making the face of thy church, once
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: with us in the time of thy dear servant King
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Edward VI, no less beautiful in thy sight by reason
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  Speaker 1: of pure doctrine and the godly administration of thy sacraments,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: than was the city of Jerusalem which was a figure
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: of thy church, utterly defaced, devastated, and now nothing but
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: a heap of stones, the congregation of the faithful, thy
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: true church being scattered abroad, driven into exile and cast
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: into prisons, temples of stones yet still remaining. As once
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the heathen gave the carcasses of thy servants to be
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: meat for the birds of the air, And as they
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: gave the flesh of thy holy body, ones to a
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: prey for the beasts of the earth, when Antiochus and
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: other tyrants oppressed the country of Jewry, even so now
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: these limbs of Antichrist with their parasites and sworn shavelings,
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: except thou for thy mercy and truth's sake do let
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: them are purposed and fully determined to hang up and
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: burn the bodies, flesh and bones, of all that will
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: persevere to worship thee after the verity and truth. In
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: demonstration whereof they have cast of thy dearest saints no
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: small number into exile and prison, utterly taking from them
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: with all injustice all kind of comfort and equity. As
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: in times past the heathen poured out the blood of
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  Speaker 1: thy people like water round about Jerusalem, so that there
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  Speaker 1: was none to bury the dead, Even so these hell-hounds,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: limbs of Antichrist, have done in times past in the
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: slaughter of Frith, Barnes, Garrett, Jerome, Lambert, Lascelles, etc., and
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  Speaker 1: now lately have done by the cruel destroying of the
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  Speaker 1: good and innocent Lady Jane, as they thirstily gape to
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  Speaker 1: drink up more blood of thy slaughter-sheep which they have
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: in prison, and keep for a soil and cooling of
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: their heat, which will not be slaked until they have
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  Speaker 1: destroyed all thy seely souls. or driven them out of England,
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  Speaker 1: except thou, good lord, wilt for thy namesake prevent them.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: As once thy people complained to thee that they were
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: made a reproach and byword unto their neighbours, a laughing
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: stock and scorn to such as dwelled about them, even
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: so now, dear father, we, thy people at this present
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: here in England, cannot but complain that we are become
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: a byword to our neighbours, a mock and mowing to
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: those that dwell about us, for everywhere now it is
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: tauntingly spoken, Where are our Protestants? Where are these new Gospelers?
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Where is the new doctrine they taught? Therefore, with thy
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: people we are enforced to cry out, How long, O Lord,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: wilt thou be angry? The punishments we do not so
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: much complain of, although they be painful, as do we
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: thy displeasure which daily increaseth. But how long, O Lord,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: shall thy wrath, which we have wrought to work our woe,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: dear Lord, burn for ever? as now it beginneth even
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: corporally to bring us into a servitude and captivity, to
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: demonstrate the heinous captivity of soul many are caught in
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: by idolatry and horrible abomination, whereto very many do consent
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: against their conscience, outwardly allowing that which inwardly they detest,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: for fear of loss of life, lands, goods, liberty, friends, etc., shall,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I say, this wrath burn and waste all for ever. Alas,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: O Lord, who is able to bear thy wrath? O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: which art a consuming fire, wilt not thou in thine
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: anger remember thy mercy? Wilt not thou remember that we
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: are as hay, dust, stubble, and straw, and cannot but
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: consume in thy displeasure? O pour out thy wrath and
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: vengeance rather upon the wicked, which have not, nor will not,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: know thee, and upon the countries which call not and
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: will not call upon thy name, but upon their avowries.
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  Speaker 1: or trust in their own policy and power, and go
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: about as they have done and will do, if thou
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: let not, to devour Jacob, thy church and poor people,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: and so also have not, do not, nor will not,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: cease to destroy thy tabernacle, temple, worship, true religion and service,
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  Speaker 1: with all them that love the same. To the Lord
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: these caterpillars and Philistines are known. If there be any
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: of them to be converted, those do thou convert, O Father.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Upon the residue which are not to be converted, pour
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: out thy wrath and heavy indignation, that we might praise
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  Speaker 1: thy holy name, and others might tremble at thy power
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: and sing praises unto thee in the day of thy visitation. But, methinks,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: we hear thee object unto us our monstrous ingratitude for
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: thy word so plentifully preached, for thy sacraments so sincerely ministered,
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  Speaker 1: and forsooth for the good ministers, ecclesiastical and civil ministers,
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  Speaker 1: especially for our good and most holy King, and for
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: our carnal and sinful life, not knowing the time of
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: our visitation. These things and many other our misdeeds and
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: evil life, methinks that thou dost object against us, as
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: though we were not entreated otherwise now than we have deserved. Yea,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: that great mercy thou showest to us in not dealing
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: with us as we have deserved, being as we be yet,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: so far from true repentance, flattering ourselves in many evils,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: so that thou knowest not what to do with us,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: or strike us any further, as Isaiah witnesseth. O Lord God,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: we are ashamed to lift up our faces, for indeed
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: these are most true. We have sinned in heaven and
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: against thee, and are no more worthy to be called
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: thy children. The reason why thou becamest our God, and
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: madest us thy people, was thine own goodness and mercy
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: in Christ. In that these still remain, we cannot but
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: take some comfort that thou now wilt in thine anger
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: remember thy mercy. For if it was to the glory
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: and praise of thy name so to adopt us, how
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: should it be but to the glory of thy name
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: now to look upon us and help us? The more
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: we are now unworthy, the more it shall be to
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the praise of thy grace and glory, for unto none
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: other we come but to thee. Help we look not
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: for elsewhere, but only from thee. and that not of
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: our deserts or anything we can do, but only of
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  Speaker 1: thy mercy. The witch, in that thine enemies begin to limit,
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  Speaker 1: as though it would not care for us, and therefore say,
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  Speaker 1: Where is their God? Dear Father, accordingly consider it. They
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  Speaker 1: say not, Where is God? But where is their God?
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  Speaker 1: That is, the God whom we have taught and preached,
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  Speaker 1: as though thou, Lord, wert not the true God, as
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  Speaker 1: though we had swerved from thy word in teaching and profession. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord, we have swerved from thee in living, but
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  Speaker 1: yet not in teaching, as thou knowest, even as the Israelites,
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  Speaker 1: which were put to a flight before I, departed not
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  Speaker 1: from thee in profession and doctrine, but only in living.
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  Speaker 1: As Joshua thereon said, So say we, what wilt thou do,
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  Speaker 1: good Lord, to thy holy name? As when thy ark
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  Speaker 1: was taken of the Philistines, they did not attribute the
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  Speaker 1: cause why the Israelites were overcome to their sins, and
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  Speaker 1: the cause of their victory to thee, the true God,
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  Speaker 1: but to their own Dagon, and the Israelites' contempt of him.
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  Speaker 1: Even so, our Philistines and enemies do not attribute this,
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  Speaker 1: thy vengeance, fallen upon us to our carnal life, because
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  Speaker 1: they are as evil therein, I will not say worse,
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  Speaker 1: for then we could and would acknowledge no less, most
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  Speaker 1: humbly and thankfully, neither do acknowledge their victory and upper
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  Speaker 1: hand over us to thy working, but to their popery,
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  Speaker 1: false religion, mass, god of bread, etc., for the which,
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  Speaker 1: as they have shed much innocent blood, as of Tyndale, Frith, Barnes, Garrett, Jerome,
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  Speaker 1: the cells, Lambert, etc., and are more purposed to do,
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  Speaker 1: if thou let not, as therefore thou didst amongst the
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  Speaker 1: Philistines declare thy power and glory by taking vengeance on
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  Speaker 1: them and their false god, So, dear Lord, in thy
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  Speaker 1: good time, do now the like. Let the vengeance of
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  Speaker 1: thy servant's blood, that is already shed, and the tyrannical
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  Speaker 1: handling of thy people at the present, being of these
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  Speaker 1: Philistines cast into prison and into miserable exile, be openly
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  Speaker 1: showed upon them, which are not to be converted, whom
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  Speaker 1: thou only dost know, and so many of them as
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  Speaker 1: are to be converted, we beseech thee to show thy
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  Speaker 1: mercy upon them, and to convert them, if it be
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  Speaker 1: thy good will. So shalt thou be known to be
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  Speaker 1: the defender of the church, and such as would serve
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  Speaker 1: thee after thy word, which now thine enemies tread under foot,
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  Speaker 1: and would have us full with swillings and draught, utterly
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  Speaker 1: hailing and persecuting all them that would return from keeping
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  Speaker 1: pigs to serve thee and thy house, which they detest
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  Speaker 1: and abhor, seeking what means possible they can, it should
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  Speaker 1: never rise and be builded again. How many have they
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  Speaker 1: driven into exile! How many have they perverted by their
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  Speaker 1: promises and promotions? How many by terror and threats do
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  Speaker 1: they draw deadly to displease thee by doing outwardly against
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  Speaker 1: their consciences? How many have they cast into prison and
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  Speaker 1: taken all they have most unjustly from them, lest by
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  Speaker 1: any means thy house and temple might be builded, thou knowest?
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  Speaker 1: How miserably they handle thy bondservants, keeping from them all
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  Speaker 1: worldly consolations as company, pen, paper, ink, books, etc., the
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  Speaker 1: prisons of the King's Bench, Marshall's Sea, Fleet, Newgate, and
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  Speaker 1: in many other places, at Oxford and elsewhere, doth presently
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  Speaker 1: to all the world cry out. O let their groans
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  Speaker 1: and sorrowful sighs come up into thy sight, according to
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  Speaker 1: the greatness of thy power, which our enemies, by reason
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  Speaker 1: of their success, puffed up, do think thou wantest, as
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh did when he said, What fellow is God? According,
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  Speaker 1: I say, to the greatness of thy power, Preserve thou
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  Speaker 1: them that are appointed to die, and become thy slaughter-sheep.
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  Speaker 1: Thou disappointedest Herod of Peter, the sworn conspirators of Paul,
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  Speaker 1: King Joas of Elishaos, Ahab and Jezebel of Eli and Micaiahs,
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  Speaker 1: Haman of Mordecai. Even so, dear Lord, break the dream
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  Speaker 1: of thy combined enemies with us, and save thy servants, Latimer, Cranmer, Ridley, Hooper, Crome, Rogers, Saunders, Bradford, Philpot, Coverdale, Barlow, Cardmaker, Taylor, etc.,
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  Speaker 1: which are appointed to die, if thou by thy mighty
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  Speaker 1: power deliver them not. It is the glory of thy name,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord, which moveth us thus to make our moan,
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  Speaker 1: for thou knowest how thine enemies take part against thee,
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  Speaker 1: thy verity and truth. Thou forbiddest the making and worshipping
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  Speaker 1: of images, they command it as a worship. Thou forbiddest
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  Speaker 1: prayer in a tongue that is not to the edifying
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  Speaker 1: of the hearers, They straightly enjoin and command it. Thou
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  Speaker 1: forbiddest us all kinds of idolatry and spiritual fornication. They
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  Speaker 1: utterly enforce men thereto, even to commit fornication with bread, wine, gold, silver, stocks,
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  Speaker 1: and stones. Thou wouldst the remembrance of thy death by
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  Speaker 1: the using of thy holy supper. They take away not
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  Speaker 1: only all remembrance of thy death, but even the place
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  Speaker 1: thereof by their mass. transubstantiation, and pupish pilth. Thou commandest
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  Speaker 1: the lay as the clergy to drink of thy cup,
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  Speaker 1: but they forbid it utterly. Thou wouldst have the people
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  Speaker 1: brought up in knowledge, not as infants, and they seek
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  Speaker 1: by all means that none should have any true knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of thee, and therefore they chase out scriptures out of
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  Speaker 1: all places, and may not abide thy holy testament to
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  Speaker 1: be had for thy people to look upon. And therefore
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  Speaker 1: they persecute many a one, and wet their tongues against
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  Speaker 1: not men only, but also here there is a lacuna
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  Speaker 1: in the text, making indeed thy Christ and all that
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  Speaker 1: confess him, and here there is a lacuna in the text.
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  Speaker 1: And who doeth this, O Lord, not foreigners and strangers,
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  Speaker 1: but such as are our neighbours, and profess thee, such
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  Speaker 1: as thou hast given the regiment unto, as Scylla said,
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  Speaker 1: to wit, in both the states, in this poor and
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  Speaker 1: wretched realm of England, especially the clergy, and such as
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  Speaker 1: would be counted pillars of thy church, Therefore, in thy time,
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  Speaker 1: reward them, this their blasphemy, wherewith they have blasphemed, and
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  Speaker 1: do still blaspheme thee, and that sevenfold into their bosom,
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  Speaker 1: that is, most plentifully and abundantly recompense thy tarrying with
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  Speaker 1: good measure, and plentifully upheaving thy measure. And we, poor misers,
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  Speaker 1: which are yet thy people, and sheep of thy pasture,
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  Speaker 1: having none other help nor hope, but only thee, O
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  Speaker 1: God and pastor, we, I say, shall praise thy name
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  Speaker 1: for ever, We shall, with thy people, delivered out of
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  Speaker 1: the hands of Pharaoh, Sennacherib, Holofernes, Haman, etc., give thanks
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  Speaker 1: to thy lovely name. We will always, day and night,
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  Speaker 1: be telling out thy praises from generation to generation. This
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  Speaker 1: is the end why we crave thy help. This is
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  Speaker 1: the end why we desire to live, that, as we
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  Speaker 1: have been negligent, we might become diligent to serve, love, lord,
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  Speaker 1: and magnify thy holy name in all our thoughts, words,
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  Speaker 1: and deeds. publicly and privately, when we shall perceive and
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  Speaker 1: feel how good thou our God art, when we shall
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  Speaker 1: see how thou art merciful and mindful of goodness towards
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  Speaker 1: them that put their trust in thee. O dear Father,
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  Speaker 1: so be it, so be it, so be it, so
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  Speaker 1: be it. A very godly prayer of one standing at
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  Speaker 1: the stake ready to be burnt for Christ's gospel's sake.
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  Speaker 1: merciful God and Father to whom our Saviour Christ approached
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  Speaker 1: in his fear and need by reason of death, and
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: found comfort, gracious God and most bounteous Christ, on whom
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  Speaker 1: Stephen called in his extreme need and received strength, most
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  Speaker 1: benign Holy Spirit, which in the midst of all crosses
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: and deaths didst comfort the Apostle St. Paul with more
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  Speaker 1: consolations in Christ than he felt sorrows and terrors, have
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  Speaker 1: mercy upon me, a miserable, most vile and wretched sinner,
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  Speaker 1: which now draw nigh the gates of death, deserved both
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  Speaker 1: in soul and body eternally by reason of my manifold, horrible,
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  Speaker 1: old and new transgressions, which to thine eyes, O Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: are open and known. O be merciful unto me and
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  Speaker 1: forgive me for the bitter death and bloodshedding of thy
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  Speaker 1: only Son, Jesus Christ, and though thy justice do require
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  Speaker 1: in respect of my sins, that now thou shouldst not
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  Speaker 1: hear me, measuring me with the same measure that I
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  Speaker 1: have measured thy majesty in contemning thy daily calls. Yet
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  Speaker 1: let thy mercy, I say, prevail towards me, which is
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  Speaker 1: above all thy works, and wherewith the earth is filled,
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  Speaker 1: through and for the mediation of Christ our Saviour, for
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  Speaker 1: whose sake, in that it pleaseth thee to bring me
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  Speaker 1: forth now as one of his witnesses and a record-bearer
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  Speaker 1: of thy verity and truth, for whose sake, in that
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  Speaker 1: it pleaseth thee to bring me forth now as one
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  Speaker 1: of his witnesses and a record-bearer of thy verity and
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  Speaker 1: truth taught by him to give my life therefore to
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  Speaker 1: which dignity i do acknowledge dear god that there was
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  Speaker 1: never any so unworthy and unmeet no not the thief
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  Speaker 1: that hanged with him on the cross I humbly therefore
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  Speaker 1: pray thee that thou wouldst accordingly aid, help, and assist
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  Speaker 1: me with thy strength and heavenly grace, that with Christ
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  Speaker 1: thy Son I may find comfort, with Stephen I may
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  Speaker 1: see thy presence and gracious power, with St. Paul and
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  Speaker 1: all others, which for thy name's sake have suffered afflictions
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  Speaker 1: and death, I may find so present with me thy
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  Speaker 1: gracious consolation, that I may by my death glorify thy
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  Speaker 1: holy name, propagate and ratify thy verity, Comfort the hearts
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  Speaker 1: of the heavy, confirm thy church in truth, convert some
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  Speaker 1: that are to be converted, and so depart out of
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  Speaker 1: this miserable world, where I do nothing but heap daily
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  Speaker 1: sin upon sin, and enter into the fruition of thy
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  Speaker 1: blessed mercy. Whereof now give and increase in me a
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  Speaker 1: lively trust, sense, and feeling, where through the terrors of death,
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  Speaker 1: the torments of fire, the pangs of sin, the darts
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  Speaker 1: of Satan and the dollars of hell may never depress me,
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  Speaker 1: but may be driven away through the working of that
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  Speaker 1: most gracious Spirit, which now plenteously endow me with all,
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  Speaker 1: that through the same Spirit I may offer, as now
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  Speaker 1: I desire to do in Christ and by Him, myself,
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  Speaker 1: holy soul and body, to be a living sacrifice, holy
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  Speaker 1: and acceptable in Thy sight, dear Father, whose I am,
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  Speaker 1: and always have been, even from my mother's womb, yea,
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  Speaker 1: even before the world was made. to whom I commend myself,
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  Speaker 1: soul and body, faith and name, family and friends, country
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  Speaker 1: and all thy whole church, yea, even my very enemies,
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  Speaker 1: according to thy good pleasure, beseeching thee entirely to give
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  Speaker 1: once more to this realm of England the blessing of
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  Speaker 1: thy word again, with godly peace, to thee teaching and
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  Speaker 1: setting forth of the same. O dear Father, give me
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  Speaker 1: now to come unto thee, Purge me, and so purify
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  Speaker 1: me by this fire in Christ's death and passion through
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  Speaker 1: thy Spirit, that I may be a burnt offering of
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  Speaker 1: sweet smell in thy sight, which livest and reignest with
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  Speaker 1: thy Son and the Holy Ghost, now and evermore, world
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  Speaker 1: without end. Amen. John Bradford