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Prayers. forth then it hath respect unto thee. Lord shew me thy wayes, and lead me in thy pathes for thy Sonnes sake. Amen.

A Prayer to be sayd at our returning home.

O how excellent, and ioyfull shall our returning home be into the everlasting, quyet, and blessed house of heauen, where there is no troble, nor incumberance at al. All the mirth, and gladnes of this world, is but a shadow in comparyso[n] of the pleasures that are there. Nothing O Lord, is liker to thy holy nature, then the minde that is setled in quietnesse. Thou hast called us into that quietnes, and peace of thine, fro[m] out of the turmoiles of this world, as it were from out of stormes into a haven: Which is such a peace as the world cannot giue, and as passeth all capacitie of man.

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arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt, and be there till I bring thee word, for

herode will seeke the babe to destroy him. So he arose & toke the babe & his mother, ac[cording to] Math[ew]. 2

Behold, thy brother Esau is is co[m]forted agaynst thee, meaning to kill thee. Gen[esis] 27.

Michaeil spake vnto Dauid: If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow, Ac. 1. Sa[muel]. 19.

Christian houses are builded for vs to repair into from the anoyance of the wether, from the cruelty of beastes, and from the waues and turmoiles of thistroublous world.

Graunt now, O most mercifull Father, that through thy singular goodnes, our bodies may so resort into the[e], from our outwarde doinges, as our mindes may yeald them selves obedyent vnto thee, without striuing: [?] that they may the better, and more quyetly exalt them selves into that souerayne rest of thine aboue. Graunt that nothing may disturb, and disqueytthem here beneath: but that all things may be quyet and calme through that peace of thine. The peace of Christ be to this house, and to all that dwell therin. Amen.

A Prayer to be sayd at thesetting of the sunne.

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he shall breake downe their altars, he shal destroy their images. for now they shall say,

we haue no king be cause we feared not the Lord, and what should a king do to vs? [H]Ose[a]. 10.

Moses cast the rables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry, ac. Exo[dus]. 32.

The philistines finde Dagon fallen downe be fore the ark of the Lord ac. 1. Sam[uel]. 5.