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<strong>The</strong> Communion.<br />

mentes: And to al thy people geue thy heauenly grace, that<br />

with meke heart and due reuerence they may heare and<br />

receiue thy holy wo°de, truely ƒeruyng thee in holynes and<br />

righteouƒnes, all the dayes <strong>of</strong> their life: And we mo¥<br />

humbly beƒeche thee <strong>of</strong> thy goodnes (O Lo°de) to coumfo°t<br />

and ƒuccour all them, whyche in thys tranƒyto°y life be in<br />

trouble, ƒo°owe, nede, ƒyckenes, o° any other aduerƒitie. And<br />

eƒpecially we commend vnto thy mercifull goodnes, this<br />

congregacion which is here a±embled in thy name, to celeb°ate<br />

the commemo°acion <strong>of</strong> the mo¥ glo°ious death <strong>of</strong> thy<br />

ƒonne: And here we do geue vnto thee mo¥e high p°aiƒe, and<br />

heartie thankes fo° the wonderfull grace and vertue, declared<br />

in all thy ƒainctes, from the begynning <strong>of</strong> the wo°lde:<br />

And chiefly in the glo°ious and mo¥e ble±ed virgin Mary,<br />

mother <strong>of</strong> thy ƒonne Jeƒu Ch°i¥e our Lo°de and God, and in<br />

the holy Patriarches, P°ophetes, Apo¥les and Marty°s,<br />

whoƒe examples (O Lo°de) and ¥edfa¥nes in thy fayth,<br />

and kepyng thy holy commaundementes, graunt vs to<br />

folowe. We commend vnto thy mercye (O Lo°de) all<br />

other thy ƒeruauntes, which are departed hence from vs,<br />

with the ƒigne <strong>of</strong> faith, and nowe do re¥e in the ƒlepe <strong>of</strong><br />

peace: Graunt vnto them, we beƒeche thee, thy mercy, and<br />

euerla¥ing peace, and that, at the day <strong>of</strong> the generall<br />

reƒurreccion, we and all they which bee <strong>of</strong> the mi¥icall body<br />

<strong>of</strong> thy ƒonne, may altogether be ƒet on his right hand, and<br />

heare that his mo¥ ioyfull voyce: Come vnto me, O ye that<br />

be ble±ed <strong>of</strong> my father, and po±e±e the kingdom, whiche is<br />

p°epared fo° you, from the begynning <strong>of</strong> the wo°lde: Graunt<br />

this, O father, fo° Jeƒus Ch°i¥es ƒake, our onely mediatour<br />

and aduocate.<br />

O God heauenly father, which <strong>of</strong> thy tender mercie<br />

didde¥ geue thine only ƒonne Jeƒu Ch°i¥, to ƒuffre death<br />

vpon the cro±e fo° our redempcion, who made there (by his<br />

one oblacion once <strong>of</strong>fered) a full, perfect, and ƒufficient<br />

ƒacrifyce, oblacion, and ƒatyƒfacyon, fo° the ƒinnes <strong>of</strong> the<br />

whole wo°lde, and did in¥itute, and in his holy Goƒpell

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