A Paraphrase upon the Lords Prayer, and the Creed.
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IF any be distrest, and faine would gather
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Some comfort, let him hasten to
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For we of helpe and hope are all bereaven,
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Unlesse thou succour us,
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Thou shewest mercy there, and for the same
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We praise thee, singing
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Of our distresses, Lord, cast up the summe,
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Shew us thy joyes, and let
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We mortall are, and alter from our birth,
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Thou constant art;
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Thou mad'st the Earth, Skies, Stars, and Planets seven,
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Thy Name be blessed here,
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Nothing we have wherewith our debts to pay,
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Unlesse thou give to us,
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Wherewith to cloath us, wherewith to be fed,
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For without thee we want
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We want, but want no sinne, for no day passes
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But we doe sin:
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No man from sinne that ever free did live;
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Forgive us, Lord, our sinnes,
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If we repent our sinnes thou ne're disdain'st us;
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We pardon
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Forgive us that is past, and new path tread us;
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Direct us alwayes in thy truth,
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As thine owne people, and thy chosen Nation,
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Into all truth, but
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Thou that of all good graces art the giver,
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[Permit us not to wander,
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Us from th' assaults of World, of Flesh, of Devill,
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So shall thy mercies free]
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To these Petitions let both Church and Lay-men
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With one consent of voyce and heart, say
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SInce it be fit that I account should give,
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What way unto Salvation
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Of my profession here the sum I gather,
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First I confesse a faith
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In God who without helper or partaker,
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Was of himselfe the Worlds
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And first gave time his being, who gave breath,
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To all the creatures
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Our everlasting welfare doth consist,
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In his great mercies,
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The second person of that three in one,
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The Fathers elect, and
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That ever blessed and incarnate Word,
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Which our Redeemer is, our life,
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For why? by Satans guile we were deceiv'd,
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Christ was that meanes of helpe,
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Yea when we were in danger to be lost,
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Conceived for us
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And that we might not ever be forlorne,
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For our eternall safety he was
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Borne as a man, that man might not miscarry,
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Even of the substance
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And loe a greater mercy and a wonder,
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He that can make all suffer
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The Jewish spite, which all the world revil'd at,
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And Romish tyrannies of
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In him I doe beleeve who was envied,
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Who with extreamest hate
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OUr Father,
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--- which art in Heaven,
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--- hallowed be thy Name:
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--- thy kingdome come:
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--- thy will be done on earth,
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--- as tis in heaven:
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--- give us this day
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--- our daily bread:
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--- forgive us our trespasses,
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--- as we forgive
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--- them their trespasses against us:
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--- and lead us
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--- not into temptation
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[--- but deliver
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--- us from all evill.]
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--- Amen.
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I Beleeve
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--- in God the Father
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--- Almighty maker
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--- both of heaven and earth:
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--- and in Jesus Christ
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--- his onely Sonne,
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--- our Lord,
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--- which was conceived
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--- by the Holy Ghost,
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--- borne
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--- of the Virgin Mary,
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--- suffered under
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--- Pontius Pilate,
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--- was crucified,
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Who being life itselfe, to make assured
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Our soules of safety, was both
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And that no servile feare in us might dwell,
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To conquer
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Where no infernall power had power to lay
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Command upon him, but on
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The force of death and hell he did constraine,
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And so in Triumph
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Yea the Almighty power advanc't his head,
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As well above all things as
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Then that from thence gifts might to men be given,
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With glory
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Where that supreame and everlasting Throne,
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Which was prepar'd, he climb'd
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That blessed seat where he shall make abode,
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To pleade for us at
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And no where should he be enthroned rather,
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Then there, for he is God as is
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And therefore with an equall love delight I,
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To praise and serve them both as one
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Yet in their office there's a difference,
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And I beleeve that Jesus Christ
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Shall in that great and universall doome,
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Returne, and that with Angels
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To question such as at his Empire grudge,
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Even those that have presumed him
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And that black day shall be so Catholique[,
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As I beleeve not only that
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Shall to that grand Assize be summoned,]
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But he will both adjudge them
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Moreover in the Godhead I conceive,
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Another Person in whom
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For all my hope and blessednesse were lost,
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If I beeleeve not
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Although vaine Schismaticks through pride and folly
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Contemne her power, I doe beleeve
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Chaste Spouse of Christ, for whom so many search,
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By marks uncertaine, the true
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I doe beleeve, God keepe us in this Union,
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That there shall be forever
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Of Gods elect, and that he still acquaints
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His children in the fellowship
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Though damned be mens naturall condition,
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By grace in Christ I looke for
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Of all my foule misdeeds, for there begins
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Deaths end, which is the punishment
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Moreover I the Sadducees infection
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Abhor, and doe beleeve
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Yea though I turne to dust, yet through God I,
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Expect a glorious rising
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And that exempted from the cares here rife,
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I shall enjoy perfection,
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That is not subject unto change or wasting,
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But ever blessed, and for
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This is my joy, which that it faile not when
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It most should speed me, let God say
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To whom, that he so much vouchsafe me may,
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Thus as a member of the Church I pray.
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--- dead and buried,
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--- he descended into hell,
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--- the third day
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--- he arose againe
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--- from the dead,
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--- he ascended into heaven
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--- and sitteth on,
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--- the right hand of God,
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--- the Father,
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--- Almighty:
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--- from thence
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--- he shall come
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--- to judge
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[--- the quicke
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--- and the dead:]
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--- I doe beleeve
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--- in the Holy Ghost,
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--- the holy
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--- Catholick Church,
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--- the Communion
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--- of Saints,
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--- the remission
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--- of sinnes,
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--- the resurrection
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--- of the body,
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--- and the life
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--- everlasting.
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--- Amen.
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