A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men — John Shaqi
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy MenBetson, Thomas
Religion
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men
Betson, Thomas
Christian life
Ihesu my lorde god / my loue & oonly comforte / the whiche as
preest moost hyghe & synguler bysshop offered thyself to god thy
fader / an hoste & sacrefyce moost clene & vndefouled on the
crosse for our gylte & redempcyon / & hath gyuen it vnto vs / &
lefte it in remêbraûce of thy grete charyte / deth / & passyon /
and therwith hast cõmaunded vs to ete / & cõmone this gloryous
sacrament of thy blessyd body ymade wonderfully by the vertue of
the holy goost for our dayly helth / freelte / & transgressyon.
wherfore blessyd Iesu / to the be laude and praysynge worlde
withouten end. Amen. ¶ And for as moche that by the holy
ordynaunce the consecracyon therof & offerynge vp to thy hyghe
mageste for the quycke and deed oonly belongeth to the order of
preesthode. For thy good lorde of thy grete pyte & grace. Make thy
seruaût or seruaûtes. ¶ here name ye whom ye wyll that shall saye
masse. N. and all other preestes clene in body and soule. And
delyuer them of all vnclene / wycked vayne / and noysom thoughtes
/ and strengthe them ayenst all theyr enemyes / and vs also with
thy gloryous angelles / and confounde all suche that pursuen them
and vs / and wolde make vs to perysshe fynally. ¶ Ihesu kyng of
virgyns / & louer of chastyte. Remembre how frele that our
substaûce & nature is / & be mercyfull vnto them & vs as fader /
lorde / & god / after thy grete mercy & for thy bytter passyon.
For to the is oonly appropered to be mercyfull / without whiche no
creature may be saued. Beholde swete Ihesu that our wyll is to
worshyp the / & prayse the in the best maner that we can or may
/ and lyke as [thou] haste begonne with vs here / so make vs to
contynue in thyn laude & seruyce euerlastynge. And where it is so
that they knowleche themself vnable to do this heuenly mystery.
For thy good lorde Ihesu / by thy grace make them able / the
whiche of synners haste made full often and dayly makest holy
sayntes. And gyue them also thy drede & clennes of herte with the
ryuer of teeres in all spirytuell consolacyon. Make them to fele &
vnderstande the swetnes of thy blessyd presence / & the grete
attendaunce of thy holy angelles about hem at theyr celebracyons.
Receyue mercyfull Ihesu this hyghe & holy sacryfyce to the comfort
of all [that] ben on lyue & deed / & wouchesauf this daye [that]
it be to vs & to all them a synguler refresshynge & feest / that
we so releued [with] this brede of lyue & lambe Inmaculate /
borne of the blessyd virgyn Mary may Ioye in thy laude & glorye
eternally. Thou saydest by thy holy mouth. The brede [that] I
shall gyve / my body it is / for the lyf of the worlde. Who that
eteth me / he shal lyue for me / & he abydeth in me / & I in hym.
I am the brede of lyf that came downe from heuen. He that eteth of
this brede shall lyue without ende. Now swete brede of lyfe make
both them & vs fele thy swetnes & loue forsakynge all vanytees.
Come in to our soules / & clense vs goostly & bodely / sanctefye
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