armad, antan do gheibh fí faoirfe, & Gidheadh a Athair inmhuin, atá do tan nach bfoghnand fonas, & fo- But suche is thy wisdome adjoyned to thy mercies, deare Father, that thow sekest all meanes possible to brynge thy chyldrene to the sure sense and lyvely feelinge of thy fatherly favor. And therfore when prosperitie wyll not serve, then sendest thow adversitie, graciously correctinge all thy chyldren whome thow receyvest into thy howshold. Wherfore we, wretched and miserable synners, render unto thee most humble and hartie thankes, that yt hath pleased thee to call us home to thy folde by thy Fatherly correction at this present, wheras in our prosperitie and libertie we dyd neglect thy graces offered unto us. For the which negligence, ceirt bhreitheamhnus, find do thoir- arna and many other grevous synnes whereof we now accuse our selves before thee, thow mightest moste justly have gyven us up to reprobate mynds and induration of our hartes, as thow haste done others. But suche is thy goodnes, O Lord, that thow semest to forget all our offences, and haste called us of thy good pleasure frome all idolatries into this Citie most Christianlye refourmed, to professe thy name, and to suffer some crosse amongeste thy people for thy trewth and Gospell's sake; and so to be thy wytnesses with thy Prophets and Apostles, yea, with thy dearely beloved Sonne Jesus Christ our head, to whome thow dost begynne here to fashon us lyke, that in his glorie we may also be lyke hym when he shall appeare. O Lord God, arna, & a Dhé créd finde féin ar abfuil what are we upon whome thowe shuldest shewe this great mercye? O moste lovynge Lord, forgyve us our unthankefulnes, and all our synnes for Jesus Christ's sake. O heavenly Father, increase thy Holy Spirit in us; to teache our hartes to cry Abba, deare Father! to assure us of our eternal election in Christ; to revele thy wyll more and more towards us; to confirme us so in thy trewthe, that we may lyve and dye therein; and that by the power of the same Spirit, we may boldely gyve an accompts of our faith to all men with humblenes and mekenes, that where as they backbyte and slaunder us as evyll doers, they may be ashamed and once stopp their mowthes, seinge our good conversation in Christ lesu, náire dá ngabhail fan fgandail do bhe madh éidir leó, agas linde do bhridh for whose sake we beseche thee, O Lord God, to guyde, governe, and prosper this our enterprise in assemblinge our Bretherne to prayse thy holie name. And not onely to be here present with us thy children according to thy promesee, but also mercifullie to assist thy like persecuted people, our Bretherne, gathered in all other places, that they and we, consentinge together in one spirite and truethe, may (all worldly respectes set a part) seke thy onely honor and glorie in all our and their Assemblies. So be it. MODH CE ASNVIGHE NA NOGA- TAN CIA ina anaigh? MAIGHISTIR. gcreideand tuffa, a óg An Deiscibul. Creidimse an Diá Athair, agas ina M. An Tathair, an Mhac, agas an Sbi- D. Ní fhuilid gan amharus, acht ina na The manner to examine children before they are admitted to the SUPPER OF THE LORD. The Master. In whom dost thou believe, child? The Disciple. I believe in God the Father, and in his Son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost, and look to be saved by none other but by them alone. M. The Father the son, and the Holy Ghost, are they any more than one God? D. No truly although they be |