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Almighty Lord God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in him our most gracious and merciful Father, many are your mercies towards us, and that our souls know right well, and as we cannot be ignorant of them, unless we be senceless, so we cannot be forgetful unless we be thankless: by you our lot is faln into a good ground, yes we have a goodly heritage, by you are our bodies delivered from sickness, and by you our souls are delivered from sin, by you our names are not a reproach to our enemies, and by you our estates are not a prey to the idolatrous.