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<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>A Short Catechi&s;me FOR All the KINGS Maje&s;ties Loyal SUBJECTS, FITTING To be u&s;ed by all Families, within this Kingdome of ENGLAND.</P>
<P>Together With divers Papers for the Pre&s;ervation of his Maje&s;ty KING CHARLES the Second.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>William Gilbert&s;on.</HI> 1660.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To the <HI>READER.</HI></HEAD>
<P>CHri&s;tian Reader, I have here &s;et down a &s;hort Treati&s;e, or a Dialogue between the Father and the Son, of their Integrity, Fidelity, and Loyalty to their Soveraigne; take it and peru&s;e it, though 'tis &s;hort 'tis &s;weet, and being but little therefore the price is but little, and in reading it over your time will be but lit|tle. I que&s;tion not but it will lead you into the right path of Allegience to your Prince, and you'l find a great deal of de|light and comfort, for God doth know with what fear and trembling we have been in for the &s;pace of twenty years to|gether, in horror, bloody wars, calamities and confu&s;ion; and now at la&s;t we are bound to give thanks to the Almighty for his un&s;peakable mercy in re&s;toring us our Gracious KING again; then let us
<PB REF="3">give Cu&s;tome to whom Cu&s;tome is due, Fear to whom Fear belongeth, Honor to whom Honor pertaineth, &s;o &s;hall we in the end be Subject, <HI>Not becau&s;e of wrath only, but for con&s;cience &s;ake,</HI> Rom: 13.5</P>
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</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="">
<PB N="5" REF="3">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t In&s;truction for a Subject.</HEAD>
<P><LIST>
<ITEM>Father.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Son.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Father.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>TThou ha&s;t been hitherto in&s;tructed my Son, according to holy writ in Scripture in thy</HI> Catechi&s;me <HI>con|cerning thy fir&s;t in&s;truction in the true Chri&s;tian Faith, wherein thou ha&s;t learned thy duty towards God, and thy duty towards thy Neighbour: Tell we now what precepts ha&s;t thou learned there, of Faith and due Allegiance that is due to thy</HI> Prince?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Son.</SPEAKER>
<P>To &s;ubmit my &s;elf whether to the King, as the chief and &s;upream, or unto Rulers as to them that are &s;ent of him, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 2. and &s;o to be &s;ubject as the Apo&s;tle teacheth, not becau&s;e of wrath onely but al&s;o for con&s;cience &s;ake, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.5.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>How is that &s;ubjection declared and te&s;tified?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>S.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thus it is declared and te&s;tified. Fir&s;t in the Heart. Secondly in the Tongue. Thirdly in Action and Doing it con&s;i&s;teth; but briefly Faith and true Allegiance re&s;teth in thought, word and deed; in either which the &s;ubject is di&s;cern'd, and &s;o adjudg'd to be true or fal&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<DIV2 TYPE="">
<HEAD>What Allegiance is.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What calle&s;t thou faith and true allegiance?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>S.</SPEAKER>
<P>Honour, fear, obedience, tribute &amp; defence.</P>
</SP>
<PB N="6" REF="4">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>This thou &s;ay&s;t is declared fir&s;t, and &s;econdly is te&s;tified in the heart.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>S.</SPEAKER>
<P>So it is.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Shall not thought be free?</HI></P>
</SP>
<DIV3 TYPE="precept">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t Precept of Allegiance.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>S.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, the fir&s;t precept of allegiance is lodged in the bre&s;t as it is written, <HI>Cur&s;e not the King no not in the *thought,</HI> Eccle&s;. 9.</P>
</SP>
<P><LABEL>*Of Thought.</LABEL></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Indeed it is even &s;o; for mi&s;chief is conceived fir&s;t, and then iniquity is brought forth, according to the prophet,</HI> Their webs &s;hall be no garment, neither &s;hall they cover them&s;elves with their labour. Again, de&s;olation and de&s;truction is in their wayes, <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 59. <HI>How praye&s;t thou therefore my &s;on to be confirmed according to that precept in thy thought.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Son.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thus.</P>
<P><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<HEAD>A Prayer for thought.</HEAD>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<P>O Thou everla&s;ting and eternal God, who hol|de&s;t all mens hearts in thy hands, and art the governour of all my whole life, &s;et my heart, I be&s;eech thee on the Governours of <HI>I&s;raell</HI> in fear, love and obedience, and &s;uffer me not to peri&s;h in the councel of my own thoughts, but correct thou them O Lord, and put the doctrine of wi&s;dom into my heart, le&s;t my ignorance en|crea&s;e, and my &s;ins abound, to my own de&s;tru|ction, but retain in me thy &s;ervant, obedience, that I might continually de&s;ire to &s;erve thee, and reverently to think on thine Anointed; &s;o &s;hall I not peri&s;h through my own lips, nor be hurt by any wicked works.</P>
</DIV1>
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</TEXT></P>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<PB N="7" REF="4">
<DIV3 TYPE="precept">
<HEAD>The &s;econd Precept of Allegiance.</HEAD>
<P> <LABEL>Of the Tongue.</LABEL></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What of the tongue?</HI> </P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>S.</SPEAKER>
<P>Death and life are in the power of the tongue, <HI>Prou.</HI> 17. and herein con&s;i&s;teth the &s;econd Precept of Allegiance, to this effect; Beware of murmuring, refrain thy tongue; <HI>wilt thou</HI> (&s;aith <HI>Job</HI>) <HI>&s;ay unto a King thou art wicked, or to Princes ye are ungodly,</HI> Job. 34.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Verily</HI> (&s;aith the Wi&s;eman) <HI>the judgement of reproach &s;hall never let him e&s;cape; for the &s;ound of his words &s;hall come unto God, for the correction of his iniquities. And again there is no word &s;o &s;ecret as &s;hall go for nought:</HI> Michaell <HI>the Archangell, when he &s;trove again&s;t the Divell, dur&s;t not rebuke him with cur&s;ed &s;peakings,</HI> Jude 8. <HI>let me therefore hear thy prayer in this behalf, and &s;o go on to action.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>S.</SPEAKER>
<P><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A prayer for the Tongue.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord, open thou my lips, and my heart &s;hall &s;ing forth thy prai&s;es: Grant me, O Lord, the light of the Kings countenance, for it is life; and his favour, for it is a cloud of the latter rain; but his wrath is Me&s;&s;engers of death. O Lord, I call upon thee, hear my voice when I cry unto thee, let my prayers be directed unto thee as incen&s;e, and the lifting up of my hand as an evening &s;acrifice; &s;et a watch, O Lord, be|fore my mouth, and keep the door of my lips; for the tongue is as a fire, or as a world of wic|kedne&s;&s;e, &s;et among&s;t our Members like a flaming
<PB N="8" REF="5">camel in a wheat field, that even it defileth the whole body, it is as an unruly evil full of deadly poi&s;on; and as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>earthly &s;en&s;ual and divelli&s;h,</HI> James 3.</P>
<P>Guide thou therefore, O heavenly Father, my tongue, that it might be a &s;weet in&s;trument to ble&s;&s;e the Lord's anointed&punc; &s;o that thy &s;ervant might be of the Number of them that maketh peace, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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</TEXT></P>
</SP>
<P><LABEL>Of action or doing.</LABEL></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What ha&s;t thou gathered touching action or doing?</HI></P>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="precept">
<HEAD>The third Precept.</HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>S.</SPEAKER>
<P>I have gathered this wherein doth con&s;i&s;t the third precept of Allegiance; <HI>namely,</HI> wilt thou be without fear of the power, then do well; for he is the Mini&s;ter of God for thy wealth: but if thou do&s;t evil, fear; for he beareth not the &s;word for nothing: he is the Mini&s;ter of God to take vengeance on him that doth evil; &amp; for this cau&s;e only ye pay al&s;o tribute, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Let me hear thee pray accordingly?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>S.</SPEAKER>
<P><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A prayer for action or doing.</HEAD>
<P>O Heavenly Father that give&s;t the knowledge and under&s;tanding to Princes, and make their Kingdomes peaceable for all men; grant me thy humble &s;ervant the in&s;piration of thy holy &s;pirit, that all my actions may agree with thy mo&s;t heavenly will: and remember O Lord in all my actions and doings thy &s;cepter, and the
<PB N="9" REF="5">&s;cepter that ruleth me, that as the King when he turned the Cronicles found the fidelity of <HI>Mor|decay;</HI> &s;o let never King nor Queen in this land finde the Infidelity of thy &s;ervant: but &s;trengthen me O Lord to di&s;clo&s;e as <HI>Mordecay</HI> did to the King all tho&s;e that would betray him, and that <HI>Bigthan</HI> may appear, and peri&s;h that may &s;eek to lay hold on the King; or <HI>Haman</HI> that inventeth to de&s;troy Queen <HI>He&s;ter</HI> and her Nation. This kingdome O Lord thou ha&s;t pre&s;erved it hitherto, to our Gracious King <HI>Charls</HI> the &s;econd, pre&s;erve it &s;till, both &s;cepter and he that &s;wayeth it, &s;o that he may Reign in peace, and thy &s;ervant live in thought, word and dead, in all &s;ubjection, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Whereas thou ha&s;t calld to mind my &s;on, the Faith and Fidelity of</HI> Mordecay <HI>being a loyal &s;ub|ject to his Prince, and</HI> Bigathn Tere&s;h, <HI>and</HI> Ha|man <HI>traytors agen their prince. Now &s;hew me the&s;e examples al&s;o what en&s;ued the one and the other.</HI></P>
</SP>
<P> <LABEL>Of Example.</LABEL></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>S.</SPEAKER>
<P>When <HI>He&s;ter</HI> found favour in the &s;ight of the King <HI>Aha&s;huerus,</HI> more then all the Virgins that were, in&s;omuch that he &s;et the Crown of the kingdome upon her head, and made her Queen in&s;tead of <HI>Va&s;ti. He&s;t.</HI> 1. in tho&s;e dayes <HI>Mordecay</HI> &s;ate in the Kings gate, when <HI>Bigthan</HI> and <HI>Tere&s;h</HI> had con&s;pired together to lay hold on the <HI>King,</HI> this was known to <HI>Mordecay,</HI> the
<PB N="10" REF="6">con&s;piracy being wrought at the gate near him: and he told it unto <HI>He&s;ter</HI> who certified the King thereof in <HI>Mordicaies</HI> name: and when in|qui&s;ition was made concerning this plot again&s;t the King, it was even as <HI>Mordicai</HI> had &s;aid, therefore they were both apprehended and hang'd on a tree, and it was written in the book of <HI>Chronicles</HI> before the King, <HI>He&s;t.</HI> 1. Then the <HI>King</HI> magnified <HI>Mordecai,</HI> afterwards as it is written in the Chronicles of the <HI>Kings</HI> of <HI>Media and Per&s;ia.</HI> He became &s;econd unto king <HI>Aha&s;huerus</HI> great and mighty among&s;t the <HI>Jews,</HI> and accepted among&s;t the multitude of his brethren: &s;o thus were traytors puni&s;h't and true &s;ubjects receaved a good reward, <HI>He&s;t.</HI> 10. Even &s;o were the &s;ons of <HI>Barzilai</HI> the <HI>Gi|leadite</HI> for that fidelity performed to <HI>David</HI> when he lay at <HI>Mahunaim, Sam.</HI> 2.16. for they &s;uccored <HI>David</HI> when he fled from <HI>Ab&s;alom.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>What was there reward and honour for't?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>S.</SPEAKER>
<P>When the days of king David drew nigh, that the &s;hould dye, he charged <HI>Solomon</HI> his &s;on &s;aying, &s;hew kindne&s;&s;e I pray thee to the &s;ons of <HI>Barzilai</HI> the <HI>Gileadite,</HI> and let them be among&s;t them that &s;it at the Table; for &s;o they came to me when I fled from <HI>Ab&s;alom,</HI> thy brother, 1 <HI>Kings</HI> 2. Thus true &s;ubjects never go without a reward, no not to the dying day of the prince. <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> proving Traytor and Rebelled a|gin&s;t the King his Father, was hang'd between
<PB N="11" REF="6">the heavens, and the earth in a thick Oak run|ing away in the battel, <HI>Sam.</HI> 18. Touching <HI>Ha|man</HI> in the copy of the letters of <HI>Artexarxes,</HI> he is accu&s;ed thus, a man of <HI>Macedonia,</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Amadathus</HI> being indeed a &s;tranger from the <HI>per&s;ians</HI> blood and far from our goodne&s;&s;e, was received of us and hath the friend&s;hips that we bare towards all nations: in&s;omuch that he was called our Father and honoured of every man as the next per&s;on to the king, but he could not keep him&s;elf &s;oberly in this great dignity but went about to deprive us of our kingdome and our life, with many foul deceipts, al&s;o hath de&s;ired to de&s;troy <HI>Mardocheus</HI> our pre&s;erver which hath done us good in all things, and in|nocent <HI>He&s;ter</HI> the partaker of our kingdome with all her Nation, for his mind was, when he had taken them out of the way then to lay wait for us; and by this means to tran&s;late the king|dome of the <HI>per&s;ians</HI> unto them of the <HI>Macido|nia, E&s;t.</HI> 16. So this for <HI>Hamans</HI> practi&s;e and treachery again&s;t his Soveraigne was hang'd on a Gallows that he prepared for <HI>Mordecai, E&s;t.</HI> 7. and this en&s;ued in <HI>Haman.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>F.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>The like en&s;ued</HI> Shimei <HI>the &s;on of</HI> Gera, A|doniah <HI>and</HI> Joab, <HI>for</HI> Shimei <HI>was of the hou&s;e of</HI> Saul, <HI>and he cur&s;ed king</HI> David <HI>when he came to</HI> Bahurim <HI>and threw &s;tones again&s;t him, and his men af VVar, and ca&s;t dirt,</HI> 2 Sam. 16. <HI>and</HI> Ado|niah <HI>exalted him&s;elf &s;aying, I will be king: and
<PB N="12" REF="7">&s;he gate him Charets and Hor&s;emen and fifty men to run before him,</HI> 1 Kings 1. <HI>and</HI> Joab <HI>he took part and coun&s;elled with</HI> Adoniah. <HI>As</HI> Achitho|phel <HI>did with</HI> Ab&s;alom <HI>whereby</HI> Shimei, Adoniah <HI>and</HI> Joab <HI>peri&s;hed under king</HI> Solomon, <HI>by the hand off</HI> Benaiah <HI>the &s;on of</HI> Jehoida, <HI>whom</HI> So|lomon <HI>&s;ent, and &s;o he &s;mote them that they dyed,</HI> 2 Kings 2. <HI>of the&s;e therefore as of the re&s;idue thou ha&s;t already mentioned my &s;on; of what were their actions and what were their ends, who&s;e ex|amples verily may &s;uffice, that how precious in the &s;ight of the Lord, is the Lords anointed, in who&s;e confu&s;ions, for their imahinations, cur&s;ed &s;peak|ings and evil doings again&s;t the Princes of the Nations &s;o unnaturaly that no que&s;tion can be made but the very finger of God had a &s;troak on them, &s;o precious were the Lords anointed then, and &s;o precious be they &s;till. Now let me hear thy prayer to make thy benefit of the&s;e Examples and &s;o I re&s;t &s;atisfied.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Son,</HI> thus I pray in thy behalf.</P>
<P><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A prayer to make benefit of example.</HEAD>
<P>What&s;oever is written, O Lord, is written for our learning; grant me therefore thy humble &s;ervant grace, that by in&s;piration of thy holy Spirit, the examples I have learned, and all o|ther examples may be profitable to me; &s;o &s;hall my heart be &s;et on the Governours of <HI>I&s;raell,</HI> thine Anointed <HI>CHARLES,</HI> O Lord, our &s;upreme Head and Governour; let my tongue
<PB N="13" REF="7">be a fountain of &s;weet water, and evermore re|membring thy holy &s;cepter, and the &s;cepter that ruleth me. Let me &s;ing, O Lord, as <HI>David</HI> prayed with heart and mouth for the pro&s;perous e&s;tate of the Kingdom of <HI>Solomon,</HI> on this wi&s;e.</P>
<P><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="Psalm">
<HEAD>P&s;alm 72.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="">
<LG>
<L>Lord, give thy Judgements to the King</L>
<L>therein in&s;truct, him well;</L>
<L>and with his &s;on that princely thing,</L>
<L>Lord, let thy mercy dwell:</L>
<L>That he might govern uprightly,</L>
<L>and rule thy folk aright;</L>
<L>and &s;o defend with equity,</L>
<L>the poor that have no might.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And let the Mountains that are high,</L>
<L>unto the folks give peace:</L>
<L>and eke the little hills apply</L>
<L>in ju&s;tice to increa&s;e.</L>
<L>That he might help the weak and poor</L>
<L>with aid and make them &s;trong:</L>
<L>and eke de&s;troy for evermore</L>
<L>all tho&s;e that doe them wrong.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And then from age to age &s;hall they</L>
<L>regard and fear thy might:</L>
<L>&s;o long as &s;on doth rule by day,</L>
<L>or el&s;e the moon by night.</L>
<L>Lord, make the King unto the ju&s;t</L>
<L>like rain to fields new mown:</L>
<L>and like to drops that lay the du&s;t,</L>
<PB N="14" REF="8">
<L>and fre&s;h the land new &s;own.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The ju&s;t &s;hall flouri&s;h in his time,</L>
<L>and all &s;hall be at peace:</L>
<L>untill the Moon &s;hall leave to prime,</L>
<L>wa&s;t change and to increa&s;e.</L>
<L>He &s;hall be Lord of &s;ea and land,</L>
<L>from &s;hore to &s;hore throughout:</L>
<L>and from the floods within the &s;ame,</L>
<L>throughout the earth about.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The people that in de&s;art dwell,</L>
<L>&s;hall kneel to him full thick:</L>
<L>and all his enemies that rebell,</L>
<L>the earth and du&s;t &s;hall lick:</L>
<L>The lords of all the I&s;les thereby</L>
<L>great gifts to him &s;hall bring:</L>
<L>The kings of <HI>Seba</HI> and <HI>Arabie</HI></L>
<L>give many a co&s;tly thing.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>Here endeth the fir&s;t part.</TRAILER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="">
<HEAD>The conclu&s;ion of the la&s;t Ver&s;es and the &s;econd part of this p&s;alm.</HEAD>
<L>Prai&s;e ye the Lord of ho&s;ts and &s;ing</L>
<L>to <HI>I&s;raels</HI> God each one:</L>
<L>which have re&s;tor'd our gracious King</L>
<L>with his right hand alone.</L>
<L>Then ble&s;&s;ed be his holy name,</L>
<L>all times eternally:</L>
<L>that all the earth might prai&s;e the &s;ame,</L>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT></P>
<L><HI>Amen, Amen</HI> &s;ay I.</L>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT></P>
</SP>
</DIV3>
<TRAILER>Here endeth the Dialogue.</TRAILER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="15" REF="8">
<P><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
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<HEAD>A prayer by order of the Church for the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty.</HEAD>
<P>O Lord our heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings and Lord of Lords, the only Ru|ler of princes, which do&s;t from thy throne be|hold all the dwellers upon the earth, mo&s;t hear|tily we be&s;eech thee with thy favour to behold our mo&s;t gracious &s;overaign Lord King <HI>Charles,</HI> and &s;o repleni&s;h him with the grace of thy holy &s;pirit, that he may alwayes incline to thy will and walk in thy way: endue him plentifully with heavenly gifts; grant him in health and wealth long to live, &s;trengthen him that he may vanqui&s;h and overcome all his enemies: and finally, after this life, he may attain everla&s;ting joy and felicity, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t our Lord <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A prayer to the holy Trinity for the generall e&s;tate of Chri&s;ts Church.</HEAD>
<P>O holy, ble&s;&s;ed and glorious Trinity, three per|&s;ons and one God, have mercy upon us; we be&s;eech thee to hear us pro&s;per &amp; ble&s;s, pre&s;erve and keep the holy Catholique Church, de&s;per|&s;ed over the face of the earth; and e&s;pecially
<PB N="16" REF="9">the Churches of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> the Kings mo&s;t excellent Maje&s;ty, the Mini&s;ters of Gods holy will and Sacraments, as well Archbi&s;hops as other pa&s;tors and Curates; the Kings mo&s;t honourable Council, and the Nobi|lity and Commons of this Realm, that they may live in true faith and zeal of their allegi|ance and humble obedience to the prince, and in chri&s;tian love and charity one towards ano|ther, that from the highe&s;t to the lowe&s;t, both prince and people, may with one heart and mouth, in one truth, and in peace, unity and concord, confe&s;&s;e, prai&s;e, and ble&s;&s;e thee, God the Father unbegotten, God the Son only be|gotten, God the Holy Gho&s;t the Comforter, an holy and in&s;eparable Trinity, to thee the glory world without end. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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