A Godlie treatisse declaryng the benefites, fruites, and great commodities of prayer and also the true vse therof. Written in Latin, fourtie yeres past, by an Englyshe man, of great vertue [and] learnyng. And lately translated into Englyshe. 1560.

Title

A Godlie treatisse declaryng the benefites, fruites, and great commodities of prayer and also the true vse therof. Written in Latin, fourtie yeres past, by an Englyshe man, of great vertue [and] learnyng. And lately translated into Englyshe. 1560.

Author

Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535.

Publication

[Imprinted at London :: In Powles Churchyarde by Iohn Cawood, one of the printers to the Queenes Maiestie,

[1563?]]

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Subject terms

Prayer -- Early works to 1800.

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"A Godlie treatisse declaryng the benefites, fruites, and great commodities of prayer and also the true vse therof. Written in Latin, fourtie yeres past, by an Englyshe man, of great vertue [and] learnyng. And lately translated into Englyshe. 1560." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00762.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• The translatour to the Reader.
• ¶A Treatise vpon these vvordes of our Sauiour Christe. Oportet Semper Orare.
  • The seconde Reason.
  • The thirde Reason.
  • ¶The last Reason.
  • Of the three chiefe and princi∣pall fruites of Prayer.
  • ¶Of the thirde fruite of Prayer.
  • ¶To vvhat thing vve ought chiefly to bende our minde in the time of our prayer.
  • ¶Whether the prayer of the hart onlye be more fruitefull than that wherin the mouth & hart also is occupied.
• colophon