Elizabeth I: “Thou, O Lord, providest enough for all men.”

From the Private Prayer Book of Elizabeth I (1578):

“Thou, O Lord, providest enough for all men, with Thy most liberal and bountiful hand; but whereas Thy gifts are, in respect of Thy goodness and free favour, made common to all men we (through our naughtiness, niggardness and distrust) do make them private and peculiar. Correct Thou the thing which our iniquity hath put out of order: let Thy goodness supply that which our niggardliness hath plukt away.”

 

 

 

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