I will praise thee; for I am fearefully and wonderfully made: (marveilous are thy workes, and my soule knoweth it well;) Thine eyes did see me when I was without forme; thou art he that tooke meout of my mothers bowels:
And hearein I call to mind thy goodnes O Lord in
caussing me to be borne of
religious parents:
who brought me into thy Church, to
receve the Blessed
Sacrament of
Baptisme
even
the seale
of
regenaration;
bare our iniquities and carried our Sorrows
; And he hath called unto him
all that are wearey and heavy laden
promissing to ease
them: and againe thy Evangelists \St/ John saith, if we
acknowledge our sinnes, he is faithfull and just to forgive
, I pas from that
time which now I cannot call to mind; althought it
\could not but be/*
impure in thy sight seeing I was borne in
iniquitie, and
in sinne
conceived by my mother
, thou therefore, O Lord my God who hast given both
Life
8.
Her baptism would have been on the
5th February
1609
.
9. Quotation from John 17:3.