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¶ The Authors beleefe.
God the Father.
1
This is my stedfast Créede, my faith, and all my trust,
That in the heauens there is a God, most mightie, milde and iust.
A God aboue all gods, a King aboue all kings,
The Lord of lords, chiefe gouernour of heauen and earthly things.
Maker of Heauen.
2
That power hath of life, of death, of heauen and hell,
That all thing made as pleaseth him, so woonderfull to tell:
That made the hanging Skies, so [deckt] with diuers lights,
[Of] darknes made the chéerfull daies, and all our [restfull] nights.
The earth.
3
That clad this earth with herbe, with trées, and sundrie fruites,
With beast, with bird, both wild and tame, of strange and sundrie suites:
That intermixt the same with mines like veines of Ore,
Of siluer, golde, of precious stones, and treasures many more.
The waters, frost and snowe.
4
That ioyned brookes to dales, to hilles fresh water springs,
With riuers swéete along the [méedes], to profit many things:
That made the hoarie frosts, the flakie snowes so trim,
The [honie] deawes, the blustering windes, to serue as pleaseth him.