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LIBRARY BOOKS: PRAYERS, HYMNS & POETRY
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The Hail & Fire Books Library is a FREE online Christian resource for Christian books, Puritan, Reformed and Protestant exhortative works, Catholic and Protestant polemical and apologetical works, bibles, histories, martyrologies, and works on |
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ABOUT PRAYERS, HYMNS & POETRY: These works have been placed online as a resource for Biblical Christian prayers, hymns and poetry. "Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. |
Early Bohemian Protestants in Prayer |
Prior to the general Reformation of the Protestant era, the Gospel was maintained in its original form and simplicity among those who were called Hussites, Wycliffites, Lollards, Vaudois, Waldenses and Lyonists, among other 'gospelers.' These people gathered together - against the laws that forbad and criminalized their congregation and creed - to hear the public preaching of the Gospel, to offer up prayer and thanksgiving, and to share the communion of Christ as it was originally instituted. From earliest times they held the precious manuscripts of scriptures, maintained schools and libraries, and sought continually to reach others with the message of the Gospel. |
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Askewe, Anne (Protestant Martyr, d.1546)
Hymn: A Ballad Composed and Sung by Anne Askewe in Newgate Prison
by Anne Askewe
"Like as the armed knight, Appointed to the field, With this world will I fight, And Christ shall be my shield."
~ from "Select Works of John Bale" (1849 Edition)
Clay, William Keatinge (Editor)
Private Prayers of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
Book in English 
and Latin 
. 1851 Edition. Edited for the Parker Society by William Keatinge Clay.
"Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, who wast crucified for our sins, and didst rise again for our justification, and, ascending up to heaven, reignest now at the right hand of the Father, with full power and authority, ruling and disposing all things according to thine own gracious and glorious purpose: we, sinful creatures, and yet servants and members of thy church, do prostrate ourselves and our prayers before thy imperial majesty, having no other patron nor advocate to speed our suits, or to resort unto, but thee alone, beseeching thee to be good to thy poor church ... here in this wretched earth." ~ "Prayer for the Church, and all the states thereof" by John Foxe.
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Audio Books - John Foxe: Prayer for the Christian Church (1578)
Elizabeth I was a famous Protestant Queen of England, the last ruler in the Tudor monarchy, known as the "Virgin Queen" and "Gloriana." Elizabeth was the daughter of King Henry VIII, sister to Protestant King Edward VI and Catholic Queen Mary I, known as "Bloody Mary."
Prayer: A Prayer Against Worldly Carefulness
by Queen Elizabeth I of England
"For thou hast promised to be careful for us, and hast commanded that upon thee we should cast all our care." ~ from "Private Prayers, put forth by Authority during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1860 Parker Society Edition)
Prayer: A Prayer for the Desire of the Life to Come
by Queen Elizabeth I of England
"This my body is the very dark and filthy prison of the soul; this world is an exile, and a banishment: this life is care and misery."
~ from "Private Prayers, put forth by Authority during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1860 Parker Society Edition)
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Clay, William - Private Prayers of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
Collins, William - The Bull of Deposition against Queen Elizabeth I
Froude, James - History of England from the Fall of Wosley to the Death of Elizabeth
Griffiths, John - Certain Sermons Appointed to be Read in the Time of Queen Elizabeth
Audio Books - Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen - Marriage Speech (Feb. 1559)
Audio Books - Pius V: Pretended Queen - Papal Bull Deposing Elizabeth I (1569)
History - Elizabeth I: Marriage Speech to the House of Commons (Feb. 1559)
Well known author of "Foxe's Book of Martyrs" or "Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days, touching matters of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great persecutions and horrible troubles, that have been wrought and practiced by the Romish [Roman Catholic] Prelates, specially in this Realm of England and Scotland" (Originally published in 1563).
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Clay, William - Private Prayers of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
Audio Books - John Foxe: Prayer for the Christian Church (1578)
Martyrologies - John Foxe: Acts and Monuments, New and Complete Edition, Originally published in 1563 (1838-1841 Edition, 8 Vol.)
Martyrologies - John Foxe: The Book of Martyrs (1850 Edition, Abridgement)
The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship
by Isaac Watts
With "The Life of Isaac Watts," by Dr. Johnson, from his lives of the most eminent English Poets.
"Arise, my gracious God, And make the wicked flee; They are but thy chastising rod To drive thy saints to thee. Behold the sinner dies, His haughty words are vain; Here in this life his pleasure lies, And all beyond is pain. Then let his pride advance, And boast of all his store: The Lord is my inheritance, My soul can wish no more. I shall behold the face Of my forgiving God, And stand complete in righteousness, Wash'd in my Saviour's blood. There's a new heaven begun, When I awake from death, Drest in the likeness of thy Son, And draw immortal breath." ~ Psalm 17 Hymn.
Poems
by John G. Whittier
An 1893 Edition of Protestant Christian poetry.
"Not always thus, with outward sign Of fire or voice from Heaven, The message of a truth divine, The call of God is given! Awaken in the human heart Love for the true and right, - Zeal for the Christian's better part, Strength for the Christian's fight." ~ from The Call of the Christian.