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O most mighty & most powerfull god, who hast ever bene exceeding glorious in thy sainctꝭ & servantꝭ, enduing them w^th vertue celestiall & power divine as thou didste some time Elisa thy servant, who by thy vertue cured Naaman the leper & moyses who healed miriam his sister of her leprosy, & gavest vertue & power to thy holy & blessed d|A|postels & Disciples |{illeg} \boath/| for \to heale diseases & to cast out divels also for/ the confirmation of thy gospell & advancement of thy glorious name, give vnto me thy vnworthy Disciple & hūble suppliant, for vnto thee nothing is impossible, give vnto me (my Deare sufferaigne & my leach lord) that gift divine & sunaturall y^t vertue celestiall na sucelestiall that power from above, y^t whatsoever thy hūble servant craveth & beggeth of thee his Lord \& sufferaigne/ In the name \of/ thy sonne Ihesus Christ, the same may be graunted to me him. y^t whose sins we thy vnworthy ministers & disciples remitte, they may be remitted according to thy mise which thou madest \& gavest/ to thy apost: saying whose sins ye remitte they be remitted etc’ & whose sins ye retaine they be retayned graunt \give most Royall kinge that vertue & power frō above/ we hūbly praye thee, y^t whose disease whomsoever of our flock thy vnworthy shephard intendeth to heale in thy\e/ powerfull name of thy beloved sonne, Ihus. he may be healed. & further grant y^t if any of our flock be \being/ haunted by any \an/ vncleane spirite or spiritꝭ, may by our service & ministery & by thy vertue Royall given to vs & left with vs by vertue of our ministery graunt I say y^t if in thy\e/ name of Ihus we cōmande him or them \or any of them/ to dete, they may p^rsently &fourthwith at \& vppon/ the mention therof soddenly departe.