A Very godly song intituled, The earnest petition of a faithfull Christian, being clarke of Bodnam, made vpon his death bed, at the instant of his transmutation to a pleasant new tune. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A16276 of text S3904 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 3194.5). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A16276 STC 3194.5 ESTC S3904 33151156 ocm 33151156 28964 2240937380

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A16276) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28964) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1872:7) A Very godly song intituled, The earnest petition of a faithfull Christian, being clarke of Bodnam, made vpon his death bed, at the instant of his transmutation to a pleasant new tune. Clarke of Bodnam. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. For H.G., Printed at London : [1624?] Date of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Contains two illustrations. Right half of sheet contains: The second part of the clarke of Bodnam, to the same tune. Reproduction of original in: Pepys Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo A very godly song, intituled, The earnest petition of a faithfull Christian, being clarke of Bodnam, made vpon his death bed, at the instant of his tr [no entry] 1624 2 782 3 0 0 0 0 0 38.36 D The rate of 38.36 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2002-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-10 Sampled and proofread 2002-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A very godly Song , intituled , The earnest petition of a faithfull Christian , being Clarke of Bodnam , made vpon his Death-bed , at the instant of his Transmutation . To a pleasant new tune .
NOw my painfull eyes are rowling , And my passing Bell is towling : Towling sweetly : I lye dying , And my life is from me flying . Grant me strength , O gracious God , For to endure thy heauy rod : Then shall I reioyce and sing , With Psalmes vnto my heauenly King . Simeon that blessed man , Beleeued Christ when he was come , And then he did desirs to dye , To liue with him eternally . Christ wrought me a strong saluation , By his death and bitter passion : He hath washt and made me cleane , That I should neuer sinne againe . Grieuous paines doe call and cry , O man , prepare thy selfe to dye . All my sinnes I haue lamented , And to dye I am contented . Silly Soule , the Lord receiue thée , Death is come , and life must leaue thée , Death doth tarry no mans leasure , Then farewell all earthly pleasure . In this world I nothing craue , But to bring me to my Graue , In my Graue while I lye sleeping ▪ Angels haue my soule in keeping . When the Bells are for me ringing , Lord receiue my soule with singing : Then shall I be frée from paine , To liue and neuer dye againe . Whiles those wormes corruption bréed on , Wayte my noysome corpes to féed on , My feruent loue ( this prison loathing ) Craues a robe of Angels cloathing . Farewell world and worldly glory , Farewell all things transitory , Sion hill my soule ascendeth , And Gods Royall Throne attendeth . Farewell wife and children small , For I must goe now Christ doth call , And for my death be ye content , When I am gone , doe not lament . Now the Bell doth cease to towle , Sweet Iesus Christ receiue my soule ▪
The second part of the Clarke of Bodnam . To the same tune .
O God which did the world create , Heare a poore sinner at thy gate : Thou that from death didst set me free , Remit my sinns and shew mercy . Oh thou that caus'dst thy blessed Sonne , Into this Uniuerse to come , Thy Gospell true here to fulfill , And to subdue death , sinne , and hell . Grant for his sake that dy'd on trée , On the blest Mount of Caluary : That I being grieued for my sin , May by repentance heauen win . The Gospell saith , Who so beléeue , To them wilt thou a blessing giue : Amongst which number grant me faith , That to beleeue , thy Gospell saith . Which if I doe , ( as grant I may , Though here I dye , I liue for aye : Then Sauiour swéet , remit my sin , And giue me grace that life to win . And since they death ( a price most great ) Hath bought me , here I doe intreat , To giue me grace thy Name to praise , Both now , and euermore alwaies . For by thy death my soule is frée From hell , which still by thy decrée , To sinners all for sinn●● due , Untill thy Son our Sauiour ●i●e , Did vanquish by Almighty power , Death , hell , and all that could deuoure . My sinnes , O Lord , I doe confesse , Like sands in Sea are numberlesse . Yet though my sinnes as scarlet show , Their whitenesse may exceede the Snow ▪ If thou thy mercy doest extend , That I my sinfull life may mend . Which mercy thy blest Word doth say , At any time obtaine I may , If power and grace in me remaine , From carnall sin for to refraine . Then giue me grace , Lord , to refraine From sinnes , that I may still remain● With thee in heauen , where Angels sing , Most ioyfully to thee our King . And grant ( O Christ ) that when I dye , My soule with thee immediately , May haue abode amongst the blest , And liue for euer in true rest . FINIS .

Printed at London for H. G.