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. 1624 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-01 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A16276 STC 3194.5 ESTC S3904 33151156 ocm 33151156 28964 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. 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. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. 2002-08 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-09 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-10 Chris Scherer Sampled and proofread 2002-10 Chris Scherer Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-12 pfs 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.