We ought to pray, that his blessed will may be fulfilled here in this world amongst us his mortal creatures, as it is of his immortal angels, and of all the holy company of the heavenly spirits. We must pray for our daily bread, that is, for our necessary food and sustenance both of body and soul. Of body, as meat, drink, and necessary apparel, peace, health, and what soever God knoweth to be necessary for the behalf and conservation of the same, that we may do to our Lord God true service therewith, every man in his state and vocation, whereunto God hath called him. Of the soul, as the word of God, and the true knowledge of the same, the true conservation of our heavenly Father's holy and blessed commandements, the lively bread of the blessed body of our saviour Jesu Christ, the holy and sacred cup of the precious and blessed blood, which was shed for us upon the Cross, to purchase us pardon and forgiveness of our sins.
From Cranmer's
Exhortation prefaced to the first English Litany, 1544.
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