A treatise co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of true & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the…A treatice co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of trew & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the…

That is to say, with most humble affection, he hath clothed him self, with our shape, none other wise behaving him self in our evils, then as they had been his own proper, so forsaking and forgetting him self, and his glory, that he was formed wholly to be a perfect man, seized and taken with our evils. The faithful saints, being taken with ⟨p. 16⟩this affection and stirred up with this consideration: have accustomably prayed, namely for the evils of their enemies, and to do all things after •hexample of our Lord Jesus Christ, forgetting all injuries done to them, and all their wrongs, caring for them as though they should deliver their enemies from grief and troubles, wherewith they be without comparison, more tormented and grieved than with their own proper bodily evils, as Saint. Peter writeth of Lot in •is .2. Epistle, 2. Chapter, saying. Lot, being among them which day and night vexed his righteous soul by their wicked and abominable works. We see then what a lake of deep evils appeareth here, and what occasion there is here, of pity and compassion, and also to forget •our own small evils, and trouble, if the charity of God be in us, and how •tle God permitteth us too suffer in ⟨image 29⟩respect of that the wicked suffer. What is the cause, that we be so sl• drely touched and moved with thes: thoughts? Because that the eye of our hart is not pure enough, wherewith we should see how great the misery and ignominy of man is, being wrap ped under sin, that is to say, separated and alienated from God, and possessed with the devil. For what man is he, that hath his hart so hardened, that doth not conceive a certain horror in beholding the hideous figures of these which sit & lie at the church doors and other open places having the face scabbed and eaten half of, their noses quite eaten of, the eyes torn out, and other members most horribly consumed of filthy rottenness, so that it is an horror to the body and mind, to hear them speak, and to the eye, to be hold such a fearful & grievous spectacle?

That is to say, with moste humble affection, hee hathe clothed him self, with our shape, none other wise behauing him self in our euels, then as they had been his owne proper, so forsaking and forgetting him self, and his glory, that he was formed wholy to be a perfect man, seased and taken with our euelles. The faithful saintes, beeing taken with