[The flour of godly prayers] [most worthy to be used in these our days…[The flour of godly praiers] [most worthy to be vsed in these our daies…

Thy love toward us (O most Gentle Saviour) is so great and vume asurable, that it ran by no means be expressed by mouth, nor sufficiently conceived in heart, For our love ⟨p. xvi⟩without any deserts on our behalf, even freely and willingly at thy heavenly fathers commandment thou cammest down from the glorious seat of thy divine majesty,¹ tokest very flesh, & became •est perfect man of the substance of that pure and undefiled virgin Mari through the operation of the holy ghost, taughtest the will of thy heavenly father, confirming the same with wonderful miracles unto the great comfort of many which then lived, & unto the perfect establishment of our faith which live at this present. After thou hadst travailed in this world certain years, the time to fore appointed from everlasting of thy heavenly father drawing nigh▪ that thou shouldest give thy self an oblation and sweet smelling sacrifice to god the father for the sins of the whole world,² even so many as repent, ⟨image 122⟩believe and amend, willing that so noble & worthy benefit of our redemption should not be forgotten, nor fall out of remembrance,³ which is the alone author of our salvation, & the only comfort of weak consciences. When thou haddest •atē the Pascal lamb with thy disciples according to the appointment of the law, thou tokest bread into thy hand, gavest thanks to thy heavenly father,⁴ brakest it, & deliverest it to thy disciples, saying. Take ye, eat ye, this is mi body, which is betrayed for you. Do this in the remembrance of me.⁵ Because the singular & inestimable benefit of our redemption, brought to pass by the one & only oblation of thy blessed body, broken on the altar of the cross,