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¶ A prayer wherein, through commemoration of Christs passion, we desire pardon of our sins and continuance in virtue and godliness.

¶ A prayer wherin, through cō memoration of Christes passion, we desire pardon of oure sinnes and continuaunce in vertue and godlines.

Behold (O pitiful father) thy most pitiful Son, which suffered for me being so wicked. Be hold (o most merciful king) who suffereth, and remember (as thou art loving and kind) for whom he suffered. Is not this (O my Lord) that innocent whom although he were thy son, thou didst deliver to redeem & ransom a servant? Is not this the author and beginner of life, which being led as a sheep to be killed, & being made obedient to thee, even ⟨p. 54⟩unto death, was not afraid to take upon him the most cruel and sharp kind of death? Call to remembrance (O thou distributor of all health) that this is he whom (although thou diddest beget him by thy power, yet not withstanding) thou wouldest have to be made partaker of mine infirmity and weakness. Truly this same is thy Godhead which did take upon him my nature, which was hanged upon the gibbet of torment or cross, which in the flesh which he had taken upon him, did suffer sorrowful punishment. Turn the eyes of thy majesty (O Lord my ⟨image 56⟩God) toward the work of thine unspeakable pity. Look upon thy deer Son, whose whole body is stretched forth. Mark the harmless and pure hands which do drop and distil down innocent blood. And I beseech thee, be pacified and pardon the wicked deeds which my hands have committed. Consider his bare & naked side, being thrust through cruelly with a spear, and renew and wash me with the holy fountain or well which I believe did flow from thence. Mark the unspotted feet which have not stand in the way of sinners, but alway have walked in thy law, how they are ⟨p. 55⟩pierced through with sharp nails, & make perfect my steps in thy paths, and make me (of thy loving kindness) to hate all ways of iniquity. Remove from me the way of iniquity, and make me (of thy mercy) to choose the way of truth. I beseech thee (o king of holy men) by this holy one of all holy ones, & by this my redeemer: to make me run the way of thy commandments, that I may be united & knit unto him in spirit, which did not disdain to be clad in my flesh. Dost thou not look upon and mark (o pitiful father) the head of thy most dearly beloved son, a young man,