The pomander of prayer, newly madeThe pomaunder of prayer, newly made

☞ Here doth man declare unto God the father, that the Passion of his Son, was for his reconciliation and atonement with God.

☞ Here dooth man declare vnto God the father, that the Passiō of his sōne, was for his reconciliation and attonement with God.

Behold (O almighty God, father of my Lord I beseech thee of thy benignity and gentleness to have mercy upon me, because of the most precious thing that I could find, the same I have offered devoutly unto thee, the thing of most estimation, ytI could imagine, I have presented it humbly unto thee. I have left nothing, but I have declared it to thy majesty. There is nothing remaining that I may ad more, because I have committed ⟨image 63⟩and be taken my whole hope unto thee. I have sent unto thee my advocate and spokes man, even thy well beloved son. I have sent thy glorious child to be a mediator betwixt me & thee. I have set (I say) an intercessor by whom I trust to get pardon and forgiveness of my sins. I have sent word unto word (that is) God unto God, according to that which saint John hath in the beginning of his gospel, where he calleth God the word, saying in the beginning, was the word and the word was with God, & God was the word. &c. which word (as I have said) was sent ⟨p. 62⟩for my misdeeds. And I have rehearsed unto thee the passion of thy most holy Son, which passion I believe was suffered for me. I believe that the godhead which was sent of thee did take upon him, mine humanity & nature, in the which he thought not scorn to suffer buffets, bends, spittings, mocks, yea, he took upon him to suffer the cross, nails and dart. I believe also that his manhood being in this my nature during his infancy was troubled with creeping and scrawlings, & was wrapped in clothes after the manner of other children, was vexed in his youth, with labours ⟨image 64⟩made lean, with waking & fastings, wearied with journeying, afterward whipped & all to torn and rent with divers kinds of punishments, reckoned amongst the dead, and when it was endued with the glory of resurrection, he carried it into the joys of heaven, & placed it upon the right hand of thy majesty. (This I say) he is my manhood, way & means of pacifying and appeasing thee and thy way and means of having mercy upon me. Mercifully look upon, hear the Son which thou didst beget & the bond servant which he redeemed. Behold here a creator, and do not despise