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I Might despair verily because of my manifold sins & negli gences without number, if it were not that thy word (O God) was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us. But I can not now despair ⟨image 77⟩because that seeing (when we were enemies) we were reconciled by the death of thy Son: how much more, are we (now reconciled) saved by him. For all the hope and the certitude & sureness of all my trust, is in his precious blood which was shed for us & for our salvation. In him do I take heartening: and trusting in him: I have a desire to come unto thee, not having mine own righteousness, but that which I have through thy Son our lord Jesus Christ. For the which (O most merciful God and most gentle lover of mankind) we give thee thanks, which through ⟨p. 76⟩Jesus Christ thy Son our lord, when we were not, didst mightily make us, and when we were lost through our sins: most marvellously didst deliver & recover us again. To thy goodness (I say) do I give thanks, & manifold praises do I show for the to the withal my hart & mind, which (through the unspeakable love) wherewith thou hast vouchsafed of thy marvellous goodness to love us wretches & (unworthy to be loved) didst send that same thine only begotten Son from thy bosom unto our common weal, to save us sinners which were at that time the children ⟨image 78⟩of perdition and damnation. I render unto thee thanks for his holy incarnation and nativity and for his blessed mother upon whom he did vouchsafe to take flesh for us and for our salvation, to the intent that like as he is very God of God: so he might be very man of man. I give thee thanks for his passion and cross, for his death and resurrection, for his ascension into heaven & his seat of his majesty on thy right hand. For he the forty day after his resurrection, ascending above all the heavens (his disciples seeing it) and sitting on thy right hand, did pour out his holy