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Have mercy upon me least I despair. But in despairing I will take hart to me and be somewhat comforted. For all though I have committed so much that thou mayst condemn me worthily: yet thou hast not lost that wherewith ⟨p. 126⟩thou wast wont to save sin ners, nether dost thou rejoice at the destruction & loss of them that dye, yea to the intent that dead men might live, thou thy self didst die: and thy death did kill the death of sins. And if they were revived again and did live by thy death: I beseech thee, let not me die, now that thou livest Send down thy hand & power from hie, and deliver me out of the hands of mine enemies, that they rejoice not over me and say, let us devour him. Who ever (O good Jesus) needed to mistrust of thy mercy? which when we were thine enemies didst redeem ⟨image 129⟩us with thy blood, and reconciled us unto God? Behold, I being hid under the shadow of thy mercy, do come unto the throne of thy glory requiring, & I do run crying and knocking until thou take pity upon me. For if thou didst call us to pardon & forgiveness before we laboured for pardon: how soon shall we obtain forgiveness when we ask it? Do not remember, O most bountiful Jesus, thy justice toward a sinner? but think upon thy liberality & gentleness toward thy creature. Do not remember thine anger toward the guilty, but remember thy pity and mercy toward ⟨p. 127⟩a wretch. Forget me in that I proudly did provoke & move thee to wrath: and look upon a wretch that calleth upon thee. For what is Jesus but a saviour? Therefore, good Jesus, for thine own sake, arise and help me: and say unto my soul. I am thy health and thy safeguard. I presume much and am very bold of thy goodness (O Lord) because thou dost teach us to ask, to seek and to knock, wherefore I being admonished by thy word do ask, seek and knock. And thou, O Lord that commandest us to ask, make me able to receive. Thou that givest counsel ⟨image 130⟩to seek, grant that I may find. Thou that teachest us to knock, open to me when I knock, and confirm me which am unstable and wavering, restore me that am lost, raise me that am dead:

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