A09935:14
Certain prayers and godly meditations very needful for every ChristenCerteine prayers and godly meditacyons very nedefull for euery Christen
Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The year of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The yeare of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538
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Among other innumerable pestilent infections of books and learnings / with which the Christen have bin piteously seduced & deceived (brought up in divers kinds of diffidence and false hope) I may judge / & that chiefly / those to be pernicious / of whom they are wont in every place to pray / and have also learned by heart / both curiously & with great scrupulosity to make rehearsal of their since. These books (though they abounded in every place with infinite errors / & taught prayers / made with wicked foolishness / both to god / and also to his saints / yet by cause they were garnished with glorious titles and with read letters promising much grace and pardon (though it were but vanity) have sore deceived the unlearned multitude one is called the garden of the soul an other the paradise of the soul / and by cause I will be short look thou thy sylfen what divers and trifling names be given unto thei• Wherefore here needeth sharp reformation ⟨image 10⟩[…] ⟨image 10⟩[…] ⟨image 11⟩yea and many of them are worthy to be utterly destroyed.
EMong other innumerabill pestilent infections of bokes and lernynges / with whiche the Christē haue byn pytuously seduced & deceyued (brought vp in dyuers kīdes of diffidence and false hope) I may iudge / & that chyefly / those to be pernycious / of whome they are wont in euery place to pray / and haue also lerned by harte / both curyously & with greate scrupulosite to make rehersall of theyre synnes. These bokes (though they abounded in euery place with infinite erroures / & taught prayers / made with wicked folysshenesse / both to god / and also to his sayntes / yet by cause they were garnyshed with glorious titles and with redde lettres promisinge moche grace and pardon (though it were but vanyte) haue sore deceyued the vnlerned multitude one is called the garden of the soule an other the paradise of the soule / and by cause I will be short loke thou thy sylfen whate dyuers and tryfeling names be gyuen vnto thei• Wherfore here nedeth sharpe reformacion ⟨image 10⟩