Certain prayers and godly meditations very needful for every ChristenCerteine prayers and godly meditacyons very nedefull for euery Christen

¶The third petition.

¶The thirde petycion.

¶ Thy will be fulfilleth in earth as it is in heaven.

¶ Thy wyll be fulfylleth in erth as it is in heuen.

IF our will be compared with thine it can never be good / but is ever evil. Thy will is ever best specially / and much to be loved and desired: wherefore have compassion upon us most dear father / and suffer nothing to be as we would have it. Give us / and teach us / true and stable patience / when our will is let and broken. Grant us that when any man speaketh / holdeth his peace / doth / or leaveth undone / any thing contrary to our will / ⟨image 40⟩that therefore we be not wroth or angry / nether curse / complain / cry / or murmur nether judge / nor condemn / yea that we defend not our self. Grant that we may meekly give place to our adversaries / & them which let our will / and so to disannul our will / that we may praise / say well / and do to them / as to chose which do perform thy godly and best will against ours. Endow us with thy grace that we may gladly suffer all diseases / poverty dispysinges / persecutions / cross / and adversities: knoweleging that it is thy will to crucify our will. Give us grace that we may suffer injury and that gladly. Keep us from avengement. Make us that we quite not evil for evil / nether to avoid violence / by violence. But rather that we delight in thy will (which bringeth us all these things) praise thee / and give the thanks. Make us that we impute it not to the devil or evil men / when any adversity chanceth: but that we attribute all unto thy godly will / which ordaineth all such things / that our will may belief / and that blessedness may increase in thy kingdom, Give us grace that we may