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

¶ The sext petition.

¶ The sext peticyon.

¶ And lead us not in to temptation.

¶ And leade vs not in to temptacyon.

WE are assaulted with three manners of temptation and vexation / the flesh / the world / & the devil. Therefore we desire the most dear father to endow us so with thy grace that we may withstand the desires of the flesh. Make that we resist and fight against this super fluyte of meat / drink / sleep / sloth / and idleness. Make that we may bring him in to bondage and subjection / with fasting / temperate diet / clothing / sleep / rest / watch & labour / so that he may be mete / and apt to good works. Make that with Christ we may fasten on the cross and mortify his evil desires to lechery / all his affections and instigations: so that we never consent or follow any his temptations. ☞ Make that if by chance we look on a well made or fair man or woman / or any other beautiful image or creature / that they be not to us a cause of temptation: But that the rather of them we may take occasion to love chastity / and to praise the in thy creatures. Make that when we hear any glad or pleasant thing / or feel any sweet thing that we seek not therein our delight and pleasure / but thy praise and glory. Keep us ⟨image 44⟩from this great sin of covetousness / & desire to worldly richesse. Give us grace that we sick not the rule and honour of this world / or consent to such desires. Keep us that the false subtlety of this world the counterfeit brightness / & enticements of the same persuade us not to follow it. Keep us that we be not drawn by the evils and miseries of this world to impatience / avengement / wrath / or to other such vices. Give us grace that we may despise the lies of the world / colours / deceits / promises / and falsehood. And to be short / that we may forsake all that belongeth to him good & evil / as we have promised in baptism / and that we may continue in this purpose going forward daily more and more. Keep us from the enticements of the devil / that we consent not to ryde / which would cause us to set mohe by our self (and despise other) for richesse kin power / science learning / beauty or any other gifts or goodness. Keep us that we fall not in the sin of hate / and envy / what occasion so ever we have given unto us. Keep us that we doubt not n thy faith / nether fall in desperation / no