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

This is sure stable & most true (whether man believe it or not) that there can be no vexation and punishment so great in man / but that there is him both evil and iniquity much worse. So abundant & copious are his evils which he feeleth not. If truly he did feel his evil / he should feel very hell / for he hath hell in him self. Thou wilt are how? The prophet sayeth every man is a liar. And again / Every man living is all vanity. To be vain and a liar is to be void of truth / and to be void of truth is to be with out god / and to be nothing. And that is to be in hell / & damned. Therefore God chastening us mercifully doth open and ⟨image 50⟩put on us our casier and lighter offences knowing that if he should lead and bring man to know his hole misery / he should perish within a little space / howbeit he hath caused some to feel & taste their own of whom it is written / he leadeth down to hell / and bringeth again. Wherefore they say well / which call the bodily passions certain warnings and monisshementes of the evil / which lieth with in. And the apostle in the .xij. to the Hebrews calleth them the fatherly instructions of God •ayng / he scourgeth every son that he rece• ueth / which he doth that by these scourgy• ges & little evils / he may expel the great evils / lest after he be compelled to feel them / as it is written in the .xxij. of the proverbs / foolishness is bound to gyther in the heart of the child / but the rod of correction shall avoid it. Do not kind fathers more lament their children if they be thieves or evil them if they be wounded, yes / they them selves do beat them & wound them that they should not be evil. What then letteth that this abominable evil with in us is not felt? truly as I said / the providence of god that man (considering ⟨image 50⟩his inward corruption & vice) should not perish. For he hideth them / willing that by only faith they should be seen perfectly though he doth show some part of them by a sensible evil. Therefore in the day of evils remember goodness. Consider how good it is / not to know thine hole evil. Remember well this goodness / and thy sensible evil shall the less vex thee.

THis is sure stable & most true (whether man beleue it or not) that there can be no vexacyon and punysshement so greate in man / but that there is hym bothe euyll and iniquite moche worse. So abundaunt & copiouse are his euylles whiche he fealeth not. If truely he dyd feale his euyll / he shulde feale very hell / for he hath helle in hī self. Thou wilt are howe? The prophete sayeth euery man is a lyer. And ageyn / Euery man lyuing is all vanye. To be vayne and a lyar is to be voyd of truth / and to be voyd of truth is to be with out god / and to be nothing. And that is to be in hell / & dampned. Therfore God chastynyng vs mercyfully doth open and