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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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¶The fourth chapter of the fourth image which is the evil beneath us.
¶The fourth chapitre of the fourth ymage whiche is the euyll beneth vs.
Yet we see none other thing in all the evils that we suffer them that the goodness of god is so great & so ready with us that among the innumerable evils with which we are compassed on every side / yea & in which we are fully prisoned scant few (nor they at all times) are suffered to assail us / in so much that the evil wherewith we are suppressed is but a warning of a great advantage with which god endueth us / while that he suffereth us not to be oppressed with the multitude of evils with the which we are besieged.
YEt we se none other thing ī al the euilles that we suffer thē that the goodnesse of god is so greate & so redy wt vs that emong the īnumerabyl euylles wyth which we are compassed on eueri syde / ye & in whiche we are fulli prisoned scāta fewe (nor thei at al times) are suffred to assayle vs / in so moche that the euil wherwith we are supp̄ssed is but a warninge of a grete auauntage wt whiche god endueth vs / whyle that he suffreth vs not to be oppressed with the multitude of euilles with the whiche we are beseged.
What a miracle is it for a man to bestrykē at on every side with infinite strokes / and chance at the length to be touched but with one? ye it is a great grace that he is not stricken with them all / and a miracle that he is not touched with many. Therefore the first of those evils which are by neth is death The second is hell / if we should consider the divers and vile death of other men / wherewith sinners are stricken / we shall seen perceive with how great lucre we suffer less then our deservings. Howe many are strangled with halters / gallows / and water / or dye with