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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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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 ⟨image 58⟩sword / which peradventure have done much less since then we have done.
What a myracle is it for a man to bestrykē at on euery syde with infinite strokes / and chaunce at the length to be touched but with one? yee it is a greate grace that he is not stryken with theym all / and a myracle that he is not touchet with many. Therfore the first of those euylles whiche are by neth is death The secunde is hell / yf we shulde consyder the dyuers and vyle deth of other men / wherwith synnars are stryken / we shall sene perceyue wyth howe grete lucre we suffre lesse then oure deseruinges. Howe many are strangled wyth halters / galowes / and water / or dye with ⟨image 58⟩swerde / whyche paraduenture haue done moche lesse synnes then we haue done.
In so much that their ••th and misery may be laid before us of Christ for an image & glass wherein we may perceive / what we have deserved For so he answered in the .xiij. of like / when there were present that showed him of the Galileans whose blood pilate mingled with their own sacrifice. Suppose ye that these Galileans were greater sinners then all other Galileans because they suffered such punishment? I tell you nay / but except ye repent / ye shall all in like wise perish. Or think ye that those .xviij. Upon whom the coure in Silo fill and slew them / were sinners above all men that dwell in Jerusalem? I tell you nay / but except ye repent ye all shall like wise perish.