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

Here set before thine eyes the hole keep and multitude of adversaries and evil men. And first consider in them how many evils they have not done / to our body / goods / name and soul / which they would have done / except (by the provision of god) they had bin letted. And the higher any man is in tale & authority the more ready at hand he is to be vexed / with the deceits / subtleties flanders & temptations of his adversaries. And in all these things we may understand and prove the hand of god most ready to deliver us. And what marvel is it though sometime we be vexed with one of these evils? After this consider the evils which are appropriate unto our adversaries: not to be glad or rejoice in them / but rather to suffer with them / and to be sorry for they are subject indifferently to these evils as well as we / as we have showed before.

HEre set byfore thyne yies the hole kepe and multitude of aduersaries and euyll men. And first consydre in theym howe many euylles they haue not done / to oure body / goodes / name and soule / whiche they wolde haue done / except (by the prouisyō of god) they had byn letted. And the hygher any man is in tale & auctorite the more redy at hond he is to be vexed / with the deceytes / soutteltyes flaunders & tēptacyons of his aduersaryes. And in all these thinges we may vnderstonde and proue the honde of god most ready to delyuer vs. And whate merueyll is it though somtyme we be vexed with one of these euylles? After this cōsyder the euylles whiche are appropryate vnto oure aduersaryes: not to be glad or reioyse in theym / but rather to suffer with theym / and to be sorye for they are subiect indifferently to these euylles as well as we / as we haue shewed before.

¶But in this they are more wretched that they are separate from our company both bodily and spiritually. This evil which we suffer is nothing to theirs / for they are in sin in unbelief / under the ⟨image 60⟩wrath of god unto the power of the devil wretched bondmen of ungodliness and sin in so much that if the hole world would curse & ban them: they can desire no worse unto them. This well considered / we shall love perceive with how much greater love we ought to suffer this little disease of the body / in the faith / in the kingdom of Christ / and in the service of God / which in the abundance of these commodities and virtues ought scant to be felt. Their misery also so ought to be so rowed in a Christen and meek hart / that his sorrow seem not to be painful / but rather pleasure unto him. For so commandeth Paul in the second to the Philippians / let every man consider not what is in him self / but what is in other men / let the same mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus which being in the shape of god / toke on him the shape of a servant / that is to say with a meek and a low mind put on him our shape / ordering him self none otherwise in our evils then if they had bin his own. So forgetting his godhead and other pleasures he made him self of no reputation / that he might be found in