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

¶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 ⟨image 60⟩every point like man / separating nothing that man had from him / but only sin / submitting him self to all other infirmities. The holy men (strengthened with this mind and stirred up with this image) were wont to pray for evil men / yea and for their enemies. And to do all things according to the example of Christ forgetting their own injuries or righteousness / taking thought how they should deliver them from their evils. And with this were moth more trouble / then with their own bodily evils.

¶But in this they are more wretched that they are separate from oure company both bodyly and spiritually. This euyll whiche we suffer is nothing to theyrs / for they are in synne in vnbeleue / vnder the ⟨image 60⟩wrath of god vnto the power of the deuell wretched bondmen of vngodlynesse and synne in so moche that yf the hole worlde wolde curse & banne theym: they can desire no worse vnto theym. This well cōsidered / we shall loue perceyue with howe moche gretter loue we ought to suffer this lytell dysease of the body / in the fayth / in the kyngdome of Christ / and in the seruice of God / whiche in thabundaunce of these cōmodytees and vertues ought scant to be fealt. Theyre mysery also so ought to be so rowed in a Christē and meke hart / that his sorowe seme not to be paynfull / but rather pleasure vnto hym. For so commaundeth Paule in the secunde to the Philippians / let euery man cōsydre not whate is in him selfe / but whate is in other men / let the same mynd be in you whiche was in Christ Iesu whiche beyng in the shape of god / toke on hym the shape of a seruaunt / that is to say with a meke and a lowe mynde put on hym oure shape / orderyng hym self none otherwise in oure euylles then yf they had byn his owne. So forgettyng his godhed and other pleasures he made hym selfe of no reputacyon / that he myght be founde in