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

¶The sixth Chapter of the sixth image which is the evil on the right hand.

¶The syxte Chapitre of the syxt ymage whiche is the euyll on the ryght honde.

ON our right hand are our friends by whose evils and vexations our troubles are mitigated and assuaged as Saint Petre teacheth in the fifth of the first Pistle saying. Resist the devil steadfast in the faith / remembering that ye do but fulfil the same afflictions / which are ⟨image 62⟩appointed to your brethren that are in the world. So the congregation of christen areth in their prayers / that they provoked be the examples of holy men / may follow the virtue of their passions / and singeth solemnly / that the holy men have suffered torments / that they might surely come to the victory of martyrdom. By the which words and songs of the church we must understand that the passions and victories that God hath given to his martyrs and holy saints / ought to be had in memory / that by their example we may be quickened and bolded to suffer those evils which they suffered. And if their commemoration be by us done to any other intent / whatsoever it be / then is it meddled with superstition & hypocrisy. As is theirs that honour them to the intent that they should not suffer the trouble & vexation / which the saints by their example & memory do teach to be suffered / so that they desire to be made unlike unto them / whose feasts they celebrate. Right excellently doth the apostle entreat this place of comfort in the .xij to the Heb. saying: ye have not yet resisted unto blood shedding striving against sin

ON oure ryghte honde are oure frendes by whose euylles and vexations oure troubles are mitygated and aswaged as Saynte Petre teachet in the fyft of the fyrst Pistle sayenge. Resyst the deuell stedefast in the fayth / remembryng that ye do but fulfyll the same affliccions / whiche are