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

¶The seventh Chapter of the seventh image which is the evil above us.

¶The seuenth Chaptre of the seuenth ymage whiche is the euyll aboue vs.

IN this last image we must lift up our hart and ascend up in to the mountain of Mirth with the spouse. Here is Jesus Christ crucified the head of all christen / the captain of all them that suffer / of whom many have written many things And all men (as it is convenient) have written all things. His memory is commended unto the spouse / where as it is said. Put •e as a sign upon thine arm. The blood ⟨image 66⟩of this lamb marked on the post doth put away the striking angel. The spouse of him is commended / because her here is like the purpure of a king. That is her meditation is read and of purpure colour by remembering the passion of Christ. This is the wood that Moses was commanded to put in to the waters of Marath (that is to say / the bitter passions) and they were made sweet. There is nothing but this passion maketh it swear / yea death. As the spouse doth say his lips are lilies distilling the chief and pure Myrrh. What proportion is there between lilies and lips? sith these are read and they white. Truly it is spoken mystically / because his words are most white / and pure in the which is no blood bitterness of envy or malice / but they are sweet and mild / with the which (nevertheless) he doth distil the most pure and chief myrrh / that is to say / persuadeth most bitter death / which (even as the most pure and chief Myrrh at one taketh away all corruption and stinking of the body) taketh away the corruption and stinking of sin. Of great power are these most sweetest lips that ⟨image 66⟩