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

The gifts of the soul are more excellence then all these as wit / conning judgement ⟨image 70⟩eloquence / wisdom / and these also (as he did the other) he divideth after an equality so that he hath recompensed it in the other / by giving them more quietness and gladness of mind.

The gyftes of the soule are more excelēc then all these as witte / connyng iudgemēt ⟨image 70⟩eloquence / wysdom / and these also (as he dyd the other) he deuideth after an equalyte so that he hath recompensed it in the other / by gyuing theym more quietnesse and gladnesse of mynde.

In all these things the most liberal hand of god must be considered with giving thanks and our infirmity must be comforted that in this multitude and greatness of goods we marvel not / though some sourness be admixed / for unto voluptuous men / there is no meat acceptable which of his nature hath not other some sharp taste / or else his sauce prepared for him / so that continual and only sweetness is a thing intolerable. Therefore it was well said every pleasure by his perseverance maketh a man full of it / and to disdain it. And again / it is said. Even pleasure her self is a pain: because this life is to weak and impotent to suffer continually goodness without the temperature of evil for the abundant copy of the goodness whereof springeth this proverb. Their bones must be strong which shall suffer good days which proverb I have often considered marvelling at the marvellous true ⟨image 70⟩sentence of it / & how all the purposes and desires of men are clean contrary unto it / which seek nothing but good days / yea when they have got them they can worse bear them than the evil. For what doth god commend unto us in those things / but that the cross should be marvellous / even in the enemies of the cross: Insomuch that we ought to tempore and hallow all things by it / even as we powder flesh with salt that it do not putrefy & wax full of worms wherefore then do not we receive with a glad heart / this temperature sent of god / which if he did not sent / yet our life which is not able to endure with this continual pleasure and goodness / would desire it of his own will. Now we perceive how truly the wise man said of god he that continueth from the one end to the other strongly / and disposeth all things sweetly / for if we consider these good things / it shall appear that it is also true which is spoken of Moses in the.