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

This we learn by our own experience / for if we remember our life which is passed / shall we not marvel / that we have thought / willed / done and said such things as we could not see before? how should we have brought them to pass / if we had bin left to our own will and power? And now first we perceive and see that his care was so ready with us / and his provision so constant upon us / that we could nether speak / will / nor think / but that which he had given us. As it is spoken Sapience .vij. for in his hand are both we & our works. And Paul / which worketh all things in all men / why then are not we (so insensible and hard •arted) a shamed? which (though by our own experience) ⟨image 78⟩do •e how careful the lord hath bin for us unto this day / and hath given us all goods: and yet cannot find in our hearts to give unto him the same charged over us in a little trifle / but order our self so foolishly as though he had forsaken us / or else might forsake us / doth not the Psalm say on this manner? I truly am •edy and poor / the lord taketh thought for me. Saint Austin sayeth. Let him take charge on the which made the / which provided for the / before thou were. Howe can it be that he shall not provide for the which art a man / sith he provided for the to be a man. But thou wilt say we have the rule of our self as well as god / we grant unto him that he made us (and that scarcely) but we have in our power the charge of our self / as who sayeth: he made us / & and by and by went his weigh / leaving us in our own power to rule and order our self. ☞ And if that our wisdom and provision do let us / that we can not perceive this working of God / while that par adventure many things do chance after our purpose / yet ones turn thine eye and look upon the Psalm which ⟨image 78⟩sayeth: My bone is not hid from the / which thou madest in secrete / that is to say. Thou diddest see and facyō my bones in my mothers belly when I was not / when my mother did not yet know what was made in her / and my substance in the nether parts of the earth / that is to say / the figure and fashion of my body in the lowest bowels of my mother was not hid from thee / for thou diddest make it. What meaneth he by these words? but to show us by this great example / what care god hath ever taken for us?