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Certain prayers and godly meditations very needful for every ChristenCerteine prayers and godly meditacyons very nedefull for euery Christen
Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The year of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The yeare of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538
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¶The fourth Chapter of the .iiij. image which is the good beneath us.
¶The fourth Chaptre of the .iiij. ymage whiche is the good beneth vs.
Hitherto we have considered the goods which are in us and ours / here after let us esteem these goods which are set, without us and in other. And first them which are bineth us / that is to say dead and damned. Peradventure ye would marvel what good things could be found in them which are dead & damned / how be it the power of the godly goodness is so great in every place that he she with us goodness and his glory in the most evils that be. Let us compare them unto our self then so we our inestimable and infinite profits / and commodities as we may also easily perceive by the contrary image of evils. For the moo evils of death and hell we see in them the moo profit we perceive in us. And the more vehement and extreme their evils be the more we count our advantage ⟨image 80⟩which are not lightly to be despised and set at nought for they commend to us the high and bounteous mercy of God. And the jeopardy is / lest we unking (setting little by it) be found worthy to be damned with them or worse to be tormented.
HEtherto we haue cōsydered the goodes whiche are in vs and oures / here after let vs exteme these goodes which are set, without vs and in other. And first theym whiche are byneth vs / that is to say deade and dampned. Paraduēture ye wolde merueyle whate good thinges coude be founde in theym whiche are deade & dampned / howe be it the power of the godly goodnesse is so greate in euery place that he she with vs goodnesse and his glory in the most euilles that be. Let vs cōpare theym vnto oure selfe then so we oure inestimable and infinite profites / and cōmodytyes as we may also easily perceyue by the contrary ymage of euylles. For the moo euylles of death and hell we see in theym the moo profite we perceyue in vs. And the more vehement and extreme theyr euylles be the more we count oure aduauntage