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

Therefore the more we see them sorrow and lament / the more we ought to rejoice in our self of the goodness of God / according to the saying of Isaiah. Behold my servants shall eat and you shall be hungry. Behold my servants shall drink / and you shall be thirsty. Behold my servants shall be merry and you shall be confounded. Behold my servants shall praise for the rejoicing of their hearts / and you shall cry for the sorrow of your hearts: and you shall howl for the contrition of your spirit / and you shall put down your name in an other to my elect and so forth / finally as I said. The examples of them that do evil dye and are damned / as saint Gregory doth show in a dialogue / do profit us to be a monysshement / and an instruction that he may be happy whom other mens perils do make wise.

Therfore the more we se theym sorowe and lament / the more we ought to reioyse in oure selfe of the goodnesse of God / accordyng to the sayng of Esay. Behold my seruauntes shall eate and you shall be hungry. Beholde my seruauntes shall drynke / and you shalbe tristye. Beholde my seruauntes shall be mery and you shall be confounded. Beholde my seruaūtes shall prayse for the reioysyng of theyre hartes / and you shall crye for the sorowe of youre hartes: and you shall howle for the contricion of your sprete / and you shall put downe youre name in an other to my elect and so furth / fynally as I sayde. The examples of theym that do euyll dye and are dampned / as saynt Gregory doth shewe in a dialoge / do profyt vs to be a monysshement / and an instructyon that he may be happye whome other mennes perylles do make wise.

Truly this good (because it is commonly known) doth but little move us / although it ought to be numbered among the chief / & is of great reputation to them that have good judgment / sith that a great part of holy scripture where he speaketh of the wrath judgments / and threatenings of God pertain to this place. These wholesome instructions / the examples of wretched persons do profitably confirm in us / which them chiefly be of power and efficacy / if we put on us the mind of them which suffer them / and convict our self in their stead and place / them shall they flurre us up and move us to the praise of the goodness of God / which hath kept us from them. Let us also confer them to God him self / so that we may consider the justice of god in them. Though this he hard / yet let us go about it / for sith that god is a just judge / it is expedient that his justice be loved and praised. And so then ought we to rejoice in God / when he destroyeth evil men both in body and soul / for in all these things his high and ineffable justice she with him self. Therefore very hell also is full of god and high goodness