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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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It is therefore to be feared lest if thou be ignorant in the true use of the mass that the moo thou hearest the more thou offendest god abusing his institution and ordinance.
It is therfore to be feared lest yf thou be ignoraunte in the true vse of the masse that the moo thou hearest the more thou offendest god abusinge his institucyon and ordinaunce.
¶But these are the very right beholders ⟨image 93⟩of Christs passion / which consider & mark in his passion their own since & enormities which were the cause & ground of his passion and death / for they are feared / and their consciences tremble as soon as they remember the passion which fear and trembling riseth of this that they may see in the passion the vehement wrath and righteous punishment of god the father against sinners which would not for all the abundant favour that he had unto his •onne suffer malefactors to go free & unpunished but that he must redeem them with his own death / which thing Esayas .liij. doth also confirm saying in the person of god the father: for the since of my people have I wounded him. What then shall be come of us / sith his most dear and only son is so cruelly entreated? It must needs be a marvellous and inenarrable wrath towards us which could not be pacified but through the death / ye and that through the death of Christ his best beloved son And verily if a man do mark diligently that the very son of God / the image and wisdom of the father did suffer for our transgressions / to reconcile us unto his father / ⟨image 93⟩there is no doubt but he shall tremble and abhor his grievous iniquities.
¶But these are the verye ryght beholders ⟨image 93⟩of Christes passyon / which cōsyder & marcke in his passyon their awne synnes & enormityes which were the cause & grounde of his passyon and deeth / for they are feared / and their cōsciences tremble as sone as they remembre the passyō which feare and tremblynge ryeseth of this that they maye se in the passyon the vehement wrath and ryghtuous punyshement of god the father ageynst synners which wold not for al the abundaunt fauoure that he had vnto his ōne suffer malefactoures to go fre & vnpunyshed but that he must redeme them with his awne deeth / which thinge Esayas .liij. doth also cōfirme sayenge in the person of god the father: for the synnes of my people haue I wounded hī. What then shall be come of vs / syth his most deare and onlye sonne is so cruellye entreated? It must nedes be a meruelous and inenartable wrath towardes vs which coude not be pacefyed but thorow the deeth / yee and that thorow the deeth of Christ his best beloued sonne And verelye yf a man do marke diligentlie that the verye sonne of God / the ymage and wysdō of the father did suffer for oure trāsgressyons / to recōcyle vs vnto his father /