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

He added a cause / for (quod he) yf this be done in moist wood / What shall be done in dry / as though he should say if this be done in me which an• pure & innocen•• / ⟨image 95⟩what shall be done in you which are holy corrupt and vitiate? ye may learn by this my passion what ye have deserved which pain (except ye believe) ye can not escape / here to may we well apply the proverb: men smite the whelp to fear the great ban dog: christ was smitten innocent to give us warning of our outrageous vices & enormities. To this well agreeth the Prophet which sayeth that all the nations of the earth shall bewail them selves upon him. He sayeth not that they shall bewail him / but that they shall bewail them selves upon him. Even so were they dismayed Acts .ij. as is before rehearsed. And the church singeth: I shall surely remember it & my soul shall melt with in me

He added a cause / for (quod he) yf this be done in moyst wodde / What shalbe done in drye / as though he shuld saye yf this be done in me which an• pure & innocen•• / ⟨image 95⟩what shall be done in you which are hoellye corrupt and vicyatte? ye maye lerne by this my passyon what ye haue deserued which payne (except ye beleue) ye can not escape / here to maye we well applye the prouerbe: men smyte the whelpe to feare the greate bā dogge: christ was smytē innocēt to geue vs warnynge of oure outragyous vices & enormityes. To this well agreeth the Prophete which sayeth that all the nacyōs of the erth shall bewayle them selues vpon hym. He sayeth not that they shall bewayle hym / but that they shall bewayle them selues vpon hym. Euen so were they dismayed Actes .ij. as is before rehersed. And the church syngeth: I shall surelye remembre it & my soule shal melt with in me

And in this sorrowful bewailing of them selves ought the faithful diligently to exercise them selves / for on this hangeth the hole profit and use of Christs passion / that a man may know him self / that he might tremble and repent in beholding his grievous enormities / for truly except he come to this point / the passion of Christ doth nothing avail him. This is the pure and perfect operation that the