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

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 ⟨image 95⟩passion of Christ worketh with in us / that we may be made like unto him that as Christ was grievously vexed both in body and soul for our since / even so that our conscience may scourge and torment us for our own wickednesses which are so many and so great that they are soon called to memory except we will be will fully blind & not see that which is most present & familiar with us. Let us use an ensample to make the thing more evident Be it in case that a certain kings son were slain. And the murder are taken and brought to the sessions and accused before the judge of this capital crime / which confesseth openly that he hath done the dead / adding that he did it at thy request and thou wast the chief author & setter a work. If thou in the mean season were taking thy pastime and recreation / and suddenly were arrested and cast in prison as accessory of this murder ye or rather as principal the other being but thy minister and instrument of thy mischief / would not even shortly thy mirth abate / the colour appal / thy flesh faint and tremble Now if thy conscience did also accuse the & ⟨image 96⟩justify against the that thou were justly •npres•ned / what raging hell & unquietness shouldest thou then feel with in thy ha•••. Even so […] not he more shall he be altered which do did remembereth the passion of Christ. For the Jude (although execution be done on […] as malefactors and they abject f•• the face of god) yet were they but the ministers of thy sin / For in very dead thy since nailed him to the cross and were the hole cause of his pain and doeth / as we have showed before.

And in this sorowfull bewaylinge of them selues ought the faythfull diligentlie to exercyse them selues / for on this hāgeth the hole profyte and vse of Christes passion / that a man maye knowe him selfe / that he myght tremble and repent in beholdinge his greuous enormytes / for trulye excepte he come to this poynte / the passyon of Christ doth nothinge awayle hym. This is the pure and perfecte operacyon that the