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

Nether do we teach the this or any other thing to the intent that thou shouldest think that thou were able to accomplish it of thine own power / but only to monish the of thy duty that when thou feelest thine own imbecility thou mayst desire this grace of God / and through his help fulfil that which is required of thee. For the cause why those men a fore said did unprofitably handle this passion / was this: they stuck holy unto their own power & natural imaginations nether ones desired the grace of god / & so could they attain to no profit. But he that remembereth the passion of Christ on this manner as we have showed (all though it be but one hours space) may well have the saying ⟨image 97⟩of Albert verified upon him that he hath been better occupied / then if he had fasted every day a hole year together or else had red over the hole Psalter of David / ye & I dare boldly add that he hath better bestowed his time then if he had hard a hum dreth massee / for this goo•lye remembrance doth even renew a man and doth testify unto his conscience that he is regenerate and borne again / even in a manner as well as baptism. So that this is the pure and natural work of Christs passion to mortify the old man of sin that raineth / in our members to caste out all hope and comfort that we have in creatures / & so deep to bring a man in to the knowledge of his sin that he shall come even to the brink of desperation and think that he is forsaken of god. Yet it leaveth him not there but it bringeth him again with all consolation and comfort & showeth him that all his outrageous enormities are crucified with Christ and through his death put out of the way that they can never accuse him more / and that the fathers wrath is pacified by his sons death / and we all (as many as believe that Christs death ⟨image 97⟩hath payed the ransom of our sin) are set at one with god and are become his childer so that he is no more our judge which should punish us for our iniquities / but will he called our merciful father which forgiveth his children's transgressions.

Nether do we teach the this or anye other thinge to thentent that thou shuldest thynke that thou were able to accomplish it of thyne awne power / but onlye to monyshe the of thy duetye that when thou fealest thyne awne imbecyllite thou mayst desyre this grace of God / and thorow his helpe fulfyll that which is required of the. For the cause why those men a fore sayde dyd vnprofytablye handle this passiō / was this: they sturke hoellye vnto their awne power & natural imaginaciōs nether ones desired the grace of god / & so coude they attayne to no profyte. But he that remembreth the passiō of Christ on this maner as we haue shewed (all though it be but one houres space) maye well haue the sayenge