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

Now sith we can not thus fruitfully remember Christs passion except we be inspired with grace from above (for our impotent & vitiate nature can do no good without the spirit of god) the next remedy to obtain this fruitful gifts is to pray and desire it of god our father / and all be it he give it us not in the same time and moment that we would have it / yet let us not despair and cease from prayer peradventure he holdeth it from the to make the more desirous of it and to set the more by it when it cometh / and that thou mayest know that it is not in thy power and will to have it at thy pleasure / but this is a clear case that he will surely give it the when it shall be most expedient for his glory & thy wealth / which time no man knoweth but he alone. Therefore let us prescribe him no time / but ever submit our w•lles to his and pray that his will be fulfilled ⟨image 98⟩And contrary wise sometime he giveth us this gift before we pray or axe it / nether g•ueth he us a• all times the spirit to pray / but distributeth that gift also / even a• his own godly pleasure nether will he that it be bound other to time place or any person. When he hath ones received the spirit which mollifieth the hare and bringeth him in to the remembrance of the passion / fly and by his heart trembleth he loatheth him self and knowledgeth his infirmity / so that the effect of the passion is fulfilled in him in a manner before he be aware. But they that fall to their meditations and behold this passion being void of this spirit which openeth the heart / take great labours and are diligently occupied but all about nought: for they can not her repent not yet perceive their own infirmity / which is the very end and effect of Christs passion. So mayst thou see that the first with our labour attain the fruit and profit of Christs passion all though it appear not outwardly. And the other for all their diligent study have nothing profited / although they seem outwardly to have God by the foot. And ⟨image 98⟩thus doth God turn topsy turn a / that they which are all day occupied in hearing masses and in remembering Christs passion get none advantage / and the other which seem to do none of both / do both in dead and obtain the hole profit.