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

Hitherto have we entreated the cross and passion of Christ by the remembrance whereof we know our infirmities / abhor our vices and are clean overthrown ready to fall in to the pit of desperation / and now will we touch how our consciences thus wounded and cast down must be lift up again.

Hetherto haue we entreated the crosse and passyon of Christ by the remembraunce wherof we knowe oure infirmityes / abhorre oure vices and are clene ouerthrowne readye to falle in to the pitte of desperacyon / and now will we touch how oure cōsciences thus wounded and cast doune must be lyfte vppe agayne.

¶When a man beginneth on this manner to know and feel his since & trembleth at the hideous sight of them / let him take good heed that those trembling motions stick not to long in his conscience for so should he fall in to utter desperation But even as that fear & knowledge of sin did spring out of Christs passion / so must our conscience unlade her self again and lay all on Christs back. But beware that thou do not as the unfaithful do / for they when they feel their sin / that their conscience biteth them / they run ⟨image 99⟩to their own good works / to satisfactions pilgrimages and pardons / and so vex their marvellously their unquiet minds to rid them from their burden / but their labour is in vain. And yet hath that false confidence & trust in satisfactions so spread it self / that it hath founded many religious cloisters in christendom / to the utter destruction of all christianity for if I can make satisfaction for my since / the is christs blood shed in vain. Therefore on this manner shalt thou unlade thy mind and cast thy since on Christ. First thou must faithfully believe / that Christ suffered for thy sake even to redeem thy since / and that he toke them on his own back and made full satisfaction for them unto his father / as Esa. sayeth liij. the lord laid on him all our iniquities & .i. Pet. ij. he bare our since in his own body upon the cross. And Paul .ij Corin. v. God made him that knew no sin / sin for us (that is to say a sacrifice for our sin) that we through him might be that righteousness which before god is allowed. Now the more that thy conscience boileth & riseth against the / the more shalt thou cleave to these and such other comfortable