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

¶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 ⟨image 99⟩sentences / and put thy hole fyaunce in Christ an they teach thee / for if thou god about through thy contrition / and satisfaction to pacify and assuage thy raging conscience / thou shalt never be in surety / but after intolerable labour and toiling thou shalt fall in to utter desperation / for the conscience can not be quiet when he feeleth his sin / but esteemeth is greater than that we of our own power should be able to quench it. Not with standing if he saw that Christ which is both god and man had taken them upon him and had vanquished them by his death / ye andtyesinge again had triumphed upon death hell and the devil:

¶When a man begynneth on this maner to knowe and feale his synnes & trembleth at the hydeous syght of them / let him take good hede that those tremblinge mocyons sticke not to longe in his cōscience for so shuld he falle in to vtter desperacyō But euen as that feare & knowlege of synne dyd springe out of Christes passyon / so must oure conscience vnlade her selfe agayne and laye all on Christes backe. But beware that thou do not as the vnfaithfull doo / for they when they feale their synne / that their cōscience biteth thē / they runne