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

How be it if we feel our unbelief that we can not be surely persuaded that these things are true / them is the next remedy to fall unto prayer for this also is in the hand of god nether is it given to every man but some have it more & some less for god distributeth all at his pleasure. Not withstanding there are certain means and small paths by the which a man may have as it were an entrance in to this faith / first turn thine eyes and behold the hearty love & bounteous kindness of christ which so tenderly loved the that he would take on him self all thy since / & lovingly embrace the to heel thy wounded conscience / if thou remember and think on this amity thy heart shall somewhat be refreshed and so shall thy trust in Christ be the more increased and stablished.

How be it yf we feale oure vnbelefe that we can not be surelye persuaded that these thinges are true / them is the next remedye to falle vnto prayer for this also is in the hand of god nether is it geuē to euerie man but some haue it more & some lesse for god distributeth all at his pleasure. Not withstondinge there are certayne meanes and smale pathes by the which a mā maye haue as it were an entraunce in to this faith / fyrst turne thine eyes and beholde the hartye loue & bounteous kindnes of chryst which so tenderlye loued the that he wold take on him self all thy synnes / & louynglye enbrace the to hele thy wounded conscience / yf thou remembre and thinke on thys amitye thy harte shall somwhate be refreshed and so shall thy trust in Chryst be the more encreased and stablysshed.

After that thou hast perceived this fervent favour that Christ had to wards the then shalt thou soon mark what good will the father owed thee / for then shall it appear that Christ could not endue the ⟨image 100⟩with such great benefits except it had been before so decreed of his heavenly father / for unto him did Christ obey when he suffered for thy transgressions. And so shalt thou see the flaming charity of god the father towards thee / and through christ shalt thou be so drawn to the father that thou mayst perceive the saying of Christ. Joan. iij. God so loved the world that he gave his only son for them tent that none which believe in him should perish but should have everlasting life. And this is the true knowledge of god when we behold / and magnify not his puissant majesty or his incomprehensible prudence (for they make a man a frayde of God) but rather his courteous and merciful benevolence wherein he may put his confidence / and may be holy in god renewed.