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

If thy heart boil with hate or envy & be full set to take avengeaunce: then call to thy remembrance how Christ with a lamentable voice did pray unto his father for thee / and other his enemies / whom he might by good right have punished perpetually.

Yf thy harte boyle with hate or enuye & be full sette to take auengeaunce: then calle to thy remembraunce how Crist with a lamētable voyce did praye vnto hys father for the / and other his enemyes / whom he myght bi good right haue punisshed perpetuallye.

If thou be vexed with any other afflictions what so ever they are / whether secrete or open / take them on good worth & be not disquieted / but think with thy self on this manner. It were a great shame if I should not suffer patiently this small trouble / sith that Christ my Lord and saviour suffered in the garden such pangs that he sweat drops of blood / for what is more shame then that the servant should take his ease and lye sluggishly in his bed what time his master standeth in jeopardy of his life.

Yf thou be vexed with anye other afflictions whate so euer they are / whether secrete or open / take them on good worth & be not disquieted / but thynke with thy selfe on this maner. It were a great shame yf I shuld not suffre paciētlye this smal trouble / syth that Christ my Lorde and sauyoure suffered in the garden such panges that he swette droppes of bloude / for whate is more shame then that the seruaunte shuld take his ease and lye sluggeshlye in his bed what tyme his master stondeth in ieoperdye of his lyfe.

Behold / on this manner mayst thou con forte and stablish thy heart with the passion of christ against all vexations. And this is the true meditation and remembrance of Christs passion out of which the a ⟨image 102⟩