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Certain prayers and godly meditations very needful for every ChristenCerteine prayers and godly meditacyons very nedefull for euery Christen
Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The year of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The yeare of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538
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The time should fail me if I should enumbre all thy merciable compassions / for look how many righteous men there be / and so many are thy godly compassions /
The tyme shuld faile me yf I shuld enumbre all thy merciable compassyons / for loke how manye ryghtwyse men there be / ād so manye are thy godlye compassions /
There is none that can glory in him self. Let them all come that are righteous other in earth or in heaven and let us axe them before the whether they be saved by ⟨image 105⟩their own power and virtue. And surely all they will answer with one heart / and one mouth saying.
There is none that can glorye in hym selfe. Let them all come that are ryghtwyse other in erth or in heauen and let vs axe them before the whether they be saued by ⟨image 105⟩theyr awne power and vertue. And surelye all they will answere with one harte / and one mouth sayenge.
Not unto us (Lord) not unto us / but unto thy name give all the praise / for thy mercy & for thy truths sake for they in their own sword possessed not the land / and their own arm or power saved them not but thy right hand and thine arm and the lightening of thy countenance for thou delightedst in the / that is / they are not saved for their own deservings lest any man should boast him self / but because it pleased the so to be which thing the Prophet doth also more expressly witness of the when he sayeth he saved me because he would have me. Sith therefore that thou art the me god with whom is no alteration or variableness nether art thou changed unto darkness: and we thy creatures as well as out fathers which were borne under concupiscence sinners as well as we and sith there is but one mediator and a tonement between god and man that is christ Jesus which endureth for ever / why dost thou not pour on thy plenteous compassions upon us / as well as thou diddest upon