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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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Yet wash me more from mine iniquity & cleanse me from my sin.
Yet wash me more from myne iniquite & clense me frō my synne.
I grant and knowledge oh Lord thou hast once put out mine iniquity thou hast ⟨image 106⟩put it out again / And hast washed me a thousand times / how be it yet wash me from mine iniquity / for I am fallen again. Dost thou use to spare a sinful man until a certain number of his sin / which when Peter enquired / how of then shall my brother offend against me and I shall forgive him / whether seven times? thou answeredst: I say not seven times but seventy times seven times taking that certain number / for an infinite number / sith then that a man must forgive so often / shalt thou in pardoning and forgiveness be passed of a man? is not god more then man? is he not better then man ye rather god is the great Lord / and every man living is nothing but all vanity.
I graunte and knowlege oh Lorde thou hast once put out myne iniquyte thou hast ⟨image 106⟩put it out agayne / And hast wasshed me a thousande tymes / how be it yet wash me from myne inyquyte / for I am fallen agayne. Dost thou vse to spare a synfull man vntyll a certayne numbre of his synne / whych when Peter enquyred / how of then shall my brother offende agenst me and I shall forgeue hym / whether seuen tymes? thou answeredst: I saye not seuen tymes but seuentye tymes seuen tymes takynge that certeyne numbre / for an infynyte numbre / syth then that a man must forgeue so often / shalt thou in pardoninge and forgeuenesse be passed of a man? is not god more then man? is he not better then man yee rather god is the greate Lorde / and euerye man lyuynghe is nothynge but all vanyte.