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

Behold not Lord the grievousness of my since / consider not the multitude / but look mercifully on me which am thy creature. ☞ Remember that I am dust / and that all flesh is as withered hay / for ⟨image 111⟩Lo I am fashioned in wickedness & in sin hath my mother conceived me. My natural mother (I say) hath conceived me of concupiscence / & in her am I polluted with original sin. What is original sin / but the lack of original justice & of the right and pure innocency which man had at his creation? therefore a man conceived & borne in such sin is hole crooked and out of frame. The flesh coveteth against the spirit. Reason is slender / the will is weak / man is frail and like vanity / his senses deceive him / his imagination faileth him his ignorance leadeth him out of the right way / & he hath infinite impediments which pluck him from goodness and drive him in to evil. Therefore original sin is the root of all since and the nurse of all wickedness / for all be it that in every man of the own nature it is but one sin yet in power it is all since. Thou seest therefore Lord what I am / and of whence I am for in original sin (which containeth all since and iniquities in it) am I fashioned / & in it hath my mother conceived me / sith then I am hole in since and environed with snares one •erye side how shall I escape? ⟨image 111⟩