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

Come most sweet Samaritan / for behold thou hast loved truth / the truth (I say) of thy promises which thou hast made unto mankind / then hast thou truly loved: for thou hast made and kept them / so that thy ⟨image 112⟩love is nothing else but even to do good for in thy self thou art invariable & immutable / thou usest not now to love and a none not to love (as men do) nether doth thy love so come & goo / but thou art such a lover as doth never change for thy love is very god. Thy love therefore wherewith thou lovest a creature / is to do it good / & whom thou most lovest / to them art thou most beneficial. Therefore what meaneth that thou lovest truth / but that of thy gracious mercy thou makest us promises / & fulfillest them for thy truths sake? Thou didst promise unto Abraham a son when he was aged / thou fulfilledst thy promise in old and barren Sarah / because thou lovedst truth. Thou promisest unto the children of Israel a land that flowed with milk and honey / and at the last didst give it them / for thy truths sake.

Come most swete Samaritane / for behold thou hast loued truth / the truth (I saye) of thy promyses which thou hast made vnto mankynde / then hast thou trulye loued: for thou hast made and kepte them / so that thy ⟨image 112⟩loue is nothinge els but euen to do good for in thy selfe thou arte inuaryable & immutable / thou vsest not now to loue and a none not to loue (as men doo) nether doth thy loue so come & goo / but thou art such a louer as doth neuer chaunge for thy loue is verye god. Thy loue therfore wherwith thou louest a creature / is to do it good / & whom thou most louest / to them arte thou most beneficyall. Therfore what meaneth that thou louest truth / but that of thy gracyous mercye thou makest vs promises / & fulfyllest them for thy truthes sake? Thou dyst promyse vnto Abraham a sonne when he was aged / thou falfylledst thy promyse in olde and baren Sara / because thou louedst truth. Thou promysest vnto the children of Israell a lande that flowed with milke and honye / and at the last dydst geue it them / for thy truthes sake.