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

Thou madest a promise to David saying: I shall set upon thy seat regal one of the fruit of thy body / and it came even so to pass / because thou wouldest be found true. There are other innumerable promises in which thou hast ever been faithful because thou lovedst truth. Thou hast promised ⟨image 112⟩to sinners which will come unto the / forgiveness and favour / and thou hast never defrauded man / for thou hast loved truth. That unthrifty son Luc. xv. that toke his journey in to a far country and wasted all his goods with covetous living / when he came to him self / he returned unto the saying. Father I have sinned against heaven and before the / now am I not worthy to be called thy son / make me as one of thy hired servants, / When he was yet a great way of / thou sawest him and haddest compassion on him and rannest unto him / falling upon his neck and kissing him / thou broughtest forth the best garment and puttest a ring on his finger and shows on his feet / Thou killedst that fatted calf and madest all the house merry saying / Let us eat & be merry / for this my son was deed and is alive again / he was lost and is now found.

Thou madest a promyse to Dauid sayenge: I shall set vppon thy sete regall one of the frute of thy bodye / and it came euen so to passe / because thou woldest be founde true. There are other innumerable promyses in which thou hast euer bene faythfull because thou louedst truth. Thou hast promysed ⟨image 112⟩to synners which wyll come vnto the / forgeuenesse and fauoure / and thou hast neuer defrauded man / for thou hast loued truth. That vnthryftye sonne Luc. xv. that toke his iorney in to a farre cōtre and wasted all his goodes with covetous lyuinge / when he came to hym self / he retouened vnto the sayenge. Father I haue synned agenst heauen and before the / now am I not worthye to be called thy sonne / make me as one of thy hyred seruauntes, / When he was yet a greate waye of / thou sawest hym and haddest cōpassyon on hym and rannest vnto hym / fallynge vppon his necke and kyssynge hym / thou broughtest forth the best garmenth and puttest a rynge on his fynger and showes on his fete / Thou kylledst that fatted calfe and madest all the house merye sayenge / Let vs eate & be merye / for this my sonne was deed and is alyue agayne / he was lost and is now founde.