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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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Unto my hearing shalt thou give joy and gladness and my bruised bones shall be refreshed.
Vnto my hearinge shalt thou geue ioye and gladnes and my brosed bones shall be refreshed.
Then Lord shall I pray unto the / early (that is in the beginning of thy light) shalt thou hear my voice & I shall hear what the lord god shall speak in me for he shalt speak peace for his people and shall give me peace. Lord thou shalt give me peace for I have trusted in the / unto my hearing shalt thou give joy / and gladness / when I shall hear that comfortable words that ⟨image 115⟩Mary heard. And what herd Mary (I speak of that Mary / which sate at the feet of Jesus Mat. xxvi.) what heard she: Thy faith hath saved the / goo thy ways in peace. Let me also hear that the these heard this day shalt thou be with me in paradise / then shall I have joy for the remission of my since / and gladness for thy bounteous and liberal promises shall I not rejoice / and be glad / when thou shalt give me two fold for all my since? them shall I begin to taste how sweet the Lord is then shall I learn to be conversant in heavenly things and shall say with the Prophet: how great and copious is that sweetness Lord / which thou hast laid up for them that fear the / then shall I rejoice and be glad and my bruised bones shall be refreshed. What are the bones which sustain the flesh but the powers of our soul and reason that bear up the frailty of our flesh that he run not headlong in to all vices / that a man fall not hole in to vanity and so consume away. These bones I say are sore bruised / for the reason is very weak / and the will is prone and ready to all mischief / for even now the