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

What should this woman do when she had these words? verily even despair as concerning the grace that she required: & yet despaired she not / but trusting in thy mercy prayed again saying: Lord help me / unto whose importunity (Lord) thou answeredst / it is not good to take the children's breed and cast it to hands as though thou shouldest have said depart from me you Canaanites are dogs / ye are Idolaters / the precious gifts of he ven•ye favour pertain not unto you I ought not to take them a way from the Ives which worship the true and living god / and to give them to such dogs as ye are which worship idols and devils what shalt thou now do thou woman of Canaan? thou mayst now be a shamed and get the away / for the Lord is angry not with the alone / but also thy hole nation. Oh Lord god / who would not have been confounded and have piked him away at these thy words? who would not have mumbled and grudged against thee? who would not have judged the to be cruel? And yet did this woman continue still in prayer. She cast not away her confidence / she toke ⟨image 120⟩not these hard words heavily / she was n•• angry / but she humbled her self the more and abode still in her petition and said with good fyaunce. It is truth Lord that thou sayest / but I axe nobrred / I axe not the favour that the children should have. I am a little when elpe and desire the tromes which fall from thy children's table. Let them storys• and abound with miracles / and other gracious favours / but let not me be destitute of this trumme of grace / that my daughter may be delivered from the fends possession for the whelps do rate of the trummes which fail from their masters tables. Behold wat faith / what trust / and what humility was in this women? therefore thou / not displeased with her importunate instance but rejoicing in her excellent constancy didst say O woman great is thy faith / be it unto thee as thou wilt. Why are these things written Lord god? that we may learn to trust in the / that me may humbly and devoutly continue in prayer / for thou wil• give it if men be greedy.

What shuld this woman do when she hade these wordes? verelye euen despayre as concerninge the grace that she requyred: & yet despayred she not / but trustynge in thy mercye prayed agayne sayenge: Lorde helpe me / vnto wose importunite (Lorde) thou answeredst / it is not good to take the chyldrens brede and cast it to hondes as though thou shuldest haue sayed departe from me you Canaanites are dogges / ye are Idolatres / the precyous gyftes of he venye fauoure partayne not vnto you I ought not to take them a waye from the Iues whych worshyppe the true and liuynge god / and to geue thē to soch dogges as ye are which worshuppe ydolles and deuels what shalt thou now doo thou woman of Canaan? thou mayst now be a shamed and gette the awaye / for the Lorde is angrye not wyth the alone / but also thy hole nacyon. Oh Lorde god / who wold not haue bene confounded and haue pyked hym awaye at these thy wordes? who wold not haue mumbled and grugged agenst the? who wolde not haue iudged the to be cruell? And yet did thys woman contynue stille in prayer. She cast not away her confidence / she toke