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

wilt thou give him the venom of unfaithfulness which proceedeth from that old and crooked serpent the devil I desire of the o Lord the egg of hope / that even as out of an egg we hope for a chicken / so thorough hope / that thou wilt grant me to come unto the sight of thy saving health that out of my hope may come this wholesome sight as the chick doth out of the egg. I desire the egg of hope / that my soul through hope may be sustained in this vale of tears and may rejoice in thy saving health. Wilt thou give me the scorpion of desperation that as a scorpion hath poison in the end of her tail / so I in the last end of my life should reserve sin / delighting my self ⟨image 122⟩and taking he my pleasure with the enticements of this world which seem beautiful and flattering / even as a scorpion doth in the face.

wilt thou geue hym the venome of vnfaythfulnes which proceadeth from that old and croked serpent the deuell I desyre of the o Lorde the egge of hope / that euen as out of an egge we hope for a chyken / so thorow hope / that thou wilt graunte me to come vnto the syght of thy sauynge health that out of my hope maye come this holesome sight as the chicke doth out of the egge. I desyre the egge of hope / that my soule thorow hope maye be sustayned in this vale of teares and may reioyce in thy sauinge helth. Wilt thou geue me the scorpion of desperacyon that as a scorpion hath poyson in the ende of her taile / so I in the last ende of miliffe shulde reserue synne / delytinge my selfe ⟨image 122⟩and taking he my pleasure with the entisemētes of this worlde which seme beautifull and flateringe / euē as a scorpion doth in the face.

I desire of the also (o Lord) the breed of Christs charity by the which he doth communicate him self (even as breed) unto all men / that I may ever rejoice in thy saving / health / wilt thou give me a stone / that is to say hardness of heart? God forbid / why shall I them my struste for to desire and / and obtain great things of the o Lord / seeing thou stirrest me up / and biddest me ask and knock / even till I see me importunate? And what thing can I ask which thou shalt be better content with all / or else that should be more wholesome for me them that thou shouldest make me rejoice in thy son our saving health.