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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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Deliver me from bloods (oh God) the God of my health / and me tongue shall triumph upon thy ⟨image 127⟩righteousness.
Delyuer me from bloudes (oh God) the God of my hefth / and me tongue shall triumphe vppon thy ⟨image 127⟩ryghtwysenes.
I am stifled in much blood / and from the depth of it shall I cry unto the Lord / lord hark unto my voice. Tarry not lord for I am even at the wynte of death / this blood that I speak of are my since / for as the bodily life consisteth in blood / even so is the life of a sinner in his sin: pour out the blood / and the beest dyeth: pour out the sin knowleginge it unto God / & the sinner dyeth and is made righteous. Nether am I wrapped in blood / but over whelmed & drowned in bloods / full streams of bloods do drive me unto hell / help me Lord / lest I perish. Oh god which governest all things / which only canst deliver me / in whose hand is the spirit of life / tyd and purge me from these bloods. Deliver me from bloods (oh God) the author of my health / God in whom only consisteth my salvation. Deliver me Lord / as thou deliverest Noah from the waters of the flood Deliver me as thou deliverest Loth from the fire of Sodom. Deliver me as thou deliveredst the children of Israel from the depth of the red see / deliver me as thou deliveredst ⟨image 128⟩Jonah from the belly of the whale / deliver me as thou deliverest the three children from the furnace of burning fire Deliver me as thou deliveredst Peter from the peril of the see. Deliver me as thou deliveredst Paul from the deep of the see. Deliver me as thou hast deliveredst infinite sinners from the power of death / & from the gates of hell. And then shall my tongue triumph thy righteousness / that is / for thy righteousness which I shall feel and perceive in me through thy gracious favour For thy righteousness (as the apostle sayeth Roma .iij.) cometh by the faith of Jesus Christ unto all & upon all them that believe in him / then shall my tongue triumph in praising this thy righteousness / commending thy favour / magnifying thy pity knowleginge my sins / that thy mercy may be declared in me which would vouchsafe to justify such a great sinner / & that all men may know that thou savest them which trust in the & deliverest them from extreme anguish & adversity o lord our God.