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

¶The work of faith.

¶The worke of fayth.

Faith worketh by charity / for when my raging conscience which feeleth h•r sin is pacified and set at one with god through faith / then remembering the fervent love of god towards me I can not but love my neighbour again / for there is no man that heartily loveth the father & can hate the son / and all though the son be naught and unthrifty / yet for his fathers sake he will help to better him and even lament and be sorry for the sons wickedness. Likewise if we heartily love God for his infinite benefits done unto us / then can we not hate that creature which he hath made after his own likeness / whom god the father loveth so tenderly that he gave his own son unto the death to redeem him / ye & whom he hath adopted (through Christ) to be his son & heir. Now all be it we see no kindness in this man for which we should love him / yet ⟨image 137⟩hath God showed us kindness enough for the which we ought to love him and succour him at all times. Let us therefore love him for the love that god his creator hath showed us / and bear his infirmity if he fall let us lift him up again / and endue him with our wisdom and all our works / even as Christ hath done with us / and this is an evident token that thou lovest god / when thou lovest thy brother / .i. Joan .iiij. and seekest all means / to help him / these are the good works that follow faith / and are evident tokens that thy faith is right and pure. Thus seest thou how good works / flow out of faith through charity. And charity or love is the fulfilling of the hole law. Roma .xiij.

FAyth worketh by charite / for when my raginge conscience which fealeth h•r synne is pacefyed and sette at one with god thorow fayth / then remembrynge the feruēt loue of god towardes me I can not but loue my neyghboure agayne / for there is no man that hartelye loueth the father & can hate the sonne / and all though the sonne be naught and vnthriftye / yet for his fathers sake he will helpe to better hym and euen lamēt and be sorye for the sonnes wykednesse. Lykewyse yf we hartelye loue God for his infinite benefytes done vnto vs / then can we not hate that creature which he hath made after his awne lykenes / whom god the father loueth so tenderlye that he gaue his awne sonne vnto the deeth to redeme hym / yee & whom he hath adopted (thorow Christ) to be his sonne & heyre. Nowe all be it we se no kindnes in this man for which we shuld loue hym / yet