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

O The God of our fathers / god of mercy / which hast made all with thy word / and with thy wisdom haste constituted man / to have dominion upon the creature which was made of the / to order the world with equity and justice / and with a direct heart for to judge judgements / give me the assistant wisdom of thy seats and reprove me not from thy children. For thy servant am I / & the son of thy hand maid / a man weak & of little time & unsuffycyent to the understanding of thy judgement & laws. And if any shall be of most perfect wisdom among the sons of men / if thy wisdom ones fly from him he shall be counted & regarded at nought. Send thy wisdom from thy holy heavens / & from the seat of thy mightiness that it may be with me / & labour with me / and that I may know ⟨image 16⟩what is acceptable before thee. For she knoweth all / and understandeth all and shall conduit me soberly in my works / & shall •epe me in her power. And my words shall be acceptable. So be it.

O The God of our fathers / god of mercy / whiche hast made al with thy worde / and with thy wysdome haste constytuded man / to haue dominyon vpon the creature whiche was made of the / to order the world with equyte and iustyce / and with a dyrecte herte for to iudge iudgementes / gyue me the assystent wysdome of thy seates and reproue me not from thy chyldren. For thy seruaunt am I / & the sone of thy hāde mayde / a man weyke & of lytle tyme & vnsuffycyent to the vnderstandynge of thy iudgement & lawes. And yf any shall be of moost perfyte wysdome amōge the sones of men / yf thy wysdome ones flye frō him he shall be counted & regarded at nought. Sende thy wysdome frō thy holy heuyns / & frō the seate of thy myghtynes that it maye be with me / & laboure with me / and that I may know