The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

Prayer is a mourning a longing and a desire of the spirit to god¹ ward for that which she lacketh as a sick morneth and sorroweth in his heart longing for health. Faith ever prayeth. For after that by faith we are reconciled to God and have received mercy and forgiveness of God the spirit longeth and trusteth for strengeth to do the will of God, and that God may be honoured, his name hallowed, and his² pleasure and will fulfils. The spirit waiteth and watcheth on the will of god and ever hath her own fragility & weakness before her eyes, and when she seeth tentation and peril draw nigh, she turneth to God & to the testament that God hath made to all that believe and trust in Christs blood and desireth God for his mercy, trueth and for the love he hath to Christ, that he will fulfil his promise, ⟨image 43⟩that he shall succour and help and give us strength, and that he will sanctify his name in us and fulfil his godly will in us, and that he will not look on our sin and iniquity, but on his mercy, on his trueth, and on the love that he oweth to his son Christ and for his sake to keep us from tentation, that we be not overcome and that he deliver us from evil, and what so ever moveth us contrary to his Godly will. More over of his own experience³ he feeleth other mens need, and no less commendeth to God the infirmities of other then his own knowing that there is no strength, no help, no succour but of God only. And as merciful as he feeleth god in his heart to him self ward so merciful is he to other, and as greatly as he feeleth his own miseri, so grate compassion hath he on other. His neighbours is no less care to him then him self. He feeleth his neighbours grief no less then his own. And when so ever he seeth occa sion he can not but pray for his neighbour as well as for him self: his nature is to seek the honour of god in all men, and to draw (as much as in him is) all men unto God