* 1.1FYRST, that as all men of them selues bee synners,* 1.2 and thorough synne bee in Goddes wrathe, banyshed far away frō hym, condemned to hell and euerlastyng damnation, and none is clearely innocent, but Christe alone: so euery soule inspired by God,* 1.3 is desyrous to be deliue∣red from synne and hell, and to obteyn at God∣des handes, mercy, fauour, righteousnes, and euerlastyng saluation.
And this earnest and greate desyre, is called in scripture, The hunger and thirst of the soule: with whyche kynde of hunger Dauid was ta∣ken, whan he sayde:
* 1.4 As an harte longeth for sprynges of water, so doth my soule long for the O God. My soule hath thyrsted after God, who is the well of lyfe.* 1.5 My soule thyrsteth for the, my fleshe wysheth for thee.
And this hunger the sely poore synfull soule