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GEue me ye grace, good Lord, to set the world at naught.
To set my minde fast vpon thee.
And not to hang vppon the blast of mennes mouthes.
To be content to be solitarie.
Not to long for wordly com¦panie.
Litle and litle vtterly to cast of the world.
And rid my minde of all the busines thereof.
Not to long to heare of any worldly things.
But yt the hearing of worldly fantasies may be to me displea∣saunt.
Gladly to be thinkīg of God,
Pitiously to cal for his helpe.
To leane vnto the comfort of God.
Busily to labour to loue him.
To know mine owne vilitie and wretchednes.
To humble & meekē my selfe vnder the mighty hand of God.
To bewaile my sinnes past.
For the purging of them pa∣ciently to suffer aduersitie.
Gladly to beare my purga∣torie here.
To be ioyful of tribulation.
To walke the narowe waie that leadeth to life.
To beare the Crosse with Christe.
To haue the last thinges in remembrance.
To haue euer before myne eye my death that is euer at hand.
To make death no stranger to mee.
To foresee and consider the euerlasting fier of hel.
To praie for pardon, before the Iudge come.
To haue cōtinually in minde the Passion that Christ suffered for mee.
For his benefites incessantly to geue him thankes.
To buy the time againe, that I before haue lost.
To absteine from vaine con∣fabulations.
To eschue light foolish mirth and gladnes.
Recreations not necessarie to cut of.
Of worldly substance, frinds, libertie, life & al, to set the losse at right nought, for the win∣ning of Christe.
To thinke my most enemies my best friends.
For the bretherne of Ioseph could neuer haue done him so much good with their loue and fauour, as they did him with their malice and hatred.
These mindes are more to be desired of euery man, than al the treasure of all the Princes and Kings Christian and Heathen, were it gathered and laid toge∣ther all vpon one heape.