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Be glad now all ye Christen men.

Be glad now all ye christen men
and let vs reioyse vnfaynedly.
The kyndnesse can not be written with penne
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that we haue receaued of gods mercy,
whose loue towarde vs hath neuer ende
he hath done for vs as a frende
now let vs thanke hym hartely.
I was a prysoner of the deuell

Ro. 5. b

with death was I also vtterly lost
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My synnes droue me dayly to hell

Psal. 50. a.

Therin was I borne this may I bost
I was also in them ouer ryfe

Psal. 13. a.

There was no vertue in my lyfe
To take my pleasure I spared no cost.
Unto my workes I trusted to sore

Roma. 3. b. Roma. 3. c.

But they coulde not helpe nor yet fre wyll
My herte was not the better therfore

Gene. 6. a.

For I was alwaye geuen to euell
My conscience droue me to despayre
It was so vexed all with feare
There was no helpe but synke to hell.
Than God eternall had pitie on me
To tyd me fro my wyckednesse

Luc. i. f.

He thought of his plenteous great mercy

Ephe. 1. a.

And wolde not leaue me comfortlesse
He turned to me his fatherly herte
And wolde I shulde with hym haue parte
Of all his costly ryches.
He spake to his deare beloued sonne
The tyme is nowe to haue mercye
Thou must be mans redempcyon
And lowse hym from captiuite
Thou must hym helpe from trouble of synne
From paynfull death thou must hym wynne
That he may lyue eternally

Phil. 2. a.

Gods sonne was redy so to do
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1. Tim. 1. c.

Into this worlde he cam to me

Lu. 2. a

Borne of a virgyn pure also
Because he thought my

heb. 2. c

brother to be

Phil. 2. a.

for in my shape he dyd apeare
Me to delyuer whole from feare
And from all euell to make me fre
These louynge wordes he spake to me
I wyll delyuer thy soule from payne
I am desposed to do for the

Ioh 14. a.

And to myne owne selfe the to retayne
Thou shalt be with me for thou art myne
And I with the for I am thyne
Soch is my loue I can not layne
They wyll shed out my precyous bloude
And take away my lyfe also
which I wyll suffre all for thy good
Beleue this sure where euer thou go

Math. 20. b.

For I wyll yet ryse vp agayne
Thy synnes I beare though it be payne
To make the safe and fre from wo.

Ioh. 16. a.

I wyll go from this worldly lyfe
To my deare father with hym to lyue
Yet am I with the in batell and stryfe
Oure spirite of trueth I wyll the geue
which shall the conforte in heuynes
And lede the into godlynes
Thus wyll I all thy synnes forgyue
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Math. 28. c.

Soch thynges as I haue taught and done
Shalt thou both teach and do also
Geue thankes for thy redempcyon
And knowlege my worde where euer thou go
And kepe the well from straunge lernynge
which maye the to destruction brynge
So wyll I neuer departe the fro.
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