Of Thank Esgiving. Chap. VIII

AFTER meditation foloweth thankesgeuing, of which a man must take occasion of the meditation past, and giue thankes vnto our lord, for the benifit he hath donne vnto him in the same; as for example, yf the meditation was of the passion, he must thanke our lord that he hath redeemed vs with so great paines. And if it were of our sinnes; for that he hath expected vs so long time to dooe penance; yf it were of the miseries of this life, for that he hath deliuered vs from so manie of them; yf of the departing out of this woorld, and of the hower of our death; for that he hath deliuered vs from the daungers of it, and expected vs, and giuen vs life to dooe penance; and yf it were of the glorie of paradise, for that he hath created vs to be partakers of so great a felicitie: and so like wise we maie dooe in the rest.

And with these benifits thou mustioine all the other beneifits, of which we have spoken before, which be the b[…]ni[…]it of Creation, Conseruation, Redemption, Vocation, and Glorification: and so tho […] giue thankes to our lo[…]d, for that he […]ach made thee to his I kenes and image, and hath giuen the memorie, to remember him; vnderstanding, to know[…]him, and evil to loue him; and for that he hath given hee an angel, to keepe thee from so […] angers and peril[…], and from so manie mortal sinnes, and also from de[…]th, thou being in sinne, which was no lesse benefit, then to deliuer thee frome erlast ng[…]dea[…]h: and forthat he made thee to be borne of Christian parents, and gaue thee holie baptisme, and the ein his grace, and promised thee his glorie, and receaued thee fo[…] his child.

Also with these benifit[…], thou mustioine other general and particular benifits, which thou knowest to haue receaued of our lord; and for these and al others, as wel publique as priuate, thou must yeeld him as hartie thankes as possiblie thou maist, and inuite al creatures, as wel in heauen as in earth, that they assist and help thee, to dooe thy dutie in this, and with this spirite and desire thou maist saie somtimes that Canticle: Benedicite omnia opera Do[…]ti Domino, or els the psalme: Benedic anima mea Domi[…]o, & omnia quae intra me sunt nomini sancto eius. Benedic anima mea Domino, & noli ohliuisci onmes retributiones eius. Qui propitiatur omnibus iniquita […]bus tuis, qui sanat omnes infirmitates tuas. Qui redimit de interitu vitam tuam, qui coronat te in mis[…]ricordia & miserationibus.