¶ Here after followeth the prologue / To the Ientyll and loueynge readers hereof, That in the merites of Christes passion delighteth.  
AL ye Ientyll and loueyng readers that in the merits of Christes passion delighteth, Note ye only mine intent / and not my rude barbarous tongue / that for lack of intelligence / may soon vary / from clene & pure eloquence / which for pity & compassion of the poor baron sinners / that lieth strangled in sin, haue interprised in most humble wise / vnderneth your correction, this little treats to translate / out of the Latin tongue / into english beseeching god of his mercy and grace, that by the oft reading hereof / we may both stablish our inward love toward god, & with goostely perceuerans / to the {per}feccyon of the soul, whereby the frauwarde and envious rankour / of our ghostly enemy the devill / & the occasion of sin / may be utterly subpressed, and the will of god and his commandments accomplished, that consequently by the means therof / & through the merits of his most bitter passion, we may receive our eternal reward / in his everlasting glory & Ioy.  
AMEN.   

¶ Here beginneth the communicacyon between Ihesu christ, and the sinner  The sinner. 
O My most benign lord Iesu christ / haue mercy and pity on me and forgive thy most vnworthyest and unhappy servant toward the / willing with the to commune a lyttyll.  Iesu christ. 
¶ who arte thou / that so lamentably complaineth.  The sinner. 
¶ A sinful man that unhappily and vnaduysely hath fallen unto many and dyvers filthy sins, ye and from the course of this present life, unto eternal damnation, which unto me is most vnhappyest and horyble, in time to come.  christ. 
¶ fear thou not this horrible decay and rewen, yf thou wilt utterly forsake thy sins / receyueynge penance / with true contricyon / making satisfaction, and never here after to offend. Truly I being the heavenly glory and inestimable sweetness / descended from my regal throne / of most highest magnificence, unto unmeasurable dolours & pains, which gladly I haue suffered in my mind / in my body & membres / with all sences & partes thereof, to deliver thee from eternal damnation, & to give the my heuenlye inheritance & perpetual glory,  
And also doubt thou not / but I will clearly forget all thine offences / so long as thou arte in will & purpose utterly to forsake thine evil consuetude & custom therof, ye and I say moreover / I will not remember thine inequite, but utterly expel and cause hyt to be so far indistans from the / as is the morning spring out of the occident, and I shall mundefye & cleanse thee of thy filthy sins, & will not leave the desolate, before I haue accomplished these sayeynges in most ample wise.  

o. v.  ubi autem habundauit delictum supper habundauit et gratia. That is to say, truly where 'vice & syn hath ben habundant / my grace & mercy far passed in plenteousnes, there is no armony more delectable or swetter unto me / then my will & commandments to be accomplysshed / with faithful love & firm hope in my mercy / and with humble teers to pray and byseche me / of thy sins to be forgiven.  The sinner. 
¶ O crucified Iesu / I know doubtless that I am more dearly beloved with that / then I am with myself / For with the truly I am at all times tenderlye beloved / whereof it is written. Diligis enim oia queen sunt et nichil odisti eorum queen fecisti. 
Sa. x  verily thou louyst all things and hatyst nothing that is of thy creation. But for as much as man oftentimes loveth not the / so oftentimes man louethe not himself / whereof the prophet david spekethe. 
Psal.  Qui autem diligit iniquitatem odit animam suam. who that delyteh in vice and syn abhorreth & hateth his own soul  christ. 
¶ I haue shewed this thing with continual dolours in all my painful life / For truly I received the cross of my bitter passion in the womb of my mother / & bare hit continually in my hart & stablished hit in my body with great austerite / wherefore to show the endless measure of the hideous pains of my soul / I willed al my membres to haue sweten blood and water / in the final & instan● end of my bitter passion / and to reuelate the same which before was secretly hide within me from the womb of my mother / hit was convenient at the time of my death openly to be shewed by exteryor signs unto my elect faithful people.  The sinner. 
¶ O most ientyll Iesu I beseech the / behold and take heed unto this bloody sweet / with the which / all thy precious membres was dyscoloured and made read, And all thy precious soul tormented most bitterly which remaineth in all partes of thy glorious body, and is the conservation & life therof, But notwithstanding my most heavenly lord / show unto me what thing thou requerest of me / For all these inestimable pains that for my sake thou hast so continually suffered.  christ. 
¶ Onely love for love I axe no more / For truly to purchase & by love / was the cause that I suffered mine intollorable passion.  The sinner. 
¶ O most worthiest lord with out doubt / thou art most pureste love / for thou arte of thy nature good in thyself / for there may none be good but thou onely god For by thy goodenes gracious lord, thou delyuerest man / from the servitude & bondage of our ghostly enemy the devil. And by hit thou remyttyst & forgyuest sin, which thing no man can do / but thou lord god only. And also thou louyst them that loveth thee, as the wise man in his {pro}uerbes saith. 
ro. viii  Ego diligentes me diligo. And hereist them that denoutlye prayeth & calleth unto the, As the prophet david saythe. 
s. cxiiii  Dilexi quoniam exaudiet dominus. That is to say, I haue loved my lord god, forbecause he will here my prayer ye and thou good lord / arte the brennyng charity / which unto the world camest to inflame & move the slothful & frosty cold hartes of synners, And thou sayest also. Ego veni vt vitam habeant et habundancius habeant. 
joh. x   
I came for synners to haue life in this world by grace and consequently more abundance of my glory, in the world to come.  christ. 
¶ without doubt there is nothing that so kendeleth the divine fire of charity, in thy heart, as doth the keeping of my commaunddementes, & to ponder well my words that now thou hast spoken, And mark well these sayeynges foloweng, 
joh. ii  Sic enim deus dilexit mundum vt filium suum vnigenitum daret. That is to say, God my father, hath so tenderly loved the world, that for redemption therof, He gave me his onely son, unto the cruel and most bitter death of cross.  The sinner. 
¶ truly lord, he is a wretched sinner, in whos hart the fire of love will not kendyll, when he consydereth these things, wherein appeareth the high love and charity of god, O thou onely son of god, I beseech the, suffer not my poor hart to be frozen or bound, with such frosty cold, but haue pity and mercy on me, and give me grace that I may say these words with the prophet david. Factum est cor meum, tanquam cera liquessens. 
●… s. xxi.  My heart is molefyed with love, & made as soft as melted wax.  christ. 
¶ The unquiet mind of man, took occasion of unkindness before my passion, saying that he was created & made, but not as yet redeemed, By reason whereof, I am said man nomore bound unto god, then other creatures, Ne yet there laboureth no more effect in me, then in the brute bestes, But now saith the prophet david, 
Ps. lxii  Obstructum est as loquentium iniqua. The wykked mouths of such blasfemers be put unto scylens, and the occasion of such unkindness is now void & utterly expelled, truly I haue laboured more for the redemption of mankind, then in the creation of all the world, ye forsooth & of a lord most puesaunt, I was made a servant, and from wealth & riches, I was turned into poverty and necessity And of immortal I was made mortal, & of the wisdom of god, I was made to be incarnate, & of the son of god, I was made the son of man, And also I haue suffered the most shamfulest rebukes of proud and approbryous people that ever might be seen, I haue moreover meekly suffered crafty and subtell people in their deeds, disdayners & repungners against my sayings, mockers and scorners in my bitter pains and passion, poverty & necessity of my body / the oryble abhoryng of death / and the hateful dyspyce of the cross.  The sinner. 
¶ O marvelous & inestymable love / what may I recompens that my lord god again / for all his bitter sorrows / that he hath suffered for me,  christ. 
¶ If thou wilt remember howe many things I being the lord of high majesty / and the only son of god / hath suffered for the, and yf thou wouldest give thyself to die a thousand times, thou were not able ne yet sufficient, to recompens me equally, For the benignity of such a benefit lieth out of every mannes power to requite,  The sinner. 
O good lord / thou saydes here before / that thou riceyued the cross of thy bitter passion / and bare it continually / from the womb of thy blessed mother, unto the our of death, Therfore I beseech the / show unto me those reasons / that caused such sharp & bitter pains, to be always in thy sacred soul, that hit may be openly knowwen / howe much I am bound unto the / the lord of glory, that for my sake / thou did conclude thyself unto death, that I may īioy thi heavenly beatitude / which eye never saw / near never hard,  christ. 
¶ Consider thou diligently / with a ceruent sprit / & a lively hartt / that for thy sake / and all mankind, I haue suffered a double marterdome, One in body a nother in soul, that thou should be accept and taken for the sacrefice of god by true love and compassion, all inflamed with the love of charity / to waste and devour thy rusty & kankerd syn, And unto my corporal merterdome take good head & behold, thou shalt se & perceive that there was never passion of any mertyr so bitter & painful, the which might be compared unto my passion, and this will I prove unto thee, by authority, by sign, and by reason, first I will prove unto that by authority, That I myself crieth out of my grete and inestimable sorrows, by the mouth of the prophet saying, 
Trino. 〈…〉   
O vos omnes qui transitis {per} viam attendite et videte si est dolor similis sicut dolor meus.  
O all ye people that walketh by the way behold and se, yf their be any sorrows like unto my dolorous passion, as I may well verefy there is none. secondly I will prove by sign and token, for their was never such signs or tokens sene in the merterdome of any other / as was sene in my passion / and to show the hard & defficultnes therof / the sone waxed obscure and dark / and the earth trymled and quaked / as yf they had taken {per}ceueraunce of a meek compassion / with lamentable cryenges / they bewailed me the / son of god / hanging then on the cross / for there may no creature suffer or abide my injury and damage done unto me his creator wherī tho wyked & cursed hartes may be reproved / that will not be moved unto compassion / and sorrow of my death. thirdly I will prove the bitterness of my passion unto thee by reason / For thou shalt understand / that my complexcyon / was most noblest in nature / my flesh uncorrupt / and the four elements that was joined unto it / was most equally divided / and moreover then that / I received my pure & clene flesh of a virgin immaculate / for to avoid and expel original sin, that is to say / the inordinate concupycence, & with such a complexcyon / the sweet amiable beute / & the fersnes of strength alway doth agree, & in as much as the quantytye of every element / is the more {pro}porcyonably joined to gether / whereof man is made & create / so much more difficult & harder is their seperacyon / by this yt appeareth by reason / that the seperacion of my body and soul, was much more paynfuller then all other dethes, also how much more as my flesh and body was preserved and clear from all original sin, so much was hyt likewise the more paynfuller to be tormented. And as toucheynge my spiritual merterdome what I haue suffered in my soul, thou shalt take good hede / as I haue shewed unto the before / that yt began in me / when my soul was first vnyed unto my body within the womb of the blessed virgin my mother & so always continued from hour to hour and never ceased the space of .xxxiii. yeres and above / to the time my soul was separate from my body. And therfore was I constituted & ordained a martyr in the womb of my blessed mother / wherefore was I never without the bitter martyrdom of my soul not one moment of an hour / for what so ever I suffered / the night when I was taken / and in the day following when I was slain / of mocks: and scorninges / despisinges and blasfemynges / spyttynges & defyinges / the cronyng of thorn the bitter drink of eysel and gal the naylynge and stratchynge of my body upon the cross / all these things my blessed soul sustained and bore in all my life dayes before / but specially thou oughtest to ponder well in thy mind and take good hede that the most sharpest dart and most bitter anguyssh of the blessed virgin my mother was an excessive cause of all my dolorous pains in the respect of all my sorrows For as much as the degree of her motherly excellency it beseemed to be in perfect charity / with a fervent love toward me her own child / so much dyde she sorrow and bewail my bitter pains & passion / as much and more then ony living woman might so do wherefore her most painful heart continually wounded my mind / in giving new and fierce bitter torments unto my soul / through her motherly cross or sorrow. Another cause of my continual sorrows was all the martyrdoms that ever was / or hereafter this shall come unto my loving friends for my sake. wherefore I will tell thee of truth that all tho pains that every martyr hath suffered in body and soul for my sake / from Adam unto the last man / which at the worlds end shall be born / all these pains I suffered in my soul without measure / and of very compassion they wounded and subpressed my heart more deeper then all tho corporal pains that ever they haue or shall actually suffer in their own bodies / and for to verify the truth hereof there ben .ii. causes. One is that I beheld presently all things that hath ben created and is created / or shall be created in the clear glass of my deite. wherefore as soon as my soul was joined unto my body / unto the time I gave up my sprit, I began always to behold all tho pains that were for to come, both unto me and unto my loving friends which most cruelly dyde always torment the inferior partes of my soul / and of this thing specially I was greatly and more grievously pained in my sprit, then ever was or shallbe any of them in their own proper persons.  
Another cause there is that my spirit was so tormented with such pains / and that was the abundance and superfluity of love, for love ever increaseth and gendereth sorrow and heaviness in the sprit / for like as mans love is the more steadfastly and fervently fixed toward me / so much more is mans soul tormented with the sorrow of my death and passion / & for be cause I haue loved thee and all men more incomperable then possible ony man may love himself, therfore I haue suffered more pain in my sprit of all tho things then ever any martyr hath suffered or doth suffer and shal to the worlds end. And thou knowest very well that when paul consented unto the stonyng & death of Stephen, & {per}secuted my christen people, I said unto him. Saule Saule Quid me persequeris. 
Act. ix  Saule Saule why dost thou persecute me, and yet did not he persecute me in mine own proper person, but in the persons of my elect and chosen friends. For what so ever is done unto my friend, be it good or evil, it is done unto me. And this proceedeth of a special love / that I haue unto man. So therfore thou mayst consider for what cause my passion excelleth in pains al other that ever hath suffered, or hereafter shall suffer, for because I was tormented both in body and in soul, being pure without sin / and in a pleasant nature, and suffered both mine own martyrdom, and also the martyrdom of all my elect people al daies of my life. For al such pains never dide perish ony of them in their own proper bodies as it crucified my soul for the space of .xxxiii. yeres and odd whereof the prophet ysay lamently complaineth, crieth and saieth. 
Esa. liii.  Vere langores nostros ipse tulit et dolores not̄s ipse portauit. doubtless he hath taken on him our sorrows, and born on his precious body our most grievous pains, and therfore I might never laugh, but oftimes weep, and appeared as though I had ben of the age of fifty yeres and above, where I was but xxxiii. yeres and odd, and al caused the incessant torments and continual dolours that was for to come, both toward myself and my elect people, which always clearly I beholded & painfully bore in the strength of my remembrance wherefore I said oftentimes to my father Multi enim gemit{us} & cor meum merens. 
Trino. i  My sorrows ben great & my heart is full heavy, and these things I show unto the whereby thou shouldest be moved to the more love & compassion toward me, for as much as my life and yeres wasted & comsumed with sorrows & pain.  The sinner. 
¶ O good Iesu I here very well perceive ther is no mans reason may compass & sufficiently deserne the profound depnes of sorrows & vnmesurable heaviness that always remained in thy sacred soul and most painful passion, likewise followed thy most holy & devout body. But natwithstandyng vnderneth my most humble obedience & thy holy will not displeased I move unto the one question meruaylyng much how any such extreme sorrows or pains might in any wise come to thy blessed soul, when all glory, all ioy & heavenly felicity to it was present & fast knit & vnyed unto thy deite / whose amiable beauty & most glorious countenance is so joyful & above all comparisons in gladness that if al the dampned souls of hel might ones behold as doth the blessed sprytes alway assystyng before the high majesty of thy godhead could never suffer torments or pains of any sorrow or heaviness by sight of devils, or crucifying in the most sharpest fire of hell.  Christ. 
¶ even as thou sayest ther is no doubt, but my soul was & alway is glorified, howe be it my body was mortal & ordained to death. Natwithstandyng my soul after the superior powers & partes therof was in as high glory and ioy from the sudden moment or instant time that it was joined to my body both then & afterward, as well at the time when I hung on the cross, as when I descended to hel as I am at this day sitting at the right side of my father. But as touching the inferior powers of my soul was in a continual {per}ceuerans with an extreme sorrow, for the fore said causes / but by course of nature / such a marvelous thing might never be sene the ioy & gladness was ever acompanyed together in one soul, but this thing was done by meruayl{us} divine power & miracul{us} {pro}uision of my godhead, for after natural course both ioy & sorrow may never agree together / but ever the one expelleh the other / so that they both may never remain in one place. And for because thou mayst understand these things more evidently, I would thou {per}ceuydest / that the well & fountain of al my sorrows / was the high & in estimable despensacion & pardon / of my father, which did prohibyt and forbid the influence or flux of the glory of my deite, which remained in the superior powers of my soul / that in no wise should redowne unto the inferior partes therof. For without such provision / it were unpossible my soul could ever haue suffered any pain or sorrow but because this flux or influence was clearly prohibyt in me / therfore I dyde parfetely rest in joy and glory / after the superior partes. And after the inferior partes therof / I was most vehemently crucified with intolerable pains, And so the paternal power of my father conjoined miraculously the most deepest sorrow / with most highest sweetness / & the most highest power with the most wekest infirmity / forbecause this flux or influence was {pro}hibit in me / & that passed the course of nature / for by natural course the superior powers of the soul ought to nourish & feed the inferior partes. And in as much as this despensacion and pardon was the more sulphuroous ordained / my pain and sorrows was the more sharp and bitter. Also thou shalt understand, that in all my fervent pains & passion I observed & kept my natural course unto my last end of death, whereby I suffered the more pains and sorrows.  The sinner. 
¶ without doubt good lord / he is worthy of death that refuseth to live with the eternally, which hath given thy life for us / and he that lyuethe is but a dead man, that will not both represent in himself the remembrance of thy most bitter and continual passion and alway bear on his body thy sore & grievous wounds, by doyenge sharp & straight penance / and also will not crucifye himself in his painful heart / and prepayre & make unto himself a torment of depressyng carnal affection & voluptuous pleasure.  christ. 
¶ Si quis vult venire post me abneget semet ipm & tollat crucē suam quotidie & sequat̄ me. 
Ma. xv  that is to say / he that will come after me / let him take on him his cross & always follow me.  The sinner. 
¶ O merciful Iesu that arte the profound wisdom & excellent virtue of god / illumyne my soul with the gift of understanding, that I may perceive thy words.  christ. 
¶ In this my words thou shalt understand, that unto reasonable man which is made as the image of god, I haue provided .iii. things / that is bondshyp / vile & sharp sorrow, in forsaking him self appeareth bondshyp / in bearing of his cross is vilete & shane / in following me betokeneth bytt̄ sorrow. who that falleth by inobedience from the state of iii. felicites must humbly arise by the obedience of .iii. miserable afflyctions. Treuly he falleth from the associacion and fellowship of angels & from the clear vision & fruicion of my deite & from the heavenly btintude, therfore let him here my counsel & follow the same, that in forsaking himself / which doth signify his proper will, he shall recover his free liberty. And in taking on him his cross, that is for to suffer gladly to be contemned and despised of other / he shal recover the heavenly fellowship and company of angels / and in following me that is the steps of my passion by chastening of his body, he shal recover the clear vision of my godhead.  The sinner. 
¶ Verily good lord, it is meet and convenient ye and also necessary, who that will reign with thee in glory and joy, they should with the likewise suffer sorrow & tribulation, and tho that will be nourished with thy most blessed countenance ought to follow thy bitter passion.  Christ. 
happy is this sentence or Iudgement of thy mouth, but blessed & more happyer is he that always doth revolve in his mind & remember perfitly how straight and narrow and how bitter and sharp is the way that conducet man to eternal life, win it beseemed me for too suffer such sorrows before I myself might entre my glory, yf I in such wise bought mine own proper glory, who is he that may or shall haue it freely by due right and title, with pastime & pleasure. wherefore there is none otherway unto the kingdom of heaven, but by pain & labour. And that rich man which will not chasten his body here, with labour & pain, in the respect of penance: he shall be associate with the devil in pains. And the poor man truly with pain and labour in this miserable life: seeketh the crown of eternal glory.  The sinner. 
¶ Alas & wo be unto me most sinful man, that more delighted in carnal affection and more was deceived by vanity of this world then to follow the, which oftentimes for pity of me, didst very bitterly weep & wail / & as I have rede thy blessed mother & virgin immaculate / did ones joy / in singing her canticle. 
luke. i●…  But o how oftentimes did the sharp sword of sorrow wound and pierce her holy soul. 
luke. i●…  And also Iohn baptist the exempler & leader of penauns ones did ioy within the womb of his moder which oftentimes is to be supposed / did lamentably sorrow with an heavy heart.  christ. 
¶ I hanging on the cross / did promise {per}adice to none but unto them being on the cross with me. 
Gala. 〈…〉  They hangeth on the cross that crucifieth their flessh with 'vice & concupiscens Also I prayed on the cross only for negligent synners & not for wilful synners, truly as long as they be so they be crucified, without clyppynge or brasinge of me, for I the which instretched mine arms on the cross / enbrased & byclypped all those for whom I suffered my passion. if therfore thou wilt ascend after me / and in heaven with me to be resident / it beseemeth thou follow me by the way of the cross / by the which I haue entred into my glory. Thou canst not trust unto a better way then to follow the same wherein I haue gone before. Truly yf thou stray or wander from my steps / thou shalt peryssh for evermore. Take diligent hede that thou perceive in what way thou mayst ascend in to heaven. I without doubt coming unto this world descended by a ladder having .iii. steps & that is humility / poverty & pain / whereof it is rede in holy scripture.  
¶ invenietis infantem pannis inuolutum et positum in precepio. 
luke. ii  That is to say / ye shal finde a little child full poor & needy / wrapped with clothes of sorrow / & lying in a manger / & by these .iii. degrees I returned afterward unto heaven again. These steps my valiant apostle paul considereth & noteth in me / where as he writeth. 
Phi. ii  Exinaniuit semet ipm. That is to say / he hath forsaken himself. Here mayst thou behold in me / the degree of poverty, 
Phi. ii  Formam accipiens And taken on him the office of a servant. Here mayst thou behold in me the degree of humility. 
Phi. ii  Factus obediens vsque ad mortem. And made obedient unto death. behold here is in me the degree of bitter sorrow / but whither doth this ladder of three steps conduce and lead me hearken what followeth. 
●… hi. ii.  Propter {quod} et deus illum exaltauit et dedit illi nomen: {quod} est supper omne nomen. For because of that, god hath both exalted him and given unto him such name that passeth al names. Therfore they be fools and worse then mad that will ascend unto heaven after me, by a ladder having contrary degrees or steps / that is to say / by riches / honours / and pleasures of the world / for as these things leadeth man unto infernal pains: so doth the first conduce man unto heaven.  The sinner. 
¶ O lord it is a marvelous abusyon / for a servant to rest & make good cheer / and the lord to suffer pain and take great labour.  christ. 
¶ who that devoutly will remember my passion / let him be a shamed to follow the pleasure and voluptuousness of the body, for the remembrance of my passion doth torment and expel al 'vice and sin / for in my passion all men may contemn the pleasure of the world and the flesh which yf thou wilt overcome without labour thou oughtest devoutly remember my passion / and in the same joyously to delight and styck surely to my wounds ye and yf thou wilt overcome & resist the devil / which singularly doth persecute virtuous & well disposed people / and to subpresse him from his crafty wylynes / thou oughtest always to remember my heavy passion. But it is necessary and convenient / that they imprynt and mark the carecter and similitude of my passion in their manners and conversation / the which doth imprynt or mark for their defence, the sign and token of my passion in their forehedes, & that they live vnderneth the lawe of me, with whose faith they be armed otherwise such falsely beareth the carecter of my father, whose commandments they will not follow ne yet observe. And also such be not safely defended by the cross of me, whose sorofull pains they will not consider.  The sinner. 
¶ O meek Iesu be thou merciful and gracious / in giving a more larger comfort or joy unto my hearing, by showing unto me most wretched sinner / the profits & fruits that cometh by daily remembrance of thy most holy passion.  christ. 
¶ The remembrance of my death oft by daily ruminacion / to flamme and burn in the auter of thy remembrance for many causes. The first cause is: thou mayst do no thing that more delighteth or pleaseth me / then to exercise thy hart with love / compassion / in honouring & following my passion of the which no doubt there is: but it doth appear in many authorities of holy scripture. And for sooth I warn the to print and mark in thy soul my tender love and amorous pains / & for the same thou give me hearty thankes / & as a sign or token thou put & join me vpon thy hart: as yf I said. love me as I love the. remember thou not onely what things I haue made unto the / but howe bitter & vile things I haue suffered for the. And yf thou love me not / thou art mine enemy. And therfore take hede & consider thou do not me offend. who is he truly doth love the as I do. who is he that so desireth to be beloved with the as I do. Therfore after this / put me on thy hart as a sign or token thou lovest me with al thy strength / & on thine arms that thou mayst perform with all thy love tho things which be pleasant unto me. And within thy heart that thou mayst subpresse all things in this world / that unto the is pleasant in thy love / and prefer me evermore above al things / and that thou always love me more and more. The second is: thou oughtest fervently to remember my passion / for thou mayst haue by it a perfect guide unto my divine love. Truly by my passion I haue shewed my quantity of love unto the. wherefore thou oughtest to consider that love deserveth & requireth love again And more over take good heed what I will say unto the. I never willed to haue redeemed man by prayer or intercession / for so might man quickly deliver man from captivity / ne yet also by the price of gold or silver / for in such wise be the rewde bestes: as sheep or oxen redeemed and bought. But the conclusion of mannes redemption / was determined to be bought with the price of my precious blood / that my love should hang always in the price of the thing that is bought: masspriest therfore thou shouldest vylepend and not regard thine 〈◇〉 〈◇〉 Consider thou quickly the price of thyself / for if I should haue redeemed man with gold or silver / it might haue ben supposed the soul of man were to be compared with worldly riches / for that thing which is bought or redeemed is far more precious / then that thing by the which it is bought or redeemed. And therfore is thy soul more precio{us} thē my blood ¶ thirdly is for the excitynge of devotion / whereof a figure is rede / that samson found a hony comb within the mouth of a dead lion. This lion am I, of the tribe of Iude in whose mouth the sweet honi comb of devotion, was found by that which the spiryt of man is refreshed & marvelously comforted. O yf thou tookest good hede / thou wouldest consider / and perfitly ponder how petifully my mouth opened and seemed half on live & half dead / and my tongue was deformed with gore blood, ye and I dare well say / yf thy heart were as hard as is the steel, this thing well pondered and remembered, it should be made lyquyet with compassion and devotion. The fourth fruit of the remembrance of my passion is, because in it is found a sure defence against all enemies. whereof my apostle Pet{er} doth say. 
Pet. iiii.  Xpo igit̄ passo in carne et vos eadem cogitatione armamini. Christ therfore hath suffered death & passion incarnate / that by the remembrance therof look ye arm yourself / & as ysayas rehearseth likewise. 
●… ye. ii.  In gredere in petram. As a king that is not able to withstand his enemies in the field, taketh succour of the castle. So entre ye into the ston which am I: of whom the Prophet speaketh of. For an enemy shall never prevail against him in whom the daily battle of my passion alway delighteth.  
The fifth is because man onely is restored unto his merits by none other maner of means but by the remembrance of my passion / for the fundament of all grace and the roote of merit consisteth in the dolour of my hart and crucyfyinge of my body / the which my elect postell saith. Non enim iudicaui me scire aliquid inter vos nisi Iesun Christum et hunc crucifixum. 
Cor. ii  truly I haue not judged or determined to know any thing of myself amongst you: but my lord Iesu christ & that he was crucified. And also bernard the devout child of my blessed mother like wise saith. 
Barndus.  Summa philosophia mea inqd est scire christum Iesun et hunc crucifixum. My most high learning and understanding he saith is for to know Iesu christ & that he was crucified. But for as much as there be so many ennemyes unto my cross / thou oughtest to be heavy & sorry / with a lamentable heart / for the voluptuous unbelievers of this miserable world be my persecutors and followers of my death / not as fauters and aucters to the same but as despysers and contempters therof. That wilfully excludeth and avoideth from them / the merits of my passion and causeth themself to be unworthy of my heavenly benediction and ineffable glory / and will in no wise convert unto me / but always continue in pleasure and delight of body / such not onely mocketh and scorneth the merites of my passion, but also tredeth me the sone of god vnderneth their feet, and taketh disdain of my spiritual grace, for a carnal life is injury unto god. A malicious despite unto my cross / and provoketh shane and rebuk unto all the hole Trynite.  
The sixth is that the remembrance of my passion causeth all pains and labours / to be glad and joyful that synners taketh in the way of penance and the exercise of a godly and a religious life, for truly a devout knight never feeleth his own sorrows or pains what time he perceiveth and beholdeth the sore plagues and wounds of his gentle lord and duke. The seventh is that my passion called unto remembrance quencheth & utterly banyssheth all carnal concupyscence. For with out doubt the sight of my passion wedreth and drieth what so ever thing followeth man of a carnal desire. The eight causeth exercise of compungcyon & penance doing, in recompense of sins, for who is he that will not wail and sorrow in most largest wise, knowing that his sins be so odyous and hateful in the sight of god my father, that for the purgeyng therof, he willed me his elect son / to suffer most painful death and passion on the cross. The nyneth causeth multyplyenge & increasyng of good faith and hope, for a sinner hath refuge by my cross / as a thief or homicyde hath by a church or cymitory. There is nothing to that death, that by my death may not recover. I haue changed the sentence of eternal damnation, by crucyfying my body. For in that sentence which desperate gave against me. I took on me the combrous weight and burden of all sins, and was judged unto death for all synners to discharge and utterly expulse their filthy sins, with the which they were long time before, sore pestered and accombred. wherefore now according unto thy desire I haue shewed and declared the ghostly fruits that followeth by devout remembrance of my sorrowful passion.  The sinner. 
¶ O good Iesu I now perceive and understand very well, these things thou hast rehearsed, how be it this sentence given by desperate was very perverse and cruel toward thee, and therfore it was detestable to be abhorred / for as much as man hath no power vpon god / ne yet a corrupt liver vpon the just and righteous man. nevertheless as touching for mannes redemption it was marvelous profitable and fruitful and therfore it was through thy provision very loving & most venerable, for as much as it clearly revoked the foresaid judgment or sentence pronounced and declared for the first sin of man For that open sentence of excluding or banysshynge was full of sorrow and heaviness.  
whereof it is written Emisit eum dominus de{us} de paradiso voluptatis. 
〈…〉. iii.  &c. et collocauit ante paradisum voluptatis cherubin et flameum gladium atque versatilem ad custodiendā viam ligni vite. Our lord expulsed man out from paradyce, of heavenly pleasure and assigned, the anugell Cherubyn, with an arming sword, to keep the way unto the three of life. But now happy and blessed is thy sentence whereby the exile, man is called & restored again unto the celestial paradyce when by this sentence the sone of god wrongfully was cast out from his inheritance as a servant: tyllyng and plowyng the vyneyarde of Moyses lawe. whereof the apostle speaketh. Iesus vt scīficaret {per} suum sanguinem populum extra portam passus est. 
Heb. xii  Because that Iesus would halow and sanctify his people by his precious blood, he suffered death without the gate. And well it may so be said that he suffered without to bring us within the gate of heaven. For without doubt we haue onely our entering in, by shedding of his precious blood But o mekest Iesu in most humblest wise, I beseech thee with the fervent powers of my hart, and for all the bitter sorrows and in tolerable passion with the which thy most dulce and pleasant hart was pierced and wounded: as with most kynnest and sharpest darts / ye and also I beseech thee for all the sorrows that thy blessed mother and virgin immaculate sustained and suffered, in beholding thy torments and passion and in especially what time she hard of the cruel sentence of thy condempnacyon unto death / turn toward me thy merciful countenance / and of pity and compassion deliver me poor sinner in the hour of death / and in the extreme day of judgment / from the terrible words and sentence of eternal damnation / which thou shalt sound out with a huge & a fereful voice unto al reproved synners saying. Descedite a me maledicti in ignem eternum: 
Ma. xxv  qui parat{us} est diabolo & angels eius. That is to say depart & get ye hens most wicked & cursed synners unto the eternal fire of hell which is prepared and redy for the devil and all his angels.  christ. 
¶ Blessed & happy is that man which alway beareth in remembrance his final judgment that by the fear and dread / whereof he may withdraw his life from the deceitful pleasures of this world / & without doubt this judgment or sentence is to be feared whereat al things shalbe open & manifestly known without witness & all the hole multitude & company both of angels & holy saints shal be their {pre}sent & eūi creature shal trimble for fear before my high majesty & judicial seat. But what shall they say then that in this little time hath so folysshly & so negligently lived / to whom my saying shalbe in this maner. I haue truly looked for you patiently / & haue very ientely prayed & desired all you unto my kingdom / & for your neclygens I now require of you a countes & more over I say unto you / that for your sakes I took on me the feebleness of natur & was conversant vpon the earth. And for you was I flagellat & scorged in my body / for you was I likewise mocked & scorned & al be spotted & utterly defied & for you I was spytefully beaten & buffed about my face with unclean fystes & hands. For you also I was unjustly condemned unto death / & for you I was crucified in my body & hanged on the cross / & fed with bitter gal & eysel. And al this suffered I to make you holy & blessed saints. I haue more over name & called all you my dere brethren I haue offered al you unto my father. I haue send unto you the sprit of god. I haue opened unto you my paradyce of glory. what ought I more to haue don & haue not performed the same in very dede for your salvation answer unto me ye wretched synners. what haue ye suffered for me your lord & governor which being pure & clene hath suffered so much for you. truly these shalbe the repeticions made at the dreadful day of judgment.  The sinner. 
¶ Alas that ever I was conceived or born / howe miserable a wretch am I: what may I say / or what shall I do / in that dreadful day / when at my appearance I can perform no maner of goodness before the most fearful judge.  christ. 
¶ whiles the time dureth correct thy life / change thy manners / overcome evil temptations / by manfully resystynge / punish thy carkes and pray with lowly tears / thy sins hath the here as a conqueror or a punyssher, that thou mayst in that day haue me not as a judge, but as a saviour yf thou therfore faithfully perform these things rehearsed thou shalt be saved in that daungerous day, without any fear that the multitude of thy sins / shall put the unto. For soth I am a more merciful saviour then thou arte a sinner, thy sins be great but my mercy is infinite / yf thou be a sinner / I am the meek lamb of god which hath taken away the sins of the world / and came not for to call just unbelievers, but sinners unto penance. For truly thou shalt finde in me more mercy and love then thou da●est boldly ask or desy●e.  
¶ Finis.   

¶ Thus endeth the Dialogue or communication between our saviour Ihesu christ and a sinner / lately translated out of the Latin tongue in to english, And newly imprinted, at London in south work by johan Redman, For Robert Redman, Cum privilegio.