A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

Forgive us our sins. The Lords prayer in that one petition teacheth, Nos esse quotidianos peccatores, ¹& ut tota vita sit paenitentia; that we are daily sinners, and that our whole life should be nothing else, but a Lent to prepare our selves against the Sabaoth of our rest, and the Easter of our Resurrection. The Creed teacheth us to believe the Remission of our sins;² and that God will blot out all our transgressions. Yea, that they are so remitted, as if they never had been committed. The Lamb of God takes them away. Dimittendo quae facta sunt, & adjuvando ne fiant, & perducendo, ³ad vitam ubi omnino fieri non possunt: by pardoning sins past, and preventing sins to come, and bringing us to that place where sin can be no more: ô blessed place where is no sinne! Coelum est, ⁴ubi cessat culpa. Heaven begins, where sin ends. We cannot be so quit of it yet: it is well, saith Luther, if as God told Rebecca; Major serviet minori: the elder shall serve the younger. Our enemies are older, our sins greater than we, yet they shall serve for our good: for they must needs be comprehended within that universal and indefinite number of All things, that shall work together to our best, Ro. 8.28. Thus if we could see the irksome filthiness of our sins, we would think our Purging the greatest happiness. As David of his enemies, so let us comfort our selves concerning our sins, Psal. 118.12. Though they compass us about like bees, yet in the Name of our Lord Jesus we shall destroy them.

Forgive us our sinnes. The Lords prayer in that one petition teacheth, Nos esse quotidianos peccatores, ¹& ut tota vita sit paenitentia; that we are daily sinners, and that our whole life should be nothing else, but a Lent to prepare our selves against the Sabaoth of our rest, and the Easter of our Resurrection. The Creed teacheth us to beleeve the Remission of our sinnes;²