The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…

For Christ hath not so redeemed us from sin, that we may safely return thereto again: but he hath redeemed us, that we should ¹forsake the motions thereof, & live to righteousness. Yea, we be therefore washed in our baptism from the filthiness of sin, that we should live ⟨p. 359⟩afterward in the pureness of life. In baptism we promised to renounce the devil and his suggestions, we promised to be (as obedient children) always following Gods will & pleasure. Then if he be our father in deed, let us give him his due honour. If we be his children, let us show him our obedience, like as Christ openly declared his obedience to his father, which (as saint Paul ²writeth) was obedient even to the very death, the death of the cross. And this he did for us all that believe in him. For him self he was not punished, for he was pure and undefiled of all manner of sin. He was wounded (saith Isaiah) for our ³wickedness, and striped for our sins: he suffered the penalty of them him self, to deliver us from danger: he bare (saith Isaiah) all our sores and infirmities upon his own back. No pain did he refuse to suffer in his own body, that he might deliver us from pain everlasting. His pleasure it was thus to do for us, we deserved it not. Wherefore the more we see our selves bound unto him, the more he ought to be thanked of us, yea, and the more hope may we take, that we shall receive all other good things of his hand, in that we have received the gift of his only Son, through his liberality. For if God (saith Saint ⁴Paul) hath not spared his own Son from pain and punishment, but delivered him for us all unto the death: how should he not give us all other things with him? If we want any thing, either ⁵for body or soul, we may lawfully and boldly approach to God, as to our merciful father, to ask that we desire, and we shall obtain it. ⟨p. 360⟩