Commentary upon the Epistle to the Galatians

And although it appear not before the world,¹ that we be renewed in spirit and have the holy Ghost, yet notwithstanding our judgement, our speech & our confession do declare sufficiently that the holy Ghost with his gifts is in us. For before we could judge rightly of nothing. We spake not as now we do. We confessed not that all our works were sin and damnable,² that Christ was our only merit both before grace & after, as now we do in the true knowledge and light of the Gospel. Wherefore let this trouble us nothing at all, that the world (whose works we testify to be evil) judgeth us to be most pernicious heretics and seditious persons, destroyers of religion, and troublers of the common peace, possessed of the Devil speaking in us and governing all our actions.³ Against this perverse and wicked judgement of the world, let this testimony of our conscience be sufficient, whereby we assuredly know that it is the gift of God,⁴ that we do not only believe in Jesus Christ, but that we also openly preach and confess him before the world. As we believe with our heart, so do we speak with our mouth. according to the saying of the Psalm: I believed & therefore have I spoken.⁵

And although it appeare not before the world,¹ that we be renewed in spirit and haue the holy Ghost, yet notwtstanding our iudgemēt, our speech & our confession do declare sufficiently that the holy Ghost with his giftes is in vs. For before we could iudge rightly of nothing. We spake not as now we doe. We confessed not yt all our works were sinne and damnable,² that Christe was our onely merite both before grace & after, as now we doe in the true knowledge and light of the Gospell. Wherefore let this trouble vs nothing at all, that the world (whose workes we testifie to be euill) iudgeth vs to be most pernicious heretikes and seditious persons, destroyers of religion, and troublers of ye common peace, possessed of the Deuill speaking in vs and gouerning all our actions.