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And these (as right hypocrites commonly use to do) are very quick to condemn other men, counting themselves holy and pure, when as they are full of malice and envy, fraud, deceit, & all kind of filthiness and uncleanness, as Christ sayeth Mat. 23. And these are they which feigning themselves holy, contemn ⟨image 21⟩and despise in very deed the great goodness of God, & according to the hardness of their hearts, heap and treasure up to themselves wrath, against the day of wrath. Paul therefore as a true Evangelist first of all preacheth the Law,¹ concluding all men alike to be sinners and denouncing to all the wrath of God. Wherefore they who mark well, by the power of their own nature or free-will, are so far from being any better than those gross and open sinners mentioned in the first Chapter: that the Apostle calleth them obstinate, stubborn, men that cannot repent, aliens and strangers.

And these (as right hypocrits commonly vse to doe) are very quick to condemne other men, counting themselves holy and pure, when as they are full of malice and envy, fraud, deceit, & all kinde of filthinesse and vncleanesse, as Christ sayeth Mat. 23. And these are they which faining themselves holye, contemne ⟨image 21⟩and despise in very deed the great goodnesse of God, & according to the hardnesse of their hearts, heape and treasure vp to thēselves wrath, against the day of wrath. Paul therefore as a true Evangelist first of all preacheth the Law,¹ concluding all men alike to be sinners and denuncing to all the wrath of God. Wherefore they who marke well, by the power of their owne nature or free-will, are so farre from being any better than those grosse and open sinners mentioned in the first Chapter: that the Apostle calleth them obstinate, stubborne, men that cannot repent, aliants and strangers.

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