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God setteth so much by these works / that he commanded not only the sabbath to be observed and called sabbath day / but that it should be sanctified or judged holy / so showing that ⟨image 99⟩there is nothing better, nothing more precious / than to suffer all troublous. For they be the relics, the holy things that consecrate or hollow a man from his own works / to the works of god / as the temple is consecrate from all natural works to the worship of god. And therefore let a man knowledge them as worshipful relics / joining and giving thanks to god if they come. For wham they come / they so sanctify a man, that he doth the commandment of god / and is made safe & delivered from all his since, so saith Dauyd / the death of his saints is precious in the sight of the lord. And to the end that god might bolden & quicken us to these things / he hath not only commanded us the keeping of the sabbath day (for it is ⟨image 99⟩greatly against nature to dye & to suffer to rest & be dead from her own works). But also he comforteth us by manifold words in scripture / saying to us the .89. psalm. I shall be present with him in tribulation, I shall defend him & indue him with dignity. Also the .xxxiii. psalm full nigh is the lord to men broken in the heart / he saveth the contrite in spirit / nor he was content with this / but he hath given us a mighty and strong example / his only son Jesus our lord / which all the hole sabbath day lay void, & without all his works / as pertaining to the manhood / & first of all men fulfilled his commandment / for no need of him self, but only for our comfort / that we in all our sufferings / yea even in death / ⟨image 100⟩might be quiet and at rest / & having peace, looking upon Christ / raised up again after his rest and sabbath day / day thenceforth living in only god, and god in him. And so we after the mortifying of our Adam / which shall not be fully until the honour of death, shall be raised up in god / that god may work and live in us for evermore. Lo these be the three parts of man / reason, pleasure, and heaviness / in the which all his works go forth / which must be mortified by these three exercysyngꝭ / the rule or governing of god / our chasty singes and outward hurts / that so we keeping a sabbath day spiritual, may give pla / ce to the works of god.