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Although it be true, & nothing more true, that God of his own mere ¹mercy & free goodness & undeserved benignity saved us when we ware so utterly lost, that by no means we could seek any part of our own salvation, nor recover by our own strength & power any thing at all that we before had lost in Adam, so that both our creation, election, redemption, salvation, justification, & glorification cometh only of him ²through his most entirely beloved Son, our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ. Yet do these his benefits only belong unto them, that are his faithful servants, & the sons of his handmaid, as David saith here: O Lord because I am thy ser vaunt, yea thy servant in deed, & the son of thy handmaid, thou hast broken my bonds. We see here ⟨image 72⟩that David confesseth, that God ³brake his bonds, but he addeth also, that he therefore is his servant, yea his unfeigned servant & y• son of his handmaid. Whereby we may easily learn that the merciful been fites of God the father, which lie poured out in Christs blood, pertain not unto all persons universally, but only unto those, that are his servants, yea & that not feigned, but true, hearty, loving and faithful, & the sons of his hand maid. God hath performed the oath, saith y• good priest Zechariah father to S. John baptist, which he sware ⁴unto Abraham our father, to give us, that we being without fear & delivered from the power of our enemies, should serve him with holiness & righteousness before him all the days of our life. We are delivered saith this good priest, from the power of our enemies not y• we should ⟨image 72⟩live wickedly & ungodly, but that we should serve our LORD God, not in our own fleshly imaginations & blind good ententes, but in holiness & righteousness, yea & that not a day or two, but all the days of our life. God hath not called us, saith S. Paul, unto uncleanness,