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Wherefore with my lips & hart, and with all the might that I may, I render thanks unto thine infinite mercy. o Lord our god) for all thy mercy, wherewith marvellously thou vouchsafed to help & succour us that were lost, by the same thy Son our saviour and recoverer, which died for our sins, & rose again for our justification, and living, without end sitteth on thy right hand and entreateth for us, and together with thee, taketh pity and mercy upon us, because he is God through thee (O father) everlasting and of one substance with thee in all things. Whereby alway ⟨p. 82⟩he may save us, but for as much as he is man in which thing he is less and inferior unto thee, all power both in heaven and in earth, was given unto him, that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow both of celestial, earthly creatures, and also of infernal, that all tongues may confess that our lord Jesus Christ is in thy glory (O father almighty He verily was constituted of thee and ordained to be a judge of the quick and dead, for thou truly judgest no man, but all thy judgement hast given to thy Son, in whose breast all treasures of wisdom & knowledge ⟨image 84⟩are hid. He truly is both a witness and a judge, a judge & a witness, whom no sinful conscience can flee or avoid for all things be they never so secret, are open and even naked and uncovered unto him. He verily which was unrighteously judged himself: shall judge the whole world in equity, and the people in righteousness, and according to justice. Therefore do I bless thy name everlasting and glorify the same with all my hart (O almighty & merciful Lord) for that unspeakable and marvellous coniuntiō of godhead and manhood together in the unity of a person, & not ⟨p. 83⟩after this sort, that the one should be God, and the other man: but one and the same was both God & man, man and God. Nevertheless although by thy marvellous will, the word was made flesh, yet nether of both the natures was changed into others substance. In the mystery of the Trinity, there is not a fourth person added. For the substance of the word of god and of man was united and knit together, but not confused & mixed, that that thing which was taken of us: should be turned into god, & that which never had ben before that time, that is his flesh & manhood should ⟨image 85⟩