Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading…Seuen treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, leading…

For wherein can he show his malice more fully, or verify the Scripture more clearly,¹ which saith: That he is envious man? and again: That there shall be enmity betwixt the seed of the woman and the Serpent, and that he §Gshould tread upon his heel?² Indeed, this is to be granted, that even their weak faith which they have, is sweet unto them; and God doth sometime show them, how happy a thing it is to be in his favour and freed from condemnation, Saint John thus speaking to them: I write unto you that beeene, that you may know ye have eternal life. And by reason of the little taste and fruit of their weak faith, God so upholdeth them, that they can never be contented to forgo it: and therefore would they most chiefly be occupied in thinking of it, to nourish and strengthen it (if they knew how and were able) as being their chief treasure.

For wherein can he shew his malice more fully, or verifie the Scripture more clearely,¹ which saith: That he is enuious man? and again: That there shall be enmitie betwixt the seed of the woman and the Serpent, and that he §Gshould treade vpon his heele?² Indeed, this is to be graunted, that euen their weake faith which they haue, is sweet vnto them; and God doth sometime shew them, how happie a thing it is to be in his fauour and freed from condemnation, Saint Iohn thus speaking to them: I write vnto you that beeene, that you may know ye haue eternall life. And by reason of the litle tast and fruite of their weake faith, God so vpholdeth them, that they can neuer be contented to forgo it: and therefore would they most chiefly be occupied in thinking of it, to nourish and strengthen it (if they knew how and were able) as being their chiefe treasure.

1. 1Mat. 13.