A13203:1252
[The Pentateuch]
printed by Hans Luft i.e. Johan Hoochstraten, 1530
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IN the second and third book they received y• law. And in this .iiij. they begin to work and to practise. Of which practi•ynge ye see many good ensamples of unbelief & what freewill doth / when she taketh in hand to keep the law of her own power without help of faith in the promises of god: how she leaveth her masters carcasses by the way in the wilderness and bringeth them not in to the land of rest. Why could they not enter in? Because of their unbelief Hebr .iij. For had they believed / so had they been under grace / and their old since had been forgiven them / and power should have been given them to have fulfilled the law thenceforth & they should have been kept from all temptations that had been to strong for them. For it is written Johan. 1. He gave them power to be the sons of god / through believing in his name. Now to be the son of god is to love god and his commandments and to walk in his way after the ensample of his son Christ. But these people toke upon them to work without faith as thou seest in the xiiij. of this book / where they would fight and also did / without the word of promise: even when they were warned that they should not. And in y .xvi. a gain they would please god