[The Pentateuch]

For scripture teacheth / first repentance: then faith in Christ / that for his sake sin is forgiven to them that repent: then good works / which are nothing save the commandment of god only. And the commandments are nothing else save the helping of our neighbours at their need & the taming of our members that they might ⟨image 242⟩be pure also as the heart is pure through hate of vice and love of virtue as gods word teacheth us which works must proceed out of faith: it is / I must do them for the love which I have to god for that great mercy which he hath showed me in christ / or else I do them not in the sight of god And that I faint not in the pain of the slaying of the sin that is in my flesh / mine help is the promise of the assistance of the power of god and y• comfort of the reward to come which reward I ascribe unto the goodness / mercy and truth of the promiser that hath chose me / called me taught me and given me the earnest thereof / & not unto the merits of my doings or soferī ges. For all that I do & suffer is but y• way to the reward and not the deserving thereof. As if the kings grace should promise me to defend me at whom in mine own realm yet the way thither is through the see wherein I might haply suffer no little trouble. And yet for all that / if I might live in rest when I come thither / I would think & so would other say / that my pains were well rewarded: which reward & benefit I would not proudly ascribe unto the merits of my pains taking by the way: but unto the goodness / mercifulness and constant truth of the kings grace whose gift it is and to whom y• praise & thank thereof belongeth of duty and right. So now a reward is a gift given ⟨image 243⟩•relye of the goodness of the giver and not of the deservings of the receiver. Thus it appeareth / that if I vow what soever it be / for any other purpose then to tame my members and to be an ensample of virtue and edifying unto my neighbour / my sacrifice is unsavoury and clean without salt and milan pe without oil and I one of the foolish virgins and shall be shut out from the feast of the bridegroom when I think my self most sure to enter in.

For scripture teacheth / fyrst repentaunce: then fayth in Christe / that for his sake synne is forgeuē to them that repent: then good workes / which are nothyng saue the commaundement of god only. And the commaundementes are nothinge els saue the helpynge of oure neyghboures at their neade & the tamyinge of oure mēbres that they myght