[The Pentateuch]

As if I were alone in a wilderness where no man were to seek profit or praise of yet if I would seek heaven of god there / I could of mine own natural gifts seek it no no ⟨image 244⟩there ways then for the merits and deservings of my good works and to enter therein by another way then by that door christ / which were very thest / for christ is lord over all and what so ever any man will have of god / he must have it given him freely for christs sake. Now to have heaven for mine own deserving / is mine own praise and not christs. For I can not have it by favour & grace in christ and by mine own merits also▪ For free giving and deserving can not stand together.

As if I were alone in a wildernesse where no man were to seke profite or prayse of yet if I wold seke heuē of god there / I coude of myne awne naturall gyftes seke it no no ⟨image 244⟩ther wayes then for the merites and deseruinges of my good workes and to entre therin by another waye then by yt dore christ / which were very theste / for christ is lord ouer all and what so euer any man wil haue of god / he must haue it geuen him frelye for christes sake. Now to haue heauen for myne awne deseruinge / is myne awne prayse and not christes. For I can not haue it by fauoure & grace in christ and by myne awne merites also▪ For fregeuinge and deseruinge can not stōd together.

If thou wilt vow of thy goods unto god thou must put salt unto this sacrifice: that is thou must minister knowledge in this dead as Peter teacheth .ij. pet .i. Thou must put oil of gods word in thy lamp & do it according to knowledge / if thou wait for the coming of the bridegroom to enter in with him in to his rest. Thou wilt hang it about the image to move men to devotion. Devotion is a fervent love unto gods commandments and a desire to be with god and with his ever lasting promises. Now shall the sight of such riches as are showed at saint thomas shrine or at walsingham move a man to love the commandments of god better and to desire to be loosed from his flesh and to be with god / or shall it not rather make his poor heart sigh because he hath no such at home and to wish part of it in another place?