That faith the mother of all good works justifieth us before we ca[n] bring…That fayth the mother of all good workes iustifieth us before we ca[n] bringe…

The scripture speaketh as a father doeth to his young son / do this or that & then will I love y• / yet the father loveth his son first & studieth with all his power and wit to overcome his child with love & with kindness to make him do that which is comely honest & good for it self / A kind father & mother love there children even when they are evil / that they would shed there own blood to make them better / and to bring them in to the right way. And a natural child studieth not to obtain his fathers love with works / but considereth with what love his father loveth him with all / & therefore loveth again / is glad to do his fathers will and studieth to beth ankefull.

The scripture speaketh as a father doeth to his younge sonne / do this or yt & thē will I love y• / yet the father loveth his sonne first & studieth with all his power and witte to overcome his childe with love & with kīdnes to make him do yt which is comly honeste & good for it selfe / A kinde father & mother love ther chylder evē whē they are evyll / yt they wolde shede there own bloude to make thē better / ād to bringe thē in to ye right waye. And a naturall childe studieth not to obtayne his fathers love with workes / but considereth with what love his father loveth hī with all / & therfore loveth agayne / is glad to do his fathers will ād studieth to beth ankefull.

The sprite of the world understandeth not y• speaking of God / nether y• sprite of the wise of this world / nether y• sprite of Philosophers nether y• sprite of Socrates / of Plato or of Aristotle's Ethics / as thou mayest see in the first & second chapter of the first to the Corint. Though that many are not ashamed to rail and blaspheme saying / how should he understand the ⟨p. xlviij⟩scripture seeing he is no philosopher nether hath seen his metaphysic? More over they blaspheme saying how can he be a divine & wotteth not what is subiectū in theologia? Never y less as a man with out y sprite of Aristotle or philosophy / may by the sprite of God understand scripture: Even so by the sprite of God understandeth he that God is to be sought in all the scripture / and in all things & yet wotteth not what meaneth Subiectū in theologia / because it is a term of there own making. If thou shouldest say to him that hath the sprite of God / the love of God is the keeping of the commandments / & to love a mans neighbour is to show mercy / he would with out arguing or disputing understand / how that of the love of God springeth y keeping of his commandments & of the love to thy neighbour springeth mercy. Now would aristotle deny such speaking / & a Duns man would make .xx. distinctions. If thou shouldest say (as sayeth saint John in the fourth of his pistle) how can he that loveth not his neighbour whom he seeth love God whom he seeth not? Aristotle would say lo a man must first love his neighbour and then God and out of the love to thy neighbour springeth the love to God. But he that feeleth the working of the sprite of God / and also from what veigeaunce the blood of Christ hath delivered