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Which thing I also this wise prove. Paul saith / how shall or can they believe without a preacher? how should they preach / except they were sent? Now I pray you when was it heard that God sent any man to preach unto the devils / or that he made them any good promise? He threateneth them oft / but never sent ambassadors to preach any atonement between him and them. Take an ensample that thou mayst understand. Let there be two pore men both destitute of raiment in a cold winter / the one strong that he feeleth no grief the other grievously / morning for pain of the cold. I then come by and moved with pity and compassion say unto him that feeleth his disease / come to such a place and I will give the raiment sufficient. he believeth / cometh / and obtaineth that which I have promised. That other seeth all this and knoweth it / but is partaker of nought. For he hath no faith / and that is because there is no promise made him. So is i• of the devils The devils have no faith▪ For faith is but earnest believing of Gods promises. Now are there no promises made unto the devils / but sore threatenings. The old Philosophers knew that there was one God / ⟨p. lx⟩but yet had no faith / for they had no power to seek his will nether to worship him. The turks and the Saracens know that there is one God / but yet have no faith. For they have no power to worship God in sprite to seek his pleasure and to submit them unto his will. They made an idol of God (as we do for the most part) and worshipped him every man after his own imagination and for a sundry purpose. What we will have done / that must God do / and to do our will worship we him and pray unto him: but what God will have done that will neither turk nor Saracen nor the most part of us do. what so ever we imagine righteous / that must God admit. But God's righteousness / will not our hearts admit Take an other ensample. Let there be two such as I speak of before & I promise both / and the one because he feeleth not his disease cometh not. So is it of God's promises. No man is helped by them but sinners that feel there since / morn and sorrow for them and repent with all there hearts.

Whych thinge I also thys wise prove. Paul sayth / how shall or can they beleve wythoute a preacher? how shulde they preach / excepte they were sente? Now I pray you whē was it hearde that God sent any man to preach vnto the devyls / or that he made thē any good promes? He threatneth them oft / but never sent embassadours to preach any atonement betwene hym and them. Take an ensample that thou mayst vnderstonde. Let there be two pore men both destitute of raymente in a colde winter / the one stronge that he fealeth no grefe the other grevously / morninge for payne of the colde. I then come by and moved with pitye and compassion saye vnto hym that fealeth his dysease / come to soch a place and I will gyve the raymente sufficiente. he beleveth / cometh / and obtayneth that which I have promised. That other seeth all thys and knoweth it / but is partaker of noughte. For he hath no fayth / ād that is because ther is no promise made hī. So is i of the devyls The devyls have no fayth For fayth is but ernest belevinge of Gods promyses. Now are there no promyses made vnto the devyls / but sore thretninges. The olde Philosophers knewe that there was one God /