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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…
That faith the mother of all good works justifieth us before we ca[n] bring forth any good work...That fayth the mother of all good workes iustifieth us before we ca[n] bringe forth anye good worke...
Malborowe: printed by Hans luft i.e. J. Hoochstraten, 1528
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.
For John Baptiste went before Christ & preached repentance / that is / he preached the law of God right / and brought the people in to knowledge of them selves / & unto the fear of God / and then sent them unto Christ to be healed. For in Christ & for his sake only hath ⟨image 66⟩God promised to receive / us unto mercy / to forgive us & to give us power to resist sin How shall god save thee / when thou knowest not thy damnation? How shall Christ deliver the from sin / when thou wilt not knoweleage thy sin? Now I pray the how many thousands are there of them that say I believe that Christ was borne of a virgin / that he dyed / that he rose again & so forth / and thou canst not bring them in belief / that they have any sin at all? How many are there of the same sort which thou canst not make believe that a thousand things are sin which god damneth for sin all the scripture through out? As to bye as good cheap as he can / & to sell as dear as he can / to raise the marker of corn and victual / for his own vantage / without respect of his neighbour or of the poor or of the commune wealth and such like. Moreover how many hundred thousands are there which when they have sinned / & knowledge there sins: yet trust in a bald ceremony or in a lowf•e freris coat & merits or in the prayers of them that devour widows houses & eateth the pore out of house & harbour / in a thing of his own imagination / in a foolish dream and a false vision / & not in Christs blood & in the trueth that god hath sworn? All these are faithless / for they follow there own righteousness ⟨p. lxj⟩& are disobedient unto all manner righteousness of god: both unto the righteousness of gods law where with he damneth all our deeds (for though some of them see there sins for fear of pain / yet had ye lever y• such deeds were no sin) & also unto the righteousness of y• trueth of god in his promises where by he sayeth all y• repent & believe them. For though ye believe that Christ dyed / yet believe yt not that he dyed for there sins & that his death is a sufficient satisfaction for there sins / and that God for his sake will be a father unto them and gear them power to resist sin.