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So fa•le they a way from faith again / & cry saying faith only justifieth not a man / and maketh him acceptable to God. If thou ask then wherefore. They answer / see how many there are that believe and yet do no more than they did before. Thes are they which Judas in his epistle calleth dreamers which deceive them selves with there own fantasies. For what other thing is there imagination which they call faith / than a dreaming of y• faith / and an opinion of there own imagination wrought with out y• grace of god? These must ne•des be worse at y• later end than at the beginning. These are the old vessels / that rent when new wine y• poured in to them Mat. ix that is / they hear God's word but hold it not / and therefore wax worse than they were before. But y• right faith springeth not of mans fantes▪ ⟨image 13⟩nether is it in any mans power to obtain it / but is all together the pure gift of God poured in to us freely with out all manner doing of us with out deserving and merits / ye & without seeking for of us. And is (as saith Paul in the second to the Ephesians) even God's gift and grace purchased through Christ. Therefore is it mighty in operation / full of virtue and ever working / which also reneweth a man and begetteth him a fresh / altereth him changeth him / and turneth him all together in to a new nature and conversation: so that a man feareth his heart all together altered and changed & far otherwise disposed than before / and hath power to love that which before he could not but hate / & delighteth in that which before he abhorred / and hateth that which before he could not but love. And it setteth the soul at liberty and maketh her free to follow the will of god / and doth to the soul even as health doth unto the body / after that a man is pined and wasted a way with a long soekinge disease. The legs can not bear him / he can not lift up his hands to help him self / his taste is corrupt / sugar is bitter in his mouth / his stomach abhorreth longing after sibbersause and shashe / at which a whole stomach is ready to cast his gorge.