The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

The scripture saith, God seeth, God heareth, God smelleth, God walketh, ⟨image 40⟩God is with them, God is not with them, God is angry, God is pleased, God sendeth his spirit, God taketh his spirit a way, and a thousand such like. And yet is none of them true after the worldly manner and as the words sown. Read the second Chapter of Paul to the Corinthians, the natural man understandeth not the things of God, but the spirit of god only and we (sayeth he) have received the spirit which is of God, to understand the things which are given us of God.

The scripture saith, God seeth, God heareth, God smelleth, God walketh, ⟨image 40⟩God is with thē, God is not with them, God is angrie, God is pleased, God sendeth his spirite, God taketh his spirite a way, and a thousande suche like. And yet is none of them true after the wordly ma ner and as ye words sowne. Rede the secound Chapter of Paul to the Corinthi ans, the naturall man vnderstandeth not the thinges of God, but ye spirite of god only and we (saieth he) haue receyued the spirite which is of God, to vnderstande the thinges which are geuen vs of God.

For without the spirit it is impossible¹ to understand them. Read also the. viii. to the Romans They that are led with the spirit of God, are the sons of God. Now the son knoweth his fathers wil• and the servant not He that hath not the spirit of Christ (sayeth Paul) is none of his. Likewise he that hath not the spirit of God is none of Gods, for it is both one spirit, as thou mayest see the same place. Now he that is of God hereth the word of God Jo. viii. & who is of God but he that hath the spirit of God. For there more, sayeth he ye here it not, because ye are not of God, that is, ye have no lust in the word of God, for ye understand it not, and that because his spirit is not in you. For as much then as the scripture is no thing else but that which the spirit of God hath spoken by the Prophets