The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

This is the law of love which spring eth out of Christs blood in to the hearts of all them that have their trust in him. No man needeth to bid a christen man to pray if he see his neighbours need: if he see it not ⟨image 44⟩put him in remembrance only, and then he can not but do his duty.

This is the lawe of loue whiche spring eth out of Christes bloude in to ye hertes of al thē that haue their trust in hym. No man nedeth to byd a christen man to pray if he se his neybours neade: if he se it not ⟨image 44⟩put hym in remembraunce only, and then he can not but do his dutye.

Now as touching that we desire one ¹another to pray for us, that do we to put our neighbour in remembrance of his duty and not that we trust in his holiness. Our trust is in God, in Christ and in the trueth of God's promises, we have also a promise that when .ii. or ▪iii. or moe agree together in any thing according to the will of God, God heareth us. Not withstanding as God heareth many: so heareth he few, •nd so heareth he one, if he pray after the will of god and desire the honour of God. He that desireth mercy, the same feeleth his ow•e misery, and sin and morneth in his heart for to be delivered, that he might honour God and God for his trueth must hear him, which sayeth by the mouth of christ Mat. v. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be fulfilled. God for his truths sake must put the righteousness of Christ in him and² wash his unrighteousness away in the blood of Christ. And be the sinner never so weak, never so feeble and frail, sine he never so oft & so arevousli, yet so long as this lust desire and morning to be delivered remaineth in him, God seeth not his sins, reckoneth them not, for his truths sake and love to Christ. He is not a sinner in the sight of God, yea would