The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

Who is righteous but he that trusteth in Christs blood, be he never so weak?¹ Christ is our righteousness and in him ought we to teach all men to trust, and to expound unto all men the testament that God hath made to us sinners in Christs blood. This ought we to do and not make a pray of them to lead them captive, to sit in there consciences and to teach them to trust in our holiness, good deeds and prayers, to the intent that we would feed our idle and slow belies of their great labour and sweat, and so to make our selves Christs & saviours.

Who is rightuous but he that trusteth in Christes bloude, be he neuer so weak?¹ Christe is our ryghtuousnes and in hym ought we to teach all men to truste, and to expounde vnto al mē ye testament that God hath made to vs sinners in Christes bloude. Thys ought wee to do and not make a praye of them to leade them captyue, to sitte in ther conscyences and to teach them to truste in our holynes, good deades and prayers, to the entēt that we woulde fede oure ydle and slowe belyes of their great labour and sweate, and so to make our selues Christes & sauiours.

1. 1Who is righteous.Who is rightuouse.

For if I take on me to save other by mi merits, make I not my self a Christ and a saviour, and am in dead a false prophet and a true antichrist, and exalt my self and sit in the temple of God, that is to wit the consciences of men? Among Christen men love maketh all things¹ commune: every man is others debtor and every man is bound minister to his neigh boure, and to supply his neighbours lack, of that where with God hath endued him. As thou seeest in the world ⟨image 45⟩