A14146:160
The Parable of the Wicked Mammon
The parable of the wicked mammon Compiled in the year of our lord .M.d.xxxvi. W.T.The parable of the wycked mammon Compiled in the yere of our lorde .M.d.xxxvi. W.T.
Lodon: printed by John day, 1547Lodon: printed by Jhon daye, 1547
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IF ye understand thes things, happy are ye if ye do them John. xiii. A christen mans heart is with the will of God, with the law and commandments of God, and hungereth and thirsteth after strength to fulfil them ⟨image 58⟩and morneth day and night desiring God according to his promises, for to give him power to fulfil the will of God with love & lust: then testifieth his dead that he is blessed & that the spirit which blesseth us in Christ is in him and ministereth such strength. The outward deed1 testifieth what is with in us, as thou rea didst John. v. The deeds which I do, testifieth of me saith Christ. And John. xiii. hereby shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one an other. And John. xiiii. he that hath my commandments and keepeth them the same it is that loveth me. And again, he that loveth me keepeth my commandments, and he that loveth me not keepeth not my commandments, the outward dead testifying of the inward heart. And John. xv. If ye shall keep my commandments ye shall continue in my love, as I keep my fathers commandment▪ and continue in his love. That is, as ye see the love that I have to my father in that I keep his commandments, so shall ye see the love that, ye have to me in that ye keep my commandments. Thou mayst not think that our deeds bless us first and that we prevent God and his grace in Christ, as thought we in our natural gifts, and2 being as we were borne in Adam, looked on the law of God and of our own ⟨image 59⟩strength fulfilled it & so became righteous & then with that righteousness obtained the favour of God. As philosophers writ of righteousness, & as the righteousness of ten poral law is, where the law is satisfied with the hypocrisy of the outward deed. For con trary to ye readest thou. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, that ye go, & bring forth fruit, and that your fruit remain. And in the same Cha. I am a vine & ye the branches & without me can ye do nothing. With us therefore so goeth it. In Adam are we all as it were wild crabtres