The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

For in Christ and for his sake only hath God promised to receive, us unto mercy, to forgive us and to give us power to resist sin▪ How shall God save thee, when thou knowest not thy damnation? How shall Christ deliver the from sin, when thou wilt not knowledge thy sin? Now I pray the how many thousands are there of them that say I believe that Christ was borne of a virgin, that he dyed, that he rose again and so forth, and thou canst not bring them in belief, that they have any sin at all? Howe many are there of the same sort which thou canst not make believe that a thousand things are sin which God damneth for sin all the scripture through out? As to bye as good cheap as he can, and to¹ sell as dear as he can, to raise the market of corn & victual, for his own vantage, without respect of his ueyboure or of the poor or of the commune wealth and such like. Moreover how many hun dread thousands are there which when they have sinned, and knowledge there sins: yet trust in a bald ceremony or in a lousy freris coat and merits or in the prayers of them that devour widows ⟨image 67⟩houses and eat the poor out of house and harbour, in a thing of his own imagination, in a foolish dream and a false vision, and not in Christs blood and in² the trueth that God hath sworn? All these are faithless, for they follow there own righteousness and are disobedient unto all manner righteousness of God: both unto the righteousness of gods law where with he damneth all our deeds for though some of them see there sins for fear of pain, yet had they lever that such deeds were no sin (and also unto the righteousness of the trueth of God in his promises where by he sayeth all that repent and believe them. For though they believe that Christ did, yet believe the not that he dyed for their sins & that his death is a sufficient satisfaction for there sins and that God for his sake will be a father unto them and give them power to resist sin.

For in Christe and for hys sake only hath God promised to receyue, vs vnto mercye, to forgyne vs and to giue vs power to resiste sinne▪ How shal God saue the, when thou knowest not thie damnacion? How shall Christe deliuer the from synne, whē thou wylt not knowledge thy synne? Now I pray the how many thowsādes ar there of them that saye I beleue that Christ was borne of a virgin, that he dyed, that he rose agayne and so furth, and thou canste not brynge thē in belefe, that they haue any synne at all? Howe many are there of the same sorte whyche thou canst not make beleue that a thousande thinges are sinne whyche God damneth for sinne all the scripture thorowe out? As to bye as good chepe as he can, and to