The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

Abraham through works Genesis. xxii. was sure of his faith to be right, and that the true fear of God was in him▪ when he had offered his son (as the scrip ture sayeth) Now know I that thou fearest God, that is to say▪ Now is it open and manifest that thou fearest God in as much as thou haste not spared thy only son for my sake.

Abraham thorowe workes Genesis. xxii. was sure of his faith to be right, and that the true feare of God was in hym▪ whē he had offered hys sōne (as the scrip ture sayeth) Now knowe I that thou fearest God, that is to saye▪ Now is it opē and manifest that thou feareste God in as muche as thou haste not spared thy onlye sonne for my sake.

So now by this abide sure and fast that a man inwardly in the heart and before ⟨image 19⟩god is righteous and good through faith only before all works. Notwithstanding yet outwardly and openly before the people yea & before him self, is he righteous through the work that is, he knoweth and is sure through the outward work that he is a true believer and in the favour of God and righteous and good through the mercy of God▪ that thou may est call the one an open and an outward righteousness, and the other an inward righteousness of the heart (so yet) that thou under stand by the outward righteousness, none other thing save the fruit that followeth as a declaring of that inward justifying and righteousness of the heart, and not that it maketh a man righteous before God, but that he must first be righteous before him in the heart. Even as thou mayest call the fruit of the tree, which followeth and uttereth the inward natural goodness of the tree.