The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

This do and thou shalt live Luc. x. that is to say, love thy Lord God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, & with all thy strength and with all thy mind, and thy neighbour¹ as thy self. As who should say, if thou do this, or though thou canst not do it, yet if thou feelest lust there unto, and thy spirit sigheth morneth, and longeth after strength to do it, take a sign and evident token thereby that the spirit of life is in thee, and that thou art elect to life everlasting by Christs blood, whose gift and purchase is thy faith and that spirit that worketh the will of God in the, whose gift also are thy deeds or rather the deeds of the spirit of Christ and not thine, and whose gift is the reward of eternal life which followeth good works.

THis do and thou shalt lyue Luc. x. that is to saye, loue thy Lorde God wyth all thy hert, wyth all thy soule, & wyth all thy strēgh and wyth all thy mynde, and thy neyghboure¹ as thy selfe. As who shoulde saye, if thou do this, or though thou canst not do it, yet if thou fealest luste ther vnto, and thy spirit sigheth morneth, and longeth after strēgth to do it, take a signe and euidēt token therby that the spirit of life is in the, and that thou art electe to life euerlasting by Christes bloude, whos gift and purchase is thy faith and that spirit that worketh the will of God in ye, whos gift also are thy deades or rather the deades of the spirite of Christ and not thine, and whos gift is the rewarde of eternall life which foloweth good workes.