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& how we ought to do what so ever God biddeth / & abstain from whatsoever ever god forbiddeth with all love & meekness / with a fervent & a burning lust from the centre of the heart: than beginneth the conscience to rage against the law & against god, No see / be it never so great a tempest is so unquiet / for it is not possible for ⟨image 16⟩a natural man to consent to the law that it should be good / or that god should be righteous / which maketh the law in as much as it is contrary unto his nature & damneth him / & all that he can do / & neither showeth hi where to fetch help / nor preacheth any mercy / but only setteth man at variance with god / as witnesseth Paul. Ro. iiii. and provoketh him and stirreth him to rail on god / & to blaspheme him as a cruel tyrant. For it is not possible for a man till he be borne again / to think that god is righteous to make hi of so poison a nature / either for his own pleasure or for the sin of another man / and to give him a law that is impossible for him to do / or to consent to his wit / reason and will / being so fast glued / yea / nailed and chained unto the will of the devil Neither can any creatures lose the ⟨image 16⟩bonds / save the blood of christ only. ¶ This is captivity and bondage whence christ delivered us / redeemed and loosed us. His blood / his death / his patience in suffering rebukes & wrongs / his prayers & fastings / his meekness & fulfilling of the utmost point of the law / peased the wrath of god / brought the favour of god to us again / obtained that god should love us first / & be our father and that a merciful father / that will consider our infirmities & weakness and will give us his spirit again (which was taken away in the fall of Adam) to rule / govern / and strength us / & to break the bonds of Satan / wherein we were so strait bound. When Christ is thus wise preached / and the promises rehearsed which are contained in the prophets in the Psal. & in divers places of the five books of Moses / which ⟨image 17⟩preaching is called the gospel or glad tidings: than the hearts of them which are elect and chose / begin to wax soft & to melt at the bounteous mercy of god / and kindness showed of Christ.

& how we ought to do what so euer God biddeth / & absteyne frō whatso euer god forbyddeth with all loue & mekenes / with a feruent & a burnynge lust from the center of the hert: than beginneth the conscyence to rage agaynst the lawe & agaynst god, No see / be it neuer so great a tempest is so vnquyet / for it is nat possyble for