A path way i[n]to the holy scripture

¶ Such promises as promise us life & deliverance from our evils •e called evangelic / & be the very gospel or glad tidings which saveth that which the law damp•eth / which quiteth when the law condemneth unto the death / so that •elefe be given thereto. And the soul also hath another thing which may assure him / that is / that our health •s not in our hands / for if it were / ⟨image 42⟩we should have lost it within a while / but in the hand of god / out of whose hand no power can take it. and also that we be the sheep of christ which can not be ravished out of his hand / for as him self saith. No parson shall take them away nor bereave me of them. And this must we believe surely that he came to save sinners / & in as much as we be sinners / he is come to save us / & the more that the soul perceiveth him self oppressed with great & horrible since so much the more to have confidence in the death of our saviour / which satisfied for all the sin of the world leaving to have any trust in his good works / but only to have confidence in the great goodness of god / which he declared abundantly in the passion and death of his son. For if by works a man might accomplish & fulfil the law / christ ⟨image 42⟩suffered death in vain. Wherefore on Jesus only must we set all our confidence. Now we must not because Christ is come to save sinners & to help them that be diseased. We must not therefore sin still / to the end that he should save us still: for we have done to much already & sin every day & sin every hour sore / for there is not so righteous a man but he sinneth / at the lest seven times a day: but those same sins of the righteous man be not imputed unto him / because that the spirit of god is within him / for they be not in him / for as touching the inward man / and in that that he hath the spirit / he sinneth not. For the faith continueth hole and perfect in the spirit / which faith hath put away the hole body of sin / so that sin ••ygneth not in us / because we be made new creatures / though now ⟨image 43⟩and than by the reason of our weakness we do sin: yet this sin is not imputed because of the strife that we have against it.