A Christian instruction, containing the law and the Gospel Also a summary of the…A Christian instruction, conteyning the law and the Gospell Also a summarie of the…

P. It is necessary there unto and not necessary.

P. It is necessary there vnto and not necessary.

M. I do not well understand this speech, for it is contrary in it self.

M. I do not well vnderstand this speache, for it is contrary in it selfe.

P. I say that faith is necessary thereunto as cause of salvation, without the which we cannot obtain it, for the causes which I have already declared. For so much as it is the instrument the which the holy Ghost giveth us wherewith to receive him, when he is offered unto us by Jesus Christ, and the mean whereby he doth communicate him to us in him and by him. But charity is not there joined as a cause of salvation, without the ⟨p. 229⟩which we cannot be partakers of it, but as a thing joined unto it, the which followeth faith in such sort, which is the true cause of salvation, as I have already said, that she cannot be separate, no more than the heat from the light, or the moving or feeling from the life and from the soul. But yet notwithstanding we have not salvation thereby, no more than brightness by the heat, the which we have of the light, or else life by the motion and feeling.

P. I say yt faith is necessary therevnto as cause of saluation, withoute the whiche we cannot obtayne it, for the causes which I haue alredy declared. For somuch as it is the instrument the whiche the holy Ghoste giueth vs wherewith to receiue him, when he is offered vnto vs by Iesus Christ, and the meane whereby he doth communicate him to vs in hym and by him. But charitie is not there ioyned as a cause of saluation, without the