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Touching these three, being in deed the chief points of our Christian religion, I think very well and truly of them, even as the word of god hath taught. Faith is the sure confidence¹ of a man that is lightened of God, whereby he trusteth in God and in his only son our Lord Jesus Christ and his undoubted word, and that to the remission of sins and eternal life. Hope is a steadfast, patient, and² comfortable looking for of those things which we believe, chiefly if the receiving of them be deferred, and appear otherwise than they were believed to be.³ ⟨image 57⟩charity is poured into our hearts, increased and preserved, and is due both to God & man, so that we should love God above all things, and our neighbour as our self, even as Christ also hath loved us. The places of Scripture from whence these descriptions are taken, I have therefore willingly left out, least this Book should grow and increase unto an huge volume.

TOuching these thrée, being in déede the cheefe poynts of our Christian religion, I thinke very wel and truely of them, euen as the word of god hathe taughte. Fayth is the sure confidence¹ of a man that is lyghtened of God, whereby he trusteth in God and in his onely son our Lord Jesus Chryst and his vndoubted worde, and that to the remission of sinnes and eternall lyfe. Hope is a stedfaste, pacient, and