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5 But so soon as we are delivered & freed from this exaction of the law, we can merrily & with great cheerfulness answer God, when he calleth, & follow him being our guide. For they which are tied to the yoke of the law, are like slaves, to whom certain tasks are assigned for every day, they dare not come in their masters sight,¹ unless they have done their work & task. But children though they have but done half their task, & have left it unperfect, yet do they without fear and freely offer themselves to their fathers.

5 But so soone as we are deliuered & freed from this exaction of the law, we can merily & with great cheerefulnes answere God, when he calleth, & follow him being our guide. For they which are tied to the yoke of the law, are like slaues, to whom certain taskes are assigned for euerie day, they dare not come in their maisters sight,¹ vnlesse they haue done their work & taske. But children though they haue but done half their task, & haue left it vnperfect, yet do they without feare and freelie offer themselues to their fathers.

1. 1A similitude.

6 That is the cause for which the author of the epistle to the Hebrews,¹ doth refer unto faith what good works soever we read were in the holy fathers, & doth only weigh them by faith*. Therefore Paul to the Romans reasoneth thus, Sin must not have dominion over us, because we are not under the law.

6 That is the cause for which the authour of the epistle to the Hebrewes,¹