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And hereupon he addeth, that he hath made the same grace too abound towards us in all wisdom and understanding. By these ⟨p. 25⟩•ords he doth us too wit by what means we come by the thing that he had specified afore. Behold, all our happiness and all our sovereign velfare consisteth in being at one with God, so as he may take us for h•s children, and it may be lawful for us too call upon him as our father with full liberty. But how shall we obtain that thing, from which we be so far wide? It is said, that although we be naught worth, ne naught can do: yet we shall find all things in Jesus Christ which are wanting in our selves, and that his death & passion will be a sufficient sacrifice, too put away the remembrance of all our misdeeds. Howbeit doth it follow therefore, that all men are partakers of this benefit which is purchased for us by our Lord Jesus Christ? No: for the unbelievers have neither part nor portion in it. Then is it a special privilege for those whom God gathereth too himself.¹ Also S. Paul showeth, that either we must have faith, or else Christ shall not boot us at all. Although then that Christ be generally the redeemer of the whole world, yet doth his death and passion advantage none but such as receive the thing that S. Paul showeth here. And so we see that when we once know the benefits that are brought us by Christ, and which he offereth us daily by his Gospel: we must also be knit unto him by faith. For the Turks, Jews, and Papists, and all other like are cut of and estranged from Christ, & rot away in their own filth, because they presume to work wonders of themselves. For it is a common principle among the papists, Jews, Turks, and all the Heathen men that ever were, that they must appease Gods wrath. And how? By a great sort of means of their own devising, and of every mans imagining in his own brain. Such men therefore have no part in Christ. Wherefore if faith be the key that openeth us the door to enjoy the treasure whereof S. Paul spake even now: then is that the next way too make us rich, so far forth as shall be requisite for our salvation, so as we shall not want any thing, if we be knit unto Christ by faith.

And heeruppon he addeth, that he hath made the same grace too abound towards vs in all wisdom and vnderstanding. By these