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& thou oughtest not only too feel this disorder in thine own person, but also too perceive that all things else are out of order through the whole world by reason of thy frowardness. Therefore let us sink down and be ashamed of it, and therewithal confess how much we be indebted unto God, for his vouchsafing too gather us together in the person of his only son, even us that have so torn a sunder the things that he had set in so goodly order.

& thou oughtest not onely too feele this disorder in thine owne person, but also too perceyue that all thinges else are out of order through the whole world by reason of thy frowardnesse. Therefore let vs sink downe and bee ashamed of it, and therwithall confesse how much wee bee indetted vntoo God, for his voutsafyng too gather vs toogether in the person of his onely sonne, euen vs that haue so torne a sunder the thinges that he had set in so goodly order.

And for the same cause S. Paul speaketh here, not only of men, (which were estranged from God afore by reason of sin): but also of all things that are in heaven and earth: ¹wherein he comprehendeth even the very Angels. For although Gods glory shine forth in them, and that they were never yet separated from him: yet nevertheless it stood them on hand too be• gathered together by our Lord Jesus Christ, and that after two sorts. For albeit that they never swerved aside, ne fell from that they were at the first, and that Gods righteousness do always show it self in them, insomuch that they be as it were mirrors and patterns of it: yet notwithstanding, if God li•ted too look upon them with rigour, they should find themselves far short of the perfection of righteousness that is in him, as it is said in the book of Job.² Furthermore, there is yet one other reason too be matched with this: which is, that the Angels should not have such constancy and steadiness as were requisite, unless Jesus Christ had so stablished them as they might never fall. Thus ye see one way how they were gathered together. But this gathering whereof S. Paul speaketh here, is in respect of their uniting again unto us. For we know that inasmuch as we were banished out of Gods kingdom, we were cut of from all hope of salvation, so as the Angels were by and by fain too become our enemies, and should be so still, were it not for the atonement which we have with them again, by means of the head which is common too us both. And here ye see also why that in the ladder that was showed unto Jacob,