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So then, hereupon we have too gather, that too profit well in the holy scripture, we must always resort to our Lord Jesus Christ, and cast our eyes upon him, without turning away thence at any time. Ye shall see a number of folk that Martyr themselves exceedingly in reading the holy scriptures, they do nothing else but turn over the leaves of it: and yet at the end of half a score years, they are as well seen in it, as if they had never read line of it. And why? Because they do but rove up & down, & a•e not at any certain end, yea and even in worldly learning, ye shall see a great sort that take pain enough, and yet all is to no purpose, because they keep neither order nor measure, nor do aught else then make a raking together on all sides. By means whereof they be ever new too seek, and can never bring any thing too perfection, and although they have gathered together a number of sentences of all sorts, yet is there no hold at all in them. Even so is it with them that labour in reading the holy scripture, and know not which is the point that they ought to rest upon:¹ namely how it is our Lord Jesus Christ. For like as it is said that all our perfection is in the Gospel: so on the other side it is said, that our Lord Jesus Christ is given us too be the wisdom of God his father,² as saith S. Paul in the first too the Corinthians. And like as it is said of the Law,³ This is the way, walk ye therein: so also it is said of our Lord Jesus Christ, that he is the true way. Again, as it is said,⁴ Lord, thy word is a Lantern too guide my steppes by: so our ⟨p. 105⟩Lord Jesus Christ sayeth,⁵ I am the light of the world, he that walketh in me, cannot go amiss. We see then that all that ever is treated of in the holy scripture, is now verified of our Lord Jesus Christ, to show us how that he is the only thing that we have too take hold of.⁶