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20. But you have not learned Christ so: 21. At leastwise if ye have heard him, and bin taught in him, even as the truth is in Jesus: 22. That is too wit, that ye put off the old man after the former conversation, which is corrupt after the lusts of error: 23. And be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24. And put on the new man which is created after God in righteousness and holiness of truth.

20. But you haue not learned Christ so: 21. At leastwise if yee haue heard him, and bin taught in him, euen as the truth is in Iesus: 22. That is too wit, that yee put off the old man after the former conuersation, which is corrupt after the lustes of errour: 23. And bee yee renewed in the spirit of your mynd, 24. And put on the newe man vvhich is created after God in rightuousnesse and holynesse of truth.

Saint Paul showeth us by the example of the heathen men and unbelievers, how wretched mans life is, when he suffereth himself too be led by his own affections and lusts. For we be so blinded by the sin of Adam, that we discern not between good and evil, Howbeit that is not perceived at the first blush: but if ye look into the whole course of mans life, ye shall find, that they hold not any certain way, but that they wander too and fro, and in the end become stark beasts, so as they have no hart grief nor scruple of conscience at all. ⟨image 224⟩Now he showeth what diversity there ought too be betwixt the lyf• of Christians that have bin •ray•ed in the Gospel, and the life of the ignorant and blind wretches, which never wist what God or his will is. That is the cause why he addeth, that we ought too keep a far other trade, we (I say) that are trained up in Jesus Christ. As if he said, that such as have not the light of God, stray here and there, and no marvel though they do so, for they be blind, and wander in darkness. But seeing that God hath enlightened us, and we have Jesus Christ the daysonne of righteousness shining upon us: what a shame is it if we be mingled with those that have no direction at all? Then is there no excuse for us, if we will allege the heathen. For so little can their example serve too lessen our sin, that it shall double our condemnation. And why? God setteth them before our eyes as looking glasses, wherein too behold what we our selves and what our nature is, of all the while that we be ungoverned of the holy Ghost. On the contrary part we have our Lord Jesus Christ too show us the way of life. And it is not for nought that he hath said, that he is the light of the world,