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[…] addeth immediately that we be predestinated in adoption in […] through Jesus Christ, according too the good pleasure of […] will. Whereas he saith that God hath predestinated us in […]: it is too show that if we be Gods children, it is not […] nature, but through his only grace. Now, this only grace […] respect of any thing that God foresaw in us (as I touched […]:) but because he had erst marked us out and […] too such adoption, yea even in such wise as the cause thereof is […] be sought elsewhere than in himself. And that is the cause why […] addeth immediately, that he did it in himself, and according […] the good pleasure of his own vvill. Also he repeateth the same […] that I declared this forenoon, namely that all was done in […] Christ. Ye see therefore that the thing which we have too mark […] sentence, is, that none other cause maketh us Gods children, […] only his choosing of us in himself. For we have no such […] by birth or inheritance, neither cometh it of flesh and blood, […] said in the first chapter of S. John: insomuch that all that ever ⟨image 34⟩can be sought in our our own selves, is utterly excluded and abolished. And that is too show us, that if men be let alone in their former plight, they have no intercommoning at all with God, but are utterly cut off from his kingdom.¹ True it is that our first father Adam was created after the image of God, and that he was excellent in his first state: but after the coming in of sin, we were all utterly forlorn. Insomuch that even Adam had not any stay of himself, and his free will that was given him, served him too none other purpose, but too make him the more unexcuzable: For he fell wilfully and through his ow•e malice. But hereby we see what manner of constancy he had in him, sith he was no sooner made, but he by & by fell & drew us down into his fall with him.² Then as now we be all of us borne the children of wrath, and are cursed of God.

〈…〉 addeth immediatly that wee be predestinated in adoption in 〈…〉 through Iesus Christ, according too the good pleasure of 〈…〉 will. Wheras he sayth that God hath predestinated vs in : it is too shewe that if wee bee Gods children, it is not nature, but through his onely grace. Now, this onely grace respect of any thing that God foresawe in vs (as I touched :) but bycause he had erst marked vs out and too such adoption, yea euen in such wyse as the cause thereof is bee sought elswhere than in himselfe. And that is the cause why addeth immediatly, that he did it in himself, and according the good pleasure of his ovvne vvill. Also he repeteth the same that I declared this forenoone, namely that all was done in Christ. Yee see therfore that the thing which wee haue too marke sentence, is, that none other cause maketh vs Gods children, onely his choozing of vs in himselfe. For wee haue no such by birth or inheritance, nother commeth it of fleshe and blud, sayd in the first chapter of S. Iohn: insomuch that al that euer