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and undoubtedly hereof it cometh that the word of God is no more effectual in this realm then it is / for because it is preached hand over head without knowledge and understanding the estate of the people. For so / often times the promises and glad tidings of the gospel of our saviour are preached unto those / that being before secure in their sins / are after the hearing of the promises / rocked into a dead sleep of them / and they that are overthrown with the conscience of their sin / and confounded in them selves / are by the sharpness of the law / and hearing of the judgement of God broken into pieces / and driven to desperation. And so likewise / the people are taught sometimes how to lead their lives in honest conversation / when all that doctrine falleth to the ground because they have no knowledge of Christ / nor of faith in him: and to be short / it is as much as if either the surgeon should apply his plaster / or the Physician his medicine / when they neither know of the wound or disease of their patients. But this knowledge of their estate / can not be without a continual abode amongst them / therefore a continual residence is necessary.

and vndoubtedly heereof it commeth that the word of God is no more effectuall in this realme then it is / for because it is preached hand ouer head wythout knowledge and vnderstanding the estate of the people. For so / often times the promises and glad tidings of the gospell of oure sauioure are preached vnto those / that being before secure in their sinnes / are after the hearing of the promises / rocked into a deade sleepe of them / and they that are ouerthrowne wyth the conscience of their sinne / and confounded in them selues / are by the sharpnesse of the lawe / and hearing of the iudgement of God broken into peeces / and driuen to desperation. And so likewyse / the people are taught sometimes howe to lead their liues in honest conuersation / when all that doctrine falleth to the groūd because they haue no knowledge of Christ / nor of faith in him: and to be short / it is as much as if eyther the surgeon shoulde apply hys plaister / or the Phisition his medicine / when they neither know of the wounde or disease of their pacients. But this knowledge of their estate / can not be without a continuall abode amongst them / therfore a continuall residence is necessary.