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For in Christ and for his sake only, hath god promised to receive us unto mercy, to forgive us, and to give us power to resist sin. How shall God save thee, when thou knowest not thy damnation? How shall Christ deliver thee from sin, when thou wilt not knowledge thy sin? Now I pray thee how many thousands are there of them that say, I believe that Christ was borne of a Virgin, that he dyed, that he rose again, and so forth, and thou canst not bring them in belief, that they have any sin at all? How many are there of the same sort which thou canst not make believe that a thousand things are sin, which God damneth for sin all the scripture throughout? As to bye as ¹good cheep as he can, and to sell as dear as he can, to raise the market of corn and victual, for his own vantage, without respect of his neighbour, or of the poor of the common wealth, and such like. Moreover how many hundred thousands are there, which when they have sinned, & knowledge their sins: yet trust in a bald ceremony, or in a lousy Fryers coat and merits, or in the prayers of them that ²devour widows houses, and eateth the poor out of house and harbour, in a thing of his own imagination, in a foolish dream, and a false vision, & not in Christs blood, and in the truth that God hath sworn? All these are faithless, for they follow their own righteousness, and are disobedient unto all manner righteousness of God: both unto the righteousness of Gods law, wherewith he damneth all our deeds (for though some of them see their sins for fear of pain, yet had they rather that such deeds were no sin) and also unto the righteousness of the truth of God in his promises, whereby he saveth all that repent and believe them. For though they believe that Christ dyed, yet believe they not that he dyed for their sins, and that his death is a sufficient satisfaction for their sins, and that God for his sake will be a father unto them, and give them power to resist sin.

For in Christ and for his sake onely, hath god promised to receaue vs vnto mercy, to forgeue vs, and to geue vs power to resist sinne. How shall God saue thee, when thou knowest not thy damnation? How shall Christ deliuer thee frō sinne, when thou wilt not knowledge thy sinne? Now I pray thee how many thousandes are there of them that say, I beleue that Christ was borne of a Ʋirgin, that he dyed, that he rose agayne, and so forth, and thou canst not bring them in beliefe, that they haue any sinne at all? How many are there of the same sort which thou cāst not make beleue that a thousand thinges are sin, which God damneth for sinne all the scripture throughout? As to bye as