The New Testament diligently corrected and compared with the GreekThe Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke

For we are justified and receive the sprite for to do good works / nether were it otherwise possible to do good works / except we had first the sprite.

For we are iustified and receaue the sprite for to doo good workes / nether were it otherwyse possible to do good workes / excepte we had first the sprite.

For how is it possible to do any thing well in the sight of god / while we are yet in captivity & bondage under the devil / & the devil possesseth us all to gather & holdeth our hearts / so that we cannot once consent unto the will of god. No man therefore can prevent the sprite in doing good: but the sprite must first come and wake him out of his sleep & with the thunder of the law fear him / and show him his miserable estate and wretchedness / & make him abhor / and hate him self and to desire help / & then comfort him again with the pleasant rain of the Gospel / that is to say / with the sweet promises of God in Christ / and stir up faith in him to believe the promises. Then when he believeth the promises / as God was mercy full to promise / so is he true to fulfil them / & will give him the sprite and strength / both to love the will of god & to work there after. So see we that God only (which according to the scripture worketh all in all things) worketh a mans justifying / salvation and health / yea and poureth faith and believe / lust to love God's will / and strength to fulfil the same / in to us / even as water is poured into a vessel / & that of his good will and purpose / and not of our de servings and merits. God's mercy in promising and trueth in fulfilling his promises saveth us and not we our selves. And therefore is all laud / praise and glory / to be given unto God for his mercy and trueth / and not unto us for our merits & deservings. After that / he stretcheth his ensample out against all other good works of the law / and concludeth ⟨image 232⟩that the Jews cannot be Abraham's heirs because of blood & kindred only / & much less by the works of the law / but must inherit Abraham's faith / if they will be the right heirs of Abraham for as much as Abraham before the law / both of Moses & also of circumcision / was through faith made righteous & called the father of all them that believe / & not of them that work. Moreover the law causeth wrath / in as much as no man can fulfil it with love and fuste / & as long as such grudging / hate & in dignacion against the law remaineth in the heart / & is not taken away by the sprite that cometh by faith / so long (no doubt) the works of the law / declare evidently that the wrath of God is upon us & not favour.