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According to thy word.

When Satan hath once possessed […] then profits and pleasures bring us to our possession, and though they do so profess religion and godliness, yet they can never have any comfort by it all their life. For their own ⟨image 13⟩hearts accuse them for hypocrites, because they wait not for the consolation of God according to his word, & whatsoever is not done according to that word can not be acceptable: and this word they care not for, neither set it in any estimation. When Adam seeth his nakedness, the subtle serpent can deceive no longer, but before he saw his nakedness, he is ever deceived, and led away with the multitude into innumerable errors. Some say they shall be saved by mercy, and some think by good works, and some by the Popes pardon, others say by Purgatory, and these will have a Mass song for them as long as the world standeth, and all for one silly soul thinking to be saved by it, & yet see their blindness, for they seem to think, that their torment shall not cease as long as the world standeth, else why should they find and hire men to say Mass for them so long? But these are the fat morsels of Bells priests, & for this cause is the Popish Creed made very favourable to the Clergy. Well, say that ignorance is the mother of their devotion, for when the covetousness of the priests and the ignorance of the people joined together, then they invented Purgatory, Masses, prayers for the dead, and then all their trinkets. For if they had not held ⟨p. 19⟩our fathers in ignorance, they would never have bin Papists. But when they cast a mist before the eyes of men, then the blind fell into the ditch which doth contain so many gross corruptions.

When Sathan hath once possessed 〈…〉 thē profits and pleasures bring vs to our possession, and though they do so professe religiō and godlinesse, yet they can neuer haue anie comfort by it all their life. For their owne ⟨image 13⟩